Is it Iran, or is it Palestine?

Palestinians played a very crucial role in the Revolution that led to the fall of the Monarchy and which brought Ayatollah Khomeini to power in Iran. As far back as in beginning in 1969, Iranian revolutionaries were being trained in Palestinian camps throughout the Middle East. While the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine trained and armed the Islamic-Marxist terrorist group, Fadaiyaneh Khalgh, Arafat’s Fatah organization was training and supplying the Mujahedineh Khalgh and the future members of the Revolutionary Guards of Iran, including the Minister of the Guards later appointed by Khomeini. What is more, during the final days of the Islamic Revolution, the Palestinians were actually participating in the demonstrations against the Shah and went as far as killing Iranians in the streets of Tehran. Just days after Khomeini came to power in Iran, Arafat himself was boasting of how the “PLO trained within its camps 10,000 Iranians" and how they provided Khomeini and his followers with over 10,000 Kalashnikovs as well as Palestinian volunteers. It was these same Palestinian volunteers who continued to support the Mullahs by taking charge of the security in the ministries and the other public buildings of Iran, and it was those same terrorists, trained by the PLO, who were responsible for killing Iran’s finest. On the night when the brave generals of the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces were shot by the terrorists and rolled in their blood on the roof of Alavi school, that same infamous leader of the terrorists, Yasser Arafat, and the enemy of the people of Iran, Khomeini, were congratulating and hugging each other with smiling faces.

And what did the Palestinians get in return for their crimes against the people of Iran? Amongst other things, they got a Palestinian embassy in Tehran and a branch office for the PLO in Khozestan; the unconditional support of the Islamic Republic for all terrorist elements within the PLO; the creation of several new radical organizations, such as Hezbollah, to support the same; and, finally, they got the military support of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the regular monthly financial backing of the Islamic Republic with millions of dollars of money stolen from the people of Iran.

Having got all the above as a result of the Mullah generosity with Iran’s wealth and resources, how did the Palestinians proceed to pay back the people of Iran? They repaid Iran by joining forces with Saddam Hossain and killing more Iranians in Iraq’s war against the people of Iran. Now, having gone through this war, where the Palestinians helped the Iraqis kill hundreds of thousands of Iranian soldiers, how did the Islamic Republic repay the Palestinians for their treachery? By continuing to support them with millions of dollars of money that should rightfully go to the poverty stricken people of Iran; by giving them a platform to promote their cause and their terrorist activities, whilst silencing all opposition to the clerical rule in Iran; by sending them millions of dollars worth of “humanitarian” aid and bringing their injured “fighters” to Iran for free medical treatment and rest, while leaving Iran’s sick and poor to find their medicinal needs on the streets of Tehran and to buy them at overly inflated Black Market prices.