(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei stated that the Islamic awakening in the region, US failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, developments in Europe and declining US prestige in the world signify that the world is heading towards new era and new structure.
    
Addressing hundreds of Iranian university professors, instructors and researchers in Tehran on Sunday evening, Ayatollah Khamenei pointed to the wave of Islamic awakening throughout the world, and noted that the feeling of identity and awakening based on Islam among different Muslim nations is quite unprecedented which is harbinger of a change in the format and topography of the world in future.

He said that the prevailing conditions of the world in transiting to a new era are very similar to the developments of the post-WWI and post-colonial era of the Europe.

"The upcoming changes of the world unlike the post-WWI and post-colonial eras is in line with exchange of power and general capabilities between some nations with other nations," the Leader said.

Ayatollah Khamenei underscored that the failure of the US-led West in gaining dominance over the western Asia is another sign of the 'prevailing global changes'.

"The unsuccessful move by the US for gaining control over this important and sensitive region of the world (western Asia) which became evident in Iraq and Afghanistan is another sign of the deep changes that the world is currently facing," the Leader said.

The Supreme Leader referred to the prevailing developments in Europe and the ambiguous future of the powerful European countries as other evidences for proving that the world is heading toward a new structure.

The Leader further said that the declining prestige of the US throughout the world is the fourth sign which proves the world is transferring to a new era.

The supreme leader pointed out that the US as the first country of the world in terms of power, wealth, science, military technology and non-military technology had a good impression for several decades among world's nations, but not only it has lost its previous status, it has also turned into the symbol of bullying, oppression and interference in the affairs of the nations and war-mongering. 

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