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Iran’s UNDERWATER KILLERS To Blow Up US Warships? ‘Ocean Assassins AZHDAR Spooks Trump’
Times Of India
Mar 10, 2026 #Iran #StraitOfHormuz #MiddleEastCrisis

The Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most critical energy chokepoint, is becoming the focal point of rising tensions between Iran, the United States, and regional powers. Analysts warn Tehran is deploying a sophisticated network of asymmetric weapons designed to challenge advanced naval forces without relying on traditional warships. Systems such as the Azhdar unmanned underwater vehicle, drone swarms, fast attack boats, naval mines, and anti-ship missiles could overwhelm defenses in the narrow waterway. Nearly 20 percent of global oil shipments pass through Hormuz, raising fears that even limited disruptions could trigger major economic shocks and send energy prices surging worldwide.



Transcript

The Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's
most vital energy choke points, is now
at the heart of a dangerously escalating
conflict between Iran, the United
States, and regional powers. Analysts
warned that Thran doesn't need massive
warships to assert control over these
narrow waters. The stakes are higher
than ever, and the potential for
confrontation is immediate and
unpredictable.
Instead, Iran is leveraging a
sophisticated network of asymmetric
weapons built to challenge even the most
advanced naval forces. Central to this
arsenal is the Azdar, an unmanned
underwater vehicle capable of striking
with precision and secrecy, redefining
how power is projected beneath the
waves. The Azdar is an unmanned
underwater vehicle capable of traveling
at speeds of around 25 knots. Analysts
say it can patrol underwater for up to
four days and cover distances of roughly
600 kilometers on a single charge.
Operating quietly below the surface,
such systems are difficult to detect and
extremely challenging to intercept from
the air. These underwater drones form
only one part of Iran's broader
asymmetric arsenal in the Persian Gulf.
Military observers say Thrron has
developed a layered approach to naval
warfare, one that relies on swarms of
smaller, cheaper systems rather than
traditional fleets. Alongside underwater
vehicles, Iran is believed to deploy
swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles,
anti-ship missiles, fast attack boats,
and unmanned surface vessels. Together,
these systems could create a highly
complex threat environment for ships
attempting to pass through the narrow
straight of Hormuz. Analysts say the
strategy is designed to overwhelm and
exhaust defensive systems through
saturation attacks. Multiple drones or
unmanned vessels could be launched
simultaneously toward a convoy or
warship, forcing naval defenses to
respond to numerous threats at once.
Some of these platforms are believed to
operate autonomously or with artificial
intelligence guidance. In certain
concepts, underwater drones may approach
a ship's hall silently before detonating
explosives at close range. Such systems
resemble so-called suicide torpedo
designs, combining torpedo technology
with autonomous navigation. Iran is also
believed to possess unmanned surface
vessels capable of carrying explosive
payloads. These systems may be guided by
GPS navigation or artificial
intelligence, and some are designed to
operate in coordinated swarms. Military
analysts say these platforms can serve
several roles during naval operations.
They can carry out direct attacks on
warships, disrupt trade routes, conduct
reconnaissance missions, or relay
targeting information for missiles and
other weapons. Surface or underwater
drones can also identify targets and
transmit realtime data, allowing other
weapons such as cruise missiles or
ballistic missiles to refine their
attacks. In combination with coastal
artillery and aerial drones, these
systems can create a multi-layered
strike network. The use of unmanned
platforms offers several advantages in
naval warfare. They are significantly
cheaper than traditional warships or
submarines and can be produced in large
numbers. Their smaller size also makes
them harder to detect using conventional
radar or sonar systems. And in confined
waters like the Persian Gulf, these
systems may be particularly effective.
The narrow geography of the Strait of
Hormuz limits maneuvering space for
large ships, increasing their
vulnerability to coordinated attacks.
This strategy may already be affecting
global shipping routes. Several
intelligence assessments warned that
Iran's drone attacks could disrupt
maritime traffic through the straight of
Hormuz for months. The waterway located
between Iran and Oman is one of the most
important energy corridors on the
planet. Roughly 20% of the world's crude
oil and liqufied natural gas passes
through the strait. Since the conflict
intensified following US and Israeli
strikes on Iran, Thran has launched
hundreds of missiles and more than a
thousand drones targeting Gulf states
aligned with Washington. Air defense
systems intercepted most of the incoming
attacks. However, reports indicate that
several residential areas, commercial
facilities, and military installations
still suffered damage. Iran is widely
regarded as one of the region's major
producers of military drones. According
to estimates from the UK-based Center
for Information Resilience, Iran may be
capable of producing around 10,000
drones each month. One of the best known
models is the Shahed 136, a long range
loitering drone capable of flying
between 700 and a,000 km. From Iranian
territory or potentially from ships in
the Gulf, such drones could reach
targets across much of the southern Gulf
coastline. While Iran's drone production
capacity appears substantial, analysts
say its missile stockpile may be more
limited. Estimates of Iran's ballistic
missile inventory vary widely. The
Israeli military has suggested the
country may possess around 2,500
missiles, while other analysts believe
the number could reach as high as 6,000.
Missile reserves have reportedly been
reduced by earlier transfers to regional
allies, including Hisbullah in Lebanon
and the Houthi movement in Yemen.
Previous conflicts have also depleted
parts of Iran's arsenal. Even so, Iran
retains other tools that could affect
shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. One of
the most significant is its stockpile of
naval mines. According to maritime
intelligence firm Dryad Global, Iran may
possess between 5,000 and 6,000 naval
mines, these mines can be placed on the
seabed, propelled toward targets, or
left drifting until they detonate on
contact with a vessel. So far, there are
no confirmed indications that mines have
been deployed in the Strait of Hormuz,
but analysts warned that if such mines
were laid, clearing them could take a
long time. Mine clearing operations in
busy shipping lanes can take weeks or
even months, especially in a narrow and
heavily traffked waterway like Hormuz.
That could significantly disrupt global
trade. The economic impact is already
being felt. Energy markets have reacted
sharply to the rising uncertainty.
Brent crude oil prices have climbed by
roughly 12% this week, while European
benchmark natural gas prices have surged
by roughly 50%.
Such volatility reflects growing fears
about how long shipping disruptions
might last. For now, the danger in the
Strait of Hormuz isn't coming from
battleships or aircraft carriers. It
comes from the unseen. Drones slicing
low over the water, mines lurking
beneath the surface and autonomous
weapons prowling silently through the
shipping lanes, ready to strike without
warning. In this narrow choke point that
carries a fifth of the world's energy,
even the hint of such threats could
grind global trade to a halt for months,
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Watch moment Iranian missile hit radical minister, Itama Ben Gvir & others - OPTM
OPTM
Mar 10, 2026



