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Pakistan Secures Iran Ceasefire After Trump Threatens: “Open the F%&*g Strait...Praise Be to Allah!”
- A Radical Dispatch
1) Pakistan Secures Peace
Last night Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced a two week ceasefire between Iran, the US and allies before the expiry of a deadline imposed by President Trump.
The White House confirmed these events, beginning with an acknowledgement of the role that Pakistan played.
Direct negotiations between Iran and the US are set to commence this week in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
Sky News reports 8th April 2026:
Vice President J.D. Vance is also on his way to begin these face to face talks with the Iranians, conditions allowing.
Al-Arabiyah reports 8th April 2026:
Details of the deal have been revealed as follows.
In this way, it appears that Pakistan played a blinder.
“April 2 (Reuters) - A diplomatic outcast a year ago, Pakistan has become a trusted regional partner and a mediator between the U.S. and Iran to end the war in the Middle East, a remarkable transformation for the South Asian nation driven mostly by its powerful military chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir. Munir has had several meetings with President Donald Trump, including an unprecedented one-on-one lunch at the White House, while the government has apprehended an Islamic State bomber accused of killing American troops and handed him over to the U.S.”
And they are feeling, rightly, somewhat celebratory.
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Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif: “Pakistan has changed forever. I am telling you. From Karachi to Peshawar, from which the world is looking at it with respect and honour. This honour that has been given is not to any one individual or government, it is to the entire nation. It is to a common man, it is to a peasant, it is to a farmer, it is to a labourer, it is to a tanga owner, it is to a shopkeeper, it is to a politician, it is to an officer, it is to an orphan, it is to a widow, it is to the honour of the entire nation.”
2) Mad King Trump
Despite the heading above, President Trump is not mad. By his own account, he may in fact be an “extremely stable genius”. Read on.
In the days leading up to this announcement, Trump threatened Iran with complete devastation in an expletive laden social media post issued on Easter Sunday. The President demanded that Iran “open the F%&*g Strait” and ended his threat with the words “Praise be to Allah!”.
Trump’s choice of words ‘Praise be to Allah!’ led some observers to satirise the satire.
Many popular media pundits though, like Tucker Carlson, were unimpressed and took offence.
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Tucker Carlson: “You’re tweeting out the F word on Easter morning? ‘You’ll be living in hell. Just watch. Praise be to Allah.’ So obviously you’re mocking the religion of Iran. Okay. If you seek a religious war, that’s a good idea. But by the way, no decent person mocks other people’s religions. You may have a problem with the theology. Presumably you do if it’s not your religion and you can explain what that is. But to mock other people’s faith is to mock the idea of faith itself. And we should never mock that because at its core is the acknowledgement that we are not in charge of the universe. We did not build it. We won’t be here at the end of it. We can destroy life. We cannot create it because we are not God. The message of all faith. The biggest picture level is the message in our Bible, which is you are not God. And only if you think you are, do you talk this way. But it’s not just mockery of Islam. And no president should mock Islam. That’s not your job. This is not a theocracy. We don’t go to war with other theocracies to find out which theocracy is more effective. We are not a theocracy. And God willing, we never will be because theocracies corrupt the religion. No, this is a mockery not just of Islam, it’s a mockery of Christianity. To send out a tweet with the F word on Easter morning promising the murder of civilians and then saying praise be to Allah without explaining any of it, you are mocking me and every other Christian because we’re Christians. We can’t support that. That is evil. That is an intentional desecration of beauty and truth, which is the definition of evil.”
Tucker raised three objections in the above. He appeared genuinely upset that President Trump swore on Easter Sunday. He also appeared convinced that the president “mocked” Islam. And, by threatening to blow up power plants and bridges while unleashing “hell”, Carlson took the view that Trump threatened to kill civilians.
Leaving aside the Easter message (not being a Christian, this author will not claim offence on Christianity’s behalf) we take the view that Carlson completely missed the president’s humorous reference to Islam in saying ‘Praise be to Allah‘. It was, as Trump has acknowledged after all, the ‘Islamic Republic of Pakistan’ that secured the peace. We also struggle to see a specific threat against civilians in the President’s above referenced social media post.
Let us explain.
