Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has warned protesters in Iran that violence and bloodshed will follow if protests against the false election results continue.

Threatening to kill people for voicing their protests is not spiritual leadership. This man who is called “Ayatollah” speaks of death for his own people? These are not the words of God. It is not convincing to declare an election with such evidence of fraud.

He makes it sound like he wants the world to see him only as a man. As a despot.

His threat to his own people shatters the illusion of spiritual authority. He appears to merely be lowly man who says he represents the word of God, but would a man of God say such terrible things against his own? Using supreme authority to commit criminal acts upon the people of Iran is not in God’s interests. Who’s interest do his words serve?

Pretending to be a man of God when you are in fact a man who wields the sword upon his own is lower than being an honest criminal. If the West has interpreted him wrongly, then comment below – I honestly hope someone does. After a fatwah was issued by this leadership model upon a foreign writer, it became more than obvious that this was not a man of God but a man who wanted to control the minds of others.

If the police and army in Iran are good Muslims, they should refuse to follow his orders. Following a false prophet does not get you to heaven. It is more than blasphemy to slaughter people instead of counting the votes.

These threats fracture any confidence that he speaks with spiritual authority. He is a man. His speech may mark the start of a civil war in Iran – as the Government attempts to quell protest – it will force the popular movement underground. Nobody wants this. At least in America they counted the votes. But he is a spiritual leader, and the people must listen to him unless they see that his religious values are quite different to their own.

The acts of a self-appointed totalitarian government are now there for the world to witness. The consequence of this display of despotism is the collapse of any support Iran may have been able to germinate from the rest of the world for trusting them with their nuclear power aspirations.

Sanctions will proceed over the nuclear issue. This man has ensured the rest of the world can not trust the basic humility of the leaders of Iran, like North Korea they mistreat their own people and lavish the military.

The rest of the world increasingly includes modern Russia and modern China. The concept of division as the source of competition driving growth as a model for economic well being has failed.

Ali Khamenei has done more to set the stage for a “justified” attack upon their nuclear programme than even his little boy blue Ahmedijebad. The fear generated by threatening his own people with violence after the world has witnessed an unbelievable nightmare week of killings, mayhem and destruction by government black-shirted military police, means that even the most lily-livered liberal will cheer on military strikes against Iran’s potential nuclear capability.

His words against his own ended any external support for Iran’s nuclear power aspirations. The world will no longer stand by and watch thugs gain any power over their neighbors’ fortune.

Both sides of the political coin are answerable to the supreme leader, who’s unquestioned right to power relies more on fear than faith. To revolt against him, he had to differentiate himself from the Holy Koran. He appears to have done just that.

It is sadly therefore predictable that a civil war could result, unless the mandate of authority of the religious status of this dictator is relinquished, Iran seems destined for continued strife and continued violations of human rights.