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Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei rejoices in the riots: “By Allah’s favor and grace, the U.S. has been disgraced”

Jun 5, 2020 2:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

The foremost leader in Shia Islam, “the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, weighed in on the violent riots erupting through the United States on Wednesday, beaming, ‘By God’s favor and grace, the U.S. has been disgraced.’”

It is all about Islam for Khamenei, who sees America as “the Great Satan” and Israel as “the Little Satan.” The Obama Administration empowered Iran via the signing of the Iran nuclear deal, which led to billions flowing into Iranian coffers. Obama also made multi-billion dollar secret backroom deals with the regime even as it was chanting “Death to America” at that time, and that is now gloating over America’s crisis.

“Iran’s Khamenei on Riots: ‘By God’s Grace, the U.S. Has Been Disgraced,’” by Frances Martel, Breitbart, June 3, 2020:

The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, weighed in on the violent riots erupting through the United States on Wednesday, beaming, “By God’s favor and grace, the U.S. has been disgraced.”

Khamenei, reportedly speaking at an event commemorating the death of his predecessor Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, also compared the death of Minnesota resident George Floyd at the hands of a police officer to America’s alleged crimes while fighting jihadists tied to the Iranian regime in places like Syria and Iraq.

Floyd’s death has triggered nationwide protests against racism in local police departments. The protests have also attracted violent leftists, who have engaged in extensive arson, looting, and assorted vandalism. Some have severely injured business owners and passersby in major cities, allegedly in Floyd’s name. Much of the damage occurred in underprivileged communities.

“This is what the nations that have been the victims of U.S.’s oppressive usurpation want to say from the bottom of their hearts,” Khamenei said of “I can’t breathe,” Floyd’s last words as he was killed.

“By God’s favor and grace, the U.S. has been disgraced as a result of its own actions. Their management of the [Chinese] Coronavirus brought them to disgrace, and their weak handling of the situation caused them to have several times as many casualties as other countries. The American people feel embarrassed and ashamed of their government,” Khamenei declared.

Iran has experienced one of the worst local outbreaks of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, a product of Khamenei handing control of the public health emergency to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a terrorist organization. Despite specializing in deadly explosives and attacks on civilians, Khamenei tasked the IRGC with developing a vaccine against the Chinese coronavirus, a claim made in March that has so far yielded no evidence of any vaccine development.

At press time, Iran has one of the highest Chinese coronavirus death rates in the world, logging over 8,000 deaths due to the virus out of over 160,000 cases total. The National Council of Resistance of Iran, the country’s largest dissident group, has documented closer to 50,000 deaths on account of the pandemic in the country, citing on-the-ground sources.

“A police officer putting his knee on a black man’s neck and pushing until he dies shows the nature of the American government,” Khamenei concluded.

Khamenei also applauded Khomenei, who launched the radical Islamic revolution that imposed the current violent regime in 1979, for having “humiliated” the United States.

“Imam Khomeini proved that superpowers can be broken and beaten. You saw how the USSR collapsed, and you can see the status of the U.S. today,” Khamenei asserted. “What is being witnessed in U.S. cities today is a result of realities that had always been kept concealed. However, today these have been revealed leading to the disgrace of the U.S. government.”

“They kill people and yet claim they advocate human rights. Was not the black man whom you murdered a human being?” Khamenei asserted.

Khamenei’s speech occurred a day after Iranian health workers took the streets to protest the regime’s poor treatment of them while fighting the coronavirus pandemic. The protesters are demanding more pay for the difficult labor before them. Some were dismissed from their jobs in the aftermath of the pandemic, protesting being unemployed after taking a high-risk job for the nation.

Iranians have been protesting their regime consistently for years. During the Trump administration, more have taken the streets in response to the country’s worsening economic situation, the product of the government squandering millions in sanctions relief from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal, which stopped coming in when Trump renounced the deal. Tehran’s decision to invest in Hezbollah and proxy fighters in Iran and Syria resulted in severe food and water shortages and unsustainably high prices for basic goods, resulting in multiple waves of protests in 2017…..

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  1. Uma Maheswar Nakka says

    Jun 5, 2020 at 2:15 pm

    This is what exactly I commented before. They rest seeing others unrest, takes advantage in to their favor.

  2. Westman says

    Jun 5, 2020 at 2:26 pm

    Where was this jerk, Khamenei in 1968?

    Did he conveniently forget that the socialist, anti-war protestors became the biggest Capitalists in history and that the Weathermen, Black Panthers, and SDS became discredited agents of violence?

