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Robert Spencer in Breitbart: Four Reasons Why Iran Is Worse than the Islamic State

Jul 14, 2016 11:05 am By Robert Spencer

Over at Breitbart I explain why Iran is a greater threat than the Islamic State:

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The Islamic State (ISIS) is a gang of thugs who glory in their sadism, videoing their beheadings of their captives, taunting gays with tweets of #LoveWins accompanying photos of their executions of gays, and boasting of their plans to bring about imminent mass murder and destruction inside the United States.

The Islamic Republic of Iran, on the other hand, is a major player in Middle Eastern and global politics, courted by the Obama administration and the recipient of its largesse as sanctions have been lifted.

Yet as I show in my new book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran, although ISIS is the object of the world’s scorn and horror and Iran is accorded respect and accommodation, in numerous important ways, Iran is worse, and a more significant global threat, than ISIS.

  1. Iran has a nuclear program. The Islamic State would love to get its hands on nuclear material and construct a bomb. By contrast, due to Barack Obama’s disastrous deal with the Islamic Republic, Iran is well on its way to doing so. Even if it abides by all the terms of the nuclear agreement, within ten years, all restraints on its activity will have expired, and it will be free to construct as many nuclear bombs it can afford (and can pay for with the billions Obama has given to Iran in sanctions relief). Given Iranian officials’ oft-repeated boasts that Israel will soon be destroyed, and that the United States will be as well, this prospect is truly chilling.
  1. Iran funds and controls a global network of jihad terror organizations. While the Islamic State’s claim to constitute the restored caliphate – the sole government to which Muslims owe allegiance, according to Sunni Muslim theology – has won it the allegiance of tens of thousands of Muslims (and several existing jihad terror groups) worldwide, Iran already has that to which the Islamic State aspires: a network of jihad terror organizations with a truly global reach, ready to do Iran’s bidding up to and including the killing of its perceived enemies.

This network’s foremost member is Hizballah, which is active not only in Lebanon but in South America’s Triple Frontier region, as well as in Mexico, where there is evidence that it has trained and collaborated with drug cartels. Other members include the Sunni jihad groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as well as the Houthis in Yemen and the Iraqi Shi’ite group Kata’ib Hizballah.

Iran doesn’t work only through jihad terror groups. It has funded the Spanish left-wing populist party, Podemos, and in July 2012, Hamid Mohammadi, the Iranian cultural affairs counselor at the Iranian Embassy in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, gave an extraordinarily revealing Farsi-language interview intimating that Iranians in Canada had “preserved their strong attachments and bonds to their homeland” and should strive to “occupy high-level key positions” so that they could “be of service to our beloved Iran.” Mohammadi’s words sparked an investigation of espionage and subversion in the Iranian embassy in Ottawa that ultimately led to its being shut down.

  1. Iran’s Shi’ite eschatology could make it not just willing, but eager to use nuclear weapons. Shi’ite Iran awaits the return to earth of the Twelfth Imam, the mythical savior figure who will conquer and Islamize the world. One of his predecessors, the sixth Imam, Jafar Sadiq, once prophesied that the Imam Mahdi, or Twelfth Imam, would come at a time when the Shi’ites were experiencing persecution to a terrible, unprecedented degree – indeed, he would not return until, said Jafar, “two-thirds [of the] population of the world is not destroyed.” Presumably, then, the Twelfth Imam will return when one-third of the world’s population has been destroyed.

 Former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who remains influential in the Iranian government, boasted in December 2001 that a nuclear bomb “would not leave any thing [sic] in Israel but the same thing would just produce damages in the Muslim world.” It could also, with millions of Muslim dead, move the Twelfth Imam to return, to put a stop to this unprecedented persecution of the Muslims.

This could mean that the Iranians might want to nuke Israel in order to draw retaliatory nukes that would induce the return of the Twelfth Imam – and no concessions from Obama or his successor would dissuade them.

  1. Iran was involved in 9/11. The Islamic State has inspired Muslims in the U.S. to kill Americans, but so has Iran, with a much more macabre record of success than ISIS has yet amassed. Although its involvement in the 9/11 jihad plot has received very little notice, it was so unmistakable that in 2010, a federal judge determined that Iran, Hizballah, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security, and other Iranian government departments, as well as the Ayatollah Khamenei himself and former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani were all directly implicated in Iranian efforts to aid al-Qaeda in its 9/11 plot.

That puts the blood of nearly 3,000 Americans on the Iranian mullahs’ hands. And if the mullahs get their way, they will be following up that carnage with many more like it.

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Filed Under: Featured, Iran, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Robert Spencer Tagged With: Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Breitbart, Hamid Mohammadi


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  1. Mong says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 11:20 am

    We all know what’s going on here apart from our so called leaders. Why can’t they challenge this stuff and keep things together? Give up the endless and fruitless appeasement? But they won’t, they’ll keep pretending that everything’s just fine as we in the real world gradually slide into our pervert uncles old bent socks, taking a resentful drag on the old mans pipe of puff. We must feel the fog all up inside our stupid faces. Hopefully new leaders will get in power and take control of this situation and the people who mean us harm will have nothing but bad breakfast in a stiff room. Peace out xxx

  2. Amy Soldier says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 11:30 am

    I cannot recall reading of any suicide bomber attacks in Iran. ??

