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Letter: Stop the nuclear threat

Editor, Gazette-Journal:Iran is actively trying to kill Donald Trump because they don’t want him to be President again. Iran is actively supporting Kamala Harris because they do want her to be President. They even tried giving her campaign data they hacked from Trump’s campaign. This is an incredibly important issue. To understand why, we need a bit of history.Today’s Iran was originally Ancient Persia, so the people, language, and culture are different than the Arab cultures that surround them. In the mid-600s AD, Persia was conquered by Muslims and by the mid-1200s Islam was the dominant religion. After WWII, the Iranian monarch (Shah of Iran) began extensive Westernization encouraging education for women, industry and economic growth. This prompted the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and the Shah was overthrown and replaced by the radical Islamic cleric, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Everything changed, Western ideas were forbidden, and the regime now devotes itself to exp...

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