Semantic-Identity Explanation of the Islamic-Iranian Model of Development from the View of Āyatollāh Khāmene'i

The purpose of the present study is to review structural adjustment discourse, political expansion, its effects and consequences, and also principles and components of the Islamic-Iranian development from the view of Āyatollāh Khāmene'i. The Islamic-Iranian dialogue of development in the cultural context of Iranian society aims to present an indigenous model of expansion. By using an analytic-explanatory method, it was shown that lack of correspondence between the western dialogue of development and the social and cultural context of Iranian society and its failure made Āyatollāh Khāmene'i criticize this dialogue and by raising the Islamic-Iranian model of development in the framework and mentality of Islamic-Iranian culture and identity, he sought to give identity and meaning to the dialogue of development in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The series of arguments for Iranian-Islamic development have identity, semantic and symbolic structure and originate from Islamic and Iranian culture and identity. This dialogue, in addition to building identity and giving meaning, seeks to attribute otherness to the west as a tool to oppose that, distance from that, and redefine identity territories.