Former CentCom commander Gen. Frank McKenzie says Iranian senior leadership is not in a good place right now amid the Middle East conflict on 'America Reports.'
One year ago, Iran took a gamble and started a war in Gaza with the attack by Hamas that killed nearly 1,200 Israelis, including over 40 Americans, and took more than 200 hostages
A year later, it is clear that Iran is losing this war.
For his part, Ayatollah Khamenei on Friday, October 4, 2024, remembered the massacre as "logical and legal" and used his first public Friday sermon in five years to proclaim that Iran "won’t back down." He also had a rifle at the podium. He’s that worried.
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You can measure the defeat of Iran in two ways. The first is restoring Israel’s security and carrying out the military destruction of Iran’s terror agents Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and more.
Israeli soldiers raise their fists from a moving APC in northern Israel on Tuesday, Oct. 1. (AP/Baz Ratner)
Israeli strikes of the past several weeks have brought this goal closer.
Second, getting Israel and Saudi Arabia back on track toward normalizing relations will be the ultimate defeat for Iran.
Of all the vile causes for the Hamas attack, the strategic tipping point came because Saudi Arabia and Israel were close to a historic normalization of relations.
Iran couldn’t stand it.
Last fall, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman were in serious, quiet negotiations. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan wrote in his Foreign Affairs article that the work toward joint infrastructure projects and new partnerships between Israel and its Arab........