Chilling rhetoric and violent threats from the Iranian regime against Israel and the United States continue.
Although the United States and other world powers have agreed to permit Iran’s development of nuclear capability, several Iranian leaders have reminded Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu that the regime’s anti-American/Israeli position has not changed.
Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, president of the Iranian Assembly of Experts, recently said that the Islamic Republic of Iran would always see the U.S. as its primary enemy. Yazdi made such remarks during the annual meeting of the assembly in Tehran. The Iranian Assembly of Experts is one of the most recognized and influential political organizations in the country. One of the assembly’s responsibilities is electing the new Supreme Leader of the Republic of Iran.
In conjunction with these statements, Brigadier General Mohsen Kazzemeini (A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Commander) said: “We will not stop building up our military capacity until Israel is annihilated.” Kazzemeine made this comment during a military drill in Tehran where 250,000 soldiers participated.
Moreover, in a clear act of defiance towards the Obama administration, the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, recently said there would be no nuclear agreement unless the sanctions are lifted first.
Another Iranian leader, Ayatollah Seyed Ahmad Khatami, said that if the sanctions are not removed Iran could increase the number of centrifuges to 40,000-50,000.
These are the last two demands and threats made by the Ayatollahs to president Obama.
Furthermore, supporters of the Iranian regime unveiled a plate with the slogan “Death to America” at the gates of the former U. S. embassy in Tehran. The United States closed its embassy in Teheran in 1979 following the hostage crisis. During the crisis, 52 diplomats and citizens were held hostage by supporters of the Iranian revolution who had taken over the embassy.
The plate lists 100 popular anti-American statements declared by former Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Khomeini (Who died in 1989), founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He started the now famous phrase frequently cited by Iranian leaders: “United States, the great Satan.” (The term “Israel, the little Satan” may have been adopted by Muammar Gaddafi in Libya in 1980)
The organization in charge of the event announced that the slogan “Death to America” would be forever on the walls of the building. During the ceremony, the participants burned the flags of the United States, Britain and Israel.
Despite all these demands and threats, 34 Democrat senators in the United States decided to support Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. For some, this decision represents modern liberal disregard of American values. For others, it is an act of treason.
One thing is certain, Barack Obama will go down in history as the first and only U.S. president to drive nuclear power into the hands of the world ‘s leading state sponsor of terrorism.
