Make Persia Great Again?

Well, that’s up to the Iranians…

Throughout the 21^st century, we’ve had moments that felt like Iran’s revolution against the cruel mullahs, creators of the dreaded morality police, was really happening.

In the fall of 2025, women walking with uncovered hair was an act of rebellion in Iran.

In January 2026, after 47 years, we thought it might finally be the real one, only to realize that once again, the regime murdered an estimated 36,500 protesters.

On January 25, 2026, Iran International’s Editorial Board stated “over 36,500 killed in Iran’s deadliest massacre, documents reveal.”

Google AI says: Key moments when Iranians almost revolted include:

• December 2025 – Early 2026: Economic collapse led to widespread protests. Reports from early 2026 indicated over 16,500 to 18,000 deaths as the regime used “unprecedented brutality” and internet blackouts to crush the unrest.

• 2022–2023: Following the death of Mahsa Amini, protests erupted over compulsory hijab laws, turning into a broader, sustained national uprising against the theocratic regime.

• November 2019: Massive protests occurred over a sudden increase in fuel prices, which quickly turned into calls for the government to fall, leading to a violent crackdown.

• 2017–2018: Nationwide demonstrations started over economic issues, spreading to over 85 cities before being halted by security forces.

• 2009: The “Green Movement” protests arose following a disputed election, marking a major, though ultimately failed, uprising.

We want the Iranians to live freely, even though they hate us.

But, how many Americans think the Iranians began hating us 47 years ago as the White House press release suggests? And how many ask why Iranians hate us?

The White House press release leaves out the part before the 1979 Iranian revolution - the 1953 coup that the CIA and the MiG began, Operation Ajax, where America and Britain helped overthrow Iran’s democratically elected (Marxist) premier, Mohammad Mosaddegh, who nationalized the Iranian oil industry:

Britannica states:

The United States took the leading role in a covert operation, called Operation Ajax, whereby CIA-funded agents were used to foment unrest inside Iran by way of the harassment of religious and political leaders and a media disinformation campaign. These efforts, formally approved by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. came to a head in August 1953 when Mohammad Mosaddegh and his government were overthrown and Mohammad Reza, a pro-Western monarch, was returned to power.

So, it’s not 47 years, but 73 years since we started it and we all know why – to control their oil. Some might argue that much of that oil would still be in the ground without American/British technologies to extract it, but it’s still their land and their oil.

How would we feel if the Iranians overthrew our democratically elected president to steal our natural resources?

And now it feels eerily similar, although we sure hope the results will be different, and that this will finally be the moment for a genuine revolution where Iranians free themselves from their mullahs’ chains.

Google AI describes the original Ayatollah, Ruhollah Khomeini:

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, presented a complex view of a “peaceful world” often centered on an Islamic Republic free from Western, particularly American, influence. While promising a humanitarian, tranquil state during his rise, his rule involved significant volatility, including the Iran-Iraq War and the 1979 hostage crisis.

Yes, Ruhollah Khomeini established the foundations for Iran’s morality police following the 1979 Islamic Revolution to enforce strict Islamic codes. Initially operating as the “Komiteh“ (Islamic Revolution Committee) to control behavior, these forces evolved into the modern “Gasht-e Ershad” (Guidance Patrol), which was formally established in 2005 to uphold mandatory veiling laws.

Successful revolutions require strong, courageous leaders, who are unafraid of death, to lead their people out of tyranny. Who will rise in a land where jihad is “an idea” turned into ideology, and not a terrorist organization?

If there is/are no Iranian leader(s) to pull the Iranians out of their brutal theocracy, then what happens during the power vacuum?

Travel guru, Rick Steves, interviewed Iranian women in 2014 who told him:

They discussed how it is the governments, not the people, who spread all this hate and destruction. Wow. Don’t we feel the same way? “It’s the governments, stupid.”

Some Iranians might still feel that way, but for many, many other Iranians, maybe not so much:

https://youtube.com/shorts/r50tpJSRgu0?si=SvOBdVPpWoht3MAN

Why can’t we focus on fixing the many, many problems in America, including, but not limited to, election fraud, the extreme tax payer waste that Senator Paul’s 2025 Festivus Report revealed to be over one trillion dollars this past year, fraud and abuse of programs designated to “take care of the people,” discriminatory practices of DEI, the ever growing national debt, our failing schools and children who can barely read, write and do basic math, our broken immigration system, AI with increasing energy demands and jobs, jobs, jobs, healthcare costs that keep going up every time the government tries to “help.”

And what about investigating and prosecuting those responsible for the covid scamdemic? The list seems endless and I could go on and on; we have a lot of problems in America that we need to work on!

