July 1, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| If you just go back to twenty months ago when Hamas attacked Israel and the next day Hezbollah, Iran's proxy, opened up on the Israelis. | |
| A few weeks after that the Houthis opened up on the Israelis. | |
| If I'd have told you then that within two years, less than two years, Israel was going to have an unimpeded air bridge to Iran, was going to control the Iranian airspace and was going to take out 30 top military officers in the Iranian regime and nine or ten nuclear scientists. | |
| You'd tell me I was crazy. | |
| But Israel did do that and by the time they did it, Hezbollah couldn't attack. | |
| One of the things that we all felt back in October of 2023 is that Israel couldn't afford to escalate against Iran because Hezbollah, which had 150,000 rockets and missiles, would open up on Israel. | |
| And those rockets and missiles, like we're seeing, they basically, everything that Iran has, Hezbollah has, or had. | |
| And so we assumed that Hezbollah's missiles could penetrate Israeli defenses and they would be blanketing Tel Aviv with missile fire. | |
| But the Israelis very deftly were able to decapitate Hamas first, then turn their sights on Hezbollah, and they were able to neutralize Hezbollah before it could open up with all guns against the Israelis. | |
| Once they took out Hezbollah, then they were able to go and take care of the Iranians. | |
| So Iran was never able to carry out a full front, you know, a total campaign against Israel with all elements of its resistance axis operating all out at the same time. | |
| So almost miraculously, Israel now has a victory at least as great as the victory it had in 1967 in the Six-Day War. | |
| Why do you say almost miraculous? | |
| Just because I don't think anyone could have imagined this out. | |
| Israel was laid so low and taken by surprise on October 8th, and the IDF, which you think of as being an extremely adept force, modern force, was nowhere to be seen October 7th. | |
| And you wondered, maybe it's not as good as we thought it was. | |
| But it turns out that the two wars it was prepared to fight, it wasn't prepared to fight the war with Gaza, but it was very much prepared to fight the war against Hezbollah and the war against Iran. | |
| So we have, first we have this war against Hamas, then we have the neutralizing of the Hezbollah's missile systems, right? | |
| And then we have the clearing of the Iranian air defenses. | |
| And then there's also what happened in Syria. | |
| That's another big thing. | |
| Oh, I left that out, yeah. | |
| The fall of Bashar al-Assad as well, yeah, that's huge. | |
| And which also made possible the air bridge to Iran, because as long as the Russians and the Iranians were in Syria and the Assad regime, it would be a lot harder for the Israelis to overfly Syria and go to Iran. | |
| Of course, they could do it, but it would have taken extra resources, and you never know what the Russians would have done in terms of helping to give the Iranians early warning. | |
| One of the most amazing things about the Israeli attack against the Iranians is that they totally took the Iranians by surprise. | |
| The scientists were in their beds. | |
| Commanders all got together thinking they were safe. |
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