As Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said, “When you chant ‘Death to America!’ it is not just a slogan – it is a policy.” The Iranian regime was birthed through hatred of America and anti-Western rage, and over four decades later, that hatred has not only endured — it has intensified. This is the all-important truth that too many U.S. leaders, across both parties, have failed to internalize. Their failure to understand this fundamental reality has made America more vulnerable, not less. (Image source: MEMRI)
I’m just a guy. A man born 72 plus years ago who has lived through a lot of history, as every person this age has. I recall the Iranian revolution. I can recall events going back to the late 1950s. A lot of history. I did not attend an Ivy League school, thankfully, nor any brainwashing institution.
For His reasons, God, Who created me, knitted me in such a manner to be interested in much and a keen observer. I don’t know what an average American is, I doubt anyone does, or what an average person is.
All I know, from the history I’ve studied, from chronicling myriad events, from daily observation, listening, watching, reading, and then using the mind the Good Lord gave me is that there is no such thing as benign, peaceful Islam. There is no negotiating with evil. There is no compromise with those who live to kill you, hate you, and have no interest in being like you.
The arrogance and ignorance, lack of understanding of centuries, millennia of history, and vastly different cultures and thinking that is 180 degrees from American and Western thinking is present and persistent in EVERY Executive Administration going back to Dwight D. Eisenhower, who invited the Muslim Brotherhood into the White House and embraced them and Islam. The utter downright blindness and foolishness, the arrogance of if we throw enough money at them they’ll want to bel like us in American government through the decades and the West is not only stupifying — as those in high places went to the best schools, have had every opportunity and access to learn the truth of things, it is downright deadly.
As history has proved over the past three decades.
With the so-called war on terrorism only increasing jihadists accomplishing terror acts, murders, rapes, kidnappings, forced conversions, beheadings, bombings, stabblings and all their evil acts multiplied many times and continuing to escalate.
Revealing just how those in America and the West haven’t a clue as to the true mind, motive, and maneuvers of Islam.
Tragic.
As we’ve witnessed many times. Too many times.
While America and the West, from the highest offices on down to the media, the churches, the people refuse to speak clearly, truthfully, openly with regard to Islam.
Do some serious research into just how Islamic many places in America have become since September 11th, 2001.
How buddy-buddy we are with the Saudis. More than ever. And every 9/11 terrorist was a Saudi. There was no airplanes flying over America right after 9/11 — save for military jets, oh, and private jets with rich and deemed important Saudis in them, given permission to fly and leave the country.
Anyone remember this?
I do. Islam is an infectious disease. Not just another world religion.
Iran will never submit, play along, get along. Never. Ever.
There is a war swiftly approaching. It is called the Ezekiel 38 war. Not fantasy. Not mythological. Not allegory. Although it’s going to be extremely gory, brutal and deadly.
And blind, arrogant, Iran, Russia, and some others in their white-hot rage and hatred of Israel and Jews, as they know full well Israel is GOD’S LAND, and THAT is their main motivation to invade and attempt to destroy, as they obey the instruction of who it is they serve, Satan.
Here, I’ll give you some news before it even happens.
Iran, Russia, and all those who conspire with them in their attempt to remove Israel from the face of the earth are going to lose. Big time. Huge loss. Israel will prevail.
If you don’t believe this, if you are rebelling against God, refusing Jesus as your Savior and only way to Life and the Truth, well, you might be alive to witness this war and its outcome.
The timing of Jesus’ coming to gather folks like me, His followers, His disciples, His flock, may come right before this war, or during, or immediately after. No one really knows.
But — we do know, YES, WE DO KNOW AS HISTORICAL FACT BEFORE IT HAPPENS, that Iran, Russia, and their co-conspirators are going to foolishly imagine they can invade Israel and win. And they will suffer greatly. And sometime before, during, or soon after the Rapture will occur.
If only, if only, if only there would be a president, Senators, congressmen and women, presidential advisors, the inner circle folks to see clearly, understand well, know and inform, be informed, inform many others in our government.
But, I doubt that will ever happen. For any and all apparent good that is seen and done, and there is much good being done presently — the degree of blindness with regard to Islam hasn’t changed one iota and if anything has grown more lax, more trusting, more taken in.
