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Iran understandably believes it is riding relatively high.
It is flush with cash. It hints it almost has the bomb — and might use it soon.
The Iranians are bragging about their new tyrannical allies like Russia and China.
Iran boasts of now being the self-proclaimed leader of jihad on behalf of all Muslims. It gloats that it is feeding the Russian war machine by exporting its own drones.
Tehran proudly supplied and funded Hamas’s savage murder of Jewish children in Israel.
It eggs on its other pawn, Hezbollah, to launch a reputed 100,000 Iranian-supplied missiles into Israel.
It constantly provokes the U.S. — primarily by veiled threats to unleash anti-American terrorists in the Middle East and perhaps inside America itself.
But above all, Iran is giddy over the appeasing Biden administration.
Biden resurrected the unhinged Obama administration plan of empowering a “Shiite crescent” — of Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah, including Hamas.
This American idea of a radical bloc would supposedly birth “creative tension” and, on autopilot, balance the dominance of our friends in Israel and the Gulf regimes with our new Iranian clients. Yet the logical result of such madness was the massacre we saw in Israel.
Biden put pro-Iranian envoy Robert Malley — now under FBI investigation — in charge of begging Iran to restart the disastrous Iran Deal.
The anemic Biden administration has reportedly replied only four times to some 83 Iranian attacks on Americans.
Biden lifted sanctions, allowing Iran to garner tens of billions of dollars in new oil sales — to be routed to all of Israel’s terrorist enemies.
He sought to pay ransom to Iran to get back five American hostages — at a cost of $1.2 billion per captive and a green light for Tehran to take more.
The Biden administration restored in aggregate $1 billion in aid to the West Bank and Gaza despite the long history of radical Palestinian terrorism.
This mollification of Iran also led its appendages, Hamas and Hezbollah, to believe that if any of them started a war against Israel, then Iran would guarantee their victory, the U.S. would do nothing — and likely force Israel to do the same nothing.
Yet a delusional Iran still is not fully aware how its loud bragging about and support for its client Hamas’s barbaric killing of Jewish civilians have put it into an unprecedented, dangerous predicament.
For the first time in decades, no nation can restrain Israel from destroying Iran’s pawn, Hamas — not after it butchered 1,400 Jewish citizens. At the same time, radical Palestinians in Gaza keep celebrating the slaughter and promising more such savage mass murders.
Iran’s other proxy, Hezbollah, still issues blood-curdling threats to launch missiles. But it privately knows if it hits Israel with them, Beirut will resemble something far worse than its rubble of 2006 during the last Middle East war.
The world despises Iran and now finally accepts it cannot be appeased. Arab nations neither want Gazan refugees anywhere near them nor their terrorists whom Gazans one-time voted into power.
Even Europe abhors Hamas’s precivilizational butchery of Israeli civilians.
Russia, Iran’s new patron, will be of little help to it — bogged down in Ukraine and hemorrhaging under sanctions and global ostracism. Nor has Moscow forgotten its own long, violent history with Islam.
China cares only about the delivery of Middle East oil, calm sea lanes — and injuring the U.S.
Otherwise, Beijing has no desire to risk its economy by pushing an Iranian theater war –especially when China has jailed a million Uyghur Muslims in forced labor camps.
Public opinion will force even Biden to retaliate if the two substantial American carrier groups parked in the Eastern Mediterranean are attacked by either Iranian or Hezbollah missiles. And the response will not be street-fighting block to block-in Tehran or Beirut.
Instead, it will be a medieval rain of destruction on either or both from the air.
After the Afghanistan humiliation, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Chinese flagrant spy balloon mission over the American heartland, eight million illegal aliens waved in across the southern border and woke hysterias, Americans may have finally woken up that they dangerously — almost fatally — have squandered prior hard-won deterrence and must reboot.
To play its global jihadist role, Iran must always keep upping its terrorist ante and constantly louder threats.
It assumes the Middle East is business as usual — when it is insidiously becoming just the opposite. An appeasing Biden is not driving events but being driven by them, whether he knows it or not.
The Iranians have little clue that they and their vassals are one stupid missile volley or one reckless intervention away from a devastating Western response that would not necessarily be “proportionate.”
Such retaliation would be welcomed by Iran’s numerous enemies, privately applauded by its small number of supposed “friends,” and largely shrugged off by its even fewer allies.
