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MIKE PENCE: Trump and our incredible military are ending 47 years of Iranian terror

Operation Epic Fury has degraded Iranian military capabilities and scattered their leadership

By Mike Pence Fox News

Published March 10, 2026 7:00am EDT

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US forces hammer Iranian targets as Trump calls new hardline leader 'unacceptable'

U.S. military launches punishing airstrikes on Iranian regime military targets and oil facilities. Iran names Mojtaba Khamenei, a hardline cleric, as its new supreme leader, whom President Donald Trump calls 'unacceptable'.

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From its inception in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has long engaged in open hostility and violence toward the United States and Israel and has been a malign source of chaos and disorder across the Arab world. 

On Feb. 28, America said "enough is enough." With the daylight launch of Operation Epic Fury, our country initiated hostilities against the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, but America did not start this war. After 47 years of terrorism and bloodshed, the armed forces of the United States and our ally Israel have combined overwhelming military force to end it.

As Operation Epic Fury unfolds, there is much credit to go around. But first, President Donald Trump should be commended for taking decisive action to end decades of violence against American soldiers, our bases in the region and our cherished ally Israel. His willingness to strike at precisely the moment when the ayatollah and some 40 senior Iranian officials and commanders were assembled and most vulnerable was a master stroke.

And the president’s willingness to ignore the growing voices of isolationism echoing from the fringes of Republican ranks, unleashing the most powerful military in the world, not just in this time, but last year in Operation Midnight Hammer, striking a devastating blow to Iran’s nuclear program, was deeply admirable.

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