by Yoram Ettinger
[The ayatollahs] consider the agreement a reaffirmation of Western vacillation and retreat, allowing them to intensify their rogue conduct, as documented in their domestic, regional and global track record and school textbooks.
The July 2015 nuclear
agreement with Iran is perceived by the United States as a binding,
strategic agreement for peaceful coexistence. In contrast, Iran's
ayatollahs view it as a tenuous, tactical agreement that advances their
offensive strategy against "the arrogant, infidel American Great Satan"
that, like other agreements with "infidels," can be abrogated according
to the Quran and the legacy of the Prophet Muhammad.
The ayatollahs consider
the agreement to be a phase in the removal of the infidel "crUSader"
from the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean, so as to advance Iran's
2,500-year-old goal of dominating the Persian Gulf, the Middle East and
the globe.
Moreover, they consider
the agreement a reaffirmation of Western vacillation and retreat,
allowing them to intensify their rogue conduct, as documented in their
domestic, regional and global track record and school textbooks. These
clearly reflect their strategies, tactics, character, worldviews and
general direction, and effectively produce cadres of "martyrs" --
namely, terrorists and suicide bombers.
A constructive
agreement with the ayatollahs would require a dramatic transformation of
their school textbooks, strategies and tactics. An agreement with the
ayatollahs without such changes could start the countdown to the first
nuclear war.
Bolstered by billions
of dollars in cash transfers, the reclaimed $150 billion of frozen
assets, and the suspension of U.S. and global sanctions, the Iranian
regime has expanded its subversive and terrorist involvement in every
pro-U.S. Arab country in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula.
Moreover, while the
U.S. has rolled back its sanctions against Iran, Iran has rolled back
most of its inhibitions in its strategic ties with Russia. Pro-U.S. Arab
regimes such as Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates
and Morocco have also softened their positions on Russia, in response to
the dramatic erosion of the U.S. posture of deterrence since the
signing of the Iran deal, which the pro-U.S. Arab regimes perceive as a
machete at their throats.
The ayatollahs have
intensified their involvement in the civil war in Yemen and are striving
to control the critical oil and military waterways in the Bab el-Mandab
Strait, which connects the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea and the
Mediterranean, and the Strait of Hormuz, which connects the Indian Ocean
to the Persian Gulf. Meddling in Yemen also advances the ayatollahs'
goal of regime change in Saudi Arabia, which borders Yemen.
The ayatollahs' long
reach stretches to Latin America, where they have bolstered strategic
and cultural ties with Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia, and
deepened their presence -- directly and via Hezbollah and other Islamic
terror organizations -- in the tri-border region of Brazil, Argentina
and Paraguay.
Reflecting Iran's
determination to become a nuclear power, the ayatollahs have tightened
their nuclear and ballistic cooperation with North Korea, which enables
them to circumvent the monitoring of the nuclear program in Iran. They
have exceeded their quota for heavy-water production, acquired illegal
technology and have test-fired ballistic missiles that are capable of
delivering nuclear weapons, in violation of the July 2016 U.N. Security
Council Resolution 2231, which calls for Iran to desist from such
testing for eight years.
Relying on Western
eagerness to sustain the July 2015 agreement at any price, they have
repeatedly harassed U.S. military forces in the Persian Gulf.
Taught to hate
The rolled-back
sanctions have not rolled back the Iranian regime's hate-education, as
recently documented by Professor Eldad Pardo, of the Hebrew University
and the Institute of Monitoring Peace and Tolerance in School Education,
who has researched Iran's school textbooks for the last 11 years.
Pardo wrote that "child
martyrdom is revered" in a sixth-grade textbook ("The Little Leader,"
pp. 58-64), and that "the martyrdom of girls has recently been
introduced into the curriculum" in a 10th-grade book ("Defense
Readiness," pp. 59-63). In 12th grade, "students are instructed to join a
frenzy of training and preparation, constant emergency, blind obedience
and actual participation in conflicts, at home and abroad" ("Religion
and Life," p. 124).
Iranian students, he
found, "study about dissimulation and misleading the enemy. They learn
that in times of need, dissimulation and temporary pacts -- even with
'ungodly, idolatrous governments' -- are proper, but only until such
time as the balance of power should change. We know from [Ayatollah Ali]
Khamenei's own words, that the recent nuclear negotiations followed the
pattern of a historical treaty with an 'illegitimate' government …
which was concluded in 661 BCE between Imam Hassan and Mu'awiyah --
intending to gain time, build power and gradually undermine the rival
dynasty, but never genuinely reconciling, leading to the fateful battle
of Karbala two decades later ('Religion and Life,' grade 12, pp.
103-104)."
Iran's curriculum
stipulates "the need for jihad, child martyrdom and inevitable
sacrifices are intensively and vividly inculcated into young minds. ...
[Iranian students] know that a jihadi war -- requiring their possible
martyrdom, for which they practice from first grade -- could be launched
as part of an attack on countries ruled by 'oppressive regimes.' ...
Education for child martyrdom continues, beginning with the first grade,
all the way to grade 12. ... Iranian girls and boys are educated to go
to war at any moment, taught to see the world as overflowing with
enemies of the Revolution, who resist the 'true program of God.' ... The
students receive much instruction about the martyrs from the 1980-1988
Iran-Iraq War. ... Children are instructed not to obey their parents in
matters regarding martyrdom (Religious Rulings, grade 11, p. 14)."
According to Iranian
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, the U.S. is the chief target for
the ayatollahs' wrath, because it constitutes the most effective
obstacle on their megalomaniacal road to Islamize the global order and
subjugate humanity to their agenda: "We have a fundamental problem with
the West and especially with America. ... This is because we are
claimants of a mission, with a global dimension."
The link between the
ayatollahs' curriculum and their overall supremacist, global strategy
behooves the U.S. Congress -- the co-equal and co-determining branch of
government -- to conduct a series of hearings on the merits of adhering
to the July 2015 nuclear agreement as long as Iran does not roll back
its millenarian, anti-U.S. curriculum.
Yoram Ettinger
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=17211
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