The Supreme Leader in his recent statements made on the occasion of the anniversary of the death of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the shrine of Imam Khomeini,
Pointing out that the Islamic revolution under the leadership of Imam Khomeini restored the trampled dignity of the Iranian nation, he emphasized the irreplaceable role of progress in the survival and continuation of Iran’s national dignity, and pointing out several indicators of Iran’s progress in the past 33 years, the need to move rapidly in They emphasized the path of progress. He also considered narcissism, neglect and aristocracy as an obstacle to the progress of the nation .
Emphasizing that we are still a long way from the summits, the leader of the revolution considered the determination of the nation and the government to move rapidly towards progress necessary and considered justice, freedom and morality to be the key to the progress of a nation. A point worth pondering is the historical emphasis of the Supreme Leader on the factor of national honor and, consequently, progress .
At the same time as the end of the Cold War, a situation was created, as a result of which the neoliberal model of progress emerged in the globalization environment after instilling the belief that it is the only model available for the development of countries. By accepting this ideology, many countries considered the survival and growth of their country to follow this school and followed the path drawn by it. An important point that many countries are still unable to understand is that; The survival and growth of the existing neoliberal order, as many western theorists including Thomas Friedman admit, is dependent on the melting of all the subgroups within this broader set .
Finally, this will provide material and semantic homogeneity in the form of political, economic and cultural ideas. In the approach of neoliberals, confrontation with subgroups that do not have the foundation to be resolved in this macro-complex is pressure with various means and ultimately soft and hard confrontation. The last step is physical removal in case of resistance .
According to the interpretation of many western politicians, especially the leaders of the fake Israeli regime, Iran is the main activist against the neoliberal system in the current situation. Such conditions have led to the fact that the interests of the countries designing the current order are not realized in many fields .
The point that has caught the minds of many domestic and international observers is why the Iranian nation is still not willing to submit to the current order like many other nations of the world after 33 years of the revolution? Why is the Iranian nation willing to pay the cost to pay exorbitant prices for his resistance?, the answer to all these questions lies in the recent statements of the Supreme Leader in the Holy Shrine of the Imam.
Referring to the humiliation of the Iranian nation for two centuries during the Qajar and Pahlavi eras, he considered the realization of Iranian national pride to be the main cause of the pressure of Western countries against Iran. Referring to the importance of national honor, the leader of the revolution pointed to the barrier created by it to prevent the looting of the nation again and they believe that the looting of a nation has an inverse relationship with the value of that country .
In other words, throughout the history, every amount that has decreased the national honor of a country has been increased by the same amount to the spoils of that nation. Undoubtedly, one of the first results of a nation’s dignity in the strict sense of the word (dignity in its Quranic meaning, which arises from the opposition of theology and religion) is independence .
The independence of a nation is also one of the enemy factors for a nation, especially in an age like globalization. Among the results of the independence of the Iranian nation was the creation of a break in the cycle of the neoliberal world order. The existing neoliberal order, which seeks new colonialism in the form of postcolonialism, is trying to remove any obstacle that opposes the colonial process. Meanwhile, the only tool that anti-system activists like Iran can defend themselves against this global attack is manifested in the form of progress .
As the Supreme Leader emphasized, progress is not only in its specific and terminological sense, which refers to the material and technological development of a nation, but progress in the broader sense is aimed at development in all political, economic, cultural fields, and in the precise human sense. is. In this sense, progress will also include freedom as it will result in justice. All the statements of the Supreme Leader regarding national honor and progress are based on his view of civilization confrontation .
Believing in the existence of sufficient capacities in the rich Islamic-Iranian culture of the Iranian nation, the leader of the revolution believes that a historical responsibility has been placed on the Iranian nation to move towards an ideal society and a cultural civilization which is the Mahdavi civilization .
According to this attitude, concepts such as the dignity of a responsible nation and progress have a special meaning. Based on this, the creation of suitable foundations for the modern Islamic civilization will be realized only based on the principle of negating the mustache and the independence of the Islamic nation of Iran as the origin of the new civilization .
