Iran’s Revolution is Against Islam

Robert Spencer: “Iran has never been a Muslim country. They forced this ideology on people with guns and force for centuries. You are witnessing the end of Islam in Iran now. Persians are burning mosques. Never call a Persian Muslim, that would be an insult, This is Persian renaissance.” — Iranian born pro-democracy activist Amil Imani.

Mass ‘islamophobia.” The West is building mosques, Iranians are burning them down. So what do Iranians know that the West doesn’t? They lived it.

For the Islamic Republic of Iran, it’s all about Islam. And always has been.

The core of the Iranian regime’s identity is Islam: The conflict between the Islamic Republic and the West isn’t primarily about nuclear weapons or geopolitics—according to Ayatollah Khamenei himself, it is fundamentally about establishing an Islamic order both nationally and internationally.

Islam is central, not incidental: Iran’s leaders consistently frame their struggle with America and the West in explicitly religious terms, making the Islamic nature of the regime intrinsic to its worldview and ambitions.

Khamenei’s recent statements underscore this religious framing: On December 27, 2025, Khamenei told an audience of Islamic student associations in Europe that the issue with Western powers is not the nuclear dispute but opposition to Iran’s plan to expand Islamic governance.

The regime’s motivation transcends politics: For the author, this means the Iranian government’s actions are driven less by conventional state interests and more by its interpretation of Islamic doctrine as a governing, expansionist force.

Daniel Greenfield: In an outpouring of Islamophobia, pro-democracy protesters in Iran have been accused of burning down as many as 30 mosques.

Video has shown the Al-Rasool Mosque in Tehran being set on fire on Friday, a ‘holy day’ for Muslims, in a show of troubling ‘Islamophobia’ which Iran’s Chief Islamic Judge warned would result in “maximum punishment”. That’s saying something for a regime which already chops off fingers and rapes female protesters before executing them.

It’s unknown what occasioned this ‘Islamophobia’ from protesters.

Perhaps it was the generations of oppression in the name of Islam.

Perhaps it was the constant state of Islamic terror, not at the hands of bombers or hijackers, but the regime that they installed.

Perhaps it was the mandatory ‘hijab’ that is celebrated by western liberals, but which brave Persian women risk their lives to tear off.

Leftists believe that Islam is a force of liberation. That’s why they supported the Islamic Revolution which took over Iran and imposed decades of death, terror and tyranny. The Iranian people know better which is why they’re fighting and dying for freedom from Islam.

Western liberals may call them ‘Islamophobes’, just as they condemned the protesters in East Germany and Hungary, but just as those who lived under Communism knew it best, who knows Islam better than those who are forced to suffer under it?

In the West, they’re building mosques, while in Iran they’re tearing them down.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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