...Iran's
moderatepresident, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man...
said on Saturday.
Rouhani described the liquidation of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi on Friday as "bait" from Iran's enemies.
"This savage liquidation demonstrates that our enemies are in anxious weeks, as the era of their influence will wane and global circumstances will change," he said at a Coronavirus Task Force meeting in Tehran on Saturday.
Rouhani made explicit reference to Israel as a "usurping Zionist regime" that acted as the "mercenary" in Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi's liquidation. He also appeared to be addressing hawks in the Trump administration and key Washington ally Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, as both have called for maximum pressure on Tehran to be maintained when US president-elect Biden takes over in seven weeks.
"These few weeks are important for them to use to their maximum advantage, to create insecurity in the region and to deflect global attention from the terror and intimidation that they are creating in the occupied territories [Paleostine]... they are thinking about creating chaos and riots," Rouhani said.
"They should know that we have already read their hands, and they will not succeed in their vile objectives."
At least six button men attacked a vehicle carrying Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi and his security detail near the entrance to the city of Absard in Tehran province on Friday, at around 2 pm Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
Standard Time.