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The threat made by Iran’s leadership to close off the Strait of Hormuz is a provocation intended to bring about a confrontation between Iran and the US, Saudia Arabia, Bahrain and other Western nations. We must be prepared for this inevitability… In Reza Kahlili’s most recent article “The Coming War with Iran” he goes into details…Here’s hoping the Obama Administration heeds this warning…JanSuzanne

The coming war with Iran by Reza Kahlili

Iran’s tyrannical leaders, determined to make the Islamic regime a nuclear-armed state, are preparing for war. That’s exactly what the United States and Israel might have to deliver, and soon. @-Text.rag:Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the Revolutionary Guards in May to speed up the regime’s nuclear-bomb program and arm its missiles with nuclear warheads. Now, sources reveal, Ayatollah Khamenei has ordered the guards to prepare for war.

In a recent meeting of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, it was decided that the possibility of an attack by Israel or America in 2012 is real and that the country’s forces need to prepare several contingencies for war. It also was concluded that in case of war, the regime could be victorious, though the cost would be high, but it would emerge as the one and only champion of the Islamic cause in the world.

The radicals ruling Iran have long believed that obtaining the nuclear bomb will make them untouchable and will facilitate the expansion of the Islamic movement in the region and the world in bringing the West to its knees. They also have concluded that because of the troubles in the world’s economy and financial troubles in America, even a limited confrontation with America would benefit the Islamic regime.

Just as Hezbollah outfought Israel in the 2006 war, Iran can claim victory against the U.S. in such a conflict, which could include attacking Israel from several fronts. But the real prize for the criminal mullahs would be that it would help the regime bring down the monarchy in Bahrain, create instability in Saudi Arabia and, most important, help the Islamists in Egypt undermine military rule. All this would occur by inciting uprisings for a war of Islam against infidels and Zionists.

The guards in their preparations have mapped out several options. One would be to disrupt the oil flow from the Persian Gulf. They know that about 40 percent of the world’s oil and the majority of oil exports of eight countries in the Persian Gulf pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway that could be blocked by the regime’s forces.

The guards’ navy of speedboats armed with cruise missiles, Iran’s submarines and, most important, the guards’ missiles of various kinds could be launched from deep within Iran and still target the narrow strait.

The guards also have mapped out an extensive list of U.S. bases in the Middle East to attack with their missiles, disrupting the movement of U.S. forces and the operation of the Air Force, which the guards believe will be the main thrust of any attack by America.

For that purpose, several U.S. bases have been identified that could be attacked either by short-range rockets with a range of up to 140 miles or with ballistic missiles with a range of more than 1,250 miles. The two air bases in Kuwait, Ali Al Salem and Ahmed Al Jaber, are less than 85 miles from Iran. In Kuwait, the U.S. camps of Buehring, Spearhead, Patriot and Arifjan, with distances of 65 to 80 miles, are all within reach of the guards’ various missiles.

The guards also are targeting four U.S. air bases in Afghanistan as the main launching pads for any attacks on Iran. The Bagram Air Base, home to most of the U.S. Air Force presence in Afghanistan, is just 450 miles from the Iranian borders and within range of all of Iran’s ballistic missiles. Other air bases in Afghanistan that would be attacked by the guards in case of war are in Kandahar, Shindand and Herat.

The super U.S. base, Al Adid in Qatar, which is home to a variety of U.S. bombers and fighters, is within 175 miles of Iran and a prime target for the guards, though because of favorable relations of the Islamic regime with the government in Qatar, the guards are not sure America can use that air base for its attack and therefore will be much more likely to use its other superbase at Al Dhafra in the United Arab Emirates, also within range of various Iranian missiles. Other U.S. targets of the guards are the U.S. 5th Fleet in Bahrain and Thumrait Air Base in Oman.

The guards also have drawn up plans to confront any uprising from within should one occur after the breakout of war and have mobilized tens of thousands of Basijis ready to put down any unrest against the regime.

The Islamic regime in Iran also counts on Russia and China, with which it has close relations, to come to its help and facilitate an end to war in time to save the regime. China, which holds billions of dollars in contracts and is said to have more than 11,000 contractors, mostly of a military nature, in Iran, has the most to lose in the downfall of the Islamic regime, and its officials already have stated openly that China will aid the Iranian regime in case of war.

