Trump Must Break Tehran’s Machinery of Coercion

The Iran war has exposed truths that too many in Washington spent years trying to avoid. The first is that when the stakes become existential, Israel’s circle of real support in America becomes very small, very quickly. This conflict has shown once again that Israel’s indispensable ally is not elite fashion, diplomatic theater, or the fashionable ambiguity of foreign-policy salons. It’s the United States when led by a president willing to act. Donald Trump proved that not through rhetoric, but through force, resolve, and strategic clarity. The second truth is just as important: the Gulf states also have only one…