Thursday, March 5, 2026

Why Trump Took on Iran

by Daniel Greenfield
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Few Americans want another war. We’re tired of wars. Especially wars in the Middle East. Unfortunately the Islamic terrorists who have been killing us for 50 years aren’t tired.

No one was more tired of war, and just plain tired, than Joe Biden. After 9/11, Biden proposed, “this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran.”

In 2002, he addressed the American Iranian Council whose founder had run for the presidency of Iran. Later that year, Biden was raising big money from Iran supporters and urging that Iran be allowed to join the WTO. In 2007, Biden warned that if Bush bombed Iran, he would impeach him. A year later, he told Israelis that they would have to accept Iran’s nuclear program.

A spokesman for an Iranian student democracy group warned that Biden’s campaigns “have been financed by Islamic charities of the Iranian regime based in California.” “Biden’s political games have made him Tehran’s favorite senator,” a Washington Post op-ed noted.

By the 2020 election, Iran was openly intervening to help Biden win. And an Iran Lobby figure was secretly one of Biden’s top campaign bundlers. Once in office, Biden bent over backward to appease Iran, pleading with it for another nuclear deal and even allowing Islamic terrorists from Iran’s IRGC terror corps to enter the United States. Figures linked to Iran occupied top national security positions in the Biden administration. No one could have been better for Iran.

Did that keep Iran from attacking American soldiers?

On January 28, 2024, Iran-backed militias bombed an American military outpost killing 3 soldiers and wounding another 47. Appeasing Islamic terrorists didn’t work. It never does.

Then, despite Iran’s best efforts to help Kamala Harris win the election, its nemesis, President Donald J. Trump, returned to office.

Iran had tried to kill Trump. It tried to rig the election against him. And it failed.

But still, President Trump made every possible effort to negotiate with Iran. He sent in Steven Witkoff, the biggest appeaser in the administration, only to have the Iranians declare that they were going to go nuclear and that the United States couldn’t do anything to stop it.

“Both the Iranian negotiators said to us, directly, with, you know, no shame, that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60%, and they’re aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs, and that was the beginning of their negotiating stance,” Witkoff told FOX News.

“Our response to the US nonsense is clear: they cannot do a damn thing in this matter,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had bragged in 2025.

President Trump proved him wrong.

“‘Death to America’ means death to Trump,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared in 2019.

“I got him before he got me. They tried twice. Well I got him first,” President Trump said after Khamenei’s death.

Ever since the Ayatollah Khomeini seized power with the backing of the Carter administration, his terrorist regime has been at war with America. ‘Death to America’ or ‘Marg bar Amrika’ is not just a slogan, as Khomeini’s successor, the recently deceased Ayatollah Khamenei said. “The situation between America and Iran is this: When you chant ‘Death to America!’ it is not just a slogan – it is a policy.” That was a policy that Democrats were surprisingly comfortable with.

Obama illegally sent pallets of millions in foreign currency to Iran and watched with folded arms as Iran took our sailors hostage. Trump recognized that Iran is serious about its war with America, and that no amount of bribes, whether it’s Biden’s $200 million check or Obama’s billions of dollars in sanctions relief would stop Iran’s reign of terror. Only force would.

“The Islamic jihad against the West began in earnest in November, 1979 with the Islamic revolution in Iran, which climaxed with the taking of American hostages and a million fanatics in the streets of Teheran chanting ‘Death to America.’ The Iranian revolution created Hizbollah, the terrorist organization that blew up the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, in many ways the first terrorist attack of the modern war on us,” David Horowitz wrote twenty years ago.

“The Islamic jihad… is a religious war whose armies began forming in 1979 in Iran and Afghanistan,” he warned in a campus speech that led to a walkout by woke faculty and students. “The radical Islamist jihad is at war with the democracies of the West in Europe and the Middle East and America, and there is no way out of the war but to win it.”

President Trump understands that you can’t make enemies go away by pretending that they’re not there. Whether it’s the border, the economy or anything else, he knows that change requires going through the crisis, not retreating backward and hoping that it will somehow go away.

When Ayatollah Khamenei said that “‘Death to America’ means death to Trump”, President Trump took it seriously. Anyone who doesn’t take “Death to America” either isn’t serious or isn’t serious about America.

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