This existential threat has been ignored by the Obama and Biden-Harris administrations, who have also given the regime support, making it even more dangerous.
Netanyahu’s direct criticism of the mullahs’ dictatorship for what it is—”We meet today at a crossroads of history”—was the speech’s most important statement. The world is in disarray. The United States, Israel, and our Arab allies are up against Iran’s terror axis in the Middle East. This is not a conflict between cultures. There is a conflict between civilization and savagery.”
Iran, one of the cradles of human civilization, is “home to a proud and ancient culture whose ideals of freedom and democracy under Cyrus the Great helped form some of the foundations of the U.S. Constitution,” according to the State Department under President Trump.
But now this country is controlled by a tiny number of radical Islamic clerics who took over via a coup supported by Russia in 1979 and who have gone on to become the most powerful state sponsor of terrorism and the epicenter of savagery in contemporary history. In his magnum opus, “The Spirit of the Laws,” Montesquieu explicably and accurately depicted the “destroyed” nature of Islam upon “a flourishing” empire of Persia, modern-day Iran.
