Vote First, Fire Second: Iran
Vote First, Fire Second: Iran What Four Decades in Iran Reveal About Who Actually Runs This Country We've spent four decades calling Iran the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. The war we just fought there in 2026 is supposed to be the proof. Walk back through the actual history, though, and the picture gets simpler — and a lot less flattering. Iran isn't just a foreign policy problem. It's a mirror. Look at it long enough and you see exactly what American power does, who really decides when this country goes to war, and how little our own constitutional design has to do with any of it. The Country We Flattened Into "Other" Start with something basic that never makes the cable news lower third: Iranians are not Arabs. They're a Persian people, speaking an Indo-Iranian language, part of t...