erangilad

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[erangilad @erangilad]

@PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @rogerwaters You’re far too capable an interviewer to waste your time on such an idiot.

[Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo]

As recent intelligence from Israel shows, the Iranian regime remains determined to kill President Trump and destroy the United States. For the sake of American security and global stability, we need to make sure this evil dictatorship is permanently defanged.

[John Ondrasik @johnondrasik]

On the historic USS Nimitz, on our 250th bday, I performed Superman for our amazing @USNavy, @FDNY heroes, and Gold Star Families with former hostage Alon Ohel. Alon is a miracle, alive because of the President, @SecRubio & others. America has a history of making miracles. 🇺🇸❤️

[erangilad @erangilad]

Happy 4th of July.

Grateful for the greatest nation of all, built on resilience and moral compass to other nations.

Here’s to the next 250: a little wiser, a lot more grounded, and still the home of the free and the brave.

God bless America 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley]

Iran will never follow through on any MOU.
Iran will never agree to a deal.
Iran will never give up its nuclear ambitions.
Iran will never voluntarily give up control of the Strait.
Iran will never stop supporting terrorists proxies.
Iran will never be a normal country under this regime.

[Meghan McCain @MeghanMcCain]

To my beautiful Jewish friends in America. We love you. You are not alone. We are just as freaked out as you are and see with clear eyes exactly what is happening.

[erangilad @erangilad]

@bariweiss @DouglasKMurray @TheFP 👏👏👏

[erangilad @erangilad]

Finally a brave Arab leader that says what we all know and think.

[erangilad @erangilad]

@piersmorgan @KemiBadenoch Europe needs @KemiBadenoch.

[Tom Cotton @SenTomCotton]

Funding UNRWA is funding Hamas.

This terrorist-filled organization should never receive another dime of funding. https://t.co/DmkjzovpSU

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

People say the left and the right can’t agree on anything these days. But there is this one thing:

[erangilad @erangilad]

British politics is golden.

[erangilad @erangilad]

Political pendulum.

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

“We are not going to forget it," a senior Emirati official said of the assistance from Israel and Netanyahu at a critical moment.

“It was a real eye-opening moment. To see who our real friends are," the Emirati official said.

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

If you’d told me a few years ago this is where we’d be on Iran, I’d have said you were high:

1. Nuke program set back years. Enrichment and reprocessing gutted, weaponization sites destroyed, Fordow inoperable, Natanz in ruins, a generation of senior nuclear scientists eliminated.

2. Ballistic missile program crippled. Monthly production down from 100 to near zero. Roughly half the regime’s missiles and launchers destroyed. The IRGC Aerospace Force commander who ran the missile enterprise dead.

3. Air defenses devastated. American and Israeli airpower dominating Iranian skies, with strike aircraft operating over the country with near impunity.

4. Full economic warfare. Not just OFAC sanctions anymore, but military pressure layered on top: naval blockade, near-zero oil exports, choked imports, wrecked steel and petrochemical sectors, triple-digit inflation, and a currency that is effectively worthless.

5. Regime decapitation. Khamenei dead. Larijani dead. Hundreds of senior IRGC, intelligence, military, and Basij commanders dead including the IRGC commander-in-chief, the armed forces chief of staff, and the Aerospace Force commander. Mojtaba Khamenei inheriting a hollowed-out regime with no supreme authority and a gutted command structure.

6. The region turning on Tehran. Gulf states shutting down the sanctions-busting, money-laundering, and financial escape routes the regime has relied on for years. No Arab capital willing to throw Iran a lifeline. China and Russia providing limited support.

7. Proxy network shattered. Hezbollah and Hamas heavily degraded. Houthi political leadership taking direct Israeli strikes. The “Axis of Resistance” and “ring of fire” are now more slogans than real threats.

8. Syrian corridor severed. Assad is gone. The new government in Damascus is actively blocking Iranian arms transfers to Hezbollah: arresting smugglers and publicly declaring Syria will no longer serve as a transit corridor for Tehran’s terrorists. The land bridge to the Mediterranean that took decades to build is effectively closed.

9. Lebanon pivoting west. With Hezbollah battered and resupply choked, Israel and Lebanon have opened direct peace talks for the first time since 1983, aimed at a permanent agreement and Hezbollah’s disarmament. Beirut now asserting that the Lebanese armed forces alone are responsible for national defense. This is a direct repudiation of Hezbollah’s “resistance” claim. TBD.

10. Deterrence exposed as a bluff. Four direct attacks on Israel — April 2024, October 2024, June 2025, March 2026 — failed to impose strategic cost and instead triggered heavy retaliation. Iran couldn’t even use Syria as a launchpad.

11.Economy hollowed out from within. Power shortages, water crises, factory shutdowns, pension unrest, and mass protests. Nationwide demonstrations erupted in December 2025 after a year of economic freefall, with bazaaris, oil workers, and truckers, the regime’s traditional support base, joining strikes across all 31 provinces. Running out of oil storage space. Fuel shortages. The worst crisis since 1979.

12. Scientific and technical brain drain. Beyond the nuclear experts, Iran has lost a generation of irreplaceable expertise in missile design, centrifuge engineering, and weapons development. The survivors are harder to recruit and easier to deter.

13. Naval power decimated. The regular navy shattered, IRGC navy taking growing losses as CENTCOM moves to reopen Hormuz.

And against all of this: the regime forced to play its Hormuz card at its weakest possible moment when the U.S. has options instead of when we didn’t: namely, Tehran with nuclear-armed ICBMs, 10,000 ballistic missiles, a Chinese- and Russian-built military, hundreds of thousands of attack drones, a fully operational terror network, and hundreds of billions of dollars to harden its economy.

That’s the strategic picture. It’s extraordinary. Much more to do but I can’t comprehend how much has been achieved.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis. His efforts went unrecognized for 50 years. Then in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he’d rescued, now adults.

[erangilad @erangilad]

Incredible how much effort you and your strategic partners have put into ‘discussing’ reopening the Strait of Hormuz. The ships must be feeling very reassured.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

It’s good news that the Strait of Hormuz has now reopened.

This must be a long lasting and workable solution, without tolls or restrictions on routes.

Today we announced our joint plan with France and other international partners to protect freedom of navigation.

We need to see a return to peace and stability, and a permanent ceasefire.

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

Don’t listen to the 4 star running the War

Listen to podcasters

[erangilad @erangilad]

@Keir_Starmer Politics is the art of building coalitions and hosting summits, but without the resolve to act, it signals weakness to those willing to use force. In this case, a regime that blackmails global trade. Prime Minister Starmer skipped the resolve to act.

[erangilad @erangilad]

Economic blockade wins by stopping irrational regimes from strategies that hurt their own civilians first. This should have been the first move by the US and Israel.

[Dennis Ross @AmbDennisRoss]

The blockade always made more sense than seizing Kharg Island. It stops Iran’s exports, its revenues, is a counterpoint to their closing the Straits. They may attack Gulf oil facilities but it puts greater pressure on Iran. It also puts great pressure on China to pressure Iran.

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

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