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The Secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, apparently styles himself something of a historian of American history, or is angling for a plum job as a professor in an Ivy League university, or both. On Friday, Rezaei warmed the hearts of leftist historians all over the U.S. when he proclaimed that President Donald Trump is the “worst” president in U.S. history. Numerous socialist internationalist academics would agree.
“After one failure after another,” Rezaei fumed, “the worst president in American history just keeps talking — and talking — and now his words have even outrun his own fantasies. You can win every day in your own imagination.” Well, yeah, Mohsen, but that can cut both ways, now, can’t it?
In concluding, Rezaei claimed that “reality is shaped by Iran — by its people, its soldiers, and its missiles.”
Later that day, however, Trump painted a vastly different picture of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s achievements and current capabilities: “They lost one set of leaders. Then they lost another set of leaders. Then they lost half of a third set, and they had a little runoff for who wants to be president and there were no participants. Everyone said, ‘I don’t, I don’t want to be.'”
Trump was being satirical; Masoud Pezeshkian has been president of Iran since July 28, 2024. Pezeshkian, however, is not the head of state; the supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, holds that position, and has not been seen in public even once since he attained the top job. The word is that he was disfigured in the February strike that killed his father and predecessor; others contend that he is actually dead, but Iranian leaders pretend he is alive to give their tottering regime some legitimacy.
In fact, it’s not at all clear who is running things in Tehran, and Trump pointed out that this made trying to achieve a negotiated settlement difficult in the extreme: “And it’s part of our problem,” he said. “I don’t know who the hell to deal with. There’s nobody to deal with. Nobody wants to be president, I’d say ‘Who do I speak to in Iran?’ They’re not nobody around. Knock, knock. Nobody home. But that war is going to be over soon. One way or the other, one way or the other. It’s going to end very soon and probably right after the midterms.”
All right. In the meantime, going into those midterms, Rezaei has given the president the best possible endorsement. Who wouldn’t want a top leader of a bloodthirsty, repressive regime whom the overwhelming majority of its own people hate calling him the “worst” ever to hold his job?
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WPM says
Let me see ,a group of people running Iran who have for over 46 years called for the destruction of “big Satan” America and have financed or assisted terror attacks all over the world is calling Trump a big bad man ? I am sure Hitler and his crew though Roosevelt and Truman where “bad men ” in the March of 1945?
gravenimage says
Very funny!
James Lincoln says
Funny, I haven’t heard many “Death to America” chants lately coming from Iran.
gravenimage says
Iranian Top Dog Gives Trump the Best Review Any President Could Wish For
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Robert Spencer is not wrong…
Attila says
One of my profs, i the late 1960s, Prof. H, was a leader of the “God is Dead” movement. To counter his premise, I had a cartoon published, in our college newspaper, that depicted God looking at Prof. H`s tombstone, on which was inscribed, “H is dead”, God. H was not amused. He let me know, the next time that I saw him. But, I believed, that my point, was well made.