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Michael Kuenne
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The Mullahs Are Falling. Israel Just Lit the Fuse.

A woman holds a sign reading “Be Our Voice” during a solidarity protest with Iranian demonstrators, held at the Victory Column in Berlin, Germany, on October 22, 2022. Photo: Michael Kuenne
A woman holds a sign reading “Be Our Voice” during a solidarity protest with Iranian demonstrators, held at the Victory Column in Berlin, Germany, on October 22, 2022. Photo: Michael Kuenne

Iran is a nation that deserves better than the mullahs. When protests erupted, the regime murdered its own. Now, Israel’s bombs echo those silenced cries for freedom. Iranians, unrepresented, oppressed, and betrayed, deserve not sympathy alone but an ally willing to destroy tyranny, not merely deactivate its weapons.

A toppled clerical dictatorship does not mean chaos; it means liberation.

When women tore off their hijabs, the regime shot them. When students marched for freedom, the regime tortured them. When thousands chanted for dignity, the mullahs answered with batons, bullets, and death. The Islamic Republic is governed not by consent but by fear, proxy violence, and theological oppression. Now, for the first time in decades, that fear is cracking.

Israel did what no other nation dared to do. It acted.

Israel does not exist to comfort the West. It exists to protect Jews. And in this moment, it has done more; it has offered Iranians a glimpse of what it looks like when tyranny bleeds. For decades, Iran has surrounded Israel with fire. Hezbollah to the north. Hamas to the south. Shiite militias in Syria and Iraq. Houthis in Yemen. Every inch of that terror web was sewn with Iranian cash and strategy. Many of the missiles that struck Israeli homes bore the fingerprints of Tehran’s funding and training. Every call to “wipe Israel off the map” was not a metaphor. It was policy.

Western pundits accuse Israel of “escalation.” But to what exactly? Escalation from what? From years of restraint while Iran armed genocidal proxies? From being attacked on multiple fronts? From watching the international community reward Iran with sanctions relief while it plotted destruction? No. This is not escalation. This is the long-overdue consequence of red lines being crossed and warnings being ignored.

And as always, the “progressive” West is marching for the wrong side.

Feminists defend hijab mandates. Progressive students, armed with zero knowledge of Shia theocracy, chant slogans that would make Khomeini proud. This is not solidarity. This is stupidity. Wokeness has replaced moral judgment with moral theatrics.

Moral failure dressed in hashtag activism.

They are so allergic that they defend a regime that imprisons women for dancing and executes teenagers for speaking. They march not against power but against moral clarity. And in doing so, they expose what they truly hate: not oppression, but Israel.

History will remember who stood on the right side and who stood silent. This is the final, reluctant, righteous step in a chain of ignored warnings.

There is no such thing as neutrality in the face of tyranny. You either resist it or enable it. Solidarity with tyrants is not compassion. It’s cowardice disguised as politics. When tyrants begin to fall, they fall faster than anyone dares to believe. – Michael Kuenne

To the people of Iran: one day, when the smoke clears and the tyrants have fled like rats, you will look back at this moment, not with fear, but with gratitude. No bomb striking a nuclear bunker echoes louder than a nation rising to reclaim its dignity.

This is not a call for indiscriminate war. It is a call to end a regime that has thrived on death for decades.

When not now, then when?

About the Author
Michael Kuenne works as a journalist on antisemitism, extremism, and rising threats to Jewish life. His reporting continually sheds light on the dangers that come from within radical ideologies and institutional complicity, and where Western democracies have failed in confronting the new rise of Jew-hatred with the due urgency it does call for. With hard-hitting commentary and muckraking reporting, Kuenne exposed how the antisemitic narratives shape policymaking, dictate public discourse, and fuel hate toward Israel. His writings have appeared in a number of international media outlets, including The Times of Israel Blogs. Kuenne has become a voice heard for blunt advocacy in regard to Israel's right to self-defense, critiquing ill-conceived humanitarian policies serving only to empower terror, while demanding a moral clarity which seems beyond most Western leaders. With a deep commitment to historical truth, he has covered the resurgence of Holocaust distortion in political rhetoric, the dangerous normalization of antisemitic conspiracies in mainstream culture, and false equivalencies drawn between Israel's actions and the crimes of its enemies. His reporting dismantles sanitized language that whitens the record of extremism and insists on calling out antisemitism-whether from the far right, the far left, or Islamist movements, without fear or hesitation.
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