{"id":2635623,"date":"2026-07-26T10:14:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T14:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huckabee-americans-fail-to-grasp-the-threat-of-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T10:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T14:18:15","slug":"huckabee-americans-fail-to-grasp-the-threat-of-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huckabee-americans-fail-to-grasp-the-threat-of-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Huckabee: Americans Fail to Grasp the Threat of Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhuckabee-americans-fail-to-grasp-the-threat-of-iran%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2635623&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Teh content discusses escalating tensions between Iran and the United States, highlighting recent military strikes conducted by the U.S. against Iranian targets and the ongoing conflict over the Strait of Hormuz, a vital route for global oil shipping. It emphasizes Iran\u2019s continued threats,including preventing naval access and plotting to assassinate U.S. president Trump, with intelligence confirming active Iranian plots. The article also explores regional implications, noting that while Israel is not directly involved this time, Iran&#8217;s broader threats impact U.S. security and regional stability.Experts underline the importance of supporting Israel as a stabilizing force and stress the biblical and strategic reasons for U.S. backing, warning against neglecting the threat posed by Iran and its proxies like Hezbollah, which has harmed Americans and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/veteran-pac-funded-by-democrats-and-big-labor\/\" title=\"&#039;Veteran&#039; PAC funded by Democrats and Big Labor\">threatens global security<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Conflict between Iran and the U.S. has resumed, despite the efforts of President Donald Trump to secure peace in the troubled region. According to the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), the U.S. military <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CENTCOM\/status\/2076495252454584794\">conducted<\/a> \u201ca new wave of offensive strikes against Iran\u201d on Sunday, successfully striking \u201cdozens\u201d of targets.<\/p>\n<p>At issue is Iran\u2019s continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical passage for the shipment of oil globally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Strait of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global trade. Iran does not control it,\u201d a statement from CENTCOM read. \u201cU.S. forces are postured and prepared to ensure that freedom of navigation remains available to commercial shipping despite Iran\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-rains-down-fresh-strikes-after-iran-attacks-gulf-neighbors\/\" title=\"Trump Rains Down Fresh Strikes After ... Attacks Gulf Neighbors\">continued unwarranted aggression<\/a>, harassment, threats, and arbitrary declarations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, the U.S. involvement in the Middle East has largely centered on Iran\u2019s threats against Israel. This time, however, Israel does not appear to be a party to the conflict, which, as U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee pointed out in an interview on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thisweekoncapitolhill.com\/speaker-johnson-we-must-remember-our-history\">This Week on Capitol Hill<\/a>\u201d on Saturday, is probably a good thing. \u201cIsrael has not been engaged in it, and it\u2019s probably smart that Iran does not fire missiles toward Israel because they would be compelled to fire them back,\u201d Huckabee said, following a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He also warned that Iran is more than just a threat to Israel, but also to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to separate Hezbollah from the mothership of Iran, and the reason that\u2019s so important is because Iran has been supplying funds and weapons and strategy\u201d to the Middle Eastern paramilitary organization, Huckabee said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that cutting Iran off from Hezbollah would destabilize the latter and severely limit the threat that Hezbollah could pose. Furthermore, he pointed out that Hezbollah is active across the Western hemisphere and has actually killed more Americans than Israelis. \u201cWhen the U.S. and people in America say, \u2018Well, it doesn\u2019t affect me,\u2019 they have no idea what they\u2019re talking about. Of course it affects them,\u201d the ambassador insisted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you can step on the oxygen hose and keep Hezbollah from getting all of this oxygen from Iran, you do a lot to really upend terror\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the ways in which, again, Americans, I think, fail to grasp the threat of Iran \u2014 for 47 years they\u2019ve been saying they\u2019re going to kill us. Now, when people tell you that same thing over and over for that many years, you\u2019re wise to believe them and you\u2019re foolish to ignore them,\u201d Huckabee added. He pointed out that recent reports from Israeli intelligence suggest that Iranian operatives inside the U.S. are plotting to assassinate the president.