Secure Freedom Minute

Five years ago today, the Chinese Communist Party “fundamentally transformed” Hong Kong from a relatively free and economically thriving territory into just another enslaved city within the People’s Republic of China. 

With Beijing’s imposition of a draconian national security law, the CCP finished off the last vestiges of the “one-country, two-systems” arrangement it promised Great Britain would apply for fifty years when she surrendered the colony in 1997.  

Dissent has been crushed, with its champions like Jimmy Lai and Joshua Wong cruelly imprisoned. The mainland’s totalitarian social credit system enforces the Party’s edicts. And Hong Kong’s capital market now serves as a financial Trojan Horse, a vehicle for Wall Street to fundraise for Chinese military companies like CATL. 

An even worse fate awaits Taiwan if the Chinese Communists can next acquire it, one way or another. That must not happen.

This is Frank Gaffney.

The ongoing debate about the damage inflicted by U.S. and Israeli forces on Iran’s nuclear weapons program is obscuring a larger – and deeply concerning – reality: What’s been described as the end of “the 12-day war” has left the mullahs still in power in Tehran, their instruments for repressing the Iranian people still operating and their Communist Chinese allies still able to infuse the regime with cash, know-how and military hardware.

Thus, as long as the ayatollahs remain in control, they can always simply buy nuclear weapons. They can use their surviving missiles, or newly manufactured ones, to attack our forces in the region and/or Israel. And they can activate jihadist cells in this country – including teams tasked with assassinating President Trump. 

Without decisive victory and a Free Iran, what we have is not peace, but more endless war with the Sharia-supremacists. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Following the U.S. military strike that devastated key parts of Iran’s nuclear weapons infrastructure, President Trump effusively thanked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his own and his country’s help in ensuring the mullahs do not get nuclear weapons. He added, “We worked as a team like perhaps no other team has ever worked before.”

Last night, Mr. Trump went even further in a Truth Social post, describing his partner as a WARRIOR. “We were fighting, literally, for the Survival of Israel, and there is nobody in Israel’s History that fought harder or more competently than Bibi Netanyahu.” 

A veteran of politically motivated lawfare himself, the President called for an immediate end to an ongoing “TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE” afflicting the prime minister. The same should apply to political warfare against Bibi being waged by some influential Trump allies here.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

Yesterday, New York City Democrats chose a so-called “progressive” Muslim, Zohran Mamdani, to be their next mayor. Will his candidacy prompt at last scrutiny of what authoritative Islam’s Sharia doctrine entails – a truth largely suppressed in this country since its adherents attacked us on 9/11? 

Sharia requires faithful Muslims to strive to achieve its totalitarian triumph worldwide. Wherever possible, that is to be accomplished through violent jihad, or holy war, as practiced by the “perfect man”: Islam’s prophet Mohammed. 

When violence would be counterproductive, however, Sharia demands that jihad be pursued by other means. As we have seen in Britain especially, Sharia-supremacist Muslim Brotherhood-engineered block-voting has elected Muslim mayors in London and some twenty other cities.

As Charlie Kirk recently courageously observed, “Sharia is incompatible with Western civilization.” And stealthy “electoral jihad” poses a threat to it here.

This is Frank Gaffney.

The ceasefire between Israel and Iran President Trump announced yesterday came amidst signs that the cumulative effects of recent Israeli and U.S. military actions were putting the Iranian regime in extremis.

The right response to the impending demise of an enemy government that has explicitly pursued for forty-six years “Death to Israel,” “Death to America” and the destruction of Judeo-Christian civilization is: “Do Not Resuscitate.”

By contrast, what amounts to a hudna – a pause that allows the ayatollahs to regroup, rearm, repress their people and resume  jihad when expedient – would be strategic defeat for their intended victims, including us.

