Cleric: Islamic Awakening in Region Inspired by Iran

A senior Iranian official described Iran as the origin and the main source of inspiration for the growing tide of Islamic awakening in the region and the world.
Mohammad Mohammadian, a cleric who heads Leader of the Islamic Ummah And Oppressed People Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei’s office of university affairs, made the remarks on Wednesday, stressing that the recent revolutions and uprisings in the Middle-East and North Africa have been inspired by the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.

“The future of the Islamic Revolution is honorable and promising and the biggest developments in the world will have their roots in the ideals, causes and mottoes of the Islamic Revolution,” Mohammadian said.

Since the beginning of 2011, the Muslim world has witnessed popular uprisings and revolutions similar to what happened in Iran in 1979. Tunisia saw the overthrow of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in a popular revolution in January, which was soon followed by a revolution which toppled Hosni Mubarak in Egypt in February.

Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Saudi Arabia and Yemen have since been the scene of protests against their totalitarian rulers, who have resorted to brutal crackdown on demonstrations to silence their critics.

Bahrain and Yemen, however, have experienced the deadliest clashes, while in Bahrain the military intervention of the Saudi-led forces from the neighboring Arab states has further fueled the crisis in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.

In similar remarks in April, Ayatollah Khamenei had also underscored the profound and vast influence of Iran’s Islamic Revolution on the growing waves of Islamic awakening in the region.

“Thanks to Islam and Islamic Revolution, a public Islamic awakening has happened in the region today, which will definitely yield its results as it has already yielded (some of) its results in certain points,” Ayatollah Khamenei said, addressing a group of Iranian people here in Tehran.