We are constantly hearing the mantra “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.” The “experts” said that about North Korea, and today that nation has enough fissile material for 90 nuclear warheads. That is because of Russia and China, the same powers backing Iran.

The difference is that South Korea—by comparison—has no nuclear weapons and Israel now has more than 100 nuclear warheads. Iran would be obliterated in any nuclear exchange, and Iran knows this.

If the argument is that Israel’s nuclear deterrent did NOT deter Iran from developing nuclear weapons, then Israel’s option is to use its own nuclear weapons to destroy the Iranian nuclear weapons complex, including the underground site Fordow. That is the purpose of having a nuclear arsenal.

There is no reason for the U.S. to use our military personnel to drop so-called “bunker buster” bombs on that underground site or any other facility. There is no guarantee that bunker bombs would work anyway.

In short, Israel should finish the job with its own weapons, including nuclear warheads. It is a trap for America to believe otherwise.

The question is: why the focus on Iran and not North Korea? In his first term, Trump traveled to meet with North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong Un. Nothing came out of this disastrous meeting. North Korea kept manufacturing nuclear weapons, and there was no international uproar and/or demand for a preemptive strike on North Korean nuclear facilities.

That’s because the South Korean lobby in Washington is weak and ineffective.

Thousands of American troops are stationed in South Korea, as well. They are in the nuclear crosshairs. But if American troops get directly involved against Iran, they will become targets, a development that means more American wounded warriors and public service announcements to help them survive their physical and mental wounds.

In Iran, international action is being called for, not because of Israel but rather Saudi Arabia, which is financing the main opposition group to the Mullahs and stands to gain the most if Iran’s regime is overthrown. The Saudis are now supposed to be our friends, despite their role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America. It seems that the Saudis, like the Iranians, regard America as a "big Satan." They are using America to destroy their main enemy, Iran.

In this case, Washington wants to please the Saudis, a major source of money and deals, like those Trump completed on his Middle East tour. Trump even signed “the largest defense sales agreement in history” with Saudi Arabia—nearly $142 billion, described as “providing Saudi Arabia with state-of-the-art warfighting equipment and services from over a dozen U.S. defense firms.”

This is the way Washington works. Money talks. The military-industrial complex remains well-funded and staffed under President Trump.

The Saudis want to run the global Islamic movement, and Trump is willing to do their bidding. Now, America is right in the middle of this growing civil war inside Islam. Trump even met with the former al-Qaeda leader now running Syria.

Don’t you find it interesting that the Israeli attack on Iran closely followed President Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia? That’s when he told the Saudi rulers the same thing: “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.” The Saudis fear Iran more than the Israelis because the Saudis are Sunni and the Iranians are Shiite. They hate each other more than they hate Israel. But global Islam hates America.

In this context, the American people have not been told what follows “regime change” in Iran. It could be worse than the Mullahs.

Iran’s new government may be governed by the MEK, which stands for Mujahideen-e Khalq of Iran, a Marxist-oriented Islamic group whose original emblem features communist symbols, including a sickle and red star, below a verse from the Quran that praises those who struggle—the “Mujahideen”—and the path of violent Jihad.

These Saudi-financed Marxist terrorists, now advertising themselves as the “Democratic alternative to the clerical regime” in Iran, are being brought to you not only by Saudi Arabia but a well-funded bipartisan group of Republicans and Democrats. This is how Washington works. It is a combination of big money, special interests, and the military-industrial complex, as well as their talking heads on the major cable channels.

The Marxist terrorists now operate under the name of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), fielding "resistance units" against the government of Iran. The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), also referred to as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), is the principal member of the NCRI and is described as “Iran’s largest, most organized opposition group.”

In 1993, as part of an extreme makeover, the NCRI dropped the communist symbols and adopted the Lion and Sun emblem, incorporating the three-colored Iranian flag.

If the Mullahs are overthrown, the NCRI hopes to take power. But that is not assured. Their “resistance units” will have to fight the remnants of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which has an estimated 190,000 active personnel.

In this bloody civil war in which Russia and China will also take sides, the pressure from the special interest lobbies, foreign agents, and military-industrial complex will be intense to supply American arms, and even soldiers, to the battlefield.

The history of the MEK is interesting and informative.

The astute publication Middle East Eye notes, “The MEK started in Iran in 1965 as an ideologically driven, socialist and Islamist movement opposed to the dictatorial rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. It joined the ranks of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 but ran afoul of the uprising's leader Ruhollah Khomeini shortly after Pahlavi's fall. After facing a deadly crackdown by Iran's new authorities, the MEK embarked on a series of attacks on government officials and security forces. The group's members, led by Maryam Rajavi’s husband, Massoud Rajavi, went into exile and eventually settled in Iraq in 1986. There, they sided with Saddam Hussein in his war against their home country.”

The MEK was kicked out of Iraq and resettled in Albania in 2013. “A year earlier,” the publication notes, “former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton removed the group from the State Department's terrorist blacklist—15 years after it was originally added—allowing its members to work openly in the U.S.”

In the years since, the MEK has reportedly been funded not only by the Saudis but by the United States “Intelligence Community” and various European governments. Its Washington office is a registered foreign agent in the nation’s capital, meeting with members of Congress and spending lavishly on fancy conferences at the Willard and Hay Adams Hotels. It also maintains a headquarters in Paris.

