The U.S. military and its ally Israel have struck the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Trump administration’s decision to attack followed weeks of waiting and speculation amid the largest military buildup in the Middle East in twenty years. But the strikes themselves were decades in the making.

The Iranian regime had its chance, and now it only has itself to blame for its fate. As President Trump has said on numerous occasions, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism can’t be permitted to have nuclear weapons. He’s right.

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Iran was given multiple off-ramps over the years. The regime didn’t take them. Iranian leaders could have invested in their own country and their own people. But to them, their country is a cause, and their people are sacrificial.

US AND ISRAEL LAUNCH ‘PREEMPTIVE’ ATTACK AGAINST IRAN

The Islamic Republic is one of the worst tyrannies the world has ever known. Since taking power in 1979, Iran’s ruling theocrats have exported chaos and upheaval. The regime has destabilized the entire Middle East. Tehran has funded, supported, even wholesale created terrorist groups in support of their objective of vanquishing America, overthrowing key........

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