LIZ PEEK: Iran war could become the achievement that ensures Trump’s legacy

Democrats and their media enablers are doing everything imaginable to crook the American radical against the warfare successful Iran. They contradict the rationale for attacking Tehran, they unreal that President Barack Obama’s nuke woody was thing but appeasement of a bloodthirsty anti-U.S. regime, and they person alarmed Americans that we look a devastating "energy crisis" due to the fact that of President Donald Trump’s "war of choice."

None of it is true.

Over the weekend, Democrat Virginia Sen. Mark Warner said connected Fox News that Trump had failed to marque the lawsuit that Iran posed an "imminent threat" to the U.S., implying that helium saw nary specified threat. He besides said Trump had picked "the incorrect time" to transportation retired the mission.

The Virginia legislator made those remarks the precise aforesaid week that a Pakistani assassin paid by the mullahs successful Tehran was convicted of attempting to execution Trump. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, who hired the would-be killer, had seemingly targeted not lone Trump, but different U.S. officials, including erstwhile President Joe Biden and erstwhile UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. For those imaginable victims, Iran posed an imminent threat. 

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People who enactment the U.S. and Israeli strikes connected Iran, rally adjacent the White House, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026, successful Washington. (Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo)

It isn’t the archetypal clip the mullahs person sent spies to the U.S. to put the execution of Trump and others, similar erstwhile Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Thankfully, those attempts person been foiled. Were we expected to simply hold until Tehran took down a starring U.S. person earlier hitting back? These were not rogue agents; they were hired by Iranian officials, making the state a morganatic target. 

Warner expressed interest astir Iran’s store of ballistic missiles, which helium contended would beryllium hard to eradicate. Does the legislator ideate those weapons would beryllium easier to destruct arsenic the stockpiles grew? Would it beryllium safer to hold until Tehran developed intercontinental missiles, which could onslaught the U.S.?

As Iran has fomented panic and attacks against the U.S. and Israel implicit the past 47 years, taking Americans hostage, arranging the execution of hundreds of GIs, what would person been the cleanable clip to combat back? For Democrats, including Biden and Obama, that clip would ne'er come.

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They similar appeasement or, worse, ideate that a bloodthirsty authorities that is contented to slaughter its ain citizens and routinely chants "Death to America" is lone kidding. Obama and Biden seemed to judge that, fixed the due incentives, Iran would forsake its panic ngo and go a neutral partner. That’s similar imagining a rattlesnake could go cuddly, if lone fed capable Puppy Chow.

Obama, acting connected his naïveté successful 2015, famously oversaw the instauration of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a multi-nation statement that was expected to forestall Iran from processing a atomic weapon. Few saw the pact arsenic a superior deterrent, fixed the escaped verification requirements and permissions to proceed enriching uranium for "peaceful" purposes. (For a large lipid producer!)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Congress astatine the time, urging members to cull the agreement, noting that arsenic portion of the woody the U.S. and others would assistance sanctions and funnel funds to Iran, which would spell to gathering a atomic stockpile and spreading terror. 

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Trump extricated the U.S. from the JCPOA successful 2018. At the time, erstwhile Minnesota Republican Sen. Norm Coleman correctly summed up the deal, penning it "gave Iran a wide way to a atomic limb successful 2025; nary inspection of subject sites and escaped rein for its nefarious deeds successful the region — with implicit $100 cardinal to wage for it all!"  

Some Democrats proceed to assert, similar erstwhile Obama’s nationalist information adjutant Ben Rhodes, that determination was nary request to face Iran, due to the fact that the JCPOA prevented the mullahs from gathering a atomic weapon. This is straight-up baloney. Even the UN atomic watchdog, the IAEA, charged with ensuring Iran’s compliance with the JCPOA, yet admitted past twelvemonth what everyone suspected — that Iran had cheated for years and not met the deal’s requirements. 

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, who hired the would-be killer, had seemingly targeted not lone Trump, but different U.S. officials, including erstwhile President Joe Biden and erstwhile UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. 

That assemblage passed a solution declaring that Iran was "not complying with its obligations regarding atomic non-proliferation." The IAEA said they could not warrant that Iran’s programme was "exclusively peaceful" and confessed that Tehran had hidden grounds of its enrichment program. 

In summation to arguing the merits of the warfare with Iran, Democrats are screaming that the struggle is bringing connected an "energy crisis," That is false. While tankers are piling up astatine the Strait of Hormuz, the satellite is enduring a impermanent lipid terms surge. 

Iran’s blockage of the strait has caused Iraq, Kuwait and Qatar person unopen successful immoderate production, since they person nary spot to store the oil. Given the supremacy of U.S. and allied airpower, it is improbable this concern volition endure. Once tankers commencement to walk done the Strait, lipid prices volition rapidly plummet.

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Democrats’ absorption and disapproval are falling flat. A caller Rasmussen canvass shows a bulk of the state supports the onslaught connected Iran. Democrats are hopeful that Trump’s "war of choice," volition bent similar an albatross astir GOP necks arsenic we attack the midterm elections this fall. What volition beryllium them wrong? Success, and communal sense. 

Warner and galore of his colleagues contradict the solemn intonations of erstwhile presidents, including Obama and Biden, that Iran could not beryllium permitted to get a atomic weapon. Americans recognize determination was realistically lone 1 mode to halt them, and Trump had the guts to instrumentality that path.

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Democrats are acrophobic that the U.S. volition triumph this war, that Iran volition beryllium forced to repudiate its reign of terror, and that President Trump’s bequest volition see a singular translation of the world’s astir troublesome portion — which began with the Abraham Accords during his archetypal term. Imagine a prosperous, increasing Middle East; ideate Gaza being rebuilt without the oppression of its radical by Iran-backed Hamas.

Americans should cheer for success, for the Iranian people, for the satellite and for the U.S.

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