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Coming in 2016: Robert Spencer’s Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran!

Oct 19, 2015 12:35 pm By Robert Spencer

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My fifteenth book, and the third in my Complete Infidel’s Guide series, will be out next year from Regnery Publishing: The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran. All I have to do now is write it.

As Barack Obama’s disastrous policies have sapped America’s strength, Russia and China have become increasingly aggressive. North Korea is more bellicose than ever, regularly issuing dire threats. But of all the adversaries of America and rogue states in the world, Iran is the most lethal – and the most mysterious.

Iran: simultaneously the modern exponent of one of the oldest and greatest civilizations on the planet, with a glorious history going back five thousand years – and a closed, paranoid, confrontational regime whose people (and leaders) regularly chant “death to America” and “death to Israel.”

In The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran, I will explain how Iran came to be both of those things, tracing its history, geostrategic importance, religious development, and above all, its modern-day political adventurism: the Iranian Revolution and the transformation of modern Iranian society; Iran’s long and bitter war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq; its funding of jihad terror groups that are warring against Israel, including both Shi’ite Hizballah and Sunni Hamas; and its development of nuclear energy, including the full and appalling story of the Obama/Kerry deal that gives a green light to Iran’s most sinister global aspirations.

I’ll illuminate the Islamic doctrines that form the foundation of Iran’s fanatical hatred of Israel, and funding of its most bloodthirsty enemies; the bold and brazen strategy Shi’ite Iran is implementing to try to vault to a position of leadership of the entire Islamic world, Sunni as well as Shi’ite; and the astonishing apocalyptic fantasies that lead the Iranian mullahs to believe that they can press ahead with an avowedly genocidal nuclear program that could result in a war that would cause the deaths of tens of millions of Iranians.

The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran is a solid, accessible, practical guide to understanding what Iran is all about, and arming Americans with practical, sound advice they can use to prod lawmakers to drop their politically correct fantasies and deal with the Iranian threat realistically – before it’s too late.

A few of the topics I’ll explore in The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran:

  • The shocking details of the Obama nuclear deal with Iran
  • How the Iran nuclear deal spells disaster not just for Israel, but for the free world in general
  • The Ayatollah Khamenei’s fatwa condemning use of nuclear weapons: why Obama shouldn’t have counted on it as much as he did
  • Iran’s role in the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing
  • The 1953 coup and why its repercussions are still being felt today
  • The Iranian hostage crisis and how it set the stage for today’s conflicts
  • How the Iran/Iraq War of the 1980s set the stage for the contemporary situation in the Middle East
  • The 1992 attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires: Iran’s role – and the lethal coverup
  • How Shi’ite eschatology fuels Iran’s bellicosity toward Israel
  • Why the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction doesn’t work against the Iranian mullahs
  • Iran’s horrifying vision for the end of the world – and how it is working actively to bring it about
  • And much more

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Oct 19, 2015 at 12:48 pm

    The flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran has some very vulgar words written between the color bands. The design in the middle in red on white is a reminder of the Allah bloodbath.

    Stomp a footprint for justice on this vile vulgarity.

    • miriamrove says

      Oct 19, 2015 at 1:05 pm

      Hi! Do you know what words they are? m

      • Cecilia Ellis says

        Oct 19, 2015 at 1:27 pm

        Miriam, maybe this will answer your question:

        “Flag of Iran. The tricolor flag was introduced in 1906, but after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 the Arabic words ‘Allahu akbar’ (‘God is great’), written in the Kufic script of the Qur’an and repeated 22 times, were added to the red and green strips where they border the white central strip.”

        https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Iran.svg

        • Mort Roghanchi says

          Oct 19, 2015 at 2:56 pm

          Hi Cecilia! I am not sure if you know that I was born and raised in Iran. Yes I knew that . But the way JB said I thought there was something on it.But thank you. The word Allah Akbar is vulgar. M

        • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

          Oct 19, 2015 at 3:14 pm

          Allah Akbar = Allah is Great

          Allahu = Allah is Greater

          The latter indicates a war between religions, with Islam a corrective belief system predicated on the assumption that other religions, especially Judaism and Christianity wrought mistakes and failed to deliver what Yahweh intended, they even got his name wrong, turns out his personal name is Allah. So the corrective belief system makes it a capital crime not to observe it, making it unique among all religions down through history.

        • Steffen Larsen says

          Oct 19, 2015 at 3:46 pm

          And in fact “Allah is (the) Greatest”.
          Meaning “Allah Alone”, “Allah is (above) Everything”. And everything is judged by the standards and rules of Allah.

        • Zimriel says

          Oct 19, 2015 at 6:33 pm

          Arabic has no distinction between superlative and comparative like Greek, Latin, and English. “Akbar” means both greater and greatest. In context Allahu akbar could mean greater than YOUR God, or greater than everything (=greatest).

