Support Peaceful Protesters In and Out of Iran

Originally published by Breitbart

The historic U.S. mission to extradite Venezuela’s now-former dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife to United States further isolates one of its primary patrons, the Iranian regime. Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained that among the goals of the military operation is preventing Venezuela from “cozy[ing] up to Hezbollah and Iran in our own hemisphere.”

Operation Absolute Resolve could not come at a more ominous time for Iran’s leadership. As the world ushered in a new year, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran finished “an escape plan” to flee to the warm embraces of Vladimir Putin should the revolt of shopkeepers and students who shout “Death to the Dictator” spiral beyond his control.

Last year was a bad year for the theocratic fanatics, and 2026 may be worse. The Israeli Defense Forces humiliated the ayatollahs’ regime. Israel decapitated Iran’s military and scientific leadership, destroyed its conventional forces and wrecked its “arc of resistance” in Lebanon and Gaza. On top of that, the United States Air Force and Navy laid waste to the remainder of the Iranian nuclear program that was beyond the reach of the Israeli Air Force. The people of Iran have little energy and intermittent water service. The mullahs wrecked the economy; Iranian currency is virtually worthless with a going rate of 1.2 million rial to the dollar. On January 2, President Trump warned to the regime: if it “violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue.” In the same Truth Social post, he clarified that the United States is “locked and loaded and ready to go.” Khamani has now crossed that line and there is nothing his friends in Beijing and Moscow can do to save him.

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