Justice-Seeking in the Ideology of the Supreme Leader Based on Spragens’ Theoretical Model

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to review and explain the essence of the requirements of justice-seeking in the ideology of the supreme leader of Iran. To this aim, the boundary between the concepts, backgrounds, criteria, causes, means, obstacles, damages, duties, and instances of this ideal were specified. The Mazjī combination method was used to survey the ideas of the supreme leader so that by summarizing more than 180 of his speeches about justice, the research would have enough comprehensiveness, validity, and cohesion. Based on Sprangers’ theoretical framework, this research has arranged its obtained data under four categories including “justice crisis, causes of justice, optimal ideal, and ways to achieve justice”. Finally, following up the relative theoretical research, discourse-making, fair criticism, transparency, execution of tax policies, acknowledgment of choosing those of competence, assistance to the organizations, and acting according to the law are among some other achievements of the present research in surveying the leader’s ideas.

Keywords

• justice-seeking
• islamic republic of iran
• supreme leader
• sprangers’ theoretical model