Ahmadinejad has been known to say he wishes to “wipe Israel off the map.” Basically, this implies Ahmadinejad’s desire to commit genocide against Israel, a strong American ally in the war on terror. Yet in his interview, Ahmadinejad accused Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians.
In reality however, Hamas terrorists in Palestine have started wars against Israeli civilians on and off over the years. Ahmadinejad falsely accuses Israel of genocide against the Palestinians because he intends to conceal his purpose to commit genocide against Israel with nuclear weapons. To reinforce his plan to annihilate Israel, Ahmadinejad uses Hitler’s tactic of demonizing a Jewish enemy (i.e. dishonestly portraying Israelis as “genocidal”).
Further, Ahmadinejad wants to deny the Holocaust so the Jews will not be perceived as the victims and freedom-fighters that they have been. Looking at the Israelis that way enables people to reject unrealistically negative portrayals of Jewish people. And that, in turn, makes Iranian use of Palestinian terrorists against Israel stick-out as “bad” to the international community. So Ahmadinejad tries to “beautify” Iran’s use of terrorists by denying the Holocaust and calling the Israelis “genocidal”. Ahamdinejad figures that so long as everyone thinks Israel is the villain, no one will protest much against Iran-supported Hamas’s attempts to destroy Israel. All this presupposes that Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust denials were dishonest.
Katie Couric’s interview of Ahmadinejad has the later tacitly admitting the Holocaust did happen. So that means Ahmadinejad has been lying whenever he has stated that the Holocaust did not occur. When the discussion heated up, Ahmadinejad “slipped” and said, in effect, “…we’re sorry for the 60,000,000 lives lost…regardless of what nationality the holocaust victims were.” Here, Ahmadinejad tacitly admitted the Holocaust did happen. Couric noticed this and told him that he sounds like he’s actually admitting the Holocaust did happen. He was, but Ahmadinejad EVASIVELY told her she can take his words any way she wanted to.
The Jewish Holocaust is not the only thing Ahmadinejad lies about it. When Couric asked Ahmadinejad about the jailing, beating and torturing of Iran’s political dissidents, Ahmadinejad said that the Iranian judiciary is not motivated by politics, only by law.
But Iran is an Islamic dictatorship whose “law” is despotic and which oppresses its own people. Ahmadinejad “slipped” again and admitted that his regime does throw political protestors into jail for protesting since that is illegal. That violates people’s rights to free speech, rights which a despotic law forbids. By imprisoning (and brutalizing) people for their “speech”, the Iranian judiciary is, indeed, politically motivated. So, Ahmadinejad contradicted himself. The reality is that the Islamic dictatorship has a vested interest in punishing people who criticize its regime.
Ahmadinejad also said that the people who tortured the political prisoners will be investigated and punished. That is a lie, too. If Iran is a dictatorship that violates the people’s liberties in general and jails its political protesters then it’s safe to assume that, like other dictatorships, Ahmadinejad’s regime tortures its political prisoners deliberately—with tacit approval. Therefore, Ahmadinejad’s statement that the torturers will be punished loses credibility. That is especially true when considering that human rights abuses have been occurring for decades in Iran. If Iran was not a dictatorship and instead respected the rights of its people, then it would be easier to believe Ahmadinejad’s statement. But history cautions us against believing the plausible lies of despots, especially when the media spotlight is on them.
Because the Iranian dictatorship imprisons and brutalizes its civilians for exercising their right to protest, it would also tacitly approve of the murder of one of those protesters, Neda Soltan. That was another subject Couric asked Ahmadinejad about. The Islamic regime would murder someone like Neda as a warning to other demonstrators to keep silent about their political opinions. If the regime wanted to murder a civilian protesting Ahmadinejad’s election, then the Revolutionary Guard and/or the Basij militia are the plausible perpetrators.
The Basij militia has the job of helping the Revolutionary Guard enforce fascist Islamic “morals” and other decrees on the people. One of those decrees is the prohibition against protesting. Hence, the Basij militia is plausibly suspect in Neda’s murder. Also, the sniper who shot Neda did so with one shot to a vital area on her body. This suggests marksmanship, someone trained in shooting.
The sniper also had to have information of Neda’s whereabouts and her drive to the protest. That information can be easily obtained by the Basij militiamen since they have groups in every town and intermingle with the citizenry. The intel is part of the extensive spy network the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is part of. The Basij follow orders from the Revolutionary Guard.
In fact, some witnesses have supposedly come forward saying they spotted and temporarily caught a Basij militiaman shooter, after Neda was shot.
The Republican Guard quickly capitalized on the shooting by preventing Neda’s neighbors from visiting Neda’s family during their time of grieving. The Islamofascists even forbade any of them to hold mourning events for Neda. Not surprisingly, Iranian officials blamed the protesters for killing Neda—a common “dictator tactic” for sowing suspicion among rebels.
In short, Ahmadinejad proved himself to be evasive, contradicted himself, admitted his nation stifles political dissent, proved that he lied about his holocaust denials, and refrained from admitting any responsibility on his, or Ayatollah Khomeini’s, part for Neda Soltan’s death. Add to those, Iran’s use of terrorists to attack Israel and Americans in Iraq and people must ask themselves: Is Ahmadinejad the guy they want to trust with nuclear weapons?
