The Islamic awakening that started in Tunisia and was followed in Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Bahrain once again made the western world, especially America, aware of the power of the Islamic world and showed them that the radical transformation that started in the Middle East will not be limited to this region. And finally, Islam will be the first word in the world.
The developments in the region showed the fact that the nations of the region are deeply committed to Islam and hate the domination of the colonialists in the region. The victory of Islamists in the elections of Tunisia and Egypt also shows that the nations of the region are distancing themselves from America. The colonial powers had worked on this issue for years and had done a lot of propaganda to convince the people of the region that Islam could not provide the mechanisms to establish a modern society, but the Islamic uprisings showed that the people had found their place and dignity. And they know that Muslims have a higher status than being under the control of the Westerners, and in the meantime, following the example of the Iranian Islamic Revolution had a great effect on the Islamic awakening of the region and created the belief in the people that with unity and integration, the hands of foreigners can be defeated. He shortened the area and provided the grounds for liberation. The political model that the Iranian revolution presented to the nations of the region was that it is possible to win against the world powers without relying on any foreign power and with Islamic approaches.
For many years, the West and especially the United States exerted their power as the most important influencing powers in the Middle East region, and they were trying to capture the strategic pulse of this region in any possible way.
Today, under the shelter of Islam, the people of the Middle East have found this golden opportunity to overthrow the Western-affiliated governments and turn the Middle Eastern region into a graveyard for Western-affiliated rulers and hand over the government to the Islamists.
Kihan foreign service
Egypt’s Islamists won the election
Mohammad Marafi
In the past year, Egypt was pregnant with many bitter and sweet events, each of which could change the course of the country’s destiny. This ancient and prosperous country, which has taken the name “Mother of the World” and has a great influence on the process of developments in the Middle East and North Africa, is now taking a step in a path that can be remembered as a model of a Muslim and revolutionary country. .
Undoubtedly, the holding of parliamentary elections in Egypt and the decisive victory of Islamists in it is the most important political event in the Middle East in the past year. The Egyptian Islamists (led by the Muslim Brotherhood) were able to achieve a significant victory by winning the majority of seats in the parliament (Majlis al-Shaab). In last year’s Egyptian parliamentary elections, which were held in three phases and twice in each phase, the “Freedom and Justice” party affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood managed to capture more than two-thirds of the votes, followed by the Salafist party “Al-Nour”. and Al-Wafd party were placed in the second and third places.
Also, in the elections of the Senate called “Majlis Shura”, the party affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood repeated its victory, and the Salafist party Al-Nour won the most votes after that. This is while, based on the Egyptian legislative system, these two parliaments are complementary to each other, and after the draft or bill is approved in the People’s Assembly, the Shura Assembly will put a stamp of rejection or approval on it.
These two parliaments are obliged to elect the members of a 100-person committee to prepare the draft of the new constitution of Egypt and the presidential elections by May 2019.
Although the victory of the Islamists in the parliamentary elections in Egypt has not had an effect on other countries in the region and has accelerated the Islamic awakening movement, this is not all the political events in that country, but in the past year, the Egyptian nation has shown the world another epic by creating another epic. They said that the January 25 revolution is still alive and dynamic. The Egyptian people’s attack on the Zionist embassy in Cairo and its capture in the past year had a wide impact in the world media like a news bomb.
After seizing the embassy of the Zionist regime and letting the members of this spy nest escape, the people of Egypt lowered the Israeli flag and installed the flag of their country on the door of the building to show that they are still strongly opposed to the “Camp David” agreement and the existence of the occupied Jerusalem regime. .
Last year, the people of Egypt blew up the gas export pipe to the Zionist regime for the 13th time in the border city of Al-Arish, so that the regime would be in more trouble than before.
