On March 1, an Iranian ballistic missile struck a residential neighborhood in Beit Shemesh, a few minutes from where I live, killing nine people, among them three teenage siblings, and wounding over forty others. On March 8, while I was speaking on a call with my sister in Nyala, South Darfur, I heard a heavy explosion in the background; the call cut off. A few hours later, she called back to tell me that a drone had struck a market just meters from her home. Arab News reported that a Sudanese Army drone strike killed eleven people and wounded twenty. According to available reports, the drone used in Nyala was almost certainly Iranian-made. These two events, separated by seven days and thousands of kilometers, are not coincidental. They are products of the same regime, the same military infrastructure, and the same strategic doctrine of exported violence that has destabilized the Middle East and beyond for nearly five decades.

As a Sudanese who has witnessed the burden of war firsthand, I hold a deep-seated conviction that war represents the gravest calamity that can befall any nation, and I am fundamentally opposed to it as a mechanism for resolving political conflicts. Yet the evidence compels me to say what I believe: Operation Epic Fury, the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military campaign against the Iranian regime, represents the most consequential opportunity in a generation to break the cycle of Iranian-exported violence. Eliminating this regime is not merely a military objective; it is the precondition for peace across multiple theaters........

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