PALESTINE: FRIEND OR FOE
‘Pay for Slay ‘
The adage of … “A Bad Neighbor is as great a Plague as a Good one is a Great Blessing.”
Excerpt from the recently released book, ‘First Comes the Mosque’
By GEORGE H. HASSANZADEH

The history of Iran bears out that the Arab Bedouins raided, plundered, slaughtered and took
men, women and children and anything else worth taking, and vanished into the desert where
Iranians could never follow. This was way before the seventh century, the advent of Islam.
Iranians of those days never developed a task force to combat this dreadful situation. The Arabs
got bolder and more daring with each raid.

 The sixteenth-century Arabs brought two distinct significant dilemmas into Iran as their only
skill, the first, the Sunni-Shi’a conflict, and the second, anti-Semitism and the extreme hostility
and discrimination against Iranian-Jewish citizens.
In the more modern times, the openly cynical attitude that exists between Iranians and the Arab
Shiite institutions shifted to a higher gear when the government of the Shah as a Muslim-majority
nation, recognized Israel as a sovereign state in 1952. Sadly, while the relations between Israel
and Iran significantly improved in trade and technology, the Islamic Revolution of 1979 response
toward the nation radically detracted from this success.
“Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Arabs have been a dagger in the heart of Iranians and
Palestine a thorn on the side of Iran,” said Sima, an irate Iranian woman at a gathering in Los
Angeles, California. She added, “Iran’s Shiite institution never understood that ‘peace on Earth,
goodwill toward Men’ is an essential part of any flourishing nation.” She received a long
applauded by the frustrated Iranian-Americans.
True, the Arab clerics forced Iranians to ally with foreign Arab people such as Palestinians,
Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, and particularly, the‘enemy within, ’Iran’s Arab ayatollahs. The same
history attests to the reality that Shi’a majority Iranians never came to support their Jewish,
Christian, Baha’is, Sunnis Muslims, or the Zoroastrians citizens at the time of need. What’s more,
Muslim Iranians stayed silent when their citizens of other belief were systematically persecuted
and discriminated against by Iran’s Arab Shiite institution.
In the year 586 BC, Jews were displaced from their land and sent into captivity to Babylon by the
Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar. King Nebuchadnezzar destroyed their temple and kingdom in
Jerusalem; decades later, Cyrus the Great (600 BC-530 BC), the emperor of Persia, conquered
Babylonia and freed the Jews. He not only facilitated the return of the Jews to their homeland but
also saw into the rebuilding of their temple in Jerusalem. The Purim celebration is the feast of
Esther, rejoicing the deliverance of the Persian Jews from hatred of Haman the ‘Agagite or
Haman the evil.’ Pre-Arab Islam was the most inspiring and joyful time in pre-modern Iran.
Rituals were shared by those of different faiths who lived side by side, and often persons of one

 denomination, inspired by the season or festive activities, exchanged gifts and participated in
other people’s joyful ceremonies.
The arrival of Arab and Arab Islam in Iran meant an end to culture, cultural diversity, and
interfaith harmony. Arab Islam in Iran has been openly and in direct conflict with Judaism,
Baha’ism, Christianity, Sunni Muslims, and the Zoroastrianism.
In the 1979 Arab coup d’état, Khomeini cut off all diplomatic and commercial ties with Israel. In
addition, the Islamic government declared that it does not recognize the legitimacy of Israel as a
state, a complete about-face from the Shah’s government of 1952’s recognition of the State of
Israel. What’s more, Khomeini designated Israel as the top enemy that must be destroyed,
whether Iranians approve of it or not. In fact, Iranians had nosay at all. It was all the Arabs doing.
Such was the fate of many of the Shah’s positive reforms, reversed by the Islamic Revolution,
and the nation was helpless in response.
The Israeli Embassy in Tehran was ransacked. However, a few days later, the building was
refurbished, staffed by Shi’a mullahs, and handed to the Palestinians with the nation bearing the
cost.
Shokooh Mirzadegi, in an article titled “Quds Daily Market,” writes that “Quds Day is neither a
Palestinian’s choice nor any tie, empathy, or any help for the Palestine people.”1 She noted that
Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Ebrahim Yazdi (1931-2017), in the spring of 1979 at Friday
Prayers, suggested, ‘It is more appropriate to designate the last Friday of the holy month of
Ramadan as the ‘Quds Day,’ than celebrate the Palestinian Liberation Organization the ‘PLO
Day.’ Khomeini quickly grasped the significance of such an opportunity.

