There are several dozen Islamists who are the bigshots in that regime, and they are all more or less Khomeinists, thirty-five years after Khomeini founded the Islamic Republic. I have seen pictures of backhoes whose buckets were raised to full height and used to hang people from, the bodies suspended right there in the streets. In the protests of 2009, which Obama went out of his way to say nothing about, the regime's goons killed one young woman right on the sidewalk in Tehran, and dozens of others were arrested in various cities and taken to a couple secret lockups in Tehran that are really dungeons.
No one knows what happened to these people--they just disappeared, almost certainly murdered. A female reporter, originally from Iran but living abroad, went there to investigate a story and apparently was seized and murdered right in the hallway of a building on the university campus in Tehran. I saw film of the dried gore, with a student explaining what had happened there. I believe him. This same regime sent Hizballah jihadists all the way to Buenos Aires in 1992 to bomb the Israeli Embassy and a Jewish community center. Twenty-nine Jews were murdered by a car bomb at the embassy and eighty-seven more by a Lebanese suicide bomber at the community center. More than 350 people were injured.
These people are as evil as the Nazis were, and no one should be taken in by the fact many of them wear suits and ties and smile and speak English. Appearing moderate and reasonable is just one of their calculated deceptions. The whole history of this regime and its founder is rotten. In the late 1930's in Cairo, an exiled Iranian radical named Muhammad Navab-Safavi had met Hasan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, and been inspired to establish a terrorist group he called the "Fedayeen of Islam." Back in Iran during WWII, Navab-Safavi, after an unsuccessful try at forming a pro-Nazi terrorist group to murder British, met up with a young, violence-preaching cleric named Ruhollah Khomeini.
Khomeini had been denouncing a secular judge named Ahmad Kasravi, who had written several popular books criticizing the influence of Islam on Persia. He now used his religious authority to order Kasravi's assassination by Navab-Safavi's small group of "soldiers of Allah." And having been instructed by Navab-Safavi and Khomeini to use a blade in order to "shed the miscreant's blood," they did just that. Kasravi was the first of about a dozen people these jihadists murdered during the 1940's and 1950's, including a prime minister and a minister of education.
These are Khomeini's words:
"The sword is the key to paradise which can be opened only for holy warriors! There are thousands of other [Quranic] verses and hadiths urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all that mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim." ...................
"The great Prophet of Islam in one hand carried the Quran and in the other a sword; the sword for crushing the traitors and the Quran for guidance . . . Islam is a religion of blood for the infidels but a religion of guidance for other people." ..................
"f we kill infidels in order to put a stop to their [corrupting] activity, we have indeed done them a service. For their eventual punishment will be less . . . [To kill them] is a surgical operation commanded by Allah . . . War is a blessing for the world and for every nation. It is Allah himself who commands men to wage war and kill . . . it is war that purifies the earth . . . our young warriors know that to kill the infidels is one of the noblest missions Allah has reserved for mankind."
It is the followers of this degenerate bastard who are determined to get hold of atom bombs, and this sorry excuse for a president is quite willing to let them. Maybe they remind him of his Muslim father and Muslim step-father, or his Muslim college roommate.