New in PJ Media:
The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran is talking like a man who has just won a war, and maybe he has.
The nationwide demonstrations have largely subsided. President Donald Trump has not yet made good on his Jan. 2 statement that “if Iran shots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue,” or on Jan. 13 assurance to the Iranian protesters that “HELP IS ON ITS WAY.” In fact, the president appears to have walked all that back, writing on Friday: “I greatly respect the fact that all scheduled hangings, which were to take place yesterday (Over 800 of them), have been cancelled by the leadership of Iran. Thank you!”
The situation is fluid. Trump could still be planning a strike against the Islamic Republic. His credulous statements appearing to accept Iranian officials’ false claims that the Islamic regime halting the execution of protesters could be a strategic feint designed to lull the mullahs into complacency.
If that is the case, the strategy is working wonderfully, for on Saturday morning, Iran’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made a series of statements that sounded for all the world as if he were the victor in a hard-fought war who was now surveying all that had happened and meting out blame accordingly, like the Allies at Nuremberg after World War II.
“We find the US President guilty,” Khamenei declared magisterially, “due to the casualties, damages and slander he inflicted upon the Iranian nation.” Casualties? Yes, Khamenei appeared to be blaming Trump for his own regime’s mass execution of protesters.
And the supremo wasn’t finished. Flush with apparent victory, he added: “From the beginning of the Islamic Revolution until today, the US has lost its dominance over Iran. And they want to bring Iran under their military, political & economic domination again. This isn’t [solely] related to the current US president either! It’s a general US policy.”
It wasn’t enough, however, to proclaim that the Islamic Republic had broken the alleged U.S. “dominance.” Khamenei appeared intent upon punishing the guilty, particularly Trump, saying: “In the numerous seditions in Iran in the past, it was usually the press & second-tier US or European politicians who were interfering. The unique feature of this sedition was that the US President himself interfered in this sedition & encouraged the seditionists.”
Warming to his theme, Khamenei continued: “The US President sent a message to the seditionists saying he would support them and provide military support. In other words, the US President himself was involved in the sedition. These are criminal acts.” And: “The US President introduced the groups who committed acts of vandalism, arson, and murdered people as ‘the Iranian nation.’ He uttered an appalling slander against the Iranian people. We find the US President guilty for this slander.”
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somehistory says
Ezekiel foretold thousands of years ago, the sudden demise of “Persia.”….iran is a losing nation.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
That would have started in 1979, in that case, Or in the 700s, depending on how one looks at it
somehistory says
It is yet future. Persia is Iran.. Along with turkey and others, they have Israel in their crosshairs….but will fail at destruction of the small nation, meeting instead, their own demise..
John Smith says
Exactly Somehistory, it’s written in prophecy and it will come to pass. Biblical prophesies seem so precise you’d think they were written just yesterday.
somehistory says
Thank you, John. And, yes they are. We can absolutely rely on their fulfillment.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Who can blame him? But incidentally, is he now showing himself in public? All these weeks, he was in a bunker, unseen, but just issuing orders. Is he confident enough now to show himself in public, now that the insurrection seems to have been contained, depending on what one believed happening inside Iran?
Westman says
He should be looking over his shoulder like a gung-ho 2nd Lieutenant .
gravenimage says
Iran’s Khamenei Is Talking About Trump Like a Man Who Just Won a War
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Grimly, he just may have. He’s not the one who blinked…
Phil Copson says
I am sickened by the lack of action: So far, Trump has, in effect, collaborated with the IRGC by encouraging the rebels to reveal themselves and be slaughtered.
The mullahs may now be in power for ever. They can wait out Trump – wait for the next batch of careerist Western politicians eager to take a back-hander to sign a fake “deal” – re-arm and continue using Iran’s oil-wealth to fund terrorism and the invasion of the West.
This is a second “Slaughter Of The Innocents”.
Alkflaeda says
Islam has a remarkably low bar for “victory” – I seem to recall that Hamas believes itself to have been victorious in its recent conflict with Israel.
OLD GUY says
Islam is a sleight of hand, claiming to be what it isn’t. The Ayatollah can claim victory just like islam claims to be love and peace neither claim makes it true. Sometime victory comes by waiting until the time is right to strike. Going off half cocked always gets you in trouble, good planning gets you victory.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
For the Ayatollah, in this situation, surviving is victory. When it looked like the US might bomb IRGC bases and enable the Iranian revolutionaries to take over, the reports were about him fleeing to Moscow. Now all that talk has ended, and instead, he’s now trash-talking Trump. Hopefully, Trump will take it personally and send him to meet his virgins sooner rather than later
Ralph says
I suspect/hope that what is going on behind closed doors is a lot of dickering re how to achieve the deposition of the mullahs without undue or unnecessary loss of life. I hope our president’s plan is to ease the mullahs out of Iran and into the loving protection of their Russian colleagues and allow the average Iranian “man on the street” to welcome Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi to his rightful place as the Shah of Iran. I believe he’ll do a very good job in that position.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If they do something simpler than they did at Fordow – bombing IRGC and Basij bases and destroying their weapons depots, they’d have done what’s necessary. Nobody is calling for American troops to land in Iran. Absolutely nobody!