I don't think now, at the time Iran is viciously defending against US imperialism, is the time to be making left-communist critiques of them.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is not some unimpeachable bastion of anti-imperialism in western asia and it is dangerous to withhold critique just because it is opposed to US hegemony. The IRI is a theocratic ethnostate pushing back against euro-american imperialism while enacting its own centuries-long imperialism on the ethnic and religious minorities that fall within and around its borders. On a weekly if not daily basis, the IRGC, the paramilitary basijis, as well as the regular police harass, arrest, and kill not only such minorities as Kurds, Balochs, and Ahwazi Arabs (don't have to look far for this), but also ethnic Persian political dissidents and gender and sexual minorities.
The history of the 1979 revolution speaks to the development and rise of Khomeinism in the 1970s as a bourgeoisie opportunism that claimed the martyrs of Iranian communists while at every turn promising the disenfranchised baazaaris the protection of their private property. The purge of the Mojahedin in the months after the revolution, the associated purge of all deemed communist, and the immediate suppression of Kurdish autonomy movements in the northwest, all form the legacy of Khomeinism. It is important to be honest about this, to be honest about the reformulation of institutional misogyny and the other ills of Pahlavi Iran under the IRI, while simultaneously recognizing that the revolution was successful in one thing: exorcising the puppeteering hands of the united states from the country. It is important not to fall into the trap of valorizing an imperial power, while understanding that the only liberatory future for the people on the plateau and surrounding regions is revolution from within and below, not external intervention. These are compatible and, indeed, complementary halves of a whole politic!
As a Tehrani, and particularly as an ethnic Persian/Iranian Azerbaijani (Iranian Azerbaijanis being subject to linguistic and cultural suppression, but nonetheless perhaps the most integrated minority), it strikes me as my responsibility to talk about this. And it is something I talk about regardless of what is going on. As an esoteric Shi'a, it especially seems like my responsibility to talk about what Khomeinism has wrought.
And all of that is to say nothing of the fact that in my post I was just critiquing left-Shi'a infatuation with Khomeinism qua ideology, with no mention of the IRI—whose relationship with Khomeinism is varied, nebulous, and I would say secondary to the three decades of theocratic nationalism that has developed since Khomeini's death.
Kalbimizin üzerini örten tozların alındığı; sevginin ve merhametin hayatımızın odağında olduğu, hayatımızı iyilik yapmak üzere inşa edeceğimiz duasıyla, samimiyetiyle...
Canla, başla, kanla, her türlü fedakârlıklarla alınmış zaferimizi öğrenmeye muhtacız.
Çanakkale, Avrupa'nın "Hasta Adam" damgasını vurduğu Türk Milleti'nin varlık mücadelesidir.
Sadece Türkler değil aynı zamanda Suriyeli, Filistinli, Azerbaycan, Kürt, Arnavut...
Din kardeşlerimiz kendi vatanlarında rahatlatlarını bırakıp tek bir amaç için -vatan savunması- Türklerle omuz omuza, baş başa, tüm imkanlarıyla savaştılar. Neticede bu savaşın zaferinde sadece Türkler değil savaşan kardeşlerimizin de payı vardır.
İtilaf donanması, 506 topla günde ortalama 25 bin mermi gönderiyor, top gülleleri adres sormuyordu. Neticede bir millet ateşle imtihan oluyordu.
Bizim mermimiz yok muydu?
Diye soracak olursanız eğer:
Evet vardı. Ammavelakin elimizde çoğu eski, eski olduğu için ateş gücü son derece düşük olan 150 top vardı.
Durumu düşmana çaktırmamak için bulunan tek yol, mevzilere soba boruları yerleştirip top görüntüsü verilmesinden ibaretti. Bazen ise bulunan çalı çırpılar soba borularının önünde ateşe veriliyor "Top atıldı" görüntüsünü güçleştirmeye çalışıyordu...
Çanakkale'de 15.700 Boşnaklı şehit oldu...
252.000 Türk şehit oldu...
Çanakkale'ye gelen 25.000 Arnavutlu'dan 15.000'i şehit oldu...
Çanakkale'ye gelen 900 Filistinli'den geri dönen olmadı, şehit oldu...
Çanakkale'ye gelen 30.000 Suriyeli'den 600'ü şehit oldu...
3000'den fazla Azerbaycanlı şehit oldu...
Ve Kürtler...
Laz...
Suudi Arabistan...
Afganistan...
İran...
Irak...
Yemen...
Ve Diğerleri...
Şuan hepsi Türklerle baş başa, omuz omuza uyuyorlar.
Vatan sağolsun...
Vatan için savaşanlar sağolsun...
Çanakkale'yi Geçilmez yapanlardan Allah razı olsun...
The tradition that Satan invented poetry, mentioned by Shams-e Qays, is in part inspired by an ancient Arabian notion that personal “satans,” much like the “demons” of the ancient Greeks, were responsible for creative impulses. A far more important source of the complex personality of Satan in Islam is the Koranic story of Satan’s first disobedience. According to the Koran, after God molded man from clay and breathed life into him, He ordered the angels to bow before man, and one among the angels—Satan—refused and declared, “I am better than he; You created me from fire and You created him from earth.” And for this God expelled and cursed Satan. Satan, however, asked and was granted a respite from God’s judgment until the day of the Resurrection, and Satan said, “Then, by Your power I will surely lead them all astray, except for Your servants among them, those pure in heart.”
Satan’s independence among the angels, God’s willingness to give him a respite, and Satan’s obedient acknowledgment that he was the instrument of God’s power suggested a more interesting Prince of Darkness than a mere “personification of evil,” however full-bloodedly evil this personification might seem in some Koranic passages. The Sufis gazed at the possibilities of this complex Satan with fascination and, especially in the Persian-speaking Eastern Islamic world, they developed an alternate Satan. This Satan was the ultimate monotheist, the angel whose worship of God was so single-hearted that he refused to bow to man because he would bow only to God, the “lover” whose love was so unreserved that he accepted a role of alienation from the Divine Beloved because of his loving obedience to the divine command. The morally rehabilitated Satan is, in fact, a kind of martyr. In the poetry of Attar, Satan explains his motives, his suffering, and his understanding of God’s secret purpose in casting him out:
Far off stood I, yet I cannot abide that for even a moment anyone else except me behold that Face …
Far off stood I, in a state of gloom from separation, because I do not have the radiance of that union’s intimacy.
Although I have been banished from His threshold, I do not turn my head a jot from His path.
From the moment I set my foot in the Beloved’s alley I have not looked in any direction but His;
Since I am now the intimate companion to the secret’s meaning, I shall not look—not even the slightest bit—at anyone else.
Bu toprakları vatan kılan, başta Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk olmak üzere tüm şehitlerimizi ve gazilerimizi saygıyla anıyor, 30 Ağustos Zafer Bayramımızı gurur ve coşkuyla kutluyoruz."
Biz Türkler tarih boyunca hürriyet ve istiklale timsal olmuş bir milletiz