New in PJ Media:
Every Friday, when Iranians go to mosque at midday to hear a sermon, they chant “Death to America.” We’ve also heard this chanted at the highest levels, even in Iran’s parliament. Now, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has emphasized that this phrase, which loses its chilling edge with frequent repetition, is not just a slogan; it’s a policy.
Well, stop the presses, Khamenei. The whole world, with the exception of the Biden regime, knew that already. But for the sake of terminally blinkered leftists both inside and outside the regime, thanks for clarifying nonetheless.
In a nationally televised address Wednesday, Khamenei explained: “The situation between America and Iran is this: When you chant ‘Death to America!’ it is not just a slogan – it is a policy. I have stated the reasons previously. For many years, from the 1940s to the 1970s – that is 30 years – the Americans did everything they could do against the Iranian nation. They hit Iran in any way they could – financially, economically, politically, scientifically, and morally.”
Yeah, like when Barack Obama delivered $1.8 billion in unmarked bills to Tehran in the dead of night, or when Old Joe Biden’s regime agreed to send $6 billion to the mullahs, along with five Iranians held in American prisons (three opted not to return to the Islamic Republic) in exchange for the freedom of five Americans held hostage in Iran. That disastrous deal would have financed Iranian jihad terror operations around the world, likely making Iran-financed Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacres in Israel look like a walk in the park. It would also have encouraged Iran to take more American hostages, so as to get Old Joe and his henchmen to cough up more dough.
As luck would have it, however, the shock and horror of those Oct. 7 attacks led to Biden’s peace-in-our-time tribute payment to Iran to be put on hold, although it could still go through once media attention is diverted. Biden regime wonks seem determined to ignore statements such as the one Khamenei made on Wednesday, preferring to think that the Islamic Republic can be bought off with cash and gestures of goodwill, such as reining in the Israelis and preventing them from destroying Iran’s clients in Gaza, Hamas, altogether.
In reality, however, the Islamic Republic considers the U.S. its foremost enemy, and that isn’t going to change. Khamenei blamed Old Joe and his pals for Israel’s defensive action against Hamas: “If it were not for America’s support, if it were not for the support of U.S. weapons, the corrupt and artificial Zionist regime would have been destroyed in the first week. It would have collapsed. The Americans are behind this.”
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Jim says
Let us home that the slogan reverses itself soon, and people chant the opposite.
James Lincoln says
Ironically, it is sleepy Joe who is actually attempting to effect the death of America.
He really doesn’t need Khamenei’s help.