The outcome will not be a good one unless there is an awakening.
Soon.
As is clearly seen by anyone with eyes, heard with anyone with hearing ears — antisemitism is worldwide presently as it was in Germany in the late 1920s and early 1930s. And the people, the leaders, the pastors in churches, the press are all acting EXACTLY as the people in Germany did, the people of the world did about 90 years or so ago.
There is no new thing under the sun.
Evil is on a tear. As it knows its days are numbered.
Too bad all the so-called best and brightest aren’t living up to all their PR and are rather dull and dim about all of this.
Ehh, I could go on and on and on, as you all know.
But it’s time to…
Read on…
Ken Pullen, Sunday, May 25th, 2025
The Iranian Regime Will Always Seek America’s and Israel’s Death — And President Trump’s
Since the founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979, its regime has operated with one unshakable and unwavering ideological mission: to defy, destabilize and ultimately destroy the influence and presence of the United States and its allies, especially Israel. This is not speculation. It is in the slogans shouted in their streets, in the sermons delivered by their clerics, and in the laws enshrined in their constitution.
Iran’s constitution explicitly declares its goal to export the Islamic Revolution beyond its borders. Jihad is not merely permitted — it is prescribed.
The preamble states:
“The Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps… will be responsible not only for guarding and preserving the frontiers of the country but also for fulfilling the ideological mission of jihad in God’s way; that is, extending the sovereignty of God’s law throughout the world.”
Article 11, based on the Quranic verse 21:92, declares:
“All Muslims form a single nation and the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran is required to base its overall politics on the merging and unity of the Muslim nations. It must continuously strive to achieve the political, economic, and cultural unity of the Islamic world.”
Article 152 states that Iran’s foreign policy is based on “the rejection of all forms of domination, both the exertion of it and submission to it,” and on the defense of the rights of all Muslims.
In short, nothing Western, thank you.
As Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said, “When you chant ‘Death to America!’ it is not just a slogan – it is a policy.” The Iranian regime was birthed through hatred of America and anti-Western rage, and over four decades later, that hatred has not only endured — it has intensified. This is the all-important truth that too many U.S. leaders, across both parties, have failed to internalize. Their failure to understand this fundamental reality has made America more vulnerable, not less.
From President Jimmy Carter’s indecisive handling of the Iran hostage crisis to President Barack Obama’s disastrous JCPOA “nuclear deal,” the U.S. has repeatedly tried to rehabilitate and “normalize” Iran’s terrorist regime. Each attempt was met not with gratitude or moderation from Iran, but with increased hostility and aggression.
Carter offered silence and diplomacy during Iran’s holding American citizens as hostages; in return, he received humiliation. Obama offered billions of dollars in sanctions relief, secret pallets of cash, and a weak agreement that let Iran maintain its nuclear infrastructure and promised it the ability to acquire nuclear weapons — “not on my watch” but, conveniently, after his “watch,” in October 2025.
What did Iran do with this windfall of billions in cash and at least $100 billion in unfrozen assets received during Obama’s term? They funneled the money into Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and a sprawling regional terror network. Iran enriched uranium and built long-range ballistic missiles — some with a range far beyond what is needed to attack Israel. Iran expanded its influence in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and Venezuela — all while promising America’s destruction with renewed fervor.
As President Donald Trump takes on the challenge of confronting America’s enemies once again, he has shown a willingness to offer Iran a peaceful path forward. Despite years of Iranian hostility and terrorism, Trump is offering a new deal.
If you think that such regimes — which include Vladimir Putin’s Russia and Xi Jinping’s China — would express gratitude or at least restraint towards the U.S., you would be wrong. Instead, Khamenei launched a vicious tirade against America and Israel, calling for the destruction of the Jewish state and publicly denouncing Trump by name. Khamenei wrote on May 17:
“Some of the remarks made during the U.S. President’s trip to the region aren’t even worth a response at all. The level of those remarks is so low that they are a source of shame for the American nation.”
He later added:
“Trump said he wants to use power for peace. He’s lying.”
Even as Trump offers Iran’s mullahs a lifeline, in return they spit venom. Like Russia’s and China’s, Iran’s is not a regime seeking peace.
The dangerous reality is that while the United States continues to dangle olive branches, Iran continues to rebuild its air defense systems and enlarge up its ballistic missile arsenal for future attacks.
