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It’s difficult to overstate the significance of Israel’s ongoing strikes against Iran: In just a few days, Israel has effectively decapitated the Islamic Republic’s military high command, and has caused serious damage to its military and nuclear infrastructure.
The regime has sued for a cessation of hostilities — and according to reports, is terrified that America will get involved, as the United States bulks up its military presence in the region.
Good.
With Iran dangerously close to nuclear breakout, Israel is doing the entire world a favor with its campaign to ensure that Iran never obtains nuclear weapons.
But the job isn’t over.
Nothing short of the verifiable destruction of Iran’s nuclear weapons program is acceptable — and it’s in America’s best interest to give Israel whatever it needs to succeed in this mission.
President Trump has repeatedly said peace cannot exist in a world in which Iran has access to nuclear weapons. He is exactly right.
A nuclear Iran would pose a threat to peace everywhere.
It would enable the regime to effectively hold the world hostage, with the power to disrupt the global economy or coerce other powers into bowing to its will.
It would insulate the dictatorship from popular pressure for change and allow the mullahs to continue their role as the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism.
And of course, it would pose a clear existential threat to Israel — a nation that the Iranian regime has vowed to wipe off the map.
All of these developments would obviously threaten America’s national security and prosperity.
And as much as some critics would like us to believe that Israel’s and America’s futures are not linked, recall that this is the regime that refers to our country as “The Great Satan,” uses Friday prayers to lead bloodthirsty chants of “Death to America,” funds terrorist proxies that have killed hundreds of Americans, and has demonstrated over and over again, for more than four decades, that it is committed to undermining our interests at every turn.
Clearly, it is in America’s best interest to give Israel what it needs to succeed, and to pursue a strategy that exploits Iran’s multiple internal and external pressure points to further weaken the regime’s hand.
This is important not just for containing Iran, but because of the message it will send Iran’s autocratic allies, Russia and China, about America’s commitment to restoring deterrence.
Make no mistake: Russia and China are also — at least metaphorically — being bloodied by Israel’s success.
The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria last year already dealt a blow to this alliance’s strategic depth in the region; the prospect of a weakened or collapsed Iran puts put an even larger dent in the armor of this dangerous partnership.
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More importantly, by demonstrating American resolve on the issue of nuclear proliferation, dictators like Xi Jinping will have to think twice before making any aggressive or destabilizing moves — for example, in the South China Sea, or toward Taiwan.
To critics who argue that America is on the verge of being dragged into yet another Middle Eastern entanglement, it’s worth remembering that wars generally start when bad actors perceive weakness — not the other way around.
Policies that impose costs for aggression and bad behavior are crucial to preventing wars.
It’s what kept us from having to send large numbers of servicemen into combat during the first Trump administration, and it’s what will ultimately make us safer and keep us off the battlefield — provided we do what is necessary to stand with our ally Israel.
Mike Pompeo was US secretary of state from 2018 to 2021.