Iran’s Supreme Leader Claims That “Wealthy Zionists” Control America

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Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei claimed this week that “wealthy Zionists” and “corporate owners,” control America.

In a provocative tweet, the Ianian Supreme Leader also said that the United States has reached the “peak of arrogance,” and is controlled by “wealthy Zionists and their corporate owners,” which makes it a “manifestation of oppression, abhorred by the world”


Zero Hedge reports: The statement comes after the Islamic Republic’s top cleric and head of the regime previously slammed Trump’s Mideast peace plan “Deal of the Century” as  “satanic” because it ultimately represents the “Jewishization” of Jerusalem and the suppression of Islamic identity.

“To the dismay of US politicians, the satanic, evil US policy about Palestine — the so-called Deal Of The Century— will never bear fruit, by the grace of God,” Khamenei wrote on his official Twitter account in late January. 

Such inflammatory and religiously charged rhetoric will likely only fuel an ongoing initiative of hawkish Republican Senators to get Khamenei and other top Iranian leaders banned from Twitter and other US social media platforms

Earlier this month the group of Republicans including Ted Cruz (Tx.), Tom Cotton (Ark.) Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.) wrote in the letter to Twitter: “While the First Amendment protects the free speech rights of Americans — and Twitter should not be censoring the political speech of Americans — the Ayatollah enjoys zero protection from the United States Bill of Rights.”

“And, as the leader of the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism — directly responsible for the murder of hundreds of U.S. citizens — the Ayatollah and any American companies providing him assistance are entirely subject to U.S. sanctions laws,” they added.

Twitter has long defended its position of never banning heads of state from the platform, given the need to publicly articulate a country’s positions. 

Israeli media has carefully documented Khamenei’s recent history of lashing out at “Zionists and Jews” on Twitter; however, as The Jerusalem Post notes, he’s long underscored a distinction between political Zionism and adherents of the Jewish religion

Last year, the ayatollah said Iran is not antisemitic and that Jews live safely in Iran. In June 2019, he contrasted Iran’s treatment of Jews with “certain old Arab leaders who believed Jews should be thrown into the sea.”He says Iran is only opposed to the “Zionist” regime.

4 Comments

  1. No argument here. Check out all of the banking and financial bigwigs and see if there are any non-jews in the group.

  2. The battle lines are drawn ZOG (zionist occupied government) & MAGOG – we just had to have our levi jeans and starbucks coffee, netflix and disney world, chase credit card and mcdonalds – the American Dream, we made our bed and all we can do is stay asleep here – so progressive and talmudic – the animals lay in the field, the goyim lay in their fairy tale world

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