This Commentary page contains all entries for the current year of 2026. Commentary entries are posted weekly (usually Tuesday evening here in Taiwan) and briefly discuss recent news events.

Although any news story that catches my attention is fair game, I make no bones about the fact that these entries tend to lean toward news events that might be of interest to believers who, like me, have an interest in end-time prophecy and its fulfillment.

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1/6/2026 — From the "Run for Cover" Department...

Oh, my...I had to force myself to take a break from the warm fuzzy glow of the news about Tim Walz so I could write this week's Commentary entry.

I have to admit it's a great joy to watch Tampon Tim go from being one of the Democrats' 2028 presidential frontrunners to so much roadkill in a matter of months. Many Democrats were sizing up Walz as the perfect candidate: a white, heterosexual male (gadzooks), but just soft, wimpy, and non-threatening enough to get waved through the woke checkpoints. In the words of a March 2025 fluff-'n-puff piece from the New York Times:

Tim Walz Might Run for President
in 2028 If You Ask Him Nicely

Got another headline for ya, NYT: Nobody's gonna ask him now, nicely or otherwise. Walz had been busy recently running for re-election as governor of Minnesota, but pesky little news tidbits and revealing videos kept cropping up. Something about Somalis and fake day-care centers sucking millions of dollars from hard-working taxpayers, or whatever. Something that could be artfully whisked away by the left's reliable pals in the mainstream media such as MS NOW, who ran the following headline:

Why Minnesota Child Care
Fraud Is MAGA's New Obsession

But on Monday, the proverbial dam broke:

Tim Walz announced he was dropping out of the governor's race.

This is huge...and it's bigger than one man's political career (which is now officially dead and buried). Up to now, the mainstream media could effectively ignore the Somali day-care scandal (and it's a scandal with a capital "scan"), or just write it off as the lunatic, right-wing ramblings of MAGA extremists who just want to sling mud at poor ol' hardworking, former vice-presidential candidate Tim...who can actually load a shotgun with a wee bit of help.

That's what they thought...but now they have to think again.

Er...perhaps think for the first time, that is. For any political candidate for any office anywhere, dropping out of a race is the ultimate admission of failure. Or guilt. Or in Walz's case, both. They know beyond any doubt they are finished, and highly unlikely to return to any serious political arena anytime in the foreseeable future. They're toast, and they know it.

So now the American public is beginning to awaken to the fact that Tim Walz really is in the depths of a genuine scandal—a scandal that is evidently serious enough to bring his political career to an inglorious implosion. After all, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if he can't even run for governor in his home state, there's zero chance he's gonna run for president.

Of course, Walz is doing his darnedest to blame all his problems on Trump and his MAGA bullies, but such predictable knee-jerk reactionism isn't going to work this time. We're w-a-y past that now. The Somali scandal is going to blaze out of control and it is going to consume the Democrats involved in it, and Tim Walz was at the top of that list. One down, heaven knows how many to go.

And the compliant mainstream media will no longer be able to ignore it, stop it, or blame it on MAGA. On the positive side, however, at least they won't have to waste their time trying to run cover for Walz.

Run cover for Walz?! It's time for Walz to run for cover.

The Somali scandal is going nuclear, and anyone connected with it had better head for a bunker.

Assuming there are any left that haven't been exposed.

1/13/2026 — From the "I Like the Way You Think!" Department...

As I'm sure you know, protests by the people of Iran against the regime of the Ayatollah Khamenei have been escalating and intensifying throughout the nation for nearly the last two weeks, and show no signs of abating.

A somewhat weakened Khamenei remains defiant and insists his regime will withstand and crush these protests—protests which are growing larger, bloodier, and more violent by the day.

I say "somewhat weakened" because several of Iran's top attack dogs such as Hezbollah and Hamas have been virtually neutered over the past year or so by Israeli forces. Khamenei is depending primarily on Iran's Revolutionary Guard to squelch these protests, and the result still hangs in the balance.

