A Tale of Two Leaders

Wed Feb 11, 2015 10:17

TEHRAN (FNA)- The top leaders of two important Middle Eastern nations – Iran and Saudi Arabia – have been making news. A comparison of the two figures, and the state of their respective nations, can help us understand where the Middle East has been and where it is going.

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia made the news by dying. The late king has left his nation in uncertainty and confusion. The Takfiri terrorist groups that the Saudi regime helped create have become a Frankenstein's monster threatening the Kingdom's stability.

Takfiris celebrated the King's demise on social media. Some analysts believe they have infiltrated the Saudi police and military and may try to mount a coup d'état against the House of Saud. And while few would mourn the passing of the House of Saud, even fewer would welcome a Takfiri regime taking its place.

Almost simultaneously with King Abdullah's death, the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, made the news by publishing an open letter to the young people of the West. He urged them to question the Islamophobic propaganda generated by the Charlie Hebdo killings in France, and to freely and critically investigate history, current events, and religion.

Referring to such issues as slavery, racism, the Native American genocide, and the horrors of the two World Wars, the Supreme Leader pointedly asked why "the public conscience in the West awakens and comes to its senses after a delay of several decades or centuries." He implied that some day the West will regret its current treatment of Islam and Muslims – and that today's young people can contribute to healing wounds by seeking truths that their leaders are hiding from them.

The Supreme Leader's letter represents a gentle, reasonable, persuasive defense of Islam and its core values of truth and justice. It underlines the stark contrast between the two biggest countries of the Middle Eastern oil-producing region, Iran and Saudi Arabia, in terms of quality of leadership.

God and history will judge whether the late King Abdullah adequately fulfilled his self-appointed responsibility of defending Islam and its holy places of Mecca and Medina. From today's vantage point, his performance appears unimpressive at best. The Saudi King lived his life as a puppet of the western-based international bankers who dominate the world through their issuance and control of currency. Since the banksters' currency system is based on usury – all of today's currency is lent into existence at interest – the entire system is haram, meaning absolutely forbidden by Islam. Yet King Abdullah, through his support of the petro-dollar, played a key role in propping up this satanic system.

Likewise, the late Saudi king did nothing to stop Islamophobia from sweeping the West. On the contrary, through his support of Takfiri terrorism and western false flag terrorism (often the same thing) he has been a de facto sponsor of Islamophobia, and therefore a participant in the War on Islam that has been so poorly disguised as a "war on terror."

King Abdullah did nothing to prevent Zionist-led neoconservative forces in the West from blowing up the World Trade Center and launching a global war on Islam. Though 15 of the 19 alleged 9/11 hijackers were Saudis, and though all were obviously innocent (some briefly turned up alive after the attacks) the Saudi King and his CIA-Mossad-linked intelligence service have pointedly refused to debunk the myth of the "9/11 hijackings" despite possessing more than enough evidence to do so.

King Abdullah watched helplessly as the contradiction at the core of his kingdom – the split between its corrupt, sybaritic royal family and the puritanical, obscurantist Wahhabi fanatics of its religious establishment – widened to the breaking point. His government tried to redirect Wahhabi anger away from the Zionist and western dominated House of Saud and toward non-Wahhabi Muslims, especially Shiite Muslims. This policy led to the current Takfiri rein of terror, and the establishment of ISIL's so-called Islamic State, which now threatens Saudi Arabia as well as everyone else in the region.

Nero has been condemned by history for "fiddling while Rome burned." King Abdullah did not just fiddle, but actively contributed to starting the fires that are threatening the House of Islam.

Toward the end of his life, the Saudi king completely betrayed the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan), designating it as a terrorist group despite the fact that in most countries the Brotherhood restricts itself to peaceful efforts to promote Islamic values. In the Ikhwan's hour of need, as thousands of its supporters were being slaughtered by the Zionist agent al-Sisi, King Abdullah joined the group's persecutors.

The Supreme Leader of Iran, by contrast, has shown loyalty to allies including Hezbollah and the Syrian government. More importantly, the Iranian Leader has taken a principled stand against the Zionist and imperialist pyromaniacs. He has pursued moderate, reasonable policies aimed at maintaining Iranian independence and fostering the development of a genuinely independent Middle East, while maintaining working relationships with all parties willing to engage in constructive joint action. His patient yet firm opposition to Zionism and imperialism appears to be paying dividends, as Iran's influence in the region continues to rise. Israeli Prime Minister Netanayahu seems panicked by the Supreme Leader's successes, while remaining spectacularly unsuccessful in his anti-Iran efforts.

The Saudi regime recently showed its complete enslavement to the West by collapsing the price of oil under western orders: an act of economic warfare against Russia, Iran and Venezuela. If investigative journalist Wayne Madsen's sources are correct, the Saudis have succeeded in pumping so much oil by fracking using sea water to flush out extra oil. But this method could lead to the demise of the biggest Saudi oil fields in as little as five years, which could create a crisis both for world oil prices and for the stability of Saudi Arabia.

Iran, for its part, is working to become economically as well as scientifically, technologically, and militarily self-sufficient. It is moving to turn its oil into value-added products, rather than simply exporting raw crude, while building nuclear power plants in preparation for the day when the world runs out of oil – or stops burning it so as to prevent climate catastrophe. These policies are as wise as the Saudi policies are foolish.

In short, while Saudi Arabia has suffered from derelict royal authority, Iran's leadership compares favorably not only to the benighted Saudis, but to a broad spectrum of other countries, Muslim and non-Muslim. The Supreme Leader's reaching out to young people all over the world represents his orientation toward building a better future; while the Saudi king's bequeathal of his kingdom to a gaggle of feuding geriatric sybarites illustrates that kingdom's ineffectual wallowing in the quagmires of the past.

By Kevin Barret for Fars News Agency

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