False Friends
When the Islamist Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah's government in a revolution in Iran in 1979, it was already the second major upheaval in the country within 26 years. In 1953, it was the democratically elected President Mozadegh who was overthrown.
These violent changes of government had two things in common. First, both were brought about by massive British and American intervention. Second—and contradicting this—they each led further away from liberal democracy, the Western way of life, and the rule of law. Government circles and intelligence agencies, the British broadcaster BBC, and—less systematically—French media were involved in these clearly counterproductive machinations. https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/the-british-u-s-governments-installed-khomeini-into-power-in-1979/
"It is written in the Bible: Love your enemies as you love your friends. Presumably because they are the same group of people." https://gutezitate.com/autor/horst-seehofer
Gross violations of basic democratic values, however, are nothing unusual in the history of British and American military interventions. Particularly in Latin America, democratically elected governments have repeatedly been overthrown with the help of ‚good‘ rebels and replaced by dictatorships. Even in the major wars in Korea (1950-1953) and Vietnam (1955-1975), the governments supported by the military were dictatorships.
The novelty of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 was that, in addition to the usual support for undemocratic forces, it also brought support for fanatical Islamists. Thus, Khomeini's enthronement, became a 'pioneering achievement' in the field of multiply counterproductive interventions. Since the typically uncritical media environment did not generate widespread mistrust, let alone resistance to this madness, a whole series of interventions following the same pattern could subsequently follow, first in Somalia. https://jacobin.com/2022/11/somalia-cold-war-war-on-terror-us-intervention-destabilization
In 2011, a large-scale version of the counter-concept followed during the 'Arab Spring' in North Africa and Syria. https://truthout.org/articles/wikileaks-reveals-how-the-us-aggressively-pursued-regime-change-in-syria-igniting-a-bloodbath/
The strategic profile of all these political upheavals under (mostly unobtrusive) Western interference had some similarities. These included the fact that, unlike their democratic rivals, Islamists were well prepared for the change of power, enjoyed favorable media coverage, and had ample money with which to finance high-profile campaigns. https://www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/fr/content/dossiersduceri/how-framing-revolutions-arab-spring-and-maidan-takes-us-away-their-roots-during-and-after
Even worse, supposedly pro-Western extremists, but also clearly anti-Western jihadists and terrorists, have consistently gained extensive access to American weapons, either directly or indirectly. https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/15/from-benghazi-to-boko-haram/
Predictably for its initiators, the long-term arming of Islamist fighters had devastating consequences for stability in the countries concerned and for the acceptance of liberal democracy. However, the media presented each of these disasters as the inadvertently failed result of an honest effort by the British and American security forces.
However, Khomeini's rise to power shows that honesty in political decision-making is not a fixed standard in the West. The massive support for the Iranian Revolution of 1979 elevated a man to autocratic power whose extremist ideology has replaced and now far surpasses Soviet communism as the greatest threat to liberal civilization.
Quds Day and its Results
One of Khomeini's first far-reaching decisions was the introduction of Al-Quds Day, which he cleverly placed as a holiday at the end of Ramadan. On this day, which bears the Arabic name Al-Quds for Jerusalem, Islamist theses and narratives are promulgated. These destroy the already tenuous compatibility of political Islam with democratic rule of law and incite people to confront Israel and the rest of the West.
In a Quds Day address on March 28, 2025, Ayatollah Alam Al-Hoda declared: "Imam Khomeini ... with his launch of [International] Qods Day, ... sought to start in the Islamic world a movement to confront the cancerous tumor of Israel in the region." https://aljazirahnews.com/international-quds-day-an-initiative-by-imam-khomeini-and-its-global-impact/
Khomeini's polarizing initiative has devastating global implications for the West, as illustrated by Al-Hoda's further remarks: "The resistance front*) is the fruit of Quds Day! ... resistance is an indestructible idea that has united all the Islamic countries, ..." *) Islamist movements and militias in Lebanon and Syria (Hezbollah), Iraq, and Palestine (Hamas)
Ayatollah Al-Hoda clearly identified the propagandistic 'fruits' of Quds Day: "Today, the Holy Quran has gained supporters in the West, and Islam – which is rooted in the idea of resistance – is now taking over the Western world."
The rapidly growing proportion of Muslims in Europe and other Western regions confirms Al-Hoda's finding of systematic takeover.
