On NewsNation's “On Balance” on Friday, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, spoke in his personal capacity because he has not yet been confirmed, and said that he has not yet been confirmed. He praised the maximum pressure campaign. The administration has stated that the situation in the Middle East cannot be returned to the state it was in before October 7, and that “the world needs to focus” on regime change in Iran as its goal.
Hakabi said the Middle East “needs, first of all, a good dose of reality, and that reality requires an understanding that it is Iranians who are financing the terrorism of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.” That's true.'' The attacks that have taken place against Israel in the last 400+ days since October 7th, because Joe Biden took his foot off the brake and put his foot on the gas pedal and basically allowed the Iranians to get their money. , which was largely funded. Donald Trump was suspended due to maximum pressure sanctions. Donald Trump never bombed Iran. There was no need for that. He was bankrupting them, which is far more effective and less deadly to innocent people. But the result of that change in policy was the bloody chaos caused when Hamas went to Israel and massacred innocent Jewish civilians. And the dynamics have changed, we can't go back to thinking that everything is going to be the way it was, that it can't be. ”
Next, host Leland Wittert said, “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been clear, especially in recent weeks and months, that we need to change the regime in Tehran, not just sanctions and pressure.The United States. Should we also focus on that end goal?”
Mr. Huckabee responded: “I think the world needs to take note of that. Frankly, Leland, all the Gulf states in the Middle East would be happy if there was a change of government. I think they're probably not going to say that publicly. But don't you think there will be celebrations in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and even Qatar?A change of government in an Islamic-led country? I can't think of any country that would be better off, because the Iranians aren't really interested in building a region where everyone gets along and has diplomatic relations and shared tourism.And they don't care about that. I've never been interested in it. They're there to annihilate Israel and ultimately annihilate America. And one of the stupid things that happens in this country is that the Americans think that this whole thing is just going to be contained there and that the Iranians have no intention of going beyond Israel. They have repeatedly said that Israel is little Satan and we are big Satan, so their goal is not to end the conquest with Israel. It’s just a warm-up and they think it’s us.”
Hakabi added that Iranians would be happy if there was a change of government, and that even if he became ambassador, he would not be the one to decide policy.
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