Biden, Obama, and Brussels Eurocrats to Blame for Empowering Iran to Attack Israel, Says Brexit’s Nigel Farage
The Western world has “collective amnesia” about the role globalist governments on both sides of the Atlantic played in financially empowering Iran to the point where it felt confident enough to launch a direct strike on Israel, Brexit leader Nigel Farage argues.
Mr Farage argued on Monday that the administration of Barack Obama, including then-Vice President Joe Biden, as well as neoliberal Eurocrats in Brussels, should all face blame for enriching the Islamist regime through the lifting of sanctions in the ill-fated Iran Deal, which allowed billions to pour into Tehran, and thereby enable the radical Shia government to not only fund its terrorist proxies in the region but also to launch over 300 drones, ballistic and cruise missiles at Israel on Saturday evening.
“It was Obama as president, backed up by Biden as vice president, along with their friends in the European Union in Brussels, who put in place the JCPOA, the agreement with Iran on nuclear proliferation,” Farage told Fox Business.
“In doing so, they removed sanctions, they freed up tens of billions of dollars and Iran have used that money to fund the Houthis, to fund Hezbollah, to fund Hamas, and now to fund 350 missiles and drones being aimed at mainland Israel.”
“It seems as if we are on a collective amnesia about how Iran got itself strong enough to be where it is.”
The so-called Iran Deal, officially the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was inked in 2015 in Vienna by representatives from Iran, the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, United States, as well as Angela Merkel’s Germany and the European Union.
Despite the Islamist regime in Tehran being the world’s top sponsor of terrorism and being bent on the destruction of America, President Obama and a globalist coalition in Europe agreed that in exchange for supposedly halting its nuclear weapons programme, the West would provide sanctions relief — to the tune of $150 billion — to Iran.
The influx of foreign capital facilitated by the lifting of sanctions not only stabilised the Iranian economy, thereby facilitating the continued rule of the theocratic regime in Tehran but also enabled the Islamist government to fund terror groups, with even the Obama administration admitting at the time that Iran would use “some portion of that money” (from sanctions relief) to fund terror activities in the Middle East.
Before President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal, the sanctions relief saw Iranian oil exports soar, peaking at 2.8 million barrels per day in 2018. The European Union was a leading destination for Iranian fuel, with EU nations importing 8.2 billion euros in crude oil from Iran in 2018. Although EU imports of oil from Iran dramatically declined following the reintroduction of sanctions by the Trump administration, oil revenue has been acknowledged by the Biden administration as one of the top funding sources for the Islamic regime’s military and for its terrorist proxies.
In conjunction with the Iran deal, the Obama administration also freed $1.7 billion in Iranian assets the United States had held since the 1970s from a failed arms deal with the Shah and which the U.S. refused to pay back to the Islamist government following the 1979 Iranian revolution. According to CNN, $400 million was flown to Iran in 2016 on “wooden pallets stacked with Swiss francs, euros and other currencies” for the first instalment by the Obama government.
Amid criticism of sending such large amounts of money in essentially untraceable hard foreign currencies, the U.S. Treasury argued that cash payments were necessary because of the “effectiveness of U.S. and international sanctions” in blacklisting Iran from international banking systems. However, the U.S. House of Representatives foreign affairs committee disputed these claims, highlighting that the Obama administration itself on at least two occasions had used wire transfers to send money to Iran.
Continuing the policies of his former boss, President Joe Biden has also lifted billions in sanctions on Iran, with the White House renewing a sanctions waiver to Tehran for up to $10 billion in assets held in Oman in November — just weeks after the Iranian-sponsored Hamas terror group committed the worst actor of terror in the history of Israel, killing around 1,200 people and kidnapping hundreds more and holding them hostage in Gaza.
The Biden administration re-approved the sanctions waiver just last month, while at the same time imposing sanctions on Israel for “extremist settler violence” in the West Bank. Biden also allowed sanctions on Iran’s missile and drone programmes from the U.N. Security Council to expire on October 18th, just days after the barbaric Hamas attack on Israel.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage said that from an outsider’s perspective, there has been a distinct lack of leadership from America in the Middle East conflict under the 81-year-old president.
“Where is America on the world stage?” Farage questioned, adding: “It could not be further away from the speech that Biden gave… he said ‘America is Back’, as if somehow we were getting Western world leadership coming from President Biden.”
“He was at the beach for most of the weekend, probably photographed having ice cream.”
