Ayaan Hirsi Ali warns Islamists may regroup in West after strikes

Radical Islamist networks driven out of the Middle East during Operation Epic Rage may soon attempt to regroup in the West, Hudson Institute research fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali warned Thursday.

“You have to ask yourself, where are these people going to go? Where are the Islamists going to go, the people who run the Houthis, the people who run Hezbollah, the people who benefit from Iran’s Islamist regime? They’re going to try to come to the West,” he said on “Fox & Friends.”

“They’ll try to come to America. They’ll come to Europe.”

“We have an administration in America that is closing the borders. Thank you for that, Donald Trump, and I think as we move into the next phase of this, we’re going to start looking at networks of subversion through Islamists all over the United States, whether it’s the Muslim Brotherhood or its Shiite offshoots.”

Ali issued a stern warning to European leaders, arguing that liberal open border policies have created the essential conditions for radical Islamists to gain influence and have “tremendous influence” politically and financially.

He warned that Europe in particular faces what he calls a growing “red-green alliance”, an unofficial alignment between far-left political movements and Islamist groups that he claims share overlapping anti-Western goals.

“I call this the red-green alliance, where the reds are the communists, the Marxists, the far left, and the greens are the Islamist movements.”

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Smoke rises in the city after the Israeli army launched a second wave of air strikes against Iran in Tehran on February 28, 2026. (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Ali’s comments come as joint US-Israeli military strikes continue to collapse Iran’s military infrastructure and eliminate key regime leaders.

The campaign intensified pressure on Tehran and raised questions about the fate of the Islamic regime.

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U.S. and allied forces have conducted extensive air and missile strikes against Iranian military and command targets in an attempt to weaken Tehran’s capabilities, including ballistic missile sites and nuclear enrichment facilities.

The operation follows stalled diplomatic efforts and aims to prevent Iran from advancing its nuclear and military goals. Iranian forces have launched retaliatory missile and drone attacks against US and allied positions in the Middle East.

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