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Iran’s Supremo posts photo of himself trampling Israeli flag

Jul 14, 2015 10:21 am By Robert Spencer

Khamenei Israeli flag“The Zionist Regime is Condemned to Vanish” — thanks to Barack Obama’s nuke deal. Flush with victory, Khamenei can’t restrain himself from taking a victory lap and rubbing in how easy it was to get everything he wanted from the post-American President.

“Iran’s Supreme Leader Posts Photo of Himself Trampling Israeli Flag: ‘The Zionist Regime Is Doomed,'” by Patrick Goodenough, CNS News, July 13, 2015:

(CNSNews.com) – A photograph posted on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s official website–as the Obama administration was finalizing negotiations on a deal intended to prevent Iran from building a nulcear weapon–shows the walking stick-waving supreme leader striding across, and apparently glaring at, a painted representation of Israel’s national flag.

The caption on the photo, according to a translation by American Enterprise Institute scholar Michael Rubin, reads, “The Zionist Regime is Condemned to Vanish.”

“The Zionist regime is a regime with very shaky pillars,” the caption continues. “The Zionist regime is doomed. The Zionist regime is an imposed regime and was created with intimidation. Nothing created with intimidation can last long and this one will not last long either.”

The photo was posted last Thursday (18 Tir, 1394 on the Persian calendar), on the eve of Iran’s annual “Quds [Jerusalem] Day” – also dubbed “Death to Israel Day” since chants to that effect typically characterize rallies across in the country, along with “Death to America.”

Commenting on the decision to post the photo and caption at this time, Rubin wrote on the AEI blog, “So much for peace and so much for ‘Dialogue of Civilizations.’”

“But why should Israel worry?” he continued. “After all, President Obama has made Israel’s security a red-line, and when are Obama’s red-lines not to be believed? (Full-disclosure: I tried to ask some Ukrainians this, but the Russians occupying their country had cut the phone lines, and all the Syrians I sought to contact had been displaced by Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons use).”

“Then again, Obama from the start has been all about hope. So let’s hope that all Khamenei aims to do with the $100 billion windfall he is due to receive because of the pending nuclear deal will be to order millions more pavement murals of symbols of Judaism upon which Iran’s supreme leader can trample during his morning constitutional,” Rubin wrote.

“Ballistic missiles? Nuclear warheads? What? Me worry?”…

The day after Quds Day, Khamenei told students in Tehran that fighting the United States – “global arrogance” in the parlance of the Islamic Republic – is “one of the principles of the [Islamic] Revolution.”

“According to Qur’anic principles, fighting against arrogance and global imperialism is never-ending and today, America is the very epitome of arrogance,” he said in comments posted on an official website.

“Fighting against arrogance is one of the principles of the Revolution. It is a fundamental task,” the 75 year-old ayatollah told the young people. “Therefore, you should prepare yourselves for continuing the battle against arrogance.”

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  1. Katnis says

    Jul 14, 2015 at 10:33 am

    This is so sick and so sad that I don’t even know what to say. With the US leading the pack, the global community just signed a permission slip to destroy the free world.

    • mortimer says

      Jul 14, 2015 at 10:36 am

      Iran is presently training child soldiers. Think about that. What are they planning to do with them?

      • Cecilia Ellis says

        Jul 14, 2015 at 4:46 pm

        Mortimer posted: “Iran is presently training child soldiers. Think about that. What are they planning to do with them?”

        Mortimer, great question! Here is an idea of what Iran has done with its children in the past:

        Following extract is from an article posted on The New Republic, April 24, 2006:

        “Ahmadinejad’s Demons
        A Child of the Revolution Takes Over · By Matthias Küntzel

        During the Iran-Iraq War, the Ayatollah Khomeini imported 500,000 small plastic keys from Taiwan. The trinkets were meant to be inspirational. After Iraq invaded in September 1980, it had quickly become clear that Iran’s forces were no match for Saddam Hussein’s professional, well-armed military. To compensate for their disadvantage, Khomeini sent Iranian children, some as young as twelve years old, to the front lines. There, they marched in formation across minefields toward the enemy, clearing a path with their bodies. Before every mission, one of the Taiwanese keys would be hung around each child’s neck. It was supposed to open the gates to paradise for them.

