One of the many problems with theocratic rule is that the top dog has the authority to make decisions for the whole state based on personal beliefs as long as those beliefs do not constitute heresy. In Islam, that allows for a wide latitude of dangerous rulings.
The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Hosseini Khamenei, is a case in point. Recently, in his nationally televised Nowruz speech marking the start of the Persian New Year, Khamenei explained to listeners why he and his government adamantly refused to accept medical aid from the United States as the coronavirus runs unchecked throughout Iran.
(By the way, the Islamic regime also rejected help from Médecins Sans Frontières [Doctors Without Borders], ejecting a team that had already landed in Isfahan to set up a fifty bed field hospital with the excuse that they were not needed since the epidemic was “well under control.” ) Khamenei went on to say that the US government could not be trusted. He gave credence to the outlandish conspiracy theory that the US military had cooked up the coronavirus specifically to target the Iranian people’s genome, and that to let them into Iran now would be like letting the fox into the henhouse. How much more damage might Iran’s greatest enemy do to Iran (i.e., to the governmental regime) should they have hands-on access to millions of vulnerable people?
As he waxed eloquent about the US administrative, military and intelligence services pouring all their energies into destroying the Islamic Republic, Khamenei revealed a bit of his Muslim perspective on international relations. Iran, he conceded, had many human enemies (all of the infidel countries who are part of the sanctions coalition). But, he also added, the country also faced many demonic enemies — in Islam, these are known as jinn — and worst of all, the jinn and infidel human governments are working in partnership with each other:
“…There are enemies who are demons and there are enemies who are humans, and they help one another. The intelligence services of many countries cooperate with one another against us… Today, our most evil enemy – the enemy of the Islamic Republic [of Iran] – is America.”
When official Iranian news agencies first reported on the Ayatollah’s speech, they left out his comments on the jinn and their partnership with America, Israel and other infidel nations against Iran.
But the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Cyber Division posted that same day the full video of Khamenei’s speech along with two video clips from “respected theologians” to support the Supreme Leader’s claims concerning the demons and humans conspiring together. Entitled “The Supreme Leader’s Important Hint Regarding The Western-Hebrew Spy Apparatuses’ Use Of Infidel Demons To Strike Iran,” the post quoted Shi’ite seminary lecturers, Ali Akbar Raefi-Pour and Hojatoleslam Valiollah Naghi-Pour are using demons in order to steal classified documents from the Iranian Defense Ministry, in separate video clips.
Rafei-Pour declares in his teaching that “The Israeli Mossad is officially and insistently using demons to read the other side’s military thinking, to read the enemy chief of staff’s plans, and to carry out intelligence operations.” As proof that what this theologian says is true, not only of Israel but also of the United States, the IRGC Cyber Division points to the 2016 Hollywood film Suicide Squad to demonstrate that the Pentagon and associated intelligence agencies “…are using demons in order to steal classified documents from the Iranian Defense Ministry.” In the film, a top-secret US agency coerces the Enchantress, an otherworldly witch (= jinni) to dematerialize, travel instantly to Iran’s most heavily guarded “weapons ministry vault” in Tehran, steal its military’s top secret plans, and return to the Pentagon, plopping them on the desk in front of America’s top general. Hollywood, apparently unwittingly, let slip the secret that the USA is indeed employing demons to debilitate and ultimately incapacitate the Islamic Republic of Iran. You can see the proof for yourself in the clip below:
Meanwhile, in the Cyber Division’s second posted clip, also undated, Naghi-Pour asserted confidently, “Israel wanted to use demonic force to infiltrate the intelligence systems of Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas. They did not succeed, and they [the Israelis] are still wondering why not, because it is well known that the Jews are experts in sorcery and in creating relationships with demons.”
Those evil, satanically-inspired Jews! Does not the Qur’an say that Allah has cursed them for their unbelief (2:88; 4:46) and made their hearts hard so that in the vast majority you will always find treachery (5:13)? Are not the Jews recipients of Allah’s retribution, some having been turned into apes and pigs due to their slavery to demons (5:60)? Are they not strongest in hatred against the Muslims (5:82). Allah declares that they are of insolent character (17:4) and have forged lies against Allah in order to turn away from Islam (61:7). For this reason, they have turned to the dark side, becoming experts in sorcery and demonology so that they may continue to rule the world by the power of the devil.
Such is the mindset that infects hundreds of millions of Muslims. Anti-Semitism is not a mere transient bigotry which happens to inflame a portion of the Muslim world today. It is woven extensively throughout the fabric of the Qur’an and Sunna. To remove it from Islam would be to unravel the religion itself. This hatred of the Jews, and its sister hatred of all other infidels, stems from the deep-seated doctrine of al wala’ w’al bara’, “loyalty and repudiation,” which demands of every Muslim that he shows himself unswervingly loyal to all that Allah deems good and that he earnestly repudiates all that Allah deems evil. And what can be more evil than those who partner with demons to fight against Allah and his religion?
Regardless of whether Khamenei and his henchmen actually believe that Western and Israeli leaders are working hand in glove with the jinn to plot against Iran, they are not above using this theological conspiracy to paint themselves as beleaguered saints fighting against overwhelming evil forces to protect the poor masses of the Islamic Republic. In this way, they hope to distract their people from the reality of their own callous, incompetent leadership and greedy plunder of the country’s limited resources to line their own pockets.
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Frank Anderson says
I will leave to those better qualified professionally to diagnose the people in control of Iran. But, in my opinion and observation, They Are NUTS!
gravenimage says
Yep.
Mural says
Using demons to steal documents? ROFL. This guy is a stand-up comedian in the making.
