They think you are a fool. They think if they repeat a lie often enough, in a loud enough voice, from enough official-looking sources, you will mistake it for the truth. They are counting on your fatigue, your confusion, and your decent desire to see complexity in all things. But some things are not complex. Some things are a simple, stark choice between civilization and barbarism, between life and a death cult.

And right now, they are lying to you about Iran.

The Anatomy of a Lie

Let’s be brutally honest about the fairytale you are being sold. They flash images of mass funerals in Tehran, presenting them as a spontaneous outpouring of love for a fallen regime. What a grotesque insult to our intelligence. These are the state-coerced spectacles of a totalitarian government, the same kind of forced pageantry we’ve seen in Pyongyang and Moscow for decades. They want you to believe that the brave Iranian people, who have been risking their lives for years to protest this very regime, are suddenly weeping for their oppressors. It is a lie. Israel stands with the people in the streets chanting for freedom, not with the tyrants who command their presence at a funeral.

Then comes the most malicious lie, a modern blood libel whispered by the Iranian regime and dutifully amplified by global news wires: the lie of a strike on Evin prison. They offer up a number, 71 dead, straight from the ledgers of a judiciary that executes poets and hangs dissidents from cranes. Since when did the word of a murderous, fanatical regime become a credible source for the Associated Press? This is the same regime that lies about its nuclear program, lies about its involvement in global terror, and lies to its own people every single day. Their claims are not news; they are propaganda, designed for the sole purpose of painting the defender as the aggressor. They want to create a high-casualty event out of thin air to distract from the truth: Israel surgically removed the architects of terror and the masterminds of nuclear annihilation, not political prisoners whom the regime itself despises.

And woven through all of this is the constant, toxic backdrop of Gaza. Every report about this necessary act of self-defense against Iran is contaminated by cynical references to a separate, tragic, and complex war against the Hamas terror army. It is a deliberate and dishonest tactic. They want you to conflate the two, to believe that any action Israel takes is inherently immoral. They want you to look away from the clear and present danger of a nuclear-armed Iran and get lost in the fog of a different battle—a battle where Israel also fights a genocidal enemy that cynically uses its own people as shields.

The Truth We Were Forced to Act On

For years, we hoped the world would see the truth on its own. How we hoped. We watched as the Iranian regime, the world’s undisputed central banker of terror, spread its tentacles across the region. They armed Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen, and militias in Syria and Iraq. Their stated goal, repeated ad nauseum, was the complete and utter annihilation of Israel. These were not empty threats.

We endured their aggression. We intercepted their drones and their missiles. We exposed their clandestine nuclear facilities. We pleaded with the world, engaged in diplomacy, and signed agreements, all while Tehran used the time to cheat, to lie, and to race towards a bomb. We reached the precipice—a “point of no return” confirmed by intelligence, where the regime’s nuclear aspirations were about to become a reality. A reality that would hold not just Israel, but London, Paris, and New York hostage.

Let the BBC and other cynics whisper that this was a political maneuver. It is the height of contemptible foolishness. When a nation faces a genocidal enemy on the verge of acquiring the ultimate weapon, the decision to act is not political; it is existential. It is the sacred duty of any leader to protect their people from obliteration. To sit and wait for the mushroom cloud to rise over Tel Aviv would not be diplomacy; it would be suicide. “Operation Am Kelavi” was not an act of choice. It was the last, desperate act of a nation that had exhausted every other option, a nation staring into the abyss.

The Unmistakable Moral Contrast

This is where the choice becomes clear. This is the story of Israeli precision versus Iranian terror. It is a story of Israeli defense of life versus the Iranian regime’s death cult.

Israel’s action was a marvel of surgical precision, a testament to a military that values human life. We did not target cities; we targeted the head of the serpent. We took out the IRGC commanders who orchestrate global terror and the key scientists who were building a weapon of genocide. Our weapons are scalpels, designed to remove a cancer with minimal harm to the surrounding tissue.

What is the nature of our enemy? The Iranian regime fires hundreds of heavy, indiscriminate missiles at Israeli civilian centers. They celebrate martyrdom. They built their entire military strategy around the illegal and immoral practice of embedding weapons systems and command centers within schools, mosques, and hospitals. Any collateral damage, any civilian loss, is a direct result of this monstrous strategy. The moral responsibility lies entirely with them.

A world without the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is a better, safer world for everyone. A world without a nuclear-armed Ayatollah is a world that can breathe easier. Israel’s action was a blow for freedom and a favor to the entire civilized world.

The Strategic Imperative: Preventing a World War

Understand this critical point: this was not an act of escalation. It was a profound act of de-escalation. The intelligence was clear: Iran was preparing for a massive, coordinated strike. By using sophisticated deception and crippling their command-and-control infrastructure, Israel paralyzed the beast. We prevented a full-scale regional war that would have inevitably drawn in world powers and led to unimaginable catastrophe.

We did not start a war. We prevented a much, much larger one. We restored deterrence, not by pounding cities into dust, but by demonstrating a capability so overwhelming, so precise, that the regime and its proxies were forced to recoil. We acted to prevent the nightmare of a nuclear-armed Iran, a scenario where a genocidal terror state could blackmail the planet under the shadow of the bomb.

The line has been drawn. This was a necessary act of heroism, a moment when one nation had the courage to act in defense of its people, and by extension, in defense of the free world. It is a moment that should be praised, not condemned.

The choice is now yours. You can either believe the cynical lies of a terror state and its unwitting media allies, or you can stand with the nation that is the last line of defense against fanaticism.

What can you do?

• Share this truth. Do not let the lies stand unchallenged in your conversations or on your social media feeds.
• Demand clarity from your elected officials. Ask them if they stand with the oppressed people of Iran or with their violent, extremist regime.
• Do not be silent. Your voice is a weapon in the fight for civilization. Use it now.