"When evaluating the Iranian regime, it is important to understand that its militarism and repressive policies are actually fostered by the exertion of outside pressure on the country."
Nope. It's Sharia Law.
Criminal law structured around sharia principles, including qisas (retribution), diyya (blood money), and ta’zir (discretionary punishments), with reports of torture, harsh/death sentences applied unevenly, particularly against women, ethnic and religious minorities.
Sunni Sharia does not have any warmth for Shi'a Sharia. To Iran, friend of Sunni is enemy of Shi'a. That militarism is 1000 years old and neither we nor the British caused that.
no its simple, the arab will always unite and US is the satan...Saudi is playing with USA...always were. it is complex but we leave it alone, not our business. did you know Iran has near destroyed the military bases in the middle eastern nations?
"Simple" in that sense from our standpoint--and I agree we would be better off not involved--but not so simple from the standpoint of longstanding divisions within Islam (though perhaps many of those involved, themselves, reduce it to somewhat relatively "black & white" positions).
John, you say in the sub head that Iran will become “more moderate, free and open.” That is the same pollyanna dreaming globalists had for China and they were dead wrong. The same dynamic is going on.
In the 20th century the Saudi Royal Family became much more enamored with money than Sharia. Sharia became for them more of a front. At the same time, they haven’t forgotten the significance of Mecca and Medina and the need to keep both Shia and Sunni political forces in balance while at the same time courting western acceptance and technology. The Saudis became more political than ideological.
The same process has not played out with the mullahs in Iran. They remain a theocracy, more ideological than political, and very devoted to Sharia and the destiny of the Caliphate.
The westerners we know who worked in Saudi reported that their Saturday shopping excursions in town always found town squares covered with blood and gore from their weekly executions on Fridays. Sharia didn't begin with the British. It began with the development of Islam in the 8th century and it won't reform or modernize easily.
Criminal law structured around sharia principles, including qisas (retribution), diyya (blood money), and ta’zir (discretionary punishments), with reports of torture, harsh/death sentences applied unevenly, particularly against women, ethnic and religious minorities."
Are you describing our current "ally" - Syria, under - al-Jolani's rule?!
And thus justifies destroying a civilization? That is the exact definition of propaganda. Find a hated practice by a group and use it to condemn the whole nation.
So we need to spend billions, while paying off past wars, going back to World War I, and killing other human beings because of extreme religious practices? This thinking pattern is identical to the crusade campaigns.
My neighbor beats his wife, she's not allowed outside. May not speak to anyone, without permission. She had a forced clitoectomy at 9, wears a full hijab, they have gatherings weekly where they chant loudly death to America. His adult son has a daughter, but Im pretty sure the 10 year old is his wife.
Just different religious practices, right?
None of my business, right?
The crusades were to reconquer the holy lands from the islamo facists of the day.
Plainly you know nothing about the actual country of Iran. For example, 70 percent of current engineering students in Iranian universities are women....
completely relevant! we bitch here about the "poor Iranian women" who can't wear mini skirts. meanwhile we murdered 170+ school girls who will never have to worry about what to wear
How about our borders and not Israel's or Ukraine's? That would be a great start. We send over $300 billion a year to Israel. For what? Israel is a US military base, so our Neocons can launch their useless, never-ending wars. The Jewish political power in DC is enormous. We produce our oil; we don't need oil from any Middle Eastern country. So what exactly are we defending? Tell us, what is it?
if you live in the USA, I'm pretty sure a man can't marry a girl of 10. if you suspect your neighbor of spousal abuse, call the police but don't go bombing an entire country
Read “Sword and Scimitar” by Raymond Ibrahim, an historian fluent in Arabic and Greek, who worked at the Library of Congress and went to first sources to compile a history of Islam and Christianity. You will be enlightened with the history we never learned. Islam is a political colonization movement with religious underpinnings. Time to wake up.
Liberalism claims to stand for women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, abortion rights, freedom of speech, religious freedom, and secular governance. I CONSIDER MYSELF A LIBERAL - LIBERTY DRIVEN PERSON. Yet many of the Islamist movements and ideologies that progressive activists now shield under the banner of "diversity" and "inclusion" openly reject these principles.
In Sharia governed countries, homosexuality remains illegal, often punishable by imprisonment, flogging, or death.
Women are systematically oppressed — barred from education, stripped of legal equality, and subjected to brutal enforcement of modesty laws and physical mutilated.
When the call to morning prayers chants, "Death to America", do cheerfully celebrate?
Your desire to attacked me personally for considering this absurd alliance between "progressive" movements and Islamist sympathizers is misguided and unprofessional. Perhaps you are uncomfortable with critical thinking.
"... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
There is no shortage of militarism or repressive policies in Syria either. They are clearly only a reluctant "Ally", so there is no contradiction in the statement, to be fair.
And, the US is captured by its silly belief that Israel is the Holy Land where a new Temple is to be built. Your reasoning is completely corrupted by propaganda.
I have colleagues at work, in their 60s who think like her... Very good people otherwise but unable to adjust their world views in the light of facts due to heavy, cumulative, scorched in their brains propaganda.
Sadly, there is *nothing* to do about such people.
Sorry, you’ll have to think of something else. Islam was completely ignored in the boomer education. Knew nothing about it. The knowledge has come from Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Mosab Hassan Yousef, Mohamad Faridi, Raymond Ibrahim, Tommy Robinson, Douglas Murray, and many others. Great Britain is the canary in the coal mine. The political program of Islam is inherent to the religion. Please take the time to educate yourself.
The good news is the internet has become a problem for Islam. They are losing followers, perhaps as many as they are gaining. Muslims don’t know that the perfect man, Mohammad, married a 6 yr old and consummated the marriage at 9. That knowledge alone becomes a stumbling block.
GB is surely beyond saving, but how was it that Muslims were able to invade? They didn't invade, of course, they were invited in, welcomed, subsidized, by the very sort of politicians that now demand a holy war in the Middle East to protect women's rights, as they ignore the grooming and rape of English women. Never smart to trust the creators of a problem to produce the solution.
There's craziness in most religions, definitely including Judaism and Christianity. Hegseth seems to believe killing Iranian civilians is required to bring about the second coming of Christ (who said to love your enemies). Israelis, of course, abhor Jesus as a softie weakling, but apparently think the real jealous angry messiah can't come until Greater Israel is restored, from the Nile to Pakistan. Plenty of problems to solve at home, but instead we're going to let foreigners, billionaires, and the U.S. government pave over the land with data centers with which to control everyone and everything. The enemy's right here--no need to look for him abroad, though he'd be happy for you to die serve him by doing so.
I don’t think Great Britain is beyond saving. Yes, they invited them in - suicidal empathy, white colonizer guilt, maybe they wanted cheap labor and maybe it’s just a globalist plan to destabilize western democracies. Or all of the above.
Study Islam. I didn’t know much about it until I did. I didn’t realize it’s a political system as well as a religion. They go hand in hand. “Sword and Scimitar” by Raymond Ibrahim, an historian who’s fluent in Arabic and Greek and went to first sources is a good book to read on the history of Islam and Christianity.
Pete Hegseth doesn’t believe killing Iranian civilians will bring about the second coming of Christ. It’s clear in scripture when that’s going to happen and it’s not now. When I say “when,” I don’t mean date and time. No one knows that. Jesus also said there were going to be wars and rumors of wars but that was not the end.
There are plenty of Messianic Jews who believe in Jesus. There are a lot of Muslims who are coming to Jesus too.
Not a fan of the data centers - nobody asked for those. Trying to put one near me - I could move fairly easily but still, it’s a terrible idea.
Yes, there’s evil and problems all over the world. What we’re addressing in Iran are the nuclear weapons. I get it, we heard that before with Saddam. But Iraq is not Iran. This needed to be done. It was one thing we could all agree on - Iran cannot get nuclear weapons. They had a ton of ballistic missiles too - long range. Obviously they export terror.
"It was one thing we could all agree on - Iran cannot get nuclear weapons."
Except that we don't all agree. Must the U.S., Israel, Britain, France, Pakistan, North Korea, etc., etc. give up theirs? To any country without nukes, the current situation just proves how much they need them. Without them, any foreign tyrant can tell you we'll kill all your men, women, children, and animals in 15 minutes--obey or die. And maybe we'll kill you even if you do obey, cause God said you're not human! Telling a country it can't have nukes in a world full of nukes is like telling a little old lady in Chicago she can't have a gun, only the criminals can have guns.
About Great Britain and The West's open borders, Israel's "greatest friend" Charlie Kirk said in October 2023, "Jewish donors have been the number one funding mechanism of radical, open border, neoliberal, quasi-Marxist policies" and that "this is a beast created by secular Jews, and now it's coming for Jews." He urged American Jews to stop "subsidizing your own demise." Kirk saw it as just a mistake, but what if it's actually the globalists' double-edged plan to bomb the third world, steal the oil, then use the refugees to further weaken individualist Western culture in advance of their planned one-world corporatocracy?
Note that there's division and factions among globalists. Should one-world rule be from DC, Brussels, Jerusalem, or Beijing? Plebes lose in any case.
"The good news is the internet has become a problem for Islam. "
... which is the "perfect" source of information since TNI ("Trusted" News Initiative).
You see Islam as a problem and your comments reveal your belief that you are a crusaded and these are religious wars... and - apparently - Islam should be... "eradicated" to make the world a... "better" place?
