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🎥 Fakayan: The revolutionary method has both revolutionary fervor and order and the rule of law/looking to the east does not mean just paying attention to the geographical east.
The former ambassador of Iran to the Republic of Azerbaijan said:
The discussion deals with the "order of the revolutionary system" which is taken from one of the expressions that Ayatollah Khamenei killed in the statement about the second step of the revolution. In this statement he presents the Islamic Republic as a revolutionary system and says that we must move within this system in the field of internal and foreign politics.
The revolutionary system has revolutionary fervor and at the same time, it has order, discipline and rule of law in the domestic and international arena. They did not see these two characteristics as mutually exclusive. Accordingly, the question arises as to how the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should act within the framework of the revolutionary system. What characteristics should the agents of the diplomatic system have and in what way should the diplomacy in the country go in order to match the indicators mentioned in the statement of the second step? This issue is one of the axes discussed in the book.
The second issue is the discussion of "Looking to the East"; A problem that has been brought up a lot in the last decade and has created questions in society. Is looking to the east a concept related to the cold war or is it still relevant? Does this opinion not contradict the Eastern or Western policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran? Actually, looking to the east means paying attention only to the geographical east? If so, what will be the position of other countries in our foreign policy?
In this section, we have tried to answer these questions by examining the views of Imam Khomeini (RA) and killed Ayatollah Khamenei. Looking to the East is not only a geographical view, but also has a political meaning and includes countries that oppose Western control and are defined within the framework of multilateralism. 🔹 In this context, Imam Khomeini's son was quoted as saying that the Imam wanted to unite the East. This point shows that in the literature of Imam Khomeini (RA), more emphasis is placed on the political aspect of the concept of the East, while in the opinion of the slain Ayatollah Khamenei, both geographical and political aspects are considered.
🔹 In this part of the book, we tried to answer as much as possible the questions raised regarding the concept of looking to the East and examine the various aspects of this approach.