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In this mailing:
- Guy Millière: France: A Second
Jihad in the Bataclan?
- Majid Rafizadeh: Story of a Foiled
Islamist Terrorist Attack
- Amir Taheri: Why Khamenei
Can't Do a Kim Jong-Un
by Guy Millière • July 15, 2018
at 5:00 am
- Organizations
representing the families of the Bataclan victims said that an
Islamic rap concert praising jihad, in a place where people
were murdered and tortured by jihadists, would be an insult to
the memory of the victims, and asked that the concerts be
canceled.
- "France is at
war, and leaves the enemy in peace". — Ivan Rioufol,
journalist, in Le Figaro.
- Macron and the French
government speak and act as if the enemy has won and as if
they want to gain some time and enjoy the moment before the
final surrender.
Pictured:
Policemen outside of the Bataclan Theater in Paris, France on November
16, 2015, three days after the murderous terrorist attack. (Photo
by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
"The French Suicide" ("Le suicide
français") is a book published by the author Éric Zemmour in
October 2014. Just one year later, on November 13, 2015 in Paris, a
horror took place at the Bataclan Theater, when three terrorists
fired into the crowd during a concert, murdered 130 people, and
injured 413. Some of the victims had been tortured.
The French population reacted as usual: shock and
horror quickly gave way to resignation and submission. Flowers,
candles and teddy bears were placed at the scene of the attacks.
The government promised to act, but did almost nothing. A ceremony
was organized that ended with a song that said, "When All You
Have is Love".
A parliamentary commission of inquiry drafted a
report. Military forces, deployed in the streets before the
attacks, were reinforced. A climate of resignation and submission
reigned.
by Majid Rafizadeh • July 15,
2018 at 4:30 am
- You [Europeans] are
supporting a terrorist regime that is determined to terrorize
your countries.
- You are supporting a
regime that does not hesitate to commit some of the worst
human rights abuses inside its own country, and abroad.
- Where is your sense
of decency and respect for human rights that you boast about
so often?
Pictured:
U.S. and Saudi military personnel inspect the damage to Khobar
Towers near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, following the terrorist bombing
of the building on June 25, 1996. (Photo By Getty Images)
Tens of thousands of Iranians, and non-Iranian human
rights defenders from all across the world, recently gathered at a
Free Iran rally in Paris, France, to further peace and extend human
rights to every person. European, American, and Middle Eastern
leaders, as well as many other influential people participated,
including former Canadian foreign minister John Baird and other
international leaders.
Suddenly, according to Reuters, an Iranian diplomat,
along with six other individuals, was arrested in Europe over a
plot to commit a terrorist attack at that rally.
First of all, please imagine the plot these men had
in mind for their terrorist attack; it parallels so many other
attacks that have occurred. If those men had been successful in
this attack, many more people, including international leaders,
could have been injured or killed.
by Amir Taheri • July 15, 2018 at
4:00 am
- The Khomeinist
regime is programmed in its DNA to be anti-American,
anti-West, anti-Semitic, anti-Arab, anti-Turk, anti-Russian,
and more importantly perhaps, anti-Iranian.
- The "Supreme
Guide" is getting less and less "supreme".
Signs that he is being cut down to size by events, including
nationwide protests, have multiplied. He still makes speeches,
summons civilian and military officials, and issues orders.
But, increasingly, people hear him but don't listen.
- Khamenei's power is
declining not because he is challenged by anyone inside the
establishment but as knocks on his door. Even if he wanted to
do a Kim Jong-un, he can't. He has no organized political
party and, heading for his 80th birthday, is unable to attract
young Shiites who are thinking of their future.
Iran's
"Supreme Guide," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Image source:
kremlin.ru)
The other day in Tehran, the arrival at the
International Airport of a US-registered passenger plane triggered
an avalanche of rumors that, for a brief moment, buried the
anxieties that grip Iranians with regard to the looming
confrontation with the Trump administration in Washington. The
wildest, and most popular, rumor was that the "American
plane" had brought a special emissary from Washington to
invite the "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenei to a summit with
President Donald Trump with a view to "doing a North
Korea".
The rumor wasn't all that fanciful.
The history of relations between the US and the
mullahs is full of cloak-and-dagger episodes.
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