Jan R. Steinholt | Revolusjon| Apr. 5, 2026| Translated for the Red Phoenix–
President Donald Trump’s Easter message consists of new threats to bomb 92 million Iranians “back to the Stone Age.”
The president’s threat warns that “all hell will break loose” over Iran during Christianity’s holiest holiday unless the Iranian barbarians surrender and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Systematic missile and bomb attacks on schools, hospitals, civilian infrastructure, and medical research centers—including the over-100-year-old Pasteur Institute—are part of the plan. Power plants and bridges will be destroyed, according to the increasingly desperate American president.
When Hegseth and Trump declared on X that Iran should be sent “back to the Stone Age,” they quickly received a response from the Iranians:
“The Stone Age? Back when you were still living in caves and searching for fire, we inscribed the Declaration of Human Rights on the Cyrus Cylinder. We weathered the storm of Alexander the Great and the Mongol invasions, and we remained. Because Iran is not just a country—it is a civilization.”
(Note: Cyrus Cylinder, In 539 BCE, the armies of Cyrus the Great, the first king of ancient Persia, conquered the city of Babylon. He freed the slaves, declared that all people had the right to choose their own religion, and established racial equality. These and other decrees were inscribed on a cylinder of fired clay in Akkadian using cuneiform script.
This ancient record, known today as the Cyrus Cylinder, is now recognized as the world’s first human rights charter. It has been translated into all six official UN languages, and its provisions parallel the first four articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.)
The world can only hope that the outcome will be another TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) before new disasters strike. For the global economy, it is already too late. The crisis—not least the fuel and food crisis—is already a reality, particularly in Southeast Asia and Africa. But the longer the war lasts, the worse the effects of the crisis will become.
The Pope is Preaching to Deaf ears
Pope Leo XIV’s admonitions that “God does not heed the prayers of those who wage war” fall on deaf ears in a Republican administration filled with evangelicals and Catholics. It cares just as little that Israel refuses to allow cardinals to celebrate Mass in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday or that the Zionist state is wiping out Christian villages in Palestine and southern Lebanon. Nor do these abuses seem to trouble the faithful in the Church of Norway to any significant degree.
(Excerpts from posts on X by Pope Leo, Iranian embassies, and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi)
The entire West condemns the victims in this war—namely, Iran—for imposing sanctions on the aggressor states by denying them and their supporters free passage through Iranian waters in the Strait of Hormuz. If the U.S. and Israel had not gone to war, Iran would not have closed the strait to ships flying the flags of these hostile states. Chinese, Pakistani, Iraqi, and Philippine ships are allowed to pass freely.
Tit for tat
Iran is simply returning the favor after having been subjected to Western sanctions for 47 years. After nearly as many days of Iranian sanctions, the United States’ European vassals feel wronged and are trying to use international law as a shield.
Shortly after the U.S. and Israel launched their attack on February 28, Trump boasted that Iran’s air defense had been “wiped out.” This supposedly wiped-out air defense has so far shot down F-15, F-35, A-10, and C-130 (Hercules) aircraft, as well as several Apache helicopters. Iran has put the war plans of the U.S. and Israel to shame through sophisticated, asymmetric warfare. Not only militarily, but also in terms of propaganda, the Iranians have turned the tables on their opponents through the skillful use of memes, videos, and social media.
The Madhouse in Washington
The madness reigning in the White House means that a U.S. ground invasion cannot be ruled out. If that happens, it will result in a U.S. defeat that surpasses both Vietnam and Afghanistan. The Iranians are fighting an existential battle to survive as a nation. They will never allow themselves to be defeated.
Stop the war – condemn the attack on Iran!
Preparations are nevertheless in full swing among the most war-mongering faction of the regime in Washington, while Vice President J. D. Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, and others appear to have been sidelined. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is firing generals left and right, in the middle of a war, while soldiers are being instructed to “take no prisoners.” The latter means that enemy soldiers are not to be taken prisoner, but killed. The loudmouth Hegseth boasts of blatant and entirely deliberate violations of international law. He has nothing but contempt for the rules of war enshrined in the Geneva Conventions. People like him and Donald Trump belong in prison and in a psychiatric ward.
Fanatical Neanderthals
Only an empire on the brink of collapse exudes this kind of primitive savagery. The United States and Israel are distinguished by a political leadership whose war rhetoric is straight out of the playbook of Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler. The Iranians, along with the Palestinians, are subhuman and deserve to be wiped out. The United States is Norway’s closest ally and international “commanding officer.” A state ruled by technocrats in tandem with an Old Testament-style, fanatical theocracy of spiritual mentors. Televangelist Paula White-Cain, Trump’s personal mentor, compares the president to Jesus Christ and the Resurrection. The clergy in Iran would never dream of comparing their religious leader Khamenei Jr. to the Prophet Muhammad.
Imagine what the official Norwegian reaction would have been if Defense Minister Andrei Belushov had declared that no Ukrainian soldiers would be taken prisoner, but would be executed on the spot? Or if Vladimir Putin had announced that Ukraine would be bombed back to the Stone Age?
Who is more primitive and backward—the Iranian leadership or the North American government?
Compared to the Iranians’ diplomatic elegance, the Americans come across as imbecilic Neanderthals. In deed as well as in word.