Putting violent desire on the same moral plane as actual murder victims is a silly thing to do.

Agreed, but what if not stopping the IRGC ends up causing orders-of-magnitude more suffering and deaths? (Tho, is Trump actually unleashing the IRGC because Mojtaba gives them free-er reign than Ali; and causing some Iranians to actually side with their own psychotic countrymen against the attacking foreigners? If yes, then US voters may be more harmful than Iran.)

Would Hamas not be vastly worse than Israel if they had the same military power as Israel?

ISIS?

Shouldn't intent count to prevent access to biological and nuclear weapons?