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![Kharg Island](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/images/daily_update/2026/may/may21/may212026-article.png)

It is time to end this war – but only by ending the government of Iran.

This is the Wilmington Standard Daily Update for Thursday, May 21, 2026.

[Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/iran-war-trump-news-strait-hormuz-blockade-ceasefire-tensions-may-20) is reporting Major General Ahmad Vahidi – commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard – is threatening a worldwide devastation if further actions are taken against his country. He proclaims to the US and our allies:

you will receive devastating blows that will leave you in abject defeat and consign your ignominy to the annals of history.

Those are big words from a country which lies in economic and military ruin. It has limited means to generate power, has no way to manufacture anything of value – including armaments, its financial system is in complete ruin, and it will have to start capping oil wells because they cannot export anything. Yet, they continue to rattle their sabers because that has been the playbook of the last 47 years which up to this point has worked.

President Trump needs to understand that time and negotiation with Iran will not end with any favorable outcome towards the west. Iran is led by evil men – who will commit any evil deed – to cement their power over their people, the region, and indeed the world that relies on a strip of water for oil and other goods.

The only action at this point that results in lasting change in the region – including for the people of Iran who are longing to be free - is the complete and utter destruction of key military and economic targets in Iran. We know where all of their missile launchers are – blow them up. We know where their military personnel are housed – blow them up as well. We know that Iran will come to a grinding halt if it loses it main oil depot located at Kharg Island – we need to take that away and occupy it. We need to target the homes of every one of its leadership because everyone of them is corrupt and evil, and completely destroy any capability of the government of Iran to do anything else except beg for unconditional surrender and yielding to every stated terms of the United States.

President Trump hates war – and he is quite right to have tried negotiation to bring about a change in the Middle East. But war itself is not evil – and in this case unleashing the full and awesome power of the United States military against the evil leadership of Iran will be certain to bring about a lasting good.

For the Wilmington Standard, I’m Reuel Sample. Thanks for listening.

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