Thanks to an accident of official schedules, last Tuesday, almost at the same time that President Obama was charging the Islamic Republic with plotting to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington, Iran’s “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenei was announcing “the imminent end of America.”
The coincidence was uncanny because Khamenei was unleashing his
lava of hate against the American “Great Satan” at the headquarters of
the Qods Corps, the very body named by Obama as the architect of the
alleged plot. Standing by Khamenei in suitably solemn attitudes was Qods
Corps Commander Gen. Qassem Suleimani, flanked by some of his closest
associates, all named in connection with the plot.
The Qods Corps, or “The Jerusalem Army,” is an autonomous unit of the
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps under the direct supervision of the
Khamanei. Created by the late Ayatollah Khomeini in 1984, its stated
task is to help “ export the revolution” throughout the world.
The
new force’s slogan was “ On Our Way to Jerusalem, via Baghdad!” The
idea was that once Jerusalem had been “ liberated” and Israel wiped off
the map, the Khomeinist revolution would spread beyond the Middle East
with the ultimate aim of … >>>
