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You Had 47 Years of Diplomacy With Iran. Here's What It Got You. Mahsa Amini was 22 years old. Arrested by Iran's morality police because her headscarf was too loose. She died in custody three days later. They beat her to death. Over a piece of fabric. Her death set off the biggest protests Iran had seen in a generation. The regime's answer? Kill them. Over 500 dead. They shot a 16-year-old girl named Nika Shakarami in the street. Then snatched her body and tried to bury her in secret before her family could find her. Amirhesam Khodayarifard was 20 years old. Walked into a protest because his country was starving. He was chanting. Peacefully. A government agent shot him in the head. This is who they are. This is who they've always been. January 8th and 9th, 2026. The Islamic Republic of Iran executed the largest massacre of civilians in its modern history. Snipers on rooftops firing into crowds. Targeting heads and chests. Dragging protesters into prisons. Torturing them. Raping them. Returning women's bodies with organs removed to destroy the evidence. ~36,000 dead. In days. A former UN prosecutor who helped draft the Srebrenica genocide indictment said Iran killed twice as many in half the time. He called it an extermination. Where were the marches? Where was Ilhan Omar? Where was Rashida Tlaib? Where was Mamdani? Nowhere. But today, after we attack the regime that did this… NOW they want "diplomacy." NOW it's "illegal." What country do you stand for? In 1979 they stormed our embassy. Held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. In 1983 they bombed our Marine barracks in Beirut. 241 Americans crushed to death in their sleep. Khobar Towers. 19 more Americans dead. 2003 to 2011. They supplied the bombs that killed 600+ American soldiers in Iraq. They built Hezbollah. Funded Hamas. Armed the Houthis. Spent a billion dollars a year on terrorism. Orchestrated October 7th. Forty-seven years. The single greatest engine of death in the Middle East. And through all of it we kept talking and praying. In 2002, Iran's own dissidents blew the whistle. Iran had been building nuclear weapons underground. For 17 years. Hidden from the world. Not the CIA. Not the UN. Dissidents. It took 13 years to get a deal. Keep enrichment at civilian grade. Keep the stockpile under 300 kilograms. Let inspectors in. They agreed. Then broke every provision. From 300 kilograms to over 9,000. They ripped the cameras off the walls. By late 2024 they could build 5 to 6 bombs in under two weeks. France, Germany, and the UK, not neocons, no war hawks, said Iran had a stockpile with "no credible civilian justification." Two days before the strikes we sat with them in Muscat. Stop enriching. Stop the missiles. Stop funding terrorists. They said no. To all three. You don't negotiate with someone loading a gun under the table. The Tooth Fairy isn't real. And neither was Iran's willingness to negotiate. Every year of "diplomacy" was another year closer to the bomb. That was always the plan. This isn't about Democrat or Republican. By the laws of game theory, someone was going to have to confront Iran. A regime that kills 36,000 of its own people doesn't stop because you ask nicely. A country enriching to weapons grade while funding terrorism on six continents doesn't come to the table in good faith. Any president. Any party. This moment was always coming. Spare me the "international law" lecture. You don't get to hide behind rules you've spent five decades burning to the ground. You want to know what's illegal? Beating a 22-year-old woman to death over a headscarf. Shooting children from rooftops. Torturing women in prison. Removing organs from corpses. Building nuclear weapons while shaking hands with diplomats. That's what's illegal. Ilhan Omar. The day before a military operation she signaled the timing of a strike to a foreign adversary. That's not dissent. That is treason. Iranians responded: "We don't care about Ramadan. We are waiting for the US attack to overthrow your friend the Ayatollah." Listen to them. For once in your life. The Iranian people are dancing in the streets. They waited 47 years for someone to act. If not now, when? When they have the bomb? When it's too late? It was now or never. And we chose now. Diplomacy didn't fail. Diplomacy was the lie Iran told you while they built the bomb. And you believed it. Every. Single. Time.

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