Academic Scientific JournalsAnti-Westernism as a criterion for pretending to be revolutionary in Iran and its application as an effective tool in removing political rivals
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26881/jpgs.2019.1.06Keywords:
Anti-Western, anti-modernization, Islamic radicalism, theocracy, extremism, holy valuesAbstract
What has been less visible to observers over more than Iran’s thirty years political events or, in other words, what was actually formed the motivation power of government system after the 1979 revolution, was located under the shadow of a vast tree of religion, is a kind of xenophobia and, in its particular form, is anti-Western. It can be argued that the contents, capacity and role of this religion without any “anti-Western” anticipation were useless and deficient to the Iranian Shiite rulers.
The basis of the discussion in this article is the context in which a kind of anti-modernization grew from within and became the dominant discourse of society headed by traditional clergy.
What is being discussed in this article is to fingers on the main stimulus and the central tool of production of legitimacy, and its role and application in conjunction with the political ideology of rule in Iran. In this regard, the present article seeks to explain how this primary stimulus has evolved and how it is used as a political tool but in the form of ideology.
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