Biden’s handlers, however, will continue to look for an opening to offer the Islamic regime in Tehran a new appeasement package. Note that Khamenei says that “no Iranian” can accept conditions including Iran abandoning its nuclear program. Yet he readily agreed to Obama’s nuclear deal. What does that tell you about that deal’s ability to restrict Iran’s nuclear program?
“Khamenei tells paramilitary group: ‘Each rioter, each terrorist, must be punished,’” Times of Israel, November 26, 2022:
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saturday that negotiating with the United States would not put an end to the “troubles” that have rocked the Islamic Republic over the past two months and vowed to punish demonstrators….
“Some tell us in newspapers or on the internet that to put an end to the troubles that started a few weeks ago, all that’s needed is to resolve your problem with America and listen to the voice of the nation,” Khamenei said.
“Negotiating will not resolve anything,” he said, in comments broadcast on state television.
“Our problem with America can only be resolved by letting that country hold us to ransom.”
Khamenei said that in order to put an end to hostilities, the US wants Iran to abandon its nuclear program, change its constitution, restrict its influence to inside its borders, and close its defense industries.
“No Iranian can accept such conditions,” he said….
“The problem is not a few rioters in the street, even if each rioter, each terrorist, must be punished,” Khamenei told the large assembly.
“The battlefield is much broader. The main enemy is the global arrogance,” he added, using Iran’s catch-all term for the United States and allies including Israel.
Extolling the military and social virtues of the Basij over the decades, Khamenei said the forces “sacrificed themselves in order to save people from a bunch of rioters and mercenaries,” referring to the recent country-wide unrest. “They sacrificed themselves in order to confront oppression.”…
Khamenei’s comments came a day after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi met with a group of Basij members and praised their efforts to maintain security, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
Iran’s ferocious crackdown on dissent has drawn criticism, with at least 448 people killed and more than 18,000 arrested in the protests and the violent security force response that followed, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group monitoring the demonstrations. Iran has not offered a death toll or a number of those arrested.
Walter Sieruk says
When Ayatollah Ali Khamenei slanderously those brave and courageous people ‘terrorists’ who are revolting against that brutal tyranny denies them their basic human rights of Iran terrorist and vindictively declared rights and “they must punished.”
Khamenei statement shows two things. First this reveals that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
Khamenei , Rasis and those other higher up Muslim tyrants in that cruel ,vicious and murderous Islamic regime have found their “excuse” to harm those people who are only demanding their basic human rights that should never have been taken away from them in the first place.
Second, when Khamenei called those people “terrorists,are are rightly revolting against that horrendously evil oppressive and dead tyranny . Well that exposes what a totally warped twisted Islamic tyrannical mindset he has. Khamenei is looking at the events in Iran in a bizarre “reverse vision.”
Anyway by calling all those good people “terrorists” who righteously and justly revolting against that horrific Islamic regime he is ,in essence, calling good people “evil” and his Islamic dictatorship he must in his Islamic view of things something that is “good.”
So shame to him and disgrace to him. As the Bible reads “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil ; who put darkness for light and light for darkness.” Isaiah 5:20. [N.K.J.V]
Walter Sieruk says
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sure has some gall, Islamic gall, to call all those good people “terrorists”are ,rightly , protesting and even revolting against Islamic tyranny.
For it’s Khamenei and Rasis who are real terrorists . First. they are the actual terrorists because they terrorize and brutalize the Iranian people by and through their vicious and ruthless gangs of thugs in uniform who are called the “Revolutionary Guards” or so called “morally police.”
Second, Khamenei and Rasis are the actural terrorists because they send funds and weapons to violent and murderous jihad terror organizations ,such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
The old saying does apply ,very much , to Khamenei .The saying is when you point your finger at someone there are three more fingers pointing back to you.
Walter Sieruk says
When Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the people who are revolting againt that tyranny “terrorists” and declared that “they must be punished”
That is mentally level of all tyrants .the same type of words that would be spoken by the Communist President of Red China, Xi Jinping if the people terrible oppressed under his regime would engage in a revolt against that tyranny.
Westman says
The evil of an Empire is directly proportional to the brutishness it levels upon the populace. The Iranian government absolutely excels at brutishness while laying the responsibility upon a diety who hasn’t shown up for work in 1400 years.
What a mechanism for abuse – claim every evil action was done for Allah and then gaslight the victims with the notion that it was an, “Allah-written”, destiny.
Historically it is those called “Rabble”, by arrogant elite tyrants, who man the symbolic and sometimes real guillotine that ends an evil regime. Khamenei finds he must kick harder against a resistive “bed of nails” to stay in control. The nails will win, Inshullah.
Keith O says
“Each rioter, each terrorist must be punished”.
Spoken like a true megalomaniac dictator.
John ..Smith says
Is he going to punish the Iranian football team for snubbing and refusing to sing the national anthem during there first match with England. We will have to wait and see.
Keith O says
Probably punish their families instead.
John ..Smith says
Is he going to punish the Iranian football team for snubbing and refusing to sing the national anthem during there first match with England. We will have to wait and see.
James Lincoln says
So, how many years has Iran been “a year or two away” from developing a nuclear weapon?
How close are they now?
Or do they already have one?