The leader of the Islamic Republic said the Islamic identity of Iran was lost.
Ali Khamenei stated that the commemoration of the 19th of Dey in 1356 is repeated every year and must continue in the future as well, because the event was a significant transformative event, not an ordinary one. Keeping transformative historical events alive is everyone’s duty.
Why do we say the 19th of Dey in Qom is a transformative and historical event? Because it marked the beginning of a great struggle. From here, a great struggle began throughout the country with the aim of pulling dear Iran out of the clutches of the West. Iran, which was crushed under the distorted and wrong Western culture and under Western political and military domination, needed to be pulled out and made independent, to revive the historical identity of Iran. The historical identity of Islam and Iran is Islamic Iran.
This Islamic identity of Iran was lost. If someone walked through the streets of Tehran, not just Tehran but many other cities, even in some parts of Mashhad, one would not feel that this is an Islamic country, that Muslim people live here.