Rather than being aimed at denigrating Islam, Trump’s use of the phrase ‘Praise be to Allah‘ was a direct reference to the American-Muslim heavy weight world champion Mike Tyson, at his prime, threatening his opponents.
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Mike Tyson: “My style is impetuous. My defence is impregnable and I’m just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah.”
When placed in this context, as homage to one of the greatest American boxers of all time, Trump’s remark appears not offensive, but funny.
But then, unsatisfied with the level of offence caused, and only hours before his deadline for Iran came to pass, President Trump appeared to go “full retard”.
This last post seemed to do the job.
Nominally pro-Trump voices from the once ‘Never Trump’ camp took the bait. Online commentator Candace Owens demanded that Trump be deposed and labeled him a genocidal lunatic.
We did try to calm her down.
But it was our friend Tucker Carlson this time who went further than Candace Owens. In the video post below Carlson went beyond mere hysteria and encouraged US government officials to disobey direct presidential orders.
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“…we’re going to wind up in a place that we can’t even imagine. Not just Iran, us and the rest of the world. And so that means, because this is obvious to anyone who’s paying any attention, that if you work in the White House or in the US military, now it’s time to say ‘no, absolutely not’. And say it directly to the president, ‘No’. In case you’re thinking about using some weapon of mass destruction against the population of Iran, in whose name we liberated Iran, we killed their religious leader for their benefit. Do you remember that? This was last month. Those people who are in direct contact with the president need to say: ‘No, I’ll resign. I’ll do whatever I can do legally to stop this because this is insane, and if given the order I’m not carrying it out. Figure out the codes on the football yourself.’ Because everything hangs in the balance right now. This is not hysteria this is a hundred percent real. And yet the people in this country, by and large, are sleepwalking along. No, the future will be pretty much like today, maybe a little different. That’s not the lesson of history. Things change fast and forever. There are pivot points where nothing is the same. Sometimes it’s better, but mostly it’s not. And this is one of those cases where it might not be at all better.”
And despite Carlson’s line above “This is not hysteria this is a hundred percent real” it appears that it was, in the end, all hysteria.
In truth, President Trump was pursuing a well established Kissinger-era US military doctrine called the ‘Madman Strategy.’
The National Security Archives report, accessed 7th April 2026:
“Washington, D.C., May 29, 2015 — President Richard Nixon and his national security adviser Henry Kissinger believed they could compel ‘the other side’ to back down during crises in the Middle East and Vietnam by ‘push[ing] so many chips into the pot’ that Nixon would seem ‘crazy’ enough to ‘go much further,’ according to newly declassified documents published today by the National Security Archive…With Madman diplomacy, Nixon and Kissinger strove to end the Vietnam War on the most favorable terms possible in the shortest period of time practicable, an effort that culminated in a secret global nuclear alert in October of that year.”
We referenced this on the WARRIOR CREED livestream hours before the ceasefire was agreed.
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Maajid Nawaz for the WARRIOR CREED livestream: "However, we are going to, at this stage, reference you to the...National Security Archives...from the United States of America. What we believe is what's going on here is this is, as we've said there in our post, you can see it on your screens, in our reaction to President Trump's Truth Social, we've said. 'This is the Madman Strategy'. Now, some may be confused there. We're not actually calling President Trump mad. In fact, the chapter in the Radical Dispatch, within which the written version of this stream, that is, within which this will all be explained, will be called the 'Mad King Trump'. But we're not literally calling Trump mad. What we are referencing here, both by using the phrase the 'Mad King' and the Madman Strategy, is a well-established Kissinger-era national security doctrine, as you can see here from the website, the National Security Archive. There's an article there that's headlined 'Nixon, Kissinger and the Madman Strategy During the Vietnam War'. Now, what is that strategy? Well, we're going to read it for you now, just to clarify exactly what we believe President Trump is doing here. And obviously, when you understand this, you'll understand why that Mike Tyson clip in the context of intimidating the enemy was relevant as well. This is well-established military doctrine from the National Security Archive. Just reading there posted...29th of May, 2015, 'President Richard Nixon, and his national security advisor, Henry Kissinger, believed they could compel the other side to back down during crises in the Middle East and Vietnam by pushing so many chips into the pot that Nixon would seem crazy enough to go much further. According to newly declassified documents published today...in May 2015, in newly declassified documents published today by the National Security Archive, with madman diplomacy Nixon and Kissinger strove to end the Vietnam War on the most favourable terms possible in the shortest period of time practicable. An effort that culminated in a secret global nuclear alert in October of that year.' So this is on the National Security Archive published in 2015. It's an explanation of what the madman strategy is in military terms. And it's that strategy that we believe President Trump, let's dub him the Mad King, is deploying..."
