Mark Dankof for the Habilian Association: Karbala in 2026 and Victory via Martyrdom and Survival
March 6, 2026 in Columnists, News by RBN Staff
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By Mark Dankof | VTforeignPolicy.com
But the ultimate reason why Iran will win is this: It is for Iran an existential conflict, rooted in a 2500 year plus history of repelling foreign invaders and occupiers.
This is augmented by the Shia religious ideology of Martyrdom.
Trump, Hegseth, and Rubio have never heard of Karbala and what transpired there in 680 A.D.
They will find out, along with Americans who will see their countrymen and women over time returning home in flag draped coffins to Dover AFB in Delaware.
The late Russian nationalist statesman Vladimir Zhirinovsky foretold before his death in 2022 that World War III would be ignited by an American-Israeli assault on Iran. In this regard, his prophetic prediction mirrors my own since the Israeli-Project For The New American Century conspiracy was launched in New York City on September 11th, 2001. My interview with Kourosh Ziabari on this years ago illustrates the point, along with my interview with the Nejat Society that the MEK-MKO alliance with Israel and the United States was a prefiguration of a Third World War. The Trump assassination of General Soleimani which I condemned in 2020 for the Tasnim News Agency is another turning point toward cataclysm.
Trump has predictably misled his “America First” simians with his latest crimes against Iran and humanity in favor of the Netanyahu-Chabad Lubavitch crowd which owns and runs his Administration. These Jewish globalists have the war they wanted. They will get much more than they bargained for.
Iran will defeat the Zio-American alliance by merely surviving. I agree with Colonel Douglas Macgregor that lengthy supply chains and American missile shortages thanks to the United States support for the NATO surrogate war against Putin in Ukraine will be decisive, along with the Iranian closure of the Strait of Hormuz and attacks on the American military assets based in the Gulf States and the economic assets of these American-aligned Gulf States themselves. This is a 15 round heavyweight championship fight. We are only at the end of Round One.
But the ultimate reason why Iran will win is this: It is for Iran an existential conflict, rooted in a 2500 year plus history of repelling foreign invaders and occupiers. This is augmented by the Shia religious ideology of Martyrdom. Trump, Hegseth, and Rubio have never heard of Karbala and what transpired there in 680 A.D. They will find out, along with Americans who will see their countrymen and women over time returning home in flag draped coffins to Dover AFB in Delaware.
I cannot emphasize strongly enough that Iran cannot repeat the errors during and after the 12 Day War of June 2025. The mistake of ending that conflict precisely when the pendulum was beginning to swing in Iran’s favor was an egregious mistake. After that initial war, the decision to enrich uranium to 60% without advancing toward the acquisition of a nuclear weapons capability was a benevolent blunder, but a blunder nonetheless. One does not see Trump and Hegseth attacking North Korea. If Iran’s internal stability can be maintained long enough for its war of attrition to bear the fruit of the achievement of a ceasefire favorable to Iran and to the humiliation of both Trump and Netanyahu, nuclear weaponry must subsequently be acquired to stabilize a neighborhood otherwise to be revisited by the United States and Israel with more of the same.
Ask the Russians if their honest negotiations with the globalist West that produced Minsk I and Minsk II achieved anything other than buying the United States and the EU the time to arm Ukraine for the deliberate purpose of launching a surrogate war against Russia as the extension of the policy of expanding NATO membership from 12 to 31 after the end of the Cold War and the deliberate advance of American military assets ever closer to Russian borders.
Gorbachev believed the George H.W. Bush-James Baker promises that the United States would never do what it ended up doing relentlessly from Bill Clinton onward. This expansion of NATO members and the accompanying recruitment of NATO members who were previously members of the Warsaw Pact, and the unilateral abrogation by the United States of every arms treaty once reached between America and Russia tells the story. In the latter instance, it all prefigured the unilateral withdrawal of the United States from the JCPOA/P5+1 deal with Iran by Donald Trump.
Again, my advice to the Russians in my essay on “The Chicago Way” is absolutely applicable to Iran now. The notion of negotiations with Trump and Netanyahu is blatantly absurd. Their “ Rules Based International Order Rooted in Law” is whatever they choose for it to mean in the context of the justification of their crimes against humanity.
When I think of “Rules, Order, and Law,” the Epstein-Maxwell Mossad Sex and Blackmail Ring, the Dugina Assassination in Moscow in August of 2022, the murder of the Supreme Leader of Iran, the recent Israeli bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ primary school in Minab, the beginning of Dresden-like bombings of Tehran, and the deaths of somewhere between 185,000 and 240,000 Gazans (75% of whom are women and children) come to immediate mind.
Why should Russian Orthodox Christians and devout Shia Moslems trust in the “Rules, Order, and Law” of a New World Order Satanically empowered and administered by the Synagogue of Satan? And in the case of the President of the United States, an apparent pedophile and political blackmail hostage of the Epstein-Maxwell Mossad Sex Trafficking and Pedophilia Ring?
