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Iran’s top dog: Trump “must realize that these extreme and psychotic​ ​episodes won’t be left without a response​”

Jan 10, 2018 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

The Iranian leadership, like al-Qaeda and other jihad groups, has always showed a canny ability to play on far-Left talking points to try to sway public opinion in the U.S. Now, with the Left obsessed with spurious concerns over President Trump’s mental stability, the Ayatollah Khamenei is warning that there will be a response to Trump’s “psychotic episodes.” This is an effective way for Khamenei to get the Democratic Party on board, as if he didn’t have it already (of course, the same can be said of the Republican establishment as well).

“Iranian leader vows response to Trump’s ‘psychotic episodes,’” by Mark Moore, New York Post, January 9, 2018:

Iran’s leading mullah blasted an “unstable” President Trump​ ​for grandstanding when he tweeted support for protesters rallying against the government during days of unrest​ that rocked the Islamic Republic.​

“​T​his man who sits at the​ ​head of the White House – although, he seems to be a very​ ​unstable man – he must realize that these extreme and psychotic​ ​episodes won’t be left without a response​,​”​ ​Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeted​ on Tuesday, according to Reuters.​

​Trump expressed solidarity with the anti-government protesters after rallies against high food prices turned into demonstrations against the unelected clerical leaders.

​​“The people of Iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt Iranian regime,” ​Trump posted on Twitter last week. “​… ​The people have little food, big inflation and no human rights. The U.S. is watching!”

The Iranian leader in his comments appeared to be taking a cue from a best-selling tell-all about the Trump White House that characterized the president and his administration as “an idiot surrounded by clowns.”

Trump took to Twitter over the weekend to boast of his intellect.

“​Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart,” he wrote on the social messaging site​ Saturday​. “I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star………to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius….and a very stable genius at that!”

Khamenei blamed the United States, Britain and Israel for instigating the protests in an effort to overthrow the government — an effort he said has been thwarted.

“Once again, the nation tells the US, Britain, and those who seek to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran from abroad that ‘you’ve failed, and you will fail in the future, too,’” Khamenei tweeted.

​The powerful Revolutionary Guard on Sunday declared that its forces had ​put an end to the protests that stretched for more than a week and resulted in the deaths of 22 people and the arrests of hundreds.

Khamenei said the protesters were “playing with fireworks,” but admitted citizens have the right to air their concerns — a startling statement from a leader who usually takes a hard-line approach to dissent….

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  1. concerned canadian says

    Jan 10, 2018 at 12:04 pm

    yes ayatollah num nuts.you head on a platter
    thats what will happen hero

    • Andy says

      Jan 10, 2018 at 3:19 pm

      Ayatollah Khamenei is FAKE NEWS!

    • J D S says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 2:28 pm

      The HEAD tweeter in Iran needs to loose his HEAD.

  2. Kessler says

    Jan 10, 2018 at 12:09 pm

    Well bring it on then
    Trump is ready

  3. jewdog says

    Jan 10, 2018 at 12:17 pm

    Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. The inmates are in charge of the asylum in Iran.

  4. mortimer says

    Jan 10, 2018 at 12:24 pm

    Mohammed indulged himself in PSYCHOLOGICAL PROJECTION and his followers must imitate Mohammed.

    Psychological projection is the technique of defending oneself against the accusation of having unpleasant, immature or neurotic impulses by denying their existence in oneself, while attributing them to others. For example, a person who is rude may accuse other people of being rude.

    Iran’s leaders are living in their fantasy castle in Spain while they steal the wealth of the country and put BILLIONS into their own pockets.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 10, 2018 at 4:18 pm

      True, Mortimer–projection is exactly what is going on here.

    • Joe says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 8:03 am

      Projection is a valid motive, and so is stupidity. If the mullah can’t understand Trump’s logic, he would think Trump is crazy. It is like Merkel’s police calling jihad a psychiatric problem, when in fact, the motive is quite clear. The police seem to practice ritual lobotomy, because they no nothing about the jihad of a billion or so people.

  5. mortimer says

    Jan 10, 2018 at 12:28 pm

    Agree with this point. Islam is filled with absurdities which a rational person cannot accept, such as Koran 18.86, which clearly teaches that the sun sets in a muddy spring and that therefore, the earth is flat.

    Islam’s fantastic absurdities require living in a delusion that is self-hypnotized. It is close to psychosis, but it is definitely divorced from the real, observable world. Islam is a delusional fantasy-land.

