Attack, no attack, maybe attack

Mixed messages have been sent to the citizens of Israel over the course of the last two months – everything from an Iranian attack being imminent over the next 48 hours to no plans for an attack in the near future, due to renewed negotiations.

It’s enough to make anyone’s head spin. With each passing day, we are told one thing and then the very opposite within the span of a few hours. It makes you wonder if the psychological effect of emotional preparation is not a sort of war in and of itself. 

Just yesterday, Israeli newspaper headlines read, “No certainty over possible US attack,” causing every Israeli to sit on pins and needles.  

Did Trump really intend to confront the world’s bully, take down the monstrous regime and save an imperiled population that is systematically being wiped out by their own extreme Islamic government leaders? Or is he waiting for them to implode from within?

These are the questions being asked by all of us. But while we’re anxiously waiting to see what develops, precious lives are being lost by courageous Iranians, who realize that life without freedom is not worth extending, so they’re doing the brave thing, resisting, while hoping that it won’t be much longer before help arrives.

Perhaps, the bigger question is why it hasn’t arrived already? Does anyone think that there is the possibility for Iran to be reformed? 

Axis of Truth, hosted by Israeli-American journalist Emily Shrader of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) has reported that those who claim to be part of the Iranian opposition may not necessarily be against the present government. 

Speaking, in particular, about NCRI (National Council of Resistance of Iran Foreign Affairs Committee) also known as MEK (Mujahedeen), Schrader says that they are a Marxist Islamic group, on the U.S. terror list.  

If they were to assume the leadership of Iran, they would not be much different from the present regime. They, similarly, would exercise cruel control over the Iranian people.  

Former members of the group have spoken about their many horrific tactics – everything from sexual and physical abuse to forced family separation and even forced sterilization of women. They in no way, shape or form represent the hopes and aspirations of the everyday Iranian people who long for a democratic and free way of life.

Others also claim to be reformists, but Schrader says that it’s a misnomer. There aren’t any real reformers, because only the people want to see true reform happen. Amongst those calling themselves the opposition, their form of governance would simply be another iteration of bondage and subservience. 

But the use of the word “reform” is a winning strategy, also employed by Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian who has, likewise, promised it despite never bringing forth significant changes. In fact, when promising, in the past, to relax hijab rules for women, the opposite actually happened. The laws were tightened, and no reform was in sight. 

As we know, assurances were made to President Trump that the killing of protesters would stop as would planned executions. But it didn’t take long before eyewitness reports made their way to the rest of the world, despite closure of the Internet, that many were still being slaughtered. 

That is why, we continue to scratch our heads wondering why the Trump administration believes that a deal can be made with this present Iranian regime or that they would honor the terms of such an agreement?

What are the chances that Trump will get Iran to agree to a long-term uranium freeze or limits on their ballistic missiles and terror proxies? Up until now, these two major issues have been non-starters for Iran’s leadership. Why would that change now?

As each day goes by, the Supreme Leader must be feeling more empowered as he continues to threaten Israel with his country’s great capabilities and “surprises” waiting in the wings should the U.S. dare to attack.

Sadly, many Iranians, who were counting on Trump as their savior, are now beginning to feel as if that twice-made promise of help being on the way, is not something upon which they can hang their destiny.

All they see is the sizable “armada” of which Trump has boasted, as being an imminent significant threat – ready to attack whenever the order is given. But no such order has come.

Instead, ongoing negotiations are conducted in Oman. Leading nowhere, “the Islamic Republic insists on preserving domestic uranium enrichment and portrays that demand as a non-negotiable while also declaring its ballistic missile program off-limits.”

Why does anyone believe these talks are worthwhile or will lead to a fruitful outcome? When a country has vowed to annihilate other nations, it’s time to come to the conclusion that such a leadership must be removed from the world’s stage, because lasting peace and tolerance will never come from people committed to destruction.

Think about it this way. If a government is evil enough to kill an estimated 30,000 of its citizens, who are no longer willing to live in oppression and extreme submission to the powers who have brought nothing but poverty and suffering to them, then how much more are those leaders capable of doing to nations they perceive as being weak?

Once armed to the teeth with the latest and most sophisticated nuclear weapons, there will be no end to the way they will be able to wield threats to world governments, declaring that they are in control or else!

This is why they must finally be stopped. Not to do so would send a message that, even now, without having reached their nuclear goals, no one has mustered the courage to take them on.  Allowing them to continue to realize their ambitions is to sign our own death warrants.  

Of course, this is not to say that a full-out war with Iran will be without its consequences. No one knows how such a confrontation will play out, but we do know that they cannot go unchallenged.  

This is the threat of our time, and nations will have to be willing to support the reality of the need to put an end to their madness, lest we all fall into the hands of wicked and evil men whose lust for power, control and domination have no bounds!