Albert Einstein famously said: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Based on that rationale, when it comes to dealing with Iran, the West must be mad. For more than four decades, Western powers have repeatedly tried to placate the mullahs, sending plane loads of cash, lifting sanctions, signing ludicrous nuclear deals and even blacklisting legitimate democratic Iranian opposition groups at the Ayatollahs’ request. There has been a fruitless and never-ending search by Western appeasers for moderates or reformists within the theocratic leadership. But the mullahs’ response has never changed. They have increased repression at home and increased terrorism and aggression abroad. Deploying the regime’s Gestapo, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its extraterritorial Quds Force, the mullahs have spent billions backing Bashar al-Assad’s brutal dictatorship in Syria, arming and training the Houthi rebels in Yemen and the Shi’ia militias in Iraq, while steadily building and equipping the terrorist gorup Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, planning and instigating the horrifying attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which triggered the ongoing Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza.
As the world’s main sponsor of international terror, the mullahs have poured resources into worldwide bombings and assassinations, using their embassies as terrorist command and control centers, deploying registered diplomats as bombers. When Iranian terrorists are arrested and sentenced to long jail terms, the mullahs simply seize Western hostages, find them guilty on trumped-up espionage charges and........