Meanwhile, he continues to utter genocidal threats against Israel.
Note also that the famed doctrine of taqiyya originated with Shi’ites. As The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran explains, the concept of taqiyya was formulated during the time of the sixth Shi’ite Imam, Jafar al-Sadiq, in the middle of the eighth century, when the Shi’ites were being persecuted by the Sunni caliph al-Mansur. Taqiyya allowed Shi’ites to pretend to be Sunnis in order to protect themselves from Sunnis who were killing Shi’ites. Until the conversion of Persia to Shi’ism, taqiyya was an important element of Shi’ite survival. Sunnis, in the majority almost everywhere, would not infrequently take it upon themselves to cleanse the land of those whom they referred to as Rafidites, or rejecters: those who rejected the caliphates of Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman.
But of course the idea that Khamenei could be employing it, why, that would be “Islamophobic.”
“Khamenei: West would not be able to stop Iran from going nuclear,” JNS, June 11, 2023:
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday that Western powers would not be able to prevent his country from obtaining nuclear weapons.
He added, according to state media, “Accusations about Tehran seeking nuclear weapons are a lie and they know it. We do not want nuclear arms because of our religious beliefs. Otherwise, they [the West] would not have been able to stop it.”…
Khamenei also said, “There is nothing wrong with the agreement [with the West], but the infrastructure of our nuclear industry should not be touched.”
Taking to Twitter, he reiterated his stance that Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons and argued that the country’s “enemies” don’t want the nuclear program to succeed because “our advancement in the nuclear industry is actually a key to making scientific progress in various fields.”
He said in a Twitter post minutes later that the regime in Tehran is opposed to nuclear weapons because they are “used to commit mass destruction. We strongly oppose mass destruction. It violates religion, and it is contradictory to Islam. That includes any type of WMD: atomic, chemical or any other possible types.”
In 2013, Khamenei said that if Israel attacks Iran, “we will turn Tel Aviv and Haifa into wastelands,” a position echoed in recent years by other Iranian officials.
On June 8, the Iranian cleric called for Israel’s destruction in a Twitter post, saying that “the only remedy is for it to perish and expire.”…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Nukes are no more contradictory to islam than other effective weapons that didn’t exist at the time the qur’an and sunnah were put together. Just like muslim armies happily graduated from camel-archers and horsemen to cannons, guns and other more advanced weaponry as time progressed, they’d be just as happy to have nukes, as Pakistan does
Now if only they were as accepting of “bida” in areas other than just weaponry, which allows a more efficient execution of jihad
Lion heart says
Nukes are contradictory to Islam ? 😄😂😂😂ok umami say that to the useful idiots called the leftists but don’t embarrass yourself before the Canadian Christians originally from Iraq ( like myself ) who have 14-century catastrophic experience and suffering from Islam more then any other nation on earth
VictorMc says
The ONLY reason this bearded wonder comes out with this sort of trash is that he knows (been advised by his marginally more sensible military men) That simply to deal with ANY Iranian threat Israel could deal with them from space ALONE they would never even see what hits them. Israel and America have mapped out the whole country over time millimetre by millimetre. PLEASE PLEASE stop giving airtime to these Mullahs. They are now simply a bore. They will do nothing they are a ‘talking shop.’ Rather like the UN.
Westman says
Has anyone noticed that in his claim that, “We do not want nuclear arms because of our religious beliefs”, Khamenei never quotes anything from the Quran or extensive Hadiths?
If anything, Islam’s, “holy writings”, encourages the mass slaughter of unbelievers and predicts it will mass slaughter the Jews in the end times.
Khamenei is a joker dictator who loves to poke made up stuff and phoney threats at the US and Israel to get attention. He is joining economically with the Arabs to unseat the US dollar yet will never be trusted by them. He is composed of fractals of evil, each representing the death of one of his own citizens, killed to maintain his power.
OLD GUY says
Islam is a political tool not a religion.