by Thomas Reiner, Quartz Mountain Commentary, ©2026
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(Jul. 30, 2026) — Iran has been waging an undeclared war against America ever since our beloved France stuffed Ayatollah Khomeini onto an airplane to get rid of that rascal in 1979. The Shah of Iran was deposed as a result of Khomeini’s arrival, causing Iran to become a Twelver Shiite Islam nation which is the official religion of today’s Iran. What the heck is that?
The 12th Imam is a messianic figure who went into a miraculous state of concealment way back in the 9th century. He is still alive and will eventually return at the end of time to rid the world of tyranny and establish global justice. These are code words for the annihilation of the United States and Israel. The government of the clerical regime has prostrated itself every day to achieve this fanatic goal for forty-seven years.
The concept of the Twelfth Imam has provided the philosophical basis and legitimacy for the horrors that Iran has committed under the Day of the Ayatollahs. Their first act was holding 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. America’s alarm clock went off but went back to sleep immediately after President Reagan freed them. The bombing of the Marine barracks in 1983 by Hezbollah was carried out under Iran’s direction. During the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, tens of thousands of Iranian children as young as nine were given plastic “keys to paradise” to walk through minefields to clear them for advancing Iranian troops. America still snoozed, oblivious that the Twelfth Imam was on his way, at least in the Iranian mindset. President Obama sent a plane with $400 million in cold cash hoping Iran would start playing nice and not build an atomic bomb to hurl at America and Israel. Presidentish Biden also stuck his head in the sand, and only President Trump is taking proactive action to prevent a conflagration in the near future.
Iran’s muscle is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) which might be the only remaining ruling authority after Trump took them to the woodshed. The IRGC murdered 40,000 Iranians following their totally peaceful demonstrations for democracy. If you’ve ever attended an NFL game, then you know that is a huge number of people. The IRGC must be destroyed if Iran has a chance to become the great nation it once was. America can help but it is up to the Iranian people to effect change. America has learned the hard way in Iraq and Afghanistan that it cannot “nation-build.” The West must find a way to get weapons to the Iranian people, perhaps as the Allies dropped weapons from the air to the resistance in WWII. Another avenue to bury the Twelfth Imam is for Iran’s powerless regular army called the Artesh to rise up and overthrow the IRGC, which is also known as Sepah. The Ayatollahs would then hightail back to France.
From personal experience, Iranians are a fantastic, highly intelligent people. One of Iran’s problems is that most professionals immigrate to the West as soon as possible. The only way to recreate a prosperous Iran is to remove the yoke of its fanatical and apocalyptic version of Islam. With introspection, they can take pride in their ancient Persian heritage which was highly tolerant during one of its historical phases. Even Cyrus the Great freed the Jewish people of Babylon from captivity, proving that Iran can get along with its neighbors.
Make Iran Great Again. Maybe it will be necessary to Make Iran Persia Again to make that happen.