# Why the U.S. must win the war with Iran?

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Podcast: [Freedom Unaffiliated](https://stenobird.com/podcast/freedom-unaffiliated-6377441)
Published: 2026-03-31T18:00:00+00:00
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Obviously, the outcome of the war with Iran remains to be seen. The best outcome is a US military victory followed by regime change freeing Iranians from the tyranny of their government. With that may come a more peaceful and stable Middle East removing the existential danger of nuclear weapons in the hands of religious fanatics who have plagued the region for the last 47 years. In 1979, a revolution deposed an oppressive unpopular monarch, the Shah of Iran who, at least, was a pro-western modernist. It brought Ayatollah Khomeini to absolute power as Iran’s Supreme Leader. Protected by his loyal religious army, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Khomeini declared Iran to be an Islamic Republic and abolished the Family Protection Act, enacted under the shah, which extended basic rights to women. Khomeini’ s mosque-based bands, the komitehs, were unleashed to patrol the streets enforcing strict Islamic codes of dress and behavior. They beat women and other “enemies of the revolution,” with brutality and killings vastly exceeding any oppression by the shah. Most Iranians who supported the revolution hadn’t planned on trading one despot for far worst ones. Throughout their reign, the ayatollahs have proclaimed death to the Little Satan and the Great Satan (Israel and America). Their first attack on America came abruptly in 1979 with the seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran taking 66 hostages and holding them for 444 days, despite President Carter’s botched rescue attempt. It was no coincidence that the Ayatollah finally released the hostages literally minutes after President Reagan’s inauguration on January 20, 1981, no doubt fearing his wrath. The ayatollahs have waged one-sided terrorist warfare against the “two Satans” and other nations through proxies like Ha…

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