Islamic Iran: Valiant Resistance in the Face of Immense Challenges

Zafar Bangash


No country has faced greater challenges and unremitting hostility in recent history than the Islamic Republic of Iran. In its 42-year existence, it has faced internal sabotage, a campaign of assassinations of its leading figures and a US-Arabian-Western-backed war of aggression that lasted eight years (1980-1988). It has also been subjected to decades of illegal sanctions led by the US.
Sanctions have caused massive suffering for its people. This constitutes a war crime and crime against humanity. Despite such pressure, Islamic Iran remains unbowed.

Any other country would have collapsed long ago. Not so the Islamic Republic. What accounts for its resilience—indeed survival and progress—in the face of such relentless pressure?

To answer this question, one must understand the underlying principles and philosophy of the Islamic revolution. In one word, it is Islam. This needs elaboration. Most people including many Muslims make the fundamental error by assuming that Islam is like any other religion. As long as the rituals are performed, one has done one’s duty. Islam is not religion as understood in the conventional sense. In the Qur’an Allah (swt) describes it as deen—a comprehensive way of life that encompasses all aspects of life whether social, cultural, political or economic (3:19; 5:03).

Islam lays great emphasis on social justice and commands its adherents to stand up against all forms of injustice and oppression (3:18; 5:08). This is what terrifies the demonic powers and their agents that rule the world today. Those that stand up against them in support of the oppressed and the downtrodden (the Qur’an refers to them as mustadafeen) are vilified. In most cases, they are attacked and no means are spared to destroy their societies.

This is what has been attempted against the Islamic Republic since the first day of the victory of the Islamic revolution. The people of Iran led by Imam Khomeini (ra) not only overthrew the Shah—a US puppet—but also embarked on a course to make the country totally independent of the oppressive and exploitative policies of all tyrannical powers, especially the US. This was considered a cardinal sin and Iran could not be allowed to break the chains of slavery otherwise people elsewhere would get inspiration from its example and seek genuine freedom.

Soon after the victory of the Islamic revolution, a campaign of assassinations of leading figures was launched. The Western-backed Mujahideen-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist outfit that quickly earned the epithet, the munafiqeen, spearheaded this campaign. It targeted ulama, academics, intellectuals, ministers, the president and prime minister and many others. Some 1200 leading figures were martyred in the first few years.

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