The Iranian regime has been greatly weakened by Israel’s strikes against its military and leadership. MEF Chief Editor Jim Hanson tells FOX News there may never be a better time for the long-suffering people of Iran to rise up.
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FOX: Let’s welcome to the show U.S. Army Special Forces veteran Jim Hanson. Jim, thank you for your service to America.
Do you see this as a possibility for regime change? Because Iran has been accused for years, Jim, of human rights abuses by Amnesty International watchdog groups. They executed nearly of its citizens since last year, talking beatings, torture, rape of political prisoners, public hangings in the public square.
Do you think regime change is coming in Iran?
HANSON: No one has suffered as much as the people of Iran.
As bad as their terrorist acts, as bad as the proxy wars they’ve started, and all of the damage they’ve done in the region, they’ve done worse to their own people.
And they have almost no popular support inside. The only people who back them are members of the regime who are profiting from exploiting their own people.
So I think the time is ripe for what should be a controlled implosion. Israel weakened all of the pillars that support the Islamic Republic and its IRGC thugs.
So all of those things are at the weakest point they’ve been. The people, you know, it’s an ugly situation to have to hit that tipping point and put your own bodies on the line because people will die in that effort.
But who could lead it? If there is ever going to be a better time.
FOX: Yeah, a better time could be now. So who could lead it on the streets of Iran? Who could be who could be that leadership?
HANSON: I think the turning point will be when the local police, as opposed to the regime police, take off their uniforms and join the people.
Now, those are the ones who would enforce laws and do those things, but they’re not the hardliners like the Basij and the other militias who enforce the will of the tyrants in Tehran.
So I think it’ll start in the provinces. I think the possibility is that they’ve seen, they’ve heard a call from Bibi Netanyahu. And when President Trump said unconditional surrender, he didn’t say regime change, but unconditional surrender could be the end of the Islamic Republic.
FOX: Yeah, as Larry Kudlow has pointed out, FDR has said it, Ulysses Grant said it, and it worked. Unconditional surrender won the Civil War for the North. Jim Hanson, thank you for your service again to America. Great to see you.
