Reconsidering the Dimensions, Components and Threats of Iranian-Islamic Identity from Imam Khomeini and the Supreme Leadership

Various theories have been proposed by the theorists about whatness of national identity and the effective elements in its formation and development. Nevertheless, all of these theories and viewpoints have an issue in common in that national identity is a type of “conscious self-differentiation from others”. Enjoying the theory and approach of socialism and also based on the thought and epistemic system of Imam Khomeini and the Supreme Leader, the study seeks to answer three questions about Iranian national identity: firstly, what are the dimensions of national identity? Secondly, what factors are involved within these dimensions? Thirdly, what are the threatening factors of the mentioned components and how is it possible to confront with these threats by getting advantages of national identity? The perspective of this study implies that because of its features, the socialism approach possesses a good capability to explain the subject of this study.