by Majid Rafizadeh • Gatestone Institute • November 14, 2026
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- Iran’s regime is celebrating for several reasons. They see at last the validation of their prophecy that Islam will take over the West, foremost America. With candidates such as Abdul El Sayed gaining ground, they believe the process has begun — seats in the Senate today, the White House tomorrow, and eventually the ability to impose Sharia law just as they did in Iran.
- During the 2009 Green Movement protests, when the Iranian people chanted “Obama, are you with us or with the mullahs?” the ruling mullahs must have been delighted to see that the White House stayed mostly silent. Executions, torture, and the systematic suppression of women continued with absolutely no consequence.
- The administration also needs to maintain its strong alliance with Israel, despite what jihadist Arab leaders and their sympathizers inside the Trump Administration might say.
- For now, the Iranian regime is celebrating the US midterm election results, especially since both President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have signaled that further military action against Iran is “highly unlikely.” Iran’s rulers see that they are still in power and that all they have to do is hang on for another two years. Before they will be able to rebuild their nuclear war machine, destroy Israel, and resume advancing Islam in the West.
- Once Gaza is up and running again under the grip of the terrorist group Hamas, Iran’s leaders most likely assume they will be able to throw even more weight around: the international community will resume its usual political blindness toward Iran’s domestic brutality and its customary generosity for expansionist plans.
- Trump and his administration should stand with the Iranian people and Israel against Iran’s terror machine to make sure Iran never crosses the nuclear threshold and that its regime will vanish, never to harm anyone again.
Growing up in Iran, through school and university, meant total, non-stop exposure to the regime’s imams. Especially two of their core religious beliefs never changed. First: Israel will be wiped off the map. Second: the West, including the United States, will eventually be taken over by Islamists, and an Islamist system of governance modeled on Iran will overwhelm them.
These are not policy preferences. To the regime, they are God’s mission, a prophecy that will eventually be fulfilled. They believe Allah wants them to achieve it; otherwise they forfeit paradise, its rewards and the virgins. This conviction drives the fight.
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