Showdown at the Tehran Corral

Further to yesterday's news from Iran, Michael Ledeen parses the latest news:

"Friday is always an important day for public political rhetoric, and yesterday Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei gave a very tough sermon at Friday Prayers in Tehran. It was the mirror image of Mousavi’s warning of increased violence on the part of the regime. Khamenei warned that the only legitimate topic for demonstrations on that date will be Palestine. So if anybody shows signs of caring about Iran, the regime thugs will crack down on them.

Last night the chants from the rooftops of Tehran were louder than ever."

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"Supreme Leader Khamenei’s birthday is this week, and he has long said that he would like to have one or two atomic bombs as his present."

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"From the Corridors of Appeasement in the West, there are only whistles as the darkness intensifies. Yes, we will be happy to negotiate with the Tehran butchers, even though they tell us in every possible way that our one topic of “dialogue”–the Iranian bomb–is off the table. And there is even a story in the Iranian press today claiming that the United States has offered to swap more than a dozen Airbuses in exchange for the frozen Iranian assets that have been gathering interest in American banks ever since the Revolution.

All of which convinces the mullahs that they can do anything they wish to their people, and anything they wish on the nuclear front. Hell, nobody in this administration seems to want to talk about the cache of weapons and explosives of Iranian manufacture found in Herat Province (just across the border from the Islamic Republic), quite obviously placed there for the purpose of killing Americans and American allies."

For Saskbaby's benefit, I should point out that Harat Province is in Afghanistan and those allies include Canadians.

"This of course has been the real issue all along, the issue nobody wants to talk about: they’re killing us. They’ve been doing it for more than thirty years (emphasis mine). And still we only want to talk.

This is the mental gyration that makes us accomplices to evil."

Oh, and there's some very interesting speculation in the comments. Don't miss it, Saskbaby. You probably weren't even born when this started nearly thirty years ago, but in your childish ignorance you're nothing but, as one of the commenters describes, a "leftest enabling gander". Take your whining to Winston's or Azarmehr's blogs. Be sure to wear your armor.