President Biden: The Mullahs Are More Cowardly Than You Think

This week marks a sinister day in contemporary Iranian history, when the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, was forced to flee. In his place, a cunning Shia mullah returned to Iran, assuming power without the people’s vote, declaring himself God’s representative on Earth, and naming his rule as the governance of Allah on Earth. Today, however, the entire world recognizes that the most corrupt, bloodthirsty, and tyrannical “government of Allah” on Earth has turned Iran into a prison for 88 million people. Each month and week, its bloodthirsty rulers execute a young person on the gallows, perhaps to extend the religious dictatorship’s hold on power and wealth in Iran a bit longer.

The fake representatives of God on Earth have plunged the entire Middle East into chaos, spending all of Iran’s wealth, benefits, and resources on regional terrorism, sectarianism, pyrotechnics, and baseless, ominous attacks on America and Israel.

The financial resources of the Iranian people are squandered on funding Islamic terrorism. Iran’s name has vanished, and the term terrorism has become so intertwined with the name of Iran’s civilized and historical people, that it may not be possible to separate these two names and characteristics for another half-century.

The people of Iran have risen 18 times against religious despotism and their incompetent rulers like Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamenei. However, when they received no international support and faced brutal suppression by the fake representatives of God on Earth and criminal “holy men,” a dark cloud of despair and anger overshadowed the Iranian people.

Before the ominous Hamas attack of October 7 began, Ayatollah Khamenei promised the destruction of Israel, and the commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) threatened to attack America.

For years, these terrorists have looted the table of the Iranian people, and the nation’s budget. This money is spent on tunnels, grenades, bullets, and missiles for terrorists, instead of being spent on development, industry, agriculture, and the education of the Iranian people.

After October 7, the mullahs feared an Israeli attack and pressed the denial button, insisting they knew nothing about the incident. The world believed them, but the Iranian people know that the nature of the mullahs is intertwined with lies.

Then last week, American soldiers were brutally attacked, and again the mullahs were afraid and denied, and American security officials also heard, but ordinary people in the villages of Iran also know that behind all these crises and wars are the servants of Russia and China, namely the mullahs of Tehran.

This time, the Biden administration responded, attacking Iranian satellites in the region, and said that more reprisals would come at a time and place of America’s choosing. In the past, Democratic regimes have believed the mullahs, and not acted strongly enough against them — Carter, because of Khomeini, betrayed the Shah; Clinton, because of the reformists who are the other side of the coin of the hardline conservatives, was pleased with President Khatami; Obama wrote letters to Khamenei in the middle of the Iranian people’s uprising; and Biden, instead of supporting the Iranian people’s desire for regime change, said he was open to another nuclear deal.

But Iran has always been a threat to America and the world — not just Israel, or those inside Iran who want freedom. President Biden should know that the mullahs in Iran are more cowardly, and weaker, than he thinks. The US should continue to use all its tools to rebuff Iranian aggression, and push for an eventual change in regime. The Iranian threat is not going away; it’s time we combat it.

Erfan Fard is a counter-terrorism analyst and Middle East Studies researcher based in Washington, DC. He is in Middle Eastern regional security affairs with a particular focus on Iran, counter terrorism, IRGC, MOIS and ethnic conflicts in MENA. He graduated in International Security Studies (London M. University, UK), and in International Relations (CSU-LA). Erfan is a Jewish Kurd of Iran, and he is fluent in Persian, Kurdish, Arabic and English. Follow him from this twitter account @EQFARD

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