Secure Freedom Minute

While the world’s attention is understandably increasingly focused on Iran’s ongoing attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf, fresh attention is needed on another potential threat involving merchant vessels.  
 
Specifically, the regime’s dead-enders are assessed to be capable of using such ships to bring drones and perhaps even short-range ballistic missiles within striking distance of our shores.
Coast Guard intelligence reportedly was behind recent warnings that Iran’s unmanned aerial vehicles, better known as drones, could be launched against targets in California. And Committee on the Present Danger: China Chairman Brian Kennedy reminded our webinar yesterday of previous Iranian tests of ship-launched ballistic missiles simulating the delivery of a devastating electromagnetic pulse attack on our homeland.
 
Such threats are just two more reasons why we must secure the end of the mullahocracy and the liberation of Iran now.
 
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.
 

Communist China is seeking to mediate a cessation of hostilities with Iran and, if possible, save its puppet regime there. The transparent ulterior motive, however, is to ensure continued Chinese access to Iranian oil exports.
 
That agenda has become critical with President Trump’s successful removal of Venezuela’s Nicholas Maduro and his subsequent control over that other main supplier of oil for the Chinese Communist Party.
Suddenly, the tables have turned on Xi Jinping, who was using his monopoly on processed rare earth minerals and dumping of U.S. Treasuries to extract concessions from Mr. Trump and erode the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency.
 
It remains to be seen how the President will wield his new-found leverage over our mortal enemy, the CCP. But Donald Trump now has the option of checkmating Xi’s ambition to seize Taiwan and otherwise threaten America.
 
This is Frank Gaffney.