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Khamenei's Demented Hatred of Israel

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Khamenei Hates and Blames Israel for Everything

Events in Iran are horrible for citizens to tolerate, but it seems that Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Supreme dictator of Iran, is losing his grip on the country.

The "Women, Life, and Freedom" movement of a couple of years ago has devolved into a movement toward restrictive regime change.

Khamenei's desperation is apparent in his speeches and his psychotic rants. Hamas, Hezbollah, Yemen, and Shiites of Iraq and Syria are destroyed. However, he is still declaring that the axis of resistance is alive and he is victorious everywhere. His government has become increasingly brutal and oppressive and has committed excessive acts of brutality in Iran.

To understand the factors involved in the current problems in Iran and the Middle East, we must examine this situation from various perspectives:

Who is Khamenei?

Khamenei is a devout Muslim/Shiite. His entire family is composed of high-level clergymen.

Khamenei has been the main leader and supreme dictator of Iran since 1989. He previously served as the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989, and during his 35-year rule, he has continued to get more outrageous and hysterical regarding his views on Israel. His bizarre outbursts seem to be predicated on his perceptions of ideological and religious motivations, geopolitical rivalry, historical tensions, and political strategy.

On 27 June 1981, Khamenei was the object of an assassination attempt. He was unconscious for several hours, lost his right hand, and suffered from Traumatic Brain Injury. I explained the effect of the injury of his brain in my article, "The Leader who does not know that he does not know."

Anosognosia is the technical term for this type of post-injury syndrome. This event was very similar to Operation Valkyrie, arguably the most meticulously planned assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler.

Any injury affecting the right side of the brain causes the patient to lose their awareness of their deficiency. They become very aggressive and difficult people, believing that they are fine, insisting that there is nothing wrong, and ignoring the advice of medical practitioners.

Currently, Khamenei is quite aggressive and brutal. He lacks insight into his behavior or its effect on others. There is no sign of sympathy toward the masses of Iran. For instance, last year, when there was an uprising of women all over the country he ordered chemical poisoning attacks on elementary school girls, causing 150 deaths and an unknown number of serious injuries.

Khamenei claims that he is an Ayatollah, but he is not since he never finished his religious studies. He is a student of notorious Ayatollah Khomeini, both of these creatures have declared Israel must be exterminated.

Shortly after the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Iran's first Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, established the "day of Ghuds" or Al-Quds Day. All Muslims are supposed to pray for the freedom of Jerusalem on that day to show solidarity with Palestinian resistance. According to Al-Jazeera, "some observers have claimed that the event was initiated by Iran to further its own political interests of using proxies to fight against Israel and western powers."

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I was born and raised in Tehran Iran .I came to the U.S in 1976 to study psychology. With time decided to hang my hat here and became a U.S. citizen.
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Khamenei's hatred of Israel has cost 6000 deaths of Iranian youth. Along with that of an unknown number of Syrians , Palestinians , Iraqis and people of Yemen. One should add numerous Jewish civilians who died during terror attacks of last year.

Although he did not kill them personally, he certainly advocated, financed and ordered their death.

Khamenei's recent speeches do not manifest any remorse . He is just upset that he was not victorious.

Should a man of such a murderous nature be permitted to continue on his path of death and destruction , or should the world do something about it.

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I just realized that I did not clarify in the above comment that the number 6000 refers only to the Iranian's who were killed in Syria. It is difficult to come up with an accurate number of people who were killed by the dictator . However we know that Khamenei is responsible in part for one million killed in the Iran/Iraq war. He has ordered the killing of Hundreds of thousands in uprisings inside Iran along with people who died in different wars in other countries, people who died in political prisons and those who were killed because of his negligence .

The numbers are staggering and require a different article.

