Eliminating Israel is a Fundamental part of the ideology of the Iranian regime. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad got the most controversy when he called for Israel to be “wiped off the map

”. But he wasn’t the only Iranian official who called for Israel’s destruction. Even before Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came into office, Iranian officials including the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for Israel’s destruction and supported anti-Israel genocidal terrorist groups including Hamas and Hezbollah. In fact, Iran’s biggest terrorist attacks on Israelis and Jews happened when Rafsanjani, not Ahmadinejad, was President. In 1992, the Iranian regime bombed the Israeli embassy in Argentina and then in 1994, bombed the Jewish community center. The attacks were approved and directed by the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Rafsanjani played a role in both the attacks and was every bit of an accomplice. Even while Rafsanjani continues to dupe many westerners into believing that he’s a moderate, he was one of the Iranian officials who went on arrest warrents in Argentina for the attacks on the Israeli embassy and the Jewish community center.

In Iran’s regime, it’s not only Ahmadinejad who wants Israel to be wiped off the map. The Iranian regime seeks Israel’s destruction since the 1979 Iranian revolution.

Iran’s Presidential elections only allows Shia males who are over 18 and who have the same views as the regime to run in presidential elections. The over 18 part may be reasonable. The Shia male part and having to have the same views as the regime is the outrageous part. Iran’s regime only allows candidates approved by the regime to run. The Iranian regime isn’t allowing candidates who support peace with Israel to run. Iran’s Vice President Mashaei even got into big trouble for giving cheap lip service to the idea that Iran is friends of the Israeli people. He said it in order to not make Iran seem like a threat when it is. If Mashaei got into so much trouble for making that statement by a regime that only allows candidates approved by them to run, what would make the Iranian regime allow a Presidential candidate who supports peace with Israel to run? While Mashaei was in trouble, Ali Khamenei said,”Who are Israelis? They are responsible for usurping houses, territory, farmlands and business. They are combatants at the disposal of Zionist operatives. A Muslim nation cannot remain indifferent vis-à-vis such people who are stooges at the service of the arch-foes of the Muslim world.”

Even Mashaei himself called for the destruction of Israel.

Eliminating Israel is a Fundamental part of the regime.

Iran’s 2009 elections resulted in Mir Hossein Mousavi and Ahmadinejad both claiming victory. Mousavi gets the praise as a reformist. My townhall blog

Iran Monitor has documented what a sham reformist Mousavi is and showed that he is an accomplice for the Iranian regime’s bloodshed. Many people claim that Mousavi’s victory will result in less calls to wipe Israel off the map. They believe that his victory is better for Israel. The truth is that it isn’t. Mousavi was an accomplice in the Iranian regime’s creation of Hezbollah. Hezbollah is opposed to Israel’s right to exist. In fact, Hezbollah made its goal of destroying Israel and its opposition to any peace proposal with Israel clear in its 1985 program:

Our primary assumption in our fight against Israel states that the Zionist entity is aggressive from its inception, and built on lands wrested from their owners, at the expense of the rights of the Muslim people. Therefore our struggle will end only when this entity is obliterated. We recognize no treaty with it, no cease fire, and no peace agreements, whether separate or consolidated.

We vigorously condemn all plans for negotiation with Israel, and regard all negotiators as enemies, for the reason that such negotiation is nothing but the recognition of the legitimacy of the Zionist occupation of Palestine. Therefore we oppose and reject the Camp David Agreements, the proposals of King Fahd, the Fez and Reagan plan, Brezhnev’s and the French-Egyptian proposals, and all other programs that include the recognition (even the implied recognition) of the Zionist entity.

Newsmax reported that:

A former Iranian intelligence officer, Abdolghassem Mesbahi, tells Newsmax that he used to work for Mousavi when Mousavi headed the regime’s intelligence services as Iran’s prime minister.

Today’s reformer was yesterday’s terrorist, he says.

“Mir Hossein Mousavi was one of the founders of Hezbollah. Ayatollah Khomeini put him on the Hezollah leadership council when the group was created in 1982-1983. “

In an interview with Payane Enghelab magazine

in 1981, Mousavi called for the creation of an Iranian-controlled Lebanese militia to spearhead a military confrontation with Israel.

