I appeared on CBN yesterday to discuss my new book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran and other aspects of the global jihad threat, in a wide-ranging interview here.
“Why This Terrorist Powerhouse of the World Is America’s Greatest Enemy,” CBN News, September 8, 2016:
Who is our most dangerous enemy? If you think it’s ISIS, think again, says New York Times bestselling author and director of Jihad Watch, Robert Spencer.
He says Iran poses a greater threat to Israel, the United States, and the West, and he explains why in his latest book called, The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran. Here are just a few reasons:
Iran is the terrorist powerhouse of the world – made all the more dangerous by the disastrous “nuclear deal” that barely restricts that nation’s nuclear ambitions.
- The Iranian government is an open enemy of the United States – and of anyone who dissents from Shia Islam.
- Iran confronts U.S. Navy ships in the Persian Gulf “on a near daily basis.”
- It executes more of its citizens than any other nation.
- It is a country torn by hypocrisy – lectured by mullahs, and brutally enforced Islamic religious laws, but rife with alcoholism.
- Once America’s ally, Iran now claims leadership of the global jihad, and the ayatollahs’ aim is nothing less than world conquest for Islam.
In his extraordinary new book, Spencer reveals:
- How the Iranian “nuclear deal” is sheer capitulation to the mullahs, allowing Iran to inspect its own facilities and pursue nuclear weapons,
- Iran’s long-standing support for terrorists, including shocking evidence that Iran helped plan the 9/11 attacks,
- Why Iran wants nuclear weapons — clue: it’s not about deterrence,
- American diplomatic folly — why the Obama administration has grossly underestimated the Iranian threat,
- A new grand strategy: how Iran’s Shi’ite terrorism might be contained and its threat to the United States reduced.
The Islamic Republic is already at war with America. If we refuse to recognize that fact, Spencer says we are only falling prey to the mullahs’ campaign of duplicity.
The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran exposes the true nature of the threat, lays out what America must do to defeat it, and gives you all the information you need about America’s least understood yet possibly most lethal foe.

Tracy Hubbard says
I cannot wait to read this new book! Just finishing up the ISIS volume!
Denny Abrahamsson says
Looks like the video is censored
Keys says
Can not get to video.
Robert Spencer says
Yes, the code for getting the video here isn’t working, so I have substituted a link to the CBN page on which the video appears.
miriamrove says
Yes. I just saw the video and it is great. M
Keys says
The video can be accessed on cbn.com in “Why This Terrorist Powerhouse of the World Is America’s Greatest Enemy”
It is an excellent, as usual, approximately 13 minute interview.
http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/video
billybob says
Excellent interview. The host is such a nice, warm hearted individual.
mortimer says
All the ayatollahs take post-doctoral diplomas in taqiyya after completing PhDs in taqiyya.
JOSE SEGURA says
I THINK THE MAIN PROBLEM ARE ZIONISM AND Wahhabism NOT IRAN, I DON´T LIKE ISLAM, I DON´T THINK IT IS A RELIGION OF PEACE. ISLAM HATES CHRISTIANISM BUT JUDAISM HATES IT THE MORE AND IT HATES IT SINCE ITS BEGINNING. JEWISH TALMUD IS MORE INTOLERANT THAN THE QURAN. AIPAC AND FANATIC CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS WANTS YOUR COUNTRY TO ATTACK IRAN. THEY DON´T CARE IF THAT PROVOQUES THE WW3.OTAN AND ISRAEL AND THE ARAB COUNTRIES IN THE ARABIC PENINSULA HAVE CREATED ISIS TO DESTROY SYRIA A LAICAL GOVERNMENT WHO PROTECTS CHRISTIANS AND ANOTHER MINORITIES.ZIONISTS ARE THE ONES WHO RULE YOUR COUNTRY, THEY HAVE THE MEDIA, THE POWER TO CREATE MONEY, THEY FINANCE AND HAVE FINANCED MANY WARS TO PRESERVE AND EXTEND THEIR POWER.
Edna says
Jos segura,really the only people who you want to blame is jewish people, ignorance is a bliss, you always love to find the easy way out don’t you in your mind nobody is to be blamed only a tiny little country Israel or zionists
Angemon says
How is “wahhabism” different from mainstream Iranian shiite islam? For example, regarding the rights of women, religious minorities, homosexuals and apostates.
