Iran’s war against the West, primarily against the United States and Israel but also against every country aligned with either the “big Satan” or “the little Satan,” began almost as soon as the shah of Iran was toppled by its first “supreme leader,” Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979, and has never been discontinued by his successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who took over for the first Shia revolutionary imam when Khomeini died in 1989.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has been in its war against us and our allies for 46 years. When Khamenei launched his expeditionary Quds Force against our troops in Iraq, killing hundreds of them and wounding thousands, he knew what he was doing.
When Khamenei deployed forward-operating divisions of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria to prop up the now-defeated brutal Syrian dictator Bashir Assad, Khamenei knew what he…
