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Iran’s Supremo: Obama doesn’t have the guts for a military attack

Jun 6, 2014 9:43 am By Robert Spencer

KhameneiAmericaCantDoADamnThingWell, that’s obvious, isn’t it? And not only does he not have the guts — even if he had the guts, he doesn’t have any desire to attack the people he has courted so assiduously and appeased so enthusiastically.

“‘America cannot do a damn thing’: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei taunts President Obama claiming he doesn’t have the guts for a military attack,” by Helen Pow, Daily Mail, June 5, 2014:

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has taunted President Barack Obama, claiming that the U.S. no longer has the guts for battle.

Speaking at an event commemorating the 25th anniversary of the death of his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khamenei, the 74-year-old Shiite Muslim cleric proclaimed that ‘military attack is not a priority for Americans now.’

He stood on a podium amid banners boasting ‘America Cannot Do a Damn Thing’ as he reacted to a speech President Obama gave to West Point last week.

‘Since World War II, some of our most costly mistakes came not from our restraint, but from our willingness to rush into military adventures – without thinking through the consequences,’ Obama told graduating cadets.

Khamenei took the president’s message to mean, ‘They have renounced the idea of any military actions.’

‘They realize that military attacks are as dangerous or even more dangerous for the assaulting country as they are for the country attacked,’ the ayatollah said in the Tehran speech Wednesday, the New York Daily News reported.

The gibe comes as President Obama is being critisised [sic] for negotiating with Taliban to swap five hardened terrorists for suspected deserter Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

Obama still insists America can still use its military to resolve Iran’s nuclear threat but in the West Point speech, he claimed ‘Just because we have the best hammer does not mean every problem is a nail.’

Khamenei called the U.S. the ‘Great Satan’ and said its effort to bring Iran ‘to its knees’ have failed.

He said: ‘Despite the sanctions imposed upon it, Iran today is launching satellites and sending live organisms into space and is producing nuclear power.’

Last week, the supreme leader launched another verbal attack on America, claiming his country’s struggle will only end when it defeats U.S.-led oppression.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told members of parliament in Tehran that Iran must be armed and ‘have the capability to defend itself’ in a ‘world full of thieves’.

His comments came as negotiations with the international community over Iran’s nuclear programme ran into a stalemate, with Tehran saying world powers were ‘demanding too much’.

‘Battle and jihad are endless because evil and its front continue to exist,’ Khamenei told MPs, according to a translation by U.S. news site The Daily Caller.

‘This battle will only end when the society can get rid of the oppressors’ front with America at the head of it, which has expanded its claws on human mind, body and thought.

‘This requires a difficult and lengthy struggle and need for great strides.’…

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  1. Angemon says

    Jun 6, 2014 at 9:55 am

    No need for worries, president Obama is trying his best to get more muscle into his foreign policies:

  2. John C. Barile says

    Jun 6, 2014 at 12:25 pm

    The Mullahs can’t always count on there being an Obama eager to appease and placate them.

  3. CJ Milan says

    Jun 6, 2014 at 12:59 pm

    tell us something we don’t already know

  4. Salah says

    Jun 6, 2014 at 1:43 pm

    Barack Hussein Obama:
    “Since World War II, some of our most costly mistakes came not from our restraint, but from our willingness to rush into military adventures – without thinking through the consequences”

    John Quincy Adams:
    “As the essential principle of his [Muhammad’s] faith is the subjugation of others by the sword; it is only by FORCE, that his false doctrines can be dispelled, and his power annihilated.”

  5. Champ says

    Jun 6, 2014 at 5:35 pm

    For once I actually agree with the Supreme Assatollah …

  6. Ruslan Tokhchukov says

    Jun 6, 2014 at 8:02 pm

    “America cannot do a damn thing”, said Khomeini to Carter. He was right.
    “America cannot do a damn thing”, said Khamanei to Obamus-Carterus. He, too, is right. Iran refused to halt its nuclear terrorism project, and all Western democracies backed down, retreated in a cowardly way.
    But look how malignant those same democracies are in Ukraine ! Aided the violent putsch by West Ukrainian neo-Nazi UN UNSO, “Svoboda” and the Right Sector. Those neo-Nazis joined the Chechen jihad just to murder Russians. They also joined the Nazi Croats and the Bosnian jihad against the Serbs. They are to the Russian people what the Nazi Croats are to the Serb people. Now, the US & EU are aiding them in bombing cities in East Ukraine and murdering Russian and Russian-Ukrainian people there just for refusing to the illegal putsch and refusing to go under the heal of the West Ukrainian neo-Nazis who are their implacable, genocidal enemies.

    • WVinMN says

      Jun 7, 2014 at 1:32 am

      Sure, and old “Mother Russia” has no blood on her stinking hands! Only about 25,000,000 souls worth and counting. And Putin is hell-bent on continuing that fine Russian tradition. Sorry Ruslan, go sell your “poor, mistreated Russian” tripe somewhere else.

    • BC says

      Jun 7, 2014 at 12:25 pm

      What are you smoking? Putin’s propaganda sheets?

