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 as adversarial.

History will judge whether you finished that thought.

Because dismantling Iran does not mean reckless war. It means clarity. It means recognizing that the regime’s nuclear ambition is not a bargaining chip but a doctrine. It means understanding that a theocracy armed with intercontinental reach is not a regional nuisance but a civilizational threat. It means aligning American power—economic, diplomatic, covert, and, if necessary, military—with the singular objective of preventing a regime of apocalyptic theology from acquiring apocalyptic weapons.

There are moments when restraint is wisdom. There are moments when restraint is surrender wearing a tuxedo.

The Iranian people themselves are not the enemy. They have risen in protest, chanting for freedom against their own rulers. They are heirs to Cyrus, poets, merchants, students who risk prison for the crime of wanting normalcy. The regime fears them more than it fears sanctions. A strategy that isolates the mullahs while amplifying the aspirations of the Iranian public is not imperialism; it is moral alignment with history’s long arc away from tyranny.

Mr. President, you have always understood optics. Understand this optic: if the Islamic Republic crosses the nuclear threshold on America’s watch—any watch—the Middle East becomes a multipolar nuclear bazaar. Saudi Arabia will not sit idle. Turkey will not pretend indifference. Israel will not outsource its survival. The fragile architecture of deterrence collapses into a regional arms race with theological overtones.

And if that happens, no tower bearing your name will look tall enough to cast a shadow over it.

You have often spoken of strength—of projecting it, of restoring it, of refusing to apologize for it. Strength is not measured only by tariffs and rallies. It is measured by whether an American president recognizes that some regimes cannot be managed; they must be contained, rolled back, or fundamentally transformed.

You once moved an embassy to Jerusalem, signaling that symbolic lines on a map can become permanent when backed by conviction. The Iranian question is not symbolic. It is structural. It is the hinge upon which the next half-century of Middle Eastern stability will turn.

This is not a call for impulsiveness. It is a call for doctrine. A clear declaration that the United States will never permit the clerical regime in Tehran to acquire nuclear weapons—and that this is not negotiable across administrations, across parties, across news cycles.

Men who build towers leave monuments. Men who dismantle threats leave peace.

If you wish your name to echo beyond the skyline, let it be attached to the moment America finally closed the nuclear file on the Islamic Republic—not with hopeful signatures, but with irreversible reality.

History is not asking how many buildings carry your brand.

It is asking whether you understood the scale of the threat—and acted accordingly.

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