In human life, there is always a constant challenge between righteous people who want everything to be in accordance with the truth and in accordance with the will of God Almighty who wants to have everything according to their velleity (May 22, 1994). After the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, the most fundamental challenge of pure Muhammadan Islam as the accepted reading of Imam Khomeini and the Supreme Leader of Islam is liberal democracy. The liberal democracy paradigm also benefited from the widespread media and propaganda possibilities, the powerful capitalist economy, the influence of communism, which for many years was the sole competitor of liberal democracy — all efforts have been made to fight the Islamic Republic of Iran and spread pure Muhammadan Islam.
In the meantime, pure Islam, especially after the September 11 event — is Iran’s only or most serious competitor, a tough competition, albeit unequal to this powerful paradigm. The competition runs in different areas but the focus of the competition is to try and impose signs that both sides claim to be right. Democracy, human rights, liberty and equality are conflicting notions that the liberal democracy paradigm seeks to consolidate with the most secular and humanist foundations, and with the support of international organizations and powerful nations. (Hoseynizadeh, 2010: 454-452). On the other hand, the Islamic Republic of Iran seeks to develop a new plan by relying on religion and the ideas of the founders and theorists of the Islamic Revolution and the religious faith of the elites and the people, and by giving new content to these concepts (localization) and or, by emphasizing other concepts rooted in religion, compete with the liberal democracy paradigm. These two have an irreconcilable character: Western democracy is compatible with misery pure Islam, and neither the acceptance of diverse Western freedoms within Islamist contexts nor the application of many of the articles of the Declaration of Human Rights within the framework of misery pure Islam can be accepted.
Meanwhile, the rise of American neoconservatives, who are the radical face of liberal democracy, has exacerbated the face of hostility in the relationship between two ideas. It is clear that, in these circumstances, the representatives of the liberal democracy paradigm, in view of their superior position in the international community, are adding to the pressure and hardening on the Islamic Republic of Iran. They accuse it of violating human rights, of unequal sexual and religious treatment of women and of religious and intellectual minorities, of disregarding democracy and freedom, and are seeking to impose sanctions and stricter pretexts. In this regard, forty resolutions against the Islamic Republic of Iran have been issued in the field of human rights since the Islamic Revolution (1979) to 2011, citing human rights violations. The latest resolution, adopted at the UN General Assembly in 2011, with 89 votes in favour of Iran, the highest number in favour of condemning Iran’s human rights, reflects the fact that in the field of human rights, some UN-influenced nations in a long-term, slow-track project have been trying to blackmail Iran so that they can address the human rights issue alongside bogus crises such as accusing Iran of trying to obtain a nuclear bomb (1/4) (2004) and advocate terrorism at the international level and make other countries of the world sensitive to it (Prophetic 2004: 3).
In the context of the human rights literature of foreign policy, the doctrine of defending human rights is officially recognized as the doctrine of the United States and European foreign policy. and given the universal acceptance of the concept and definition of human rights in the international system of law, theorists and proponents of pure Muhammadan Islam thought that with the aspiration of the realization of Islamic civilization after the Islamic Revolution, the formation of a system and a state tried to make the Islamic country by reforming the political structure and adopting Islamic laws and regulations. Their most important task is to take a clear position and explain their approach to the signs and foundations of Western civilization. Although religious scholars have written numerous books and articles in this regard, the lack of clarity and ambiguity in defining and explaining the foundations and consequences of Islamic civilization’s view of human rights indicates the need for further examination of Islamists’ thought in the field.
Ayatollah Khamenei is one of the religious thoughtful thinkers who have been active in explaining religious thought since the Islamic Revolution. Having a rational, systematic, ijtihadi and ijtihad-based approach to the analysis of various issues arising from the purely Islamic doctrines, along with his experience of the quarter-century of Islamic Jihadist leadership of Iran, has distinguished him among other contemporary Shi’ah jurisprudence. Considering the importance of referring to the views of the Supreme Leader who, in addition to exercising the authority over the Islamic community, in accordance with paragraph (1) of Article 110 of the Constitution, determine the general policies of the system in different areas and their view is the chapter of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s domestic and international crisis, explaining their views on the “human rights issue.” To this end, all of his remarks and writings during the time of the Islamic Revolution (1990-2016) have been discussed and articulated and linked to human rights issues that are scattered throughout their messages have been attempted to produce a poem based on their thinking.
Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei from the beginning of the Islamic Revolution in 1990 to the end of 2015, among 1423 speeches and 1226 published messages, he has dealt with the human rights issue in 235 speeches and messages and in the meantime, they have used the phrase “human rights” more than 500 times. This article seeks to explain, in four sections, the statements and messages of Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran on the issue of human rights, and explain his solution to this problem. In the first part, Ayatollah Khamenei’s view on the West’s view of human rights and Western human rights practices, in the second section on the causes of Western governments and international humanitarian issues with Iran, in the third section, the Supreme Leader on the human rights situation in Iran and in the fourth part, the way out of the issues and problems of human rights violations in the contemporary world has been expressed from the perspective of the Supreme Leader.
The Dishonesty of Westerners’ Claim to Protect Human Rights
To the Supreme Leadership of the West, Europe and the international community are not sincere about claiming human rights protection, simply because claiming it is not enough to prove their honesty 18 June 1989 and there have been numerous cases of human rights violations around the world. They see the claim as deceit and lies for colonizing and exploiting these governments more than any other state (27 June 2015). From their point of view, they have no faith in human rights, humanity and the fight against terrorism and the protection of the rights of nations (23 March 1996) and do not value any human being — even their own nation (20 September 2003) and Terrorism and Repeated Human Rights Violations in the Universe are focused on their cooperation (21 September 2002). They regard the will, the right to choose and the freedom of nations as worthless and legendary and in essence, not the human rights advocates, but the supporters of international companies and trusts and cartels and the great American capitalists are the most authoritarian and dictatorial rulers in the world and in the Middle East (31 October 2012).
The powerful of the world have built their powers based on injustice and force, and thereby, through the vast propaganda tools at their disposal, while inverting right and wrong (4 March 1992), various facts such as human rights, justice, humanity, youth issues and women’s issues are derided (6 May 1992) and so, because of their actions, billions of people die under the pressure of this system of things in the wrong world (29 September 1993). He argues that human rights defenders who claim to be the guardian of the world (9 January 1992) and the leader of humanity (18 March 2002) should not be expected to do well and to do good (13 March 1994). Organizations like the United Nations, the Security Council and the European Union exploit superpowers in critical times (30 August 2012). They justify their oppression, right and discrimination with legal names like “human rights,” “defending human values” and the like (24 May 1995). and while they speak human rights in the language but do not accept it in the heart (21 March 2001) and this is the worst kind of cruelty to humanity, because the worst kind of cruelty is to rule the world in the name of justice, unjustly in the name of truth (24 May 1995) and this development has caused the greatest damage to humanity and backbone of Asia and Africa.
Colonialism has abducted oil, subterranean wealth and culture for many years, preventing colonial countries from progressing and walking through science and on this path, they have suffered the most damage to peace and human rights (17 April 2001) their work is based on darkness and concealment of truth (5 July 2004).
Human rights violations by human rights defenders are visible throughout the world in the past, present and in the West and elsewhere in the world. He cites some of the cases to prove the Western claim that human rights are false. By examining the statements and messages issued by him in the last three decades, they can be grouped into three groups:
1. A Case of Human Rights Violations by Human Rights Defenders in Iran
Human rights violations by Western colonists in Iran date back to the Pahlavi era. Creating and supporting the reign of the rogue regime and the dark dictatorship of Reza Khan (17 December 2003) and not condemning the requirement of without hijab in Iran and encouraging Reza Shah (30 March 1990) as well as unequivocal support for Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the government (4 June 1995) and whether in the coup d’état 28 Mordad (2 February 1999) and the massacres of 15 Khordad and 17 Shahrivar and 13 Aban and the killing of the Varamin shrouds (4 June 2013) and the actions of SAVAK (7 January 2015) and the lack of opposition to them is one of Ayatollah Khamenei’s concerns. Following the Islamic Revolution of Iran, along with political pressures stemming from Iran’s accusations of human rights violations, there have been numerous cases of human rights violations by Westerners: Nutritionists and terrorists financially fed as well as asylum seekers who have been asylum seekers since the beginning of the Islamic Revolution, with incidents such as the explosion of the Islamic Republic Party center and the martyrdom of Martyr Beheshti and seventy-two senior officials in the country, as well as the Prime Minister’s office and martyrdom Rajaei and Bahonar, as well as the martyrdom of Ayatollah Martyr Motahhari, Martyr Mofateh, Martyr Sadouqi, Martyr Lajevardi, Martyr Iraqi, Martyr Sayyed Shirazi, Martyrs of the Altar, nuclear scientists, and seventeen thousand other martyrs (June 27, 2015) and also, bombings in the shrine of Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha and the Muslims of Friday and Tehran Railway Square and Imam Khomeini Square and other public places countless innocent martyred (18 May 1993). As well as supporting the counter-revolution