Explaining the decline of America from the perspective of the imam Khamenei

Mohammadmirzaei, Hassan; Pirani, Shohreh; Naderi, Mahdi

Explaining the decline of America from the perspective of the imam Khamenei

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ PhD student in Political Studies of the Islamic Revolution Shahed University and researcher at Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran

² Department of Political Science and Islamic Revolution Studies of Shahid University

Abstract

The phenomenon of America's decline is one of the most challenging issues in the international arena, which has received more and more attention from various thinkers and politicians in the last decade. Considering the importance of this issue in the process of current and future developments in the world, it is important to provide a correct analysis of this phenomenon. Therefore, in this article, by using the qualitative content analysis method and by examining the views of the Supreme Leader, the concept and dimensions of America's decline are examined from his point of view. Based on the studies and the coding done, the decline of America is a real and definite thing, which is rooted in the principle of anti-arrogance, divine tradition, and the observation of existing realities. Finally, two main software and hardware dimensions can be attributed to this phenomenon. In the software dimension, issues such as the decline of liberalism discourse, the decline of soft power, and moral-spiritual decline can be expressed, and in the hardware dimension, issues such as political decline can be expressed. , economic decline, military decline and finally social order decline can be observed.

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