Is Iran Winning & Can Midterms be a Clean Democratic Sweep?

Posted Originally on Sep 7, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |

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Some people have complained that I said that Iran was winning and all they have to do to declare victory is survive. I am not here to read the propaganda. I have to call the shots according to what my computer is forecasting. I have also warned that the Neocons advising President Trump should be taken out of their positions in chains. They are putting not just the USA at risk, but the entire world with their warmongering stupidity.

I have also written about how they have launched so many missiles at Iran, assuming they would bomb it into submission to the point that the stockpile is depleted by about 2/3rds and these things are far too sophisticated so the military-industrial complex can make their fortune as the new merchants of death, that it will take until 2029 to restore the stockpile. That means the USA will be defenseless conventionally.

This past Thursday, Kuwait’s air defenses lit up over the Gulf again with the patriot batteries and radar networks tracking another wave of Iranian ballistic missiles and drones headed for US military installations across the country. The intercepts worked this time. However, Iran is waging a war of attrition, and it knows how to play the game. Every patriot missile fired in defense comes at a huge price tag that defense analysts at the Center for Strategic and International Studies say the United States is running out of time for it has already burned through roughly 2/3rds of its pre-war Patriot missile interceptor inventory since February. Production lines cannot restock these missiles until 2029 and no matter was Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent think his financial siege will collapse Iran, the numbers to not add up.

Bessent may ne an old market-manipulator with Soros, but his podium does not bestow him with a greater power to manipulate the world economy with hollow words. Iran understands that:

they can deplete the patriot stock and then rain down missiles to utterly destroy US basis in the Middle East pushing the Great Satan out once andfor all, which has been a goal since 1979.
They also know that dragging this out means they have a shot at overthrowing Trump in the Midterm Elections and just flipping the House willyield 2 years of impeachments, disruptions, and feed the hatred of Trump from the Democrats ensuring this war effort may even come to an end to make Trump go down in history as a loser.
The October elections in Israel have a shot at removing their arch enemy Netanyahu once and for all.

Cyclically, Netanyahu has made a huge mistake. He got Trump to attack Iran in 2025 and assassinated several of their military leaders. This was the end of the 72-year Revolutionary Cycle on Iran so he just began a whole new cycle and that demonstrated that this would NOT end in one day killing the Ayatolla as he told Trump.

While Jared Kushner, the Jewish son-in-law of President Trump and real estate developer, along with Benjamin Netanyahu have known each other for years, I believe that is how Trump was persuaded to let Netanyahu into the Situation Room to sell his war. Trump trusts Kushner way too much.

The connection between Benjamin Netanyahu and the Kushner family is a long-standing, multi-generational relationship that blends deep personal friendship, significant political alignment, and substantial financial ties. The foundation of their connection is a personal friendship that predates Netanyahu’s political career and Jared Kushner’s role as a White House advisor.

The relationship goes back to the 1980s, when Netanyahu was an Israeli diplomat in New York. He was a frequent overnight guest in the home of Charles

Kushner, Jared’s father, in Livingston, New Jersey. On these visits, he would often sleep in Jared’s bedroom, with Jared moving to the basement. Charles Kushner, was a wealthy real estate developer and major donor to Jewish and pro-Israel causes, has been a significant financial backer of Netanyahu’s political career. This support reportedly included donations to the Israeli Likud party and was a factor in legal disputes within the Kushner family.

The personal friendship has translated directly into a strong political alliance, particularly during Jared Kushner’s tenure as a senior advisor to President Donald Trump. That is what I believe the Democrats will have a field-day with after the Mid-Terms.

