The mullahs are pinning their hopes on outlasting Trump.
Can the Islamic Republic of Iran defeat the United States? Certainly it can. It can do so in the same way that the Taliban defeated the United States in Afghanistan: by outlasting it.
Is this a call for a “forever war”? Absolutely not. Once the Islamic Republic falls, it will be gone. The Iranian people hate it. Once the Islamic Republic has been consigned to the dustbin of history, some Islamic hardliners will remain in Iran, but they have lost the political and cultural initiative in a way that the Taliban never did in Afghanistan. The Iranian people are to a tremendous degree not only thoroughly sick of the Islamic Republic, but of Islam itself.
Nevertheless, the Islamic Republic could survive, and what it needs to do in order to do so is quite clear: all it has to do is continue to exist until Trump is out of office, or the Democrats take the House and the Senate and force him to bring an end to the conflict.
The mullahs have the advantage of thinking that they are part of a 1,400-year struggle to advance the cause of Islam in the world. American politics, by contrast, moves in cycles of two and four years. And so on Tuesday, the New York Times, which will no doubt be crestfallen if the Islamic Republic of Iran meets its end, explained it succinctly: “The Islamic Republic of Iran’s first priority is to survive. To do that, its leaders will want to drive up the cost of the war for President Trump — in terms of American casualties, energy costs and inflation — to try to persuade him to declare victory and go home.”
The Times doesn’t say it, but Trump has to deal with a massive Fifth Column in the United States that includes both congressional Democrats and the New York Times itself, along with its fellow leftist propaganda outlets. The left in America is doing everything it can right now to “drive up the cost of the war for President Trump” in the court of public opinion. On Tuesday, the destroyer of California and currently leading Democrat presidential hopeful for 2028 jumped on the bandwagon of the newly fashionable antisemitism and blamed Israel for bamboozling poor Trump into getting in a war with the poor sinless Islamic Republic.
Newsom repeated the lie that Israel is “sort of an apartheid state” — you know, the sort of apartheid state where racial and religious minorities have full equality of rights with the majority population. He claimed without evidence that Netanyahu had dragged Trump into this war: “In so many ways, that influence in the context of the conversation of where Trump ultimately landed on this is pretty damn self-evident.” Netanyahu himself brusquely dismissed this claim: “That’s ridiculous. Donald Trump is the strongest leader in the world.”
But Newsom was by no means alone. Another 2028 hopeful and one of the leaders of the Democrats’ powerful socialist base, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Would You Like an Olive?) issued a denunciation of the action against Iran in terms that many Democrats echoed: “The American people are once again dragged into a war they did not want by a president who does not care about the long-term consequences of his actions. This war is unlawful. It is unnecessary. And it will be catastrophic.”
Demonstrating her abject ignorance of the core ideology of the Islamic Republic, as well as of the success of negotiations with it in all contexts over the years and the Iranian regime’s long record of aggressive actions against the U.S., AOC continued: “Just this week, Iran and the United States were negotiating key measures that could have staved off war. The President walked away from these discussions and chose war instead. President Trump flippantly acknowledged the possibility of American casualties, stating ‘that often happens in war.’”
As counterfactual as all this was, it will gain traction the longer this goes on. And so Ali Vaez of the International Crisis Groupexplained: “For the Islamic Republic, survival is a victory, even if it is a Pyrrhic one.”
Indeed. All they have to do is make it to November 2026 or November 2028. The Congressional Democrats and the establishment media will do the rest. This war won’t be decided in Tehran. It will be decided in Washington and New York.
More than one threat says
The Leftists alway betray their own country.
The Left Wing – Muslim alliance is well documented.
The manner in which the Left sabotage, undermine and demoralise their own side is on the record, which invariably is to the advantage of any Muslim cause. The perfidy of the Left is so common as to be a cliche.
The US is not just fighting the Islamic regime. It’s also ideologically fighting the Left.
Rarely says
That one is, or was. against war with Iran doesn’t make them a leftist, communist, Democrat, traitor, islamist or the like. There are, or were. many different reasons for not attacking Iran without actually being a supporter of the horrid regime, Some of those reasons are now coming to light.
