Former Iranian hostage speaks out

Iran hostage survivor backs Operation Epic Fury

Warns regime must never obtain nuclear weapons

Kevin Hermening spent 444 days blindfolded, handcuffed, and sleeping on a bare box spring inside revolutionary Iran. He was 20 years old. A Marine sergeant. One of more than 50 Americans seized during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. He watched a fellow captive get beaten. He prayed for deliverance.

More than four decades later, Hermening says President Donald Trump finally did what no president before him was willing to do.

Speaking with Fox News Radio's Dave Anthony, Hermening offered a clear verdict on Operation Epic Fury, the joint U.S.-Israeli campaign that followed the Feb. 28 strikes resulting in the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei:

"I do believe that the president absolutely did the right thing for the first time in more than 40 years. In this case, to deny the Iranian regime in their pursuit of nuclear weapons."

For more than 40 years. That sentence carries decades of failed diplomacy, abandoned leverage, and strategic cowardice. Multiple administrations talked. They sanctioned. They negotiated frameworks that Iran violated before the ink dried. They sent pallets of cash. They looked away while centrifuges spun.

Trump acted.

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