Boy, Did He Tell Some Whoppers!
The Ayatollah's lies about the war will damage the credibility of the Muslim religion.
My mother taught me not to lie. She even told me that a half-truth is a lie.
I suppose the Ayatollah's mother overlooked that aspect of his upbringing.
I can see statesmen packaging events to appear better and maintain confidence in government, and our elected officials here in the U.S. occasionally tell whoppers like these to hide culpability for blunders.
However, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is also a religious leader, not just the Supreme Leader of Iran. Islam demands a great deal from its followers, so they must believe deeply to continue adhering to all that it requires. That’s why, for the Iranian people's leading Muslim religious teacher to demonstrate such an obvious and brazen allergy to truth presents a grave risk to the religious faith of his people.
“The Islamic Republic won, and in retaliation dealt a severe slap to the face of America.”
“I offer my congratulations on the victory over the fallacious Zionist regime…”
The U.S. "gained no achievement" by intervening, and did it to prevent Israel's "complete destruction."
I don’t think he fully understands that we are in an information age. Internet access will be restored someday in his country, and there are many within his country at multiple levels who know full well how the “12 Day War” really went for Iran. The truth will get out.
Satellite photos from multiple independent sources, combined with assessments from the intelligence agencies of multiple countries, show that Iran was the whipping boy pretty much the entire war, and that their nuclear weapons development program, equipment, and materials have now been decimated.
Nuclear weapons are very delicate devices, and extremely expensive and time-consuming to develop and build. Iran, for decades at this point, has funneled money and effort into their nuclear weapon ambitions, in the hopes of someday using them to kill Jews in Israel, only to have Israel and the U.S. all but destroy them. The Iranian Government could have done a lot for its people with that money. Their military has also been badly damaged by Israel to give them this shot at wiping out Iran’s nuclear abilities and preventing reprisal.
What kind of Iran will emerge from this defeat, no one knows. However, religious leaders carry the weighty responsibility of maintaining their people’s faith, and lies have a way of surfacing; the bigger the lie, the harder it is to hide. Many Iranians will, sadly, doubt Khomeini’s religious teachings, and even their religion, once word gets out of the whoppers he told yesterday.