But the Ayatollah is increasingly being seen as the losing side of that bet.

To no one's surprise, many world leaders are openly siding with the protesters. President Trump has stated that he is considering some "very strong options" in Iran to help in the effort to topple the regime, and Khamenei has taken notice. In a recent speech delivered on state television, Khamenei took a potshot at the U.S. president:

"Last night in Tehran, a bunch of vandals and rioters came and destroyed a building that belonged to the state, to the people themselves, just to please the heart of the president of the United States."

In the prophetic community, however, many people are speculating about how the fall of the Khamenei regime might influence the outlook for the attack of Gog-Magog—an attack in which Iran plays a leading role and that some believe either comes between the Rapture and the Tribulation or shortly after the launching of the Tribulation. If such protests are able to topple the current regime, which is sworn to the annihilation of Israel at any cost, the key question is this:

How would that impact the Gog-Magog
scenario for the foreseeable future?

What some prophecy folks are saying is that even if the regime does fall, chances are that it will be replaced in relatively short order by some species of regime that hates Israel just as maniacally as Ayatollah Khamenei does. As a result, Gog-Magog would still be on our near-term horizon.

But there is another interesting way of thinking about this that is being kicked around out there, and it is as plausible as it is intriguing.

Lu Vega at PostScripts has a line of thought on this that should have all believers on their tippy-toes. (Lu's remarks can be viewed in the following comment section at Unsealed.org). Lu astutely points out two key facts:

1. The fallen angel known as the Prince of Persia hasn't gone anywhere.

2. Iran has what is arguably one of the most dynamic and fastest growing Christian communities on the planet.

In other words, God is rapidly culling the final remains of His Church from this fallen world, and many of those final remains are in Iran. Understand that the Iranian people are sick to death of an Islamic regime that is consumed with pouring the country's resources into destroying Israel and that has stolen everything from their people. This regime is demonically controlled by the same Prince of Persia that was at work in the days of the prophet Daniel (Dan. 10:10–14), and these protesters are pouring out of the woodwork and laying it all on the line for their freedom—and the fact is that a goodly portion of them are born-again believers.

The point is that if they succeed in overthrowing the Ayatollah's regime, these people would play an important part in supporting the formation of any new Iranian government. In light of this, Lu speculates that it could in fact be the Rapture itself that cuts the legs out from under this valiant effort to replace the Ayatollah's regime with a government led by Reza Pahlavi, the son of the Shah of Iran who was deposed during the 1979 coup that put the Ayatollahs in power to begin with.

In other words, even if this drive to overthrow the current Islamic regime succeeds, the Rapture would remove a significant enough portion of this new government and its supporters that another Israel-hating Islamic regime controlled by the same Prince of Persia could retake power in no time at all...and it would be full-steam ahead for Gog-Magog.

One interesting aspect to this scenario is that if the Church witnesses the fall of the current Iranian regime, many prophecy buffs (like yours truly) won't see Gog-Magog as being quite as imminent as before, and will tend to ease back into the "active anticipation" mode that Scripture prescribes. Without the world on the brink of barreling into Gog-Magog, the Rapture will come a bit more as the surprise package I believe God always intended it to be.

And that's just fine and dandy with this prophecy buff.

Note that I personally tend to place the attack of Gog-Magog after the Rapture and prior to the launching of the Tribulation, while Lu and many others see it occurring early in the Tribulation. In reality, however, Lu's thought-provoking insights could apply either way.

But even though Lu and I may not always see eye to eye on every little detail (which is par for the course in the prophecy community), one thing is true beyond the shadow of any doubt:

I sure like the way he thinks!

1/20/2026 — From the "Spare Me" Department...

As you may have noticed, there is apparently a new way to be honored and eulogized as a heroic martyr by the liberal left and the mainstream media:

Get in your car and try to run over a federal law enforcement official while he's doing his job, and have him shoot you in self-defense as a result.

