Treat Iran Like Terrorists, Not a State

And therein lies the central truth: Iran is a terrorist regime, not as a legitimate state and must be treated as such.

Treat Iran Like Terrorists, Not a State

By Daniel Greenfield, Aug 5, 2026:

We can defeat enemies who are not afraid to die. But we have to be willing to kill them.

Kill Trump banner during Ayatollah Khamenei funeral, Re000searchist, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
Treating Iran like a state has been a policy failure. Both diplomatic and military efforts to either engage or pressure Iran have all rested on the assumption that its terrorist regime is a state with national interests and that it could be tempted with membership in the international community or pressured to comply through economic sanctions or