Return of the Izod Ayatollah
By: Robert Spencer
Human Events | Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- the Izod Ayatollah -- has come back to New York to address the UN General Assembly. If the
United Nations today bore even the remotest resemblance to the
international peacekeeping body it was founded to be, the line to
denounce him would snake around the block, and Ahmadinejad would be
arrested as soon as he set foot in New York. In fact, the International
Christian Embassy in Jerusalem has called for just that: it is
preparing a petition for the UN Secretary-General, calling for the
Iranian Thug-in-Chief’s arrest and indictment on charges of inciting
genocide against Israel.
But the visiting Iranian president
can’t be arrested: he’s “legitimized” by Iran’s UN membership, and the
UN Treaty prevents his detention.
And, of course, in the run-up
to Ahmadinejad’s visit, the hard Left is planning to honor him. The
perpetually-outraged women of Code Pink are planning a protest --
against George W. Bush, of course. The UN General Assembly’s new
president, leftist priest and old Sandinista Miguel d’Escoto, will
clink glasses with Ahmadinejad at a dinner in his honor hosted by five
American liberal Christian organizations, the Mennonite Central
Committee, the Quaker United Nations Office, the World Council of
Churches, Religions for Peace and the American Friends Service
Committee.
Hillary Clinton and a coalition of Jewish groups demonstrated the
tenacity of partisan politics even in the face of the prospect of
nuclear genocide from Iran: first Clinton declined to attend a rally
protesting Ahmadinejad’s UN appearance when she found out Sarah Palin
would be there, and then the Jewish groups hosting the rally disinvited
Palin.
Our national unity in the face of the threat from Iran must have the mullahs quaking.
In
light of his many belligerent statements, frequently demonstrating
genocidal intent, it is appalling that the UN would once again allow
Ahmadinejad a platform, and shameful that d’Escoto and the rest would
welcome him rather than denouncing him. Ahmadinejad has boasted that
“the annihilation of the Zionist regime will come.” During Israel’s
incursion against Hizballah in Lebanon in 2006, he declared, “The
Islamic umma [community] will not allow its historic enemy [Israel] to
live in its heartland.” Israel’s end is near, he said: “There is no
doubt that the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will soon wipe off
this disgraceful blot [Israel] from the face of the Islamic world.” He
has declared that “the Zionist regime is counterfeit and illegitimate
and cannot survive.”
His genocidal statements have gone beyond
Israel. At the “World Without Zionism” conference held in Tehran in
October 2005, as the crowd chanted “death to Israel, death to America,
death to England,” the Iranian President again recalled Khomeini’s
words: “Once, his eminency Imam [Ruhollah] Khomeini stated that the
illegal regime of the Pahlavis must go, and it happened. Then he said
the Soviet empire would disappear, and it happened. He also said that
this evil man Saddam [Hussein] must be punished, and we see that he is
under trial in his country. His eminency also said that the occupation
regime of Qods [Jerusalem, or Israel] must be wiped off from the map of
the world, and with the help of the Almighty, we shall soon experience
a world without America and Zionism, notwithstanding those who doubt.”
Ahmadinejad
has threatened Iran’s foes with nuclear action: “Today, the Iranian
people is the owner of nuclear technology. Those who want to talk with
our people should know what people they are talking to. If some believe
they can keep talking to the Iranian people in the language of threats
and aggressiveness, they should know that they are making a bitter
mistake. If they have not realized this by now, they soon will, but
then it will be too late. Then they will realize that they are facing a
vigilant, proud people.”
Last July, he crowed that “the big
powers are going down. They have come to the end of their power, and
the world is on the verge of entering a new, promising era.”
The
“new, promising era” that Ahmadinejad envisions features a dominant
Iran and a beaten, subservient America, as he himself explained in
August 2006: “If you want to have good relations with the Iranian
people in the future, you should acknowledge the right and the might of
the Iranian people, and you should bow and surrender to the might of
the Iranian people. If you do not accept this, the Iranian people will
force you to bow and surrender.”
It doesn’t look as if force will be needed. The UN General Assembly is lining up now to do just that.
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