President Trump “ordered the actions of Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Epic Fury as necessary steps that presid | Hanami
President Trump “ordered the actions of Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Epic Fury as necessary steps that presidents had only threatened for three decades, beginning with Bill Clinton.
Operation Epic Fury is going to be understood as the most significant decision of his presidency and the one that took great political courage because of the impact on domestic politics. The Islamic Republic has been a malignancy on the world since 1979. It needed to be confronted and, if necessary, collapsed. Given many chances after Operation Midnight Hammer, Ayatollah Khamenei proved impervious to pressure or reason. The regime has acted like fanatics have acted throughout history.
In the closing weeks of the midterm campaigns in the U.S., I hope some Republicans make the straightforward argument that, having tried everything, including the failed JCPOA, pallets of cash, and Midnight Hammer, no other option was left to Trump except Epic Fury followed by the blockade. At any time since Clinton, the ayatollahs and the IRGC could have taken a different path, but they refused because they are religious fanatics acting on end-times Twelver theology.”