Imam advised Gorbachev to research Islam

Imam Khomeini, the great intellectual and mystic of the Islamic world had invited Mikhail Gorbachev to seriously study and research Islam.

ID: 32042 | Date: 2013/01/01
The honorable Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini made the precious advice in a historic letter delivered to Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last leader of the former Soviet Union.



The founder of the Islamic Republic said that communism had absolutely failed in responding to the material and spiritual needs of the young generations.


The great leader announced that the Shia seminaries and intellectuals were ready to extend their moral support for the satisfaction of spiritual needs of the Russian and other Eastern bloc’s societies. 


Ayatollah Javadi Amoli On January 3rd 1989, as representative of Imam led a delegation and left Tehran for Moscow to deliver the letter.


The message was read with delineating some important points and then the Kremlin's special interpreters translated it for Gorbachev.


The wise leader also predicted that from now on communism will only have to be found in the museums of world political history.


The Soviet Union finally collapsed in December 1991 as the world watched in amazement, the communist state disintegrated into several separate countries.


The great Imam had also warned the international community that the global arrogance and the imperialist powers were also descending into moral chaos and decline.
The founder of the Islamic Republic suggested that they could evade collapse only if these societies resort to human values and divine religion.