According to the Iranian founders of "Umm al-Qura" theory, Iran was in such a position after the 1979 revolution, and Ruhollah Khomeini, with the establishment of a government based on Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist, was placed in the two positions of the leader of Iran and the leader of the Islamic nation or Ummah. Thus, in addition to national interests, the Iranian government must also address the interests of the Islamic world, and other Islamic countries are obliged to support and defend Iran as the core of nation of the Islamic world. In the event of a conflict between the interests of the core of the Islamic world and the interests of the nation or Ummah, the interests of the nation or ummah always take precedence, unless the issue is to preserve the Islamic system in the core or "Umm al-Qura". According to this theory, the preservation of the core or "Umm al-Qura" takes precedence over anything else, and if necessary, the basic Islamic rules can be postponed to preserve it.