Iran and Project 2025

Attacking Iran is not explicitly outlined in the Project 2025 policy documents. However, the ideology and objectives within Project 2025 absolutely pave the way for aggressive foreign policy decisions like a strike on Iran. Let me explain.

🔥 What is Project 2025?

Project 2025 is a sweeping right-wing blueprint developed by the Heritage Foundation and other Trump-aligned groups. It’s a roadmap to dismantle the federal government’s current structure, centralize power in the presidency, purge civil servants, and reorient domestic and foreign policy to fit a Christian nationalist and authoritarian mold.

🧨 What is in Project 2025 related to Iran?

Here are key elements that relate indirectly but significantly to the potential for conflict with Iran:

1. Scrapping the Iran Nuclear Deal (again)

Project 2025 states that returning to any version of the Iran nuclear deal would be “a grievous mistake.” It argues for a posture of “maximum pressure” — a term used under Trump that included crushing sanctions and constant military posturing.

2. Rejecting Diplomacy

The document rejects multilateral diplomacy in favor of “America First” unilateral action. This removes the guardrails of international cooperation that might otherwise restrain impulsive or provocative moves like bombing Iran.

3. Defense Department Overhaul

Project 2025 wants to fill the Department of Defense with loyalists, remove civilian oversight that moderates military action, and weaken congressional checks on military power — making a unilateral strike much more likely and less accountable.

4. Dismantling Intelligence Independence

The playbook calls for purging the intelligence community of career professionals and replacing them with ideologically aligned Trump loyalists. That’s the same intelligence community that Trump ignored when they said Iran posed no imminent threat.

5. Strengthening the Imperial Presidency

The goal is to expand the president’s war powers and remove barriers like Congress or courts. A president operating under this framework could bomb without meaningful oversight — much like what we’re seeing now.

💣 So, Was Bombing Iran in the Playbook?

No — Project 2025 doesn’t name specific military targets like Iran. But it creates the environment in which bombing a country based on flimsy or politically motivated intelligence becomes both possible and likely

It doesn’t say “Go bomb Iran.”

But it does say:

• Replace generals and diplomats with loyalists.
• Ignore international law.
• Kill the Iran deal.
• Consolidate war powers under the president.
• Disregard intelligence that doesn’t support the narrative.

So if you’re wondering how we got here — Project 2025 may not have lit the match, but it soaked everything in gasoline.

Julie Bolejack, MBA

share: I've got to admit, except for a few minor details, Trump might have been a respected president. But he is a...
*Convicted Criminal
*Raped & abused women
*Coup-attempting insurrectionist
*Arm-twisted & intimidated election officials while engineering a fake elector scheme
*Convinced millions about the Big Lie about a stolen election that has undermined faith in free elections
*Pathological liar
*Self-centered, temperamental, impulsive, narcissistic megalomaniac
*Committed massive tax & financial fraud
*Cheated charities, contractors & university students
*Gave tax cuts to the wealthy that did little to help the working middle class
*Those tax cuts also produced the biggest deficits in history
*Botched a pandemic that contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans
*Called our deceased soldiers suckers & losers
*Mocked minorities, foreigners, women, the disabled, judges & Gold Star families
*Mistreats & kidnaps immigrants while denying them due process
*Fully behind a pro-gun culture that makes America by far the country with the most shooting deaths in the entire developed world
*Has dangerously demonized democratic institutions like the press, courts & intelligence communities, which in his 2nd term he's mostly turned them into fascist allies
*Inciting the widespread hatred, racism & bigotry that's threatening violence & even civil war
*Praised & capitulated to evil dictators around the world
*Called Putin smart & genius for invading Ukraine
*Sent love letters back & forth with Kim Jong un
*Gave Iran the green light to create nuclear missiles by pulling out of the prior deal
*Cut a bad deal with the Taliban which inspired them to regroup & retake Afghanistan
*Called for the execution of a leading American general simply for speaking out against him
*Called for incarcerating or shooting political opponents for the same reason
*In an increasingly dangerous world, he regularly turns his back on our allies
*Accelerated climate change by pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord
*A grifter who uses the power of his office to personally profit financially
*Has unilaterally enforced tariffs on a haphazard & unpredictable basis, creating great uncertainty in the economy
*His leadership further divides an already bitterly divided country
*His presidencies are defined by chaos & shock value which keeps the attention always on him
*Other than his MAGA base, he's determined to make the lives of Americans miserable
*Operates out of the Project 2025 fascist playbook, which puts corrupt MAGA loyalists in all positions of power while intimidating, threatening, arresting &/or suing political opponents into silence, financial/career ruin or capitulation
(Other than that, he's fine)