If We Don’t Dismantle Iran’s Theocracy Now, History Will Never Forgive Us

This is an opinion piece, opinion only! This is what I think regarding what should be done to properly finish the Iran/Israel War.

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Let me be real clear before the spin cycle starts up again. This isn’t some neutral think piece or academic sob story about "geopolitical nuance." This is personal. It’s opinion. It's judgment. And yes, it comes loaded with conviction.

Because what’s unfolding right now with Iran and Israel? It’s not just war. It’s a moment. A global gut check. And I’m telling you right now, if the U.S. and Israel don’t go all the way, we’re going to regret it. Deeply. Historically. Regret it.

Let’s start with this sad, stale policy of just "taking out Iran's nuclear capabilities." Great. You dropped a few bombs. You stalled their enrichment program. You might've knocked out a facility or two buried under a mountain. Big whoop. That’s like putting duct tape on a live grenade. It doesn't solve the problem. It delays the explosion.

Here’s the truth most won’t say out loud: Iran doesn’t just need its uranium centrifuges dismantled. It needs its regime dismantled. The Mullahs. The IRGC. The fundamentalist clerics who treat women like livestock and dissenters like prey. This isn't a weapons issue. It's a leadership cancer. And if we don’t remove the rot, the tumor grows back. Always does.

I'm not calling for invasion just to flex muscle. I’m saying the world has a moral and strategic obligation to rip out the heart of this regime and let that country finally breathe. Iran has a population starving for reform. Dying for freedom. We could hand them the scalpel—instead, we keep slapping on Band-Aids and calling it victory.

Think about history. We didn’t beat the Nazis by air striking their factories and calling it a day. We went in. We dismantled every brick of their system. We didn’t stop at the edges. We demanded unconditional surrender. That’s what a real endgame looks like. And I’m telling you—that level of finality is the only thing that works with ideologies like this.

This moment—right now—is the closest the world has come in decades to pulling the plug on Iran's theocracy. The Israelis know it. The Pentagon knows it. But everyone’s acting like it's too big, too messy, too complicated. So we settle for "containment."

Containment is cowardice in a tuxedo.

We have the tools. The intelligence. The precision. The momentum. What we lack is the spine to say what needs to be said:

“Regime change in Iran isn’t just an option. It’s the only path forward.”

We can keep playing whack-a-missile. Or we can strike the root. Because if we don’t take down the Mullahs now—when the cost is still low, when the chaos is still containable—we will pay tenfold later. And we’ll look back on this moment the way people look back on appeasement in the 1930s.

With shame. And disbelief.

The world doesn’t need another round of strategic restraint. It needs clarity. Boldness. And a policy that doesn’t just protect allies—but liberates millions.

Rip out the regime. Give Iran back to the Iranians. Or sit back and watch the next generation ask why we blinked.