Ali Khamenei Quotes
A revolution that cannot defend itself in an age of sedition, against various political and military coup attempts and other such acts, is not alive. This revolution is alive for it defends itself and indeed prevails and wins.
Ali Khamenei, Moslem Cleric and Iranian Principle Leader, Speech, June 2011
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Sowell’s definition of “degeneracy” seems to be departing from his ideal version of proper views and action.
the U. S. and the West Of particular interest is the last sentence. Rarely does the Iranian leader and the American leadership agree on anything, but what Khamenei alleges is exactly the object of American general policy toward Iran. The U. S,, has other objectives as well, and the man purpose of the draconian sanctions is to pressure the Iranians to halt their nuclear weapons development or give the UN access to be sure that there is no military development nuclear program.
20th century Africa and South America were particularly good examples.
Commenting on a military coup in Suriname:
The attempted putsch failed. Hitler was arrested and jailed 4 days later.
There is a , romantic American myth about the Militiamen in Colonial and Revolutionary America—the citizen soldiers who would leave their farms and rise to the military necessity of the day. However, not only were the militia very hard to muster to duty, but most actually didn’t own or have experience with firearms, and the prevailing opinion of knowledgeable military leaders from George Washington on down was that the militia were not very good soldiers. See {613015}, {613016}, {613022}, {613027}, {621987}, {621988}, {613030}, {613033}, & {613056}
She was captured and tortured by the Shah’s secret police. When the Shah was finally overthrown, the theocracy that replaced his rule was a bad as the Shah’s regime. Torture and killing of political opponents and religious dissenters was even more common.
In 2002 George Speight attempted a military coups and failed. This statement is one of the most hypocritical political statements.
This coup has been the biggest trauma for the Iranian people in the last centuries. The blowback from it, has soured relationships between America and Iran for decades. Khamenei personally was traumatized by the coup and publicly refers to it quite frequently. Ironically, reasons and policy logic for the CIA orchestration of the coup are even today murky. The desires of the British may well have been the main reason. “Arrogance” is the term Khamenei uses to describe the British-American alliance and their propensity to try and shape the affairs of other nations.
He was of course not the President then. But the stands that politicians took with respect to the rebellion of the South often determined their political futures. See {640751} for another future President’s quotation on the subject.
The Empress had earlier decided not to try and suppress the Boxers when they started attacking foreigners--{641838}. But now things had gotten out of hand and many ordinary Chinese people—especially Chinese Christians-- were suffering Boxer abuse. Cixi thought the government had to “ally” with the Boxers in the hope that she could influence directions in the future. This, of course, made her anathema in the West and forever damaged her reputation and legacy in Western history.
Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei is a Twelver Shia Marja' and the second and current supreme leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously President of Iran from 1981 to 1989. Khamenei is the longest serving head of state in the Middle East, as well as the second-longest serving Iranian leader of the last century, after Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
