by Gerald A. Honigman
Bridge linking Tehran to Karaj is struck on April 2, 2026. Screengrab via Youtube.
The people who will most suffer from President Trump’s newest threats will be the masses of oppressed Iranian civilians, not the mullahs and their IRGC and Basij military support system.
If we didn’t intend to do “this job right,” we shouldn’t have gotten involved in the first place. America doesn’t need yet another Afghanistan or Vietnam.
I truly believe that America indeed needed to go to war with the genocidal maniacs who hijacked pre-Islamic Aryan Iran in the name of their overwhelmingly supremacist theology with intent to conquer the entire kafir/infidel world and convert it to their own belief system, using all means necessary—including nuclear weapons.
The 12’er Shi’a Islamic rulers who despise Iran’s proud, more tolerant Zoroastrian Persian, pre-Arab conquest past, are absolutists, not ideologically capable of honest compromise.
Trump’s repeated propensity of thinking he can “deal” with such folks and be taken seriously was doomed to failure from the very beginning.
Meanwhile, while he continued to try to “deal,” over a hundred thousand innocent Iranians, especially younger motivated demonstrators, were slaughtered.
They had taken The Donald seriously when he encouraged them to rise up, telling them America would be arriving soon.
They listened, but months elapsed with America a no show.
Worse, when Israel, listening to the pleas of Iranians to the IDF to take up their cause, acted decisively long before Washington, Trump chastised Prime Minister Netanyahu for doing so…
Now that the war has been fought for months, with Israel and America pulverizing Iranian nuclear, military, and leadership assets, the end still is not in sight. And, unfortunately, due to domestic influences on the American home front, it appears that despite Trump’s bluster, the total victory he once spoke of will not be achieved.
He is too willing to accept an Iran with a modified version of the Islamic regime in place, perhaps lower level than before, but still able to rule and continue to eventually resupply proxies, promote terror, oppress their own people, and hold the rest of the world economically hostage as well.
The costs of keeping American military assets in the region are increasingly causing division at home, and midterm elections are approaching.
But, if executed correctly, with a total American victory, Iranian oil will pay for all of our costs.
Iran has been the obvious aggressor for a half century now. The long awaited Israeli and American retaliation for scores of thousands of rockets, missiles, terror attacks, and so forth it’s been responsible for (including Israel’s October 7th wanton slaughter of the equivalent of 40, 000 dead American civilians by its Hamas proxy), a was overdue payback.
When such aggressor nations start wars, they usually lose territory.
The Strait of Hormuz, adjacent land area to that waterway, and some nearby islands should be permanently transferred to either American or some trustworthy other third party control. Perhaps like the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) which was placed in Sinai after the June 1967 War due to the pathetic performance of the United Nauseating Nations own previous fiasco.
If and when the time arrives that a free, democratic Iran emerges, partial sovereignty can be restored at that time.
Iran of the ayatollahs. mullahs, IRGC, and fanatic Basij militias is Nazi Germany of over seven decades ago—ruthless, supremacist, intolerant, murderously genocidal—openly proclaims its first goal at world conquest is the total obliteration of the sole, minuscule, resurrected nation of Israel Reborn, the one that can fit twice into America’s Lake Michigan.
Since Iran has not lived up to its obligations in the newest ceasefire, President Trump now says he’s ready to finish the job militarily.
The main reason for this latest installment of my own analyses is Trump’s repeated threats to bomb every bridge, power station, and other critical infrastructure in the Islamic “Republic.” Here’s one of my earlier assessments…
Just who is going to be most hurt by this latest Trump strategy?
True, everyone in the country needs those things he’s talking about destroying, but it’s the 90 plus million Iranian civilians going to work, shopping for food, attending school, going to hospitals, and so forth who will pay most of the price.
In WWII, the war did not end until we brought the murderous Nazi regime and its military to its knees in total, absolute defeat.
After the non-stop bombing of bridges, factories, and so forth, we had to invade via Normandy in France, etc., and physically wrest control of the land on the ground.
We next developed democratic institutions and nurtured democratic leadership to take over the nation. And we remained close by to insure that there would be no resurgence of Nazi activity (or Soviet occupation). We did likewise in Imperial Japan as well.
Instead of targeting civilian infrastructure, we need to put substantial numbers of boots on the ground and tanks and such supporting them to show the masses of Iranian people that we’re not going to do to them what America did to the Kurds repeatedly much earlier… encourage their revolt against tyranny, but standing by and watching them get slaughtered afterwards, with no American response.
The IRGC must be hunted down and completely destroyed, excised like a cancerous tumor. Ditto for as many plain clothes Basij members we can find as well.
There are most likely loyal Aryan Persian army officers and troops waiting for the more moderate scion of the royal House of Pahlavi to return.
Our CIA and military intelligence officers should have been contacting them by now.
America’s presence will give these native folks the courage to once again emerge to join the fight against the previously Arabized and Islamized mullahs and their powerful military support system which care nothing about Iran’s proud, more tolerant, pre-Islamic history…
Agreed with much of this, but what is this idiocy with “Aryan”???
Does a patriotic Iranian have to be Aryan?
What if he is of Azeri, or Arab, or Baluchi heritage?
Half of Iran is of non-Parsi heritage. Are we trying to incite a racist war in Iran.