Back in December 2020, Benjamin Kerstein argued here that the Islamic regime that rules Iran is an enantiomorph — a mirror image — of the Nazi regime. If anything, the ensuing three-and-a-half years have proven him correct, and his article is worth revisiting. Iran has been described as many things: “Islamic republic,” “Islamist dictatorship,” “the […]
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps top dog: Oct. 7 massacre was ‘greatest success of the Islamic world’
“The Islamic world.” Not “Palestine.” Not “Gaza.” Not even “the Arab world.” Islam is central to understanding this conflict, yet all the mainstream analysts in the Western world, without exception, ignore it and pretend it plays no role in the conflict whatsoever. “October 7 was ‘greatest success’ of the Islamic world – Iranian IRGC official,” […]
Iran and the Taliban working together to counter the Islamic State in Afghanistan
Sunnis and Shi’a ordinarily hate each other, but in this case, these two groups have a pragmatic reason to collaborate: to eliminate a potential rival to both. “Iran and Taliban bond to counter rise of Islamic State in Afghanistan,” by Anant Mishra, India Narrative, August 6, 2023: The recent statement issued by the Iranian Foreign […]
Iran warns Europe: Designating Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps a terrorist group ‘declaration of war’
Iran’s threat presents a big dilemma for Western leaders, as Iran is the most powerful Shia country in the world, and Western leaders are still willfully blind to the fact that one cannot separate politics from mainstream Islam. The Sharia is divine law. For mainstream Muslims, no law in the world transcends it. The Sharia […]
Islamic Republic of Iran: Divisions now appearing among national leaders
This new divisions among Iran’s leaders are demonstrating the strength of the Iranian dissidents who have been paying the ultimate price for freedoms which Leftist ideologues take for granted in the West. The division weakens the regime further; its back is against the wall as Iranian leaders eye Venezuela as an escape site. The protests […]
Iran: Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps top dog threatens to kidnap and enslave Netanyahu
Slavery is acceptable in Islam. The Qur’an has Allah telling Muhammad that he has given him girls as sex slaves: “O prophet, indeed, we have made lawful to you your wives to whom you have paid their dowries, and those whom your right hand possesses of those whom Allah has given you as spoils of […]
Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps boasts that Hizballah has over 10,000 missiles to use against Israel
“Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah and your enemies…” (8:60) “Iranian commander: Hezbollah prepared more than 10,000 missiles for attack against Israel,” by Dalit Halevi, Israel National News, August 5, 2022: Hossein Salami, commander of Iran’s […]
Iran: Ten Christian converts forced to take reeducation classes led by Islamic clerics
In Shia Iran, converting to Christianity or any faith outside of Islam constitutes “propaganda against the Islamic Republic.” But there is a way around it: reeducation to return the convert to Islam. And if they refuse, Shi’ite Islam, like Sunni Islam, prescribes death for apostasy: Shaykh al-Kulayni narrates a sahíh (correct) hadith from `Ammãr as-Sãbãti […]
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps quotes Qur’an in threat to blow up Israel’s nuclear facility
“Then on the day, we will deal you the fiercest blow. We will surely inflict punishment.” (Qur’an 44:16) “Iran threatens nuclear explosion in Israel’s Dimona facility,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, December 26, 2021: A Twitter account run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Friday threatened to blow up the city of Dimona […]
Iran releases video of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps seizing oil tanker, training machine guns on US destroyers
Emboldened by Biden’s handlers’ manifest weakness. “Iran releases video of their soldiers seizing an oil tanker and training machine guns on two US destroyers that came to the scene but didn’t intervene: Another US warship is swarmed by Iranian drones,” by Michelle Thompson and Rob Crilly, Daily Mail, November 3, 2021 (thanks to Henry): Iran […]