In a statement released late yesterday, President Donald Trump announced:
We are getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts in the Middle East with respect to the Terrorist Regime of Iran: (1) Completely degrading Iranian Missile Capability, Launchers, and everything else pertaining to them. (2) Destroying Iran’s Defense Industrial Base. (3) Eliminating their Navy and Air Force, including Anti Aircraft Weaponry. (4) Never allowing Iran to get even close to Nuclear Capability, and always being in a position where the U.S.A. can quickly and powerfully react to such a situation, should it take place. (5) Protecting, at the highest level, our Middle Eastern Allies, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, and others. The Hormuz Strait will have to be guarded and policed, as necessary, by other Nations who use it — The United States does not! If asked, we will help these Countries in their Hormuz efforts, but it shouldn’t be necessary once Iran’s threat is eradicated. Importantly, it will be an easy Military Operation for them. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
The President’s statement was very encouraging, but it is unclear if this means the Islamic Republic of Iran will still be the de facto government of the Iranian people.
Whether past Presidents were willing to admit it or accept it, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been at war with the United States since 1979, here are a few examples:
Everyone who is realistic about the now 47-year-old war Iran’s theocratic regime declared on America knows that regime change is the only way to permanently stop Iran’s drive to acquire nuclear weapons.
The weakness of Iran’s system of Wilayat al-Faqih has never been more obvious and the opportunity to undermine it from within rarely greater. If we want to end the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, the time to decapitate the Iranian theocracy and assist the Iranian people in replacing it with something else is now.
Unless and until the regime’s dead-enders are decisively defeated or overwhelmed and removed by the Iranian people, there will be not real “peace” between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Judeo-Christian West.
Therefore, President Trump must resist the temptation to end the campaign to liberate the Iranian people before that goal is accomplished. Not only will that ensure the sharia-supremacists of the Shiite stripe remain dangerous enemies, but those of the Sunni one will redouble their efforts to bring “Death to America,” including here at home.
George Rasley is editor of Richard Viguerie's ConservativeHQ.com and is a veteran of over 300 political campaigns. A member of American MENSA, he served on the staff of Vice President Dan Quayle, as Director of Policy and Communication for former Congressman Adam Putnam (FL-12) then Vice Chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, and as spokesman for retired Rep. Mac Thornberry formerly a member of the House Intelligence Committee and Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
We are getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts in the Middle East with respect to the Terrorist Regime of Iran: (1) Completely degrading Iranian Missile Capability, Launchers, and everything else pertaining to them. (2) Destroying Iran’s Defense Industrial Base. (3) Eliminating their Navy and Air Force, including Anti Aircraft Weaponry. (4) Never allowing Iran to get even close to Nuclear Capability, and always being in a position where the U.S.A. can quickly and powerfully react to such a situation, should it take place. (5) Protecting, at the highest level, our Middle Eastern Allies, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, and others. The Hormuz Strait will have to be guarded and policed, as necessary, by other Nations who use it — The United States does not! If asked, we will help these Countries in their Hormuz efforts, but it shouldn’t be necessary once Iran’s threat is eradicated. Importantly, it will be an easy Military Operation for them. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
The President’s statement was very encouraging, but it is unclear if this means the Islamic Republic of Iran will still be the de facto government of the Iranian people.
Whether past Presidents were willing to admit it or accept it, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been at war with the United States since 1979, here are a few examples:
- The Teheran Embassy hostage taking (1979)
- Hostage taking in Lebanon (1982 - 1992)
- The Beirut Marine Barracks and U.S. Embassy bombings (1983)
- Pan Am Flight 103 destroyed over Lockerbie, Scotland (1988)
- Mining the Persian Gulf and harassment of shipping (1988)
- Truck bombing at the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (1996)
- Provided material support to the 9/11 hijackers (2000 – 2001)
- Iranians Charged with Cyber Plots Against U.S. Banks, Dam (2016)
- Iranian Spy Ring, Ahmadreza Doostar and Majid Ghorbani, Indicted for spying in the United States (2018)
- Ongoing assassinations and attacks on U.S. interests, including terror plots right here in the United States
- Ongoing supplying anti-American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan with training, sophisticated improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and explosively formed projectiles (EFPs) and other weapons
Everyone who is realistic about the now 47-year-old war Iran’s theocratic regime declared on America knows that regime change is the only way to permanently stop Iran’s drive to acquire nuclear weapons.
The weakness of Iran’s system of Wilayat al-Faqih has never been more obvious and the opportunity to undermine it from within rarely greater. If we want to end the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, the time to decapitate the Iranian theocracy and assist the Iranian people in replacing it with something else is now.
Unless and until the regime’s dead-enders are decisively defeated or overwhelmed and removed by the Iranian people, there will be not real “peace” between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Judeo-Christian West.
Therefore, President Trump must resist the temptation to end the campaign to liberate the Iranian people before that goal is accomplished. Not only will that ensure the sharia-supremacists of the Shiite stripe remain dangerous enemies, but those of the Sunni one will redouble their efforts to bring “Death to America,” including here at home.
George Rasley is editor of Richard Viguerie's ConservativeHQ.com and is a veteran of over 300 political campaigns. A member of American MENSA, he served on the staff of Vice President Dan Quayle, as Director of Policy and Communication for former Congressman Adam Putnam (FL-12) then Vice Chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, and as spokesman for retired Rep. Mac Thornberry formerly a member of the House Intelligence Committee and Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
