(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - A senior Iranian religious and cultural official said the growing tides of Islamic Awakening in the region prove that the efforts made by the West to confine Iran's Islamic Revolution to the country's borders have failed.
Head of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought Ayatollah Taskhiri made the remarks in a meeting with the Deputy Grand Mufti of Croatia (highest religious authority of Muslims in Croatia).
Taskhiri said that the West sought hard to block the spread of the Islamic Revolution and "tried to portray it as an Iranian and Shiite revolution which is not related to the other Islamic countries and Sunnis, but to no avail as we see that the blessings of this revolution have spread throughout the world".
He further pointed out that Arab Spring in Islamic countries, such as Egypt and Tunisia, were inspired by Iran's Islamic Revolution.
He also reiterated that the waves of Islamic Awakening will continue, "and we believe that the era of oppression, tyranny and dictatorship has ended and a golden and lustrous future is awaiting the world of Islam".
Many world officials and figures have uttered the same remarks, saying that the growing wave of awakening across the world have been inspired by the Iranians' Islamic Revolution.
The Vatican leaders in their meetings with an Iranian parliamentary delegation in October acknowledged Tehran's regional and international clout, saying that Islamic awakening overwhelming the different countries of the region and the world has been inspired by Iran's Islamic Revolution.
"We held talks with the Vatican's culture minister over the conditions and the popular uprisings in the region and the Vatican minister said that popular uprisings are inspired by the Islamic Revolution in Iran," member of the Iranian parliament's Clerics Commission Hojjatoleslam Hossein Ebrahimi told FNA on Tuesday.
Also, other religious leaders of the Vatican in similar remarks underlined Iran's major role in inspiring the regional nations in their uprisings and revolutions against their tyrannical rulers, Ebrahimi added.
Since the beginning of 2011, the Muslim world has witnessed popular uprisings and revolutions similar to what happened in Iran in 1979.
Tunisia saw the overthrow of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in a popular revolution in January, which was soon followed by a revolution which toppled Hosni Mubarak in Egypt in February.
Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Saudi Arabia and Yemen have since been the scene of protests against their totalitarian rulers, who have resorted to brutal crackdown on demonstrations to silence their critics.
Popular uprisings have also jolted European countries, including Spain, Greece and Britain, and even the US, where thousands of Americans have staged a protest camping for the last three weeks in the Wall Street in New York and other cities across the country to condemn the US ruling system.
In similar remarks in April, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei had also underscored the profound and vast influence of Iran's Islamic Revolution on the growing waves of Islamic awakening in the region.
"Thanks to Islam and Islamic Revolution, a public Islamic awakening has happened in the region today, which will definitely yield its results as it has already yielded (some of) its results in certain points," Ayatollah Khamenei said, addressing a group of Iranian people here in Tehran in April.
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9 October 2011 - 20:30
News ID: 270856
A senior Iranian religious and cultural official said the growing tides of Islamic Awakening in the region prove that the efforts made by the West to confine Iran's Islamic Revolution to the country's borders have failed.
