Sociopaths Say the Darndest Things!

Iran's top clerical hyper-neo-liberal , fascist oligarch, so-called supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has warned that the IRI will use all its capabilities to defend itself against an attack. one might read into the language a certain bravado...

The self-proclaimed Supreme Leader, Khamenei, said in a national address Wednesday that if the United States and others want to threaten Iran and enforce coercion and violence, then Iran will respond to an attack by enemies.

The turbaned tyrant also is quoted as saying that Iran's nuclear activities have been in accordance with international regulations, and that Tehran will continue those actions, despite any action by the United Nations Security Council.

Shortly after the speech of Mr Khamenei , 15 British sailors were taken hostage by the IRGC.

Sayeed Laylaz compares Iran to a cornered cat that has no option but to strike back.

Khamenei's comments were accompanied by an Iranian naval commander's statement that the Revolutionary Guards had test fired missiles that could sink "big warships" in the Persian Gulf, where a second American aircraft carrier is now heading.

This is not the first time Islamic Republic's Leader has threatened the US. Last April, he vowed his country would "harm American interests" all over the world if an attack was launched against its nuclear installations, according to Iranian state television."The Americans should know that if they attack Iran, their interests will be harmed around the world," Khamenei reportedly said, adding: "The Iranian nation will respond to any attack twice as strongly."

As I've been saying all along, there are influential members of the hardliners and the IRGC Junta, and its coterie of like-minded ideologues (Mesbah Yazdi et al), that have an unhealthy belief in the efficacy of Imam Mahdi solutions to solving their interanl unrest and domestic economic woes brought on by their ineptitude and mismangement. To such an extent that negotiated settlements are viewed as born out of weakness, equivalent to appeasement and as inevitably leading to unnecessarily costly compromises at bargaining tables shared with adversaries that would be better dealt with suicide bombing, hostage taking, training Iraqi shi'ite militas and Hamas in Iran, fometing civil war in Iraq, Sudan and even in chechnya (see A Jacksonian analysis in the comment section of this post).

At the very least, there is an overriding desire to use terrorism and hostage taking to weaken the opponents until an eventual "negotiated" settlement accepted under extreme duress is sufficiently skewed as to be made more palatable. So far, this strategy has worked like a charm, the British have decided not to esclate the conflict and are groveling in the background while the poor sailors face being charged for espinoge punishable by death according to the Iranian penal code.

Khamenei has pools of blood on his hands. As I have posted in my earlier entries (November and December archives), the "leader" is the Commander-in-chief and nothing gets done without his approval. He must have personally approved the June 1996 truck bombing of the Khobar Towers military residence in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia that killed 19 US servicemen. US courts blame Iran for backing the group that carried out the attack. Argentinian intelligence says Khamenei also approved the decision to attack Argentina's Jewish community center at a meeting in August 1993 that he chaired. Participants included Iran's president at that time, Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani who is a 'wanted man' by the Interpole along with his other accomplices. This latest incident just adds to the litany of their egregious acts of terrorism undoubtedly approved by the furehr. International criminals supported and funded by the Islamic Republic have been given a free reign to engage in acts of war with impunity since 1979 across the globe including assassination of dissidents in Europe.

The West so far by its utter inaction (since 1979) has displayed its implicit surrender to Islamic Republic of Extortionsts and Pirates. The West (Mostly the EU) has been committing suicide since 1979 for their centuries of empire and the coup of 1953 by the CIA. When is the West going to ask for apologies and atonment from the Islamic Republic?

No wonder, Ahamdinejad keeps repeating to his audience of zombified Jihadist these words , " 'The world without America' is not only possible but near".

Update: Blair Convenes Cobra Team as Crisis in Iran Escalates
COBRA is an acronym for Cabinet Office Briefing Room A, where its meetings are held.