Transcript

Welcome. We are witnessing history being
written in real time. And it is a
history that the corporate media in the
west is doing everything in its power to
bury. If you are just joining us, we
have to start with the seismic
unconfirmed reports that are shaking the
Zionist entity to its very core.
According to a flurry of posts on X and
whispers within the intelligence
community, the unthinkable may have
happened. A precision Iranian strike has
obliterated a key leadership bunker in
occupied Palestine. According
to unverified reports, an Iranian
missile has struck what is believed to
be one of Israel's largest underground
wartime shelters in Tel Aviv, a heavily
protected facility reportedly used by
Israeli leaders during major conflicts.
Dramatic footage circulating online
claims a powerful Iranian missile has
struck a major underground shelter in
Tel Aviv, a site some commentators are
calling BB's bunker linked to Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The target, it seems, was not just any
military installation. Sources are
reporting that the strike, which also
leveled the private residence of
Benjamin Netanyahu, has left a
catastrophic human toll. Among the
missing and presumed dead are two of the
most odious figures in the regime.
National Security Minister Edidomar
Bengir and the Prime Minister's own
brother Idon Netanyahu. This was not a
random barrage. This was a decapitation
strike of the highest order, a direct
response to the assassination of Iran's
former Supreme Leader Ali Kam by US and
Israeli forces. And it signals a
terrifying new phase in this war.
Courtesy of Iran's new generation of
cluster missiles. Weapons that are
proving to be so advanced, so
devastating that they are turning the
vaunted Iron Dome into little more than
a fireworks display. For days now, we've
watched the sky over Tel Aviv turn
orange. Not from a sunset, but from
relentless barges of Iranian fire that
are getting through. The occupation
regime is panicking. They are literally
removing CCTV cameras across the
country, scrubbing the internet of
footage, and imposing a blackout on
casualty numbers because the devastation
Netanyahu has brought upon his own
people in his quest to destroy Iran is
now too immense to hide. The narrative
of the invincible Israel is over and
what remains is a smoldering wasteland
of their own making. Before we go any
further, I have to ask you to help us
keep this light shining. The mainstream
media won't show you the rubble in Tel
Aviv, and they certainly won't tell you
about the Iranian precision that caused
it. They are too busy carrying water for
their masters in Washington and Tel
Aviv. If you value independent
journalism that tells you the truth
about Palestinian resistance and the
crumbling of Western hegemony, hit that
like button, share this broadcast with
everyone you know, and subscribe. We are
here to document the liberation, not the
occupation. Your support is the only
thing keeping us on the air. Now, let's
get into the sheer magnitude of what has
just happened. The news broke just hours
ago following a massive salvo launched
by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
course. This wasn't just another round
of retaliatory fire to satisfy the
headlines. This was surgical. This was
revenge. The strike that took out the
leadership bunker was reportedly
pinpoint accurate, targeting a location
deep underground that was supposedly
unknown to Iranian intelligence. But as
we've seen throughout this conflict,
Iranian intelligence has penetrated the
Zionist state at every level. For
months, the occupation has been reeling
from a string of humiliating
intelligence failures. And now we see
the result. Their leadership was caught
gathered in a hardened bunker, likely
coordinating the next phase of their
genocide, only to be buried under it by
a missile they couldn't stop. Let's talk
about the two men who are now missing
and likely burning in hell where they
belong. First, Idomar Beng. If you don't
know this name, you need to understand
the evil it represents. This man is not
a politician. He is a terrorist in a
suit, a disciple of the racist Rabbi Mir
Kahan. As national security minister, he
has spent his entire tenure arming
extremist settlers, transforming the
West Bank into a shooting gallery where
Palestinians are hunted for sport. He
has personally encouraged the police to
open fire on civilians. He has stormed
the Alexa mosque compound to provoke a
religious war and his rhetoric is so
genocidal that he once celebrated a
deadly attack on Palestinians by calling
for the destruction of their villages.
This is a man who keeps a portrait of
Barak Goldstein, the settler who
massacred 29 Palestinians in a mosque
hanging in his home as a hero. Beng
represents the pure unvarnished face of
fascism that has taken over the Israeli
government. He is the architect of much
of the suffering in Gaza and the West
Bank. And that is precisely why Iran
targeted him. He was the ideological
head of the snake, the one pushing
hardest for the ethnic cleansing of
Palestine.
If he is dead and the early report
suggests the bunker took a direct hit,
then a great evil has been lifted from
this earth. Then there is Ido Netanyahu.
He isn't a soldier or a politician, so
why would he be in a command bunker? Ido
is the prime minister's younger brother,
a playwright, and a physician. But more
importantly, he is the family's
consiguary. He has been deeply involved
in shaping the international narrative,
running damage control for his brother's
corruption trials and acting as a
liaison to the hardline settler
movements. His presence in that bunker
suggests a family war council, a meeting
of the dynasty that has brought so much
pain to the region. Having both the
political head of the fascist movement
and the brother of the prime minister
vaporized in a single strike is not just
a military victory. It is a
psychological hammer blow to the morale
of the occupation. And how did Iran
achieve this? Through technological
brilliance and a defiance that the West
simply cannot comprehend. The Iron Dome
is useless. We have to say that clearly.
For years, we were told it was the most
advanced air defense system on the
planet. A miracle shield that could
intercept anything. But Iran's new
cluster missiles have exposed it for the
fraud it always was. These missiles are
designed to overwhelm defenses. Upon
re-entry, they disperse dozens of
submunitions, what an Israeli analyst on
channel 12 desperately tried to downplay
as rainbombs that saturate the sky. The
Iron Dome can only fire one interceptor
per target, and it relies on radar. When
you have dozens of high-speed
projectiles coming down like meteors,
the system shortcircuits, it misses. And
when it misses, the results are
catastrophic. We are seeing videos
despite the censorship of massive
craters in the Gushan region, of
buildings collapsed in Tel Aviv, of
fires raging in Hifa. This brings us to
the censorship. The Zionists are masters
of propaganda, but you can't photoshop
rubble. Reports from inside occupied
Palestine indicate that authorities are
going street to street, removing private
CCTV cameras to prevent homeowners from
uploading footage of the strikes. They
are threatening journalists with arrest
if they show the real scale of the
damage. Why? Because they don't want the
world to see that startup nation is
burning. A retired US Army Colonel
Lawrence Wilkerson was quoted in Iranian
media admitting that the amount of
damage being inflicted on Tel Aviv is
very bad and that the attacks are
relentless. Even American analysts are
admitting that the regime is taking a
severe beating. And yet our news anchors
in the West are still talking about
deescalation and diplomatic solutions.
While Netanyahu's home is a crater,
let's be very clear about the hypocrisy
of the Western outrage machine. We are
now seeing headlines ringing their hands
over Iran's use of cluster munitions.
The Jerusalem Post is running stories
about two killed by cluster bombs,
painting Iran as a dangerous aggressor.
But where was this outrage when Israel
was dropping Americanmade white
phosphorus on Lebanon? Just yesterday,
Human Rights Watch confirmed that the
Israeli military is using white
phosphorus shells in southern Lebanon,
an illegal weapon when used in populated
areas because it melts flesh to the bone
and causes horrific slow deaths.
Where was the UN Security Council then?
Where were the emergency sessions? White
phosphorus is a chemical incendiary, a
weapon that burns at 1,500°
F and continues burning inside the
wound. Cluster munitions are
devastating, yes, but they are
conventional explosives. To see the West
clutch its pearls over Iranian precision
munitions while giving a standing
ovation to Israeli phosphorous attacks
is the height of depravity. It tells you
everything you need to know about who
the international order truly serves,
the oppressor. And the strikes aren't
stopping. We are now on the 30th salvo
from Iran since this phase of the
conflict began. Each wave seems to get
smarter. The Iranians are targeting the
infrastructure of the occupation. They
aren't just launching wild missiles.
They are taking out power grids, air
force bases, and now thanks to strategic
cooperation with Russia, they are
blinding the American radar systems in
the Gulf. The US has THAAD batteries
scattered across the Middle East,
costing half a billion dollars each. The
Sun newspaper, not exactly a friend to
Iran, is reporting that Russian
satellite intelligence has been helping
Iran identify and destroy these
batteries, paralyzing the US ability to
protect the Zionist entity. This is a
gamecher. It means the US is no longer
the uncontested master of the skies in
the Middle East. The resistance axis is
fighting back with technology,
precision, and a will that the pampered
soldiers of the IDF simply cannot match.
In conclusion, what we are seeing is the
beginning of the end. The disappearance
of figures like Bengir and Ido Netanyahu
is more than a headline. It is a sign
that the Iranian response to the
martyrdom of Kam is far more severe than
anyone in Washington anticipated. The
precision, the intelligence, the sheer
volume of fire that is bypassing the
Iron Dome, it all points to a turning
point in history. The regime is trying
to hide its dead. But the truth is
leaking out. The occupation is bleeding
and for the first time in decades, the
oppressors are feeling the heat of the
fire they started. We will continue to
monitor the situation and as soon as we
get confirmation on the fate of these
war criminals, you will hear it here.
Until then, keep your eyes on the skies
over Tel Aviv because the equation has
changed. The resistance is no longer
just fighting back. It is winning.

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Iran’s ‘KILL TRUMP’ Plot Ready? Chilling Missive Sent To US; 'Watch Out Lest You Be Eliminated'
Times Of India
Mar 10, 2026 #iran #araghchi #larijani

Markets rallied when Trump said the Iran war would be "over soon." Within hours, Iran's officials dismantled that claim entirely. Foreign Minister Araghchi said firing would continue "as long as it takes" and ruled out any talks with Washington. Security chief Larijani told Trump directly on X: "Watch out for yourself lest you be eliminated." The IRGC said it, not Washington, would decide when the war ends. Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf declared Iran is "absolutely not looking for a ceasefire." Trump responded by threatening strikes "twenty times harder" if Iran blocks Hormuz. The Knesset Speaker responded to Ghalibaf in Persian: "unconditional surrender."



