Email from Zionist Organization of America   ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA IN THE MEDIA     Why U.S. Needed to Attack Iran: ZOA’s Morton Klein’s USA TODAY Op-Ed Epic Fury is not a momentary action. It is the culmination of 47 years of war waged by the Iranian regime against the United States, its allies and even its own citizens. By Morton A. Klein, ZOA National President Even if Israel didn’t exist, the United States would need to go to war against the Islamic Republic of Iran. (March 6, 2026 / USA TODAY) Even if Israel didn’t exist, the United States would need to go to war against the Islamic Republic of Iran. In weekly Iranian rallies, there were repeated calls for “Death to America” and proclaiming America is the “Big Satan.” And there’s been nearly half a century of Iranian hostility and its current drive for nuclear weapons, intercontinental ballistic missiles, suicide drones and financial support and arming of proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis attacking the United States, its allies and interests. Epic Fury is not a momentary action. It is the culmination of 47 years of war waged by the Iranian regime against the United States, its allies and even its own citizens, having allegedly killed more than 35,000 protesting Iranians last month. We know that Iran was yet again developing nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles meant for the United States. Intelligence also revealed that in the next few weeks Iran was moving these weapons programs even deeper into the ground which would have made it virtually impossible to destroy them. The U.S.-Israel operation, launched early Feb. 28, struck hundreds of targets across Iran linked to the regime’s instruments of power: the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, ballistic missile and drone sites, air defenses and key nuclear infrastructure. Iran’s military machine, long used to threaten neighbors and attack Americans, is now under sustained assault. The campaign has already reshaped the battlefield. Iran’s terrorist religious Islamic fanatic dictator, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in the first strike along with nearly 50 of his top deputies. The regime’s command structure is fractured. Across Iran, citizens flood the streets, some cheering the fall of symbols of tyranny, others fleeing as the state responds with ballistic missile, suicide drone and aerial attacks against Israel, U.S. assets and allies. For the first time in decades, the Islamic Republic is significantly weakened but the operation must continue until its grip is broken and a pathway is forged allowing new leaders chosen by the Iranian people. The stakes are historic. This is not merely a military campaign but a confrontation between a terrorist Islamist fanatic revolutionary regime and the coalition challenging it. They believe in the literal interpretation of the Koran promoting hostility to non-Muslims and non-Muslim states. For decades, Iran has been the world’s leading state sponsor of Islamist terrorism, funding and directing proxies that murder Americans, Israelis and countless others. From Hezbollah to regional militias, these groups act as Tehran’s instruments of violence. This lethal ideology is not rhetoric, it drives the regime’s foreign policy, Islamist terror networks and persistent hostility to the free world. They believe in the literal interpretation of the Koran promoting hostility to non-Muslims and non-Muslim states. Even Egypt’s president El-Sissi promoted in a speech at Cairo’s Al Azhar University, the leading Islamic university, that there needs to be a “revolution in Islam” that we can’t have the whole world fearing Muslims. Epic Fury stems from the conflict that began in 1979 when Iranian Islamist terrorists stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage for almost a year and a half. From its earliest days, the regime fused ideology and action, using “Death to America” as a guiding principle for its terror campaigns and hostility toward the free world. Continue Reading   Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email   DONATE   www.zoa.org   Copyright © Zionist Organization of America 2026. All rights reserved. Zionist Organization of America | 633 Third Ave 31 B | New York, NY 10017 US Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice