The Iranian government, through a website proxy, has laid out the legal and religious justification for the destruction of Israel and the slaughter of its people.
Calling Israel a danger to Islam, the conservative website Alef, with ties to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the opportunity must not be lost to remove “this corrupting material. It is a “‘jurisprudential justification” to kill all the Jews and annihilate Israel, and in that, the Islamic government of Iran must take the helm.”
The article, written by Alireza Forghani, an analyst and a strategy specialist in Khamenei’s camp, now is being run on most state-owned conservative sites, including the Revolutionary Guards’ Fars News Agency, showing that the regime endorses this doctrine.
Because Israel is going to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, Iran is justified in launching a pre-emptive, cataclysmic attack against the Jewish state, the doctrine argues.
On Friday, in a major speech at prayers, Khamenei announced that Iran will support any nation or group that attacks the “cancerous tumor” of Israel. Though his statement was seen by some in the West as fluff, there is substance behind it.
Iran’s Defense Ministry announced this weekend that it test-fired an advanced two-stage, solid-fuel ballistic missile and boasted about successfully putting a new satellite into orbit, reminding the West that its engineers have mastered the technology for intercontinental ballistic missiles even as the Islamic state pushes its nuclear weapons program.
Good catch.
But interestingly, the New York Times managed to report on this speech/sermon without mentioning the “cancer tumor” quotation.
WHY????
Why is America’s once ”paper-of-record,” editing the words of the Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?
The Weekly Standard covered the NYTimes’ contrasting their cowardly coverage with other papers.
The blog, Weasel Zippers points out that the Washington Post and AP (and others) were willing to tell the whole story, too.
I can understand Obama not wanting Americans to know what hatred his friends in Iran have for America, Israel, Jews and the infidels….but why the NYTimes???