Iran Accuses Israel of Terror, and the West of Undermining Anti-Terror Efforts — Really
According to the Jerusalem Post, earlier this month Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki challenged Western countries to admit whether or not they had helped Israeli “terror brigades” assassinate Mahmud al-Mabhouh — a senior Hamas operative who played a major part in smuggling advanced rockets from Iran to Palestinian terrorists in Gaza. Mottaki said their silence was “undermining calls to fight terrorism.”
For the Islamic Republic of Iran to vociferously challenge Western nations and Israel on the subject of terrorism takes a special brand of chutzpah.
The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) has been implicated in worldwide terrorism since its establishment in 1979. Among its countless terrorist actions, the IRI orchestrated the 1983 bombings of the U.S. embassy in Beirut (60 killed) and the U.S. Marine barracks (241 killed) in Beirut. In 1994 the IRI engineered the bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires (85 killed), and two years later the bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia (19 killed). CNN reported on February 11, 2007, that Iranian forces killed at least 170 U.S. troops in Iraq.
This self-righteous Iranian response to the death of a Palestinian Hamas terrorist and their “concern about undermining calls to fight terrorism” is laughable. The mullahs of Tehran have exploited the Palestinians as part of their strategic plan of mobilizing Sunni Arabs to undermine Israel and pro-Western Sunni Arab regimes through a worldwide terror campaign. And while the Iranians are cultivating Hamas and providing this terrorist organization with arms, funds, and training, they are waging a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing, murder, and assassination of Sunni Arab Muslims and other fellow Sunni Muslims, including Baluchis and Kurds.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has a 31-year history of murder and assassination of political opponents and dissidents. According to the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center:
Since 1979, the senior leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been linked to at least 162 extrajudicial killings of the regime’s political opponents in 19 different countries around the world. These operations flourished in contravention of both international and national legal regimes, and were planned at the highest levels of state. Many of those responsible are still in power today.
The murder and rape of Persian demonstrators notwithstanding, the Tehran theocratic regime is particularly murderous when it comes to Sunni-Muslim ethnic minorities, especially Kurds, Baluchis, and Ahwazi Arab activists.
On July 14, 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) hanged 13 young Baluch student activists. The Sunni-Muslim Baluch people have been in the vanguard of the political campaign against the Shiite dominated Islamic Republic of Iran. The young Baluch students were tortured in order to exact confessions that they acted on behalf of the CIA — and then they were hanged. The Sunni Muslims of Baluchistan are deemed a political and religious threat to the IRI. They are a persecuted ethnic and religious minority. Many of the Baluch victims were alleged members of the PRMI (People’s Resistance Movement of Iran), also known as Jondallah — an armed Baluch opposition group campaigning against what they see as Persian and Shia Muslim oppression of their Baluch Sunni Muslim nation.
Currently there are 18 young Iranian Kurds on death row, two of whom are women.
The Kurdish Herald reported:
On January 6, 2010, 28-year-old Fasih Yasamani, a Kurdish activist, was executed in the city of Saqqez. Yasamani was convicted in a show trial of being a member of the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK).
Earlier, on November 11, 2009, the IRI executed Ehsan Fatahiyan, and according to his lawyer, Fatahiyan was subjected to consistently brutal torture during his incarceration in order to force him to confess. He refused and was subsequently executed.
The 18 young Kurds awaiting execution include Zeinab Jalaliyan, 27, who was arrested in the city of Kermanshah and sentenced to die in a show trial for being a member of a Kurdish political party. Shirin Alamholy, also 27, was sentenced to death for being an “enemy of God” for allegedly being a member of a Kurdish political party. Habibollah Latifi, a student activist, was also convicted of being a “mohareb” or an “enemy of God,” and for allegedly being a member of the PJAK. Latifi was moved to solitary confinement on January 16, 2010, as a prelude to his imminent execution. Shirko Moarefi, 30, was arrested on October 31, 2008, in the city of Saqqez, and after months of interrogation and torture and a subsequent show trial was sentenced to death for being an “enemy of God” or a “mohareb.” The fate of the rest of the 18 young Kurds sentenced to die is unknown.
