Secure Freedom Minute

For over four decades, the people of Iran have yearned to be liberated from the mullahocracy that has brutalized them. Thanks to the U.S. and Israeli militaries, they finally have a real opportunity to secure their freedom.

Yet, some contend the absence since Operation Epic Fury’s launch of the mass demonstrations of the past indicate Iran’s people are no longer a key potential ally in its success. This ignores the fact that American and Israeli officials have insisted they stay home pending the further dismantling of the regime’s security apparatus that murderously suppressed the most recent ones.

Evidently, however, Iranians are now materially contributing to regime change by providing lethal targeting information about the location of checkpoints the ayatollahs’ thugs have set up to control and kill would-be demonstrators. 

As the late, great champion of freeing Iran, Michael Ledeen, would say, “Faster.” 

This is Frank Gaffney.  

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

At this hour, a dangerous fire is raging in an industrial complex in south Texas. It is too early to tell whether it was the result of an attack – let alone whether, if so, those responsible are tied to Iran’s regime. 

One thing is clear, however: Official warnings and those of highly regarded former national security professionals indicate that, at least as long as the mullahs cling to power, it’s a matter of time before we are subjected to such sabotage, and possibly much worse.  

For example, former CIA spy “Sam” Faddis notes that the new Iranian supreme leader has explicitly promised to hit “where the enemy has little experience and where it would be highly vulnerable.”

Some persist in believing that there’s a negotiated alternative to decisive victory over such an adversary. Regrettably, that’s not true. 

Finish the job. Liberate Iran. 

This is Frank Gaffney. 

In all the Monday morning quarterbacking about the war with Iran, one assumption keeps popping up. The widely shared premise of government officials, present and former, assorted pundits and other commentators is that ending the monstrous Iranian regime is an option, not mandatory.

A powerful Victory Coalition webinar yesterday made two things abundantly clear. The decision President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made to preemptively attack Iran was not a war of choice. It was a necessity. And so is the elimination of the apocalypse-seeking ayatollahs and what’s left of their security apparatus.

House Speaker Mike Johnson declared yesterday that “Sharia is not compatible with the U.S. Constitution.” Neither is the sharia-supremacist Iranian theocracy that, if it can, absolutely, positively will cataclysmically destroy our constitutional republic. 

Our security requires the liberation of Iran. Period. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Sharia Imperils the State of the Union

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

President Trump has offered differing assessments of how the war with Iran is progressing, how close it is to a successful conclusion and what comes next with respect to that nation’s government. 

One thing seems clear: The Chinese Communist Party has a lot riding on the outcome. It needs access to cheap, sanctions-busting oil imports from Iran. Its air defenses and other weapons have been deployed widely there – and have not performed well, with adverse implications for their marketing elsewhere. 

And the resulting external pressures only exacerbate China’s serious domestic economic, political and demographic challenges. 

So, will Chinese dictator Xi Jinping respond to these difficulties by deferring his plans for aggression against Taiwan and other U.S. interests? Or will he accelerate them in the hope of exploiting the current American preoccupation with Iran?

Stay tuned. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Keeping track of how the war with Iran is going, let alone where it’s going, is challenging. 

A key development from the latest phase of the Iranian regime’s war against us and most of the rest of the world – in which it has engaged since 1979 – has resulted in tectonic shifts in the Middle East. The United States and Israel have been joined by key European nations and a number of important Arab ones. 

While it remains to be seen how this coalition hangs together, the fact that it has formed up at all further seals the ayatollahs’ fate.

Provided, that is, President Trump continues to insist on their unconditional surrender. Combined with sustained efforts to destroy the regime’s security apparatus, that stance holds the greatest promise for regional peace and the return of Iran to the community of civilized nations.

This is Frank Gaffney. 

Donald Trump has long sought, and earned, the title of peacemaker. Unfortunately, history’s replete with treaties, accords and deals that failed to produce real and enduring ends to various conflicts.

Our president is in the process of achieving a descriptor that is much more rare, and of far greater consequence: “Trump the Liberator.” While still very much a work in progress, the changes he has wrought in Venezuela and those now taking shape in the wake of his partnership with Israel in dismantling the Iranian regime holds the promise of freeing more people than anyone since Ronald Reagan.

The Venezuelan opposition is now increasingly operating openly. The Lebanese government is publicly declaring it will defang Hezbollah. And Mr. Trump’s announced intention to play a role in selecting the next leader of Iran are all indicators of very promising – and liberating – trends. 

Let’s roll.

This is Frank Gaffney.