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Trump Is Defeating Iran And Deep State Foreign Policy
Donald Trump isn’t just destroying the mullahs. He’s dismantling the foreign-policy infrastructure Democrats have built over decades.
J.R. Dunn | April 3, 2026
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It appears that Donald Trump is about to checkmate two of the most serious enemies of the United States – the Islamic Republic of Iran and the media/Democrat Party coalition.
Trump’s carefully worked-out strategy against Iran is even now reaching its climax. To all appearances, U.S. and Israeli forces are poised to carry out a coup de main that will result in U.S. control of Iran’s economy, along with the destruction of Iran’s remaining military assets, while putting the mullahs’ government in an unsurvivable position.
The airstrikes that opened up this campaign were the most effective in history. Decapitating the Iranian government, the IRGC, and the military immediately put Iran on the back foot. It has never recovered, even to the point that it cannot name an actual successor to Khamenei. (His son is either dead or, taking his Twelver theology seriously, had entered “occultation” alongside the Mahdi, to remain hidden until Judgment Day.)
There is no sign that Iranian forces are under any kind of unified command. Instead, they are acting independently, adhering to outdated war plans that don’t fit current developments at all. That is, when they simply haven’t been spasming uncontrollably, as in the idiot strikes against the Saudis and the Gulf States, which should aggravate the Sunni/Shia schism for another millennium or so.
Thanks to this state of affairs, the U.S./Israeli alliance (now isn’t that a grand phrase?) has steadily attritted Iranian forces, rendering the air force nonfunctional, annihilating the navy (140 vessels sunk and counting), and steadily whittling down the number of ballistic missiles and drones to a point where they’re now bothersome but strategically useless.
Iranian propaganda has done its best with this, well aware that the Democrats and the legacy media are their last best hope. Last week, they claimed to have downed an F-35, thus proving the worthlessness of stealth. In fact, the plane was slightly damaged and returned to base with no difficulty. If the........