As the Western media fawns over this “reformist,” he demonstrates that the new boss is the same as the old boss.
“Iran’s president-elect reasserts country’s anti-Israel stance, backs ‘resistance,’” Times of Israel, July 8, 2024:
President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian reaffirmed Iran’s anti-Israel stance on Monday, saying so-called resistance movements across the region will not allow Israel’s “criminal policies” toward the Palestinians to continue.
“The Islamic Republic has always supported the resistance of the people of the region against the illegitimate Zionist regime,” Pezeshkian said in a message to Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah terror group.
The comments signaled no change in the regional policies of the incoming government under the relatively moderate Pezeshkian, who defeated his hardline rival in last week’s runoff election.
“I am certain that the resistance movements in the region will not allow this regime to continue its warmongering and criminal policies against the oppressed people of Palestine and other nations of the region,” Iranian media quoted Pezeshkian as saying….
Mike says
Same old Shiite, so to speak.
Wellington says
A reformist Muslim is as trustworthy as a reformist Marxist or a reformist Nazi because you cannot reform a totalitarian ideology and Islam alone among the major religions of the world is a totalitarian ideology.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Not sure: President Gorbachev was half decent, & tried what today’s commies tell us: he tried socialism w/o the genocide. It imploded
Granted, he tried to preserve the Soviet Union & some version of communism/socialism in it, but to his credit, he didn’t put dogma above real world experiences
OLD GUY says
New cover same book.