From the English version of almanar.com
“Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei described Commander of IRGC’s Quds Force General Qassem Suleimani as ‘worldwide Resistance icon’, vowing a ‘severe revenge’ for the top commander who was martyred by US strike on Baghdad airport early on Friday.
In a message issued Friday, Imam Khamenei said “the cruelest people on earth” assassinated the “honorable” commander who “courageously fought for years against the evils and bandits of the world.
His demise will not stop his mission, but the criminals who have the blood of General Suleimani and other martyrs must await a harsh revenge, the Leader stressed.
“Martyr Suleimani is a worldwide Resistance icon, and all Resistance supporters are now his avengers,” Imam Khamenei said.”
Western world will never understand the mindset, they can’t see outside of their box. Ya Ali Madad
The murder of Suleima is an act of evil, that is, it is an act of vengence, which always is evil. Not that I don’t think that a response is in place, it is, but it must be a deliberate act that helps secure the integrity of Iran. (Now, my feelings towards Iran is somewhat mixed, I have friends that fled the country because of religious percecution. That is bad, evil even, but USA did not murder Suleiman to prevent persecution of Christians, but rather to fullfill their worship of Mammon.)
Yet, I wonder if they may have done Iran a small service. Suleiman was a bright strategist and a professional comander. But he was not the only strategist and commander in Iran. He is not irreplacable, in a professional sense. And a professional like him, especially one who took risks like he did, would have made sure that he had someone to carry on his work. I cannot imagening that those who gave Trump the oportunity to say “shoot” was not aware of this. -These deep state swamp creatures only found an oportunity to bring forth the war their masters want. They knew the murder had little effect, besides creating the war they crave.
And in doing so, they made a perfectt Moslem martyr. -That they also knew, because they are not ignorant.
But they also deprived Iran of a very public power brooker. Suleiman had grown to become very influential. That may or may not be a good thing. A living legend is a double edged sword. A living legend, possibly created or at least urged on to rally support for the cause, is a person who has power. A power that is not invested in him by his position, but a power that originate from his person. There are few people that is not corupted by such power. Suleiman may very well be one of those, but we only know him by the picture that has been created of him. (Such pictures are never complete.)
This murder was an evil act intended to start a war, probably for the profit of it. But it has not deprived Iran of its capability. It has not even deprived Iran of a hero to rally around, Suleiman the martyr is possibly more powerful than Suleiman the general to rally the masses. And Suleiman the martyr does not have a personal, political influence that may or may not be a disturbance in political decisions, wheter the disturbance is intended or not.
My point is not that it is a good thing that Suleiman was murdered. Evil is never good But one (of several) side effects is that the leadership of Iran in this troubled time, have a martyr instead of a living legend, a hero-general. And hero generals are at best a distraction, a disturbance in the decition cycles. At worst they cross the Rubicon.
Haim saban/Sheldon adelson have an Israel Manchurian in the WH. They desperately need to start a war with Iran now in case trump loses Nov 2020, they have no time to lose, in two months it will be too late. What will Rahbar advise?
Israel MSM largely created the “Celebrity General”, and now Trump gets the honors of killing him.
He’s not strategic to Iran, and just about anybody could have taken out the faux-terrorists, aka CIA mercenary’s in MENA driving trucks that said “Joes-Plumbing-Texas”
It doesn’t take rocket science to realize that all JUSA has is jew-bucks, and they don’t buy much, other than what people are willing to sell for paper-money.
Iran ain’t going to do much of anything, and Israel with use this killing to get their 15 minutes of fame, and of course narcissist Trump will enjoy his 30 minutes of credit for the murder.
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The JUSA theme here is that somehow the NEO-CON/LIB didn’t lose Libya, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Yemen, but the fact is they did, and it wasn’t one man name the “general” that won the war, the war was won, because all the Israel-USA has to offer is paper-money, and promises of LGBT lifestyle in Hollywood suburbs.
All of this is a show, and Iran knows this, the best thing for them to do is just ignore the NEO scum, and let them flounder.
Hopefully we will soon see plenty of dead Americans.
These people are weasels. They like to dish it out but they will scream like babies when they are on the receiving end.
Any American found anywhere between Morocco and Indonesia should be treated as a terrorist or a spy, and dealt with accordingly.
I understand your anger and disgust paul, but your response would solve nothing. You advocate killing people who are not remotely to blame, who might, in fact, be vehemently against everything their Government is doing.
And what you are doing is trying to right a wrong, by another wrong. And that can never work. It’s like trying to put out a fire by dousing it in kerosene.
We need a different mind set; as Einstein said, you can’t solve a problem using the same thinking that caused it in the first place.
But certainly Americans have to feel the results of what is done, just as the sanctions their government dishes out hurts the mass of peoples. It’s the only way, i think, to get them to rise up and demand their Government stop doing what it’s doing.
Pamela, that insanity is fully on the part of America. But of course you only see things as an American would. What is totally exasperating about your reply, for everyone else, is way you couch your innocence within sour blame of an inept, yet nonetheless, exceptional government. America is the land of fools and idiots!
Paul and Zinny, Do you advocate the mass slaying of innocent people? Do you fantasize about murdering innocents because they don’t look exactly the same or worship the same way you do?