Transcript

Iran's top officials have pushed back
sharply against Donald Trump's assertion
that the conflict was nearing its end
with Thran declaring that it is fully
prepared to sustain its military
campaign for as long as required and
ruling out any return to negotiations
with Washington.
Speaking to PBS News, Arachi was
unequivocal. firing would continue, he
said, for as long as it takes, and talks
with the Americans were simply not on
Thran's agenda. The reasoning, he
quoted, was blunt. Iran had sat through
three rounds of negotiations with
Washington, heard assurances of
progress, and then watched the US launch
its opening strikes on Iran. A very
bitter experience was how he
characterized it. He dismissed claims
that the campaign had succeeded in
destabilizing the Islamic Republic,
arguing the US and Israel had failed at
regime change and were now aimless.
Iran's security chief Ali Larijani was
more pointed still responding directly
to Trump on X. Even those greater than
you could not eliminate the Iranian
nation, he wrote, watch out for yourself
lest you be eliminated.
The remarks landed hours after Trump,
speaking at a Florida news conference on
Monday, local time, had told journalists
the conflict would be over soon. Markets
had responded positively to those
comments. Tokyo and Seoul opened
strongly Tuesday and oil prices fell as
much as 5% after benchmark crude had
crossed $100 a barrel the previous day.
The calm proved short-lived as Iranian
officials systematically dismantled the
narrative of a conflict winding down.
The IRGC reinforced the position from a
military angle, stating that it, not
Washington, would determine when the war
concluded and reiterating that oil flows
through the region would be shut down if
strikes continued.
Iran has effectively halted tanker
traffic through the straight of Hormuz.
the narrow passage through which roughly
a fifth of the world's oil moves daily.
The International Maritime Organization
confirmed at least seven sailors had
been killed in attacks on merchant
vessels near the strait.
Trump responded with a sharp escalation
in rhetoric on Truth Social, warning
that any Iranian action blocking
Hormuz's oil flows would be met with
strikes 20 times harder than anything
delivered so far and separately
threatening an attack of incalculable
size if Thran persisted.
On the question of ending the fighting,
Iran's parliament speaker Muhammad Bakir
Khalibah was categorical, writing that
Thran was absolutely not looking for a
ceasefire. He framed the conflict in
broader terms, accusing Israel of
perpetuating a cycle of war,
negotiation, and ceasefire to
consolidate its position and vowing to
break that cycle entirely. His Israeli
counterpart, Knesset speaker Amir Ohana,
responded in Persian with three words.
Unconditional surrender was the only
proposal on the table.
Iran's
foreign minister Seed Abbis Araki has
said that Thrron was prepared to
continue attacks for as long as
necessary.
While speaking to US broadcaster PBS
News, Iraqi said negotiations with the
United States were no longer on the
agenda.
Iraqi's remark comes amid the Iranian
foreign ministry spokesperson saying
that Thrron had refused requests for a
ceasefire from countries including
France, Russia and China.
Some contacts are being held with the
Islamic Republic of Iran as you follow
in the news from China, Russia, France
for and even some countries in the
region are in contact with us and other
countries both Islamic and non-Islamic
ones.
Some of them, yes, are actually
willing to act to stop this war or
establish a ceasefire. Well, this is
their request and we are fulfilling it.
The sessation of this war is in the
hands of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
This means that whenever the Islamic
Republic of Iran decides for them to
stop, the ultimate decision rests with
the Islamic Republic of Iran in this
matter because they were the ones who
committed aggression. They carried out
armed attacks. We must actually stop
when we can feel or have a guarantee
that these aggressive actions will not
happen again and that they will accept
full responsibility for their own
actions. These two conditions they must
accept responsibility. It's not uh it's
not like they'll just come today and say
stop stop and cease fire and we'll say
very well and it's all over. We
currently hold the upper hand. Look,
every single effort they have made has
utterly failed. Even now they have not
achieved their objectives. The Islamic
Republic of Iran has inflicted severe
and painful losses upon the Zionist
regime, America and their allies. Just
observe the state of the global economy
and energy. This is extremely painful
for them. So you see, we have delivered
truly devastating blows in this regard.
So we actually have the upper hand here
and therefore the Islamic Republic of
Iran will determine the end of the war.
Earlier, Donald Trump claimed that the
war in the Middle East would end very
soon.
Thank you, Mr. President. On Iran, you
called it an excursion. You said it
would be over soon. Are you thinking
this week it will be over? Are you
talking about days?
I think soon.
Okay. And and with respect to
very soon. Look,
everything they have is gone, including
their leadership.
In fact, there two levels of leadership
and even actually, as it turns out, more
than that, but two levels of leadership
are gone. Most people have never even
heard about the leaders that they're
talking about. So, uh, it's obviously
been very, very powerful, very
effective.
The Iranian military has also slammed
Trump over his claims, even as a Wall
Street Journal report claimed that
Trump's advisers had urged the US
president to exit from the war.
Is Donald Trump seeking an exit from the
ongoing war against Iran? A bombshell
report from the Wall Street Journal has
claimed that the US president's advisers
have privately urged him to look for an
exit plan amid spiking oil prices and
concerns that a lengthy conflict could
spark political backlash.
While speaking to reporters in Florida,
Trump had claimed that the US military
had mostly achieved its goals. So, we're
winning very decisively.
We're way ahead of schedule. Uh it's our
military is the greatest in the world
with the greatest equipment and the
greatest people in the world. There's
nobody's ever seen anything like it.
Iran's a very powerful country. They
were going to take over the Middle East
if we did not hit them. They were going
to take over the Middle East. They had
thousands and thousands since their last
hit. They had thousands and thousands of
missiles and everything else. Most are
now destroyed, but they were going to
take over the Middle East. Those weapons
were aimed at Middle Eastern countries
that had nothing to do with this. They
were going to take over the Middle East
and they were going to try and destroy
Israel. So, we stopped it with good
timing and we're very proud to be
involved in this and it's going to be
ended soon. And if it starts up again,
they'll be they'll be hit even harder.

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John Mearsheimer: U.S. Already Lost Iran War - No Off-Ramp in Sight
Glenn Diesen
Mar 10, 2026

Prof. John Mearsheimer explains why the war against Iran has already been lost, and why there is no off-ramp. John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982.



