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| Western terror policies have 'backfired', says Ayatollah Khamenei |
| 2017-06-05 |
| [DAWN] Attacks by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... holy warrior group in Europe and elsewhere show that Western policies in the Middle East have backfired, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday. "Today, ISIS (IS) is being pushed out from its birthplace in Iraq and Syria and is moving to other countries -- Afghanistan, Pakistain and even the Philippines and European countries," Khamenei said in a televised speech. "This is a fire that (Western powers) themselves ignited and now has backfired on them," he told a gathering of bigwigs in Tehran at a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the death of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989. Khamenei used the speech to push back against some of the reformist rhetoric used by President Hassan Rouhani during his successful bid for re-election last month. Rouhani called his conservative opponents "extremists" and promised greater civil liberties and more dialogue with the West. "Do not dismiss revolutionary behaviour as extremism. Being revolutionary is the need of the country today," Khamenei said. "Rationality means not coming under the dominance of the power of America and its arrogance again, once one has freed oneself from it." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 The policies backfired because they were aimed at "terror", which a state of mind and not a legitimate *enemy*. I look forward to the day when we call this what the other side already knows it is--a war with Islam. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2017-06-05 13:17 |
| #1 So the present policies are bad, Ayatollah? Your advice - "Do not dismiss revolutionary behaviour as extremism. Being revolutionary is the need of the country today." |
| Posted by: Bobby 2017-06-05 11:08 |