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Source: https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/04/27/the-islamic-republic-has-been-at-war-since-its-inception/
The War Against Iran "Is an Opportunity to Make the World Safer for Your Children and Grandchildren"
(Spiked-UK) Amb. Michael Oren interviewed by Brendan O'Neill - According to Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., the war with Iran began in 1979 with the founding of the Islamic Republic. Since then, Iran has incessantly threatened the U.S. and pledged to wipe Israel off the map. Indeed, since Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has faced non-stop bombardment from Iran and its proxies. What is presented as a war of choice in the West, he argues, has long been inevitable. Oren said in an interview: "We need to understand what the Islamic Republic is. It is, more accurately, an Islamist jihadist republic, and on a theological level it is not very different from Hamas, ISIS or the Muslim Brotherhood. It exists to recreate the medieval caliphate in the Middle East and, ultimately, to extend that across the globe. That is its raison d'etre. Its modus operandi for realizing that vision is terror, war and subversion." "Can we make peace with Iran? Definitely - and we are desperate to make peace with the Iranian people. Just not with this particular government. We can make peace with the Palestinians, but not with Hamas. We can make peace with Syria, but not with ISIS. We can make peace with Lebanon, but not with Hizbullah. These movements don't tend to make concessions, because concessions fly in the face of their theology." "I thought the case for going to war against Iran was, as they say in America, a 'slam dunk.' It was the most clear-cut case I could think of. Here is a country that has declared war against the United States since the day of its inception in 1979, a government that has acted on that declaration again and again, killing many hundreds of Americans and launching thousands of attacks, each of which constitutes an act of war under international law." "Here is a country that has lied about its military capabilities repeatedly. It may not have been an imminent threat at that precise moment, but neither was North Korea before it got a nuclear weapon. If you ask Bill Clinton whether he would go back and use military force to stop North Korea from getting a bomb, the answer would certainly be yes. The Trump administration should have told Americans: 'This is an opportunity to make the world safer for your children and your grandchildren.'" "In Israel, it's a different story. We were actually being hit by missiles. Next door to where I am sitting now is my bomb shelter. I was running into it as many as 30 times a day, sheltering from missiles large enough not only to take down this building, but to take down the entire neighborhood. Israelis have been willing to stay the course, because to us this is a once-in-a-generation - perhaps once-in-an-epoch - opportunity to bring about a strategic change in the Middle East."