Self-Responsibility Against Migration Chaos
A major non-military weapon in the culture war is the flow of migration. Since the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), this crisis has been fueled by wars, civil wars, and general unrest in the countries of the Islamic Orient.
However, this efficiency-optimized Islamization engine only functions as long as a self-destructive ideology can be propagandistically enforced in Europe and other Western regions. As part of this ‚politically correct‘ suicide program, not only persecuted Christians were accepted as refugees during the Lebanese Civil War, but also Muslims. This violation of the principles of primary solidarity within the Judeo-Christian civilization on the one hand and Arab self-responsibility on the other opened the floodgates to the flow of Islamic migration.
The duty of self-responsibility derives from every state's claim to sovereignty under Article 2 of the UN Charter. Sovereign decision-making authority, as protection against foreign interference, also means self-responsibility for all the consequences of one's own decisions.
In accordance with their self-responsibility, the European Union and the Arab League, as alliances of culturally similar states, are each responsible for accepting their own refugees.
During the civil war in Lebanon that began in 1975, the country transformed from a prosperous, predominantly Christian country into a crisis-ridden Muslim country. The mainstream media has barely reported on this significant collateral damage of the Middle East conflict, while the dispute over the much smaller Palestinian West Bank enjoys constant media coverage.
An even greater harm to the Judeo-Christian cultural area lies in allowing the major demographic trend to continue, which will inevitably make it part of the Islamic Orient. If this development is not halted by a principled political change of course, it will be clear long before the end of this century that no one has shaped its course to such a dramatic extent and so completely undeservedly as Khomeini.
Lack of Solidarity
Khomeini's elaborately manipulated seizure of power was by no means based on any misunderstanding on the part of the initiators regarding his personality, his views, and his objectives. Rather, these were well known thanks to a book published in 1970. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Government
In this work, compiled from his classroom readings, Khomeini presents the model of an Islamic-dominated state—an incompatible anti-concept to the constitutional democracy embodied in the American Declaration of Independence and Constitution. This incompatibility is underscored by the open anti-Semitism conveyed in Khomeini's book.
The multiple damage that the Ayatollah's enthronement inflicted on Western societies was so clearly pre-programmed that there can be no doubt that it was deliberately caused. The circle of suspects behind the disaster is limited to extremely influential individuals and groups by the gigantic and extremely complex effort required to implement the 1979 transfer of power. Their characteristics also include a lack of solidarity with the nations of the Judeo-Christian cultural sphere and autocratic ambitions, as they obviously perceive the liberal-democratic social order as a disruptive obstacle that must be overcome and circumvented under false pretenses.
Apart from the British-American financial aristocracy, no one has even close to the necessary infuence in the relevant areas of the media and security apparatus. Even if this finding sounds like a so-called conspiracy theory, it is the result of sober, factual considerations. Dismissing 'conspiracy theories' as supposedly defamatory is, as is well known, part of 'political correctness.' On a rational level, this artificial narrowing of discourse represents a barrier to knowledge that violates freedom. On a psychological level, it acts as a taboo that causes journalists and politicians to cowardly self-censor if they do not want to be bullied out of the circle of the establishment.
The taboo barrier against "conspiracy theories" very effectively keeps the topic out of political discourse. However, a factual discussion reveals that there is no trace of conspiracies at all, but of intrigue. Historical conspiracies like the one that led to the assassination of dictator Caesar were courageous actions by idealists whose goal was liberation from autocratic rule. The establishment of power structures beyond democratic control by today’s masters of the financial aristocracy amounts to the opposite - the undermining of the free nation’s´sovreignty through bypassing the official institutions of their states.
For example, important decisions in the area of development policy are largely made by UN sub-organizations, NGOs, and the IMF. National laws are – as scientifically proven – tailored to corporate interests through lobbying. In foreign and military policy matters, fundamental decisions are often made at the level of NATO and the MIC.
The machinations behind the staged government changes in Iran were not idealistically motivated conspiracies, but rather subversive intrigues against the interests of liberal, democratic nations. This is especially true because they have reignited a culture war that had already ended over 200 years ago (in the Barbary Wars) – siding with the Islamists.
The uncurtailed version of this article can be found here: https://www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com/en/blog/fraud-manipulated-clash-civilizations