President Trump Doubles Down on the Islamic Republic of Iran

Ever since 1980, President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that the Islamic Republic of Iran has got to go down, and cannot have nuclear weapons. Anyone who believes that Israel, or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convinced Donald Trump to go to war, is harboring antisemitic feelings. Israel has always been regarded by the Islamic regime as “the Minor Satan”.  We, in the United States are “The Great Satan”, and the civilization that the Iranian regime would like to keep within their tenacious grasp is, ultimately, the entire planet.

They are hungry for hegemony. The Persians invented the bazaar, and they think they know how to negotiate. However, they have met their match with President Donald Trump, and his negotiating team.

On Sunday morning, President Trump announced that a naval blockade with the Strait of Hormuz is about to begin. High level talks between Iran and the United States did not conclude in a deal.  He stated,  “I have been saying this for 30 years, Iran will not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon….They have been extorting the world.”

“All in; and all out. We are putting in a complete blockade.”

“They can’t have nuclear weapons. They want to enrich what they have. They want to enrich more… As you know, we knocked it out with the nuclear bombers. Those beautiful B-2 bombers totally obliterated their three sites…If they had a nuclear weapon, they would have used it on Israel and the Middle East …They dropped on UAE, probably 1800 missiles. The dropped on Saudi Arabia a lot. They dropped on Qatar a lot. They dropped on Bahrain…They went crazy.”

“They would start with Israel.  And one weapon would do damage like nobody’s ever seen. They could wipe it out. Then they would go after the Middle East. And then they would eventually come here. And we are not going to let that happen.”

“Look at the Israeli relationship. Look at the incredible partnership we have on this. As Bibi Netanyahu said, “We (the United States) are the big brother. And you (Israel) are the little brother.”

President Trump is serious about a highly serious subject matter. This toxic theocratic regime still has 460.9 kilograms, or 972 pounds of highly enriched uranium. This can be converted within weeks, or even days, to the 90 per cent necessary for 10 to 12 nuclear bombs. Israel is well within range of their ballistic weapons. So are the Gulf nations, and Europe.

Again, Candice Owens said that the President is “a slave to Israel.” Candice Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Megan Kelley have said the most outrageous, slanderous  and antisemitic things imaginable, reminiscent of Father Charles Coughlin during World War II. Father Coughlin in 1938, after Kristallnacht,  blamed Jewish victims for their own persecution, saying ‘“Naziism, the effect of Communism, cannot be liquidated in its persecution complex until the religious Jews in high places–in synagogue, in finance, in radio and in the press–attack the cause, attack forthright the errors and spread of Communism, together with their co-nationalists who support it.”

I am writing this from Israel, where I have had seconds to minutes to run into sealed rooms and shelters during our war with Iran. To be able to live as a Jew in our own Jewish homeland, I would prefer to have to endure many more weeks—and even months– of this continued conflict,  so that the Islamic Republic and her terror proxies of Hezbollah, the Houthis and Hamas, do not succeed in their maniacal pursuits. I am proud that the state of Israel has worked alongside the United States and has contributed so significantly to the eventual eradication of Iran. The only way to get to true peace in the Middle East would be the entire obliteration of the Islamic Republic of Iran. To have that brutal, lethal theocracy control our region or our world would be an incomprehensible and tragic mistake that could, eventually, put an end to western civilization, as we know it.

Sarah N. Stern is Founder and President of EMET, the Endowment for Middle East Truth, a think tank and policy institute that specializes in the Middle East.