    • Westman says

      Jan 10, 2018 at 2:13 pm

      It also has Dhul-Qarnayn(a figure based on Alexander The Great) as the figure who traps Gog and Maygog with a mountain-sized metal barrier. Truly absurd.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 10, 2018 at 4:17 pm

      And yet, if Islam was only guilty of such absurdities it would be no worse than several other cults (Xenu, anybody)? It is Islam’s savagery that is the real problem.

      • christianblood says

        Jan 10, 2018 at 6:55 pm

        gravenimage

        If that is islamic savagery, then why America loves Saudi Arabia, the birth place of islam, the ideological source of the violent Takfiri jihadist islam, and the perpetrators of 9/11 attacks???

    • Garfield says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 6:29 pm

      Yeah….strange how this flat earth crap has gotten popular lately…. Are they trying to normalize absurd fallacies? Seed society with nonsense that the koran supports!? Its just creepy how the lefties now sound like the Iranian dictator with their nonsense about Trump s stability. Meanwhile crickets from the women’s march folks about Iranian WOMEN wanting FREEDOM from headbags. Enough to make someone turn to booze…

  6. mortimer says

    Jan 10, 2018 at 12:32 pm

    CONTRADICTION ALERT!

    Quote: “Khamenei said the protesters were “playing with fireworks,” but admitted citizens have the right to air their concerns…”

    In contradiction to his statement, Khameini placed Ahmadinejad under arrest for expressing HIS OWN concerns about Khameini’s failures to fix the economy.

  7. CRUSADER says

    Jan 10, 2018 at 12:33 pm

    Only the Leftists in the West would be paying allegiance and obeisance from the West to what Iran dictates for what the West should follow…..

    Iranian leadership is a bunch of stuffed shirts with no ties on their collars.

  8. Jason Klingor says

    Jan 10, 2018 at 12:46 pm

    Read the book “The misery of Islam” by Jaya Gopal

    Jaya Gopal is an atheist from India.

    https://bpeinfo.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/the-misery-of-islam-16-pages.pdf

    https://bpeinfo.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/the-misery-of-islam-16-pages.pdf

  9. Mr F Middleton says

    Jan 10, 2018 at 1:26 pm

    Having sex with little girls is okay, but wanting freedom for Iranians is mad.

  10. Westman says

    Jan 10, 2018 at 1:32 pm

    “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

    That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government..”

    “Abuses”, “Pursuing the same Object”, “Despotism” – that certainly fits Islamic government; radiantly so for Iran’s evil master.

    Iranian women are the most educated of all Islamic nations and are sick of the patriarchy. With 2/3 of the population under 25. Young Iranians are smart enough to know that they could have everything of any real value, promised in Jannah, now, if the backward Mullahs weren’t in the way. It’s only a matter of time before a revolution that washes the despotic 7th century-brained regime and grungy beards away.

    Did anyone notice that many of the male Iranian protestors had no beards? Even our revisionist Reza Aslan doesn’t have one. Notice that CAIR’s Ibrahim Hooper and others of the M Brotherhood persuasion have beards. As one commenter wrote here, “The bigger the beard, the more radical is the Muslim”.

    I noticed that none of our Iranian students in the US had beards before the 1979 revolution. Then the Ayatollah instructed all the men to have beards.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jan 10, 2018 at 2:30 pm

      Can never get enough exposure to the US Declaration of Independence.

      Those founders and signers certainly pledged their sacred honor….for our benefit.

      • Westman says

        Jan 10, 2018 at 2:58 pm

        It is a remarkable document, a free-world standard that makes despots paranoid and prods their sick and dying conscience.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 10, 2018 at 4:22 pm

          *Absolutely*.

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Jan 10, 2018 at 4:39 pm

          A big YES to that 🙂

          The very idea of a people free to speak their minds while carrying firearms to back it up must make big state tyrants wake up in a sweat.

        • Carol says

          Jan 13, 2018 at 12:38 am

          Too bad we can’t replace Trudeau with it.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 10, 2018 at 4:24 pm

      Yes–it seems subtle, but men just wearing a mustache in Iran–or being entirely clean-shaven–is actually a protest.

  11. Bodega says

    Jan 10, 2018 at 2:29 pm

    Yes, Trump does utter some “extreme” statements just like a fox twitches its tail and in both cases it is bait.. All the better to find out who is uinderstanding what he is really saying. When Trump gathers enough data for his use he will then use it.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jan 10, 2018 at 2:33 pm

      Hoping he SOON uses enough data collection against CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood, Pillory Clinton, and Huma Abedin….Linda “the bug” Sarsour….
      and….”Jihadi Justin” Trudeau….