Though the Islamic regime never should have been allowed to continue with its suppression of its people, its terrorist activities worldwide and its continuation of its missile and nuclear programs despite U.N. sanctions, one cannot imagine a world with nuclear arms in the hands of the jihadists in Iran.

With officials from both Israel and the U.S. calling a nuclear-armed Iran a red line, leaving the possibility of a military option on the table, we must realize that the only possible solution to this dilemma is a regime change in Iran, which a majority of Iranians support. The price we pay today to save world peace and security will be minuscule to what the world will pay in the not-so-distant future.

http://atimetobetray.com/blog/kahlili-the-coming-war-with-iran/

Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym for a former CIA operative in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the author of “A Time to Betray” (Threshhold Editions, Simon & Schuster, 2010) He is a fellow with EMPact America and teaches at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy (JCITA).



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    • Luke Eastwood

      What a load of propaganda, the author is still on the CIA payroll no doubt. Can we blame Iran for wanting to defend itself from the world’s biggest bully? Most US citizens don’t want more war and neither does the rest of the world, but the US government doesn’t care about anything except its twisted hegemonic agenda.

    • Anonymous

      Yes, this piece is clearly disinformation/psyops. The USA and Israel have been threatening imminent war against Iran for quite a while now. Do the CIA really think people are still blinkered? Simply put, this is disgusting.

    • Joseph Zrnchik for 5th Estate Media Email: [email protected]

      Garbage. Iran is not provoking anything. It is hoping it can demonstrate deterrence. A rattlesnake does not shake its rattle to provoke. It would rather be left alone.

      This lady is obviously another neocon nut job.

      Be The One Percent (That Understands the Iranian Nuclear Issue and the Israeli and U.S. Drive to War with Iran)
      Much has been written about why Iran should not be allowed a nuclear bomb. Israel and the U.S. have come up with a million excuses, all lies, as to why Iran should not be allowed to have a nuclear deterrent. The Israelis have said Iran would “wipe them off the map” if Iran had a bomb, but the leadership in Iran has proven itself much more stable, sane, logical, and peaceful than the Zionist regime Iran would like to see “vanish from the pages of time”.

      I use the two quotes in the previous paragraph because one is a quote Ahmajinadad repeated and the other is the one the pro-Zionist U.S. media lied about and accused him of stating

      What Ahmadinejad actually said, to quote his exact words in Farsi:

      “Imam ghoft een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad.”

      That passage might not mean much to pro-Zionists trying to manufacture a casus belli, but one word might stick out: rezhim-e. It is the word “regime.” pronounced just like the English word with an extra “eh” sound at the end. Ahmadinejad did not refer to Israel the country or Israel the land mass, or to Jews, but to the Israeli regime. This is a vastly significant distinction, as one cannot wipe a regime off the map. Ahmadinejad does not even refer to Israel by name, he instead uses the specific phrase “rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods” (regime occupying Jerusalem).

      So this raises the question.. what exactly did he want “wiped from the map”? The answer is: nothing. That’s because the word “map” was never used. The Persian word for map, “nagsheh” is not contained anywhere in his original Farsi quote, or, for that matter, anywhere in his entire speech. Nor was the western phrase “wipe out” ever said. Yet we are led to believe that Iran’s president threatened to “wipe Israel off the map.” despite never having uttered the words “map.” “wipe out” or even “Israel.”

      Here is the full quote translated directly to English:

      “The Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.”

      Word by word translation:

      Imam (Khomeini) ghoft (said) een (this) rezhim-e (regime) ishghalgar-e (occupying) qods (Jerusalem) bayad (must) az safheh-ye ruzgar (from page of time) mahv shavad (vanish from).

      Here is the full transcript of the speech in Farsi, archived on Ahmadinejad’s web site. You can copy the text and go to the Google translator that will translate the entire speech from its original Farsi text. You would think a nation would take the time to research this fact before promoting the waging of nuclear war against a non-nuclear power as the U.S. has threatened to do.