The MEK 2023 submission details high-level conferences featuring “distinguished American political figures” such as former Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former Trump Vice-President Mike Pence, and former Senator and current Trump Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

A 2020 Foreign Agent registration submission identified former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient General Jack Keane as a speaker at an event for the NCRI who “lent his support behind the NCRI and the Iranian opposition….” On Fox News, since the Israeli attack on Iran, Keane has been on Fox News arguing that the U.S. should “help the Israelis finish this off.”

As part of the effort to convince Washington to pursue regime change in Iran, the NCRI purchased a 36-page advertising supplement in the Washington Times that is very revealing as to those prominent figures here and abroad, including many close to President Trump, who are backing their power moves in the Middle East.

NCRI leader Maryam Rajavi thanked Congress in 2023 for a congressional resolution and briefing, saying the time was right “to overthrow the ruling theocracy” in Iran. Introduced by Congressman Tom McClintock (R-CA), it featured 165 bi-partisan original cosponsors.

Here are many of their American backers, as demonstrated by their signatures on official NCRI documents going back several years:

• Amb. J. Kenneth Blackwell, Former U.S. Representative, United Nations Human Rights Commission

• Hon. Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr., Former Special Envoy and Asst. Sec. State

• Colonel (Ret.) Thomas V. Cantwell Former U.S. Military Commander for Camp Ashraf

• General (Ret.) George Casey, Former U.S. Army Chief of Staff and Commander of Multi-National Forces – Iraq

• Hon. Linda Chavez, Former Assistant to the President for Public Liaison; Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity

• Hon. Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the House

• Hon. Marc Ginsberg, Former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco

• Hon. Rudy Giuliani, Former NYC Mayor, Presidential Candidate

• Hon. Porter Goss, Former Director of the CIA, Former Chairman of House Intel Committee

• General (Ret.) James L. Jones, Former USMC Commandant, NATO Commander, National Security Advisor to the President

• Hon. Robert Joseph, Former Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security

• Hon. Michael B. Mukasey, Former U.S. Attorney General

• Brig. Gen. (Ret) David Phillips, Former Ashraf Commander and former 89th M.P. Brigade Commander

• Hon. Mitchell B. Reiss, Former Ambassador, Special Envoy to the Northern Ireland Peace Process

• Hon. Bill Richardson, Former N.M. Governor, Secretary of Energy, U.N. Ambassador, Presidential Candidate

• Hon. Tom Ridge, Former P.A. Governor, Secretary, Homeland Security

• Hon. John Sano, Former Deputy Director CIA National Clandestine Service

• Professor Ivan Sascha Sheehan, Ph.D. Executive Director School of Public and International Affairs, Univ. of Baltimore

• Colonel (Ret.) John Cirafici, Former Defense Attaché, Algiers

• Gen. (Ret.) James Conway, Former Commandant U.S. Marine Corps

• Lt. Gen. (Ret.) David Deptula, Former Deputy COS for Intel, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance, U.S. Air Force

• Hon. Patrick Kennedy, Former Rhode Island Congressman

• Hon. Joseph I. Lieberman, Former Connecticut Senator

• Colonel (Ret.) U.S. Army Wesley M. Martin, Former Senior Antiterrorism Officer, Coalition Forces – Iraq

• Hon. Eugene R. Sullivan, Retired Federal Judge

• Hon. Raymond Tanter, Former Personal Representative of Secretary of Defense to Arms Control Negotiations

• Professor Alan Dershowitz, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

• Lt. Col. (Ret.) Leo McCloskey, Former U.S. Military Commander for Camp Ashraf

• Hon. Robert Torricelli, Former N.J. Senator

• Hon. Louis J. Freeh, Former Director, FBI

• Hon. R. Bruce McColm, President, Institute for Democratic Strategies

• Colonel (Ret.) Gary Morsch, Former Senior Medical Officer at Ashraf

• Hon. Frances Townsend, Former Homeland Security Advisor to the President

• General (Ret.) Charles (Chuck) Wald, Former Deputy Commander U.S. European Command

Referring to the Israeli attack, NCRI President Maryam Rajavi says, “The war that broke out at dawn on Friday, June 13, 2025, marks the beginning of a critical new chapter—both in Iran’s internal crisis and in the broader dynamics of the region. Yet the central and ongoing conflict—unfolding over the past 44 years since June 20, 1981—is the struggle of the Iranian people and Resistance against the ruling religious fascism. The only viable solution remains the overthrow of this regime by the people of Iran and the Iranian Resistance.” (emphasis in original).

But she knows Israel cannot do this alone.

Once again, the pressure is mounting on the United States, in the middle of various competing Marxist and/or Islamic movements and countries, to not only try to destroy the Iranian nuclear weapons capability and risk a wider war but to shed more American blood in the Middle East. And there are voices in the American media urging President Trump to order American military forces to get more directly involved in the attacks, despite the lack of congressional authorization.

The inevitable result will be more dead American soldiers and wounded warriors who have sacrificed themselves for Muslims who kill their liberators. And the American people will lament the death of an “America First” agenda that lies in ruins and graveyards.