{"id":2249792,"date":"2024-05-21T18:31:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T22:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-the-west-mourns-the-butcher-of-tehran\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T18:36:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T22:36:08","slug":"why-the-west-mourns-the-butcher-of-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-the-west-mourns-the-butcher-of-tehran\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Western Grief for the &#8216;Butcher of Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-the-west-mourns-the-butcher-of-tehran%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2249792&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u200csummary discusses the response of\u200b Western\u200d leaders to the death of Ebrahim\u200d Raisi, labeled the Butcher of Tehran, contrasting\u200d it with historical responses\u2063 to\u200d notorious figures. It delves into the concept \u200bof inherent goodness in human nature and the implications\u200c of secular views on morality. The narrative questions the condolences offered to a \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-faces-backlash-over-response-to-question-about-lockdowns-school-closures-this-is-absurd\/\" title=\"White House Faces Backlash Over Response To Question About Lockdowns, School Closures: \u2018This Is Absurd\u2019\">tyrannical leader<\/a> and \u200bchallenges the prevailing belief in universal agreement on ethical\u2064 standards.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Monday, something peculiar happened. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The president of Iran, an evil human being nicknamed the Butcher of Tehran, died in a helicopter accident on Sunday. One of the worst people on earth, he presided as a member of the Iranian pseudo-judiciary over the deaths of thousands of innocent people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He presided over the crushing of all dissent from women and people who do not believe in Sharia law in Iran. He presided over the deaths of thousands of American troops and attacks on American allies. His proxy groups around the region have been involved in the deaths of thousands of human beings, including, of course, the 1,200 Israelis murdered on October 7 with the tacit permission and support of Iran via Hamas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, on Monday, after he died in this helicopter accident, the immediate reception of the West was to lament his death. This was unprecedented in modern history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For example, when Pol Pot, the genocidal dictator of Cambodia, died, Bill Clinton issued <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/statement-the-death-pol-pot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a statement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  ripping into Pol Pot. He stated:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The death of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot has again brought to international attention one of the most tragic chapters of inhumanity in the twentieth century. Between 1975 and 1979, Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge followers transformed Cambodia into the killing fields, causing the death of an estimated 2 million of their countrymen in a brutal attempt to transform Cambodian society.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bill Clinton was a Democrat, a moderate member of the Left, and he used the opportunity of Pol Pot\u2019s death to point out his evils and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/longtime-ethiopian-diplomat-resigns-in-protest-of-countrys-genocide\/\" title=\"Longtime Ethiopian Diplomat Resigns in Protest of Country\u2019s Genocide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-womens-soccer-team-kneels-for-anthem-wears-black-lives-matter\/\" title=\"US Women's Soccer Team Kneels for Anthem, Wears 'Black Lives Matter'\">human rights<\/a> atrocities<\/a> that he had committed. Historically, this has been the way we treat evil dictators and people associated with evil dictatorships; when they die, the world becomes a better place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2023, when speaking at the United Nations, Raisi fully explained his intentions for the world, which was the domination of a radical form of Islam. He explained to the whole world that the era of the West was over, and the era of the Islamist was here:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The equation attributed to the hegemony of the West no longer resonates with the diverse realities of today\u2019s world. Old powers will keep their current downward trajectory. They are the past, and we are the future. I repeat once again, they represent the past and we represent the future. We are the future. We do believe that according to divine will, just as divine prophets have promised, justice and fairness will overtake the world and the rule of the sincere people, those who truly followed the path of the Omnipotent, will reverberate throughout the world. A world that rejects ignorance. The world awaits the day in which the old paths will come to an end. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Raisi was talking about the messianic beliefs of Shia Islam. He gave a speech in February 2024 in which he ripped into the United States as millions of people turned out in rallies chanting, \u201cDeath to Israel, Death to America.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1969-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So what is the explanation for the reaction of the West?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The U.N. Security Council held a moment of silence for Ebrahim Raisi. The entire U.N. Security Council stood up for him, which is vile and disgusting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Senate chaplain, Rear Admiral Barry Black held a moment of prayer for the Iranian dictator, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5ErxRX-Bqfg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">intoning<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u201cLord, we pray for the Iranian people who mourn the death of their president. We pray in your loving name. Amen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The State Department put out a statement that was beyond parody, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/on-the-death-of-iranian-president-raisi-and-others-in-a-helicopter-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">saying<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The United States expresses its official condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian, and other members of their delegation in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran. As Iran selects a new president, we reaffirm our support for the Iranian people and their struggle for human rights and fundamental freedoms.