“They’re dying to settle,” says Trump. Maybe so. But only on their own terms.
The multi-day funeral for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s slain supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is in full swing, and so far, his son and putative successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, has been nowhere to be seen. Was there bad blood between the boy and dear old dad? No. It’s much more likely that Mojtaba Khamenei was himself so severely injured in the strike that killed his father that he is unable to muster the energy even to make an appearance at his father’s funeral. In abundant evidence at that funeral, however, was the Islamic Republic’s continued hostility toward the United States.
The Jerusalem Post reported Saturday that “the Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was banned from attending his father’s funeral on Saturday, following fears that Israel would attempt to assassinate him.”
It is almost certainly untrue that Mojtaba Khamenei didn’t attend his father’s funeral due to the Islamic regime’s “assassination concerns.” Mojtaba hasn’t been seen at all, not even once, since the strike that killed his father. He is reportedly severely wounded, and could even be dead, while the regime pretends that he is still alive to give itself legitimacy and avoid a divisive succession fight.
But no one in Tehran seems to have been overwhelmed with grief, or robbed of enthusiasm, over the absence of Mojtaba. The Post noted that “the funeral for the former Iranian Supreme Leader began on Saturday in Tehran with chants of ‘death to America, death to Israel,’ while the ceremonies are expected to last at least a week with events across the country.” The state broadcaster Seda va Sima reported happily that “‘Death to America’ chants echoed through Tehran’s Mosalla on the day of the farewell to ‘Mr. Martyr.’”
The Post adds that “in video posts on other state media news sites, mourners were also heard chanting: ‘Our slogan is one word: Revenge, revenge,’ and ‘We will kill, we will kill he who killed our Imam.’” Just in case anyone isn’t clear on whom exactly the enraged crowds had in mind, the Iranian dissident news service Iran International reported Sunday that “supporters of the Islamic Republic at Ali Khamenei’s funeral in Tehran chanted ‘kill Trump’ and ‘kill Bibi’ while holding banners calling for revenge for the slain supreme leader.”
Trump appeared unfazed. The Post reported that “during the United States Independence Day celebrations at Mount Rushmore on Saturday, US President Donald Trump commented on the late Ayatollah’s funeral ceremonies, saying, ‘We gave them a week off for a funeral because we’re nice.’”
Trump also said: “We knocked the hell out of Iran. They’re dying to settle. They want to settle so badly.”
Maybe they do. But if so, they’re doing their utmost to make sure that they don’t appear before the world to want to settle at all. If anything, they’ve stepped up their belligerent rhetoric. The Post stated that “the commander of Khatam al-Anbiya, the Joint Command of Iran’s military, Ali Abdollahi, threatened Israel and the US against making ‘any miscalculation’ during the funeral events this week, warning of ‘harsh and regrettable responses’ in the case of an attack in a Friday statement.”
Trump has previously claimed that the worst America-hating elements of the Islamic Republic’s leadership are gone, and that the new people are much more reasonable and easy to deal with. Yet from the looks of Khamenei’s funeral, the people running the regime have indeed changed, but contrary to Trump’s claims, the nature of the regime has not changed. It still wants to bring about the destruction of America, and Trump is busy finding ways to give them the money to accomplish this goal.
The Islamic Republic of Iran views itself as implementing Allah’s perfect and eternal law upon Earth. The Islamic Revolution must be exported in order to bring as many people as possible under the rule of that perfect law. This means that the Islamic Republic’s hostility to the U.S. is based on the nature of both countries: the U.S. as a free republic poses the biggest ideological challenge to the Islamic Republic’s global ambitions. This hostility will not, therefore, ever be negotiated away. Whatever Trump thinks, as long as the Islamic Republic continues to exist, it will be calling for the death of America.
Walter Sieruk says
Those Muslims at that funeral obviously feel the death of Khamenei is a “disaster,”
Therefore those Muslims at Khamenei’s funeral who had “Kill Trump and “Death to America” have no valid reason to want President Trump be killed or do have valid reason to blame America with its US Air force striking a death blow to Khamenei .
The reason why this is so is because according to the theology of Quran, their god .the god of Islam, Allah was behind the killing of Khamenei. So they should blame Allah for the death of their surprise Ayatollah.
For from the Quran based worldview the one who is really to responsible for the death of Khamenei isn’t Trump but ,Allah. For according to the Quran Allah only used Trump ordered a US airstrike as his tool to kill ayatollah, therefore Allah is guilty for the killing of Khamenei.
As the Qu ‘ran teaches in Surah 57:22. “No misfortune [disaster] can happen on earth or in your souls but is recorded in a decree [Qu ‘ran ] before [in eternity ] We [Allah] bring it into existence: that is easy for Allah..” So those devout Muslims understand that Allah “behind the curtains” is really the guilty one that is responsible for that death of Khamenei.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
On Armin’s show w/ Ali Samani, they showed islamic demonstrators throwing stones at a poster hanging from an overpass of Trump, w/ a bullet headed his way. Which was hilarious, since those stones obviously fell on the demonstrators who were just below the posters, and their medical services reported a number of head injuries resulting from those demonstations. Yeah, let them continue their demonstrations against Trump this way: that way, there will be fewer of them w/ any capacity to demonstrate
Jekabzeel says
Who are these crowds of people? Are they there under duress? Or are they true believers?
Walter Sieruk says
That plot of “mullah regime”’ to kill President Trump reveals the dangerous and deadly nature of that Islamic regime of Iran. Therefore, it’s best to finish the job, as in “Get it over with ‘by eliminating that horrific tyrannical regime, once and for all. As it had been, rightly and wisely. “Half-measures in war is madness and folly.”
In addition, President Trump had used the word “Lunatic” when referring to those in charge and power of that hostile Islamic tyranny of Iran. Lunatics are irrational, in their case they are irrational because of the blind unquestioning fanatical in a doctrine of Islam of a future coming of an Islamic messiah who has the title of the Mahdi.
That Mahdi they believe will come and conquer the entire world for Islam but only when in Iran and the Middle East and the whole word gets worst, not better. Therefore, by their own faulty Islamic worldview “reasoning” they would have no incentive to have honest negotiations about not going nuclear, as in not obtaining nuclear weapons. Neither would they want to stop arming with deadly weapons to murderous Muslim terrorist entities, as Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthi which are that Islamic regime’s stooge terror/ murder groups.
Lunatic cannot be reasoned with. Such dangerous characters will not respond to logic. So those deluded madmen and their regime need to and must and should be eliminated by force, once and for all. For the sake and safety and security of America, the other Western countries, for the Iranian people, for Israel, and for all the civilized nations of the world.