How A Monster Rose To Power : Ayatollah Khomeini

[Stephen Hughes]

How A Monster Rose To Power Ayatollah Khomeini
By Stephen E Hughes , author Tehran’s Wars of Terror & its Nuclear Delivery Capability , Trafford Publishing 2007
Rouhollah Mousavi Khomeini was born on 24 September 1902 , in the small town of Khomeini, some 160 kilometers to the southwest of Qom Iran. He was the child of a family with a long tradition of religious scholarship.
Khomeini became a lecturer at Najaf and Qum seminaries for decades before he was known in the political scene. He soon became a leading scholar of Shia Islam. He taught political philosophy Islamic history and ethics. Khomeini produced numerous writings on Islamic philosophy, law, and ethics His seminary teaching often focused on the importance of religion to practical social and political issues of the day.
The emphases of the Ayatollah Khomeini's activity began to change with the death of Ayatollah Boroujerdi on March 31, 1961, for he now emerged as one of the successors to Boroujerdi's position of leadership. This emergence was signaled by the publication of some of his writings on fiqh, most importantly the basic handbook of religious practice entitled, like others of its genre, Tozih al-Masael. He was soon accepted as Marja-e Taqlid by a large number of Iranian Shi'is. As Khomeini became more politically active , he began to run head on with the Shah of Iran.
In 1962, Khomeini launched a campaign against the Shah's regime for conflicting with Islamic values.
In January 1963, the Shah of Iran announced the "White Revolution," a six-point program of reform calling for land reform, nationalization of the forests, the sale of state-owned enterprises to private interests, electoral changes to enfranchise women and allow non-Muslims to hold office, profit-sharing in industry, and a literacy campaign in the nation's schools.
Some of these initiatives were regarded as dangerous, Westernizing trends by traditionalists, especially by the powerful and privileged Shi'a ulama (religious scholars Khomeini continued his denunciation of the Shah's programs, issuing a manifesto that bore the signatures of eight other senior Iranian Shia religious scholars. In it he listed the various ways in which the Shah had allegedly violated the constitution, condemned the spread of moral corruption in the country, and accused the Shah of submission to America and Israel.
On June 3, 1963, he delivered a speech strongly condemning the reforms and suggesting that the Shah would soon be overthrown by the popular demand of the people. For this he was arrested and would spend 8 months in jail. Released from jail, he would soon make another speech in which he called the Shah a traitor to Iran and to Islam. Khomeini led to an eruption of a religious and political rebellion on June 5, 1963 followed by Khomeini’s exile in 1964, by the Shah, Khomeini remained in exile until 1979.
After the 1977 death of Dr. Ali Shariati (an Islamic reformist and political revolutionary author/academic/philosopher who greatly popularized the Islamic revival among young educated Iranians), Khomeini became the most influential leader of the opposition to the Shah. He was perceived by many Iranians as the spiritual, if not political, leader of revolt. Adding to his mystique was the circulation among Iranians in the 1970s of an old Shia saying attributed to the Imam Musa al-Kadhem. Prior to his death in 799, al-Kadhem was said to have prophesied that "A man will come out from Qom and he will summon people to the right path".In late 1978, a rumour swept the country that Khomeini's face could be seen in the full moon. Millions of people were said to have seen it and the event was celebrated in thousands of mosques.
An obvious but overlooked question, Just how instrumental was Ayatollah Khomeini in coming to power and over throwing the Shah ? Yes he did have revolutionary forces working in Iran, however there are two major overlooked historical factors. One is the former Soviet Cold War efforts in the Mid-East. But let us step back,
In 1936, Iran’s King Reza Shah adopted a pro-Axis stance but refused to align itself with Germany, Turkey, Great Britain, or the Soviet Union when World War II erupted. British and Soviet forces soon after occupied Iran, dividing it into two zones.
In the North, Soviets forcefully revived Iran’s Communist Party with the objective of undermining the Iranian royal regime and installing a centralized Communist government. With Soviet assistance, the Tudeh party constituted itself as a pro-Soviet Communist party with its central management in Soviet Union
The Shah came to power during World War II after an Anglo-Soviet invasion forced the abdication of his father, Reza Shah. Mohammad Reza Shah's rule oversaw the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry .
