Even if Israel didn’t exist, the United States would need to go to war against the Islamic Republic of Iran. In weekly Iranian rallies, there were repeated calls for “Death to America” and proclaiming America is the “Big Satan.” And there’s been nearly half a century of Iranian hostility and its current drive for nuclear weapons, intercontinental ballistic missiles, suicide drones and financial support and arming of proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis attacking the United States, its allies and interests.

Epic Fury is not a momentary action. It is the culmination of 47 years of war waged by the Iranian regime against the United States, its allies and even its own citizens, having allegedly killed more than 35,000 protesting Iranians last month. We know that Iran was yet again developing nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles meant for the United States. Intelligence also revealed that in the next few weeks Iran was moving these weapons programs even deeper into the ground which would have made it virtually impossible to destroy them.  

The U.S.-Israel operation, launched early Feb. 28, struck hundreds of targets across Iran linked to the regime’s instruments of power: the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, ballistic missile and drone sites, air defenses and key nuclear infrastructure. Iran’s military machine, long used to threaten neighbors and attack Americans, is now under sustained assault.

The campaign has already reshaped the battlefield. Iran’s terrorist religious Islamic fanatic dictator, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in the first strike along with nearly 50 of his top deputies. The regime’s command........

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