My latest in PJ Media:
Thursday was the second anniversary of the killing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani; while the date passed virtually unnoticed in the United States, it was a major event in the Islamic Republic of Iran, featuring numerous threats of revenge from enraged Iranian leaders. One of these stood out from the others: Soleimani’s successor as Quds Force commander declared that the revenge would come from inside the United States.
Iran’s state-controlled Tasnim News Agency reported that Brigadier General Esmaeil Qaani was “delivering a speech to a ceremony in Mashhad” for the anniversary of the “martyrdom” of Soleimani. Qaani was in no mood to be conciliatory. He thundered: “We will prepare ground for the hard revenge against the US from within their homes, as we do not need to be present as supervisors everywhere, wherever is necessary we take revenge against Americans by the help of people on their side and within their own homes without our presence.”
“From within their homes.” It’s not an implausible threat, thanks to Old Joe Biden’s essentially nonexistent Southern border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported on Feb. 3, 2021, that Border Patrol agents near Yuma, Ariz. “arrested a group of 11 Iranian citizens who illegally crossed the border into the United States.” Nor was this a singular incident:
“For the last two fiscal years, Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents have led the nation in apprehending illegal crossers from Iran. Yuma Sector agents apprehended eight Iranian nationals in FY2020, compared to just 14 from all other border patrol sectors combined. So far in FY2021, Yuma Sector agents have apprehend [sic] 14 nationals from Iran.”
It’s unlikely, unfortunately, that Border Patrol agents apprehended every last one of the Iranians who tried to enter the United States illegally across the border from Mexico. It’s entirely possible that agents of the Islamic Republic are in the country now, ready to execute this “revenge.” Qaani offered a chance to avoid the specter of the revenge playing out on American soil: he “went on to say that it would be much wiser for the US to deal with the criminals who assassinated General Soleimani on their own, as it would be much costlier for them if ‘the children of the Resistance Front’ are to take the matter in their own hands and take revenge from the Americans by themselves.”
The “children of the Resistance Front.” Who might they be? They don’t have to be Iranians who crossed the border. Far-Left Antifa rioters have already taken up the notorious Iranian slogan, “Death to America.” Journalist Andy Ngo reported in late August 2020 that “around 700 black bloc militants and their supporters rampaged through Oakland, Cal. They chanted ‘death to America’ while starting fires and smashing cars and buildings.” The week before that, according to Townhall’s Julio Rosas, “An American flag was just burned outside the Kenosha County Courthouse. One woman screams, ‘Death to America!’ and kicks the fence.” An Antifa rioter who is already screaming “Death to America” would be a perfect candidate for carrying out Iran’s “hard revenge” inside the United States.
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Eleanor says
This is not a surprise, with Biden’s “thorough vetting” of Border migrants and Afghani immigrants, and after all, the US did flight train quite a few of the 9/11 hijack pilots. So yes, it is very possible an attack will come from within the country.
mortimer says
The 98-pound weakling, Bribed-man, invites the bullies of the world to kick sand in his face and in the face of all Americans.
Death to America! (sarc/off)
Does the Bribed-man now believe the mullahs’ slogans! Americans are going to die from Iranian jihadists, not from law-abiding Republican patriots.
Walter Sieruk says
So the ayatollahs ,mullahs and imams of Iran as well as Iran’s Revolutionary guards are all terribly outraged because of that US drone strike that killed their warlord general Soleimani and want revenge against American for it.
Well those Muslims of Iran along with the members of the revolutionary guards need to really be awfully outraged at their god , the god of Islam , Allah is actually responsible for the death of Soleimani for according to the Qu ‘ran Allah only used America as his tool to strike Soleimani
For when getting down to basic Quran theology which is the Qu ‘ran based worldview the one who is really to blame and is the cause the death of Soleimani For according to the Qu ‘ran Allah had sent cruel disaster of death upon their beloved general
The Qu ‘ran teaches in Surah 57:22. “No misfortune [disaster] can happen on earth or in your souls but is recorded in a decree [Qu ‘ran ] before [in eternity ] We [Allah] bring it into existence: that is easy for Allah.”
Therefore according the Islam’s “holy book,” the Qu’ran the Islamic god, Allah, is guilty of killing that Iranian general.
gravenimage says
Iran: ‘Hard Revenge’ for Soleimani Killing Will Come From ‘Within’ the U.S.
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Hardly impossible, given the state of our southern border–and the recorded cases of Muslims, including Iranians, flooding in from Mexico.
Of course, this may also just be more saber-rattling intened to terrify the Infidels…
PMK says
The Taliban made a similar threat just recently, promising to flood the country with suicide bombers. I wouldn’t lay all of this at Biden’s feet, however.. The southern border is not the only port of entry. How many Iranians are here right now on ‘student’ visas? I’m not aware that we have ever blocked all Iranians from entering the US. Republicans as well as Democrats cry that we must give asylum to all who ‘helped’ us in Afghanistan. No telling how many jihadists, including Iranians, might have gotten in that way, especially in the rush to evacuate. Any one of them could launch an attack and Iran would claim it got its revenge.
gravenimage says
You are right–this hasn’t all happened oin Biden’s watch–this is a problem of long-standing.