Meanwhile in the South, the British set monarchists against religious fundamentalists, fundamentalists against nationalists, nationalists against monarchists, faction against faction, and tribe against tribe with a “divide and conquer” agenda. Accordingly, Iran sank into social disorder, political disarray and economic hardship. Under foreign domination by both the Communists and the British, the Iranian people welcomed an increasing role of the United States. By 1946, the Iranian government crushed the pro-Soviet Tudeh party that had been infiltrating the nation and threatening to divide Iran.
The Shah sought a pro-Western policy to counter the Communist Soviet Union. Iran’s socio-economic and foreign policy objectives were closely tied to the capitalist world, in direct conflict with the communist ideology of Soviet Union and fundamentalism of surrounding nations.
While a Muslim himself, the Shah gradually lost support from the Shi'a clergy of Iran, particularly due to his strong policy of modernization, secularization and conflict with the traditional class of merchants known as bazaari, and recognition of Israel
In the context of regional turmoil and the Cold War, the Shah established himself as an indispensable ally of the West. Domestically, he advocated reform policies, culminating in the 1963 program known as the White Revolution, which included land reform, the extension of voting rights to women, and the elimination of illiteracy.
With this he took a number of major modernization measures, including extending suffrage to women, much to the discontent and opposition of the Islamic clergy, the participation of workers in factories through shares and other measures, the improvement of the educational system through new elementary schools and literacy courses set up in remote villages by the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces. The latter step was called Army of Knowledge. As part of the White Revolution, the Armed Forces were engaged in infrastructural and other educational projects throughout the country as well as in health education and promotion , he instituted exams for Islamic theologians to become established clerics, in the seventies the governmental program of a free of charge nourishment for children at school Under the Shah's reign, the national Iranian income showed an unprecedented rise.
The Soviet Union Cold War machine during this time was not only desperately trying to remove the Shah , but the U.S. other Mid-East ally Israel. They had created a crisis by fabricating evidence that Israel was massing its forces on the Syria border , causing the 1967 Israeli- Arab- War , and the 1973 War also.
Under the Shah Iran was the first Muslim Nation to recognize the State of Israel and more importantly maintained good relations with Arab Nations such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and etc. This caused a fiery hatred for the Shah in the Muslim Extremists camps, especially Ayatollah Khomeini.
The Shah was walking a tight rope , one end being jerked by KGB the other Radical Fundamentalists’. The Shah had to institutionalize hard and harsh counter measures , to try to stem this ever growing tide.
Enter the Second Major Factor , the U.S. President Jimmy Carter, 1977 -1981, by 1979 the Shah of Iran was in exile. President Carter had fashioned a Political platform based on Human Rights. The grossest violator of Human Rights was the Shah of Iran. Yet in the light of day President Carter also did another thing blinded and gutted the U.S. Intelligence Agencies, which became to be known as the “Halloween Massacre” . The CIA was his top target.
Cater appointed Adm. Stansfield Turner as Director of Central Intelligence. Under Turner's direction, Turner terminated over 800 operational intelligence positions , Stansfield Turner gutted the CIA. Without assets of its own, Langley had to rely on the intelligence agencies of foreign governments But perhaps the bigger mistake was Turner’s decision to shift the CIA away from human intelligence in favor of technology-driven surveillance. Iran was on fire, but no one could see. So inept , sightless, and as late as September 28, 1978 the US Defense Intelligence Agency reported that the Shah "is expected to remain actively in power over the next ten years."
Soviet-backed communist insurgents, and Mullahs opposing the Shah’s progressiveness, combined to face him with overwhelming opposition, then betrayal by America Suddenly, the Shah noted, the U.S. media found him “a despot, an oppressor, a tyrant.” Senator Kennedy denounced him for running “one of the most violent regimes in the history of mankind.”
At the center of the “human rights” complaints was the Shah’s security force, SAVAK. Comparable in its mission to America’s FBI, SAVAK was engaged in a deadly struggle against terrorism, most of which was fueled by the bordering USSR, which linked to Iran’s internal communist party, the Tudeh. The 1960s rioting linked to Khomeini was financed, in part, by Eastern Bloc intelligence services.