I don’t buy into any of those reasons personally but. in spite of the US’s overwhelming military superiority, there are some major dangers and being wary of them does not make one an evil traitor.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Most of those reasons are being echoed, when not by communists, by people like Tucker Carlson, Matt Walsh, Megyn Kelly and their ilk. Are you sure you want to be in the same camp as them?
The war in Iran is going great: only thing I wish is that Israel would get rid of the political leadership of the regime, like Pezeshkian, Larijani, Aragchi faster, so that there are no more regime talking heads and the people can turn out on the streets and completely end the islamic regime
Rarely says
“Pro-caution” and “Pro-Iranian” are not synonymous terms.
Regardless of who it is that raises the red flags they are still red flags.
Although I sincerely hope not, it is possible that this war (a rose by any other name…) will not end well.
Ken Price says
Alas, your commentary, as usual, is spot on.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The islamic republic can’t defeat anybody, given that they’re on their final death throes. However, islam itself is a trojan horse that has already infiltrated this country in places like Hamtramck, Dearborn, New York and making its attempts in Texas and Florida
If we don’t stop it, islam can defeat us. To do that though, we’ll have to eviscerate the Left as well
ploome says
exactly….they have tentacles everywhere
aided by their loyal ally, the ‘legacy’ media
Billy says
Mr. President, take the Iranian Oil, 50% money to America and 50% money to Iranians, a win-win for everyone while America is paid off for its troubles. Then, gently threaten Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the Others to continue oil and gas production to maximum production. Demand that any damage to American property in those countries is to be paid by those countries or else. This is “the Winner takes all” or else. America will accept debt-forgiveness as a payment in kind as well.
Wellington says
The Iranian regime is not the chief problem. The chief problem is the Democratic Party of the USA.
Ralph says
Yes!!!!
Dave says
Can Iran win against the U.S.?
Not without the help of our democrats and Leftist worshiping media.
ploome says
the problem is that we soon tire of war….
but muslims/islam exist for war/struggle to make islam supreme
jihad
and that is the core of the cult
David M says
Yes, this is shaping up like another Vietnam if the US stays too long. Win the battles but lose the war.
Ralph says
No, this will not be another Vietnam and Donald Trump is not another Lyndon Johnson. Count on that.
bill says
As I said before the stench of Newsom’s governance in California must have been smelled by evryone in the US by now. He would surely be open to destruction in any public debate. As for the shrieking harridan AOC surely as she is so ignorant she would also be a similar disaster in a debate unless she had very good writers. or a very biased compere which is of course always possible.
R G says
Sorry I took so long to reply. Great article. Obviously we can win the war, but what many people fear is losing the peace, like Vietnam and of course Afghanistan and Iraq. Some so called conservatives who really aren’t have this attitude. Sucker Qatarlson, Marjorie Traitor Greene, but one guy who’s not like them but falling into this mindset is Mark Steyne. He’s recently been writing how this is going to end badly for us, he quotes chapters from his book “ America Alone “. He belittles that we crushed the Iranian navy because they’ve never taken over a country like imperial Japan and says there’s no massive uprising in Iran. He says we don’t have the ability to destroy Iran’s will to fight unless we’re going to send troops there and then occupy it like Japan or Germany. He also talks about demographics, pointing to Minneapolis and Maine and the recent terror attacks by jihadis, some naturalized citizens, comparing us to Sweden. But he’s missing several points. Trump and Hegseth and company aren’t LBJ, Nixon or either Bush and certainly not like Obama or Biden. They recognize that the main problem is the mullahs in charge, not just the nuclear weapons. That’s why they’re hitting them so hard. We’re creating division within the country, hopefully at least some of the military will give up or even attack the government. Of course it’ll be better if Reza Papavhi and his supporters take over. Does Steyne want Iran to pull a Pearl Harbor attack on us? We may have to send Americans over there but it’s a last resort. As for islamists in our country, we’re definitely not the same as Europe. True previous administration’s let things go to hell but Trump is trying his best to reverse that. Did Steyne miss all the ICE raids in Minnesota and Maine? Of course it’s not simple, there are so many unfortunately in our country but he’s secured the borders and there’s the travel restrictions. And he’s doing this while fighting activists, especially in the judicial system. Iran isn’t Vietnam or the lost forever wars. We can definitely win if the facts get out there.
gravenimage says
Can the Islamic Republic of Iran Defeat the United States?
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If we lose focus we call allow this to happen–otherwise, no.