John Stefan says
And also the way to heaven is on the list. Shiite and “wahhabism”, as many false religions, teach that the way to heaven is by your own good works. Do enough of them and the right kind of works and you have it made. Jesus’ work of redemption for the sins of the world is totally ignored.
eduardo odraude says
Segura you are wrong. You forget that Christ and his first disciples were Jews. You are also wrong in your unfavorable comparison of Judaism to Islam. Islam is fundamentally an aggressive, expansionist, totalitarian ideology with a plan for world domination. Islam’s golden rule operates only among male Muslims. The theology in Judaism and Christianity is radically different from the totalitarianism of Allah.
In Islam, the emphasis is on Allah as a commander, a God of fiat. In Christianity, the greater emphasis is on God as a creator who works and must even rest after working.
In Islam, the Qur’an denies that human beings are made in the image of Allah. In Judaism and Christianity, we are made in God’s image, and partly because of that, independent conscience and independent reason are not excluded for Jews and Christians, whereas for religious Muslims reason and conscience are permitted to operate only within the bounds set down by the Qur’an and the example of Muhammad.
Another example: the Jewish and Christian Bible portrays a God who makes covenants — contracts — with human beings — there is a kind of equality implied there, and we are conceived as God’s children. The Qur’an however says that Allah is not a “father” and has no children. Muslims are conceived solely as Allah’s servants or slaves.
As historian Stephen Morillo, who is neither Christian nor Jewish, argued, one of the reasons Europe evolved toward democracy was that the biblical paradigm showed God putting contracts — free agreement — at the center of the divine relationship to humanity. Thus even under European feudalism, the oppressed serfs had a contractual relation with the feudal lords, and because of that feudalism could evolve over time to something better.
Again, if you think Judaism is worse than Islam, you ignore the fact that, compared to the Islamic population of the world, the Jewish population earns per person literally about ten thousand times the number of Nobel prizes in the sciences, economics, medicine, mathematics. The Islamic population has about 100 times the population of the Jews, yet the Jews have earned something like 100 times the number of Nobels in the sciences. So just multiply 100 x 100 = 10,000 times more Nobels per person.
But even if one, against all the evidence, accepted your claim that Judaism is worse than Islam, one would still have to recognize that the Jews have about 15 million people in the whole world, and they do not seek to make converts. They do not seek to put the whole world under some kind of totalitarian religious law, and even if they did seek that, they couldn’t do it, as they only have 15 million. The leadership of Muslims’ 1.5 BILLION people does seek to impose Islamic law on the whole world, and may well destroy freedom in parts of Europe in the next generation or two.
Your post is completely in error.
marc says
@JOSE SEGURA, lay off the all caps, it is considered rude, you are a guest here and can easily be removed, btw, there is a little spittle rolling down your chin there, try not foaming at the mouth so much.
When you calm down, actually take a look at who owns the media and the banks, because it’s mostly Arab and Chinese.
Of course Israel wants everyone to attach iran, they would be stupid not to, iran has made it quite clear they want Israel gone.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Why doesn’t all this come out?
The reason is that people like Pat Robertson have failed to do their duty and read the Islamic scriptures. It’s a little late 15 yrs after 9/11 and after all that’s happened since to be shocked and surprised to learn what Islam really is.
eduardo odraude says
Interviewer and interviewee did a great job.
linnte says
Mr. Spencer, the more I hear you the more I am amazed at your dedication and knowledge. Thank you!
sidney penny says
The best part is at 914.
the big lie of multiculturalism,all cultures are equal and good so we can’t question it,that is their culture.
Well Robert,do you then say the same thing about religions,(faith), the big lie of all religions are equal and good so we cannot question it, that is their religion( faith)
The solutions at 929 are so common sense
sidney penny says
He destroyed……..Is it going to happen in our time again?
http://koenraadelst.blogspot.com.au/2016_08_01_archive.html
Let’s cut short all the circumlocutions, let us cut out all the modern propaganda, and look at what the primary sources say.
We can summarize Mohammed’s life story in a single sentence: he destroyed an existing pluralistic society (Polytheists, Sabians, Zoroastrians, Christians, Jews and Hanifs) and replaced it with a monolithic Islamic dictatorship.
That is what the Islamic source texts themselves say. It is the height of ridiculousness that the multiculturalists in Europe, like their “secularist” counterparts in India, hobnob with Mohammed’s followers.
Florida Jim says
How do we get everyone to pay attention to the threat worldwide of Islam and anyone following Caliphate, Sharia, Jihad, Dhimmitude, Taqiyya and beheading of enemies to earn paradise?
ExMuslim says
Nice interview, great job Robert.