{"id":340894,"date":"2025-12-27T20:13:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T19:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=340894"},"modified":"2025-12-27T20:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T19:13:42","slug":"khamenei-claims-the-west-fears-irans-islamic-order-as-he-tries-to-steady-a-shaken-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/khamenei-claims-the-west-fears-irans-islamic-order-as-he-tries-to-steady-a-shaken-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Khamenei Claims the West Fears Iran\u2019s \u201cIslamic Order\u201d As He Tries to Steady a Shaken Base"},"content":{"rendered":"
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File photo: Ali Khamenei delivers speech on anniversary of Ebrahim Raisi’s death<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Ali Khamenei, the leader of Iran\u2019s clerical dictatorship, has again tried to shift the argument over Iran away from uranium and inspections and toward ideology, telling his demoralized base that Western leaders are enraged not by the nuclear file but by Tehran\u2019s project to build a new \u201cIslamic\u201d order at home and abroad.<\/p>\n

In a message published on Khamenei\u2019s website<\/a> for what was termed the 59th annual meeting of the Union of Islamic Associations of Students in Europe, Khamenei wrote: \u201cIt is not about the nuclear issue and things like that.\u201d Instead, he said, the dispute is \u201cconfronting the unjust order and the coercive dominance system in today\u2019s world, and turning toward a just national and international Islamic system.\u201d The framing recasts sanctions, isolation, and pressure as the cost of an historic mission rather than the consequence of choices that have imposed heavy burdens on citizens.<\/p>\n

Khamenei\u2019s absurd victory message came in the shadow of the 12-day war\u2014an episode very costly for the regime, including the loss of senior commanders and severe damage to nuclear, military, and security infrastructure. The regime\u2019s supreme leader did not engage those vulnerabilities directly. Instead, he attempted to rewrite the scoreboard: if the conflict is \u201cnot\u201d about the nuclear file, then nuclear setbacks and battlefield losses can be reframed as spiritual tests; if it is about \u201cworld order,\u201d then endurance itself becomes the definition of success.<\/p>\n

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Khamenei\u2019s Insistence on A \u201cPropaganda War\u201d Exposes That His Battlefield Is Inside #Iran<\/a>https:\/\/t.co\/oTw7vPHbfP<\/a><\/p>\n

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) December 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n