(PJ Media)—Donald Trump made it clear in a post on Tuesday on Truth Social: “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!”
Trump was calling for the unconditional surrender of a regime that has been at war with the United States ever since its inception. Those who are wringing their hands over the demise of Iran’s Islamic regime are paying insufficient attention to how it has terrorized its own citizens for 46 years, to the degree that Iranians in increasing numbers these days are openly cheering on the Israelis.
Those who are calling for an actual ceasefire, or for Israel to be restrained in striking Iran, are also ignoring the fact that for all of those 46 years of its existence, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been at war with the United States. As “The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran” explains in detail, on Nov. 4, 1979, less than two weeks after the constitution of the new Islamic Republic was adopted, a group calling itself Muslim Students Following the Imam’s Line (that is, the Ayatollah Khomeini’s line) entered the U.S. Embassy compound in Tehran and took hostage the skeleton staff of sixty-six that was still serving there after the fall of the Shah.
Khomeini was delighted, dubbing the hostage-taking “the Second Revolution.” He told a reporter, “I regard the occupation of the American Embassy as a spontaneous and justified retaliation of our people.” Khomeini wasn’t worried about the Americans interfering with his regime: “Jimmy Carter is too much of a coward to confront us militarily.” Indeed.
Four years later, Hezbollah, a creation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, first gained international notoriety when it perpetrated the Oct. 23, 1983, bombing of military barracks in Beirut, in which 241 American servicemen (including 220 Marines) and fifty-eight French military personnel were murdered.
- Read More: pjmedia.com