Iranian Regime Protest Day

We are currently in the shadow of a horrendous nightmare in Iran that did not begin in the last few weeks but that has tortured the people of Iran and plagued the world for nearly half a century. My heart aches for my Iranian brothers and sisters watching this descent into savagery that has cost the lives of tens of thousands. As we read the individual stories of the tortured, raped and murdered, the full realisation dawns of what a tragic loss to all humanity this is. It is a reminder of how this barbaric regime with its medieval ideology has robbed the world of the full flowering of a people that value education and are the true custodians of one of the proudest and richest civilisations the world has seen.

Since this regime took hold it has done nothing but promote evil and suffering around the world. The success of an Islamist extremist force seizing control of an entire country provided inspiration to those who desired the return of the caliphates in a malevolent new form. The underpinning ideology that the regime then evolved is on a level every bit as heinous as the Nazis.

Their concept of the belief in the eventual revelation of the 12th Imam is that until that day the Supreme Leader of Iran, at present the Ayatollah Khamanei, is meant to be his voice and all Muslims should owe their fealty to him. The event that the regime believes will trigger the 12th Imam revealing himself will be the complete destruction of Israel and the slaughter of all Jews. This will in turn precipitate the globalisation of Islam in a world that will be purged of all other faiths.

The regime has made no secret of its genocidal agenda and the level of its savage intent extends to all those who do not accept this vision, including Muslims. Their relentless attempt to acquire nuclear weapons is directed exclusively at achieving this mission. That fanatical ambition has meant the treasure of Iran has not been applied to the needs and benefit of its people but to the service of this evil. When asked about the massive loss of life to Muslims if nuclear weapons were used to destroy Israel their answer is that these innocent victims would go straight to paradise and be rewarded as martyrs.

To achieve its ambitions of dominance of the Islamic world on the way to these goals they have created a galaxy of proxies throughout the Middle East that includes Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and at least nine other organisations across Syria, Iraq and Bahrain. Underpinning this construct is the doctrine that these organisations should aspire to “Vilayet status” that is that they subject themselves completely to the Supreme Leader as the voice of the 12th Imam and accept the full command and control of the IRGC. The poster child of this concept is Hezbollah but the other groups have increasingly been drawn into it.