Look, I don't mean to sound insensitive—but it sure worked out that way in the case of Renee Good.

Oh, I forgot to mention: It helps if you live in a city like Minneapolis that has a mayor like Jacob Frey.

Frey has been making the rounds, spouting his delusional rants about how all the established facts surrounding the incident are "garbage" and that poor, innocent Renee was simply trying to drive home when she was viciously murdered in cold blood by ICE, which he characterizes as gestapo goons that need to be driven out of his city and state by whatever means necessary.

In case you missed it: There is a new type of mental illness out there spreading like wildfire among the liberal left that you should be aware of. It's called IDS: ICE Derangement Syndrome.

And delusional drivel spewing from Minneapolis politicians notwithstanding, yes, she did strike him with her vehicle. There's no other way to interpret the facts of the situation—and I am certainly not the only one who sees it that way. Vice President J.D. Vance said:

"The gaslighting is off the charts and I'm having none of it. This guy was doing his job. She tried to stop him from doing his job. When he approached her car, she tried to hit him."

She didn't just try...she succeeded. Jonathon Ross, the ICE agent who shot Good in self-defense, suffered from internal bleeding in his torso after he was struck by her vehicle. And the shooting was not an isolated event: It occurred at the climax of a planned and executed attempt by Good and her partner to use their vehicle to harass ICE agents and disrupt and impede their efforts to carry out their law-enforcement jobs to the greatest extent possible.

So spare me the eulogies, because it's painfully obvious that Renee Good wasn't exactly what the liberal left and the mainstream media are deliberately, deceptively, and selectively attempting to make her out to be:

An innocent housewife on her way home from doing the things innocent housewives normally do.

An innocent housewife who is now being honored and eulogized as a heroic martyr by the liberal left and the mainstream media, that is.

I am reminded of the fact that the word eulogy comes from the Greek words eu (good) and logos (word), and the verb form means to speak well of, to thank, or to invoke a benediction upon. Throughout the New Testament, the verb form is routinely translated as bless.

So no, I will not sit here and listen to people foolishly "bless" Renee Good, or curse and demonize the law enforcement official she struck with her car. No matter how you slice it, the death of Renee Good is absolutely 100 percent the fault of Renee Good.

And it deeply saddens me to say it, but just like billions of other people she had ample opportunity to avail herself of the grace and mercy of a loving God. Sadly, it very much appears that she had far more interest in left-wing, anti-Trump, death-to-MAGA politics forced on us by a mainstream media that pushes narratives instead of reporting the news than in spiritual things.

It also deeply saddens me to see so many people in this once great nation following in her footsteps:

Not just politically, but spiritually.

1/27/2026 — From the "Never Mind" Department...

If you are a Trump supporter and you live in Florida, it would seem that a word of caution is in order:

If you are scheduled to have any type of surgery, check the name of your anesthesiologist and make sure it isn't Erik Martindale.

Why? Because there's a chance that you might startle your surgeon when you start screaming at the first incision.

Erik Martindale is a male nurse in Florida who works as an anesthesiologist, and he proudly announced to the world that he will refuse to treat MAGA Republicans, and would opt to simply let them suffer.

Martindale stated his decision in a Facebook post, and commented that:

"It is my right, it is my ethical oath, and I stand behind my education."

My "ethical oath"?! Excuse me?

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier wasted no time in contacting the Florida Nursing Board, presumably to ask them to revoke Martindale's nursing license. Bravo, Mr. Uthmeier, bravissimo.

Naturally, Martindale quickly deleted the Facebook post, and is now swearing up and down that he never wrote the statement and that his Facebook page must have been hacked. He expressed surprise that someone would target him in such a manner, since no one knew him before the post in question.

Pardon me while I vomit in the trash can next to my desk.

