Iran’s 84-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei exposed his bloodthirsty side for all to see, calling Israel, the Mideast’s only democracy, a “cancerous tumor” that “will undoubtedly be uprooted and destroyed,” speaking at “Iran’s Quds Day” celebration. Khamenei’s belligerent words mirror Iran’s broken encoomy, nationwide protests, devalued currency and 73-year-old President Donald Trump’s April 22 order to the Navy in the Persian Gulf to fire on Iranian boats that harass U.S. ships. Khamenei finds himself clinging to power, maintaining his brutal grip on his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei, the once exiled radical Shiite cleric that returned to Iran, leading the 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled U.S.-ally Shah Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. Khamenei has nothing left to govern Iran other that spewing Nazi-like anti-Semitic and ant-Zionists rhetoric.
Unable to hold mass demonstrations because the coronavirus AKA CoV-2 or Covid-19 epidemic in Iran with 133,521 and 7,359 deaths, Khamenei performed his own fireworks with his vile public attacks on Israel. Israel is home to a sizable Iranian community, largely of Iranians Jews that fled Iran because of religious persecution under Islamic rule. Jews were well-treated in Iran for centuries before Khomenei’s Nazi-like regime came to power in 1979. “The Zionist regime [Israel] is a deadly, cancerous tumor in the region. It will undoubtedly be uprooted and destroyed,” Khamenei said in an online speech. Khamenei knows that any attack on Israel would be an attack on the U.S., prompting a regime-change response from the U.S. military. Calling Khamenei’s remarks “disgusting and hateful anti-Semitic remarks” that don’t represent ordinary Iranians,” 56-year-old Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held nothing back.
Calling Khamenei’s remarks “totally unacceptable and represent a deep source of concern,” European Union Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell expressed his disgust with Khamenei’s statements. Khamenei’s remarks show why Iran is a pariah state, not part of the family of civilized nations, seeking to spread democracy in their countries. Iran’s theocracy involves the most authoritarian military rule hiding behind organized religion. Khamenei publicly admitted yesterday for the world that he backs Palestinian terror groups against Israel. “Iran realized Palestinian fighters’ only problem was a lack of access to weapons. With divine guidance and assistance, we planned and the balance of power has been transformed in Palestine, and today the Gaza Strip can stand against the aggression of the Zionist enemy and defeat it,” Khamenei said, stating his wish but not the reality.
Every time Hamas terrorists in Gaza fire Iranian rockets into Israel, Israel retaliates, sending the impoverished Mediterranean seaside enclave into more ruin and poverty. Khamenei knows that Hamas terrorists in Gaza can’t defeat Israel, they can’t feed-or-clothes their own population. Khamenei’s remarks confirm to the world that Iran is radical Palestinians main supplier of rockets, arms and cash. Hamas terrorists in Gaza tell its beleaguered people daily that they’re minutes or days away from defeating Israel, returning Palestinians back to the promised land. When the Ottoman Empire controlled the Holy Land, including Jerusalem for 500 years, eventually taken by the British in 1921, it was a desert wasteland with no industry. When the British turned Israel over to the Jews in 1948, it didn’t take long for Israelis to transform the territory into an agricultural and manufacturing paradise.
To Khamenei and other Arab terror groups, they’d like to see Palestine returned to its past wasteland, something Palestinians have done in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank. If Israeli didn’t take Gaza Strip or West Bank as spoils of the 1967 Six Day War, Palestinians would have no territory, it would still be controlled by Trans-Jordan, the former British Emirate now an independent monarchy. Khamenei likes to beat the war drums when it comes to Israel but it’s all empty rhetoric to appeal to Sunni Arabs. “I do not suggest anyone to test us . . W will be prepared for all threats, and my any means,” said Gen. Benny Gantz, Israel’s new Defense Minister and in a power-sharing arrangement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Those that invoke the threat of destruction against Israel put themselves in a similar danger,” said Netanyahu in response to Khamenei.
Khamenei’s still fuming about the Jan. 3 U.S. predator drone attack that killed Iran’s 62-year-old Al-Qud’s Commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Iraq’s 62-year-old Hezbollah leader Abu Mahdi al–Muhandis outside Baghdad’s International Airport. Khamenei lashed out at U.S. forces Jan. 8 at Iraq’s Ayan al-Assad airbase, injuring 100 U.S. soldiers. Trump didn’t respond in-kind, telling Khamenei that he’d reserve his response to a time of his choosing. Khamenei’s belligerent rhetoric toward Israel is designed to get back at the United States. Khamenei also knows that his Mullah regime could end at any time if Trump gives the green light. One more attack on a U.S. asset or ally, like Israel, would result in devastating retaliation by Trump. Trump knows that Iran is the Mideast’s No. 1 sponsor of state terrorism, the reason why he backed out of former President Barack Obama’s 2015 Iranian Nuke Deal.
