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		<title>Sharia Law: Draconian Legal System &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Edward L. Dalcour unveils the nightmare spawned by Islamic "theocracy."]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was guest-hosted by scholar of Islam <strong>Louis Lionheart</strong> and joined by author and lecturer <strong>Dr. Edward L. Dalcour.</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Dalcour came on the show to discuss <strong>Sharia Law: Draconian Legal System</strong>, unveiling the nightmare spawned by Islamic &#8220;theocracy.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Hassan Rouhani: A Wolf in Sheep&#8217;s Clothing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2013 04:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The centrifuges keep spinning while the West keeps deluding itself. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/cdn-media.nationaljournal.com_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-197941" alt="cdn-media.nationaljournal.com" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/cdn-media.nationaljournal.com_.jpg" width="301" height="219" /></a>In the Western world, the media and political leaders have created a narrative averring that Iran’s seventh president, Hassan Rouhani, will introduce a new chapter to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s history of nuclear defiance. Meanwhile, under Ahmadinejad’s rule, Tehran will continue to spin its centrifuges in attempt to obtain nuclear weapons and arsenals until Rouhani assumes presidency. While the West and other regional countries have suspended all diplomatic initiatives, talks and pressures until Rouhani comes to power, Iranian leaders have taken advantage of this opportunity to speed up their enrichment of uranium so as to sooner reach the critical point of obtaining nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>The “logic” that the Obama administration and other liberal leaders are utilizing to uphold the argument that diplomatic initiatives have to wait until Rouhani comes to power is that Rouhani is a centrist, moderate, realist, and rational Iranian politician who comprehends the concerns and rules of the international community, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations, and P5+1. They argue that Rouhani will comply with rules and halt Iran’s nuclear program in several cities including Bushehr, Qum, Esfahan, Arak and Natanz.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, these arguments do not take into account the ideological nuances, political agenda and structure of the Iranian centrists. In addition, and more fundamentally, these arguments can easily be repudiated not only by the career, personal, ideological, and political background of Hassan Rouhani, but also by the most recent statements that Rouhani has made in Persian media and the state’s outlets.</p>
<p>In a recent interview, Hassan Abedini, the host of one of Iran’s state media channels, IRIB, criticized Rouhani by stating that Iran’s nuclear work had been halted as a result of the negotiations that Rouhani took part in when he was chief nuclear negotiator. Rouhani then immediately interrupted Abedini by exclaiming, “What you said is a lie. You know it’s a lie. This statement is what ignorant people say; you are taught in this….Maybe the person speaking to you in your earpiece doesn’t know, but you know.” After the television host pressured Rouhani further, Rouhani said “We suspended the [nuclear] program? We completed the [nuclear] program. This is unethical act of the IRIB [channel] that has permeated into you. And the person who is talking with you into your earpiece, this unethical act has permeated into him, as well.”</p>
<p>In this interview, Rouhani supported the position that although the West and international community believe that Iran was halting its nuclear program, Rouhani – as the chief nuclear negotiator – was in fact completing it. In addition, at the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council, Rouhani further clarified, “While we were talking with the Europeans in Tehran, we were [simultaneously] installing equipment in parts of the [nuclear] facility in Isfahan, but we still had a long way to go to accomplish the project. In fact, by creating a tranquil environment, we were able to finish the work in Isfahan.”</p>
<p>Furthermore, after Rouhani was elected as the Iran’s seventh president, he publicly declared that the United States must recognize Iran’s nuclear rights and pledge not to interfere in its internal and domestic affairs. Additionally, in his press conference, the president-elect clearly stated, “The era of [enrichment] suspension is gone.”</p>
<p>The critical fact remains that although on one hand the Iranian centrists support using softer and more diplomatic tones on regional and international platforms, on the other hand, they also strongly insist on preserving Tehran’s current political status quo, foreign policy objectives, and continued assistance towards the survival of the Shiite cleric-ruled regime. While Rouhani is nicknamed the diplomatic sheikh and while he calls for employing less hostile language when dealing with the West, it is nevertheless unrealistic to argue that Rouhani will alter Tehran’s nuclear program and foreign policies or challenge the Supreme Leader.</p>
<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose country would be the most affected if Iran obtained nuclear weapons, responded to Rouhani’s remarks about the era of nuclear suspension being gone. In an interview with CBS News, Netanyahu accurately characterized the political ideology of Rouhani and Iran’s centrist political spectrum by stating, &#8220;He [Rouhani] is criticizing his predecessor for being a wolf in wolf&#8217;s clothing. His strategy is to be a wolf in a sheep&#8217;s clothing. Smile and build a bomb.&#8221; Netanyahu also stated previously, &#8220;Let us not delude ourselves. The international community must not become caught up in wishful thinking and be tempted to relax the pressure on Iran to stop its nuclear program.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hassan Rouhani and the centrist party are the founders and beneficiaries of the theocratic political system of Iran’s Ayatollahs. It would be irrational to argue that Rouhani will stand against the current system, which he assisted in creating, and it is illogical to believe that he will risk his power and accumulated wealth by halting the centrifuges from spinning. Rouhani was the chief advisor of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as the head of Iran’s National Security Council. It is thus inevitable that Rouhani will avoid challenging the Supreme Leader so as to preserve all the benefits and powers he has accumulated.</p>
