I made no such "pretense". Your perceptions are yours alone.
It does not matter who inhabits elected office. In a representative republic, the citizens choose the leaders they prefer in elections. That means they own the subsequent actions those elected leaders undertake. During the Nuremberg trials, the principle of collective guilt was solidly established.
There is no distinction between a state and its leaders. The head of state acts for the state, which by definition, includes the populace.
If any nation wants to stop their government from doing things they don't wish it to do, the remedy is obvious. The thirteen colonies did it in 1776. We of Iran did it in 1979.
If you choose not to employ the obvious corrective, you are complicit in whatever is done by your nation.
I made no such argument.
Again, the conclusions you prefer to draw are not of my making.
The hatred of America is longstanding, justifiable, and widespread.
Do you deny this?
I note that you say...."
WE of Iran did it in
1079" I take it, therefore, you are sympathetic to the Khomeinist Revolution of 1979 that ousted the Shah of Iran?
Later that same year Ruhollah Khomeini was installed as the Supreme Leader of "The Islamist Republic of Iran.
The Ayatollah Khomeini was a Shite Muslin who adhered to the 12-er doctrine in Islam.
This means, he believed that the 12th Iman (a blood descendant of the "Prophet" Muhammad) also known as the "Madhi" was an eschatological Messiah figure who would re-appear on Earth during the "End Days." The "End Days" were an apocalyptic period that represented the ending of human history. A time of global warfare, death, devastation, suffering and misery.
But according to a 12-er Shite Muslim like the Ayatollah Khomeini, the "End of Days" was something to be anticipated with great joy because it was in this apocalypse that his sacred Islamic scripture had declared the Madhi would return, He would then rule a Muslims for a period of 7 years, during which time he would establish perfect justice and guide the umma to the creation of a kind of global Islamic "utopia/".
The Ayatollah Khomeini believe that the Madhi was a living human be who was over 1150 years old, The Mahdi was among us, but he could not be seen., according to the Ayatollah Khomeini and his fellow member of the 12-er sect because Allah had "occulted him - the means hidden him from sight (like the Invisible Man' Allah had said that the umma would simply have t wait until the "End Days" - whenever they arrived, (?) -for the Madhi to reappear and redeem the historic injustices that the worlds Muslims had endured; plus implant the foundation s for the new global Islamic "utopia."
But Ruhollah Khomeini had a clever idea...Why don't we slaughter very last jew we can and annihilate all of Allah's other enemies by exporting as much terrorist slaughter as we can, as much bloody jihad and chaotic devastation as possible. This would impress the Madhi and hopefully pre-empt his return. The next "Supreme Leader". the Ayatollah Khamanei held the same religious views as his predecessor, only by the time he was in power, nuclear weapons were we now a possible means for Iran towage Jihad. Nuclear weapons would be a great way to wipe out Israel and strike America and using them to do this would likely trigger a global thermonuclear holocaust which would create the ideal conditions for an End of Days" scenario, and that this would almost certainly create the condition for the return of the Madhi - the great, eagerly anticipated Messiah.
Now, if you ask me, anyone who genuinely believes this pile of pure unadulterated bullshit is 100% insane and/or 100% evil, It is pure. Satanic "Death Cult" madness. But then again so is Islam in general.
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