Meanwhile, the mullahs are arresting women for not wearing the hijab, and imprisoning them for years. “War is deceit,” said Muhammad (Bukhari 4.52.268).
“‘I am a human rights professor,’ Iranian FM Zarif responds to question on rights abuses,” Al Arabiya, February 18, 2019:
Responding to a question regarding Iran’s human rights abuses, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran, said “I am a human rights professor, I have taught human rights for over 30 years,” at the 2019 Munich Security Conference.
“I believe human rights for us [Iran] is a security requirement – not a moral nicety,” Zarif added.
When pressed by BBC’s Lyse Doucet about eight environmentalists who have been imprisoned in Iran for “no reason,” Javad Zarif mentioned the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, to which Doucet said, “let’s leave that aside.”
“You are still selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, why should I set aside Khashoggi?” Zarif said, without answering the question regarding the jailed environmentalists….
Earlier this month, it was reported that the Iranian government arrested, imprisoned or executed at least 860 journalists in the three decades between the Islamic revolution in 1979 and 2009, according to documents leaked to media monitoring group Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF).
Wellington says
Christianblood, where are you to defend once again the heinous regime of Iran? And God bless, Hezbollah, eh, that terrorist proxy of the Iranian mullahs?
N.B., I fully excoriate that wretched family posing as a country, Saudi Arabia, with which America has a temporary alliance because of sundry factors, one of the main reasons being because the Iranian regime since 1979 has been a major enemy to both SA and America and to the only free country in the Middle East, i.e., Israel. Rather like America and Britain aligning with one appalling dictator, Stalin, to defeat another appalling dictator, Hitler, no?
Your turn, christianblood. And please try this time to remember the importance of PR (public relations). But I predict you won’t. You will still go off as is your wont about how terrible America and the West are, how noble Russia and Iran are, blah, blah, blah.
gravenimage says
+1
Indiana Tom says
I always thought Rand Paul had a better grasp of Iran and Saudi Arabia than most politicians.
Wellington says
Perhaps, but he also has a dismal understanding of how important Israel is to the survival of all the West. Both Pauls, father and son, have indicated in one way or another that if only America leaves the Middle East, then we’ll be OK. No we won’t because Islam, a religion that neither Paul understands at all, wants it all.
gravenimage says
I’m afraid this is so.
Indiana Tom says
I dunno, our interventionist policies in the Middle East have just been ducky swimmy with all that Arab Spring action. We have our fair share of messies in the Middle East. I still remember debates of keeping Saddam around because what would come after he was gone would be a lot worse. Same for Assad and the ” Free Syrian Army”. Then we have Egypt and the Muslim Brother hood whom we loved against the big bad dictator in power. Israel is not a poor weak little country, but we shovel billions into the place. Sort of like NATO and SEATO.
christianblood says
Indiana Tom
Well-said, Indiana! Another active regime-change agenda in Venezuela is losing steam as we speak! More below:
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/451839-venezuela-trump-gamble-policy/
gravenimage says
Indiana Tom, Jihad is not caused by American actions.
gravenimage says
christianblood has said before that no one has any right to criticize Venezuela’s starving of its people, and has in fact lauded this horror because starving your people is supposedly a protest against American values.
christianblood says
Wellington
Below is list of countries that America invaded or bombed since 1945 killing millions!
China 1945-46
Korea 1950-53
China 1950-53
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-60
Guatemala 1960
Belgian Congo 1964
Guatemala 1964
Dominican Republic 1965-66
Peru 1965
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Lebanon 1982-84
Grenada 1983-84
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1981-92
Nicaragua 1981-90
Iran 1987-88
Libya 1989
Panama 1989-90
Iraq 1991
Kuwait 1991
Somalia 1992-94
Bosnia 1995
Iran 1998
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999
Afghanistan 2001
Libya 2011
Syria 2013
During the same time IRAN INVADED OR BOMBED ABSOLUTELY 0 COUNTRY!
NOW ASIDE MALICIOUS, BASELESS PROPAGANDA AND LIES WHICH COUNTRY IS A ACTUALLY A ROGUE STATE AND A DANGEROUS AGGRESSOR HERE? IRAN OR U$A?
gravenimage says
Yes–christianblood has said before that he hates the US for having defeated the Fascists, and for ensuring that South Korea is free, unlike North Korea.
But he loves the horrors of Shari’ah in Iran, even lauding them for hanging gay people, screaming “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!”, and stoning women to death, because these things oppose American values (he is correct on that account).
