وَمَكَرُواْ وَمَكَرَ اللّهُ وَاللّهُ خَيْرُ الْمَاكِرِينَ
"They deceive, Allah also deceives, Surely Allah is the best of deceivers"
Surah Ale-Imran - Ayah 54

The 12th June Presidential Elections in Iran and the consequential circumstances from it's results, the incidents that came into existence after this and the unforeseen events needs an interpretation and analysis. Though everyone has grasped this topic up to the extent of media and this is the reason that its significance has also increased. Now it is necessary to know what really took place over there? What was about to happen ? What was thought about it? And what is the current situation?

This grievous and significant incident took place in the month of June 2009 after thirty years of revolution. The revolution is now thirty years old which means the Islamic democratic system or the system of wilayat and Wilayat-e-Faqeeh has been established and maintained on this land since thirty years.

In February 1979 the revolution achieved success and until 12th June 2009 in accumulation of Parliamentary and Presidential elections total 23 elections took place. In these thirty years the attempts made by the internal and external enemies of the revolution for its demolition are more than thirty in count. This means in order to demolish this thirty years of revolution more than thirty times such attempts have been made out of which even any one attempt was enough to disperse and demolish any other system in the world. From these thirty attempts we will be analyzing ten major attempts over here out of which this is the tenth attempt which started at present with the June elections.

Ten Major attempts to deviate the Revolution from its goals and objectives.

First Crisis: Treachery of veiled faces

The first attempt which was made right from the advent of the revolution to change is direction and course was that certain persons had put on the veils of revolution on their faces and attempted to foil this revolution by getting inside the ranks of the revolutionaries not allowing it to reach its goals. Abul Hasan Bani Sadr who was the first elected President after the revolution was one of such veiled faces . His entire team had individuals like him present inside amongst which one was from the Freedom movement (Nehzat-e-Azadi) or the Freedom party who was amongst its leaders and founders with the name of Mehdi Bazargan; he was the first Prime Minister after the revolution. Their entire team from the beginning of the revolution itself took the reigns of revolution in their hands and were successful in deceiving many. Their attempt was to divert revolution from its course and distance it from its goals but Allah (s) defeated their Satanic attempts and the revolution remain secured from their evils. Though the losses incurred at that time were very high because if the first prime minister of Revolution itself is deviated and hypocrite; and the first President who was elected also turns out to be deviated and misguided then you can imagine what major crisis would have developed for the revolution. It is evident that these were not just two individuals but were part of a complete conspiracy who had full control over everything. Even the effective personalities of revolution were lower than them in terms of authority and had no control in regards to authority.

Second Crisis: The Terrorism of Hypocrites

The more severe second crisis than the first which the internal and external enemies of revolution started for the eradication of revolution was terrorism. These terrorists entered the ranks of revolutionaries pretending to be revolutionary individuals. It is quite evident when a revolution takes place in any community or nation such an environment is created whereby it becomes possible for others to enter inside. The terrorists carried out severe acts of terrorism later and snatched the foundation pillars of revolution from it like Martyr Mutttaheri, Martyr Beheshti, the later elected President Martyr Rajae, Prime Minister Bahonar, a big majority of Parliament and like this many other big personalities and foundation pillars were martyred by them at the advent of revolution itself.

One group of terrorists which had entered the revolution known as Mujahideen-e-Khalq and within Iran they were addressed as Munafiqeen-e-Khalq which means they were termed as Hypocrites. Masood Razaei was the head of this group who did a big damage to revolution and Shiite; though all the activities were not theirs some of the terrorist acts were carried out by the terrorist group Furqan; some were from Mujahideen-e-Khalq, some from other big and small groups. If you just consider the Martyrdom of Mutttaheri (r.a) this itself was a big blow to revolution or Martyr Beheshti (r.a) and later the entire government, Prime Minister and President were all martyred in one incident; many such incidents took place which took away the pillars of the system. But even after all this Allah (s) preserved and kept the revolution firm; the revolution did not drift from its path and neither did it weaken. Though the damage done was severe but despite of this severe losses the revolution did not deviate from its path.

Third Crisis: The Imposed war of Saddam

The third big apprehension was the imposed war by Saddam though it was not just Saddam behind this in fact the Arab world, entire West, Russia and America (though at that time America and Russia were two opposing blocks) all together were supporting the back of Saddam and Iraq against the revolution. With full forces and in a most barbaric way this war was started against a young revolution. This battle continued in extreme form for eight years. Even an eight days of such ferocious war is enough against a young and new system but in this stage also Allah (s) with his means and his army which Allah has appointed for this gave victory to revolution.

