Trump ‘holds all the cards’ in war against Iran’s regime, White House says
JERUSALEM — With Iran’s missing-in-action Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei taunting Americans about the "collapse" of the U.S. after the midterm elections, the White House and Middle East experts argue...
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JERUSALEM — With Iran’s missing-in-action Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei taunting Americans about the "collapse" of the U.S. after the midterm elections, the White House and Middle East experts argue President Donald Trump is positioned to defeat the remnants of the rogue regime. The remaining two years of Trump’s Iran policy have profound implications for his legacy and could lay the foundation for a new Middle East devoid of the region’s worst state sponsor of terrorism, the Islamic Republic of Iran, should Trump pursue new military actions to dislodge Khamenei’s regime, according to experts. Khamenei, who has not been seen in public since a joint U.S.-Israel airstrike killed his father, former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei , and members of his family, boasted on X following the Republican defeat in the midterms: "The process of the US's collapse has accelerated." IRAN TAKES A VICTORY LAP OVER STUNNING US ELECTION RESULTS, CLAIMS 'COLLAPSE HAS ACCELERATED' The radical Islamist clerical ruler’s braggadocio was met with tough statements from the White House and leading Middle East experts on Iran’s theocratic state. A White House spokesperson told Fox News Digital, "The United States is in a very strong position with control of the Strait of Hormuz and the Iranian economy collapsing. Iran has been decimated, and things will go one of two ways; the easy way or the hard way. President Trump holds all the cards and will do whatever is best for the United States." TRUMP REVIVES IRAN REGIME CHANGE SPECULATION WITH CRYPTIC CALL FOR PEOPLE TO 'RISE UP' The spokesperson added, "Only President Trump knows what he will do and when." The Islamic Republic ramped up its bellicose anti-American and anti-Western rhetoric and activities over the last week. Tehran presented a "Trump in a Cage" exhibit with a mock execution of Trump to coincide with the regime’s anniversary of its illegal seizure of the U.S. Embassy and kidn…