The Iranian southwestern province of Khuzestan used to be an autonomous province populated by indigenous Sunni Arabs. In 1925 Iran forcibly annexed the province and has since then exercised “ethnic cleansing” by removing the Arabs from this oil-rich area and populating it with Persian Shiites. Sunni Arabs or Ahwazis have been in a state of rebellion against this oppressive Shiite Islamic Republic of Iran. Amnesty International has reported that seven members of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority are facing imminent execution in Ahwaz city, the capital of Khuzestan province.
The seven men were convicted in a sham show trial of “acting against national security” and the alleged killing of Shiite cleric Sheikh Hesham al-Sameyri in June 2007. The seven, Ali Saedi, Walid Naisi, Majjid Mahawi, Doayr Mahawi and his son Maher, Ahmad Saedi, and Yusuf Leftehpour, were arrested in August 2007 and held incommunicado by the Iranian intelligence services for 15 months in an unknown location. They were subsequently transferred to Karoun prison in Ahwaz city where they were tortured and sentenced to death by the Iranian Revolutionary Court in September 2009, in an unfair trial and with no access to a lawyer.
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s call for Islamic solidarity in fighting the “enemies of Islam” rings specious when it is waging a deadly and intolerant campaign against non-Persian Sunni Muslims. The time has come for Arab-Palestinians and other Sunni Arabs to recognize the clear hypocrisy.
What’s new? Always the Jews’ fault.
Did anyone listen to the great Mark Levin last night? (Friday 3/26) I suspect he finally exploded and said in his unique blunt spoken fashion what many have been thinking for a while: OBAMA IS A JEW HATER. That’s right. Let’s say it out loud and cut the crap. Our President, that sinister creature from a world we cannot fully know as Americans, HATES ISRAEL AND HATES JEWS. Get it now???? He sat in a “church” that vomited anti-Semitism on a continuous loop of rage and envy. He declares in “his” book he will stand with the Muslims. WHAT THE HELL DO PEOPLE EXPECT A JACKAL TO DO? BECOME A LAMB?? The left thinks it’s just hilarious, a symptom of right wing lunacy that many on the right think he is the anti-Christ. BUT…..doesn’t the Bible teach that those who attack God’s chosen, chosen to shine HIS LIGHT OF TRUTH ONTO THE WORLD, will be doing the work of evil? Did anyone on the left have a problem in describing Hitler in these terms? No. Not when they wanted to create the FALSE DICHOTOMY BETWEEN NAZISM AND MARXISM, when they are really one and the same. What are deeply religious people to think if they take the OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS TO BE THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD? Is Obama just “misguided”? No. He is a GUIDED MISSLE, his sights turned against everything that is the root of Western Civilization. He is the icon of the Banana Republic and make no mistake about it or as the Great Chimera himself has said, let’s be clear here: THIS MOSLEM HATES JEWS AND ISRAEL. DEAL WITH IT. BECAUSE I AM TIRED OF ALL THE DAMNED LIES BEING TOLD TO DISGUISE THIS BEAST IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE SOONER WE WAKE UP TO WHAT HE IS, THE BETTER WE ARE FOR OUR AWAKENING. I DON’T GIVE A SH-T HOW ROUGH THE MESSAGE. DEAL WITH IT.
As though Iran is in a position to accuse anyone of terrorism. Give me a break.
“Iran claims Israel has “terror brigades” after the assassination of Hamas operative al-Mabhouh.”
Boo hoo.
Someday, people like myself are going to be running America, and on that day it will be payback time for the mad mullah scum in Iran, and their proxies in Lebanon and “Palestine”
Imagine Tehran, the Bekka Valley and Gaza as big craters in the ground.
You’re going to find out what terror is all about.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) has been implicated in worldwide terrorism since its establishment in 1979. Among its countless terrorist actions, the IRI orchestrated the 1983 bombings of the U.S. embassy in Beirut (60 killed) and the U.S. Marine barracks (241 killed) in Beirut. In 1994 the IRI engineered the bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires (85 killed), and two years later the bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia (19 killed). CNN reported on February 11, 2007, that Iranian forces killed at least 170 U.S. troops in Iraq.”
