You have gilded your name in brass and glass from Manhattan to Las Vegas. You have stamped it on towers, golf courses, steaks, and skylines. But history is not impressed by signage. It is impressed by rupture. By men who understood that their moment was not about branding but about breaking something dangerous before it broke the world.

Your legacy will not be measured in square footage. It will be measured in centrifuges.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has waged a four-decade war against the West not merely with slogans, but with strategy. It funds and arms Hamas and Hezbollah. It stains the map of the Middle East with proxies and missiles. It has turned ancient Persia into a modern theology of death, exporting revolution while its own people suffocate under clerical rule.

You understood something many in Washington preferred to forget: that appeasement dressed up as diplomacy is still appeasement. When you withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, you shattered the polite illusion that a regime built on “Death to America” could be bribed into moderation. You did not treat Tehran as misunderstood. You treated it........

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