Ayatollah Khamenei stressed in his message that a strong Iran is built upon scientific and technological authority, and this axis is one of the most vital components of Iran’s role-playing in the equations of the new world order.
What follows is the Leader's points recommended to the Iranian elites:
The key to strengthening it further is for elites to push scientific boundaries and unlock solutions to the country’s scientific problems. The malice and crimes committed by the enemies of Islamic Iran against scientists and elites demonstrate the effective role that elites play in the empowerment of the country.
That enemy, which assassinates the prominent scientists and influential elites of our society during the second and third imposed wars, and of course years prior to that within their scientific workplace and ordinary lives, cannot bear to witness Iran’s progress and power.
The enemy utilizes all its tools and methods to weaken the elites of beloved Iran: from instilling despair and hopelessness to capturing their minds and souls, swallowing them into the digestive tract of modern colonialism, and turning them into mere cogs in the machinery of Western plunder and capitalism.
The Main Mission of Iranian Elites
If prior to the current juncture and the third imposed war, a new scientific resurgence was merely a necessary and vital recommendation for elites, the experience of the past two wars has proven to everyone that this new scientific resurgence must be deep and accelerated.
Alongside officials of scientific, research, and technological centers, every single elite and wise individual of beloved Iran must dedicate themselves to their primary mission: building the glorious future of Islamic Iran and ensuring its progress and prosperity.
The followings to be focused on by the elites as the key points in the way of ensuring the Iranian progress:
First: A precise program is vital for developing basic sciences and the humanities. As the foundational pillars of applied technologies, basic sciences drive national progress; nations achieve greatness through them, while lagging behind without them.
Second: A continuous focus should be placed on undiscovered truths, pushing boundaries in basic sciences, and an ongoing race to solve significant unresolved problems in these fields, especially mathematics, as a core objective and destination.
Third: Creativity and innovation serve as the key turning points for scientific resurgence. Achieving this requires fostering positive imagination and the scientific courage to pioneer untrodden paths, alongside boosting personal and national self-confidence. Offering attractive and practical incentives is essential to encourage and reward impactful creative contributions.
Fourth: Self-reliance in solving scientific problems, providing infrastructure, and removing technological bottlenecks for transnational action and agency create a powerful combination of internal structural resilience designed to open up new horizons at the global level.
Fifth: Giving room to the talents of elites in empirical and practical fields, including linking industry to academia from the early years in university and facilitating knowledge-based businesses, plays a crucial role in applying knowledge and nurturing lites.
If this path is correctly traversed, the hubs of knowledge, particularly in certain basic sciences, will gradually shift from Western countries to Iran. Within not-so-distant years, the country will turn into a scientific and technological authority, fulfilling the aforementioned vision of our wise and martyred Leader regarding Persian becoming one of the world’s authoritative scientific languages.
Iranian Elite Knowledge in Service of Real Lives of People
An elite person is not someone who, merely by possessing notable talent and intelligence, behaves like an insulated anomaly thinking solely of transient and personal desires. An elite individual is someone who is deeply invested in cultivating their talent, define themselves as an influential force within society, and use their capacity simultaneously for their own personal growth and the advancement of their society.
The Iranian elite has demonstrated that knowledge and talent can be transformed into tools for solving the real problems of the people and the country. From stem cells, nanotechnology, and biotechnologies to advanced aerospace, industry, mining, medicine, agriculture, nuclear technology, energy, and infrastructure, they continuously strive to apply their science, knowledge, and elite capabilities in practice.
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