He has also demanded that God allow Muslims to brutalize me because I have taken issue with his desire for Islam to violently conquer the West–which he claims is the “Truth of Christ”. Exchange starts here:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/02/austria-court-annuls-government-plan-to-shut-down-six-mosques-preaching-political-islam#comment-2059055
*Very* disturbing stuff.
Ernie says
You again “earned” your THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER , ” christianblood “. It’s blood- money ; but you just don’t care , do you , “christianblood”? To you money is money . And to you , G-d is just a puppet you can use in your dirty little game . You better repent and confess your lack of love and integrity before The Lord ; repent before it’s too late !
BC says
Just ignore him (CB) everybody else does
Ernie says
BC , I’ll ignore your post . Apparantly you’re not a good reader . There are plenty other people reacting to CB . Have a nice day BC !
gravenimage says
I take your point, BC–the problem is that if agents provocateurs like christianblood are ignored, then readers here are apt to assume that his lauding of the horrors of Shari’ah reflects Jihad Watch views.
Wellington says
Uh, christianblood, Iran. You don’t seem to comprehend that the USA doesn’t make war on free and democratic nations. Most of the world doesn’t work, most of the world hasn’t been free, and America as the great power has waged many wars because of this—and many times has insured freedom for others, e.g., Western Europe because of America’s involvement in WWII.
Your dismal view of America reveals just how broken your moral compass is. But for America a free and democratic country like South Korea would not exist. And look at America’s treatment under Douglas MacArthur of a completely defeated Japan—it is as enlightened a treatment of a defeated enemy as can be found anywhere in the pages of history. You think you know so much when in fact you know so little.
This doesn’t mean America has always been right but it does mean that America has always tried to do the right thing. As Carl Schurtz, a German immigrant to America who became a US Senator, among other distinctions, said of his adoptive country, “My country right or wrong, if right to be kept right, if wrong to be put right.” You won’t get this.
christianblood says
Wellington posted
(…You don’t seem to comprehend that the USA doesn’t make war on free and democratic nations. Most of the world doesn’t work, most of the world hasn’t been free, and America as the great power has waged many wars because of this—and many times has insured freedom for others…)
Wellington
Who gave America, or indeed any other nation for that matter to invade, bomb, regime-change or dictate how other nations should live or what kind of government they should have???
mortimer says
The BloodthirstyPseudochristian is a genocidal fascist who only supports governments that are genocidal and fascist.
christianblood says
Mortimer
(…Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms…)
Eph 6:12
gravenimage says
Note that chirstianblood cannot counter anything Mortimer says. Instead, he continues to post this Bible verse, implying that God supports hideous Shari’ah states.
He has also said that I am opposing God’s will by not wanting–as he does–to see Muslims conquer the West. The last time I said something critical of his demanding that God let Muslims destroy the West, he demanded that God let Muslims start on me personally. When I said this would likely take the form of Muslim raping and beheading me, he was fine with that, and repeated his threat.
Exchange begins here and continues below:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/02/austria-court-annuls-government-plan-to-shut-down-six-mosques-preaching-political-islam#comment-2059055
christianblood says
Graven, BC, Wellington, Ernie
Please see the list of countries that the US invaded or bombed since 1945
killing, uprooting and wounding millions and please understand that Iran has NOT invaded or bombed a single country during that same time. Again, below is a list of countries that America invaded or bombed since 1945 killing, wounding and uprooting millions!
China 1945-46
Korea 1950-53
China 1950-53
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-60
Guatemala 1960
Belgian Congo 1964
Guatemala 1964
Dominican Republic 1965-66
Peru 1965
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Lebanon 1982-84
Grenada 1983-84
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1981-92
Nicaragua 1981-90
Iran 1987-88
Libya 1989
Panama 1989-90
Iraq 1991
Kuwait 1991
Somalia 1992-94
Bosnia 1995
Iran 1998
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999
Afghanistan 2001
Libya 2011
Syria 2013
—————————————–
IRAN: invaded, bombed 0 country!
NOW PLEASE, LET US BE OBJECTIVE, LET US PUT ASIDE NATIONALISM, IDEOLOGY, STATE PROPAGANDA & EXCEPTIONAL SUPREMACISM ASIDE FOR A MOMENT, LET US ONLY FOCUS ON THE OBJECTIVE FACTUAL TRUTH BEFORE OUR EYES AND ANSWER THIS QUESTION: IN THE LIGHT OF THIS FACT, WHICH COUNTRY IS A DANGEROUS, TERRORISTIC AND VERY DESTRUCTIVE ROGUE STATE? IRAN OR U$A?