        At one point, however, the earthly gore became a matter of concern. “In the past,” wrote the semi-official Iranian daily Ettelaat as the war raged on, “we had child-volunteers: 14-, 15-, and 16-year-olds. They went into the minefields. Their eyes saw nothing. Their ears heard nothing. And then, a few moments later, one saw clouds of dust. When the dust had settled again, there was nothing more to be seen of them. Somewhere, widely scattered in the landscape, there lay scraps of burnt flesh and pieces of bone.” Such scenes would henceforth be avoided, Ettelaat assured its readers. “Before entering the minefields, the children [now] wrap themselves in blankets and they roll on the ground, so that their body parts stay together after the explosion of the mines and one can carry them to the graves.”

        – The entire article may be viewed at the following website:
        http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/contents/ahmadinejads-demons

        Another related article may be viewed at the following link:
        http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/contents/ahmadinejads-world

        – Back to your question. The response to that might best be viewed through the prism of “Death to Israel . . . Down with America” chants, even as the United States was busy negotiating a deal that has been declared by Netanyahu to be “a stunning, historic mistake.” I am haunted by your question. It really makes one think . . .

      • Gary says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 8:24 am

        “Train up a child in the way he should go, and he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6)

        Hamas, Hezbollah, Boko haram, ISIS……

        Israel is watching it’s back. America has betrayed them.

    • Huck Folder says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 4:51 pm

      “According to Qur’anic principles, [citations?] fighting against arrogance [citation?] and global imperialism [except islamic] is never-ending and today, Iran is the very epitome of arrogance,” he said in comments posted on an official website.”

      “The Jihadist regime is a regime with very shaky pillars,” the caption continues. “The Jihadist regime is doomed. The Jihadist regime [but I repeat myself] is an imposed regime and was created with intimidation. [in spades!] Nothing created with intimidation can last long and this one [mine] will not last long either.”

      Hey, fuzz-face, you look like a clown, sound like a clown, dress like a clown…idiot projectionist.

      And to think that at one time PERSIA was a GREAT country and CYRUS (sounds like kooroosh) a GREAT King. You had a monotheistic RELIGION over 2,000 years before Ponzi ponce mo dreamed up a sock-puppet ‘allah’ and scrambled distorted elements of Jewish and Christian RELIGIONS to create a barbaric psychopathic CULT, with ‘religious’ pretensions.

    • RealDeal says

      Sep 18, 2015 at 1:05 am

      But Obama isn’t leading the pack…The European Union was first to sign this deal. German diplomats were in Iran way before the Deal was brought over to the U.S. for approval.

  2. Susan B says

    Jul 14, 2015 at 10:34 am

    So the muslim in the WH got everything he wanted and the news media “ministry of propaganda” will tell all the truths related to this. God Help Israel!! God help the world!!!

  3. mortimer says

    Jul 14, 2015 at 10:34 am

    Khamenei’s unstatesmanlike, sophomoric and clownish behavior is a deal breaker. Perhaps he intended it to be. It is unacceptable in a political leader.

    Even Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini were not clownish like that. Even they had more class.

  4. katnis says

    Jul 14, 2015 at 10:37 am

    This is what our US presidential candidates had to say about the deal

    New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R):

    “After two years of humiliating concessions by President Obama, he has made his deal with Iran. He should have walked away. Iran joins the sad list of countries where America’s red lines have been crossed. The president is playing a dangerous game with our national security, and the deal as structured will lead to a nuclear Iran and, then, a nuclearized Middle East.”

    Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R):

    “Based on what we know thus far, I believe that this deal undermines our national security. President Obama has consistently negotiated from a position of weakness, giving concession after concession to a regime that has American blood on its hands, holds Americans hostage, and has consistently violated every agreement it ever signed.”

    Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R):

    “Everyone understands that once you go to a nuclear device that now you’re talking about apocalyptic-type situations. If Iran gets nuclear capacity, we’re now looking at the apocalypse because these people are crazy enough to use it, first against Israel and eventually against us.”

    Former HP exec Carly Fiorina (R):

    “Iran has demonstrated bad behavior for 30 years. We know they have been trying to cheat on this deal. We know they have been funding proxies with a strategic objective of destabilizing the region. We know that when sanctions are lifted, they’ll have more money to fund those same proxies.”

  5. mortimer says

    Jul 14, 2015 at 10:58 am

    They are the new Nazis. They are virtually declaring war on Israel and on the United States. The sanctions should remain.

  6. Frans Groenendijk says

    Jul 14, 2015 at 11:21 am

    Alarmingly clownish indeed.
    Here is a link to a document with quotes from the Supreme Leader.
    http://www.islam-pure.de/imam/books/ajvab.pdf

    Just two examples:

    Q1277. Is it permissible to dig the graves of Muslims or non-Muslims in order to
    exhume the bones for training purposes in the school of medicine?
    A: As to the graves of Muslims it is not permissible to do so unless there is a
    pressing need for the bones for medical purposes and it is impossible to
    obtain such bones from the graves of non-Muslims.

    Q 98: How could the excretory outlet (anus) be made pure?
    A: The excretory outlet could be made pure through two methods. First: washing it
    with water until the najis material removed after which there would be no need for
    further washing. Second: remove the najis material with three pure pieces of stone,
    clothes or the likes. If the najis material is not removed with these three pieces,
    more pieces could be used until the najis material is completely removed. Instead of
    three pieces, one could use three sites (sic) of the same piece of stone or cloth.

  7. Evolution says

    Jul 14, 2015 at 11:31 am

    Khomeini’s words are poison to any human’s mind and soul.

    As selfish as this sounds, I kind of hope they do try something.
    Millions of his victims have been waiting for a chance to strike back at him for so long now. Many died waiting, only strengthening the resolve of the survivors.

    Who knows, maybe the Iranians will one day stage a revolution against him brought upon by his own sickening arrogance and blindness.

    • Shmooviyet says

      Jul 14, 2015 at 1:42 pm

      That time would have to be after the current American leader is out of office (and a new leader is hopefully not ignoring the pleas of those revolutionaries ). Similar to the way current POTUS & Lurch ignore the pleas from families of imprisoned Americans.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Jul 14, 2015 at 2:27 pm

      As selfish as this sounds, I kind of hope they do try something.

      I wonder what the capability of the Iron Dome is against ICBM missiles. We know that it is very good against the Qassams our negotiating partner Persia supplies to Hamas, but an ICBM comes in at a much stepper angle and at a much greater velocity.

  8. ich says

    Jul 14, 2015 at 11:39 am

    Iran and the rest of them are indeed training children to be soldiers.
    We are training our kids to be heart bleeding metro sexuals.

    We are being duped.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Jul 14, 2015 at 2:21 pm

      Metrosexuals that many hope will yield a healthy byproduct of transsexuals just to keep things nice an diverse. And now the shemales can go into the army to fight for the nation! And get married when they get out. I’m not saying I’d refuse to bake a wedding cake for such a vet, but then again I’m not saying that I would either. In fact, hell, I don’t even know how to bake, which may be better.

      • Nathan says

        Jul 14, 2015 at 7:57 pm

        I think you’ll find we are training a nation of slaves, and they are training a nation of slave owners.

        I don’t like it, but there you go.

