MIKE PENCE: Trump and our incredible military are ending 47 years of Iranian terror

From its inception successful 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has agelong engaged successful unfastened hostility and unit toward the United States and Israel and has been a malign root of chaos and upset crossed the Arab World. 

On Feb. 28, America said "enough is enough." With the daylight motorboat of Operation Epic Fury, our state initiated hostilities against the world’s starring authorities sponsor of terrorism, but America did not commencement this war. After 47 years of coercion and bloodshed, the equipped forces of the United States and our state Israel person combined overwhelming subject unit to extremity it.

As Operation Epic Fury unfolds, determination is overmuch recognition to spell around. But archetypal President Donald Trump should beryllium commended for taking decisive enactment to extremity decades of unit against American soldiers, our bases successful the portion and our cherished state Israel. His willingness to onslaught astatine precisely the infinitesimal erstwhile the ayatollah and immoderate 40 elder Iranian officials and commanders were assembled and astir susceptible was a maestro stroke.

And the president’s willingness to disregard the increasing voices of isolationism echoing from the fringes of Republican ranks, unleashing the astir almighty subject successful the world, not conscionable successful this time, but past twelvemonth successful Operation Midnight Hammer striking a devastating stroke to Iran’s atomic program, was profoundly admirable.

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A billboard showing a representation of the precocious Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed successful U.S.-Israeli strikes, looms implicit an bare quadrate successful Tehran, Iran, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)

Of course, the astir recognition goes to the men and women of America’s equipped forces serving astatine this precise hr successful harm's way. From the outset of hostilities, American work members deployed successful Operation Epic Fury person performed with the utmost courageousness and professionalism. They merit the admiration of each American and should stay regular successful our prayers.

Thanks to coordinated efforts of the American, Israeli and Gulf nations’ militaries, the Iranian subject has already been earnestly degraded, its enactment scattered oregon killed and its quality to task unit some wrong and extracurricular the portion neutered. Today, the Iranian navy sits astatine the bottommost of the ocean, aerial superiority has been established implicit the skies of Iran and their capableness to motorboat missiles and wreak mayhem crossed the Middle East has been dramatically diminished.

While partisans connected the progressive near and the isolationist close person been speedy to question the president’s determination to motorboat Operation Epic Fury, I judge that 2 historical objectives are yet wrong scope arsenic a effect of the courageousness of our subject and our commander-in-chief's decisive leadership.

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First, the punishing aerial run against the information infrastructure and ballistic missiles of the Iranian authorities could good enactment authorities alteration wrong reach. Within days oregon weeks, the Iranian authorities whitethorn beryllium incapable of projecting unit adjacent against its ain people, thereby allowing the long-suffering Iranian radical the accidental to emergence up and retake their freedom, making America, Israel and the satellite much secure.

Second, Operation Epic Fury has the imaginable to reestablish the deterrence squandered by President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Weakness arouses evil. It’s nary concealed that America’s weakness connected the satellite signifier nether the Biden medication acceptable the signifier for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked penetration of Ukraine and for Hamas’s brutal onslaught connected Israel connected October 7th, financed and approved by the mullahs successful Tehran.

With astir flawless execution of Operation Epic Fury, our equipped forces person sent a deafening connection of America’s subject mightiness echoing crossed the Arab World and successful the halls of powerfulness successful Moscow and Beijing. As Putin continues to wage his merciless warfare against Ukraine and China’s President Xi Jinping and the People’s Liberation Army proceed to menace Taiwan, the overwhelming unit displayed by the combined forces of the United States could good springiness them intermission concerning plans for aboriginal subject aggression.

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America’s nonsubjective is not conquest; it ne'er has been. It is the information and information of the American people, our allies and a portion that has endured decades of unit astatine the hands of the world’s starring authorities sponsor of terrorism.

Across the Arab world, determination has been a increasing designation that the mullahs are not simply wayward brothers, but foes and a superior menace that indispensable beryllium addressed. A escaped and liberated Iran creates an accidental to reconstruct equilibrium crossed the portion and fortify practice among nations that stock an involvement successful bid and prosperity, not sowing determination anarchy. The Abraham Accords whitethorn person conscionable been the opening of a caller epoch of bid and practice crossed the Arab world. 

Today, the Iranian navy sits astatine the bottommost of the ocean, aerial superiority has been established implicit the skies of Iran and their capableness to motorboat missiles and wreak mayhem crossed the Middle East has been dramatically diminished.

America is astatine warfare and past teaches that specified moments necessitate resolve. After the liberation of Kuwait successful 1991, the United States chose not to decorativeness the occupation and face an Iraqi authorities that had thrust the portion into chaos. Within a decade, American forces returned.

Today, the United States is taking enactment to chopped retired the bosom of coercion successful the Middle East. With the courageousness of our Armed Forces and sustained enactment from Washington, Tel Aviv and our increasing database of determination allies, the quality of the Iranian authorities to endanger its neighbors and oppress its radical tin beryllium permanently degraded if not destroyed. But America indispensable spot this combat through.

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To extremity the menace of the Iranian authorities and reconstruct America’s credibility arsenic the arsenal of ideology and the person of the escaped world, America indispensable decorativeness this combat erstwhile and for all.

None of this volition travel without sacrifice and Operation Epic Fury has already claimed the past afloat measurement of devotion from 7 brave Americans. As a genitor and in-law of active-duty work members, we cognize the pridefulness but not the heartache of the families of our heroic fallen. Every American should transportation these precious families successful our prayers and guarantee them that their loved one’s names volition beryllium enshrined successful the hearts of a grateful federation forever.

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For 47 years, the tyrants of Iran person waged a run of panic against the United States, Israel and the aspirations of the Iranian people. Bringing that epoch to a adjacent volition not lone fortify American information but volition besides unfastened the doorway to a aboriginal successful which the radical of Iran are yet escaped to reclaim the committedness of their arrogant and past federation from the grip of tyranny. 

And that would beryllium a triumph not lone for America, but for the origin of liberty itself.

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