As well, the role of Iran’s supreme leadership in neutralizing the plots of the enemies and bringing the people together caused the arrogant states to spread the rumor of demise of the supreme leader of Iran just before the scenario of Mehsa Amini, in order to strike the point of unity among all classes of the people. The limited current riots, copying the Islamic revolution of Iran in 1979, called itself “the revolution”, yet it is appropriate to call it the “Maximum Violence Campaign of 2022”, which allowed all kinds of violent actions against the people and insults to the leadership of Iran, but hinged on the Islamic Compassion, those youngsters who were deceived by the aforementioned trained cells were released expect those who took the weapon and came to streets. It is kindly reminded that in many countries insulting the leader of the country or the authorities causes imprisonment, even insulting the police has penal punishments. The double standard means that right now the Western police in Europe behave violently against demonstrators and deal with colored people without appeasement; the story of skeleton in cupboard.
The efforts of the West to change its behavior to finally change the regime by overthrowing a system, have always been prevail in western strategies. The regime change this time, emphasizing the super tool of sanctions or maximum pressure campaign, has made the economic conditions in Iran very difficult and even this was well reported in the reports of the special representative of the United Nations visited Iran, consequently all governments of the Islamic Republic of Iran has always tried to manage and neutralize the crippling sanctions.
In the “conspiracy of 2022” the arrogant and meddling countries did their best shots to bring the people to the streets using the economic sanction leverage to make the people disparate yet Iran is strong and alive thanks to the tact and strategy of the 13 government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Iran adopted the “economic surgery” or economic evaluation to foil the plots of the arrogant states. At the moment, even countries with no sanctions are facing inflation and the allocation of billions of dollars in subsidies due to the dire conditions of the world economy, despite these conditions, the alive and strong Islamic Republic of Iran during its 44 years of life, outsmarted the threat of the super tool of sanctions for economic growth and development and its defense and civilian industries. Who is really responsible for the economic pressures and hardships on the Islamic Republic of Iran?
In the field of technology and nuclear, Iran is one of the 8 member countries of the world club, it ranks four in nanotechnology, in aerospace sciences Iran is among the top three countries in the world, in science Iran ranks 12th and the first rank in the Middle East region in stem cells. Iran also reached 95% self-sufficiency in medicine and the Iranian scientists could succeed in developing 5 types of vaccines in the fight against Covid-19 which were used for the society. In the field of military and defense, benefitting 8 years of experience during the imposed war, Iran succeeded in the building all kinds of drones, missiles and other equipment independently despite the low defense budget comparing the tens of billion-dollar defense budget of the West Asian countries. This capability and power of the Islamic Republic of Iran has made the enemies to think over and over before any actions against Iran.
The killing scenario in the Maximum Violence Campaign, like the previous models, including in Syria, has had leaders among athletes, and celebrities inside and outside the country. On the other hands, there are huge number of athletes, committed artists and Iranians living abroad who still love Iran, that is why those limited Number of celebrities could not do anything.
The voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its goal to the defend the oppressed, both Sunni and Shiite, against the hegemonists and on the other hands, the request of the regional countries to fight against ISIS in Syria and in Iraq, Iran could defeat ISIS. This achievement has been obtained since the regional people do not consider Iran as an aggressor but they consider Iran as a country that seeks stability, peace, security and prosperity for the region without the interference of foreign countries.
The policy of the current government of the Islamic Republic of Iran is to deepen friendships with neighboring countries, and in this regard, it has serious negotiations with regional powers on the agenda, which it is hoped to be continued. Iran does not have ideological slogans to export the Islamic revolution ideals. Unfortunately, it is the West that, based on its economic power considers itself right to export the ideas of liberal democracy to the world by dictating those ideas and punishing the countries using sanctions and violence. You should really ask who the dictator is?
In conclusion, I emphasize that the West’s phobia is but the revolutionary Islam, the Islamic government, and even an independent Iran, and in this regard, they have not and will not hesitate to make any effort to falsify the image of Iran as a failed country and create a new westernized Iran that they desire. But the alive and strong Iran, despite sanctions and various scenarios during 44 years, as the late leader of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini (RA) once said, with its “neither East nor West policy” but independent, has reached a point where its glory and greatness of the Islamic world will once again be visible on the world stage.
Bita Zolali is Head of Public Diplomacy at the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Republic of Indonesia.