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It’s pure madness to wait for Iran to get nukes before we act

Americans have good-faith concerns about the prospects of launching an attack on the Islamist regime in Iran. War should never be taken lightly. Not even if your cause is righteous.

But President Donald Trump needs to remind the public that the murderous Islamic cultists in Iran are our enemy — and that matters.

The Islamic Republic’s war against the United States famously began with the Islamic coup of 1979, when revolutionaries grabbed 52 hostages from our embassy and held them for 444 days. But it never ended.

From the early 1980s, when Iran’s proxy army of Hezbollah killed 241 US servicemen in Lebanon, to the 2000s, when the Revolutionary Guard along with Iraqi proxies murdered over 600 Americans with IEDs, Iran has been killing Americans.

The Iranians twice reportedly hatched plots to assassinate Trump in 2020 and 2024.

Numerous Iranian operatives have been indicted by the United States for meddling in our elections, for cyberattacks and for stealing aerospace, tech and satellite data.

Yet, both Republican and Democratic administrations have bent over backward for decades trying to appease these medieval cultists and coax them into signing agreements, sometimes sending pallets of unmarked currency and transferring billions. 

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