Transcript

Welcome back. We are joined by Professor John Merchimer uh to discuss the war
against Iran, which is uh definitely not going as planned. So, thank you very much for coming back on. My pleasure,
Glenn. So, uh well, as I said, the war definitely not going as uh Trump had
hoped, but u it seems to be going as many would have predicted. Indeed, uh
Trump himself had uh was met with a lot of warnings before he went down this
road. And uh now of course it's unclear what direction he should take. Uh we
also see reports from the Israeli sorry from the American media that even Israel is now growing concerned. They don't
think is that Iran is going to collapse. They don't think it's going to surrender. So what exactly if time is on
Iran's side? why go down this road? And uh the Wall Street Journal said
something similar that Trump's advisor would like to find a quick exit from
this war. So what do you make of this? Is is this u
reaching the end of the war or will Iran not permit this? Well, it's quite clear that the war is
not going well for the United States. uh and that President Trump I think would
like to put an end to it. Uh and the problem that he faces is he can't find
an off-ramp. Uh I think nobody can tell a plausible story about how this war
ends. uh if we had decisively defeated
uh Iran the way we decisively defeated both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in World War
II, then you can say the war is over with. We are the winner and we're going
to impose uh terms on the loser. But that's not what's happened here. uh they
haven't won anything approximating a decisive victory and in a very important
way uh the Iranians have an incentive to
continue the war uh to turn it into a protracted war of attrition
uh and they have the means to do that. So the question then is how does
President Trump uh get Iran to agree to
settle this war? When you listen to people in the administration talk, they sometimes talk as if we're the only
player in the game. Of course, the Israelis as well, but the Americans and the Israelis are in the driver's seat.
We determined when the war started. We determined when it ends. we determine
the conditions uh that the Iranians have to accept. This is the sort of view you
get from uh inside the administration. But this is not the way the real world
works. Uh the Iranians have a say in this. And the question is h how do you
get the Iranians to agree to stop fighting? Now, some people might say
that uh we are inflicting so much punishment on the Iranians that they
would be happy to quit. Uh Pete Hexith has been saying that today is going to
be the day of the heaviest bombardment uh that Israel uh and the United States
inflict on Iran. Okay, let's assume they inflict more punishment today than they
have in any of the previous 11 days of the war. Uh, does that mean that the
Iranians are going to throw up their hands and quit? I hardly think that's
the case. I think that Iran has prepared itself to accept massive punishment by
the United States and Israel. So, we can dish it out, but the Iranians are not
going to throw their hands up. And in fact, what the Iranians are going to do
is they're going to up the ante from their side. As we go up the escalation
ladder, they'll go up the escalation ladder. Uh if you start destroying
critical infrastructure inside of Iran, they'll destroy critical
infrastructure inside the Gulf States. and inside of Israel. And they can do
it. They have lots of ballistic missiles. They have lots of drones. Uh
almost all of them are highly accurate. And they're operating in a target-rich
environment. Uh it's not like uh they can't find targets to hit. They can hit
vulnerable and important economic and strategic targets with relative ease. Uh
so they have a strong hand to play. When I say they, I mean the Iranians have a strong hand to play and they have no
incentive to settle this one on America's terms. Uh they have a
deep-seated interest in making sure they get something out of a settlement. Uh
sanctions relief, reparations, who knows? but uh they're going to drive a hard bargain because the more time goes
by, the more desperate we are going to be to settle this one. So all of this is
to say I I don't see what the offramp is at this point in time for President
Trump. I hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm missing something and the war can just be shut down. But nobody's been able to
tell me a plausible story uh as to how you bring this thing to an end uh
anytime soon. Uh I would just say one final point, Glenn. I think if uh the
effects on um the international economy uh are significant, uh it looks like
we're heading off a cliff and that is possible. I think at that point the Americans will uh bring the war to an
end, but that will not be a victory. We will have caved in to the Iranians uh if
that scenario plays itself out. And that is, as you well know, a very realistic
scenario. What you described or what the United States hoped or thought the war would be
like, it it's what we refer to then as escalation dominance. uh this assumption
that one can decide the pace of moving up or down the escalation ladder. Um
this seems to be something that or was reasonable once one is in a comfortable hegemonic position that is one one can
dominate that is to dictate you know when the war starts who should be involved what are acceptable targets
when do we put an end to it but um uh but but it just seems that Iran can't
end this war because if they end it now except some ceasefire then I guess the
main fear not unlike what the Russians are fearing is then that the US would just be back again in a few months. So
um but but if there is no deal I mean if if you look at the Russian conflict if
they can't get a deal which gives them security they will take territory to make sure but on the Iranian side if
they can't get any deal which gives them proper security to make sure this
doesn't happen again. Uh you know they're not going for territory. It looks as if uh well kicking the US out
of the region by eliminating these Gulf States could be a reasonable pathway. I
use the word reasonable. Well, probably not correct here. Uh but uh but but what
do you think is the consequence for the Gulf States here? How vulnerable are they? Well, the Gulf States are remarkably
vulnerable. Um I mean first of all they have only a handful of um uh petroleum
sites uh where they you know reprocess uh where they process the the petroleum
and the liquid n natural gas and so forth and so on. The the the petroleum
infrastructure uh is just very vulnerable. These are big fat targets. And there's no question
that the Iranians can take out the petroleum infrastructure in all the Gulf
States with relative ease. They have the short-range ballistic missiles and the drones to do it. Uh but the other set of
targets that really matters are the desalination plants. uh these countries in the Gulf States
are uh heavily dependent on fresh water that comes out of the desalination
plants. Uh I was reading the other day that there's one desalination plant uh
that services Riad, the capital of Saudi Arabia. And if you take that
desalination plant out, uh you're taking away 90% of the water that Riad depends
on. And overall it appears that the country of Saudi Arabia
uh depends on 70% of its water uh from desalination plants. Uh Kuwait the
number is 90%. Um Oman the number is 76%. I I mean these
countries are just massively dependent on desalinization plants and and water.
you you can't live without water. Just think about that. So you have this
vulnerable set of targets, these desalination plants that the Iranians
can easily take out. And then you have uh the petroleum sites that I talked
about earlier that are few in number, easily targeted and can be taken out.
You can wreck these states. You could take, you know, Abu Dhabi and and just
wreck it. Uh so the uh the Iranians have really serious
options here. And then if you turn to Israel, I don't think that uh Iran can
do that to Israel. But as time goes by uh and as the Israelis run out of uh
defensive interceptors, you know, interceptors that can knock down these incoming ballistic missiles, the amount
of damage that Iran can do to Israel will be very great. And uh you already
see evidence that the Iranians are pounding Israel. Uh and that pounding
will get greater with the passage of time. So this is why it's so obvious
that the Iranians have real options. Uh the idea that we have escalation
dominance and that, you know, we can uh beat the Iranians as we go up the
escalation ladder, I I think is a facious argument. uh they have in a way
uh uh uh an assured destruction capability. They could destroy the Gulf
States uh and that would have a profound effect on the world economy. Uh and
surely President Trump and his advisers have begun to realize that and that's one of the reasons I think they're
interested in looking for an off-ramp now. But then the question is how do you find the off-ramp? And I don't think
there is an off-ramp at this point. And I think what they'll do is they'll escalate. Uh and they'll think that
escalation will solve the problem. Uh this gets back to my point about what
Pete Hegith is saying about today, Tuesday being uh the day when we will
inflict the most punishment uh on the Iranians that we have
inflicted so far. Okay, we start walking up the escalation ladder. But then this
brings me back to my point about what the Iranians can do if they go up the
escalation ladder with us. And the point is they could do massive damage to the
Gulf States. So they have options here and they can do massive damage to the
international economy. Uh so I think going up the escalation ladder is not
going to produce uh uh a satisfactory uh outcome for us, for the United States
and for Israel. Yeah. Given that they're so vulnerable with the disselination plants, it's a
bit strange that the United States would have chosen to escalate by attacking the
disselination plant within Iran because now Iran can almost uh well can
retaliate by the same means without being seen as the the main aggressor
essentially having an alibi to do so. Um but what how significant though is the
attack on the or the suspension of the trade in energy? Um because did you know
many people make the point this also linked into the entire international financial system with the petro dollar
but uh but this is seems to be one of the areas where the Trump administration
is worried again they make the point now that if Iran tries to block the straight
of our moose then well according to Trump's tweet they will hit Iran 20 times harder and now we hear Macaron
also say well we're going to come and help defensively somehow to open up the straight over moose. Uh how do you see
how important is the energy aspect here or what kind of dimensions are there to it? Well, the energy dimension is of
enormous importance. 20% of the world's uh oil and gas comes out of the Persian
Gulf. uh it just matters enormously and everybody understands that uh if this
turns into a long war it will have disastrous consequences for the world
economy. Uh again this is one of the principal reasons that President Trump is looking for an offramp. Uh he likes
to talk about opening the straits of Hormuz. All I can say is good luck on
that one. Uh if that was easy we would have done it earlier. Uh I don't think
we can open the straits of Hormuzz. You remember not too long ago, President Trump was talking about escorting
tankers in the Persian Gulf. Uh and the Navy basically told them that was not
possible. Uh those naval ships, American naval ships would be too vulnerable. Um
so I don't think that uh they can open the straits. The other thing you want to
remember is if they actually destroy uh the petroleum infrastructure in the
Gulf States, it doesn't matter whether the Straits of Hormuz is open or not. Uh
because uh there's going to be no oil coming out of the Straits of Hormuz. Uh
and if they destroy the desalination plants and the petroleum installations
in the Gulf States, uh there effectively not going to be any Gulf States left. Uh
I mean the point is that the uh the Iranians have options here. Uh they can
play hard ball and uh the consequences would be devastating for the Gulf
States. And as I say, then it wouldn't matter whether the straits are open or not. But I don't think we're going to
open the straits anyway. I don't think we're going to put naval ships uh in the Persian Gulf either. Uh so uh I I think
in a very important way um the Iranians are in the driver's seat. Clint, if I
can just make a historical point uh that gets back to an issue that you were raising before having to do with
