“The Biden administration should understand that Ebrahim Raisi is an extremely dangerous man partially because, from his perspective, anyone who criticizes the Islamic Republic or protests against it is rising against God and his representatives on earth. Whatever his regime does is presumed to be fully justified and rewarded by God because the Islamic Republic is a divine political establishment and all its actions are enforcing God’s will on earth.”
The US learned that lesson in WW II fighting the emperor worshipping Japanese. Death in the “God’s” service was considered an honour by his soldiers. They have forgotten that.
