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Following the Israeli settler attack on the Christian village of Taybeh, I have received several phone calls from residents inside the village. People are terrified — fires are surrounding the village, and settlers opened fire on homes and civilians.
Trump called Obama's $1.7b to Iran treason.
He is now, as part of the peace deal, giving $300b to the same country.
Everyone's calling it hypocrisy.
Neither number was ever a gift to Iran.
Not Obama's, not Trump's.
And the taxpayer everyone's outraged on behalf of was never getting a cent either way.
I'm going to explain how this works.
Obama's $1.7b was Iran's own money.
$400 million Iran paid the US in the 1970s for weapons it ordered and never received after the revolution, plus interest the US sat on for almost 40 years.
A tribunal was about to rule against the US, so they settled first. It got shipped as physical cash for one reason: the US had locked Iran out of the dollar banking system so completely that Iran couldn't receive a wire transfer of its own funds.
The "pallets of cash" everyone remembers wasn't proof of a gift. It was proof of how totally the US controls the world's money.
Now the $300 billion.
Read past the number.
It's an "investment fund."
A "reconstruction program."
The administration is reportedly trying to get the Gulf states to fund it. And Trump's own red line is that he won't sign anything that looks like cash going to Iran.
Put those three facts together. A fund. Gulf money. No cash to Iran.
Iran does not receive the money. A fund does.
And a fund doesn't write a government a cheque.
It issues contracts.
Iran's grid, refineries, ports, telecoms and housing got hit in the war.
Somebody rebuilds all of it, and it won't be Iranian firms.
It'll be the Wall St engineering and construction companies that show up after every war, the same names that rebuilt Iraq.
The energy majors that put the oil and gas infrastructure back.
The tech and telecom firms that rewire the country.
The $300 billion is the budget. The contracts are the product.
The profit at every stage is the point.
Whether the money is US taxpayer or Gulf or both only changes whose name is on the deposit.
It doesn't change who collects.
The same handful of corporations collect either way.
So why does Iran sign a deal that hands its own rebuild to foreign firms, after spending 45 years refusing exactly this?
Because it won't call it that. The framing coming out of Tehran tells you everything: they're calling it compensation.
Reparations for the damage.
Iran can't sell "we opened our economy to the people who bombed us." Iran can sell "we forced the aggressor to pay $300 billion for what they did to us."
Same money. Same contracts. Same foreign firms walking in.
Opposite story.
That's how a losing party accepts terms it could never accept in the open. Not by changing the terms. By changing the wrapper. Iran gets the parades. The contracts stay foreign.
Now put the ‘war’ and the fund together.
The war was the arms industry collecting the first invoice. The reconstruction fund is the rest of the corporate world collecting the second.
First they bill you to break it, then they bill you to rebuild it. One transaction, two invoices.
America comes out of this looking weak. Paying the enemy you just bombed is not a strong look. But the corporations running the deal don't care whose flag is on the fund.
And while everyone fights about whether taxpayer money is being "gifted" to Iran, a handful of companies are quietly positioning to get very rich off the $300 billion.
The taxpayer pays for the bombs, pays again for the rebuild, and sees none of it.
If you want to actually understand a deal like this, stop watching the politicians and start looking at the private sector.
Don't ask who's the hypocrite. Ask who gets the contracts. Watch the reconstruction mandates when they're awarded.
If you’re concerned about your tax money, don’t complain about your warped president.
Watch the geopolitics,
then collect it back on Wall St.
🇸🇦 Check out this stunning time-lapse of the Hajj crowds at Mecca. The speed and efficiency with which they move hundreds of thousands of people is unmatched anywhere else in the world.
“During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept in the same bed, (or on the same rug), while praying to the same God, with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the same words and in the actions and in the deeds of the ‘white’ Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan and Ghana.
“We were truly all the same (brothers), because their belief in one God had removed the ‘white’ from their minds, the ‘white’ from their behavior, and the ‘white’ from their attitude. I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man, and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their differences in color. With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called ‘Christian’ white American heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem.”
El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz Malcolm X (may Allah have mercy on him) after his Hajj pilgrimage
Keep making dua, dua and more dua today.
Let the servant beware of wasting the Day of ʿArafah, for this day cannot be made up.
- al-Nawawī said:
“This is the best day of the year for duʿāʾ. A person should give everything he has in dhikr, duʿāʾ, and reciting the Qurʾān… and let him beware of wasting it, for this day cannot be made up.”
- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said:
“The duʿāʾ of the Day of ʿArafah is better than any other… and the duʿāʾ of the Day of ʿArafah is, for the most part, answered in full.”
On this great day from the days of Allāh the Day of ʿArafah:
Make lots of duʿāʾ. Do not stop making duʿāʾ. Make it long. Keep repeating it for your own personal needs.
Think well of Allāh, and be hopeful for Allāh is with you when you call on Him.
In Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, in the divine ḥadīth:
“I am as My servant thinks of Me, and I am with him when he calls on Me.”
And know that whoever keeps making duʿāʾ, his happiness and well-being will last.
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#تفاعل ليصل إليك كل جديد
Some days have passed, yet the scene from California remains heavy upon the heart.
Thousands of believers stood shoulder to shoulder for the janazah of our three brothers, taken at the Islamic Center of San Diego while defending the sanctity of the masjid and the lives within it.
May Allah ﷻ accept them, raise their ranks among the shuhadāʾ, and grant their families and our wider community the strength of īmān in the face of trial.
إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون
If top government officials treat innocent Western civilians this way in public, imagine what happens behind closed doors in prisons to innocent Palestinians for years.
Hate crimes don’t just happen by chance. They’re a result of fear; of repeated lies, stereotypes and manufactured intolerance.
Politicians say it. Hollywood reinforces it. The powerful fund it. The algorithms amplify it.
And then eventually, innocent Muslims are murdered because of it.