President Trump has brilliantly teamed with Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu to make possible a decisive victory in the truly “endless war” with Iran. Join us at VictoryCo.org for an emergency briefing today at 2 p.m. ET for what needs to be done now.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

On Saturday, U.S. military forces impressively devastated Iran’s nuclear weapons infrastructure. Unfortunately, some targeted enriched uranium may have been moved beforehand, assuring the Iranian regime remains a dangerous threat.

So do its active options to close the Strait of Hormuz, kill U.S. troops in the region, continue attacking Israel and activate sleeper cells inside the United States. 

Yet, we’re insistently told we must negotiate a “peace deal” with the ayatollahs, leaving them in power, able to continue  repressing the Iranian people and actively threatening Israel’s – and ours.

Fortunately, President Trump seems to have opened the door to “regime change” in a social media post yesterday. Indeed, Israel must be free to finish the job by making that possible and we must stop negotiating with the mullahs, thereby legitimating them and discouraging their people from bringing about a Free Iran. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Remember the TV game show called “Let’s Make a Deal”? Contestants would choose one of three doors, hoping it concealed a great prize. 

The present churning on Iran feels like that show. President Trump has faced two unpalatable options: Door One: Do nothing and, effectively assure the mullahs’ regime remains in place – including its covert nuclear weapons program. Or Door Two: Bomb a very hard Iranian nuclear target and become engaged military in another Mideast war. 

Instead of giving the ayatollahs two more weeks to agree they won’t “get the Bomb,” which amounts to Door One, he should take Door Three: Require the mullahs’ true “unconditional surrender,” meaning the liberation of the Iranian people. 

Anything less means victory for the Sharia-supremacists and ensures much more of the truly “endless war” they have waged against us from Iran for over forty years. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

There’s a secret weapon in the campaign to end the mortal threat the Iranian regime poses to Israel, America and Western civilization: namely, the people of Iran. 

After all, the mullahs’ Sharia-supremacist totalitarian misrule has impoverished, isolated and murdered them for over four decades.

In addition, the ruling ayatollahs believe they must bring back their messiah by initiating the Apocalypse, which would kill untold millions of Iranians, among others. 

If empowered to liberate themselves, Iran’s people can do more to end the regime’s doomsday nuclear weapons program than any external power. So, we need to encourage and enable them to rise up. 

Understandably, they’ll only take the immense risks of doing so if convinced Western deal-making with the regime won’t sell them out again. That means no further negotiations with the mullahs for any purpose other than their unconditional surrender. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Israel’s successful campaign to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons program, prevent its ballistic missiles and other weapons from attacking the Jewish State’s population centers and decimate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, military and intelligence leadership has given rise to an historic opportunity. 

For the first time since 1979, when the ayatollahs imposed their apocalyptic and totalitarian Sharia-supremacist regime on the country’s highly cultured, capable and pro-Western population, the people of Iran have a real chance to liberate themselves. 

That prospect increased immeasurably with President Trump’s immortal, two-word social media post yesterday. He said simply, “Unconditional Surrender.” 

By signaling an end to negotiations with the mullahs for any other purpose, the Iranian people now can, and will, bring them down. They’ll need, of course, support in rejoining the civilized world. But that decisive victory is finally possible, at last. 

Praise the Lord!

This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump abruptly left the G-7 meeting to work on the conflict between Israel and Iran’s mullahs. Thankfully, he has explicitly said it’s not to pursue a ceasefire, whose practical effect would be to deny the decisive victory Israel’s security – and ours – requires.  

Instead, Mr. Trump has said he’s working on “something bigger” and that he wants a real end to the Iranian nuclear threat,  meaning Tehran “giving up entirely.” 

Our superb “emergency briefing” yesterday showed why: The Iranian regime is committed to our destruction, not just Israel’s. It’s compelled by faith to lie in any negotiation. And it’ll use anything short of complete defeat to regroup, rearm and resume its war on Judeo-Christian civilization. 

I pray the Trump team, and you, will go to the video tape at VictoryCo.org and help Israel achieve the only acceptable outcome – namely, decisive victory. 

This is Frank Gaffney.