Kushner’s connection to Netanyahu is indeed inherited through his father, Charles Kushner, who was a longtime donor to Israeli causes. President Trump pardoned Charles Kushner after he was sentenced to prison for fraud-related crimes. In 2005, he was convicted and sentenced to two years in federal prison for 18 federal charges connected to his real estate business and political activities and included:

Tax evasion
Illegal campaign contributions
Witness tampering, which specifically involved a scheme to intimidate a cooperating witness by hiring a sex worker to seduce his brother-in-law and sending the recording to his sister

Destroying your own sister’s marriage revealed the character of Charles Kushner. He was sentenced to two years in federal prison and served his time. Years later, on December 23, 2020, President Donald Trump granted him a full pardon. Despite all of this, he was confirmed as the U.S. Ambassador to France in May 2025.

Jared Kushner and Netanyahu have had a working relationship (2016-2021). The most significant period of their interaction occurred when Kushner served as a senior advisor to President Donald Trump. During this time, he was the lead architect of the Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between Israel and several Arab nations.

After leaving the White House, Kushner has remained involved in the region, establishing an investment fund that has received backing from Gulf nations. That raises serious questions of a conflict of interest with anything involving Israel.

Discussions of redeveloping Gaza began long before the war. Kushner discussed plans for redeveloping portions of Palestine in his 2020 peace plan. This has cause some to question if the war on Gaza was in fact to grab beach front. That may also become a hot topic of investigations by Democrats post-Midterms.

Real estate developers have been eyeing Gaza and have proposed numerous construction projects for Gaza. Harey Zahav, an Israeli real estate firm, created bluep rints for luxury settlements along the West Bank. The company envisions beachfront homes build upon demolished land.

President Donald Trump allowed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be in the White House Situation Room. The February 2026 meeting was reportedly a high-stakes, almost secret pitch by Netanyahu to convince Trump to go to war with Iran. The meeting took place on February 11th, 2026, a highly unusual event where a foreign leader was invited into the White House Situation Room to brief the U.S. president and his senior advisors to see his life-long dream of destroying Iran and achieving regime change by sheer force.

During the presentation, Netanyahu laid out his vision for the war, making several key predictions:

Iran’s ballistic missile program could be destroyed in weeks.
Tehran would be too weak to block the crucial Strait of Hormuz.
The regime was ripe for collapse and that an uprising could be sparked from within.

Netanyahu’s scenario was the sales-job of the century to convince Trump’s decision to go to war. Netanyahu claimed that Iran would be able to deliver a nuke to the USA as always in a matter of weeks. Trump reportedly responded to the presentation by saying “sounds good to me” or something to that effect, which was seen as a clear signal of his intent. Little did he know that Netanyahu was destroying Trump’s legacy.

The initial optimism in the Situation Room was not shared by key members of Trump’s own administration. An overnight assessment by U.S. intelligence officials deeply undercut Netanyahu’s predictions. Sources say that CIA Director John Ratcliffe reportedly described the regime-change scenarios proposed by Netanyahu as “farcical.” Sources also say that Secretary of State Marco Rubio went even further, calling the idea “bullshit.”

Despite these warnings, and opposition from other advisors like Vice President J.D. Vance, Trump ultimately decided to proceed with the war, pursuing the more limited goals of striking Iran’s military leadership and nuclear program rather than the full regime change Netanyahu had sold.

I believe Trump listened to Kushner over everyone else. The Kushner and Netanyahu family ties and Netanyahu trying to get the United States to fight his war has been a sales-pitch since 1996. As stated, Netanyahu;s career was also funded by his long-time friend of Charles Kushner.

Jared Kushner is amazingly Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor. He was present at key meetings and played a central role in Middle East policy, being the architect of the “Deal of the Century” and involved in pre-war negotiations with Iran. While the specific person who “arranged” the meeting is not named and will no doubt be shrouded in secrecy that the Democrats will no doubt di into, this deep web of personal and political relationships between the Kushners and Netanyahu likely served as the background context that made such an extraordinary invitation even possible.

It is time President Trump admit he made a mistake listening to Netanyahu. The world knows this is Netanyahu’s War. Why do down with the sinking ship for Netanyahu? He admitted to a mistake before. We all make mistakes. Own it! He said in regard to that Hollywood tape: “I’ve said and done things I regret, and the words released today on this more than a decade-old video are one of them. I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize.”

