A prophecy and a warning
On the 23rd of September, 1980, I was in the home of the founder of Israeli intelligence, Isser Harel, with the senior adviser to Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Reuben Hecht.
I asked Harel if terrorism would ever come to America. He looked at me and said:
“In America you kill a fly and rejoice. In the Middle East we kill one, and hundreds come to the funeral. The first terrorist attack will be in New York City at your tallest building.” Years before the towers fell, he saw what was coming.
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The funeral of Ismail Haniyeh in Iran
(Photo: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency) Handout via REUTERS)
Then I asked him who would win the presidential election. At the time, Jimmy Carter was ahead in the polls. Harel said, “The Iranians will have something to say about that. When Ronald Reagan puts his hand on the Bible, the hostages will be released.”
And that is exactly what happened. The moment Ronald Reagan put his hand on the Bible, I got a phone call from Reuben Hecht: “Harel is a prophet. Can you believe it?”
Behind the scenes, Cyrus Vance was negotiating through the Algerians to buy back the hostages. The Iranians rejected one billion, two billion, and 3 billion. Then, on the morning of the inauguration, $7.9 billion was transferred from the Federal Reserve to the Bank of England to secure the release of the hostages.
Iran: A cartel disguised as a country
What is happening in Iran is organized crime. Call it what it is: the Islamic mafia. Corruption is everywhere. Over a quarter of a trillion dollars has been moved out of Iran through the mullahs, the ayatollahs, and the Revolutionary Guard while ordinary citizens struggle to survive.
At the center of this regime is a dangerous apocalyptic theology. The Twelvers believe they can usher in the twelfth descendant of Muhammad through chaos and catastrophe, leading to a global caliphate where all nations bow before the Mahdi.
This ideology is more dangerous than Nazism or communism because it glorifies death instead of life. It sanctifies destruction instead of peace.
When leaders celebrate martyrdom, human suffering becomes policy.
Much of the Middle East operates like family-owned corporations disguised as nations. Iran is no exception. It has become a cartel masquerading as a country. Trying to reform it through appeasement would be like asking Al Capone to become Mother Teresa. It is not going to happen.
When the infamous president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to New York City to address the United Nations, I met with him for two hours at his hotel in New York, along with several clerics. Before our meeting, they lifted their hands and prayed to the Mahdi for supernatural power.
Ahmadinejad told me that when he spoke at the UN, a green light filled the room and no one blinked for 26 to 28 minutes. He also claimed that Iranians die younger because Zionists poison rats, send them across the Persian Gulf, and contaminate crops.
I asked him, “Is this a joke? How do they teach the rats to swim across the Persian Gulf?”
He smiled and said, “I do not joke. You need to read the proposals of the Elder of Zion and you’ll understand.”
The only solution
The only solution to the Iranian Islamic cartel is to hit them with a baseball bat right between the eyes and do exactly what Donald Trump threatened to do: destroy the bridges and electrical grids, and take control of Kharg Island.
The military war cannot be won unless the U.S. fights an economic war and devastates this family-owned corporation. The regime desperately needs money. It is all about money. The moment Iran is bankrupted, they will not have funds to pay the Revolutionary Guard and all those employed to oppress the Persian people. At that point, the civilian population will overthrow them.
They are criminals, and they are corrupt. Their money that has been stashed across the globe must be immediately frozen and kept for the Persian people. The only way the regime can survive is if they can cut a deal to get their hands on some of that money.
Presently, the Revolutionary Guard is running Iran with the blessing of the clerics. They are all on the payroll. The IRGC has consolidated control over the economy, the military, and politics. They now dominate the Supreme National Security Council, the judiciary, and parliament. They manage key industries, the nuclear project, and control over half of Iran’s economy. Like Hezbollah in Lebanon, the IRGC has created an income stream for its survival that must be destroyed.
The parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, is perceived by America’s media to be a moderate. That is the farthest thing from the truth. He threw students from dormitory rooftops and bragged about it. He was involved in multiple corruption scandals as mayor, including channeling funds and properties to IRGC-linked companies. As parliament speaker, he pledged support for Palestinian Islamic Jihad and for Hamas.
The corrupt corporation, the Islamic mafia in Iran, wants to play a waiting game, believing that time is on their side and that if they can drag this on for a few more months, it will so damage the U.S. and world economy that the U.S. will have to retreat. The only solution is to quickly bankrupt the country, and do it now.
Dr. Mike Evans has written 120 books on Christian Zionism and is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. He is the founder of the Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem, the ten Boom Museum in Holland, and Churches United with Israel, the largest Christian Zionist network in America, with more than thirty million followers.
First published: 13:32, 05.05.26