by Yoram Ettinger
According to the Ayatollah regime, since the June 2025 12-day-war, there is a temporary ceasefire, while Iran persists in its subversive, terrorist and war-like endeavors
*As far as Iran’s Ayatollah regime is concerned – notwithstanding US statements, and independent of Israel’s existence – the war against “the infidel” West, “The Great American Satan” and the “apostate” Sunnis is not over!
*According to the Ayatollah regime, since the June 2025 12-day-war, there is a temporary ceasefire, while Iran persists in its subversive, terrorist and war-like endeavors: attempting to topple the pro-US regimes in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco; supporting Hezbollah, Hamas and Houthi terrorists; undermining the US strategic posture in Latin America (since 1980) through a tight collaboration with drug cartels, terror organizations and all anti-US governments; and expanding – in collaboration with China and Russia – its network of sleeper cells on US soil.
*Since June 2025, China, North Korea and possibly Russia have been involved 24/7 in restoring and upgrading Iran’s air force, air defenses, ballistic and nuclear capabilities. China has focussed on Iran’s ballistic and air defense capabilities, supplying guidance systems, microprocessors, ground-to-air missiles, components and scientific expertise, paid for by Iranian oil at a discounted price. North Korea has provided Iran ballistic and nuclear assistance, as well as underground infrastructure expertise. Notwithstanding its preoccupation with the war against Ukraine, Russia is partaking (so far, in a limited manner) in the restoration of Iran’s air force and air defense infrastructures, directly and via Belarus.
*The key challenge facing the US is to avoid – rather than repeat – critical blunders, highlighted by the 1978/79 US embrace of Ayatollah Khomeini, which launched the US diplomatic (negotiation) option toward the Ayatollah regime. The 48-year-old self-destructive US negotiation option, which hasbeen accompanied by reversible and by-passable economic sanctions, catapulted the Ayatollah regime from a 2nd class strategic power to a primary regional and global power. It has transformed Iran from “The American Policeman of the Gulf” to the leading epicenter of anti-US Islamic terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, the US’ soft underbelly.
*The survival of the apocalyptic, imperialistic Ayatollah regime on the one hand, and the US goal of preventing, minimizing and ending war and terrorism, on the other hand, constitutes an oxymoron.
*Contrary to the Western state of mind, the Ayatollah regime is not driven by “Money Talks” and enhancing standard of living, but by Shiite (Twelver) Islam and history (e.g., the 680 AD Battle of Kerbala, the 939 AD disappearance of the Hidden 12th Imam, etc.), which have determined the Ayatollah’s vision, Constitution, strategy, tactics, school curriculum and mosque sermons, which have become the most effective production line of anti-US terrorists.
*While the US considers negotiation with Iran as a step towards reconciliation and peaceful coexistence, the Ayatollah regime considers negotiation as a way to avoid further military setback, stalling, restoring capabilities, and resuming efforts to advance a fanatic, apocalyptic, imperialistic vision.
*Since 1978, the Ayatollah regime has skillfully leveraged the Western eagerness to end war and terrorism, employing the classic Islamic and Iranian tactics of negotiation, such as the Taqiyyah (dissimulation), Kitman (deceit by omission, half truth) and Khod’eh (misinformation and disinformation rather than outright deception).
*Since 1978, the US policy toward the Ayatollah regime has taken lightly the unshakable centrality of the 1,400-year-old fanatic ideology in determining the Ayatollah’s conduct. Thus, US policy toward the Ayatollah regime has focused on diplomacy/negotiation, as well as occasional economic sanctions, which have not induced the regime to accept peaceful coexistence with its Sunni neighbors, become a good faith negotiator, and abandon its fanatic ideology. Therefore, changing the regime, which is a chief epicenter of globalwar and terrorism, is the only option to prevent, minimize or end war and terrorism.
*Refraining from regime change in Iran, would pave the road to a nuclear Ayatollah regime, which – unlike current nuclear powers – would be the first ever apocalyptic nuclear regime!
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger
Source: https://theettingerreport.com/us-policy-on-iran-waking-up-to-reality/
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