While Biden and other globalist leaders have called on Israel to not retaliate against Iran, Mr Farage said that argued that Israel should be “clever” and take a page out of Donald Trump’s playbook and target “senior leading figures” within the Iranian military, as the former president did in the targeted drone strike that killed Quds force commander Qasem Soleimani in 2020.
“There is no doubt that within Iran, itself, the regime is not very popular, it stays there through brute force, through the use of the army. Israel should retaliate and it should be clever.”
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Manchester Arena Terror Victims to Sue MI5 Intelligence Agency For Failing to Prevent Islamist Attack
In an unprecedented move, hundreds of survivors of the Islamist terror attack on the Manchester Arena have launched a lawsuit against Britain’s domestic MI5 intelligence agency over what they claim are serious failures to prevent the attack.
More than 250 survivors and family members of victims of the 2017 terror attack in Manchester have banded together and submitted a lawsuit against the Security Service to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), an independent judicial body tasked with considering complaints made against British intelligence agencies.
According to The Telegraph, the move is the first time in which citizens have sued an intelligence service for failing to prevent a terror attack.
The victims are reported to be planning to appeal to the “right to life” of the Human Rights Act, which they will argue was violated by negligence on the behalf of intelligence officers in failing to stop the attack.
In a joint statement, the legal team representing the victims from Broudie Jackson Canter, Hudgell Solicitors, and Slater and Gordon said: “Legal teams representing injured survivors of the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017 can confirm that they have collectively submitted a group claim on behalf of more than 250 clients to the IPT.
“As it is an ongoing legal matter, we are unable [to] provide any further details, or comment further, at this stage.”
The 2017 suicide bombing by Libyan migrant Salman Abedi saw 22 killed, many of them children and young people, and hundreds more injured after he detonated an explosive device at the Manchester Arena, which was full at the time for an Ariana Grande concert.
Since then, numerous inquiries have been held, accusing widespread failures at all levels, from the security guardshired to protect the Manchester Arena who failed to intervene for fear of being called racist, to the Manchester Police, and even the intelligence services.
A report from Manchester Arena Inquiry chairman Sir John Saunders found that at least one MI5 officer had delayed sharing intelligence which he said represented a “significant missed opportunity to take action that might have prevented the attack”.
It has also been claimed that MI5 had flagged the would-be terrorist 18 times over the seven years leading up to the attack and that Abedi was also known to have had relationships with six other people being watched by MI5 prior to the attack.
According to the BBC, MI5 had also allegedly received intelligence linking Abedi to a bomb plot in the months leading up to the attack, however, such warnings were reportedly dismissed as “unreliable”.
Last year, MI5 Director General Ken McCallum apologised on behalf of the agency for failing to prevent the attack, saying: “Gathering covert intelligence is difficult, but had we managed to seize the slim chance we had, those impacted might not have experienced such appalling loss and trauma.
“I am profoundly sorry that MI5 did not prevent the attack.”
However, Andrew Russo, whose eight-year-old daughter Saffie was the youngest victim of the attack, previously said that suing the intelligence agency would be the “only way” for them to learn a lesson.
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Churchill Gets the Last Word on Islam
Last month, police were deployed to form a ring of steel around the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, London, to protect it from the hands of an irate pro-Palestinian mob.
Needless to say, there is something of an irony here: although Churchill is being targeted on the hackneyed view that he was a leading member of the White Patriarchy (aka, the root of all evil) -- BLM attacked this same statue for that very reason in 2020 -- the British statesman did, in fact, have some insightful things to say about the religion of many of his would-be attackers.
Consider the following quote from Churchill’s 1899 book, The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (vol.1):
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
The United Kingdom -- as well as many other Western nations and polities that host large Muslim populations -- has been learning the truths of this excerpt the hard way. As just one example, crime, including sex crimes, have soared -- unsurprisingly so, since “insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or 
live,” to say nothing of the aforementioned “degraded sensualism,” “fanatical frenzy,” and “slovenly systems.” (It’s the same all throughout European nations with large Muslim populations. In Sweden, violent crime has increased by 300% and rapes by 1,472% -- thanks to its burgeoning Muslim demographic.)
Note too Churchill’s fair observation that “Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.” This assertion perfectly explains the truth behind so-called “moderate Muslims” who end up making for good citizens in the West. They are good in spite of, not because of, the teachings of their religion.
