Iran westernized greatly under Shah Reza Pahlavi. But the Shah was ruthless and brutal to Islamic extremists who wanted distance from the sordid west, and rule under strict Islamic law that among many things, stripped women of rights Islam gave men.

The Shah made powerful enemies, and when Iranians revolted- including the hostage crisis that plagued the Carter presidency and empowered Reagan. ABC followed the story every evening with a new news magazine story called Nightline, and then Dateline, with Ted Koppel.

When the Shah fled to Mexico for cancer treatement, Ruhollah Khomeini returned and led the Iranian "students" to establish sharia law and the strict Islamic government. Because the US backed the Shah, and our western lifestyle was declared sinful by the Ayatollah, we were automatic enemies of that Ayatollah, and his replacement, Khameini.

That Islamic government, which persisted far too long, had to go. But when the recent revolt in Iran led to violent response, our felon and Israel's acted.

Trump, for all the wrong reasons, may have done the right thing IF the Iranian people can organize and act quickly enough to establish a new government and end rule of sharia law.

This is something about which we must be very concerned. It could greatly boost and popularize felon trump in ways to permanently sever and quash all concern about the Epstein files. In that case, he will dodge accountability again and empower the MAGA base of American Christian Nationalists who see this Biblically rather than historically.

We could be stuck with him and them right through the Midterms, where the GOP could INCREASE their grip on the legislature.