In a few months, Iran will lose arguably its greatest asset. This asset has allowed it to march toward a nuclear program, gain billions of dollars to fund its terror war against Israel and continue its war almost with impunity. It allows Iran to have enormous influence at the heart of Washington, D.C. This asset is United States President Joe Biden.

Not knowing the outcome of the election in November, Iran seems unsure how to use the next few months. It could become a dangerous time where Iran lashes out while it still can.

Since 2021, Biden has continued Barack Obama’s policies of helping Iran get funding for its terrorist activities and constructing a nuclear program. Biden has since said he’s not running for reelection. The mood on the American street suggests Donald Trump has a good shot at entering the White House again. Trump—through heavy sanctions, assassinating men like Gen. Qassem Suleimani and other means—forced Iran to backpedal. A second Trump administration would probably do the same.

Uncertainty about the U.S. election could explain Iran’s slow response to the assassination of key leaders. On August 24, Hezbollah launched 200 to 300 projectiles into Israel as revenge for Israel taking out Fuad Shukr, a high-ranking Hezbollah member, on July 30. The attack happened in two waves. First, rockets attacked 11 Israel Defense Forces (idf) barracks and bases in Israel’s north to distract defense systems and prepare for the second wave, in which “suicide drones” attacked two military bases north of Tel Aviv. The idf reported one casualty.

Hezbollah meant the attack to be much larger. Roughly half an hour before the attack’s expected launch time, the idf struck about 40 locations and destroyed what they called “thousands” of rocket launchers.

The day after Shukr’s death, Israel assassinated Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s political leader, in Tehran, Iran. People expected Iran and its proxy to retaliate. It looks like radical Islam finally got its retaliation.

Or did it?

Rumors are that Iran’s proxy empire still has a few tricks up its sleeve. Nasrallah claimed in a post-attack speech that the August 24 attack was only “part of the punishment.” Yemen’s Houthis, another Iranian proxy, claimed they are planning a big attack of their own.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi claimed Iran still has a response in the making. He claimed it would be “definite, calculated and accurate.” But it has been warning of a major attack for close to a month.

Is Iran afraid of influencing the election? One of the factors that got Trump elected in 2016 was Obama’s weak handling of a bellicose North Korea. Iran may be downplaying its response so it doesn’t become 2024’s “North Korea.”

On August 27, it launched what looked like a charm offensive. Khamenei’s website uploaded a summary of a recent meeting between Khamenei and the new government of President Masoud Pezeshkian. Pezeshkian was elected under a mandate to start negotiations with the West to remove sanctions and possibly form a new nuclear deal. Under this context, Khamenei reportedly told Pezeshkian: “This [current circumstance] does not mean that we cannot interact with the same enemy in certain situations. There is no harm in that, but do not place your hopes in them. Do not trust the enemy.”

Khamenei defined these “interactions” vaguely. But as the Associated Press noted, “[Khamenei’s] comments mirror those around the time of Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, which saw Tehran’s nuclear program greatly curtailed in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.”

The Associated Press asked the U.S. State Department for comment. The State Department acknowledged “we are far away” from a diplomatic solution. But it also claimed, “We have long said that we ultimately view diplomacy as the best way to achieve an effective, sustainable solution with regard to Iran’s nuclear program.” The department specified: “If Iran wants to demonstrate seriousness or a new approach, they should stop nuclear escalations and start meaningfully cooperating with the [International Atomic Energy Agency].”

Iran is spearheading a war to annihilate Israel’s existence right now. Even if the war stopped today, it would only be a ceasefire in Iran’s wider war. The State Department said nothing about that. Neither did they back in 2015. The billions of dollars unfrozen from sanctions relief allowed Iran to build up its terrorist army to launch attacks like October 7.

Iran knows it’s not getting this kind of deal with Trump. With the looming November elections, this may be a signal they want to get back into some sort of deal with the Biden administration before then.

Iran is firmly anti-American and anti-Israel. But it will change its tactics to suit the time. For now, this might mean trying to wring all the concessions it can out of the U.S. But it may not stay that way. After the election, Joe Biden’s popularity can no longer affect Kamala Harris at the ballot box. Fear of public opinion won’t restrain him. Perhaps Iran is saving its attack for when they won’t have to deal with Donald Trump, and Biden can turn a blind eye without being punished by voters. Are they waiting until after November to launch their most ferocious attack?

A biblical passage the Trumpet uses to analyze events such as these is in 2 Kings 14:26-27: “For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel. And the Lord said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.”

This is a prophecy not only about ancient Israel, but also modern America. God is using a man as a prophetic parallel of King Jeroboam ii to relieve America from “bitter affliction” threatening to “blot it out from under heaven.” (Request a free copy of our editor in chief Gerald Flurry’s book America Under Attack for more information.)

“We have taught for several years that Donald Trump fulfills the role of this end-time Jeroboam,” Mr. Flurry wrote in the cover story of our September 2022 print edition. “God used him to save America from being destroyed by the radical left.”

Verse 28 adds a new character to the narrative: “Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?”

“This verse ties the politics of the U.S. and Judah [the State of Israel] together,” Mr. Flurry wrote. “From the time of Joe Biden’s inauguration, I predicted that we would have more Palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel because of the change in leadership. That is exactly what began to happen. Anybody should be able to recognize why!”

Based on 2 Kings 14, Mr. Flurry predicted Donald Trump would return to the White House. This is on the cusp of happening. But he also predicted that, once this happens, “Mr. Trump may have to recover some of Judah’s freedom ….”

Iran is the nerve center of all the terror wars Israel faces. Trump knows this. And it looks like Iran knows another Trump administration would mean open season is over. Before the election has even happened, we may be seeing Iran bracing itself for the fulfillment of 2 Kings 14:28.

To learn more, read Mr. Flurry’s article “Britain’s and Judah’s Governments Fall—America Next?”