    • Jay Boo says

      Jun 7, 2014 at 12:45 pm

      @Ruslan Tokhchukov
      I agree 100 %
      The US has way too many Islam-Butt-kiss liberals running interference for Obama.
      Obama seeks to limit Russian influence not far from where the Beslan massacre took place as well, while his Al Jazeera sponsored BBC affiliate NPR rants continuously about the Ukraine and ignores the utter filth of a religion that stones a pregnant woman to death in Pakistan.
      The problem is not Putin or Russia.
      The problem is Islamo-Nazi liberals and Obama.

    • Gea says

      Jun 7, 2014 at 3:08 pm

      >“America cannot do a damn thing”, said Khomeini to Carter. He was right.

      America allowed Khomeini to take over from shah, by abandoning shah. Socialist students also helped depose shah, but had gotten a medieval evil Jihadis instead, where women and men are put backwards for centuries. Many of those socialist students that I met in 1969 had regretted their actions and have moved west (not to Russia ;-)!)

      >“America cannot do a damn thing”, said Khamanei to Obamus-Carterus. He, >too, is right.

      Obama doesn’t WANT to do anything because he is a BIG Muslim Brother who extols Islam and Koran while dissing Bible ;-)!

      >Iran refused to halt its nuclear terrorism project, and all Western democracies >backed down, retreated in a cowardly way.

      While Russians supplied them with uranium fuel and thus made money selling nuclear technology ;-)! Communists turned oligarchs in Russia had just changed the name: The methods are the same..

      >But look how malignant those same democracies are in Ukraine ! Aided the >violent putsch by West Ukrainian neo-Nazi UN UNSO, “Svoboda” and the Right >Sector.

      The guy in Ukraine was deposed because he was a thief, appropriating millions of dollars for his own personal fiefdom…had nothing to do with right or left wing!

      >Those neo-Nazis joined the Chechen jihad just to murder Russians.

      I doubt that any of the Ukrainians had joined the Islamists in Chechnia…you are selliing us Russian propaganda

      They are to the Russian people what the Nazi Croats are to the Serb people.

      There were Serbian Nazis just as many as Croatian Nazis during WWII…they are mostly dead after 65 years… Croatia is NOW a free flourishing country, while Serbia is still paying for giving a support to Serbian communist turned fascist. Mladic and Karadzic, Serbian thugs are still being tried in Haag for their crimes against humanity.

      >Now, the US & EU are aiding them in bombing cities in East Ukraine and >murdering Russian and Russian-Ukrainian people there just for refusing to >the illegal putsch and refusing to go under the heal of the West Ukrainian neo->Nazis who are their implacable, genocidal enemies.

      My non-nationalist friends in Ukraine tell me that the fascism is all RUSSIAN! I visited Ukraine in 1991 just before USSR fell apart, and the only nationalists there were the Russians who behaved as if they owned Ukraine. That had been confirmed by more recent visits of my friends to Ukraine. While I do not support extremes of any kinds, every people has a right to self-determination without fear of persecution as a minority and without persecuting minorities in their midst.

      Clearly you think that Russian Communist turned oligarhs propaganda to promote their financial interests in Crimea is truth. You need to be more knowledgeable of history and apply critical thinking to your “facts” which are fiction ;-)!

      • Ruslan Tokhchukov says

        Jun 7, 2014 at 11:01 pm

        WVinMN, BC and Gea:

