Kamala Harris presidency would undermine US in this key region

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Since its violent revolutionary founding, the Islamic Republic of Iran has spread chaos around the world, attempted to assassinate Americans on our own soil and vowed to destroy Israel, our closest ally in the Middle East. America remains far stronger than Iran, yet a Kamala Harris presidency would empower this terrorist regime to do far worse.

Every American should be deeply concerned that Vice President Harris’s weakness would only continue Joe Biden’s policy of emboldening and enriching Iran.

For decades, Iran — directly and through proxies — has committed and underwritten terrorism with the explicit goal of killing Americans and expelling us from the Middle East so that the ayatollahs can dominate this vital region.

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The ayatollahs came to power in 1979, holding more than 50 Americans hostage for more than a year during the Carter administration. In 1983, Iran and its terror proxies murdered hundreds of American Marines stationed in Beirut. And during the Bush administration, Iran’s proxies kidnapped Americans in Lebanon and murdered U.S. airmen in Saudi Arabia.

The terror campaign continued against our troops in Iraq, which I saw firsthand as Iranian-backed terrorists killed hundreds of Americans. Iran, by the best estimates,