      While the “wiped off the map” misquote has been attributed repeatedly without verification, Ahmadinejad’s full speech and its context are ignored. Given the importance placed on specific key words, it would make sense to translate his speech in its full context so as to get his true meaning. What his speech called for was a “world without Zionism.” While Zionist Jews may not like his rhetoric, the suffering and misery Israel has inflicted on millions of Palestinians begs otherwise.

      Furthermore, this quote is not even attributable to Ahmadinejad. He was quoting someone else and even attributed the quote. The misquote was purposely mistranslated and then magnified a million times in the U.S. Zionist-pandering media.

      Here is what a former presidential candidate and Americans statesman, Patrick Buchanan has to say about the Iranian nuclear program and whether the U.S. ought to go to war over it: buchanan.org/blog/fool-me-twice-3179 .

      Iran has kept components of its nuclear program secret, but it was still within the IAEA framework. Iran has built building for its program, but the facilities do not have to be disclosed until a designated time before nuclear enrichment begins and nuclear material is introduced. If nuclear enrichment is not scheduled to be taking place within a specified period, nor any nuclear material introduced within a specified timeframe, then the facility does not have to be disclosed according to IAEA protocols and international law. Moreover, why would a country disclose everything about its program when the U.S. has stated it would bomb Iran for exercising its inalienable rights?

      It is the U.S. that has shown it refuses to abide by the IAEA. The U.S. has decided to violate the Geneva Convention with respect to perpetrating regime change, waging aggressive war, engaging in torture and murder, and conducting extraordinary renditions. For every law the U.S. has broken it feels its rationalizations provide it absolute justification. If Americans went in front of a U.S. court using the logic and arguments the U.S. uses to excuse its murder, they would be given the electric chair in a fortnight. Image if a citizen used the arguments the U.S. uses to preempt police violence Americans regularly suffer at the hands of “law enforcement”.

      So, let’s consider what crimes Iranians had to suffer at the hands of America. All the way back in 1953, Operation TP-Ajax resulted in the CIA supporting the bombing of mosques in order to blame the crimes on the government of Mohammed Mossadegh. This resulted in the overthrow of his government and the execution of his cabinet ministers, not to mention the hundreds of deaths of innocent civilians. Our government felt this murder of foreigners was nothing more than the implementation of foreign policy. We as Americans accepted as rational and reasonable something that would be so horrible and grotesque it would be a crime that should never to be forgotten and would rightfully serve as a rallying point for all patriots for all time.

      This was not the last of the crimes Iranians suffered at the hands of Americans. The U.S. then installed the Shah of Iran whose SAVAK then exterminated all political opposition from 1953 to 1979 when the people finally decided they could no longer suffer the tyrant and overthrew him.

      Instead of America being ashamed of what it had done to a country that had not waged an aggressive war in hundreds of years, the U.S. decided to encourage, support, and provide economic and military assistance to Saddam to wage a war of aggression against Iran that would cost Iran a million lives. The U.S. actually gave Saddam the chemical weapons and production capabilities he used to slaughter Iranians, Iraqi Shiites, and Iraqi Kurds. Not once did the U.S. mention the U.N., international law, or Iraqi WMDs during the 7-year Iraq-Iran War. Then the U.S. decided to atomize the very country for allegedly having the weapons the U.S. gave it, knowing full well the weapons had already been destroyed. If Saddam had WMDs he would be as safe and secure as Kim Jong-il’s North Korea, or Pakistan and India. Also, it would be under no more obligation to follow international law than the U.S. or Israel. Speaking of Israel, look what their illegal nuclear program conducted in absolute secrecy in violation of international law and IAEA protcols has allowed it to do. The Israeli nuclear program has allowed Israel to unilaterally make priacy, ethnic cleansing, and genocide legal, acceptable, and tolerable to the powerful nations of the world.

