Iran’s Regime – Low on Time, Out of Leverage, Long on Desperation

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As the Islamic regime in Iran grows more desperate, knowing that they are being economically choked to death, knowing their leverage via the Strait of Hormuz is gone, and facing the reality of their dwindling military capabilities, one thing remains clear…their apocalyptic death-cult is planning for a last-ditch, blaze of barbaric savagery akin to what I described at the end of my commentary a week ago as “burning their country to the ground so they can rule over the ashes.”

I’ll get back to this shortly.

While the IRGC does indeed fear military responses should they decide to strike Israel, from both Israel and the U.S., and while they know (even though they would never admit it) that such strikes would be devastating to the regime, there is something they fear even more…the Iranian people. The IRGC understands that an all-out military operation by Israel, by the U.S. or what would most likely be a combined U.S., Israeli military campaign unlike anything ever seen can, and would destroy IRGC and regime personnel, they also know only the Iranian people can truly topple the regime and remove the 7th century, 12 Shia ideology from power.

So, what will the regime’s “burning their country to the ground so they can rule over the ashes” look like…at least in part? Near the end of our RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS broadcast last Tuesday, September 29th, at the 1:21:45 mark you will hear in that discussion Diane Sori bring up “bio-weapons.” Diane said “if they were smart, they would not shoot them at Israel…” To be clear, “smart” has nothing to do with their calculation. DESPERATION has EVERYTHING to do with it, but it goes much deeper than most people think as some believe Israel is likely to be the regime’s primary target for that final desperation hail Mohammad.

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Anti Trump War Rhetoric vs. Reality’s Receipts

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Enough already with the virtue-signaling from those who disagree with the current strategy being employed against Iran, and the constant blaming of President Trump for mishandling the war, or making promises he hasn’t kept, or the claims that if Trump won’t finish the job, Israel will finish it for him.

And what happens when someone disagrees with the virtue signaling sorts? They will quickly proclaim that those who disagree with their opinions are “up Trump’s butt,” “brown nosers,” “Trump can do no wrong sorts” or “liars.”

Personally, I believe there have been mistakes made. For instance, I believe Trump was wrong to say, as he did in early March, 2026, that defeating the Iranian regime would only take 4-5 weeks, something he repeated several times before eventually dropping that line for a more non-descript timeline. What I believe he should have said from the jump was – “We’ll remain in this fight until the Iranian regime and the IRGC no longer hold the world hostage to their tyranny, brutality and terrorism.” Here’s another mistake I believe Trump has made – saying he will not stop until Iran unconditionally surrenders. That’s not ever going to happen and I made that very clear in my commentary, “The Mullah’s Madness Unmasked” back on May 10th, 2026. More on that later in this commentary.

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The U.S. War Strategy vs. Iran – -A Textbook Masterclass

By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot – Commentary

With regard to any who believe that President Trump has mismanaged the war with Iran, or any who, in their opinions believe that President Trump has ignored the lessons of history, made his strategic decisions based on advice from those who simply don’t understand how to fight or win a war, ignored his top cabinet and military advisors or built his strategy purely around political and/or personal aggrandizement, that simply couldn’t be further from the truth.

The strategy employed by the U.S. against Iran is very well documented, tested, successful and goes back much, much further than most would believe.

The basis for what has developed into the current strategy started with Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, (5th Century BCE) ‘Sun Tzu’s The Art of War repeatedly frames victory not just through battles but through breaking the enemy’s alliance network, using spies and deception, and depleting the enemy’s state treasuries while preserving your own resources.’ 

The Arthashastra, an ancient Indian piece written by Kautilya in India, roughly a century after ‘The Art of War,’ became the first formal version of the strategy listing four elements rather than Sun Tzu’s three. After the end of WWI, ‘The Twenty Years’ Crisis,’ by British political scientist E.H. Carr again narrowed it back to three elements.

During WWII, the U.S. engaged in the four element strategy and soon after the end of WWII, United States military and defense strategists formalized it as only the U.S. military can…with an acronym and it has been the blueprint taught by our military through leadership and academy classes ever since. That is certainly not to say it has always been followed and obviously, when not, our efforts have suffered for it, but it does remain the U.S. military blueprint to this day.

The acronym?

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The Iran War – Options vs. Alternatives Part 1

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Political analysts, think-tank sorts, some religious and/or theocratic scholars, and various other critics have been quick to argue that President Trump is “mismanaging the war” because he simply “does not understand radical Islam or the Iranian regime’s death-cult mindset.” Some on the right side of the aisle also claim that “Trump is losing the war.” Everybody is entitled to their own opinion. I believe our president has a much better understanding of the radical Islamic mindset than do some of his critics, I believe he has a much deeper understanding of the broader Middle East mindset than his critics claim he has, and I know that there is no easy way to fight ANY war, especially one with so many moving pieces as this one.

While President Trump’s primary stated purpose for this war is to prevent Iran from ever having a nuclear weapon, we all know that the only way to ensure that is to create regime change in Iran. Here’s the problem with the U.S. engineering regime change – we have a terrible success rate in doing that. Viet Nam, Korea, and several recent attempts in the Middle East…including in Iran in 1979 leap to mind. But that’s not the only issue we face. Go too fast and you create a vacuum of power. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt, don’t want to do that again.

