Palestine and Islamic Revolution in Iran: A Pivotal Goal
Mahmoud Rayya
After more than thirty-five years of its inception, where is the Islamic Revolution in Iran, what has it accomplished, and where is it heading?
Questions of this magnitude require a recall of the revolution's path since its final breakthrough in 1978 until its victorious triumph in 1979.
The "final breakthrough" implies to the period in which events escalated since the start of the mass public demonstrations all the way through till the return of His Eminence Imam Khomeini in early February 1979, and the Declaration of victory in the eleventh of that month.
However, the full track of the Revolution is much older than that where it was first launched in 1963 as that lordly man took upon himself the mission to awaken the Islamic nation, starting with the Iranian people.
Hence, he paid dearly for the sake of that Renaissance; lot of suffering and displacement. He even endured harm from the most powerful empire in the region back then - the Shah of Iran, who was named as the "King of Kings".
Not a day went by without this revolution suffered, starting from the inside enemies who made every effort to cause its failure, to enemies who conspired with opportunists and tried to impound the revolution and deflect it from its course by means of bombings and assassinations of the Revolution's leaders and theoreticians; right down to the enemies abroad, led by the United States which received a fatal blow after victory was achieved by the Iranian people upon "US-led administrations" in the Gulf region.
Furthermore, "Israel" remains the most bitter enemy to this Revolution; the entity whose leaders foresaw the ghost of their Talmudic dream collapse with the reign of an Islamic movement that undertook al-Quds as the primary goal - never deviating from it, no matter the proliferation of dispersants nor the combination of efforts to derail and distract the Revolution with side battles, military, political and economic obstacles and even social as well as cultural hindrances.
However, the Liberation of Palestine, the restoration of al-Quds and the removal of the Zionist abomination from al-Aqsa were the major concern for the initiator of the Islamic Revolution. Henceforth, the principal stance the Imam carried out after the victory of his blessed Revolution was the proclamation of al-Quds Day, with what this Declaration implied and symbolized - the perseverance on mobilizing vitalities of the whole nation towards this great goal.
In the light of addressing crucial issues the Revolution had encountered, both, al-Quds and Palestine, were borne by its leaders' minds, be it during Imam Khomeini's leadership or after his departure to his heavenly dwelling and the supremacy of Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei.
Nonetheless, nothing over the past decades was able to force the Revolution's leadership to waive its great dream, the dream of Liberating Palestine and al-Aqsa, neither the Iraqi war imposed by Saddam's regime on Iran over eight years, nor the US and its western allies' suffocating economic blockade enacted on the Islamic Republic, nor the unrest and turmoil that the enemies tried to raise inside Iran.
All the strategies and policies adopted by hostile forces to weight the Islamic Revolution to forget Palestine had failed; neither threats and intimidation worked, nor the threat of territorial gains and the international roles yielded. Similarly, the suggestion of the possibility of condoning the Iranian nuclear program lead the Iranian leadership to take a variant path from that the Revolution was committed to since its inception.
The developments in the region that we are witnessing today kicks off in many of the headlines from the Iranian decision to work in order to make the subject of the Palestine Liberation a viable option to achievement at some point; and not to subject the Arab and Islamic people to fait accompli named the existence of "Israel" in the region forever. Here lies exactly all of the American - "Israeli"-European - "Arab" attack on Iran, its allies and the public jihadist forces that bear the thought of fixed and firm resistance to the Zionist entity, its crimes, and the existence of its foundation.
Thus, the conflict which our region witnesses lies in this particular point, and cannot be ended without a definitive conclusion - either the success of the Western powers' project in the imposition of the Zionist entity's existence on Palestinian land and its expansion in all directions; or the success of the resistant's project in uprooting the Zionist regime with the threats it poses as the crane of the Western projects aimed at fragmenting our nation and dominate them in addition to eliminating any possibility of advancement in the future.
On the basis of this rule, the success or failure of the Islamic Revolution in achieving what it had worked for throughout the decades can be assessed.
Henceforth, the victories in the axis of Resistance that we are perceiving today, in Iran and in Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Iraq and elsewhere, in addition to the thwart of the Zionist Western conspiracies targeting our nation, form an evidence of the progress of the Islamic Revolution in its route of completion of the task it had pledged to do.
Hope of ultimate victory remains; it is a hope towards which generations raised upon the ideas and principles of the Islamic Revolution - a generation that is satisfied with the eligibility of objectives the Revolution had set as top priorities, are working to achieve.
Source: al-Ahed news, Translated by website team