Churchill is also noteworthy for warning against the dangers of pacifism in the face of growing threats -- another topic relevant to the UK’s circumstances vis-Ã -vis its overwhelming Muslim population. While the following excerpt was written in response to the policy of appeasing Hitler leading up to WWII, it is especially relevant to the UK’s “migrant problem,” and the appeasement it has been met with, resulting in a demographic conquest: in the very capital of the UK -- London, where Churchill’s statue stands, and where a few days ago rioting Muslim mobs hurled trash at passive police -- the name “Muhammad” is today the most popular name for newborn baby boys (as well as in several other Western capitals, including Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Oslo, et al).
While it is doubtful that Churchill -- or any other Brit born in the late nineteenth century -- could ever have conceived that Britain would willingly give itself over to Islam, here are his rather applicable words concerning passivity in the face of growing threats (in this case, Hitler):
[I]f you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
Such words are proving increasingly ominous for much of Western Europe -- with Londonistan at the fore.
Raymond Ibrahim, author of Defenders of the West and Sword and Scimitar, is the Distinguished Senior Shillman Fellow at the Gatestone Institute and the Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum.
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Hamas Wants The Land of Israel, But It Also Wants Much More Than That
As I write this, more than one hundred, (mostly Israeli) Jews are still being held hostage. They have been imprisoned and are tortured 24/7. They are deprived of food; the males are beaten just for fun, and the girls, women, and boys are raped.
We know this thanks to Arabic language documents IDF soldiers found when they cleared out Hamas nests. The documents contain explicit instructions about how to torture and maim and the best way to kill a Jew with a knife by stabbing him in the neck and/or spine. The same orders tell the captors to keep the captured Jews on the most meager rations.
These instructions also order the captors to show no tolerance to any hostages who show even the slightest resistance or objection to doing what they are told. If they do, they must be killed.
The inhumanity of these orders illustrates the culture behind the people carrying out these cruel rituals: Domination and submission, and “oppression and humiliation,” are what the Koran demands.
Image: Muslim humiliation of female slaves in the 18th century by Charles Boulay. Public domain.
That is how Believers in the One True Faith, who hold that theirs is the correct religion of Ibrahim (whose name they chronically mispronounce), are supposed to treat Jews, and that was their relationship with Jews in their lands until 1948. For fourteen centuries, wherever Jews lived in a Muslim country, they were not citizens with rights equal to those of Muslims. They lived in ghettoes for centuries, long before that institution emerged in 16th-century Christian Europe.
Muslims view Zionism as the Jews’ impermissible rebellion against their Sharia status as dhimmi. Dhimmi must pay a hefty annual communal jezya tax for the “crime” of refusing to convert to Islam. Paying the jezya also means buying the right to continue practicing the Jewish faith for another year. Zionism, in Muslim minds, is the intifada of the Jews.
Beginning in 1968, when Muslims hijacked an El Al flight (the only time that’s ever happened) and kept Israelis hostage until Israel released 16 imprisoned terrorists, Muslims have been kidnapping Israelis, and the Israeli government has freed Muslim terrorists for their return. However, I am suspicious of the current, presumptive concern Hamas is said to feel for its brethren in Israeli prisons. The monsters of October 7 who hide behind women and children and use them as human shields will never be mistaken for their concern for others.
This ostensible “concern” for their brethren in Israeli prisons may not be the true engine powering their murderous and sadistic brutality. They don’t need that excuse. What these death cultists really want is to abuse, “oppress and humiliate,” soil, torment, horrify, and cause intense pain to Jews. To rape their boys, women, and girls, shoot them in the head at the same time, and, in the end, as the final insult, spill their seed into the corpse.
Of course, it’s possible that Yahya Sinwar may not really care all that much about freeing fellow Muslim Brothers from Israeli prisons in exchange for Israeli captives. He may want Israel to eventually understand that he will not free the captives for any price, so that the IDF will have no choice but to crash into Rafah to free the hostages and kill Sinwar and his minions. That act will turn Hamas terrorists into shahidin/martyrs, while killing thousands of non-combatant Believers.
That sacrifice is worth it because the Jews will then be painted with their victims’ blood and, in the eyes of a hostile world, will be exposed, not as Chosen People who think they are better than everyone else, but as guilty of genocide, just like the Nazis. They will be humiliated as the most evil agents of the Shaitan in the world (Arabic’s plagiarized mispronunciation of the Hebrew Sa-tanh.)
