This is a surprise? Not to anyone who has been watching Iran closely. Has the now thoroughly McMastered Trump administration completely retreated from reality regarding Iran?
“U.S. says Iran shows ‘true colors’ by restoring Hamas ties,” by Michelle Nichols, Reuters, August 31, 2017 (thanks to Lookmann):
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Thursday Iran had shown its “true colors” by restoring ties with Palestinian militant group Hamas and must be held to account by the international community.
The new leader of Hamas in Gaza said on Monday that Tehran was again its biggest provider of money and arms after years of tension over the civil war in Syria. Hamas had angered Iran by refusing to support its ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in the six-year-old civil war.
Haley described the Hamas leader’s statement as a “stunning admission.” Iran is subject to an arms embargo – with exceptions granted only in cases when it has received U.N. Security Council approval for imports or exports.
“Iran is showing its true colors. Iran must decide whether it wants to be a member of the community of nations that can be expected to take its international obligations seriously or whether it wants to be the leader of a jihadist terrorist movement. It cannot be both,” Haley said in a statement.
“It’s long past time for the international community to hold Iran to the same standard that all countries who actually value peace and security are held to,” she said.
Neither Hamas nor Iran have disclosed the full scale of Tehran’s backing. But regional diplomats have said Iran’s financial aid for the Islamist movement was dramatically reduced in recent years and directed to the Qassam Brigades rather than to Hamas’ political institutions….
moeped says
These are the ties that bind. They will never go away and we should all know that by now.
John Forbes says
THIS STUPID CONTINUAL REFUSAL TO BELIEVE THAT IRAN WANTS TO DESTROY ISRAEL WITH A NUCLEAR STRIKE IS GOING TO LEAD TO A VERY NASTY OUTCOME !
IRAN HAS NEVER MOVED FROM THIS STANCE & HAS NO INTENTION OF STOPPING ANYTHING !
MCMASTER NEEDS TO BE FIRED INSTANTLY ! HE WILL LEAD THE US TO DISASTER & I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED THAT TRUMP HAS LEFT THIS OBAMA/HILLARY SUPPORTER IN PLACE !
IRAN HAS NOT CHANGED AT ALL & HAS NO INTENTION OF CHANGING !
Wellington says
“Iran is showing its true colors. Iran must decide whether it wants to be a member of the community of nations…….”
Beyond dismal. If this kind of pablum is the best you can do against an iniquitous regime like that of Iran, give it up.
I don’t want a Haley at the UN. I want a Bolton.
mariam rove says
I don’t want a Haley at the UN. I want a Bolton.
Well said W! Besides their true color showed up in 1979 when they first came into power. M
Carolyne says
I am a great admirer of Ambassador Bolton. In a perfect world, he would be our UN Ambassador. The world is far from perfect and we must be thankful for the small advances we make after eight years of falling into the hands of Islamists.
mortimer says
Haley is from a Sikh family that is well aware of Muslim persecution of their community from its inception. She is using diplomatic language required by the job.
Wellington says
I’ve gotten rather tired of diplomatic language, mortimer. And my understanding of Haley is that she is of the school of thinking that Islam is just fine, that it’s only that it has been hijacked by some extremists, blah, blah, blah. I don’t believe she is very knowledgeable about Islam.
mortimer says
So much for the disagreement between Sunnis and Shi’ites… their grudge match ends as soon as they have a common enemy.
We should never forget that 9.3% of the Islamic primary, foundational scriptures are Jew hatred. By comparison only 7% of Mein Kampf is Jew hatred. Islam contains much more Jew hatred than Nazism.
When Muslims go to hate fests such as Al Quds Day, they go as a family to hate Jews without any shame or self-conscious about their bigotry.
Iran’s mullahocracy is expressing pure, traditional, canonical Islam found in Islam’s primary source texts and in the canonized commentaries and authentic fatwas of Islamic sheikhs.
