An Interview with the Manager of Foreign Media in the Culture and Guidance Ministry

The Presence of Foreign Reporters in the June 3rd Ceremony

Manager of Foreign Media in the Culture and Guidance Ministry informed us about the presence of foreign reporters and photographers from 23 international media for covering the June 3rd ceremony.

The American reporter who had interviewed Imam Khomeini passed away

Mike Wallace, the CBS journalist who had interviewed Imam Khomeini after the victory of Iran’s Islamic Republic, died in the age of 93.

A number of university professors from the United States had met Dr. Zahra Mostafawi

The power of the Islamic nation’s children is rooted in Imam Khomeini’s spirit

Head of Hizbollah’s fraction and a member of its central council said: “The power and revolutionary spirit which we are viewing among the tolerant children of the Islamic nation are all from the revolutionary spirit of Imam Khomeini.”

Dmitry Zhukov:

The Islamic revolution challenged the current international system

Imam Khomeini made a revolution victorious which rearranged the world’s political equations and challenged the bipolar system in the international structures.

Hamid Reza Asefi:

The message to Gorbachev was a sign of Imam’s power

This letter has different dimensions which we could speak about it; philosophical, religious and cultural dimensions which are all notable, but about the political dimension of the message; we should consider that in the situation which the message was sent no one could have thought or predicted about the collapse of the Soviet Union, but Imam had done it, and this shows that if any one wants to view the situation with out considering the developments of time he has too have a inspirational point of view.

How did the Soviet Union end?

The collapse of the Soviet Union made the bipolar world disappear, a world which through the last decades had decided about the political destiny of countries. This situation eased the reliance on culture to determine different layers of foreign policies in a government-nation level by the international players. On the other hand, it confirmed that along with the cultural role of politicians, we shouldn't forget that not seeing the effects of religious features, believes and traditions of nations on structuring a culture would cause disasters.

Iran-Russia relations

From Imam Khomeini’s letter to the collapse of the Soviet Union

When Mikhail Gorbachev, Head of state of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, received Imam Khomeini’s letter from the Imam’s chosen delegation party, he turned to them and said: “Although the people of the Soviet Union and Iran are followers of different schools of thought, this does not prevent us from cooperating with each other based on our common principles and traditions.” On January the 4th 1989, when Eduard Shevardnadze, the Soviet foreign minister, traveled to Iran after his visit to Iraq and delivered Gorbachev’s official response to Imam Khomeini, he was also instructed to talk about bilateral relations.