President Trump, I write to you not with hesitation but with urgency. Your leadership transformed the Middle East. The Abraham Accords, your firm support for Israel, and your uncompromising stance toward terror made peace possible when many believed it was impossible. You did not follow the tired formulas of appeasement. You lead with principle and strength.
Today, the threat we face demands action once again. The Iranian regime has crossed every red line. It threatens not only Israel but the entire regional order, including the very future your diplomacy has begun to shape.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is not a normal state. It is a terrorist regime with the resources of a government, the ideology of an empire, and the morality of a death cult. It wants not compromise but control. It does not want a place at the table – it wants to flip the table and build an altar to martyrdom. This regime funds terror in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Gaza, and Yemen. It arms proxies, builds missiles, and murders its own citizens. And it is marching, defiantly and methodically, toward nuclear capability.
And yet, the world waits. We are told that diplomacy needs more time, that Iran might be “contained.” Mr. President, why wait two more weeks when, in two minutes, this regime could hit civilians in Tel Aviv or Riyadh, or US assets and allies you helped protect? Why risk the legacy of peace and prosperity you built by assuming reason from a regime that has never acted in good faith?
Let’s be clear: Israel was not attacked because of Palestine. It was attacked because it exists and thrives. Because it is free. Iran’s war is not with Israel’s policy – it is with Israel’s existence. Their endgame is not negotiation but rather annihilation. And yet, as Israel fights to survive, it is branded the aggressor. This moral reversal is as dangerous as it is dishonest.
Israel’s motivations are not imperial, rather they are defensive. Israel is responding to threats no nation would tolerate. It is not trying to conquer its neighbors. It is trying to protect its children. To stand with Israel now honors an ally and defends civilization against barbarism. The message is clear: we do not negotiate with those who use civilians as both targets and shields.
But striking now is not just about Israel but rather about the future of the Middle East. The Iranian regime exports both weapons and despair. Inside Iran, the regime rules by fear, blood, and brutality. The killing of Mahsa Amini in 2022 was not a one-off tragedy. It was a revelation. It exposed a system where girls are beaten for refusing to cover their hair, students vanish into prisons, ethnic minorities are collectively punished, and protest is treated as treason.
All the while, Iran’s ruling elite live like kings. They hoard billions while their people ration food. They chant “Death to America” from Tehran while their children shop in London and buy property in Canada. This is not governance. It is parasitism. It is the looting of a nation dressed in the language of revolution.
For decades, US policy has sought to contain Iran. But containment has failed. It has bought the regime time, not transformation. Every concession has been pocketed, every sanction evaded, every delay a strategic opportunity to dig deeper and arm further. Containment did not slow the regime; it emboldened it.
Mr. President, dismantlement is the only path forward. Not invasion. Not occupation. But a sustained strategy that breaks the tools of this regime’s power: targeted military action against critical infrastructure when necessary, cyber operations to paralyze the IRGC, financial isolation to drain its funding, and relentless exposure of its crimes on the world stage. This must be paired with support for the Iranian people, the true victims of this regime. They are not the enemy but rather the region’s best hope. From the Green Revolution of 2009 to the women-led protests of 2022, Iranians have shown they are ready to rise. What they need is a free world that does not look away.
You, President Trump, have already shown what leadership looks like in the Middle East. You made promises others were too afraid to keep, from moving the US embassy to Jerusalem to eliminating Qasem Soleimani. You understand what the career diplomats never did: that evil must be confronted not managed.
Now is your moment to rise again. Delay is no longer a policy. It is a liability. The regime in Tehran will not collapse under the weight of its contradictions. It must be pushed. And only strong American leadership—your leadership—can make that happen.
History does not remember those who waited. It remembers those who acted.
