John Kerry is trying to bull forward and create a deal with Iran so that his boss, Barack Obama, has something, anything, that he can brag about to the world as being a peacemaker. The Obama administration doesn’t seem able to comprehend that Iran wants the destruction of Israel, nothing less. And it’s not because of Zionism. Khameini hates Jews. The WSJ can’t bring itself to put the full quote in an article. You have to go to the Arab or Jewish press to find the fullest accounts of this garbage.
Khamenei rejected claims that Iran and its nuclear work posed a threat.
“The enemies of Iran sometimes and particularly the rabid dog of the region — the Zionist regime — malevolently claim that Iran is a threat to the entire world,” Khamenei said.
“No! The threat … is the Zionist regime and some of its supporters,” he added angrily, as the Basij crowd burst into cries of “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.”
He also launched a verbal attack on Israeli leaders. “The title of human is not worthy of the leaders of the Zionist regime,” Khamenei added.
And oh yeah–John Kerry and the Obama administration aren’t condemning Khameini’s hateful words. Because, gee, we said some bad things about Iran, or something.
A senior U.S. administration official said that inflammatory rhetoric by the Ayatollah Khamenei on Wednesday was “uncomfortable” but did not condemn it as unacceptable, as the French have done.
“Of course I don’t ever like it when people use rhetoric that in any way talks about the U.S. in ways that I find very uncomfortable and not warranted whatsoever,” the official told reporters assembled in Geneva to cover Iran nuclear talks this week.
“I do hearken back to what President Obama said at the UN General Assembly however. There are decades of mistrust between the United States and Iran,” the official said. “We certainly have had many people in our society say difficult things about Iran and Iranians, and not always necessarily made a difference between governmental decisions and culture and people — this is a very difficult terrain, is I guess my bottom line here, because there are these decades of mistrust.”
Funny, the French President condemned the words. Kerry utterly ignored the hate speech.
I cannot tell you how much I have come to loathe this administration. Every time I think they can’t make me angrier, they find a way.