        • Cecilia Ellis says

          Oct 19, 2015 at 11:32 pm

          “The word Allah Akbar is vulgar.”

          Hi, Miriam. I did not know that you were born and raised in Iran, but that explains your extensive knowledge routinely exhibited in your posts. I have learned a lot from reading your comments, and I bet I am not the only one. For that alone, thank you. Indeed, I thought you might know what Jay Boo was saying, but I posted the information for those who might not know. By the way, I agree with you and JB: “Allah Akbar is vulgar.”

        • Jay Boo says

          Oct 20, 2015 at 12:15 pm

          Veil of Airahs
          IN THE NAME OF GOD THE COMPASSIONATE THE MERCIFUL
          Iran’s three colors unfurl with praise to God woven between,
          unveiling a red scripted tulip on white, beneath Islamic green.
          This symbolic tulip is Iran’s reminder against all they pretend;
          Stones lifted in God’s name, are sins they yet hope to defend.
          But, “oneness of God” is rejected when religion and vanity collide;
          Worship on display bows not to God, but to the will of one’s pride.

          An Ayatollah aims one verse’s wrath at the peace of another.
          Regime disciples then bury their sin in the shadow of Sharia.
          Praise to Allah is their veiled threat with true intent concealed.
          Insisting to “assist” the Almighty, is their lack of faith revealed.
          Who do they think they are, to overlook such an obvious flaw?
          Their willful delusion assaults truth behind a backward twisted law.
          Ritual violence always feigns such an honorable intent
          to snare justice in its web of blatant pretense.

          Feel the last hope of honor suffocate inside a raised self-righteous clench
          as infected religion surrounds their honor-killing pit with its pious stench.
          The accused sinner is bound, and wrapped in burial white;
          this “gift” for God awaits hands that grip claim to its price.
          Another mother lowered to begin her undignified end.
          As if, honor might rise unaware of what they intend.
          The first rock procured is seduced by a holy book’s deadly embrace.
          Her final breath secured when both are fondled with eager disgrace.
          A knowing hush submits when remnants of truth remain silenced and bound.
          The first stone condemns, freeing others to convict with each hideous sound.
          Faith diseased, the tulip crafted from within sprouts its demonic weed
          as haunting screams cry unheard in the vast emptiness of a vile creed.
          Three colors unleashed, in a hellish pit, with praise to God defiled in between;
          another bloodied white shroud writhing beneath a veil of Islam’s soiled green.

          –The steady entropy of a simple truth untangles the ornate strands of every lie.

  2. Ren says

    Oct 19, 2015 at 1:05 pm

    Thank you Robert for keeping us informed on the despicable world of islam.

  3. Cecilia Ellis says

    Oct 19, 2015 at 1:23 pm

    Robert, this is refreshing news! While I can hardly wait, regrettably, I must. Nevertheless, what you do to educate so many is, in itself, a calling that none other can accomplish as do you. Thank you so very much for your courageous response to that call.

    (As a side note, I really look forward to that chapter on “John Kerry Wins Nobel Peace Prize” for destabilizing the Middle East, enabling the existential threat to Israel, and ensuring the proliferation of nuclear weapons among Muslim-majority countries. Additionally, that Glossary that correctly translates common-usage phrases will be most helpful, such as “Death to America . . . Death to Israel” – Friday prayer service liturgical chants which some Westerners confuse as statements of violent intent, rather than the peaceful invitations to covered-dish, outreach-suppers that they are. ) [Obvious sarcasm]

  4. Linde Barrera says

    Oct 19, 2015 at 2:05 pm

    To Robert Spencer- Congratulations on this worthwhile and very brave undertaking. One goal you may want to have is to get it published at least 1 month or more before the US presidential elections, so the candidates for president can debate you on the future policies of the US with regard to Iran. (You may also want to send them a complimentary copy.) God bless you and yours, Robert Spencer. You are 1 of my heroes.

    • Mo says

      Oct 19, 2015 at 2:33 pm

      @ Linde Barrera

      “One goal you may want to have is to get it published at least 1 month or more before the US presidential elections, so the candidates for president can debate you on the future policies of the US with regard to Iran. (You may also want to send them a complimentary copy.)”

      Great idea! We can’t make anyone read anything, but we can at least give them the opportunity right in their hand! I’m sure these folks spend a lot of time in cars and planes. Who knows? Maybe they’ll read it and their eyes would be opened.

  5. nacazo says

    Oct 19, 2015 at 2:07 pm

    Robert, don’t forget to mention the Iranian lobbyist organization to which the “creative writer in chief” Reza Aslan belongs.

