Export of Islamic Revolution in View of Imam Khomeini with Regard to Promotion of Islam and Justice, from Theory to Continuity and Drastic Change

No doubt the Islamic Revolution in Iran has imposed drastic changes on foreign countries’ political balance approaches vis-à-vis Iran.  The establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran and revamping of Iran’s foreign policy based on Imam Khomeini’s idea of exporting Islamic Revolution gave birth to new approaches in Islamic Republic of Iran’s foreign communications and exchanges. The idea of exporting the revolution and its endorsement by Imam Khomeini as a priority for Iranian foreign policy during the early years after the victory of Islamic Revolution was welcomed by politicians as a benchmark for Iran’s interaction with the other world countries. This paper has tried to readdress “exporting revolution” as one of the frequently used concepts in the political literature of the early post-revolution years within the semantic scope of Imam Khomeini’s political thought in two dimensions of spreading Islam and justice. It has to be mentioned that the analysis of these two dimensions in exporting revolution does not mean ignoring other dimensions in Imam Khomeini’s political ideology. This is because various aspects in Imam Khomeini’s political ideology overlap in some cases.