He was in the circle of the cleric Kachani Sayed Abolghassem, who had ties to East German intelligence. Furthermore, in 1960, Colonel Michael Goliniewski, second-in-command of Soviet counter-intelligence in Poland, defected to the West. His debriefings exposed so many communist agents that he was honored by a resolution of the U.S. House of Representatives. One report, declassified in 2000, revealed, “Ayatollah Khomeini was one of Moscow’s five sources of intelligence at the heart of the Shiite hierarchy
The first militant anti-Shah demonstrations of a few hundred started in October 1977, after the death of Khomeini's son Mostafa. A year later strikes were paralyzing Iran. On January 16, 1979, Shah and his wife left Iran at the behest of Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar (a long time opposition leader himself), who sought to calm the situation. Spontaneous attacks by members of the public on statues of the Pahlavis followed, and "within hours, almost every sign of the Pahlavi dynasty" was destroyed
In three years the Shah went from vibrant monarch to exile (on January 16, 1979), and ultimately death, while Iran fell to Ayatollah Khomeini’s terror.
It is important to note Carter subsequently refused to allow tear gas and rubber bullets to be exported to Iran when anti-Shah rioting broke out, nor to allow water cannon vehicles to reach Iran to control such outbreaks, generally instigated out of the Soviet Embassy in Tehran.
Washington Officials were also supporting Khomeini. Ramsey Clark, who served as Attorney General under President Lyndon B. Johnson, held a press conference where he reported on a trip to Iran and a Paris visit with Khomeini. He urged the US government to take no action to help the Shah so that Iran could determine its own fate. Clark played a behind the scenes role influencing members of Congress to not get involved in the crisis. Perhaps UN Ambassador Andrew Young best expressed the thinking of the left at the time when he stated that, if successful, Khomeini would eventually be hailed as a saint.
Khomeini shaped his rise to power not in Iran, but in exile from Iran . He carefully created a facade of his true intentions, rarely putting them on public display. While in exile he denounced the former Iranian shah’s ruler, denouncing the lack of human freedoms, freedom of the press. He spoke of true liberties lacking in Iran, and innocent deaths of Iranians by the Shah by the Shah’s hand. Khomeini felt the need for more freedoms in Iran and the need for an open government for the people.
One of the most potent strategies he used, to convince and deceive the Iranian people, along with the International Community was to draw up a draft constitution.
This draft constitution, was based Belgian and French ones, and presented a democratic government. The new nation was called, “The Republic of Iran”, it had a Parliament, no mention of Council of Guardians, ruling Mullahs or “ Velayat –e faqih”.
Khomeini promised free electricity for the poor, and many other such things. He became known internationally and believed as an old wise white breaded man that would one day rule Iran, peacefully.
The type of government Khomeini set up in Iran after the revolution shocked even his most trusted advisors. In reality, he launched a bloody and brutal dictatorship, far surpassing the former Shah’s secret police, even Stalin’s. Khomeini crafted a theocracy based on the absolute rule of one man. His theocracy put him equal with the Prophet Mohammed.
“A Worthy leader who establishes an Islamic government, will possess the same authority as the noblest messenger (Prophet Mohammed), in administration of the society, and it will be the duty of all people to obey him.” ---- Ayatollah Khomeini
Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar dissolved SAVAK, freed all political prisoners, and allowed the Ayatollah Khomeini to return to Iran after years in exile. He asked Khomeini to create a Vatican-like state in Qom, promised free elections and called upon the opposition to help preserve the constitution, proposing a 'national unity' government including Khomeini's followers. Khomeini fiercely rejected Dr. Bakhtiar's demands and appointed his own interim government, with Mehdi Bazargan as prime minister, demanding "since I have appointed him he must be obeyed." In February, pro-Khomeini Revolutionary guerrilla and rebel soldiers gained the upper hand in street fighting after the Iranian military announced their neutrality.
Iran’s last hope: its well-trained military could still restore order. Why did the Carter administration send: “Air Force General Robert Huyser, deputy commander of U.S. forces in Europe, to pressure Iran’s generals into giving in without a fight. ?” “Huyser directly threatened the Iranian military with a break in diplomatic relations and a cutoff of arms if they moved to support their monarch.”
On February 1, 1979, with U.S. officials joining the welcoming committee, Ayatollah Khomeini arrived in Iran amid media fanfare. Although counter-demonstrations, some numbering up to 300,000 people, erupted in Iran, the Western press barely mentioned them.
In the book "The Real Jimmy Carter," by Steven Hayward of the American Enterprise Institute: Ayatollah Khomeini’s regime executed more people in its first year in power than the Shah's SAVAK had allegedly killed in the previous 25 years."