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_0VPHQt_xdI\">confirmed<\/a> that Iranian operatives are actively plotting to assassinate the president. \u201cI won\u2019t get into specific intelligence, but this regime \u2014 going all the way up to the Ayatollah \u2014 has plotted to kill President Trump for many years,\u201d Waltz stated. \u201cThey have operatives here in the United States. Plots are ongoing. But our intelligence community, the FBI, our law enforcement entities are absolutely on top of it,\u201d he added. \u201cBut make no mistake that the Iranian regime is trying to kill President Trump and those around him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Waltz, the Iranian regime is attempting to \u201cuse the global economy as some type of leverage\u201d by blocking the Strait of Hormuz and preventing safe passage for commercial craft. \u201cWhat Iran is doing is in violation of international law,\u201d the ambassador said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of whether you\u2019re a party to some conflict, you cannot start shooting in all directions, attacking your neighbors, attacking civilian shipping, civilian infrastructure, throwing mines in international waterways, and acting like the irresponsible, genocidal regime that many have always accused it of being.\u201d He noted that Iranian officials claimed that opening fire upon commercial ships over the weekend was a mistake, an error on the part of junior officers. However, Waltz questioned why those junior officers were not disciplined by a military regime renowned for dictatorial autocracy. He asked, \u201cAt the end of the day, where\u2019s the discipline and the public apology if that\u2019s the case?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, this growing divide on Israel here at home misses a fundamental point, Perkins insisted. \u201cIsrael is also, despite reports to the contrary, a stabilizing force in the Middle East. But what we see on the horizon with Iran as really kind of the strongman \u2014 or at least the big nuisance there in the Middle East being curtailed \u2014 that vacuum is going to be filled by someone, some country, some leader. I think Israel has the potential to be an even greater stabilizing force [when that happens],\u201d he told Huckabee.<\/p>\n<p>Perkins attributed the drift in the church away from Israel to \u201cbiblical illiteracy.\u201d Huckabee agreed, reminding viewers that standing with Israel is \u201cscriptural.\u201d \u201cI mean, I could give you a lot of geopolitical reasons. I could give you humanitarian reasons. I could give you historic reasons. I could give you economic reasons. And all of those are important, and all of them should weigh in,\u201d the ambassador emphasized. \u201cBut the ultimate reason for evangelicals is because we\u2019re people of the book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>American Christians need to recognize \u201cthe important role that Israel plays [and] recognize Genesis 1:23 as a biblical mandate,\u201d the ambassador said. \u201cAnd some of it is the fear of some pulpits, [and] pastors who are afraid of their own congregations \u2014 afraid to offend them, afraid to upset them. But if you upset them because you\u2019re preaching the Scripture, because you are faithfully delivering the Word of God, then you\u2019re not in trouble in a bad way. If that gets you in trouble,\u201d he insisted, \u201cthen you should be in trouble. The prophets of old were willing to get in trouble with the people, because they didn\u2019t want to be in trouble with God. If that\u2019s my choice, I\u2019ll be in trouble with a congregation any day not to be in trouble with the Creator God of the universe,\u201d Huckabee said.<\/p>\n<div><em>S.A. 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CENTCOM reports that U.S. forces launched a series of strikes on Sunday, hitting dozens of targets. The conflict centers on Iran\u2019s ongoing blockade of the vital Strait of Hormuz, a key route for global oil shipments. CENTCOM emphasized that the Strait remains open for international trade and that the U.S. is prepared to ensure freedom of navigation despite Iran\u2019s aggressive actions and threats.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, U.S. focus in the Middle East has been mainly on Iran\u2019s threats to Israel, but this time Israel isn\u2019t directly involved, which U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee considers fortunate. He explained that avoiding missile exchanges with Israel prevents escalation and highlighted Iran\u2019s support for Hezbollah-an organization active worldwide that has caused more American casualties than Israelis.<\/p>\n<p>Huckabee warned Americans about Iran\u2019s long-standing threats, noting recent Israeli intelligence suggesting Iranian operatives in the U.S. are plotting to assassinate President Trump-a claim confirmed by UN Ambassador Mike Waltz, who stated such plots are ongoing but under surveillance by authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Waltz criticized Iran&#8217;s violations of international law through attacks on commercial shipping and questioned why junior officers involved in recent incidents weren\u2019t disciplined if those actions were accidental. Meanwhile, some analysts believe Israel could become an even stronger stabilizing force in the Middle East once Iranian influence diminishes.<\/p>\n<p>Perkins attributed some domestic opposition to supporting Israel to biblical illiteracy but reaffirmed that standing with Israel aligns with scriptural mandates like Genesis 1:23-an essential reason for evangelicals\u2019 support despite political pressures or fears from pulpits about offending congregations.<\/p>\n<p>S.A. McCarthy reports for The Washington Stand, emphasizing faith-based reasons alongside geopolitical ones for backing Israel and warning against complacency regarding Iranian threats and regional instability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2635624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0412.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[62697,3978,83212],"class_list":["post-2635623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-american-security","tag-huckabee","tag-iran-threat-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_0412.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2635623"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2635627,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635623\/revisions\/2635627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2635624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}