Trump hesitated and lost the Iranian street — but the revolution doesn’t need him

If history were to judge President Donald Trump’s Iran policy mercilessly, perhaps three points could be awarded to him: Killing Qassem Soleimani, killing Ali Khamenei, and humiliating the Iranian regime. He was able to add the killing of two Islamic terrorists to his record, in addition to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.In American history, the medal of honor for taking serious action against Islamic terrorism should perhaps go first to George W. Bush, who placed the Islamic Republic within the “Axis of Evil.” Yet that same White House would later host a guest with an astonishing fondness for taking commemorative photographs with Islamic terrorists — a man consumed by the desire to strike a deal with the Shiite mullahs.Of course, before Trump, another occupant of the White House, on May 22, 2022, during an Eid al-Fitr ceremony at the White House, announced that he had hired a teacher to study Islam and the Mahdi — the Hidden Imam. Yet there was no one there to tell the president at the time that, years earlier, an Iranian historian and nationalist intellectual had said that the Shiite mullahs, in their pursuit of power and wealth, had invented and constructed a fictitious Imam who had no actual existence. At the time, communism and radical Islam had attached themselves to the body of Iran like poisonous tumors. Two Shiite mullahs — Khoei and Tabatabaei — issued a decree for his assassination, while Khomeini himself had called for Kasravi’s killing in his book. Ultimately, the Islamic terrorist group Fada’iyan-e Islam, led by Navvab Safavi, murdered Kasravi with knives inside Tehran’s Palace of Justice on March 11, 1946. Five hundred and twenty-five years ago — 900 years after the Arab invasion of Iran and the destruction of the Achaemenid Empire — the Safavid sultans came to power in Iran. To kill their opponents, they employed the Chigin, or Chigan, whose task was cannibalism. They would tear apart a critic or opponent of the government alive, before the corrupt and murderous sultan of the age — something even wolves, vultures, and wild animals would not do. At that time, Shiism was imposed upon Iran as the country’s official religion by the sword of the Safavid sultans, and the Shiite mullahs stood beside the rulers, indifferent to the suppression of society and the destruction of the nation. Then, after approximately 230 to 235 years — from 1501 to 1736 — a patriotic Iranian king, Nader Afshar, emerged and rescued Iran and the Iranian people. He understood that the notorious institution of the Shiite clergy was a cancerous tumor growing within the body of Iranian society.Some time later, for another 130 years — from 1796 to 1925 — Iran was once again subjected to the plunder of the corrupt and bloodthirsty Qajar rulers, and once again the Shiite mullahs stood beside the sultans. Even the war against the Russians was instigated by the mullahs. During the Qajar era, roughly half to two-thirds — between 50% and 66% — of Iran’s territorial expanse was separated from the country through various treaties and wars. The lost territory is estimated at approximately 3 to 3.5 million square kilometers. The Shiite mullahs even conspired with the Ottoman Empire to hand over Tabriz. Yet throughout all these wars and conflicts, not a single mullah was killed. During both the Safavid and Qajar eras, they constantly claimed that power belonged to that same Mahdi — the fictitious and comical figure — and had merely been entrusted to the sultan.Reza Shah the Great came to power and sought to declare an Iranian republic, but the Shiite mullahs prevented him, claiming that Islam would be lost. Reza Shah understood the virus of the Shiite clergy very well. After his departure from power, due to the unwarranted interference and machinations of Britain and Russia, his patriotic son, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, came to power. History knows that Pahlavism means secularism, nationalism, and modernism. The late Shah confronted a vindictive enemy and foreign agent named Khomeini. This time, the Shiite mullah wanted to seize power and wealth for himself. To that end, they created various Islamic terrorist groups and allied themselves with Marxist and Leninist organizations. They killed or tortured to death anyone who opposed them, and one of the bitter chapters of that history was the promotion of the false belief in the fictitious Mahdi.From the day the Shah dismissed the populist prime minister who opposed the law and the free press — Mossadegh — and while Islamic leftists and Marxist leftists still delusionally insist that he was a prime minister elected by the people and removed by the CIA, Mossadegh’s associates spent the next 25 years collaborating with the United States and Britain against the Shah. But the starting point of Khomeini’s Islamic Revolution dates back to July 23, 1960, during the monarch’s press conference, when a question and answer triggered a major political controversy and confrontation. Historically and through research, it can be stated clearly and decisively that this event marked the beginning of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.What followed were 18 years, six months, and 22 days of activity, propaganda, organization, recruitment, guerrilla-building, struggle, and conspiracy until the black and bloody Islamic Revolution came to fruition in 1979, setting the Iranian nation back by several centuries, ruining the lives of millions, and placing the keys to power and wealth in the hands of corrupt clerics and the descendants of Iran’s cannibalistic Chigan or Chigin.And the Shiite mullah, following the doctrine of Khomeinism — a mixture of evils and malevolence such as Stalinism, charlatanism, terrorism, Hitlerism, totalitarianism, anarchism, fascism, and more — created the Shiite Islamic caliphate regime in Tehran in the presence of a terrorist such as Yasser Arafat, calling it sacred and divine. The murderous villains ruling Tehran proclaimed themselves the representatives of that same imaginary figure. In the White House, no one paid attention to this history until the hostage-taking, the bombings of American embassies, and other acts. The first step taken by the United States against the cancerous growth of the poisonous tumor of the Shiite clergy came only after 1980, when Iran was placed on the terrorism list.In the midst of the Iranian people’s uprising and the Lion and Sun Revolution, Trump suddenly and hastily implemented the same old White House playbook. He called on the people to go home and said that help was on the way. The Shiite mullahs read the cards in his hand and realized that he was merely seeking a deal, and that he neither had nor has any serious determination to bring about regime change. No one knows what he is afraid of. He does not want to pull this infected tooth and end the pain once and for all. On the other hand, the Arabs of the region do not want regime change to occur. Russia and China are also obstacles to regime change in Iran, while the Iranian people remain the victims of this disastrous policy. Gradually, the Iranian people lost their trust in Trump. The White House had 48 years at its disposal and failed to make use of them.Trump also faces other pressures, including from people around him, such as Vice President JD Vance, who encourage him to reach an agreement. Yet no one says that the deceitful and fraudulent Shiite mullah seeks to humiliate Trump and America. The Shiite mullah is more dangerous than communism and apartheid, but begging for a deal and a commemorative photograph with a group of terrorists possessed by a destructive apocalyptic ideology is the torture of democracy and a threat to human civilization in the twenty-first century.TEHRAN IS MAPPING TARGETS IN AMERICA — AND TRUMP’S FBI IS OUT OF EXCUSESToday, the United States of America has also granted visas to the Islamic terrorists of the Tehran regime, allowing terrorists to freely set foot on American soil, use the podium of the United Nations to insult the world, and speak against the national security of America and the West. But under America’s freedom of speech, one can say this: This is the terrorist regime’s final speech at the United Nations, and Trump’s indecision and bewilderment will not stand in the way of the decision and the will of the Iranian nation.Perhaps one day Trump will awaken and hear, on radio and television, the Shiite mullah announcing an atomic bomb. But the Iranian people will undoubtedly continue along their own path and once again display their 7,000 years of history and civilization before the world. There is no path left except regime change in Iran, and no one can reach democracy, freedom, peace, and stability with the IRGC and the mullahs.Erfan Fard is a counterterrorism analyst and Middle East studies researcher based in Washington, with a particular focus on Iran, Islamic terrorism, and ethnic conflicts in the region.