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Khamenei's hatred of Jews has certainly infected Palestinians through his proxies. A Canadian who has created what he's named The Ask Project, in which he directly interviews Palestinians and Israelis by asking a specific question. A recent question was asked of Gen Z Palestinians:

The responses were disturbing and display what amounts to complete misunderstanding of history and casual, ingrained hatred of Jews. In another of his interviews, an Israeli woman emphasizes -- correctly in my view -- that only changing the education of Arab children to normal teaching, not teaching hatred of Jews, can bring peace.

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Dear David

Regardless of the emotions and the rhetoric, Khamenei has lost terribly and Israel has won. The Islamic republic of Iran has the impossible task of explaining their loss to the Iranian people.

How long can Khamenie claim victory in the face of the irrefutable fact that after spending billions of dollars of Iranian money and all of the deaths , Khamenei gained nothing and lost everything.

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Cool story, Now do one on Netenyahu and his demented hatred of all non zionists.

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Dear Tom

I do not think Netanyahu is demented . However If I write anything against the rulers of Israel ,I would be repeating Khamenei's behavior of picking a fight with a country which has not done anything against the Iranian people.

In all honesty ,we have been through so much hell that no one cares who is helping. As long as Khamenei and his high level supporters are eliminated, no one would question how , why and by whom they were eliminated.

I do feel bad for the people of Palestine . However, it would be more practical if everyone could accept that the existence of Israel is a reality.

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No one is trying to delete Israel (not even kahameni) no matter how absurd and unlawfulThis whole Jewish land experiment has become. Your whole argument is a red herring that covers for all and any atrocities Israel has and will continue to commit in the future. Not even hamas wants to erase Israel. It's how Israel acts and treats the Palestinians as the issue. Had Netanyahu give Palestine a glimmer of hope regarding a real Palestinian state that can be self governing - we wouldn't be here. And that's the point , not even Israel wants a peaceful Palestine. With peace there is no cover for Israel's land grabbing atrocities across all neighboring lands. And Netanyahu has gone out of his way to perpetuate this , even by funding hamas directly.

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I do not want to get in the middle of the Arab/Israeli conflict. It is obvious that there are enough people arguing their points .Since I was an adolescent there have been wars, fights and arguments.

The problem for Iran is that Khamenei does want to exterminate Israel. He has been preaching that point for years. This idea showed up in Iranian dialogue in 1979. Ayatollah Khomeini made the extermination of Israel a major goal for the country.

The Hezbollah movement is an Islamic Republic of Iran's invention, so are the support of Hamas of Gaza, Bashar Assad of Syria, Houthis of Yemen and the Shiite movement of Iraq. They are all sponsored by the Government of Iran, without the permission of Iranian people.

When the Islamic Republic and its stooges are thrown in the garbage can of history, there will not be any need for a fight with Arabs or Israelis.

It is simply none of our business.

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What are you talking about? Netanyahu doesn't show any indication that he hates non-Zionists. On the contrary, he clearly accepts or even embraces Western liberal principles, especially freedom -- freedom of expression and religion, that is, not freedom to murder Jews.

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Western liberal principles like genocide, apartheid, rounding up a lesser race in ghettos -, stealing land, rape and murder of people without a military, sniping children for fun- you are diluted or paid to be willfully ignorant if you think anyone in Israel or the idea of Israel is sane, righteous or just. Or maybe you too are just like Netanyahu and believe Israel can do whatever it wants , whenever it wants because hey we believe in our own supremacy.

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Wow, that's extreme! It sounds like you're off your meds.

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Excellent argument David. Well thought out.

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The reason for me to add diagnosis of dementia to Khamenei's multiple medical, psychological, characterological and neurological deficits is that he has sustained Traumatic Brain Injury in the past.

He is manifesting concrete thinking, lack of elasticity, inability to learn from mistakes and perseverance.

On top of all these he is clearly suffering from the psychological symptoms of paranoid delusions, intrusive thoughts, lack of sympathy and thoughts of being prosecuted.

He is asking his followers to repeat the same nonsense after him while putting his entire country in harm's way, just to be right! Is there anything in the world worse than that?

Isn't that what Hitler did?

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