Both before and after the untimely and unexpected death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Iran’s Islamic regime has been clamoring for the assassination of President Donald Trump. The funeral last week of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Feb. 28, was a days-long orgy of hatred of Trump, Netanyahu, and other foes of the regime, complete with repeated threats to murder both. The Iranian regime has stopped short of claiming credit for Graham’s death, but included him (with a red X crossing out his face) on a hit list of others it wants to see dead, including Trump and top figures in his administration.
The reason is obvious, at least superficially. The Islamic Republic of Iran views Israel as America’s vassal, and thus it holds Trump responsible for the killing of Khamenei, as well as for the killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps top dog Qasem Soleimani in 2020. And so all the signs emblazoned “KILL TRUMP” at the Khamenei funeral proceedings are a simple desire for revenge.
Indeed, as i24 News reported Saturday, “A newspaper owned by Tehran’s municipality published an AI-generated graphic Saturday depicting US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in orange prison uniforms with crosshairs on their foreheads, under the slogan ‘Revenge is certain.’” Revenge, however, is not the only reason why the Islamic regime’s leaders want to see Trump get murdered. They need that murder, in fact, in order to validate the very existence of their regime at a time when it is more embattled than it has ever been in its 47-year history.
The Islamic Republic of Iran needs to see Trump murdered because the Qur’an promises success to the Muslims not just in the next world, but in this one as well. The unbelievers will likewise suffer in this world as well as in the next. The Qur’an tells Muslims: “O you who believe, endure, outdo all others in endurance, be ready, and observe your duty to Allah, so that you may succeed” (3:200). That success will come in this earthly life: the Qur’an also says that “Allah gave them the reward of this world and the good reward of the hereafter. Allah loves those who do good deeds” (3:148).
Those who turn away from the divine commands will likewise suffer, and this threat also applies to this world as well as the next: “And whoever becomes a renegade and dies in his disbelief, they are the ones whose works have failed both in this world and the hereafter. They are the rightful companions of the fire, they will remain in it” (2:217).
And so Iran cannot lose the war; that would be a sign of Allah’s disfavor upon the regime that wants above all to please him. If it does lose, it wants at least to kill Trump, as that would show the truth of Allah’s assurance that the unbelievers will suffer in this world and then suffer more in the next.
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The infidel Trump must be humiliated before the Islamic regime, for the humiliation of the infidels proves the truth of Islam’s foremost assertion: “Allahu akbar,” Allah is greater. The idea of this slogan, so beloved of Islamic jihadis the world over, is that Allah is greater than your god, because your god couldn’t protect you against attacks from Muslims. The violent deaths of Trump, Netanyahu, and the others on Iran’s hitlist would, in the minds of regime leaders, prove once again that Allah is greater than the gods of the infidels.
In a larger sense, those deaths would prove that Islam is true and that the Iranian Islamic system of government is correct. That’s why they keep proclaiming before the world that they’re going to kill Trump. The death of the American president would prove that they’ve been right all along, and would show the Iranians who hate the regime that Allah really is behind it, and so they better get into line as well. His promises have proven true, and so there is no possible profit in opposing the regime in Tehran.
Killing Trump, then, Iranian leaders hope, would pacify Iran domestically and make it feared internationally. For them, there would be no downside.
