The policy of exporting the Islamic Revolution

The policy of exporting the Islamic Revolution (Persian: سیاست صدور انقلاب اسلامی) is a strategy in Iran's foreign policy that believes in exporting the teachings of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 to achieve similar examples in Islamic and even non-Islamic countries.

This policy has been explicitly stated and at various times announced by Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

He said that efforts to expand Islamic rule would not be limited to proselytizing or propaganda, they would follow the "victorious and triumphant" armies of early Muslims who set "out from the mosque to go into battle", "fear[ing] only God",[11] and following the Quranic command: "prepare against them whatever force you can muster and horses tethered" [Quran 8:60].

Therefore, his comprehensive approach to the Islamic political system during the absence of the Infallible Imam is extroverted and cosmopolitan.

In addition, Khomeini considered the Iranian experience as a guide for political and ideological change in the Muslim world.

[23] According to Khomeini, the goals of The policy of exporting the Islamic Revolution, are based on the following principles:[24] A group of Iranian nationalists, regardless of the effective and deterrent international factors, considered the plan to export the revolution and pursue it to be a wrong and harmful thing.

They disliked the value treatment of the world system, emphasizing in their slogans a free and independent Iran, communication with all countries and joining the existing global community.

[10][23] Some who were revolutionary elements and considered national borders to be the construction of the colonial era also believed in the military export of the revolution.

They attributed any disorder, backwardness, cultural petrification, and demarcation to the planned conspiracy of the colonial powers.

The main goal of this view was the constant and continuous attack on the value and status and attempt to destroy other regimes.

The group focused on the use of military, guerrilla, and intelligence capabilities, and the arming of liberation movements and endangering the foundations of authoritarian regimes.

"[25][26] Proponents of this view believed that Iranians should build a single pattern nation at home and use all revolutionary, legal and even violent military means to achieve this goal.

In relation to the outside world, they pursued a policy of peaceful politics combined with opportunism and believed that wherever the national interests demanded and the conditions were ready, Iranian should strike at the dependent and authoritarian regimes and if the conditions were not suitable, Iranian should continue the current situation by compromising.

This view was a combination of the last two view, and its proponents believed that as long as Iranian could not stabilize the situation at home, they should not take an aggressive stance against the international community, but after Iranian could improve the situation at home and achieve our goals, they must gradually enter into conflict with the world community and the environment.

The concept of the policy of exporting the Islamic Revolution as one of the main components of "neither Eastern nor Western policy" in relation to the issue of independence and countering infiltration against the influence of foreign powers makes sense; The policy of exporting the Islamic Revolution itself is a kind of strategic orientation that aims at the formation of independent governments based on religious values and teachings in Islamic countries.

[51][58] The preamble to the Iranian constitution states: "Given the content of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, which was a movement for the victory of the oppressed over the arrogant, the constitution provides the basis for the continuation of this revolution at home and abroad, especially in expanding international relations with other Islamic and popular movements, to pave the way for the formation of a single world nation and to continue the struggle for the salvation of oppressed and deprived nations throughout the world.

According to the Article 154, this support is accompanied by complete abstention from any interference in the internal affairs of other nations and no request does not entail.