Shocking news, isn’t it?  For the record, that’s not my opinion, but the conclusion from a 25 page open letter that was sent to all Americans by Iran’s IRGC, the vicious thugs who actually run Iran.

I read all 25 pages of the letter so you don’t have to.  In truth, it really didn’t have to be 25 pages long.  I can sum it up very briefly.  Iran is a peace loving country, whose people enjoy freedom and liberty, and the U.S. is an evil, blood-thirsty nation, which oppresses its underprivileged, and preys on the rest of the world.  And, oh yes, we support Israel too.

The letter succinctly states the reason why Iran won and the U.S. lost the war.  The Iranian people are righteous and pure, their Koran (or Quran) is a superior doctrine and God is on their side.  Whew!  There really is no worse fanatic than a religious fanatic.

In extreme cases, “God told me to do it,” is a form of schizophrenia.  Successful insanity defenses often are made by criminal defendants whose crimes were motivated by voices telling them to kill.  When you’re convinced it’s the voice of God telling you to kill, that makes you even more dangerous.  When you’re convinced that God commands you to kill, and you’re running a government that’s trying to develop nuclear weapons, that makes you Iran’s IRGC.

The letter was intended to influence Americans to reject Trump and all Republicans in the upcoming elections.  At its core, the letter either is a tissue of blatant lies, or overwhelming evidence of that the people running Iran are suffering from mass delusions.

The letter restated the same time worn slogans that Iran has been mouthing for decades.  For instance, while Iran is a nation of peace, all the evil in the world is being caused by the United States (Big Satan) and Israel (Little Satan).  Nothing new there.  But the letter also contained a number of paranoid delusions, outright lies, and startling revelations.

For instance, “Iran has never started a war.”  We could debate this one.  Never “declared war” maybe, but they’ve been funding Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and others for decades, and supplying the weapons and explosives that have killed untold thousands in the Middle East.

“Iran’s nuclear program was peaceful.”  Right.  A nation sitting on a sea of oil needed to enrich uranium to make electricity.  Sure.  They needed to enrich it to 6 times the purity needed to make electricity, and they needed to use nuclear weapons scientists to do all this.

“Iran does no violence to its civilians.”  Except, of course, the 40,000 or so protestors who they slaughtered in the streets, and the teenagers they keep hanging for daring to dissent.

“Iran has stopped the flow of oil from the Straight of Hormuz.”  In fact, oil shipments are back to pre-war levels, with as much as 19 million barrels a day being shipped, but who’s counting?

“Iran kept all its promises in the peace agreement with the U.S.”  Well, I guess except for the facts that, after they signed the agreement and promised to open the Straight, they mined it, and shot missiles and drones at ships trying to transit it, and oh yes, there was that little problem of firing ballistic missiles at all their Gulf State neighbors.

“American and Israeli bombing was ineffective,” and “Iran destroyed U.S. and Israeli aircraft.”  Okay.  Iran had a navy, but not anymore.  Iran had a ruling military council and an Ayatollah in February, until they all met that morning for brunch, and now they’re dead.  Iran had war planes, but not anymore.  Iran had operating nuclear facilities, but not anymore.  Iran had a fleet of fast attack boats, but they were sunk.  Iran had air defenses, but they were destroyed.  Iran had fleets of tankers to ship their oil, but we kept them from sailing.  Iran had thousands of missiles and drones, and now they’re gone too.  Iran’s economy is in ruins, inflation is out of control, it can’t pay its troops, and its people are starving.  Well, I guess you have to take the good with the bad.  If Iran won, I’d hate to see what losing looks like.

Meanwhile, according to the IRGC, “the U.S. economy is on the precipice of collapse.”  In fact, third quarter growth in the U.S. was 2.2%, and a 5% growth rate is expected in the fourth quarter.

Here’s a startling revelation.  Did you know that “Iran destroyed 350 U.S. facilities at regional U.S. bases, putting 18 U.S. military bases out of commission?”  You’d have thought CNN or MSNOW would have reported that.

Iran won because “U.S. troops are disallusioned because they don’t understand why they’re fighting.”  Meanwhile, “Iran has achieved national solidarity.”  Sure, there’s national solidarity because the IRGC massacred 40,000 protestors, in order to encourage the survivors to comply.

Part of the letter was dedicated to bashing the U.S.  “The U.S. has 4% of the population, but 20% of the prisoners.”  Oh, the injustice!  Iran has many fewer prisoners because they don’t waste money locking them up, preferring just to kill their real or imagined offenders.

“In the U.S., police kill 1,300 people a year.”  The true figure is 1,200, but no matter.  The same website that provided the 1,200 number also says Iranian police kill 7,000 Iranians a year.  The U.S. has 4 times the population of Iran, so do the math.

The letter then explained why Iranians keep chanting “Death to America.”  It seems they really don’t hate all the American people, just “the diabolical ruling elites.”  So, they don’t want to kill us all, only our leaders.  That’s comforting.  And they can’t mean just Trump and company, because they’ve been chanting that same shit for 50 years now.

Then there were some really big lies.  CNN and MSNOW dropped the ball again.  Did you know the U.S. is engaging in domestic terrorism in Iran?”  This includes, according to the IRGC, “bombings, kidnappings, mass assassinations, hijackings, torture, and the killings of 20,000 Iranians.”  And they don’t mean in the war, because the same letter tells us 3,600 Iranians were killed in the war.  Oh, and also, “the U.S. helped Saddam Hussein attack Iran in the 1980’s,” and “the U.S. created ISIS.”  Okay.  ISIS was a spinoff from al-Qaeda, the group responsible for 911, and the U.S. created those terrorists.  Sounds reasonable.

The IRGC has a solution, though.  Americans must “rise up” and remove Trump and Republicans from office in the next elections.  They don’t come right out and say vote for Democrats, but the message is clear.  “Americans should vote to close all U.S. military bases.”  Only Democrats support that.  They praised the No Kings protestors (Democrats).  And they called on college professors, young voters and black voters to rid American of Trump.  In other words, Democrats, Democrats, and Democrats.

I’d like to think that Iran’s attempt to influence our elections will backfire on Democrats, but who knows?  The sad truth is that many in the groups targeted by Iran are just as delusional as the IRGC.  The other day, a poll reported that 59% of Democrats favor a military coup.  Somebody should explain to them that, after the close down the Pentagon, that won’t be possible.