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About 2,500 years ago, in these very days, Queen Esther stopped a state-backed plan to annihilate the Jewish people. Haman, empowered by the Persian throne, signed their death warrant. Esther stepped into the center of power, exposed the plot, and turned the empire against the man who engineered it. Instead of Jews being slaughtered, Haman was executed, and his scheme collapsed in humiliation. That is why the Book of Esther stands in the Bible. That is why Purim is celebrated every year to remember the great reversal, when a decree of death became a story of survival. History does not repeat itself exactly, but the pattern is familiar: those who plan destruction often fall into the traps they set, and those marked for extinction endure. Khamenei is the new Haman.