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NCRI –\u00a0No one should use the term \u2018modern-day Hitler\u2019 lightly. Hitler was responsible for one of the worst genocides in the 20th century and when most people compare modern politicians to him, they are trivialising that.<\/p>\n
However, there is one leader to whom that comparison applies without a shadow of a doubt: Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran.<\/p>\n
In a recent New York Times interview, Saudi Arabia\u2019s crown prince Mohammad bin Salman not only called the Iranian regime\u2019s top mullah, \u201cthe new Hitler of the Middle East\u201d but also warned that, as we saw from former British PM Neville Chamberlain, \u201cappeasement doesn\u2019t work\u201d.<\/p>\n
Prince Mohammad noted that the last thing anyone wants is for Iran to repeat the actions of Nazi Germany across the Middle East.<\/p>\n
The problem is that the Iranian Regime is already repeating history, as many Iranian dissidents, human rights groups, and families of political prisoners have long reported.<\/p>\n
Prince Mohammad comparison of Khamenei to Hitler is not extreme, it\u2019s not shocking, and the most newsworthy thing about it is that some people fail to see the similarities.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Dictator hell bent on controlling the world even if it means ruining their country in the meantime? Check.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Oppressing and imprisoning religious and ethnic minorities? In Shiite Iran, minorities such as the Baha\u2019i, Kurds, Christians and Sunnis are routinely oppressed.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Secret Police to enforce security at home and abroad? This would be the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and its paramilitary branch, the Quds Force<\/p>\n
\u2022 Taking control of other nation states under the pretext of fighting a foreign enemy? For Khamenei, it is the proxy control of Yemen and Syria in order to expel ISIS.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Taking control of all news media and turning it into propaganda? Since President Rouhani came to power hundreds of journalists have been imprisoned, tortured and even executed.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Able to gain appeasement from the West through a maligned deal aimed at curbing their ability to wage war? This would be the 2015 Iran nuclear deal<\/p>\n
It is now time to confront the mullahs for their destabilizing behaviour, especially now that Iran had threatened to launch ballistic missiles against Europe after receiving criticism from the French President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n