The Eleven O’Clock ix Prosecco, Trump, and Tehran Wednesday 25th June, 2025
Each day for the remainder of June, I’ll post The Eleven O’Clock and aim to answer the following three questions in short sentences and/or very short paragraphs.
1. Where am I?
2. What am I doing?
3. What am I thinking about and feeling?
Of course, I would welcome any comments, humorous, poignant, serious, or otherwise.
1. At my desk, on the landing, at home
2. Multitasking – fielding texts from daut 1 and genning up on Iran’s theological/political stance and pondering the wisdom of Trump’s ‘cease fire’.
3. Thinking
As indicated above, I’m swinging between a conversation with daughter 1 and a deeper quest to understand the theological rather than political stance of Iran that forms the foundation of the Iranian Revolution. To begin with, daughter 1. It began with a text from me asking my Prosecco expert how many bottles are required for 30 adults x 1 drink upon arrival at a party and ended up discussing how many bottles Daut 1 can safely carry riding pillion on a Yamaha 750 as she journeys down from KT6.
Whilst many will rejoice at the cessation of hostilities between Israel and Iran, I am less ebullient. This could be more than a blunder by our strange friend Mr Trump, and may represent a moral vacuum lying at the heart of the Western World, similarly to its blind and deaf policy towards the Nazi Party before the outbreak of WWII.
WWII claimed the lives of 80 million souls and 6 million Jews. Had we acted decisively in the 1930s to oust Hitler, many would still have died, but far fewer, I would argue.
I fear my children and grandchildren will look back on this moment in history in the same light. Iran has been pruned, but it will grow back, fiercer, stronger, more virulent, and waiting for an opportunity to gather strength from nations it has beguiled to continue its aim – the destruction of Israel as a prerequisite for the return of the 12th Iman, Mahdi, a Messianic figure to herald a world-wide Caliphate in which world there is no place for a Jewish State, in fact Israel’s existence is the final obstacle to the return of the Mahdi, and therefore must be destroyed.
I am not in favour of war. It is abhorrent. But sometimes it is necessary to excise an evil presence as with the Nazis in Germany and its ally, Japan, in the East. Delay cost the world an enormous loss of life.
So…at 11 o’clock this morning, I was pondering the lack of wisdom of Trump’s ceasefire.
Feeling: quite calm, a dispassionate approach to a serious issue that may yet engulf nations further afield than Iran/Israel’s immediate neighbours. And less anxiety at the prospect of the housewarming, now that the quantity of Champagne/Prosecco available for guests has been resolved.