Anti-Americanism
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Since its founding in 1979, the Iranian regime has gone to great lengths to target the "Great Satan," the United States, through a variety of tactics, including via terrorist attacks, militant proxies, hostage-taking, naval mines, and cyberattacks. All told, the Iranian regime is accountable for the deaths of more than 1,000 American soldiers and civilians.
THE IRANIAN REGIME’S CONSPIRACIES
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The U.S. Department of State funds and supports an anti-regime network in Iran
The IRGC Intelligence Organization and the Ministry of Intelligence (MOI) claimed without evidence to have busted a “foreign-affiliated network” planning to reignite protests in Iran.
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Over 20 countries are involved in a conspiracy to topple the Islamic Republic via the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran
General Mohammad Kazemi, head of the IRGC’s Intelligence Organization, alleged that the US, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Belgium, Italy, and Iran’s arch-foe Israel were among the countries involved in stoking the protest movement that began in September 2022 following the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the Morality Police.
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Anti-Islamic Republic of Iran protesters are linked to U.S. intelligence agencies
Deputy commander of the IRGC Ali Fadavi said on November 29, 2022 that those arrested were not only in touch with “Iran International [TV], which is a branch of the enemy's spy services, but also were related to the intelligence and spy services of the U.S.”
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Iranian journalists are CIA foreign agents
Two journalists that reported on Mahsa Amini’s death—Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi—were arrested shortly after news broke of Amini’s death and are reportedly being held in Iran’s notorious Evin prison. They were accused of being foreign agents on October 29, 2022 in a joint statement released by Iran’s ministry of intelligence and the intelligence organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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The U.S. operates terrorist camps in Iraq to threaten Iran’s national security
“There are 1,200 military camps in northern Iraq with 3,000 armed terrorists operating against us. During the last several years, however, their bases have transformed into a complex acting against our national security with American help…They were being used as terrorists for hire,” Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Mohammad Bagheri said on October 16, 2022, adding that “in effect, these terrorist strongholds were Zionists bases.”
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Western powers, including the U.S., want to install a king in Iran, like the Shah
They like the Iran of the Pahlavi era, a milking cow that is submissive to their orders. They want a king in Iran who for a simple decision would have to ask the English ambassador or the U.S. ambassador what to do! How could the Iranian nation tolerate such a disgrace? This is what they’re after. They’re against Iran,” Supreme Leader Khamenei said on October 3, 2022.
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The U.S. “designed” the Mahsa Amini protests
“This rioting was planned,” Supreme Leader Khamenei told a cadre of police students in Tehran on October 3, 2022. “These riots and insecurities were designed by America and the Zionist regime, and their employees.”
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U.S.-backed Ukraine would have started a war against Russia if Russia did not start the war in Ukraine
“War is a violent and difficult endeavor, and the Islamic Republic is not at all happy that people are caught up in war,” Mr. Khamenei told Mr. Putin in Iran on July 19, 2022, according to the supreme leader’s office. “But in the case of Ukraine, if you had not taken the helm, the other side would have done so and initiated a war.”
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The Holocaust is a lie created by Jews.
Iranian official Mehdi Taeb, the head of the regime-affiliated think-tank Ammar Strategic Advisory Base and brother of the head of the IRGC Intelligence Organization, said in an April 26, 2022 show on Channel 3 (Iran) that the Holocaust was a complete lie fabricated by the Jews, whom he described as "masters of inventing lies." Taeb also said that the Jews were not burned in the Holocaust and that it was impossible to prove that they were killed in gas chambers. See video here.
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Admiration for Hitler
An article on the front page of the Iranian Kayhan newspaper, affiliated with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, on April 28, 2022, stated that Hitler was “smarter and more courageous” than current European leaders because he “expelled the Jews from Germany.
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The West created ISIS to divide Muslims
In October 2014, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, blamed the United States and the British government for creating the Islamic State: “If anyone fuels the fire in this regard, he or she will definitely be helping sinister America and Britain which are the creators of the ISIL and al-Qaeda.”
Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency reported in December 2014 that Israeli businessmen are buying properties in areas held by ISIS in northern Iraq for eventual Jewish settlement. According to the report more than 2,000 Jews have already settled in Iraq's Kurdistan region.
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French intelligence services carried out the Charlie Hebdo shooting to tarnish Islam
Senior Iranian officials have openly described the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris as a false flag operation. For example, Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani said in January 2015 that the French intelligence services perpetrated the attack to tarnish the image of Muslims.
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9/11 was an inside job
Iran’s former president Ahmadinejad – echoing other Iranian officials – suggested in a speech in 2010 to the UN General Assembly that "some segments within the U.S. government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy, and its grips on the Middle East, in order to save the Zionist regime."
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Israeli death squads behind Sandy Hook shootings
In 2012 Iran's state-run PressTV blamed Israel for the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary and accused the US government of a cover-up: Israel targeted "America in the most hideous and brutal way possible, in fact, an Israeli ‘signature attack,’ one that butchers children, one reminiscent of the attacks that killed so many children in Gaza."
