Khamenei Vs. Khomeini
National Post
25-Aug-2009 (2 comments)

During his Aug. 3 speech formally endorsing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned protesters that "by imitation of Ayatollah Khomeini, they cannot deceive people." Khamenei was mocking the opposition's claim to be to reviving "the values of Ayatollah Khomeini" -- the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Khamenei's predecessor as Supreme Leader. Ironically, Khamenei made this statement while seated below a large, framed picture of Khomeini.

This scene provides a stark illustration of the fact that politics in Iran are largely defined by attempts to claim Khomeini's legacy. Staying faithful to his ideology has been the litmus test for all political activity in the Islamic Republic. Reformists fight for women's rights, democracy and civil-military divide -- often under the auspices of Khomeini's pronouncements and writings. And despite the fact that the position of Supreme Leader is supposed to translate into ultimate power in Iran, Khamenei has been severely limited by the traditions and doctrines of his predecessor.

The opposition is thus going straight to the source in their search for legitimacy, accusing Khamenei of disrespecting Khomeini's legacy and claiming Khomeini's mantle for itself. The claim is not baseless: Khomeini had actually supported opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi against Khamenei on several occasions prior to his death. In 1985, when then-president Khamenei was re-elected president for a se... >>>

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K1s1000,   No I

by Farhad Kashani on Wed Aug 26, 2009 02:09 PM PDT

K1s1000,

 

No I wasn’t cause there is no such thing called “Zio Nazis”. That’s the invention of sick, twisted and absolutely brainwashed Leftist brains who play oblivious to the mass murder of our people in Iran and are playing the Israel bash tune to satisfy their twisted anti Israeli desire stemmed from their jealousy towards Israel and their love for the Fascist IRI regime. The numbers of people Israel has killed since 1948, wrong as it may be, is far less than what IRI does to our own people in Iran in one shot of mass execution, like we saw recently, or the mass murders during the first decade of the revolution. All the Arab prisoners in Israeli jails constitutes a miniscule percentage of what IRI has imprisoned our own people in Iran.

 

IRI on the other hand is a very scary reality. Ask the Iranian people and they will tell you.

 

Finally, I’m an Iranian, not a Palestinian. I wish the Arabs all the best getting their land back, I really do, but as an Iranian, I got to deal with a far more scary monster called the IRI regime.

 

Thanks.

  


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k1s1000

FK: Are we talking Zio-Nazis?

by k1s1000 on Tue Aug 25, 2009 06:45 PM PDT

Farhad,

For a moment I thought you are talking about our Zio-Nazi friends. They are THE ONLY blood suckers in the middle-east.

 


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