{"id":21362,"date":"2026-03-06T18:54:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/trumps-not-starting-a-war-hes-finishing-one-iran-started\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T18:54:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:54:04","slug":"trumps-not-starting-a-war-hes-finishing-one-iran-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/trumps-not-starting-a-war-hes-finishing-one-iran-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Not Starting A War, He\u2019s \u2018Finishing One\u2019 Iran Started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<div>\n<p>Unwittingly, CNN provided a moment of narrative-shattering clarity as the network\u2019s reliable stable of liberal pundits was reminded that history didn\u2019t actually begin the day Donald Trump took office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">During a heated panel discussion, host Abby Phillip and commentator Ashley Allison attempted to pin the \u201cwarmonger\u201d label on President Trump, suggesting his aggressive posture toward the Iranian regime\u2014and his apparent support for the Iranians\u2019 desire for freedom\u2014amounted to starting a new conflict.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The panel, which included<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><i data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"26\">Foreign Policy<\/i><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>editor Ravi Agrawal, journalist Elise Labott, and conservative radio host Jason Rantz, was descending into the usual media hand-wringing over \u201cregime change\u201d and \u201cparsing language.\u201d Phillip and Allison were busy clutching their pearls over Trump\u2019s suggestion that the Iranian people should rise up, with Allison demanding to know if the U.S. was \u201cat war.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">Then came<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Kian Tajbakhsh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">Tajbakhsh isn\u2019t some ivory-tower academic theorizing from a D.C. coffee shop; he is an Iranian-American scholar who was actually imprisoned by the brutal mullahs in Tehran. When the CNN hosts tried to frame Trump as the aggressor, Tajbakhsh stepped in to provide a much-needed reality check that left the set momentarily stunned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5,0\">\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s right to say that President Trump has started a war with Iran,\u201d Tajbakhsh stated calmly. \u201cI think President Trump wants to<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>finish a war that Iran started in 1979.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">He didn\u2019t stop there. He recounted a chilling anecdote from 2004 while he was working at a high level within Iran. A senior official in the Foreign Ministry looked him in the eye and told him point-blank: \u201cWe believe we are at war with the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former Iranian political prisoner Kian Tajbakhsh shuts down an entire CNN panel with a blunt reality check.<\/p>\n<p>Abby Phillip and Ashley Allison were spiraling over whether the U.S. is actually at war with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when Tajbakhsh dropped an absolute truth bomb: \u201cI think\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XddsKT7FWT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/XddsKT7FWT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Overton (@overton_news) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/overton_news\/status\/2029771585033277574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">For the Left, the fiction that the Islamic Republic is a rational actor\u2014one that was \u201cpeaceful\u201d until Trump arrived\u2014is a necessary component of their worldview. Tajbakhsh\u2019s testimony destroyed that facade. He reminded the audience that the regime has been waging a \u201ccold war\u201d against America for nearly 50 years, fueled by the same \u201cdeath to America\u201d ideology that has defined them since the embassy hostage crisis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8\">While the media elites worry about the \u201cbrutality\u201d of a social media post, Tajbakhsh pointed out the actual brutality: an unarmed, disorganized Iranian citizenry facing a regime so lopsided in its power that they cannot overthrow it alone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"9\">Trump isn\u2019t starting a fire; he\u2019s finally acknowledging the one that\u2019s been burning since 1979\u2014and he\u2019s looking for the extinguisher.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/former-prisoner-torches-cnn-panel-trumps-not-starting-a-war-hes-finishing-one-iran-started\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unwittingly, CNN provided a moment of narrative-shattering clarity as the network\u2019s reliable stable of liberal pundits was reminded that history didn\u2019t actually begin the day Donald Trump took office. 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