Explaining the Concept of Resistance in Imam Khomeini's Political Thought

By assuming Velayat-e-Faqih as a theory of the Islamic Revolution, this article seeks the concept of resistance in Imam Khomeini's political thought to show why and how the two elements of identity and anti-arrogance are the most crucial pillars of resistance in Imam Khomeini's political thought against the sovereignty of the capitalism. Therefore, the main question in this article focuses on the meaning and concept of resistance as a practical solution to the core of capitalism and resulting in its arrogance. Although the theories of the Islamic Revolution have been the most common foreign policy strategy of the Islamic Republic so far, which indicates the strategy of neither Easy nor West as the ideal and practical policy of the Islamic Republic, this article, while referring to the existing documents and with the hermeneutic method of the text, seeks to discover the nature of domestic politics with a new look, and explore, justify and analyze the two semantic pillars according to the political thought of Imam Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution in the Rule of the Islamic Republic. It also emphasizes the hypothesis that the Imam, as a religious leader, thinker, and political and social reformer to advance his resistance strategy during the Pahlavi era, tried to establish national sovereignty by proposing the theory of Velayat-e-Faqih. He also took steps to advance domestic politics by considering the two concepts of freedom and self-sufficiency based on the two pillars of national identity and anti-arrogance, in the era after the victory of the Islamic Revolution.