Investigating the obstacles and strategies to ensure the cultural security of the Islamic Republic in the thought of Ayatollah Khamenei

Culture is one of the connecting factors of individuals and therefore, addressing cultural security is somehow related to all members of society. In the category of cultural security, one should pay attention to its harms (in a negative way) as well as its positive effects for establishing and promoting security in society. Addressing this issue itself can help to open up fundamental issues in the field of comprehensive security, both in practice and in opinion. This issue has been one of the important concerns of Ayatollah Khamenei in recent years, and in this study, according to his statements, the question will be discussed: what are the obstacles and strategies to ensure the cultural security of the Islamic Republic in Ayatollah Khamenei's thought? The method of this research is "Laclau and Moff's discourse analysis. Its most important findings are: Ayatollah Khamenei considers cultural security threats as "de-Islamization", "emptying the revolution from within", "corrupting the youth and spreading corruption in the Western way of life" and "the inefficiency of some cultural executives". On the other hand, by providing strategies that identify the areas of their discourse, providing soft security in the field of culture is "promoting religious culture and teaching moral virtues", "having authority and strengthening the country in the cultural field", "providing Iranian-Islamic lifestyle" and They know "efficient jihadi management, correct implementation of laws and drawing a cultural engineering plan".