Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

April 6, 2026 3:59 PM

There are no ‘civilians,’ in the Western sense, in Iran, and the IRGC uses the infrastructure for its war aims.

I hesitate to keep hammering at the same themes at the risk of exhausting our readers’ patience, but I cannot stress enough the importance of trying to see the conflict in Iran as it is seen by the Shiite fundamentalist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). It is a strategic error to see it as we would see it if we were under military attack, let alone as it is seen by the progressive-leaning, America-hostile media.

On that score, I grant that it is hard to get past President Trump’s disgraceful rhetoric. It reaffirms for the umpteenth time his unfitness. His unhinged ...
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