In a post-Trump world, Iran continues to be emboldened: “Iran’s incoming President Ebrahim Raisi has promised to take action to lift harsh sanctions imposed by the United States.” This should be easy: Iran said last month that the Biden administration agreed to lift “1,040 sanctions from the Trump era.”
Raisi has ordered the killing of thousands in mass executions and the torture of pregnant women. But he calls himself a “human rights defender.”
Iran has been celebrating its “victory” and vision in the face of Biden’s impotent leadership. This is only the beginning. Raisi threatened in his speech that “he will enact that change based on revolutionary tenets outlined by the supreme leader.”
Today, our dear country is thirsty for valuable service & it needs competent, jihadi, intelligent, courageous management that can use the manifest and hidden capabilities of the nation, which are much greater in scope than the problems, for constructive work and endeavor.
— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) August 3, 2021
I thank the Omniscient, Omnipotent God Who helped Iran again with His grace & benevolence, to be honored in the test of elections. Our esteemed nation displayed the authority of its vote over the country’s affairs with its honorable presence in complex, difficult circumstances.
— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) August 3, 2021
“Iran’s Raisi promises to lift sanctions, improve public trust,” by Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera, August 3, 2021:
Tehran, Iran – Iran’s incoming President Ebrahim Raisi has promised to take action to lift harsh sanctions imposed by the United States and bridge the gap with dissatisfied Iranians but said he will not tie the country’s future to the West.
After being officially endorsed on Tuesday by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Iran’s eighth president, the 60-year-old signalled that he will continue talks to restore the country’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers from which the US unilaterally withdrew three years ago.
“We will certainly be after lifting cruel sanctions, but we will certainly not make the people’s livelihoods and the economy conditioned, and won’t tie it to the will of foreigners,” he said during his speech at the televised ceremony in the capital, Tehran, which was also attended by other top officials and military commanders.
A sixth round of negotiations with deal signatories in the Austrian capital ended in June, after which Iran signalled that talks can only continue after Raisi assumes office this week.
Enrique Mora, the European Union’s top representative in the Vienna talks, is expected to attend Raisi’s inauguration on Thursday, a move heavily criticised by Iran’s regional rival, Israel.
While there are expectations a day may be set to resume the talks following Raisi’s swearing-in, rhetoric by Iran and the US over the past week has suggested the two countries’ demands are at odds and both may need to make major compromises for the talks to lead to an agreement.
Focus on corruption, economy
Raisi will also take power days after the US, the United Kingdom and Israel accused Iran of targeting an oil tanker linked to an Israeli businessman with a drone, killing two crew members, including a British and a Romanian national.Iran has rejected the allegations, saying it would “respond decisively” if other countries decide to attack its interests.
In his speech on Tuesday, Raisi said the people of Iran wish for a change in the status quo, and that he will enact that change based on revolutionary tenets outlined by the supreme leader.
“The people have called for a government that would make up for their damaged trust, return that trust and bridge the gap between the people and the government,” he said, while also pledging to fight corruption….
Raisi’s victory in the controversial June 18 presidential elections was also a central talking point during Tuesday’s ceremony.Raisi said the people created a “glorious spectacle” on election day, sending a message of support to the Islamic Republic and calling for justice and an end to inequality and corruption.
According to official figures, turnout was 48.8 percent, the lowest in any presidential race since the 1979 revolution that birthed the theocratic establishment. Also for the first time since the revolution, the share of void votes was the second-largest after Raisi, who won by a landslide.
The election cycle was also marked by the wide disqualification of reformist and moderate candidates, several of whom protested against their disqualification but encouraged the people to vote nevertheless…..
mortimer says
When the Iranians view the crumbling, bumbling 98-pound weakling in the White House, they interpret a Allah-sent opportunity for JIHAD to move forward. They rejoice at the confused weakling stage-managed by handlers and manipulated probably by Barack Hussein Obama.
Keys says
Yes !
Barack Hussein Obama Is obscenely celebrating more than his 60th birthday at his $12 million house on Martha’s Vineyard. Cameras need to be there to capture this event.
Right or wrong, always reward those supporting Obama’s agenda, and punish, overtly or covertly, all who do not support that agenda. Things are going well with puppet Biden, and we have three and and half years ahead ! Time to celebrate and shore up connections.
gravenimage says
Yes–this has emboldened the Mullahs.
Walter Sieruk says
That despicable, vicious and President of Iran has also been ,justifiably called the “hangman of Iran” which is a very fitting title for him. As during the 1980’s he was the chief of that Islamic regimes “”Death Committee” which was responsible for the murder of many people.
Rasis has been justifiably accused of being guilty of “crimes against humanity.”
Still that murderous malicious fiend has the lying gall to call himself a “defender of human rights What a liar
Walter Sieruk says
Iran’s President Rasis sure has much gall , lying Islamic gall, to say he is a “defender of human rights.”
For that sadistic cruel murderous fiend is ,in reality a blatant violator of human rights in and despicable vicious ways That liar and hypocrite was and is behind many ruthless abuses of basic rights o of human beings.
For example of the many heinously evils outcome s of that Islamic “revolution” is the extremely cruel, brutal and demonic misogyny of this hideous Islamic regime. Not only against women but even young girls. As explained by a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who defected to the West and now lives
in America his book also informs the reader about the malicious and murderous affront girls in Iran’s Evin prison which reads that those in power ,the “paraded teenage girls in front in front of me as they led them to their deaths. These girls were barely out of their childhood, barely old enough to think of themselves, much less form thoughts against the state. They knew nothing about the machinations of politics. They were innocent in every sense of the word and certainty innocent of trumped –up charges that led to their imprisonment. Yet they suffered fates too brutal for even the most vicious criminal. ..Their few remaining moments of life had been filled with the level of abuse that few can imagine…The author further states “They tortured and killed young girls, in God’s name and before their execution they raped them because they believed that if a girl dies virgin, she will go to heaven, and they wanted to deny them this reward.” [1]
This affront against human rights is as malice -filled and viciously wicked as can possibly be.
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili. Pages 2,3. 117.
gravenimage says
‘competent, jihadi, intelligent, courageous management’
……………..
One of these things is not like the others…
Infidel says
???
gravenimage says
Thanks, Infidel.