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A Veteran’s Reality Check on Iran: Why the World’s Top Terror Sponsor Hates America—and Everything We Stand For

From the sands of Iraq to the briefs under Presidents Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden, we’ve served decades watching Iran pull strings as the undisputed kingpin of

By Reid Rothchild

/ 9 Mar 2026

A Veteran’s Reality Check on Iran: Why the World’s Top Terror Sponsor Hates America—and Everything We Stand For

The Desert That Changed the World

Two hours south of Albuquerque, out in a stretch of desert most people will never see, the modern world switched on. On July 16, 1945, at Trinity Site in southern

By Reid Rothchild

/ 8 Mar 2026