As for Puny Britain - they are the smoldering ruin of an empire; their "leadership" intentionally brought masses of foreigners in their country to stir up chaos and civil war... they are not the only ones doing this with the agenda of undermining nation states and push towards global governance (which is yet another way of saying "imperialism"); "EU" (the wannabe Federal State of Europe) and US do the same, to please their banker overlords.
The internet (in the process of being contaminated by AI) is a library... it is up to YOU what books you read (so to speak) and which "authors" you trust.
I know it is hard to change views; it takes courage to admit that your world model is broken, then you have to have the intellectual curiosity to do your own research, looking for the truth; you are not there yet.
"Anywho", just watch this series of travel notes in Iran from a Western guy:
It might not be the best ever, but I found it years ago and enjoyed a few episodes (only 1 and 2 were available back then).
You're welcome :).
“10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.”
You’re funny. 😂 You think I’m not there yet. You don’t even know me. It’s OK - you’re throwing out ideas thinking I need to grab one.
There’s not a question I’ve had about life that has not been answered. Yes, I cannot reconcile the sovereignty of God with the free will of man, but I’ve definitely experienced the truth of each in a very personal way. There has to be at least one surprise. Both are true and I know why they’re true so that’s been enough for me.
Knowing why I’m here - what the purpose of all of this is - was the main question to get answered. The genius of the plan blew my mind. That was years ago, but the joy of understanding is still as fresh as the morning dew.
you believe it's "true." others don't, your heart is closed since you deny an entire country of people their humanity while condoning another country's repeated genocides on our dime
no genocides, huh? tell that to all the dead people. every international agency that records genocides says this is one. of course the USA disagrees because for whatever reason it has enslaved itself to a tiny very evil country that it supports. oh well.
you can't bomb a people into peace and freedom. you can't kill people to "liberate" them. my moral compass is just fine; you have none.
You mean all the international agencies that are historically and clearly antisemitic?
Like the UN, with Iran on the human rights council?
Not a credible source. Let's talk numbers, not opinions.
Irgc slaughtered 35000 civilians in January.
Israel has killed 2500, irgc soldiers, and maybe 1600 civilians. Mostly because the irgc hides behind civilians. 4000 out of 90,000,000. And you call that a genocide?
The Israelite Kingdom of Judah was found in the southern Levant during the Iron Age. And their descendants, however abused by Babylonia, Egypt, Rome, Christian and Islamic rulers, throughout the centuries, are still there.
I don't care if Israel exists or not as long as all Israelis stay in Israel and are not controlling the US government. But if you give me the choice..........cheap gas or Israel existing, I will take the cheap gas every day of the week.
So you believe that 15 million jews are controlling 350 million Americans, government, press, money, shipping, media, or and they are genocidal maniacs. Did I miss anything?
Dr. McCullough’s comment (April 9) on John Leake’s post “Israel Blows Up Lebanese Town of Naquora”:
“The current atrocities we are witnessing compounded by the recent tragedy in Gaza are clarifying among our readers who is who. As doctors, scientists, and historians, we are bringing you analysis and the spirit of compassion which is clashing with hard core, blood-thirsty barbarism. We are not among the victims, but is clear who they are. The Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" in Arabic, refers to the 1948 violent displacement of over 750,000 Palestinians during the creation of Israel, transforming them into refugees. Commemorated annually on May 15, this event resulted in the destruction of over 500 villages, widespread looting, and loss of life. The Nakba is central to Palestinian identity and considered an ongoing process of displacement.”
Zionist barbarism continues unabated. Witness the depraved psychopath Ben Gvir. Witness the rape of Palestinian prisoners by IDF soldiers (and the lack of objection by some majority of Israeli citizens). Witness the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank by Zionist settlers.
wonderful. I guess McCollough is now an "anti-semite" along with all the rest of us. I wept today when I learned that those fuckers were bulldozing olive trees in Lebanon, trees that have been there for many hundreds of years and were loved by the people who just had their land stolen from them. such a tragedy. I was out working in my garden working on growing things and looking at my olive tree which is 3 or 4 years old and here are these coarse horrible people destroying life and culture and beloved homes.
It seems you don't know much about fundamentalist Islam. If you did, you would realize they are bent on world domination and subjugation. More resources means they can accomplish their goals much more quickly and easier. Learn from history. It is an effective teacher. This has been Islam through its existence.
And you must not know much about the Jewish plan to subjugate the world. Tikkun Olam It's all in the Talmud and by an objective measure, they're succeeding much more than so called Islam. But you don't want to learn that history do you?
The post was about Iran. Almost all of the people there are Muslims. There are only a few Jews there. If the Jews were so powerful, they wouldn't have a miniscule presence there. There are only about 10 to 15 million Jews in the world with a population of about 8 billion.
Nevertheless, they are influential. It is because their God is the Creator. He blesses them and places a curse on the Muslims who have their hand against everyone, and are wild asses, just as the scriptures say. The Almighty is going to show the Muslims that the name of the Creator is Yaweh, not their idol.
With all respect, please stick to medicine. No, removing sanction on the Islamic Council will not bring more freedom. They are a brutal, violent regime bent on wiping America and Israel and anyone else who stands in their way to their divinely inspired hegemony off the face of the earth.There is but a single way to deal with barbarians like this and Trump is doing it. The term civilization destruction is the only language they understand. They will not be satisfied until the entire globe is under Sharia law. BTW, The Islamist extremists have been this brutal for over a thousand years.
the USA will ally with the devil himself and then toss him overboard when he's served his purpose. our principles are VERY elastic.
we used Saddam Hussein as a proxy to attack Iran. when we were done with him, he became our next "evil doer" who had to be destroyed. we've watched too many John Wayne movies; we want our good guys really good and our bad guys to be the worst, most evil, horrible, vile creatures ever to walk the earth and we want it all wrapped up in under 2 hours
Very good point! People, especially in the west think of all Sharia Law as the same. But is it not a single system. Iran's Sharia power and fundamental structure come extremist clerics whose sole goal is to spread their version of Sharia throughout the world. Saudi Arabia's Sunni Sharia comes from the Royal Family. They considerate it a moderate religion amd have no such bellicose underpinnings. There's lots more, but that's the nickel tour!
15 of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi, and several were supported by Saudi intelligence officers receiving money from Prince Bandar's wife. The current President of Syria, Al-Jolani is a former Al-Qaeda terrorist who served five years in a US military prison in Iraq for planting roadside bombs. The US uses the terrorist label in the most outrageously expedient way.
Indeed it is LeRoy, but there are major differences. As the monarchy has loosened its control over the population and offers broad discretion to judges and generally become more pragmatic, Shia has become more dogmatic, intent on our destruction, and developed the weapons to support their aspirations. Iran is an impending threat, the Sunni, tho many are killers, are not.
Can you name ONE time Iran has attacked the US? One incident of IRANIAN terrorism against the US?
NO, because it's never happened. Don't say Hezbollah or other proxies, because the US has 1000x's more proxies that have done horrific terrorism around the globe. I guess it's ok when we do it, yea?
Iran uses militia and factions to attack so you can't dismiss proxies. I can't speak for the thousands of proxies the U.S. uses. You and I may agree on much of that. But you asked about Iran.
A lot of people get thrown by this so let me give you the breakdown.
Iran loves your argument, because that rationale means they can reap havoc on the world and claim innocence. The common mistake is that Hezbollah is some loose terrorist group. Quite the opposite. It is a well-funded, highly structured organization whose prime source of funding is.. you guessed it…Iran by a wide margin. (They also pull smaller donations from sympathizers, charities, business fronts and organized crime.) Iran dumps hundreds of millions in cash, arms, training and intelligence to guide them toward specific targets. Iran funnels money via the IRGC and it’s external arm Quds Force which supplies advanced weapons, such as (Iran developed) missiles, drones, surveillance. If there were no Iran, you would barely hear of Hezbollah.
Hezbollah is not part of Iran’s military, but is deeply integrated into Iran’s military strategy.
So, Iran is the command center and Hezbollah the elite forward unit operating with some autonomy. They train with Iranian forces, coordinate strategically with Iran and act in concert with Iran’s geopolitical goals.
So don't fall for the ruse they are somehow unique forces. They are not. They are only appear different on paper.
In simplest terms. Hezbollah is a semi-autonomous force that operates as a key arm of Iranian power projection.
Iran operates primarily through factions. Missile attacks, naval clashes, cyber operations are state to state actions. Missiles fired at our bases come from Iran.
You asked for actions against the U.S. Direct actions include 1988 Tanker war (Operation Praying Mantis), 2003 Iraq War, Iran’s Shia militias targeted U.S. troops, roadside bombs, hundreds of U.S. soldiers were killed by Iran-linked groups. 2020 attack on U.S. bases.
The source of all of this is Iran who has sworn death and destruction to the U.S. During recent negotiations they admitted to building 700 ballistic missiles each month. They were working with Venezuela to develop launching bases in that nation along with China. We now know they can fire their missiles 2500 miles and are becoming steadily more precise in their targeting. We produce 7 anti-missile missiles per month and could easily be overwhelmed.
So yes, we are fighting the IRGC in Iran, because Iran is the source of the hostilities and all of these groups so many like to dismiss are Iran's acting military arm.
The difference between Sharia as administered by Sunni versus Shia societies is irrelevant. Both are extreme, cruel, intolerant, and odious to free people in every free society. Sharia antedates Athelstan's reign as the first English king, so blaming this problem on the British Empire or US foreign policy is absurd.
