Will the US intervene to ensure that today’s Haman cannot annihilate the Jews?
Over two millennia ago, evil powers in Persia attempted to annihilate the Jewish people – until the king intervened, reversed the situation and allowed the Jews to defend themselves and destroy their enemies.
In the book of Esther, we read how the Jewish Queen Esther courageously alerted her husband King Ahasveros to the plot of the evil Haman to destroy the Jewish people and persuaded the king to reverse his previous decrees that supported that plot. On the twenty-third day of the third month, the month of Sivan (which, remarkably, this year was 19th June 2025), a new decree was issued “granting the Jews in every city the right to assemble and protect themselves and to destroy, kill and annihilate the armed men of any nationality or province who might attack them”.
Today, the world holds its breath while U.S. President Donald Trump takes his time to decide whether the US should become directly involved in Israel’s military operation to dismantle the Iranian nuclear program. He potentially holds the cards on whether the revolutionary regime in Tehran – the modern Haman – will survive to fulfil its goals of annihilating the Jews. It’s possible that U.S. intervention will be needed to truly destroy the threat posed by the existence of the revolutionary regime in Tehran.
“Nobody knows what I am going to do”,
Trump said a few days ago.”
The decision that Trump must take is of Biblical, epic proportions. U.S. involvement could determine whether the archenemy of the Jewish people – the Ayatollahs in Tehran, former Persia – will have the power to annihilate the Jewish people. The decision requires Trump to ignore the cacophony of voices on both the left and right that warn him not to become involved in another war in the Middle East. It calls on his intuitive sense of what is right and wrong.
Since 1979, the revolutionary regime in Tehran has financed and enabled terror around the globe, directed mainly at Israel and the U.S. and their citizens. It has been threatening to unleash chaos, attack Israel and the U.S.A., and kill all the Jews, in preparation for the Islamic Messiah to appear. The U.S. has tried to negotiate with them. Israel has been defending itself against constant attacks by Iran’s proxies and allies like Hezbollah and Hamas. Nothing was able to stop the Ayatollahs from achieving their goal of building a nuclear weapon.
Over the past weeks, evidence has emerged that the regime was close to building a nuclear bomb – perhaps just a matter of days or weeks. Last Friday 13th June, Israel decided enough is enough. Since then, Israel has been systematically attacking key Iranian military and strategic installations and personnel across the country.
Yesterday more than 60 Israel Air Force fighter jets, guided by intelligence from the IDF Intelligence Directorate, attacked dozens of sites across the Iranian capital, deploying approximately 120 precision-guided munitions. Italian journalist Fiamma Nirenstein has described the current situation as follows:
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“Khamenei’s inner circle is fractured. His ballistic missile infrastructure lies in ruins. Ninety percent of the missiles launched by Iran have been destroyed by Israeli airstrikes or intercepted en route. IRGC has been decimated. What was once the sharp edge of radical Islam is now a cornered beast.”
According to IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, Israeli forces also attacked the headquarters of the Special Forces unit of Iran’s Internal Security Forces—one of the regime’s central military bodies. The IDF also conducted extensive strikes on surface-to-air missile systems that had been positioned to target Israeli aircraft.
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“Our strikes are directed at every part of the Iranian military establishment, all of which pose a threat to the State of Israel,” Defrin said. “Our actions are speaking louder than words: Those who act against us are paying a heavy price.”
It looks like the Ayatollah is being brought to his knees. But he and his friends who have held the people of Iran hostage for nearly five decades, are still alive and spewing hatred of the Jewish people. Israel is determined to ensure they will never have the ability to create nuclear weapons. But they face at least one big obstacle – the nuclear installation Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, which is located deep under a mountain north of Tehran. Israel does not have a bomb strong enough to destroy or fatally damage it; it may need to rely on Israel’s “bunker buster” bomb and the sophisticated B-2s which are needed to deliver it.
But Fordow is not the only obstacle to peace. Even if Trump gives the order for Americans to come to Israel’s aid on the ground, this does not mean the threat posed by the regime has ended. That will only happen if and when the regime falls. And so far, neither Israel nor the U.S. has decided to achieve that goal. There is no clear pathway to a peaceful regime change.
Nobody knows how this will play out. Many scenarios are possible. Multiple crucial decisions will need to be made in the coming weeks.
It is critical that we pray for the leaders of Israel and the U.S. – that they will make wise decisions. Let us pray also for the leaders of the revolutionary regime in Tehran – that they will be miraculously turn from their evil intentions. Pray for the people of Iran, that Persia and the Jewish people will again be reconciled and live in peace. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, and for the coming of the Prince of Peace.
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SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK: Esther 8:7-14
7 King Xerxes replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Because Haman attacked the Jews, I have given his estate to Esther, and they have impaled him on the pole he set up. 8 Now write another decree in the king’s name in behalf of the Jews as seems best to you, and seal it with the king’s signet ring—for no document written in the king’s name and sealed with his ring can be revoked.”
9 At once the royal secretaries were summoned—on the twenty-third day of the third month, the month of Sivan. They wrote out all Mordecai’s orders to the Jews, and to the satraps, governors and nobles of the 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush. These orders were written in the script of each province and the language of each people and also to the Jews in their own script and language. 10 Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes, sealed the dispatches with the king’s signet ring, and sent them by mounted couriers, who rode fast horses especially bred for the king.
11 The king’s edict granted the Jews in every city the right to assemble and protect themselves; to destroy, kill and annihilate the armed men of any nationality or province who might attack them and their women and children, and to plunder the property of their enemies. 12 The day appointed for the Jews to do this in all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar. 13 A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people of every nationality so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
14 The couriers, riding the royal horses, went out, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa.