escalation dominance and air power and even decapitation.
If you go back to the period before World War I, as we all know, wars before
World War I had no air dimension. Wars were fought between armies and navies.
And it was in World War I where we first saw air forces employed by the fighting
forces in Europe. Uh then after the war, this is in the 1920s and the 1930s, this
is before World War II, you developed independent air forces. And those air
forces became very interested in strategic bombing. And strategic bombing
is another way of saying long range bombing. And the idea was, and this was
of course popular uh in uh the air forces of the world and among air force
thinkers, that an air force by itself could independently win a war. In other
words, you would no longer have to win that war on the ground or at sea. You could just take your air force and you
could hit the other country's homeland. uh you could hit its economy, you could
hit its population, you could hit its military forces, whatever, and you could bring that country to its knees with air
power alone. And in a very important way, we tested this um in World War II
and we have tested this theory many times since. Uh now there's still some
people who believe you can do magical things with strategic air power which again is another way of saying with air
power alone. But the fact is there are real limits to what you can do. There's no question
that you want to have a powerful air force if you go to war. And there's no question that in some cases strategic
bombing helps win a war. But strategic air power by itself cannot win a war. It
just can't. The historical record is unequivocally clear on this. So when you
go to war against a country like Iraq in 2003, you definitely use air power. You
remember shock and augen. That was the American air force uh pounding Iraq
before we sent the ground forces in. Strategic bombing came before the ground forces went in. But the fact is to
create regime change and win a decisive victory in Iraq, we had to use land
power. We had to send in ground forces. We couldn't do it with air power alone.
Fast forward to the present. This is a campaign where we have no boots on the
ground. There's no land power. And we're talking about doing it with air power
alone. We're talking about doing it with strategic bombing. This is what the decapitation strategy in the opening
stages of the war was all about. Uh and when people now talk about going up the
escalation ladder, when you talk about Pete Hexith announcing that we're going to punish uh Iran more today than we
have in any of the previous 11 days, what they're saying is that we're going to win this war with strategic air
power, with air power alone. We don't need ground forces. Well, the historical
record again is unequivocally clear on this. You can't win wars, especially
against formidable adversaries, with air power alone. It just doesn't work. So,
here we are in a world where we have no boots on the ground, and President Trump
does not want to put boots on the ground. I mean, serious boots on the ground. Are we going to conquer Iran the
way we conquered Iraq? I don't think so. So, of course, the end result is that
we're relying on strategic air power alone. And what are we going to do?
We're going to punish we're going to punish Iran like it's never been punished
before. There's no question about that. You turn the American and Israeli air forces loose on Iran, they're going to
do an enormous amount. They're going to inflict an enormous amount of punishment uh do an an enormous amount of damage to
Iran. No question about that. But again, the historical record is clear that countries can absorb that punishment.
Look at what we did in World War II. Look at what we did in Korea. Look at what we did in Vietnam. You can inflict
massive punishment on civilian populations and the countries fight on.
Uh a and in terms of military targets, we're not going to get all
those ballistic missiles and drones. They're going to continue to fire ballistic missiles and drones at Israel,
at the Gulf States, and at American military assets. Uh so strategic bombing
is not going to produce a decisive victory here in all likelihood
unless there's a miracle. And I I don't believe in miracles. I hope I'm wrong,
you know, I hope this war comes to an end, but I don't think that's going to happen. Uh, and I think the historical
record is on my side. So, when Pete Hexith and President Trump, you know,
talk about escalation dominance and pounding Iran more than ever, uh, don't
believe uh don't believe that that's going to going to work. Uh, it hasn't
worked in the past and there's no reason to think it's going to work now.
Yeah, this is a problem. How to put an end to the war on stars. I think it was uh Ottoan Bismar who made a point that
uh was something along the line that it was easy to lure the Russian bear out of his high but difficult to get him back
in. You can say the same about the Iranians here though because they they didn't want this war but now that it's
here it's it's very dangerous for them I think if it ends on terms which would uh
will allow the whole thing to play out yet again. So now not to draw too many parallels with the Russians again, but I
also think that for them now restoring their deterrent to make sure that no one goes down this path again is is a key um
a key objective. But this comparison to Iraq though, I mean even if even if one
would introduce ground troops, Iraq is Iran is almost four times the territory
of Iraq and it has almost twice the population. This is a massive country. The I don't know. I thought it was
strange that the idea of introducing some a few Kurdish troops was was somehow going to overrun this country.
It's uh I mean as you said it would contribute probably probably significantly to disrupt and destroy
things but uh but in terms of if if there's an objective besides just
causing death and mayhem then it is unclear. Is is this the source of the
miscalculation though? because the idea that you could regime change a country
only with an air force. Uh cuz you know there had to be a plan. It appears to be have been regime change. And um again in
in this country we actually had in Norway we actually had a political leader of one of the political parties
who who went out on Facebook or Twitter and actually wrote that well now the
Iranian regime has fallen because they saw that Kame had been assassinated. So
that's it. Now the government is over. I mean, is this the kind of the thinking that, you know, you have one bad man, if
we just kill the bad man, then the regime is gone. I It's very hard. It's so remarkably stupid if if this is the
case. Well, that fact that you have leaders, political leaders who think in this way, communicate in this way. It
makes you think no one's behind the wheel, I guess. Well, a couple points. Uh I I think that
the initial strategy and we have gotten at this issue in our previous comments
but the initial strategy was uh decapitation
uh and then if the decapitation didn't work I I believe that we felt that we
could punish them uh in ways that would force them to throw up their hands and
surrender. we would have escalation dominance. Uh and this is another way of
saying we thought we could do it with air power alone. Now very importantly
uh the administration was told by insiders two sets of insiders before the
war that this was unlikely to work. You remember that General Kaine, who was the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and was handpicked by President Trump to
be the chairman, uh remember he brought him out of retirement. He was only a three-star general. President Trump
bought him out of brought him out of retirement, made him a four-star general and made him chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Uh so he was in a very important
way Trump's general. Much to his credit, General Kaine told President Trump that
we did not have a viable military option. This is before February 28th.
Furthermore, the National Intelligence Council, which is separate from General
Kaine, did a study before the war that said, uh, you're unlikely to get regime
change and bring this war to a quick end. Uh this was careful analysis done
by the National Intelligence Council, done by insiders. So there were two flashing orange
lights, if not red lights, that were in the president's face that he just
ignored. And as I said to you before, you know, we have a huge body of
literature on air wars and sanctions and regime
change that anyone can easily access and
easily figure out what the bottom lines are here. It it's not a complex
literature in the sense that almost everybody agrees that air power alone or
strategic bombing doesn't win wars. Uh that sanctions have real limits. That
regime change is wickedly difficult. First of all, it's almost impossible
without ground forces. But even with ground forces, the whole process is wickedly difficult. The literature is
unequivocally clear on this. Uh so when you marry what we know from previous
analysis by scholars and policy analysts with the fact that you had General Kaine
and the National Intelligence Council warning the president not to do this.
And when 20% of the American people approved it, but the rest didn't, you
think about that. Only 20% of the American people were enthusiastic about this war. the other 80% either opposed
it or wasn't too sure to go to war, you know, in those circumstances is quite
remarkable. And you just sort of wonder what was Trump thinking? Uh how could he
have possibly done this? And when you look at where we are today, given
everything I just said, it's hardly surprising that we're in a real mess and there's no apparent way to get out of
it. It's just not surprising what is happening now is consistent with the
historical record. And just to add one more dimension to this, go back to the 12-day war last June. The 12-day war
between Israel and the United States on one side and Iran on the other side. It
was the Israelis and the Americans, not the Iranians, who wanted to end that war
after 12 days. Decapitation didn't work in that war. We didn't have escalation
dominance in that war. Uh I mean what more evidence do you need before
February 28th to tell you that this is a bad idea? Uh but nevertheless uh Trump
jumped in uh along with Netanyahu who of course was pushing him and promising him
that we would have a quick victory. And here we are.
See, that's a great point. That makes this even more extraordinary. The fact that we already had this war in back in
June for 12 days, and it was the same problems. I mean, the the weapon shortage, that was a key problem. That's
why they had to put an end to it. And of course, because it was only with Israel, Iran was more willing to put an end to
it. But how does it surprise you the US didn't pack a bigger bag for this war
though, and that they didn't have more weapons? cuz I heard they only prepared for a few weeks at most. Uh but this is
um yeah or was was was it just assumption that if it didn't work then we can just
put it to halt again after 12 days like last time? Well, you're assuming that President
Trump is a rational legal thinker, right? you you're assuming that he does
the careful analysis that you you would do or I would do if we were taking our
countries into war, but that's just not the way he operates. And it's clear from
listening to him talk that he has all these pictures in his head that bear no
resemblance to reality. He's constantly saying things that are just simply
untrue. And if he believes them, you know, you can see why he just does
foolish things. Uh he's recently been saying that uh uh first of all, Iran has
weapons that are not accurate at all. These are all inaccurate weapons.
Nothing could be further from the truth, right? They have ballistic missiles and drones that are highly accurate. Not all
of the ballistic missiles, for sure, but many of them. and certainly almost all the drones. Uh but to say that they have
an inventory of weapons that are all inaccurate is a foolish thing to say. Uh
and then furthermore, he made the outlandish comment that Iran has
tomahawk missiles. There's no way Iran would have took
missiles. How could he say that? Uh and then he tells all these stories about, you know, how we decimated last year uh
Iran's nuclear capability. We basically erased it from the map. Uh but now we
find out that that wasn't true. that 60% enriched uranium that Iran had before
the 12-day war started before we, the United States, bombed those critically
important Iranian nuclear sites on June 22nd of 1965.
uh that despite all that, the Iranians 60%
uh uh nuclear 60% enriched nuclear material is still there. Uh we didn't