Walter Sieruk says
All this terrible fuss and terrible cry’s for revenge made by Iran’s Muslims clerics of Iran who then also get the Iranian people all worked up into mindset of calling for revenge for the US drone strike that killed that Iranian warlord general is rather inconstant since Muslims do say that they recognize Jesus as a Prophet send by God and claim to respect His teachings ,
For Jesus taught “All who take up the sword will perish by the sword. ”Matthew 26:52.
Therefore if they really do respect Jesus and his teaching they shouldn’t then have a real problem when Soleimani died by the force of violence.
Keys says
If “hard revenge against the US” comes “from within their homes”, this Brigadier General will be on the long list of Iranians due for “over the horizon” attacks.
Westman says
This is pure theater by Gen Qaani. A terrorist attack, tied back to Iran, would cause a snap back in sanctions on Iran and a bias to support Israel’s military.
The louder Iran’s military officials become, it indicates the fear the puppet master, Kahmenei, is experiencing of a possible attack by Israel. When a cornered dog growls and bears its teeth it is not a valid representation of its actual capability.
Threatening the US with state-sponsored terrorism is a risky ploy because it could motivate terrorist(s) who claim they are doing jihad in the name of Iran and then bring retribution upon Iran.
PMK says
Sanctions won’t bother Iran and they will not deter the jihadists. The real danger is that the US government will not respond adequately to such an attack. The original attack on the World Trade Center was meant to knock one tower into the other.. Tens of thousands might have died; Since ‘only’ six people died, Clinton treated it as a ‘criminal” act. After 9/11, George Bush SITLL talked about “:our Muslim friends”. The US will do nothing and cling to the notion of “innocent Muslims”.
Spideyweb1 says
When will we rid the world of the evil ideology know as Islam? May Christ save us from these Islamic devils.
Clifford Fodor says
Because Joe Biden, president of the United State of America, won’t.
Walter Sieruk says
Warlord general Soleimani was a jihad -minded menacing, vicious dangerous death inflecting man therefore it was important and necessary that he was eliminated.
As Thomas Jefferson had ,so wisely , written “With every barbarous people…force is law.”
OLD GUY says
My feelings are if revenge for Soleimani takes place on American soil or against Americans anywhere I would see that as an act of war. America should drop bunker buster bombs and destroy the Iranian government and military. Following that let the islamic/muslim people of the area fight over who and what kind of government they will have in the future, no AID. But a warning that if you attack Americans we will retaliate and destroy you.
noel says
Our government is so naive that open borders will invite a lot of slim into country. The new arrivals are not here for freedom but to try and destroy our country.
somehistory says
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62934/princeton-faculty-member-brags-about-death?goal=0_086cfd423c-971d54cf49-33841753&mc_cid=971d54cf49&mc_eid=189524c5e8
“Princeton Faculty Member Brags About Death Threats Against Trump Admin Envoy [incl. Hussein Mousavian, Mohammad Jafar Mahallati]
by Adam Kredo
Washington Free Beacon
January 9, 2022
“A former Iranian official who is a faculty member at Princeton University recently bragged in an interview about how his hardline government’s death threats against a former top Trump administration official had him and his family “trembling” with fear.
Hussein Mousavian, a former member of Iran’s nuclear negotiating team who works as a Middle East security and nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University, said in a recent interview that the Iranian regime’s threats to murder Brian Hook, the Trump administration’s special envoy for Iran, have heavily impacted Hook’s family life.
“I went to America and an American told me that Brian Hook’s wife can’t sleep, she cries and trembles, she told Brian, ‘They’ll kill you,’ since Hook was a partner in the death of Haj Qassem [Soleimani], that’s how much they were trembling,” Mousavian said, referring to Iran’s vow to kill Hook for his role in the Trump administration’s drone strike that killed Iranian terror leader Soleimani two years ago. Mousavian’s comments were made in a documentary produced and released this month by a company tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps titled 72 hours. His Farsi language remarks were independently translated for the Washington Free Beacon.
Mousavian’s comments have renewed focus on his employment at Princeton, which Iranian dissidents and activists have long criticized due to the former official’s alleged role in Iranian human rights abuses. Mousavian, who regularly travels between Iran and the United States, has been working at Princeton since 2009 and has served in senior roles for the Iranian regime. Mousavian’s knowledge about Iran’s threats toward Hook, which the U.S. government has taken very seriously, according to sources familiar with the situation, demonstrates how Tehran has been able to mainstream its allies into prominent positions at U.S. universities and other American outposts, such as D.C.-based think tanks.
“It’s simply dangerous for any university to employ Mousavian, as he has directly celebrated death threats against Brian Hook and has been implicated in the death of Iranian dissidents in the 1990s,” Alireza Nader, a veteran Iran expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think-tank, told the Free Beacon.”
Perhaps this creep who works at Princton will be involved….Sure sounds as though he would be more than willing.
OLD GUY says
Yes our higher education system has been infiltrated with muslim/islamic supporters over the past 35yrs. The islamic states have donated millions to the endowment funds of our colleges and universities and have then been able to leverage islamic studies and student organizations on our campuses.