Hossein Khomeini Calls For U.S. To Invade Iran

J.J. Jackson* | June 18, 2006

Hossein Khomeini, wants the United States to come and liberate Iran.

An Iranian Shia cleric ? and grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of the 1979 Iranian Revolution who dubbed the U.S. the “Great Satan” ? has called on the President Bush to “come and occupy Iran” and “break the prison [doors open].”

Speaking from the Shia holy city of Qom, Hossein Khomeini, in an interview marking the 17th anniversary of the ayatollah’s death, blasted the current regime and it’s alleged quest for nuclear weapons and called for freedom to come to Iran.

“My grandfather’s revolution has devoured its children and has strayed from its course,” he told Al-Arabiya, a Dubai-based Arabic-language station. “I lived through the revolution and it called for freedom and democracy ? but it has persecuted its leaders.”

He dismisses the clerics who inherited power from the revolution as “wearers of the turban” and accuses them of abusing their power. - WorldNetDaily

But apparently there is more than just this. He apparently wants to become the leader of Iran as well.

“Iran will gain real power if freedom and democracy develop there,” Khomeini said, adding that if he came to power, one of his first acts would be to make wearing of the Muslim veil optional for Iranian women. “Strength will not be obtained through weapons and the bomb.”

Ah, yes, he wants the U.S. to invade so that he can come to power.

Should the United States invade Iran?

If they keep threatening to attack our allies such as Israel that would be provocation enough. There is no reason to believe that if and when they are capable they would not carry out such threats.

Would it be more preferable for the people of one of these Islamic States to actually rise up and have a successful rebellion (possibly with the aid of the U.S. but lead by themselves) and install Democracy on their own?

Yes.

Will they?

I sincerely doubt it although anything is possible when people put their minds to it.

Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declaration of Imam Khomeini

(Book)

Authors:Ruhollah Khomeini, Hamid Algar
Manufacturer:Mizan Pr
Released:June, 1981

Guests of the Ayatollah : The First Battle in America’s War with Militant Islam

(Book)

Authors:Mark Bowden
Manufacturer:Atlantic Monthly Press
Released:25 April, 2006

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