        • Angemon says

          Jul 14, 2015 at 8:59 pm

          Nah, that can’t possibly be true – everyone[citation needed] knows that slavery was something that only racist, old white men did because they were racist and white (and probably old). And everyone[citation needed] also knows that it was the Republicans Democrats who fought against slavery while the Democrats Republicans hoisted the Confederate flag and fought for their rights to deprive people of their rights, the very same flag that caused[citation needed] the Charleston Church shooting (which might have not taken place if the shooter knew that was a gun free zone, or ended with only one victim if the victims weren’t in a gun free zone and could carry firearms for personal protection).

  9. Fallony says

    Jul 14, 2015 at 11:42 am

    Nothing created with intimidation can last eh? Well that’s good new for the rest of us given that intimidation is essentially the foundation of Islam!

    • Shmooviyet says

      Jul 14, 2015 at 1:47 pm

      Yes, that line is quite the knee-slapper coming from that source…

  10. Angemon says

    Jul 14, 2015 at 11:58 am

    “Iran’s Supreme Leader Posts Photo of Himself Trampling Israeli Flag: ‘The Zionist Regime Is Doomed,’”

    Is the ink even dry?…

  11. Charli Main says

    Jul 14, 2015 at 1:34 pm

    Iran and Saudi Arabia will be radioactive ash if any of these retarded mullahs try to nuke Israel.
    While I couldn´t care less if Saudi Arabia is vaporised it would be a shame if the Persians suffered the same fate. Islam was militarily forced on these ancient people by the muslim invaders from mecca.
    I can only hope that all TRUE Persians walk away from the filth of islam and return to the faith of their ancestors and take their place in sane human society.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Jul 14, 2015 at 2:13 pm

      Iran and Saudi Arabia will be radioactive ash…

      A guy I know who was a technical lieutenant in the USAF, a weapons guidance specialist who did a couple of cooperative development projects with the IDF, likes to point out whenever the subject of Iran comes up that a thermonuclear explosion would turn a sandy place to glass, literally.

    • Alex says

      Jul 14, 2015 at 5:01 pm

      I think your post could be confusing people: Israel and Saudi Arabia are actually political allies at the moment. Israel would never attack Saudi Arabia because that would make Iran stronger.

      • Charli Main says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 3:37 am

        get your point Alex, but Israel has NO muslim allies. Saudi Arabia will grab the chance to destroy Israel just as quick as Iran or any other muslim shyte hole country.
        The total destruction of Israel is the ultimate objective of ALL MUSLIMS

  12. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jul 14, 2015 at 2:08 pm

    … global imperialism is never-ending and today, America is the very epitome of arrogance.
    — the Supreme Leader

    America was never much involved in imperialism, I guess the Philippines would come the closest, but even that adventure falls short. I don’t want to pretend to question the great wisdom of the Supreme Leader, who is reported to have personal a net worth of over $100 billion, but how is sending in the war coward Lurch in to grovel and beg arrogant?

    Will nothing please these people?

    ***

    Israel is one of the most productive countries on the planet. Its loss will be hard.

  13. Marty says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 5:15 am

    This man Obama seems to be misinformed regarding just about everything.
    That’s the only explanation for his gullibility in the face of muslim lies.
    Whether Shiites or Sunnis are the more evil is open for debate.
    Certainly Iranians are more intelligent than the sunni mohammedans.
    If it means they’ll develop nukes and use them on Saudi Arabia etc, so be it.
    But if they attack Israel —-
    This deal should never have been struck.
    If sanctions were tightened up, the people, oppressed by the priests and their thugs
    just might have risen up.
    But, of course that happened in the ill named Arab Spring, and things just got infinitely worse.
    The US should not have signed the deal and just retained the status quo.

  14. Lioness says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 11:06 am

    Iran has just received United States’ official blessing to destroy Israel. In Winston Churchill’s words: “we have sustained an unmitigated defeat”. We don’t have a Churchill that will step in and save the world, we have a traitor in the White House that will bring our civilization to a doom.

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