Another action of the Egyptian people, which should not be forgotten, was the continuation of street protests to force the military to vacate the political scene of that country, unfortunately, hundreds of people were victims of the malice of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in Cairo and the “Port Said” stadium. became
Among other controversial events in Egypt in the past year was the holding of the trial of Hosni Mubarak, the deposed president of this country, the number of his trial sessions exceeded 13, and now the dictator of Egypt is on the verge of punishment. In any way, the Egyptian people are trying to clearly outline their future by preparing the preparations for the presidential elections.
Saudi Arabia is on the path of Islamic awakening
In the past year, the rulers of Al Saud tried to silence the Islamic awakening movement in the Arabian Peninsula by continuing the policy of suppressing and suppressing protests, but the continuation of peaceful popular protests in the east of this country made this issue like a bone in the neck of the leaders. Saudi Arabia should be placed.
The residents of the eastern provinces of this country, who have gained a year’s experience of fighting to neutralize the Saudi media policies, have more determinedly shaken the Al Saud rulers than before by pursuing their demands.
The leaders of Al Saud, who in the past tried to make the popular protests in the east of this country appear to be caused by religious differences and related to foreigners, after the failure of their plan, like their predecessors, they resorted to suppressing the protests against people’s rights, and a large number of young people And they killed the cultured people.
Al Saud’s claim is based on the fact that foreign armed people have caused insecurity in the region with armed attacks on the police and security forces. While the conscious and awake consciences of the world have seen the killing of women, men and teenagers on the pavements of Saudi streets.
Now, after a year of peaceful protests by the people of Saudi Arabia, 16 people were killed and dozens were injured in Al-Sharqiya province and cities such as Al-Qatif, Al-Awamiyyah, Al-Rabeeh, and Tarot. Al-Saud regime is more desperate than in the past and cannot claim that foreigners are directing the events of this oil-rich province and continues the policy of massive arrests and suppression and suffocation once again. In the past year, in addition to suppressing the people of its country, the Saudi regime sent its forces to Bahrain to suppress popular protests in order to prevent the fall of Al-Khalifa.
Tunisian Islamists won the election
In the past year, as in the past, Tunisia was the initiator of a movement that other Islamic countries followed. Perhaps the most important political event in Tunisia was the holding of elections and the victory of the Islamists last year. This happened in Egypt and Maghreb.
In Tunisia, the coherent formations of Islamists under the name “Ennahda Party” managed to achieve significant success in the first election after the overthrow of the deposed president “Zine El Abidine Ben Ali” with written planning and introduction of worthy candidates. This Islamist party, which is led by the most famous Muslim figure in Tunisia, Rashed al-Ghanoushi, won more than half of the seats in the Constituent Assembly elections, and based on the agreement with the winning parties, the secretary general of the party, Al-Jabali, was elected as the prime minister. became.
Meanwhile, the Constituent Assembly in Tunisia should make preparations for drafting a new constitution and holding presidential elections during the remaining time until next year.
Also, the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia, which is currently playing the role of the parliament in the political arena of this country until the next year, elected the president, prime minister and speaker of the parliament from among the leaders of the three winning parties.
The Constituent Assembly elections in Tunisia, when it was held in 2012, attracted the public opinion of many people in the East and West, and many were watching what would happen in these elections.
These elections were held peacefully with the large participation of the Tunisian people, and during which the Ennahda candidates were able to get more than 47% of the votes.
In this way, the revolution of January 14 in Tunisia, which started a series of revolutions in other countries of the Arab Maghreb and the Middle East, spread the wave of Islamism in the region, and with the completion of the Islamic awakening movement, the Islamists came to power.
The holding of parliamentary elections and the establishment of the Islamist parties “Freedom and Development” affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafist party “Al-Nour” in Egypt and the victory of the Islamists in the parliamentary elections in the Maghreb can be evaluated in this regard. According to the opinion of many experts on international issues and Middle East developments, the past year is the year of the victory of Islamists and the rise of Islamist parties, and this shows the acceptance of the people of Muslim countries to their written programs. It is for this reason that 2012 has been called the year of Islamic awakening and Islamists.
