Iran asked for it. Trump delivered.

Published June 21, 2025 11:04pm ET



Barack Obama sent the Iranian regime pallets of Swiss francs and euros. Donald Trump sent them six 30,000-pound bunker busters. 

They deserve it. We’ve been at war with Iran since 1979. Sanctions never worked. Diplomacy never worked. For nearly 20 years, the United States virtually begged Iran to abandon its nuclear weapons program to avoid war. Instead, the mullahs continued to enrich uranium at levels that could only mean one thing. There’s really no debate about Iran’s goal of becoming a nuclear power. There’s a reason the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities are built deep underground without any infrastructure for civilian use. Whether Iran was two weeks or two months or two years away is irrelevant. They were never going to stop.

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