Bomb Iran To Stop A Wider War In Europe And Protect Taiwan

On March 13, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launched a substantial ballistic missile attack targeting Erbil, near America’s new consulate in Kirkuk.  This latest direct attack by Iran on American soldiers and civilians follows dozens of attacks by Iran and its proxies, which targeted US military bases plus population centers in Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai. Tehran has de facto declared war on the United States and our Gulf allies.

Twenty years of talks with Iran regarding its illegal nuclear weapons programs have amounted to two decades of calculated deception—deception almost always shielded diplomatically by Russia and economically by China.

Since President Biden took office, Russia and China have increasingly overcome historic differences, forging deeper scientific, military, trade, financial and imperial leader-to-leader ties. Chinese state media has amplified false Russian bioweapon accusations against the US and spread Russia’s fallacious narrative of liberating Ukraine from Western aggression and phantom Nazis.

Concern about Putin’s state of mind is widespread among White House advisors and European military officials. The frustrated commander-in-Kremlin has put his nukes on alert. He told the West to stay the hell out. He has issued increasingly brazen threats against European and NATO states considering military aid, which are deterring these states from providing the help Ukraine needs. All this must be reversed.

President Biden has apparently grown fearful of providing Putin a “pretext” to involve a NATO state in Putin’s war. So, suddenly Poland was out of line for offering planes to Ukraine—in a swap Secretary of State Blinken suggested on a weekend was underway, until the White House was “shocked” by the very idea on Monday.

If the President wants to avoid wider war in Europe and deter the naked aggression that threatens global systems—those ensuring free and fair trade, borders, open seas, and respect for human dignity—we must act to destroy Iran’s nuclear and military industrial capability, restoring our deterrent credibility and taking away from Russia and China the ability to align with a nuclear Iran against the West.

In the US, as of early April 2022, the national average price for gas remains over $4 and spikes over $5 in places. Saudi Arabia and the UAE were incensed with the White House’s wildly nonchalant reaction to Iranian proxies firing ballistic missiles into their cities over the past few months. Understandably, Gulf leaders were unavailable for a call with President Biden about increased oil output amid the Ukraine crisis.

Acting now to eliminate the Iranian nuclear military-industrial complex would remind the world’s other leading powers that the United States still maintains red lines which cannot be crossed. It would also restore some confidence in the Gulf and go a long way toward reducing the price of gas at the pump.