“Today, it’s Tel Aviv. Tomorrow, it’s New York.” Six ways Iran threatens Americans today
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🗓️ 18 June 2025
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President Donald Trump called yesterday for Iran’s unconditional surrender, though the end of its war with Israel does not appear to be in sight. The way Iran’s dictators treat their own people and others in the region is indicative of the way they would treat Americans if given the opportunity. We are mistaken if we think this conflict cannot involve us directly. Today, we consider six scenarios in escalating order of geopolitical impact and how we might pray for all those involved.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, June the 18th, 2025. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast from Denison Forum. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm narrator Chris Elkins, giving voice to today's daily article written by our co-founder |
| 0:14.5 | and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:18.5 | President Donald Trump called yesterday for Iran's unconditional surrender, though the end of the war with Israel does not appear to be in sight. |
| 0:27.6 | If you're wondering about Israel's state of mind as the conflict enters a sixth day, consider this story. |
| 0:34.5 | After an Israeli emerged from a shelter to find an Iranian missile had destroyed his |
| 0:39.9 | apartment, he urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to keep up the attacks on Iran. |
| 0:45.6 | It's totally worth it, he said. This is for the sake of our children and grandchildren. |
| 0:50.8 | Other Israelis whose homes have been destroyed by Iranian missiles agreed. One said, |
| 0:55.3 | If we have a nuclear Iran, Israel can't exist. Mr. Netanyahu told ABC News that what his country is |
| 1:03.2 | doing is also in America's interest. Quote, today it's Tel Aviv. Tomorrow, it's New York. Look, I understand America first. I don't understand America dead. |
| 1:15.6 | That's what these people want. They chant death to America. So we're doing something that is in the service of mankind of humanity and it's a battle of good against evil." End quote. |
| 1:28.8 | However, this battle doesn't start with Israel. |
| 1:31.3 | For multitudes of Iranians, it begins much closer to home. |
| 1:35.9 | Masay Alinajad is an Iranian-American journalist, author, and women's rights activist. |
| 1:42.7 | Time magazine named her among its 2023 honorees for women of the year. |
| 1:48.8 | Her recent article for the free press begins. I've spent four years of my life being hunted by |
| 1:54.9 | Iran's revolutionary guards. They sent agents to kidnap me from my home in New York. They hired assassins to kill me on American soil. |
| 2:03.7 | They even followed me to Davos, Switzerland, where I had to be helicoptered out of my hotel. |
| 2:09.3 | If not for the FBI's protection and the more than 21 safe houses I have shuttled between for the past few years, |
| 2:17.1 | I might not be alive to write these words. |
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