LOS ANGELES (OC).–Since violent street protests broke out around Iran Dec. 26, 2025, Iran’s mullah government of 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ali Khhamenei has been cracking down, calling the agitators agents of Israel and the United States. Khamenei has recently gone to war with Israel June 13, 2025 to June 24, 2025, with the U.S. joining in June 24, 2025 with Operation Midnight Hammer. Trump joined Israel’s bombing campaign against Iran’s nuclear sites sending in the B-2 Stealth bombers to hit Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites with the GBU-57 bunker buster bombs designed to penetrate Iran’s underground nuclear enrichment facilities. Only two days of U.S. B-2 Stealth Bombers was enough for Iran with the Ayatollah waving the white flag June 24, essentially ending the war. Irsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 76, wanted to continue the degrading the Iranina military.
Trump served notice to the Ayatollah canceling any future meetings until the mullah regime stops the crackdown on street protesters. Trump thought he sent a loud message to the Ayatollah last June when he sent the most sophisticated U.S. weapons to aid Israel’s air war with the Islamic Republic. “We will take very strong action. If they do such as thing we will take very strong actions,” Trump told “CBS Evening News host Tony Dokoupil during an exclusive interview in Dearborn, Michigan a week ago. Trump said he received reports on casualties of street demonstrators and the amount of arrests around 10,000. Trump warned Ayatollah that he will “pay a big price” for violence to protesters, including hangings. “HELP IS ON THE WAY,” Trump told the Iranian people on his Truth Social platform. Trump cancelled all meetings with Iranian officials.
Trump was questioned by the press about his “end game” in Iran, trying to get Trump to say he sought regime change. “The end game is to win. I like winning,” Trump said, not giving reporters the answer they wanted. Fake news often criticizes Trump for political purposes, joining Democrats in disparaging Trump’s work in domestic and foreign policy. Before Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was plucked out of his military fortified lair Jan. 3, Democrats and the fake news blamed Trump for extrajudicial killings on boats in the open seas believed ferrying narcotics to the U.S. After Maduro was arrested, Democrats and the fake news were dumbfounded, not knowing how to respond. Since Maduro’s arrest in the dead of night by Navy Seals, Trump has a different level of respect. So, when Trump says Iran will pay a heavy price of killing protesters, Democrats and the fake news take him seriously.
Telling Iranians “help is on the way,” Trump didn’t specify what he would do in line of an action, whether it involved more economic sanctions or military intervention. Trump has been ecouraged by the Shah’s grandson Reza Pahalavi to take down the mullah regime and liberate Iran from its 47-year-old nightmare under mullah rule. After intervening with B-2 Stealth Bombers June 22, there’s nothing complicated about a bombing mission that takes out Ayatollah’s assets. “We don’t want to see what’s happening in Iran happen. And you know, if they want to have protests, the one thing, where they start killing thousands of people, not going to work out good,” Trump said, confirming that he has a red line. Listening to the fake news criticize Trump for stopping a massacre of pro-democracy porters show the supreme hypocrisy of the Democrat Party.
Democrats and the fake news oppose anything that Trump does even where it clearly helps U.S. domestic and foreign policy. Democrat and the fake news want the economy to fail to make Trump look bad before the Midterm elections. When it comes to foreign policy, Democrats and the fake news condemn everything Trump does even where it stands up to tyranny including Russian President Vladimir Putin. Democrat called Trump a “Putin puppet” when it suited them politically. Now that Trump has stood up to Putin when it comes to ending the Ukraine War, Democrats and the fake news still criticize him. When it comes to public hangings in Iran, Democrats opposed the communist Chinese crackdown in Hong Kong but, now that Trump supports intervening in Iran, they all oppose it. Trump has to do what he thinks is the right thing to do.
Isolationism still exists with certain members of the Republican Party like Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). Paul opposes all foreign intervention, insisting the U.S. cannot play the role of global policeman. “We wish them the best,” Paul said, opposed to Trump intervening in Iran. “We wish freedom and liberation the best across the world, but I don’t thin it’s the job of the American government to be involved with every freedom movment around the world . . . If you bomb the government, do you thine rally people to their flag who are upset with the Ayatollah . . . “ Paul said, claiming that any intervention would backfire. Paul knows the history of Iran hijacking the U.S. embassy in Tehran, holding 54 hostages for 444 days. Iran has lived with a brutal tyranny since 1979, sponsoring terrorism around the Middle East. Paul can turn the other cheek but does it help U.S. national security to allow the Ayatollah to destabilize the Middle East, wreaking havoc around the globe?
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
