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Adam Zivo: Donald Trump's war on Iran is righteously just

There was no better time to strike, the Islamic regime has zero legitimacy

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TEL AVIV — The American-Israeli war against Iran’s Islamic Regime is both righteous and strategically sound. Ignore the critics who clutch their pearls and selectively bray about international law.

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Iranians have struggled for decades to rid themselves of their Islamist dictatorship. Yet, the regime has, from its inception, used nauseating violence to crush dissent. Shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution, thousands of political dissidents were imprisoned, tortured and killed. Subsequent mass protests — notably in 2019 and 2022 — were silenced by spilling rivers of blood.

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When millions of pro-democracy Iranians bravely took to the streets, barehanded, to demand revolution earlier this year, they were butchered. Death estimates vary, but it seems likely that around 30,000 lives were lost — or the equivalent of ten Tiananmen Square massacres. Women and children were not spared. Survivors were hunted at the hospitals.

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