Turn on your television, scroll through your newsfeed, and you will be told a simple, seductive story. A story of a powerful aggressor and a helpless victim. It’s a story designed to provoke outrage, to make you pick a side without a second thought. But it is a lie. A dangerous, cynical lie that is not just obscuring the truth, but actively working to protect the most malevolent force in the modern world.

For too long, the world has been content to swallow this fiction. But the stakes are too high now for comfortable illusions. The line has been drawn. You either stand with civilization, or you stand with the architects of its destruction. It is time to face the truth.

The Anatomy of a Deception

Let’s be brutally honest about the propaganda war being waged against reason. You are being manipulated. You are shown images of chaos in Gaza, and you are told it is the entire story. This is a deliberate, tactical distraction. A smokescreen of tragedy deployed by the very regime that funds and fuels that conflict, all to hide its own far greater crimes. While the world’s cameras are pointed at one border, the masters of terror in Tehran are busy forging a nuclear sword to hold over all our heads. They want you focused on Gaza so you don’t see the mushroom cloud they are trying to build.

And now, they weep crocodile tears over the strike on Evin Prison. They feed the media a neat, tidy number—’71 dead’—and scream ‘war crime’. It is a grotesque performance. How we had hoped the world would see through it. The tragic truth is that the Iranian regime, in its infinite cowardice and contempt for human life, had converted parts of that prison—a place of suffering for its own people—into a command-and-control center for its Revolutionary Guard. They embedded the head of the serpent amongst political prisoners and their visiting families, using the innocent as human shields. The moral responsibility for every single loss of life in that facility rests squarely and solely on the shoulders of a regime that sees its own people as disposable shields for its terror apparatus. To blame Israel for this is to blame a firefighter for the water damage in a house set ablaze by an arsonist.

They bring out academics to whisper the poison of ‘unprovoked attack’ into the ears of journalists. It’s an insult to intelligence. This was not the first shot in a war; it was the last, desperate act to prevent a cataclysm after years of Iranian attacks, from arming Hezbollah and Hamas to firing missiles directly at Israeli families. To call Israel’s action unprovoked is to ignore a decade of daggers aimed at its throat.

The Agonizing Path We Were Forced to Walk

Understand this: no one in Israel wanted this. There is no joy in pre-emptive action. There is only the grim, solemn acceptance of necessity. For years, Israel and the free world pursued every other path. We tried diplomacy. We tried sanctions. We tried containment. We warned, we pleaded, we presented evidence. And for our patience, the Ayatollahs in Tehran rewarded us with mockery. They used the cover of negotiations to accelerate their enrichment of uranium. They lied to inspectors. They openly and repeatedly promised to wipe Israel from the map, a genocidal threat they were rapidly building the means to carry out.

We reached the abyss. Our intelligence, and the intelligence of our allies, confirmed that Iran was at the “point of no return.” The choice became terrifyingly simple: act now, or wait for a nuclear holocaust. Wait for a fanatical, apocalyptic regime—a regime that stones women and hangs dissidents—to have the power of God in its hands. What nation, when faced with an imminent, credible threat of annihilation, would simply wait to be destroyed? To demand that of Israel is not pacifism; it is to demand suicide.

“Operation Am Kelavi” was not an act of aggression. It was an act of profound, reluctant heroism. It was the moment someone finally had the courage to cut the wires on the bomb that the entire world was pretending not to hear ticking.

A Choice Between Light and Darkness

The moral contrast could not be more stark. It is a choice between a society that cherishes life and a regime that worships death. Israel used the most technologically advanced, surgically precise weaponry in human history to target the terror leaders, the nuclear scientists, and the military infrastructure that threaten global peace. The goal was to remove the cancer, not harm the patient—the oppressed people of Iran, who are the first and greatest victims of this regime.

Meanwhile, the Iranian regime and its proxies specialize in indiscriminate slaughter. They fire unguided rockets into kindergartens. They strap bombs to civilians. They celebrate martyrdom and glorify bloodshed. They are the single greatest engine of terror, extremism, and instability on the planet. To put Israel’s defensive actions on the same moral plane as Iran’s campaign of global terror is a profound moral failure. A world without the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is a safer, better, more humane world for everyone, most of all for Iranians.

The Cold, Hard Calculus of Survival

For those who recoil from passion and demand cold strategy, here it is: this operation prevented a much larger war. Through a combination of daring precision and sophisticated deception, Israel’s strike on Iran’s command structure was so devastating that it paralyzed their ability to retaliate. Their planned, massive missile barrage was reduced by 80%. Their proxies, like Hezbollah, were put on notice and deterred.

This was not escalation. This was the restoration of deterrence. It was a necessary blow that pulled the entire region back from the brink of a nuclear-armed conflict that would have incinerated millions and destabilized the globe for a century. By acting with strength, Israel created stability. By facing the threat head-on, Israel may have just saved the world from a nightmare of our own making.

The world should be thanking Israel for doing it a massive favor. Instead, we are subjected to a chorus of condemnation from the naive, the cowardly, and the malicious.

The choice is now clear. You can believe the comfortable lie peddled by terrorists and their apologists, or you can face the hard truth of what was at stake. You can condemn the firefighter, or you can condemn the arsonist.

So, what can you do?

• Share this truth. Do not let the lies and propaganda stand unchallenged in your conversations or on your social media feeds.
• Demand clarity from your leaders. Ask them to publicly acknowledge the Iranian regime as the aggressor and support Israel’s inalienable right to defend itself from a genocidal threat.
• Do not be silent. Your voice is a weapon in the fight for civilization. In the face of such calculated deception, silence is complicity. Use your voice now.