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The West is drying up Iran
"Today our country is moving towards drought, which is partly unintentional due to industry and partly intentional, as a result of the enemy destroying the clouds moving towards our country and this is a war that Iran is going to overcome," former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a speech in September 2012. Previously, Ahmadinejad accused European nations of deliberately emptying clouds to produce torrential storms in their own countries that would lead in turn to rain shortages in the Middle East.
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Israel spreads homosexuality for world domination
The regime-controlled Iranian newspaper Mashregh asserted in 2012 that the "Zionist regime spreads homosexuality"worldwide in order to pursue its goal of world domination. Mashregh added that the US and the UK are using money from Jews to spread homosexuality throughout the world. Hollywood was also attacked for positively depicting gays.
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Immodest, promiscuous women are causing earthquakes in Iran
Kazem Sedighi, a senior Iranian cleric, said in 2010 that women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes: "Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes." In response to his remarks, feminist activists initiated a viral "Boobquake" campaign, calling on women to dress immodestly to see if they could create an earthquake.
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“Zionists” control the illegal drug trade
During an international, UN-sponsored drug conference in Tehran in June 2012, Iran’s then vice president Mohammad-Reza Rahimi said that the "Zionists" are in firm control of the illegal drug trade: "The Islamic Republic of Iran will pay for anybody who can research and find one single Zionist who is an addict. (…) They do not exist. This is the proof of their involvement in drugs trade." Rahimi also claimed that gynecologists killed black babies on the orders of the Zionists.
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Space aliens run the United States
Iran's semiofficial Fars News Agency reported in January 2014 that the U.S. government has been secretly run by a "shadow government" of space aliens since 1945 based out of Nevada. According to the report, the aliens were not only behind the rise of Nazi Germany but also seek the creation of a global electronic surveillance system to hide their presence on Earth and their secret agenda for global domination.
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A “Zionist plot” was behind the publication of Muhammad cartoons in a Danish newspaper
In 2006, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said a "Zionist plot" was responsible for the controversial publication of cartoons of Muhammad in a Danish newspaper: “The freedom of speech about which the [Westerners] talk so much does not permit anyone to doubt the myth about the massacre of the Jews, known as the Holocaust… I assume that a profound Zionist plot is at the core of the matter. They are setting the Muslims and Christians against one another. This is very important for the Zionists - to set the great Muslim community around the world against the Christians, and to set the Christians against the Muslims. That's what this is about. This is the handiwork of the Zionists."
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An “international Jewish conspiracy” is behind the kidnapping of children and harvesting their organs
THE IRANIAN REGIME PROHIBITS
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Dogs
Iranian parliament introduced a bill in November 2014 in that would sentence anyone caught keeping dogs as pets or walking them in public to 74 lashes or a fine. Iran’s morality police have previously cracked down on dog owners, in some cases confiscating the animals. According to Islamic custom, dogs are considered unclean and Iranian officials also deem pet ownership to be an imitation of corrupt Western culture.
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Happiness
Seven young men and women were arrested by Iranian authorities in May 2014 for posting a video of themselves on YouTube dancing to the international hit song "Happy". Iranian authorities deemed it a “vulgar clip which hurt public chastity.” The group was forced to apologize on television and put on trial. Each of them was given suspended sentences of 91 lashes and 6 months in prison, which will not be implemented as long as they do not engage in any “wrongdoings” for the next 3 years.
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Buddha Statues
The Secretary of the Iranian Headquarters to Preserve Cultural Heritage ordered a ban on the sale of Buddha statues in February 2013 as symbols of a "cultural invasion". Authorities confiscated Buddha statues from shops in Tehran to stop the promotion of the religion.
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Barbie Dolls and The Simpsons
In 2012, Iranian authorities targeted and closed down shops for selling Barbie dolls, which had already been banned since the mid-1990s. Police confiscated dozens of Barbie dolls in order to avert the spread Western culture. Just a month later the government also banned the sale of characters from the popular show "The Simpsons".
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Valentine’s Day
The Iranian regime outlawed Valentine’s Day in 2011 in order to crackdown on Western influence. Iranian state media announced that "symbols of hearts, half-hearts, red roses, and any activities promoting this day are banned" and that legal action will be taken against those who do not comply.
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Mullets and Other Western Hairstyles
In July 2010, Iranian authorities launched a crackdown on Western hairstyles. In an effort to rid the country of "decadent Western cuts," officials banned the mullet, ponytails, elaborate spikes, and long hair for men. The Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance even produced a style guide containing haircuts that meet the government’s approval.
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Sexy Mannequins
In 2009 Iranian authorities warned shopkeepers that all mannequins must be covered up - wearing headscarves and hiding any of the bodily curves. “Using unusual mannequins exposing the body curves and with the heads without Hijabs are prohibited to be used in the shops,” Iran's morality police said in a statement.
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Women From Attending Sports Events
Since the inception of the Islamic Republic, women have been discriminatorily barred from attending sports events at stadiums in order to enforce gender segregation. Those attempting to defy the ban face arrest, such as the case of British-Iranian national Ghoncheh Ghavami in June 2014.