destroy it, but he said we did. So, you never know exactly what he's thinking, but it does seem quite clear that the
pictures, many of the pictures that he has in his head uh don't square with reality. And in that circumstance, you
can understand uh how he could be bamboozled by someone like Prime
Minister Netanyahu uh into thinking he could win a quick and decisive victory. And by the way, if
there's one person who was telling him that this was all going to work out uh in a magical way and we were going to
live uh happily ever after uh after a quick uh military victory against Iran,
it was Prime Minister Netanyahu. He's been arguing for a long time uh that the
regime in Iran was vulnerable and all we had to do was hit it hard uh and it
would collapse and apparently uh more moderate uh leaders would take over in
Iran who would be willing to be subservient to the United States and
Israel. But we just had to show that we had the courage. This is Prime Minister
Netanyahu speaking. We just had to show that we had the courage uh to really hit
Iran hard to pursue a regime change strategy. And Netanyahu for God knows
how long had been trying to get the United States to do that. He's trying he had been trying to drag us into a war
against Iran by promising us that it would produce a great victory. But every
president before Trump, including President Biden, avoided falling into
that trap because they all understood that it was a trap and that we would not
win a quick and decisive victory. Uh but anyway, uh it appears that uh Prime
Minister Netanyahu bamboozled President Trump, convinced him uh that we would
win a quick and decisive victory. uh and uh we have not won that quick and decisive victory.
We can say that's another great irony here that is the whole argument that the Iranians are, you know, an irrational
actor. While we see now this kind of a bit unhinged rhetoric coming from the
White House because or only over the past 24 hours, I've seen Trump's claim that uh the Iranians told Witoff that,
you know, they would insist on developing nuclear weapons no matter what. uh that Iran was going to take
over the whole Middle East if we hadn't uh attacked first. Uh we had maybe 3
days before Iranians would have attacked the United States. And again with this attack on the girls school killing 160
girls, very young ones as well. It looked many of them were between eight and 10. I I again I went with assumption
that this was at least well I think a safe assumption that it was a a mistake.
uh you know no one hopefully doesn't target and kill 160 young girls on
purpose but I don't understand first the claim well there was an Iranian missile then find out it's a tomahawk his whole
administration then goes on you know moving away from okay Iran didn't bomb you know kill these girls uh on their
own but then moving on to the tomahawk that yeah Iran could have it I mean nobody else in the administration would
go out you know with such an absurd statement uh just seems that you know governments always lie all governments
but this really you know takes it to a new level to the extent that the credibility not just of Trump but the
United States could be at at risk and you know that's a you know it's a
nonmaterial um asset you can call it but it's still very vital it would seem though
I think if you look at both Iran and Russia whe whether you like the regimes
in those two countries uh or not uh I think the leaders and here we're talking
about Putin in the case of Russia and of course Ayatollah Himei and now his son
uh all the evidence is that these regimes are rational legal that they're
thinking strategically I mean just to segue to Putin for a second Putin is a
first rate strategic thinker I don't know how anybody could disagree with that uh the idea that he's some sort of
fool who's detached from reality makes no sense. You don't have to like what he's doing. You can think that he was
wrong to invade Ukraine. I understand that. But uh he thinks in a very logical
way. Uh I think he has a powerful strategic mind. And I think if you look
at the Iranians, you listen to the foreign minister talk, uh he is an
impressive individual. Again, you don't have to like uh the Iranian regime and
you can view Iran as an adversary, but I think it's very important when you're in a war and you're trying to assess the
other side that you do it in a rational legal way. And if the other side is
smart and clever, that you appreciate that fact and take it into account uh as
you put your plans together for dealing with the adversary. But all I would say is that the United States when it comes
to dealing with Russia, when it comes to dealing with China as well, and when it comes to dealing with Iran, uh you're
dealing with uh leaders in those countries uh who are smart and uh who
know how to think strategically. But then when you look at the Europeans
and you look at the Americans, especially President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Exath, and you listen to
them talk, uh you say to yourself, it's not clear that these people understand
strategy 101. Uh it's not clear that they're operating in a rational legal
way. Uh sometimes I think it's quite frightening to hear President Trump talk
about a particular issue because the things he's saying are just simply not true. Again, the point about Iran having
uh uh tomahawk missiles, this is just not it's not a plausible argument aside
from the fact that it's not true. It's just not plausible. Uh and he tells stories like that all the time. So uh I
think that uh when you look at our side of the equation uh it's not a pretty
picture. Well you have um no no definitely you have written a book on this topic that
is uh was titled why leaders lie. So the truth about lying in international
politics. uh how do you make sense of this then or or why because I I remember
from from your book um um that one of the key arguments was that often we find
more lying in uh from from uh liberal democracies. I I remember I cited that
once in political propaganda because we often portray propaganda simply coming from authoritarian states. But if you go
back to Walter Litman, Edward Bernese, all the original scholars on on propaganda, they all made the point that
you know if you're a liberal democracy, then essentially sovereignty has been transferred to the people. There's more
need to to manage the masses. So there was was more demand for propaganda. But
kind of we we we propagandize the concept of propaganda to only mean what other people would do. Uh but but how do
you have any conclusions why how it came to this? Because as I said this is the
stories in the media is is just you know it it yeah it's beyond uh well belief.
It's it's not credible in any way. Let me excuse me Glenn let me make a
couple points. First of all, in in the book that I wrote about lying, one thing you
discover is that there are not many lies told by states to other states.
And one of the reasons is that if you lie all the time, then lying becomes an
ineffective tool. In other words, lying only works when the other side suspects
that you're telling the truth. So if you're a habitual liar, lying is
just a waste of time. So I was actually shocked to discover when I wrote the
book and many of my audiences refused to believe the argument that states don't
lie to each other very much. And the argument I made was that you see
more lying by state leaders to their own publics than you see cases of state
leaders lying to other leaders. And this is counterintuitive and I found it hard
to swallow at first, but I just gave you the logic. Now, as you point out, I also
found that in democracies, leaders are more likely to lie than they are in
autocracies for the reasons that you laid out. So, you see quite a few
instances of presidents lying to the public. Uh,
and of course, this book was written before President Trump. So, how does
President Trump fit with this book? First of all, uh, President Trump uh,
doesn't lie on a lot of occasions because he actually believes what he is saying,
which is scarier than him lying, right? I think he actually believes a lot of
these statements that he makes that bear little resemblance to reality. I
wouldn't be surprised, for example, if he believes that Iran has tomahawk missiles. He he he he has a lot of false
beliefs firmly embedded in his brain. So that's point one. Point two is I do
think that he tells lots of lies. I think he lies, one could argue, almost
all the time. He He's constantly telling lies, but the fact is that they're
ineffective because everybody understands that he's lying. He he just
says whatever he thinks. As I said before, he may believe some of those things and if he believes them, then
they're not lies. But then there are other occasions where he says things that he has to know are not true. But
the fact that he tells so many lies means that lying is not an effective
instrument for him. Lying again is only effective when people think that you're
a trutht teller or that you're not going to lie. If you and I have a personal relationship that had spanned 25 years
and we've had a huge number of interactions, you Glenn and I, right? And I've always been truthful to you.
It's easy for me to lie to you because you trust me and you let your guard
down. But if you've dealt with me for 25 years, we're friends, but you know that I lie all the time. I really can't get
away with a meaningful lie because you just don't trust me. You see the logic? So, I think with regard to President
Trump, the fact that he lies uh just doesn't make that much difference. It doesn't buy him anything. And if
anything, because some people think some of the time that he really believes what he says, you think that he's not playing
with the full deck. Well, I'm I'm glad you well before
pivoted a bit towards Russia because that seems to be a possible well an important component now. Uh well, for
for two reasons, I guess. One would be um uh well, how how do you see Russia's
involvement here? There's been a lot of noise in the media that uh the Russians are providing intelligence to Iran to
yeah to hit American targets. I um yeah I kind of assume that this was
happening. I think I assume the Chinese were doing the same as they have a concern of course that Iran could be
defeated. Uh but also of course because well the United States is doing the exact same thing in Ukraine. But but
also how what do you think the the extent of the Russian involvement is? But also how do you think this war is
affecting uh our war in Ukraine at the moment?
I think uh to start with the latter part of your questioning that uh this war is
wonderful news for the Russians. Uh first of all, it means that the United
States is wasting precious assets in this fight that it might otherwise give
to the Europeans or allow the Europeans to buy to give to the Ukrainians. Uh I think that there's
no question that this is hurting Ukraine's efforts on the battlefield
because we're expending huge amounts of munitions in this fight. uh you know,
patriots, thads, things like that are being uh used. Uh and and by the way,
you notice that we're bringing uh THADs and patriots from East Asia uh to the
Middle East. Uh and this means that uh we're weakening our deterrent uh against
China. Uh we're weakening our containment policy visa v China. Going
back to the Russians, uh the Russians fully understand uh that this is going
to have delletterious effects for the Ukrainians. U furthermore, uh as you
know, uh the United States has been working overtime, the West has been
working overtime uh to inflict pain on the Russian economy. Uh and this is
going to have this war is going to have the opposite effect. uh if you know the flow of oil and gas
out of the Persian Gulf is greatly reduced that means the demand uh for
Russian oil and gas is going to go up and we already see evidence that the
United States is willing to allow India now to buy more oil from the Russians
because India is hurting as a result of the cut off in the Gulf. Uh so
economically this is wonderful news for Russia and again in terms of the battlefield it's wonderful news. So um
uh so I think this is a net positive from for the Russians from that point of view. Uh with regard to what the
Russians are doing to help the Iranians as you know that's hard to tell. Uh, I
think that it is quite clear that the Russians are providing intelligence for
the Iranians and that that that intelligence is helping the Iranians wage the war. Uh, and it's limiting uh
what the Americans and the Israelis can do to defend against Iranian ballistic missiles. Uh, so I think that uh is
almost certainly uh being done. Uh, and I wouldn't be surprised if at some point
