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Our Long Road to War With Iran

Our Long Road to War With Iran
A banner depicting Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new Supreme Leader and the son of slain leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is displayed as he is shown holding a gun at Enghelab (Revolution) Square in Tehran on March 11, 2026, as attendees gather for funerals of commanders from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the army and others killed in the early days of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. Khoshiran/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images
Victor Davis Hanson
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Until last year, for some 46 years, Iran enjoyed a North Korea-like reputation in the heart of the Middle East: always unpredictable, reckless, dangerous, inevitably to be nuclear, self-destructive, and nihilistic.

Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”