The ups and downs of the Yemeni revolution
More than a year has passed since the revolution of the Muslim people of Yemen in the light of the Islamic awakening in the countries of the region.
In this one year, the people of this country have faced various ups and downs until their perseverance and standing against the dictatorial regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh paid off and the dictator Abdullah Saleh was forced to transfer power to his deputy Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and Yemen. He left for America. The mandatory election of the interim president was held in a situation where only one person was a candidate for a post and since the initiative of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council to transfer power from the beginning did not respond to the legitimate demands of the people, the revolutionaries declared their opposition to this action by holding demonstrations and They emphasized that the mandatory elections in Yemen are a betrayal of the ideals of the revolution, and the revolutionary people of Yemen do not accept the new presidency and the new government, and continue their protests to realize the goals of the revolution.
The Yemeni revolutionaries are still in power and have announced that they will not sit quietly and oppose any practical initiative that does not take into account the interests of the people.
The opposition parties of Yemen, the Houthis in the south of this country and many Yemeni organizations, while boycotting the elections, announced that the new government has no legitimacy and that the system has not changed and the agents of Ali Abdullah Saleh’s dictatorship are still in power.
The Yemeni soldiers are also protesting the corruption of their commanders who are close to Ali Abdullah Saleh and are protesting against the continuation of the dictatorship of Ali Abdullah Saleh’s survivors in the pyramid of power.
The people of Yemen also emphasize that the United States and Saudi Arabia are trying to distort the revolution and confiscate it for their own benefit, and that the interference in the internal affairs of Yemen is done through the American ambassador. America is in Yemen.
In any case, the unstable situation in Yemen has created a dusty atmosphere in the country and has plunged the country’s future into a halo of uncertainty.
It does not seem that the transfer of power in this country will end the challenges and popular protests, but on the contrary, analysts believe that Yemen will either be drawn into ethnic and tribal conflicts and civil war, or that Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi will be in a much better position than Ali. Abdullah Saleh suppresses popular protests.
Undoubtedly, the Yemeni revolution is facing more ambiguity and obstacles than Egypt and Tunisia. If in Cairo and Tunisia, technocrats and generals are on board the vehicle of power, in Yemen, the same group of military and political veterans are playing their role with the help of actors behind the scenes of the revolution. They perform
The main actors of the revolution, the Yemeni people, although they have given hundreds of martyrs for the realization of the revolution, but they have emphasized that they are still standing firm and firm to the death and will bring Islamic awakening to their country like other countries in the region.
One year of uprising against Al Khalifa
The Shiites of Bahrain, like the people of the countries of the Middle East region, have risen up against the oppression of the Al-Khalifa family and they insist that they will not stop their opposition until the establishment of justice and reforms in all fields.
A year ago, Bahrain witnessed massive public demonstrations. The people of this country, having a high motivation and a resistant spirit, have terrorized not only the Al-Khalifa regime, but also the regional and extra-regional supporters of this family.
The interference of the interests of different countries has caused this small island in the Persian Gulf to become very important, because the spread of protests in this country has endangered the interests of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and Western countries, and these countries They collude with Al-Khalifa to suppress popular protests.
From the very beginning of the Bahrain revolution, Saudi Arabia sent its soldiers to Bahrain with the green light of the United States, England and France to smother the protests with the security forces of Al-Khalifa, but the departure of the Al-Saud military with the most advanced military equipment and tools caused fear. And people did not panic, but it made them more determined to fulfill their wishes. The killing of innocent protestors, whose only desire is to implement reforms in the country, has led to an increasing public dissatisfaction, and now, after about a year has passed since the beginning of the Bahraini revolution, the people of this country are demanding the overthrow of the Al-Khalifa regime and the fulfillment of their wishes. Sheikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, the king of Bahrain, has promised reforms many times, but he has not fulfilled his promises and intensified the repression of the people.
