14/01/2026
These are direct quotes from Ayatollah Khomeini, published after the 1979 revolution.
They explain - better than any analysis ever could - what the Iranian people are fighting against:
▪️ “We shall export our revolution to the whole world, until the cry ‘There is no god but Allah’ resounds over the whole world.”
▪️ “The Scripture commands: War! War until victory! A religion without war is a crippled religion.”
▪️ “To kill the infidels is one of the noblest missions God has reserved for mankind.”
▪️ “Establishing the Khomeinist state worldwide belongs to the great goals of the revolution.”
▪️ “We have set as our goal the worldwide spread of Khomeinist ideology and the suppression of the rule of world conquerors.”
▪️ “We wish to destroy the systems based on Zionism, capitalism, and communism, and replace them with the Khomeinist order.”
▪️ “The Khomeinist system makes it incumbent on all adult males to prepare themselves for the conquest of countries so that its writ is obeyed everywhere.”
▪️ “Those who study Khomeinist ‘holy war’ doctrine will understand why it seeks to conquer the whole world.”
▪️ “People cannot be made obedient except with the sword. The sword is the key to Paradise.”
Let’s be absolutely clear:
This is not coded language.
This is not metaphor.
This is not mistranslation.
This is an explicit political-theological doctrine of domination, conquest, and coercion, elevated into state policy.
This is what was imposed on Iran in 1979.
This is what has ruled Iran for 47 years.
This is what has jailed women for hair, executed dissidents, crushed minorities, exported terror, and held an entire civilization hostage.
And this is why Iranians are in the streets today.
They are not “confused.”
They are not “foreign-backed.”
They are not protesting bread prices alone.
They are rejecting an ideology that declares war on freedom itself.
When people say “listen to the regime,” this is what they mean.
They told us who they were - from the beginning.
Maybe it’s time the world stopped pretending not to hear.
Sa'adiyyah Adebisi Hassan
