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Because Iran has been fighting with us for 47 years, ever since radical Shia Islamists saw weakness in Democrat Jimmy Carter.

They took 54 American hostages and held them for 444 days, right up until Reagan was being Inaugurated. Ever since, it's been much of the same thing, with Iran engaging in direct and indirect attacks on the U.S. and Israel, often using and funding terrorist proxies. They have been quite open about their contempt, and a Jihad that included Death to America.

Unfortunately, for 47 years, we have acted in a teeter-totter fashion as our own country elected Democrats, then Republicans, then Democrats, then Republicans. For the most part, the Republicans engaged in tougher responses to Iran's attacks and responded with limited strikes and tough economic sanctions to try to destabilize the Islamic regime. Then the Democrats would show them weakness by easing sanctions when we had them on the ropes. They negotiated toothless nuclear deals that did next to nothing to ensure Iran was not enriching weapons grade uranium to produce a bomb, even as they were threatening to nuke Israel.

Democrat Bill Clinton significantly eased sanctions in 2000. Barack Obama is the primary U.S. president to significantly ease sanctions on Iran, doing so through the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which unfroze approximately $100 billion in assets and removed oil export sanctions.

Then Donald Trump ended the foolish JPCOA in 2018, only to have the weak and feckless Biden capitulate again, by turning a blind eye to a uranium enrichment program that Iran buried and hid several hundred feet underground, and also allowing them to freely sell oil on the world market.

So Iran essentially knew that all they needed to do was wait out the tough times when Republicans were in, and go back to cheating, exporting terrorism, and becoming stronger when Democrats were in. This sad sick teeter-totter ride always left Iran strong enough to fund global anti-U.S. terrorism, the rise of ISIS, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc., and mass killings of American soldiers as in the Khobar Towers and U.S.S. Cole attacks.

Donald Trump is finally engaging in an action to end this insane and costly 47 year cycle. Democrat Kamala Harris has already voiced her extreme opposition to this, so we can be sure Iran would still be on the path to a nuclear bomb had she been elected. Elections do matter.