Khamenei of the Islamic Republic crowns himself leader of the Muslim world

The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Khamenei, lives in a parallel world of his own and embraces peculiar perceptions of what is happening around him. However, he is unlikely to personally believe the absurdities he says. His speeches are simply rhetoric aimed at inflaming the emotions of regime supporters inside and outside Iran. This was clear from the sermon he delivered in Arabic from Tehran last Friday, addressed to the Islamic world and especially to the Lebanese and Palestinian people. It was a revealing speech that reflected his mindset and that of the hardline Iranian elite around him – a mindset that has fueled crises in the Middle East since 1979.

His claim that “Any attack on Israel serves the entire region” reflects the Islamic regime’s self-proclaimed role as overseer of the region’s countries, violently imposing its authoritarian vision, especially with regard to security and stability.

After years of promoting the idea that the United States’ military presence is the main cause of regional unrest, especially in the Gulf, he now claims that attacking Israel serves the interests of regional countries and encourages a series of proxy wars.

This reckless and short-sighted Iranian view, which ignores the strategic interests of the countries in the region and dismisses their perspectives on international and regional relations, confirms that the Islamic regime has not changed and will not change. All its recent “developments” in bridging rifts and improving relations with neighboring countries are merely attempts to neutralize these countries, while the country ignores their positions and national interests in the fraught game it plays with the US and Israel.

Overall, Khamenei’s speech introduced nothing new at the strategic level. It was an ideological, mobilizing speech in which he justified Iran’s missile attack on Israel, calling it “completely legal and legitimate,” while repeating slogans about Israel’s demise and other familiar rhetoric.

IRAN’S SUPREME Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends Friday prayers and a memorial ceremony for Hassan Nasrallah in Tehran earlier this month. (credit: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/West Asia News Agency/Reuters)

He clearly failed to acknowledge the successive intelligence violations that led to the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah and other Hezbollah leaders. This is not surprising, as the Iranian regime has not acknowledged any security shortcomings in major incidents that have occurred in recent months, such as the killings of Ibrahim Raisi and the mercenary Ismail Haniyeh, and before them prominent scientists and leaders of the Revolutionary Guard. (IRGC). Even referring to these security disasters is a condemnation of the IRCG, which directly monitors all plans and actions of Hezbollah and the Houthis.

Khamenei’s speech smelled of desperation

Khamenei’s speech was – in my opinion – mainly a desperate attempt to position himself as the leader of the Islamic world. Lately, the political discourse of all Iranian officials has focused on this approach. They push narratives about the unity of the Muslim world; the ideal of resistance; and the attempt to fill the leadership vacuum that exists in the Arab and Islamic world (a vacuum created by many reasons and factors that we will not discuss here).

The Iranian leader is also engaging in a game of manipulation as he attempts to merge the Palestinian and Lebanese people with terrorist groups loyal to the Iranian regime – by presenting these groups as representatives of the people. He claims that “no one has the right to object to their resistance,” and portrays them as fulfilling their duty in defending the people.

This is a transparent maneuver, which confuses national issues and attempts to manipulate the emotions of the Palestinian and Lebanese people, leaving everyone with a moral dilemma as they try to reject the practices of terror militias that drag them into bloody conflicts – as is evident in Gaza, southern Lebanon and the Dahiya.

Khamenei’s pitiful attempt to present himself as the leader of the Muslims is also evident in his speech in which he emphasized that the enemies of the Islamic world are the enemies of Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, Syria and Yemen, and that “if Muslims work together Divine glory will sustain them,” explaining that guardianship means interconnectedness and stability among Muslims. This is clearly a cheap attempt to exploit events to gain popularity in the Islamic world and to turn the ongoing conflict between Iran with its terrorist militias and Israel into a global religious struggle. In his speech, Khamenei focused mainly on the Islamic world, advising people to “open their eyes well and raise awareness.”

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It is clear that Iran and its terrorist organizations operate with their own calculations of victory and defeat, which differ from military strategists’ calculations regarding confrontation and conflict. Thus, mere survival, whether for the terrorist militia or its leaders, remains a symbol of resistance and victory, regardless of the heavy human and material losses.

However, applying these calculations to the current state of these militias does not indicate a real victory.

NASRALLAH, IRAN’s key figure in the Middle East, has been assassinated, along with most of Hezbollah’s terrorist leaders. The group also suffered a major blow following a massive intelligence breach that resulted in the elimination of more than 3,000 of its members via the simultaneous blast of pagers in an operation that exposed the weakness of the group’s security apparatus.

Khamenei’s bold attempt to mobilize Muslim public opinion behind Iranian goals is a clear ploy to strengthen his regime’s negotiating position and try to embarrass Arab and Muslim governments in front of their people – or at least spark heated debates on to initiate social media platforms regarding support or opposition to the Iranian regime. the missile attacks that Iran carried out on Israel.

Such attempts, however, have little chance of success for one simple reason: Iran itself is so exposed that it is difficult to convince even a simpleton that it is fighting to spark revolutions and liberate Palestine or Jerusalem.

The writer is a UAE political analyst and former candidate for the Federal National Council.

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