The Anti-American Terror State: Iran's Regime Must Not Be Allowed to Rise Again
by Majid Rafizadeh • November 8, 2025 at 5:00 am
Iran's is not a normal political system that responds to diplomacy as other governments do. Iran's regime is fundamentalist -- built on a radical ideological foundation. Iran's regime defines its very existence by confrontation, expansion and violence.
The Islamic Republic is not merely a government; it is a revolutionary movement wrapped in the structure of a state. Its leadership does not operate by the logic of "compromise" or "coexistence" but by the logic of domination and destruction.
The Iranian regime's animating belief is that it was divinely chosen to challenge and replace the global order, to export its ideology beyond its borders, and to destroy those it considers its ultimate enemies—Israel, Jews and the United States. To expect moderation from such a regime is to misunderstand its deepest nature, its DNA.
Recently, Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, revealed that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has built a vast global terror network... The network often operates through cutouts — local criminals, mercenaries and radicals — so Tehran can deny direct involvement. The strategy is insidious: to spread terror through surrogates while officially maintaining plausible deniability on the world stage.
When Iranian leaders say that Israel "will not exist in 25 years," they mean it. When they boast that their missiles can reach Europe or the United States, they mean it.
Iran's leadership views itself as the vanguard of a global struggle between the "pure" Shia Islamic revolution and the "corrupt" Western order. The West's mistake for four decades has been to treat this rhetoric as fanciful talk, when in fact it is a window into the regime's worldview and a roadmap for its actions.
The Iranian regime wants nuclear weapons now more than ever. Facing internal unrest, economic pressure and international isolation, the regime still views nuclear weapons as the ultimate guarantor of its survival and of its ability to dominate the region and beyond. Possessing such weapons would not only deter foreign intervention but also allow it to blackmail its neighbors to reshape the Middle East on its own terms.
Unlike most nations, Iran's goal is not security through deterrence but power through fear. Its ideological mission — to export its Islamic revolution, to dominate the Middle East, and to challenge the West — would be vastly amplified by the possession of nuclear arms.
Iran's regime, playing the long game, examines the psychology of its adversaries and sees that democratic societies tire quickly of conflict and prefer the illusion of peace.
Iran's regime is not just an enemy of its own people — it is an enemy of freedom, modernity and humanity itself. It has survived because the world has allowed it to survive. It has exploited every pause, every negotiation and every concession. It has turned Western diplomacy into a weapon of delay and opportunity.
We must increase pressure on Iran — the only language it understands — until its machinery of terror collapses. The free world has a moral and strategic duty not to let Iran's weapons of mass destruction threaten all of us again.
Unlike most nations, Iran's goal is not security through deterrence but power through fear. Its ideological mission — to export its Islamic revolution, to dominate the Middle East, and to challenge the West — would be vastly amplified by the possession of nuclear arms.
Please do not think that just because Iran took a few hits in June that their threat is over, or that the Iranian regime has learned its lesson or is going to change. Iran's is not a normal political system that responds to diplomacy as other governments do. Iran's regime is fundamentalist -- built on a radical ideological foundation. Iran's regime defines its very existence by confrontation, expansion and violence.
The Islamic Republic is not merely a government; it is a revolutionary movement wrapped in the structure of a state. Its leadership does not operate by the logic of "compromise" or "coexistence" but by the logic of domination and destruction.
