In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful I am writing this letter to the young people whose awakened conscience has moved them to defend the oppressed women and children of Gaza. Dear university students in the United States of America,...

Media and Their Function According to the Supreme Leader, “today, the media throughout the world promote thoughts, culture, behavior patterns and, in fact, the cultural identity of people and play a determining role. They can be influential in...

Religious Democracy   Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei used the new term religious democracy for the first time. He believes that democracy or “religious democracy” is a new concept, which has attracted the attention of many nations...

The reliable evidence shows the fact that before the advent of Islam, Iranian women like the women of other civilized nations, for many centuries used to wear hijab as their human nature, common sense and religious teachings entailed to the extent that...

The Necessary Requirements for “Preserving the System” in the View of Imam Khomeini (ra)   Given that the political thoughts of Imam Khomeini (ra) serve as a source on which the views of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution...

Western Civilization and Different Approaches in the Islamic World   During the 10th and 11th centuries AH, after a period of progress, the Islamic civilization reached the verge of decline such that at the beginning of the 13th century AH it...

As one of the influential ideas in recent years, the Resistance Economy which has been proposed by the Supreme Leader constitutes an important part of the idea of ​​the Islamic economy and identifying economic problems as well as providing solutions...

As a Muslim scholar and thinker, Ayatollah Khamenei believes that the ultimate goal of the Islamic Revolution is to achieve an Islamic civilization through a rational and constant framework built upon religion, rationality, science and ethic. To this...

The Principles of the Discourse of Divergence   Ayatollah Khamenei’s sub-discourse of divergence on the American political system follows his “Islamist” discourse. The Islamic and monotheistic system in his view is not...

The Importance of Prediction   Making a prediction is so important that in the last century, various academic centres have been founded to conduct research on the changes that will occur in the future, and also studying the future has become...

Resistance acts as a power. The more power a country has, the more dynamic resistance it would show towards the aggression of the enemy. From this perspective, the resistance front is the front of power the leadership of which is in the hands of...

From the beginning of the leadership of the Islamic Revolution in 1989 to the end of 2014, out of 1,423 speeches and 1,226 messages, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei addressed the issue of human rights 235 times and has used the term “human...

Addressing the concept of freedom, Ayatollah Khamenei states: “Regarding the concept of freedom, we must... think independently. We should not imitate others in this regard because if we were to imitate them in this issue, which is the basis of...

The Components of Consensus-Building in the Political Thought of Ayatollah Khamenei    Within a theoretical framework, some of the main models of consensus-building include consultation, dialogue, and election. The significance of such...

The outline of Islam from the perspective of Ayatollah Khamenei which is based on the Holy Quran, the sunnah of the Ahl al-Bayt and reason, has a cohesive structure that has been analyzed and designed based on a systematic theory. This is the case with...

Lexically, awaiting (intidhar) means expecting someone or something. Terminologically, it refers to a person who is waiting for the reappearance of Imam al-Mahdi (aj). In addition, awaiting (intidhar) indicates a feeling and tendency that prepares a...

On October 1, 1999, on the occasion of the birthday anniversary of Lady Fatimah al-Zahra and the 100th anniversary of the birthday of Imam Khomeini, Ayatollah Khamenei delivered the sermons of the Friday prayer held in Tehran. In the first sermon, he...

Among the revolutionary clerics, Ayatollah Khamenei was one of the few who paid special attention to the concept of “ideology” and its multidimensional meaning. For him, ideology meant a link between epistemology and sociology. By studying...

Following the suppression of the June 15 movement, the revolutionary clerics emphasized the necessity of producing an ideology of struggle in addition to believing in the existence of a vacuum in terms of the issue of organization. In the meantime, the...

Internal Challenges to the Ideology Embedded in Islamic Awakening   A) In the opinion of Ayatollah Khamenei, two fundamental challenges can be seen as threats posed by the actors of the Islamic world against the ideology embedded in the...