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CAL THOMAS: And now a word from the other side

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23.06.2026

President Trump and Vice President Vance spent most of last week trying to convince Americans the "Memo of Understanding" (MOU) with Iran is a good deal for the United States and world peace. That's not what Iran believes.

Hassan Khomeini, grandson of founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, has hailed the MOU as a major "victory" for Tehran. The "greater jihad" would now begin, he promised, according to a speech aired by Iranian state media last week. You read that correctly. The greater jihad.

To some, this might sound like the same propaganda we have heard from Iran since the start of the president's bombing campaign ("War is peace" wrote George Orwell in his novel "1984" in which he creates Doublethink, the act of holding two completely contradictory beliefs in one's mind at the same time and accepting both as true). In this case, the Iranians appear more........

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