    • Angemon says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 11:47 am

      That’s a perk of being in charge of worldwide terrorist networks – you can have them blow up some place away from you…

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 11:46 am

    Just two reasons alone why the Islamic tyranny of Iran is such a monstrous evil. First, the founder of this Islamic regime ,,Ayatollah Khomeini obtain all the power by deception ,false promises and outright lies. Second , the heinous Islamic dictatorship is extremely demonic in it’s spiteful with much vicious hate for females,.both girls and women. So to explain in more detail is the following This tyrannical Islamic regime in Iran that so falsely and inappropriately has the word “republic” in its title. It should be made known that this called the “Iranian Revolution” turned out to be a hoax. Ayatollah Khomeini before achieving power in Iran in his lying and deceptions presented himself to the Iranian people as if he was someone who would be in power would give freedom to the people of Iran with any tyranny. The reality turned out to be just the opposite. As explained by a former Muslim as well as a man who took part in this Islamic “revolution “ ,who is now a Christian informs the reader of his book that “Prior to the Revolution no one ever imagined that other political parties would be suppressed under the rule of Ayatollah Khomeini. He had promised that all groups would have freedom to run their own campaigns after the Revolution. He even stated that governing system would be based on the decision of the people via a referendum. He never spoke of a system that would be governed by Islam. He even made clear that mullahs would not take part in any political activities, and that they would only be allowed to teach spirituality… Immediately after the Revolution, mullahs rushed into government offices to occupy the most important political l positions, making it difficult for the interim secular government to function … The mullah’s occupation of position was exactly the opposite to what the Ayatollah Khomeini had promised before the Revolution.”. [1] In other words, the insincere, disingenuous and outright lying Ayatollah Khomeini made many bogus promise he really had no intention of keeping. His lying deception worked, for he achieved great power in Iran. Furthermore, of the many heinously evils outcome s of that Islamic “revolution” is the extremely cruel, brutal and demonic misogyny of this hideous Islamic regime. Not only against women but even young girls. As explained by a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who defected to the West and how now lives in America his book also informs the reader about the malicious and murderous affront girls in Iran’s Evin prison which reads that those in power ,the “paraded teenage girls in front in front of me as they led them to their deaths. These girls were barely out of their childhood, barely old enough to think of themselves, much less form thoughts against the state. They knew nothing about the machinations of politics. They were innocent in every sense of the word and certainty innocent of trumped –up charges that led to their imprisonment. Yet they suffered fates too brutal for even the most vicious criminal. ..Their few remaining moments of life had been filled with the level of abuse that few can imagine…The author further states “They tortured and killed young girls, in God’s name and before their execution they raped them because they believed that if a girl dies virgin, she will go to heaven, and they wanted to deny them this reward.” [2] This is as malice -filled and viciously wicked as can possibly be. This, very much, reflects the Wisdom found in the Bible which in Proverbs 15:15. For it reads “All the days of the oppressed are wretched. “ and likewise Proverbs 29:2. Which teaches “When the wicked rule, the people groan. “ [N.I.V.]

    [1] ISLAM THE HOUSE I LEFT BEHIND by Daniel Shayesteh . Pages 90, 91
    [2] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili. Pages 2,3. 117.

  4. Krishan Bhattacharya says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 1:26 pm

    OK. But the question I want answered is: why is Iran worse than Pakistan?

    Also, why does Breitbart employ an Islamic supremacist, Allum Bokhari?

  5. Mirren10 says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 3:25 pm

    ”Also, why does Breitbart employ an Islamic supremacist, Allum Bokhari?”

    I’ve read some of his articles. He doesn’t strike me as an Islamic supremacist. Do you have any evidence that he is ?

  6. Allan Mandrowski says

    Jul 15, 2016 at 4:51 am

    I’m sorry but it is simply not true that Iran is scarier than ISIS. It is Sunni Saudi Arabia that is scariest of them all and that is because they fund madrassas worldwide that instigate muslims to commit senseless atrocities. 99% of the terrorist attacks that include suicide bombings and murdering infidels wholesale is Sunni inspired.

    Iran is bad, but it is nowhere as bad or barbaric as Sunni ISIS / Saudi alliance.

  7. UriahB says

    Jul 15, 2016 at 6:34 am

    Both are simply different strains of the same disease. And its the ‘infidel’ who is the common enemy. I’m getting tired of terms like lone wolf, existential, etc. Both entities are sworn to invade kill and conquer. As RS aptly pointed out, we are, now, and have been, at war, for a long long time. Lone wolves, lone countries. What the hell is the difference. And we have no leadership here. God help us!

  8. pedro portugal says

    Jul 15, 2016 at 11:08 am

    That is obvious.
    Isis is a ragtag militia.
    Iran is empire armed with huge missiles and on the verge of adquiring nuclear weapons.
    Iran is behind hazbollah.

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