Iran Is the Problem

We’ve spent the last three weeks talking about Iran’s proxies and their savage assault on the people of Israel. About the risk of Hezbollah widening the Israel–Hamas war. About Iran-backed Iraqi and Syrian attacks on U.S. military targets in the Middle East.

Now, it’s time to talk seriously about Iran itself.

Since 1979, the United States has sought to contain or propitiate the regime in Tehran. In those 44 years, the Islamic Republic and its proxies have murdered thousands of Americans in Iraq, Israel, and elsewhere abroad; developed a group of proxy terrorist armies that now threaten the Middle East; advanced a nuclear-weapons program to the point of breakout; and perfected a ballistic-missile program that will soon be able to deliver those nuclear weapons to the American homeland.

As the Iran-sponsored, Hamas led-war on Israel has made clear, there is no negotiation, no sanction, no threat, and no containment strategy that will rein in the ayatollahs. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, said just days ago that, “When you chant ‘Death to America!’ it is not just a slogan — it is a policy.”

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