The historic re-election of Donald Trump as America’s 47th president will have sent shivers down the spine of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader. News that the FBI have arrested 3 people charged with plotting to assassinate Donald Trump under direct instructions from the Iranian regime’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), will have further enraged the president-elect. During his previous term in office Trump cracked down hard on the theocratic regime. He unilaterally withdrew America from President Obama’s deeply flawed nuclear deal with the Iranians. He ramped up sanctions with his ‘Maximum Pressure’ campaign, and he ordered the elimination of Iran’s warmongering mastermind, Major General Qassem Soleimani, one of the most powerful terrorist figures in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Trump made it clear that he would not follow the UN and EU appeasement policy when it came to dealing with Iran.

Soleimani was commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) Quds Force – responsible for their extra-territorial operations, creating proxy wars and havoc throughout the Middle East. The IRGC was listed as a foreign terrorist organization by President Trump in 2019 and by the Canadian government in June 2024, but still the UN and EU treat it as a bona fide organization. That will not sit well with President Trump. As an outright supporter of Israel, he will not tolerate the Iranian regime’s aggressive behaviour and the IRGC’s backing for Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the Houthi rebels in Yemen, the Shi’ia militias in Iraq, Hezbollah in........

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