The United States’s ceasefire with the Islamic Republic of Iran is set to expire. If Tehran doesn’t agree to Washington’s demands, the Trump administration should renew strikes and target dual-use infrastructure and regime leaders.
The Islamic Republic has had many chances to forego its sponsorship of terrorism and pursuit of nuclear weapons. It doesn’t deserve another.
The U.S.-Israeli joint military operation, launched on Feb. 28, is aimed at ending Iran’s ability to project power beyond its borders. This goal has been achieved with stunning success. Iran’s navy lies at the bottom of the sea, its air defenses are mostly gone, its leaders are dead, and its defense industrial base and drone and missile capabilities are all but destroyed.
But what Iran lacks in men and munitions it makes up for with hubris. It has long played the West for a fool. Since it seized power in 1979, its ruling theocrats have used
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