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Iranian President: Diplomacy with U.S. is an active jihad

Mar 12, 2015 7:10 am By Robert Spencer

Hassan Rouhani“Rouhani’s comments echo those of foreign minister and lead nuclear negotiator Javad Zarif, who said Tuesday that Iran has emerged as ‘the winner‘ in talks with Western powers. Like Zarif, Rouhani boasted that Iran’s years-long diplomacy with Western nations over its nuclear program established the Islamic Republic as a global power.”

Netanyahu tried to tell them. “Iranian President: Diplomacy With U.S. is an Active ‘Jihad,’” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, March 12, 2015:

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani described his country’s diplomacy with the United States as an active “jihad” that is just as significant to Tehran’s advancement as the slew of new weapons and missiles showcased by the Islamic Republic’s military.

Rouhani praised the country’s military leaders for standing “against the enemy on the battlefield” and said as president, he would carry out this “jihad” on the diplomatic front.

Rouhani’s comments echo those of foreign minister and lead nuclear negotiator Javad Zarif, who said Tuesday that Iran has emerged as “the winner” in talks with Western powers. Like Zarif, Rouhani boasted that Iran’s years-long diplomacy with Western nations over its nuclear program established the Islamic Republic as a global power.

Iran has made headway in convincing the U.S. to allow it to maintain much of its core infrastructure through diplomatic talks that Rouhani said are viewed as a “jihad.”

“Our negotiations with the world powers are a source of national pride,” Rouhani said earlier this week. “Yesterday [during the Iran-Iraq War], your brave generals stood against the enemy on the battlefield and defended their country. Today, your diplomatic generals are defending [our nation] in the field of diplomacy–this, too, is jihad.”

“Our power is growing each day, but we don’t intend to be aggressive toward anyone. However, we will certainly defend our country, nation, independence, and honor wholeheartedly.”

Iran stands “10 times more powerful” than it was during the time of the Iran-Iraq War, Rouhani said, which “reflects a serious deterrence to the enemies’ threats.”

Iranian leaders view the ongoing talks with the United States and other nations as a source of global legitimacy.

Rouhani’s remarks have “significant domestic implications,” according to an analysis published by the American Enterprise Institute.

“Iran’s negotiations team to the status of Iran-Iraq War commanders, who are traditionally revered by the regime as upholders of Islamic Revolutionary values, could potentially lead to rhetorical backlash from regime hardliners opposed to the nuclear negotiations,” AEI wrote.

Matan Shamir, director of research at United Against Nuclear Iran, said Rouhani’s latest comments show he is not a moderate leader.

“While Rouhani talks about a ‘win-win’ nuclear deal to global audiences, his comments make clear that he continues to view the U.S. an antagonistic global oppressor that must be triumphed over, in this case by a diplomatic ‘jihad,’” Shamir said. “This is clearly not the language of a moderate or of a regime with which rapprochement is at all realistic.”

Zarif said Tuesday that a final nuclear deal with the United States is meaningless at this point.

“We are the winner whether the [nuclear] negotiations yield results or not,” Zarif was quoted as saying by the Tasnim News Agency. “The capital we have obtained over the years is dignity and self-esteem, a capital that could not be retaken.”

As Rouhani and Zarif grandstand on the nuclear front, Iranian military leaders have begun to unveil a host of new missiles and sea-based weapons.

General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, a leader in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, said Iran’s defensive capabilities “are non-negotiable in the nuclear talks,” AEI reported.

The comments came the same day Iran paraded its new cruise missiles.

Hajizadeh also dismissed economic sanctions on Iran, saying that “his is a message which should be understood by the bullying powers which raise excessive demands.”

On Wednesday, the State Department said any final deal with Iran was “nonbinding,” meaning that neither party would be legally obliged to uphold the agreement.

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  1. jayell says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 7:17 am

    Sorry, totally off topic, but who has seen this yet?
    Swedish Mosque Attack — The Truth Comes to Light
    Thu, 12/03/2015 – 06:00

    By Jason Fleming

    Patriots will remember around Christmas time there was the news that a Mosque in Sweden had been targeted by right wing anti-Islamic individuals.

    Allegations were made by Muslims present that a petrol bomb had been thrown through the window. Muslim residents and religious clerics told how they felt unsafe because of the arson.

    The pro far-left and Muslim groups condemned the alleged arson whilst the Swedish government rolled over and pleaded for forgiveness for the attack.

    Well it appears that things were not exactly as they were made out to be after the far-left and Muslim groups made so much mileage over far-right alleged involvement.

    The Swedish media outlet Local SE has revealed the true cause of the mosque fire on Christmas Day;

    A blaze at a mosque in Eskilstuna in central Sweden that injured five people on Christmas Day was caused not by a firebomb but by an overheated deep fryer, a police source told a local newspaper.

    The fire was the first of three conflagrations in the space of a week at mosques across Sweden.

    Police initially believed the fire at the Dawa mosque in Eskilstuna was started deliberately and opened an arson investigation.

    But a police source told local newspaper Eskilstuna-Kuriren on Monday that the fire had in fact been caused by an overheated deep fryer.

    Police in the city would not confirm the report, and said the investigation was still ongoing.

    Around 70 people were in the mosque when the fire took hold. Many of them fled through windows to escape the blaze.

    The Swedish intelligence service, Säpo, was called in to aid with the investigation amid reports that an arsonist had thrown a burning object into the building.

    Anti-racism rallies attracted thousands of people in the days following three fires at mosques in Eskilstuna, Eslöv and Uppsala

    And it didn’t stop there as the media around Europe condemned the far-right for such an attack

    Here are a few snippets from the media at the time:

    BBC NEWS: The incident comes amid a fierce debate in Sweden over immigration policies. The far right wants to cut the number of asylum seekers allowed into Sweden by 90%, while mainstream parties are intent on preserving the country’s liberal policy.”

