Since 1979, the Shiite jihadist regime of Iran has been the most insidious geopolitical challenge for the United States. “Death to America” has been not merely its slogan but its organizing principle: The objective of revolutionary jihadism is to spread the dominion of its fundamentalist version of sharia — Islam’s classical law and societal framework — throughout the world. As the leader of the West and backer of the shah, whom Ruhollah Khomeini’s insurrection toppled in 1979, America has stood as the obstacle to the regime’s sharia-supremacist ambitions. The Iranian government’s Jew hatred is doctrinal. Its hatred of the United States, and its plots against America in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria — indeed, even on our own streets — is strategic.
I have thus long been of a mind, and have said here more times than I can count, that regime change must be our policy. That is true now as much as ever. The government in Tehran is yet again trying to put down a popular uprising by murdering Iranians — this time, by the thousands. (How many thousands is disputed; that it is in the thousands in incontestable.)
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