Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) is calling for America to step up and take direct action against Iran’s brutal rulers. He’s pushing for strikes that could finally topple the regime that’s been crushing its own people in a desperate bid to cling to power.
Fetterman’s breaking ranks with his fellow Democrats, who often drag their feet on tough foreign policy calls. Instead, he’s championing a no-nonsense approach to back the brave Iranians rising up against tyranny.
The chaos in Iran is hitting a fever pitch. Reports paint a grim picture of a government gone rogue, turning its guns on innocent folks just to silence the growing wave of protests demanding freedom.
“The ruthless Iranian regime has been callously slaughtering civilians who aren’t even involved in the nationwide anti-government protests, horrified witnesses said — as the death toll surged on Tuesday to roughly 2,000,” according to the New York Post.
“Chilling eyewitness accounts of the bloodshed started emerging late Monday after Iranians were finally able to make international calls after authorities cut the country’s internet supply as part of its merciless crackdown.”
That’s the kind of horror show that’s got Fetterman fired up. He wants real muscle behind America’s support for those fighting on the streets.
During an appearance on CNN, Fetterman stated: “Those strikes make sense, absolutely. I do support those things. … I’m saying I’m open to that. And I am actually inspired by the real kinds of courage that those protesters in Iran are demonstrating now.”
He’s spot on about the inspiration. These protesters are putting everything on the line—lives, families, futures—against a regime that’s armed to the teeth and scared out of its mind.
“So I don’t know why we can’t all want to support that to back them and now bring that awful regime to its knees,” Fetterman said.
“Now, that’s where it’s at right now. They’re so desperate. They k*lled the internet, and now they’re mowing down their own citizens. Now they’re even so desperate, offering six dollars a month as some kind of a payoff now, too. Now for me, I think we can all agree that the world would be better, safer and more just if you could break that regime.”
These words from Fetterman resemble the straight-talking wisdom from conservative heavyweight Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House. Gingrich laid it out plain on X, urging leaders to go all in.
“It is not enough to sympathize with the Iranian people in their struggle to get free from the dictatorship which is clearly k*lling dissidents and fighting for its very survival. It is not enough to have government leaders publicly talking about support for the Iranian people but failing to do anything real,” Gingrich’s X post stated.
“It is also not enough to send token support but fail to take the steps necessary to replace the dictatorship. In a few weeks either the dictatorship will be gone or the Iranian people will have been defeated and suppressed and a campaign to find the ringleaders and k*ll them will have begun.”
“There is no middle ground,” he added. “The goal of every western [sic] leader should be to destroy the Iranian dictatorship at this moment of its vulnerability. Nothing will do more to move the Middle East toward peace, safety, and prosperity than the destruction of the Ayatollah’s dictatorship. The time to act is NOW.”
Imagine a Middle East without the shadow of Iran’s ayatollahs stirring up trouble everywhere from Syria to Yemen. Fetterman and Gingrich are both seeing a big win here.
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