The argument that the Islamic Republic of Iran, established in the wake of the Iranian revolution of 1979, has a moral compass will come as a shock to many of the propagandized people of the West.
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Iran supports the Palestinian cause. It sees the Palestinians as the victims of a decades long programme of ethnic cleansing instigated by Zionist Israel which is backed by the United States. It also supported left wing liberation movements in South Africa and Central America. Israel was at the same time supporting Apartheid South Africa and training right-wing death squads in Latin America.
The Iranian Constitution has a clause making it mandatory to set aside funding for liberation movements. This is something not understood by the West and most Westerners who absorb all the conflated anti-Islamic propaganda of the Western Mainstream Media.
The accusation that Iran is the greatest sponsor of global terror is untrue. Most terrorist acts committed by militant Muslim groups are by Sunni organisations such as al-Qaeda and ISIS. Iran’s Shia ally -not proxy- in Lebanon, Hezbollah exists simply because of Zionist Israel’s coveting of Lebanese territory up to the River Litani.
The West cannot digest the fact that far from introducing a regressive and unenlightened culture as they believe all Islamic societies do, Iran has maintained a scientific culture alongside the culture of poetry and philosophy. The educational qualifications of many of their political leaders attests to this. The late Ali Larijani for instance was a scholar who wrote three books on Immanuel Kant’s philosophy including one which focused on the mathematical method in Kantian philosophy.
Iran’s contemporary achievements in science can be ascertained from the amount of patents registered by its citizens, the contributions of its academic community to journals on physics, and of course from its ballistic missile and drone-making programmes.
Iran has a multi-layered moral base which is simplistically distorted in the West as a medieval hardline attitude against females and gays. They have no idea that Iranian women undertake almost the full gamut of occupations from taxi drivers to university professors. They do not all wear hijab and are not forced to. Their literacy rate is far in excess of the time of the Shah when rural illiteracy was widespread.
The West refuses to believe that Iran has for decades declined to make a nuclear bomb just as it refused to retaliate against Iraq’s use of chemical weapons against Iranian soldiers and civilian populations during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s. Both decisions, fatwas respectively byAyatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei,were based on the view that usage of both in war is un-islamic.
Source: Global Research