Go too slow, you wind up as a tourist in Hanoi pretending it was an adventure on your bucket list for decades.

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The Mullah’s Madness Unmasked

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On April, 8th, 2026, President Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran which was initially supposed to last two weeks. Pakistan, working as the middleman introduced a framework for a ten point “peace agreement plan,” which has now, in various forms, been on the table for the past month. Up until now, all “negotiations” have failed, and while I strongly disagree with “negotiating” with terrorists, and make no mistake, Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, the “negotiations” have been pretty limited to President Trump telling Iran what to do, and Iran saying, “no.”

If we go back to the end of the first week of military operations, President Trump demanded “unconditional surrender” from Iran to halt US and Israeli air strikes, stating he would accept no deal otherwise. He asserted that Iran’s military was ineffective and called for the nation to “wave the white flag” To be crystal clear, while some Republicans are clinging to that statement and are expressing dismay that President Trump has seemingly backed away from it, “unconditional surrender” was never the reason for going to war with Iran, it was but a suggested off-ramp for the Iranian regime to bring the devastating bombardment to a halt quickly.

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The Clock is Ticking…What Comes Next?

Op-ed / Commentary By: Craig Andresen and Diane Sori / Right Side Patriots 

On February 28th, 2026, President Donald Trump began what no U.S. President had the courage to do over the past 47 years – he began military action against the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, Iran. In concert with Israel, over the past two months, the radical Islamic regime’s military assets have been pounded into the dirt, pounded to the bottom of the sea, and eliminated from the air. The ranks of the regime’s leadership have been decimated, and their ability to continue striking Israel, their neighbors and U.S. forces has been severely weakened, but not completely eliminated.

Likewise, the Iranian regime’s ability to rearm, resupply and finance their proxy armies has also been severely damaged, but not completely eliminated, and the regime’s hold over the Strait of Hormuz,  which they rely upon for shipping oil, their primary source of income has slipped away and is now all but controlled by the U.S. and a naval blockade.

But this war is not over. Unless and until whatever remains of the Iranian regime has been driven out…out of power, out of Iran and/or permanently eliminated, the threat to Israel, the Middle East, Europe and indeed to the United States still exists.

Here is the problem – The War Powers Resolution.

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Brute Force and Common Sense

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So, the war against the terrorist regime of Iran has been ongoing now for nearly two months and despite the loss of their navy, their air force, most of their ability to target our bombers and the loss of better than 50 of their regime leaders, Iran continues to make one absurd claim after another, most of which revolve around how they haven’t been hurt, and are still a strong power in the region.

They’re not.

They know it.

We know it,

And they know that we know it.

For the past 47 years, the Iranian regime has been chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” and they have insisted that they are at war with both America and Israel. In act, those have been more than just words as the terrorist regime’s actions have killed thousands of both Americans and Israelis. Israel has, up until now, always responded to the constant attacks against the Jewish state and the Jewish people coming from Iran or their proxies in a bigger tit for a smaller tat sort of way, but October 7th, 2023 changed that.

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Bombs, Boots or Both?

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What I’m about to suggest will, no doubt, set liberal’s hair on fire, and it will probably rankle more than a few on the right side of the political aisle as well but I’ve been watching Operation Epic Fury and Operation Rising Lion pretty closely, and I think things are about to change.

So far, this military action has been a strategic stroke of brilliance. It’s been a unique blend of coordinated attacks between our military and that of Israel relying on the greatest collection of intel ever assembled between the CIA and Mossad. The rapid but well-measured attacks that started with stand-off strikes that took out the Iranian regime’s top leaders in the first 30 seconds of action and decimated Iran’s command and control headquarters within the first 48 hours, followed by the steady destruction of Iran’s navy and air force.

As targets related to Iran’s missile and drone capabilities were identified, they too were blasted into oblivion while Iranian regime replacements, and the replacements for the replacements were systematically eliminated either in groups, or one by one.

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Liberal Loons and the Grumpy Gremlin

As the situation in Iran continues to unfold, everybody seems focused on the pounding the regime there has been taking for the past three weeks and rightly so. The constant bombardment by U.S. and Israeli forces makes lots of noise, and Iranian regime leaders are falling faster than Joe Biden on a set of stairs.

Sure, Iran still has some fight left in them, at least they say they do. Iran’s navy has been sunk. Their air force has been blown to bits. The regime’s command and control centers have been virtually wiped out. Iranian air defense is in a shambles.

The Iranian stockpiles of missiles are being blasted out of existence. Their missile launchers have been clobbered, and their fleets of drones are being picked off.

Iran’s military installations on Kharg Island are smoldering, and their ability to launch attacks against their neighboring nations has been cut by 80-90 percent. Even their military production factories have been bombed back to the stoneage.

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Unlike Obama, Trump Leads From the Front

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Liberals are tripping all over themselves rushing to the nearest microphone or social media platform to rant, rave and froth at the mouth regarding the military action against Iran.

Liberals, be they elected, or members of the propaganda media or garden-variety liberals on social media are claiming that they have no idea what the “objective” of the action against Iran is, or that the Trump administration has offered conflicting justifications for it. These liberals are quite frankly…feigning ignorance. In the video below, Scott Jennings answers the CNN panel’s questions clearly, but notice the smugness and fake claims of not understanding why what’s happening is happening.

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