The American-Israeli assault on is based upon the following:
1) the dominance of Greater Israel from the Nile to the Tigris-Euphrates River and North of the Litani as expressed by “American” Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.
2) The theft of Iran’s oil, natural gas, and rare earth minerals and control of the Persian Gulf.
3) The disruption of Russian and Chinese influence in the region, especially with the aim of destroying China’s Belt and Silk Road Initiative.
4) Establishing Ben Gurion’s dream of a World Government headquartered in a United Jerusalem with a rebuilt 3rd Temple. The link between Zionism and World Government is something I covered for Reza Saidi of the Tasnim News Agency in my response years ago to “The Supreme Leader’s Second Letter to Western Youth.”
5) Preserving the Bretton Woods post-World War II economic order linked to the status of the American dollar as the reserve currency of the world.
It is Iran in suffering and Martyrdom that holds the key to destroying this Beast once and for all.
Russia and China will counter Trump as well as all of this unfolds. Putin will win the war in Ukraine in 2026. Will China exploit the overextension of American naval forces by attacking Taiwan? And what about a Chinese embargo of all Rare Earth Minerals to the United States? These are but the beginning of the Woes of Blowback for an Empire begging to be erased from history. Both from a Shia perspective and that of a historic Christian one untainted the heresy of “Christian” Zionism, the destruction of a post-Christian West and that of the modern State of Israel are predecessors of the eschatological end of history. These latter entities are understood in the context of the appearance and manifestation of Antichrist.
The final stage of Empire collapse and death will be when Mr. Trump’s tactics fail to subdue Iran and he makes his ultimate and last megalomaniacal mistake: Putting American boots on the ground in Iran.
Topography, a population of 90 million Iranians, and the Shia ideology of Martyrdom rooted in Karbala will comprise the Third and Final Act of the Play, with the American endings in Saigon and Kabul comprising Act 1 and Act 2. Were he still alive, my old friend Chalmers Johnson would have the material for an additional volume for his work “The Sorrows of Empire.” It would be entitled “The Death of Empire.”
Finally, I am compelled to reiterate why American nationalists who support Israel are a maze of intellectual, political, and moral contradictions that are unsustainable:
Supporting the dispossession and mass murder of Palestinians and Iranians is Satanic enough on its own merits, but why sustain Israel with billions of American dollars, weapons, and American lives when Israel has a long history of covert operations against, and subversion of, its chief enabler and financier?
These include the Lavon Affair, the assassination of James Forrestal, the Lansky-Ben Gurion link to the Kennedy Assassination, the deliberate attack on the USS Liberty during the Six Day War, the NUMEC and PROMIS affairs, the Pollard spy case, and 9-11 to name only a few.
A final warning to my good friends in Iran: If the increasing desperation of Donald Trump drives him to the committal of American ground forces to Iran, he will only sell that to the American public if the decision is preceded by a False Flag to create a casus belli: Think 9-11 or the set up of another Pearl Harbor incident. The Israelis will draw up the master plan. They are the best in the business in doing so.
I shall pray for all of you. Please do so for me as well when I come to mind.
Can my sojourns in your country in my youth be so long ago? My memories are eternally vivid and bright, like the eternal realm embodied by the New Heaven and the New Earth that shall mercifully supersede the presently dark realm of the current cosmos.
Mark Dankof is an ordained Lutheran pastor and the former 36th District Chairman of the Republican Party in King County/Seattle. He was an elected delegate to Texas State Republican Conventions in 1994 and 1996 and entered the United States Senate race in Delaware in 2000 as the nominated candidate of the Constitution Party against Democratic candidate Thomas Carper and Republican incumbent William Roth.
Mark is the host of The Dankof Report for the Republic Broadcasting Network and is occasionally seen abroad on Press TV, the Tasnim News Agency, IRINN, Geopolitika, Katehon, and Sputnik. His lectures for Texas homeschoolers on subjects like Dispensationalism and Christian Zionism, the American Empire, I John, Jonah, and Lutheran theology are accessible online.
Mark’s interview with the Fars News Agency on 9-11 and his presentation on Pearl Harbor and False Flag Methodology for the American Free Press National Conference of 2013 in Austin, Texas are considered two of the American Alt Right’s most significant contributions of the last 25 years.
I like your work Mark, isreal zionist criminal, evil, racist so called jews have been screwing America for well over a hundred years! It is a shame the crimes they get away with up to this time. I Pray we can stop it! Come Judgement day they will be accountable, and have no escape! It is mind boggling that people defend and justify the evil, racism these idiots commit on a daily bases? I get sick of excuses I’ve heard for way too many years from people, there’s nothing you can do! DO SOMETHING! Spread the Truth, Truth matters! PRAY, everyone can do that! Stand up, expose them, educate those who will listen. PRAYER is more powerfully if done correctly! I will always PRAY, and according to Scripture, and have had many answered in my life time, deserving none of them! That is just the way Our LORD is, ALL GOOD, Patient, and most of all, LOVING KINDNESS, WITH AMAZING GRACE!!!