Why Iran’s Mullahs Pursue The Bomb?

Because their very survival depends on it, they know how vastly unpopular they are at home and have no legitimacy to exist. The bomb would give them greater freedom to obliterate the freedom-loving Iranian people with impunity and export their brand of Islam outside Iran’s boundary with carte blanche. Perhaps the most salient element of wanting to acquire the bomb is that Ayatollah Khomeini was worried about the existence of Islam in Iran. The Islamic Republic of Iran is consciously aware that once its Islamic Empire falls, Islam will be its first victim, and they aren’t wrong.

The ever-conniving mullahs dread the Iranian people. They granted that a small percentage of Iranians, known as the 3Fs—fools, fanatics, and frauds—support the mullahs. No totalitarian rule can ever survive without a segment of the population, for one reason or another, supporting it. Yet, time is not on the side of the mullahs.

Through their mismanagement, thievery, and oppression of the masses, they have created explosive internal conditions. They must have the bomb to create a fake sense of security. The National Intelligence Estimates are designed to alert the president of national security developments and provide guidelines for policymakers. A U.S. source said about the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report on Iran: “It’s a full look at what we know, what we don’t know, and what assumptions we have.”

The problem arises about what we don’t know and the accuracy of what we assume we know. Knowing the past and the present behavior of the Islamic regime makes it very hard to believe they have abandoned what seems to be their final card to play. The Islamic Republic cannot possibly live longer than it already has without the bomb.

In dealing with the mullahs ruling Iran, what you see is not what you get, and what you hear is not what they mean. Transparency and honesty are not their strong suit. So, we need a first-rate sleuth to see through their smoke and mirrors and beyond their twisted tongues into their warped brains. The mullahs, however, say to the world (if you are ever foolish enough to trust the word of a people whose religion not only officially condones but recommends taqqyeh—lying—to achieve a higher purpose) they promise, on their Boy Scout’s honor, to limit their nuclear activity to peaceful endeavors under the United Nation’s watchful eye.

In return for their promise, which you cannot even sell at a 100% discount, the mullahs demand that the world—led by the Big Dog, the United States of America, and the lesser dogs, the Europeans— give them iron-clad security guarantees. The bargain that the Allah-fearing and peace-loving mullahs offer makes even the shrewdest Yankee trader strictly amateurish by comparison, one suspects.

Historians have concluded that history is cyclic, and unless one learns from its mistakes, we will be doomed to endure an endless repetition of the cause and effect of poor management systems. Also, the French author Charles Pinot Duclos observed: “We see on the theater of the world a certain number of scenes which succeed each other in endless repetition: where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known the first we might have avoided the others. The past should enlighten us on the future.” That the “divinely-directed” Mullahs are ruling Iran with rock-solid resolve to carry out their “divine plan” of imposing their brand of Islam on the world with the help of the Bomb is a terrifying thought.

To frustrate the fanatical Mullahs and defeat their existential threat, we need to understand how their minds work as well as the methods they use to achieve their deadly objective. There have been many recommendations from the so-called experts. These expert recommendations and a myriad of others suffer from one fundamental flaw: the failure to fully understand and take into account the mindset of the Mullahs since many of their ideas are based on little more than divining information from the ether while seated comfortably in their ivory tower offices thousands of miles away from the-on-the ground reality where the enemy schemes and operates.

For more than four decades, the Islamic Republic pursued a clandestine nuclear program. It came partially to light in 2002, primarily through information from exiles, and has led to U.N. inspections, sanctions, and a standoff. The Islamic regime insists its program is for civilian power generation only. That is what they are saying.

Nonetheless, Mullahs cannot possibly survive without the bomb. This is the last measure of an exhausted, illegitimate government to exist via deterrence. That is their last card to play. Despite the recent report from NIE, there is no question that the Mullahs are working around the clock to make the bomb. This accusation routinely comes almost every day from U.S. officials: Iran is seeking a nuclear weapon, sponsoring terrorism, killing Americans in Iraq, and intent on Israel’s destruction.

