Iran Commissions Murder

The Sunday Times has broken a story about five Iranian companies paying the Taliban $1000 for each US soldier killed and $6000 for every US vehicle destroyed. If this report is true, this is an act of war by Iran against the United States and must be treated as such. Even if these bounties are offered by alleged private entities, the fact that Iran is not cracking down and stopping them is a casus belli- just as if some American company offered one million dollars for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's head and our government knew of it and did nothing to stop it. Willful inaction is a tacit endorsement and Iran has done much more than that by backing Hizbollah in Lebanon in executing the US Marine barracks bombing that left over two hundred Americans dead, to seizing the American embassy in Tehran in the distant past, to funding both the Mehdi Army and Hizbollah in Iraq as they fought US forces in the more recent past to justify a harsh American retaliatory response. America can and should end the mullah regime and liberate the Iranian people from their tyrannical masters.