Volume 29, Number 284 — Friday, October 4, 2024
Khamenei to US & Europe: ‘Get Lost’
The Iranian supreme leader told a gathering in Tehran that the region will enjoy peaceful coexistence only after the U.S. and Europe leave.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in November 2023. (Khamenei.ir, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0)
By Brett Wilkins
Common Dreams
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that the United States and some European nations are responsible for the turmoil in the Middle East, and that the people of the region will enjoy peaceful coexistence only after the interlopers leave.
Khamenei — who has led the Islamist theocracy since 1989 — spoke to a group of scientists and scholars in Tehran on Wednesday, one day after Iran retaliated for recent Israeli assassinations of Iranian, Hezbollah, and Hamas leaders by firing around 200 missiles into Israel.
“In our region, the root cause of problems, which leads to conflicts, wars, concerns and hostilities and such like, results from the presence of the same people who claim to advocate peace and tranquility in the region; that is America and some European countries,” the 85-year-old Shia cleric said, according to Iranian state broadcaster Press TV.
“If they get themselves out of this region, beyond a shadow of a doubt these conflicts, these wars, these clashes will come to a complete halt, and the countries of the region will be able to govern themselves, govern their region, and live together in peace, blessing, and prosperity,” Khamenei added.
Khamenei had two additional words of advice for U.S. and European meddlers: “Get lost.”
U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan tells @weijia that the U.S. has "made clear that there will be consequences, severe consequences" for the Iranian missile attack on Israel.
"We will work with Israel to make sure that is the case." cbsn.ws/4gMyhyi
A History of Western Meddling
British intervention in what was then the Persian Empire started in the 19th century. In the 20th century, Britain and the United States engineered a coup in Iran that restored and perpetuated a monarchy that ruled until overthrown and replaced by the current regime in the late 1970s. Since then, the U.S. has also supported efforts to overthrow the Iranian government, including by training anti-regime militants.
Shah of Iran, left, with President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office, 1973.
(The Nixon library, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Britain opened up Palestine for Zionist colonization, but later ended Jewish immigration as Jews usurped the local Arab population and carried out many deadly terror attacks against both British occupiers and Palestinians.
Following the establishment of the modern state of Israel — largely through ethnic cleansing of Arabs in the 1940s — the United States supported an expansionist Israel with hundreds of billions of dollars in military aid and diplomatic cover, even as it now wages a war on the Gaza Strip for which it is on trial for genocide at the International Court of Justice.
Funeral in Tehran on Jan. 6, 20202, of Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani, killed days earlier by a U.S. assassination. (Mehr News Agency, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)
The supreme leader’s speech came amid fears of a wider Middle East war.
While Iran and Hezbollah have shown restraint in responding to Israeli aggression, Israel has escalated its war, which has left more than 148,000 Palestinians dead, injured, or missing in Gaza, where millions more people have been forcibly displaced, starved, and sickened since the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack.
Israeli forces have also killed or wounded thousands more people in Lebanon, which Israeli ground troops invaded this week.
The United States, as well as the United Kingdom and other European nations, have supported Israel with billions of dollars worth of weapons and, in the case of the U.S., diplomatic cover including multiple vetoes of United Nations Security Council cease-fire resolutions.
It's ridiculous to think Israel, a country of about 9 million and the size of New Jersey can take on Iran, a nation of nearly 90 million people and an endless stockpiles of weapons. They know they can't. They want AMERICANS to fight the war for them. And they know they can get it… Show more
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday condemned Israel’s assault on Gaza as “the most deadly and destructive military campaign” in his years of leading the world body.
Guterres, who was addressing the Security Council, also said that he “strongly” condemned Tuesday’s “massive missile attack by Iran on Israel,” adding that such action does not “seem to support the cause of the Palestinian people or reduce their suffering.”
Falsely claiming that Guterres failed to “mention Iran by name” or “unequivocally condemn” the Iranian attack, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday declared the U.N. leader “persona non grata” in Israel and banned him from entering the country.
Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
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Hezbollah what fucking restraint.
ReplyDeleteHezbollah hasnused Lebanese territory to launch 8,500 missiles into Israel since October 7, 2023 causing extensive damage in Northern Israel and forcing the evacuation of 10% of Israeli territory.
When Israel finally Hentam Balik, these idiots cry Ah Chee Ah Chor about Israeli bombing.
Get real...in this world, actions.have reactions...whether you like it or not
Crying ah chee ah chor?
DeleteMfer, too bad u know nuts about this Chinese saying:
真理只在大炮射程之内,尊严只在剑锋之上。
Get yr 台毒 pals to translate for u!
The election is Nov 5, then state certification, court wrangling like bush v gore n chaos n confirmation. Until then, grit the teeth..
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According to it, Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud may support a deal with Israel if it is concluded with Trump's mediation.