...."Some senior ayatollahs welcomed the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi and warned that the U.S. should expect further harsh reactions from the Muslims.[5] The Global Ahl-e Al-Bayt Foundation, which is directly subordinate to the office of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, urged Muslims worldwide, and especially the Shi'ites, "to demonstrate and protest against this offensive move [of making the film], and do everything they can to ban it, in order to prevent the continuation of these satanic actions." [6] On September 13, senior ayatollah Mohammad Ali Alavi Gorgani exhorted the Shi'ites worldwide to "express their outrage to the people of the world" and that Muslims should "react to this satanic move... behind which stands global Zionism."[7] Student Basij representative Ali Hassan Zadeh called on Muslims to remove the cancerous growth – Israel – from the Middle East.[8] Kazem Tabatabai, a Friday prayer leader from the city of Zabol, said: "The Muslims must no longer keep silent. They must launch all-out jihad to eliminate the arrogance [the West headed by the U.S.]."[9] Assembly of Experts member Ayatollah Abbas Ka'abi said: "The entire Muslim nation must join forces with the zealous Libyan people against the film that insults Islam and the Prophet." [10] Ayatollah Nouri Hamedani said: "The U.S. must expect [even] harsher measures."[11] Iranian Vice President Mohammad-Reza Rahimi said that the Iranian government would search for the producer of the anti-Muhammad YouTube film and would place him under surveillance.[12] Two prominent regime mouthpieces, Kayhan and Fars, stressed that the targeting of U.S. diplomats in the Middle East would now become a trend.[13] A September 15, 2012 Fars analysis said that the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya will be "the opening shot for the killing of U.S. ambassadors in the region." It also warned Arab leaders not to suppress the masses' rage against the U.S., because doing so could bring down their regimes: "The Arab leaders... of the post -Mubarak, post -Qadhafi and post -Ali 'Abdallah Saleh [era]... must realize that the revolutions do not depend on them, but that they depend on the revolutions. If they stray from the path [of the revolutions], they will undoubtedly be deposed. This time, the insults to Islam came up against the dam of the Islamic awakening. The offending country [i.e. the U.S.] can no longer insult [Islam] and expect that its ambassadors in the Islamic countries will remain safe. The Islamic awakening has significantly increased the cost of insulting the sanctity of Islam. It is not only [the YouTube film's purported director] Sam Bacile who should go into hiding; now the offending country's ambassadors in the Islamic countries will [also] feel unsafe, even though the Egyptian and Yemeni police fired on the protestors... [The killing of the U.S. ambassador] is a phenomenon that possibly could continue – and even if it does not continue with the same determination, it may make the U.S. diplomats feel constantly unsafe." Fars also warned the leaders of Arab countries where revolutions have recently taken place that "if they want to grow close to the West and sacrifice Islam in favor of liberal democracy, they will face their peoples' demands, and they should not expect that to end well." It added that Egyptian President Muhammad Mursi's September 12 speech condemning the film but banning attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo pleased both Islamist and Western ears, and reflected his understanding that "anti-Western sentiment now prevails in his country."....
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