It’s time Trump throws Netanyahu under the bus. He is a sick individual and an obstacle to any peace deal EVER in the Middle East. What Netanyahu has done and any American who conspired with him to manipulate Trump could even rise to the level of treason.

The U.S.-Israeli military strikes on Iran, including the killing of its leader, unquestionably violated international law that Netanyahu always disregards. The foundational rule is found in Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter, which prohibits the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state has only TWO exceptions.

Authorization from the UN Security Council .

Self-defense under Article 51, which permits force only in response to an actual armed attack

The UN Security Council did NOT approve the U.S.-Israeli military strikes against Iran, including, and MOST CERTAINLY, the killing of its Supreme Leader. In fact, multiple official statements and reports explicitly describe these actions as being taken without Security Council authorization. Netanyahu’s perpetual claim since 1996 has been his justification being “preventive” or “anticipatory” self-defense is NOT accepted in international law, as Iran did not pose an “imminent” threat at the time of the attack and US intelligence agreed with the assassment.

The strikes also raised serious concerns regarding the specific targets. International law grants heads of state special immunity, meaning they are not to be made targets of military attack. The deliberate killing of a nation’s supreme leader has been specifically condemned as a severe violation of this principle and an act of political assassination. This is constantly Netanyahu’s agenda and he never cares about international law.

Furthermore, attacks that target civilians or civilian infrastructure, such as a school, taking out the water supply, are considered potential violations of international humanitarian law and may constitute war crimes. The Iranian representative to the UN has formally characterized the attacks on civilian sites as constituting “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity.” It seems that getting Trump involved was Netanyahu’s security blanket that would absolve him of all war crimes.

While the CIA has NOT been the primary agency issuing formal “threat” warnings, the U.S. intelligence community and the Pentagon have expressed serious concerns about Israeli actions that could be seen as threatening U.S. national security. The core of the concern appears to be about espionage, not military aggression. They have been funding opposition to candidates for Congress they see as anti-Israel.

Vice President JD Vance stated in a 2026 interview that Epstein “seemed to be connected to the elements of the Israeli deep state that were left of center.” There are now allegations in newly released FBI documents mention that Jeffrey Epstein had links to Israeli intelligence and that Jared Kushner was a central power broker within the Trump presidency, who also had ties to Israeli intelligence-adjacent networks.

I have stated before that Robert Maxwell was part of the “club” and he funded the coup against Gorbachev with the deal that having Israel then recognize the coup as a legitimate government that was seeking to take Russia back to the USSR hinged on the agreement that they would allow all Jews to migrate to Israel. Once again, nobody cared what they would do to the Russian people or to resurrect the Cold War. The coup failed and Epstein in an email wrote that Israel killed Maxwell after he wanted them to cover his trading losses.

The primary organization that makes political donations as part of its lobbying efforts is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) . It is considered the most powerful pro-Israel lobby in the United States . Its influence is felt through its direct lobbying of Congress and, significantly, through the massive sums it spends on elections via a connected “super PAC” that appears to be a grey area of lobbying for a foreign government.

In June 2016, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Jr., and Paul Manafort met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. That was a meeting about the lies that were used to create the Magnitsky Act, which imposed sanctions on Russia promoted by Bill Browder and pushed by John McCain. That was a total fabrication.

Democrats are feeling confident about their chances of retaking the House even as the GOP successfully redrew more seats to their advantage in the past year’s controversial mid-decade redistricting fight. However, the Senate, once seen as a longshot for Democrats, now appears in striking distance. And both parties are investing major resources in states and districts where Trump won by double digits in 2024.

Nonetheless, the Democratic position in the Senate after electing a Yearly Bullish Reversal previously leaves this door open plus we have a Panic Cycle in 2027 in the Senate. If this proves to be a Democratic VICTORY, they are going to make not just Trump’s life a living hell who will curse the day he ever listened to Netanyahu, they will target Jared Kushner and try to send him off to tax-free living like his father did.