Lidia Curanaj spoke plainly on Sunday Agenda, and patriotic Americans should be grateful someone in the media is naming the danger for what it is: an ideology that corrodes societies and spreads violence. Her warning that Iran’s regime is a cancer and that the threat it poses goes beyond missiles — that it can exploit soft targets here at home if our leaders refuse to secure the border — is the kind of blunt truth the Democrats and the mainstream press refuse to admit.
Make no mistake: Tehran has spent decades building proxy networks and terrorist reach across the region, training and arming militias that target American interests and allies. Those asymmetric capabilities mean Iran can damage American lives and assets without ever launching a traditional naval or air campaign against us, a reality the political class prefers to downplay.
We have seen time and again how Iran’s apparatus leverages proxies, cyber tools, and covert networks to project power while keeping its hands ostensibly clean, and those capabilities are still significant even when degraded by past strikes. Our enemies study our weaknesses; when our border is porous and our vetting is politicized, the regime’s operatives and sympathizers find new avenues to sow terror and chaos on American soil.
Conservatives aren’t saying this to frighten people, we’re saying it because real incidents have proved the point: individuals who arrived under chaotic parole and resettlement programs have later been implicated in violence here, prompting federal investigations and finger-pointing about who let them in. The reality is that open-door policies and weak enforcement are not abstract problems — they are national security failures with victims.
There is a simple prescription from anyone who loves this country: close the gaps, restore rigorous vetting, and deport those who pose a threat while backing our troops and allies with unambiguous strength. The argument that borders are merely immigration policy is naive; border control is homeland defense, and until we treat it that way we invite the next preventable tragedy.
In reporting this piece I sought the original Newsmax YouTube clip referenced in your prompt and reviewed multiple episodes and segments of Sunday Agenda along with government and security analyses; I could not locate an indexed transcript of the exact phrasing online, so I relied on available Newsmax segments and public security reporting to verify the core claims and examples. If you want, I will pull the exact video link and time stamps and tighten every quoted phrase to the clip itself.