      After the Shah was deposed, and the U.S goaded Saddam to attack Iran, the U.S. decided it wanted to test its new anti-aircraft weapon systems. It proceeded to blast an Iranian airliner out of the sky knowing full well it was a commercial aircraft. IR Flight 655 and 295 innocent civilians were blasted out of the sky and the commander of the ship was awarded decorations for his slaughter. Here is the whole history of that episode hidden from the American people:

      http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/fayazmanesh1.html

      Right now the U.S. and Israel are engaged in a terror and assassination campaign against Iran and have funded the MEK, PPK and Jundullah to wage a war of terror against Iran. The U.S. and the Mossad have carried out bombings, assassinated scientists, and tortured and murdered retired Iranian military officers.

      Not only do the U.S. people not want to know the truth, they would refuse to believe no matter what facts are presented. They literally believe the U.S. would never do something as heinous as engaging in terrorism, but wishful thinking does not create reality.

      The fact is that if the U.S. inspects a nation and finds it has no means of resistance, it will then conduct its attack to get its way. It is a nation’s failure to have a nuclear deterrent that creates a destabilizing situation. If Iran had nukes it would stand no chance of attack and would have the power to execute its foreign policy as an equal among equals. Of course this means the U.S. could not treat Iran as its next rape victim. U.S. policy amounts to it being a serial rapist whereby it tells a country to lie still and try to enjoy it.

      There will only be stability when all the Middle East has nuclear weapons and countries have to compromise. Everyone wants peace, it’s just that America wants a peace that means a war whereby a country has no means to resist if the U.S. does not get what it wants. This peace is achieved only through the U.S. ability to force other nations to accept their rape by the U.S. and then call it peace.

      All the things I have mentioned in this article are all on the CIA website, in Wikipedia, and common knowledge for people who seriously research American foreign policy. It is accepted fact throughout the political spectrum from Ron Paul on one side to Noam Chomsky on the other. In reference to the suppositions posited here, there is no argument by those who seriously dissect and study American foreign policy and its impact on the world.

      It is the fact is that Americans are so stupid and gullible that they will believe any pro-Zionist U.S. imperial propaganda amplified in the media. These same people are so intellectually lazy that they can’t take the time to cut and paste a speech into Google Translator to get at the truth of a matter; moreover, they would rather not get at the truth. The success of American propaganda is in it keeping the top 20% of the population misinformed as the other 80% are enamored by sports, celebrity, political divisiveness, and the numerous other distractions that keep people from understanding the plans and actions of the power elite.

      Iran has attempted to start a commodities market, but the U.S. has obstructed its institution through the internet, as almost all the internet is routed through U.S. companies. Additionally, there have been breaks in Iranian telecommunication cables running under the ocean that could have only been made by frogmen and ships dragging anchors across the sea floor. So, the U.S. continues to engage in war against Iran on many levels.

      In short, I have no faith in the U.S. and its foreign policy. Its foreign policy abuses are being mirrored in its domestic policy, criminal justice system, tax code, and failure to abide by the Constitution. It is a matter of time now before the U.S. destroys itself after it inflicts the misery, it has until now only exported, on its own people. I can’t say we don’t deserve it. We are as responsible for what our government does as any other nation is for what its government and was allowed to become.

      Lastly, if Iran had a nuclear bomb, the power elite would suddenly find war unthinkable as they could end up dying as easily as some stupid private who fell for the lies of our politicians and decide to enlist for their imperial wars.

      There is only one politician who will tell the truth and that is GOP candidate Ron Paul. He has tried to get the truth out to the American people but is stopped by the media. If any other candidate wins America will end up fighting a war against Iran.

      Here is the truth Americans need to know:

      Proof that the Iranian Plot to Kill a Saudi on U.S. Soil was a Fabrication by Eric Holder to Draw Attention from Operation Fast and Furious and was Done with the Help of Iran Opposition Groups and Mossad

      The Truth About the Iranian Nuclear Program the Israeli Defense Establishment Accidently Let Slip to the Israeli News Media

      U.S. Intelligence Finds Israeli Mossad Creating Forging False Intelligence to Manipulate U.S. Into War With Iran

      Israeli Defense Establishment Admits It’s Only Fear is Iran Will Have Deterrence

    • Roninsteel

      Ever since Iran held american hostages it has had this war coming they are a regime without control they cheat and steal from their own people

      Let’s hope it’s over quickly

    • Anonymous

      the NWO is about to be engaged on MANY fronts!…especially right here at home!!!