The foreign policy of Sunni Islam, AT PRESENT, is more willing to compromise in order to get money (Syria's ruler is only pretending to be moderate), but that can change at any time. The foreign policy of Iran is based on a centuries-old Shia belief that the end of days will be ushered in by the return of the 12th Imam, and that destruction, death, and chaos are the tools ordained by God by which the Shiites will help bring about the global caliphate, which, by the way, means 'submission' for all --westerners, easterners, Africans, All.
ah, the old "stay in your lane" argument that was used to suppress people during covid! nice try! Mr. Leake's "lane" is not medicine. back in the bad old covid days, him writing about medicine would have brought ridicule, jeers and appeals for him to "stay in his lane."
you know nothing about what Iranians understand. maybe you should stay in your lane. the real irritant in the Middle East is the entitled country that we support with our tax dollars
Dr. McCullough’s comment (April 9) on John Leake’s post “Israel Blows Up Lebanese Town of Naquora”:
“The current atrocities we are witnessing compounded by the recent tragedy in Gaza are clarifying among our readers who is who. As doctors, scientists, and historians, we are bringing you analysis and the spirit of compassion which is clashing with hard core, blood-thirsty barbarism. We are not among the victims, but is clear who they are. The Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" in Arabic, refers to the 1948 violent displacement of over 750,000 Palestinians during the creation of Israel, transforming them into refugees. Commemorated annually on May 15, this event resulted in the destruction of over 500 villages, widespread looting, and loss of life. The Nakba is central to Palestinian identity and considered an ongoing process of displacement.”
Zionist barbarism continues unabated. Witness the depraved psychopath Ben Gvir. Witness the rape of Palestinian prisoners by IDF soldiers (and the lack of objection by some majority of Israeli citizens). Witness the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank by Zionist settlers.
This load of rubbish keeps getting larger. He says that without sanctions, "The Islamic Republic will likely become much stronger, but also more moderate, free, and open" and he blames the UK and the US for Iran's often stated intent to destroy Western civilization. Granting the premise for a moment, how did two wrongs become a right?
But as for his premise, where in the world is a Shia theocracy moderate, free and open? Did Iran murder 25,000+ of its citizens in January because they were not as moderate, free and open as the mullahs demanded?
Was Obama just kidding when he extended a hand of friendship?
Ask a million Uygers how China became moderate, free and open after we allowed it to enter the WTO.
Pull your head out of the sand, ignore your critical theory impulse and look at what they have done.
they have become more moderate. if we leave them alone, they will join the modern world. they're an extremely well educated people. they have the highest numbers of PhDs in the world. of course, the USA and israel blow up their universities. i guess the USA wants everyone to be as stupid as it's own dimly educated population
You’re talking about the Iranian people who are applauding the USA/Israeli strikes and the diaspora across the world who LOVES Trump and has been out in the streets expressing their support. All the divergent squabbling groups in Iran finally came together to unify on ending the Islamic Republic. Reza Pahlavi and these groups have put together a plan. Lots of defections within the IRGC and the military. Groups rising up like the Immortal Guard to take their country back. Have no idea who you’re listening to. I’ve been watching Tousi TV - his dad lives in Tehran. I also met and talked to a doctor in this country from Iran. Many other on the ground connected people have informed my opinion. Not to mention the 40,000-50,000+ unarmed citizen protestors who were butchered in the streets by the IRGC. They were selling the bodies of these children back to their grieving parents. It is a death cult.
Some people are beyond understanding anything including you. Ask the Iranian woman athlete/footballer who fled a couple of yrs ago. Cant find the link. But something about political prisoners being HUNG from cranes in towns im really into enlightened moderates like that . You deserve whats coming to you my dear blinkered deluded womsn.
sanctions put pressure on any political system and force the government to tighten up. basic common sense. no Iran did not murder 25,000 of it's citizens. it may have murdered 7000, which is bad enough, but like all Americans, we exaggerate the "evils" of the people we intend to make war on so that our uneducated population can be easily tricked into going along with our war plans
As Sam Harris has said - when jihadists say outright over and over that their goal is to destroy Israel and the US and they don't care if they destroy themselves and the rest of the world in the process because that is their ultimate salvation, it would be smart of us to believe them. You can't appease a death cult which is what they are.
oh yes, sam harris, twisting himself into knots to justify his covid hysteria. Iran is fighting to survive, obviously it's not a death cult but i guess it helps ignorant americans justify their atrocities. if you want to see the real terrorists, they're in DC
The Iranian people are fighting to survive under an oppressive death cult. Hopefully they will be able to rise up and take their country back now that it’s been weakened. You must not have listened to enough people who have suffered under this regime.
what about the people who suffer under our regime? all the people in jail for minor non-violent drug offenses. what about our unfair system of justice that puts poor people in prison and lets rich people run amok? maybe someone should bomb our country and kill our people, kidnap our president, put a blockade around us so we all starve to death.
considering the atrocities we have funded and instigated throughout our reign of terror, it might be just
Two political systems. If you’re having trouble determining which is better, then go live under the other one. You know what this one’s like. You just don’t have enough people that agree with you.
If you’re just ranting and disillusioned then OK. There’s evil in the world - everywhere. Agreed. Have known this in a very personal way since I was a child. There’s love, peace and goodness too. Have known that as well.
Jesus is the source of life, love, joy and peace. Seek Him and you’ll find Him. I’m not talking about a church or rituals. I’m talking about a person - Jesus Christ. He is the way, the truth, and the life - the only real path out of all the evil in the world. Yes, you’ll still be in the world, you just won’t be of it. There will be storms, but you’ll have peace in the midst of them. That’s as good as it gets in this world. A personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Not easy - good. I’ll never be older than I was in my 20’s. He saved me and brought me back to life. What did He save me from? Despair over all the evil in the world. He loves me. It’s enough. He loves you too.
We’re not slaughtering the people of Iran. The Islamic Republic slaughtered the people of Iran. 40,000-50,000 or more in January alone when they shut off the internet. The people have been crying out for help for years. Just listened to a doctor from Iran who’s in South Africa recount the entire history: Dr. Araj Abedian
LOL…How many ‘articles’ do we get in one day? Visions of the author typing voraciously at his computer….page after page of political opinion. Perhaps it’s time for him to calm down and take his meds. Just a suggestion.
I never miss one. You're brilliant because you're eloquent and curious. Love the mix of personal anecdotes and historical snippets that blend to form a masterfully well written thought experiment. Truth be told, you're one of the most moderate of voices that are uniting people despite beliefs because you're expanding their mind and viewpoints. Bravo sir.
Dr. McCullough’s comment (April 9) on John Leake’s post “Israel Blows Up Lebanese Town of Naquora”:
“The current atrocities we are witnessing compounded by the recent tragedy in Gaza are clarifying among our readers who is who. As doctors, scientists, and historians, we are bringing you analysis and the spirit of compassion which is clashing with hard core, blood-thirsty barbarism. We are not among the victims, but is clear who they are. The Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" in Arabic, refers to the 1948 violent displacement of over 750,000 Palestinians during the creation of Israel, transforming them into refugees. Commemorated annually on May 15, this event resulted in the destruction of over 500 villages, widespread looting, and loss of life. The Nakba is central to Palestinian identity and considered an ongoing process of displacement.”
Zionist barbarism continues unabated. Witness the depraved psychopath Ben Gvir. Witness the rape of Palestinian prisoners by IDF soldiers (and the lack of objection by some majority of Israeli citizens). Witness the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank by Zionist settlers.
Watch I24 Israeli TV and listen to the truth. Hard to hear with all the "Death to Israel!' and "Death to the USA!" chants coming out of murdering lying fanatical Iran and its proxies.
Perhaps countries that harbour viscious terrorists need blowing up. Or maybe you had no idea they were viscious and had conned Lebanon into harbouring them. Reality would be a fine thing here.
John, nicely done always, but you leave out Zionist lust for utter and complete destruction of anything not Zionist. Peace in Gaza..remember that..ha ha..(over 60% under Zionist control..emm)
there will be no peace : Zionism and their financial strangle hold on us Gov will never allow it. Our only hope is if Russia and China are to Iran what US of A is to Zionism.
You may eventually get what you’re hoping for. It’s called Armageddon. It’s not happening now, but you may be here when it does - when all the countries in the north gather together to destroy Israel. You’re not on the right team. Seek the truth while it can still be found.
Yowza! just finished reading dr Malone’s Friday funnies. Wonder if anyone looked hard at the handful of terrorist organizations supported by strict Islamist Iranian regime? Worse, given the 47 years of repeating “death to Americans”how many billions of US cash was handed to this same regime by 757 aircrafts by Obama, and subsequently $6billion by Biden.
us military has been destroying bunkers, munitions and infrastructure prior US administrations paid for!?!
We should not care less what other countries are doing on the other side of the world as long as it doesn’t directly impact us and it wouldn’t if we stopped bombing their countries and supporting Israel.
Our immigration system has been hijacked by citizens loyal to Israel, who imported culturally incompatible migrants predominantly with little to no skill set, gave them financial assistance once they arrived so they could exist and have more children. Then our government help helps Israel bomb their home countries. Iran was not about to have a nuclear weapon (even though Israel has been claiming this regularly for 30 years) and even if they did who cares, Israel has over 200 nukes. Israel stole its initial nuclear material from the United States, Israel has an official policy called the Samson option which states that if they are about to be wiped out in a war, and the US doesn’t come to help them that they will launch all their nuclear missiles in every direction at uninvolved countries, Israel also murdered nearly 20,000 children that belong to unarmed parents in Gaza in addition to attacking the USS liberty and staging 911.