Wellington says
Yeah, seen this list before posted by you. Gettin’ old. In virtually every instance the action engaged in was done by America to sustain freedom, not crush it. Contra Russia.
You know, I just reread John Keegan’s history of WWII. He noted, as so many other historians have (e.g., John Toland), that in the last months of the war in Europe civilians, German, Polish, Czech, Slovak, et al., did everything they could to get to American or British soldiers because they knew what would happen to them if Russian soldiers caught up with them.
You won’t get any of this either. Man, there is so much you don’t get but please keep posting here at JW because you reveal in microcosm why Russia is weird, paranoid, untrustworthy, barbaric and a whole host of other negatives.
Oh yeah, keep posting, christianblood, because in your own “special way” you only confirm what is the matter with Russia, whether under Czars, First Secretaries or now Putin. Keep up the good work.
gravenimage says
Yes–christianblood has said before that we were “terrorists” for daring to oppose the Nazis.
christianblood says
Wellington
As I said earlier, I am NOT a Russian! Don’t know why you are so obsessed with Russia!
Wellington says
I am not obsessed with Russia, christianblood. You are, as you are obsessed in a negative way with the West. Projection here on your part.
gravenimage says
Iran’s Foreign Minister: “Human rights for Iran is a security requirement”
………………
Note that “human rights” as Mohammad Javad Zarif uses it just means that he believes that the repulsive “Islamic Republic” of Iran should be allowed to run amok, oppress its own citizens and threaten Israel and the West without anyone saying anything critical about the Mullahs.
Wellington says
Pretty much.
Indiana Tom says
“I believe human rights for us [Iran] is a security requirement – not a moral nicety,” Zarif added. Well, he actually is correct; just not going to get that from the current crew in charge.
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
The point he is making that he and his criminal cronies have realized that the people of Iran are approaching such a counterrevolutionary mood that the ‘security’ of the mullahs and the rulers will disappear once the mobs get them.
mortimer says
Mohammad Javad Zarif is a preposterous liar. Iran’s human rights atrocities are so many, it’s hard to count them. Furthermore, Iran has EXTRAJUDICIAL, PARALLEL INSTITUTIONS that arrest, brutalize, torture and detain those the government doesn’t like … student organizations, protesters, rebellious women.
From Wiki:
“Reported abuses falling outside of the laws of the Islamic Republic that have been condemned include the execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988, and the widespread use of torture to extract repudiations by prisoners of their cause and comrades on video for propaganda purposes. Also condemned has been firebombings of newspaper offices and attacks on political protesters by “quasi-official organs of repression,” particularly “Hezbollahi,” and the murder of dozens of government opponents in the 1990s, allegedly by “rogue elements” of the government.
Under the administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s human rights record “has deteriorated markedly,” according to Human Rights Watch,[4] and following the 2009 election protests there were reports of killing of demonstrators, the torture, rape and killing of detained protesters, and the arrest and publicized mass trials of dozens of prominent opposition figures in which defendants “read confessions that bore every sign of being coerced.” In October 2012 the United Nations human rights office stated Iranian authorities had engaged in a “severe clampdown” on journalists and human rights advocates.
2005 Human Rights Watch document criticizes “Parallel Institutions” (nahad-e movazi) in the Islamic Republic, “the quasi-official organs of repression that have become increasingly open in crushing student protests, detaining activists, writers, and journalists in secret prisons, and threatening pro-democracy speakers and audiences at public events.” Under the control of the Office of the Supreme Leader, these groups set up arbitrary checkpoints around Tehran, uniformed police often refraining from directly confronting these plainclothes agents. “Illegal prisons, which are outside of the oversight of the National Prisons Office, are sites where political prisoners are abused, intimidated, and tortured with impunity.”
eduardo odraude says
Iran signed the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam.
Article 24 of the Cairo Declaration says
“All the rights and freedoms stipulated in this Declaration are subject to the Islamic Sharia.”
In other words, Iran is a dictatorship where ‘rights and freedoms’ are extremely limited.
Muhammad: “War is deceit.”
Islam is a globally ambitious theocratic totalitarian movement at war with the non-Muslim world, and one of the main weapons of Islam is deceit and manipulation.
