As anti-regime protests in Iran continue for a third week, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee predicts a “complete realignment of the Middle East.”
“The potential is here for something of Biblical proportion,” Huckabee told The Daily Signal, adding he has used the very same language when speaking with President Donald Trump.
If the Iranian people succeed in toppling the regime, “that changes everything across the globe,” Huckabee said, adding it will lead to “one of the most unusual times in human history, because there will be a realignment.”
Before the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Israel and Iran had a cooperative relationship as the two nations shared geological interests. That economic, military, and intelligence cooperation ended, however, when the ayatollah came to power.
Israel’s relationship with Turkey has also deteriorated in recent years after the two nations shared a “close partnership,” Huckabee said.
“I think anything is possible,” Huckabee said regarding the prospect of alliances between Israel and nations such as Iran, Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon.
“It takes leadership, it takes resolve, and President Trump has exhibited something that I’ve never seen,” Huckabee said. “He has a resilience that is unshakable, and he’s got a resolve to do what he says. So, I say, pop the popcorn, get in a good chair, sit back and hang in for the ride.”
Iranians have been protesting the regime for more than two weeks, in response to a failing economy and rampant inflation. The U.S. Department of State advised Americans Tuesday to flee Iran as the situation there grows increasingly unstable.
“U.S. citizens should leave Iran now,” the U.S. Consular Affairs account posted on X Tuesday.
Despite a growing death toll, Iranians are continuing to take to the streets to demand change. Due to regime-imposed internet blackouts, monitors have been unable to determine an exact number of casualties, but some experts predict the totals are in the thousands.
The regime “underestimated the resolve of their people,” Huckabee said. “And it may be the end of this regime, and I think we can all hope that it will be.”
Trump has threated a U.S. response to the regime’s killing of protesters.
“The White House said today all options are on the table,” Huckabee said. “President Trump is really good about not revealing all the cards in his hand.”
Trump was slated to meet with his senior national security team on Tuesday to discuss a possible U.S. response to the regime’s deadly crackdown, after he issued a statement on Tuesday telling the Iranian protesters that “help is on its way.”
The fall of the regime would mean a “safer world,” according to the ambassador.
“It’s going to be a world in which the powers that have been so destructive, from Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, will be, at least in the initial phases, neutered, because they’re not going to have that supply line of money and weaponry that has been their hallmark.”
Iran is documented to have provided financial backing for the terrorist group Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.
In Israel, Huckabee said Trump’s firm statement against the Iranian regime has been received well.
“I told the President not very long ago, was on the phone with him, and I said, ‘Mr. President, I don’t know if you realize this, but if you were on the ballot in Israel, you would get 95% of the vote, and the other 5%, they’re all locked up in insane asylums.’ I said, Trump has ‘done so many things that has shown a real understanding of the value of our partnership,’” Huckabee said, referring to the U.S.-Israel alliance.
In June, the U.S. carried out strikes on Iran’s three key nuclear facilities, damaging the regime’s nuclear capabilities and significantly mitigating Iran’s threat to Israel and the world.
The U.S. also played a leading role in the ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel that was agreed to in October and based on Trump’s 20-point plan for peace. The first phase of the deal, which included the release of all hostages and a ceasefire, is well underway. The second phase is slated to include a formal end to the war that began following the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Huckabee says he is confident the second phase of the peace deal between Israel and Hamas will be implemented in 2026 because “President Trump is leading it.”
A “technocratic government” will be established in Gaza, Huckabee said. “It’s going to be a slow process, because there is an immense level of work to do.”
It took Hamas 20 years to get it to the point where it is today, Huckabee said, “so, I don’t have any illusions that 20 days or even 20 months is going to restore it all, but it will happen.”
