As Iran‘s dictatorship continues to attack its own people, with as many as 12,000 to 20,000 civilians slaughtered by government thugs in recent weeks, the prospect of American involvement grows. The same theocrats that have been slaughtering their own people have also vowed to destroy the United States and have repeatedly attacked and murdered our fellow Americans. 

Nearly everyone knows that Iran calls the U.S. the “Great Satan” since Ayatollah Khomeini seized control of the country in 1979. But how many understand the depth of their enmity? How much of the “Islamic Republic” is built upon an all-consuming lust to hurt and kill Americans? I know. I remember. I was born there.

Growing up in Iran was terrifying in a way that most Westerners can’t imagine. In a country that had been fashion-forward in the 1970s, women were forced to go from miniskirts to hijabs almost overnight. As a Jew, I was forced to hide my faith. I remember innocent people being beaten in the schools and in the streets for their religion. 

In the end, my family decided that remaining was too dangerous. We escaped on the back of a pickup truck, hiding under corn and burlap, coming under fire from regime agents before making it across the Pakistani border, and ultimately finding a new life in America, this blessed land of freedom.

It was a cruel dictatorship that we escaped, and from the very........

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