Israel has for decades understood what the American public is just beginning to appreciate: Iran has been at war with our democracy for nearly half a century.

President Donald J. Trump has long recognized the threat, along with the grim reality that Iran’s ayatollahs and their Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have been zealously committed to deploying nuclear weapons that would jeopardize more than the Middle East.

Their chants of “Death to America,” were not just meant to inflame their citizens but to transmit their strategic intent: truly “Death to America.”