Sunday, April 3, 2011

Iran Revolution Has Given Rise to Current Movements in Middle East - Khamenei

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei today said in Tehran that the current movements in the Middle Eastern countries have their origins partly in the Islamic revolution in Iran and the successes of the Iranian government. He also predicted, without going into any details, that further changes await the Middle East region.

“The auspicious movement which has begun in the region today is partly the results of the Iranian nation's resistance, and more developments will take place in the region in future.

"Almost all analysts in the world acknowledge that the current movement in the Middle East region and North Africa has stemmed from the Iranian nation's uprising," Khamenei said [IRNA, 3 April].

By the latter, it is assumed that Ayatollah Khamenei was referring to the 1979 Islamic revolution and not the more recent movement in 2009. But he did not address the question why it took 32 years for the Iranian uprising to usher in the Arab Spring. And if the supreme leader believes the current movement in Syria has also stemmed from the Islamic revolution.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Khamenei is referring to popular uprisings and revolutions against US-supported dictatorships, such as Egypt, Bahrain, etc.

The 2009 protests in Iran were an attempted color coup against a popular election result. A very different situation.

All credible public opinion polls reflect majority support for the Islamic Republic as well as the legitimacy of the presidential election. Taken together with the Brill analysis, the evidence is compelling that a color coup was attempted by M/K.

What Khamenei is really saying is that Iran is the set example of a popular revolution against a US backed dictatorship, where independence has been achieved. The current happenings are taking place within his life span, so the Arab awakening can be considered concurrent.

Really, Nader, with all due respect, it is advised that you cast aside the familiar narrative peddled here in the West, particularly among the diaspora, and take into account the perspective of Iran's political establishment, which is supported in varying degrees by over 80% of Iran's electorate. Once able to accept that this is a majority perspective, then your observations will no longer be shaded by an agenda driven narrative so eagerly bandied about here in the West.

Mansur Arshama said...

Mr Uskowi,
I guess the Arabs waited 32 years to experience the nasty outcome of the Islamic Republic and do it better ;-)

Anonymous said...

Contrary to usual wishful thinking and disinformtion in the western media and in the self-exiled dispora peddling the work-out mantra and vested interests, Iran is a functioning pluralistic democracy with a hybrid system developed over 33 years since the last GREAT REVOLUTION.

The so-called Arab "awakening" on the other hand is a color coded destabilization movement originating in Langley and Vauxhall Cross and may have a totally different outsome than the one envisoned by their architects. Interestingly, the most corrupt and pervasive human rights abusers in the region, namely US puppets in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain and the Persian Gulf petro-sheikdoms are exempt from this selective made for FOX/CNN color coded awakenings and the Libyan sideshow Anglo-French mass murder for "democracy" and oil .

Even Egypt and Tunisia are well managed stage events intended to retain the status quo and safeguard US/Zionist interests in oil rich lands or geo-strategic periphery.

Ayatollah Khamenei being an genuine original grizzled revolutionary and a tenacious survivor of the Iranian revolution, subsequent MKO terror campaigns, US imposed Iraq-Iran war, various destabilization campaigns, economic sanctions and daily anti-Iran threats may be on to something here.

The winds of color-coded destabilization unleashed in the so-called Arab street may end up having totally unintended socio-economic and demographic consequences for the master-planners in the west. The social unravelling of primitive tribal based Arab soceities is manifesting in Lampedusa and the real impact is yet to be realized. The Arabs in general lack the well defined national identity, sophistication and cultural cohesion of Iran and hence the results may be totally different in the end and may end up destabilizing a fragmented and bankrupt Europe and US itself.

Nader Uskowi said...

Anon 3:45 PM,

I personally always take into account the perspectives of Iran's political establishments on any political and foreign policy issues, as I do with other perspectives, including the opposition, on any particular subject.

I believe your argument is, and please correct me if I have misunderstood you, that any movement supported by the current political establishment in Iran is popular uprising, and any movement opposed by them is color-coded conspiracy, including the Green movement in Iran, and the current movement in Syria. If this is in fact what you are arguing, it is not so much an analytical approach to these movements but an unquestioned support of the policies of the current rulers in Tehran.

Anon 12:09 AM takes this argument to its logical extent, denying that the Arab Spring is the result of the people's genuine aspirations to kick out the dictators and establish more responsive political system in their place. According to this commentator, all these movements are staged events. I suspect this commentators question the genuine nature of any movement if the result would not exactly match the preferences of the political establishment in Tehran.

And there is always a question of Syria. A tough one for Khamenei and the political establishment to tackle; it exposes their double standards in supporting the uprising in Bahrain but denying the existence of a popular movement in Syria.

Anonymous said...

Nader:

Where did you yield this from my comment?

"any movement supported by the current political establishment in Iran is popular uprising, and any movement opposed by them is color-coded conspiracy, including the Green movement in Iran, and the current movement in Syria."

I stated:

"What Khamenei is really saying is that Iran is the set example of a popular revolution against a US backed dictatorship, where independence has been achieved."

Regarding color coups and Iran, I stated:

"All credible public opinion polls reflect majority support for the Islamic Republic as well as the legitimacy of the presidential election. Taken together with the Brill analysis, the evidence is compelling that a color coup was attempted by M/K."

You didn't address this in your reply. You also didn't address this:

"with all due respect, it is advised that you cast aside the familiar narrative peddled here in the West, particularly among the diaspora, and take into account the perspective of Iran's political establishment, which is supported in varying degrees by over 80% of Iran's electorate. Once able to accept that this is a majority perspective, then your observations will no longer be shaded by an agenda driven narrative so eagerly bandied about here in the West."

-Anon 3:45