Iran's Decades-Long Conflict With the West After Qasem Soleimani

Showing 11 Qasem Soleimani videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

This topic covers the broader trajectory of Iran's conflict with the United States and Israel in the years following the 2020 killing of Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, situated within debates over American military strikes on Iran's nuclear program. Historian Dr. Paul Ray argued that the conflict represents the latest chapter in a 46-year struggle beginning with the 1979 Iranian Revolution, tracing how Iran's Shia supremacist ideology and sponsorship of proxy groups like Hezbollah and Hamas have shaped decades of confrontation with Western powers. Following President Trump's strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, Charlie Kirk and Breitbart's Alex Marlow warned against Republican senators including Lindsey Graham pushing for full regime change, arguing it would repeat the catastrophic mistakes of interventions in Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan. Joe Kent, a National Counterterrorism Center official and combat veteran whose wife was killed by a suicide bomber in Syria, resigned in protest of the strikes, arguing Iran posed no imminent threat and that the conflict served Israeli rather than American interests, a stance that drew immediate criticism from Trump and other officials. Journalist Jonathan Swan separately detailed Vice President JD Vance's role in subsequent peace negotiations with Iran, describing Trump's direct involvement in ordering the diplomatic outreach. Additional videos cover related debates over America's broader Middle East foreign policy doctrine under the second Trump administration.