    • Anonymous

      We will be lead into another illegal and immoral war. There is little we can do at this point, it will happen. Even with the approval rating of congress under 9%, even with the multitude of Americans against another war, the Jew along with the royal crown want Irans regime to change, if not that country available for financial takeover by the fed/jew/imf/central bank.

      Iran already has nuclear weapons. They would not be so bold if they did not have “the solution”. Iran knows the intent of it’s enemy, and they know the US is coming.

      IF Iran does not have nuclear capable warheads yet, they surely have bombs. They also know they have the support of both China and Russia. I hope the American people realize the significance of whats about to happen.

      God have mercy on us all.

    • building 5

      in a perfect world, the military would come home and occupy D.C.

    • PHUKPHACE666

      sign my petition please to stop the [poisoning of the american people go to whitehouse.gov

    • Anonymous

      Im really happy to see that most of the responses to this post condemn it as the piece of neo-con garbage that it is.

      I predict a war with Iran within a year…

      The timeline in the history books should look like this:
      1. The U.S. continuously provoked Iran previous to 2011 by imposing economic sanctions related to their allegedly nuclear missile program, which there is no proof of.

      2. One of the most sophiisticated U.S. military spy drones crashes in Irn in December 2011. The drone is recovered by Iran, who condemns the action. The U.S. initially claims is had problems and drifted from Iraq, then admitted it was spying on Iran. This is a gross violation of International law.

      3. Iran demands an official apology, which the U.S. refuses to give. The U.S. then has the courage to demand the drone back. Iran says they will probably give it to China.

      4. The U.S. imposes economic sanctions on Iran due to their refusal to give the drone back. This is an attempt to choke out the civilian population of essential services and lead to an internal uprising, they’ve done this countless times before (Cuba for over 50 years, Laos, North Vietnam…).

      5. Iran threatens to close the straight of Hormuz, a conduit where one fifth of the world’s oil is transported through. The U.S. warns that would be unacceptable under any circumstances. Iran eventually retracts the claims.

      6. China Is Helping to Arm Iran and Sidestep Sanctions Thanks to an Assist From North Korea…

      Who can guess what comes next? I’m afraid it paints a pretty clear picture.

    • SniperZulu

      As long as there is a nazi facist government in the United States, there is no pretty picture…for ANYONE! If it takes WW3 to make a new government in the United States, then so be it!

    • Hermit

      You have made the mistake of taking events literally, as reported in the Mainstream Media. Suppose, just suppose that war with Iran, and the possible ensuing chaos, is what the men behind the veil want?

      Why was it that so many US Neocons all backed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the last Iranian elections? They wanted him rather than far more moderate candidates. They said so.

      What if going to war with Iran is taking the world further down the path to the New World Order? And it is 2012 now.

      What if the motto of the elite secret society, Skull and Bones, from which many US Presidents have been chosen, is Ordo ab Chao (Order out of Chaos).

      Oh and I just can’t believe that you called the Mullahs criminal. I mean are you serious? What about the criminal government in Washington DC? Ask yourself a few questions. How many countries has Iran invaded in the last 100 years? How many countries has the US attacked? Who was really behind 911? How many false flag attacks on its own population is the Iranian Government responsible for?

    • Blacksheep

      That !#$%&*$%@*(! Obama wants this so-called war with little Iran. Lets face facts, our leadership in 100% insane…

      And we’re all going down this time…

      Ironic and moronic fools all….

    • Joseph Zrnchik for 5th Estate Media Email: [email protected]

      On SJP and the ‘stealth jihad’ hitting college campuses near you

      October 10, 2011 By Sami Kishawi Leave a Comment

      American Thinker published a distorted article about the upcoming National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) Conference, claiming SJP represents the student arm of the “stealth jihad” movement and criticizing Columbia University and Jewish students for giving pro-Palestinians a platform to express their views.

      There are two ways this response can go. I can either focus on the article’s many contextual, grammatical, and typographical errors (the author, Jan Suzanne Krasner, very noticeably confuses SJP with SPJ), or I can simply show how the author contradicts and subsequently discredits herself. Both routes will suggest that Krasner and the ideological views presented in her article represent the extremism and intolerance SJP and other pro-justice organizations work against, but I will choose the latter route and deal solely with the article’s slanderous content.

