Producer Behind ‘12th Imam’ Vid Arrested for Exposing Film Ties in Iran
- Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:31pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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We already know Iran doesn’t like dissent. But now we‘re finding out the regime doesn’t like being exposed by those loyal to its cause.
Last month CBN News uncovered a startling state-sponsored video trumpeting the imminent return of the 12th Imam — a messianic figure who some Muslims believe will lead the armies of Islam to victory over all non-Muslims. Now, CBN has learned that its report has rattled the Iranian regime and led to the arrest of at least one man:
Erick Stakelbeck reports:
Iranian state media reports say the producer of the film was arrested after revealing that Khamenei and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had approved the film.
In addition, some Iranian observers say the recent firing of Ahmadinejad‘s chief of staff came after he was linked to the film’s production. “Those opposing Ahmadenijad are using this to attack him. And then other radicals are also saying that ‘Now, our ideology has been seen by the West and it’s embarrassing the Islamic Republic,’” said Reza Kahlili, a former member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps who provided the propaganda film to CBN News.
In Stakelbeck’s original report, he reveals that Kahlili is not the contact’s real name, as his identity has been kept secret.
Despite the video being exposed, however, the regime isn’t backing down.
“Ahmadinejad and others are defending it. And actually, there’s been an official, public statement from the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s representative in the Revolutionary Guard that verified his position,” Kahlili told Stakelbeck.
Read the rest from Stakelbeck.
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Comments (85)
KEA
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:37pmOOPS! The words out!
Report Post »rock no
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:33pmand soon some politician will stand up and say “we have peace in out time” and wave a document proving it. It will be time to duck for cover .
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:26pmreligion of peace and tolerance.. for shame it must be a mistake
Report Post »JBT
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 10:29pmIslam is not a religion. Not a religion of peace, not of truth, not of God. But a faith dependent on blind submission to one man’s pride and his cubical god.
Report Post »It is a cult of death.
THE-FINAL-ACT
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:19pmThe Holy Bible is right as usual (Not Glenn)
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:26pmthe only thing I have against glen is that he is a mormon, he follows a religion that was started by a guy with a giant pair of glasses found in the woods …nice…the Bible is the only source of truth!
Report Post »Mainer forever
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:18pmNow, our ideology has been seen by the West and it’s embarrassing the Islamic Republic,’” KInda says it all doesn’t it?
Report Post »CatherineAnn
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:17pmJust think of how many movies they can make with their share of $5.00 a gallon gas?
Report Post »Sutter Buttes
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:13pmI think they all have a disease contrracted from schtupping sheep.
Report Post »Richard Compton
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:12pmAny religion that calls for anything other than peace and civility is not a religion of God, any religion that demeans others is not a religion of God. God doesn’t take sides, never has and will never do so, God loves us all equally!
Report Post »BORNINTOAWORLDATWAR
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 5:14pmRichard – I’m a little confused on where you got your facts about God. When you make a god in your own image or as you would want him to be, you have an idol, a false god and such things our Creator hates.
Report Post »Yes our Creator is a God of love, but He is also just and He will judge and punish those who rail against Him or follow false gods. You are right in a sense that He does not take sides, He is a side, and thus you are either with Him or against Him there is no other way, even if you want there to be.
That’s just how it is.
suzpenn
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:11pmYea, OK . . . but I think the bigger picture is – Gas hits $5.00/gallon in DC – that makes the Buffoon In Chief a One Term President! Let you finish your sentence? Sit down and Shut the Hell Up! How’s that for letting you finish, you POTUS jerk!
Report Post »geonj
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:08pmthey don’t want us to know that their precious koran calls all muslims to kill all non-muslims. not just so called funamentalist islamists, all of islam.
KORAN commands to kill infidels:
Allah is an enemy to unbelievers. – Sura 2:98
On unbelievers is the curse of Allah. – Sura 2:161
Slay them wherever ye find them and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. – 2:191
Fight against them until idolatry is no more and Allah’s religion reigns supreme. (different translation: ) Fight them until there is no persecution and the religion is God’s entirely. – Sura 2:193 and 8:39
Fighting is obligatory for you, much as you dislike it. – 2:216
(different translation: ) Prescribed for you is fighting, though it is hateful to you.