  6. John C. Barile says

    Oct 19, 2015 at 2:22 pm

    The United States’ relationship with the Islamic Republic is truly Orwellian. Depending on the ebb-and-flow of events and the changing faces of statesmen so-called, we are, and ever have been, at peace with Iran–or, in fact, we are and ever have been at war with Iran. The only constant is that Iran is, and always has been at war with us.

  7. Mo says

    Oct 19, 2015 at 2:31 pm

    I am going to need a separate bookshelf just for all of Robert’s books!

  8. andy says

    Oct 19, 2015 at 2:47 pm

    Looking forward to it. I’ve long thought Iran is a core threat and would like to learn more about them.

  9. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Oct 19, 2015 at 3:10 pm

    All I have to do now is write it.

    Don’t be too quick with that. The Persians have big plans, real big. Watch out cuz the day it’s published it could turn out the next day… BOOM. The quiet diesel IDF Navy submarines sitting off of Borazjan in the Gulf or maybe even Amol in the Caspian have but a short lob to Tehran and Qom, but that probably doesn’t matter cuz the Persians *want* to die, that’s what’d make the Twelfth Imam rise up and put the Mullahs in Islamo-Porno heaven Jannat. The Shia are even more understandable than the Sunni, they are people with hair triggers wired up to a singular purpose.

  10. Angemon says

    Oct 19, 2015 at 6:43 pm

    But of all the adversaries of America and rogue states in the world, Iran is the most lethal – and the most mysterious.

    And the most upfront about its intentions – “death to America”, etc.

  11. Zimriel says

    Oct 19, 2015 at 7:00 pm

    The important thing about Iran is that its leaders are self-consciously Shi’ite and non-Arab.

    So it’s a different set of Hadith books, a different set of early Islamic heroes (supporters of the Prophet’s family), certainly a different set of martyrs (these got killed by Umayyad and Kharijite Muslims, often by the same Muslim “martyrs” who were fighting Byzantines and pagans).

    Early Shi’ites thought that the Qur’an was corrupted and proposed alternate verses, but then – early Sunnis had done the same. Nowadays Shi’ism accepts the exact same Qur’an as everyone else. (There’s an ongoing poo fight between Sunnis and Shi’ites as to who was trying to forge what.)

    On topic of apocalypticism, with Sunnism (and Zaydism) I’ve been recommending David Cook’s “Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic”; but for Iranian Shi’ism last I heard the definitive work was still Abdulaziz Sachedina, “Islamic Messianism” (1981).

    I strongly recommend Patricia Crone’s book “Nativist Prophets” as background to how Iran became Shi’ite in the first place. Historically Shi’ite movements arose in Iran (and inland Iraq) because they provided an Islamic justification for not accepting rule by whatever dynasty was then ruling over the Arabs and Syrians. The musawwidun (black-flags) of the 740s were perhaps a movement of *all* the relatives of the Prophet; this was then co-opted by the ‘Abbasid faction, and when they won they purged the (closer) ‘Alid faction. Then Iran went sort-of Sunni, mostly Iranian nationalist: the “Intermezzo”. Then came the Turks and Mongols. The Safavids were Turks at first and perhaps Sunni or Kharijite or even heretical, but settled on “orthodox” ‘Alid Shi’ism (which may or may not have been “orthodox” at the time; the Ismailis might or might not have had a more-popular claim on Shi’ism then).

    I also recommend reaching out to Iranian commenters here. They’ll know (much) more than I do.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 19, 2015 at 7:12 pm

      Zimriel wrote:

      The important thing about Iran is that its leaders are self-consciously Shi’ite and non-Arab.

      So it’s a different set of Hadith books, a different set of early Islamic heroes (supporters of the Prophet’s family), certainly a different set of martyrs…
      …………………….

      This is all true, Zimriel. There are a plethora of small disparities between Shia and Sunni Islam. It’s also true that vicious Muslims are happy to kill each other over these matters.

      Ultimately, though, it isn’t really all that different. It’s adherence to the same vile Qur’an, to the same oppressive and barbaric Shari’ah law, and the same bloody hatred of free Infidels.

      And it represents very much the same threat to us “filthy Kuffar”. Both Shi’ites and their more orthodox Sunni coreligionists want to enslave and murder us.

  12. gravenimage says

    Oct 19, 2015 at 7:05 pm

    Coming in 2016: Robert Spencer’s Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran!
    ……………………………..

    Glad to hear it–it could not be more timely!

    Another point: for me–probably like many people here–watching the “Islamic revolution” there in 1979 was my first experience with the hideous resurgence of Islam–especially pious Muslims imposing Shari’ah law.

    At the time, as a teenager, I found it completely inexplicable–I could not believe they were serious at first. Alas, since then this horrifying phenomenon has become all too common, most recently with the sanguinary Islamic State.

