It’s About to Get Very Real

On January 20, a tectonic shift will rock America. Sound dramatic? It is.

Already, America’s partners and adversaries are getting ready for the big change.

Iranian-backed militias in Iraq are already talking about calling off their attacks on Israel. And the Iraqi government, which US taxpayers continue to subsidize, is finally acknowledging that it might be able to help free a Princeton University researcher, Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was kidnapped in 2023 by a government-funded terrorist group.

How many more surprises have the Biden-Harris White House hidden from the American people? My guess is, it will take months for Trump’s incoming cabinet secretaries and agency chiefs to dig them out from among the weeds.

To their credit, Republican senators reminded Americans during confirmation hearings of the hundreds of information requests they have made to Biden appointees that have remained unanswered. When the answers finally come, count on the left-wing media to dismiss them as old news. 300,000 unaccompanied alien children sold into sex-trafficing rings? Oh, we’ve known about that for years, nothing to see here.

Iranian president Masood Peseshkian traveled to Moscow on Friday to ink a “comprehensive strategic partnership treaty” with Russian president Putin. The deal will dramatically expand trade between the two countries, and calls for Russian investment to complete transit corridors from Russia, through Azerbaijan and Iran, to the Persian Gulf.

For Vladimir Putin and for his Slavophile supporters, the deal is nothing less than the completion of the imperial dreams of Peter the Great, Russia’s centuries-old ambition to reach the Warm Seas.

Thank-you, Joe Biden. You have made Russia great again.

The Russia-Iran deal will include new pipelines to ship Russian natural gas through Iran to foreign export markets, primarily China.

So let’s call this deal what it is: a sanctions-busting agreement.

Both the Russians and the Iranians know that President Trump means business about re-imposing the Maximum Pressure sanctions on Iran, which dramatically reduced Iran’s oil exports during Trump 1.

Trump is talking about enforcing real sanctions on Russian oil and gas exports, as well. The smarmy Europeans, sanctimonious as ever, will scream bloody murder and American imperialism, and then negotiate back-door deals with Moscow and Tehran to keep the lights on.

Indeed, the euros launched negotiations with the Iranians on January 11, ostensibly to impose limits on Iran’s nuclear weapons development but in fact aimed at securing Iranian oil and gas supplies despite US sanctions.

I have long warned about the “negotiation trap” with Iran. Years ago, when I was still a guest lecturer at the Pentagon’s Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy (JCITA) in Quantico, I told our intelligence officers that the Iranians were playing the Obama administration like an Appalachian fiddle, in what came to be known as the Iran Nuclear deal — or as President Trump put it, the “worst deal” ever negotiated by the US.

I got fired for my candor in 2016, but hey – it’s not the first time. You can read all about it in my latest book, The Iran House: Tales of Persecution, Revolution, War, and Intrigue.

So why do the Iranians want to negotiate now? Simple. Because the Israelis took out their air defenses, knocked out their biggest long-range missile plant, and kicked them out of Syria. In other words, because they are weak. Oh, and because Trump is back in the White House.

I have proposed an alternative strategy to the incoming administration, that would leverage the weakness of the Iranian mullahs by strengthening the hand of the pro-freedom movement inside Iran. You can read more about it in this short oped:  https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5019784-trump-iran-regime/

This week, the American Mideast Coalition for Democracy, a group of MAGA patriots originally from Iran, Lebanon, and elsewhere in the region, endorsed me to become President Trump’s Special Envoy to the People of Iran. The idea is to couple Maximum pressure on the Iranian regime with Maximum support for the Iranian people.

The new Special Envoy “would coordinate U.S. government outreach to the opposition and promote their activities at home and abroad,” AMCD wrote in their endorsement press release.

If you thought the mullahs were worried when they toured the ruins of their missile and nuclear facilities after Israel’s latest air strikes, just wait to see their faces after I convene the first US government-backed conference on the future of Iran.

I discuss this, as well as Trump’s pre-inauguration phone call with Chinese President Xi, and Trump’s global strategy to make America powerful again, on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend. As always, you can listen live at 1 PM on Saturday on 104.9 FM or 550 AM in the Jacksonville area, or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app. Later on, you can listen to the podcast here.

Yours in freedom.

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