Webinar | Iran and the CCP: Why They Both Must Lose

Israel’s military campaign aimed at destroying the Iranian nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programs and taking out the leadership of the mullah’s military, intelligence and security apparatus has been underway for a week. While the job is not finished and Israeli aerial, covert and other operations are ongoing, one thing seems clear: The days of the ayatollahs’ totalitarian misrule of those who might be called the “laobaixing” of Iran – its common people who have been brutalized for decades by the government in Tehran like their counterparts in Communist China by the one in Beijing – are now numbered.

Unless, that is, the mullahocracy is once again thrown a lifeline by the U.S. government and/or its European allies determined to secure a so-called nuclear disarmament deal with the practical effect of legitimating the Iranian regime and discouraging a popular revolt that otherwise would likely take it out. President Trump has just announced that, while he has decided to use military force to help “finish the job,” he is going to wait on pulling the proverbial trigger for two weeks in light of recent signs that such a deal is now in prospect.

That possibility and its pursuit brings into sharp focus the question for today’s Committee on the Present Danger: China webinar: What impact might, on the one hand the mullahocracy’s demise and, on the other, its survival have on the regional and global ambitions and prospects of the Chinese Communist Party? Would the actual unconditional surrender of the CCP’s ally – with all that portends for the PRC’s energy imports and its colonial Belt and Road Initiative build-out and associated presence and power-projection – make more or less likely its aggressiveness in the Pacific, or elsewhere? Conversely, what would be the implications if the CCP’s proxy survives and lives to continue its clandestine nuclear activities, support for terrorism and destabilization of the Middle East and Western Hemisphere?

Moderator:

- Frank Gaffney, President, Institute for the American Future; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China

Panelists:

- Brian Kennedy, Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China; President, American Strategy Group; former President, Claremont Institute; author, “Communist China’s War Inside America”
• Topic: “Iran, the CCP and the Trump Doctrine”

- Gordon Chang, Esq., Senior Fellow, Gatestone Institute; columnist, Newsweek; author, “Plan Red: China’s Project to Destroy America,” “China is Going to War,” and “The Coming Collapse of China”; Follow on X @GordonGChang
• Topic: “The Prospective Loss of Iran Compounds the CCP’s Parlous State”

- Dr. David Wurmser, PhD, Director, Mideast Program, Center for Security Policy; former naval intelligence officer with the rank of Lieutenant Commander; former Mideast expert advisor to an Under Secretary of State, National Security Advisor and Vice President of the United States
• Topic: “Negotiating with the Iranian Regime about Anything but Its Unconditional Surrender Will Amount to Abandoning Its Victims and Perpetuating Their Enslavement to the Benefit of the CCP”

- Rabbi Pesach Wolicki, Executive Director, Israel365 Action; author, “Verses for Zion and Cup of Salvation: A Powerful Journey Through King David’s Psalms of Praise;” frequent guest on Erick Stakelbeck’s “The Watchman” and a regular contributor to Israel365news.com and “The Jerusalem Post”
• Topic: “The Implications of a Victory for Sharia-supremacism in the Spiritual and Unrestricted Warfare Battlespaces”

- George Rasley, Former staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate and Office of the Vice President; involved in over 300 political campaigns; Editor-in-Chief, Conservative HQ
• Topic: “If U.S. Intelligence has Missed the Iranian Bomb Program, Is it Properly Assessing the Impact of the Mullahocracy’s Possible Survival on the CCP Threat?”

- Capt. James Fanell, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations, U.S. Pacific Fleet; Co-author, “Embracing Communist China: America’s Greatest Strategic Failure”
• Topic: “The United States Must Both Assure the Iranian Regime’s Defeat and Deter the CCP”

- Dr. Karen Siegemund, PhD, Founder and President, The American Freedom Alliance; Founding Member, The Sovereignty Coalition
• Topic: “Why Defeating Evil Matters – Any Substitute for Victory will Ensure We are Afflicted by Much More of It, in the Mideast and Far Beyond”