The Islamic identity of Iran had been lost.
The commemoration of the nineteenth of Dey, which happens every year, must continue in the future as well. This luminous path must endure because this event was not just an ordinary incident, it was a great transformative event. Keeping transformative events alive is the duty of everyone in history.
Why do we say that the nineteenth of Dey in Qom is a transformative and historical event? Because it marked the beginning of a great jihad throughout the country. The goal of this jihad was to remove Iran from the clutches of Western imperialism. Iran, which had become enslaved under the distorted Western culture and under the political and military domination of the West, needed to be liberated and regain its historical identity. Iran’s historical identity is intertwined with Islam.
This Islamic identity of Iran had been lost. If someone walked in the streets of Tehran, they wouldn’t feel that this is an Islamic country. Not only in Tehran, but also in many other cities, even in certain parts of Mashhad, if someone walked, they wouldn’t feel that this is an Islamic country, that people here are Muslims.
