Obituary of a Madman

As part of my new commitment to Blog-Iran, I was directed to this notable obituary of a key figure in the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution — and an indication of the tender mercy we can expect from Islamofascists if they are allowed to expand their power:

After the establishment in 1979 of a fundamentalist Islamic republic in Iran under the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Iranian army occupied three Kurdish-Iranian towns for supporting the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, condemned by Khomeini as “un- Islamic”. The hardline cleric Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali set up his Islamic revolutionary court to weed out “counter-revolutionaries” in the town of Saghez.
Learning that a Kurdish defendant who was born in Orumiyeh had lost a hand to a grenade explosion during the Tehran uprising, Khalkhali asked what he was doing in Saghez.
“I am a guest at a social get- together, your honour,” replied the defendant.
“That fits together very well,” Khalkhali said candidly, “Born in Orumiyeh, participated in the Tehran uprising, executed in Saghez. Kill him! Next!”
The next defendant was charged with being the son of a usurer.
“What does my father’s crime have to do with me?” protested the defendant.
“Usury is haram – sin,” thundered Khalkhali, “and so is the seed of usury. Kill him! Next.”
Twenty-four other Kurds were tried that day by Khalkhali. All were executed.

Khalkhali should be a name we recognize, according to the Independent:

Television footage taken in 1980 showed Khalkhali prodding the burnt corpses of US soldiers killed in an unsuccessful mission to rescue American hostages held at the US embassy in Tehran.

Khalkhali died unrepentant on November 27th:

Twenty years on, he remained unrepentant. “I would do exactly the same again,” he said, when reminded how defendants had been given little chance to speak or get a lawyer to challenge evidence, if any were presented. “If they were guilty, they will go to hell and if they were innocent, they will go to heaven.”

Bear in mind that the people of Iran have been under the thumb of people such as Khalkhali for twenty-four years. People such as Khalkhali have been exporting Islamofascism for all that time, notably but not exclusively through Hezb’ Allah, and now are reportedly sheltering al-Qaeda leaders. After Iraq is secure, Iran should be our next focus for change — not military action, but through diplomatic, economic, and covert means, we need to defeat this threat to the region and the world.