Iran: “moderate” Rouhani no different from “hardline” Khamenei

Rouhani is in line with religious leader Khamenei in exporting terrorism and extreme warmongering

 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in his speech on April 9^th marking “Army Day” admitted to the presence of Iran’s armed forces in Iraq and Syria, and their pivotal role in maintaining Syrian leader Bashar Assad in power.

It was Iran that “defended the gates of Baghdad, and Iran deployed advisors to the Syrian capital when Damascus was under threat,” he said.

Rouhani defended the regime’s policy of exporting terrorism and deploying thousands of boots, and Iran’s strategy of warmongering across the Middle East. This speech by Rouhani was delivered only two days after the recent Organization of Islamic Cooperation leaders’ conference, hosted by Turkey, strongly condemned the mullahs’ support for terrorism and its meddling in the internal affairs of Islamic countries.

During the past few weeks a number of vessels sending arms and ammunition from Iran to its proxies in Yemen were seized – and the logistics confiscated – by the U.S., France and Australia.

Currently, over 60,000 Revolutionary Guards forces and militia proxies are involved in massacring the Syrian people, according to a statement issued by the Iranian opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran.

Following a series of defeats suffered by the IRGC and a large number of senior commanders being killed in Syria, Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei has for the first time in 37 years deployed army units to intervene in Syria.

Khamenei admitted in February to the true reason why his regime has deployed military forces to Syria in order to maintain the mullahs’ hegemony and influence in Iran. If these forces were not dispatched to Syria, “we would be fighting in Kermanshah and Hamedan (cities in western Iran),” he said.

How can one actually imagine a state with its leader, along with the entire ruling apparatus and even its president believing in exporting “the revolution” (read exporting terrorism and military intervention) in regional countries, to actually have an individual by the name of Rouhani claiming to be a moderate in favor of engagement with the West and the entire international community?