The Islamic Republic of Iran, established in 1979 by the Ayatollah Khomeini, has never been a benign presence among the worldwide community of nations.
- From inception, it has made no secret of its hatred for Israel, and its intention to terminate the “Zionist entity.”
- It has funded, trained and provided weaponry to Hezbollah in Lebanon (both to harass Israel and to create a Shi’ite powerhouse in Lebanon) and to Hamas in Gaza (a Sunni Muslim terrorist group embracing the mutual goal of Israel’s destruction).
- It has sought nuclear weapons technology, buying help secretly from Abdul Qadeer Khan, the “father of Pakistan’s atomic bomb” in 1989 and subsequent years.
- It provided diplomatic cover for the 9/11 terrorists to mask their travel to and from al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan to help ensure the success of bin Laden’s plans against America.
- It rushed to the support of Bashar al-Assad in Syria against the rise of rebel forces in 2011, and has used the opportunity not only to provide military intelligence and weaponry, but also to establish its own bases in Syria with an eye to threatening Israel more directly.
- Since Barack Obama’s pull-out of US forces from Iraq, Iran has cemented its ties with fellow-Shi’ite political and militia leaders in Iraq, seeking to bring the war-bruised and sectarian-ravaged country into its orbit as a puppet state.
- On an almost daily basis, Iranian navy fast attack boats harass US naval vessels sailing in international waters in the Persian Gulf, seeking to enforce their claim that no non-Iranian military presence will be tolerated in the Gulf. Just yesterday, the British destroyer HMS Dragon experienced this same harassment before the Iranian attack boats finally backed off.
- Since the most recent Yemeni civil war commenced in 2015, Iran has supported the Houthi rebels in their effort to overthrow the government. Sending in military trainers, upgrading their weapons, providing them financial support, Iran’s hope is to create greater instability for their great regional enemy, Saudi Arabia, and ultimately to establish their own permanent presence in Yemen to further threaten the Saudis and Israel by surrounding them both with a “Shi’ite crescent” from Lebanon through Syria and Iraq and around the Gulf region ending in Yemen, on the western tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
- Meanwhile, in its quotidian media releases, Iran continues it bellicose threats to America, the “Great Satan,” and to Israel, the “Little Satan,” as well as to Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, and whomever else it feels stands in its way.
Why all this peddling of violence to extend its influence? What is Iran’s ultimate goal? And why has the West generally ignored Iran’s role as a destabilizing threat in the Middle East and South Asia? What made the Obama administration think that offering a carrot rather than a stick would cause Iran to become our best friend, or at least to eschew terror and war against others?
One look at the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran is enough to expose the illusion that the mullahs and government functionaries are looking for peace and cooperation with others. In the preface to the Constitution, we find a paragraph heading: An Ideological Army. Here’s what it says:
In establishing and equipping the defense forces of the country, the focus shall be on maintaining ideology and faith as the foundation and the measure. Consequently, the Army of the Islamic Republic and the Islamic Pasdaran [Farsi for “Guards”] Revolutionary Corps are formed in accordance with the aforementioned objective. They will undertake the responsibility of not only guarding and protecting the borders, but also the weight of ideological mission, i.e. striving ( jehād) [sic] on the path of God and struggle on the path of expanding the sovereignty of the law of God in the world; in accordance with the Qur’anic verse: “Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies” (8: 60).
In other words, the Iranian armed forces and the paramilitary force know in the West at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have the twofold mission of protecting the country from attack, and of bearing “the weight of the ideological mission,” which is the extension of Islam to the whole world, bringing every land under the “sovereignty” of Shari’a law. That they are deadly serious about this is seen in the fact that the Qur’an is quoted. It is their sworn religious duty to amass as much strength as they can muster in order to “strike terror” into the enemies of Allah (which of course will also be their enemies). And who are the enemies of Allah? All who refuse to bow to Islam — Shi’ite Islam, in this case. Death to America! Death to Israel! Death to Western Europe! Death to Canada! Death to Brazil! Death to South Africa! Death to Russia! Death to India! Death to Korea! Death to China! Death to Australia! If I didn’t name your country, don’t despair — there is more than enough death to go around; you’ll be on the list soon enough.
It is for good reason that the US State Department first designated Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism on Jan. 19, 1984. It’s not as if Iran was trying to hide this fact — it is part and parcel of their nationalistic Islamic identity. The big question for the United States and indeed all the nations of the free world is: Why for almost forty years have we put up with an Islamic government committed to sowing terror in the world so as to extend the hegemony of repressive, anti-Western Shari’a law over more of the world’s population?
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Jaladhi says
So by definition of their sworn duty they are all terrorists!!
FYI says
The enemies of allah{“the best of deceivers”k3:54}islam’s god?
Who are allah’s enemies?
So that would be..
1.The God of Israel{the Actual God},The God of the “people of the book”,never to be confused with the islamic koranic “allah”
2.The Jews…. and the Christians since allah curses them both{koran 9:30}
3 The Actual God’s TRUE prophets..{and note that Moses and Jesus are..Jews}
3.All non-muslims:Buddhists,Hindus,Atheists….
So the Iranians “pray” to their muslim god allah to destroy Israel:it’s a bit like this.
Goliath:oh mighty allah hubaal,strike that little Jew David down with a giant Rock.
I am the mightest of warriors,the Philistine champion:Who can beat me?
David;Oh God of Israel,let my aim be true..
[Thuuuuuuuuuuunk]
Goliath: a stone!..so that’s how it ends..what an insult to a warrior!Why baal?
allah hubaal;damn loser..useless,freaking useless..
God of Israel:That is what you get when you pray to the wrong God..appearances can be deceptive;Israel,like David, may look small…..
Walter Sieruk says
With that vicious and aggressive “mullah regime” of Iran and their Islamic scheming military agenda it’s therefore very appropriate to site the wisdom of the first Constitutional President of the United States of America, George Washington, who had, so well explained “To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” Moreover President Washington stated that “However pacific the general policy of the nation may be ,it ought never be without an adequate stock of military knowledge for emergencies.”
Furthermore, with Iran’s “Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps” [IRGC] it should likewise be remembered that one very good way to defeat the jihadists of Iran is by the means of a very strong power of US military might. As Thomas Jefferson had declared “With every barbarous people …force is law.”
Elisha says
Why worry? It’s ALL sorted. There is more than sufficient fulfilled prophecy in the Bible to attest to this:
“There is Elam (Iran) and all her multitude,
All around her grave,
All of them slain, fallen by the sword,
Who have gone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth,
Who caused their terror in the land of the living;
Now they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.” – Ezekiel 32:24
Some may say “but muslims are circumcised”. Please consider:
“When you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised IN HEART and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to defile it—My house—and when you offered My food, the fat and the blood, then they broke My covenant because of all your abominations.” – Ezekiel 44:7
Jesus Christ has ALREADY defeated Satan at Calvary. There is nothing we can do to alter what is already written but we can seek God’s truth (Psalm 145:18, Jeremiah 29:13, James 4:6, 1 Corinthians 2:10-14), place our faith in the resurrected Christ Jesus and repent:
Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” – Mark 1:14-15
There will be NO excuses come Judgement Day:
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He HE HAS PUT ETERNITY IN THEIR HEARTS, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end. – Ecclesiastes 3:11
For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law; for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified. For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus. – Romans 2:12-16
God bless.
gravenimage says
Iranian Armed Forces’ sworn duty is to “strike terror into the enemies of Allah”
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I suppose christianblood will be along any minute to tell us that God blesses them for this.
Indiana Tom says
Iranian Armed Forces’ sworn duty is to “strike terror into the enemies of Allah”
I love you too cupcake.
Jay says
Our sworn duty should be to wipe them out.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Mateen Elass, wrong translation and interpretation of the expression “Liturhibuna bihi aduwallah wa aduwakum “in Quran 8:60.it simply military preparations to deter an enemy from aggression, not caste terror in the minds of all non-muslims for aggression against them.
gravenimage says
What crap. “Turhibuna” means to strike terror, and “Aduw’Allah” are the “enemies of Allah”.
This is about attacking Infidels, not about deterring aggression.
More projection from Ibrahim itace muhammed.
ibrahimitace673@gmail.com says
Ignorant liar Gravenimage, what is the root of ” Ruuba” and it’s co-rrelated technical meaning within the context of verse 8:60?How is it translated to mean “caste terror? A fool!!
gravenimage says
It looks as though Ibrahim itace muhammed was so unhinged here after finding we are on to him that he accidentally posted his email. What a tool.
Here’s the Qur’an Corpus itself–a compendium of Islamic scholarship on the Qur’an–which goes through Qur’an 8:12 here word by word, and translates “l-ruʿ’ba” as “the terror”.
http://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=8&verse=12
And, of course, there is no use of any variant of the word “Ruuba” in Qur’an 8:60. But there *is* “tur’hibūna”, and this translates as “(to) terrify”:
http://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=8&verse=60#(8:60:1)
Is Ibrahim itace muhammed saying that Islamic Qur’anic scholars are wrong?
Norman Moffatt says
Just following the book, Qur’an verse 8:12 Your Lord inspired the angels: “I am with you, so support those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. So strike above the necks, and strike off every fingertip of theirs.”
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Ignorant Norman moffatt, Quran 8:12 used the term “Ruuba”,which means fear or cowardice and the verse is talking about the course of fighting between muslim forces and hostile non-muslim combatant forces, not to strike terror into the minds of all non-muslims,that Allah will send Angels putting hostile non-muslim combatants in panic and be defeated by Muslims. It happened in the battle of Badr where few Muslims with inferior weapons defeated large pagan meccan forces with superior weapons.
Canadian Deplorable says
I guess the angels didn’t help much in Gulf Wars I and II.
gravenimage says
Here is the Qur’an Corpus, which includes seven classic translations of Qur’an 8:12:
http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=8&verse=12
*All* of them translate this verse as casting terror into the hearts of the unbelievers.
Norman Moffatt says
Nice try, but we’re not buying what you are trying to sell. Keep following your enslaving, murdering, lying, thieving pedophile prophet Muhammad if that’s the life for you.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Ignorant liar Gravenimage, “Turhibuna “is a plural verb from masdar(root)”Ruuba”,which means to put fear or scare . In the context of the verse if “turhibuna “is translated as “terrify “it will not convey the meaning of the verse because the verse means Muslims shall prepare means of fighting to deter the enemies from aggression. It is a military tactic giving an impression to the enemy that you have superior weapons for him to be panic not think of attack.
Canadian Deplorable says
No doubt the US Marines, Navy etc are quivering in their boots.
Martyman39 says
The Iranians will find out to their dismay that “the enemies of Islam” don’t scare too easily.
Brian says
Didnt Reagan sink the Iranian navy in one afternoon back in 85? Lol