TEHRAN (FNA)- The movement started by the Late Imam Khomeini in Iran decades ago can spread to the entire Muslim world, a former commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said, adding that the growing waves of Islamic awakening and popular uprisings in the Middle-East and North Africa today indicate the same fact.
Owing to the fact that the movement which was started by the Late Imam Khomeini in Iran was based on God's will, it is not restricted to only one country and it can spread to all Muslim countries of the world," Abbas Aghazamani told reporters on Sunday.
"Hence, we can see that after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, popular movements have now started in the region," he said, adding that people in Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and other regional countries have now stood up to topple their puppet regimes which take orders from the West.
Modeling on Iran's revolution, people of the region have risen now to establish divine and Islamic ruling systems in their countries, Aghazamani continued, and reiterated that these developments all indicate that the movement which was started by the Late Founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, several decades ago not only can, but also is spreading and overwhelming the entire Muslim world.
Since the beginning of 2011, the Muslim world has witnessed popular uprisings and revolutions similar to what happened in Iran in 1979. Tunisia saw the overthrow of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in a popular revolution in January, which was soon followed by a revolution which toppled Hosni Mubarak in Egypt in February.
Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Saudi Arabia and Yemen have since been the scene of protests against their totalitarian rulers, who have resorted to brutal crackdown on demonstrations to silence their critics.
Bahrain and Yemen, however, have experienced the deadliest clashes, while in Bahrain the military intervention of the Saudi-led forces from the neighboring Arab states has further fueled the crisis in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.
In similar remarks in April, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei had also underscored the profound and vast influence of Iran's Islamic Revolution on the growing waves of Islamic awakening in the region.
"Thanks to Islam and Islamic Revolution, a public Islamic awakening has happened in the region today, which will definitely yield its results as it has already yielded (some of) its results in certain points," Ayatollah Khamenei said, addressing a group of Iranian people here in Tehran in April.