Why are the US and Israel currently fighting a war in Iran? You’ll not hear any European leader say it. It’s for women. It’s for women to be free, to express themselves, to not be abused, not be harassed nor judged by a religious standard, and not be mutilated through torture or executed by men who claim that God decrees that women be subordinated to them.

That’s one goal.

It’s also for the defeat of Islamist terrorism that for 47 years has called for the destruction of both the US and Israel, while other nations from Europe to Australia have instead called for a Palestine and let Iranian-funded and Iranian proxy terror run rampant through their streets fielding pro-Palestine placards, vandalism, arson and mass-murder.

It’s for the assurance then, that no country like Iran that preaches Holocaust denial and has run international competitions for the best Holocaust denial art, can ever possess nuclear weapons to bring that fetish to a reality.

It’s about shaking up Europe, the Arab World and the United Nations who, knowing these evils, still fawn for Iran’s business (as in Europe), value Iran’s hubris (as in the Arab World where the most powerful hold sway), and appoint rapists to human rights and women’s councils (as in the UN).

“Screw the Europeans they’ve had year to try to convince Qumaris to get their house in order.”

Two days ago Iran replied to the US call for a two-week ceasefire in this war known as “Operation Epic Fury” at the Pentagon.

Amid controversy, with CNN publishing a statement under its masthead purportedly from the current Iranian regime that the US had surrendered, would be pulling its forces out of the Persian Gulf, and would let Iran build nuclear missiles—that quickly proved to be a hoax, the Iranians still did reply to President Trump with curious language.

They claimed the right to charge ships for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz during this period if they could “technically” reopen it at all. And indeed, they did everything to look strong for the Arab world by swapping Trump’s 15-point peace plan with 10 leaving out the ban on uranium enrichment and the possession of The Bomb.

And within hours, Iranian missiles flew over Jerusalem.

Israel said that it expected these attacks to continue until Friday, 10 April US-time, when the Strait of Hormuz was meant to flow freely and talks with the US were to begin.

The problem was, no one knew what the official government of Iran looked like with its Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei now belatedly dead, his son and successor Mojtaba Khamenei no where to be seen thought severely wounded, and with rumours that IRGC militants had taken over.

What that meant of course, was that it was unlikely that Iran’s terror proxy Hezbollah would stay quiet in Lebanon, and that missiles from Iran and Lebanon would continue to strike Israel after Friday.

The other problem was that Europe, that had closed its bases and airspaces to US forces engaged in Iran, and had taken to social media on X rather than put its militaries into battle, and whose leaders were claiming the ability to negotiate peace in a war they had no part of, were instead only encouraging the Islamic Republic to continue is reign of domestic and international terror.

Most ludicrous was UK prime minister Starmer, who yesterday claimed that he had brokered the ceasefire referring to “we” as in him and Europe.

Then of course came French president Macron who claimed that he had “met” with numerous Gulf entities and Iranian representatives, when by “met” really meant “spoke to on the phone”.

And then the EU that could not keep its mouth shut claiming numerous diplomatic efforts in a war it hoped a US defeat would bring closer European ties to China in a new world order.

My favourite was Australia’s prime minister Albanese who even more ridiculously than Starmer yesterday, told the press that while Israel had a right to defend itself, blowing up Hezbollah in Lebanon was not a part of it. Which Al Jazeera picked up, didn’t mention Hezbollah nor its missile barrages, and said that Albanese had instead criticised Israel for killing “hundreds of civilians”.

In an episode from the TV series The West Wing quoted above, filmed while the Global War on Terror was just getting underway after 9/11, the President of the United States faced a terror attack by a fictional Islamic state called Qumar. The president was told that any escalation against Qumar would make the Europeans angry due to billions of dollars they had invested and would now be at risk.

Twenty-four years later Qumar has become reality. It is present-day Iran. And the same fears motivate Europe now, while they put the interests of money over women and peace in the Middle East.

The scene is set to now blame Israel and leverage antisemitism

Why has Trump organised a two-week ceasefire, that may or may not hold?

I’ve written before that anyone who attempts to say with certainty what Trump’s US geopolitical vision is, has not read Sun Tzu.

The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu wrote the Art of War. In it he preached three tenets: misdirection, chaos and knowledge of one’s self as accurately as one’s enemy.

Remember that in the Middle East, which includes the Gulf and Levant, the perception of power rules all. So, Iran yesterday conveyed a story that the US had backed down. That same Iran with no known leader brave enough to appear in public.

What then is going on? What does this ceasefire say in terms of a power play?

For the US, after five weeks of constant offensive tempo, it is now resting, refitting, resupplying and re-training for ground ops.

For Israel, it now has two free weeks to focus on Lebanon and weaken Iran further by silencing Hezbollah.

But what might this mean for the Islamic Republic of Iran, Europe and their allies?

Here it is: Iran will use Lebanon as the catalyst to pull out of “talks” having engineered chaos in false statements and hubris of its own.

Partisan mainstream media from networks to cable to BBC to ABC Australia will then go all-out with pre-prepared antisemitic scripts blaming Israel for the chaos of Hormuz and the economic woes of the world that will follow.

From the start of Operation Epic Fury Trump laid out one clear measure for victory in this war:

The unconditional surrender of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

This Islamic republic didn’t exist pre-1979. This is the “civilisation” that Trump has been threatening to annihilate. Not the freedom-craving Iranian people.

So, keep an eye on Crown Prince Pahlavi, the secular presumptive Islamic leader of Iran in exile. His presence this past week, at least, has been low key for a reason.

Millions of people, millions of enemies

We could summarise where we are then in two ways:

1) Either Trump has gone mad (as mainstream media is trying to tell us) or,

2) There will be a regime change in Iran.

I don’t believe the first. It’s more a question now, of whether Trump wishes to follow through on his word. See my final paragraph below.

Because the second relies on 20 million Iranians, out of a population of 90 million, changing sides to secular Islam or Zoroastrianism or leaving the new Persia altogether.

Taking out the IRGC in Iran and Lebanon will go a long way to US victory. But that’s 20 million enemy of all ages, men, women and children to bring to surrender.

It’s doable. But in perspective, that’s four times more potential Islamic Extremists in Iran, than there were Nazis in Germany in 1939.

There are 10 million more people in Iran today than 1939 Nazi Germany.

This then is a big war and only a true leader can win it.

Never forget the horrors that fewer Nazis wrought on the world, including their institutional rape and murder of women. It’s time that this Iranian regime falls.

© 2026 Adam Parker.

Picture credit: A USAF F-16 refuels mid-air during Operating Epic Fury, April 2 2026. US Department of War, public domain. [The appearance of U.S. Department of War (DoW) visual information does not imply or constitute DoW endorsement.]