Iran’s presidential election was held on June 18, 2021; Ebrahim Raisi, a former judge of the merciless hanging variety, was elected. He gave his first press conference on June 21. A preliminary Jihad Watch report on this is here, and another news story on it is here: “Iran’s Raisi says won’t meet Biden or negotiate on missiles, support for proxies,” Times of Israel, June 21, 2021:
Iran’s president-elect said Monday he wouldn’t meet with US President Joe Biden, nor negotiate over Tehran’s ballistic missile program and its support of regional terror groups, sticking to a hardline position following his landslide victory in last week’s election.
This “landslide victory” was nothing of the sort. Raisi won 62% of the vote, but only 48% of the eligible voters bothered to vote, and even among those 48%, 3.7 million “accidentally or deliberately” invalidated their own ballots, another way of protesting the election. Even if we counted all those invalidated ballots for Raisi, he won — at most – support from 30% of the eligible voters. Not a “landslide.”
Judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi described himself as a “defender of human rights” when asked about his involvement in the 1988 mass execution of thousands of people.
“All that I have done through my years of service has always been towards defending human rights,” said the Iranian president-elect, accusing the West of violating human rights….
Yes, nothing says “defender of human rights” like condemning to death 5,000 people whose sole offense was opposing the regime. Or like sanctioning the hanging of homosexuals from cranes. Or sentencing women to long prison terms if they violate the Islamic dress code.
The president-elect also said his administration would not allow negotiations to go on unless they were deemed beneficial to Iran, in talks with world powers aimed at reviving a 2015 nuclear deal.
Any negotiations that guarantee national interests will certainly be supported, but… we will not allow negotiations to be for negotiation’s sake,” he said, adding that his election on Friday followed a “massive” voter turnout.
What Raisi calls a “massive” voter turnout was, in fact, the lowest turnout in Iran’s history. As noted above, less than half — 48% — of eligible voters even bothered to go to the polls, and nearly four million of those voters mangled or otherwise rendered invalid their own ballots, actions which, like refusing to show up to vote, were another way of expressing deep anger with the regime.
“The US is obliged to lift all oppressive sanctions against Iran,” he said….
According to the Tehran Times, Raisi suggested that a “referendum” is the best solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
We can guess, can’t we, whom Raisi believes should take part in such a “referendum.” He has in mind the seven million Israeli Jews, the two million Israeli Arabs, the roughly four million Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and – of course – the five million “Palestinian refugees” still on UNRWA’s rolls, who are spread throughout the Middle East. Such a referendum would naturally grant those “refugees” the Right of Return, and that would spell the end of Israel as a Jewish state. That’s what Ebrahim Raisi thinks will provide the “best solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the disappearance of the Jewish state.
“Iran has always been a defender of the oppressed people, including the Palestinians, and this has been stated in the constitution and being insisted on by Imam Khomeini and Leader of the Islamic Revolution.” Raisi was quoted as saying by the publication….
Since Khomeini returned to Iran on February 1, 1979 and began instituting the theocracy known as the Islamic Republic, the most “oppressed people” in the Middle East have been the Iranians themselves. There is no freedom of speech, no right to assemble. The government has through mismanagement and corruption managed to drive the economy to ruin. Those who dare to protest in the streets are put down with extreme violence. Political dissidents are imprisoned; tens of thousands have been executed for opposing the regime and its Supreme Leader.
Asked about Iran’s ballistic missile program and its support of regional militias, Raisi described the issues as “non-negotiable.”
How often have we heard from both Joe Biden and Antony Blinken that they intend to “lengthen and strengthen” the agreement with Iran, in order to address its ballistic missile program and its support for regional proxies and allies, including the Houthis in Yemen, the Kata’ib Hezbollah militia in Iraq, and Hezbollah in Lebanon? Not only is Ebrahim Raisi flatly refusing to consider any discussion of such matters within the context of a revised 2015 deal, but he has made clear that he has no intention of entering into a subsequent, different negotiation about such matters. There will be no “lengthening or strengthening” of the 2015 deal, and what’s more, Raisi rejects the idea of any future negotiations about Iran’s ballistic missile program or regional aggressions. In his uncompromising view, those are off the table – forever.
On a possible meeting with Biden, Raisi simply answered: “No.” His moderate competitor in the election, Abdolnasser Hemmati, had suggested during campaigning that he’d be potentially willing to meet Biden….
Raisi has no reason to meet Biden. His mind is made up on all important questions, and there is no point in meeting the leader of the Great Satan. The gauntlet has been thrown down: either the U.S. agrees to every single demand that Raisi and the real leader of Iran, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, have made, or the talks are off. It’s a case not of negotiation and compromise, but of capitulation by the Americans to everything Iran wants.
Raisi will become the first serving Iranian president sanctioned by the US government even before entering office, in part over his time as the head of Iran’s internationally criticized judiciary — one of the world’s top executioners….
