My latest in PJ Media:
Nancy Pelosi doesn’t have the vaguest idea of what’s happening in Iran these days; all she knows is that Donald Trump is for it so therefore she is against it. A new series of extraordinary videos, however, pulls back the curtain on the immense anger that ordinary Iranians are now expressing for the Islamic regime. If Pelosi saw them, she would learn a great deal, but there is no chance of that, as she would never risk doing anything so pro-Trump as challenging the brutal and bloody Iranian mullahs.
The Iran Liberation Congress, headed by the Los Angeles-based Dr. Iman Foroutan, presents the videos here, as part of its ongoing efforts at “creating the building blocks of a democratic government to guide Iran following the fall of the regime of the Islamic Republic.” The Congress explains that its “members include dissidents within Iran and pro-democracy activists throughout the various communities of Iranian exiles. We are dedicated to the peaceful and complete removal of the Islamic Republic in Iran through nonviolent means (unless we must act in self-defense).”
The goal of the Iranian Liberation Congress appears to be to return Iran to the more secular days of the Shahs, as well as the end of the Islamic regime’s genocidal bellicosity and nuclear adventurism: “We are dedicated to the abolition of any and all programs involved with creating or using weapons of mass destruction, including biological or nuclear weapons. We are dedicated to the preservation of Iran’s territories and their independence. We are dedicated to the separation of religion and state, and freedom of religion for all people. We have chosen to adopt the UN Human Rights Declaration and all of its amendments. After the removal of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the people of Iran, through universal suffrage, will decide the nation’s future and political system through free and fair elections.”
The videos show that there is a great deal of support for these ideas within Iran itself. In one, protesters chant: “No honor! No honor! Soleimani is a murderer and his Supreme Leader is stupid!” In another, the chant is “We are ashamed of our stupid Supreme Leader!” And in a third, the protesters cry, “Death to the Dictator! Death to the Dictator! Sepah (Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps) does crimes! The Supreme Leader defends them! Khamenei is a murderer! His rule is void and invalid! Death to the liar! Death to the Liar!”
The forces of the regime, meanwhile, do not appear nearly as fearsome and formidable as they have in the recent past. In one video, the police plead with protesters, when not long ago they would have simply moved in and brutalized them. “This is the Police talking,” says an amplified voice to the protesters. “Please cooperate with the police. On behalf of myself and the Police Force, please accept our condolences. But this is not right that you’re blocking the roads. Please allow the cars to move. I beg you, those who hear my voice. This is the Police.”
I beg you. Can a regime that begs people who hate it to do its bidding be long for this world? Can a regime long survive when protesters against it cry out “We are the children of war. Want to war with us? Let’s do it!”
Meanwhile, demonstrating how extraordinarily out of touch she is, Pelosi downplayed the significance of the protests. On ABC’s This Week Sunday, George Stephanopoulos asked Pelosi: “We’re seeing now demonstrations in the streets of Iran against the regime. Do you support those protesters? And would it be a good thing if they brought the regime down?”…
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Spiro says
Nancy has sold her soul to political correctness power and money
She blind to the truth
ntesdorf says
That goes just as well for the whole of the Democrat Party!
PacosMojo says
The greatest threat facing the US isn’t Iran, Russia, China or even Islam. It’s the Democrat Party, along their Deep State allies in DC and the press.
Wellington says
Agreed.
ConstantineXI says
People need to expose the Democratic Party and Pelosi for the idiots that they are as much as possible. Write letters to the editor, send letters to inner city parties, run ads on tv and the internet, be more outspoken, etc. For too long the media and our educational system have labored hard to keep people in ignorance and more and stronger pushback is needed.
Westman says
Pelosi’s may be experiencing some early signs of mental confusion. Some of her statements have her grasping for the right words and then substituting a cliche phrase. We saw some of this with President Reagan, while still in office, before he was diagnosed. Unlike Reagan, Pelosi has no one to protect her from the rabid bullies who want to destroy the President and hounded Pelosi until she gave in. I think within a few years her condition will be obvious and she will be unable to complete a term.
Pelosi may literally be unable to view the Iranian demonstrations, remember them, and make accurate assessment.
