@Falcon29 Why are you against Iran? Our leaders, specially the one who initiated the revolution, Khomeini, have always put Palestine as an essential part of their ideology in regards to defending the oppressed. You might consider some of it as political statements for international consumptions, but a lot of it is extremely important to real revolutionaries in Iran (I don't mean the politicians who say whatever to get votes).
The reason this was very important to Khomeini wasn't just due to a problem of land, but it was the concept of it was paramount to his way of thinking. Palestine was yet another victim of western imperialism and to ignore it, would be to ignore yet another injustice, and to fight for it, is to fight for all injustices against our region. That's why the west will never allow victory to go to the Palestinians, and that is why true revolutionaries in Iran will never forsake Palestine, no matter how many times we get backstabbed by Palestinians groups.
Khomeini:
"How can Israel, with such a small number of people, come and prevail over these countries which possess everything and have all kinds of powers, the way it has? Why should it be this way? Is it not because the nations are divided and stand apart from their governments, and the governments are disunited, that a population of one billion Muslims with all the means they have at their disposal are sitting by while Israel perpetrates these crimes in Lebanon and Palestine?"
"There is something which puzzles me and it is that all the Muslim governments and nations know what the problem is, they know that the hands of foreigners are involved to disunite them, they see that this disunity will weaken and destroy them, they see how the frail government of Israel has stood against the Muslims,
and they know that if united and each one of them threw a bucket of water over Israel it would be washed away, yet still they are helpless before it."
Here is something he said in 1964,
15 years before the revolution, when Iran was controlled by Shah (who was on good terms with Israel)
"Today it is the duty of the heads of Islamic countries, the kings and the presidents of Islamic countries to put aside these petty differences which occasionally arise among them.
There are no Arabs and non-Arabs, Turks and Persians, there is only Islam and unity under Islam. They should adopt the same method of struggle that the Prophet of
Islam used in his struggle, they should follow the way of Islam.
If they guard their ideological unity, if they put aside these occasional petty differences, if all the Muslims join together, then, according to estimations, there will be a community of seven hundred million. But seven hundred million people divided are not as great as
one million united. Seven hundred million divided people are of no use, thousands of millions of divided people cannot do anything either. However, if these seven hundred million, if only four hundred million of them, two hundred million of them, were to unite together, join hands in brotherhood together, protect each other's borders, protect
their own boundaries, if they were to unite in the Islamic community which is common to us all, in the religion of monotheism which is common to us all, in the Islamic interests that we share, then the Jews would no longer covet Palestine and India would no longer have designs on Kashmir.
That is why they don't let you unite. The hands that want to take your resources away from you, that want to take your wealth free of charge, that want to plunder both your underground resources and those that lie above the ground, they won't let Iraq and Iran, Iran and Egypt, Turkey and Iran unite together. They won't let them join forces. It is the duty of the leaders to sit down together and reach a mutual understanding. They should protect their own borders, each one should preserve their boundaries and territorial integrity then join forces against that foreign enemy who causes you so much harm. There is a group of thieving Jews in Palestine who have kept more than a million Muslims dispersed for ten years, more than ten years, and have occupied Islamic lands.
All the Muslim leaders do is mourn over their plight. But if they unite, how can this bunch of thieving Jews take Palestine from you and drive the Muslims out of Palestine while you look on helplessly?"
