The revolution which changed the whole world

Written by Nasser Kandil,

The Islamic depth of the approach of the victory of the Iranian revolution is dominating on its commemoration; it is a matter of boasting for its followers as a main source of achievement, and a call of reflection since it includes force’s elements, sources of inspiration, and an ability for matching and coping. The opponents and the objective analysts have to consider it as an intellectual and cultural vocabulary that was capable of renewing its thesis and progressing toward the phase that is full of complexities and variables, to cope with it through its religious ideological background that are preoccupied deeply with history, but in the two cases, the source of interest is the size of the historic accomplishment which this revolution was able to achieve    in recorded time and within very harsh and dangerous conditions.

During the same period, thirty-seven years both of Iran and Russia were capable after a radical stormy exceptional revolution and new in its concepts from entering the world of the major countries and snatching the global admission for its rival position, and a pivotal role in making politics. Between 1917 and 1954 Moscow was moving from being the besieged capital with its revolution to a partner in forming a new global system which remained into effect till the fall of Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Individually America was able to control in  managing the world with an eye towards Iran which has succeeded in the same period between 1979 and 2016 from snatching the admission of the world that it is the capital of making politics in the new world, and a pillar that cannot be ignored in new regional system and new global system.

Russia has already succeeded, and Iran has succeeded after that in proving that the people can preserve their independence if the determination, will, plans, perseverance, and patience are provided, they can build their development project in the war and in the siege conditions, they can build important capable economy, mighty army, a force of reverence, prestigious diplomacy and get the admission of the opponents of their importance and the inevitable partnership with them.

The revolutionary experience of Iran has a superiority over the Russian experience because it was born within different circumstances that made the task of steadfastness more difficult and harsh, the Russian revolution has coincided with the First World War and what accompanied it of the absence of a ruling global center, where the Ottoman Empire was declining, while the French and the Britain partners were proceeding to inherit it,  the Russian Caesarean was a third partner, that its leaving out of the partnership by the force of revolution was a source of relief for them. Before they noticed its danger, the stardom of the Nazism was rising imposing its merits which were culminated in the Second World War, where Russia was an indispensable partner, till the emergence of the new partner which was represented by the rising America, thus the consequences of the Second World War were the culmination of Russia’s status as a superpower, and which its overthrowing required wars, rivalries, conspires that lasted for four decades till the falling of the Soviet Union. In all the stages the remote geography of Russia far from the centers of energy and navigation and the sources of the American national security was a sufficient reason to be adequate of alienating Moscow from the partnership.

In the case of Iran, the birth of the revolution was in the era of the American escalation between the two wars of Vietnam and Afghanistan, and the American absolute hegemony on the Middle East after the fall the experience of Gamal Abdul Nasser and the big shift with Camp David,  just for that, Iran from the first day of the revolution was confronted with the Iraqi war which was funded by the Gulf and supported by America, as in the blockade and sanctions, while Iran was in the heart of the old world where there was no place for the American neutrality, among it the future of the energy and Israel and the emerging power of Islam was decided. Iran was not a neutral creature in three issues, because regarding the security of Israel, it is designedly a source of danger, it insisted on translating its visions by deeds that it is a cancerous gland that must be removed, regarding the security of the energy it is the guard of Strait of Hormuz where everyday about twenty million barrels of oil are produced, but regarding Islam it is the owner of the ideological school of jurisprudence of resistance, the revolution and the country.

The confrontation with Iran and its resisting choice, and who has chosen it to be its ally required decades of open warfare such as the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, the wars of Israel against Lebanon and Palestine, the project of the new Ottoman, and the war of targeting Syria including the sanctions and blockade. The Iranians culminate their steadfastness in the commemoration of  the victory of their revolution this year by snatching the global admission of their status as a superpower, and their success in presenting an impressive example of the world which is eager to the independence, and the independent development, in addition to the inspiration of their allies among the superpowers as Russia and China for more steadfastness and stability and encouraging their allies in the resistance axis to continue the determination and the resolving till achieving victory. Now Iran is a pillar that cannot be ignored in the regional system and a coming partner in forming a new global system.

The leader of the revolution and its aspirator Al Imam Al-Khomeini deserves the greetings and admiration for the greatness of achievement, as the Iranians have the right to have the great pride.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,