Frank Anderson says
Mural, if the leaders of Iran did not have nuclear weapons and a strong desire to use them to bring back the missing twelfth imam, and tens, hundreds or even thousands of thousands of people ready to kill themselves in order to kill us, Ii could be food for a comedy. But these people are too dangerous to dismiss.
I may be in a minority, possibly a very small minority, who believe that Iran has some nuclear weapons and is just stalling for time to accumulate the number it wants before starting to use them. It defies all reason, logic and history to me that I should believe they are still working on those weapons after spending decades and tens of billions of dollars building the generations of centrifuges, the heavy water production, the nuclear reactors and all the other test and production facilities, that make any comparable “third world” nuclear program look paltry. NO other country that wanted nuclear weapons that was allowed to work unimpeded by destruction of their nuclear facilities (Libya, Iraq and Syria) has failed to produce and test them. South Africa tested nuclear weapons before ending the past regime. There is no reason for Iran to publicize its possession of nuclear weapons when it can buy the services of cash starved North Korea to assist or do its design, production and testing.
I with all respect and courtesy to you suggest this is a good time to fight hard to avoid laughing at clowns who want to die in the process of killing us.
Mural says
Totally agree. Point taken, Frank.
bewhitebarry says
No, I would not say Nuts, bur rather it is what happens when you marry your cousins for a couple of thousand years.
They have a badly damaged genome and it has affected them mentally.
It would be interesting to get an IQ test done on a significant number or Iranians.
Their rocketry has probably been mainly designed by the Nth Koreans as Iranians are frequentlt at tests.
Frank Anderson says
Barry, My opinion: Iran is paying for NK’s rocket and nuclear programs. Is there a better way to avoid the publicity and “attention” that having the tests done in Iran would draw? A bomb or a rocket tested in NK is just as helpful to Iran’s purposes as one tested in Iran. Notice the recent change in NK rockets from liquid to solid fuel. Watch that show up in Iran soon.
David says
Khomeini is an islamaniac, no doubt. Does he think everyone is as crazy as he is?
Frank Anderson says
David, time and again in history minorities have oppressed majorities. I refer to Nazi Germany because I have read a lot about it in about 55 years. It’s a good sample or model to compare. How many real, fanatical, committed Nazis did it take to command Germany? Hitler was diagnosed as insane at the end of WWI and yet was allowed to become unfettered dictator of Germany and bring about its destruction and deaths of somewhere in the order of 50 to 70 million people, before nuclear weapons were invented for use.
Islam has shown for 1400 years how to oppress, enslave and kill. How many muslim societies have collapsed to become Western style democracies? What is called liberalization or reform in some countries trying to buy time and assistance from the West, is a show straight out of the playbook of muslim deception. The most powerful, persuasive and authoritative book I suggest as the first of many to read is Mark Gabriel’s The Unfinished Battle. Gabriel is one of a number of muslims who saw the light and quit.
By the time 1.5 milliard/US billion muslims see the light, many of us will not live. Demography is at best a slow acting weapon that could cost many lives waiting for it to work. And it is worth remembering that it was only in the last months of WWII that enough Germans saw a reason and created an opportunity to try to remove Hitler. When that failed, there were enough fanatics to continue the war until they were all crushed.
Boromir's Horn says
This regime appears to be in it’s final throes. Many of their “respected” leaders have been sickened by the coronovirus, which further lends itself to conspiracies. In an attempt to supply cover for their incompetence, they’re desperately blaming witchcraft and sorcery.
Isn’t it telling that we now have ex Obama admin, Biden and Sanders all trying to throw them a lifeline?
Bill says
We have a saying where I’m from: the hen that cackled loudest laid the egg. In other words, the one that’s blaming others is the one that is truly doing it.
Keys says
Scapegoating.
It’s an ancient, widespread evil.
Used on Trump by Democrats; used by the Chinese, used by … .
Blame the Jews; blame … .
gravenimage says
America and The Enchantress Work Together to Undermine Iran!
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So now Iran is basing their foreign policy on a comic book movie that got a rousing 27% on Rotten Tomatoes?
Can’t make this stuff up…
ElderlyZionist says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82cdnAUvsw8
gravenimage says
🙂
Tim Carlo says
Well, sometimes these idiots like Ali Hossieni Kockamami get in a bad mood if he hasn’t had sex with his goat in the morning. It’s like us not having our cup of coffee in the morning…just sayin’
David says
You have to wonder if modern Iranians believe the clap-trap nonsense of their islamic leaders. There has to be a takeover fairly soon, and get back to living in the modern world, like they did before 1979. This is what happens when islam is allowed to take over. Things never go well.
Khomeini is making himself look a fool. Good!
Frank Anderson says
David, please consider MY opinion. You are not alone in anticipating the internal collapse of the regime in Iran. I think that is an error, which is described as “delusion of reprieve” by Holocaust survivor and MD/Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl in Man’s Search for Meaning. That delusion pretends the problem will solve itself so that no action is required other than waiting. It took 70 years for the Soviet Union to collapse. Cuba is going strong in Communist dictatorship and squalor after 60 years. North Korea is rocking along in misery and oppression after 75; and China, where to start counting?
What kind of harm will be done to you and me while we wait?
OLD GUY says
Oh but does he love his POWER over others. He is a true dictator by every description, leading his country against the great satin’s of the world, using the islamic religion as his justification of control. He’s no different than Adolf, spewing his superior race and the extermination of the jews and anyone else that gets in his way or he dislikes. Kahnenei is a criminal in every aspect of the law who cares only about his power. May the people of Iran overthrow his regime and form a democratic form of government and return to the lifestyle they had prior to islamic rule.
dhans says
I hate it when you give away all our top military secrets like this. Next you are going to give away all the secret cures to the Corona virus. We have been hording all the Zam Zam water, camel urine, fly wings, and Aja dates we can get our hands on.
gravenimage says
Heh!