I Knew Khomeini, Al-Jazeera documentary

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I Knew Khomeini
Al Jazeera spoke to those who knew the man behind the 1979 Iranian revolution that shook the world.

14 Nov 2017 13:23 GMT Middle East, Iran, War & Conflict

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• Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the architect and the face of the Iranian revolution, is seen by many as the embodiment of the principles of the Islamic Republic.
  
  Rarely in history has a man who did not seek power come to wield so much of it.
  
  He wanted to serve the people of Iran and throughout his life fought the regime's oppression, corruption and the Shah's opulent lifestyle. Forced exile empowered Khomeini even further, providing him with the freedom to speak out against Iran's ruling elite.
  
  "He became the main speaker of the opposition inside Iran.... he was continuously attacking the Shah's brutality and because of that he gained the popular support of the people," says Ebrahim Yazdi, who was Iran's deputy prime minister in 1979.
  
  In 1979, the charismatic religious scholar managed to overthrow one of the strongest and most oppressive regimes in the world - and set Iran on a collision course with the West.
  
  But who was Ayatollah Khomeini and what is his legacy?
  
  Al Jazeera spoke to those who knew the man behind a revolution that shook the world.
  
  This documentary was originally broadcast on Al Jazeera English in January 2009.
  
  Source: Al Jazeera
  

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2017/11/knew-khomeini-171113131825740.html

 

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Quotes

• Give them Islam, proclaim to the world the program of Islamic government; maybe the kings and presidents of the Muslim countries will understand the truth of what we say and accept it. We would not want to take anything away from them; we will leave anyone in his place who faithfully follows Islam.
  • Tahrir al-Vasileh, 1970. http://politicalquotes.org/node/54102

• ... in our domestic and foreign policy, ... we have set as our goal the world-wide spread of the influence of Islam ... We wish to cause the corrupt roots of Zionism, capitalism and Communism to wither throughout the world. We wish, as does God almighty, to destroy the systems which are based on these three foundations, and to promote the Islamic order of the Prophet ...
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• if you hope at this juncture to cut the Gordian knots of socialism and communism by appealing to the center of Western capitalism, you will, far from remedying any of the ills of your society, commit a mistake which those to come will have to erase. For if Marxism has come to a deadlock in its social and economic policies, capitalism has also bogged down.
  • Letter to Russian Premier Gorbachev, January 1989. http://politicalquotes.org/node/68478

• If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.
  • Denouncing the situation that sex segregation was not being imposed by the government. . Speech number sixteen. Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, World Service (October 26, 1964).

• The people will not rest until the Pahlavi rule has been swept away and all traces of tyranny have disappeared. As long as the Shah's satanic power prevails, not a single true representative of the people can possibly be elected.
  • Response to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's announcement of elections (August 1978); quoted in "The Shah's Divided Land" (18 September 1978) Time

• With people's revolutionary rage, the king will be ousted and a democratic state, Islamic Republic, will be established.
  • "Imam's Sahife" vol. 4 p. 244 (1 November 1978).

• Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.
  • Interview for The Guardian in Paris (6 November 1978)

• In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded.
  • Interview for Austrian television, Paris, (6 November 1978), as quoted in "Democracy? I meant theocracy — The most truthful individual in recent history" by Dr. Jalal Matini,and Farhad Mafie, in The Iranian (5 August 2003)

• Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country after the fall of the current system.
  • Associated Press interview in Paris (7 November 1978); repeated on several occasions before Khomeini returned to Iran

• You young people yourselves are capable of performing anything. Our inventors can invent in a high level, Our innovators can innovate in a high level, only if they keep self confidence and believe that we can.
  • Addressing an audience of Iranian industry workers and inventors (October 1983); quoted in "Imam's Sahife" vol. 18 p. 189,190.

