Frank Gaffney

when the Ceausescus went from being president for life and his first lady to being corpses just like that. And basically what that involved was the security personnel responsible for their continued operations and changing sides and putting bullets in them. And suddenly that was done. That can happen in Iran, and I think it's long overdue.

when the Ceausescus went from being president for life and his first lady to being corpses just like that. And basically what that involved was the security personnel responsible for their continued operations and changing sides and putting bullets in them. And suddenly that was done. That can happen in Iran, and I think it's long overdue.

when the Ceausescus went from being president for life and his first lady to being corpses just like that. And basically what that involved was the security personnel responsible for their continued operations and changing sides and putting bullets in them. And suddenly that was done. That can happen in Iran, and I think it's long overdue.

And my bigger point is this, absent that, I think we're just deluding ourselves to think these guys with their ambitions and all they've invested are going to be talked out of actually completing their nuclear weapons program.

And my bigger point is this, absent that, I think we're just deluding ourselves to think these guys with their ambitions and all they've invested are going to be talked out of actually completing their nuclear weapons program.

And my bigger point is this, absent that, I think we're just deluding ourselves to think these guys with their ambitions and all they've invested are going to be talked out of actually completing their nuclear weapons program.

Well, where to begin? First of all, the people of Iran have risen up repeatedly. And you sort of qualified the point that they haven't by saying, something detective, you know, not decisively. Obviously, it wasn't decisive because that security apparatus was intact. It's a totalitarian regime, as you know. It's designed to try to make sure that nobody overthrows it.

Well, where to begin? First of all, the people of Iran have risen up repeatedly. And you sort of qualified the point that they haven't by saying, something detective, you know, not decisively. Obviously, it wasn't decisive because that security apparatus was intact. It's a totalitarian regime, as you know. It's designed to try to make sure that nobody overthrows it.

Well, where to begin? First of all, the people of Iran have risen up repeatedly. And you sort of qualified the point that they haven't by saying, something detective, you know, not decisively. Obviously, it wasn't decisive because that security apparatus was intact. It's a totalitarian regime, as you know. It's designed to try to make sure that nobody overthrows it.

And it's spent a lot of money and put a lot of people, not just the IRGC, but they've had Hezbollah, they've had the Pasijis, you know, all with the purpose of preventing

And it's spent a lot of money and put a lot of people, not just the IRGC, but they've had Hezbollah, they've had the Pasijis, you know, all with the purpose of preventing

And it's spent a lot of money and put a lot of people, not just the IRGC, but they've had Hezbollah, they've had the Pasijis, you know, all with the purpose of preventing

critical mass from developing but it's not because the people of Iran haven't wanted to or More to the point even done it in the face of all of that But you know when they were crying out literally to Obama just to you know, give them the Sort of blessing of the United States government Which he refused to do And nobody before or since has done it either, by the way.

critical mass from developing but it's not because the people of Iran haven't wanted to or More to the point even done it in the face of all of that But you know when they were crying out literally to Obama just to you know, give them the Sort of blessing of the United States government Which he refused to do And nobody before or since has done it either, by the way.

critical mass from developing but it's not because the people of Iran haven't wanted to or More to the point even done it in the face of all of that But you know when they were crying out literally to Obama just to you know, give them the Sort of blessing of the United States government Which he refused to do And nobody before or since has done it either, by the way.

This has created a condition under which you've got to have, as you said yourself, strategic, targeted efforts to rupture the kind of control that the regime relies upon. And I would just say that I think that President Trump...

This has created a condition under which you've got to have, as you said yourself, strategic, targeted efforts to rupture the kind of control that the regime relies upon. And I would just say that I think that President Trump...

This has created a condition under which you've got to have, as you said yourself, strategic, targeted efforts to rupture the kind of control that the regime relies upon. And I would just say that I think that President Trump...

actually does understand this and i think his instincts say you just can't let this thing continue to metastasize i do think he's getting bad advice from people around him who are saying much as you did just now you know oh the military thing the military thing you can't do the military thing The Israelis have attacked Iran in retaliation, to be sure, decisively several times.

actually does understand this and i think his instincts say you just can't let this thing continue to metastasize i do think he's getting bad advice from people around him who are saying much as you did just now you know oh the military thing the military thing you can't do the military thing The Israelis have attacked Iran in retaliation, to be sure, decisively several times.