For 47 Years the West Tried Diplomacy – While Iran’s Mullahs Wanted Armageddon

Iran has been at war with the United States and Israel for 47 years now.  - John F. Di Leo
March 10, 2026

We didn’t start it; they did. 

But we are finally getting around to finishing it...

• A rational government, having been rendered militarily impotent in a week, would sue for peace, hoping to get away with their lives as they relinquish control of a nation no longer theirs to rule.
• Instead, the remaining mullahs keep on trash-talking the Western world as if they were the nuclear power they have always aspired to be, and they announced a new ruler, son of the old ruler, just as committed to the Shi’ite theocratic tyranny that they have forced on the poor people of Iran for 47 years.

To say they haven’t learned their lesson is putting it mildly...