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* Lawrence Kadish: Toward President Trump's 'MIGA!': Making Iran Great Again
* Amir Taheri: When Ceasefire Prolongs War


** Toward President Trump's 'MIGA!': Making Iran Great Again ([link removed])
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by Lawrence Kadish • June 29, 2025 at 5:00 am
Iran's regime has not only been committed for nearly half a century to "Death to Israel" and – as "a policy," according to Iran's Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei -- to "Death to America." To implement this policy, the regime has also been committed to acquiring nuclear weapons and the intercontinental ballistic missiles to fire them across the Atlantic. Pictured: Khamenei gives a speech on November 1, 2023, televised on Iran's Channel 1. (Image source: MEMRI)

The Iranian regime, by violating US President Donald J. Trump's ceasefire after only four hours, did the world a great favor. It should now be clear, if it was not, before, that Iran's government -- called by the US Department of State, the "world's leading state sponsor of terrorism for the 39th year running," -- does not look as if it will suddenly agree to become the compete opposite of itself.

As big-hearted as it is for Trump -- who deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for bringing an end to the war with Iran in just 12 days, and the US operation in just 37 hours -- to agree to talks with Iran's ruling mullahs, in Shiite Islam, unfortunately, whenever Islam might appear under threat, dissimulation, taqiyya, is recommended.

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** When Ceasefire Prolongs War ([link removed])
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by Amir Taheri • June 29, 2025 at 4:00 am
* [A] war must end with an acknowledged winner.
* [N]o victor could self-anoint and wear the garland unless the adversary acknowledges defeat.
* This time it was, again, the United States to remove the cup of victory from their lips.
* The do-gooders who imposed the fishtail outcome forgot that the duty of a war is to change an unstable status quo and replace it by a new one acceptable to protagonists by clearly designating a victor and a vanquished.
* The do-gooders and peddlers of ceasefire turn war into a knife that remains in the wound, to be turned again and again.
* In other words, in some cases, ceasefire could be an enemy of peace.
* Normally, that should cast Israel as the clear winner in the 12-day war. And, yet, as in previous cases described above, Israel is once again not only left with un-cashable chips but described as the loser....
* "We defeated both the Great Satan and its Zionist agent," says one-star [Iranian] general Ibrahim Jabbari. "But we should not let things and there. We should keep our boot on Netanyahu's neck until he is suffocated."
* Once again in Middle Eastern history, a hasty ceasefire motivated by short-term political calculations is set to prolong a decades-long war, each phase of which is deadlier than the previous one.

By any military standards, Israel scored a major win in the 12-day war that Trump halted. And, yet, Israel is once again not only left with un-cashable chips but described as the loser by Iran and, more surprisingly, by some so-called experts in the US and Europe. Pictured: Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei delivers an address, aired on IRINN TV on June 26, 2025, saying "I should congratulate the people. First, I would like to congratulate them on the victory over the fake Zionist regime. With all its clamor and pretension, the Zionist regime was almost annihilated and crushed under the blows of the Islamic Republic." (Image source: MEMRI)

According to an adage, the history of any war is written by the victor. This is because the loser is either dead or too wounded to have the energy to write or, in some cases, hopeful of turning the victor into friend.

But for that adage to apply, a war must end with an acknowledged winner. And that poses another problem: no victor could self-anoint and wear the garland unless the adversary acknowledges defeat.

This is the conundrum that Israelis have experienced ever since they fought to put their tiny country on the map.

This time it was, again, the United States to remove the cup of victory from their lips.

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