Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity: Defeat Iran’s Oppressive Regime

by Majid Rafizadeh  •  January 4, 2025 at 5:00 am

Bribing adversaries to stop only provides funding, which finances their military so they can attack us later with bigger weapons. That is how North Korea and Iran built their nuclear weapons programs. So long as Iran’s brutal theocratic tyranny holds power, there will never be a peaceful future for the Middle East. Pictured: John Kerry, then US Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, meets with Iran’s then Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on May 17, 2016 in Vienna, Austria. (Image source: US State Department)

• Iran’s mullahs would surely love nothing more than to cut a deal with the incoming Trump administration that would enable them to stay in power, build their nuclear weapons and unleash them at a later date.

• Bribing adversaries to stop only provides funding, which finances their military so they can attack us later with bigger weapons. That is how North Korea and Iran built their nuclear weapons programs. China’s was built by direct investment: a gift to kill us from Uncle Sam.
• Let us please ensure that Iran’s brutal theocratic tyranny will be gone for good. So long as it holds power, there will never be a peaceful future for the Middle East.

Rarely in history does an opportunity arise to confront a brutal regime that has not only oppressed its own population but also destabilized the world by support for terrorism and terrorist allies.

The Iranian regime is such a dictatorship. For more than four decades, this regime has systematically crushed the rights and freedoms of its citizens, and silenced dissent through violence, imprisonment and execution.

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