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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday denied that Israel dragged the US into war with Iran, insisting that if anything, the opposite could be true and that he felt Iran was going to attack first. These remarks come as politicians and media influencers on both sides of the US aisle condemn “Israel’s war” and point their fingers at the Jewish state.
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In the first half of the program, we take a deep dive into Iran’s greater existential threat to the Mideast — and the world at large. Which nations appear to start internalizing that the extremist Islamist regime may actually do what it threatens it will?
In the second half, we talk about the opportunity afforded at this time for Iranians to rise up and change their regime. It would be, posits Horovitz, more possible to see some form of “total victory” against the terror regime, as opposed to wiping out Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
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