and coup d’état of the martyred Nojah base (3 November 2013) and supporting Iraq in the eight-year war against Iran despite committing numerous war crimes such as the brutal attack on civilian housing areas and the brutal killing of thousands of defenceless children and women. And capturing ordinary travellers on the occupied roads in the first weeks of the war and violating international obligations and regulations and bombing commercial ships, civilian and passenger aircraft, regular passenger trains (22 September 1987) with tanks and equipment and advanced equipment and even maps and tactics of warfare and modern aircraft and nuclear facilities to build atomic bombs in Iraq and the launch of chemical weapons factories to deploy a large volume of chemical weapons against Iran, which led to the chemical injury of innocent people and the many unsupervised children and adolescents in Iran (such as Sardasht) and Iraq (such as Halabjah) (24 July 2012). And the lack of protest by human rights organizations in the United States over the attack on a passenger plane in June 1988, and even the protest against a shooting officer who killed many innocent civilian women and men, and instead awarded a medal of merit to him! (2 May 1990) is one of the cases that he has mentioned in numerous statements. Alongside these cases, there have been numerous cases of human rights defenders attempting to humiliate and destroy Iran in international communities through various measures such as dissenting, economic pressure (sanctions) and cultural aggression and attempts to wage war, attempts to drag the proxy wars to the Iranian borders (20 May 2015) to weaken or destroy the Islamic Republic. In all of the above cases, not a single conviction has been issued by international human rights groups and in contrast, many of these actions have been aided or encouraged (29 October 2008). However, if countries that defend human rights, the Iranian people’s message on human rights and other Islamic Revolution slogans hear their own Iranian language, many misunderstandings will be eliminated (16 May 2006). The high volume of human rights violations in Iran by human rights defenders is so great that the Supreme Leader visited the families of the seventeenth-century martyrs and the families of the martyrs of Tehran’s assassination: It is good to announce 28 June to 3 July as American Human Rights Week! (27 June 2015).
2. Human Rights Violations by Human Rights Defenders in Islamic Countries
The Supreme Leader believes that Western nations and international human rights groups have fallen short of preventing and opposing violations of Muslim rights worldwide, a common concern of all Islamic countries. The most significant human rights violations in Islamic countries that have been going on for more than half a century are the torture and killing of numerous Palestinians and residents of southern Lebanon by the Zionist racist Israel in the eyes of humanity. Numerous bombings in southern Lebanon and cities of Palestine such as Gaza (4 June 2010) Ramallah, Nablus (2 March 2003) Jenin and al-Khalil (4 June 2010) and Dayr Yasin (1 May 2004), Sabra and Shatila (17 February 2014) attack on al-Aqsa Mosque of the First Muslim Qiblah (3 November 1992) and Repeated Assassination and Abduction of High-Ranking Lebanese and Palestinians, such as Sayyed Abbas Mousavi (4 March 1992), Shaykh Ahmad Yasin, Fathi Shaqaqqi, Rantisi (14 April 2006) and Imam Musa Sadr (29 May 1994) are often contextualized and justified by European and American countries and international forums (24 April 2001). Against these Zionist acts, equipping the usurper Zionist state with nuclear weapons is one of the most important violations of world peace (24 July 2012). In addition, the United States’ strategic policy is to create insecurity, crisis and war in the Middle East (2 August 2006) and convert the Persian Gulf code into a weapons depot (17 February 2010). Attack Iraq (23 February 2003) Afghanistan (13 December 2009) and other countries and throw thousands of tons of bombs on homeless cities and people and children and marchers and innocents and civilians and use of bombs and the air wars in the civil wars (21 March 2005) and the killing of civilians by drones in Pakistan (16 February 2013) and the selective and political clashes that have led to contradiction and distress and dual stance on democracy and human rights issues in Libya, Egypt, Bahrain and Yemen (3 February 2012). As well as supporting and granting asylum to Salman Rushdie — a writer who blasphemes the blessings of a billion Muslims — in support of freedom of expression and opinion (18 January 2005) Supporting the Attack on Muslim Mosques in India (16 June 1991) and non-objection to the obligation to be without hijab in Turkey during Atatürk’s rule, (30 March 1990) propaganda against Algerian elections and the fight against democracy in that country (27 February 2001) and the support of Saddam Hussein in the chemical bombing of Halabjah (1 May 1996) that led to the killing of innocent people. Communist support and support for the shedding of the blood of Tajik Muslims (18 May 1993) and assistance to terrorists and extremist and Takfiri movements in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Syria (12 March 2015) along with propaganda and media in line with the rise of Islamophobia and anti-Islamism in Western countries (13 September 2010) has been one of the numerous cases of human rights abuses in Islamic countries by human rights defenders, which have been cited in numerous statements. Apart from the above, there are no clashes with some Islamic countries where there is not even one Shura Council — even formally and nominally — but because they serve the interests of Western countries (21 March 2003) have been repeatedly criticized. He considers one of the most important goals of these actions the creation of neglect, divergence, narrow-mindedness, selfishness and secularism and irresponsibility among the elites of the Islamic world. (16 April 2006).
