‘We in the Muslim world stand with you, heartand soul’
to you today. There is a tradition that states 
Thank
you for inviting me to speakthat the Prophet Muhammad, (PBUH), once gestured towards his Persian companion
Salman and said, “Even if faith were near the Pleiades, men from among the
Persians would attain it.”
Eventually,
the Persians embraced Islam; the Persian language adopted its own version of
the Arabic script and borrowed heavily from Arabic vocabulary. The Persians of
greater Khorasan, the name that the Arabs took to designate the geographic area
that includes present-day Iran,
Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, were a key factor in the development of
the politics of the Islamic Umma and became an important component in another
Golden Age alongside the Arabs; one with far more geographic breadth and
cultural diversity than before.
The
Iranian Revolution of 1979, which installed the powerful yet polarizing
Khomeini as Supreme Leader, was a new and vastly different articulation of Iranian
identity.
Of
course, despite this isolationist and interventionist foreign policy, the first
and foremost victims of Khomeinism have been the Iranian people themselves —
not only the political activists opposed to his all-encompassing, authoritarian
and totalitarian ideology, but also to the ethnic and religious minorities of
Kurds, Arabs, Azaris, Turkmans, Baloch, Sunnis, Ismailis, Bahais, Christians and Jews of Iran against
the clerical Twelver religio-political elite of the Revolution.
Be
it in Morocco, Egypt, Palestine or even amongst Iraqi Shi’ites and Syrian
Alawites themselves, Iranian interference is increasingly despised for the ruin
it perpetuates and requires to be useful for the regime in Tehran Khomeini wore the black turban that signified his pride in his long and
noble Arab lineage. Today Khamenei and even Nasrallah wear it also. But the
Iranian leadership’s meddling in Arab countries is backfiring. The recent
popular protests in all Iraqi cities, from Basra, where the Shi’ah make up the
majority, to Kirkuk, where they don’t, carried banners saying and they chanted: Iran, get
out. Just this week, popular demonstrations in Abadan chanted, leave Syria.
And
you, Maryam Rajavi, your endeavor to rid your people of the Khomeinist cancer
is an historic epic that, like the Shahnameh, will remain inscribed in the
annals of
History.
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I believe the future of Iran with Maryam Rajavi
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