Strategies for Confronting Cultural Invasion in Ayatollah Khamenei's Thoughts and Their Manifestation in Contemporary Iranian Poetry of Sustainability

The culture of any nation arises from its regional, national, religious and practical conditions, and these cultures interact and antagonize other cultures according to their motivation and structure. But some cultures take an aggressive approach from the point of view of aggression without the right to choose, forcing the opposite culture to accept, defend, or attack; therefore, it is necessary for the culture being under aggression to adopt strategies to overcome it. Ayatollah Khamenei, considering the role of cultures in the identification and awakening of nations, has sought to defend the Islamic and national culture of Iran; and given the irreplaceable role of the leadership of the Islamic Revolution, his scientific and practical solutions to combat the cultural invasion of the West should be sought. The present article, based on descriptive-analytical method, while collecting his opinions, reflects these words in the poems of contemporary revolutionary poets in order to revive them. The present study believes that Ayatollah Khamenei, as a sage, insightful and brave Imam, has been able to offer important strategies from various points of view, including; cultural Jihad and long war, cultural battle against cultural battle, self-awareness of officials, expansion of the missions in the field of the culture of the revolution, joint interaction of the government and the nation, etc. against the hostile culture of the West in order to manage the circumstances. On the other hand, poets have been able to reflect these strategies in the form of poetry with their own taste to increase the impact of those words.