
U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) delivered a powerful speech from the floor of the Senate, reminding America of the importance of fighting Iran.
Sheehy, a 40-year-old former Navy SEAL and decorated combat veteran who deployed multiple times, began his remarks by noting that President Trump traveled to Dover Air Force Base this week to attend a dignified transfer of U.S. service members killed in the war in Iran.
“I participated in many of those ceremonies myself to include carrying friends of mine off the plane. One of those is on this bracelet. He was cut in half by an Iranian EFP,” the GOP senator said, choking up as he removed the bracelet commemorating Army Captain Benjamin Tiffner, who was killed in action in Baghdad in 2007, and placed it on the lectern.
“This regime we are fighting does not care about our partisan politics. They don’t care who you voted for, who you pray to, or where you live. They want to kill all of us. And they don’t just say it, they actually do it, and they’ve been doing it for forty-seven years,” Sheehy said.
Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) delivers an incredibly powerful speech about Iran.
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“This is a war of choice. The Democrats are correct. It’s a war of choice that was begun by a radical lunatic band of terrorists that took over a beautiful nation 47 years ago, took it over with brutality, force, and savagery. And the second they took it over, they didn’t free their people, they didn’t unleash the largest oil reserves in the world to build schools and bridges,” he continued. “They took it over to murder their own people and to spread their disgusting ideology across the world, and that is exactly what they have been doing.”
Explaining that the regime’s actions speak for themselves, Sheehy detailed some of the atrocities.
“They have attacked families, women, children, innocent people,” he said. “They don’t just attack them and kill them, they rape them. They skin them alive on camera. They celebrate it. They honor those people who do disgusting things that we would put in jail for the rest of their lives in this country, and they do it for fun, and they pay them money to do it, and they’re heroes to that nation.”
Sheehy stressed that Iran has done these things to friends of his, and “to families who’ve been in this chamber.”
“And the fact that we sit here and listen to elected officials of this country defend these lunatics who want us all dead. They want all of you dead. They want all of us dead,” he said. “They don’t want us to disappear with a snap of a finger. They want us to be raped, burned alive, and cut into pieces. Watch the video from October 7. That’s what they want to happen from Maine to San Diego, from Seattle to Miami. They want this country turned into a burning husk of its former self, and you don’t have to theorize that.”
After calling attention to some of the attacks Iran is responsible for over the years, Sheehy noted that Trump was the first president to stand up to mullahs.
“Love Donald Trump or hate him, love his policies, hate ICE, love ICE, whatever. There’s never been a single president who has stood up to Iran and hit back. For 47 years, our troops and our families have been absorbing attack after attack after attack all over the world,” he said. “And their radical ideology does not stop at the Persian Gulf. It doesn’t stop at Tel Aviv. They want to do this everywhere. It’s a global radical ideology, and we’ve been fighting it for half a century.”
Insisting that America will “finish” the war with Iran, Sheehy reminded his colleagues that when they are criticizing the war effort, the troops see that as someone “stabbing you in the back.”
“Last time I checked, we’ve wiped these bastards out. An occasional missile strike and boats in the straits, that’s not military strength. Those are the flailings of a failing empire. Those are the flailings of a nation in collapse because they deserve it,” he concluded. “So I encourage our colleagues on both sides of the aisle, whatever’s politically convenient, whatever plays well on Twitter or Facebook, think about the people who are deployed right now, standing on that wall with a loaded weapon, who have volunteered to defend our country and our way of life.
“Because they are there defending us in a just war, because we did not start a war with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. They started it with us 47 years ago, and their attacks have gone unanswered for half a century. It’s time to fix this problem and make sure another generation of Americans does not have to fight this murderous, savage adversary.”
Here’s a brief sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:
Well said. One of the best reasons stated to end the failed Iranian empire. https://t.co/dmapBIhGQv
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) July 24, 2026
I wear a bracelet too.
SSG Alan W. Shaw
KIA 9 February 2007Everything Sen. Tim Sheehy says here is exactly what Americans need to understand. For some of us, this isn’t politics. It isn’t a talking point. It’s our reality.
If previous administrations had confronted the…
— SharrellAnne (@SharrellAnne2) July 23, 2026
Straight into my veins!
I’m old enough to remember the start of this when that weak fvck Carter allowed Americans to be held hostage in Iran for over a YEAR.
Time to end it.
— Bonnie S
(@BonnieS21912114) July 23, 2026
@TimSheehyMT Thank you for your honorable, strong, heartfelt, speech. Americans all need to hear this! It’s a fight against evil and America must win. @SecWar
— Ren (@RenSeekTruth) July 24, 2026




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