3. Human Rights Violations by Human Rights Defenders in Western and American Countries
According to Ayatollah Khamenei, European and American countries and other human rights defenders, although they are members of the UN Human Rights Council and must respect human rights standards more than other countries, do not respect the rights of their people (5 February 1993); therefore, those who do not respect the rights of their people should not expect the preservation and support of the rights of other countries. The most important reason for this is the UN Security Council’s irrational, unjust and completely undemocratic structure and the mechanism that human rights defenders have been able to violently use and abide by in honourable concepts such as human rights, committing numerous violations like military intervention in countries (30 August 2012) From human rights violations in Western countries and the following are the words of the Supreme Leader:
Two world war fires (3 September 2007), harassment and neglect of the Muslim minority in Europe (18 January 2005), fighting Hijab in Europe despite the freedom slogan in France and some other European countries was called the “scarf war” (28 November 1990). The events of Bosnia and Herzegovina (12 July 1995) and the bloody and brutal suppression of Muslims in Srebrenica and Sarajevo (14 December 1996) — in the heart of the so-called civilized Azoppa – as well as the home wars in Nagorno-Karabakh and Caucasus public region (9 December 1997), the Poverty and Suffering of Hunger (16 September 2006), lack of medication and drug in civilized and developed countries, (7 January 1993) insult and inferiority of the rights of blacks, workers and the poor in the United States (21 March 2005), the United States’ inability to create justice (17 May 2009) and the racial discrimination and human rights violations of black and white inequality in the United States (20 August 1997), The deterioration of prisons in the United States, such as Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib Prisons (4 August 2014), the high rate of murder and crime in the United States (10 September 1997), murder and burning of members of the Branch Davidians in Texas in 1993 (19 June 2009), spiritual poverty and terrible ethical deprivation (4 September 2001), family struggle (6 April 2010), youth suicide and crime, homicide of children twelve and thirteen in the United States (13 September 1995), Indigenous Massacre (18 March 2002) — the original natives of the territory of the United States — the enslavement of millions of Africans and Indians from their homes (8 February 1993) is one of the things that the Supreme Leader has mentioned in numerous statements. In their view, the defenders of human rights, women’s rights, children’s and animal rights and human rights organizations, in particular, the United Nations Human Rights Committee, are responsible for all of the above issues (5 September 1993). But the prominent aspect of American society — violence, sex (3 September 2007), the prevalence of unrestrained, bullying, and insecurity of people remains hidden in the shadows by propaganda (18 March 2002).
Having stated the above, citing the principle of “the obligation to adhere to Islam,” they believe that in addition to working to defend and enforce Islamic law, we must be creditors of human rights defenders in the West and we demand that rulers respect human rights in the West (6 June 2006). Therefore, in view of the above, they have proposed that due to the concern of the Iranian men’s government over the human rights situation in European countries, representatives of both sides should be sent to the other side to monitor the human rights situation in the context of bilateral monitoring, to monitor the human rights situation in prisons, courts, and the social and civil behaviour of each other’s governments for mutual monitoring, and to report on the quality of human rights compliance. (9 January 2006).
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