For decades, dating all the way back to 1979, US presidents, including Donald Trump, and many Americans have been dreaming of the day we would finally avenge the murderous Iranian Islamist regime. Ever since dozens of Americans were taken hostage for more than a year, and Ayatollah Khomeini led the call for death to America and its ally Israel, it has been crystal clear that, for the sake of Middle Eastern, American, and European security, the regime had to be toppled. But efforts to remove the head of the snake over the years were few, far between, and unsuccessful.

Finally, after 47 years of watching the mullahs and their enforcers and proxies wreak havoc across the Middle East as the long-acknowledged world leader in terrorism, Trump decided to pull the trigger on an audacious invasion, with a full-on assault on the country’s leaders, military capacity, and nuclear aspirations. But often lost in the day-to-day, on-the-ground coverage of the conflict is the 20,000-foot view, namely, how this mission represents the final piece of a geopolitical jigsaw puzzle being assembled by the president.

The first piece of the puzzle was to assist Israel in crippling the Iranian military, winning the 12-day war, and securing the release of Israeli hostages held for more than two years by Hamas, a proxy for Iran. Next, Trump built on the Abraham Accords between Israel and pro-American Arab states during his first term to create the Board of Peace, binding Israel with a host of Muslim neighbors to rebuild Gaza, while isolating Iran as an outlaw state.

The president then unleashed an audacious military campaign with a strike in the dead of night, sending........

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