Great article, Dr. Hanson!
From your keyboard to God’s (and Iran’s) eyes!
Iran embraces the danger. It hastens the arrival of the 12th Imam. The Madi, not sure of the spelling. It is evil and very dangerous to the whole world.
Hanson,
You think the 90 Million Iranians and their thousands of accurate missiles won’t light the
whole of Saudi Arabian oil fields on FIRE? Shut the Straight of Hormuz and choke
off a sizable portion of the worlds oil supply? If the Iranian government and their
proxies are going down, there going to take a very big chunk of the middle east
with them! Not to mention the $300 or $400 barrel of oil that would cripple a lot
of the worlds economy and our own here in the U.S!
One more war that would not have happened had Americans not traded Trump for an
invalid Potato named Joe Biden.
Alzheimer Joe’s handlers might allow the Iranians to blockade the strait of Hormuz but china wouldn’t.
And it’s only a matter of time before Israel fires some cruise missiles at the mullahs.
And if Trump overcomes Dirbagocrat vote fraud and cheating in 2024, all bets are off.
What you say assumes some sanity in DC Who in American government and military would order such a retaliation even if necessary? . We don’t even know for sure who is in charge. We suspect it may be one of Iran’s biggest fans who wouldn’t like to see America win.
And if we allow another American defeat, will it just be lied about like the Afghanistan debacle was ?
You see, I’ve not heard any public pushback to the calls for genocide of the Jews in American streets. I assume the entire public is either for Hamas, and its sponsor Iran, or they believe that if they feed the Jews to Iran, Islam will be satiated.
I think the captains of those ships in the Eastern Mediterranian flotilla would order a strike like that if necessary. They aren’t genital Milley or the other politicians posing a soldiers and Marines in the Pentagon.
But who knows for sure?
I disagree with you 100%. The entire armed forces are under control of the same gutless worms. To obtain flag rank in any of the branches requires them to conform to the same LeftTwat mentality that I observed in the officer corps 40 years ago.
Do not believe or depend upon our military- they are totally corrupt
They were and are corrupted by BHO.
It goes back much further than that. Obama can be blamed for many things but rot in the flag ranks is not one of them.
You know better than I do. I was never in the military and don’t pay close attention to that type of thing. That’s very depressing news.
I do know we have an Admiral who’s a nasty ass tranny. America is lost, apparently.
Only if the moron really does have any power, which I doubt. Appearances do not win wars or make an officer a man. I would seriously doubt he he has no power or is man.
Well, the NFL season is heating up, so most conservatives have other priorities at present.
I’m not sure there is any time during the course of the year when pro sports are not in session, so, with the exception of those few conservatives like me who despise pro sports and the woke scum behind them, you’ll probably need to canvass the local gin mills to hear the righteous indignation that conservatives are so good at expressing. In between beers, of course.
Bartender! Ignorance on the house!
You’re not the only conservative who dislikes professional sports and the scum who control them. I liked to play sports when I was young but I never enjoyed watching them. It’s boring, especially football where games that are supposed to be one hour long take over three hours with all those idiotic time outs.
Yes, and commercials that are an insult to everyone except those who don’t have at least one functioning brain cell, like Pedophile Joe.
Cat:…..Bravo !!!!
The truth…..Now, the other truth…..
SOME BELIEVE THE SUPPOSED US FLEET IN THE VICINITY
OF ISRAEL HAS POWER……
WHO WILL GIVE THE COMMAND TO FIGHT BACK ?????
DC WILL NOT !!!!!
THE US IS NOT THE FREEDOM SEEKING NATION IT ONCE WAS !!!!!
ISRAEL KNOWS WE ARE DRECK !!!!!
WE JEWS WILL SURVIVE EVEN FROM ISRAEL HATING JEWS ( ALSO DRECH )
TSVI ( AKA EDDIE )
I’m actually not being facetious when I say that unless the crazed mullahs
of Iran personally stick their nuclear bomb up Biden’s butt and attempt to
set it off – it is most unlikely that the fraudulent Biden administration would
do anything to counteract Iranian aggressions.
Because Biden and his globalist communists hate us. And their cronies in
the international mainstream media will make incidents of Iranian assaults
disappear almost as soon as they happen.
