New York ceremony marks Imam Khomeini (RA) death anniv.

Notable among the participants in the ceremony was Gholamali Khoshroo, Iran’s permanent envoy to the UN who addressed the ceremony about the roots of Islamic Revolution of 1979 under the sagacious leadership of the late founder of the Revolution; “in his favorite version of Islamic awakening, neither reactionary Islam favoring compromise nor rootless secularism which countenanced Western values, had places; his Islam was an active Islam of permanent political and social dynamism which would provide the public their salvation of the afterworld and happiness of this world,” said Khoshroo. “A religion securing independence and promoting status against hegemonic powers, while prescribing interaction with saving expediencies, actively countered cultural and political embodiments of allegiance to the West; his movement conceived in a small home in Qom in the road to rectification of a repressive corrupt system which was a puppet of the West,” he added.

“Since June 1963, his ideals garnered public welcome during the next 15 years; a figure exiled in Europe so that the public would not hear his calls returned back to his homeland while the welcome this time defied words to be described; the more the regime became a vassal state of the US, the less became its legitimacy and public support, and the more people turned to Imam Khomeini (RA) to the regime’s consternation,” he addressed the ceremony.

Khoshroo ascribed the current stability enjoyed by Iran in the region to strong bonds of the high leadership and the public; “Revolution thus prioritized public participation in affairs from the outset to base its pillars on public vote; we offer a religious version of democracy in counterbalance of extremism and factionalism on the one hand and despotism on the other, which plague countries in the region,” he added.

“Public in Iran vote in elections to categorically denying violence and foreign dependence in favor of interaction with those in power; Imam Khomeini (RA) believed in Muslim unity and based Islamic Republic on public vote, which was drastically in odds with self-styled ISIL,” Khoshroo concluded.

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