Ebrahim Raisi, the president of Iran known best for his bloody past as a hanging judge, responsible for the deaths of thousands of Iranian dissidents, recently spoke by telephone to the Butcher of Damascus, President Bashar Al-Assad. More on the conversation can be found here: “Global Winds Blowing Away from ‘Arrogance, Zionism,’ Raisi Tells Assad,” i24 News, April 9, 2023:
The international balance of power is changing in favor of “the axis of resistance” and to the detriment of “global arrogance and Zionism,” the Iranian president told his Syrian counterpart in a phone call, local media reported.
Ebrahim Raisi took aim at the United States and Israel, the respective “Great Satan” and “Little Satan” of Iran’s Islamist ideology, as he caught up with Bashar Al-Assad, whose regime in Damascus is a proxy of Tehran.
The Iranians are well aware that while their military aid to Syria played an important role in Al-Assad’s ultimate victory, Al-Assad no longer has need of that miliary aid. Syria is being wooed back into the fold of the Arab states, several of which, including the UAE, Jordan, and Egypt, have sent emissaries to Damascus in recent months, while Al-Assad has visited both the UAE and Oman. Saudi Arabia is on the verge of re-establishing diplomatic relations with Syria. The Syrians no longer need Iranian military support; they need money, and lots of it. But the impoverished regime in Tehran cannot possibly provide Al-Assad with the kind of financial help he will need if he is to reconstruct his devastated country. Estimates of the amount of money it would take simply to put Syria back in the condition it was in in 2011, just before the civil war started, are upwards of $400 billion. The only countries that have that kind of money to spend are the rich Arab oil-and-gas states – Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar. Iran, on the other hand, has an economy that is in free fall, with the Iranian riyal having lost 95% of its value in the last three years, and Tehran can contribute nothing to Syria’s reconstruction.
Raisi adduced the alleged “crimes of the Zionist regime” as further evidence of its impending collapse, adding that Iran will “take revenge on the Zionist regime” for its bombardments of targets in Syria.
The “crimes of the Zionist regime,” as far as Raisi is concerned, are the IAF’s bombing of Iranian and Hezbollah bases inside Syria, with devastating results, including a flurry of attacks in early April on two military airbases in the Homs governorate, an attack on the Aleppo airport, and the killing of four high-ranking IRGC members. Iran’s response was to threaten a terrible vengeance, but to do nothing.
Israeli planes keep destroying both storehouses of weapons brought to Syria from Iran, for transfer to Hezbollah in Lebanon, and weapons manufacturing facilities inside Syria, where Iranians are producing precision-guided missiles, also for delivery to Hezbollah. How Israel’s extraordinarily successful campaign of aerial bombing – with hundreds of targets hit all over Syria – could be adduced as evidence of the Jewish state’s “impending collapse” is impossible to fathom.
Israel has conducted numerous aerial raids in Syria, typically targeting Iran-aligned terrorists and weapon convoys bound for Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based proxy of Iran and an antisemitic terrorist organization sworn to Israel’s destruction.
Also on Sunday, Raisi spoke to his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune, stating that “Today, more than ever, the necessity of cooperation and forming a united front of Islamic countries against the Zionist regime and in firm support of the Palestinian nation is felt.”
While Raisi speaks to Algerian President Abdel Madjid Tebboune about the “necessity of cooperation” among all the Islamic states, to form a united front against “the Zionist regime,” Tebboune replied that he hoped “with the cooperation of Islamic countries to free the Palestinian nation from the oppression of the Zionists.” But Algeria is itself an obstacle to Islamic unity in North Africa. Algeria.has been making intermittent war on Morocco for years, in an attempt to prevent Rabat from incorporating the Western Sahara into its domain. It is now involved in another dispute with Morocco, this time over a gas pipeline running from Nigeria to the Mediterranean; Morocco has signed an agreement with Lagos which would have the pipeline end in Morocco; this has enraged the Algerians. Algeria, no matter who runs it, is not about to form a “united front” with its rival Morocco on any matter; Morocco is not about to lessen its profitable trade and security relations with Israel, a product of its membership in the Abrahamic Accords. And Algeria has also been meddling in the affairs of its eastern neighbor, Tunisia, where it was recently denounced by Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, the leader of the National Salvation Front, the largest opposition bloc formed against President Kais Saied. Chebbi warned of an “imminent collapse” threatening the country amid a “deteriorating economic and social situation,” and called on Algeria not to interfere in Tunisia’s internal affairs.
