Even If Israel Didn’t Exist, U.S. Would Have Needed to Hit “Death to America” Iranian Regime

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein, and the ZOA Board, staff, supporters, and friends are enormously grateful to President Trump for the courageous, necessary joint U.S.-Israeli action against the Islamic Iranian terror regime and elimination of Iran’s monstrous evil Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, and many of Iran’s evil leaders. Millions of citizens of Iran, Israel and other Middle Eastern nations share our gratefulness to the U.S. President and the U.S. and Israeli forces. Polls show 81% of Iranians oppose the Ayatollah and his regime. (It seems only Tucker Carlson supports the Ayatollah.)

The U.S.-Israeli action was long needed: For decades, the Iranian Islamist regime has been the world’s prime state sponsor of terrorism – funding, arming, and directing terror proxies that murdered Americans, Israelis, and countless others across the globe including Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and more. The Iranian regime’s relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles endangered the U.S., Israel, and the entire free world.

Throughout the forty-seven years since radical Islamic Iranian terrorists seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took American diplomats hostage, the Iranian regime and its proxies have engaged in war against America, Israel, Jews, Christians, other non-Muslims, the West, its Muslim Arab neighbors and its own people who sought freedom from Islamist tyranny. The Iranian regime openly declared its intentions, chanting “Death to America,” “Death to Israel” and “America is the Big Satan, Israel is the Little Satan” at state-sponsored rallies.

Iran and its proxies murdered American service members and civilians in attacks in Lebanon, at Khobar Towers, aboard the USS Cole, roadside bombings in Iraq, the October 7 massacre, and other acts of terror across decades. Iran also facilitated the worst terror attack on American soil: Iran helped Al Qaeda plan 9-11, and arranged the travel and trained the terrorists for the deadly 9-11 attacks.  

In 2020, ZOA expressed our gratitude to President Trump for eliminating IRGC terror leader Qasem Soleimani to prevent imminent attacks on Americans.

But for decades, many U.S. administrations, especially the Obama and Biden administrations, “kicked the can down the road,” or even continued to fund Iran, even while Iranian regime hit lists targeted U.S. officials (including President Trump and former Secretary Pompeo) and U.S. citizens (including ZOA President Klein). Former administrations moreover ignored the Iranian people’s cries for U.S. assistance when they rose up against the regime.

Today’s action was clearly not solely about Israel. Even if Israel didn’t exist, America would have needed to attack Iran to protect itself and much of the world from terror, deadly missiles and nuclear annihilation, and to aid the Iranian citizens who have severely suffered from the Iranian regime’s tyranny, massacres of women who refused to abide by the regime’s fanatical demands, and recent massacre of over 32,000 innocent Iranian civilians in the last few weeks.

Just as America and its allies would have needed to attack and destroy Hitler and the Nazis even if there were no Jews, America would need to destroy the Ayatollah’s regime even if there were no Jews. Hitler’s regime and the Iranian Ayatollah’s regime were marked by the same brutality, evil, and destructive goals of world domination and repression.  

This is a historic day that may begin to transform the Middle East. Iran – once the center of Cyrus the Great’s groundbreaking respect for all faiths – may again become a stable, rational, tolerant nation and law-abiding citizen of the world. The Zionist Organization of America sincerely thanks President Trump for taking courageous, long-needed action to bring safety and stability to America, our allies, the Middle East and the world.

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is prouder than ever that we were the only major Jewish organization to publicly honor President Trump, in person, at our standing room only NYC gala, with our rarely given highest award The Theodore Herzl Award.