Rest assured most Americans want nothing to do with all this constant war crap. They genuinely are disgusted that the neocons / ziocons deep state government are using the American military and our tax dollars to realize their agenda. Again, the atrocities, including the murder of General Qassem Suleimani (in the name of Allah and Jesus blessings be upon him) are perpetrated by the deep state, which the American people will call to account in due course. If you think that I, and tens of millions of other Americans will accept your proclamation of our personal guilt and accept your wishful sentencing of our families and friends to death, then you are both idiots of immense proportions and we will witness such a sea of blood you cannot even begin to imagine. Is that what you want? I certainly don’t. But if innocent American citizens start being slayed en masse in your sick fantasized revenge, this will get far worse, for you, and for all of us.
Really, if you Americans are supposedly so fed up with war then prove by for once voting out all your incumbent Democrat and Republicans rats from both houses once and for all. That way an anti-war president assisted by new legislature can have shot at shutting down this imperial deep state, if not then please shut it with such rhetoric.
The sad part Mike, is that voting does nothing. All candidates are rotten to the core. Even a good candidate stands no chance. Masons founded America, set it up not to work. Masons means exactly what? You know what. As a 14 year old boy I threw bricks at the Army Nat’l Guard. I did everything to stop them Along with lots of others. Americans, as you know, have no resolve. A couple of people were shot and the revolution vaporized. We were the first generation in the history of the US to actually win a revolution (we didn’t know it at the time but the bastards were on the ropes), stop a war (Viet Nam) and give it up to go drink beer and play frisbee. Now they are on meth and porn. We are fairly worthless as a people. Not so bad as individuals some of us. Now, I am an old man. What would you have me do?
I woke the morning this happened and the world was different. The world had changed. My whole family felt it. Before we heard the news. My wife she cried. My boy, he cried, and I can not cry. I have lived through too many years of this. My sympathies have not been with this gov’t for a long time. I know, in my heart of hearts, that we deserve whatever happens to us. We have not tried hard enough as a people. Four dead in Ohio and the people quit. In other countries that strengthens their resolve. For all their bluster our people are pussies and bullies. You know that. Only bullies do what we do. You know who owns us. If I could give my life to change all this, I would, I am an old, and worthless. Just ask my state gov’t, my federal gov’t, and they’ll tell you. Ask the youth in my country and they’ll tell you the same. They hate us too. We are caught in a cultural miasma between our own vapid youth and our adversarial grandparents who have a yard of hard pipe to give to anyone in the world, to fatten their own stock options and will let us take the fall. Simply too much bagel munching influence here. Now it is illegal to say even this. I am not a coward. I have a large family, outside of my immediate, to see to. I am the oldest. My dumbest grandson joined the Marines. He is being deployed. I told him to never serve these assholes. I am concerned for him but I will not be surprised by his fate. I talked to him very much about it but the youth always know more than us in this country. I won’t be surprised, as I said, but I will not mourn him, nor miss him. He’s a (Removed language,MOD) who wanted this, not this event, but to prance around in uniforms and carry a gun. I can be hard of heart too. So, what would you have me do? Nothing I think. I don’t have long to live and actually look forward to death. What can you take from me? Oh, last thing. I grew up with the tales of noble Saladin, and the other romances of Persia and Babylon. It has always been a romantic notion to me. I had hundreds of Iranian friends after 79. Some really good, some that scared me (he had been in the Shah’s secret police….make your skin crawl evil….I can not say here why I knew him). I am surrounded by morons calling for blood. I do not listen but neither, in real life do I any longer expose myself to this danger, having had the hell beaten out of me, an old man, for having opinions about the situation years ago. So, what would you have me do? Killed by you, killed by them or natural causes, I don’t care. There is nothing left to take. Can I hire an editor here? Sorry to be a windbag. For the most part I don’t disagree too much. Peace be upon everyone. Should God will it.
Pamela,
I’m sure everyone appreciates your pacifist (turn the other cheek) comments. However, I’m also sure that “Paul” mostly meant that he wished the death of American military and intelligence personnel, the kind of eye-opening of the American public mind which (in part anyway) led to pressures for the US to exit Vietnam. One must break a few eggs to make an omlet and I would not bemoan a few (in proportion to US global mass-murders) American deaths to help precipitate an awakening and (hopefully) far greater pressure from the American public for America (the perpetual war machine) to dismantle its murderous “empire of bases”.
With respect, in these increasingly dangerous times,
J-P
paul, that is not the mindset here. Hopefully we will see no-one dead through war. Have you no morals?
Please,do tell.What is the mindset here.Morals,the kind that got us here.
Somebody push the damn button already.
You are a victim of the same mentality that islam and muslim haters have, “they all are the same”. Punishing someone for a crime committed by other would be persecution and injustice, which gen. Suleimani fought against most of his life. Get out of your bubble.
If there was the appropriate revenge response to this then that would be to kill 2 or more of the “top” western capitalists/oligarchs responsible behind the scene of Washington’s madness.
The Point: China, Iran work together on nuclear deal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTohYj0DO5o
Amid simmering tensions in the Persian Gulf, and as the U.S. threatens to intensify sanctions on Iran,
China has reiterated the need for a diplomatic solution. Can the nuclear deal be saved?