Raisi looks forward to an Islamic world that will unite to make war on the Jewish state and destroy it. But the four Arab countries that are members of the Abraham Accords have not pulled out of those accords that bind them closer to the Jewish state, despite their unhappiness over the scenes of Israeli police using batons against rioters inside Al-Aqsa Mosque. There are signs that the war in Yemen may finally end, once Saudi Arabia and Iran put pressure on their respective proxies in that war-torn impoverished country to end hostilities. Raisi, like so many Iranian officials, keeps forgetting that the Sunni states will always regard Shi’a Iran with deep suspicion; the Sunni-Shi’a split goes back to the first century of Islam, and today the Shi’a continue to be persecuted by the majority Sunnis in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia. Worldwide, the Shi’a constitute only 10-15% of the world’s Muslims. Ebrahim Raisi refuses to recognize this reality. When, and if, the Israelis attack the Islamic Republic, as they likely will have to do so, given how far along the Iranians are in being able to manufacture nuclear weapons, and they will have to go it alone, it seems, given that the Biden administration has shown it is not prepared to act militarily, does anyone doubt that among the Sunni states of the Gulf there will be not rage, but much mafficking that the Shi’a, those “Rafidite dogs,” as some uber-Sunnis call them, have had the stuffing knocked out of them, and their pretensions to dominating the Middle East through the creation of a “Shi’a crescent” will, after Israel is done with them, lie in smoldering ruins?
Walter Sieruk says
Ebrahim Rasis , who is the President, despot of that hostile tyrannical Islamic regime by his declaring that ” Zionist Sates is collapsing ‘ is either in a condition of mental denial about endurance of the State of Israel or ,on the other hand, he’s desperately attempting to distract the Iranian people as well as the people of different nations of the world from the possibly that the brutal cruel oppressive and murderous tyranny that has the tile of “The Islamic Republic ” is starting to collapse.
For That horrendously oppressive malicious and deadly Islamic regime of Iran, denies the Iranian, people their basic natural human rights.
Therefore, the Iranian people are right and righteous by engaging in bitter and strong protests against those cruel malicious and murderous tyrants in power of that cruel and oppressive Sharia based dictatorship of that Islamic regime of Iran.
In other words, those vicious despots of that horrendously horrific Islamic regime have provoked the people excessively too far.
In addition, the people who trapped in and forced to exist in the Islamic dictatorship of Iran might not know about the intellect philosopher John Locke, but his ideas do apply to them. For Mr. Locke taught that any good government has the duty to ensure the security and safety of its citizens. Yet when a tyranny is the people in the tyrannical government do have every natural and ethical right to overthrow that terrible and oppressive tyranny/ government.
For as a former Muslim who revealed an important reality when he wrote “The Islamic republic of Iran exists and operates as what every fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by sharia …” He further exposes that “What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premise; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1]
Those two words that author used “merciless tyranny” to describe that vicious cruel brutal oppressive Islamic and murderous Islamic tyrannical regime is both appropriate and fitting. Just look at those brutal horrendous malicious murders by the state Islamic police and of so many Iranian who are justly and rightly protesting the severe human rights abuses cruel oppression of that tyrannical Islamic regime.
Indeed, the tyrants of Khamenei and Raisi are very guilty and have the blood of many innocent people on their wicked hands.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 347.
Walter Sieruk says
The entire foundation of that tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran ,with its official title of ”The Islamic Republic of Iran” might be collapsing since it’s entirely based on the Qur’ an which Islamic and its Sharia stands on.
Likewise and therefore a very important question needs to be raised , which is “Is the Qu ran truly Divine or is it a hoax ?
The answer to that question had been revealed on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Qu‘ran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Qu’ran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Qu ‘ran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.”
Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Quran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran.
Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.” In addition , in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Eethi Caner has shown that the Quran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses. For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.”
In conclusion, the Qu ‘ran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax and those dictators of that Islamic tyranny of Iran has a false foundation upon with their regime is build.
In other words, that Islam regime of Iran is built upon a foundation of sand.
FYI says
1]If only Iranians followed the actual Biblical God they would know ,from prophecy ,the dire consequences facing them.But sadly they have allah the ‘BEST OF DECEIVERS’ koran 3:54 instead,allah the impersonator of the Biblical God.
Surely al lah has the fate of iran in the palms of his TWO RIGHT HANDS and will lead iran to victory just as allah{=hubaal=baal}DESTROYED David when goliath won in battle.
2]Israel is like God’s Rubicon
Israel does not simply exist for the Jews:It was reestablished in 1948 for the central role it WILL be playing in the Parousia and the Justice of God.REVS 16:16.This is why attempts to destroy Israelalways fail.
You are NOT ALLOWED to interfere with God’s plans and allah should know that by now.
3}This is even why there are supremacist Jews in Israel.One should be a Torah Jew rather than a talmud Jew.
I support the existential right of Israel to exist but not bad behavior by the govt/supremacists.
4}This business of the Third Temple:
“Get out of my way goyim..our Messiah is coming”Actually I hate to break it you..
5}Meanwhile I must inform those who have ‘eyes to see and ears to hear’ of
GOD’S SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION{Codename Matthew 13 v49-50}
which is due in the area shortly.
I have seen the plans written down in the Book of Revelation.Talk about SHOCK and AWE.
Apparently,the Commander-in-Chief of the Heavenly Legions,Jesus Christ defeats the one referred to in 2 Thessalonians 2 v 4 who {according to some prophetic sources}is heading for Rome{Catholic prophecy of la salette:”Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the antichrist”.}where surely pope saintfrancis will bend down wash his feet as a sign of his absolutely incredible humility.
But don’t worry:it ends well REVS 19 v 19-21..I know what happens.I read the book.
Jesus Wins..