Trick_or_Treat says
‘Queen Nancy’ (and all her accomplices in perpetrating this fraudulent sham) should be arrested and charged, ASAP – end of story.
PacosMojo says
In a fair world, Nancy Pelosi would’ve been arraigned for treason by now.
tgusa says
Democrats don’t need rational coherent thought processes. Have you taken a good look at their supporters? Their supporters don’t require rational coherent thought processes from their leaders. We would have better results giving medicine to the dead than getting democrats to think and act in a rational and coherent way.
Battle says
tgusa “We would have better results giving medicine to the dead than getting Democrats to think and act in a rational and coherent way.”
+100. I love it.
gravenimage says
Nancy Pelosi Should See These Videos From Iran
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She should–but I doubt she will.
Wellington says
She’s too busy, gravenimage, trying to destroy Trump and becoming more woke.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Wellington.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Does anyone here know Farsi? I am curious about the scansion of the protest slogans quoted above in translation. Do the slogans rhyme?
Mateen Elass says
Yes, Mark, Farsi like Arabic has many standard endings available to form words; hence it is easy to create rhymes in both languages. Even without understanding Farsi, once can hear the rhyming ending of doublets in the chants.
Wellington says
Wretched woman.
mortimer says
The many Iranians who want a regime change must think Pelosi is surpassingly stupid.
Wellington says
There are tens upon tens of millions of Americans who think the same thing, mortimer. Count me in here.
The worst kind of surpassingly stupid are the well educated, powerful and influential stupid. Like Nancy Pelosi.
Demsci says
Nearly all Democratic Party representatives and candidates were in favor of the JCPOA, then against the strike against Soleimani and supported a (non binding) resolution to limit the president;s power to order military action against Iran without congressional permission.
Judge Janine Pirro said in her opening statement that it was as if Nancy Pelosi communicated to Khamenei: “ Do what you must, we will hold him back”.
mortimer says
Even the Iranian people can observe the Revolutionary Guard are not an ethical military force. The Dems play another game of double standards, trying to limit a Republican president from doing exactly what they would approve if he were a Dem.
Lorensacho says
Why is it necessary to attack Nancy Pelosi to get the point over that Iranians are angry with their government?
gravenimage says
Pelosi has deliberately ignored Iranians protesting the Mullahs, implying that they were all out in support of Soleimani. She refused to address this even when directly asked about it.
“Nancy Pelosi Suggests Iran Protesters ‘Joined Together’ with Soleimani Fans to Demonstrate Against U.S.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/13/nancy-pelosi-suggests-iran-protesters-joined-together-with-soleimani-fans-to-demonstrate-against-u-s/
Why shouldn’t Anti-Jihadists be able to call her out on this?
WPM says
It is necessary because Nancy Pelosi is minimizing Iranians oppression by not backing Trump who put the order in to kill a terrorist who worked in the Iranian government who killed thousand of Iranian citizens .If it was up to Pelosi Trump would not have the power to defend American troops and Iranian citizens from jihad terrorist .The democrats do not want to Trump to have any power ,they want to remove Trump at all cost never mind how many American Troops or Iranian citizens were save by this JIhadist death.
WPM says
By the way a good stock photo of Pelosi looking like she is doing the Islamic one finger solute ,her and her party are doing more for the advancement of Islamic Sharia then all the Jihad done in America.
Rob says
Nancy Pelosi:
Boob job
Bum job
Con job
b.a. freeman says
there appear to be 2 strains of leftists in congress: those who are hard-core (AOC, et al.), and those who are riding the wave, so to speak, because of the power they get from it. ms. pelosi appears to be of the latter group; her pronouncements are usually leftist, or at least left-leaning, but she’s not usually in the vanguard of leftist thought. since leftists rarely change their stripes, she and her ilk will be the first ones lined up and “re-educated” with a 9 mm. slug when the people’s republic is declared. were she not so dangerous to the republic, i would feel sorry for her.
WPM says
I do not feel sorry for her ,she is selling America out to the “new progress democrats ” to stay in power a little longer ,she is an old has been .They will throw her on the trash heap with the so call “mainstream democrats” once they do not need her she would be a useless tool to be dropped after used up.