Just out of sheer curiosity, I checked the official Practical Nursing Pledge, which goes like this:

"Before God and those assembled here, I solemnly pledge;
To adhere to the code of ethics of the nursing profession;
To co-operate faithfully with the other members of the nursing team and to carry out faithfully and to the best of my ability the instructions of the physician or the nurse who may be assigned to supervise my work;
I will not do anything evil or malicious and I will not knowingly give any harmful drug or assist in malpractice.
I will not reveal any confidential information that may come to my knowledge in the course of my work.
And I pledge myself to do all in my power to raise the standards and prestige of the practical nursing;
May my life be devoted to service and to the high ideals of the nursing profession."

I'm sorry Erik, but you must have misread this, because I don't see anything here about deliberately allowing people under your care to suffer because you happen to disagree with their political views.

Oh, and Erik, I can assure you that if I were the anesthesiologist present at your surgery to repair, say, testicular damage that you experienced in a cycling accident, as a medical professional I would certainly give you the best of...

Oh, wait...never mind.

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2/3/2026 — From the "Take It or Leave It" Department...

On January 20, former CNN host Don Lemon joined a large group of anti-ICE protesters that stormed Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. According to reports, Lemon coordinated with protesters in their plan to burst into the church during its regular worship service and aggressively intimidate members of the congregation. They shouted in people's faces, frightened people (including children), and physically blocked people from exiting the church.

On Friday, Lemon was arrested and has been charged with "conspiracy against the rights of religious freedom at a place of worship and injuring, intimidating and interfering with the exercise of the right of religious freedom at a place of worship." According to Lemon, he was there acting as a "journalist," and only meant to cover the protest.

In interviews since his arrest, Lemon has giddily compared himself to Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X, and writer James Baldwin, and has decried the government's brutal assault on professional journalists like himself who seek only to courageously report the truth.

Aah...to quote Pontius Pilate, "What is truth?"

(Here's a tip: Don't ask Don Lemon.)

Lemon has been released on bail, and since then there has been the predictable flow of liberal palaver. Lemon was quoted as saying:

"I have spent my entire career covering the news...I will not stop now. There is no more important time than right now, this very moment, for a free and independent media that shines a light on the truth and holds those in power accountable."

Shining the light on the "truth." There's that word again. We'll circle back for the truth in a moment.

According to Lemon's attorney Abbe Lowell...

"Instead of investigating the federal agents who killed two peaceful Minnesota protesters, the Trump Justice Department is devoting its time, attention and resources to this arrest, and that is the real indictment of wrongdoing in this case. This unprecedented attack on the First Amendment and transparent attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration will not stand."

Yes, "peaceful Minnesota protesters," presumably like Renee Good and Alex Pretti...one of whom literally tried to run over a federal law enforcement officer simply trying to do his job, and one who wielded a gun while shouting and cursing at federal officers and kicking out the tail light of one of their vehicles before a round of ammunition was accidentally discharged while the officers were forced to wrestle him to the ground in order to take him into custody.

OK? Them's yer "peaceful protesters," according to the TDS-infected crowd. And according to them, Trump's goons had better stand down and leave, or they'll have unhinged hissy fits the likes of which we've never seen. There it is...take it or leave it.

But back to the truth. Lemon professes a self-designed, paper-thin façade of Christianity (not trying to be judgmental or anything—but based on what I know about him, I scarcely know how anyone could describe it differently). In a video recorded at some point after his release on bail, Lemon quoted a Bible verse...well, a piece of a Bible verse:

Of course, Lemon was referring to his own personal version of the "truth," or how the Trump administration is out there violently stifling those who speak out about the unjust atrocities it is carrying out against innocent, freedom-loving citizens (or not) of the United States of America and those who bravely speak out against it...such as himself.

