Commentary

What Trump Should Tell the American People About Iran

By David Harsanyi
Saturday, February 28 2026

Americans have good-faith concerns about the prospects of launching an attack on the Islamist regime in Iran. War should never be taken lightly. Not even if your cause is righteous. But President Donald Trump needs to remind the public that the murderous Islamic cultists in Iran are our enemy – and that matters. The Islamic Republic's war against the United States famously began with the Islamic coup of 1979, when revolutionaries grabbed 52 hostages from our embassy and held them for 444 days. But it never ended. From the early 1980s, Iran's proxy army of Hezbollah…

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