MIKE POMPEO: Israel’s strikes on Iran are righteous and the whole world is benefitting

Israel’s strikes connected Iran are arsenic righteous arsenic they are daring. As I constitute this, the Israeli Defense Forces are conducting precision operations that person already degraded Iran's atomic infrastructure and eliminated cardinal figures successful their subject hierarchy.

These attacks aren’t conscionable justified – they’re perfectly necessary.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has indicated that Israel is prepared for sustained operations lasting days oregon weeks. With quality suggesting the Islamic Republic is adjacent to acquiring atomic capabilities, waiting to enactment is not an option. Israel understands that their precise endurance is astatine stake, and is acting accordingly.

HOW CLOSE WAS IRAN TO A NUCLEAR WEAPON BEFORE ISRAEL’S STRIKE ON TEHRAN?

Their combat is America’s – and the escaped world’s – fight. President Donald Trump is perfectly close to marque it wide to the Iranians that America isn’t playing their crippled anymore. The United States, our Gulf allies, and each countries that question a free, peaceful, and prosperous aboriginal indispensable unite successful absorption to the Iranian authorities and successful enactment of Israel’s objectives.

Since the 1979 Revolution, the Islamic Republic has remained dedicated to the demolition of Israel, and has ne'er hidden its genocidal intentions towards the world’s lone Jewish state. It’s wherefore the authorities has surrounded Israel with a ringing of violent proxies, and carried retired violent attacks against Israelis and Jews astir the world. It’s wherefore Iran has bankrolled violent proxies similar Hamas, culminating successful the atrocities of October 7, 2023. And it’s wherefore Iran straight struck Israel with drones and ballistic missiles past year.

Yet arsenic we each know, hatred of America and the escaped satellite successful wide has besides ever been this regime’s defining purpose. Hundreds of Americans person died due to the fact that of Iranian-backed terrorism. Through its proxies and its alliances, the Islamic Republic has sought to undermine American interests whenever and wherever possible. If the authorities acquires atomic weapons, it won’t conscionable endanger Israel – it volition clasp the full satellite hostage and trigger a determination arms contention that volition marque the Cold War look similar child’s play.

Given these realities, however could anyone uncertainty that America’s and Israel’s interests are one-in-the-same?

Israel has already dealt the Iranian authorities a devastating blow – but they cannot halt here. Thanks to the unthinkable achievements of the IDF since the attacks of October 7th, the Islamic Republic is astatine its weakest successful decades. Even earlier yesterday’s strikes, Israel had eliminated cardinal Iranian commanders, decimated Hamas and Hezbollah, and systematically dismantled Iran's aerial defenses. They person the momentum, and momentum successful warfare is everything.

A fewer reminders to the critics accusing Israel of starting World War III. Israel didn’t commencement this, Iran did. And past shows america that Iran is astir unsafe erstwhile the West shows weakness, not erstwhile we person shown strength. During my clip successful the archetypal Trump administration, the aforesaid radical predicting catastrophe contiguous said the entity was falling erstwhile we moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem; and erstwhile America recognized the Golan Heights arsenic a rightful portion of Israel; and erstwhile we took retired IRGC Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani. Their predictions ne'er came to walk – instead, acknowledgment to President Trump’s decisive leadership, we were capable to reconstruct deterrence.

In some yesterday’s strikes and passim its warfare connected Hamas and its backers successful Tehran, Israel has consistently defied expectations of its capabilities. But to support the unit connected Iran and guarantee that the regime’s atomic ambitions are – astatine a minimum – acceptable backmost by decades, they volition request the enactment of America and of the Gulf Arab states.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION

This backing whitethorn instrumentality a fig of forms, and does not needfully request to beryllium public. For the Gulf States successful particular, their enactment volition apt person to beryllium quiescent - but determination is nary uncertainty astatine each that these countries stock Israel’s nonsubjective of neutralizing the menace from Iran.

There is besides a captious accidental to instrumentality vantage of the Islamic Republic’s wide home weakness. Israel could not person achieved these kinds of tactical successes without important practice from wrong Iran itself. Given the ongoing fashionable dissatisfaction with the authorities and recurrent bouts of unrest, this suggests a superior occupation for the regime’s interior position.

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

Iranians privation a aboriginal of bid and prosperity - not perpetual warfare and ever-increasing isolation. The authorities knows however unpopular it is, which is wherefore it has devoted specified resources to crushing dissent. The Iranian radical present person a existent accidental to propulsion for leaders that tin present this – and the escaped satellite should enactment that aspiration.

The satellite is safer contiguous due to the fact that of Israel’s actions. If they win successful their mission, aboriginal generations volition beryllium them an tremendous indebtedness of gratitude. America's prime is simple: Stand with our antiauthoritarian state arsenic they support themselves and beforehand our shared interests, oregon ticker arsenic Iran grows stronger and much dangerous. I cognize what broadside I’m on.