Freedom and Its Status in the Ideas of Imam Khomeini

The Islamic Republic of Iran, for the first time, provided a fully qualified Faqih, who had established a political system himself, with the opportunity to present his ideas about different human rights issues on the basis of Fiqh and Islamic principles. Imam Khomeini utilized Fiqh and Islamic principles to express his ideas about important human rights issues, such as freedom and the Islamic political society. The present article seeks to discuss the status of freedom, obstacles in the way of securing freedom, and the manifestations of freedom using the ideas and views of Imam Khomeini about human rights.