….. martyrs…. Enter heaven – Surah 3:140-43
If you should die or be killed in the cause of Allah, His mercy and forgiveness would surely be better than all they riches they amass. If you should die or be killed, before Him you shall all be gathered. – 3:157-8
You must not think that those who were slain in the cause of Allah are dead. They are alive, and well-provided for by their Lord. – Surah 3:169-71
Let those fight in the cause of God who sell the life of this world for the hereafter. To him who fights in the cause of God, whether he is slain or victorious, soon we shall give him a great reward. – Surah 4:74
Those who believe fight in the cause of God, and those who reject faith fight in the cause of evil. – 4:76
But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever you find them. – 4:89
Therefore, we stirred among them enmity and hatred, which shall endure till the Day of Resurrection, when Allah will declare to them all that they have done. – 5:14
O believers, take not Jews and Christians as friends; they are friends of each other. Those of you who make them his friends is one of them. God does not guide an unjust people. – 5:54
Make war on them until idolatry is no more and Allah’s religion reigns supreme – 8:39
O Prophet! Exhort the believers to fight. If there are 20 steadfast men among you, they shall vanquish 200; and if there are a hundred, they shall rout a thousand unbelievers, for they are devoid of understanding. – 8:65
It is not for any Prophet to have captives until he has made slaughter in the land. – 8:67
Allah will humble the unbelievers. Allah and His apostle are free from obligations to idol-worshipers. Proclaim a woeful punishment to the unbelievers. – 9:2-3
When the sacred months are over, slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them. – 9:5
Believers! Know that idolators are unclean. – 9:28
Fight those who believe neither in God nor the Last Day, nor what has been forbidden by God and his messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, even if they are People of the Book, until they pay the tribute and have been humbled. – 9:29 (another source: ) The unbelievers are impure and their abode is hell. (another source: ) Humiliate the non-Muslims to such an extent that they surrender and pay tribute.
Whether unarmed or well-equipped, march on and fight for the cause of Allah, with your wealth and your persons. – 9:41
O Prophet! Make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites. Be harsh with them. Their ultimate abode is hell, a hapless journey’s end. – 9:73
Allah has purchased of their faithful lives and worldly goods, and in return has promised them the Garden. They will fight for His cause, kill and be killed. – 9:111
Fight unbelievers who are near to you. 9:123 (different translation:
Believers! Make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Let them find harshness in you. (another source: ) Ye who believe! Murder those of the disbelievers….
As for those who are slain in the cause of Allah, He will not allow their works to perish. He will vouchsafe them guidance and ennoble their state; He will admit them to the Paradise He has made known to them. – 10:4-15
Allah has cursed the unbelievers and proposed for them a blazing hell. – 33:60
Unbelievers are enemies of Allah and they will roast in hell. – 41:14
When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks, then when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds, then set them free, either by grace or ransom, until the war lays down its burdens. – 47:4
(different translation: ) When you meet the unbelievers in the battlefield, strike off their heads, and when you have laid them low, bind your captives firmly.
Those who are slain in the way of Allah – he will never let their deeds be lost. Soon will he guide them and improve their condition, and admit them to the Garden, which he has announced for them. – 47:5
Muslims are harsh against the unbelievers, merciful to one another. – 48:25
Muhammad is Allah’s apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another. Through them, Allah seeks to enrage the unbelievers. – 48:29
Prophet! Make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal sternly with them. Hell shall be their home, evil their fate. – 66:9
The unbelievers among the People of the Book and the pagans shall burn forever in the fire of hell. They are the vilest of all creatures. – 98:51
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 5:38pmEver read the Old Testament?
Report Post »Jordan1
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:44pmRead the hate filled Bible! And what, maybe 150,000 Americans dead by guns in this country since 9/11? But be afraid every second of your life over “Islam” killing you! Hahahaha….
Report Post »Netsurfer2
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:07pmThank GOD we are not like them! We hold our freedoms to be worth much more! The truth will set you free!
Report Post »axel@25
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:57pmOf course Islam is the religon of peace….they want everyone that isn’t them to rest in PEACE
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:56pmPeople who take our country for granted may not realize the freedoms we possess. They’re expressing their viewpoints without fear of a dictator arbitrally crushing them. Can you even imagine how life evolves in a stagnant environment? (Generation after generation)
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:55pm“the recent firing of Ahmadinejad‘s chief of staff” I’m guessing that a firing in Ahmadinejad‘s staff really does involve something firing.