if Iran needs oil, uh, that the Russians provide oil or gas to the Iranians. It's
hard to say for sure what's going on there, but that's another possibility. And I wouldn't be surprised if they
provided some weaponry before the war and they'll provide weaponry during the
war. What exactly they'll provide uh, in terms of numbers and quality, who knows?
Uh but uh I wouldn't be surprised if the Russians and the Chinese as well are
helping the Iranians. Both of those countries obviously have a deep-seated interest and seeing Iran defeat the
United States and Israel in this war. I mean, if you or I were playing China's
hand or playing Russia's hand, uh, we would want to see the United States
suffer a humiliating defeat, uh, in its fight with Iran. So, the incentives here
for Russia and China to help Iran are great, and exactly what they're doing is
hard to say, but it does look like uh they're helping out, especially with regard to intelligence. and that's
complicating our problem. It seems another benefit for the
Russians though would be to I guess improve their image within Iran because
you know if you take a step back and stretch out for you know viewpoint over the past centuries now the Iranians and
the Russians have um you know they had quite a few wars behind them and there's every reason in the war in the world for
the Iranians to distrust the Russians as well. This is a I guess a good opportunity for the Russians though to
be seen as a savior instead of a nemesis or you know someone who who will you
know stab them in the back at the most critical hour. Um but uh it's um yeah I
my last question was really about Europe though because it doesn't it it also has
well responded in some very strange ways. uh the the EU of course is you
know is giving its uh full full support at least rhetorically. I think Mertz he
positions himself now as the number one Trump man to support whatever Trump wants to do. The British are also of
course supportive but they didn't want to send any weapons then now they do want to send weapons but Trump doesn't want it because according to Trump they
already won. uh how how do you make sense of the European position on this and uh you know how much what's the
relevance of French participation you think and uh how are how is Europe
impacted by this war because you know we just cut oursel off or we like to say liberated oursel from Russian energy and
now the Iranians are liberating us from Middle Eastern energy. It's uh it's not
much more uh you know coming our way it seems. I I think the e the economic
consequences for Europe uh if this war escalates and
some of the scenarios we described at the start of the program play out uh the
consequences of that for Europe would be catastrophic. Uh and I think the
European elites understand that. I I think they wish very much that this war
had never started. This is a war that is not good for Europe. But as is almost
always the case, the Europeans do pretty much what the Americans want them to do.
And they're kissing up to the Americans and uh supporting the American war
effort. Uh failing to condemn the United States and Israel for this brazen war of
aggression, for assassinating the leader of a foreign country. The Europeans are
not condemning this. Safe for the Spanish. Uh and uh it's really what you
would expect from the Europeans. And what drives this, as we've talked about many times before, Glenn, is the
European fear that the United States will leave Europe or at least marketkedly reduce its military
footprint. Uh the Europeans don't want that. They want to keep NATO intact. They want to keep the Americans fully
committed to Europe. And the European elites believe that the only way you can do that is to lick America's boots. Uh
and in this case that means lick President Trump's boots. And so as you
would expect the Europeans are following the Pied Piper. Uh the question is do
the Europeans matter uh in terms of winning this war? And the answer is no.
Uh I mean who cares whether the Europeans get involved or not? uh maybe
they'll uh help on the margins, but that just doesn't matter at this point.
There's nothing the Europeans can do uh to, you know, fundamentally affect the
balance of power between Iran on one side and the United States and Israel on the other side. I mean, President
Mcronone talks like uh this is uh 1799
or 1805 where France is, you know, under Napoleon and by far the most powerful
state in Europe. It's it's Europe's Godzilla and France can do X Y and Z.
Those days are long gone. France has very little military capability and it
certainly has little capability to affect events in the Middle East. Uh so
it just doesn't matter very much. This war is going to be settled between the Iranians on one side and the Americans
and the Israelis on the other side. And what's in the interests of those three
actors is what really matters here. And from Europe's point of view, the sad
truth is that their interests are going to be largely ignored because the Americans are just not going to pay
Europe's interests much attention. we don't care that much about Europe.
President Trump views the Europeans uh with contempt. Uh the idea that he's
going to go out of his way to help Europe uh is not a serious argument. Uh
in fact, if the Europeans get hurt in the process, I would imagine that President Trump will uh think that's a
good thing. You know, he has contempt for the European elites. So, Europe is in real trouble. uh it started with the
Ukraine war uh and this war just makes a bad situation much worse.
That seems like again I I always agreed with the idea that the United States is the pacifier and we and Europe's going
to have a lot of problems fragmenting if uh not so much if more than when the
United States departs. But it it looks as if the efforts now to keep the US there is well will only fragment Europe
faster because want to keep the US thereby prolonging the Ukraine war which means we're turning we turn on the
Slovakians the Hungarians uh you know ignore them or now that uh Mertz was
sitting next to Trump and Trump could just hammer away threatening Spain and you know Mers has to sit there obediently not say anything critical
because he has to show loyalty to Trump and now of course They're alienating the Spanish. So, it just seems, you know,
always the worst of both worlds is what the Europeans are are going for. It's quite Yeah, it's quite extraordinary to
watch. Uh doesn't give one a lot of optimism. Um
Yes. Let me let me make a radical statement, Glenn.
I think that one could make an argument that it's in the Europeans's interest to
in effect pursue the Spanish model visa v the United States to play hard ball
with the United States to tell the United States that uh you're going to
greatly improve your relations with China. You're going to trade with China
and you're going to trade sophisticated technologies with the Chinese. And if the Americans don't like that, well,
we'll cut a deal then. But, uh, in the meantime, we're going to fundamentally
change our relationship with China. Uh, and furthermore, with regard to the
Middle East, we're going to condemn what you're doing in the most powerful terms. And we're even going to look for ways to
punish you. Uh, we're going to condemn you for starting a war of aggression.
We're going to condemn you uh for collaborating with the Israelis and waging a genocide. We're going to
condemn you for assassinating Ayatolli Hani. Uh pursuing a really hard ball
strategy with the United States. And given that the United States needs
Europe in all sorts of ways, that will provide the Europeans with some leverage
so that they can protect their own interests. Uh, and what we're saying here is that
by constantly cowtowing to the Americans, by licking President Trump's
boots, you put your situation, you put yourself in a situation where your
interests are not protected. And if anything, your interests are hurt and uh you're getting yourself into more and
more trouble as the years go by. Uh, that's the way I'd look at it if I were a European. But again, this is a radical
argument and the Europeans brains have been grooved to think that this is heresy that, you know, the arguments I'm
making are wrong. They're just simply wrong. We don't have to analyze them. We just dismissed them out of hand. We've
learned all along that the only way to deal with the United States is to be nice and to be subservient. Uh that
might have been true at one point, but I don't think that's true with President Trump. And I'm surprised they haven't
figured that out. Uh, I think the Spanish leader has figured that out. Uh,
President Trump is a classic bully. Uh, in many ways the United States is a country that is a bully and long has
been a bully. But President Trump is a classic bully. And the only way you deal with a bully is you stand up to that
bully. And if you show weakness, the bully will walk all over you. And of course, this is what President Trump is
doing with the Europeans. He walks all over them. He doesn't pay attention to their interests. He does what he thinks
is in America's interest and if that hurts the Europeans, tough luck for them. That's his approach. Uh and you
would think that the Europeans would have learned this by now and would have
altered their policies towards the United States in fundamental ways. But
apparently that's not the case. No, I just like say I don't think it's radical at all. I I always make the
point as well that the most important partner for Europe should be the United States. But if you want to keep this
relationship then you know the Europe should do exactly the opposite of what it instincts tells it. That is not to
put all its eggs in that one basket. What you want to do is diversify work with the Russians, the Chinese, the
Indians and all others. Because if you have this asymmetrical interdependence where all of Europe's relations depend
on the US but Europe is not really that important to the US. With this asymmetry, the US can walk all over
Europe and the relationship isn't any more sustainable. So if you want to save the relationship, you need a balance of
dependence, diversify as well. I mean, this is the logic of the Russians. For them, the R the Chinese relationship is
the most important to have. But they also realize there's a symmetry there that they would become much too
dependent on China compared to China's depends on Russia. So they recognize if they want the Chinese relationship to
work, you diversify as well. also deal with the Indians and all others and you know but I think the mindset in Europe
is just well America's our liberal democratic partner so let's just show our loyalty let's cut oursel off from
the Russians cut oursel off from the Chinese you know threaten the Indians a little bit and now the Americans will
reward us for our loyalty and you know sit in front of his desk call him daddy and somehow everything will be fine it's
it's very strange I don't understand where where the thinking is But um yeah
yeah yeah with with regard to India uh I I've given a number of talks in India
recently and I was recently in Mumbai and my advice to the Indians I hate to say this as an American but if I were an
Indian uh I would not get too close to the United States. Uh as I like to say
the United States is a rogue elephant and uh uh if India gets close it will
pay a certain price. It discovered this last year when we put when President Trump put 50% tariffs on India. Uh and
uh uh I think that that basic logic which applies to India applies to the
Europeans as well. You just do not want to get too close to the United States because when you do that, you give the
United States all the leverage and the United States will use that leverage. That's certainly true of President
Trump. So you want to give the United States as little leverage over you as
possible and you want to maximize the amount of leverage that you have over the United States. This is my point
about trading with China. The United States has a vested interest in making sure that European states don't trade
sophisticated technologies with the Chinese. Okay. But that tells me that
the Europeans therefore have leverage. They can threaten to trade sophisticated
technologies with the Chinese. The Americans will not want that. And the
Europeans can exact the quidd proquo from the Americans uh if they cut off
the flow of uh cutting edge technologies to uh China.
Well, thank you very much, John, for taking the time. As always, uh I always learn a lot listening to you. So, uh
thank you and I hope you come back on soon. Thank you for having me, Glenn. Uh, I enjoyed the conversation. I just
wish the subject wasn't so depressing.

