Millions of Iranians are publicly demanding the end of the sharia-supremacist regime that has brutalized them and threatened us for nearly fifty years. The mullahs are increasingly responding with murderous violence.

President Trump has lately broken with past U.S. practice by explicitly supporting those in the streets. He’s threatened to use force to that end. He’s announced that new tariffs will be imposed on Iran’s trading partners. And American military assets are on the move in the region, creating new options for action against the ayatollahs.

Iran’s government is trying a gambit that has worked in the past – buying time through negotiations over its covert nuclear weapons program. At the moment, preparations for a bilateral meeting are reportedly underway.

There should be no more reprieves for the tyrants. We must help liberate the Iranian people, not preserve their enemies in Tehran, and ours.

This is Frank Gaffney.