“We are ready to participate with an armed force to fight Israel,” he said. “We have repeatedly announced that we are ready to have an actual, real and military presence in Southern Lebanon and on the borders of the occupied Palestinian lands,” a euphemism for Israel.

Mousavi was an accomplice in Iran’s material support for Hezbollah. Considering his call for the creation of an Iranian-controlled Lebanese terror group to fight Israel and his role in the creation of Hezbollah, does that sound like someone who is better for Israel? No. The group that he helped to create is responsible for the killing of innocent Israeli men, women and children

and for the killing of the most Americans before Al Qaeda. Hezbollah started a war with Israel in 2006 by kidnapping IDF [Israel Defense Forces] soldiers and then launched rocket attacks on Israeli men, women and children. Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the very group that Mousavi helped to create, said,”If all the Jews gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide”. Unlike other anti-Israel propagandists, Nasrallah makes no distinction between Jews on one hand and Israel, zionists, zionism and Israeli on the other hand. Nasrallah said,”If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli”.

The Shia Lebanese scholar Amaal Saad Ghorayeb even confirms that Hezbollah is an anti-Semitic movement. This is just some evidence that Mousavi isn’t that much better than Ahmadinejad. In my townhall blog Iran Monitor, I offer pleny of evidence that Mousavi isn’t really better than Ahmadinejad and that Ahmadinejad getting kicked out of office isn’t going to produce that much change in Iran’s foreign and domestic policy.

Iran’s popular pro-democracy movement does favor peace with Israel and verbally attacks the Mullahs’ policy toward Israel. That movement isn’t part of the regime and constantly suffers oppression from that regime. Mousavi is not part of that movement.

Mousavi even vowed to continue Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Iran is developing nuclear weapons to be used for the global jihad. Iran is developing nuclear weapons to wipe Israel off the map. Rafsanjani, the so-called moderate, said:

If one day, the Islamic world is also equipped with weapons like those that Israel possesses now, then the imperialists’ strategy will reach a standstill because the use of even one nuclear bomb inside Israel will destroy everything. However, it will only harm the Islamic world. It is not irrational to contemplate such an eventuality.

Khamenei threatened to “vaporize the Zionist entity” with a nuclear bomb. Iran’s nuclear program also gives Hezbollah and Hamas access to nuclear weapons to be used against Israel. Yet Mousavi, who called for the creation of an Iranian-controlled militia to fight Israel and who helped to create Hezbollah, vows to continue Iran’s nuclear program. Boy, that sounds better for Israel. Mousavi’s victory won’t be better for the west either. It’ll just excite the appeasement crowd and get them to be even louder in having dangerous Chamberlain-like appeasement policies toward Iran. Iran’s Presidential elections are just a selection of different guys who hold the same views as the regime. The President doesn’t even have the most power in Iran. He has the second-most power to the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The appeasement crowd made the argument that Iran is not a threat to Israel because Ahmadinejad doesn’t have as much control as Khamenei. But Khamenei also called for Israel’s destruction. He even likes Ahmadinejad and rigged the Presidential election for him in 2005. Iran’s Presidential elections are just a selection of guys who hold the same view as the regime. That same view includes the view on Israel. If the Supreme leader likes the candidate, there is still a possibility for him to rig the election for that candidate.

Iran’s 2009 election won’t produce any sort of peace between Iran and Israel. Iran and Israel would still remain in a state of war with each other. Iran would still support terrorism on Israel, continue enrichment for nuclear weapons and would continue to call for Israel’s destruction. Only having regime-approved candidates run in elections for President, which doesn’t even have as much power as the Supreme Leader, is not going to help Israel in any way. That would not result in having Iran recognize Israel’s right to exist. It would not result in Iran stopping its support for terrorism and its end to uranium enrichment for nuclear weapons to be used in the global jihad. It would just result in Iran continuing those policies including its rejectionist stance vis-a-vis Israel.