Why we Fight Iran – Is it for Israel? – RedState

(This is Part 3 of a multi-part sequence. Part 1: Why We Fight Iran; Part 2: Why We Fight Iran: It’s the Economy, Stupid!)

If you spend any time on X, you may be swamped by accounts claiming that the U.S. attacked the Islamic Republic of Iran (IR) solely because Israel demanded it. You will discover these accounts on both the political proper and left. Many of them are sponsored by Chinese, Russian, and even Iranian international governments. Many of them are run by people who are stricken with, and/or taking part in to, antisemitism. 

The lack of historic information from these accounts is breathtaking. They ignore the fact, as I described before, that since 1979, when the IR seized American hostages, the IR has been at struggle against the U.S. The IR has killed over a thousand Americans, has carried out numerous terror assaults on the U.S. and U.S. pursuits, has screamed “death to America,” has deliberate to kill an American president, and has threatened the world economic system a number of occasions. These X accounts also fake that President Donald Trump is an simply fooled/bullied determine who follows the dictates of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fully, despite demonstrated examples of Trump efficiently pushing Netanyahu to do one thing against Netanyahu’s own curiosity, such as occurred with the IR and Qatar. And these accounts also ignore the long-documented report of the President’s disgust and mistrust of the IR. 

Finally, none of these accounts appear to remember that the U.S. and, certainly, all nations, have a national curiosity in bolstering the pursuits and security of their allies: 

The survival of U.S. allies… is a important American curiosity because our allies’ destruction, desertion, or abandonment would dramatically weaken America’s capacity to shield its residents and their pursuits. U.S. allies likewise contribute basically to the U.S. pursuit of each of the other 4 important pursuits, though in today’s world, stopping the emergence of a hostile hegemon in Europe or Asia and stopping a hostile major energy from controlling the seas are maybe America’s most speedy considerations.

Supporting U.S. allies in their own conflicts will both encourage those allies to return the favor and incentivize other nations to be part of alliances with the U.S.  

Alliances, however, can lead to struggle. 

An ideal instance of this occurred during World War I.  In WWI, Europe was divided into two alliances, the Allied Powers and the Central Powers, and a single assassination resulted in a bloody struggle that killed tens of tens of millions and devastated the continent:  

The authentic Allied powers united because of a web of bilateral treaties activated in the wake of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination by a Serbian nationalist on June 28, 1914. In a domino-like chain response, Austria-Hungary declared struggle on Serbia (July 28); Serbia’s protector, Russia, mobilized its forces to defend Serbia (July 30); and Austria-Hungary’s ally, Germany, declared struggle against Russia (August 1), which also necessitated declaring struggle against France (August 3). Germany’s plan for combating France required it to first invade Belgium (August 3–4). Great Britain was obligated to defend Belgium, so it responded by declaring struggle against Germany (August 4). And as an ally of Great Britain, Japan declared struggle against Germany on August 23.

Today, the U.S. and Israel have an alliance. It is a distinctive alliance – “America does not exact hundreds of billions of dollars tribute to defend Israel the way it does with the wealthy Middle East clients, like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, but rather pays and arms her to help defend U.S. interests in the region.”  

Israel has often defended U.S. national pursuits. In 1970, at the behest of the Nixon administration, Israel threatened Syria to stop its invasion of U.S. ally Jordan. In 1991, at the behest of the H.W. Bush administration, Israel didn’t reply to Scud assaults from Iraq during the first Gulf War so as not to threaten the coalition the U.S. had assembled with the Sunni Arab states. And in 2010, at the behest of the Obama administration, Israel agreed to a 10-month moratorium on “settlement” construction in Judea and Samaria—the first such moratorium since 1967—and backed the creation of a Palestinian Arab state.

So, in a Bizarro world where the IR never acted against U.S. pursuits, the U.S. would still have a national curiosity in supporting Israel in its battle with the IR. Granted, the U.S. would in all probability not take part as strongly as it has right here. But, as I said before, the U.S. is so deeply concerned because other U.S. national pursuits also argue for the U.S. to degrade or destroy its enemy, the IR.

Therefore, the U.S. resolution to assault the IR, concentrating on its troops and leaders for destruction, may deter, punish, and even destroy an enemy regime with a confirmed monitor report of killing or harming Americans, which definitely deliberate future assaults, and thus serves our national curiosity in supporting our strong ally Israel, which is also focused by the IR.

Because of these three national pursuits, the U.S. has taken the lead in bringing the already declared struggle – in 1979, by the IR – to the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 

I hope this solutions your query, Mr. Walsh. 

Sincerely,

Adam Turner

PS: And there’s one more factor to focus on.  On January 2, 2026, after the Iranian protests against the IR had begun, President Trump wrote on Truth Social:

If Iran sho[o]ts and violently kills peaceable protesters, which is their customized, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and prepared to go.

This was a “red line” set by President Trump.  

After that post, the IR slaughtered at least 32,000 Iranian protestors.  

The IR violated President Trump’s purple line. If President Trump had not acted to implement his purple line, this would have dramatically weakened the U.S. and would have inspired the IR and other hostile powers to take a look at American resolve and create chaos and destruction throughout the world, which might be against the U.S. national curiosity.

And we know just how harmful not implementing a U.S. purple line could be, Mr. Walsh. President Obama failed to implement his 2012 purple line in regards to the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons. This demonstrated weak spot supercharged the Islamist forces of ISIS and al-Qaeda. And it enticed our primary historic rival, Russia, to transfer into Syria.  

Eventually, under new management, the U.S. was compelled to intervene against ISIS to shield U.S. national pursuits. Under President Trump, during his first time period.   

And now, President Trump is intervening to shield the U.S. against an even deadlier enemy, the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Editor’s Note: For a long time, former presidents have been all discuss and no motion. Now, Donald Trump is eliminating the menace from Iran once and for all.

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