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US President Donald Trump could eliminate cancer tomorrow and the legacy media would erupt into a furious chorus of condemnation. So, of course, while Trump is busily excising the cancer of the world’s leading state sponsor of global terrorism for the past half-century, nearly the entire left behemoth is united in opposition. Only slightly less odious than the left are the normiecon establishment, who’ve long loathed the Bad Orange Man almost as reflexively as the left. Mostly, it seems, because he just keeps succeeding where they’ve failed for decades.
Just like the idiot left, the normiecons operate from some fatally ignorant assumptions. Most especially that Iran is just another nation state that can be reasoned with diplomatically.
Commentators in Australia discuss Iran as a rational state rather than a time capsule of religious ideas. Yet those religious ideas underpin the strategies of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: hatred of Jews, the embrace of martyrdom, and rejection of modernity.
Its spiritual leanings persuaded the regime it had succeeded against US and Israeli attacks last June and was right to kill 40,000 of its own people in January.
When, in the last few days, the regime broadcast bizarre religious-mystical invocations of an explicitly magical nature, this was not mere ‘propaganda’. It was in fact the legitimate attempts of a demented theocracy literally trying to call down Allah’s wrath from the sky. The same death-cult fanaticism has fuelled all of the Iranian regime’s fatal missteps over the past two years.
Tehran saw Yahya Sinwar’s “Al Aqsa Flood” on October 7, 2023, as a great triumph but it was the beginning of the end for Iran’s regime.
Israel showed Iran was less powerful than Western media imagined, killing Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in his bed in central Tehran on July 31, 2024.
It dismantled Tehran’s Hezbollah after blowing holes in thousands of fighters’ trousers with booby trapped pagers on September 17, 2024. Then Israel went into Lebanon and killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah before destroying much of the group’s weaponry.
The Mullahs of Iran could not see their failures.
The Australian Long March left can see even less. At least the mullahs have the poor excuse of being deranged by their primitive religious fanaticism. Being deranged by Trump-hatred is a special kind of idiocy peculiar to the chattering elites of the West. The worst offenders are the taxpayer-funded class.
In Australia, the ABC could not report what was really happening, focused instead on whether various attacks on Iran and its proxies complied with international law.
Why? The national broadcaster appears to abhor Trump and Netanyahu more than it does a state that has financed terror around the world, including antisemitic attacks in Australia last year.
This is who the Australian left have chosen to ‘stand with’. Just as revolting misandrist harpy Clementine Ford gloated that she ‘didn’t care’ about the savage mass-rape of Jewish women, these hateful cretins have backed a mediaeval theocracy over the brave young Iranians from the Women, Life, Freedom movement. The same Jew-hating creeps who celebrate the massacre of Jews as ‘resistance’ ignore, at best, the genuine resistance movement in Iran.
Not just because they are hateful morons, but because they are profoundly, utterly, astonishingly ignorant of nearly everything they blatherskite about, as they parrot spoon-fed slogans like the witless robots they are.
Key to understanding Iran is the idea of “resistance”, something young Australian students and journalists who think they are speaking truth to power unthinkingly support but only because they have no idea what “resistance” means to an Islamist […]
The Arabic word “muqawama” means resistance. It is both “the Islamic Republic’s greatest source of resilience – and the engine of its unravelling,” [Israeli journalist Haviv Rettig Gur] argues.
“When used by the leaders of Iran or Hezbollah or Hamas or the Houthis … (it) refers to a sustained, never-ending campaign of violence accompanied by a willingness to absorb catastrophic levels of damage. As the damage sustained to one’s own polity grows, so the sanctity and religious meaning grows with it.”
When Muslims say they love death like we love life, it’s not mere sloganeering. They really, truly, sincerely mean it – with everything that implies.
Sacrifice is the ultimate weapon the weak can use against the powerful. Rettig Gur outlines the role of a Syrian preacher, Izzedine al-Qassam, who died in 1935 as a martyr outside Jenin in the north of the West Bank shouting: “This is Jihad, victory or martyrdom.”
His death sparked the 1935–38 Arab revolt against British rule and is emblematic for Hamas which named its key combat force the Al-Qassam Brigades and its most common rocket the Qassam.
But, like the left’s other great passion project, communism, the ideology is inevitably self-destructive.
The educated young of Iran see their rulers enriching themselves while Iran pays for weapons for Iran’s terror proxies […]
Students chanting “Neither Gaza nor Lebanon – my life for Iran”, and “They take our bread to buy rockets for Lebanon”, know a lot more about real resistance than the keffiyeh-wearing pro-Palestine mobs here each weekend.
The only problem is that those mobs are boosting the torch-carriers for the Islamic death-cult long after the mullahs are done for.
Somalian born former Dutch politician and prolific writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali on March 2 published a piece on Substack under the headline “Iran is collapsing, but Islamism is spreading”.
Hirsi Ali warns Europe will be tested by events in Iran, as Jihadis who have lost their financier look for new pastures.
“Iran loses ground. The Middle East turns, the United States acts. That is good news but pressure is not defeat. Radicals relocate. They find the path of least resistance … that runs through Europe. The continent’s legal protections for asylum seekers’ human rights … make prosecuting (them) nearly impossible.
“There are large, politically mobilised Muslim communities in France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden and Britain, and a political class that prefers the comfortable lie to the uncomfortable conversation.’’
We will never defeat Islam until we eradicate it from our shores and silo it in the third-world hell-holes from whence it slithered.