The revolutionaries of Bahrain have announced that the people of Bahrain are alert and aware and will not fall for the deception of Al-Khalifa’s conspiracies, which are carried out with the complicity of the supporters of this family.
The king of Bahrain is trying to deceive the people and use it for his own benefit, but his hand is against the people. The presence of America’s fifth fleet in Bahrain is the main reason for America’s support for this dictatorial regime, and the policy of suppressing Shiites in this country is carried out with the green light of America.
With the continuation of the protests, the people of Bahrain have emphasized that they will not leave the streets until the full realization of their goals, and a new round of public protests has begun with the sit-in of the protesters in Shahada (Pearl) Square. The people of Bahrain, like other people in the region, are fed up with the interference of foreigners and the oppression of their rulers, and they are sure that their perseverance will finally pay off and they will win.
Islamists gaining power in Libya
Sayyed Mohammad Aminabadi
The fall of Tripoli, the killing of Colonel Gaddafi, the arrest of Saif al-Islam and the rise of Islamists in Libya were the most important developments in this country last year.
The revolution that started on February 27, 2009 in Libya resulted in August 31, 2010, and the Libyan revolutionaries ended the fourteen-decade rule of Muammar Gaddafi by capturing Tripoli, and people in different cities of this country celebrated this great victory with their shouts of Allahu Akbar.
Two months after the fall of Tripoli, Sirte, the last base and birthplace of the Libyan dictator, fell into the hands of the revolutionaries in October, and Colonel Gaddafi was killed by the revolutionaries. The publication of pictures of his bloody corpse, putting it on public display and burying it in an unknown place became a lesson for dictators who rely on Europe and America instead of relying on the nation, and the friends of the colonel yesterday were the first to congratulate him on his death!
The arrest of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi on November 27, 1990, who was named as the successor of Colonel Gaddafi, dashed the last remaining hopes of the former regime to return to power. And following the complete capture of the country and the killing of Gaddafi and the arrest of Saif al-Islam, many discussions between revolutionaries, people and western countries about the future government of Libya took place.
The NATO member countries that gathered in Paris after the capture of Tripoli to plan to maintain their dominance over the rich oil resources of the new Libya, declared that the future government of Libya should be a model of a western democratic government. After this meeting, tens of thousands of Libyan people shouted Allahu Akbar in the streets of different cities of this country, neither Eastern nor Western. And with this slogan, they practically determined the structure of the future government of Libya.
Abdul Jalil, the head of the Libyan Transitional Council, who had taken a compromise position in the Paris meeting, announced that Islam will be the main source of legislation in this country after massive public demonstrations in various Libyan cities and under the severe pressure of public opinion. He said in Tripoli’s Martyrs’ Square among thousands of Libyans: We are Muslims and we will protect Islam. It was after these statements that Rasmussen, the Secretary General of the NATO North Atlantic Treaty, expressed his concern about the possibility of an Islamic government becoming effective in Libya.
Amidst the severe concern of the West and NATO about Islamists gaining power in Libya, the new government of this country with 20 ministers and Prime Minister “Mahmoud Jabreel” started working on September 27, 1990. And on the 2nd of November, the national independence of Libya was announced in an official ceremony in the city of Benghazi, and Abdul Jalil, the head of the Transitional Council, in the presence of thousands of participants in this celebration, once again announced that Islamic laws will be the main source of legislation in Libya.
While the Libyan people are preparing for the general elections of the country’s parliament, which according to the prime minister of the interim government will be held in the near future, America is seeking to establish its presence in Libya. On the 5th of February, news agencies announced the deployment of 12,000 American marines in the oil-rich city of “Al-Bariqa” under the pretext of creating security. The passage of time in the coming year will determine the new conspiracies of Europe and America against the nascent Libyan regime and the Muslim people of this country. We have to wait and see how far the people and revolutionaries are willing to persevere for the rule of Islam in Libya.