Raisi’s election puts hardliners firmly in control across the government as negotiations in Vienna continue to try to save a tattered deal meant to limit Iran’s nuclear program, at a time when Tehran is enriching uranium at 60%, its highest levels ever, though still short of weapons-grade levels.
It’s not any promises made in Vienna that will keep Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, or prevent it from producing the ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. It is, rather, the Mossad, that ever since introducing the Stuxnet computer worm in 2010, has managed to regularly set back Iran’s nuclear program, by causing centrifuges to malfunction, speeding up and destroying themselves, by blowing up a centrifuge plant built above ground at Natanz, in 2020, and then doing the same to a second, replacement centrifuge plant in 2021, that the Iranians had assumed would be safe because it was built 50 meters underground at Natanz; they were wrong. And Mossad has since 2010 assassinated a half-dozen of Iran’s top nuclear scientists, including — in 2020 — the most important of them, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. That is what will keep Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, and not a return to a grossly flawed treaty that, even when it was supposed to be fully in effect, was repeatedly violated by Iran.
Ebrahim Raisi was a Prosecutor and Deputy Prosecutor of Tehran in the 1980s and 1990s, during which time he oversaw the execution of thousands of political dissidents and prisoners. He is accused of crimes against humanity by international human rights organizations and U.N. special rapporteurs. He has already declared that, whatever Biden and Blinken may still fondly believe is possible, there will be no agreements other than a return to the JCPOA, without any changes to the text. Iran’s ballistic missile program and its regional mischief-making are permanently off the table.
President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken have now been given a hard lesson about the real world of the Islamic Republic, as exemplified by President Ebrahim Raisi: mendacious, implacable, cruel, uncompromising. How much more will the Americans yield in Vienna to the smiling plausible public face of the Republic, the impotent Javad Zarif, before they realize it’s time to pick up their marbles and go home? The uncompromising demands of the Iranians should lead not to surrender by the Americans, but instead to a decision to keep those sanctions in place and to face down the Iranians who will, of course, be enraged that their maximalist position was not only rejected but led to a shutdown of the talks that they had confidently assumed would inexorably lead to an American capitulation, with the sanctions being completely lifted and hundreds of billions of dollars made available once again to the monstrous regime in Tehran. There is still time to reject that folly. If the Iranians continue to hold out for all of their demands being met, we know how best to unsettle Ebrahim Raisi and Ayatollah Khamenei: let’s call the whole thing off.
Brando says
One thing is for sure,the Left NEVER ever mentions or wants to mention the fact that Ebrahim Raisi killed 5,000 Leftists ( Communists,Marxists,Radicals,Socialists),
of the 20,000 killed by Khomeini.
The Iranian Left thought it could dominate Khomeini.
ALI DASHTI ( 1897-1982 )
Not a Leftist as far as I know.During the 50 year period the two Shahs (father and son) ruled Iran………..only 50 political prisoners executed.
After his death,a book appeared by ex-Muslim,and Iranian intellectual Ali Dashti:
“23 years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad”
where he says the Koran is false for this and that intellectual reason. Dashti died as a result of being TORTURED by Khomeini’s agents in prison. It broke his health and he died after being released.
Brando says
ATTACK ON THE THINKERS OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Now the Critical Race Theory folks try to deny the importance of the West regarding certain of its thinkers:
HUME (Scot ) and VOLTAIRE ( French ) and KANT ( one of the greatest philosophers of All Time)
1.ALL 3 of them were against SLAVERY, for example, in his “Perpetual Peace”(1795) Kant condemns Slavery and Colonialism.
2.All 3 of them agreed with the idea of the Founder of the ENLIGHTENMENT, John LOCKE, who said ALL are born with
3 Natural Rights: Right to LIFE, Right to LIBERTY ( so No to Slavery ) and Right to PROPERTY.
2. Which is an elaboration of the General Principle known as the Golden Rule/Law of Reciprocity,
that had the Status of Divine Law ( because of Jesus of Nazareth ).
3. And later there was More Elaboration,resulting in the ideas of the DECLARATION of the RIGHTS of MAN ( human rights) (1789) by LAFAYETTE ( French ).
95% of DECISIONS are DETERMINED by the SUBCONSCIOUS PART of the MIND
It means people decide and believe due to ideas,experiences that are in our subconscious: all three of them had received a Christian education,where they had been taught:
a. People of WHATEVER state and group have Equal Dignity because All were born with a soul in the IMAGE of GOD.
b. This idea does NOT appear in Any Other Religion Today or Before (except Judaism), and certainly not in Islam.
c. So because of them being in the Image of God: they are entitled to being treated by the LAW:”Love your Neighbor like Yourself”. ( Golden Rule ).
ALL 3 of THEM were in accord that the 3 natural laws were for all humanity
BUT
1.They also believed that WHITES were More Intelligent than other races.
2.However they never advocated Discrimination ( Negation of the Right to Life,to Liberty,to Property) based on Race.
Today, nobody says:”Let us deny some rights to people because they have DOWN SYNDROME or DEMENTIA”. They would have agreed.
