Trump’s Big Bet Requires the Liberation of Iran’s People

President Donald Trump is making a gigantic bet on a remade Middle East. The massive weapons sales he has announced to Saudi Arabia and others that may be in the offing with additional regional states, to say nothing of his termination of sanctions on and possible normalization of relations with Syria might make sense in a region transformed by two other developments.

First, Iran has genuinely ceased to be a threat to all of its neighbors, and us, by being denuclearized, ending the regime’s support for terrorism and terminating its proxy wars.

And second, Israel has decisively defeated its enemies – and ours – and re-emerged as America’s powerful, secure and valued ally. 

As a practical matter, however, those two conditions can only emerge if the Iranian people have been liberated from the mullahocracy that brutally oppresses them and threatens the rest of us. 

This is Frank Gaffney.