Yet, some U.S. officials add, the Islamic government will collapse if only given a push. And a little push is precisely what the Iranian people have been craving for nearly 45 years. Yet, there has not been one single push, and now most Iranians seem to be convinced that the U.S. is in cahoots with the Islamic regime and that the rhetoric coming from the U.S. and its Western allies is simply an orchestrated show of deceit.

President Bush, in a speech at the American Legion’s national convention on August 28, said, “Iran’s active pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust.

Iran’s actions threaten the security of nations everywhere.” These Islamists go by their 1400-year-old charter of Allah –the Qur’an– the same charter that they hold in one hand while slashing the throat of an innocent infidel and yelling joyously, “Allah is the greatest” the whole time. And as for Iran’s mullahs’ unyielding drive to acquire the ultimate weapon, it is in obedience to the command of the Quran: Qur’an 8:59: “The infidels should not think that they can get away from us. Prepare against them whatever arms and weaponry you can muster so that you may terrorize them. They are your enemy and Allah’s enemy.”

And for those who advocate retreating to the safety of “fortress America,” the following warning should dispel their vain hope. Europe is already partly invaded, and America and other infidel lands are next. For those misguided advocates of working a deal with the Islamic Republic: The Islamic Republic has been denying and violating a long-suffering people all its human rights. They are guilty of beating, imprisoning, and torturing hundreds of women who braved participating in a peaceful demonstration pleading for equal family rights on the recent International Day of Women.

The regime has systematically beaten, imprisoned, and tortured all manners of citizens, from school teachers to students to union workers, for daring to raise their voices against the plight to which they have subjected them. The Islamic regime has savagely beat and hauled to its dungeons of torture and death over a thousand of the tens of thousands of teachers who had recently gathered in front of the parliament requesting nothing more than their back pay and living wages. They have directed systematic genocidal measures against all non-Shi’a religious minorities, with Baha’is as their prime target.

They arrest some Christians — whom even their Quran calls “People of the Book” — for observing Christmas. They have implemented barbaric practices of stoning, hanging, and amputations for those who are convicted of crimes in their kangaroo courts without due process. They even imprison those few lawyers who rise in the defense of the innocent. They have plundered, mismanaged, and doled out Iran’s national wealth with the result that the great majority of the people are living in poverty.

They have forced Iranian women into prostitution to survive or are sold as sex slaves in Persian Gulf states. They spend a fortune on the nuclear program that they claim is only aimed for peaceful purposes while turning Iran into little more than a gas station nation, with its precious oil wealth squandered and its facilities on the verge of collapse through neglect. They have created a suffocating social atmosphere that has driven masses of people to the use of hard drugs as a way of numbing their pain. They look far and wide to support any terrorists. The Islamic Republic’s delusional theology mandates the creation of horrific conditions in the world so that the Hidden Imam is compelled to appear and establish his rule. They spared no effort to sabotage any settlement between the Palestinians and Israelis. They arm and train all Palestinian factions, such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and any that come. They direct similar criminal schemes on their eastern flank in Afghanistan.

They consider any democratic system as the enemy of Islamofascism, and rightfully so. They have worked ceaselessly to expand Iran’s stolen funds and do all they can in support of Shi’a co-fascists Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Islamic Republic’s hands are dripping with the blood of thousands of Iraqis, victims of its bloodthirsty kin mercenaries aiming to kill a budding democracy in Iraq next door. They have supplied and continue to provide their mercenaries with armor-piercing projectiles for killing and maiming the coalition forces in Iraq.
They are cowardly killing by proxy, using these roadside-planted bombs that have taken the lives of hundreds of Americans. A final quote from the late Ayatollah Khomeini, the founding father of the Islamic Revolution, should suffice since his words are still considered authoritative in Iran:

“We do not worship Iran; we worship Allah. Patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.” What words do you still believe in: acquiesce, capitulate, surrender, or give up?

This column was first published in 2012.

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