Iran: Kurdish independence to ‘create another Israel’ – Ayatollah Jannati

Al Masdar News ^ | 9-18-17

[SJackson]

Hardline conservative Chairman of Assembly of Experts Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati asserted that Kurdistan’s bid for independence from Iraq is an attempt to “disintegrate” and “create another Israel” in the region, speaking at a session of the Assembly of Experts of Leadership in Tehran, Tuesday.

Jannati stressed that “today’s important issue about Kurdistan is the climate that they want to disintegrate there and create another Israel in this region.” He went on to call on the Assembly of Experts to “strongly stand up against them because this situation is the demand of the US, Saudi Arabia and Israel,” which he said “are trying to weaken the region.”

Commenting on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Jannati noted that it was “a poisonous arrow, shot amid the hypocritically friendly smiles of the enemy.”

[KC_Lion]

They speak of this like it is a problem.

[SJackson]

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A second pro western state in the middle east cannot be tolerated. Probably won't happen though it would be nice if the US supported it.

Chairman of Assembly of Experts Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati on YouTube Listening to him, the other experts look bored.

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he says that like it’s a bad thing...

[DoughtyOne]

Christianity is not the same as Jewish.

It wouldn't be another Israel.

It would be a sovereign territory where they worship another God.

Try extending the same tolerance you expect the West to extend to you.

Hardline conservative Chairman of Assembly of Experts Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati...

I hate to break it to these idiots, but this was a Leftist view.

They love to push the meme that Conservatives are equal to an Ayatollah.

No, intolerance of others has been cornered by the Left around the world.

That's why they support the Arabs in the Middle-East and in the Gaza Trip and the West Bank.

Conservatives support Christians and Israel. Remember Lefties?

Leftists hate Israel. Remember Lefties?

[House Atreides]

Here’s hoping that the Trump administration will do all they can to support the dreams of the Iraqi Kurdish people for their independence. We need to ignore the almost certain opposition of Erdogan’s Islamist Turkish government.

Long term, an independent Kurdistan would be the perfect location for forward basing of American forces in that region.

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We should have rewarded Turkey’s last minute denial of access to Iraq by splitting Iraq along ethnic lines and creating an independent Kurdistan on its (and Iran’s!) boarder.

[aquila48]

Most Kurds are Muslims.

[aquila48]

See post #9

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you. Seems I’m always reading about Kurd Christians, so I thought most of them were Christian.

[DoughtyOne]

That makes the claim a Kurdish nation would be a second Israel even more absurd.

[aquila48]

It’s an ethnic identity thing, as opposed to religious, like Scots wanting to be independent of England.

[GraceG]

[ They speak of this like it is a problem. ]

The arab countries whined about the “europe imposed borders not crossing ethnic lines, then complain when someone living there wants to make new lines based on ethnicity....

I find this all ironic...

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 09/20/2017. Thanks SJackson.