I’m old enough to know well the Aesop fable of the boy who cried wolf. I realize it isn’t an acceptable story to relay that moral tale to young children, according to the tyrants, I mean, the arbiters of such things.  One of the reasons society is falling faster than a 600-pound man from a high building.

Efan Soltani was one of the Iranian protesters sentenced to be hanged by the Islamic Republic, and President Trump, vainly, foolishly, did he really believe this? made the bizarre and rash statement, with only the word of the Islamic Republic, that he and the other protesters who were arrested would not be hanged.

President Trump got all 1969 Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, put some flowers in your hair, peace man, peace bro’… and went back on his word to send help, back on his word that if any protesters, civilians were killed there would be consequences because he and America would come to the rescue of the protesters.

The Islamic Republic regime didn’t hang Efan Soltani and all the protesters they had arrested.

Sigh of relief?

The “Big Man” in Washington, D.C. has clout and saved them?

No, hardly, Efan Solatani and all the other arrested protesters were executed. Shot. Stabbed. Beaten to death. The Islamic Republic regime is going into hospitals and shooting in the head victims of violence, men and women who were severely injured in the melees that occur continually in Iran. Men and women hooked up to IVs, on heart monitors, coming out of surgeries.

This is all documented. There are even videos and still images of this coming out of Iran.

This is what happens when you receive, as a bribe, I mean a gift, a half-billion-dollar jumbo jet as your personal Air Force 1, from Qatar.

Qatar, the leading sponsor and antagonist to peace in the Middle East, ending the Gaza war, having Hamas disarm. Qatar is a small, wealthy, virulent Islamic state.

Besties with our president.

Qatar, the House of Saud, other Islamic states with big business deals, bribes with America, are now proving more important than human life, or all the talk about freedom.

Lot of talk. Lot of jabbering by our president. Without backing up his word.

Can’t believe him at this point.

Especially when in bed with Qatar as he is. In bed with Turkey, the House of Saud, and Islam as he is.

Help on the way for the Iranian people?

Let this be a lesson to ALL PEOPLE to not place their faith, their hope, their trust in any man, any politician, any world leader, and may ALL PEOPLE come to know the only place to place trust, hope, and their faith is in Jesus Christ.

He never lied or lies. He never fails.

Unlike the liars, miscreants, despots, elected and appointed in every nation everywhere.

If you’re new here, don’t get me wrong — of course, though, if you’re a blind, rabid President Trump supporter no matter what, unable to be objective, you’re likely no longer on this page, but if you are? Don’t get me wrong. I voted for him. And would again considering who would be running against him.

But he is a huge windbag a lot of the time.

It’s all about the business deal, looking good, the PERCEPTION. Not the reality.

He needs to stop mentioning God and spend time in the Word of God, because until and unless he comes to understand what is what and why, and gains wisdom and discernment from God’s word, he is using God’s name in vain. It’s become a prop to him. A marketing chip.

Qatar means more to President Trump than do the regular people of Iran.

He’s proven that thus far by his actions.

Forget his words.

His actions.

Forget the B-2 bombings in Iran and all the hyperbole and bravado spewed by so many at that time.

Iran has the bomb. Now. Not later.

All that bombing did was cause a minor pause, a hiccup. Not an end.

I know the end.

I read the Book.

I think President Trump, and many others, ought to also read and believe the Book

And start understanding Islam, Iran, Hamas, and what is going on and why.

And it ain’t about trade, business deals, rail lines being built in the Middle East.

Oh, we’re at war all right. The largest, longest, deadliest, most expensive war in world history. The Spiritual War.

Began in a Garden a while ago. A lot of casualties along the way. Worldwide. World War. Most expensive war ever waged because it cost God to come to earth and Sacrifice Himself on the tree of shame for the sin of man and woman.

Words.

Humph.

Words.

The Word.

Take action as a result.

Arrogance, vanity, words, business deals, half a billion dollar jumbo jets, deal after deal mean little in the end, and every day in every life before we reach the end.

The killing is still going on.

