Iran is a breeding ground for terrorist activity, funding and controlling a global network of jihad terror organizations. Their containment can’t end with the Iran deal. My latest in The Federalist:
President Trump has withdrawn the United States from the disastrous Iran nuclear deal, and vowed the rogue regime will never get its hands on nuclear weapons. That’s all to the good, but it does not by any means spell the end of Iran’s ability to stir up trouble worldwide.
Iran has been on a war footing toward the United States since 1979, mandates chants of “Death to America” in every mosque in the country at Friday prayers, and is actively working on numerous anti-American initiatives that could turn out to be even more lethal in the long run than nukes. In June 2011 Iran’s supreme leader, the ayatollah Ali Khamenei, declared: “Wherever a movement is Islamic, populist and anti-American, we support it.” These were not empty words.
As I show in my book “The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran,” the Islamic republic is a breeding ground for terrorist activity, funding and controlling a global network of jihad terror organizations, ready to do Iran’s bidding up to and including the killing of its perceived enemies.
Chief in this network is Hezbollah, a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Most notoriously, Hezbollah was responsible for the murder of 241 U.S. servicemen in the bombing of military barracks in Beirut in 1983.
Iran has also been implicated in bankrolling the 1996 bombing of the Saudi Arabian Khobar Towers, which housed members of the U.S. Air Force, and in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in which more than 200 people were killed.
Iran’s Hezbollah doesn’t just operate in Lebanon. It continues to target the United States through Mexico, where it has teamed with drug cartels along the U.S. border. This partnership is mutually beneficial: Hezbollah gets massive amounts of cash to finance its jihad operations, and the drug cartels receive extensive training in ways to strike terror into the hearts of their enemies. That is one principal reason the Mexican drug cartels have adopted what up until recently had been two trademarks of jihad groups: kidnapping and beheading.
It’s not just Hezbollah that Iran bankrolls. Despite the Sunni/Shiite divide, the Sunni jihad groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as well as the Shi’ite Houthis in Yemen and the Iraqi Shi’ite group Kata’ib Hezbollah, are all funded by the Islamic republic. Nor does Iran work only through jihad terror groups: It has funded the Spanish left-wing populist party Podemos, a vivid illustration of how the international left and the global jihad movement can and do make common cause against the West….
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Rarely says
It’s much easier to make headway in a conflict before the other side gets nuclear weapons. Hurray for Trump.
jihad3tracker says
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Ray Jarman says
“It (Iran) has funded the Spanish left-wing populist party Podemos, a vivid illustration of how the international left and the global jihad movement can and do make common cause against the West….”
These fools should read Sura IX of the unholy book in which the following is written: “This concerneth not those polytheists (Podermos believe in money and power, i.e., their gods) with whom ye are in league, and who shall have afterwards in no way failed you, nor aided anyone against you. Observe, therefore, engagement with them through the whole time of their treaty; for God loveth those who fear Him.
And when the sacred months are passed, kill those who join other gods with God wherever ye shall find them; and seize them, besiege them, and lay wait for them with every kind of ambush; but if they shall convert, and observe prayer, and pay the obligatory ALMS, then let them go way, fort God is gracious, merciful.”
As Mr. Spencer has noted many times and wrote extensively in his book, “The Truth about Muhammad,” that Muhammad was permitted to lie and renounce treaties when they no longer aided in their slaughter and spreading of his foul message as was witnessed by the pogrom at Khaybar Oasis. It is the opposite of the expression of not biting the hand that feeds since the hand that feeds will use a knife to cut the head off of the recipient.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
mr spencer, as usual you never feel ashamed to support lies being concocted by fascist evil zionist state of Israel. Iran never supports any terrorist organisation, it commits its resources to defeat terrorism as it did in Syria and Iraq. Hamas and Hezbullah are freedom fighters against fascist evîl zionist state of Israel in its expansionist agenda,and should be applauded by all those who have good conscience.
gravenimage says
The appalling Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
mr spencer, as usual you never feel ashamed to support lies being concocted by fascist evil zionist state of Israel. Iran never supports any terrorist organisation, it commits its resources to defeat terrorism as it did in Syria and Iraq. Hamas and Hezbullah are freedom fighters against fascist evîl zionist state of Israel in its expansionist agenda,and should be applauded by all those who have good conscience.
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Of course, Israel has no “expansionist agenda”–in fact, she gave up Gaza hoping for peace.
What does Ibrahim itace muhammed consider terrorism? Why, Israel not being destroyed and all the Jews slaughtered.
Ibrahim itace muhammed has said that he wants to personally take part in the genocide of the Jews.
Lia says
Perhaps President Trump could offer to ‘give in’ on one of the sanctions to be re-applied, if Iran will publish the list of Westerners who took bribes to make the ‘deal’ happen? The world needs to know.
Simon Shapiro says
I take particular pleasure that some Arab fanatics spent their money smd effort to obtain/create both
USA and Israel flags, only to end up burning their money in the street.
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in The Federalist: Ending The Iran Deal Is The First Step Toward Addressing Iran’s Aggression
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Hear, hear!