The Iranian Regime's increased focus on Black Americans

Since shortly after the revolution of 1979, the Iranian regime has been the world’s No. 1 state sponsor of terrorism. The Ayatollahs have made no secret of their desire to establish a global Islamic caliphate by first destroying Israel and then America. Since 2021, Africa has been “the eye of the global terrorism storm”, and Iran’s priority focus is on exporting its genocidal goals. In addition to being the unrivaled leader in exporting terrorism and violence (including the Hamas massacre in Israel on October 7th, 2023), the Iranian regime is also brutal to its citizens, jailing, torturing, and executing those who dare protest the government.

However, throughout the years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has also focused on the Black American community as a tool of unrest and instability against the United States, historically Israel’s No. 1 ally.

To understand how and why the terrorist leaders of Iran would specifically target Black Americans (and Africans) in their quest to destroy Israel and the US, one would need to understand the purpose of the KGB-created PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization).

From Zionism & the Black Church:

Arguably, the most effective form of Soviet anti-Zionist deception and propaganda targeting the Black community was embodied by the Egyptian-born, self-proclaimed leader of the Arab Palestinian people. His name was Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, better known as Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

[From Disinformation by Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa]: The KGB had a penchant for “liberation” movements. The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), the National Liberation Army of Columbia (FARC), and the National Liberation Army of Bolivia were just a few of the liberation movements born at the KGB.

Yasser Arafat’s close connection to and collaboration with the Iranian Ayatollahs was as old as the PLO itself. From Tablet Magazine’s Arafat and the Ayatollahs:

The relationship between the Iranian revolutionary factions and the Palestinians began in the late 1960s, in parallel with Arafat’s own rise in preeminence within the PLO. After the Iranian government crackdown of 1963, opposition groups resolved to adopt guerrilla tactics against the shah. By the end of the decade, Iranian opposition factions had made contact with…(PLO) representatives in regional states including Qatar, and also Iraq, where Ayatollah Khomeini had been living since 1965. Marxist Iranian guerrilla organizations looking to receive training soon found their way to PLO camps in Jordan and South Yemen.

Over the years, one of the Palestinians’ and the Iranians’ favorite targets for terrorist propaganda and disinformation in the Black community has been Nation of Islam leader, Minister Louis Farrakhan. In an interview with IBSI, Iranian American journalist Karmel Melamed explained that:

Since the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Islamic regime in Iran has had ties to Louis Farrakhan and his anti-Jewish “Nation of Islam” group as another avenue to stir hate for America from a black organization in the U.S. who hates the Jews and Israel as much as the Ayatollahs in Iran do.

As recently as 2018, Farrakhan traveled to Tehran to meet with regime officials and, while there, joined in the traditional chants of Death to Israel and Death to America.

In January 2020, Hassan Rahimpour Azghadi, a member of Iran's Supreme Council for Cultural Revolution gave a lecture in which he explained Iran’s Blaxploitation.

We have to make our presence felt in the conflict in America that involve blacks and people of color. There is fertile ground for this. With regard to the American people, let me tell you this: If their media fabric and oppressing structures loosen a little bit – America is the kind of country that will disintegrate quickly.

Bear in mind that January 2020 was just four months before the explosion of racial strife that followed the death of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests and riots; protests and riots that prominently featured Israel hatred and Jew hatred. On May 30, 2020 (just days after George Floyd’s death) the Iranian academic and political analyst Mohammad Marandi described Black Americans as “poor” and “deprived.” From the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI):

In many of America's deprived cities and areas - they call them 'slums' - the schools are really bad and are not safe. Students simply move on to the next grade. Their reading and writing skills are at the level of second or third grade in Iran. They really cannot read properly. So they are poor and deprived. They cannot enroll in a university. They did not attend a proper school. The TV constantly tells them that they are violent smugglers…and so forth. Well, this is the result. All they have left is sports... Obviously, I am not saying that they are all like that. Some of the blacks are in the middle class, some have gotten rich, some have become university professors, and some of them become like Mr. Obama. But Obama himself has joined the establishment and become one of them.

Observe how Marandi accurately explains the poor state of public schools including the high illiteracy rates among Black students (especially Black boys), and the role of media and entertainment in enforcing negative Black stereotypes. The purpose of his characterization is to identify how the poor and working-class Black population would be vulnerable to a predatory, exploitative agenda. Again, this was the PLO’s strategy beginning in the late 1960s.

