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For months the West watched as Iran expanded its missile, drone and nuclear ambitions; when Israeli and U.S. forces finally struck key Iranian facilities they did so to dismantle the regime’s war-making capacity, not to play geopolitical games. Americans who believe in decisive defense should applaud a policy that targets the factories and launchers that threaten our allies and our own interests. This is about survival and deterrence, not moral ambiguity.
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, has been blunt and unapologetic, telling the world that the objective is to eliminate the regime’s ability to wage war and even bringing pieces of an Iranian attack drone to a U.N. press conference to prove the threat is real. Those who sneer at hard truths will not live next to the missiles and cluster munitions that Tehran exports; Danon’s clarity is exactly the kind of leadership friends of freedom should back. If dismantling the machine of terror is the aim, then show me a better alternative.
Predictably, the ayatollahs answered with spite, lashing out at Israeli industry and even striking the Neot Hovav industrial zone in southern Israel, where chemical and manufacturing facilities sit at the heart of Israel’s economy. That reckless retaliation caused fires and threatened hazardous materials—proof that Iran’s aim is to sow chaos, not to limit the fight to military actors. There is no equivalence between a democracy defending itself and a theocracy that targets civilian infrastructure in revenge.
Even more damning is Iran’s use of cluster munitions, weapons designed to terrorize civilians and leave lethal remnants across neighborhoods and fields; Israeli assessments say roughly half of the missiles launched have carried cluster warheads. When a regime fires weapons that scatter bomblets over towns and sleepaway shelters, the international community should not treat both sides as morally interchangeable. Cowardice or false neutrality from global institutions only emboldens Tehran’s brutality.
Now is the moment for American patriots to stand with Israel and demand a strategy that finishes the job of negating Iran’s capacity to project terror. We must back our allies with intelligence, munitions and the political will to see this through until the threat is irreversibly degraded. To the policymakers hesitating on the sidelines: remember who we are and whom we defend—act like the champions of liberty our children expect.