      Krasner, who genuinely believes several neighborhoods in the United Kingdom are “Shariah Controlled Zones” run by Muslims fantasizing about victorious battles against the Crusaders, vaguely argues that the SJP Conference to be held at Columbia University serves to delegitimize Israel through direct yet stealthy jihad. In her own words, “[t]he Muslim Brotherhood actively supports and finances student organizations like SJP”. To Krasner, the conference, which she repeatedly calls a “training event”, is just another example of the “true mission of Islamists” being forced upon the American youth, and she feels compelled to put an end to it.

      From the start, Krasner’s idea of SJP and campus solidarity is flawed by her obsession with the far-fetched idea that everything represents creeping Shariah unless it fully abides by and supports American and Israeli policy. By asserting that SJP serves to promote ‘radical Islam’, a term copped from the FOX network, Krasner reveals her misunderstanding of what it means to stand against Israel’s sustained abuse of Palestinian rights. The article mentions “SJP’s demands” but instead links to an unrelated article about the Palestinian Authority’s recent bid for statehood. What the article purposefully leaves out is that SJP’s real demands involve an end to the illegal occupation of Palestine and a restoration of human rights, equality, and self-sovereignty to all.

      By framing the SJP Conference as tool to Islamicize the United States, Krasner attempts to shift attention away from the facts that exist on the ground in Palestine-Israel towards her Islamophobic fetishes. Her article makes no mention of the proposed objectives of the conference nor does it even recognize the existence of Israel’s occupation — which, in and of itself, is a cause for concern.

      Krasner also goes on to accuse SJP of willfully accepting financial assistance from the Muslim Brotherhood. I challenge her and anyone that agrees with her article to prove this allegation. I guarantee no success. It is likely that she is referring to the funds the SJP National Committee has been collecting to offset the costs of putting together this convention, but such an allegation is baseless and only reflects the extent to which she will go to dirty the name and reputation of a movement committed to bringing down the prejudiced establishments she herself supports.

      On the issue of money, the article states that the “[o]rganizers hope to raise $30,000 in preparation for the upcoming 2012 national campus event called ‘Israel Apartheid Week’”. Had Krasner bothered to read and understand the program for the conference, she would know that only one of the many planned workshops is centered on Israel Apartheid Week (IAW). The conference is indeed about confronting and overcoming apartheid, but IAW is just one of many strategies of doing so. The funds raised by SJP will be used to plant the seeds of nonviolent, skillful, and effective campus activism against injustice and apartheid.

      In a last ditch attempt to undermine the imminent success of the SJP Conference, Krasner attempts to make the point that the conference violates Columbia University’s code of Civil Behavior and Community Standards. The article cites the following:

      It is expected that in and out of the classroom, on and off campus, each student in the School of General Studies will act in an honest way and will respect the rights of others. Freedom of expression is an essential part of University life, but it does not include intimidation, threats of violence, or the inducement of others to engage in violence or in conduct which harasses others.

      Krasner then goes on to applaud the following response by the National Conference on Jewish Affairs (NCJA):

      Of course we will not be surprised to hear from President Bollinger and the Board that this is just a “student group” and the university is “not involved” and that this is “the free expression of ideas,” intellectual freedom” or even “art.” But we can no longer accept these excuses for what appears to be pure hatred and efforts to intimidate pro-Israel Jewish students and others who do not agree with SPJ’s views.

      Again, the organization being referred to is SJP not SPJ. But looking beyond this blatant display of irresponsibility reveals even more irresponsibility. Here is an already-discredited contingency calling on Columbia University to shut down the conference and to deny students their right to free speech and expression even though the conference violates in no way any of the standards set forth by Columbia University’s behavioral codes. What makes this even more disturbing is that Krasner and NCJA have the nerve to make these statements just after ten students were prosecuted for merely interrupting an inherently offensive speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren for a total of less than one minute.

