There have been recent reports of the U.S. issuing maximal demands on the Islamic Republic of Iran to avoid a threatened military attack, and Islamist states such as Qatar, Turkey, and Oman encouraging the ayatollahs to give President Trump some concessions in order to avoid a war. Reported U.S. demands include a permanent end to nuclear enrichment, limiting the quantity and reach of its ballistic missiles, and cessation of support for its terror proxies, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis in Yemen.

Recently, as well, EU foreign ministers have adopted new sanctions on Iran, targeting both leaders and organizations that are involved with the unprecedented violence and brutality targeting and massacring Iranian civilians.

All this sounds good, hard-hitting, and maybe even hopeful. But the truth is, one cannot negotiate with Islamic terrorists in general, and the Islamic Republic specifically. Ever.

Sadly, I know this firsthand from my experience growing up and spending most of my life in Iran. I know this because of the brutality I witnessed, including the regime killing my husband and executing my best friend. I know this from my arrest and imprisonment because I converted to Christianity, a "crime" the ayatollahs deem "apostasy" and which is punishable by death.

I experienced this personally in many ways, and have written about many experiences in my two books and numerous articles. There's only one exception. The only time any agent of the regime showed any kindness, any mercy, any humanity was when they had a change of heart and understood that the truth did not exist under the turbans of the ayatollahs and in the Koran, but through Jesus and in the Bible.

The United States must disregard Qatar, Turkey, and Oman as bad actors that promote their own extremist Islam. Other than using the Islamic practice of taqiyah, to lie to and deceive the world, the Islamic Republic has no regard for the well-being of Iranian citizens, much less of people anywhere else.

Tens of thousands have been slaughtered in cold blood in the past month, and hundreds of thousands more injured. Perpetuating the fraud........

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