Teheran’s police officers — loyal to the Shah — were slaughtered. At least 1,200 Imperial Army officers, who had been instructed by General Huyser not to resist the revolution, were put to death.
The Carter administration’s continuous demand upon the Shah: liberalize. On October 26, 1978, he freed 1,500 prisoners, but increased rioting followed. The Shah commented that “the more I liberalized, the worse the situation in Iran became. Every initiative I took was seen as proof of my own weakness and that of my government.” Revolutionaries equated liberalization with appeasement. “My greatest mistake,” the Shah recalled, “was in listening to the Americans on matters concerning the internal affairs of my kingdom.
SAVAK, which had only 4,000 employees in 1978, saved many lives by averting several bombing attempts. Its prisons were open for Red Cross inspections, and though unsuccessful attempts were made on the Shah’s life, he always pardoned the would-be assassins.
Little realized two major events propelled the revolution in Iran. On the afternoon of August 19, 1978, a deliberate fire gutted the Rex Cinema in Abadan, killing 477 people, including many children with their mothers. Blocked exits prevented escape. The police learned that the fire was caused by Ruhollah Khomeini supporters, who fled to , where the Ayatollah Khomeini was in exile. But the international press blamed the fire on the Shah and his “dreaded SAVAK.” Furthermore, the mass murder had been timed to coincide with the Shah’s planned celebration of his mother’s birthday; it could thus be reported that the royal family danced while Iran wept. Communist-inspired rioting swept Iran.
On February 1, 1979, with U.S. officials joining the welcoming committee, Ayatollah Khomeini arrived in Iran amid media fanfare. Although counter-demonstrations, some numbering up to 300,000 people, erupted in Iran, the Western press barely mentioned them.
One his most grandiose act, which shocked many Iranians, that Khomeini did when he came to power was to rename himself Imam Khomeini. A title reserved for the first leader of the Shiites’, Imam Ali. Granted that title Imam Ali, by the Prophet Mohammed, and reserved for Ali’s 11 descendants. None of Iran’s then grand ayatollahs endorsed him.
At first when he did come to power in Iran, he presented the appearance of a democratic government; there was political openness, freedom of expression, release of political prisoners.
But in a careful orchestrated campaign, gradually he marginalized, those he called liberals and western educated technocrats. He installed a covert group of secret interim legislators. Then in one of the most heinous moves to power, he forced public referendum vote from the Iranian people, which stated to replace the current Iranian monarchy system with Islamic Republic, yes or no. Khomeini and his secret interim legislators were able to keep out any democratic process out of this referendum vote. Any issues of democratic process of government, was considered as western, non-Islamic. Forced with only two choices, the Iranian people voted for an Islamic Republic.
On March 1979, just one month later, Khomeini created his storm troopers, The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The IRGC first task was to restore order in the cities, remove voices of descendants. The new Army of Iran was to be an Islamic believing one, committed to Islamic Revolution. This was carried out by the Ideological Political Directorate of the Armed forces (IPD). IPD officers were to receive 3 years of Khomeini’s radical Islamic indoctrination. The IPD would integrate this radical belief at every level of the Iranian military training.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards or Sepah came from two groups, [1] those who fought against the Shah after some training at Palestinian or Lebanonese camps and [2] those who had fought against the Shah without any previous training.”
- Tactics’ Of The Crescent Moon, Militant Combat Methods J. Poole, Page 174
Under Khomeini’s constitution article 110, cancels out legitimacy of presidential elections in Iran. Any presidential candidates are subject to approval by the Guardian Council, a group appointed by the Supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini.
Under the heading of “ the Form of Government in Islam”, Khomeini’s constitution provides for the continuation of his form of government and for his revolution to be exported aboard.
“The Constitution Will Strive With Other Popular Islamic Movements, To Prepare The Way For The Formation Of A Single World Community…”
“In accordance with the Koranic verse, your community is a single community, and I am your Lord, Worship Me (21:92), and assure the continuation of a struggle for liberation of all deprived and oppressed people of the world”.
The constitutional commitment to exporting the Khomeini’s Iranian revolution through out the world is one of the two main pillars in his regime’s policy.
In order to export his Iranian revolution, the new military was outlined in Khomeini’s constitution, entitled “An Ideological Army”, which states:
“These Forces are responsible for extending the sovereignty of God’s law throughout the world”.
