“The brigand of time never rests; do not trust its guise.
If it spares you today, tomorrow it may claim its prize.”/ Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī

For some of my colleagues in counterterrorism across various agencies—CIA, DHS, FBI, or the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center—as well as special forces or the Secret Service, my words might not hold much weight. However, based on my experience, I want to reiterate a crucial point: Shiite clerics and, more broadly, leaders of Islamic caliphates are vindictive, deeply resentful, and psychologically unstable. When they hold a grudge against someone, they don’t let it go. Like a venomous snake, they ultimately strike with their poisonous bite in an instant.

The current dictator of Iran, Ali Khamenei, is one such wild, cowardly, vengeful, and psychotic figure who has set the entire Middle East ablaze to achieve his destructive and sinister goals. He has been willing to commit any atrocity to create a “Shiite Crescent.” From his perspective, all of humanity is in the wrong except for himself. Contrary to the lies spread by the regime’s propaganda machine in Western media, he has armed and incited groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Islamic Jihad against Israel, culminating in the........

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