Hours later, a ceasefire was agreed and there was no nuclear armageddon.
3) Sunni Muslim Arabs Took a Third Way
From the beginning of this conflict Iran found itself isolated after it grossly miscalculated and decided to attack its Sunni Muslim Arab neighbours during Ramadan. The result of Iran’s grave miscalculation was that on the whole Sunni Muslims failed to rally behind the Iranian theocracy’s call to a global jihad against America.
This lacklustre response was noticed by the extremely online armchair global affairs commentators, such as BJJ world champion and former WARRIOR CREED guest Jake Shields.
Upon being reminded by us of his somewhat amateur command of Middle East politics, Jake Shields actually did go full retard.
At this stage, we were compelled to remind everybody that the Middle East cannot so easily be defined by the ‘with us or against us’ dichotomy vis a vis Israel.
We elaborated on this third position taken by Sunni Muslim Arabs in a previous Radical Dispatch.
Radical Media reports 12th March 2026:
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Mufti of Syria Osama al-Rifai: “Firstly, ‘there is no hand but that the hand of God is above it, and there is no oppressor but that he will be afflicted by a greater oppressor’. This is the evidence from traditions from the Messenger God, may God bless him and grant him peace. Now, I will not take too long, there are many traditions that contain this meaning. You may ask, ‘why does God pit oppressors against oppressors?’ So that God does not burden us with fighting them. God will deal with them and free us from both. And we should stop at this point, because the oppressors are fighting each other. However, emotionally and morally we should feel sympathy for our non-Sasanian brothers in Iran, and they are numerous. We feel sorrow for them and pray for mercy for their dead, and for healing for the wounded. May God grant them well-being.”
Even Pakistan had reason to remain concerned about the Iranian theocracy’s treatment of its neighbours, as Founder and Editor of The Pak Daily, Hamza Azhar Salam reported:
It has been Sunni Muslim hesitancy surrounding the intentions of the Shia-Islamist theocracy in Iran that ended up being a decisive factor in swinging the advantage towards nuclear Pakistan playing such an active role in securing the peace.
4) There Was always Going to Be a Deal
As we forecasted on the first day of these strikes for GB News with Michelle Dewbury, these strikes were was always going to end up in a deal.
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Maajid Nawaz: “We have learned lessons from Iraq. We have learned lessons from interventions generally abroad. President Trump tends not to intervene in foreign countries unless he has a plan in advance. And I call it strategic intervention. If we look at what happened in Venezuela, It’s very clear that there was a plan involved. Maduro was taken captive and it is very clear that there was a deal made with the remnants of the regime on the inside so they could take over from him after he was captured. If you go to...before that, as well, in Syria, the same thing happened. The Russian Navy even voluntarily withdrew, abandoning Assad to the point where he had to flee to Russia, and then there was a transition. Now, in neither of those two cases, but especially in the Venezuela case, it’s very clear they learned the lessons of Iraq, and they didn’t just disband the entire old regime. So though we have in Iran a scenario where the entire leadership has effectively been decapitated, I don’t think that the American plan would be to then disband the entire regime, as was done in Iraq, which led to that chaos and the vacuum into which came ISIS. I don’t think that is their plan. It seems to me that they would have had some form of deal made on the inside with whoever’s going to take over, probably second-line command and control, and somebody will ascend in that regime.”
GB News host Michelle Dewbury: “I thought he said he’d killed the second and third.”
Maajid Nawaz: “Yeah, somebody will ascend, and they’ll end up making a deal with the Americans, and that will keep happening until somebody is there willing to make a deal. Frankly, there needs to be a deal, and that’s probably how it’s going to end.”
In fact, during the first night of these strikes for GB News America with Bev Turner we made clear our view that Trump’s action would increase the chances of a grand regional settlement for peace, and we specifically named Pakistan’s role as being decisive.