      But more importantly, neither Krasner or NCJA provide any evidence as to how this conference intimidates pro-Israel Jewish students. The conference is not anti-Israel and, thus, it is not an anti-pro-Israel-Jewish-student conference. Rather, the conference is pro-justice, and it just so happens that the concept of justice — which includes equality, accountability, human rights, and more — does not align at all with conventional Israeli policy. It is not SJP’s fault that Israel occupies Palestine, but the students involved with SJP have taken on the responsibility of combating the hatred and intolerance that allows the occupation to exist. If Kramer truly considers this unethical, intimidating, or threatening, then the only segment of the global population she seeks to defend are the ones who already violate Columbia University’s behavioral and community codes. (At this time, I invite you to read the comments following the article, one of which implicitly commends Anders Breivik’s Islamophobic and murderous ideology.)

      Krasner’s article serves as both an Islamophobic and dramatically deceitful libel against a large union of Muslim, Jewish, Christian, religious, and irreligious students who have dedicated themselves to resisting injustice with ambition, intellect, and the rule of law. There is no jihad at play and the SJP Conference, with its public records and all, is definitely not a breeding ground for fundamentalism of any sort. Immortal Technique is not “seducing” students to the event and the Muslim Brotherhood does not exist within Columbia University’s walls. The first ever National SJP Conference itself is proof that apartheid and occupation will soon come to an end, and Krasner’s attempt to defame this planned gathering of student activists will not in any way hinder the manifestation of this outcome.

    • Anonymous

      Buy tons of Gold IRAN…TONS!

    • chris from oz

      @Joseph Zrnchik – that’s some great detail you go into there and you might consider putting that first post up as a full article. The truth about that speech needs to spread to the masses and it gets lost in the blogs. I encourage you to author it and post it. Well done everyone else smashing the propaganda in the kneecaps – no serious trolls yet I see either..

    • Joseph Zrnchik for 5th Estate Media Email: [email protected]

      Chris,

      The above comment was posted as an article and I also give permission for everyone to post it freely and openly. No credit need be given and it can be edited as others see fit if it advances the cause of peace.

    • Anonymous

      Some of the above comments invoke Ron Paul. Ron Paul is a libertarian defending Iran’s right to retaliate to economic sanctions which may rise to the level of casus belli. But he does not have an anti-American or anti-Semitic intent as do some who are jumping on the burgeoning Paul bandwagon who do not have America’s or Israel’s best interests at heart. Now I believe Iran’s rulers are a gang of genocidal fanatical madmen and may pre-emptively strike leaving us no choice but to go to war. There was a huge uprising for freedom in 2009 which our president did nothing to support, so you have a religious totalitarian state that we still have to deal with, that quelled the revolt, shoots and hangs women, gays, has slaughtered 10’s of 1000’s Iranians, controls the press, suppresses dissent, etc.

      This radical regime has built and sponsors the terrorist groups Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas and has supported terrorist activities throughout the world, arming them not only to attack Israel, but the West. The regime has killed US soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. They have 1000 ballistic missiles in underground silos aimed at every city in Israel, US military bases and even eastern European cities and have armed their vessels with surface to surface ballistic missiles. You cannot negotiate with a radical regime whose belief system is based upon religious prophesies that Islamic world supremacy can only be realized with a global apocalyptic confrontation with the non-Muslim world. Add to this the recent announcement by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that current events in the Mideast are a sign of the “end of times.”

      And deterrence was a national policy with the Soviets who were rational enough to know that a nuclear war would destroy both countries. But the concept of MAD (mutually assured destruction) doesn’t enter into the equation with the Islamic Iranian regime who has said the want Israel wiped off the map. And whether they want to Israel wiped off the map or vanished from time, it’s all the same thing. I am not interested in splitting hairs over the word “regime” in Farsi. It’s time to get your head out of the sand and stop playing ostrich believing that your enemy can’t see you.

    • Mary

      The NWO plan March as the time to attack Iran. Iran should close down their Nucular power stations but so should everyone else. The USA morons in charge do not bring peace but conflict for profit. The general US population should toss their moron Obamas out. Wake Up. Everyone stock up extra food about 4 weeks worth. But this depends on where you live. Petrol goes through the roof and food shoots up! Go solar if you can!
      Prey to Mother Mary and Prime Creator.

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