Report Post »ISLAMICO
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:11pmWe use water to clean and you can keep your toilet paper.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:23pmYou’re not doing to well Islamico, I can smell you all the way across the internet and ironically, you smell like a pig.
Report Post »TheGoo
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:49pmKhamenei and Ahmadinejad were upset that the film didn’t depict them as radical enough. It‘s obvious they are posturing because they’re P.O.’d that this was reported by a *Christian* news organization. Sunlight always does prove to be the best disinfectant. See how the roaches scurry?
Report Post »Heather Mae 74
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:49pmTwo words “CARPET BOMB”
Report Post »marine249
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:55pm3 words sand to glass
Report Post »VRW Conspirator
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:40pmfrom a great movie (hehe) Starship Troopers…
“what do we do now?’
“Call in Fleet and tell them to glass the planet”
granted…the population of Iran under 35 is actually very pro-western style democracy…if Obama had supposed them like he did in calling for rebellion in Egypt and now Libya…Iran would have had regime change last year…
Report Post »ISLAMICO
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:47pmLETTER TO AMERICA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:05pmLetter to Islamico:
Report Post »Go back to your dirt hut and try and figure out how toilet paper works.
Ethereal
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:23pmQuite an interesting article/letter.
Report Post »skiyryder77
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:19pmNice letter, but while I was in Iraq and Afghanistan, I never worried about a man on man warrior battle. It was always the suicide child bomber or IED. Islam will never defeat the people of the west because they won’t actually fight us. The politicians may grovel to the PC crap but not those of us who make a living defending and protecting this country. .
Report Post »Doug-a-Hole-Diggin-out
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:43pmStep into the light…
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:38pmits the truth, but we were not ready for it to be known……………..timing people timing!!!!!! now lock him up till the cake is done
Report Post »FlatFoot
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:38pmJust turn Iran into one enormous glass parking lot. That should fix about 75% of the entire worlds problems and put a very large dent in global terrorism in one fell swoop.
Report Post »Mike Westfall No Hiding
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:36pmFigures. Leftist marxist communist and islamists NEVER like the truth
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:35pmthe religion of islam is an embarrassment…who would follow this religon? religion is man-made, but islam comes straight from satan himself…the anti-christ has alot of followers.
Report Post »Theleftisda
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:55pmhttp://www.biblebelievers.org.au/moongod.htm
Report Post »Allah is a pagen moon God
SlimnRanger
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:58pmYes the anti-Christ has many followers and many of them have been elected in the Senate, congress ohh and the White House
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:07pmexactly, take a look at their flags they wave…the moon is all over them! Hagar the mother of Ishmahel(sorry about the spelling) worshipped the moon…you know where all this crap got started..
Report Post »branch manager
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:35pmOff with his head.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:02pmHey!! I want the military hat. Wow!!! I could really pick up girls with that. I be cool!!!
Report Post »randy
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:35pmNow, our ideology has been seen by the West and it’s embarrassing the Islamic Republic,’”??
And you would have thought the be-headings would have embarrassed them
Report Post »PrfctlyFrank
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:43pmThese fools can’t be embarrassed, only offended, and that by anything, anything, they don’t chant from their satanic book of lies.. The koran, indeed all of islam, is the instrument of satan on this Earth..
Report Post »Toastery
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 6:42pmIslam is a Political System and the NAACP is a Special Interest. Both should be dealt with accordingly.
Report Post »AynRandLives
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:35pmReligion of Peace
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:38pmThe truth hurts, doesn’t it? Is that the reason they tell so many lies?
Truth has no agenda!
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:57pmAnd then other radicals are also saying that ‘Now, our ideology has been seen by the West and it’s embarrassing the Islamic Republic,’”
Report Post »———–
So Glenn was right …AGAIN ?
:D
Now , lets squish some Sor@$$ lickers…..I’m sure they have been activated
Hawt'n'secksie
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:06pmI would agree. The peace in islam is bursting at the seams. I cannot believe the friendliness they ooze. It’s like an episode of Lawrence Welk except with less trombones and more stonings and bombs. So peaceful.
