Iran's Regime Cheers the Result of the US Midterm Election

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...

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...

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...

It is why the Iranian Constitution itself elevates exporting the Islamic Revolution as a foundational obligation. The preamble and related provisions frame the Revolution as ongoing at home and abroad, and calls for the formation of a single global Muslim community (ummah). Article 154 states that the ideological mission of the armed forces includes extending the sovereignty of God's law. The struggle is fundamental...