Secure Freedom Minute

During the Cold War, American experts would scrutinize every shred of evidence – including who stood where on Lenin’s tomb during military parades – for clues about Kremlin leadership struggles and their implications for our security. 
A similar phenomenon is underway at the moment regarding  China’s secretive Communist hierarchy. Purges of senior military officers believed to be loyal to the current Chinese “emperor,” Xi Jinping, his recent, protracted absences – both physical and from the state-controlled media, and rumors of his ill-health are feeding speculation he may soon be toppled from power.
A timely webinar today will assess whether Xi’s days as absolute dictator are indeed numbered. And, either way, whether the advanced state of his preparations for a shooting war means that we are at a moment of acute danger – and what’s our appropriate response. 
Join us at noon Eastern Time at PresentDangerChina.org.
This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump has declared “the 12-Day war is over.” But what about the truly “endless war” perpetrated by the Iranian mullahs against us and Israel when they came to power forty-six years ago?  
It would be more accurate to say hostilities have paused, consistent with Islam’s Sharia doctrine. It dictates that adherents like Iran’s leaders can only interrupt the jihad they must wage to achieve Sharia’s triumph worldwide if defeat is imminent and to buy time to regroup, rearm and renew the fighting when they can prevail. 
A VictoryCo.org briefing at noon Eastern Time today will scrutinize the Iranian regime’s ongoing bellicose rhetoric and actions – including a top ayatollah’s religious order to assassinate President Trump. To actually end its endless war, Israel must finish the job by eliminating the mullahocracy, thus affording the Iranian people a chance to Free Iran.
This is Frank Gaffney

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.