Khamenei the “conservative” weighs in, post-Iran-deal
Ah, it’s just a bunch of blustering hot air, right? He doesn’t mean a word of it, and he’s not in charge anyway (and yes, that’s sarcasm on my part):
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei withheld his verdict on Iran’s nuclear deal on Saturday but in a fiery address vowed enduring opposition to the United States and its Middle East policies, saying Washington sought Iran’s ‘surrender’.
In an speech at a Tehran mosque punctuated by chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”, Khamenei said he wanted politicians to examine the agreement to ensure national interests were preserved, as Iran would not allow the disruption of its revolutionary principles or defensive abilities…
Khamenei maintained that the Islamic Republic’s policies in the region would continue to defy the United States, and the nuclear deal was an exceptional instance of dialogue.
“We have repeatedly said we don’t negotiate with the U.S. on regional or international affairs; not even on bilateral issues. There are some exceptions like the nuclear program that we negotiated with the Americans to serve our interests.”
This is as expected, and was telegraphed all along as the negotiations continued. He’s not even paying lip service to anything else.
The Reuters article I linked to has an interesting way of describing Khamenei that caught my attention: “An arch conservative with the last word on high matters of state…”
What is “conservative” about Khamenei? Well, he wants to “conserve” the radical Islamist republic that got established in 1979. And that government, when it was newly formed, harked back to a much earlier time (and a more fundamentalist version of Islam), which to my way of thinking made people like Khamenei “reactionaries” in 1979 rather than conservatives. Of course, Reuters is British, and Brits and Europeans define “conservative” in ways that are different than in the US and which I don’t quite understand, although they tend to be further to the left than our own “conservative.”
In calling Khameini and his ilk “conservatives” in this article, I think Reuters’ intent was the intent I’ve seen a lot on the left, which is to tarnish as many bad governments as possible with the “conservative” or “on the right” brush (for example, Nazis, although they had the word “Socialist” in their name). All such governments are more correctly defined as statist however, which puts them squarely in the same territory in which the left resides, if you use the collectivist/individualist or statist/libertarian dimensions favored by many US conservatives when categorizing these things. There is absolutely nothing about someone like Khameini that is libertarian or human rights focused or small government promoting, and there is no question he does not favor the separation of church and state.
Just a conservative at heart, though.
Same thing Chuck does to cover his own guilt. The Left likes to pretend, even to themselves, that Islamic Jihad and the Leftist alliance are enemies. Just as they pretended that the Nazis were opposite the Soviets, and were enemies.
“….and, in response, President Obama released a reply to the Grand Ayatollah which said in part, ‘Uuuuummmmmmmmm…Yummy, Yummy.. Sooooooooooooooo Yummy eating up the massive fecal matter Mr. Khamenei is serving soooooooooooo generously to me and mine!! Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm….Yuuummmmmy…!'”
I remember well when the Soviet Union was disintegrating, the ossified communist old order were the conservatives. These anti-capitalist, anti-USA, died-in-the-wool statist jerks on the left were the conservatives.
Yeeeesh.
Translation: left/freedom-loving goood, right/repressive baaaad.
“And”, quoting Uncle Walter, “that’s the way it izzzz.”
The homo revolution in the US despise Christians and Republicans for being “conservative”, for trying to cherish, maintain, and uphold the institutions of marriage or other cultural artifacts.
Even as the Left supports Iran, they are self righteous enough to tell themselves that it is the Iranian conservatives, Christian conservatives, American conservatives, that are stepping on them. They transfered the emotion, their guilt and anger, from one field to another. The Left controls the trigger.
It is one part of the mind control theory being worked on now. This is not merely one hypnotist’s work. This is the work of an entire mind control organization, the Leftist alliance, that they have done over an entire century.
Blahr.
In my 5:22 pm, I hurriedly tried to be cutesy and ended up being less than coherent.
The idea was supposed to be that for the mainstream media, without regard to the actual left-right orientation of the players, if it was liberating and forward-looking, it was left -slash- progressive; and if it was enslaving and ossified, it was right -slash- conservative.
And that’s how dedicated Soviet communists became conservatives.
And *that*’s the way it izzzzz . . .
The mullahs are Classically Right Wing in their politics.
As Right Wing was known when the term originated during the French Revolution.
The American Revolution preceded that of the French — and, though technically Reactionary — the Revolution was an attempt to go-back-to-the-status-quo–of the earlier 1750s.
(At that time Americans had things clicking right along, rapid expansion, low taxation, and a mother country that mostly ignored her.)
But the US Constitution PROHIBITED the Right Wing from even getting started.
The TORIES that had just been ejected to Ontario, Canada had been the Right Wing in American/ Colonial politics.
They not only lost the conflict, the very basis of their politics was banned forever… in the US Constitution, as amended.
The 1st Amendment prohibits any state religion. This is THE core desire of any Right Wing government.
Further, the US Constitution prohibits any peerage, however framed. It was the peerage/ nobility that was the bane of EVERY Old World polity, from ancient Greece onwards.
So, in the European sense, America can’t have a Right Wing government.
The ultimate Right Wingers — are the Saudis of Arabia.
That’s what a classically Right Wing government looks like.
Curiously, every government known to man was a Right Wing government — up until, pretty much, the American Revolution.
State sponsored religions — and a general hectoring of the population have been the norm for just about forever.
It’s interesting to witness with Barry & Co a reversion to a state sponsored religion: Gaia’ism.
And, who can look past the chronic hectoring WRT personal values and behavior coming from the WH.
Barry is totalitarian in his heart.
Get a load of the (Google exectutive constructed) Mother of all Databases that Barry is building out.
( NY Daily Post )
It will permit Big Momma to hector and harass every suburb of the nation.
Iran: 35 years of success against democracy, human rights and peace in the Middle East and world?
What about this:
They’ve been killing Americans for 35 years
They’ve been killing Americans for 35 years?
An open letter
this is the recent prof for their crimes:
Iran linked to deaths of 500 U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan
In June 2006 an Iranian newspaper (the Iranian daily Jomhuriya Eslami ) carried the text of a speech delivered by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei in Tehran’s main mosque:
The news report on this speech noted the crowd some 7,000 in number, expressed their unanimous support for the Supreme Leader’s words by repeatedly chanting a refrain, “Death to America! Death to Israel!”
Chanting ‘Death to America! Death to Israel!” has been the way Iranians applaud for over a quarter-century. When the soccer team from Isfahan scores a goal against the soccer tea m from Shiraz, its fans cheer wildly: ‘Death to America! Death to Israel.’” When anything happens, good or bad that is the occasion for this favorite refrain.
The Constitution also does not favor “separation of Church and State”, but rather to bind the government from establishing a Church and restricting individual rights. Unfortunately, we ignored The Constitution, and established a cult under the pro-choice doctrine anyway, that is infamous for its propensity to violate human and civil rights. Along with a social complex that establishes five classes: control, superior, normal, tolerated, and rejected, which was recently confirmed with the oxymoronic “equal” equality ruling. You have to give credit to Iran that they resist following Western civilization down the rabbit’s hole.
When the US gov allied with Leftist fanatics and global warming cultists, that “wall” came down, and with it, the US social compact.
Religion wasn’t protected from gov. Gov wasn’t protected from religion. Homo marriage is the after result, but not the end result.