Hey Don, you up for a quick Bible lesson? Well, ready or not, here it comes:

The context of the Lord's remarks in John 8 make it crystal clear what kind of truth He is talking about, and that would be spiritual truth. A few chapters after the verse you quote, Jesus says this to Doubting Thomas:

Sorry Don, nothing related to the distorted, left-wing whining that you pass off as "journalism." And I say this with all sincerity:

Don, I pray that one day you will come to a knowledge of the real truth, because that truth will make you free...free from the law of sin and death, and free from eternal separation from a holy God who loves you enough to sacrifice the life of His Son to save you. And eternal separation from God is what you face at this moment. Want to change that? Then all you have to do is realize you are a sinner whose sin has separated you from a holy God, believe in simple faith that Christ's death on the cross paid the penalty for your sin, and ask for the forgiveness His sacrifice made freely available to you.

There it is...

Take it or leave it.

2/10/2026 — From the "Read the Rest of the Story" Department...

Remember Ayatollah Khomeini? He was the guy who founded the Islamic Republic of Iran in the wake of the Islamic revolution that deposed the Shah of Iran in 1979.

I remember him all too well. He was the reason I had to spend a month hop-skip-and-jumping from Washington State to Alaska to Diego Garcia to the Philippines and finally to a U.S. supply ship in the Persian Gulf in order to hook up with my first duty assignment as a freshly trained avionics technician: the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69). And why is that, you ask? Because the Ike had relieved the USS Nimitz (CVN-68), the first ship the U.S. sent to the Persian Gulf during the Iranian hostage crisis.

Which reminds me: Many younger folks wonder why many older Americans have such deep and abiding respect for Ronald Reagan. Well, there's this:

The Iranian hostage crisis dragged on for 444 days, from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981. And you'll never guess what else happened the day the Iranian hostage crisis ended:

Ronald Reagan took office on January 20, 1981 and officially became the 40th president of the United States.

(I believe the expression is "FAFO," but I digress.) Today, however, the grandson of Ayatollah Khomeini is in the news, carrying on the Jew-hating, Israel-loathing traditions of his family.

In a recent interview, that grandson, Ali Ahmed Khomeini, warned that Americans "will die" and Israel will be "erased" if the Muslim nations of the world gain the power to do so. He stressed that in his opinion the only condition needing to be met was not diplomatic, but purely logistical:

"The Israelis know full well that if a day comes when any Islamic nation is capable of firing missiles at Israel and striking Israel, and if they are capable of erasing Israel, they will do to Israel what Hamas did to it."

When pressed by the interviewer over what he meant by a previous reference to "all Islamic nations," Khomeini threw down the gauntlet:

"All of them. Today we see that some countries in the region are not fulfilling their duty, saying that they are incapable of doing so...Israel knows, America knows, and the leaders of the superpowers know that if a day comes when the Islamic countries are capable of bombing Israel, they will do it."

And as for the United States:

"We say to the Americans: you will die before you see us humiliated."

To which I would respond: T-o-o late. All I can say is that it almost sounds as if Knomeini read Ezekiel 38:1–16a, which describes how Iran will be part of a coalition of nations that is set to wipe Israel off the map:

And I say that because that is clearly the idea that utterly consumes him (and others like him).

But apparently Khomeini stopped reading Ezekiel's prophecy in the middle of verse 16 for some strange reason. For the record, here's the rest of that verse:

Oh, and Ahmed, don't stop there. Continue reading all of chapters 38 and 39. In other words, my advice to you is short and sweet:

Read the rest of the story.

2/17/2026 — From the "We're Going to Get Through This" Department...

Bar-a-a-ack Obama. Oh my...do not get me started.

Oops...too late.

Barack Obama has long been my favorite former president. And just to be clear, in this case the word "favorite" doesn't apply to the word "president": It only applies to the word "former."

I admit it has been interesting to watch Obama degenerate into a deluded, TDS-wracked bag of hot air (in contrast to the plain vanilla deluded bag of hot air he was back in 2016 when Trump took his place). But at least it occurs to me that Obama's sad state and the sad bursts of hot air that it produces are of little real significance, since the only people left who actually listen to Obama are equally TDS-wracked individuals who suffer from the same delusions he does and apparently always will.

