In Under 40 Days, The World's Number One State Sponsor Of Terrorism Has Been Brought To Its Knees

In under 40 days, the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism was brought to its knees. On Tuesday evening, shortly before President Trump’s deadline expired, Iran’s regime agreed to a two-week ceasefire with the United States.

For the next two weeks, unless the deal collapses—and it may—the United States and Israel will refrain from attacking Iran, and vice versa, as negotiators try to hammer out a long-term agreement.

Let’s quickly review what was accomplished since the U.S. and Israel launched an historic joint operation against Iran’s regime on February 28th. It’s quite a list, and this is only a partial rundown.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei was eliminated, along with dozens of top Iranian officials and military commanders from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The list includes the IRGC’s Navy Commander, Minister of Defense, Minister of Intelligence, head of Basij militia (in charge of internal crackdowns), and many others.

The losses are so severe that it’s unclear who exactly is currently calling the shots in Iran.

In addition, Iran’s Navy, Air Force, and air defenses were all almost completely destroyed. 90 percent of Iran’s weapons factories were struck, and the regime no longer has the capacity to produce ballistic missiles or build nuclear weapons.

Iran still possesses a good deal of ballistic missiles and drones, which have continued to fire at their Arab neighbors these past 24 hours, even after the ceasefire was announced. Even so, a high number of their missile launchers and missile stockpiles have been destroyed over the last five weeks by the United States and Israel.

As part of the ceasefire, Iran has agreed to open the Strait of Hormuz and allow ships to travel through that vital waterway freely. Will they actually stick to that over the next two weeks? That remains to be seen. But clearly, the regime is a shell of what it was on February 28th.

A nation of 93 million people with a massive arsenal of ballistic missiles and powerful friends in the form of Russia, China, and North Korea is now teetering on the brink.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth discussed the victory of the operation in a recent press briefing:“Iran begged for this ceasefire, and we all know it. As the president Truthed this morning, it is a big day for world peace. Iran wants it to happen. They’ve had enough. Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming victory on the battlefield, a capital V military victory. By any measure, Epic Fury decimated Iran’s military and rendered it combat ineffective for years to come. You see, in less than 40 days, one of our combatant commands, Central Command, CENTCOM, using less than 10 percent of America’s total combat power, dismantled one of the world’s largest militaries. The world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism proved utterly incapable of defending itself, its people, or its territory.”

At the end of the day, the Ayatollahs blinked when President Trump set the Tuesday deadline and threatened to utterly destroy them. That is what he meant when he talked about “destroying a civilization”—not the Iranian people, whom the President has supported and encouraged at every turn, and not the great tradition and legacy of Persia, a civilization that you can read about in your Bible. Trump was specifically referring to the fanatical Islamic regime that has made Iran a hell on earth for the past 47 years and has now been brought even closer to its demise.

This was pretty obvious to anyone who doesn’t suffer from Trump derangement syndrome and who’s been watching how the president operates since he first took office almost 10 years ago. It’s the art of the deal. Trump uses leverage—and maybe a few threats to get the other side to back down, to keep his opponents off balance, and to get the best possible deal for the United States. And guess what? It works.

You may not always like the way he goes about it or what he says, but he is a man of action. Peace through strength never fails.

Democrats and the mainstream media are still so blinded by their hatred of Trump that they refuse to see it. They can’t see the strategy at work or the art of the deal. It’s all “Trump derangement syndrome” all the time.

Democrat Senator Chris Murphy is calling for Trump’s removal from office.

“The president has promised to commit war crimes,” he claimed. “He’s promised to eradicate an entire civilization. We have never ever seen that in the history of this country. That’s why I and many other people have been talking for the last 24 hours about the 25th Amendment. It does seem that Trump has lost touch with reality. And we just can’t accept a president who is literally promising to destroy an entire civilization, to murder hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings. That alone should be grounds for the removal of this president.”

Again, anyone in America who has watched Trump operate through the years knew he wasn’t going to “wipe Iran off the map.” But the Iranian regime didn’t know that. That’s why they agreed to a deal.

As for Senator Murphy, he never invoked the 25th Amendment when a clearly impaired Joe Biden was in office. And he never expressed outrage when the regime killed tens of thousands of Iranians back in January. Funny how that works!

Another big takeaway from the war is that our NATO partners are completely unreliable, and that Israel is our greatest ally in the world—and it’s not even close.

“And to our Israeli allies, thank you for being a brave, capable, and willing ally on this battlefield,” Secretary Hegseth applauded. “The rest of the world and the rest of our so-called allies saw what real capabilities look like. They should take some notes.”

“Our troops, our American warriors, deserve the credit for this day, but God deserves all the glory,” he underscored. “Tens of thousands of sorties, refuelings, and strikes carried out under the protection of divine providence, a massive effort with miraculous protection. Dude 44 Bravo spoke for all of us, God is good.”

Amen!

Now we watch and see what Iran does. Will the regime agree to President Trump’s four key demands? Give up its nuclear weapons program, hand over its enriched uranium, halt its ballistic missile program, and stop funding terror groups like Hezbollah.

By the way, Israel and Hezbollah are still fighting in Lebanon, so it looks like the ceasefire may not extend there.

Folks, we know that Iran’s regime cannot be trusted, which means there is a very good chance that this ceasefire will not hold and that military action will resume at some point. However you look at it, Iran’s regime is on borrowed time, and we pray that the Iranian people will soon have their freedom.