The current war with Iran is a necessity. Iran is a danger to you and me.
Iran has been working on nuclear weapons for 35 years. Some say Iran already has The Bomb. Others admit Iran has enough fissile material for from sixty to 90 bombs.
And Iran has been working on intercontinental ballistic missiles since at least 2009. These are missiles designed to carry nuclear warheads to Washington, New York, and your home and mine.
Iran disguises its missiles-in-development as space rockets and uses them to show off getting monkeys, mice, turtles, and worms into orbit.
Who is the real target for Iran’s nukes? You and me. Yes, Iran wants to wipe Israel off the map. It has said so for 47 years. But its primary target is not Israel, it’s the United States. The nation Iran calls the Great Satan.
Three times a year Iranians are urged to take to the streets chanting “Death to America”.
But the most important thing you need to know about Iran is its philosophy, the philosophy of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. In that year, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini established today’s Islamic Revolutionary Iran. In Iran today, the Ayatollah’s words are law. Here are some of those words:
“Islam makes it incumbent on all adult males…to prepare themselves for the conquest of other countries so that the writ of Islam [Sharia Law] is obeyed in every country in the world.” Emphasizes the Ayatollah, “…Islam wants to conquer the whole world.”
This explains why Iran has a dozen proxy armies, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. It explains why Iran’s proxy armies have established toe-holds all over South America. It explains why Iran has sleeper cells and covert operations all across Europe and in the United States.
Remember, Iran’s Islam wants to conquer the world. The Iranian state’s form of Islam would like to cut off your head and your fingertips. Until then, it would like to humiliate you.
If killing you, your family, and all of your neighbors seems a bit extreme, says the Ayatollah it is not. It is normal in his form of Islam. Islam, he says, is “a religion of blood.” The Ayatollah explains that, “The person who governs the Moslem community must always have its interests at heart and not his own. This is why Islam has put so many people to death: to safeguard the interests of the Moslem community. Islam has obliterated many tribes because they were sources of corruption and harmful to the welfare of Moslems.” We are next of the list of tribes to be obliterated.
Today’s Iran conflict, Operation Epic Fury, began as a war to remove the weapons with which Iran could pull off this mass murder of Americans—nuclear weapons and missiles. As of today, says Iran’s military, the IRGC, the battle is about Iranian control over the Straits of Hormuz–the waterway normally sailed by 135 boats a day carrying 20% of the world’s oil and 30% of the world’s fertilizer.
Iran’s military, the IRGC says that it will “allow ‘safe, stable’ transit via Hormuz.” The IRGC Navy said in a post on its X account on Wednesday that it had seen a good level of compliance with its regulations from shipping companies and staff seeking to transit the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s regulations for passage through the Strait require that a ship turn over two million dollars in Chinese cash or cryptocurrency to the Iranian authorities. A fact that some call the “Tehran tollbooth.”
And Iran has no intention of returning the straits to use as an international waterway. Said the new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, “The Strait of Hormuz is not a mere geography of stone and water; it is a gift from God to the Iranian people, a shield granted by the Almighty to protect the Ummah [the people] from the greed of the Arrogant Powers. What God has given to Iran, no earthly power has the right to take away or traverse without the permission of its rightful guardians.”
But remember, what’s at stake here is far more than the 20% of the world’s oil that normally moves through that strait. What’s at stake here is more than just Iran’s chokehold over the world’s economy. What’s at stake here is our ability to keep Iran’s nuclear warheads from ever reaching out shores.
References:
**Iranian sources**
IRGC says it will allow ‘safe, stable’ transit via Hormuz ‘with aggressor threats neutralized’, Press TV, Wednesday, 06 May 2026 1:08 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 06 May 2026 1:08 PM ]
**Government & Intelligence Reports**
Congressional Research Service. 2025. Iran’s Ballistic Missile Programs: Background and Context. IF13035, June 17. https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/IF13035.html.
Defense Intelligence Agency (via various references). 2025. Assessment that Iran could use its SLVs to develop a militarily viable ICBM by 2035. Cited in Congressional Research Service reports and U.S. government publications. https://www.dia.mil/Portals/110/Documents/News/golden_dome.pdf.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies. 2025. “Latest Launch by Tehran Reflects Regime Interest in Longer-Range Missiles.” September 25.https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/09/25/latest-launch-by-tehran-reflects-regime-interest-in-longer-range-missiles/.
Jerusalem Post. 2026. “Iran Using ‘Satellite-Like’ Launches to Double Missile Range.” March 22. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-890817.
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS). 2025. Iran Missile and SLV Launch Database. Updated September. https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/cns-iran-missile-and-slv-launch-database/.
U.S. Central Command. “Operation Project Freedom: Mission Overview and Maritime Security.” May 4, 2026.
U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency. *Annual Threat Assessment of the Iranian Nuclear and Missile Programs*. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2025.
Can Kasapoğlu, Iran’s Attempted Strike on Diego Garcia and the Emerging Strategic Threat, Hudson Institute, Mar 24, 2026, https://www.hudson.org/defense-strategy/irans-attempted-strike-diego-garcia-emerging-strategic-threat-can-kasapoglu
**News & Journalistic Sources**
“Operation Project Freedom.” *Wikipedia*. Last modified May 6, 2026. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Project_Freedom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Project_Freedom).
“Tehran Tollbooth: Iran Charges Ships Near Strait of Hormuz | $2M Toll per Tanker.” *News9/Firstpost*. Video, 4:12. April 8, 2026. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkHCkTMjm30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkHCkTMjm30).
“Trump’s Claim on Iranian Missile Development Said Unsupported by US Intelligence.” *Times of Israel*, February 27, 2026.
**Historical & Academic Works**
Khomeini, Ruhollah. *Sahifeh-ye Imam: An Anthology of the Speeches, Messages, Interviews, Decrees, Religious Permissions, and Letters of Imam Khomeini*. Tehran: The Institute for Compilation and Publication of Imam Khomeini’s Works, 1995.
“Blood-Soaked Fatwas: How Khomeini Turned Homicide into Policy in Iran.” *IranWire*, June 9, 2022. [https://iranwire.com/en/politics/104686/](Blood-Soaked Fatwas: How Khomeini Turned Homicide Into Policy in Iran).
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