
<p>Democrats and their crony press are proffering a humongous whopper about the war in Iran and President Trump’s alleged settlement agreement. They insist that Iran is winning. American is gaining nothing.</p>



<p>This falsehood flows directly from their original propaganda that the war was unnecessary because Iran posed “no imminent danger” to the United States. Yeah, right. That only works if you discount the 600 American’s the Tehran regime killed over the past 47 years, plus the thousands wounded and maimed, and the scores of hostages they took and tortured. The never-Trump crowd claims that nothing of substance has been achieved or can ever be achieved. They assert that Trump has agreed to settlement terms that leave the situation precisely as it stood before the first military strike.</p>



<p>That grand lie rests upon a series of smaller lies, each one more detached from reality than the last.</p>



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<li>The left wing establishment first argues that the same regime remains firmly in place and will continue its unhinged terrorist behavior as before. Really? Virtually every senior leader of the old regime is dead. That is accountability for the millions of people murdered by the deceased reprobates. The new Supreme Leader is seriously crippled and disfigured and has not been seen or heard from in public. Democrats reveal their own lack of common sense. On one hand, they say that the old regime still controls everything. On the other hand, they warn that the new regime is far worse than the old. Someone clearly failed Logic 101. Whoever leads Iran today, these are not the same people who directed the regime before the war began. They may cling to many of the same hateful principles – and have to be dealt with &#8212; but they are not the departed old guard and the old regime. (Hmmm. One wonders why Israel has stopped knocking off the new guys. Perhaps the task of regime weakening has already been accomplished with ruthless efficiency. But I digress.)</li>
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<li>Democrats claim that Trump will leave the regime capable of renewing its terrorist activities throughout the region. This claim of continuity ignores the successful conduct of the war itself. Trump did not stumble into a quagmire as the Democrats predicted. Instead, America and Israel executed a swift, targeted campaign that dismantled command structures, destroyed air defenses, and neutralized the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in record time. Iran’s navy and air force have been essentially obliterated. Its defense systems have been rendered ineffective, and the ammunition inventory has been greatly diminished – with few options for resupplying. The Iranian economy is on the verge of total collapse. Funding international terrorism in the future? Hell, they cannot fund a lunch break at McDonald’s.</li>
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<li>The left had assured the public that any conflict would drag on for years and cost thousands of American lives. That prediction now lies in the same graveyard as the Iranian generals who once plotted against the West. The war exposed the hollowness of Iranian power – and now there is a temporary ceasefire. It demonstrated that decades of bluster and proxy warfare could be answered with decisive force rather than endless meaningless diplomacy. For decades, American presidents have negotiated against a weak nation – and did not know it.</li>
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<li>The Democrats next insist that the supposed Trump agreement is no different from the Obama agreement he tore up. <em>Au contraire.</em> The old deal merely delayed Iran from building nuclear weapons for fifteen years while allowing the regime to keep its enrichment infrastructure intact. Trump demands a permanent ban and the complete removal of all enriched material from Iranian soil – and permanent inspectors. The Obama agreement said nothing meaningful about Iran exporting terrorism or developing long-range ballistic missiles. That thorny issue was kicked down the road to vague future talks that never materialized. Trump calls for the total end of Iran missile program. More importantly, Trump has already destroyed or severely limited the tools of terrorism by crippling the Iranian military. The mullahs can no longer fund or arm their proxies with the same impunity.</li>
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<li>Another absurdity peddled by the left is the notion that the war showed the regime that it can damage the world economy by blocking the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranians always understood that potential. They have brandished the threat of closure for decades as a cheap negotiating tactic. The only similarity between past bluster and future reality is that the Strait of Hormuz was an open international waterway not under Iranian jurisdiction before the war &#8212; and it will remain so afterward. Thanks to the destruction of Iranian naval capacity, the regime lacks the means to make good on its threats even if it dared to try. There is no way that it can indefinitely seize control of the Strait,</li>
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<li>Finally, the Democrats maintain that the United States, Israel, and the free world have gained no benefits from the conflict. One must marvel at such selective blindness and political spin. Is the elimination of maniacal leaders who destabilized the region and murdered millions over four decades not a positive development? Is holding them accountable not long overdue justice? Is rendering Iran incapable of building atomic weapons not a historic accomplishment? Is stripping the regime of its ability to subsidize global terrorism not a strategic victory? Even as direct Iranian support for terror has been eliminated, its proxy organizations &#8212; Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis &#8212; have been greatly diminished. The region breathes easier. The threat of nuclear blackmail has receded.</li>
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<p>Of course, all the Democrats’ and left wing establishment’s claims and judgments remain purely speculative. No one yet knows precisely how the negotiations or the war will finally conclude. It is like calling the final score of a baseball game in the sixth inning. The left rushes to declare defeat for Trump because it cannot bear the possibility that his bold approach might succeed in the face of their abject failure over decades of appeasement-style negotiations. And yet, they want to return to that process.</p>



<p>War was necessary and long overdue. It was conducted with precision, and its outcome may yet reshape the Middle East for the better – a more peaceful Middle East. The partisan Trump-hating crony press can spin all it wants. Reality has a way of eventually punching through bogus partisan narratives.</p>



<p>So, there it’s.</p>

Democrat Narratives on Iran Based on Politics and Lies
