February 2004

a special edition from:

25th
ANNIVERSARY
OF THE
ISLAMIC REVOLUTION
IN
IRAN

This month marks the 25th anniversary of Imam Khomeini’s return to Iran from exile, the event from which the Islamic Revolution is traditionally dated. In this issue, we have a special section on Islamic Iran, including an article by M. Saeed Bahmanpour on Iran’s political progress, and abridged extracts of a speech recently given by the Rahbar of Islamic Iran, Ayatullah Sayyid Ali Khamenei, to Islamic movement leaders from around the world gathered in Tehran to discuss the current historical situation.

The continued centrality of Islamic Iran, 25 years after the Revolution
We open the section with IQBAL SIDDIQUI, editor of Crescent International, discussing the centrality and relevance of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and the Islamic State that it created, to the struggle of the contemporary global Islamic movement. Click here.

Iranian politics a quarter of a century after the Islamic Revolution
For this special section, we particularly wanted an Iranian perspective on post-Revolutionary Iran. HUJJAT UL-ISLAM M. SAEED BAHMANPOUR, an academic currently based in London, discusses Iran’s progress in the last 25 years. Click here.

Imam Khamenei on Iran’s Islamic ethos and the dangers facing the Ummah
In December last year, AYATULLAH SAYYID ALI KHAMENEI, the Vali-e Faqih of the Islamic Republic of Iran, convened a meeting of Islamic movement leaders and representatives in Tehran. Here we reprint extracts from his talk to the gathering. It is impossible to imagine any other statesman in a position of authority in the Muslim world speaking so openly and frankly about the state of the world today, clearly identifying the Ummah’s errors and weaknesses, and the dangers and challenges facing us. Click here.