The Iranian regime, due to its fanaticism, approaching nuclear capability and growing wealth (see Iran Nuclear Agreement), is the single greatest threat to peace in the Middle East. Its leaders have made it crystal clear that their principal objective is to acquire nuclear weapons and, once acquired, to turn them upon their neighbors and ultimately upon the Western democracies. I believe that the only way to stop them short of war is for that regime to collapse from within – something that almost happened in 2009 and 2015 – until Barack Obama blundered onto the scene first with his embrace of “Arab Spring” and then with his nuclear agreement with Iran.
The good news is that internal opposition to this regime runs strong and deep, and an administration dedicated to providing that movement with both the moral and material support it needs could bring this about. I strongly support that course of action. But time is running out.