If we should have a problem with any country having nuclear weapons it’s clearly Israel.
"When evaluating the Iranian regime, it is important to understand that its militarism and repressive policies are actually fostered by the exertion of outside pressure on the country. Sanctions and attacks on the Iranian currency by the US Treasury Department cause economic hardship for moderate people who yearn for a more open society"
(That China is now going to help them achieve...with no open society in China????)
Incredible...it's ALL OUR FAULT. The theocratic oligarchy in Iran is just an illusion, all the expat Persian/Iranians over here are all delusional, everybody in (what's left) of the Iranian government is more cultured, refined, intelligent and rooted in historical progress than anyone in Trump's team. Vance wasn't just trying to give the Iranians a save-face way to salvage a peace deal THEY need by offering that they may have "misunderstood" Israel's Lebanon action, no...he just another idiot.
And of course Trump working with the Chinese diplomatically to achieve a peaceful solution isn't really an intelligent backstage actor, but rather a dupe of the far more refined, polished, and no doubt well-dressed Xi. Certainly, DJT couldn't possibly have communicated with Xi and proposed that maybe the whole world could be a mutually better off place if we cooperated to ease Iran's situation for the good of all. Being declared a loose canon imbecile bent on civilization destruction he could only be glad Xi took mercy upon him and led him by the nose before it was too late.
Have to add one more to the can't take anymore list: I think Dr. McCullough's post this week on the marvels of statins--based upon the exact same "relative risk reduction" and "avoid comparison of adverse effects to placebo by comparing to people on other statins instead," Pharma ploy as employed for the mRNA shots and other questionable vaccines (!!!)--may have been the second to last straw, but John's column here is an entire hay bale to finish me.
Unsubscribing...it was great for a good long run, but apparently success breeds some form of insanity. I should have unsubscribed earlier this week when Mr. Leake effectively called anyone suggesting Trump did have an underlying--and increasingly successful--diplomatic/warplan strategy, a "useful idiot" who could feel good about ourselves in our naiveté, thanks to those clever Iranians having given DJT a chance to claim he had a peace deal so "our guy" would not have too much egg on his face.
Im along with you when my sub goes.esp on statins. After reading dr mcKendrick The great Cholesterol Con and dr Aseem Malhotra stats on living 1 day extra for x years of taking them. Any advocate of statins in my book has to be under greatest suspicion. Tks for good outline of giving up on con artists. Didnt think they were a year ago.
I’m a Calvinist, and it’s no austere religion; you’ve sorely mischaracterized it. Indeed, it was the Reformed/Calvinist faith that brought about great prosperity throughout Europe, and was a leading force of Westernization, both in Europe and the U.S. Your Puritan relatives “ditching” their Calvinism to become “far more secular and worldly,” is no virtue, but a shame, if that’s what happened. No society becoming more secular or worldly has, or will ever, make a change for the better. I would sooner believe any betterment of society in Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay was not caused by your ancestors’ abandonment of their Calvinist heritage, but in spite of it. “Trade and interaction with the rest of the world [fostering] openness and liberality” does not occur in a vacuum—but is a direct result of a God-fearing society. Your inserting this statement about your Puritan ancestors—implying a comparison between Puritanism and Islamic Fundamentalism, or that religious societies stand in opposition of “open” societies—is unnecessary and bogus.
Really? You're gonna say the Puritans weren't radical extremists? They left England because NO ONE could stand them. I guess burning witches is a moderate stance? No one could stand them here either until they decided to moderate. It's the same with all extremists. Orthodox Jews, Sharia or Sunni Muslims or hell, even Scientologists. They all hate the "others"
They've had 47 years to mellow out and become reasonable. Maybe learn a kinder gentle way to cut off hands, heads or other body parts over minor violations of the goat breeders.
Your oft-repeated link to this Substack does no good to anyone who does not subscribe. Can you perhaps summarize the main point(s) you wish the rest of us to learn from this posting?
wow! I'm sorry. it was very long and technical about exactly how atomic weapons are made and how the entire "Iran has a nuclear weapon" hysteria is just an Israeli excuse to get the war of BiBi's dreams. I'll try to copy a section which might inspire you to read the entire thing. it's David Stockman's substack. I don't have a paid subscription but I was able to read it all.
To wit, none of the following excuses for Trump’s War on Iran is even remotely true:
1) Iran has or is on the verge of a nuclear weapon.
2) Iran has conducted an unprovoked 47-year war of murder against Americans because the mullahs hate our freedom.
3)Iran is arming itself to the teeth for an eventual attack on the American homeland.
4)The Iranian government is in the hands of a uniquely Evil Cult of Fanatics determined to bring the world to an Armeggedon-like demise.
Now, we don’t mean that these propositions are arguable wrong or over-wrought exaggerations. Actually, we mean that they are completely, utterly and unequivocally devoid of any truth whatsoever.
Indeed, they are flat out fabrications repeated over and over and over again by the Bibi Netanyahu fifth column on the banks of the Potomac. And they have done so in promotion of a cause—Bibi’s continued tenure in power in Israel—that has nothing whatsoever to do with the Homeland Security of the American people domiciled way over here from sea-to-shinning-sea.
That’s really what makes Trump’s latest rant so horrifically despicable. He is threatening to unleash Armageddon on the 90 million people of Iran and the 7 billion people of the planet who depend for their daily bread upon the fountains of hydrocarbons that ordinarily gush forth into the arteries of global commerce from the Persian Gulf.
We have dealt with the thin gruel of “Iran’s 47-Year War Against America” elsewhere, including the claim that 1,041 Americans have been killed deliberately by the Iranian regime. That is, of course, complete neocon propaganda.
Fully 861 or 83% of these unfortunate deaths occurred in the context of Washington’s misbegotten military deployments in the region—in the Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983 and during the second US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and thereafter.
Both of these deployments were utterly unnecessary and had no bearing on the Homeland Security of America whatsoever. Washington foolishly put lethally armed US soldiers in the midst of an uprising of the local Shiite population in southern Lebanon in 1983 against the brutal Israeli occupation then underway.
Likewise, the Iraq war fatalities were at the hands of local Shiite militia’s in Iraq. Some of them may have been supplied with weapons from Iran, but they were self-evidently returning war to the Yankee invaders of their homeland who should have never ever been sent there.
So, the overwhelming heart of the case essentially begins and ends with the “nuke” that Iran doesn’t have and hasn’t been seeking since a small weaponization research project was abandoned in 2003. That was done on the orders of Ayatollah Khamenei who issued a Fatwa proclaiming that the development, stockpiling or use of nuclear weapons is forbidden by Islamic Law.
I prefer to get the Iranian view from Mayhar Tousi exiled in London with a father still in Iran keeping the faith that his people will soon be able to thow off the murderous chains.
I recently found out that several of the countries that had sanctions on Iran were paying for oil, in fact, with Cash. This is one of the reasons why Trump is trying to bring the cheaters to the table by cutting their oil supply.
"When evaluating the Iranian regime, it is important to understand that its militarism and repressive policies are actually fostered by the exertion of outside pressure on the country."
Nope. It's Sharia Law.
Criminal law structured around sharia principles, including qisas (retribution), diyya (blood money), and ta’zir (discretionary punishments), with reports of torture, harsh/death sentences applied unevenly, particularly against women, ethnic and religious minorities.
Wake up.
What do make of US ally Saudi Arabia and its Sharia law judiciary?
Sunni Sharia does not have any warmth for Shi'a Sharia. To Iran, friend of Sunni is enemy of Shi'a. That militarism is 1000 years old and neither we nor the British caused that.
No, we foster and pay for Sunni takfiri terrorists
I'm not saying we don't play sides, only that the conflict is far older and more complex than Mr. Leake suggests.
no its simple, the arab will always unite and US is the satan...Saudi is playing with USA...always were. it is complex but we leave it alone, not our business. did you know Iran has near destroyed the military bases in the middle eastern nations?
"Simple" in that sense from our standpoint--and I agree we would be better off not involved--but not so simple from the standpoint of longstanding divisions within Islam (though perhaps many of those involved, themselves, reduce it to somewhat relatively "black & white" positions).
John, you say in the sub head that Iran will become “more moderate, free and open.” That is the same pollyanna dreaming globalists had for China and they were dead wrong. The same dynamic is going on.
In the 20th century the Saudi Royal Family became much more enamored with money than Sharia. Sharia became for them more of a front. At the same time, they haven’t forgotten the significance of Mecca and Medina and the need to keep both Shia and Sunni political forces in balance while at the same time courting western acceptance and technology. The Saudis became more political than ideological.
The same process has not played out with the mullahs in Iran. They remain a theocracy, more ideological than political, and very devoted to Sharia and the destiny of the Caliphate.
good post
Exactly, The Saudi's are compliant with US policy; their religious practices are their own business in the eyes of US political power.
What would the Middle East be like today if no oil had been discovered?
A fun mind experiment.
The westerners we know who worked in Saudi reported that their Saturday shopping excursions in town always found town squares covered with blood and gore from their weekly executions on Fridays. Sharia didn't begin with the British. It began with the development of Islam in the 8th century and it won't reform or modernize easily.
"Nope. It's Sharia Law.
