{"id":569590,"date":"2021-06-21T15:07:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T19:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=569590"},"modified":"2021-06-21T15:07:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T19:07:35","slug":"naftali-bennett-irans-new-leader-a-mass-murderer-biden-administration-thats-less-relevant-lets-keep-our-eye-on-the-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/naftali-bennett-irans-new-leader-a-mass-murderer-biden-administration-thats-less-relevant-lets-keep-our-eye-on-the-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Naftali Bennett: Iran\u2019s New Leader A \u2018Mass Murderer.\u2019 Biden Administration: That\u2019s \u2018Less Relevant,\u2019 Let\u2019s \u2018Keep Our Eye On The Ball\u2019"},"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\">40<\/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%2Fnaftali-bennett-irans-new-leader-a-mass-murderer-biden-administration-thats-less-relevant-lets-keep-our-eye-on-the-ball%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=569590&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233436839.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Speaking at the first Sunday cabinet meeting he has headed as Israel\u2019s new prime minister, Naftali Bennett noted the election of Iran\u2019s new president, Ebrahim Raisi \u2014 who had formerly served as the head of Iran\u2019s judiciary \u2014 and asserted that he was \u201cthe man infamous among Iranians and across the world for leading the death committees which executed thousands of innocent Iranian citizens throughout the years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bennett continued that Raisi\u2019s election represented \u201cthe last chance for the world powers to wake up before returning to the nuclear agreement and to understand who they\u2019re doing business with. These guys are murderers, mass murderers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bennett stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p><em>This weekend, Iran chose a new president, Ebrahim Raisi. Of all the people that [Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei could have chosen, he chose the hangman of Tehran, the man infamous among Iranians and across the world for leading the death committees which executed thousands of innocent Iranian citizens throughout the years. Raisi\u2019s election is, I would say, the last chance for the world powers to wake up before returning to the nuclear agreement and to understand who they\u2019re doing business with. These guys are murderers, mass murderers. A regime of brutal hangmen must never be allowed to have weapons of mass destruction that will enable to kill not thousands, but millions. Israel\u2019s position will not change on this.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.304347826087\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, at the weekly Cabinet meeting:<br \/>&#8220;This weekend, Iran chose a new president \u2013 Ebrahim Raisi. Of all the people that Khamenei could have chosen, he chose the &#8216;Hangman of Tehran&#8217;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A0XXRgL1c8\">https:\/\/t.co\/A0XXRgL1c8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CnINsYJQcs\">pic.twitter.com\/CnINsYJQcs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IsraeliPM\/status\/1406568098434633730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Sunday, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan was <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/week-transcript-20-21-white-house-national-security\/story?id=78384258\">asked<\/a> on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d about Bennett\u2019s comments regarding Raisi. Host George Stephanopoulos asked Sullivan, \u201cThe new Israeli prime minister this morning, Naftali Bennett, called him the hangman of Tehran, called his election a wake-up call for the West. Do you agree with that reaction?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan deflected:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p><em>Well, I think what we need to do in the United States is keep our eye on the ball. And that is our paramount priority right now is to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. We believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve that, rather than military conflict. And so, we\u2019re going to negotiate in a clear-eyed, firm way with the Iranians to see if we can arrive at an outcome that puts their nuclear program in the box.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And in that regard, whether the president is person A or person B is less relevant than whether their entire system is prepared to make verifiable commitments to constrain their nuclear program.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, the leftist newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/19\/irans-president-elect-ebrahim-raisi-is-hardliner-linked-with-mass-executions\">The Guardian<\/a> stated of Raisi\u2019s history on Saturday:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"24\">\n<p><em>The youngest member of the 1988 Tehran death committee, Raisi has been accused of systematically sending as many as 3,000 people to slaughter. When he was head of the judiciary floggings and executions flourished, yet many see this election as a staging post to his becoming supreme leader when Ayatollah Khamenei dies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Acting under orders from the then supreme leader, an ailing Ayatollah Khomeini, and with the war against Iraq ending in a truculent truce, the committee agreed to eliminate jailed members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) resistance movement on the basis the MEK had self-evidently committed acts of treachery at the end of the war. Any that did not renounce their support for the MEK were doomed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The scale of the butchery is set out in a 130-page report written by the London-based human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC. \u201cThey were hung from cranes four at a time or in groups of six with rope hanging from the front of the stage on an assembly hall.\u201d Others were taken out at night and killed by firing squads.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The leftist site <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2021\/06\/ebrahim-raisi-hardliner-wins-iran-presidency.html\">Slate<\/a> chimed in:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"19.388372093023\">\n<p><em>Amnesty International called on Raisi to be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2021\/06\/iran-ebrahim-raisi-must-be-investigated-for-crimes-against-humanity\/\">investigated for crimes against humanity<\/a>\u00a0for his alleged role in the executions of thousands of political prisoners in 1988 and his role in granting impunity to other perpetrators of human rights abuses. \u201cThat Ebrahim Raisi has risen to the presidency instead of being investigated for the crimes against humanity of murder, enforced disappearance and torture, is a grim reminder that impunity reigns supreme in Iran,\u201d Amnesty\u2019s Secretary General Agn\u00e8s Callamard said in a statement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Human Rights Watch\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/06\/19\/iran-overseer-mass-executions-elected-president\">sent out a similar message<\/a>. \u201cAs head of Iran\u2019s repressive judiciary, Raisi oversaw some of the most heinous crimes in Iran\u2019s recent history, which deserve investigation and accountability rather than election to high office,\u201d Michael Page, deputy Middle East director at HRW, said in a statement.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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