Op-ed: Anti-Trump bias has blinded Britain to the real threat posed by Iran’s military regime

The Left and large parts of the media are already rewriting history on the Iran war – driven more by their disdain for Donald Trump than by objective reporting. Their goal has been to portray the conflict as a disaster to attack Trump. And central to their politicised narrative is the ludicrous claim that, had the war not taken place, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – the regime’s ideological jihadists – would not be in control of Iran.

We’ve heard similar arguments before. The same voices insisted the 2015 nuclear deal would empower so-called “reformist” Islamists and moderate the regime’s behaviour. In practice, it awarded Tehran billions of dollars that funded the expansion of the IRGC’s terror abroad and suppression at home. Those blaming Trump’s war for all of Iran’s ills ignore that, just weeks before the conflict, the regime’s “moderate” president oversaw the massacre of tens of thousands of unarmed protesters.

Still, facts are conveniently overlooked by a war narrative that portrays the IRGC’s ascendancy as a direct consequence of Trump’s actions.