Maimonides, a renowned philosopher and physician, and one of the greatest of Jewish sages, experienced the Almohad persecutions, and had to flee Cordoba with his entire family in 1148. Maimonides had no good words for Islam:
“… on account of our sins God has cast us into the midst of this people, the nation of Ishmael [that is, Muslims], who PERSECUTED US SEVERELY, and who devise ways to harm us and to debase us…. No NATION HAS EVER DONE MORE HARM TO ISRAEL. None has matched it in debasing and humiliating us. None has been able to reduce us as they have…. We have borne their imposed degradation, their lies, their absurdities, which are beyond human power to bear…. We have done as our sages of blessed memory have instructed us, bearing the lies and absurdities of Ishmael…. In spite of all this, we are not spared from the ferocity of their wickedness and their outbursts at any time. On the contrary, the more we suffer and choose to conciliate them, the more they choose to act belligerently toward us…”
Venatus says
Qatar harbors Hamas & MB leaders, while also maintaining alliances with Iran and with Turkey.
And they’re supposedly going to help us stop funding of terrorism?
So, in light of this story, how’s that Tillerson MOU thing working out…now that Iran admits (again) to financially supporting Hamas, while Qatar continues protecting the leaders of Hamas, not to mention the MB.
Why should the Gulf States, who have been pressuring Qatar to cut ties with the MB (=Hamas) trust the State Department?
Now we’re seeing why the MOU was (and will be) such a misguided disaster…
Matthieu Baudin says
“…We should never forget that 9.3% of the Islamic primary, foundational scriptures are Jew hatred. By comparison only 7% of Mein Kampf is Jew hatred. Islam contains much more Jew hatred than Nazism…”
I’m not sure it’s that useful to hang these precise percentages of Jew Hatred on these texts. But there are some parallels between the style and tone of the Koran and Mein Kampf and the later, which I read years before the Koran, struck me as quasi religious and this was also the case with the revolutionary Marxist writings that I studied. The Koran can fairly be characterised as an early forerunner of the totalitarian ideologies that plagues civilisation in modern times.
Aussie Infidel says
Matthieu, It is still useful to be able to quote these numbers to apologists for Islam; and also as you point out, that ‘Jew hatred’ in Islam was one of the factors which inspired Hitler’s Nazism, and why it features in Mein Kampf. Islam is the forerunner of Marxism and Nazism, and worse than either of these two evil ideologies, because it is a toxic mix of both politics and religion.
Carolyne says
This statement by our UN Representative is correct. I don’t understand why it should be criticized here. Perhaps it is not as soon as some would like, but there is no denying that it is the truth and that it is the exact opposite of anything Hillary Clinton would do. This administration is criticized even when it does the right thing. Pick away at it and it will be defeated.
jewdog says
I predict that Nikki’s days are numbered as UN rep. She will be dragged under by the swamp creatures. Hope I’m wrong.
Walter Sieruk says
The Islamic agenda of many Islamic terror organizations as Hamas:which has strong ties to Iran, and Hezbollah, P.I.J. etc. of destroying the State of Israel and replacing it with an Islamic “state” is already as lost cause. This is because those Islamic groups with that goal are all fated to lose in the end. For that agenda of those Jihad terror entities are greatly overruled by the God of the Bible. For the Jewish people have every right to all of that land, including the West Bank, by Divine Right. As seen, for example, in Genesis 28:13-15. 35:48, 49. Psalms 105:7-11. 135:4. Furthermore, the Jewish people should also have that land by historic rights. As found in First Kings 4:20,21,24,25. 8:55,56.
In conclusion, the jihadists members of Hezbollah, Hamas, P.I.J. and other like-minded Islamic organizations have joined a lost cause and a bad cause.
It may even rightfully be said that the jihadists of such Islamic entities have taken up a stand for a bad cause. This is a bad cause to the extreme. The Bible instructs in much wisdom, as in “Do not stand up for a bad cause.” Ecclesiastes 8:3. [N.I.V.]