FOR EXAMPLE
Kant believed whites were superior to non-whites, and also that MEN were SUPERIOR to WOMEN ( meaning essentially that Men were More Intelligent ),
“On Dealing with Kant’s Sexism and Racism”
https://philarchive.org/archive/KLEODW
VOLTAIRE AND THE JEWS
Voltaire disliked them, and said that in many ways,they were the most detestable people on earth….but the was Never in Favor of Denying the 3 Natural Rights of Humans to them.
Brando says
I forgot to add that Hume,Voltaire and Kant were EX-Christians when they expounded their ideas
Infidel says
The silver lining in Raisi’s election is that no matter how servile our islamo-Leftists are to Iran, he’ll still not sit w/ us. Of course, that doesn’t stop our morons from lifting the sanctions
Jim says
None of this matters to Joe and the left. They have made up their mind and are not going to listen to rational arguments.They want to make concessions to Iran in return for empty promises and that is it. They can always say it is not their fault that Iran did not keep their promises.
john smith says
It seems to me that the mullah’s have taken a leaf out of the Democrats book on how to run an election.
AS CORRUPT AS HELL.
somehistory says
There is a Bible verse that says, “There is no one doing good. They are all alike corrupt.” So, your thoughts, John Smith, are in line with the Bible. As is your custom.
john smith says
Well thank you so much for complement Somehistory.
gregbeetham says
This Raisi is behaving just like the murdering terrorist he is and Biden, if he had any brains left, would have nothing to do with him, or Iran. What he should do is take some lessons from Israel on how to deal with Iran.
Walter Sieruk says
Rasis has been justifiably accused of being guilty of “crimes against humanity.”
Walter Sieruk says
Iran’s President,-elect Rasis sure has much gall , lying Islamic gall, to say he is a “defender of human rights.”
For that sadistic cruel murderous fiend is ,in reality a blatant violator of human rights in and despicable vicious ways That liar and hypocrite was and is behind many ruthless abuses of basic rights o of human beings.
For example of the many heinously evils outcome s of that Islamic “revolution” is the extremely cruel, brutal and demonic misogyny of this hideous Islamic regime. Not only against women but even young girls. As explained by a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who defected to the West and now lives in America his book also informs the reader about the malicious and murderous affront girls in Iran’s Evin prison which reads that those in power ,the “paraded teenage girls in front in front of me as they led them to their deaths. These girls were barely out of their childhood, barely old enough to think of themselves, much less form thoughts against the state. They knew nothing about the machinations of politics. They were innocent in every sense of the word and certainty innocent of trumped –up charges that led to their imprisonment. Yet they suffered fates too brutal for even the most vicious criminal. ..Their few remaining moments of life had been filled with the level of abuse that few can imagine…The author further states “They tortured and killed young girls, in God’s name and before their execution they raped them because they believed that if a girl dies virgin, she will go to heaven, and they wanted to deny them this reward.” [1]
This affront against human rights is as malice -filled and viciously wicked as can possibly be.
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili. Pages 2,3. 117.
Walter Sieruk says
That despicable, vicious and President -elect of Iran has also been ,justifiably called the “hangman of Iran” which is a very fitting title for him. As during the 1980’s he was the chief of that Islamic regimes “”Death Committee” which was responsible for the murder of many people.
Still that murderous malicious fiend has the lying gall to call himself a “defender of human rights What a liar Rasis is.
Walter Sieruk says
What an outright liar Rasis is, for he said the he is “a defender of human rights.” For that future President of Iran is .For he upholds Sharia law, which is a brutal cruel harsh law that is foundation law of that oppressive Islamic “mullah regime” of Iran.
Sharia law denies basic human rights.
Furthermore, it should be made known that the actual origin of Sharia law is revealed in a Time –Life book with the title MESOPOTAMIA: THE MIGHTY KINGS copyright 1995. The point is this history book about the ancient pagan world of Mesopotamia informs the reader that “many Islamic laws resemble the Babylon and Assyrian forebears.” .page 150.
There is the above and other references imply that such pagan teachings were incorporated into the religion that Muhammad manufactured and then started. Thus this further reveals that a lot of ancient paganism is part of the whole religion of Islam.
In other words, ancient paganism makes up much of Islam. Therefore Islam with its Sharia law law is a hoax.
James Lincoln says
And I had thought that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was bad…
tim gallagher says
This maggot seems about right to lead a shit of a country like Iran. His background as a mass murdering scumbag is no surprise at all. In the same way that piece of crap Khan has made it to the top of the greasy pole in Pakistan, a murderous piece of trash like this scumbag is exactly what I would expect to have running Iran. No decent human being will ever be found running Muslim countries. Erdogan is another example of a loathsome individual who seems just right to run Turkey. These scum are the type of leaders that Islam inevitably produces.
gravenimage says
Introducing Iran’s New President Ebrahim Raisi: A Former Judge of the Merciless Hanging Variety
……………
Barbarian.