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GB News host Bev Turner: “You’ve been saying for, correct me if I’m wrong, but at least a year now that you think you were looking at a grand regional settlement. You think the Middle East is about to enter a period of prolonged peace, the likes of which we’ve probably not seen, well, we’ve not seen in our lifetime. Is that looking more likely or less likely tonight, Maajid?”
Maajid Nawaz: “Well, I’m going to say something counterintuitive, but you probably could predict my answer Bev, I think it’s looking more likely. And the reasons for that is that one of the unintended consequences of Iran’s calculated escalation, Iran deliberately escalated by attacking Sunni Muslim Arab Gulf countries who were not involved. Saudi Arabia had prohibited the US from using its air bases prior to this attack, which is why they’re so upset with what Iran did. So their calculated escalation was done in order to drag everybody else into the war, because when they’re fighting for their existential existence, it suits them to have as many parties for and against them in the war, because if you broaden the conflict, Russia gets involved, Iran has more supporters and therefore more chance of surviving. So that’s what they tried to do. What’s happened instead is because of the Pakistani-Saudi-Turkey joint military defence pact, when Saudi has said now that it would support the U.S. in any war effort necessary, because they’re so upset with what Iran, literally bombed them, right? So Saudi has said to America, we will support you by any means necessary, that drags in nuclear Pakistan because of the defence pact they signed about six months ago. Now, when you end up with that kind of escalation, Iran, I think miscalculated here, the only option left, and they are logical people, Persians can be very logical, right? The only option left does mean come to terms in a post-Khamenei context and agree a peace deal. I do think that’s what’s going to happen. Iran cannot oppose countries such as Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia when they come together, as they have done, in a mutual defence pact. It’s just too much for Iran to deal with.”
GB News Bev Turner: “I told you he’s the best person on this topic everybody Maajid Nawaz summing it up brilliantly, and hopefully giving people reason to sleep better tonight rather than worse, and that’s what I was wanting us to do is to allay the fears of people in the UK that this is the start of world war three. I know that everybody at home in the UK is incredibly worried about this situation and thank you Maajid, I really appreciate it, what fascinating insight, my friend. I will speak to you very soon. Goodbye. Right. I’m delighted to say that my panel are here waiting very patiently.”
We also made clear that Iranian denials that peace talks were in fact ongoing were to be taken with a pinch of salt and that Trump would prefer the Venezuela model by keeping the Iranian regime in place while decapitating its leadership.
Radical Media reports 26th March 2026:
By the end, the Iranian regime had been left leaderless, depleted and isolated.
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Maajid Nawaz for WARRIOR CREED: “We wish to reassure everybody that that’s what we think is going to happen. This will end in a deal being struck between President Rump and whoever survives on the Iranian side. If the person on the Iranian side doesn’t want to make a deal, the Americans will resume bombing until they find somebody that does want to make a deal. The problem the Iranians have and why we are quite certain, or quite sure at least, that they will arrive at a deal with the Americans is that they are now leaderless, depleted and isolated. And those three factors mean that no matter how much bravado they wish to display, no matter how much passion or zeal they may have remaining in them to want to fight, ultimately, the only conclusion, logically, is that a deal will be made, because the Iranians have been left leaderless and they have been left depleted, in terms of their missile stockpile, and isolated in the region, they will eventually have to come to terms. And primarily isolated because the Russians and the Chinese have not joined them in this war and have both urged them to agree to a deal. So they are isolated internationally. They are isolated regionally, the local Sunni Muslim Arab region and the Sunni region generally of Muslims in the greater Middle East have all turned on Iran for sending - in the month of Ramadan - more missiles towards its Sunni Muslim Arab neighbours than they even sent to Israel, the country that attacked them. It was a huge miscalculation, which has cost Iran the strategic victory.”
5) What Did Striking Iran Achieve?
There is considerable concern around what Trump’s strikes on Iran actually achieved, and whether Israel is in fact on board with Trump’s ceasefire.
The truth is that the Middle East has undergone a huge strategic shift due to these strikes, and the Israelis are not necessarily the ones who gain. Sunni Muslim Arabs do. If the assumption holds that…
