(End of the American Dream)—You can negotiate an end to a military conflict between two nations, but you can’t negotiate an end to global jihad. The radical Shiite Muslims that rule Iran are full of rage, and what they want more than anything else is revenge. In response to the death of Ayatollah Khamenei, 3 different grand ayatollahs in Iran have declared global jihad against the United States and Israel. As you will see below, their followers now have an obligation to conduct a holy war. So this is a really big deal. From this point forward, millions of Shiite Muslims all over the world will be seeking to kill those that are responsible for Khamenei’s death. If you understand Shia Islam, then you know exactly how serious this is.
On Saturday, Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi was the first prominent Iranian cleric to issue a fatwa obligating his followers to seek revenge for the death of Ayatollah Khamenei…
A top Iranian cleric has issued a fatwa calling for Muslims to avenge the ‘blood of the martyr’ Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Following the death of the Supreme Leader on Saturday, Iranian religious leader Nasser Makarem Shirazi delivered a formal religious decree that claimed all Muslims were obliged to avenge him.
Shirazi stated that the US and Israel were the ‘main perpetrators of this crime.’
Shirazi is one of the leading religious figures in Iran, and he was directly involved in the Iranian Revolution in 1979…
Heinisch added that Shirazi’s fatwa carried significant weight: ‘He is a well-known and respected legal scholar who was appointed to the Assembly of Experts for the establishment of the Iranian Revolution in 1979 and played a role in drafting the first constitution.
So this isn’t just some random guy.
Now that he has issued this fatwa, his followers must abide by it…
A fatwa is an Islamic ruling made by religious authorities or scholars whose followers are compelled to follow.
Experts have warned that the extreme proclamation means the world is more likely to see Iranian sleeper cells and lone wolves carry out horrific terror attacks at sites including embassies, restaurants and shops.
On Sunday, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Noori Hamedani also issued a fatwa that made global jihad mandatory for his followers…
Hamedani responded in writing to a request from the presidium of the Assembly of Seminary Students and Scholars in Qom, saying that “avenging the blood of the martyred leader of the revolution is obligatory for all Muslims.”
“Without doubt, criminal America and the bloodthirsty Zionists have reached the end of their path, and this time the powerful armed forces will deliver a decisive and unforgettable response,” he warned.
Hamedani is not as well known as Shirazi is, but he is still a very big deal in Iran…
Grand Ayatollah Hossein Noori-Hamedani (Persian: آيت الله العظمى حسين نورى همدانى; born 21 March 1925), also Hossein Nuri-Hamedani, is an Iranian Twelver Shi’a Marja’ known for his conservative or “ultra-conservative” views.[1]
He has publicly expressed his disapproval of Sufis and dervishes,[2] Jews,[3] the intellectual Abdolkarim Soroush[4] the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women,[5] and “anti-Islamic and atheist professors” in Iranian universities, whose purge he has called for.[6] He has been noted for being the only grand ayatollah to congratulate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when Ahmadinejad was first declared victor in the controversial 12 June 2009 election; and also as “celebrated by the central government for his wholehearted support of the leader and the president”.[7]
Now another very big name has issued a fatwa that orders his followers to engage in a holy war against the United States and Israel.
Grand Ayatollah Kamal al-Haydari resides in the holy city of Qom, and his declaration of global jihad is getting a lot of attention…
A jihad has been called against the US and Israel by one of Iran’s Grand Ayatollahs as the war in the Middle East escalates.
It comes after two high-ranking Shiite religious leaders in Iran, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani and Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, issued their own fatwas urging Muslims globally to seek revenge for the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In his fatwa, which is a kind of Islamic legal opinion, Grand Ayatollah al-Haydari described the US-Israeli strikes as a “barbaric and vicious war.”
He also warned the two countries: “We warn you, in the strongest and most realistic terms of warning, against underestimating the dignity and capabilities of these peoples. They are faithful peoples who place their lives before their faith to defend their honor, dignity, religion, and creed. So, may your interests in the region be destroyed if you have any.”
There is no time limit for these fatwas.
As we have seen throughout history, a religious war can last for decades.
These radicals will never forgive, and they will never forget.
I think that an X user known as “NoLimit Alpha” has done a good job of summarizing what we are now facing…
It is important to understand that there are Shiite Muslims all over the world.
In fact, there are approximately 2.5 million of them living in the United States right now.
During this past weekend, Shiite Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan held a memorial service for Ayatollah Khamenei…
A prominent Shiite organization in Dearborn, Michigan, held a memorial for the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei over the weekend, honoring him for his “martyrdom” while accusing Americans of being led by Satan.
“We’re gathered here today to commemorate the martyrdom of the great leader of our time, Sayyid Ali Hussein Khamenei,” said Hassan Salamey, one of the speakers at the memorial held at the Hadi Institute on Sunday, a day after U.S. and Israeli forces executed Khamenei and other top Iranian officials in Operation Epic Fury.
These are people that absolutely hate the United States, and that was made very clear during the ceremony…
Salamey, a poet and lawyer, went on to recite poetry accusing the U.S. of being built by “devil-worshipers” on “stolen land” and being controlled by “devil-worshiping Freemasons,” with references to the Masonic “one-eye devil” on the dollar bill.
He also mentioned the so-called “Epstein Class,” and explicitly called the Statue of Liberty “Lucifer.”
From now on, we will need to be alert to the fact that Shiite sleeper agents could strike at any moment.
That means that every church, every school and every sporting event in America is now a potential target.
Many are concerned about the potential for bombings or mass shootings, but there is a different scenario that I am far more concerned about.
Can you image the panic that we would see if Shiite sleeper agents released highly contagious biological agents in a major U.S. city and simply walked away?
It would turn our society upside down overnight.
We are far more vulnerable than most people realize.
Now that a global jihad has begun, such a scenario could actually become a reality.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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