It’s hard to keep up with developments in the war with the apocalyptic Iranian regime that has brutally repressed its own people and endlessly threatened, and periodically attacked, ours for nearly fifty years. 

The question is whether a man who has been at the heart of that government and directly responsible for many of its horrifying atrocities – including the mass murder of countless Iranians who responded to President Trump’s call to overthrow the ayatollahs – is a man with whom we now can safely and prudently do business.

Mohammed Ghalibaf may be the Iranian parliament’s speaker. But he’s also a top general in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps – a committed and dangerous jihadist.

Let us pray that President Trump is once again buying time to bring to bear the Marines and other forces needed to prevent, not enable, further threats from Iran. 

This is Frank Gaffney.