This regime is a barbarity that undermines the values of Islam. Yet Iran is a great country, has a beautiful civilization, a great culture, unfortunately dominated today by ayatollahs who sacrifice their youth for a question of veil.
The time has come to count your friends and distance yourself from your enemies. The more Morocco advances and emerges despite the difficulties, the more its adversaries rise up in front of it and try to fight it. You don’t have to complain or moan. The life of nations is like this. Hence vigilance and redoubling of efforts. Nothing is given. Everything is to be achieved by perseverance, seriousness and rigor in the work. The territorial integrity of a country suffers no questioning.
Twice in a few years Morocco has severed diplomatic relations with Iran. The reason: this religious state not only aligned itself with the Algerian positions in the conflict concerning the territorial integrity of Morocco, but it would have trained and equipped elements of the Polisario.
Anyway, modern Morocco cannot share the conception that these religious leaders have of Islam. I remember the time, at the end of the 1970s, when the Muslim world revered Ayatollah Khomeini, the man who had found refuge in France while waiting to return triumphant to Tehran. Portraits of this man hung in the cafes of Morocco. The authorities of the time reacted quickly enough to have them removed. The philosopher Michel Foucault rejoiced at the fall of the Shah and wrote articles very favorable to this revolution. A few weeks later, Khomeini had Iranian intellectuals executed, and the world discovered the true nature of this authoritarian and violent old man.
With us, the Sunni Malikite rite is moderate and places great emphasis on spirituality. Today, the popular resistance of Iranian youth who demand the freedom to dress as they wish, puts this regime in a difficult situation. Like his Syrian friend and ally, he did not hesitate to fire on the crowd and kill hundreds of demonstrators.
A regime that responds with fire no longer has any legitimacy. Obviously, he accuses the Americans and the Israelis of being behind the fact that women remove their veils. “The foreigner’s hand”, an old refrain that reminds us of our neighbors to the east! As if Iranian or Algerian youth needed to be told from abroad how to live and resist an anachronistic dictatorship.
This is obviously not the truth. The truth: Young women, Mahsa Amini and Nika Shakarami, were killed at police stations for showing a bit of their hair.
This regime is a barbarity that undermines the values of Islam. Yet Iran is a great country, has a beautiful civilization, a great culture, unfortunately dominated today by ayatollahs who sacrifice their youth for a question of veil.
Iranian cinema is one of the best in the world. Some filmmakers are resisted and prevented from working. Society is modernizing and power is sclerotic. He does not have a choice. To stay in place (like the Algerian regime) it needs to strike and punish. The primacy of religion over politics is no longer possible in a modern world where the individual aspires to live free and responsible. The slogan “Women, life, freedom!” sounds like the beginning of the possible end of a regime that respects neither men nor women.
The veil does not make Islam.
The Iranian state is at war with many people. In Lebanon, it is present in an exorbitant way by the army of Hezbollah. In Syria, he came to the aid of Bashar al-Assad, the massacre of his people. In Yemen, he supports the Hutist rebels and in Iraq, terrorism is back.
In Russia, he supports Putin, who is waging a war against the Ukrainian people.
Morocco has nothing to do with this state which introduced aggressive Islam on the international scene.
Khomeini is dead, but the death sentence against Salman Rushdie is still running. The individual who tried to kill this writer last July was congratulated by the ayatollahs’ regime.
The Iranian popular uprising risks experiencing the same fate as the Algerian Hirak. However, only the people are capable of overthrowing this authoritarian regime, based on a retrograde and dangerous conception of the precepts of Islam. The determination of the young people is admirable. The Iran of the ayatollahs is very seriously shaken. He can only get out of it with brutality and a disregard for human life.