According to an IRNA Political desk reporter, Velayati who was speaking Monday evening at the first gathering of the Islamic Awareness Conference while congratulating the IRI Parliament, Majlis, for the establishment of an Islamic Awareness Faction, said that the move indicates the Parliament’s special interest in the great new wave of Islamic awareness within the Islamic world.
The former Iranian foreign minister elaborating on the expression “Islamic awareness” said, “This expression should be considered synonymous with awareness contrasted with the former lingering ignorance – ignorance about the neo-colonialists’ new methods of cultural onslaught, which is pursued resorting to the westerners’ new cultural weapons.”
Velayati said that the background of Islamic awareness in Islamic countries is as old as the history of colonialism, arguing, “Ever since the foundations of colonialism were set almost two centuries ago we have been witnesses to the Muslim nations’ uprisings against the entire agents of the colonialists.”
Elsewhere in his address, Velayati referred to Samuel Huntington’s book, Clash of Civilizations, saying, “Huntington had predicted that the first clash would be between the west and the Islamic civilization and in the future we would be witnesses to bloody gaps between the western and the Islamic civilizations.”
The Consultant of the Supreme Leader in International Affairs emphasized, “Just like the past, today, too, the wave of the Islamic awareness resonated throughout the Islamic world as an export of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and this is a matter reiterated by such people as Yasser Arafat, and even the founder of the Islamic Brotherhood, Hassan al-Banna.”
Velayati pointed out that the Muslim Iranian nation countered the totalitarian tendencies of the colonialists ever since its birth, launching a wave of Islamic awareness, adding, “There are a number of secret elements that led to the victory of the Islamic Revolution, the most important one of which is the revolution’s roots in Islam and the teachings of the Shi’a school of thought.”
In conclusion part of his address, he compared the success of the Islamic Republic of Iran is various areas, compared with the other Islamic countries, arguing, “As some Egyptian officials have confessed, the Islamic Revolution of Iran has been faced with 30 years of numerous plots and pressures, but has managed to achieve great objectives, unlike the regime of a ruler like Hosni Mubarak, who had yielded to the entire orders of the Americans and the Zionists, and used to implement them wholeheartedly, but ended up as a wretched figure accused of treachery.”
Velayati referred to the problems with which the Islamic Republic of Iran has been entangled with after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, adding, “Fortunately in the field of sciences we have had the fastest growth rate; we have got access to the space, broken the nucleus of atoms, and safeguarded the independence of our country prestigiously, which are some of the most important achievements of our resistance against the totalitarian tendencies of those countries that are after the exertion of their hegemonies over the Muslim nations.”