Iran’s Truly Evil Twelver Ideology Must Be Destroyed
Trump understands this, and he has the means to do it without boots on the ground.
Dr. A | April 22, 2026
I was on active duty in the Navy in 1979 when the mullahs replaced the Shah and started their special Islamic revolution. I never served in Vietnam but was stationed with a number of veterans of that war, and was surprised when so many of them started repeating what became almost a chant in our unit: “Nuke them, nuke them. Nuke them ‘til the sands turn to glass.” I was working in a big hospital, and the chanters were mainly doctors and corpsmen. They were, as we might say nowadays, kidding, not kidding.
I knew they were bitter about the outcome of the war in Southeast Asia, but I wondered why they instantly saw such strong parallels between the Islamists and the communists.
Forty-seven years later, I finally saw it. It wasn’t so much religion or politics—rather it was the master word that creates intention, that dictates behavior, the word that didn’t need to be spoken because they had lived it—fanaticism. What they saw in the mobs that stormed the US Embassy in Tehran, they had already seen in the Vietcong. Go online to the famous helicopter attack scene in Apocalypse Now, and 10 minutes in, you will see what the corpsmen and docs that I worked with saw just a few years earlier.
I don’t know why no previous president did what Trump is doing now, but I suspect that it has to do with his finally respecting the true nature of the mullahs. They are Twelvers, and with Twelvers who hold political power, there is only one solution: Obliterate them militarily and politically. Trump has the allies and resources to do just that.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/04/iran_s_truly_evil_twelver_ideology_must_be_destroyed.htmlTwelver Shi'ism
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Twelver Shi'as believe that the Twelve Imams are divinely appointed as both spiritual and political successors to the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
