Also speaking was a man with the false name Reza Kahlili, a mask, sunglasses, a "FREE IRAN" baseball cap, and a distorted voice. He was billed as a defector from the Iranian Guard and a former CIA spy, although his remarks suggested that either he still works for the CIA or they used to pay him unnecessarily. Kahlili described a history of Europe and China selling weapons to Iran -- as if the United States has not done the same, as if you can fight a war against an unarmed country, as if you can sell arms to Saudi Arabia without making sure Iran is armed first!
Kahlili also announced that Iran has a nuclear program and explained that President Obama is doing everything wrong. We need to control the oil, Kahlili explained, and to stop the spread of weapons to terrorists. Rather than opposing weapons sales or aggressive actions that generate terrorism, Kahlili proposed changing the government of someone else's nation. We need to help the Iranians overthrow the regime, he said. If we appease Hitler we will witness another holocaust, he explained.
The evil Islamic regime rapes and tortures, he said, ending with "god bless" -- a comment presumably directed to a non-Islamic god.
Ken Timmerman of NewsMax claimed that by failing to help Iranian protesters, Obama was strengthening the evil regime. Obama has also dared to communicate with Iran without making his communications public. That must not be tolerated.
Where could this conference go after a rightwing reporter demanding regime change and denouncing the president for not waging enough war? To September 11, of course! Vincent Forras spoke as a September 11 first responder who denounced the idea of building a mosque near the "holy ground" of "ground zero." This was supposed to strengthen the case for war on Iran but not involve bigotry of any sort. I'll admit I can't see how that works.
Klayman concluded by stressing again that Iran's is a "modern-day neo-Nazi regime" where "they hate Christians and Jews." A good ruler of Iran, he said, was the Shah -- never mentioning the U.S. coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected prime minister to put that U.S.-government-friendly dictator in place. Even more disturbing were Klayman's final words about his supposed love for the "Persian people who have largely broken away from Islam." Klayman believes "they need to find faith," Christian faith apparently.
That ought to work.
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