If you repeat often enough that Sharia means human rights and freedoms, hey, half or more of the stupid world will believe you.
eduardo odraude says
eduardo odraude says
The above is another good video from the inimitable David Wood.
Walter Sieruk says
About that ruthless cruel brutal tyrannical regime of Iran what so unfittingly has the word “Republic” in its title ,for its called “ The Islamic Republic of Iran” [ I R I]. On the topic of this Islamic tyranny a former Muslim revealed that “The IRI system recognizes women as dependent upon men and incomplete human beings who need to be supervised and controlled by men and the State. This author further exposed that “Women are created for the purposes of giving pleasure to men and child bearing – functions that confine them to the home” This is a male Chauvinistic as can possibly be. In addition this writer further makes it known that “The IRI legal system still retains traditional patriarchal bias that can be described as nothing but systemic subordination of women , which is undoubtedly a human rights violation .” This author further reveals that “Iran is of what Islamic fundamentalists desire, an Islamic State, and the consequence of achieving it “State Terror. Instead of utopia, Iran is an Islamic totalitarian nightmare…” and “the Islamic Republic of Iran exists and operates as what every Islamic fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by Sharia …What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premises; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1] This heinous Islamic has been also exposed by another author who was born and lived in a Middle Eastern nation for many years. She wrote “Female freedom and independence is one of the greatest sins in Islam…” and “Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [2] All this is wicked, unjust and misogynistic to the extreme. Islam had not regard for human life, regardless of what the apologists for this religion will claim.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM BY Ibn Warraq. pages 345-347.
[2] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel pages 62, 172
Walter Sieruk says
Human rights in that vicious “mullah regime “ of Iran don’t actually exist. . For that heinously cruel and murderous Islamic tyranny is very brutal and vicious to the Iranian people. Especially regarding females. Both girls and women. For example a teenage girl in Iran was talking to her boyfriend on the phone and then the Islamic state “police” walked over to her and shot her dead. They did that wicked and malicious thing to her because she was talking to her boyfriend and they also didn’t like her clothing. [1] That was a clear cut case of murder and vicious Islamic madness by Iran’s Islamic state “ police”, who call themselves the “Revolutionary Guards”, they got away with their hideous and malice –filled evil because the mullahs as well as other villains in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime .
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili page 240
Walter Sieruk says
As for the current economic sanctions that are being held against that Islamic tyranny of Iran which so inappropriately has the word “Republic” in its title.. For example this Islamic tyranny gives no regard for human rights
Furthermore, .America’s National Security Adviser, John Bolton, had said that goal of the sanctions is not to make a “regime chance” but to cause charge for the better in the actions and polices by the heads of state in Iran . The reality is a goal for the better by those Muslim tyrants in their actions and polices, of any way of actual value, is completely unrealistic.
For mullahs and the others in power in Iran are so thoroughly deceitful, demonic, wicked, vicious and cruel that they will not change their malicious ways. As explain in the Bible “What is crooked cannot be straightened; which is lacking cannot be counted.” Ecclesiastes 1:15. [N.I.V.] Indeed, Those malice -filled and hateful Muslim clerics who have much power in Iran along with the other Islamic stooges who rule Iran “cannot be counted” to make any chances for the better . The ayatollahs and mullahs in their likeminded Muslim partners in total governmental control of Iran are very anti- female m as in extremely misogynistic and oppressive ruthless to both girls and woman as well as all of the Iranian people who are trapped in forced to existed in this diabolical Islamic regime. As it is written in Proverbs 15:15. “All the days of the oppressed are wretched.” Likewise, Ecclesiastes 4:1 reads “ I saw the tears of the oppressed – and they have no comforter; power was in the side of the oppressors …” Furthermore ,Proverbs 28:15 very well describes such wicked characters who rule Iran as president Rouhani and ayatollah Khamenei . For it reads “Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.” Furthermore, such a vicious mindset of heinous arrogance of Rouhani, Khamenei and the other hateful and spiteful Islamic clerics in this “mullah regime” of Iran is reflected in the words from the Bible describing tyrannical villains in power of an oppressive regime. For Psalm 73:6—9 read “Therefore pride is their necklace:: they clothe themselves with violence. From their callous hearts comes iniquity; their evil ;their evil imaginations have no limits. They scoff and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression. Their mouths lay claim to heaven, and their tongues take possession of the earth.”
Lorensacho says
How about human rights for Iran’s citizens?
Wellington says
Ask christianblood about this, Lorensacho. Christianblood is an expert on Iran’s human rights’ record.