Criminal law structured around sharia principles, including qisas (retribution), diyya (blood money), and ta’zir (discretionary punishments), with reports of torture, harsh/death sentences applied unevenly, particularly against women, ethnic and religious minorities."
Are you describing our current "ally" - Syria, under - al-Jolani's rule?!
And thus justifies destroying a civilization? That is the exact definition of propaganda. Find a hated practice by a group and use it to condemn the whole nation.
So we need to spend billions, while paying off past wars, going back to World War I, and killing other human beings because of extreme religious practices? This thinking pattern is identical to the crusade campaigns.
My neighbor beats his wife, she's not allowed outside. May not speak to anyone, without permission. She had a forced clitoectomy at 9, wears a full hijab, they have gatherings weekly where they chant loudly death to America. His adult son has a daughter, but Im pretty sure the 10 year old is his wife.
Just different religious practices, right?
None of my business, right?
The crusades were to reconquer the holy lands from the islamo facists of the day.
Plainly you know nothing about the actual country of Iran. For example, 70 percent of current engineering students in Iranian universities are women....
Thats nice. How is that relevant to anything I've said?
completely relevant! we bitch here about the "poor Iranian women" who can't wear mini skirts. meanwhile we murdered 170+ school girls who will never have to worry about what to wear
The propaganda that there is such a Holy place on the earth sucks you guys in every time. So go ahead, travel to the area and fight over some sand.
I wonder if there is anything you would feel the need to defend.
How about our borders and not Israel's or Ukraine's? That would be a great start. We send over $300 billion a year to Israel. For what? Israel is a US military base, so our Neocons can launch their useless, never-ending wars. The Jewish political power in DC is enormous. We produce our oil; we don't need oil from any Middle Eastern country. So what exactly are we defending? Tell us, what is it?
My family, my home, my nation, my nation's borders. That is about it.
if you live in the USA, I'm pretty sure a man can't marry a girl of 10. if you suspect your neighbor of spousal abuse, call the police but don't go bombing an entire country
Your neighbor sounds based!
Read “Sword and Scimitar” by Raymond Ibrahim, an historian fluent in Arabic and Greek, who worked at the Library of Congress and went to first sources to compile a history of Islam and Christianity. You will be enlightened with the history we never learned. Islam is a political colonization movement with religious underpinnings. Time to wake up.
Thanks
Liberalism claims to stand for women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, abortion rights, freedom of speech, religious freedom, and secular governance. I CONSIDER MYSELF A LIBERAL - LIBERTY DRIVEN PERSON. Yet many of the Islamist movements and ideologies that progressive activists now shield under the banner of "diversity" and "inclusion" openly reject these principles.
In Sharia governed countries, homosexuality remains illegal, often punishable by imprisonment, flogging, or death.
Women are systematically oppressed — barred from education, stripped of legal equality, and subjected to brutal enforcement of modesty laws and physical mutilated.
When the call to morning prayers chants, "Death to America", do cheerfully celebrate?
Your desire to attacked me personally for considering this absurd alliance between "progressive" movements and Islamist sympathizers is misguided and unprofessional. Perhaps you are uncomfortable with critical thinking.
"... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
There is no shortage of militarism or repressive policies in Syria either. They are clearly only a reluctant "Ally", so there is no contradiction in the statement, to be fair.
And, the US is captured by its silly belief that Israel is the Holy Land where a new Temple is to be built. Your reasoning is completely corrupted by propaganda.
I have colleagues at work, in their 60s who think like her... Very good people otherwise but unable to adjust their world views in the light of facts due to heavy, cumulative, scorched in their brains propaganda.
Sadly, there is *nothing* to do about such people.
Sorry, you’ll have to think of something else. Islam was completely ignored in the boomer education. Knew nothing about it. The knowledge has come from Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Mosab Hassan Yousef, Mohamad Faridi, Raymond Ibrahim, Tommy Robinson, Douglas Murray, and many others. Great Britain is the canary in the coal mine. The political program of Islam is inherent to the religion. Please take the time to educate yourself.
The good news is the internet has become a problem for Islam. They are losing followers, perhaps as many as they are gaining. Muslims don’t know that the perfect man, Mohammad, married a 6 yr old and consummated the marriage at 9. That knowledge alone becomes a stumbling block.
"Great Britain is the canary in the coal mine."
GB is surely beyond saving, but how was it that Muslims were able to invade? They didn't invade, of course, they were invited in, welcomed, subsidized, by the very sort of politicians that now demand a holy war in the Middle East to protect women's rights, as they ignore the grooming and rape of English women. Never smart to trust the creators of a problem to produce the solution.
There's craziness in most religions, definitely including Judaism and Christianity. Hegseth seems to believe killing Iranian civilians is required to bring about the second coming of Christ (who said to love your enemies). Israelis, of course, abhor Jesus as a softie weakling, but apparently think the real jealous angry messiah can't come until Greater Israel is restored, from the Nile to Pakistan. Plenty of problems to solve at home, but instead we're going to let foreigners, billionaires, and the U.S. government pave over the land with data centers with which to control everyone and everything. The enemy's right here--no need to look for him abroad, though he'd be happy for you to die serve him by doing so.
I don’t think Great Britain is beyond saving. Yes, they invited them in - suicidal empathy, white colonizer guilt, maybe they wanted cheap labor and maybe it’s just a globalist plan to destabilize western democracies. Or all of the above.
Study Islam. I didn’t know much about it until I did. I didn’t realize it’s a political system as well as a religion. They go hand in hand. “Sword and Scimitar” by Raymond Ibrahim, an historian who’s fluent in Arabic and Greek and went to first sources is a good book to read on the history of Islam and Christianity.
Pete Hegseth doesn’t believe killing Iranian civilians will bring about the second coming of Christ. It’s clear in scripture when that’s going to happen and it’s not now. When I say “when,” I don’t mean date and time. No one knows that. Jesus also said there were going to be wars and rumors of wars but that was not the end.
There are plenty of Messianic Jews who believe in Jesus. There are a lot of Muslims who are coming to Jesus too.
Not a fan of the data centers - nobody asked for those. Trying to put one near me - I could move fairly easily but still, it’s a terrible idea.
Yes, there’s evil and problems all over the world. What we’re addressing in Iran are the nuclear weapons. I get it, we heard that before with Saddam. But Iraq is not Iran. This needed to be done. It was one thing we could all agree on - Iran cannot get nuclear weapons. They had a ton of ballistic missiles too - long range. Obviously they export terror.
"It was one thing we could all agree on - Iran cannot get nuclear weapons."
Except that we don't all agree. Must the U.S., Israel, Britain, France, Pakistan, North Korea, etc., etc. give up theirs? To any country without nukes, the current situation just proves how much they need them. Without them, any foreign tyrant can tell you we'll kill all your men, women, children, and animals in 15 minutes--obey or die. And maybe we'll kill you even if you do obey, cause God said you're not human! Telling a country it can't have nukes in a world full of nukes is like telling a little old lady in Chicago she can't have a gun, only the criminals can have guns.
About Great Britain and The West's open borders, Israel's "greatest friend" Charlie Kirk said in October 2023, "Jewish donors have been the number one funding mechanism of radical, open border, neoliberal, quasi-Marxist policies" and that "this is a beast created by secular Jews, and now it's coming for Jews." He urged American Jews to stop "subsidizing your own demise." Kirk saw it as just a mistake, but what if it's actually the globalists' double-edged plan to bomb the third world, steal the oil, then use the refugees to further weaken individualist Western culture in advance of their planned one-world corporatocracy?
Note that there's division and factions among globalists. Should one-world rule be from DC, Brussels, Jerusalem, or Beijing? Plebes lose in any case.
"The good news is the internet has become a problem for Islam. "
... which is the "perfect" source of information since TNI ("Trusted" News Initiative).
You see Islam as a problem and your comments reveal your belief that you are a crusaded and these are religious wars... and - apparently - Islam should be... "eradicated" to make the world a... "better" place?
As for Puny Britain - they are the smoldering ruin of an empire; their "leadership" intentionally brought masses of foreigners in their country to stir up chaos and civil war... they are not the only ones doing this with the agenda of undermining nation states and push towards global governance (which is yet another way of saying "imperialism"); "EU" (the wannabe Federal State of Europe) and US do the same, to please their banker overlords.
The internet (in the process of being contaminated by AI) is a library... it is up to YOU what books you read (so to speak) and which "authors" you trust.
I know it is hard to change views; it takes courage to admit that your world model is broken, then you have to have the intellectual curiosity to do your own research, looking for the truth; you are not there yet.
"Anywho", just watch this series of travel notes in Iran from a Western guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TWNXneUrMY&list=PLEyPgwIPkHo4MQCLjb2_amBzVA_vMAshj
It might not be the best ever, but I found it years ago and enjoyed a few episodes (only 1 and 2 were available back then).
You're welcome :).
“10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.”
― Susan Sontag
Please don't be the 80%...
You’re funny. 😂 You think I’m not there yet. You don’t even know me. It’s OK - you’re throwing out ideas thinking I need to grab one.
There’s not a question I’ve had about life that has not been answered. Yes, I cannot reconcile the sovereignty of God with the free will of man, but I’ve definitely experienced the truth of each in a very personal way. There has to be at least one surprise. Both are true and I know why they’re true so that’s been enough for me.
Knowing why I’m here - what the purpose of all of this is - was the main question to get answered. The genius of the plan blew my mind. That was years ago, but the joy of understanding is still as fresh as the morning dew.