In a recent interview, Obama spoke out against Trump's "lack of shame" over the fact that a video was discovered on Trump's social media account that contained a short clip featuring Barack and Michelle Obama depicted as apes.

For the record, understand that Trump has absolutely nothing to apologize for. He made it clear that he had no idea the "monkey clip" had been surreptitiously inserted into a video about 2020 voter fraud in Georgia that was sent to his account by a staffer, conveniently placed near the end of the video where it would likely go unnoticed until it was too late. Which it did.

For his part, Trump simply told the truth, and plainly told reporters he had nothing to apologize for since he had done nothing wrong. Which he didn't.

But for liberal, left-wing Democrats like Barack Obama, this revoltingly cruel, blatantly racist affront should elicit a flurry of hand-wringing apologies and the deepest expression of shame. Taking what for him is the "high road," Obama offered this rhetorical platitude:

"And so again, we've seen the devolution of the discourse. How do we come back from a place that we have fallen into?"

The simple truth is that for people like Obama, there is no coming back. They are the ones who have "devolved," and they will never "come back" from it...unless, of course, someone discovers a cure for TDS. Which they haven't.

Oh, but Obama wasn't finished:

"There's this sort of clown show that's happening in social media and on television, [And Barack Obama, of all people, should know a clown show when he sees one. Ed.] and what is true is that there doesn't seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sort of decorum and a sense of propriety and respect for the office, right? That's been lost..."

What's that, Barack? A sense of "decorum"? "Propriety and respect for the office"? You mean like the "decorum" and "propriety and respect for the office" you demonstrated on your 2009 Apology Tour? Hey, just asking.

A-a-nd to no one's surprise, Obama also took advantage of the opportunity to do some drive-by ICE-bashing:

"The rogue behavior of agents of the federal government is deeply concerning and dangerous...[And in regard to people protesting against ICE:] Not just randomly, but in a systematic, organized way, citizens saying, 'this is not the America we believe in, and we're going to fight back, and we're going to push back with the truth and with cameras and with peaceful protests [You know, the kind where people try to run over ICE agents and kick out the tail lights on their vehicles. Ed.]...That kind of heroic, sustained behavior in subzero weather by ordinary people is what should give us hope. As long as we have folks doing that, I feel like we're going to get through this."

"Systematic" and "organized"?! It is patently obvious that Obama has no clue how "deeply concerning and dangerous" those words are in reality, precisely because they are 100 percent true. These protests are systematic and organized, not to mention secretly funded by powerful left-wing organizations and individuals. Funny...Obama didn't mention that part.

The only positive I can take away from the delusional drivel coming from people like Barack Obama is that it effectively serves as a sort of barometer for how close we may be to seeing America stumble headlong into the horrors and judgments of the Tribulation.

As a result, it's encouraging to see believers everywhere redeeming the time: living lives that honor Christ as Lord, and being prepared to give an answer to those who ask about the hope we have in our hearts (1 Pet. 3:15). To borrow Obama's line:

I figure as long as the Church has folks doing that, I feel like we're going to get through this.

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3/3/2026 — From the "Maybe It's Just Me" Department...

In the face of the devastating attack on Iran that is being carried out by the U.S. and Israel, the regime of Ayatollah Khamenei is doing its best to show defiance...which is about the best that regime can do after that selfsame Ayatollah and several dozen of his top leaders were blown to smithereens at the very outset of that attack.

In response, Iran has raised their "Red Flag of Revenge" over the Jamkaran Mosque in the city of Qom, which is a symbol of justice, revenge, and war. According to reports, Iran has raised this flag during every conflict with Israel they have ever had.

And Iran has promised to hit back hard at both the U.S. and Israel.

