Iran’s Regime Is the Most Dangerous Enemy of Peace

The Islamic Republic’s fanatical pursuit of jihad is not merely a destabilizing force on the world stage; it is a moral crucible for the Muslim world, demanding it choose between the future and the abyss.

Iran’s rulers have waged a theological war against the Enlightenment. Their campaign is not simply anti-Israel; it is anti-reason, anti-memory, and anti-dignity. It is anti-modernity, anti-sovereignty, and anti-peace. It is a totalitarianism disguised in clerical garb, wielding martyrdom as a weapon and cynicism as a tool.

For too long, the world refused to name this plainly. Israel did not, not out of fear, but because survival leaves little room for philosophical indulgence. Because Israel, more than any other nation, has lived at the knife’s edge of Tehran’s ideology. To Israelis, the threat is not theoretical. It has a range, a warhead, and a return address. But what is now clearer than ever is this: Iran is not a threat to Israel alone. It is a threat to many countries in the Middle East. It is a threat to Muslims who wish to live without being told that piety means submission to tyranny. It is a threat to the very notion that the Middle East can exist in peace without submission to an imperial theology headquartered in Qom.

That is Tehran’s export policy. Too many observers, particularly in the West, fail to see what Israel’s generals see: that Tehran’s strategy is not chaos as collateral damage; it is chaos as architecture. A Middle East where Iran wins is not a Middle East at all. It is a caliphate of controlled chaos, with Mecca silenced, Cairo trembling, and Tel Aviv ash. Even now, in the midst of this, Israeli leaders speak not with hatred but with heartbreak. They speak of solidarity, not with the regime, but with the soul of a nation hijacked. Because in another history, a better one, Iran and Israel would be partners, not adversaries.

And yet, let us be precise about one thing: Israel does not war against the Iranian people. On the contrary, their freedom is one of the things Israel still believes in, even when the world forgets it. I have spoken with Iranians who whisper a truth too dangerous to shout: We do not want this regime. We did not choose these mullahs. We are prisoners of their ambitions. These are not Westernized dissidents. They are Persians who remember poetry, music, and dignity. They are sons and daughters of Cyrus, not pawns of Khamenei.

Israel knows this. It always has. This is why Israeli pilots aim for uranium bunkers, not bazaars. This is why when Israeli missiles strike, they carry pain but never contempt. This is not an abstract principle. It is why Israel fights not to conquer but to protect. And it is why the world’s silence has become deafening.

Let me be blunt: the West has coddled this regime for too long and negotiated, financed, and romanticized it. Foreign ministries call for “mutual de-escalation” as if a death cult could be coaxed into moderation.

They are wrong. And Israel has paid the price for their illusions. Iran does not merely seek nuclear weapons; it seeks the annihilation of the Jewish future.

So what must be done? First, let no Western leader speak of ceasefires until Tehran’s proxies are disarmed and its uranium is dust. Let no Western diplomat utter the word “peace” unless it means peace for Jews, peace for Arabs, and peace for Persians alike. And let no journalist pretend that what we are witnessing is a “conflict.” It is not. It is a defense against extinction. To my friends in Europe and America, history will ask what you did when the world’s last Jewish state stood alone against the world’s most ancient antisemitic regime. Did you stand beside it or behind a podium?

This is not just Israel’s war. The chance to write that better history begins now, with eyes open, hands steady, and hearts unwilling to look away.