Iranian Society and the Challenge of Western Lifestyle in the Thought of Ayatollah Khamenei

Today, changing the Islamic lifestyle by the West is considered as the most important challenge in Iranian society, and preventing the influence of the Western lifestyle and its impact on the lives of individual members of the Islamic society is a defense solution in the defense thought of Ayatollah Khamenei. The present study has tried to answer the problem by using library and software resources and the use of the exclusive database of Ayatollah Khamenei's statements through an analytical-descriptive method. In this study, first by introducing the Islamic lifestyle and then the Western lifestyle and the ways of Western influence in the Islamic lifestyle of the Iranian society, the ways to prevent the influence of the lifestyle have been examined. Ways such as removing the feeling of self-loss and gaining self-confidence against the western lifestyle and bringing local cultural wealth to the scene and taking advantage of them, reviving and strengthening the doctrine of enjoining the good and forbidding the wrong, activating the government to play the cultural role of offense and defense, controlling and directing public media, especially cyber space, as ways to prevent and fight against the influence of the western lifestyle.