Now, some will say that Iran is/was building nuclear weapons and would nuke us first.

Since I am not inherently designed to be a protector, and without any experience in miliary strategy, I would defer to someone better qualified to understand what that truth might be.

But bombing other countries with no congressional oversight? What could go wrong?

America has blood on her hands. How do we explain that to our children? We are not the “good guys” when we kill innocent school children.

Trump started this war during the Lenten season when Christians are supposed to imitate Christ. Maybe we can stop bombing by Easter, if the “Iran war is very complete”? That’s what we can hope for, but will it happen?

Part of me thinks Trump is satisfying that tremendous ego to be the greatest American President ever - who saved America from herself - if this tremendous gamble bombing Iran does work. The other part wonders if this war is a part of the plan to bring in the final uni-party rule of tyranny.

And what does unconditional surrender mean?

Boots on the ground should be worn by Iranians and any other Middle Easterners who want to throw off their mullahs’ chains. No American boots should fight in Iran, and if they do, it’s over. Most Americans will not tolerate another foreign war that many believe Israel started.

American boots on the ground should always mean defending our own borders. Period.

So, without understanding what “unconditional surrender” means, I’ll seek a more experienced opinion, like Unconditional Surrender: A Modern Paradox A Monograph by MAJ Thomas A. Shoffner United States Army, who said:

This study determines whether or not unconditional surrender leads to a more lasting peace. The answer is paradoxical—yes, unconditional surrender can achieve the desired effects; however, it is no longer a suitable policy in the twenty-first century, due to the threat of nuclear escalation and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Using the methodology of historical and descriptive comparison, the findings reveal the following: persistence of bellicose means and will have a direct impact on the duration of the ensuing peace; and victory results in a more lasting peace when the enemy’s will is removed. Considerable attention should also be given to post war settlement efforts with regard to financial aid and reconstruction. The Marshall Plan is a prime example. The findings also discover the existence of a perceived cultural bias in the West towards warfighting. This bias is described as the Western lens, which places inordinate significance on the aspects of time and decisiveness that can produce false expectations. Although demanding unconditional surrender, carte blanche, is not likely in the foreseeable future, there are methods governments can use to ensure certain conditions for war termination are met unconditionally. As long as these conditions remove an adversary’s belligerent intentions, then the possibility exists for an enduring peace to ensue.

In other words, with American boots on the ground, it’s likely to go sideways.

If, by summer, Iran has not issued an “unconditional surrender,” the blowback will be so bad that the democrats will take over the house and senate in the mid-terms.

And all the progress made on DEI, controlling the border, reducing the amount of illegal immigration, fentanyl and human trafficking through a controlled border, election reform discussions, downsizing the federal government, DOGE cuts (JK), etc. will come to a screeching halt because we all know that Trump will be impeached again, and who knows who or what comes out of the woodwork. Katie Johnson, perhaps?

Kambiz Hosseini sums it up:

“One seeks to recreate a past that no longer exists. The other insists on claiming a future that has already begun. In that struggle, victory will not belong to those with the greater machinery of repression, but to those who still possess the will to live free.”

Ooh, you got a real nice beard
A real nice beard
You know it really caught-a my
Ayatollah

But you know your mind is weird
Your mind is weird
You really are a nutty kind of
guy-atollah

Come on! Give us back all the people at the embassy
The Shah’s hangin’ out and he’s takin’ chemotherapy
He’s already gonna die-atollah!

A-A-A-Ayatollah

When you get the Shah back home
The Shah back home
We know you’re gonna eat him on
rye-atollah

But we kinda need your oil
to make our gas
You know you’re such a pain in the
Ayatollah

Come on. Cool your jets. Meditate. Eat a hamburger.
Don’t get us too upset or we’ll do something nuclear
(nuclear explosion sound)
Bye-eye-eye-atollah!

A-A-A-Ayatollah

Ayatollah

...Iran

A-A-A-Ayatollah

Americans are mostly cool
mostly cool
But now we’re really startin’ to
fry-atollah

And you know if you were here
You were here
We’d hit you in the face with a
pie-atollah

I mean, nothin’ personal, man, y’know.
I mean, I do like your sandals. Very sharp, dude.
And that robe...Yes. Yes.
You desert dudes are all so tanned.
Can I see your tan lines?
Oh, and one other thing...uh,
Mike Wallace, y’know..on 60 Minutes when you did the thing?
Is he as tall in real life as he looks on TV? I thought not.
Hey, hasta luigi, dudesicle, but remember, calm down
There’s more of us than there are of you.
Ciao! –Steve Dahl