Iran critical of Saudi terrorism (not the Onion)

In a stunning display of abject hypocrisy the Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote a scathing op-ed in The New York Times attacking Saudi Arabia for exporting global extremism. 

What a joke.

Zarif may have paid for the article with the ransom money they were given by the Obama administration (that Obama denies was ransom money).

Both countries have been criticizing the other in a series of escalating rants.

The Saudis cut off ties with Iran in January after a hate-crazed mob stormed their embassy following an execution of a popular Shi'ite cleric. They claimed that Iranians were not Muslims and in response to that, Iran criticized the way the Saudis handled the hajj this year. 

The hajj is the annual pilgrimage to Mecca which Muslims are obligated to make at least once in their life in order to get to Paradise. If it is impossible to travel to Mecca, another way some Muslims choose to get to Paradise is by shouting "Allahu Akbar" then blowing themselves up in front of as many witnesses as possible.

Zarif, who goes by the sobriquet "Mo," blasted the Saudis claiming that they are the source of extremism. (He's half correct.) He tweeted: "Indeed; no resemblance between Islam of Iranians & most Muslims & bigoted extremism that Wahhabi top cleric & Saudi terror masters preach.

Zarif then wrote to The New York Times calling for the West to "Rid the World of Wahhabism," the extremist (orthodox) form of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia, the hub of Sunni Islam.

Zarif would like the West to rid the world of terrorism using terrorism to do so. He, and his cohorts, are too stupid to see the hypocrisy.

"While the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq set in motion the fighting we see today," he wrote, "the key driver of violence has been this extremist ideology promoted by Saudi Arabia--even if it was invisible to Western eyes until the tragedy of 9/11."

Yes, Saudi money funded 9/11 and global terrorism for many years. The UK's Channel Four estimates in 2008 that the Saudis spent $100 billion promoting Wahhabism and that number has increased. 

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal gifted Harvard and Georgetown $20 million each to expand the "HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding." 

Of course there are stings attached and the "understanding" is that Islam is the only real religion, superior to Christianity, and don't even get the prince started on Judaism and other false religions.

So while Iran develops a nuclear weapon, thanks to the nuclear deal, and is likely to use it to destroy the West in order to establish their world caliphate, their foreign minister calls the Saudi kettle 'black' by insisting they are the terrorists. 

But with Iranian terrorism, "it's just business."


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