The Islamic Republic’s horrific, evil regime isn’t defeated or going anywhere. Despite all the dung flung to the contrary.

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Sunday, January 18th, 2026

Iran: The Great Betrayal

Trump’s empty threat could have consequences far beyond the Islamic Republic.

January 16, 2026

By Robert Spencer

Reprinted from Frontpage Magazine

When the Iranian people rose up against their oppressors in 2009, Barack Obama looked the other way. When the Iranian people rose up against their oppressors in 2022, Old Joe Biden sent their oppressors billions of dollars. But Donald Trump was different.

On January 2, Trump wrote: “If Iran shots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J.TRUMP.”

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and other entities set about killing peaceful protesters with impunity, whereupon Trump wrote on January 13: “Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING – TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price. I have cancelled all meetings with Iranian Officials until the senseless killing of protesters STOPS. HELP IS ON ITS WAY. MIGA!!! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP.”

The Iranian people trusted him. They kept protesting, even as the inhuman guardians of the Islamic Republic mowed them down in ever-increasing numbers, as many as 20,000. They renamed streets after him. They knew that he would send the help he promised. They knew he would help them see the end of the bloodthirsty and demonic regime that has murdered so very many Iranians since 1979. They knew they finally had someone who heard their cries. Someone they could count on.

Yet by Wednesday afternoon, something had changed. Trump said: “We have been told that the killing in Iran is stopping, it’s stopped, it is stopping. And, uh, there’s no plan for executions, or ex— an execution, or executions. So I’ve been told that on good authority, we’ll find out about it.”

There was no reason to believe this, and it was unclear whether or not Trump himself believed it. The Islamic Republic is built on terror and preserves itself through terror, for as an Islamic government, it follows the Qur’an’s guidance for how to deal with its opponents: “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (8:60). The Islamic Republic will keep killing protesters as long as there is an Islamic Republic.

And despite Trump’s odd statement on Wednesday afternoon, that evening it looked as if the Islamic Republic was finally reaching its end. The mullahs cleared Iranian airspace in anticipation of an attack. The Iranian protesters envisioned the hour of their liberation. The world held its breath.

And the evening and the morning passed, and there was nothing. The Islamic Republic remained in place. Iranian airspace reopened. The mullahs breathed a sigh of relief.

On Thursday morning, Trump attempted a note of triumph: “FoxNews: ‘Iranian protester will no longer be sentenced to death after President Trump’s warnings. Likewise others.’ This is good news. Hopefully, it will continue!”

Unless this is a strategic feint, as many have claimed, and the promised attack is still in the works, apparently the Islamic Republic will continue as well, hiding its murders behind closed doors instead of parading them before the world. Trump’s promise of help has so far proven hollow. His encouragement of the protesters only ended up getting 20,000 of them killed.

Even worse, there are reports that Trump called off an attack at the last minute at the behest of Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, three Sunni states that have long counted the Shi’ite Islamic Republic of Iran as an enemy, but whose solicitude for the well-being of the United States should not be taken for granted.

On Thursday, Reza Amiri Moghadam, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ambassador to Pakistan, said that Trump had told the Iranian government that the United States would not attack Iran.

If that proves to be true, and no attack comes, Trump’s promise of help to the protesters, and his exhortation to them to take to the streets, will stand as one of the most craven betrayals in world history. It will also have consequences far beyond the continuing existence of the malignant regime in Tehran. If no attack comes, Trump will have finally handed his opponents a weapon they can use to do him in.

After trying to frame Trump for crimes he didn’t commit, and after even trying to kill him, the leftists to whose plans and agenda Trump has done so much damage will be able to point to his promises to the Iranian people and say simply that Trump cannot be trusted. He is a man of empty words. And in this case, his empty threats led to the murder of 20,000 people.

Trump may have just given his enemies, whose evil endeavors he rolled back in so many areas, the weapon they need finally to do him in, and his movement as well. Trump’s empty threats could result in the final victory in the United States of the socialist internationalist authoritarians whose plan to turn the country into an open-borders socialist hellhole Trump has countered so comprehensively. In the end, he may not have betrayed the Iranians only.