Jihadist propaganda brazenly ascends again. This time, it’s the rogue state of Iran accusing the US of backing the Islamic State and the “Zionist regime”, in retaliation for the State Department citing Iran as the world’s biggest state-sponsor of terrorism.
Four years ago, Canada took a sensible lead: it listed Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism and shut down its embassy in Tehran. Not long before, it had been revealed that Iran was using its embassy in Canada to mobilize Islamic Republic loyalists to infiltrate the Canadian Government and attack the United States.
Unfortunately, this past winter, the Liberal government decided to lift virtually all sanctions against Iran and is considering re-opening its embassy in Tehran.
The views of many, such as Thomas Juneau — who is an associate professor at the University of Ottawa and a former Mid-East analyst for the Canadian Armed Forces — reflect a certain type of Western liberal mindset that allows radicalism to flourish. Juneau told CBC News that he is “of the school of thought that you talk to bad guys” and that “it’s completely in Canada’s interests to have diplomatic relations with Iran”. He adds that “all our European partners do”. Perplexing that Juneau would attempt to forward such an approach with reference to Iran; and have Juneau et al looked at the state of Europe lately?
Even CNN (usually regarded as leftist) released an article last year entitled “Fighting radical Islam: Why Europe should move to war footing”, in which it stated that Europe “must first understand its enemy in radical Islam, then understand how it spreads in our continent — only then can it find a solution to destroying the threat……They say that one can’t fight an ideology. However, this ideology is armed with guns, knives and explosives and if it is driven by people then it surely can be fought, and must ever be so.”
So perhaps Juneau et al actually think that if Western officials “talk to the bad guys” in Iran — who insist that they are engaged in a struggle against “occupation” — the Iranians might stop: their human rights abuses, supporting conflicts in Syria and Iraq, give up on their nuclear ambitions against Israel, stop funding Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and stop killing Israelis and other innocents, and even their own fellow Muslims. A little talking to the bad guys might even curb propaganda.

“Iran blasts US report on terrorism, saying DC backs ISIS, ‘Zionists’”, by Ariel Ben Solomon, Jerusalem Post, June 5, 2016:
Iran rejected terrorism charges raised against it in an annual US State Department report, Iranian media outlets reported on Sunday, with a top official accusing Washington of backing Islamic State and the “Zionist regime.”
“Today, the US is using Islamic State as an instrument and defends the Zionist regime, but puts Iran on the list of terrorists because the Islamic Republic has stood against and confronted their main strategy and hegemony,” Ali Shamkhani told reporters in Tehran on Sunday.
“But this will not affect the Islamic Republic of Iran’s policies in defending the regional states, and it shows the West’s double-standard policy on terrorism,” he added, according to Iran’s Fars News Agency.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari was quoted by the state news agency IRNA as saying: “The legitimate struggle of nations that are occupied… are not examples of terrorism, and such charges in the American report are rejected.”
Ansari in turn condemned “US military interference and destructive support for terrorist groups in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Yemen,” the agency said.
As in previous years, the State Department report cited Iran as the world’s biggest state-sponsor of terrorism, saying Tehran supported conflicts in Syria and Iraq, and was implicated in violent Shi’ite opposition raids in Bahrain….
duh swami says
They don’t talk about Mahdi or the ‘Prophet” any more…
When was the last time you heard a TV/cable talking head mention Mahouned? Most Tv viewers don’t know who Mahdi is…
When was the last time that Jasser, for example, the reformer who regularly appears on FOX say anything about Mohammad at all?
Is he embarrassed, ashamed? Mahdi needs chaos and the Mullah’s seek to provide it while pretending to be a victim…
Angemon says
Of course they did. Admit nothing, deny everything, make counter-accusations – that’s how you defend the indefensible.
mortimer says
Iran’s intrigues are bankrupting their country. The people hate the mullahocracy. It is inevitable they will take revenge when the day of reckoning arrives.
Jay Boo says
The MAJORITY of Iranians still choose to live in a sharia based theocracy.
Jay Boo says
Off Topic
While exploring the Google translate link given in the Swedish Asylum article I came across:
Obama hands corrupt Ukraine another BILLION dollars …$$$$
http://antiwar.com/blog/2016/06/04/obama-hands-corrupt-ukraine-another-billion-us-dollars/
FuturePresident says
Your time is coming Iran.
Florida Jim says
Iran and all mjuslims from Arafat on have picked at every American scab and laughed at how they were tormenting “the great satan” Obama has learned this from his muslim friends and mentors so he does it to Republicans, Christians, Taxpayers, and those he consider beneath him , all not of his party.Obama will now start campaigning for Hillary and telling lie after lie as he did in the Elkhart, Indiana speech where he , not Governor Pence, took credit for Elkhart’s boom despite every law and regulation Obama put in place to halt any progress so he, Obama, could claim a disaster and declare martial law as he dreams of doing.Here is what FDR’s Sec. Of Treasury broke to a nation about FDR’s massive failure:
in “New Deal or Raw Deal?” Burton Folsom quotes Morgenthau, testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee in May of 1939, the FDR ally did not sugarcoat it: “We are spending more money than we have ever spent before and it does not work. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. We have never made good on our promises. I say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started and an enormous debt to boot.”
Because democrats control universities everywhere these facts never were covered in any history class since. Obama will try to do likewise as he started in Elkhart with that massive lie. The media should follow him and Trump should mock his every lie from now on as well as Hillary’s.
Carolyne says
I, too, believe that Obama will use a pretense of some kind to declare martial law and will then be able to cancel the forthcoming election; Especially if it becomes clear that Trump would win the Presidential election. He will then proceed with the Muslim dreams of a world-wide Caliphate as has been his goal, IMO, for many years.