Report Post »Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:20pmI am still looking for the christians strapping on bombs and blowing up muslim areas…can any of you help me find that story? I keep hearing liberals touting the remark, however, I cannot find it on the internet. Surely, they are not that stupid to believe that are they? I know if you tell a lie then you will have to continue to lie to cover it up…sorry, that was Obama’s speech…Ok, how about, do they think we are so stupid to believe what they say anyway, a lie doesn’t really matter? Nope, Obama does that too…One more try….Have they ever heard of the net? Well, the Notsee Party just thinks no one sees what is going on in the country, on the net and they have all the solutions. The problem as I see it, we cannot afford it as no country has that kind of money. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=JVAhr4hZDJE&vq=medium#t=19
Report Post »Curator_JDR
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:29pmYou will really know times are changing for the BETTER when Israelis rebuilds their ancient gates as a symbol of the PERMANENCE of the Jewish people.their homeland.. What will the mad Mullahs, idiotic Imans and sh***y sheiks do when confronted with authentic artifacts which expose their lies of lineage and religion?
When renowned artist Marc Richard Rubin was painting his requested Biblical exhibition on the lineage and history of the Jewish people for Holocaust survivors in the early 2000′s , (online exhibition: http://www.marcrubin.com/or.ivnu ) one night while listening to music under the headphones he heard a voice so loud, he thought someone else was in the room. He wrote down what he heard, and as Marc related, his pen seemed to write by itself; he struggled to grasp it.
What Marc received were the schematics and reason for the “Gate of Israel” .http://www.marcrubin.com/pylon.ivnu While the “Palestinians” plot for international recognition of their terror state this September., this “SYMBOLIC fact on the ground” demonstrates the absurdity and futility of the Palestinian false claim to Eretz Yisrael.
The blueprints are a seed. Only the PEOPLE of Israel can bring the Gate of Israel to fruition. Please let everyone you know who loves Israel know of the “Gate of Israel”
Report Post »Curator_JDR
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:30pmGate of Israel Link: http://www.marcrubin.com/pylon.ivnu
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:50pm@Hawt‘n’secksie
Report Post »Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:06pm
I would agree. The peace in islam is bursting at the seams. I cannot believe the friendliness they ooze. It’s like an episode of Lawrence Welk except with less trombones and more stonings and bombs. So peaceful.
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And beheading is quiet, too! No gunshot, just a quiet little with a machete.
watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 4:53pm@ HAWT…..have you ever noticed how well groomed and fragrantly appealing radical Muslim men are????
Report Post »lovenfl3
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 5:01pmThe religion of peace they certainly are not. The Muslim Brotherhood is a nasty group. This video exposes who they really are. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcRU63qCJkw
Report Post »DirectlyUnPCman
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 5:24pmWow, Muslims will believe anything told them. How pathetic.
Report Post »SpunkyGal
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 5:42pmStories like this make me feel proud to be an infidel. I’m totally cool if the 12th Imam wants me dead. It seems more honorable than supporting such craziness.
Report Post »Hawt'n'secksie
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 5:50pm@ watchtheotherhand…
I have indeed beheld the grooming habits of the ambrosial scented muslim gentlemen…While their tidy whiskers are often quite pleasing to the eye, I am most jealous of the hint of barnyard air that wafts in my direction as they pass by. This is a generalization, to be sure, but one I have found to be true on many occasions. Mmmmmm…I can almost see, hear, and smell a bleating goat as I type. Secksie!
Report Post »aro5o75
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 6:27pmit’s not a religion.
Report Post »Professional Infidel
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:24pmDo they think that that outfit hides there evil, It accentuates it!!! Don’t they know that A spade is a spade!!!!
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:45amSomehow the idea that Iran‘s Regime feels embarrassed doesn’t sit in my stomach well, when Ahmadinejad speaks publicly about wiping out Israel, and yet the 12th Imam belief exposed embarrasses him and them. I don’t buy it.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:47amI think that the Iranian Regime is beginning to even doubt their own belief in the 12th Imam, and perhaps (considering they are rounding up certain Christians) they are beginning to fear Jesus.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 1:09amcheezwhiz
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 3:57pm
So Glenn was right …AGAIN ?
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Yep. Someday I want to watch as progressives line-up to wait their turn to eat some Crow! The PETA folks will be upset at so many Crows having to be killed so we will use Dog turds to replace Crow.
If it wasn’t so dam serious, Glenn could smile knowing he was right.
Need volunteers for Col. Allen West.
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