A dictatorial regime that publicly tolerates calls for the assassination of the president of the United States cannot be treated as just another difficult adversary.
Ankara has openly hosted Hamas leaders, praised the Oct. 7 massacre, allowed flotillas to depart for Gaza from Turkish territory and made hostility toward Israel a centerpiece of its foreign policy.
Citing 'reliable research estimates,' the PA stated in December 2025 that Hamas had raised no less than '$11 billion,' which the terror organization had spent filling its own warehouses 'to the brim' rather than spending it on Gazans.
For Palestinians, UNRWA has become the international symbol of their demand that the remaining Palestinian refugees of 1948 and millions of their descendants be allowed to settle inside Israel.
Beirut’s alignment with Israel, under American sponsorship and mediation, denied Iran 'the right to intervene in Lebanon and to create a linkage between it and Iran.'
In practice, what this means is that if the Lebanese government and armed forces fail to achieve this goal, the US commits by the framework agreement not to pressure Israel to withdraw.
Following the conflict, prices for many fertilizer products have increased six- to seven-fold, creating additional pressure on Iran’s already weak agricultural sector.
Officials from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Kuwait reportedly resent being sidelined during the negotiations and complain that they were largely excluded from discussions that directly affect their security.
The regime must feel it has learned a powerful lesson: It can engage in provocative actions, extract concessions through pressure, get away with violations, and still remain firmly in power.
IRGC members are trained to see the world through the lens of resistance, martyrdom, anti-Americanism, antisemitism, and blind loyalty to the supreme leader.
Here is the truth: no signing ceremony changes, and it carries no insult to the campaign: no agreement, not this one and not a better one, can permanently guarantee that Iran never builds a bomb.
More than 3,000 terrorists from Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups crossed into Israel on Oct. 7, carrying out murders, rapes, kidnappings, and looting across hundreds of locations.
The relationship between Jerusalem and Washington is too close, too strategic, and too deeply integrated for either side to imagine that Hezbollah’s aggression should go unanswered.
Trump prefers an agreement to another prolonged war, but he also understands that an agreement reached through weakness can produce an even greater conflict.
The American goal in Middle Eastern conflicts usually is for its allies—including Israel—to successfully defend themselves and then to reestablish peace in the region as quickly as possible.
A side that rejects partition, launches a war to destroy a country, and then loses that war cannot honestly remove its own decisions from the chain of events that followed.
The truce touted by Trump will not end any of those wars, none of which is likely to end unless Iran breaks with Khomeinism and chooses another trajectory.
At different moments, he warned of devastating consequences for Iran, then hours later claimed the regime was ready to negotiate and desperate for a deal.
Do not listen to the liberal media outlets that are telling you to stop, de-escalate, or accept 20-year fake 'moratoriums' or other idiotic half-measures.
The message, along with other documents seized by the IDF over the past two years, exposes extensive strategic coordination between Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.
The brave Iranian people represent millions of 'boots on the ground'—if only they would have the means to defend themselves to shift the balance of power.
Inside Iran, the regime presents even symbolic contacts with major Western leaders as evidence that powerful countries are appealing to Tehran and acknowledging its importance.
