The regime of the ayatollahs is dark, totalitarian and a serial human rights offender. Iran is considered one of the 10 countries most oppressive to freedom of the press. There is also no freedom of religion; women are forced to wear headscarves regardless of their religion. Opposition to the government is suppressed. The non-Shiite minorities are woefully discriminated against. From the beginning of 2015, some 700 people have been executed. Ruhollah Khomeini’s doctrine, which has been implemented by Iran, is the export of the Islamic revolution via “proxies” — such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.

And the essence of the revolution is to hasten the return of the Mahdi, otherwise known as the 12th imam, who will return to force Shiite Islam on humanity.

How are enlightened states signing a deal with a country that aims to violently take control of the world as it violates all standards of human dignity and respect among nations? The claim that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is a moderate does not withstand the test of reality. As evidence, immediately after the deal was signed, Rouhani travelled to the holy city of Mashhad, where the eighth imam of Shiism is buried. Also kept at the burial site is Khomeini’s will and testament, which espouses the imperialistic creed of militant Shiism. Another example, among many, is three decades old and is Rouhani’s justification of the deadly terrorist attack on the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, in which hundreds of American soldiers lost their lives.

We are witnesses to the West’s prostrations before this evil regime. We see the West’s baseness in the eagerness of its leaders and finance ministers to make pilgrimages to Tehran, most notably the German finance minister and the French foreign minister, who were not perturbed in the slightest by the ayatollahs’ anti-Semitism. In a span of two weeks, Iran signed deals with European countries worth in excess of $2 billion.

In retrospect, how can we in Israel complain? We have signed deals with Fatah, which also openly calls for wiping Israel off the map, and which actually does so in all its text books. The false justification, in both cases, is that when it comes to politics we have to separate basic morals from the interests of the government. This is the Machiavellian approach in a nutshell. But even according to realpolitik, the deal with Iran should not be signed. Based on an analysis of the Roman Empire’s policies, Machiavelli himself said: “The Romans, foreseeing troubles, dealt with them at once, and, even to avoid a war, would not let them come to a head, for they knew that war is not to be avoided, but is only put off to the advantage of others.”

The deal is not just the result of Persian bazaar shrewdness, rather it is the implementation of the instructions left behind by the founder of Islam. According to the Hudaybiyyah doctrine, which references the 10-year deal that Muhammad broke after two years and which allowed him to conquer Mecca, a deal in orthodox Islam is nothing but an interim phase that one is obligated to violate the moment enough strength is acquired. Israel needs to emphasize the moral contemptibility of the deal with Iran and the fatal mistake of striking one with a country that aspires to take over the entire world.

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