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US President Donald J. Trump's negotiations and ceasefire deals with Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah are not seen by these actors as steps toward peace.
Rather, they are viewed by Tehran, Gaza and Beirut as infidels trying to tell Muslims what to do. For them, such a situation is unimaginable, unacceptable, and cannot be allowed to stand.
To Iran's current leaders, whoever they are, if Trump carries out his threat to bomb the country's bridges and power plants on Wednesday, so be it. In the view of Iran's theocratic regime, none of that is of any importance so long as it survives, in any form, to be able to continue waging jihad (holy war) against its people, its neighbors and the West.
For the rulers of Iran -- and the same is true for Gaza and Beirut -- if the regime's power structure survives the military strikes Trump is warning of, nothing else really matters, so long as they are able to resume their jihad for the eventual displacement of the West by Islam.
A piece of paper signed with infidels at the point of a gun is, in their eyes, nothing more than a Western fantasy. At least the Iranian regime is being honest. Giving up the prospect of making military headway, or controlling the Strait of Hormuz, or retaining enriched uranium and indefinitely enriching more, is simply intolerable.
They see anything short of the total destruction of their entire power base as a total victory.
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Rather, they are viewed by Tehran, Gaza and Beirut as infidels trying to tell Muslims what to do. For them, such a situation is unimaginable, unacceptable, and cannot be allowed to stand.
To Iran's current leaders, whoever they are, if Trump carries out his threat to bomb the country's bridges and power plants on Wednesday, so be it. In the view of Iran's theocratic regime, none of that is of any importance so long as it survives, in any form, to be able to continue waging jihad (holy war) against its people, its neighbors and the West.
For the rulers of Iran -- and the same is true for Gaza and Beirut -- if the regime's power structure survives the military strikes Trump is warning of, nothing else really matters, so long as they are able to resume their jihad for the eventual displacement of the West by Islam.
A piece of paper signed with infidels at the point of a gun is, in their eyes, nothing more than a Western fantasy. At least the Iranian regime is being honest. Giving up the prospect of making military headway, or controlling the Strait of Hormuz, or retaining enriched uranium and indefinitely enriching more, is simply intolerable.
They see anything short of the total destruction of their entire power base as a total victory.
For the Leadership in Iran, Gaza and Beirut, What Is the Only Important Outcome?
[The US president's negotiations and ceasefires] are viewed by Tehran, Gaza and Beirut as infidels trying to tell Muslims what to do. For them, such a situation is unimaginable, unacceptable, and cannot be allowed to stand. To Iran's current leaders,
