How the Islamic Republic of Iran is Governed
Prior to the 1979 Islamic revolution of Iran, Iran’s leader was Mohammed Reza [Pahlavi]. He had close ties to both Britain and the United States. He wanted to modernize Iran with western culture, institute land reforms, and abolish strict dress codes for women, and have free elections.
The 1979 Islamic revolution was led by [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini] who resented Reza’s effort to modernize Iran to western values such as women’s rights, dress codes, instill land reforms and free elections.
This changed radically with the takeover of Ayatollah Khomeini with his strict adherence to sharia law. Under this rule the Ayatollah is the supreme ruler and any infraction is punishable by imprisonment or death. Just witness the execution of over 30,000* who were demonstrating for reforms and freedom.
The goal of these Islamic extremists is to establish an Islamic state, governed by strict Sharia law. Their goal is world dominance** where they have complete control.
They are responsible for the deaths of well over 1000 Americans. The 1983 bombing of the Beirut Marine barracks resulting in the death of 234 Marines was carried out by Hezbollah Islamic Jihadists directed and supported by Iran. Hezbollah and Hamas and others are proxies of Iran. Since October 2023 Iran [and its proxy groups] has been involved in more than 180 attacks on Americans. I challenge anyone to Google this and research this for themselves.
This is a culture which chants death to Israel and to America which planned and funded Hamas’s raid on Israel on Ocrober 7, 2023, when over 1,000 men, women and children were brutally murdered and over 1000 captured.***
Obama tried to stop Iran’s nuclear bomb development by secretly sending Iran over one billion in cash.****
The Iranians took the money and laughed in his face. Trump is the only president who has taken decisive action to eliminate this threat. While operation hammer was an outstanding success it was only a temporary setback to their quest to develop ICBMs with atomic bomb warheads capable of reaching the U.S. Anyone who thinks otherwise is completely naive and gullible if they think Iran would not use them on us.
Iran has diverted much of its economy to the development of armament in the form of missiles, drones, shops, planes, and mostly the development of ICBMs, with atomic warheads together with the concealment of them. If not for the intervention of Trump they would soon have the ICBMs with atomic warheads capable of reaching the US. I say they would use them. Theirs is a culture that worships death.
John Pond, Fairhaven
*This number is impossible to verify due to the lack of transparency in Iran. The estimates range from 5,000 to 35,000.
**Some are now contending that under the regime of Donald J. Trump, the goal of the United States is world dominance.
***251 people were abducted in the 10/7/23 attack on Israel.
****The deal was not secret, it came from Iranian funds seized in the 70s, the money was a mix of currencies from other countries, not all US dollars.
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