The circus of public executions in Iran continues at an alarming rate. Iran has stepped up executions and believes in doing so, it has earned the gratitude of mankind.

The Islamic republic's execution rate, which has soared to ghastly heights since self-described moderate Hassan Rouhani became president last year, should be viewed as a “positive marker of Iranian achievement,” according to the head of Iran’s Judiciary Human Rights Council.

The world should view Iran's executions and violent crackdowns as a “great service to humanity,” Mohammad Javad Larijani said this week, speaking at a Human Rights Council meeting. Larijani said that while the world criticizes Iran's government for an increased number of executions, it should be understood that the killings are a result of Iran's aggressive clampdown of drug trafficking. Iran has had a long history of confronting drug trafficking.

However, more recently, with an unemployment rate of about 28 percent and inflation at 40 percent, Iran is reporting an increasing usage among its youth population. By the country's own numbers, two million Iranians are drug addicts, which would make the nation of 76 million the world's leader. Experts say factoring in recreational users would result in a much higher percentage.

Iran is a backward land in the grip of extremists masquerading as religious scholars. Throughout the course of this year, much of the West has fallen for what has widely been described as new President Hassan Rouhani's "charm offensive". He's a moderate, they'll tell us of the ever-smiling Rouhani, and he can deal with the West.

We have no doubt he plans to "deal" with the West. Look at how he has been dealing with his own people. Tehran's grinning reaper has wiped the smiles from a few faces over this past year, executing at least 529 Iranians. Human rights groups estimate that he has had 300 people killed since assuming office less than 120 days ago. Iran, under this moderate, tops the world table of execution per head of population.

On the United Nations Human Rights Day, the head of Iran's judiciary, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, took the opportunity to berate outsiders campaigning for any human rights in his country.

The executions would continue, he insisted, defiantly. Troublesome foreigners demanding a moratorium on the killings were opposed to Islam.

Bravely, some locals have started a campaign known as Step by Step to Stop the Death Penalty. The group wants and end to capital punishment, particularly stonings and public executions. Ayatollah Larijani sees right through this lot. They are clearly puritanical fun-haters. What? Stop the stonings? That's the fun part of his job.

Iranians fancy themselves as Persians, but Islam long ago colonised the place and it's an Arab life for all. That means self-loathing plays its role, this best manifesting itself with the Shia hatred for Sunni, the two branches of Islam who have been at war for centuries. The West is just caught in the crossfire.

Iran is Shia and in the minority. But there are still issues that unify many Arabs, no matter what their stripe, like the need to wipe out Israel - and then get to work on all those other innocents whose governments tolerated Israel's existence. That's you and me! Don't think for a moment that's an extreme view. It's part of the Iranian agenda.

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said recently that Israel will one day, "disappear from the landscape. With God's help, this year the Iranian nation will punch the faces of the enemies of Islam," he said.

The last Iranian president whose strings Khamenei tugged declared that, "anyone who recognises Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nations' fury". That is almost every member of the United Nations.

So is today's moderate killing-machine-of-an-Iranian president free to think for himself? Of course not!

Iran's ayatollahs are insane. And if need be, we will have to deal with them.

Let's get this right: these people are mad. And bad.



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