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JD Vance was supposed to be heading to Pakistan today to resume negotiations with the leaders of the Islamic Republic, but as of this writing on Tuesday afternoon, the whole thing is off, at least for now.
Just The News reported Tuesday that Vance “put off travel to Islamabad after Iran failed to respond to negotiating positions put forth by the U.S…. With no official response coming from Tehran, the diplomatic process is paused.” However, “while paused, the trip hasn’t been canceled. Iran has yet to announce a decision on whether it will participate in the scheduled talks, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, said on Tuesday.”
President Donald Trump, meanwhile, is disinclined at the moment to continue to allow the Islamic Republic to stall and buy time. The New York Post reported Tuesday that Trump “has rejected the idea of letting talks with Iran keep going if they run past tomorrow’s cease-fire expiration without a deal in place.”
Regarding letting the talks continue, Trump said: “Well, I don’t want to do that. We don’t have that much time. They have to negotiate. And, you know, the one thing I’ll say is this: Iran can get themselves at a very good footing. If they make a deal, they can make themselves into a strong nation again, a wonderful nation again.”
Meanwhile, there is no indication whatsoever that if the Islamic Republic of Iran becomes “a strong nation again, a wonderful nation again,” it will also be a friend to the United States. It will simply be a strong and wonderful jihadi rogue state. The longtime supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is dead. His son and putative successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, may also be dead, or incapacitated. Yet there is no indication whatsoever that Iran’s Islamic regime has changed its orientation, or has any interest in doing so.
And that orientation is fundamentally anti-American. In a nationally televised address in November 2023, the late Khamenei explained, “The situation between America and Iran is this: When you chant ‘Death to America!’ it is not just a slogan – it is a policy. I have stated the reasons previously. For many years, from the 1940s to the 1970s – that is 30 years – the Americans did everything they could do against the Iranian nation. They hit Iran in any way they could – financially, economically, politically, scientifically, and morally.” And now the Islamic Republic is determined to hit us back, one way or another, in any way that the opportunity arises to do so.
If Mojtaba Khamenei and his minions, or whoever is now running the Islamic Republic of Iran, actually do at some point make a deal with Trump, it also must be remembered that it won’t be worth the paper it’s printed on. As The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran explains, the Islamic concept of taqiyya, lying to deceive one’s enemies, is a particularly Shi’ite concept, and the Islamic Republic of Iran is a Shi’ite nation.
The doctrine of taqiyya was formulated during the time of the sixth Shi’ite Imam, Jafar al-Sadiq, in the middle of the eighth century, when the Shi’ites were being persecuted by the Sunni caliph al-Mansur. Taqiyya allowed Shi’ites to pretend to be Sunnis in order to protect themselves from Sunnis who were killing Shi’ites.
This was necessary. Sunnis, in the majority almost everywhere, would not infrequently take it upon themselves to cleanse the land of those whom they referred to as Rafidites, or rejecters: those who rejected the caliphates of Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman, the first three successors of Muhammad, all of whom were chosen over the man Shia believe Muhammad chose for the job, Ali Ibn Abi Talib. Until the conversion of Persia to Shi’ism, taqiyya was an important element of Shi’ite survival.
Faced with a threat of similar magnitude today, the Islamic Republic is likely to have recourse to the strategies that Shia have employed throughout history. After all, the implementation of Shi’ite Islam is the regime’s entire reason for being. That means, quite simply, that whatever agreement the mullahs would make with Trump would beyond any doubt involve the Islamic Republic lying until the heat is off.
Nowadays, of course, it’s bad form even to consider the possibility that one’s adversary might be attempting to deceive. But is it really so far-fetched, when it’s a cornerstone of the theology that is the official religion of the Islamic Republic of Iran?
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