The Bomb Won’t Stop at the Border: Iran’s Nuclear Lie

The chants ring out in New York, in London, in Paris, and in Berlin: “Free Palestine,” “From the river to the sea,” and more recently—disturbingly—“Glory to the martyrs.” The demonstrators flood the streets, keffiyehs around their necks, fists in the air, shouting against Israel and in many cases, against Jews themselves. They hold banners equating Zionism with colonialism; they march under the banners of Hamas and Hezbollah, and they lionize the Khomeinist regime in Iran as a so-called counter-imperialist force. But amid the smoke of slogans and virtue signaling, and calling for justice while glorifying a regime that has promised to “wipe Israel off the map” with nuclear fire. But they never ask the simplest question: what happens to the Palestinians when that bomb falls?

There is no nuclear bomb designed to spare one ethnicity while killing another; discriminate between Jew and Palestinian or Arab, between settler and child. If Tehran sends a nuclear warhead into Tel Aviv or Haifa or Jerusalem—cities home to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians—the mushroom cloud will consume them too. This is not speculation. This is basic physics.

But the Islamic Republic has never cared about Palestinians as people. To Khomeini, and later Khamenei, they have always been pawns—expendable bodies to be sacrificed on the altar of ideological expansion. The regime’s goal is not justice for Palestinians; it is the spread of Velayat-e Faqih (Guardianship of the Jurist), Khomeini’s messianic theory of clerical rule. In this twisted vision, Arab lives matter only insofar as they serve the Shia Mafia’s theocracy.

When the Islamic Republic talks of “liberating Al-Quds,” it is not liberation that is on offer. It is domination. It is Hezbollah-style control. It is Gaza multiplied—destruction, poverty, repression, and constant war. And if a nuclear weapon is ever launched from Iran, those Palestinians whom the regime claims to defend will be among the first to die.

Nowhere is that clearer than in Iraq. During the post-invasion chaos of the Iraq War, Iran’s loyal militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr, trained and supported by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), waged a brutal campaign of sectarian cleansing. His Mahdi Army hunted Sunni civilians in Baghdad and Karbala. Dozens of Sunni men were tortured and executed, their bodies stacked like cordwood in the basement of the Imam Hossein Mosque—one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam. The mosque became a slaughterhouse.

Did the regime in Tehran object? No. It encouraged it. Because in the ideology of the Khomeinist state, mosques are not houses of God—they are tools of war. Just like the children of Gaza. Just like the bodies of Iraq. Just like the souls of the Umma. The sacred is always instrumentalized. Life is expendable. The ideology is everything.

Let’s be very clear: Iran has already bombed Muslim holy sites. Iranian proxies and missiles have already caused Palestinian deaths. In 2006, Hezbollah—funded, trained, and directed by Iran—fired rockets into Haifa that damaged mosques. The message was clear: when Tehran’s puppets rain death on Israel, Muslim lives are expendable collateral. In recent years, Iranian support for Hamas has brought chaos not just to southern Israel, but to Gaza itself, where hospitals and schools have become launchpads and human shields.

During one major conflict, an explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza killed scores of Palestinians. While Hamas blamed Israel, independent investigations pointed to a misfired rocket from within Gaza itself—very likely one made in or funded by Iran. The Khomeinist regime’s fingerprints were all over the blast that killed Palestinian children. And yet, the regime never paused to grieve. These children, like so many others, were merely sacrifices in the regime’s endless jihad.

Khomeini himself made his priorities plain in the 1980s, during the Iran-Iraq War. When offered peace by Saddam Hussein, he refused—insisting instead on "exporting the revolution" and prolonging the war until "victory." One million people died. Iranian, Iraqi, Sunni, Shia—human beings reduced to fuel for a fire Khomeini believed was sacred. Ayatollah Khamenei has followed the same path. Syrians, Yemenis, Afghans, and now Gazans, are all tools in the regime’s ideological crusade. The umma is not a family to protect; it is a mob to be manipulated.

And yet, from the streets of Western cities, an army of armchair revolutionaries continues to march under the banners of Hamas and Hezbollah. They chant “Resistance” as though it were liberation. They demonize Israel while making excuses for Iran. Some even argue that the Islamic Republic should possess nuclear weapons in the name of “balance.” But they have not stopped to think: if Tehran launches a bomb into Israel, where do they think it will land? On a settler’s rooftop? On a politician’s podium?

Israel is a small country. Its Jewish and Arab populations live side by side. A nuclear strike on Israel would incinerate Muslims, Christians, and Jews alike. It would level mosques and churches. It would destroy Palestinian homes, schools, clinics. There will be no surgical strike. There will be no moral calculus. There will only be fire.

The truth, for those willing to see it, is stark: the Khomeinist regime cares nothing for life—Jewish, Arab, or otherwise. Its love for Palestine is performative. Its hatred of Israel is not about justice—it is about power, expansion, and divine narcissism. The regime sees people not as human beings but as instruments, as bodies to be sacrificed in service of their clerical supremacy.

The Western masses marching in solidarity with this regime have been lulled by simplistic binaries: colonizer versus colonized, white versus brown, oppressor versus oppressed. The reductive slogans chanted from Brooklyn to Brixton betray a frightening ignorance of the real stakes.

The protesters should ask themselves one simple question: when the fire falls, who will burn? If the answer includes the very people they claim to support, then maybe it’s time to rethink their allegiance. Maybe it's time to stop defending tyrants who promise to annihilate entire populations in the name of God.

Because a regime that threatens to nuke Israel is a regime that threatens to kill Palestinians, too.