Frasi di Ruhollah Khomeyni
Ruhollah Khomeyni
Data di nascita: 22. Settembre 1902
Data di morte: 3. Giugno 1989
Ruḥollāh Moṣṭafāvī Mōsavī Khomeynī è stato un politico e religioso iraniano.
Fu un Grande ayatollah , capo spirituale e politico del suo Paese dal 1979 al 1989. Il suo governo fu ispirato alla religione islamica secondo un'ottica sciita duodecimana, e fu impostato in ossequio a uno stretto approccio fondamentalista.
Il regime da lui instaurato inaugurò in Iran una linea di potere che fu definita, in maniera approssimativa, "teocratica", e che sopravvive tuttora.
Frasi Ruhollah Khomeyni
„L'Islam o è politica o non è nulla [... ] la guerra è una benedizione per il mondo e per ogni nazione [... ] una religione senza guerra è zoppa [... ] Allah ordina agli uomini di condurre una guerra e uccidere [... ] i nostri giovani combattenti sanno che l'uccisione degli infedeli è uno dei compiti più nobili che Allah affida all'umanità.“
— Ruhollah Khomeyni
Dopo l'ascesa al potere nel 1979.
„In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.“
— Ruhollah Khomeini
Interview with Human Rights Watch, Paris (10 November 1978)
„With people's revolutionary rage, the king will be ousted and a democratic state, Islamic Republic, will be established.“
— Ruhollah Khomeini
"Imam's Sahife" vol. 4 p. 244 (1 November 1978).
„The people will not rest until the Pahlavi rule has been swept away and all traces of tyranny have disappeared. As long as the Shah's satanic power prevails, not a single true representative of the people can possibly be elected.“
— Ruhollah Khomeini
Response to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's announcement of elections (August 1978); quoted in "The Shah's Divided Land" (18 September 1978) Time
„We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.“
— Ruhollah Khomeini
As quoted in Nest of Spies : America's Journey to Disaster in Iran (1989) by Amir Taheri, p. 269. Disputed by historian Shaul Bakhash.
„if you hope at this juncture to cut the Gordian knots of socialism and communism by appealing to the center of Western capitalism, you will, far from remedying any of the ills of your society, commit a mistake which those to come will have to erase. For if Marxism has come to a deadlock in its social and economic policies, capitalism has also bogged down.“
— Ruhollah Khomeini
Letter to Russian Premier Gorbachev, January 1989. http://politicalquotes.org/node/68478
„Variant: I shall kick their teeth in. I am appointing the government. I am appointing the government by the support of this nation!“
— Ruhollah Khomeini
Speech at Behesht Zahra cemetery (1 February 1979), condemning the government of Shapour Bakhtiar
„Give them Islam, proclaim to the world the program of Islamic government; maybe the kings and presidents of the Muslim countries will understand the truth of what we say and accept it. We would not want to take anything away from them; we will leave anyone in his place who faithfully follows Islam.“
— Ruhollah Khomeini
Tahrir al-Vasileh, 1970. http://politicalquotes.org/node/54102