    A witness saw somebody throw an object through the window of the building, which serves as a mosque, after which a violent fire began,” police spokesman Lars Franzell told reporters. He said five people were taken to hospital for treatment of injuries ranging from smoke inhalation to lacerations.

    GUARDIAN: Several hundred marchers turned out in a Swedish town on Friday to denounce an arson attack on a mosque that injured five people on Christmas Day as the traditionally tolerant country confronts the rising influence of the extreme right.

    A firebomb was thrown through a closed window of the mosque in the central city of Eskilstuna on Thursday, injuring five of the nearly 70 worshippers inside, two of whom remained in hospital on Friday

    RT: An arsonist has set a mosque ablaze in the south-eastern Swedish town of Eskilstuna. The Christmas Day attack comes amidst heightened anti-immigration sentiment in the country.

    Those above are just the first to come up in an online search which produced 100’s of mainstream media news outlets running the same false flag story of a fire bomb attack the mosque.

    So will the BBC, the Guardian and all the media outlets who it seems falsely accused anti-Islamic groups of the attack now print a retraction and expose that the alleged arson claim was a lie and it was started from within the Mosque?

    And as for those so called witnesses, Muslim by any chance, will they be charged for wasting police time and declaration of a false statement?

    • Charli Main says

      Mar 12, 2015 at 3:54 pm

      Muslims never pass up an opportunity to play the ” poor Muslim victim ” card.
      Its a fundamental part of their invasion strategy, to trick the human rights brigade, assorted Muslim apologists and Muslim arse kissing political elites to introduce laws that penalise people who speak up about the Islamisation of their country.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 12, 2015 at 10:22 pm

      Thanks for posting that, Jayell. The story was covered at Jihad Watch here:

      “Sweden: Mosque fire touted as ‘Islamophobia’ was an accident”

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/01/sweden-mosque-fire-touted-as-islamophobia-was-an-accident

  2. Spot On says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 9:17 am

    “What could possibly go wrong?”

    Obama is spending millions to campaign in Israel against Netanyahu. On the brighter side, it is likely that Netanyahu can gather a majority coalition even if he loses his election.

    I believe that Israel will surgically strike Iran nuke facilities sometime not too far ahead. If not, Iran has the rails greased for Israel to disappear. We won’t be far behind (if not at the same time as Israel) if Iran ever gets nukes and is ready to go.

  3. Gary says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 9:26 am

    The Thief……

    He comes only to rob, steal, kill, and destroy.
    (John 10:10)

    Yet the muslim ‘faith’ is known as a religion of peace…..

    Crafty Shifty Lying Thief

    • Spot On says

      Mar 12, 2015 at 9:44 am

      “religion of peace”

      So says Obama, Bush, and Muslims. We all know it is a bunch of PR crap for Muslims and paid for by Muslims..

      • Charli Main says

        Mar 12, 2015 at 3:59 pm

        Islam, the religion of pure filth and shit. Satan´s greatest work in the last 1400 years.

  4. ApolloSpeaks says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 9:29 am

    WHY AM I A “TRAITOR” LIKE THE 47 REPUBLICAN SENATORS?

    Click http://www.apollospeaks.com to find out.

  5. Lee Hicks says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 9:55 am

    Again, anything that a professing Muslim says or does is, in fact, an “active Jihad”: holy warfare in promotion of the supremacy of Allah and Islam. Words of peace are simple deception, as the only peace that Islam will accept is either the eradication or subjection of all non-Muslims.

    The western world foolishly continues to insist that Islam is peaceful, that militants are not following true Islam, and that it is possible to have a lasting peace with Islamic people and nations. This is naive and utterly divorced from reality.

    Iran’s “peace” talks are just such deception, and the only surprise is that their leader would admit it as such. Islam has never been (and never will be) a true religion of peace. It will always be one of conquest and Jihad, waging war through cultural, political, and violent means.

  6. mariam rove says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 10:36 am

    Rouhani is a wolf in sheep’s skin. Same Jihadists. m

  7. Bezelel says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 12:12 pm

    If you like your nukes you can keep your nukes? Or probably more appropriate is when obola tells us we have to pass the nuke deal so that we can see what’s in it.

  8. ApolloSpeaks says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 3:24 pm

    JOHN KERRY: 48TH TRAITOR

    If the 47 Republican Senators are irresponsibly and traitorously undermining US foreign policy for saying that an agreement with Iran would not be legally binding then what does that make John Kerry for saying the same thing yesterday? Now there are 48 traitors. Is this utterly laughably incoherent of Kerry or what?

    http://www.apollospeaks.com

  9. ApolloSpeaks says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 9:20 pm

    PEACE THRU WEAKNESS

    Works like a charm all the time.

    The First Lady Celebrates Nowruz at the White House | The …
    https://www.whitehouse.gov/…/first-lady-celebrates-nowruz-white-house

    1 day ago … On March 11, 2015, First Lady Michelle Obama welcomed all to acelebration of the Persian New Year, Nowruz, at the White House. \…

    http://www.apollospeaks.com

  10. gravenimage says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 10:06 pm

    Iranian President: Diplomacy with U.S. is an active jihad
    ………………………………

    You bet it is. But how many American “leaders” will even notice this? And how many will understand what it means?

  11. ApolloSpeaks says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 11:08 pm

    WHY WILL OBAMA FAIL

    if he takes Iran deal to the UN?

    Click http://www.apollospeaks.com for the answer

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