Islamic Republic of Iran Claims It Has Some Friends in Extremely High Places

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As fighting resumed between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the leaders of the Islamic Republic, whose identities at this point remain not entirely clear, have claimed to have some friends in extremely high places. They also continue to cast the entire conflict in terms of a religious war, which they have done from the beginning of the Islamic Republic itself, while Western analysts have been just as consistent in ignoring all their religious talk and insisting it was of no importance. It may not be, but then again, it may be the key to their motives and goals, which we overlook at our own peril.

The Daily Mail reported Tuesday that the Iranians released a video showing rockets they were about to fire emblazoned with stickers. The sticker on one rocket read: “Hey Trump, our God is the same God who carried the faith of Abraham forward for centuries — the God of Moses and Jesus.”

In this, the Iranians appear to have been responding to Trump’s messages in which he signed off with “Praise be to Allah.” They’re telling him that the god around whose law they have built their regime is not some alien deity, but the same God that Jews and Christians worship. Trump has never shown any inclination to become a theologian, but he likely is aware of how risible this is in light of the Islamic regime’s brutality. Earlier this year, Iranian leaders massacred 40,000 of their own people for the crime of protesting against their regime, in line with the Qur’an’s command to “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (8:60). Does that sound like the teaching of Moses or Jesus to you? No, it doesn’t to me, either.

A sticker on another bomb, however, stuck with the theological theme. It read: “If they claim to have destroyed all or most of Iran’s military capability, yet they are still being slapped around by Iran, there are two reasons. First, they are lying; second, the prayers and blessings of the prophets Moses, Jesus, David and Solomon stand behind the monotheistic nation of Iran.”

Is Iran “slapping around” the United States at all? It certainly doesn’t seem as if it is from any of the available facts at hand, but even more importantly, is it doing so because it is getting supernatural help from “the prophets Moses, Jesus, David and Solomon”? That’s what Iran’s Islamic regime would have us believe, but it strains credulity for a number of reasons.

One is that the very ordering of the names of these four “prophets” reflects a notorious Qur’anic error. The book that Muslims revere as a perfect copy of the eternal book that has existed forever with Allah in paradise and (they insist) was given to Muhammad through the angel Gabriel depicts Mary, the mother of Jesus, being addressed as “sister of Aaron” (19:28).

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