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Trump has made his plans for Iran clear — make a deal or be dealt with
It’s been 20 years since Henry Kissinger made the insightful observation that Iran had to decide whether it is a cause or a country.
Much of the world is still waiting for the answer, with President Trump among the most eager.
Whatever the answer, he is determined to get it now.
Since he first took office in 2017, Trump has been pushing the Islamist regime to end its quest for nuclear weapons and stop funding terrorist proxy groups throughout the region, including Hamas and Hezbollah.
In his first term, he showed he meant business by boldly eliminating the mullahs’ top terror commander, Qassem Soleimani, with a drone attack.
The move is among those that mark a clear dividing line between Trump and both his predecessor and successor. Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden shared the delusion that Iran could be coaxed — and bribed with incentives and pallets of cash — into becoming a normal nation instead of a cancerous merchant of death and destruction.
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Events have proven them wrong, which is why Trump in his second term again sees the necessity of military action.
The proof came last June, when seven B-2 stealth bombers flew all the way from Missouri to hit Iran’s three main underground nuclear enrichment facilities with 30,000-pound bunker–buster bombs.
But the madman Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, despite having no way to stop the attack because........