Western Writer: Five Seconds of Iranian Leader’s Words Better Than Five Hours of Western Politicians’ Speech

There was more truth in five seconds of Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei’s speech than in five hours of Western politicians’ blathering, Veterans Today Editor Kevin Barrett said.

In an article on Veterans Today, Barrett mentioned parts of a recent speech by the Iranian Supreme Leader and then noted his commentary.

At the speech attended by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani – as well as more than a dozen ambassadors from around the world, including Saudi Arabia – The Iranian Supreme Leader said that most of the problems afflicting the Middle East and the world can be resolved reasonably and rationally. Citing the Qur’an, which urges people to reflect and use their God-given reasoning ability (al-’aql), Iran’s foremost political and religious leader urged his audience to reject violence and extremism. Much of the “violence in the name of Islam” in today’s world, including Boko Haram attributed attacks and kidnappings in Nigeria, are part of a divide-and-conquer campaign against the Islamic world, he added.

Though he did not directly mention Zionism and false flag attacks such as 9/11, Ayatollah Khamenei cited conspiracies against Islam and the Middle East, and proclaimed, “The Muslim world needs to know its real enemies.”

He said that Middle Eastern and Muslim countries should form a “united front” against those who are conspiring to dominate the region by inciting sectarian and ethnic division – an apparent reference to Israel’s Oded Yinon plan to smash Middle Eastern countries into feuding, Balkanized cantons that would be too weak to resist Zionist domination.

Referring to the Zionist elite’s campaign to dumb down populations and degrade traditional cultures, Ayatollah Khamenei spoke out against the propagation of public sexuality in the mass media. He also charged the Zionist-dominated Western corporate media with spreading Islamophobia and Iranophobia. (Films like Argo and 300 are widely viewed as Zionist propaganda here in Iran.) He added that “open attacks on Islam” – presumably meaning the Danish cartoons, Innocence of Muslims, and so on – are just one aspect of the wider conspiracy against Muslims and the Islamic world.

All of these attacks on Islam, the Middle East, and traditional culture and religion worldwide are simply obstacles that will be overcome, he said, ending with: “The Islamic awakening is unstoppable.”

Barrett then stated his commentary, saying, “This is the first political speech I’ve attended in person in many years…and just about the only one I’ve ever seen that was worth bothering with.”
“… there was more truth in five seconds of Ayatollah Khamenei’s speech than in five hours of Western politicians’ blatherings”, he stressed.

“Iran’s Supreme Leader is clearly a man of integrity who has a real concern for truth and justice. And that, dear readers, is why the Zionist-dominated corporate media wants you to hate Iran: Its top leaders are deeply spiritual people who cannot be easily subjugated and controlled – unlike the lying, bribe-sucking pedophiles who front for the banksters in most of the rest of the world,” Barrett concluded.