They're all dying off. Apparently it's mostly a boomer and gen x thing.
You can deny God, Jesus, the biblical story.
But its still true.
But I won't try to convince an atheist. Your heart and mind are closed.
Im past that point.
you believe it's "true." others don't, your heart is closed since you deny an entire country of people their humanity while condoning another country's repeated genocides on our dime
No genocides have occured in , Gaza, or Iran.
Im not denying any contrytheir humanity.
Im supporting a war to free the Iranian people from a tyrannical, 7th century blood just cult.
That recently slaughtered 30 to 45,000 people.
Sorry that your moral compass is broken.
Try reading the bible.
no genocides, huh? tell that to all the dead people. every international agency that records genocides says this is one. of course the USA disagrees because for whatever reason it has enslaved itself to a tiny very evil country that it supports. oh well.
you can't bomb a people into peace and freedom. you can't kill people to "liberate" them. my moral compass is just fine; you have none.
You mean all the international agencies that are historically and clearly antisemitic?
Like the UN, with Iran on the human rights council?
Not a credible source. Let's talk numbers, not opinions.
Irgc slaughtered 35000 civilians in January.
Israel has killed 2500, irgc soldiers, and maybe 1600 civilians. Mostly because the irgc hides behind civilians. 4000 out of 90,000,000. And you call that a genocide?
You have e that backwards. Read Revelation.
And yours is corrupted by a lack of knowledge.
Which came first?
Jesus or Mohammed?
The holy lands refer to what part of the world, where did that name originated?
What year did the Israelis move into Israel?
1948
The Israelite Kingdom of Judah was found in the southern Levant during the Iron Age. And their descendants, however abused by Babylonia, Egypt, Rome, Christian and Islamic rulers, throughout the centuries, are still there.
What year did the Canaanites build the land were the terrorists of Israel now occupy?
What country in tge world today was not previously occupied by another tribe, or nation?
None.
You just dont want Israel to exist.
Bye.
i just don't want to pay for it to exist, especially when it commits atrocities on a regular basis
I don't care if Israel exists or not as long as all Israelis stay in Israel and are not controlling the US government. But if you give me the choice..........cheap gas or Israel existing, I will take the cheap gas every day of the week.
So you believe that 15 million jews are controlling 350 million Americans, government, press, money, shipping, media, or and they are genocidal maniacs. Did I miss anything?
The earth is flat?
We never walked on the moon?
Irgc are peaceful muslims as are hamas, hezbolla?
Dr. McCullough’s comment (April 9) on John Leake’s post “Israel Blows Up Lebanese Town of Naquora”:
“The current atrocities we are witnessing compounded by the recent tragedy in Gaza are clarifying among our readers who is who. As doctors, scientists, and historians, we are bringing you analysis and the spirit of compassion which is clashing with hard core, blood-thirsty barbarism. We are not among the victims, but is clear who they are. The Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" in Arabic, refers to the 1948 violent displacement of over 750,000 Palestinians during the creation of Israel, transforming them into refugees. Commemorated annually on May 15, this event resulted in the destruction of over 500 villages, widespread looting, and loss of life. The Nakba is central to Palestinian identity and considered an ongoing process of displacement.”
Zionist barbarism continues unabated. Witness the depraved psychopath Ben Gvir. Witness the rape of Palestinian prisoners by IDF soldiers (and the lack of objection by some majority of Israeli citizens). Witness the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank by Zionist settlers.
wonderful. I guess McCollough is now an "anti-semite" along with all the rest of us. I wept today when I learned that those fuckers were bulldozing olive trees in Lebanon, trees that have been there for many hundreds of years and were loved by the people who just had their land stolen from them. such a tragedy. I was out working in my garden working on growing things and looking at my olive tree which is 3 or 4 years old and here are these coarse horrible people destroying life and culture and beloved homes.
maybe you're the one who needs the waking
https://davidstockman.substack.com/p/time-for-the-white-jacket-men?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KkNAQIuGZY
You beat me to it (and more eloquently).
Excellent article, John.
Thanks!
Mr. Leake,
It seems you don't know much about fundamentalist Islam. If you did, you would realize they are bent on world domination and subjugation. More resources means they can accomplish their goals much more quickly and easier. Learn from history. It is an effective teacher. This has been Islam through its existence.
For 1400 years Islam has provided us with their very simple and oft repeated playbook.
https://davidstockman.substack.com/p/time-for-the-white-jacket-men?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Thanks for that link, Carolyn
https://davidstockman.substack.com/p/time-for-the-white-jacket-men?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Mr Leake, you keep writing about what moves you. don't listen to these authoritarians who want to censor your output
And you must not know much about the Jewish plan to subjugate the world. Tikkun Olam It's all in the Talmud and by an objective measure, they're succeeding much more than so called Islam. But you don't want to learn that history do you?
The post was about Iran. Almost all of the people there are Muslims. There are only a few Jews there. If the Jews were so powerful, they wouldn't have a miniscule presence there. There are only about 10 to 15 million Jews in the world with a population of about 8 billion.
Nevertheless, they are influential. It is because their God is the Creator. He blesses them and places a curse on the Muslims who have their hand against everyone, and are wild asses, just as the scriptures say. The Almighty is going to show the Muslims that the name of the Creator is Yaweh, not their idol.
With all respect, please stick to medicine. No, removing sanction on the Islamic Council will not bring more freedom. They are a brutal, violent regime bent on wiping America and Israel and anyone else who stands in their way to their divinely inspired hegemony off the face of the earth.There is but a single way to deal with barbarians like this and Trump is doing it. The term civilization destruction is the only language they understand. They will not be satisfied until the entire globe is under Sharia law. BTW, The Islamist extremists have been this brutal for over a thousand years.
What do make of US ally Saudi Arabia and its Sharia law judiciary?
the USA will ally with the devil himself and then toss him overboard when he's served his purpose. our principles are VERY elastic.
we used Saddam Hussein as a proxy to attack Iran. when we were done with him, he became our next "evil doer" who had to be destroyed. we've watched too many John Wayne movies; we want our good guys really good and our bad guys to be the worst, most evil, horrible, vile creatures ever to walk the earth and we want it all wrapped up in under 2 hours
Very good point! People, especially in the west think of all Sharia Law as the same. But is it not a single system. Iran's Sharia power and fundamental structure come extremist clerics whose sole goal is to spread their version of Sharia throughout the world. Saudi Arabia's Sunni Sharia comes from the Royal Family. They considerate it a moderate religion amd have no such bellicose underpinnings. There's lots more, but that's the nickel tour!
15 of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi, and several were supported by Saudi intelligence officers receiving money from Prince Bandar's wife. The current President of Syria, Al-Jolani is a former Al-Qaeda terrorist who served five years in a US military prison in Iraq for planting roadside bombs. The US uses the terrorist label in the most outrageously expedient way.
Yet is is the Sunnis who have attacked the US most often.
Indeed it is LeRoy, but there are major differences. As the monarchy has loosened its control over the population and offers broad discretion to judges and generally become more pragmatic, Shia has become more dogmatic, intent on our destruction, and developed the weapons to support their aspirations. Iran is an impending threat, the Sunni, tho many are killers, are not.
Can you name ONE time Iran has attacked the US? One incident of IRANIAN terrorism against the US?
NO, because it's never happened. Don't say Hezbollah or other proxies, because the US has 1000x's more proxies that have done horrific terrorism around the globe. I guess it's ok when we do it, yea?
Iran uses militia and factions to attack so you can't dismiss proxies. I can't speak for the thousands of proxies the U.S. uses. You and I may agree on much of that. But you asked about Iran.
A lot of people get thrown by this so let me give you the breakdown.
Iran loves your argument, because that rationale means they can reap havoc on the world and claim innocence. The common mistake is that Hezbollah is some loose terrorist group. Quite the opposite. It is a well-funded, highly structured organization whose prime source of funding is.. you guessed it…Iran by a wide margin. (They also pull smaller donations from sympathizers, charities, business fronts and organized crime.) Iran dumps hundreds of millions in cash, arms, training and intelligence to guide them toward specific targets. Iran funnels money via the IRGC and it’s external arm Quds Force which supplies advanced weapons, such as (Iran developed) missiles, drones, surveillance. If there were no Iran, you would barely hear of Hezbollah.
Hezbollah is not part of Iran’s military, but is deeply integrated into Iran’s military strategy.
So, Iran is the command center and Hezbollah the elite forward unit operating with some autonomy. They train with Iranian forces, coordinate strategically with Iran and act in concert with Iran’s geopolitical goals.
So don't fall for the ruse they are somehow unique forces. They are not. They are only appear different on paper.
In simplest terms. Hezbollah is a semi-autonomous force that operates as a key arm of Iranian power projection.
Iran operates primarily through factions. Missile attacks, naval clashes, cyber operations are state to state actions. Missiles fired at our bases come from Iran.
You asked for actions against the U.S. Direct actions include 1988 Tanker war (Operation Praying Mantis), 2003 Iraq War, Iran’s Shia militias targeted U.S. troops, roadside bombs, hundreds of U.S. soldiers were killed by Iran-linked groups. 2020 attack on U.S. bases.
The source of all of this is Iran who has sworn death and destruction to the U.S. During recent negotiations they admitted to building 700 ballistic missiles each month. They were working with Venezuela to develop launching bases in that nation along with China. We now know they can fire their missiles 2500 miles and are becoming steadily more precise in their targeting. We produce 7 anti-missile missiles per month and could easily be overwhelmed.
