Iran Press/ Africa: Grand Ayatollah Imam Khomeini, the Great Leader of the Islamic Revolution, has been an irreplaceable figure in the contemporary history of Iran and has had a decisive and fundamental impact on Iran's contemporary political, social and religious arenas.
Muslim Students of tertiary institutions in Nigeria continue to hold the annual conferences and programs about the Founder of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini, titled Imam Khomeini's week in several parts of the African country under the support of the Academic Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria.
Baraka Ibrahim, a senior lecturer at Adamu Tafawa Balewa College of Education, is one of the intellectuals who delivered lectures about Imam Khomeini's life held in Bauchi State.
She said the advent of Imam Khomeini brought hope to the whole world that injustice and tyranny could be defeated by the oppressed and ordinary masses.
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In an interview with Iran Press News Agency, Talha Umar Saeed Ghani, a Director, School Services in the state Ministry of Education Bauchi, said, "Imam Khomeini made people understand that a religious leader is not only confined in the religious, thinking of being a moral instructor alone. But he was made to come out and see that he could also participate in the politics, of the world. That was the exactly the first change Imam Khomeini was able to bring."
According to Ghani, When Imam Khomeini turned about the freedom and respect for the rights of the people, he said after the downfall of the Pahlavi regime, Imam Khomeini did not force Iranians to accept the Islamic System of government; he instead asked people to choose the system of government they wanted by casting their votes in the referendum for all Iranians to participate and show their willingness to accept whatever they choose.
And finally, they had chosen the Islamic System of government. So, that was the beginning of Human Rights, the beginning of freedom.
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