UPDATED 01/19

Previously appeared as Iran: The Great Betrayal

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Then I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever, that it shall be for a time, times, and half a time; and when the power of the holy people has been completely shattered, all these things shall be finished.

Although I heard, I did not understand. Then I said, “My lord, what shall be the end of these things?”

And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.

Daniel 12:7-10 New King James Version

And I heard the man who was wearing garments of honor, and he stood above the waters of the river, who lifted up his right hand and his left hand to Heaven, and he swore by the life of eternities, “To the time, times and half a time, and at the time when the power of all the holy nation will be saved, all of these things shall be finished”And I, Daniel, heard, and I did not understand and I said: “My Lord, what is after these things?” And he said to me: “Go, Daniel, because they are hidden, and the words are sealed until the time of the end.” Many shall be chosen and shall be washed white and shall be proven, and sinners shall sin and no sinners shall understand, but the doers of good shall understand.

Daniel 12:7-10 Aramaic Bible Translated

Truly born again, truly the faithful in Jesus Christ, sealed by the promise of the Holy Spirit, truly believing sinners who have repented and turned to God, turned to Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiac, as their LORD and Savior — when in God’s Word continually, prayerfully, reading, studying, meditating, thinking deeply on what is read — when such individuals not matter who, where, or their earthly stature are in the Word? Eating and drinking of it daily? While also keenly aware of, paying attention to world events unfolding daily for all to see? Those chosen God’s people and chosen not to be the world’s people, not to be Satan’s people, the wicked, they and they alone are given the ability to see, to know, to discern well and rightly as knowledge increases in these last of the last days.

The wicked, all those who are not born again, no matter who they are, no matter their position, their words? They all are working from a base of darkness and ignorance in the word of God and God’s ways as they vainly go about their lives, their efforts, imagining they are the ones in control, they have the power. No matter who they may be, their station in this life, no matter where they may be living out their wicked, lost lives in utter darkness, imagining themselves enlightened.

Even though they may do what appear many good works, at times be on the right path — until and unless they, no matter who, are born of the Spirit of God, renewed of mind and heart, BORN AGAIN in true obedient faith in Jesus as the Christ, as LORD of their life — they are among the unrighteous, the wicked, in utter darkness.

Because I say so?

Heaven forbid!

No, because God says so in His inerrant, infallible, unchangeable, eternal, living, and active Word.

Knowledge is increasing. As the prophet Daniel was told from heaven to write down for our edification and spiritual growth.

And there are only two distinct kinds of people on earth. No matter where, no matter who they may be or contend to be — and those two kinds, besides being only male or female, are those born again through faith and obedience to Jesus Christ, as His follower, in the Light, following the Way, in Truth, to eternal life — and those in darkness. Devoid of renewal of heart, mind, spirit, and soul, no matter what their words may proclaim. If not born anew, a changed heart and mind from within by the working of the Holy Spirit? They are among the wicked. In darkness. Serving the world. Serving self. Serving their master, Satan.

You might not like that. You may disagree. Go ahead, so what? You can not like it or disagree all you want until your last breath, but you, I, no one is greater or above God and His Word.

It’s the Bible. It’s all and only within the Holy Bible.

What has been given to us by God — His Holy Word, the Holy Bible, is the source, the fountain of Truth. Drink of it and know, or continue to go on in thirs,t going to the polluted well of the world, drinking the delusion that the world holds the truth, or as many are now drunk upon the relativistic delusion, there is no truth, or each person has their own sacred truth.

No, only God. Only the Holy Bible. He, that is, where the streams of truth emanate from to quench the desires of the heart and mind. In no man or woman, in nothing of this world.

Not the words of any man or woman who is not, has not been washed in the blood of Jesus and made clean, forgiven of their sin, made a new creature through faith in Jesus Christ as LORD and Savior, making Him LORD of their life rather than continuing to have the vanity and foolishenss, the delusion that they are the lord and master of their lives.

Beware when they say, “Peace, peace and security…for…”

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 these days. One of the reasons society is falling faster than a 600-pound man from a high building. Thus, lying has become the accepted norm within society. No longer holding the stigma it once did, meaning what it does. God knows. Read in the Holy Bible about liars and deceivers.

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.

As is the al-Qaeda leader who seized power in Syria and put on a suit and trimmed his beard. He who had a $10,000,000 bounty on his Islamic jihadist terrorist head. Now, the self-appointed president of Syria. Murdering Kurds, Alawites, and Christians in his Islamic jihadist purge of Syria.

Invited to the White House. Treated as a legitimate world leader. Lauded and applauded by our president. Who lifted the sanctions on Syria, making it possible for the al-Qaeda terrorist leading Syria to have the resources to carry out his jihadist goals. Opening the prisons and freeing all ISIS and al-Qaeda prisoners.

Invited to the White House.

At the American taxpayers’ expense.

A nation, a president, an administration, a government, a media blinded by Islam and evolving daily to closer align and get in bed with Islam while also working daily to distance itself from Israel and to command Israel cowtow to the edicts and orders from Washington, D.C., as if Israel were the 51st state and Washington, D.C., its center of government.

Lot of talk. Lot of jabbering by our president about peace, coming to certain people’s aid and defense, of ending terrorism, and blah, blah, blah and more blah. 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. President Trump has gotten much right — but equally much wrong, especially in the most important things, such as Israel, Islam, and the Middle East.

He is in bed with Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and even Iran. Yes, even Iran, as he treats them as a legitimate government. Iran is what Gaza would look like if an Islamic jihadist regime were permitted to do whatever it wanted, with outside support from evil nations. Look to the 1979 revolution. Nothing has really been done regarding Iran since then, other than a lot of words, some bombs dropped on occasion, and letting Iran grow eviler and stronger.

Yes, President Trump gets a lot right. He also gets a lot wrong. The most important things wrong. The Biblical, the spiritual, what will become the eternal. Israel is not the 51st state of the [Un]United States of America, and he is not their Supreme Ruler to dictate to them what they can and cannot do. Which is how every president since 1948 has viewed Israel, except for Harry Truman.

President Trump is a huge windbag a lot of the time. You might take this from a co-worker, a relative, a neighbor, but when in such a position of authority and power, given to him by God, Who raises up kings and sets them down, when the lying, the falling short words happen time and time and time again. It is not only unbecoming of the position, but it has lasting consequences. Different people in different places react to those words.

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, and 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.

There is no peace in Israel, in Gaza, in Lebanon, in Syria, in Iraq, in Turkey, in Iran…peace in the Middle East? Do not be deceived. Do not become drunk on the vain and foolish words of man, any man.

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

Beware when they say, “Peace, peace, and security…”

“When they shall say, “There is peace and quiet”, then suddenly destruction shall arise upon them as labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape.”

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When declaring they are the ones to have brought peace to the Middle East for the first time in 3,000 years.

He’s shown to be clueless regarding Islam, Bible prophecy, Qatar, who the terrorists are, what is really going on, and what it’s all about and leading to.

Yeah, vote for the guy. Okay. But also be objective, very objective in all things, no matter who. From a Biblical worldview, rather than having such a love of this world, clear vision, critical thinking, reason, and the inerrant words within the Word become blurred, altered, forgotten, or never known to you.

If you’re still here…

Read on…

And there are TWO short videos to watch following the article below.

Ken Pullen, Sunday, January 18th, 2026 — updated January 19th.

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.