This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.      

When the Iranian regime last year threatened to kill Americans in Iraq, President Trump issued a stern warning. And when its surrogates in Iraq did just that, he retaliated by taking out the mullahs’ top general, Qasem Soleimani.

Lately, Iranian gunboats have been menacing US warships in the Persian Gulf. President Trump has issued another warning: Vessels engaging in such threatening behavior will be sunk. My guess is that other senior figures will pay a price, too.

Faced with crushing US sanctions, a severe drought, a Biblical-scale plague of locusts and the devastation wrought by the Chinese Communist Party virus, the ayatollahs may think it’s time to precipitate apocalyptic attacks against this country and Israel.

All the more reason to make the express object of American policy not just punishing the regime in Tehran, but helping the Iranian people bring it down.

This is Frank Gaffney.