It Thinks So
By
Howard Bloom
Our president believes we’ve won the Iran war. Decisively. He might be surprised to discover that Iran believes he’s lost. Yes, Iran thinks it has won. And that the US and our Israeli partner have suffered many “strategic defeats at the hands of the Islamic Revolution” and have “failed to learn” our lesson. So if we attack Iran again, what Tehran threatens to do is blood-curdling.
The Iranians warn that the war will “be extended beyond the region, and that devastating blows” will “be delivered from places the enemy cannot imagine.” In other words, we may see events like 9/11 in our very own backyards. Iran warns that while we have hit it with everything we’ve got, Tehran has just begun to show what’s up its sleeve. Says Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, if America attacks, the USA would be hit by big “surprises.”
“We are men of war,” explains Iran’s military, the IRGC, “and you will see our power on the battlefield, not in hollow statements or social media pages.”
The Iranian public backs up these government statements. One viewer of Iran’s Press TV begs in a comments section to, “Please turn” all the western “economic centers,” “data centers, ports, airport[s], military bases, [and] manufacturing” facilities in the middle east “into a black dust.” The comment-writer calls what he views as “Trump & his… regime” genocidal terrorists. This commenter also predicts that Trump “will be blamed for the start of WWIII & [the] end of civilization!” Then the commenter takes a line from Donald Trump’s latest pronouncements, “Time is running out,” the commenter says. “Trump,” he concludes, “must be contained.”
Another commenter calls for “One last war against those subhumans.” The subhumans he’s railing against are Westerners, like you and me. He adds that “permanent peace must be established.” Alas, that peace would put the Iranian Islamic Revolution in power over the entire earth. Remember, the very name of Islam means peace. Militant Islamists, however, use one of the word “Islam’s” other meanings, submission. Specifically submission to Mohammed’s demands that all Muslim men at some point in their lives must don their armor to kill non-believers. And submission of the victims the militant Muslims don’t kill in their rampages.
Why do militant Muslims like those in Iran believe these attacks are necessary? In order to save us unbelievers from the hell on earth called Jahiliyyah. In order to save unbelievers and believers alike from satanic systems like Western civilization and democracy. Meanwhile, Iran’s new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has called for all Iran’s neighboring nations to get rid of American military bases or to be attacked as accomplices of the enemy, accomplices of the Great Satan, America.
The fourteen points in the peace plans Iran has presented in the current negotiations treat America as the loser of this war. They demand the removal of American bases from the Middle East, reparations for war damages, and that America turn over the $110 billion in Iran’s frozen bank accounts in the West. Iran also demands the end of sanctions and the recognition of Iran’s right as a nation to nuclear technology.
Oh, and one more thing. Iran wants to continue ruling the Straits of Hormuz and allowing ships through at a price of two million dollars each. But if negotiations don’t work out, one comments section contributor to Iran’s Press-TV has the following suggestion: “It is not too late…for Iran to revise its doctrine and produce the nuclear bomb to deter enemies from even thinking of attacking Iran in the future.” Adds another commenter, “I say Iran should acquire TEN Hydrogen explosives.” And concludes a third, “Absolutely inviscerate them. Stem to neck. Leave nothing but their burned corpses.” The “them” he’s talking about is you and me.
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About the author: Howard Bloom of the Howard Bloom Institute has been called the Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Freud of the 21st century by Britain’s Channel 4 TV. He has appeared on Iranian and Saudi TV over forty times. Bloom’s new book is The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong. Says Harvard’s Ellen Langer of The Case of the Sexual Cosmos, Bloom “argues that we are not savaging the earth as some would have it, but instead are growing the cosmos. A fascinating read.” One of Bloom’s eight previous books–Global Brain—was the subject of a symposium thrown by the Office of the Secretary of Defense including representatives from the State Department, the Energy Department, DARPA, IBM, and MIT. Bloom’s work has been published in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Psychology Today, and the Scientific American. Not to mention in scientific journals like Biosystems, New Ideas in Psychology, and PhysicaPlus. Says Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of Evolution’s End and The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, “I have finished Howard Bloom’s [first two] books, The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain, in that order, and am seriously awed, near overwhelmed by the magnitude of what he has done. I never expected to see, in any form, from any sector, such an accomplishment. I doubt there is a stronger intellect than Bloom’s on the planet.” For more, see http://howardbloom.net or http://howardbloom.institute
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