You Can't Reason with People Who Believe God Wants You Dead

What Australia's foreign minister fails to understand about the Iranian regime

Starry-eyed Penny Wong believes the Iranian regime - world champions of hostage diplomacy, woman-stoning, and death-to-America chants - can be tamed with polite conversation.

Has our nation ever had a more feckless foreign minister?

The Iranian leadership funds global terror and calls Israel a "cancer”. But Wong imagines a strongly worded letter will bring them to heel.

Diplomacy with the Ayatollahs? Really?

Penny Wong recommends bringing a scented candle to a gunfight. It’s not foreign policy - it’s fantasy roleplay.

At this rate, she’ll be inviting what’s left of the Hamas leadership to morning tea at Parliament House, hoping they'll reconsider jihad over scones and jam.

The Iranian leadership will not respond to diplomacy, no matter how earnest, because the Iranian leadership is not motivated by logic, or by reason.

And they are certainly not sitting in Tehran pouring over the latest strongly worded tweet from Australia’s lesbian foreign minister.

The central tenant of Islam, as practiced by the Iranian regime, is a belief in the return of the 12th Imam, or Imam al-Mahdi.

This eschatological figure, believed to be hidden since the 9th century, is prophesied to return at the end of times to bring justice and to establish global Islamic rule.

The Iranian leadership believe the Mahdi’s return is contingent upon the destruction of Israel.

You’d think Penny Wong would know this.

Unless Penny Wong wants to go to Tehran to discuss end time theology, her appeals to “international rules” and “a commitment to dialogue” make less sense than Queers for Palestine.

Iran’s clerical regime frame Israel’s very existence, not just as a political affront (as if that is not bad enough), but as a metaphysical obstacle …