      After reading the book ‘Muslim Mafia’, one would think there’s enough uncaring incrimination to set CAIR to hell….

  12. mariam rove says

    Jan 10, 2018 at 2:54 pm

    He is Psychotic. m

  13. gravenimage says

    Jan 10, 2018 at 4:13 pm

    Iran’s top dog: Trump “must realize that these extreme and psychotic​ ​episodes won’t be left without a response​”
    ……………………….

    Yeah, because opposing the hanging of gay people from cranes, Jihad terror, and a determination to destroy Israel is “psychotic”…

    Of course, the Mullahs are just using the opening Leftists have given them here.

  14. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Jan 10, 2018 at 4:44 pm

    “Khamenei blamed the United States, Britain and Israel for instigating the protests in an effort to overthrow the government — an effort he said has been thwarted.”

    Sure he did. The West inspires genuinely oppressed people to aim high for the liberty they see there, while petty, ghoulish, tyrants like him can only reply with more oppression, torture, and disappeared person grabbed in the night.

    There was an author on the CBC 1 today going on about how Mr Trump is *insert negative adjective or noun here*, blah blah blah. They don’t want to stick their necks out complaining about his policy anymore, because doing so marks them out as those who favor no borders and the death of Israel. All they have left is the ad hominem. losers!

  15. Bezelel says

    Jan 10, 2018 at 5:51 pm

    Proof the left is colluding with iran.

  16. Georg says

    Jan 10, 2018 at 9:14 pm

    Used to follow this troll’s Twitter feed for the laughs; he’s no right at all to refer to anyone’s “psychotic episodes.” He tends to project his being a murderous medieval slimeball onto others. Look forward to reading the headline of his demise.

  17. Thomas Kimball says

    Jan 10, 2018 at 10:05 pm

    To quote dirty Harry “Go ahead, make my day” if Trump is as crazy as the assatola says he is maybe he shouldn’t screw with him! Or maybe he should, it might be fun to watch.

  18. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 3:00 am

    savage mad devil Trump is recording failure after failure. He failed to legitimise his illegal recognition of whole Jérusalem as capital of fascist evil zionist state. He woefully failed to topple progressive Islamic regime in Iran. He Will continue failing upto the stage of leading evil united states to collapse. The economy of this treacherous entity has already started experiencing recession, and it Will continue upto depression
    .

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 3:16 am

      A few corrections for our resident Ignoramus:

      There is nothing ‘illegal’ about anybody’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

      There is nothing ‘progressive’ about the Islamic regime in Iran. (And the US could topple it any time it chose to do so.)

      The US economy is healthier than it has been for years.

      What other pearls of nonsense do you have for us today, Ibrahim?

  19. FYI says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 7:52 am

    The ayatollah seems to be talking about himself and his own “psychotic episodes”.

    After all,he believes his god,the violently anti-Semitic,anti-Israel allah …gave his “perfect”koran to a mass-murdering, slave-trading “prophet” muhammed with the help of the fallen angel jibreel {who in islam is defined as being “the enemy of the Jews”}.And all that took place in a cave with conveniently no witnesses….

    You would have to be clinically insane to believe any of that nonsense and then walk around in public wearing a silly religious outfit pretending to be a holy man like these shites.

  20. shortfattexan says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 8:23 am

    “I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star………to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius….”

    Actually, I don’t think those things, in and of themselves, prove someone is a genius. A quick glance at recent history clearly shows that one needn’t be a genius to get elected President.

    President Trump’s actions since taking office, however, certainly are a convincing indication of, maybe not genius, but at least a very strong dose of plain old common sense, something that was notably lacking in our previous Commander-in-Chief, and not very plentiful in the one before that.

    Personally, when it comes to the President of the United States, I’ll take common sense over genius any day of the week.

  21. WPM says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 8:54 am

    +1 common sense is need to see the protection of your own people “American citizens” over rides any need to appease lunatic leaders like the Ayatollah Khamenei who has a date with a rope attached to a crane arranged by his own citizens. It will be interesting for the next 6 months to watch ,Iran revolution, and Thriefstan with American funds cut off. Where will Hamas get funding when Ayatollah goes to meet with Allah ?

  22. Linda says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 10:15 am

    An Iranian Ayatollah talking about President Trump’s “psychotic episodes”! Now I have heard it all! All he has to do is look at some of “The Prophet’s” psychotic episodes in the Koran and just keep his mouth shut.

  23. Politicianophobia says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 3:11 pm

    Careful I bra him, You know what the religion of peace did to Sayyid Qutb.

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