Not forgiven, and not forgotten. The “liberal” dogs we have in power in America now won’t lift a finger to stop Iran or any other terrorists, indeed they’re doing what they can to help terrorists…but, they won’t be running things forever, and someday the mad mullahs are going to get the same thing Saddam Hussein got…which is a one way, all expensives paid, trip to hell.
Mad Mullahs delend est.
The fact that the Mullahs in Iran would use this is predictable whoever killed the scumbag. Decrying his death as terrorism is ironic given the fact that he was facilitating the Iranians in smuggling their rockets into Gaza to kill innocent men, women, and children but then that’s Iran, the Bagdad Bob of countries.
Hamas officials told Haaretz al-Mabhouh “did not lack enemies.” He was wanted by the Israelis, the Jordanians and the Egyptians. The Palestinian Authority hates Hamas and two Palestinians suspected of being accomplices were arrested in Dubai. They had worked for Palestinian Authority security forces in Gaza and currently worked for a firm belonging to a senior Fatah official. Would Fatah work with the Mossad? The assassins used passports of dual-citizenship Israelis. If the Israelis had done this why do that? One Israeli whose passport was used may sue the government. We can’t even rule out Hamas or Iran in this, Iran is as famous as the Mossad for assassinations.
Other than direct threats, there is little reason to pay attention to the lunacy that spills from the mouth of an Iranian government official.
I am in the U.K and almost daily on this site are the claims of anti-semitism here.For which is false.
Why hasn’t this been addressed?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7072314.ece
mags
Wake up!
Mr. Puder;
I am an Iranian who despises our government, mullahs and the rest of the f….n a….h…. But i just want you to know that the Israeli government is far more dispacable and the crimes they are commiting puts the Nazis into shame….
The Talmud tells us that when G-d gave the Torah to the Jewish people, He decided to give it on Mt. Sinai, the smallest of the mountains. G-d said, “my Torah will only stay with those who are humble, so “I will give it on a small and humble mountain.”
But currently many Jews have lost their sense of humbleness. They have been infected by the virus of arrogance, of thinking of themselves as all knowing. they feel that they have the absolute gift of prophecy. They state, attempts at peacemaking must innevitably fail. They berate and condemn their brethern Jews as “self hating”, leftist, traitorous . The delegitimizing of other Jews for not following slavishly the dictates of a particular group, is a grave transgression of Hashem’s will , that the house of Israel remain united and strong.Hashem does not recognize hyphenated Jews. There are no leftist Jews, Right wing Jews. All Jews are Jews no matter what their background or political orientation- the orthodox are no better than the liberal, conservative, or reform. And of course the reverse applies accordingly.
It is interesting that throughout Jewish history, waging war has always been a tremendous personal and national ordeal which ran contrary to the Jews’ peace-loving nature. King Saul lost his kingdom when he showed misplaced mercy by allowing the Amalekite king to live. And in modern times, when Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir was asked if she could forgive Egypt for killing Israeli soldiers, she replied, “It is more difficult for me to forgive Egypt for making us kill their soldiers.”
The reality is that war makes one callous and cruel. Therefore, since G-d Himself has commanded the Jews to rid the Land of evil, God likewise promises the soldiers that they will retain their compassionate nature. In the words of our parsha: “God will have compassion on you, and reverse any display of anger that might have existed” (Deut. 13:18).
It is of utmost importance that we don’t repeat the sins of our forefathers, by factional infighting. That state of affairs can result in the destruction of the State of Israel as surely as through external attack. The Talmud teaches us to respect and support the peacemakers. They must be allowed to pursue the most hallowed mitzvah of all- to prevent war and violence. Once again we have a major breach of a sacred commandment- those that mock and impede the peacemaking process.
Blessed be to all engaged in a most holy endeavor-that of reconciliation and fellowship. We wish President Obama, Prime Ministers Natanyahu and Abbas the best of luck and supreme success in achieving their common objective. Peaceful relations must begin at some point in time. Why not now?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhWgZu6tcZU&feature=related