Trump was ‘resolute’ in striking Iran terror chief – but the regime won’t stop

“We’re very glad that there’s not going to be any war in the Middle East. There aren’t going to be any American boots on the ground,” the Center’s Clare Lopez told One America News.

Praising President Trump for his January 3 elimination of Iran’s top terrorist commander, Lopez, a former CIA operations officer said, “He has shown himself resolute. He has shown himself – and I think this is a good thing – a little bit unpredictable so that that keeps them off balance, that’s good, even if it makes us kind of uneasy sometimes. Think of what that does to the regime.”

An American invasion of Iran – “That’s not going to happen. But I think we do have to realize that we remain at war with this regime because it declared war on us,” Lopez said.

Lopez’s interview begins at 2:04 in this January 13 video segment above.

The US should expect Iran’s support for terrorism, subversion, and military aggression to continue. “This is a long pattern of hostility of animosity to the United States from this regime,” said Lopez. “There’s no reason we have to think that they’re going to stop now.”

“This regime is dedicated to jihad. In order to expand the revolution and to put the entire world under an Islamic State under rule of Islamic law, of Sharia. That’s what their constitution says,” Lopez told OANN.

With regard to the Iranian protests against the regime, Lopez said, “we have to make known that we support them, we have to make known that we consider this regime illegitimate because the people themselves consider it illegitimate, and because this regime has so violated their human rights, it has no legitimacy.”