I want to talk to you about the Persian people—ninety-two million of them. The vast majority want nothing more than to live in freedom. I want to talk to you about humanity itself. I want to talk to you about Judeo-Christian values and beliefs. Some of you may have gone to church on Sunday or to temple, where you absorbed those moral and ethical teachings—whether they were passed down to you or simply intuitive. You know right from wrong. You know good from evil.
So let me speak plainly about the tens of millions of people in Iran who, for forty-seven years, have been treated like animals. They have been imprisoned, tortured, raped, and murdered by the tens of thousands. They have been told what kind of music they can and cannot listen to. I want to talk about the young women—the daughters, sisters, and mothers—who are forced to cover their heads, denied any rights, let alone equal rights, and subjected to the worst kind of abuses. I want to talk about the young people in Iran who simply want to enjoy their youth, experience new things, happy things, and learn without fear. Instead, they have become the primary target of the regime’s secret police. They are rounded up, summarily executed—mostly in secret.
And I want to talk about those in our own country who fancy themselves liberals, human-rights activists, and civil libertarians. They don’t give a damn about any of this. They don’t speak out. They will not speak out. Because the Democrat Party—or whatever political entity they belong to—the Marxists and the Islamists they align with hate America and Israel so much that they would rather see tens of thousands more Iranians die horrible deaths than see our country defeat this homicidal regime.
Where are the women’s groups? They are so tied into the fanatical and radical left that they haven’t said a word about the mass abuse and rapes of women and girls by the Iranian regime. Nothing. No marches. No press conferences. They’re not on television. They are nowhere.
Where are the religious leaders? There are a few, but where are the rest? I don’t hear them. Do you hear them? The so-called religious left in our country, despite the wholesale slaughter of innocent civilians, carries water for the so-called anti-war movement.
And what about those who say the Iranian regime’s nuclear threat was not imminent? That this is a war of choice, an illegal war? They care not one whit. They are not only giving aid and comfort to this horrific enemy—they are encouraging it to slaughter, execute, rape, torture, and do what homicidal regimes do. Because they know the enemy senses they are in the bag. There is nothing—nothing—honorable or righteous about any of these groups or individuals. And shame on the Americans who are either silent or, worse, pretend this genocide is not taking place or know it is and turn the other cheek. Shame on those who think this way. Shame on those who are not speaking out. Shame on those who are not acting—especially those in a position to do so.
They accuse our president and our country and our military of imperialism and colonialism in this war. They accuse Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu of dragging us into a war. They accuse Jews of controlling the president, of controlling our foreign policy, and all the rest of the Jew-hatred they spew—while the Persian people are being slaughtered and abused. You all disgust me the most.
Despite all the news coverage and attention to the deals, the Persian people are told that the condition for overthrowing the Iranian regime—a fully armed military and security force that numbers 150,000 or more, supported by Islamist terrorist militias from Iraq and elsewhere—is that now is the time to rise up. But rise up with what?
They did rise up in January, only to be slaughtered by over 42,000 of their fellow Persians—murdered in cold blood by the regime and its imported militias—and systematically imprisoned. As I speak, executions are occurring left and right. There are knocks on doors—like the SS in Berlin—dragging people out of their homes and businesses. These are courageous people who want liberty. These are Western-type people. If we help arm them, they can rise up. We’ve done this before to help people seek freedom—people who didn’t number as many as the Persian people and hadn’t demonstrated as clearly that they truly want their liberty and their lives back.
I just read that Turkey’s Erdogan opposed disarming the Kurds. Since when does Erdogan—a national-socialist Islamist who is, for goodness’ sake, in NATO—dictate to the West or anyone else what we will or will not do? He is a problem in and of himself, as is his homicidal regime that throws people in prison and disappears them without due process. I hope we are not listening to Turkey. I doubt that we are. But there is no question we have the capacity to arm these people, or some of these people, or to help organize a resistance. Our CIA had the capacity to do it before. Does it not have the capacity to do it again? Do we not have the will to do this? Which would have benefits across the board: remove the regime, free the people, and eliminate any future threat of nuclear or ballistic-missile development. Isn’t that a good thing—for the Persian people, for the American people, for the people of the Middle East, and for people all over the world?
Help these people. There is one reason that trumps them all. It is more important than them all: humanity. The will of humanity.
The great, late Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, who passed away a few years ago, was once asked why God allowed the Holocaust to occur. He answered that the real question wasn’t “Where was God?” but “Where was man?” God did not allow the Holocaust to occur. Humanity allowed the Holocaust to occur.
The same principle applies today. Evil doesn’t triumph because God turns away; it triumphs because people do. The silence, the excuses, the selective morality—that is humanity failing again. The issue is whether we have the will—whether our fellow human beings have the will—to help come to the rescue of other human beings when we are in a position to do so. Because never before has this Iranian Nazi regime been on its back as it is today. And to be very clear, it is thanks to our president, President Donald Trump. It is thanks to our Secretary of Defense, our Secretary of State, our generals, and our military. It is thanks to the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his ministers and his military.
Let me be clear about our country: the only president with the courage, the wisdom, and the fortitude to confront this Nazi-like regime—this mass-murdering, nuclear-obsessed, Islamist enemy of the world—is Donald Trump. And unlike other circumstances around the world where genocide is taking place, and as a practical matter we can’t get involved in all of them, in Iran we have the opportunity to do something about it.
Now we’re at the door. We can hear the people begging us. They hear our bombs; they hear our missiles—or they did. Despite the regime turning out the lights and turning off all means of communication, we know damn well what’s going on there.
Iran is the biggest concentration camp in human history right now. Near the end of World War II, when concentration camps were being liberated, General Dwight Eisenhower insisted that his fellow four-star generals accompany him and walk through one of them. He was shocked and disgusted. He wrote to General Marshall, to the President, and to Prime Minister Winston Churchill: “Never before have I ever seen such evil.” This was a man who led our armed forces in World War II. Men who had seen everything—George Patton refused to go into one of the buildings because he said he had seen enough—were horrified. They had never seen that.
We don’t have that excuse. Modern technology gives us eyes on what is taking place in that country. We know what’s happening. We’ve seen it on the air, and it’s hard to look at. Let us not make that mistake again.
I don’t really believe the failure to widely release the October 7, 2023, Nova Festival massacre videos—videotaped by the subhuman animals who committed those monstrous acts—was merely a mistake. The parents didn’t want them released, and that’s understandable. But I believe that horrific spread of anti-Semitism, Jewish hatred, and Israel hatred that is taking place in virtually every capital in the West and beyond—including in our own country, from podcasters to organized groups—would have gone a long way to blunting their lies and stopping what’s taking place. Let’s not make that mistake again.
The door is open. The Persian people are begging. Humanity is watching. The will to act is the only question left.
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