Of course the Iranian people just did not stand by. By 1981, their fight for a democratic government came to a head. Central was the right to be heard and petition Khomeini’s government for promised and believed in human rights. However by 1981, Khomeini had a military, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and other like groups in position to enforce his brutal dictatorial Islamic form of government.
Thousands of Iranians who voiced criticism were rounded up. By the summer of 1981, some 70 members of the opposition party the Mujahedin-e Khalq, were murdered, and several thousands more of their followers were imprisoned. But this was just a warm up.
In June of 1981, a peaceful demonstration of about 500,000 gathered in Tehran to protest these actions. This crowd was openly attacked, fired upon by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard on the orders of Ayatollah Khomeini. The Christian Science Monitor reported that Khomeini’s regime … “shot just about anyone they found on the streets in June of 1981”…. Khomeini had the prisons emptied out; thousands were brought before firing squads and executed.
The New York Times reported in April of 1982, Mujahedin-e Khalq, ‘ were crushed in a wave of jailings, torture, executions, that rivaled the worst days of the former Shah of Iran.”
However it was in 1980, in an essay written by Fergus M. Bordewich of Columbia University, for Harpers Magazine... Bordewich described Ayatollah Khomeini’s new regime as ……
“Fascism Without Swastikas”
Bordewich targeted the American press for being blissfully ignorant of Khomeini’s agenda leading up to the Iranian revolution. It was not until 1981 when Bordewich was proven correct.
Children as young as 13 were hanged from cranes, six at a time, in a barbaric two-month purge of Iran's prisons on the direct orders of Ayatollah Khomeini, reported in a book by his former deputy.
More than 30,000 political prisoners were executed in the 1988 massacre - a far larger number than previously suspected. Secret documents smuggled out of Iran reveal that, because of the large numbers of necks to be broken, prisoners were loaded onto forklift trucks in groups of six and hanged from cranes in half-hourly intervals.
Gruesome details are contained in the memoirs of Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, The Memoirs of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, one of the founders of the Islamic regime. He was once considered Khomeini's anointed successor, but was deposed for his outspokenness. The most damning of the letters and documents published in the book is Khomeini's fatwa decree calling for all Mojahedin (as opponents of the Iranian regime are known) to be killed.
Ayatollah Khomeini in his 10 years of leadership established a theocratic rule over Iran. He did not fulfill his pre-revolution promises to the people of Iran but instead he started to marginalize and crash the opposition groups and those who opposed the clerical rules. He ordered establishment of many institutions to consolidate power and safeguard the cleric leadership. During his early years in power he launched the Cultural Revolution in order to Islamize the whole country. Many people were laid off, and books were revised or burnt according to the new Islamic values. Newly established Islamic Judiciary system sentenced many Iranians to death and long-term imprisonment as they were in opposition to those radical changes.
After Khomeini’s death in 1989, the Assembly of Experts appointed a new supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Follow in Ayatollah Khomeini’s bloody foot prints crushes any attempts to move away from this hideous government. See all too well in Iran’s last election. Only the future will bear witness to how many more Iranians will be tortured and executed.
Iranian laws do not define a political crime per se. The judicial process judges’ views have not been based on any requirements to protect the rights of political dissenters. Judges believe that since the government is Islamic, those who dissent or criticize it are enemies of Islam and can be categorized as dangerous criminals such as combatants or those who do evil on earth and whose death is justified and whose rights are of no concern.
The Birth of Islamic Cult of The Suicide Jihad Bomber
Contrary to popular myth it was not Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda that gave birth to this sick homicidal belief, Bin Laden adopted it while his stay in Sudan in the late 1990’s at one Iran’s terrorist camps of the Popular Arab Islamic Conference. However it was during the Iran –Iraq War 1980-1988 , Ayatollah Khomeini’s created this most twisted Islamic Belief, that one should become a Suicide Jihad Bomber.
Mohammed Hossein Fahmideh Is considered the first Suicide Jihad Bomber
In Iran-Iraq War this 13-year old Hossein Fahmideh detonated himself as he ran up to an Iraqi tank at a key point in a battle of the Iran-Iraq War. Ayatollah Khomeini declared Fahmideh an Iranian national hero and a monument to Fahmideh was erected on the outskirts of Tehran, a place of pilgrimage of young Iranians. In the years following Hossein's death, murals where erected throughout Iran, book bags displaying Hossein were sold to children, and a postage stamp was issued for his memory in 1986. In addition Ayatollah Khomeini took one of Shia’s holiest remember days of the martyrdom of the third Imam, Hossein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the battle of Karbala in the year 680 ACE . There him and a handful of soldiers made a Sparta last stand. Together he weaved these events into a new form of martyrdom , homicidal blood filled act of killing as many as possible, no matter who they are.
