Appeal to Trump: Please do not leave the Iranian regime in place

Continue the economic pressure. Do not give the regime relief. Arm and support the Iranian people so they can stand up and not be rounded up, tortured, and executed. 

By Majid Rafizadeh, Gatestone Institute

The Iranian regime is playing its game again: drag everything out to stay in power until the American public grows tired of high gasoline prices, or until the November midterm elections, when the Democrats might win, or until 2029 when President Donald J. Trump’s term finally ends and he is replaced, with luck, by an invertebrate.

Iran’s regime has been using two tactics. It says, “We need time. We are, because of the strikes, fractured and our leadership divided.”

Or, as Vice President J.D. Vance naively noted on its behalf, it says it does not know what it wants.

“The Iranians aren’t themselves quite clear in what direction they want to go,” Vance, with a straight face, told reporters at the White House; “they are also just a fractured country.”

That is exactly what the regime wants: that you are dumb enough to believe that. The Iranian regime knows precisely what it wants.

It wants to stay in power to continue its anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, anti-Westernism, and anti-its-own-people-ism.

The regime wants to revive its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs; restore its terrorist proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis; try to create another noose of death around Israel; threaten Europe and eventually the United States; suppress, kill, and execute its own people; and continue to export its fanatic ideology and Islamist revolution.

The supposed “moderates” will say, “Oh please wait for us. We are so fractured! We just want to win over the hardliners—and we are ALMOST there!” This dish has been served up for years. It works.

The second ploy is “Drag, Drag, Drag.” Drag the deals. Drag the talks. Drag the feedback. Drag the confusion. Or else Put a deal out on the table and then take it back. Then put out another deal. Then another one. Before you know it, the West will be worn down.

Please, President Trump: No president has ever had the courage to take action as you have done. You are different from everyone.

It took more than four decades for someone like you to show up to save the world. Iran’s regime has killed Americans, Arabs, and Iranians.

As the “top state sponsor of terrorism for 39 years in a row,” Iran has been terrorizing half the planet.

If this regime stays in power, essentially nothing has been accomplished. All that you have historically done will be for naught.

If Iran’s regime stays in power, it will break every agreement—with full vengeance. The world cannot wait another 50 years hoping for maybe another President Trump.

The regime—with help from China, Russia, and North Korea—will restart its nuclear program. It will impose tolls in the Strait of Hormuz. There will be no one with the guts to stop it.

The regime will ramp up assassinations abroad, support its proxies, attack Israel more aggressively, and race again toward nuclear weapons.

The regime is hoping to wait out your term.

Please, President Trump, do not leave this regime in place or replace it with an equally brutal military one.

Continue the economic pressure. Do not give the regime relief. Arm and support the Iranian people so they can stand up and not be rounded up, tortured, and executed again.

Do not listen to the liberal media outlets that are telling you to stop, de-escalate, or accept 20-year fake “moratoriums” or other idiotic half-measures.

Your trusted “negotiator,” Pakistan, is a long-time supporter of Iran. It wants to see the regime survive.

President Trump: For the world, for humanity, for Western civilization, please do not leave this regime in place—or a secular military one that is just as fierce. We cannot wait another 50 years for someone like you again.