In 2024, U.S. authorities exposed a chilling plot orchestrated by Iran to assassinate Trump. Let that sink in: Khamenei’s regime did not just threaten Trump rhetorically — it mobilized actual assets to try to murder him. Iran also plotted to assassinate former senior U.S. officials, and at least one journalist in New York. Iran’s bloodlust is not bound by international law, diplomatic norms or any kind of human decency — even for its own citizens, whom it unhesitatingly imprisons, tortures and executes. Once someone is on Iran’s hit list — whether a general, a diplomat, a president or even a novelist — they stay, with the mullah hovering for an opportunity to murder them. Iran’s hit list is not likely to expire with time or term limits. This ideological intractability should terrify every American.
Iran’s is not a normal regime with the conventional foreign policy goals of building a prosperous state, at peace with its neighbors, for the benefit of its citizens. Iran is run by a fanatical, revolutionary regime built on the bones of jihad and “martyrdom.” The Iranian regime’s foreign policy is its religion, and this religion, as an obligation, preaches the destruction of America (here and here, here and here).
Every Friday, in mosques across Iran, state-paid imams whip the faithful are into a frenzy with sermons calling for America’s downfall (such as here and here). Every year, the regime holds “Quds Day” rallies, where hundreds of thousands pour into the streets to burn American and Israeli flags, chanting for the annihilation of Western civilization. Khamenei does not hide this hate. It is institutional. It is public. It is proud.
The willingness of many American foreign policy elites to believe that everyone can be “brought in from the cold” is what continues to place the U.S. in constant danger. The cruel fact is that Communist China, Russia, and Iran have different goals than the United States. The U.S. and Trump want peace and prosperity. Communist China, Russia, and Iran do not give a flying lawbook about their citizens; they want conquest. How many more decades must we endure chants of “Death to America” before we believe them? How many plots must we foil before we stop offering peace to those who seek our destruction?
We are not victims of Iran’s deception; we are victims of our own delusions. For 45 years, we have watched this regime assault our embassies, kill our soldiers, kidnap our citizens, destabilize our allies, and defy every international norm. Yet, every time a new U.S. president takes office, the same tired fantasy sprouts up: “This time, it will be different.” No, it will not. The regime has not changed. We keep forgetting, and keep hoping that if we are nice enough or bribe them enough, or if they bribe us enough, they will give up their dreams of an Islamist empire.
Iran’s nuclear program is not peaceful. It never was. Iran possesses enough highly enriched uranium to build at least six nuclear warheads within a matter of weeks — if it has not already built them. Iran has accelerated the installation of advanced centrifuges and reduced its cooperation with international inspectors. Iran’s leaders do not fear international law or diplomatic pressure — they exploit it. They sign agreements only to buy time. They talk peace while they arm for war.
America, and especially Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and all Congress need to wake up and acknowledge that the U.S. cannot find peace through isolationism, and that Iran, Russia and China will not be America’s partners in peace.
It is time to stop pretending that negotiations, sanctions relief and promises of prosperity can undo the ideology of regimes that exist to destroy everything America stands for. The U.S. would benefit from adopting a policy grounded in deterrence, and — if necessary — preemptive military action. Such a policy, at least regarding Iran, would only be strengthened by working hand-in-hand with America’s strongest and most reliable ally in the Middle East, Israel, which has long warned the West about Iran’s true intentions. Such a policy would include putting military options firmly back on the table — not as a bluff, but as an actually credible threat.
The era of appeasement needs to end. If appeasement worked, that would be great. Unfortunately, as we have seen from Emperor Montezuma on, it does not. The cost of continued delusion is high.
We are now in the fifth decade of waiting, pleading, hoping and praying for Iran to reform. Oh, please. No more olive branches. No more photo-ops. No more dreams of a kinder, gentler Islamic Republic. This regime, Mr. President, will always seek your death and that of your America. Every day that we pretend otherwise is a day we give America’s enemies more time to prepare their war machines for the next strike. The time for illusions is over.
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh, is a political scientist, Harvard-educated analyst, and board member of Harvard International Review. He has authored several books on the U.S. foreign policy. He can be reached at dr.rafizadeh@post.harvard.edu
