This is a good rant, plenty of spittle, not much grasp on reality. There's a few more paragraphs. You might want to read them, too.
âHizbullah has become a guard for Israelâs border and Iran Satanâs servant in helping America execute its agenda in the region,â the former secretary-general of Hizbullah said over the weekend.
| Yeah! I was just noticing that myself... |
In an interview with the Daily Star, Sheikh Sobhi Toufeili said he had some advice for his former comrades in Hizbullah, and the Iranian leadership. âShortly after the liberation, I had to warn Hizbullah and the Iranian leadership not to exploit the peopleâs support for the resistance in order to serve other objectives, away from the struggle against Israel,â he said. âThe Iranians wanted to invest the victory for the sake of their own policies, to foster their relations with Lebanon and other Arab regimes.â
| No! The Medes and the Persians? They'd do that? |
Toufeili also said Hizbullah was a non-independent political institution that follows orders from Iran.
| The guys that pay the piper get to pick the tune, don't they? And you didn't notice that, back in the good old days of the Armed Struggle™. Dumbass. |
âI cannot criticize Hizbullah, without meaning Iran as well; the Iranian leadership has been and still is responsible for all of Hizbullahâs decisions on everything, since the time we agreed with the late Imam Khomeini to build up the resistance movement,â he said.
| "The Persians pull the strings and we dance." |
Toufeili also said that he suspects that the Iranians made their country âa bridge to invade Afghanistan.â
| I must have slept through that part... |
âBy supporting the Northern Front and coordinating with the American invaders, Iran committed an act of treason by collaborating with the enemies of God and Islam,â he said.
| "Treason, by Gawd! Rank and foul! Titus Oates! Benedict Arnold! Brutus and Cassius and Jane Fonda, all rolled into one!" |
Toufeili accused the Iranians and their Iraqi supporters of damaging the peopleâs struggle against the occupying forces. âFor 10 years, the Iranians have been supporting the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, which has been negotiating with the Americans in order to topple Saddam Husseinâs regime. The Iranians encouraged and supervised these contacts,â Toufeili said. âUntil recently the same Iraqi party was claiming it was opposed to the current military resistance because it served the interests of the toppled president. Now they have no excuse after his capture, but we notice that the Iranians are still against the armed resistance, which proves their treason. In their devilish acts, the Iranian leadership is helping the Americans instigate internal conflicts between Shiite and Sunni Muslims by giving the wrong impression that the former are collaborators and traitors.
| Is that a translation problem? Surely he meant the latter? |
âThe whole region is being reshaped in accordance with the American-Israeli agenda ⊠All Arab regimes will be toppled by the United States of America for one reason or another,â Toufeili added.
| Or all of them for the same reason, one after the other, because they don't catch on... |
He argued that âreconciliation between the peoples and their rulers is not only possible but the correct approach for dealing with the Israeli-American agenda prepared against our states and peoples.â
| Now that single statement is a window into Toufeili's soul. The people and their rulers need to be reconciled. The people don't get to govern themselves, they need to be ruled, by men who know what's best for them. Devout men, men with turbans and automatic weapons... |
âMeeting the wishes and dictates of this agenda will not change the course of events or save the regimes ⊠because the calls for democratization of the Middle East aim at toppling Islamic and Arab regimes without bringing any real democracy or freedom. When our peoples become free, the first step they would take is to drive the Americans out,â Toufeili said.
| Depends on your definition of "freedom," I guess... |
âInstead of bringing democracy, freedom and modernization, the Americans only encourage chaos,â he added. âAs long as the Americans and their allies are able to control a country, they will attempt to marginalize the local people and instigate internal conflicts and wars between the different factions and sects in order to secure their control endlessly. Impoverishment, marginalization and corruption are all maneuvers aiming to achieve that end.â
| All of them imposed from without, of course. None of them are the result of greed, ineptitude, and ignorance on the part of the iron-fisted regimes running those countries. |
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