<p>In a very Machiavellian-like approach, the Islamic Republic of Iran will continue spinning its centrifuges under the rule of Rouhani, but in the meanwhile will use a much softer tone when interacting with the international community. This shrewdness will allow Iran to buy time, manipulate the international community, take advantage of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s loopholes, delude the rest of world and ultimately reach their nuclear and hegemonic ambitions.</p>
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		<title>Is Iran Really a &#8216;Rational&#8217; State Actor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The West's fundamental mistake in its interpretation of Iranian "self-interest."]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/majid-rafizadeh/is-iran-really-a-rational-state-actor/ahmadinejad-15/" rel="attachment wp-att-184488"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-184488" title="Ahmadinejad" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Ahmadinejad.jpg" alt="" width="256" height="192" /></a>Recently, there has been an ongoing debate among political analysts in the United States that is centered on the question of whether the Islamic Republic of Iran is a rational actor and whether it has rational-legal authority in the institutions within which it functions.</p>
<p>The argument goes, if credible and powerful incentives were presented to the Iranian regime the Iranians would agree to halt uranium enrichment. Additionally, if the Iranian regime believes that it will be regarded with respect and viewed as a strong geopolitical, economic and strategic actor by regional and international governments it will open talks with the United States, Israel, and other European countries.  In particular, it will have strong diplomatic relations with the United States which will ultimately lead to the inauguration of mutual embassies in Tehran and Washington, DC, as well as the promotion of human rights and democracy in Iran. It is also argued that if Iran is a rational actor, even if it achieves nuclear capability and consequently nuclear weapons, it will still not threaten other countries, according to the rational theory of “deterrence.”</p>
<p>First, &#8220;rationality&#8221; must be defined. One might define it as the efforts of a government to pursue its own strategic, economic, national, and security interests. However, even according to this definition, it does not mean that the Iranian regime would fix its relationships with many countries including the United States or Israel if more appealing offers were presented to the clerics. The key principle upon which the Islamic Republic of Iran rules is its opposition to Western nations, particularly the United States and Israel and even some powers in the East. The principle slogan of the Iranian Revolution as coined by Ayatollah Khomeini (the founding father of the regime) is &#8220;Not the east, not the west.&#8221; He adds, “this is the established principle of Islamic nations and countries who, with the help of Allah, will accept Islam as the only ideology leading to salvation – and they will not go back from this principle in the least.”</p>
<p>On the other hand, in this era of globalization, if being a rational government means protecting one&#8217;s own economic interest, any state should subscribe to a modern nation-state political system. Khomeini said, “in our domestic and foreign policy, &#8230; we have set as our goal the world-wide spread of the influence of Islam &#8230; We wish to cause the corrupt roots of Zionism, capitalism and Communism to wither throughout the world. We wish, as does God almighty, to destroy the systems which are based on these three foundations, and to promote the Islamic order of the Prophet.”</p>
<p>The fact is that the Islamic Republic of Iran is centered on the principles that Ayatollah Khomeini established. It derives its power and legitimacy from practicing those principles which require ending any relationship with the United States (also known as “the great Satan” in Iran) and Israel at any cost. If the Iranian regime changed these fundamental organizing principles, it would not be able to define itself as the “Islamic Republic of Iran” which was founded on the principles and values of Ayatollah Khomeini. Additionally, resuming relations with the United States and Israel would mean that the Iranian regime would not be able to maneuver politics the way it has been for the last three decades &#8212; by maintaining power by crushing and labeling any internal opposition to the regime as American or Israeli plots. Being against the US and Israel has also helped clerics detract attention away from the economic crisis in the country.</p>
<p>On the other hand, in Iran, the nuclear program has long been a point of consensus across Iran&#8217;s political spectrum, both among hardliners and moderates. Being a nuclear power is a matter of survival for the ruling clerics. They didn’t endure four rounds of sanctions and decades of isolation only to surrender their nuclear program. In their perspective, having nuclear capabilities will not only support their regional hegemonic ambitions but will also ensure their hold on power.</p>
<p>The problem is that the Iranian regime is viewed as a modern nation-state that plays by the international rules and standards that have been developed by the West in the last century. It might be time to take a closer look at the clerics&#8217; fundamental principles and the political structure of the regime.</p>
