It Pays to be America's Enemy | Reviving a Dead Corpse: The Continuing Iran Negotiations

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Volume 15, Issue 69

"Our talks with the infidel West and our conflict with them ultimately revolve around one issue - one that demands our total support, with power and determination, with one voice and it is: Does Islam or does it not, force people by the power of the sword to submit to its authority corporeally if not spiritually? Yes. There are only three choices in Islam; either willing submission; or payment of the jizya (annual head tax for non-Muslims ostensibly to buy the protection but offering little), through physical though not spiritual, submission to the authority of Islam; or the sword - for it is not right to let him (an infidel) live.

The matter is summed up for every person alive: Either submit, or live
under the suzerainty of Islam or die. And it behooves (Muslim and Saudi leaders) to clarify this matter to the West - otherwise they will be like those who believe in part of the book while rejecting the rest.

But instead they concoct something that has no connection to the struggle, dressing it up and presenting it as Islam. Yet the verse does not support what they wish and mean regarding this matter. The West avenges itself against Islam for giving infidels three options; Islam, jizya or the sword. Now then, you intellectuals: Are these options a part of the faith or not? This is what the debates truly revolve around - so stop evading and dissembling the truth with lies."

—from Moderate Islam is a Prostration to the West by Osama bin Laden as translated from The Al Qaeda Reader by Raymond Ibrahim

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It Pays to be America's Enemy
By Hussein Aboubakr Mansour | August 19, 2022
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It seems that there is no wrong Iran could do to undermine the U.S. determination to pursue conciliatory diplomacy with the Islamic Republic. In the past week and during the latest round of indirect talks between Iran and the U.S. in Vienna, the Iranian official state policy of assassinating the author Salman Rushdie nearly came to fruition, the Department of Justice exposed an IRGC assassination plot targeting former U.S. officials, and the Iranians continue to demand major unreasonable concessions, yet neither the U.S. nor the EU is willing to confront Iran on its behavior. With enemies like these, who needs friends?

In 1989, the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a murderous decree in the form of an Islamic legal opinion, fatwa, against the British Muslim author Salman Rushdie as a punishment for his book Satanic Verses. Due to the status of the man who issued it, the fatwa acquired the status of both state policy and an Islamic Shia binding ruling. Despite later Iranian ambiguity on the issue, current Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei openly considered the ruling to be solid and irrevocable, and Hassan Nassrallah, the leader of the Iranian proxy terrorist group, Hezbollah, often reminded his followers of the fatwa.

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** Iran wants compensation if US pulls out of nuclear deal again, diplomatic source says ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=33bc34eb3d&mc_eid=UNIQID)
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** EU Says Iran’s Response to Nuclear Deal Plan Is Constructive ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=33bc34eb3d&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Bloomberg
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** Some see Iran's assassination plots as yet another reason not to revive nuclear deal ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=33bc34eb3d&mc_eid=UNIQID)
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** Iran is preparing its public for return to nuclear deal, says Israeli official ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=33bc34eb3d&mc_eid=UNIQID) - The Times of Israel
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** We Ignored Salman Rushdie's Warning ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=33bc34eb3d&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Common Sense News
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** How Iran exploited Rushdie's Satanic Verses ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=33bc34eb3d&mc_eid=UNIQID)
- CNN
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Wire Services MIA During Palestinian Authority President Abbas’ Holocaust Distortion Press Conference ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=33bc34eb3d&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Algemeiner

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Israeli strikes hit Iranian targets near Russia's Mediterranean bases ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=33bc34eb3d&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Reuters

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** Israel and Turkey to Restore Full Diplomatic Ties ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=33bc34eb3d&mc_eid=UNIQID)
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** New Congressional Report: U.S.-Trained Afghan Special Forces Forced to Flee to Iran ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=33bc34eb3d&mc_eid=UNIQID)
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** Iran is stuck in Biden’s blind spot ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=33bc34eb3d&mc_eid=UNIQID)
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