Endure to the end
By Jim Fletcher
Admittedly, it’s difficult for us to know exactly what President Trump is up to in his negotiations with a foe he says is already defeated.
We have a situation regarding Iran in which Hezbollah—perhaps their chief remaining proxy—is too strong for the Lebanese government to effectively take them on. As usual, Israel bears that brunt.
Iran’s 900 lbs. of enriched uranium are allegedly buried under tons of rubble. It can be argued that their uranium is of no good to them if they don’t have the nuclear infrastructure to use it for the reasons they want: a weapon. It would require those dreaded “boots on the ground,” either the U.S. or Israel, or both, to secure it and get it out of there.
Now is the hour of decision. Leaving an intact regime will be a catastrophic mistake, since we probably will not have a president as decisive as Trump again. In fact, we will probably have a weak one, on the order of Obama. Michael Oren, the former Israeli ambassador, believes the Obama regime thought it could manage a nuclear Iran. This is splitting hairs, but I believe they knew exactly what they were doing—helping the mullahs.
There is no doubt Iran is crippled. Trump says they are losing $500 million per day in their economy. And yet, Iran only cares about one thing: surviving.
They’re not wrong. The mullahs will use every available dime to rebuild. It’s only a matter of time. Just this week, Trump extended the deadline yet again for Iran to come to the negotiating table. But what are they negotiating? For time.
Trump has also forced a ceasefire in Lebanon, between Israel and Hezbollah. But let’s consider something not many are thinking about at the moment.
Trump is very smart. Very experienced. He’s had years to think about this. For years, he has never wavered: Iran can have no enrichment capabilities. So let’s think about something a bit different.
We all want the mullahs gone. So does Trump. But if we obliterate their economy—bomb those railways, bridges, all infrastructure.
WHO will fill that vacuum? Russia? China?
Those are the options. No doubt Russia would move in lock, stock and barrel. They are already helping rebuilt Iran’s air defenses. Trump knows this. He isn’t saying anything about this, but he knows. Destroying Iran is the very easy part. Here’s a bad example: you play Words With Friends with a weak opponent. Every word you play is a 70-pointer. You crush them 360-54. Very impressive. But who comes after? The Israelis said many times that they could have killed Yasser Arafat 15 times over. He was a bad guy, a serial killer dwarf. But they had the “devil we know.” It can’t be said that anyone filling the vacuum of a dead Arafat could have been worse. It’s possible. This is a “lesser of the two evils” perspective, but an accurate one.
According to the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center:
“The pro-Iranian militias in Iraq continued their attacks using rockets, missiles, and drones against US bases and facilities in Iraq, the Gulf states, and Jordan until the ceasefire. The militias announced that at least eighty commanders and operatives were killed in strikes attributed to the United States against Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) bases in Iraq during the campaign.”
The Supreme Leader of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei, has sent a message of support to Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem. Iran is meddling big time in Iraqi militia activity.
Remember when Iranian Ambassador Mohammad-Reza Raouf Sheibani was expelled from Lebanon? He didn’t leave!
“As part of the strikes in Iran before the ceasefire, the IDF continued the targeted killings of senior Qods Force officials: on March 31, 2026, Mahdi Vafaei, who served as the head of the engineering branch of the Qods Force’s Lebanon Corps, was eliminated. It was noted that he held the position for twenty years, and as part of his activities, he promoted underground projects in Lebanon and Syria and managed dozens of underground projects used by Hezbollah for storing advanced weaponry.
“On April 6, 2026, Asghar Baqeri, the commander of the Special Operations Unit (840), was eliminated. Baqeri held a series of senior positions in the Qods Force, through which he promoted numerous efforts to strike Israeli and American targets worldwide. Furthermore, he promoted terrorist activities against the State of Israel and led an effort to attack IDF forces operating in the buffer zone in Syria using Syrian operatives who previously served in Assad’s army. Additionally, he directed attempts to smuggle military weaponry from Iran into Israeli territory.”
Israel is killing them faster than Iran can replace them. Still the mullahs don’t give in.
It could be that the West will not be able to defeat Iran in the conventional sense. May 1945 in Europe might be the last time we win conventionally. The global economies are too closely linked now.
We seem somewhat helpless to affect the outcome. Regular people, I mean. But our Lord Jesus Christ has given us our marching orders. We are to endure until the end. That is our mandate. He is coming.
That is our task.