In addition Ayatollah Khomeini from the darkness we may will never understand , in a bloodbath of fratricide , he sent what many be up to one million Iranian children to their deaths on the Iran –Iraq battlefield as Cannon fodder . He called this mass murder “ His Child Martyrs” . The “child-martyrs” belonged to his the so-called “Basij” . During the Iran-Iraq War, the Ayatollah Khomeini imported 500,000 small plastic keys from Taiwan. After Iraq invaded in September 1980, it had quickly become clear that Iran's forces were no match for Saddam Hussein's professional, well-armed military. To compensate for their disadvantage, Khomeini sent Iranian children, some as young as eight years old, to the front lines. There, they marched in formation across minefields toward the enemy, clearing a path with their bodies. Before every mission, one of the Taiwanese keys would be hung around each child's neck they were told it would open the gates to paradise for them.

The chief combat tactic employed by the Basij was the human wave attack, whereby barely armed or none at all children and teenagers would move continuously toward the enemy in perfectly straight rows. It did not matter whether they fell to enemy fire or detonated the mines with their bodies: The important thing was that the Basij continue to move forward over the torn and mutilated remains of their fallen comrades, going to their deaths in wave after wave. Once a path to the Iraqi forces had been opened up, Iranian commanders would send in their more valuable and skilled Revolutionary Guard troops.
It was Ayatollah Khomeini’s Suicide Jihad Bomber, that spawned into a global carnage, a pandemic of death where thousands have died today and are still dying.
Khomeini’s bloody rise to power: from its inception, his true intentions were hidden, camouflaged, cloaked in decency. His words of democratic process, and democratic openness, obscured a monster, in order to give birth to a murderous – hideous form of Islam, herein, his Islamic Fascism where death is the only answers to life. Where anyone, anything is slaughtered, butchered, to give rise to Ayatollah Khomeini’s conception of what the world should be. His Islamic demon of death has been set free, it roams the world.
Yet this twisted mangled carnage of death, even after the President Carter’s and Washington Officials grand acts of appeasement, of sacrifice of the Shah of Iran, of warm giving’s in order soothe , placate this Racial Islamists , what came of it ? A carnage of death, a tidal wave of immolations.
Still we have seen in Pakistan, when the government there tried to make peace by giving away the SWAT valley to the Radical Islamists, this has only lead to more war.
When the grand design of the late Israeli PM Ariel Sharon of building a Palestinian State in autonomous region Gaza that would usher in a new era of peace for Arab Palestinians and Israel turned into a nightmare where some 7,000 rockets were fired into Israeli communities. Here Iran built up its war proxy Hamas.
Iran’s Mullahs has spent several billion dollars creating its war machine, its militant wings the Hezbollah, the Hamas, and more , pouring in several billion in military arms purchases for Syria. It seems all too soon they have forgotten Iran’s Syria built nuclear weapons factory that Israel bombed.
The Obama Administration in an hubrisistic comatose policy still seeks to reason with Iran’s Mullahs, over their nuclear weapons endeavors. The streets of Iran which ran red with blood is incomprehensible for them.
Iran has spent is spending billions of dollars in its oil for one reason and one reason only for its Wars of Terror. Iran is killing US Troops from Iraq to Afghanistan to Africa and Latin America.
Washington Officials along with International Community is following in the footsteps of President Carter, appeasement, placate surrender to the Global Jihad this loose confederation of extremists which wants everything not Islamic burned from the face of the earth.
Iran along with this darkness seeks a genocide, of the lesser Satan Israel, the Satan they seeks to massacre in a frozen hell is America, with a nuclear winter. Obama , echoes the catastrophic treaty of British Neville Chamberlain and Hitler, seeks appeasement.
.Remember Carter's human rights program, where he demanded the Shah of Iran step down and turn over power to the Ayatollah Khomeini? Carter had the U.S. Pentagon tell the Shah's top military commanders about 150 of them to acquiesce to the Ayatollah and not fight him.
"The Shah's military listened to Carter. All of them were murdered in one of the Ayatollah's first acts.
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