Pure hatred of America (as well as Israel) is a foundation of the supremacist Iranian regime. Regime loyalists labelled those countries as the “Great Satan” and “Little Satan” respectively. Iran’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, “has told Iraq’s President Abdul Latif Rashid that the presence of ‘even one American in Iraq is too many.’”
The Ayatollah’s language is nothing out of the ordinary for hateful jihadists, loyal to Iran. Recall similar words about Israelis from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He stated that “not a single Israeli“ would live in a future Palestinian state.
Iran’s influence has been growing exponentially in Iraq, via debt diplomacy, (a tactic China exploits through its Belt and Road Initiative):
Iran has been haemorrhaging money by buying US dollars on the Iraqi black market and is now pressuring Iraq’s government to pay its debts to Tehran through official channels, Iraqi officials told Middle East Eye. Neighbouring Iran has been Iraq’s most important market over the past two decades, providing gas, electricity, food, and construction materials, amongst other necessities, with trade between the countries totalling about $14bn annually.
Iran has also exploited Iraq’s divisions and demographics with its strong support for Shias.
The Islamic Republic is so influential now in Iraq that it speaks for Iraq, and this is helped along by Iraq’s President Abdul Latif Rashid, who wants to further “deepen ties with Iran.”
With America under water under the Biden administration at the helm, Iran continues to expand its influence.
“‘Even one American in Iraq is too many’, Iran’s Khamenei says,” by Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera, April 29, 2023:
Tehran, Iran – Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has told Iraq’s President Abdul Latif Rashid that the presence of “even one American in Iraq is too many”.
The two met in Tehran on Saturday in Rashid’s first visit to Iran as head of state since his election last October.
Rashid also held meetings with President Ebrahim Raisi and parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.
“The Americans are not friends of Iraq,” Khamenei was quoted as saying by his official website. “The Americans have friendships with no one and are not even loyal to their European friends.”
Alongside his emphasis on expelling the United States from the neighbouring country, the supreme leader also stressed that Iran considers Iraq’s progress to be of high importance to Iran and said bilateral security and economic agreements that were signed last month need to be fully implemented.
“There are strong enemies for expanding and deepening relations between Iran and Iraq, and if there were no solid historical and faith-based ties between the two countries, perhaps the condition of relations would return to the era of Saddam [Hussein],” he said of the late Iraqi president who invaded Iran shortly after its 1979 revolution.
Rashid was quoted as saying that his government will try to deepen ties with Iran and wants to resolve differences…..
Walter Sieruk says
Of course Khamenei is terrible, It’s not possible for him to be anything else.
Not wanting to get to much off the main topic , nevertheless , America and American citizen Khamenei was brought up in this article, he was no doubt very glad at the mass murder and destruction that those 19 jihadists inflect in America. Therefore in spite of him being a Shite Muslim and Osama bin Laden a Sunnie Muslim he still admired and liked Bin Laden because he masterminded those horrendously murderous jihad attacks on September ,11,2021.
Very much, is related to this is that ,from the date of this posting 5/2/23 that it’s been exactly twelve year since Obama bin Laden was exterminated by the good of the Navy SEAL’s.
To put this in a more detailed way, as of May 2, 2023 been twelve years since the extermination of the heinous Islamic villain, Osama bin Laden, by those brave and heroic Navy SEAL’s on May 2, 2011.
After bin Laden’s elimination he was buried at sea. There had been by Muslim clerics, such as the imams ,who had the gall they complain the bin laden did not revived and proper Islamic burial because he was buried in the ocean and all Muslim according to Islamic tradition. For Muslims are buried under the ground and not at sea.
To that outlandish statement, made by the Muslim clerics may be answered in in two complementary ways.
First, the sea burial that bin Laden received was a lot more dignified and respectful then the type of “burial” that many of the victims of murderous affront had that occurred on September 11, 2001.. Many of the people who were murdered on 9/11 only had a few bones and teeth left. In contrast the body of bin laden was buried mostly intact.
Second ,after 9/11 many Muslim apologists for Islam ,in America ,many times had made the claim that Osama bin Laden was not a real Muslim and that he just “Hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam “ for “politics.” If that’s actually the case and not some kind of cover-up to hide the truth from the American public then all those Muslim clerics really had nothing to complain about if that claim is true that bin Laden was not a “real Muslim.”
In was in the city of Abbottabad, Pakistan ,from the date of this posting 5/2/23 that it’s been exactly twelve year since Obama bin Laden was exterminated by the good of the Navy SEAL’s.
To put this in a more detailed way, as of May 2, 2023 been twelve years since the extermination of the heinous Islamic villain, Osama bin Laden, by those brave and heroic Navy SEAL’s on May 2, 2011.
After bin Laden’s elimination he was buried at sea. There had been by Muslim clerics, such as the imams ,who had the gall they complain the bin laden did not revived and proper Islamic burial because he was buried in the ocean and all Muslim according to Islamic tradition. For Muslims are buried under the ground and not at sea.
To that outlandish statement, made by the Muslim clerics may be answered in in two complementary ways.
First, the sea burial that bin Laden received was a lot more dignified and respectful then the type of “burial” that many of the victims of murderous affront had that occurred on September 11, 2001.. Many of the people who were murdered on 9/11 only had a few bones and teeth left. In contrast the body of bin laden was buried mostly intact.
Second ,after 9/11 many Muslim apologists for Islam ,in America ,many times had made the claim that Osama bin Laden was not a real Muslim and that he just “Hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam “ for “politics.” If that’s actually the case and not some kind of cover-up to hide the truth from the American public then all those Muslim clerics really had nothing to complain about if that claim is true that bin Laden was not a “real Muslim.”
Walter Sieruk says
On September 11, 2001 when that Muslim /jihadist terrorist’s head of al Qaeda . Osama bin Laden, found out that his demonic murderous and destructive Islamic scheme had been, except for Flight 93, “successful,” all he could be is sit around and grin.
Later, then it all came down back on him on May 2, 2011 , he was no longer grinning the report was that “he look frighten and confused.”
As is the old saying “What goes around comes around.” The reason why well mat be sure that saying is true is not only because of the above example but because it’s upheld in the Bible, which informs its reader “Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” Galatians 6:7. [N.K.J.V.]
Furthermore, since his extermination of that day , now and forever more, bin Laden in still no longer grinning , for is crying and suffering because he is trapped in a horrible place in intense pain in the fires of hell.
Deodata says
In that case, one Muslim in a western country is unacceptable.
VictorMc says
Oh yeah?? Now try and get rid of even one of the massive infestations of Muslims into our society breeding like flies.. I guarantee a whole bunch of ignorant leftie crackpots will come and block your road or whatever.
PS: They are mainly on ‘benefits.’ Thus YOU pay for everything including their breeding habits.
Billy Corr says
There is a detail easily overlooked: The Strange Case of the Pakistani Doctor.
Remember?
He identified where Osama Bin Laden was hiding out and spilled the beans. Then he was banged up by the Pakistanis.
Trump wanted him freed and the Pakistanis refused.
Where is the doctor now?
Alive? Dead? Secretly freed?
I’m nor an American but if I were, I’d be howling at the State Department, various not-too-dumb Members of Congress and everyone else about this man.
OLD GUY says
What’s in Iraq that an American would want to be there?