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		<title>Rick Santorum: An American Ayatollah?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smearing a social conservative and whitewashing the mullahs.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/010311-politics-rick-santorum.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-125233" title="010311-politics-rick-santorum" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/010311-politics-rick-santorum.gif" alt="" width="375" height="246" /></a>It’s the latest Leftist talking point: Rick Santorum is a bit dangerous, a bit unhinged, deeply religious and dangerously fanatical, not to be trusted with the governance of our pluralistic republic, and certainly not with guardianship of the First Amendment protection of the freedom of religion. The prominent Leftist Muslim writer Reza Aslan has recently become a foremost exponent of these claims, although they did not by any means originate with him.</p>
<p>Leftist journalists and Islamic supremacist spokesmen always march in lockstep, using the same talking points, as <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/12/europes-muslims-get-to-be.html">I’ve pointed out previously</a> in connection with <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/12/last-call-on-action-alert-high-school-students-forced-to-listen-to-islamic-supremacist-reza-aslan.html">Islamic supremacist</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/11/the-incredible-reza-aslan-automated-insult-generator.html">boy</a> Reza Aslan’s frequent recycling of tired and discredited<a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Picture-12.gif"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-125451" title="Picture-12" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Picture-12.gif" alt="" width="300" height="388" /></a> Leftist/Islamic supremacist agitprop. Aslan is so abjectly intellectually bereft that he has apparently never had an idea of his own, but only repeats whatever his masters have determined to be the political line of the day, and can do nothing but hurl <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/11/the-incredible-reza-aslan-automated-insult-generator.html">adolescent abuse</a> at those who dare point out his unsavory allegiances and shoddy, dishonest reasoning. Aslan <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/07/reza-aslan-equates-republican-party-with-sharia-all-other-anti-woman-anti-human-rights-forms-of-tota.html">routinely lies about the positions of his opponents</a> &#8212; apparently the real points they make are beyond his meager intellectual abilities to answer, so he has to resort to setting up straw men, and does so regularly.</p>
<p>Aslan’s latest straw man, and parroting of a Leftist talking point, comes in a piece so cutesy and self-conscious that the reader is almost embarrassed for him: “Grand Ayatollah or Grand Old Party?,” in <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/29/grand_ayatollah_or_grand_old_party?page=0,0">Foreign Policy</a>. It’s an exercise in moral equivalence, equating Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum. The piece appeared on February 29, one day after &#8212; what a coincidence! &#8212; the Cagle cartoon above, which equates Santorum with Taliban suicide bombers. I am not saying Aslan cribbed from Cagle; what is more likely is that they’re both repeating a Leftist line that originated with neither of them.</p>
<p>Anyway, Aslan’s whole piece is summed up in its subtitle: “Who said it: Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei or U.S. Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum?” The bulk of the rest is a series of quotes, with the reader invited to guess which man said each, although only the most blinkered Leftist would fail to identify correctly the source of each one. Writes Aslan &#8212; and one can picture him mugging furiously for the cameras &#8212; “One is a religious fanatic railing against secularism, the role of women in the workplace, and the evils of higher education, as he seeks to impose his draconian moral values upon the state. The other is the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”</p>
<p>Yes, yes, Santorum is the American Khamenei, the American Taliban. No doubt he wants to mow down his own people who dare to dissent from his policies, blow up girls’ schools, throw acid in the faces of women who get out of line, make people wearing Western dress drink from latrine water, imprison and torture rivals and those who disagree with him, amputate the hands of thieves, murder apostates, stone adulterers &#8212; you name it. Of course, Leftists probably really do believe that Santorum wants to do those things, and are attacking him on that basis, even though it doesn’t seem to bother them all that much when the mullahs or the Taliban actually do them.</p>
<p>Behind this witless equivalence, there is a more sinister agenda. Aslan is a Board member of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), about which the Iranian human rights activist Manda Zand Ervin <a href="http://www.hudson-ny.org/2701/grover-norquist-iran">writes</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Iranian American community widely believes NIAC&#8230;to be a <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2009/11/trita-parsi-lobbyist-for-iran/30133/">Washington lobby group</a> for the Khomeinist regime leadership. NIAC has long advocated unconditional negotiations with Tehran, and the total abandonment of all economic sanctions and military options against the Iranian regime. NIAC’s advocacy appears as a deftly veiled refusal to support the Iranian democracy activists and the Iranian freedom movement. This is not only un-American but contradicts all conservative ideals. The founder of NIAC, Trita Parsi is an unpopular figure within the Iranian-American community, as can be seen from his high disapproval ratings in a <a href="http://www.newmediajournal.us/pdf_files/irandoost_niac.pdf">July 2011 poll</a> of over 1800 Iranian Americans taken by the Pro-Democracy Movement of Iran. <a href="http://www.iranian-americans.com/2009/11/1543.html">Senator Jon Kyl </a>has called for an investigation into Trita Parsi and his work. Last month, on November 5, Parsi stated that criticism of Iran should be <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/11/11/trita-parsi-iran/">“punishable</a>.”</p></blockquote>
<p>So by equating Santorum with Khamenei, Aslan is not only smearing Santorum, but whitewashing the murderous mullahs, equating their bloody record with American social conservatism. In other words, Aslan is not just stupid; he’s evil.</p>
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