From the first day of Islam, its “prophet” plagiarized Judaism, Muslims have viewed Jews with murderous envy, worthy of an embittered, first-born son named Ishmael who lost his primacy to his younger half-brother Yitzhak when his father, the kindest man in the ancient world, expelled this violent man from the country G-d promised to Abraham’s seed.
The Koran is an antisemitic tract. The New Testament is undeniably anti-Jew but at least respects the Jewish Bible, while the Muslims dismiss it as a fraud. While both Islam and Christianity claim to be successors to Judaism, they are very different in their relationship to the parent religion. The New Testament purports to be a continuation of the Jewish people. Thus, the Roman Catholic Church calls itself Verus Israel, the true Jews.
Islam, however, claims that the Jewish Bible is bogus. Muslims deny that Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mt. Sinai and took dictation from the Almighty for the text of the first Five Books of the Bible. Instead, Muslims claim that Moses brought down the Koran and, when he descended from Mt. Sinai, the evil Jews snatched it away and re-wrote it.
This is how Muslims explain why the Koran contains numerous Jews and their stories, as recounted in the Jewish Bible, only re-written and changed. To explain the different versions of the same stories, Muslims say that, when Muhammad came into the world, he restored the original text (i.e., today’s Koran).
Therefore, Islam teaches that the Jews’ Five Books (Torah) are a corrupt plagiarization of the Koran. For one infamous example, Islam teaches that Avraham did not bind his son Yitzhak for a sacrifice as the Jews believe. He bound his son Isma’il (their mispronunciation), and the episode took place in Mecca. When the Jews say in the Bible that the son chosen was Yitzhak and it happened in Jerusalem, the Jews lie.
Hamas knows it has no ability to destroy Israel militarily, but it can “oppress and humiliate” Israel as the Koran demands. Hamas headmen have shamelessly said the hundreds of miles of tunnels they built are for the leadership to survive in, but surely, he also had in mind the kidnapping and raping, torture, and humiliation of the Jews, 24-7, as an end in itself. How “elated” the Muslims were, Douglas Murray said after viewing the IDF’s 47-minute video compilation of their October 7 horrors.
The great medieval Spanish Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089-1167) lived all his life surrounded by Muslims and said that Arabic, which he surely spoke perfectly, was the bad Hebrew of larcenous, illiterate, nomadic, desert brigands.
Sha’i ben-Tekoa’s Phantom Nation: Inventing the “Palestinians” as the Obstacle to Peace is available at Amazon.com in hard cover or a Kindle ebook. His podcasts can be heard on www.phantom-nation.com.
Pro-Palestinian Protest in New York City Sees American Flags in Flames Again
During radical anti-Israel demonstrations in the heart of New York City, a pro-Palestinian protester waved a burning American flag as fellow activists cheered, while another set a counter-protester’s flag on fire, and yet another chanted “Death to America.”
As demonstrators rallied on Monday, one protester publicly set an American flag on fire outside the Brooklyn Borough Hall building in New York City.
The short clip was posted by Katie Smith, a local independent reporter and photojournalist who covers demonstrations and social movements in The Big Apple.
In another clip, pro-Israel counter-protesters waving American flags can be seen standing opposite the marching Palestinian supporters in front of the New York Stock Exchange, with one having his American flagged snatched from his hands.
Another clip shows a pro-Israel counter-protester’s American flag ignited, before being extinguished by police at the scene.
In the incident, a pro-Palestinian demonstrator can be heard calling for “Death to America.”
Demonstrations attacking Israel’s fight against Palestinian terrorists have long been accompanied by scenes of violence, as well as rhetoric against the United States and in support of terrorism.
In one shocking incident that triggered widespread outrage over Veterans Day Weekend in November, a pro-Palestinian mob was seen cheering on a protester who climbed a flagpole and tore down U.S. flags as demonstrators marched through central Manhattan.
Those demonstrations began the previous night in Columbus Circle and made their way to Grand Central Terminal, where protestors kicked in the doors as law enforcement sheltered inside. As they marched through the streets of Manhattan for the second night in a row, they briefly forced the closure of the transportation hub.
Last month, an American flag was seen aflame among protesters during New York demonstrations, where protesters were also heard chanting against the New York Police Department, comparing law enforcement as well as the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to the Ku Klux Klan.
The scene was reminiscent of a similar video of pro-Palestinian protesters burning an American flag in January.
