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Ali Larijani | علی لاریجانی @alilarijani_ir

4 months ago

سلام عليكم، لاريجاني يتحدث إليكم..

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5 months ago

A lot of Americans have no idea who Husayn ibn Ali is, but they should if they want to understand what’s happening in the Middle East right now. Husayn ibn Ali was the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. In 680 CE, he refused to pledge allegiance to Yazid, the Umayyad ruler who had effectively transformed the early Islamic caliphate into hereditary dynastic rule. Husayn would not legitimize what he believed to be corrupt and unjust authority. He traveled toward Kufa after receiving letters of support, but before any political uprising could materialize, he and a small band of family members and companions were surrounded and killed at the battle of Karbala. For Shiʿa Muslims, this battle at Karbala is the moral axis of their theology. Husayn became their eternal symbol of resistance to tyranny, even when defeat is certain. His martyrdom represents the belief that justice may lose militarily but triumph spiritually and morally. And this is not an abstract doctrine, it has practical & material implications. Husayn’s martyrdom is reenacted annually by Muslims during Ashura, their most important day of mourning. And it shapes the political consciousness of Shiʿa Muslims today. Husayn’s memory has deeply influenced the Iranian Revolution since the beginning. Revolutionary leaders explicitly invoked Karbala, portraying resistance to foreign domination and domestic authoritarianism as a reenactment of Husayn’s stand against illegitimate power. Iran is majority Shiʿa, and its political culture consciously draws on the symbolism of Karbala. When Iranian leaders frame confrontation with the United States as resistance to empire, they are invoking this narrative that justice requires sacrifice against overwhelming force. And now, with the killing of Ali Khamenei, many inside Iran and across the Shiʿa world will inevitably interpret this event through that same lens. In Shiʿa political theology, a leader killed by a powerful foreign adversary does not simply die, he becomes a martyr, a part of a sacred story of resistance. And now Trump & the drunken buffoon Pete Hegseth have killed their spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for the same reason that Husayn ibn Ali was killed, standing up against unjust authority. They thought they had toppled the Islamic Revolution, when in fact they have emboldened it & given it another spiritual-political martyr. They have unified Shia people all across the region against the forces of imperialism. One must wonder if they took the time to learn this history before launching strikes on Iran, or if they were just blindly following whatever Bibi Netanyahu told them to do.