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 wagingjihad(holy war) against itspeople, itsneighborsand theWest.
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 theirjihadfor 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.
That is why all three regimes – the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon – need to be totally dismantled if there is to be any real, permanent change of conduct in the Middle East.
After Trump announced his two-week ceasefire deal with Iran earlier this month, many Iranians took to the streets of Tehran, where theycelebrated"victory,"burnedUS and Israeli flags, and chanted anti-American slogans. The Iranian media portrayed that ceasefire agreement as a "victory" against the US and Israel.
"The Islamic Republic is still standing,"reportedFrance 24's Reza Sayah from Tehran. "For Iran, survival was always a victory."
Iran's Supreme National Security Councilsaidin a statement: "During this period, it is essential to maintain national unity and to continue victory celebrations with strength."
Source: Gatestone Institute :: Articles
