The ships being let through the Straits of Hormuz show us there are no mines. Iran’s attacks against ships are coming from fast boats and shore based rocket launchers and their guidance systems. Any competent military commander should be able to eliminate that threat. Keeping the Straits closed creates economic stress that can force Trump to desist and accept a bad “deal” that benefits Iran. This would take the blame off of Trump and his fascist man gods for starting the thing and give their project socialist theocracy a political win.
The attack on Iran was designed to shut down the force that could have destroyed the theocracy; the Iranian people. By default the attack was designed to fail.
The following are excerpts from my post dated 7 March 2024. I also posted this in full on 26 June 2026. The current affair between Donald Trump, JD Vance and Pete Hegseth on one side and Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei Jr and Masoud Pezeshkian on the other has accomplished nothing more than a complete shutdown of the anti government protests that were going on when this started. The US attacks took the wind out of the sails of the anti Theocratic movement.
The 2019-20 Iranian Protests were nationwide unrest led by the Iranian Democracy Movement. The Iranian government responded by killing up to 1,500 protestors and arresting 7,000. They also shut down the nation’s internet service for 6 days to create a media blackout. If you’ve never heard of these protests the tactic worked.
As many as 1,500 Iranian protesters were killed. The government crackdown and protests resulted in the destruction of 731 government banks including Iran’s central bank, nine Islamic religious centres, protesters tearing down anti-American billboards, and posters and statues of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as well as former leader Ruhollah Khomeini. Wikipedia
Some of the slogans used by protestors; “Shah of Iran, return to Iran!” “Not Gaza, not Lebanon, my life only for Iran,” “Death to the Islamic Republic“
This protest movement was anti Theocracy and pro democracy. The participants called for the ouster of the Ayatollah and a return to the constitutional monarchy that existed prior to the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The protests lasted through June of 2020.
Here’s the kicker. On 3 January 2020 then president Donald Trump‘s US assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani (giants had a new assignment lined up) and a subsequent missile attack against US forces in Iraq is what the world was focused on; not the protest movement. On 8 January 2020 Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 was shot down by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. The flight carried 176 people, all of whom perished (Wikipedia). The pro democracy protests faded away under the threat of US military action. Then Covid took attention away from the whole affair.
On September 13, 2022 a 22 year old woman named Mahsa Amini was arrested by the Iranian morality police for not wearing a hijab. She was beaten by the police and taken to a hospital 2 hours later. She died from her wounds 3 days later. Her death inspired new protests against the Iranian Theocracy (The Hill). These protests are ongoing with brutal retaliation by Iranian police.
Authorities have not released an official death toll, but Iran’s Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) says at least 530 protesters have been killed by security forces. Almost 20,000 other protesters have reportedly been detained, including journalists, film stars and footballers. (BBC)
Here’s the kicker. On Jan 3, 2024, Tajik terrorists from ISIS-K attacked a commemoration ceremony for Qasem Soleimani at the Kerman cemetery where he is buried. Twin bomb blasts killed 94 and injured 284 others (Wikipedia). ISIS-K is a Sunni fundamentalist group of religious fanatics bent on establishing a theocracy in the regions including part of Iran, Afghanistan and Eastern Pakistan. This action against the Shia theocracy, by a Sunni theocratic movement, has helped to sideline the pro democracy movement in Iran. This is similar to the Hezbollah and ISIS contribution to Bashir al-Assad against the revolution led by the Free Syrian Army.
It’s as if the gods have moved their hands to maintain these leaders.
Matthew 4:8 Next, taking him to a very high mountain, the devil showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9 And he said to him, ‘I will give you all these, if you fall at my feet and do me homage.’
- Iran taken to World Court over downing of passenger plane Reuters
- Iran is responsible for the ‘physical violence’ that killed Mahsa Amini in 2022, UN probe finds Associated Press
- Investigation Finds Dozens Of Iranian Protesters Lost Their Eyes Iran International
- Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) Wikipedia
- Terrorists from Tajikistan Have Become a Global Menace Hasht e Subh
- 2024 Kerman Bombings Wikipedia