Sunday, June 22, 2025
On Destroying Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan
Three cheers for President Trump, the USAF, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the IDF! Thanks to them, Iran no longer has a nuclear program. This is one of the happiest developments in international affairs since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and a foreign policy triumph for America and Israel. The neutering of Iran's military establishment and destruction of their atomic bomb program is one of the most promising advances for peace in a long time.
Some pro-Iran weirdos, such as the silly commentator Tucker Carlson, have tried to argue there is no evidence Iran had a nuclear weapons program, and that Iran was simply trying to develop civilian nuclear power. It's impossible to take such arguments seriously. First, Iran could simply have bought reactors, say, from Russia. Second, if Iran simply had been developing civilian energy, there would have been no need to bury its programs in underground bunkers and block the IAEA from observing. Third, even the Iranians admit they enriched uranium to at least 60%. Power reactors require enrichment to 3-4%, 5% tops. Only bombs require the highly enriched uranium Iran was developing.
Iran has been the leading state sponsor of terrorism, arming and funding Hezbollah, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Houthis, the Polisario Front in Morocco, Muqtada Al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, and many others. Iran is behind numerous terror attacks, such as bombing of the Israeli embassy in Argentina in 1992 and 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish Center, the October 7 massacres in Israel, numerous attacks on American military personnel, and attempted assassinations in the United States, including a plot against President Trump. There is no reason why such a regime should be tolerated. The destruction of the Iranian military leadership was warranted and justified, and so was destroying their atomic weapons program.
The bombing of Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan was certainly justified by libertarian principles. A homicidal theocracy that exports murder around the world must not have nuclear weapons, and it is perfectly fine to bomb their program, and them, to oblivion. This is particularly so since they were offered the opportunity to give it up peacefully, and instead adopt trade with the civilized, developed world to mutual benefit. Since they refused, they have been crushed, justifiably.
It is heartening to finally see a Western leader or two stand up for civilization.
