Haman stands at the pinnacle of his life. He possesses honor, power, wealth, status, and a large family. Seemingly, he has everything life can offer. Yet his own words reveal the emptiness within:

“Yet all this is worth nothing to me every time I see Mordechai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.” (Esther 5:13)

Haman has everything — but his pathological antisemitic obsession to annihilate the Jewish people renders it all meaningless. In the end, he and his followers are destroyed. It is not as if he was not warned. Even his own advisors — including his wife — tell him: “If Mordechai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the seed of the Jews, you will not prevail against him, but you shall surely fall before him.” (Esther 6:13)

History repeats itself when its lessons are ignored. Modern Iran is heir to the legacy of ancient Persia. With vast land,........

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