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The truce announcement on Monday between Iran and the U.S. led to a massive stock market rally, but no street rallies on our streets. In Iran, regime supporters did take to the streets to celebrate – celebrate what they considered to be a great victory over the combined forces of the United States and Israel. Now, the Iranian rallies were no doubt arranged forcibly by the powers that be. Still, the point is that Iran’s mullahs and military leaders do view the cessation of hostilities as a victory for their country. Here, MAGAistas celebrated — and breathed a sigh of relief — while Democrats denounced Trump and sought his removal from office. I hate to side with the Demofiends on the success or failure of this mission, but it looks like Iran, at least so far, gained the most. They now control the Strait of Hormuz, where they charge transiting oil tankers a fee of $1 a barrel of oil, or $2 million per ship — I’ve heard both tariffs. Either way, it’s a lot of money. What really concerned me was that it was our country that blinked. Rather than carry out a “civilization-ending” threat, President Trump chose a

Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, the niece of slain (courtesy of Donald Trump) Iranian terror General Qasem Soleimani, is being deported for falsely seeking asylum in the United States. The problem with her asylum claim, it turns out, is that she returned to Iran — the country from which she sought asylum — four times. Let’s see, if you can’t return to your home country because you fear persecution, or worse, then you have a legitimate asylum claim, according to U.S. immigration law. Traveling freely and safely back to the country you claim to fear kinda runs counter to your visa application. Ms. Afshar lived a lavish lifestyle in Los Angeles, and traveled freely in grand style throughout the country, Las Vegas and Miami included. She is now facing deportation, along with her daughter. The U.S. State Department is eyeing another 4,000 Iranians residing in the country under false pretenses. Now, were Ms. Afshar to dress as she does in her social media pictures (shown above) in Iran, she would be subject to real persecution, perhaps even death under Sharia law. Send her back dressed as she is in the photo at right, and let’s see what happens. FULL VIEW:

I am not a biblical scholar, but The Book of Revelation, or The Apocalypse of John, in the New Testament predicts the end of affairs as people have known them since the dawn of humankind, and the beginning of the Kingdom of God on Earth. Specifically, Revelation 16:16 predicts Armageddon, the final battle of the forces of evil against an ultimately victorious God. Now, I only bring that up because in a few hours, President Trump may enact his own version of a secular Armageddon, in which the forces of the U.S. wage a final battle against the “evil” rulers of Iran. Just this morning he predicted that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” All of this is Trump 2.0. The man is not used to losing, so he is doubling down on what always worked for him — threats and intimidation. He has set a now-infamous deadline of 8 p.m. tonight, Eastern Time, for Iran’s leaders to accept a deal — or at least signal an intent to do so through negotiations — or Trump will have U.S. forces take out all of Iran’s bridges and energy infrastructure. Unfortunately for Trump, and perhaps