So yes, we are fighting the IRGC in Iran, because Iran is the source of the hostilities and all of these groups so many like to dismiss are Iran's acting military arm.
The difference between Sharia as administered by Sunni versus Shia societies is irrelevant. Both are extreme, cruel, intolerant, and odious to free people in every free society. Sharia antedates Athelstan's reign as the first English king, so blaming this problem on the British Empire or US foreign policy is absurd.
The foreign policy of Sunni Islam, AT PRESENT, is more willing to compromise in order to get money (Syria's ruler is only pretending to be moderate), but that can change at any time. The foreign policy of Iran is based on a centuries-old Shia belief that the end of days will be ushered in by the return of the 12th Imam, and that destruction, death, and chaos are the tools ordained by God by which the Shiites will help bring about the global caliphate, which, by the way, means 'submission' for all --westerners, easterners, Africans, All.
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ah, the old "stay in your lane" argument that was used to suppress people during covid! nice try! Mr. Leake's "lane" is not medicine. back in the bad old covid days, him writing about medicine would have brought ridicule, jeers and appeals for him to "stay in his lane."
you know nothing about what Iranians understand. maybe you should stay in your lane. the real irritant in the Middle East is the entitled country that we support with our tax dollars
Dr. McCullough’s comment (April 9) on John Leake’s post “Israel Blows Up Lebanese Town of Naquora”:
“The current atrocities we are witnessing compounded by the recent tragedy in Gaza are clarifying among our readers who is who. As doctors, scientists, and historians, we are bringing you analysis and the spirit of compassion which is clashing with hard core, blood-thirsty barbarism. We are not among the victims, but is clear who they are. The Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" in Arabic, refers to the 1948 violent displacement of over 750,000 Palestinians during the creation of Israel, transforming them into refugees. Commemorated annually on May 15, this event resulted in the destruction of over 500 villages, widespread looting, and loss of life. The Nakba is central to Palestinian identity and considered an ongoing process of displacement.”
Zionist barbarism continues unabated. Witness the depraved psychopath Ben Gvir. Witness the rape of Palestinian prisoners by IDF soldiers (and the lack of objection by some majority of Israeli citizens). Witness the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank by Zionist settlers.
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Well said
This load of rubbish keeps getting larger. He says that without sanctions, "The Islamic Republic will likely become much stronger, but also more moderate, free, and open" and he blames the UK and the US for Iran's often stated intent to destroy Western civilization. Granting the premise for a moment, how did two wrongs become a right?
But as for his premise, where in the world is a Shia theocracy moderate, free and open? Did Iran murder 25,000+ of its citizens in January because they were not as moderate, free and open as the mullahs demanded?
Was Obama just kidding when he extended a hand of friendship?
Ask a million Uygers how China became moderate, free and open after we allowed it to enter the WTO.
Pull your head out of the sand, ignore your critical theory impulse and look at what they have done.
Agree, john comes up with pretty stupid shit.🤔🤫
they have become more moderate. if we leave them alone, they will join the modern world. they're an extremely well educated people. they have the highest numbers of PhDs in the world. of course, the USA and israel blow up their universities. i guess the USA wants everyone to be as stupid as it's own dimly educated population
You’re talking about the Iranian people who are applauding the USA/Israeli strikes and the diaspora across the world who LOVES Trump and has been out in the streets expressing their support. All the divergent squabbling groups in Iran finally came together to unify on ending the Islamic Republic. Reza Pahlavi and these groups have put together a plan. Lots of defections within the IRGC and the military. Groups rising up like the Immortal Guard to take their country back. Have no idea who you’re listening to. I’ve been watching Tousi TV - his dad lives in Tehran. I also met and talked to a doctor in this country from Iran. Many other on the ground connected people have informed my opinion. Not to mention the 40,000-50,000+ unarmed citizen protestors who were butchered in the streets by the IRGC. They were selling the bodies of these children back to their grieving parents. It is a death cult.
by all means, send Reza Pahlavi back to lead the "new" Iran. then set an egg timer to see how long he lasts
Some people are beyond understanding anything including you. Ask the Iranian woman athlete/footballer who fled a couple of yrs ago. Cant find the link. But something about political prisoners being HUNG from cranes in towns im really into enlightened moderates like that . You deserve whats coming to you my dear blinkered deluded womsn.
sanctions put pressure on any political system and force the government to tighten up. basic common sense. no Iran did not murder 25,000 of it's citizens. it may have murdered 7000, which is bad enough, but like all Americans, we exaggerate the "evils" of the people we intend to make war on so that our uneducated population can be easily tricked into going along with our war plans
Actually the USA say 45000K and Tousi Tv An Iranian says Maybe double or more. We will find out but it wont be 7 k off the end of your finger.
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As Sam Harris has said - when jihadists say outright over and over that their goal is to destroy Israel and the US and they don't care if they destroy themselves and the rest of the world in the process because that is their ultimate salvation, it would be smart of us to believe them. You can't appease a death cult which is what they are.
oh yes, sam harris, twisting himself into knots to justify his covid hysteria. Iran is fighting to survive, obviously it's not a death cult but i guess it helps ignorant americans justify their atrocities. if you want to see the real terrorists, they're in DC
The Iranian people are fighting to survive under an oppressive death cult. Hopefully they will be able to rise up and take their country back now that it’s been weakened. You must not have listened to enough people who have suffered under this regime.
what about the people who suffer under our regime? all the people in jail for minor non-violent drug offenses. what about our unfair system of justice that puts poor people in prison and lets rich people run amok? maybe someone should bomb our country and kill our people, kidnap our president, put a blockade around us so we all starve to death.
considering the atrocities we have funded and instigated throughout our reign of terror, it might be just
Two political systems. If you’re having trouble determining which is better, then go live under the other one. You know what this one’s like. You just don’t have enough people that agree with you.
If you’re just ranting and disillusioned then OK. There’s evil in the world - everywhere. Agreed. Have known this in a very personal way since I was a child. There’s love, peace and goodness too. Have known that as well.
Jesus is the source of life, love, joy and peace. Seek Him and you’ll find Him. I’m not talking about a church or rituals. I’m talking about a person - Jesus Christ. He is the way, the truth, and the life - the only real path out of all the evil in the world. Yes, you’ll still be in the world, you just won’t be of it. There will be storms, but you’ll have peace in the midst of them. That’s as good as it gets in this world. A personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Not easy - good. I’ll never be older than I was in my 20’s. He saved me and brought me back to life. What did He save me from? Despair over all the evil in the world. He loves me. It’s enough. He loves you too.
and Jesus would not condone slaughtering the people of Iran simply because we don't like their politics
We’re not slaughtering the people of Iran. The Islamic Republic slaughtered the people of Iran. 40,000-50,000 or more in January alone when they shut off the internet. The people have been crying out for help for years. Just listened to a doctor from Iran who’s in South Africa recount the entire history: Dr. Araj Abedian
Here’s the link:
https://youtu.be/pUJuMgRdcZs?si=FaOv0tNu8ExzToMT
LOL…How many ‘articles’ do we get in one day? Visions of the author typing voraciously at his computer….page after page of political opinion. Perhaps it’s time for him to calm down and take his meds. Just a suggestion.
How many do you read? Thanks for reading them. I am grateful for my readership, even my critical readers.
I have received 2 in the past 3 hours.
Thanks for reading them!
I never miss one. You're brilliant because you're eloquent and curious. Love the mix of personal anecdotes and historical snippets that blend to form a masterfully well written thought experiment. Truth be told, you're one of the most moderate of voices that are uniting people despite beliefs because you're expanding their mind and viewpoints. Bravo sir.
Dr. McCullough’s comment (April 9) on John Leake’s post “Israel Blows Up Lebanese Town of Naquora”:
“The current atrocities we are witnessing compounded by the recent tragedy in Gaza are clarifying among our readers who is who. As doctors, scientists, and historians, we are bringing you analysis and the spirit of compassion which is clashing with hard core, blood-thirsty barbarism. We are not among the victims, but is clear who they are. The Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" in Arabic, refers to the 1948 violent displacement of over 750,000 Palestinians during the creation of Israel, transforming them into refugees. Commemorated annually on May 15, this event resulted in the destruction of over 500 villages, widespread looting, and loss of life. The Nakba is central to Palestinian identity and considered an ongoing process of displacement.”
Zionist barbarism continues unabated. Witness the depraved psychopath Ben Gvir. Witness the rape of Palestinian prisoners by IDF soldiers (and the lack of objection by some majority of Israeli citizens). Witness the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank by Zionist settlers.
Watch I24 Israeli TV and listen to the truth. Hard to hear with all the "Death to Israel!' and "Death to the USA!" chants coming out of murdering lying fanatical Iran and its proxies.
And Mayhar Tousi of Tousitv or TBN israel 2 guys brilliant levelheaded reporting.
Thank you, Jennifer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_sk6HjCEVE&list=PL2gRfOcqelFWAab7b_OXUcbJqag_IY1TF&index=1
i would hardly expect any "truth" to come out of israel as they blow up Lebanon
Perhaps countries that harbour viscious terrorists need blowing up. Or maybe you had no idea they were viscious and had conned Lebanon into harbouring them. Reality would be a fine thing here.
well, perhaps you'd like to see the USA blown up since it is the 2nd (only to israel) purveyor of terrorism in the world
Oh I forgot. Truth is only delivered by the rockets of Hezbollah/Iran. I suggest that you move to northern Israel to find the truth.