But as Iran scrambles to slap together a new group of leaders and retaliate in any way possible, for prophetically aware believers the conversation is quickly turning to the attack of Ezekiel 38–39. As you probably know, this attack is when a coalition of nations led by Russian and that includes Iran, Turkey, and several Northern African countries gather and descend upon Israel to wipe the Jewish nation off the map once and for all. But before they can lay a finger on Israel, God decimates these forces in a manner that leaves the nations of the world fully aware that it was the God of Israel who defended His people.

Students of Scripture have varying opinions on exactly when this attack will occur in relationship to the Tribulation. Some are convinced it will come in the early part of the Tribulation, and will destroy the false peace the treaty of Daniel 9:27 created.

Others are convinced it will come before the launching of the Tribulation (and after the Rapture) and its aftermath will in fact be part of what leads to the treaty of Daniel 9:27 that launches the Tribulation to begin with. As I have discussed previously, I am a card-carrying member of this latter group.

I admit that it struck me as noteworthy that after the news of Ayatollah Khamenei's death came out, Russian President Vladimir Putin angrily described it as a "cynical violation of all norms of human morality and international law" and heaped praise on the deceased Ayatollah for strengthening the ties between Russia and Iran. He also promised that Khamenei would be...

"...remembered as an outstanding statesman who made an enormous personal contribution to the development of friendly ties between Russia and Iran and to raising them to the level of a comprehensive strategic partnership."

OK, so we see Putin gettin' into that Gog-Magog frame of mind:

"Смерть Америке! Смерть Израилю!"
("Death to America! Death to Israel!")

Needless to say, for better or worse, Trump has started something big. But the word "big" may very well apply to more than just a major military conflict: It may also apply to to the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. And not just in terms of Ezekiel 38–39, but also in terms of the Rapture that I am 100 percent convinced precedes it.

So uhm...excuse me, but I detect the faint odor of stage-setting...

Or maybe it's just me.

3/10/2026 — From the "Fight to the Finish" Department...

Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the opening round of the current war with Iran being carried out by the United States and Israel, and some people thought that taking out Iran's Supreme Leader right off the bat would lead to a relatively quick and decisive victory for the U.S. and Israel.

Well, it may not be quite as quick and decisive as some hoped.

Iran has now made Ayatollah Khamenei's son, Mojtaba Khamenei, the new leader of Iran. The problem is that according reports, the son is even worse than the father.

According to experts, Mojtaba Khamenei is even more hardline than his father, and is the prime choice of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). And it is clear that with Mojtaba in charge, any species of concession or compromise is out of the question. So much so that an Iranian official stated that the world "will miss the era of his father."

This keeps the hardliners firmly in control of the country, and that spells an extremely bleak future for the people of Iran, at least in the near term. It also makes it appear that Trump's quick, decisive victory may not be quite as quick and decisive as he hoped.

Alex Vatanka, senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, weighed in on Trump's efforts with Iran:

"Having Mojtaba take over is the same playbook...It's a big humiliation for the United States to carry out an operation of this scale, risk so much, and end up killing an 86-year-old man, only to have him replaced by his hardline son."

So in spite of all the ooh-rah talk we are hearing from Trump, it means this pot of stew may simmer longer than he planned—and it also means the nightmares for the Iranian people will likely get much worse. That same Iranian official I quoted above added:

"Mojtaba will have no choice but to show an iron fist...even if the war ends, there will be severe internal repression."

Former U.S. diplomat and Iran specialist Alan Eyre seconded those observations in regard to Mojtaba:

"He's going to have a lot of revenge to exact."

So the message to Trump is clear, according a Gulf source familiar with the Iranian government:

"This tells Trump and Washington that Iran will not back down...they will fight on until the finish."

Fight to the finish. Actually, I know Iran will fight to the finish. But I don't know that because of anything Mojtaba Khamenei has said or done. I don't know that because of anything Donald Trump has said or done.

I know that because of what the
prophet Ezekiel wrote 2,600 years ago.

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