The Palestinian Liberation Organization, founded in 1964, was created with the purpose of
liberating Palestine through armed struggle aimed at Israeli people, with headquarters in
Ramallah, West Bank. The key reason that ‘PLO Day’ was changed to ‘Quds Day’ was that the
PLO was limited in its scope (directed at Israel only) and did not appeal to all Muslims,
especially to the Iranians. Looking for a way to implement his principle objective, Khomeini,
who was tooting his horn for the oppressed Palestinian people, found a much-suited tool.”2

 Khomeini made official the last Friday of the Month of Ramadan (June 23, 1979) as Quds Day
and declared, “The Quds Day is not only the Palestine’s Day, it is the ‘Islamic Governing Day,’ it
is the day that the Islamic Republic flag shall fly all over the world’s capitals. It is a day to
remind the superpowers that they no longer can transgress in the Islamic world. I recognize the
Quds Day as the Prophet Mohammad’s day, (it later changed to Mehdi’s day) as the day of Islam.
It is the day of the exploited against the exploiter; we must mobilize all our forces to face the
oppressors.” Khomeini designated the Quds Day to be commemorated as one of the biggest parts
of the Islamic revolution.
For years, the Islamic regime observed the pomp-and-circumstance radical marches. Khomeini
asked Iranians to come out into the streets, beat their chests, and cry rivers in public, to show
their grief for peace in Palestine, while behind the closed door they were dead set against any
peace between Palestine and Israel and indeed derailed any possibility of peace between the two.
The reason: the Palestinian people and their plight became a tool in the hands of Iran’s Arab
clerics to advance their own revolutionary agenda.
The ‘Quds Day’ became a Historical Day. Quds Forces began its first operation by overtaking the
American Embassy in Tehran and taking Americans as hostage. As a ploy to get worldwide
Muslims behind their Islamic Revolution, the Palestine issue took priority over anything else. It
united many Muslim countries, Sunni and Shi’a, behind Khomeini and gave a seemingly realistic
reason for the Arab clerics to go after secular-minded Iranians, such as journalists, teachers, and
the intellectuals who opposed or were perceived as nonconformist. The Palestine conflict played
a key role in enriching Iran’s Arab Shi’a influence among the entire Muslim community.
As part of Phase Two of the Shiite’s “triangle of terror” to unite all Arab Shia states under the
control of Iran’s Shiite leadership, Palestine was essential. By joining Palestinians in their
struggle with Israel, Iran Arab mullahs made major gains in Arab countries such as Iraq, Yemen,
Lebanon, Syria and many Muslim African nations. Ironically, rumor has it that the death of the
former president of Iran, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1934-2017), that shocked Iranians was at
least partly caused by his reconsidering policy on the grim progress in Iran, the Palestinian
setback, and the future of the Islamic Republic. Many Iranians believe Rafsanjani sudden change
in almost the opposite direction, asking for better relations with the West and less involvement
with Syria and Palestine was in conflict with the country’s hard-liners and thus the cause of his

 demise. His family believes the Russian-Style method of assassination by Polonium 210 brought
forth his death. They asked for an investigation as to why his body had unusually high radiation
levels.
In the beginning days of Khomeini’s revolution, then Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat
(born1929 in Egypt died in 2004 in France) made several ‘gainful’ trips to Tehran to establish ties
and seek assistance. He and the Arab Iranians solidified a permanent anti-Israel group tied to
Tehran, such as Islamic jihadists, Hezbollah, Hamas, and other organizations. Witnesses at the
summit say Arafat was so overwhelmed and enthused, at the occasion of meeting Khomeini, that
he stood up several times to hug and kiss Khomeini. At one point, Arafat dropped down at
Khomeini’s feet and Ayatollah Beheshti picked him up and helped him back to his seat. That was
the first and last time Arafat met personally with Khomeini, even though he visited Iran a few
more times.
The government of the mullahs provided Palestinians with a significant amount of cash and
weaponry, even fighter jets, to be used against Israel.
“We loaded up Arafat’s airplane with suitcases filled with American dollars,” said an anonymous
employee.

For the unfortunate Iranians, the pact with the Palestinians was lopsided. Arab Khomeini gave
Arab Arafat money which came from Iranians, as well as weapons and other assistance. In
return, Iran received from the Palestinians and Hezbollah of Lebanon, armies of hoodlums,
violent criminals, and medieval executioners with which they suppressed and terrorize Iranian
families. The imported Arabs are paid by the government of mullahs to arrest, jail, torture, and
assassinate Iranian dissidents inside and abroad. Today’s action of Iran’s Arab Shiite leaders is
identical to the sixteenth-century Shiite Shah Ismail 1, who imported the forbearers of the same
Arab Shiite from the same area to forcefully convert the Sunni Iranians, except, today’s Arabs
are after all Iranians, Sunnis, minority Iranians.
Iran is now officially home to Lebanese terrorists (Hezbollah), Palestinian criminals, and Syrian
brutes. The trained revolutionaries start as body guards to Iran’s Arab mullahs and work as their
strong-armed enforcers. The criminals are cared for, pampered, and overpaid. Since Iran’s Shiite

