The Iranian regime has unleashed a steady torrents of threats against U.S national security, specially since 2015, policy responses have oscillated between isolation or engagement. But both of these approaches rely on blind faith that the regime will one day change it’s behavior, a supposition that is logically unfounded and evidentially unpersuasive. The unmitigated policy failures stem from a lack of strategic death vis-a-vis Iran policy that has unfortunately proven detrimental to the people of Iran as well as the United States.