Dr. Iqtidar Mohammed Khan, in an interview with the News Committee of Imam’s commemoration talked about the specification of the late leader: “By the victory of the Islamic revolution in 1979, the first independent Islamic State based on the rules of the pure Islam was established, there had been Islamic countries but what differ the IR Iran from them is that in Iran the pure Islam rules. The revolution of the people of Iran in 1979 was a lesson for all the Islamic society and all of them could benefit from them. This revolution wasn’t only an Iranian revolution but it was an Islamic revolution and it has continued this way.”
He mentioned that Imam Khomeini was a great religious and political leader, stated: “I, as an expert of Islamic Studies and as a person who has had studies on the history of Islam and Iran and the Islamic revolution, believe that from the time Islam has come to Iran, it was able to establish a great civilization and improve its position.”
This Indian professor added: “The previous century, has been the dark age of Iran which the Pahlavi regime died to weaken Islam by anti-Islam policies and banning Hijab and limiting Islamic teachings but after the awakening the society and the scholars by the leadership of Imam, everything changed and it lead to the Islamic revolution.
He mentioned the impact of the Islamic revolution on the region and the Islamic world and stated: “Since 1963 Imam Khomeini started his movement by giving speeches and issuing announcements and he rose against the dark Pahlavi regime until he established Islamic rules in the Iranian society.”