Sadly they wont know truth until they are under sharia and all forced to wear Burkhas THEN IT WILL BE TOO LATE for everyone.
Lies.
Anything you don't like is lies, right?
John, nicely done always, but you leave out Zionist lust for utter and complete destruction of anything not Zionist. Peace in Gaza..remember that..ha ha..(over 60% under Zionist control..emm)
there will be no peace : Zionism and their financial strangle hold on us Gov will never allow it. Our only hope is if Russia and China are to Iran what US of A is to Zionism.
You may eventually get what you’re hoping for. It’s called Armageddon. It’s not happening now, but you may be here when it does - when all the countries in the north gather together to destroy Israel. You’re not on the right team. Seek the truth while it can still be found.
Yowza! just finished reading dr Malone’s Friday funnies. Wonder if anyone looked hard at the handful of terrorist organizations supported by strict Islamist Iranian regime? Worse, given the 47 years of repeating “death to Americans”how many billions of US cash was handed to this same regime by 757 aircrafts by Obama, and subsequently $6billion by Biden.
us military has been destroying bunkers, munitions and infrastructure prior US administrations paid for!?!
Here’s a link, see for yourself! https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/friday-funnies-when-the-moon-hits?r=vkjt6&utm_medium=ios
the USA calls any group it doesn't like a "terrorist organization"
Right on Target John - Thank you! Debating with Racists and Supremacists is a waste of time!
We should not care less what other countries are doing on the other side of the world as long as it doesn’t directly impact us and it wouldn’t if we stopped bombing their countries and supporting Israel.
Our immigration system has been hijacked by citizens loyal to Israel, who imported culturally incompatible migrants predominantly with little to no skill set, gave them financial assistance once they arrived so they could exist and have more children. Then our government help helps Israel bomb their home countries. Iran was not about to have a nuclear weapon (even though Israel has been claiming this regularly for 30 years) and even if they did who cares, Israel has over 200 nukes. Israel stole its initial nuclear material from the United States, Israel has an official policy called the Samson option which states that if they are about to be wiped out in a war, and the US doesn’t come to help them that they will launch all their nuclear missiles in every direction at uninvolved countries, Israel also murdered nearly 20,000 children that belong to unarmed parents in Gaza in addition to attacking the USS liberty and staging 911.
If we should have a problem with any country having nuclear weapons it’s clearly Israel.
"When evaluating the Iranian regime, it is important to understand that its militarism and repressive policies are actually fostered by the exertion of outside pressure on the country. Sanctions and attacks on the Iranian currency by the US Treasury Department cause economic hardship for moderate people who yearn for a more open society"
(That China is now going to help them achieve...with no open society in China????)
Incredible...it's ALL OUR FAULT. The theocratic oligarchy in Iran is just an illusion, all the expat Persian/Iranians over here are all delusional, everybody in (what's left) of the Iranian government is more cultured, refined, intelligent and rooted in historical progress than anyone in Trump's team. Vance wasn't just trying to give the Iranians a save-face way to salvage a peace deal THEY need by offering that they may have "misunderstood" Israel's Lebanon action, no...he just another idiot.
And of course Trump working with the Chinese diplomatically to achieve a peaceful solution isn't really an intelligent backstage actor, but rather a dupe of the far more refined, polished, and no doubt well-dressed Xi. Certainly, DJT couldn't possibly have communicated with Xi and proposed that maybe the whole world could be a mutually better off place if we cooperated to ease Iran's situation for the good of all. Being declared a loose canon imbecile bent on civilization destruction he could only be glad Xi took mercy upon him and led him by the nose before it was too late.
Have to add one more to the can't take anymore list: I think Dr. McCullough's post this week on the marvels of statins--based upon the exact same "relative risk reduction" and "avoid comparison of adverse effects to placebo by comparing to people on other statins instead," Pharma ploy as employed for the mRNA shots and other questionable vaccines (!!!)--may have been the second to last straw, but John's column here is an entire hay bale to finish me.
Unsubscribing...it was great for a good long run, but apparently success breeds some form of insanity. I should have unsubscribed earlier this week when Mr. Leake effectively called anyone suggesting Trump did have an underlying--and increasingly successful--diplomatic/warplan strategy, a "useful idiot" who could feel good about ourselves in our naiveté, thanks to those clever Iranians having given DJT a chance to claim he had a peace deal so "our guy" would not have too much egg on his face.
Done.
Im along with you when my sub goes.esp on statins. After reading dr mcKendrick The great Cholesterol Con and dr Aseem Malhotra stats on living 1 day extra for x years of taking them. Any advocate of statins in my book has to be under greatest suspicion. Tks for good outline of giving up on con artists. Didnt think they were a year ago.
I’m a Calvinist, and it’s no austere religion; you’ve sorely mischaracterized it. Indeed, it was the Reformed/Calvinist faith that brought about great prosperity throughout Europe, and was a leading force of Westernization, both in Europe and the U.S. Your Puritan relatives “ditching” their Calvinism to become “far more secular and worldly,” is no virtue, but a shame, if that’s what happened. No society becoming more secular or worldly has, or will ever, make a change for the better. I would sooner believe any betterment of society in Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay was not caused by your ancestors’ abandonment of their Calvinist heritage, but in spite of it. “Trade and interaction with the rest of the world [fostering] openness and liberality” does not occur in a vacuum—but is a direct result of a God-fearing society. Your inserting this statement about your Puritan ancestors—implying a comparison between Puritanism and Islamic Fundamentalism, or that religious societies stand in opposition of “open” societies—is unnecessary and bogus.
Really? You're gonna say the Puritans weren't radical extremists? They left England because NO ONE could stand them. I guess burning witches is a moderate stance? No one could stand them here either until they decided to moderate. It's the same with all extremists. Orthodox Jews, Sharia or Sunni Muslims or hell, even Scientologists. They all hate the "others"
They've had 47 years to mellow out and become reasonable. Maybe learn a kinder gentle way to cut off hands, heads or other body parts over minor violations of the goat breeders.
Nah, ain't gonna happen!
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Your oft-repeated link to this Substack does no good to anyone who does not subscribe. Can you perhaps summarize the main point(s) you wish the rest of us to learn from this posting?
wow! I'm sorry. it was very long and technical about exactly how atomic weapons are made and how the entire "Iran has a nuclear weapon" hysteria is just an Israeli excuse to get the war of BiBi's dreams. I'll try to copy a section which might inspire you to read the entire thing. it's David Stockman's substack. I don't have a paid subscription but I was able to read it all.
To wit, none of the following excuses for Trump’s War on Iran is even remotely true:
1) Iran has or is on the verge of a nuclear weapon.
2) Iran has conducted an unprovoked 47-year war of murder against Americans because the mullahs hate our freedom.
3)Iran is arming itself to the teeth for an eventual attack on the American homeland.
4)The Iranian government is in the hands of a uniquely Evil Cult of Fanatics determined to bring the world to an Armeggedon-like demise.
Now, we don’t mean that these propositions are arguable wrong or over-wrought exaggerations. Actually, we mean that they are completely, utterly and unequivocally devoid of any truth whatsoever.
Indeed, they are flat out fabrications repeated over and over and over again by the Bibi Netanyahu fifth column on the banks of the Potomac. And they have done so in promotion of a cause—Bibi’s continued tenure in power in Israel—that has nothing whatsoever to do with the Homeland Security of the American people domiciled way over here from sea-to-shinning-sea.
That’s really what makes Trump’s latest rant so horrifically despicable. He is threatening to unleash Armageddon on the 90 million people of Iran and the 7 billion people of the planet who depend for their daily bread upon the fountains of hydrocarbons that ordinarily gush forth into the arteries of global commerce from the Persian Gulf.
We have dealt with the thin gruel of “Iran’s 47-Year War Against America” elsewhere, including the claim that 1,041 Americans have been killed deliberately by the Iranian regime. That is, of course, complete neocon propaganda.
Fully 861 or 83% of these unfortunate deaths occurred in the context of Washington’s misbegotten military deployments in the region—in the Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983 and during the second US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and thereafter.
Both of these deployments were utterly unnecessary and had no bearing on the Homeland Security of America whatsoever. Washington foolishly put lethally armed US soldiers in the midst of an uprising of the local Shiite population in southern Lebanon in 1983 against the brutal Israeli occupation then underway.
Likewise, the Iraq war fatalities were at the hands of local Shiite militia’s in Iraq. Some of them may have been supplied with weapons from Iran, but they were self-evidently returning war to the Yankee invaders of their homeland who should have never ever been sent there.
So, the overwhelming heart of the case essentially begins and ends with the “nuke” that Iran doesn’t have and hasn’t been seeking since a small weaponization research project was abandoned in 2003. That was done on the orders of Ayatollah Khamenei who issued a Fatwa proclaiming that the development, stockpiling or use of nuclear weapons is forbidden by Islamic Law.
Thanks, but you know you can't argue with Unit 8200 agents, lol
I prefer to get the Iranian view from Mayhar Tousi exiled in London with a father still in Iran keeping the faith that his people will soon be able to thow off the murderous chains.
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I recently found out that several of the countries that had sanctions on Iran were paying for oil, in fact, with Cash. This is one of the reasons why Trump is trying to bring the cheaters to the table by cutting their oil supply.