Update on Iran

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What’s happening in Iran is incredibly dynamic, so it’s entirely possible that, by the time I publish this (which won’t be long after I finish writing it), it will already be out of date. Nevertheless, I did want to bring you up to speed on what seems to be the last, best information about Iran.

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First, the mullahs have figured out (at least temporarily) how to shut down Starlink, isolating the Iranian people:

Let’s hope that Starlink engineers can get one step ahead of this one.

Second, some videos are still getting out, and they show that the mullahs have abandoned restraint and are killing large numbers of people:

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The mullahs seem to be making a point of showing off the bodies as a deterrent to further unrest: Third, despite the crackdown, the violence does not seem to have stopped, with the incredibly brave Iranian people rampaging against the theocrats who have abused them for so long: The situation is incredibly volatile, and I was wrong to predict the mullahs’ downfall by Monday (but I’m optimistic enough to think it will happen). The big question, then, is whether President Trump will do anything. Rumors are flying, which explains why flights over Iran have pretty much stopped. No commercial airliner wants to find itself in the middle of an aerial battle: There are constant rumors about Trump preparing for an attack:

The one thing we know is that Trump threatened that, if the mullahs killed their own people, he would strike—and, as noted above, the mullahs are on a killing spree:

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It’s highly unlikely that Trump will do what Obama did in Syria, which is draw a red line and then ignore it entirely. That’s not Trump’s style because he understands the optics of weakness, and it would run counter to his long track record.

However, what we’ve seen is that Trump has an incredibly well-managed administration, including the Pentagon, that will keep operational secrecy. When Trump acts, we’ll all be surprised.

Getting rid of the mullahs may well be the most important thing that can happen in our lifetime to stabilize the free world. Keep those brave, beleaguered Persians in your prayers. To the extent they did a bad thing in 1979 by kicking out the Shah and inviting in the fanatics, they’ve been punished long enough, unto the third or fourth generation, and it’s time for the whole ugly, bloody, revolutionary experiment to end.