Quds Day = Iran Day

For centuries, the Iranian elites have been very self-conscious about the fact they are only shia country. Most muslim countries are sunni. Shias are the black sheep of the muslim world. The genius of the Ayatollah regime was to invent Quds Day (Jerusalem Day).

Here is how that works.

On Quds Day, in every city in Iran, government officials organize street protests. They ask military families and civil servants to protest in the streets. Everyone is to wave Iranian flags and scream “Death to Israel”. They also burn Israeli flags and say stuff like “Soon, Jerusalem will be back in muslim hands thanks to Iran”. Most Iranians don’t speak arabic, but the government prints signs in arabic.

Around the islamic world, many people love that shit. It’s basically religious porn. The Pakistani taxi driver or your factory worker in Egypt sees these Quds day vids on facebook. His immediate reaction? “Wow…Iran is so wonderful :3” or “Mashallah, I fucking love Iran”

It’s the one political trick that Iranian elites found to become popular in the sunni world. They desperately want to be admired/respected by sunnis. If Israel didn’t exist, these people would want to invent it.

If they were really honest, they would not call it Quds Day. They would call it Iranian soft-power day.