        It is exasperating to encounter ignorance THIS thick that you 3 display. Worse, you are far from alone. There millions here in the US and EUrabia just as ignorant. This is what one hears from the CNN-educated. I am an American originally from the Soviet Union where I was an anti-Communist. I thought that the Soviet propaganda were liars. But the so-called “free, independent media” here in the US and Europe make the Soviet propagandists whom I once despised look like honest preschoolers. With totalitarian near-unanimity, they repeat every lie by the US and UK governments as facts. This is why you don’t know that Slovenia and Croatia had every opportunity to secede peacefully from Yugoslavia in accordance to the constitution in 1991. This is what the tiny Macedonia did that same year, without a shot fired, without a drop of blood spilled. But Slovenia and Croatia chose to secede through murder. This is why you don’t know about the horrid mass torture and murder of Serb civilians by the Nazi Croats in Kozara, Pakrac, Medak, Gospic, East Slavonia and West Slavonia and Krajina, just as they did during WWII. This is why you don’t know that in Bosnia the war was started by the Bosnian and international Muslim jihadis with a massacre of 11 Serb civilians in Bosanski Brod on March 26, 1992, not by the Serbs. And you don’t know about the Bosnian-and-Croat-run rape-torture-murder camp for Serb civilians in Celebici that operated from the very start of fighting. Nor do you know that in Srebrenica, prior to the so-called “massacre”, the Bosnian Muslim Gen. Naser Oric showed reporters stacks of VHS tapes showing his Bosnian 28th Division and the so-called “mujaheddin”, all Muslim residents of Srebrenica butchering Serb civilians. They destroyed 50 Serb villages all around Srerenica and massacred their population. Those “Muslim men and boys” “massacred by the Serbs” were those very mujadeddin, including teenage thugs, whom the Bosnian Serb Army finally attacked in self-defense. You don’t know that well over 90% of anti-Serb allegation during the Bosnian and Croat wars were lies by the Western governments and media. When I encounter the likes of you, whose ignorance is THIS severe, I don’t know where even to start to introduce you to the truth. To get you started, just google “I ACCUSE. Professor Rajko Dolecek”. This expose was never challenged, and is unchallengeable, because the precise quotes from politicians and well-known media personalities are listed, all blatant lies. But the Kosovo war outdid even Bosnia where the lies by the Western democracies are concerned. It is now known as a fact that 100% of the allegations of the “Serb atrocities in Kosovo” were bold-faced lies. Not 90%. No 99%. No, 100%. There was no “massacre of 45 Kosovar Albanians in Racak”, no “500 Albanians under the garbage dump in Orahovac”, no “mass graves”, no “100,000 Albanians hearded into the soccer stadium in Pristina”, no “dead Albanians in a freezer truck”, no “rape camps”. There ARE rape camps now in Kosovo alright, run by the Kosovar Albanian KLA terrorists who kidnap young women and uderage girls from all over Eastern Europe and provide them to the US and NATO soldiers on “peacekeeping” duty, and to the UN and EU bureaucrats to be raped. As both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reported, the Kosovar Albanians had created the biggest child sex-slave industry in the world that originally catered to rapist American GI’s, but has now spread out throughout Western Europe. And the prostitute “International Criminal Court in Hague” run by the US and European governments represents the worst political corruption of judiciary in world history since Stalin’s infamous “show trials” of the ’30s.
        Gea: there is 100% awareness among every Russian man, woman and child of the “banderovci”, or the “Bandera Fascists” from the West Ukraine, whose atrocities on civilians during WWII exceded those of the Nazi Germans. But you apparently have never heard of the term. The banderovci are now back, and they are the ones who violently ousted the democratically elected President Yanukovich in a Nazi putsch, with the US and European governments and media actively encouraging, inciting, aiding and abetting them. You are totally ignorant of thousands of the West Ukrainian banderovci Nazis joining jihad in Chechnya, so you deny the fact. But you can find the accounts of the jihad-banderovci alliance even in Western sources. Read “The Chechens”, a book by a British author Anatole Lieven. He traveled to Chechnia during the jihad, and found himself in the thick of jihadis and West Ukrainian banderovci fighting shoulder-to-shoulder. He spoke to one Sasko Bilyi a.k.a. Oleksandr Muzichko, who told him that their goal was to destroy the Russian state and conquer all of Russia and Ukraine to be ruled over by them, the banderovci Nazis of West Ukraine. He has now surfaced in Ukraine where he and other West Ukrainian jihad veteran Serhyi Yarosh had founded the Right Sector that spearheaded the putsch, and is now waging Nazi terror on the Russian-speaking citizens of South-East Ukraine. But the heroic Russian and Russian-Ukrainian citizens of South-East refuse to bow to the Nazis. They rise proudly in the Resistance against the Nazi Ukrainians just as they did against he Nazi Germans 70 years ago. But our disgraceful United States of America and other Western democracies are squarely on the side of the Nazis ! They have collectively sunk into the cesspull of dishonor ! Unfortunatelly, Russia does not supply weapons to the Resistance. Still, the lightly-armed rebels who hardly even have the means to defend against aircraft are fighting valiantly and beating the US-backed Nazis, taking one military base from them after another ! So far, the Western democracies have earned only dishonor in their Nazi-putsch adventure in Ukraine, and inevitably, they will also earn defeat !
        Meanwhile, Iran is working on building the nuclear bomb, and our cowardly Western democracies are appeasing it, shirking their duty to eliminate the intolerable threat of Global Nuclear Jihad.

        • dumbledoresarmy says

          Jul 2, 2014 at 6:42 pm

          You do not deny that Russia has assisted the Iranians with their nuke program?

          And if the Iranians use those nukes on Israel, and kill most of the world’s remaining Jews, will not that mightily please any number of Russian Jew-haters? Russia has a lot of Jew-haters and a long tradition of it – after all, pogrom is a Russian word, and that evil forgery, the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” was created by *Russians*.

          So don’t try to pretend Russia is pure and sinless.

          America’s cosying up to the House of Saud and other Islamic entities is wrong, and it ought to *end*, like, yesterday; but **so is Russia’s selling nuclear technology to Iran and running interference for Iran’s nuke project**. That’s as bad as – worse than – the folly of a greedy traitor back in the day who sold cannon technology to the Turkish Muslims… and thus made possible the taking of Constantinople.

  7. Elisheva14 says

    Jun 7, 2014 at 7:39 pm

    Although the Islamists’ have Obama helping them to implement their plans unimpeded, they still seem to feel an animosity towards him. Their hate and diabolical plans are so extreme that they don’t even recognize their friends.

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