He said the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran established an Islamic government based on Islamic Sharia. The second one, Sheikh Qassem said, is that Imam Khomeini created an Islamic awakening in the world.
The Lebanese cleric went on to say that Imam Khomeini also introduced Islam as a religion of wisdom and reason that can counter the ideas of capitalism and communism. Ayatollah Ruhollah Moussavi Khomeini, better known as Imam Khomeini, engineered Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, which led to the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran.
Sheikh Naim Qassem Deputy Chief of Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah