As reported by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), “Supreme Leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took to Iran’s Channel 1 on November 1 and reiterated his less than nuanced position on bi-lateral engagement with the United States: “The situation between America and Iran is this: When you chant ‘Death to America!’ it is not just a slogan – it is a policy.”
After carping how this is not the first time he has had to publicly state the obvious and his historically revisionist complaints for it, Iran’s Supreme Lesion deigned to do so again; and, waxing homicidal, railed against the U.S., Israel, and current events:
“For many years, from the 1940s to the 1970s – that is 30 years – the Americans did everything they could do against the Iranian nation. They hit Iran in any way they could – financially, economically, politically, scientifically, and morally.
“If it were not for America’s support, if it were not for the support of U.S. weapons, the corrupt and artificial Zionist regime would have been destroyed in the first week. It would have collapsed. The Americans are behind this.
“In Western countries – in England, France, Italy, and various U.S. states – people took to the streets in large numbers, chanting slogans against Israel and in many cases, against America. This tarnished [Western] reputation. They really do not have any remedy for this. They cannot make excuses for this. That is why we saw some idiot saying that Iran was behind the rallies in England. Perhaps the Basij in London is behind this… Or maybe the Basij of Paris.” [The Basij is part of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.]
You can already hear the Iranian apologists of the Obama and Biden administrations blithely claiming the Supreme Leader “doesn’t really mean it,” and is just posturing for domestic and regional advantage. If this sounds familiar, it is the same garbage their equally “nuanced” predecessors in the western diplomatic corps once said about the genocidal rantings found in Mein Kampf.
Failing – refusing? – to learn the lessons of history, the same heralds of the woke cult believe the Ayatollah’s regime is a suitable partner for a “nuanced” treaty, one capable of differentiating Iran’s “peaceful” development of nuclear power for domestic consumption and that rogue regime’s exportation of terrorism for international slaughter. In their hubris, the nuanced American and European foreign policy gurus believed that, once trust was “restored” with Iran, we could then work with them to curb their exportation and sponsorship of terrorism; and one day make the Supreme Leader’s Iranian regime a tent pole of the international order in the Middle East. Importantly, the trust to be restored was Iran’s in the West.
The Left’s imbecilic engagement with Iran is a case study in the woke cult’s condescension, its wish casting away of narrative crushing reality, and the consequences born by those caught in grip of their far from destructive policies. The Obama administration sided with the Iranian regime over the Iranian people during the Green Revolution, perpetuating and strengthening the tyrannical Ayatollahs. In their feckless chase of a suicidal nuclear agreement with a terrorist regime that we are again reminded, believe death to America is not a slogan but a policy, the Obama and Biden administrations continued to squelch the Iranian peoples’ cries for freedom; and recently led the Biden administration to lessen economic sanctions and release of even more billions of dollars to the barbarous regime, which will put in the service of their insidious aims. This has signaled weakness both to the Ayatollahs and to their sponsored and guided terrorist proxies, like Hamas.
Today, our ally Israel bears the brunt of the horrific consequences of such suicidal “woke” western diplomacy; and the rest of the world roils as the Iranian regime and its corrupt cohorts in the Authoritarian Axis press their advantages and intensify their menace of free peoples.
It’s a high toll to pay for these woke diplomats’ sense of superiority.