The victory of the Islamic revolution and its justice-seeking charms, which led to the tendency of Muslim leaders to follow the slogans of this revolution, made the western world worry about the future of Iran's leadership over the Islamic world.
From this time, think tanks proposed the project of "Leadership" for the Islamic world as an intellectual support for Western policymakers, and gradually the implementation of this project by Western political leaders began.
Saudi Arabia, as the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, which regularly receives Muslim pilgrims thanks to the presence of the Al-Haram Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque, was the first choice of the Western world for the leadership of Islam.
They put forward Islamic fundamentalism led by Saudi Arabia and Wahhabi-Salafi thinking and tried to support Wahhabism and Saudi Arabia by criticizing Shiism and propagandizing against it.
The Saudis also welcomed this decision of the West and by spending huge expenses and extensive propaganda measures such as holding expensive conferences with the presence of Muslim scholars and intellectuals, they introduced themselves as the leader of the Islamic world.
However, Saudi Arabia's support for the ISIS terrorist group and involvement with Muslim countries such as Syria and Iraq, and open aggression against Yemen, along with strengthening relations with the Zionist regime, convinced Muslims that Saudi Arabia cannot have a valid position in the Islamic world.
The Saudi king's invitation to the then American president Trump at the same time as the presence of the leaders of Islamic and Arab countries in Riyadh was the last shot of Saudi Arabia to show its leadership. But when he was called a "milking cow" by Trump, he was removed from the rank of candidates for the leadership of the Islamic world.
When in February 2007, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan left the meeting after criticizing Shimon Peres, President of the Zionist Regime, with a red face at the Daos Economic Summit. It happened that the West has started working to introduce Turkey as the leader of the Islamic world.
After this meeting, Erdogan was welcomed enthusiastically by people holding Turkish and Palestinian flags when he arrived at Istanbul Airport. At this point, Erdogan was called "The Conqueror of Daos" and the Western media, including the CNN news network, mentioned Erdogan as an anti-Israel figure who could be the leader of the Islamic world.
Some Muslim figures also They were influenced by this atmosphere; for example, Khalid Meshaal, the head of the political office of Hamas, stated that Turkey under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan presented an example of modern and moderate Islam and said: "Erdogan is not only the leader of Turkey but also the leader of the Islamic world."
Hamid Mohammad Khan, the head of the Jamaat-e-Islami Foundation in India, also said: "Turkey is the leader of the Islamic world, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, is not only the leader of the people of his country but also the leader of the Islamic societies."
After that, Turkey became active by promoting secular Islam as a reformer in the Islamic world, and its liberal movement continued in the direction of the institutionalization of Islam desired by the West. But Turkey, like Saudi Arabia, entered into a war with Syria and Iraq by supporting ISIS, and gradually the country's relations with the Zionist regime also developed.
Establishing official relations with the Zionist regime and increasing official trips between them revealed Erdogan's hidden goals and removed this country from the leadership of the Islamic world.
Egypt, with its civilizational history and political influence in the Islamic world, was also one of the candidates for the leadership of the Islamic world.
Ever since the revolutionary wave of the Egyptian people against Hosni Mubarak began, the Westerners have tried to impose their desired president on the Egyptian people through the elections and to lead the Islamic world by secretly supporting Muhammad Morsi.
But Morsi's Salafi-Wahhabi tendencies and religious extremism on the one hand and his reconciliation with Israel's fake regime faced a serious challenge to the Islamic world's desire to defend Egypt from Palestine.
From the very beginning, Muhammad Morsi declared his full adherence to the Camp David Agreement, and during his administration, rocket attacks by Palestinian militants on Israeli-occupied areas were stopped.
Muhammad Morsi was able to destroy the underground tunnels for transporting weapons into the Gaza Strip within a year to destroy the Sinai Peninsula and thus stop sending weapons to Palestine.
The Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz wrote in its note on July 4, 2013: "Mohammed Morsi's presidency is considered one of the best periods in the history of the establishment of Israel.
The Zionist regime thought that with the inauguration of Muhammad Morsi, the relations between the two countries would become more tense, but during the presidency of Muhammad Morsi, the two countries became closer than before.
During this period, the Zionist regime was able to receive concessions from Egypt that were not possible during Hosni Mubarak's period." Such actions of Morsi not only tarnished the image of the Muslim Brotherhood in all Islamic countries but also removed Egypt from the list of leaders of the Islamic world.
But on the other hand, along with the West's efforts to isolate Iran and distance this country from Muslim leadership, Ayatollah Khamenei's intelligent rule, inspired by Imam Khomeini's way, promoted Iran's leadership position among Muslims.
Ayatollah Khamenei's strategic measures in three aspects, namely, firstly, fighting the arrogant system ruling the world and explaining the existing undesirable order, especially for the Islamic world, and secondly, drawing and introducing the desired order for the future of the world with the design of the new Islamic civilization, and thirdly, guiding the Islamic world to move From the existing situation to the desired situation, he established his leadership position in the Islamic world.
The main reason for the concentration of attacks and insults by Western propaganda agencies against the Leader of the Islamic Revolution is the failure to implement the "Leadership" project for the Islamic world and the fortunes of the Muslims of the world, especially in West Asia under the leadership of Ayatollah Khamenei.
The recent insult of Charlie Hebdo should also be analyzed in this framework.
Today, the ability of Ayatollah Khamenei in guiding Islamic movements, anti-unilateralism, and anti-arrogance, as well as strengthening the axis of resistance and directing currents to confront Zionism and calling for Islamic unity, shows their sufficiency, competence, ability, and competence to lead the Islamic world.
The wave of condemnation of "Charlie Hebdo"'s ridiculous act among Muslims of the world also shows that Islamic societies have come to the belief that they should defend the character who carries the mission of the Prophet of Islam (PBUH).
After Putin's meeting with the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ali Murad, a journalist, and scholar of the Arab world, wrote on his Twitter account to introduce the true leader of the Islamic world: "Putin, who gave the Emir of Qatar and the King of Saudi Arabia a bird of prey, is giving Imam Khamenei an old Quran from 13 centuries ago. Do these gift choices reflect anything?
(The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect those of IRNA)
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