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Conrad Black: Don't believe the haters — Trump is on his way to a strategic victory in Iran

Iranian claims of achieving a moral victory are not to be believed

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The anti-Trump view of world affairs, dictated this week by the Iranian mullahs, will hold that U.S. President Donald Trump has surrendered. It is worth remembering that when Hamas invaded Israel and massacred 1,200 people and kidnapped about 250 others on Oct. 7, 2023, Iran was well on its way toward developing nuclear weapons, hoped that the Hamas invasion of Israel would raise a general revolt in the West Bank and that a flying column would threaten Jerusalem, and stood ready to activate a powerful Hezbollah that had an estimated 150,000 rockets ready to fire at Israel. Hamas had 20,000 to 30,000 armed and trained terrorists in Gaza to conduct the war that had been unleashed.

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By the heroic efforts of the Israeli Defence Forces, and at historically low levels of collateral damage in urban counter-insurrectionist warfare, Hamas has lost more than half of Gaza and many of its trained terrorist personnel, and Hezbollah’s missile stock has been significantly depleted. Both terrorist groups have suffered severe decapitation of leadership cadres. Iran has lost its nuclear program, it’s navy, its air defences, its leadership and has been severely defeated. The Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas invasion of Israel has been a disaster for Iran and its allies. Israeli losses have been significant but modest compared to those they have inflicted, and the cost to the United States has been 13 servicemen, barely a third of those lost in liberating the hijacked freighter Mayaguez from Cambodians in 1975 under the Ford administration.

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