    Today marks the turning point for the economy. The George Floyd protests, corrupted by extraneous demands, overwhelmed Covid-19. Its participants, ignoring social distancing, have brought the absurdity of continuing lockdown into focus. Both the prophets of economic doom and pandemic prognosticators are headed for discredit, including the Iranian Regime’s inferior leader.

    Sorry, Khamenei, the wheels of Karma and the Iranian citizens are still coming for you.

  3. tgusa says

    Jun 5, 2020 at 2:55 pm

    “violent riots erupting through the United States”

    Democrat cops in a democrat city with a democrat police chief and a democrat mayor in a democrat state with a democrat governor in communities that for decades have voted 100 to 110 percent for democrats. Democrats can give him billions but it won’t matter. Democrats can always count on him to kick them when they are down. I somewhat agree with him though, the democrats are a disgrace.

    It appears that there is some police reform needed but that must be contingent on democrat reform.

    • Westman says

      Jun 5, 2020 at 5:00 pm

      With few exceptions, Tgusa, that is a correct summary. The looters vote Democrat, the free stuff party, when(and if) they vote.

      Utah, an interesting case, is not supportive of the rioters though it looks that way on TV and media descriptions. Like so many other states, the old inner city has been taken over by liberals though the state is staunchly conservative. So the old inner city ends up with a bunch of misfit Mormon-hating liberals that have been haunting downtown Salt Lake City since the election of Rocky Anderson, a liberal, as Mayor.

      • tgusa says

        Jun 5, 2020 at 5:30 pm

        Way back in my youth I drove a truck through SLC stopping at a motel for the night. Went to the store to pick up a few beers. I didn’t smash any windows attack any residents or set any fires, I paid cash. You should have seen the evil eye that was directed towards me just for that. Other than that it seemed like an ok place.

      • tgusa says

        Jun 5, 2020 at 7:28 pm

        The democrat mob murdered another non cop citizen in Riverside earlier today. Democrat cops do something terrible and the democrat mob attack/kill non cop citizens. The dem-mob loot and then set fire to peoples businesses. I have been observing for a long time and this is always the case. This I why I don’t want any democrats anywhere near me or anyone I care about regardless of race ethnicity or where they come from.

        • Graham Bryant says

          Jun 8, 2020 at 6:21 am

          you have got that right tgusa-good on you for your understanding and good heart!!

  4. CogitoErgoSum says

    Jun 5, 2020 at 4:56 pm

    Except Allah is not God.

    • Graham Bryant says

      Jun 8, 2020 at 6:25 am

      allah of the quran is indeed not god it is the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY this single super being that created all of us and the earthg nand all that therein is-THIS IS HIM and one day soon he shall reveal himself to the whole earth in great power and glory-only our creator can help this world to make things right and then man shall love one another. a new world order is coming and that is not of the New World Order OF THE JEWS- got that!!

  5. tim gallagher says

    Jun 5, 2020 at 7:45 pm

    The usual moronic claptrap from this idiotic Iranian mullah. I’m sure the Islamic regime will collapse long before anything goes seriously wrong with US society. Iran will be “disgraced”. In fact, it is a primitive disgrace already. The Iranian regime of these backward mullahs could well disappear into history’s garbage bin fairly soon. These Iranian leaders seem to spend all their time making idiotic, useless statements like this one. And, of course, CogitoErgo Sum is right, if God does exist, then the true God is not allah, that is for sure. What allah condones in barbaric Islam shows that allah is satanically evil.

  6. gravenimage says

    Jun 5, 2020 at 11:07 pm

    Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei rejoices in the riots: “By Allah’s favor and grace, the U.S. has been disgraced”
    ………………….

    If we had no freedom of the press like Iran, few would have noticed…

    • Wellington says

      Jun 5, 2020 at 11:53 pm

      Salient point, gravenimage.

      Will be lost on many, Khamenei of course included, who is clueless about almost everything.

      Every ayatollah is. Indeed, you can’t be an ayatollah and be wise, good and informed.

  7. OLD GUY says

    Jun 6, 2020 at 8:45 pm

    HAS it now, Khamenei is a total evil disgrace to mankind.

  8. Uma Maheswar Nakka says

    Jun 7, 2020 at 12:09 am

    The other name of Evil

  9. eaglelasereyes says

    Jun 7, 2020 at 1:48 am

    If #America falls the rest of the #World falls; all you have is #Hate and #Violence Islam is not helping, more like #CrimesAgainstHumanity #KAG

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