Mohsen Rezai Quotes
Iran is a model and example for Hezbollah. The Iranian faith, tactics and experience are being put to practice in Lebanon... Hezbollah looks to Iran for tactics and moral support, and we are proud that our experience serves other Muslim countries.
Iran also provided the Hezbollah terrorists with money and weapons including rockets with which they terrorized Northern Israel.
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This quotation illustrates the dissentions that exist between the various Islamic terrorist organizations. The Secretary General of Hezbollah herein castigates the rival and more religiously fundamentalist Al Qaeda for killing innocent Muslims. Not only do neither mind killing innocent people who are not Muslims, but Hezbollah indiscriminately fires rockets into Israeli populated areas and has killed innocent Muslims, Christians and Jews. Further, Hezbollah will force Muslim citizens of Lebanon to store arms and allow rocked firing from their properties and institutions like schools, mosques, and hospitals, knowing perfectly well that they minute they do this, under the Geneva conventions, those homes or institutions become a legal target for retaliatory attacks, artillery, air strikes or ground forces and that innocent Muslim civilians would be killed. The levels of terrorist subtlety is difficult for Westerners to comprehend.
The Caliph in the past was the religious and secular leader of all Muslims. Many of the fundamentalist terrorists have as their objective, the reestablishment of the Caliphate which will unite all Islamic countries under one leader who is both the secular and religious supreme authority—a religious and a civil dictatorship. Most Muslims, like most people of all religions, are not terrorists and believe that much of terrorist activity violates many basic tenets of Islam. However, in order to function, the terrorist must have the tacit support of sufficient numbers of people so that they can function without being exposed. That is an important objective for Al-Qaeda: to enlist sufficient numbers of ordinary people who although they will not commit the terrorist acts, will support the objectives of the terrorists and provide money, shelter, and other services.
The neoconservatives at the time, not only urged the invasion of Iraq, but no sooner did it take place than Ledeen and other neoconservatives were calling for the invasion of other countries in the Middle East that were controlled by dictators.
One of the strong motivations of Islamic terrorists is the fact that they believe that a Muslim who dies fighting for Islam goes immediately to Paradise. However, terrorists create Hell for innocent civilians and people who have no desire to harm Islam—in many cases babies and young children who do not even know what religion is. While this statement represents the beliefs of most moderate Muslims, it was made after he was out of office. It is doubtful that an Iranian President—a position without much power in the Iranian theocracy where the religious leader rules—in office would dare say something like this when Iran supports Islamic terrorist organizations throughout the world.
This characteristic of much of Islam is corroborated by Islamic scholars and politicians. To some, the implication is that it is foolish to negotiate with Muslims over issues that have been classified as jihad. The negotiation is only a sham which will go on until Islam feels strong enough, and then force and violence will be used. While this is historically and culturally true, many Muslims have modernized and see the world in terms of vested interests and negotiated settlements and compromise just like most others. And there have been many non-Islamic ideologues who have also used negotiations and diplomacy as a smokescreen to buy them time to strengthen militarily and then have used force and violence.
The quotation is notable as it illustrates the great difficulty that modern democracies have with extreme Islamic fundamentalists. Their very perception and world view is so different that often we think of the extremists as insane and they often feel the same way about us.
He coined the term “Shiite Crescent” in this quotation.
While that tended to be so at that time, it has not always been so. For example, the civil war in Sri Lanka where suicide bombing vests were developed pitted Sinhalese Buddhists against Tamil Hindus. The 10 percent Muslim population were the only ones who were peaceful. And the PKK in Turkey—although a Muslim terrorist movement operated in a very strong and modern state.
Syria has occupied parts of Lebanon from time to time and the Terrorist Hezbollah party was very close to the Syrian government and often acted as their proxies. In the latter part of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, many of the major Lebanese politicians who opposed the Syrian occupation and the close Hezbollah relationship with Syria, were assassinated usually by means of a bomb that was planted by Syrian agents, assisted and supported by Hezbollah.
Rouhani insists that “Death to America” does not have its literal meaning in the minds of Iranians. He asserts that it means that the United States should be stopped from interfering with the internal affairs of Iran and other countries. Before the Iranian Revolution the track record of the U. S. was extensive in overtly and covertly meddling in Iran, including the covert toppling of a democratically elected President. He did not offer any explanation as to why the Iranians don’t simply have a chant of slogan that says “Stop American Meddling”.
Mohsen Rezaee Mirgha'ed is an Iranian conservative politician affiliated with the Resistance Front of Islamic Iran and senior military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who currently holds office as the secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council.
