While much of the world’s elites focus on a fractious debate in Davos over the future status of Greenland and the prospects for the NATO alliance, tectonic shifts are taking place in the Middle East that require urgent attention. 

During weeks of massive protests across Iran, President Trump warned that nation’s jihadist regime not to use violence to suppress them, encouraged the unrest to continue and declared it was time for the supreme leader to go. The ayatollahs savagely crushed the uprising with impunity. 

And vicious retribution reportedly continues unchecked. 

The magnitude of the danger posed by leaving the perpetrators of such crimes unpunished and in power is hard to overstate. They will assuredly be emboldened not only to bring more death to the people of Iran. They will relentlessly seek to bring death to Israel and death to America, as well.   

This is Frank Gaffney.