(Gatestone Institute) Amir Taheri - If the U.S. believes Iran's claims that they need enriched uranium to produce electricity and that a fatwa by Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei (that no one has seen) forbids Muslims from building a nuclear bomb, why should the U.S. bother to stop the mullahs? Because the Khomeinist regime has been committing crimes inside and outside Iran for four decades. The Khomeinist regime's "exporting revolution" has contributed to triggering and prolonging the war in Yemen. Without its involvement, the Syrian civil war may not have led to what is the greatest tragedy the world has seen in this century. By creating Hizbullah, the mullahs have led Lebanon to the brink of ungovernability and systemic collapse. By supporting the most radical rejectionist groups, the mullahs have also helped block the road to an Israeli-Palestinian coexistence accord. Inside Iran, the Khomeinist regime has committed crimes against almost every section of society by massacring peaceful protesters, persecuting religious minorities and political dissidents, and damaging the nation's key institutions with corruption, mismanagement and sheer incompetence. To forget all that, not to mention the seizing of scores of hostages and the killing of hundreds of U.S., British and French soldiers with roadside bombs and terror attacks in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan, and over 100 terror operations in 22 countries, would be the height of naivete and a sure sign of moral decadence. The writer was executive editor-in-chief of the daily Kayhan in Iran from 1972 to 1979.
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