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* Majid Rafizadeh: Biden Administration: Rewarding the Murderous Regime of Iran?


** Germany's Ban of the Hamas Flag: "A Superficial Measure" ([link removed])
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by Soeren Kern • July 1, 2021 at 5:00 am
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* German lawmakers said that banning the Hamas flag was aimed at sending "a clear signal" of support "to our Jewish citizens." Others, however, dismissed the ban as an empty gesture aimed at silencing critics of the German government's pro-Islamist foreign policy ahead of upcoming federal elections this September.
* "A ban on flags remains a superficial measure if the structures of the associations and parties concerned are not or only insufficiently affected." — Alex Feuerherdt, Mena Watch
* "What we have been experiencing in Germany for some time testifies to deep-seated Muslim anti-Semitism. One would have therefore wished that politics would have been active as early as 2015." — Ramin Peymani, German-Iranian author
* "Wherever anti-Semites appear, politicians and the media try to place them in the right-wing camp, although time and again it is declared leftists who incite against Israel and urge others not to 'buy from the Jews.' The political lie of mostly right-wing extremist anti-Semitism was told so often that at some point no one raised an objection." — Ramin Peymani, German-Iranian author
* "Political leaders in Europe are only gradually waking up from their multicultural daydreams. However, this is less based on the mature realization that one's own policy has failed, rather than due to the pressure of voters who fear for their prosperity and security." — Ramin Peymani, German-Iranian author
* Germany's ban of Hamas flags follows a well-established pattern of announcing half-hearted measures to tackle radical Islam in Germany. In particular, the German government has a long track record of hypocrisy on Israel and the Jewish people.

The German Parliament has amended Germany's Criminal Code to ban the flag of Hamas, the terrorist group that rules the Gaza Strip. Pictured: The German Parliament in session on June 24, 2021 in Berlin . (Photo by Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images)

The German Parliament has amended Germany's Criminal Code to ban the flag of Hamas, the terrorist group that rules the Gaza Strip.

The move comes after the green and white flags of Hamas, which seeks the destruction of Israel, featured prominently at pro-Palestinian rallies across Germany during the Gaza conflict in May. Some of those rallies ended in anti-Semitic violence in German cities and towns.

German lawmakers said that banning the Hamas flag was aimed at sending "a clear signal" of support "to our Jewish citizens." Others, however, dismissed the ban as an empty gesture aimed at silencing critics of the German government's pro-Islamist foreign policy ahead of upcoming federal elections this September.

Some opposition lawmakers said that if the German government was truly serious about tackling Muslim anti-Semitism in Germany, it would completely ban not only Hamas, but all the anti-Jewish Islamist groups freely operating in the country.

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** Biden Administration: Rewarding the Murderous Regime of Iran? ([link removed])
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by Majid Rafizadeh • July 1, 2021 at 4:00 am
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* "I told judges not to write death sentences for girls. This is what I said. But they perverted my words and quoted me as saying: Don't execute girls. First marry them for one night and then execute them." — Grand Ayatollah Hussain-Ali Montazeri, theologian and human rights activist, in his diaries.
* The Biden administration should understand that Ebrahim Raisi is an extremely dangerous man partially because, from his perspective, anyone who criticizes the Islamic Republic or protests against it is rising against God and his representatives on earth. Whatever his regime does is presumed to be fully justified and rewarded by God because the Islamic Republic is a divine political establishment and all its actions are enforcing God's will on earth.
* The Biden administration truly needs to halt talks with the Iranian regime, stop appeasing the ruling mullahs, impose sanctions and hold the Iranian regime accountable for handpicking a mass murderer to be the next president, and most likely, the next Supreme Leader of Iran.

The next president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, is known in his country as "The Butcher." He was a member of the "Death Commission" which, according to Amnesty International, "forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially executed in secret thousands of political dissidents" and sent thousands to their deaths, often "without a shred of due process." Raisi is extraordinarily unpopular among the Iranian people. (Photo by Mohsen Esmaeilzadeh/ISNA News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)

The Biden administration's attempts to appease the ruling mullahs of Iran do not seem to have an end. A few days after the Iranian regime handpicked a mass murderer to be its next president -- in a blow to the Iranian people and advocates of democracy and human rights -- the Biden administration is rewarding the regime. The US announced that it is now considering lifting sanctions against Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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