“Arab nations neither want Gazan refugees anywhere near them or their
terrorists”. Why would they even worry about that? They know that Biden
would be more than happy to take them in. Besides, they’ve provided
zero succor to Palestinians for over 75 years – so why would they start now?
Iran may be crazy but it’s not stupid. They’ll attack as much as they can get
away with and then back off. Even those fanatics won’t risk the loss of their
American cash cow.
Their proxies attacked U.S. troops in Syria just today. No casualties reported but not for lack of trying. Look, Biden is a fool and is being guided by the looney Left which, for some reason that is almost unfathomable to me, embraces Islam. The Left thinks that both it and Islam will destroy Western Civilization and that the Left will either rule or share rule with Islam. Apparently, the Left is totally ignorant of Islamic history which has a 1700 year history of eliminating its rivals. If they are successful, the joke will be on the Leftists.
Kasandra – Yep. I agree totally.
@Annie45 Hamas-supporting Gazan refugees migrating to my back yard. Now that’s a comforting thought that will help me sleep peacefully at night, right up until the call to prayer at 6:00 AM.
Robert Hagedorn – LOL. The only thing we can always count on
with Biden is to put Americans in a position that will harm us.
I think it’s actually 5: AM. I lived right across from a mosque in Indonesia for awhile and almost went insane from the noise pollution. They blast that wailing over loudspeakers, you know.
NATO has provided their latest missiles to sink Russian ships in the Black Sea so why wouldn’t the Russians provide Iran with their latest missiles to sink US ships in the Med or in the Persian Gulf ?
It wouldn’t surprise me if they manage to sink or cripple the SS Bataan in the Persian Gulf
I don’t see this war ending any other way than with Israel nuking Iran with Hiroshima size bombs so Iran looks like Japan in 1945
These Muslims say they want to die for Allah ,…..the Japs wanted to die for their God Emperor in 1945 but when those mushroom clouds started appearing they suddenly decided they love life more than death ; I suspect something similar will happen with those medieval-like Muslims
That’s the way it is with all primitive quasi medieval peoples who need the fear of a righteous God putting in to them ,… after all , fear of the Lord or fear of the LAW are the begining of all wisdom !
Israel should first strike the Iranian Parliament while in session with a tactical nuke.
A cruise missile would do the job without harm to nearby residents but I get what you’re talking about.
YES, I thought about that myself .. a coup de grace
“One reckless move away from a devastating Western response.”
From Joe? What’s he going to do, send a few drag queens to corrupt the morals of Iranian children?
It’s not a matter of if but when Iranian mullahs will get a heavy dose of their medicine.
It’s long overdue. They need to die.
Not from us. Maybe Israel. Joe Biden is only the de jure POTUS. The de facto is BHO.
BHO will do nothing to harm his pals, the Iranians.
His butt buddies. He did all he could to empower the mullahs when he was Prezzy.
Apparently I cannot make specific comments, one of the reasons I stopped reading this site. Oh well.
I’m surprised that BDH misses the greatest threat to the mullahs’ regime, which is the Iranian people themselves. If they smell blood in the water, if the Israelis bleed them enough show the regime’s inherent weakness, the Persians and the Arabs and the Azeris wanting nothing to do with Shia fanaticism will be happy to finish the job. If there is a reign of terror in the next pages of Iranian history, it will be the Khomeinists whose heads will roll.
Now I must apologize. Yet I get an unapproved message. What the hell. Dump the site..
In this growing post-America world forming before our eyes, it seems that there are no actual friends and allies between the world’s would-be controllers and instead merely the present benefit between these vultures. And yes – I mean them all. These next several years ought to be a story that makes the end of the Western Roman Empire – seem quite tame.
The only action that O-Biden would take after a serious threat from Iran is to surrender. He has already destroyed the once mighty USA. He’d probably claim that the US can’t fight Iran because he gave all our ‘bullets’ to Ukraine and all our money to the Mullahs, so we are broke and out of bullets. Then he would tell all Americans to just do everything the Mullahs tell them or they won’t be allowed to be dhimmi’s for Iran, they will have to be executed..
I sure am glad that Jesus is coming to take me outa here to my new home.
Maranatha, come Lord Jesus…………
God is extremely angry with Islamic radicals.