 An international Zionist conspiracy, an American bid to enact regime change in Iran and extra-marital sex — these are the main dangers facing the Islamic republic today.
| Perhaps we should bomb them with nookie to achieve regime change? |
Or so says a close aide to Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi, a powerful cleric seen as the ideological and spiritual godfather of Iran’s lunatic hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “The most important challenges for the regime are the policies of the United States and the Europeans. They are trying to make trouble for us. They are trying to topple our regime,” argued Hojatoleslam Mohsen Gharavian.
| "And we din't do nuffin'!" |
“We believe the US and European nations want to see a regime in Tehran which is subordinate to their wishes and which obeys their economic and political commands,” he said in an interview in Qom.
| "Why's ever'body always pickin' on me?" |
Mesbah-Yazdi, 72, is also a prominent member of the Assembly of Experts, the body that supervises the work of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Since AhmadinejadÂ’s election win, he has emerged as a rising force whose viewpoints underpin AhmadinejadÂ’s firebrand approach.
| Kind of the fountainhead of vitriol, huh? I'll put him on my list... |
“Nations like the United States and Britain are our worst enemies. They are instruments in the hand of world Zionism,” said Gharavian, a mid-ranking and middle-aged cleric who teaches philosophy and jurisprudence at Mesbah-Yazdi’s institute as well as Iran’s most prestigious seminary.
| Actually, we're not. We're the source of Americanism and Britainism, and Zionism's only our tool to get dominate the world and have Medes and Persians have sex with each other... |
The Ayatollah tends to avoid giving interviews, particularly with Western media. “Today the chant of ‘Death to America’ has become like the verse of a prayer.
| When I'm brushing my teeth in the morning I sometimes chant "Death to Iran!" It's worked just about as well as chanting "Death to America" does in Terrorhan. |
"The US should take this into consideration,” Gharavian said, while also warning European statesmen that they could even “expect a revolution like the one which toppled the Soviet Union.”
| A revolution exported from Iran... |
“The nuclear issue has become a national issue. Today, everyday, Iranians, even shepherds and farmers from the remotest areas, say this slogan: ‘nuclear energy is our undeniable right’,” he asserted.
| I'm sure all the shepherds and farmers say that. |
“I do not believe that the US can do anything about it, as they could not do anything in Iraq with all their troops. The Iraqis cannot tolerate the US presence in their country, so the US is defeated.” |