MORNING GLORY: Trump and the radical theocrats of Iran

Summary

President Trump's strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities are being framed as a necessary preventive action against nuclear proliferation, with the piece drawing historical parallels to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill's World War II efforts to disrupt Nazi Germany's atomic weapons program at Norway's Vemork plant. The comparison positions Trump's military action as a continuation of Allied leadership during the fight against fascism, suggesting moral and strategic equivalence between stopping Hitler's bomb and stopping Iran's nuclear development. The framing emphasizes the threat posed by what the piece characterizes as Iran's radical theocratic regime, treating military intervention as a logical defensive response rather than an aggressive act.