On Sunday, a video of anti-Israel protesters in Dearborn, Michigan, closing out Ramadan by chanting, “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” during an International Al-Quds Day rally, went viral on social media.
The current conflict in Gaza began on October 7 after the U.S.-designated Islamic terror group Hamas, whose charter calls openly for the murder of Jews and the elimination of the Jewish state through relentless jihad, perpetrated the worst terrorist attack in Israel’s history in October, in an operation stemming from its radical beliefs.
The attack saw some 3,000 terrorists burst into Israel by land, sea, and air, gunning down participants at an outdoor music festival while others went door-to-door hunting for Jewish men, women, and children in local towns who were then subject to torture, rape, execution, immolation, and kidnapping.
The attack resulted in roughly 1,200 dead inside the Jewish state, over 5,300 more wounded, and at least 242 hostages of all ages taken — of which more than half remain in Gaza. The vast majority of the victims are civilians and include dozens of American citizens.
According to world-renowned military historian and professor Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, Hamas’ “death cult” relies on “useful Western idiots” to support the Palestinian cause, which has “fused with the leftwing DEI industry.” In addition, he argues, pro-Palestinian protests and support for Hamas in the U.S. have alienated many Americans and will all but ensure a tough conservative president in 2024.
Joshua Klein is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jklein@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter @JoshuaKlein.
Report: Iran’s IRGC Terrorists Backing Global Anti-Israel Protests
Iranian opposition activist Vahid Beheshti on Monday exposed a confidential letter written by a high-ranking officer in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, that revealed Iran has been secretly supporting anti-Israel rallies around the world.
“The IRGC is very clearly organizing and promoting these actions aimed at destroying our modern society, all the while our politicians continue to appease them, placing our values, stability and public order under great jeopardy,” Beheshti said on Monday:
When I have said from day one that the October 7th brutal massacre by Hamas received its order from Tehran, this is what I mean. When I have said from day one that the IRGC are behind the weekly protests in all major cities around the world under the pretext of supporting the Palestinians, this is exactly what I mean.
Iranians attend a gathering to express their solidarity with Palestinians after Hamas militants launched a deadly assault into Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, in Tehran, Iran. (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
To support his allegations, Beheshti published an alleged leaked confidential letter from IRGC Intelligence Security Organization (IRGC-IO) commander Brig. Gen. Mohammad Kazemi.
Kazemi is one of four senior Iranian officials that the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned in April 2023 for wrongfully detaining U.S. nationals in Iran. According to the Treasury Department, Kazemi also oversaw “the regime’s brutal crackdown against protests across the country in response to the killing of Mahsa Amini.”
In the alleged confidential letter, Kazemi discussed working with pro-Palestinian protest movements worldwide to politically isolate Israel. His correspondent was Col. Mohammad Sajedifar, a “cultural and psychological operations” officer of the IRGC.
Kazemi reportedly wrote:
Given the recent developments in the issue of Palestine and the psychological impact of the Al-Aqsa Storm operation on Palestinian communities in European and American countries, it was determined to implement significant support measures for April 15 and other rallies with the aim to achieve political isolation.
“Al-Aqsa Storm” is the name Hamas gave to its barbaric rape and murder spree against Israeli civilians on October 7.
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart News“April 15” refers to a wave of pro-Palestinian demonstrations on Monday that illegally blocked roads, bridges, and airports in the United States and other countries. The organizers described their stunt as an “economic blockade to free Palestine.”
“In each city, we will identify and blockade major choke points in the economy, focusing on points of production and circulation with the aim of causing the most economic impact,” said the organizers, a group called A15 Action.
In the United States, the pro-terrorist demonstrators managed to blockade the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, the main road leading to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington State, major roads in Philadelphia, and stretches of interstate highway in California and Oregon.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators attend a protest against Israel’s attacks on Gaza on April 15, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. (Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Beheshti noted that Iran is keenly interested in causing “as much chaos and instability as possible” to “destroy the modern society and build a global Islamic state.”
Beheshti warned Israel on April 13 that Iran supports groups seeking to create divisions among Israelis the same way it supports disruptive left-wing protest movements in the United States and Europe.
“Now, I can see the fingerprints of the Islamic Republic everywhere in Israel, in order to create division and destroy the Israeli society from within,” he said. “They have penetrated Israel through various sources from within because the Islamic Republic cannot confront Israel through military means.”
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