Fourth Crisis: Political and Economic Sanctions

In continuation to this the fourth crisis or dissension which was raised to eradicate the revolution were economical and political sanctions which are continuing till date. These restrictions had started immediately after the revolution though in the beginning it was done in an implicit manner but later it was done explicitly and continues till date. The limits of these restrictions were such that the restrictions were not just limited to selling weapons to Iran; selling tanks and aircrafts were far from realization but even ordinary weapons which are available everywhere that also they were not selling to Iran and even they went to the extent that spiked fences and wire coils which are used for field protection fencing, a very simple thing was not being sold by any country to Iran due to these severe restrictions and these restrictions are continuing with the same severity till date; but despite of this today the Iranian Islamic system has become an atomic power. It is not easy to acquire atomic technology under all these restrictions. The restrictions and hardships imposed in other fields are not being discussed now.

Fifth Crisis: Communal and Regional differences

The fifth crisis which was initiated at the beginning of the revolution itself were communal differences. There are various communities and population settled in Iran like Persians, Turks, Kurds, Balochs, Turkeminists and like this many communities are settled. Communal differences were started with these community with full flow and even till date they try to take advantage from these differences. Even in this election full attempts were made to give air to communal differences and communal issues were raised.

Sixth Crisis: Religious differences or Sectarianism

The sixth dissension against the revolution by means of which attempts were made to terminate this light of Allah was religious differences; that is Shia Sunni differences. A good quantum of population in Iran is of Sunni brethrens though the dominating majority is of Shiite but still a minority of Sunni's is present. This is also an interesting fact in this regard that majority of Sunnis live in the border areas of Iran. This means if you draw a circle around the country than this entire circle is of Sunni's. Sunni population is present on the borders meeting Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. Even on the sea border of gulf there is Sunni population. There are very limited border areas where there is Shia population. Shia's are mostly present in central Iran whereas in the distant areas Sunni population is there. Several and repeated attempts have been made to give air to the religious differences between Sunnis and Shia's transforming these differences into discords and enmity thereby defeating the revolution. These acts are still ongoing and they have not neglected this topic; continuous work is ongoing in this domain and even in this election this issue was explicitly given importance.

Seventh Crisis: Cultural Assault

The seventh crisis if not considered to be more severe than the previous crisis still cannot be considered as less which has been declared by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic revolution as Cultural Assault and in Persian interpretations it is termed as "Tahajjum e Farang" or a Cultural attack or assault specifically against the revolution whereby He says if it was any other land or nation it would have perished by now. The aggression and severity with which this cultural assault started against the revolution can be witnessed by its effects even today. Every thing in it has its own narration but here we are only discussing at as  a topic sub item. They all need interpretation and analysis to know how much capital was used on these assaults? How much strength they possessed? And the destructive power present inside these dissensions ? Amongst these devastating crisis is Cultural assault which is on going since long.

Eight Crisis: The era of Khatami

The eight crisis which came out with a specific complexity was the eight years tenure of Khatami. The tenure of Khatami was a difficult period for the Islamic system which was passed through in a colourful way. Even within Iran these issues are not very clear so how can it be clear for the outside world who is only concerned with the media and their association with Iran is only through media whereas media has been the weapon in the hands of the enemies in all these attacks. Anyhow this was also a highly complex phase from which Allah (s) protected this revolution and now after these elections little realization has happened about what kind of era was that?

Ninth Crisis: Threats of Military attacks

The ninth crisis which the enemies have always kept as a hanging sword and an alternative and till date they are trying to increase this threat is a military attack which has not been used against Iran but since thirty years this threat is present. There is not a single day on which they do not threaten that we will attack Iran. According to Imam Khomeini (r.a) if they had the courage to attack then they would have done several attacks by now; this thing is beyond their abilities.

Tenth Crisis: Velvet Revolution

We have discussed nine big crisis against the revolution in the past thirty years and the tenth big and most astonishing discord was the one created on the event of 12th June elections which was all planned from before. It was given different revolutionary titles. In order to open up this topic our discussion would be to understand what is this Velvet Revolution? On 22nd Khordad 1388 Persian calendar and 12th June 2009 English Calendar on the occasion of Presidential Elections what was planned by the internal and external elements was a "Velvet Revolution".

The plans made for this stage are very dangerous. It might not be reasonable to talk about the specifics of this in front of the Iranian community though in specific gatherings and groups the details and specifics are discussed. But since outside Iran for the supporters of revolution, its admirers and lovers these incidents have been talked about with extremism through the media and which has developed high level of sensitivity hence to present some of the precise specifics of these issue is not a concern.

The plan which was worked upon during this event and the conspiracy which was their vision to activate and they did also is named as "Velvet Revolution". For approximately three decades this terminology of Velvet Revolution is known in the political world. It is also known as colourful revolution or soft revolution. All these titles are also given by its founders, its politicians and its theoricians. Soft revolution means changes bought in a soft manner and is called in English as Velvet Revolution. This conspiracy has met success in four or five countries till now and this success has elevated their courage and motivation hence they suggested this formula for the Iranian elections. Though since long the environment was being prepared but its final stage was covered in the June elections whereby this attempt failed.