Operation Epic Fury Is About More Than Just Iran
Mike R. Pompeo
American Center for Law and Justice
March 12, 2026
For the past 47 years, conventional wisdom has held that we just needed to tolerate or manage the threat from Iran.
No more.
In less than two weeks, the joint U.S.-Israeli military operation has made extraordinary progress toward achieving the Trump Administration’s three key objectives: to destroy Iran’s ballistic missile program; prevent the regime from obtaining a nuclear weapon; and end Iran’s support for military proxy networks.
Roughly two-thirds of Iran’s ballistic missile launchers have been destroyed, and between one-third and one-half of Iran’s prewar ballistic missile arsenal has been eliminated. The U.S. has targeted or destroyed more than 60 Iranian ships, and it has sunk the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena via submarine torpedo – the first such naval kill since World War II. And of course, the senior leadership of the Islamic Republic has been decapitated, including the late Ayatollah Khamenei – a devastating blow to the regime’s organizational capacity and prestige.
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