Iran Is A Clear and Present Danger

Before the first bomb of Epic Fury had been dropped, Iranian officials defiantly informed President Trump’s negotiators—who have diligently tried to avoid war—that the Islamic Republic possessed enough enriched fuel to build eleven nuclear bombs. And, according to lead U.S. negotiator, Steve Witkoff, “that was the beginning of their negotiating stance.”

That is why President Trump’s three-month effort to rid the world of this nuclear menace is both justified and profoundly necessary.  In fact, since those first 38 days of bombing, the U.S. has been in a ceasefire, engaging militarily in only defensive strikes when we are either under attack or see an attack being planned, such as with the planting of mines in the Strait of Hormuz.   We haven’t undertaken offensive military action in a number of weeks.

Rather, we have engaged in a targeted blockade after having degraded or destroyed virtually all of Iran’s military assets. Iran may nominally think it is in control of the crucial Strait of Hormuz, facilitating as it does 20% of the world’s crude oil transport, but we are monitoring everything that happens there.  And, based upon news reports, the Trump negotiators have gotten 90-95% of what they want, the holdover being the nuclear issue.

Yet, there is apparently much consternation here and across the world about how all of this will end up.   There is no doubt in my mind how this will end.

Iran has been at war with the world, certainly including the Middle East, since 1979.  What more dire warning does the world need than that the madmen in the Iranian regime—on the cusp of a nuclear bomb—would not hesitate to use a nuclear weapon to annihilate its Middle Eastern neighbors, including Israel—and then the rest of the world?

Americans must never forget that since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, “the Iranian government and Iran-backed forces have murdered 995 Americans, injured and kidnapped 133 U.S. service members and civilians, and hatched 9 assassination plots directed toward high-ranking U.S. government officials, including President Trump.”

However, Trump has now pushed the ayatollahs to the brink of extinction.  He won’t stop now.  He, perhaps more than any president in our lifetimes, recognizes the danger posed by the dark and evil ideology espoused by the Iranian regime and its proxies.   I believe he fully grasps that he is not negotiating with a typical adversary.  Rather, he is trying to strike a deal with a barbaric and murderous group of fanatics who view, and cherish, death more favorably than they prize life; whose foundational ideology of terrorism places a great theological emphasis upon “martyrdom.”

Well, I’ve never seen Trump “stop short” of a goal.  On the contrary, his critics constantly attack him for going too far!  Where the withering criticism he receives every moment of his life would likely give pause to other presidents, he walks past it.  He is simply not going to be dissuaded or out negotiated. We have no idea of the nature of the advice and intelligence he is receiving.  And despite the often-idiotic press coverage, what we are reading about as “likely” options in Iran may very well have no relation to what Trump ultimately decides to do.

He is the only person who sees all the pieces on the chessboard. We’ve seen him engage in strategic misdirection a number of times. I think he is giving diplomacy EVERY conceivable chance to work.  If, and when, he finally concludes that it cannot he will unleash the hounds of war, for real.  All of this is to say nothing of Israel, to whose very existence Iran poses a constant and eternal threat, which has largely restrained itself at Pres. Trump’s insistence.  If Israel restarts its war machine, I think there is a possibility that Israeli forces will invade Iran and decisively end the nuclear threat if not eliminate the regime itself.

President Trump has said for years that Iran may never possess a nuclear weapon which that regime would, again, not hesitate to use to do great harm including, ultimately, to the U.S.  He will not yield on that demand.  I simply cannot see him ending the intense, comprehensive U.S. pressure under which that government currently finds itself before its nuclear program is dismantled.

We should continue to offer our prayers for our country and for President Trump because he is the vital key to not only the security of America but also to that of the entire world.