ed note–there is an entire mountain range of commentary we could attach to this in contextualizing just how shameless the Jews are and how lying for them is even more of an ‘existential’ necessity than even breathing oxygen, but instead, we’ll just end this with an old truism that best encapsulates the tidal wave of crocodile tears appearing below–
‘THE JEW CRIES OUT IN PAIN AS HE STRIKES YOU’
The Jerusalem Post
Peace is better than war. No sane person should want endless missiles, dead civilians, or a region permanently on fire.
Israeli children have spent weeks out of school or kindergarten, looking up at their parents and asking, ‘When will the rockets stop?’ Many have not worked for weeks. In Israel, we are happy to get back to some semblance of normality.
But if US President Donald Trump now makes the mistake of thinking that a pause in the fighting for a solution to the Iranian problem, he risks betraying the very people who have suffered the most under this regime: the Iranians themselves.
For 40 days, Iranians have lived under what can only be described as a suffocating internal siege. The internet has been cut off, roads have been blocked with Basij checkpoints, and Iraqi militias have reportedly appeared on the streets. The Iranian people have been sealed off from the world while celebrating the bombs raining down on the regime.
And now, with the airstrikes paused, the Islamic Republic is once again free to do what it has always done best when external pressure subsides: turn on its own people.
That is the part of this story that too many in Washington still fail to grasp. The Islamic Republic is not a normal state with containable ambitions. It is a revolutionary regime built around permanent hostility – especially to the US and Israel – ideological expansionism, and internal repression. War is part of its operating system, which is why no deal has ever changed its nature.
No agreement, however cleverly drafted, can alter a regime that lies as a matter of doctrine and governs through coercion, paranoia, the spread of terror, and bloodshed. Western policy-makers often speak of the Islamic Republic as though its main flaw is dishonesty, but the problem is that the regime has spent decades carrying out policy based upon those lies.
It lies about Israel and arms those committed to destroying it.
It lies about the United States and builds its regional strategy around confronting it.
It lies about its own people and imprisons, tortures, blinds, rapes, and kills them accordingly.
Iranian Princess Noor Pahlavi speaks to Jerusalem Post
‘The main messages I get from inside are just constantly asking to remind everyone not to leave the regime standing,’ Iran’s Princess Noor Pahlavi, the daughter of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, told The Jerusalem Post two weeks ago.
‘That’s the main fear,’ said Pahlavi. ‘They’re only afraid that the regime will stay in power after all of this, and then they’ll be dealing with 47 years’ worth of devastation of the country and then a more brutal crackdown.’
That fear has now, for the time being at least, become a reality for the Iranian people.
The regime is already taking victory laps, claiming that it forced America into retreat and that several of the ceasefire points are already off the table. This is the language and posture of a regime that is not preparing for peace but rather doing what it always does: surviving, regrouping, and preparing for the next round.
One Iranian opposition member in exile put it bluntly to this writer on Wednesday: ‘This is only a pause. War with the Islamic Republic will never end as long as it stands.’
Those Iranians know exactly what the regime is, and Washington should listen.
‘I am quite disappointed,’ another opposition member said. ‘Especially about this nonsense of ‘regime change,’ which is pure gaslighting.’
Because while Washington debates enrichment clauses, or how to open the Strait of Hormuz and bring the price of oil under control, the regime’s security apparatus is still intact, the ideological lunatics who were there before are still there now, and the Iranian people are trapped beneath all this.
This is the regime that massacred thousands – some estimates range from 30,000 to 40,000 over two days, January 8-9, when Iran’s protests reached their zenith. This is also the regime that has executed 14 individuals since the start of February for their part in the protests.
Anyone hoping this ceasefire will translate into restraint inside Iran should listen to the regime’s own officials.
On Tuesday, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, the head of the judiciary, explicitly ordered an acceleration of repression, telling his first deputy that ‘our sentences… must be issued more frequently,’ including both asset confiscations and death sentences.
A few days earlier, on April 3, Abdollah Haji-Sadeghi, the supreme leader’s representative in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, issued a blunt warning to Iran’s youth: ‘The era of mercy is over.’
That is what the regime sounds like when it believes the outside pressure is easing.
Iranians do not need to be convinced of what the Islamic Republic is capable of. They have lived it for 47 years.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned about this almost verbatim in 2015, when he was a Florida senator and many in Washington still preferred to imagine that the Islamic Republic could be persuaded to moderate.
Opposing then-president Barack Obama’s nuclear deal, Rubio said Tehran would use sanctions relief to ‘build up its conventional capabilities,’ become ‘the most dominant military power in the region outside of the United States,’ and continue producing ‘long-range missiles, missiles capable of reaching the United States.’
Recognizing the true nature of the Islamic Republic, he warned that the regime’s real objective was to buy time until it became effectively untouchable: ‘At some point in the near future, when the time is right, they will build a nuclear weapon… because at that point they will know that they have become immune.’
More than a decade later, it is hard to say Rubio misunderstood the regime. Let us hope he can sway others in Washington to still follow that path.
The regime buys time, then it comes back.
Trump likes to frame himself as a man who sees through weakness, through bad actors, through the games others play. If so, he should understand this clearly: The Islamic Republic is buying time, not buying peace.
And if he now allows a ceasefire to become an off-ramp for a regime that was cornered and weakened, he will not be remembered as the man who ended the Iranian threat, but rather as the man who let it survive. And worse, as the president who promised the Iranian people help, had streets named after him, and then left them alone to suffer the regime’s full revenge.
So, President Trump, please do not abandon the Iranian people.