Explaining Idealism and Realism on the Leadership of Imam Khomeini: A Research Approach

The accumulation of values as an ideal with the realities of existence, in taking strategic decisions of the system in various cultural, political, social, and economic fields ... is one of the most important issues which has attracted the minds of many elites since the early revolution. Regarding the importance of this issue, the purpose of this article is to explain and analyze the character of the realistic idealism (two basic components of the wise decision making model) in the strategic decisions of Imam Khomeini since 1357 to 68. Since this feature of Imam's leadership has not been scientifically investigated so far, In this research, the strategic decisions of Imam Khomeini in the domain of research are selected and the categories related to the two features of idealism and realism, using quantitative and qualitative content analysis of the words of Imam contained in 22 volumes of Imam Khomeini Sahifeh, extraction, classification, analysis and inference Has been done. The findings of the research show that all the strategic decisions studied in this study were within the framework of the wise decision-making features and has two components of idealism and realism. Thus, it can be concluded with certainty that Imam Khomeini, in making strategic decisions, was a realistic idealist.