Over the past few years, the Iranian regime has invested heavily in training Black American (and African) clergy or imams with its radical Shia Muslim ideology. From IBSI’s interview of Karmel Melamed:

One of the most well-known of the U.S.-born, Black Iranian trained clergy is Imam Usama Abdulghani, a Shiite Islamic cleric based in Dearborn[, Michigan] who always praises the Iranian regime, its Supreme Leader, the regime’s brutal terrorist Soleimani and the regime’s founder [Ayatollah] Khomeini while denouncing Israel. He often repeats many of the hate messages about Israel that the regime in Iran spews. Adulghani even praised the violent and sickening Hamas October 7^th attacks on Israelis as well. MEMRI has often showcased his sermons of hate which prominently feature framed photos of the Iranian regime’s founder Khomeini or the Supreme Leader Khamenei by his side while he speaks. Based on his sermons of hate for Jews and Israel and praise of the Ayatollahs in Iran, one can easily deduce that he was trained in Iran and is perhaps now being directly or indirectly funded by them today to spew their hate and sick ideology.

In October, The Free Press reported on Black nationalist Sharif El-Mekki, an adviser to Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro. El-Mekki has received $20 million to establish an all-Black school with all-Black faculty. The money has come from the Gates Foundation, NBC Universal, Nike, and the Bezos Family Foundation. What was part of El-Mekki’s inspiration? The genocidal Islamic Republic of Iran. From The Free Press:

When he was in middle school, [El-Mekki’s] family relocated to Iran, a country he continues to praise to this day. Speaking on a podcast in April 2023, El-Mekki lauded the Iranian education system, stating that “Iran produces more engineers and doctors, scientists, than many other countries. To be that small, but there’s such an emphasis on education and understanding.” In that same interview, El-Mekki bashed America as “anti-black and anti-intellectual.” 

El-Mekki’s late mother, Aisha El-Mekki, was a Muslim convert who moved her family to Iran because “she wanted her children to witness a country united in its efforts to make a change,” according to a biography published by the Philly Muslim Freedom Fund in 2020. The biography describes that she “loved” how former Ayatollah Khomeini “continuously stood up to the bully without any fear” and how “he called out the oppression of America and other superpowers.” Aisha El-Mekki met with Khomeini multiple times, according to the biography.

Sharif El-Mekki, in turn, has been praised by Nation of Islam leader and black nationalist Louis Farrakhan. In 2019, Farrakhan’s publication, TheFinal Call, profiled El-Mekki in a piece called “Leading with Equity and Justice in Education.” The Final Call has also quoted El-Mekki multiple times, referring to him as a “master educator.”

The Ayatollahs of Iran are exploiting legitimate issues of education and economics among the Black American poor to advance their destructive, Islamist agenda. They have taken that page out of the PLO/KGB handbook. Just as the PLO and Hamas are willing for Arab Palestinians to be slaughtered to achieve its goal of annihilating Israel, the Iranian regime is feigning concern for Black Americans to achieve its goal of destroying America.

When Iranian-backed Hamas committed its massacre in Israel on October 7th, 2023, the attackers included Iranian nationals. Among the 1,300 killed or abducted in Israel that day were two young agricultural students from Tanzania, Clemence Mtenga and Joshua Mollel. The Iranian-led terrorists didn’t just kill the two young Africans, they called them abeds (slaves) and mutilated their bodies. Sadly, we have Joshua Moellel’s death on video that the terrorists recorded. What the jihadists did to those African students is what the Iranian regime truly thinks of Black people. Their brutal deaths are a reminder of what is in store for Black Americans and Black Africans once they’ve served the Islamic regime’s purpose.

Israel’s fight against the Iranian regime is the free world’s fight. The Black American community is one of the main ideological battlegrounds in that fight. If we are to be victorious in that fight we must first understand it. That understanding begins with this: Everyone who claims to want to help you is not concerned about your well-being.

For nearly 50 years, the Iranian regime has proven itself to be a deadly entity determined to establish global Islamist rule and is willing to slaughter anyone to achieve that aim — Iranian, African, American, Israeli — anyone. There is little difference between the Nazi regime of the 20th century and the Iranian regime of today. Once that is understood, the battle becomes much clearer.