    Also, this was the first Islamic oppression and violence that was openly *Islamic* (without the fig leaf of masquerading as a leftist-style insurgency, as the JIhad against Israel has often done; or of criminal demands, as with airplane hijacking).

    Again, it turned out to be just the first of many.

  13. Pavelina says

    Oct 19, 2015 at 10:52 pm

    You haven’t written it yet? Careful! Now that you’ve revealed your plans, someone might scoop you.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 19, 2015 at 11:12 pm

      I will always admire Robert Spencer’s clear, erudite, and brave analysis, Pavelina–but I wish there *were* more good people writing intelligently about Jihad.

      I think the world could easily use more than one book on the threat of Iran.

  14. Rixx says

    Oct 20, 2015 at 12:02 am

    Hey Robert,
    You must agree that Obama is the worst American President in living memory!!!

  15. Mark A says

    Oct 20, 2015 at 4:42 am

    Thanks for the advance warning Robert.

    A copy will find its way onto my bookshelf.

  16. RonaldB says

    Oct 20, 2015 at 11:02 am

    I’m looking forward to your exposition of the Iranian “revolution” of 1953.

    This, of course, was the CIA-engineered coup against the elected, secular prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh. Mosaddegh was too close to Russia, or may have been planning the nationalization of Iranian oil fields, so the CIA sponsored a coup, resulting in the death of Mosaddegh and many in his cabinet. The CIA also installed the Shah, much more amenable to the US regional interests.

    Recall that Eisenhower was President in 1953.

    The Shah was an “enlightened” secular tyrant who kept a lid on Islamic fundamentalism. However, he went the way of all aging tyrants, and used his secret police as an instrument of terror against his opponents. In other words, the only ones expressing political dissent in Iran (or as exiles, outside of it) were Communists and Islamic fundamentalists.

    The Shah was toppled when Jimmy Carter, a President who combined ignorance, naivety, and cowardice, pulled the rug out from the Shah, who had been a faithful US ally, by withdrawing US support for his domestic government. Carter shared the Communist view (perhaps not by coincidence) that he could work in a coalition with the Islamists.

    It’s rather ironic that the US intervened against a relatively stable, elected government in 1953 to institute a friendly dictator whereas the US intervened in Egypt, Syria, and Libya to depose a relatively stable dictator in recent years. I think it’s a fair conclusion that the long-term interests of the US are best served by absolutely not involving itself in the internal governments of the Middle Eastern countries.

  17. cs says

    Oct 21, 2015 at 8:00 pm

    This one is long overdue, will read as soon as it is published.

  18. sidney penny says

    Oct 28, 2015 at 8:15 pm

    The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran.

    Great for us infidels.

    What would you suggest the Believers guide to Iran is or should be?

  19. sidney penny says

    Oct 28, 2015 at 8:29 pm

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/video-robert-spencer-at-cal-poly-may-13-2014

    Robert you might change the facts in your new lecture.

    See at 159.31 of 205.17

    Every american should watch the last 10 minutes of this video.(that is the question and answer session.)

  20. Anti-Illuminati says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 10:18 am

    I think people here slag Iran a little too casually without really researching the gradual social and cultural changes in the country – I hope Mr Spencer covers these aspects in his upcoming book.

    Ok the leadership are a bunch of religious nutters – we know that.

    But by and large the average Iranian has ideals closer to a westerner than an extremist arab muslim. Do some research on the demographics. The country’s birthrate is just under 2 – one of the lowest in the muslim countries.
    The average age of marriage for men is about 28 and 24 for women – this has increased a lot in the past decades as Iranians are pursuing higher education.
    Divorce rates are also up but this is largely due to a weak economy.
    Women also make up 60% of university students although that doesn’t appear to have really translated into better working prospects for women yet.

    These statistics do give some clues that the society is less fanatical, better educated and less orthodox than the regime would like to think.

    Iran does have problems there is no doubt about that but the its people are arguably the least fanatical of all the muslim countries – It’s hard to get good data on this but there are suggestions that mosque attendance rates are down. More importantly though is that the Iranians in the Western countries don’t seem to be causing terrorism or jihad – you only read about saudi, egyptian, syrians etc….
    My gut feeling is that the US should tread carefully with Iran – look the average Iranian has a right to be a muslim but they don’t seem to be taking it to fanatical extremes like the Wahhabi Arabs – bombing them back to the stone age as many we advocate would likely be counter-productive, and drive them towards poverty and instabilty that would create the climate for the religious regime to clamp down. Most Iranians don’t like Arabs anyway and are proud of their Persian heritage. I can’t see the country becoming a secular state anytime soon but by and large the average Iranian isn’t interested in Jihad.

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