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The Case for Regime Change in Iran
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - President Trump seems to have called off any military action for now on behalf of Iran's protesting citizens, but this threat won't go away. In 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's revolutionaries stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. In Beirut in 1983, Iran's proxy Hizbullah killed 17 Americans at the U.S. Embassy and then 241 Americans deployed for peacekeeping at a Marine barracks. In a plot hatched by Iranian intelligence, Iran's proxy groups bombed U.S. Air Force personnel at the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996, killing 19 Americans. After the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iran funded, trained and equipped Shiite militias in Iraq, providing them the IEDs that helped kill 603 U.S. troops. Add to this Iran's global terrorism against dissidents and Jews, including the 1994 Jewish community center bombing in Argentina. Iran has also plotted to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and President Trump. All of this is despite efforts by every U.S. President since Jimmy Carter to pursue better relations with Iran's regime. Iran's bloody record since 1979 underscores that it is a revolutionary regime rooted in Shiite extremism that wants to dominate the Middle East, destroy Israel and kill Americans. Helping the Iranian people end this regime is the right goal that would make America and the world safer.