Iran’s Islamic revolution ‘has no borders,’ says head of Berlin Shi’ite center

Tehran’s Islamic revolution has no borders, the head of the Imam Reza Islamic Center in Berlin said in an interview with an Iranian state-controlled news outlet on June 3.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), an independent, nonpartisan press-monitoring organization, first revealed the video of Sabaheddin Torkilmaz on its website.

Torkilmaz told Ofogh TV in Iran: “Since the Revolution [in 1979], Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine – and now Yemen and countries in Africa and in Latin America – have been inspired directly by Imam [Khomeini],” according to MEMRI’s translation.

“We need to examine what was the purpose of the Revolution,” he added. “When Imam [Khomeini] said, ‘We will export the Revolution,’ what was it that he wanted to export? Iranian culture? Iranian-ness?”

“When we understand this, it becomes apparent that the Revolution has no borders,” Torkilmaz was quoted as saying. “In the political dimension, when the monarchy was overthrown and the Islamic regime came to power, it was only in Iran. The message of the Revolution – and of exporting it – is something else:

The struggle against arrogance and oppression.”

The US State Department under both the Obama and Trump administrations has classified Iran’s regime as the worst international state sponsor of terrorism.

Torkilmaz stressed the anti-Western worldview of the Islamic Republic of Iran, stating: “The world needs to know that the system of the Rule of the Jurisprudent stands in opposition to the system of liberal democracy in the world and in opposition to the democracy in America.”

Imam Reza Islamic Center is a Turkish Shi’ite center and mosque in Berlin.

Meanwhile, Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Maj.-Gen. Hussein Salami has urged the “elimination” of the Jewish state, pro-Syrian regime news outlet Al-Masdar News (AMN) reported Monday. “The geography of the resistance will not forget the name and goals of the former secretary-general of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, Ramadan Shalah, the high, bright and hope of liberating Jerusalem and removing the cancerous gland [Israel] from the region,” he was quoted as saying.

The Jerusalem Post sent a press query to Germany’s government regarding Salami’s genocidal and antisemitic statement.