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Do you see how far we\u2019ve moved? Pol Pot dies and Bill Clinton, a moderate Democrat, gives a statement about his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-like-the-good-old-days-joe-biden-invades-syria-with-convoy-of-us-troops-and-choppers-on-first-full-day-as-president\/\" title=\"Just Like the Good Old Days: Joe Biden Invades Syria with Convoy of US Troops and Choppers on First Full Day as President\">human rights abuses<\/a> and why it should remind us to fight human rights abuses in places like Cambodia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ebrahim Raisi is president in a regime that presides over terrorism across the world, and the State Department of the United States government puts out a statement with condolences for his death.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The EU did the same. Charles Michel, who is the president of the European Council, put out <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CharlesMichel\/status\/1792438047058890987\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a statement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  which read, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The EU expresses its sincere condolences for the death of President Raisi and Foreign Minister Abdollahian, as well as other members of their delegation and crew in a helicopter accident. Our thoughts go to the families.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How about the families of the people who have been slain in protests against the Iranian dictatorship? How about thoughts for the families of the people who are living in repression and poverty, thanks to those dictators?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NATO, which is oriented against aggression by foreign powers, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NATOpress\/status\/1792508173535883362\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">stated<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u201cOur condolences to the people of Iran for the death of President Raisi, Foreign Minister Amir-<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abdollahian<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  and others who perished in the helicopter crash.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The people of Iran don\u2019t need your condolences. The people of Iran deserve your condolences for having to live under the terroristic auspices of this evil regime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is insanity. The entire West could have just stayed silent. They could have said nothing. Instead, they all came to the \u201cmoment of silence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was no moment of silence in the UN Security Council for the victims of October 7. They did not stand up and pay homage to the 1,200 people who were slaughtered and 250 who were taken hostage by the terrorist group Hamas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But they did stand to pay homage to a terrorist dictator who supported October 7 and proxy terror groups from Yemen to Lebanon to Syria to Iraq to Hamas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is going on in the West that Western leaders feel the necessity to give condolences on the death of an evil enemy?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is an error in thinking that has become extraordinarily common in the West that leads to so many bad results. This error in thinking was made clear yesterday by Pope Francis. In his 60 Minutes interview, when asked what gave him hope, he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=772332671344936&#038;vanity=60minutes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everything. You see tragedies, but you also see so many beautiful things. You see heroic mothers, heroic men, men who have hopes and dreams. Women who look to the future. That gives me a lot of hope. People want to live. People forge ahead and people are fundamentally good. We are all fundamentally good. Yes, there are some rogues and sinners, but the heart itself is good.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are three ways of reading human nature. The traditional Judaic way of reading human nature is that human beings are not inherently good. Human beings have an internal battle. That battle is between what we call the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">yetzer ha-tov<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the good desire, and the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">yetzer ha-ra<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the bad desire. These two things are fighting with each other all the time, and it is up to us to try to cultivate the good desire at the expense of the bad desire. If you do it well, presumably you can even turn the bad desires toward the good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then there is the Catholic perspective, as stated by St. Thomas Aquinas, which is that human beings are inherently good in the sense they were made in God\u2019s image, but through Original Sin, human beings were then cursed with the capacity for sin. That capacity for sin is dominant and powerful, and Original Sin could only be expunged with the death of Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The secularist idea is that human beings are inherently good, and not only are they inherently good, most human beings are not even sinful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That is at odds with both the Judaic and the traditionally Christian view of human nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The traditionally Christian worldview on human nature is that while the human heart might be made in the image of God \u2014 meaning that on a fundamental