• In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic.
  • Speech (9 November 1978), as quoted in The Most Truthful Individual in Recent History" in Iranshenasi, Vol. XIV, No. 4 (Winter 2003), as translated by Farhad Mafie

• In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.
  • Interview with Human Rights Watch, Paris (10 November 1978)

• After the Shah's departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people.
  • Le Monde interview in Paris (9 January 1979)

• From the beginning while we were engaged in these issues, I said in interviews with those who came from abroad, even in Najaf or Paris or among my personal words, I have always said that clerics have an occupation which is more important than these executive jobs, and should Islam become victorious, clerics would dedicate themselves to their own occupation. But as we went on with the revolution, we found out that if we tell all clerics to go after their mosques, this country would fall into the throat of America and Soviet Union. We experienced and saw, those who took the lead but were not clerics, even though some of them were religious people, our revolutionary path was not according to their taste, therefore... we temporarily deviate from our original word until this country could be administered by those other than clerics, then clerics will go back to their preach and their own position and they will leave executive matters to others who work for Islam.
  • Imam's Sahife. vol. 16, p. 349,350. (21 June 1982)

• Before the revolution I thought there are appropriate individuals who would do the job according to Islam, therefore I repeatedly said that clerics would go after their own job. Then I saw that most of them were inappropriate individuals and I found out that what I said was not true, so I came and clearly announced that I was wrong.
  • Imam's Sahife. vol. 18, p. 241. (11 December 1983)

• Ayatollah, would you be so kind as to tell us how you feel about being back in Iran?
  Nothing. I don't feel anything. (Hichi. Hich ehsasi nadaram)
  • Exchange between American reporter Peter Jennings and Khomeini (1 February 1979), during Khomeini's return flight to Iran; quoted in Elaine Sciolino (2001) Persian Mirrors. Khomeini's translator did not translate his response, but said only that he had no comment.

• These people are trying to bring back the regime of the late Shah or another regime. I will strike with my fists at the mouths of this government. From now on it is I who will name the government.
• Variant: I shall kick their teeth in. I am appointing the government. I am appointing the government by the support of this nation!
  • Speech at Behesht Zahra cemetery (1 February 1979), condemning the government of Shapour Bakhtiar

• Don't listen to those who speak of democracy. They all are against Islam. They want to take the nation away from its mission. We will break all the poison pens of those who speak of nationalism, democracy, and such things.
  • Remarks to students and educators in Qom (13 March 1979)

• Islamic state means a state based on justice and democracy and structured upon Islamic rules and laws.
  • Imam's Sahife, vol. 5, p. 133. (17 December 1978)

• In Islam, democracy is included and people are free in Islam, both in expressing their opinions and their actions, until there is no conspiracy and they don't bring up ideas which would deviate Iranian generation.
  • Imam's Sahife, vol. 5, p. 468. (15 January 1979)

• If one permits an infidel to continue in his role as a corrupter of the earth, the infidel's moral suffering will be all the worse. If one kills the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him.
  • Speech on the day of Mohammed's birth (1984)

• Happy are those who have departed through martyrdom. Unhappy am I that I still survive.… Taking this decision is more deadly than drinking from a poisoned chalice. I submitted myself to Allah's will and took this drink for His satisfaction.
  • Announcement of ceasefire with Iraq (20 July 1988), quoted in The Iran-Iraq War (2002) by Efraim Karsh

• …the author of The Satanic Verses book which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Qu'ran, and all involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death. I call on all zealous Muslims to execute them wherever they find them, so that no one will dare to insult the Islamic sanctions. Whoever is killed on this path will be regarded as a martyr, God willing.
  • Fatwa against Salman Rushdie (14 February 1989)

• This regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.
  • "Just How Far Did They Go, Those Words Against Israel?". The New York Times. June 11, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-08-13.

• When anyone studies a little or pays a little attention to the rules of Islamic government, Islamic politics, Islamic society and Islamic economy he will realize that Islam is a very political religion. Anyone who will say that religion is separate from politics is a fool; he does not know Islam or politics.
  • Tahrīr al-Wasīla vol. 1

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Imam Khomeini's quotes from wikipedia about Islam, revolution, capitalism, communism and Iran.

Interesting read.

 

[B@KH]

Imam Khomeini R.A. is from the Linage of Imam Hussain A.S. and this Linage always turn the tide in favour of people and is keeping Resistance against global babylonic arrogance Alive.

They are the smartest of all Leaders and real Masters of successfully maneuvering the most toughest of the enemy tides against people and take the Good out of the bad and turn things in favour of people.

Resistance against Global arrogance is alive due to them.

Breaking the nuclear taboo of the bi-polar powers and giving relief to people is really state of ART.

Thanks to Allah swt for giving us real Kareem Leaders.

 

[El Sidd]

 

[B@KH]

The New generation of our ERA has no idea about the personality of Imam Khomeini R.A. He was so much strong that even enemies admire him. The thrust of Revolution was so powerful that its shock waves changed the WORLD. This credit goes to Imam Khomeini Leadership qualities.

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