 Arab institution’s most critical social function is intimidation, fraud, and the use of force. These
cold-blooded heavies enjoy their job of suppressing the Iranians. They have unrestricted power
to knock on any door, detain anyone, beat, and often torture their victims in front of their
families. The cries of Iranians, whose innocent children are seized, raped, tortured, and executed
by Hezbollah militia and Palestinian terrorists hired by Iran’s Arab clerics, are not heard by
world organizations in order to hold the perpetrators accountable.
Now, the idea of revenge is not only in the minds and hearts of long-suffering Sunni Iranians, but
also the entire oppressed nation. And the detestation of the Arabs runs deep.
In an article by Kaveh Parsayan, titled “Here’s the Deal,” “We pay you millions, you beat our
people!”3
If challengers to the mullah’s regime decide to stage a public demonstration in Iran, they not only
face the regular police force but also the undercover Revolutionary Guard, Basij militiamen,
heavies from Lebanon’s Hezbollah, sadistic Syrian exterminators, and finally, yes, The
Palestinian’s tough guys.
The harshest criticisms of Palestine and Hezbollah have come from one of the Islamic Republic’s
own members of the parliament; Sakineh Almasi, representing the Kangan, Asaluyeh, and
Bushehr Districts, in Iran. Addressing President Hassan Rouhani in the parliament, she angrily
shouted, “Palestine is a nasty leech sucking the blood out of Iranians.
“Mr. Rouhani…, you are trusted as the guardian and the protector of our unfortunate people and
yet, you have failed us to the highest degree.On what basis do you allow people’s treasury to be
ransacked (hefty figures) in the name of ‘aiding Palestinian’ and permit the plunder to go on?
You [are] for a longtime, pretending not to see and have chosen to remain silent.
“Mr. Rouhani…, have you forgotten? These are the same Palestinian Arabs that refused donated
Iranian blood for their wounded, claiming, Shiite Blood is ‘Najis’ [dirty], untouchable and return
them.
“Mr. Rouhani…, these are the same Palestinian Arabs having ‘five Israeli players’ on their
soccer team, yet Iran bans our athletes from competing against Israeli athletes, not even allowed
a handshake.

 “Mr. Rouhani…, please pull-down your bullet proof tinted car window, and take a look. Do our
destitute people laying in the streets need more help or, the ungrateful Arab Palestinians?
“Mr. Rouhani...,perhaps you believe your own lies when you say the inflation is only 12
percent, thus celebrating your overly-generousness gesture with Iranians’ money and allowed
yourself to give each Palestinian household the sum of $7.000.00.”4
WARNING… Palestinian, Lebanese, Iraqi and Syrian leaders must realize and remember that
they are just as responsible for the terror, murder, and suppression of innocent Iranians as are
their kinsman, the Arab clerics of Iran.
Palestinian leaders should know that when the mullahs’ house of cards collapse and it surely will,
Palestine, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon will not have a single friend among Iranians. In fact,
observing the overwhelming sentiment of the Iranians toward Israel today, no doubt Iranians will
instantly demolish the “Palestinian Embassy,” and at its site will build an Israeli Embassy and
possibly close and trash the Syrian, Lebanese, Iraqi, Jordanian, and all other embassies of Iran’s
Arab enemies. The only exceptions will probably be the Egyptian and Saudi Embassies.
Since the unwelcome arrival of the Arab Muslims, their institution has drenched the minds of
Iranians with one-sided toxic illogicality regarding the Jews of Iran and the world Jewry. Iranians
were never allowed to ask or to see for themselves why they are told to hate the very people
whom for centuries have contributed, in every meaningful way, to the modernization and wellbeing of their nation. Or, why the Persian society whose beloved Jewish Empress, the ‘Queen
Esther’ (478 BCE), the wife of their favorite ‘King Ahasuerus’ [Khashayar Shah], that is revered
in their history books should be disparaged and forgotten.
Iran will never forget the murder of its sons and daughters at the hands of Arab killers directed
by an illegitimate Arab Islamist hegemony.
1. Shokooh Mirzadegi, Ferdosi Emrooz, June 2018 # 414. Shokooh begin her career as a novelist
and poet writing for Ferdowsi magazine and Kayhan Daily in 1960s in Iran. In addition to editorin-chief of Talaash (Struggle) Magazine and many plays to her credit, she published two
collections of short stories, (Permanent Restlessness) and (The Second Beginning). The article is
an excerpt from her book, “No Time to Forget.”
2. Ebrahim Yazdi, born 1931 Qazvin, Iran died 2017, Izmir, Turkey served as deputy prime
minister and minister of foreign affairs in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargon.

 3. Kaveh Parsayan, Ferdosi Emrooz.
4. Sakineh Almasi (Persian: ‫سکینه الماسی‬, born 1979) is an Iranian politician and the current
member of the Parliament of Iran, representing Kangan, Jam, Dayyer and Asaluyeh district. She
is also Vice President of Federation of War Veterans and Disabled Persons of Iran...
George H. Hassanzadeh is an expert in Islam, born and raised as a Shiite Muslim in Iran and is
the author of ‘Iran: Harsh Arm of Islam,’ and just released book ‘First Comes the Mosque.’
George H. Hassanzadeh is a U.S. Army Veteran and lives in California, U.S.A