soul level, the soul of human beings is good \u2014 the Bible is replete with statements about how sinful human beings are. But whether you\u2019re talking about the book of Mark, where Jesus said no one is good except God alone; Romans where he said none are good, no, not one; Jeremiah, where the prophet says the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; or Psalms 51:5 which <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm+51%3A5&#038;version=NASB1995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">says<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u201cBehold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me,\u201d the traditionally religious view, at the very least, is that the human capacity for sin is extraordinarily strong \u2014 and that means all people are inherently sinners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The solution to that differs between Judaism and Christianity. The solution to that for Judaism is to perform the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mitzvot<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  and act in virtuous ways, and you will become more virtuous and you will dominate over sin. As God says to Cain at the beginning of the book of Genesis, sin crouches at your door, but if you\u2019re strong, you can rule over it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Christian perspective is: O<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">nly through the grace of Christ can you expunge that Original Sin, giving you the capacity for a free will so that you can conquer sinful nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, there\u2019s the secularist point of view, which is different from both of these and is a mis-read of Judeo-Christian tradition. The basic idea is that human beings are not only inherently good \u2014 not only is the heart inherently good \u2014 but sin is also not something internal to human beings. It\u2019s not even a force that human beings fight on an individual level. Sin only exists in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">systems<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, not in individual human beings. There\u2019s no such thing as sin. Human beings have a nature, and that nature is inherently good. And if you consider something sinful, it\u2019s probably because <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">you <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">are the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You see this in secular society all the time. If two people love each other, how can it be a sin? If you do something bad to another person, that\u2019s just relativistic. It\u2019s relativistic in morality. Who are you to judge?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All of that is a misreading of traditional Judeo-Christian doctrine. All of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But that widespread secular perception \u2014 that human beings are inherently good and that the only problem with human beings is the systems above them \u2014 leads to two incredibly false conclusions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first fundamental assumption is: Human beings generally agree on right and wrong. This is a lie. It is not true. It is fundamentally false. Human beings do <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">not<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  agree on right and wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are very few things most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opposing-sexual-abuse-of-children-is-apparently-the-new-hate\/\" title=\"Opposing Sexual Abuse of Children is Apparently the New Hate\">human beings agree<\/a> on (for example, murder is wrong), and, traditionally, even that has to be bounded by the tribe because it turns out that people and tribes are pretty open about being fine with murdering people who are in other tribes. Human beings do not, at a fundamental level, agree on wide aspects of right and wrong \u2014 at least not once it comes to outside the tribe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The second fundamental assumption that arises from the idea that human beings are good is: All it requires is better human institutions and an organizing effort to effectuate right over wrong. Progress is the effectuation of this attempt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That is the basic Left-wing theology when it comes to curing the sin of the world, considering sin does not abide at the level of the individual; sin only abides at the level of the society. It is the Marxist materialist idea that the only reason people are bad is because the systems under which they live are inherently bad and corrupt, and therefore, if we can cure those systems, then humanity will be magically and absolutely transformed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is written in the Communist Manifesto. What people mistake about Marxism is that it\u2019s not an economic philosophy so much as it is a religious philosophy as to how the sin of the world can be cured by curing the systems at the top level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When put into the language of international politics, this leads to a bizarre belief in international order that is just a lie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  is why the West is paying homage to Ebrahim Raisi. They feel in the West, if they are nice enough to Raisi and if they change the systems enough, then people like Raisi, his followers, and the mullahs in Iran will become inherently good. In other words, they\u2019ll become inherently good if we change the international order because human beings are naturally good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is absolute trash. It is nonsense. It is garbage. And it is going to create more violence in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you believe all you have to do is massage your enemies and suddenly they will be your friends, you will be used by your enemies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that is what we are seeing right now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a fateful Monday, a peculiar event unfolded: the President of Iran, infamous as the Butcher of Tehran, tragically perished in a helicopter crash. 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