Palestine; Consecutive successes
Farida Sharifi
The most important events in Palestine during the past year include the exchange of Palestinian prisoners with Israeli captives, the agreement of Palestinian groups on the implementation of the national reconciliation agreement, especially the agreement between Fatah and Hamas, the meeting between Ismail Haniyeh, the elected Prime Minister of Hamas, and Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority. He mentioned the five years and the Doha agreement.
Last year, more than 1000 Palestinian prisoners were freed in exchange for the release of Shalit, an Israeli prisoner who was held captive by the resistance forces for more than 5 years, and it was a great victory for the Palestinian fighters.
During the exchange of Palestinian prisoners, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) once again demonstrated its ability to confront the expansionist policies of the Zionist regime and made other countries praise it because the regime that did not recognize the existence of Palestinian groups and He was not willing to negotiate with Hamas or other Palestinian groups, he had to admit the high capability of Hamas and accept the conditions of this Palestinian movement.
By the Zionists’ own admission, the exchange of prisoners caused a great blow to the body of the Zionist regime and led to the isolation of the Zionist regime.
The launch of the Palestinian National Reconciliation case was one of the other important developments in Palestine last year, because reconciliation between Palestinian groups is one of the main ways to deal with the aggressions and plans of the Zionist regime in occupied Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza.
With the realization of national reconciliation among the Palestinians, they will be given the opportunity to organize their internal situation, put aside their differences, and perform their duties towards Palestine with a united and integrated position.
On the other hand, the issue of delaying national reconciliation and the continuation of differences between Palestinian groups was one of the issues that had caused the resentment of the Palestinian people, and the Palestinian nation had repeatedly expressed its displeasure with the existence of differences and conflicts between Palestinian groups.
The Doha agreement signed between Mahmoud Abbas and Khalid Meshaal, head of Hamas’s political office, was another seal of approval for the national reconciliation agreement of the Palestinians. In this regard, Palestinian groups evaluated the Doha Agreement as a serious step for the implementation of national reconciliation efforts and unity among Palestinians. According to this agreement, it was decided that the national unity government would be formed and Mahmoud Abbas would be elected as the prime minister of the interim government and the organizer of the elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. After the Doha agreement, the Zionist regime threatened Mahmoud Abbas that he should choose between compromise negotiations and Hamas.
The European Union also conditioned its support for the Palestinian Authority and asked Mahmoud Abbas not to stop the so-called Middle East peace negotiations, otherwise it will cut off its financial aid.
Another Palestinian incident in the past year is the increase in Zionist attacks on the holy city of Quds and the Mubarak al-Aqsa Mosque, which has drawn many reactions from Palestinians and Muslims around the world. Palestinian youths have clashed with the Zionists in support of Jerusalem, and not a day goes by that the Zionist occupiers do not arrest some Palestinians.
Arab and Islamic countries have also condemned the Zionists’ act of attacking Islamic sanctities by holding conferences and issuing various statements, and have demanded the international community’s immediate action to stop the crimes of the Zionist regime. But saving Jerusalem from the control of the Zionists should not be limited to issuing statements and condemnations, but the Muslims of the world should take a serious and decisive action to confront the aggressive policies of the Zionist regime and clean the Qiblah of the Muslims of the world from the existence of the Zionists.
Israel’s occupation is the main threat to peace, and as long as America and Western countries support this regime, Israel will not stop its aggression towards the Palestinian land. The main reason for the enmity of the Islamic world with America is the suppression of Palestinians and America’s complicity with them.
With the agreement reached in Doha, the elected Prime Minister of Hamas proved once again that this Palestinian movement wants unity among Palestinian groups and avoids tension and differences, and the opinion and will of the Palestinian people is important.
In any case, the end of the differences and the efforts made to achieve national reconciliation is a positive development that, if not caught in the trap of compromise plans with the Zionists, makes the position of Palestine and the resistance movements more justified in the field of Islamic awakening.
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