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Islamic claim for world dominance and international terrorism
The Islamic Republic of Iran is characterized by an apocalyptic world view that is oriented to life after death. The Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the Iranian Revolution, explained that "the natural world is the lowest element, the scum of creation." Iran has made an international claim to global dominance. Khomeini, whose words are considered to be valid in Iran even today, said "We will export our revolution throughout the world [because our revolution is Islamic and universal]... until the calls 'there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah' are echoed all over the world." The regime is also active internationally. It supports terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah and has committed numerous murders of its opposition in Europe, such as the assassination of the General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, Abdulrahman Ghassemlou.

Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism is not simply one of Ahmadinejad's quirks, but is a constitutional element of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Khomeini already pointed out that "Since its inception, the Islamic movement has been afflicted with the Jews. They have established anti-Islamic propaganda and joined in various stratagems, and as you can see, this activity continues down to our present day."
Ahmadinejad's comment in late January 2008 that the West has to "accept that the life of Zionists will sooner or later come to an end" are not the words of an isolated hardliner, but rather are in line with the Islamic Republic's ideology. The fact that his speech was held in Bushehr, where the construction of a nuclear power plant is central to Iran's movement for nuclear weapons, demonstrates the urgency of the threat to Israel through a recent Shoah. Even ex-President Khatami, who is always treated as a moderate in the West, was and is a supporter of "final solution" anti-Zionism. He protected French Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy when he was accused [of Holocaust denial and racial defamation] in France in 1998. Khatami regularly calls Zionism a "continuation of fascism" and declared that Israel was "the greatest manifestation of international terrorism" in a speech in front of the children of Lebanese "martyrs." Alleged reformer [Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi] Rafsanjani speculated about dropping a nuclear bomb on Tel Aviv.

Executions
Ahmadinejad regularly explains that cleansing society of critics, immoral and licentious youths, drug dealers and alcohol distillers is essential to the return to pure Islam. According to Amnesty International, 154 people had been executed by September 2007; 177 people had been executed in 2006. As a result, the Islamic Republic of Iran is the country that has the largest rate of executions in the world in relation to its population. In absolute numbers Iran is the country in which the most minors were executed, and in the total number of victims it ranked at Number Two behind China with regard to executed death sentences. According to Said Mortazawi, the Islamic Republic of Iran's attorney general, in early August 2007 there were still at least 150 hangings or stonings that were yet to be implemented. As a result, the latest wave of executions is the largest since 1984 when Khomeini ordered the execution by firing squad of thousands of imprisoned opposition members.

Persecution of gays and lesbians
According to Paragraph 110 of the Sharia, the body of Islamic law that has been in effect under the Ayatollah Khomeini since the 1979 revolution and is the foundation of the Iranian penal code, the punishment for homosexual acts is death. This is also regularly implemented. According to human rights organizations, at least 4,000 homosexuals have apparently been executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran since 1979. Ex-President Mohammad Khatami, who is always described in Europe as being a moderate, defended the application of the death penalty for homosexuality on September 10, 2006 at an event at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. More than 1,000 men were arrested in May 2007 alone during the campaign for morals and against excess, and the police usually treated them with extreme brutality. According to Iranian human rights activists, two young homosexual men, 19-year-old Hamze Chavi and 18-year-old Loghman Hamzepour, were arrested by the National Security Police in Sardasht. The two young men are currently under arrest and are awaiting trial, which will probably end with a pronouncement of the death penalty.

Suppression of women's rights
One of the foundations of the Islamic Republic of Iran is absolute decision-making power over relations between the sexes. The regime's sexual animosity manifests itself in the obligation to wear a veil, among other things. This concealment of a woman is supposed to protect the man from female sexual temptations. Men are authorized to hit any women who act un-Islamic. Adultery and premarital sex are punishable by stoning according to the Iranian penal code. Women who were improperly veiled were primarily the victims of the extensive campaign to "Reclaim Morality." In the spring and summer of 2007 alone, 35,000 women were arrested for violating Islamic dress codes. Two sisters, Zohreh and Azar Kabiri-niat, were accused of commiting adultery and arrested on February 4, 2007 and were sentenced to death by stoning on August 6, 2007. The sentence has yet to be carried out.

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