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Iran 'rejects' Trump's announcement to end war; showcases offensive capabilities | Janta Ka Reporter
Janta Ka Reporter
Mar 10, 2026

Minutes after Donald Trump told reporters that the US mission in Iran would soon end, Iran struck Tel Aviv with the Khorramshahr-4 as officials turned down the US president's offer. The Islamic Republic has laid down conditions for the Arab and European countries to have their ships sail through the Strait of Hormuz. Rifat Jawaid examines the circumstances that may have prompted Trump to consider ending his operation against Iran.





Transcript

In my last video, I told you about
Donald Trump literally conceding defeat
when he said his Iran war was almost
complete. But that wasn't the real
story. The real story is the
circumstances that forced this deranged
occupant of the White House to find a
way out of this quagmire that he has
allowed himself to be dragged into since
he's the president of the US supposedly
the most powerful country in the world.
So he has to do some face saving. Hence,
subsequent utterances by him and his
minion Pete Hexet on boasting about the
USA's military prowess. Here's what
Trump has said about intending to end
his country's illegal invasion of Iran.
So, we're winning very decisively.
We're way ahead of schedule. Uh it's our
military is the greatest in the world
with the greatest equipment and the
greatest people in the world. is
nobody's ever seen anything like it.
Iran's a very powerful country. They
were going to take over the Middle East.
If we did not hit them, they were going
to take over the Middle East. They had
thousands and thousands since their last
hit. They had thousands and thousands of
missiles and everything else. Most are
now destroyed. But they were going to
take over the Middle East. Those weapons
were aimed at Middle Eastern countries
that had nothing to do with this. They
were going to take over the Middle East
and they were going to try and destroy
Israel. So, we stopped it with good
timing and we're very proud to be
involved in this and it's going to be
ended soon.
Thank you. Uh, Mr. President, you've
said the war is quote very complete, but
your defense secretary says this is just
the beginning. So, which is it and how
long should Americans be?
Well, I think you could say both.
However, the Iranians do not want to end
this war. And this is where Trump and
his terrorist friends would find
themselves in real trouble. How do you
deal with a situation where despite
being the most powerful country in the
world, at least on paper, you have been
forced to concede defeat, but your enemy
who you said wasn't so powerful, is in
no mood to end this war. What does it
say about the most powerful country in
the world? It says that this country is
in reality a coward and its claims of
having the most powerful military in the
world is a joke. Just listen to
professor Marandi, a person who was
instrumental in the negotiation of the
JCPOA in 2015 and is very close to the
Iranian establishment. Do his words give
you the impression that Iran really
wants a ceasefire? We will no longer
accept the status quo. The region has to
change. We will not allow the United
States or the Israeli regime to be able
to threaten us again.
In other words, the Iranians will push
this war
until the United States and the West
recognize that attacking Iran is not an
option. Not now and not ever again.
So this war is not going to end
anytime soon unless the other side
capitulates.
And even when the other side backs down,
there will be changes. Iran will not
accept
Arab family dictatorships
hosting US bases that can harm us. and
they will have to pay compensation
for the slaughter and the murder that
has been carried out. None of these
regimes
are innocent, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the
Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait,
Oman. None of them are innocent. All of
them host US bases. All of those US
bases have been used to conspire against
Iran. All of them have been used to kill
Iranians,
murder Iranians. And not just Iranians,
they've been used to kill people in
Yemen. They've been used to kill people
in Lebanon in a different way.
So
this war will end with a shift in the
balance of power in this region.
the axis of resistance will no longer
accept a hanging sword above it.
What prompted Trump to have a rethink
about his Iran plan was the fear of the
collapse of the global economy. This
would have happened this week had he not
made that announcement last night. The
oil prices in the international market
had already breached $120.
Some analysts had feared that this would
easily have gone past $200. That's
because Iran has choked the state of
Hormuz, thereby bringing the supply of
oil and gas to a grinding halt. Some
countries like France recently expressed
their desire to escort their stuck
ships. But Iran was quick to remind them
politely that the strait was still very
unsafe and Iran could not be held
responsible if something happens to
their assets. Iran, however, has an
offer for countries wishing to use the
state of Hormos. All they have to do is
to expel Israeli and American diplomats
from their soil. Just let me bring you
um a breaking line reported by the
Reuters news agency who say the IRGC,
the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
say that any Arab or European country
that expels the ambassadors of Israel
and the United States from its territory
will starting tomorrow have full
authority and freedom to pass through
the straight of Hormuz. That's according
to the Iranian state media.
Do you know the irony? When Trump was
busy conceding defeat against Iran, the
Islamic Republic was pounding the
settler colony with more sophisticated
versions of its missiles. The reaction
of this Fox News representative was
priceless. First, he told us on live TV
just how brutal the Israeli crackdown is
on reporting the damage caused by
Iranian missiles. Then he admitted that
Iran's offensive capabilities, his
words, not mine, were of a different
class altogether.
In to the break here, we have sirens in
Tel Aviv. Let's go back to correspondent
Nate Foy who is on the ground there. Hi
Nate.
Hey Martha. So yeah, as you can hear,
the sirens are going off here in Tel
Aviv. Something that we've seen several
times throughout the entire day. And
what we could see here momentarily are
interceptor missiles fired off. Uh we
have seen it right over my shoulder
several different times. Again, Iran
continues to show an offensive
capability launching missiles at central
Israel. We have one interceptor over my
shoulder right now. We can't show you
because we can't show landmarks, Martha.
But something that has really changed
here uh over the past couple days is the
use of these cluster munitions by Iran
where the warhead breaks up into several
different bomblelets. And that's uh
really important because not only does
it spread the damage, but it makes it
more difficult to defend against.
Meanwhile, Trump's minion, Pete Hexet,
is forced to lick his wounds in the wake
of his boss's embarrassing acceptance of
defeat. Now he wants to vent out his
frustration by displaying his
anti-Muslim hatred. He once again
repeated his usual nonsensical lies that
the Iranians had murdered Americans for
47 years.
Iranians murdered these Americans so
silently and quietly and disposed of
their bodies so well that no one, not
even the immediate family members of
those murdered by Iranians, got to know
about this. This is what you get, dear
Americans, when you have an uncut, an
uneducated thug representing you as the
country's head of military
internationally. For 47 years, these
barbaric savages in the Iranian regime
have murdered our brothers in arms. My
guys, your guys. Our guys through their
terrorist proxies and cowardly attacks.
Now they race toward a nuclear bomb to
hold the world hostage.
The Iranians have targeted and killed
thousands of my American brothers.
That race to a nuclear bomb, President
Trump will never allow it. Not now, not
ever, not on our watch.
The mulas are desperate and scrambling
like the ter terrorist cowards they are.
They fire missiles from schools and
hospitals, deliberately, deliberately
targeting innocents because they know
their military is being systematically
degraded. Only a few days ago, this Pete
Hex's chap was flaunting the carnage
caused by his country's military in Iran
when they slaughtered 180 innocent girls
from an elementary school. He has said
that the US had just got started even
though his country was winning. Today,
he blamed Israeli terrorists for the
military strikes on oil refineries and
oil depo in Thran. Well, I would just
state by saying Israel's been a really
strong partner in this e effort. Uh
where they have different objectives,
they've pursued them. Uh ultimately,
we've stayed focused on ours. But when
Iran what Iran has felt is the power of
the world's two most powerful air
forces. Uh in that particular case, that
wasn't our those weren't our strikes or
that objective uh or or that wasn't our
necessarily our objective. Look, Trump
started this war under duress from
terrorist Netanyahu and he's now going
to end this war both to please his
Israeli master and protect his own
business interests. Trump didn't run for
the presidency to serve people. He is no
mother tracer. In fact, he has as much
respect for humanity as pedophile
Jeffrey Epstein had for innocent
children. The soaring oil prices were
going to wreak havoc to the US economy.
This can still happen if Trump doesn't
quickly get out of the Middle East.
Stock markets were going to experience a
bloodbath, wiping out hundreds of
billions of dollars. This would have
significantly impacted Trump and his
family members who too would have been
badly bruised. Many people feel that
Trump did this due to growing anger
within the US against his decision to
invade Iran. But Trump doesn't give a
to such public sentiments.
But he does care when it entails missing
out on billions of dollars. His Israeli
boss Netanyahu too is under huge
pressure from his own people who
historically praised him and supported
him for causing the genocide in Gaza.
But they too have turned their back on
this dreaded war criminal following the
death and devastation caused by Iranian
missiles. Netanyahu hasn't been seen in
public for more than a week now. His
last video was also released from an
unknown location. Many people believe
he's on the run to avoid being killed by
the Iranians. Others feel he is already
in the US hiding in Mara Lago. You never
know. Either way, continuing with war
doesn't suit the US or the settler
colony. Hence, their desperate excuses
to get out of this mess. But Iran says
it will decide when to end the war.
Meanwhile, Trump has also made a
desperate plea to Russia and China to
convince Iran to agree for a ceasefire.
But for Iran, this is a question of
their existential crisis and also the
Persian pride after the Israeli and
American terrorist massacred their
86-year-old supreme leader, his daughter
and daughter-in-law along with their
children. I will leave you with this
clip of a broadcast from inside Thran by
the Iranian state TV. If you wanted to
truly understand the courage of the
average Iranians, this video is an
example. Tens of thousands of Iranians
gathered in Revolution Square in support
of the new Ayatah when American and
Israeli terrorists began to drop bombs
nearby indiscriminately.
Not one person moved or fled from the
scene. These are the people Trump and
Netanyahu dream of defeating.
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Part 1 of 2

IRAN BEGINS MINING STRAIT OF HORMUZ - w/ Max Blumenthal
Mario Nawfal
Streamed live on Mar 10, 2026 Mario Nawfal's Interviews



Transcript

0:00live interview. Yes, it is. Yeah.
0:011 secondOkay, I'll promote it. All right, I guess we're live.
0:044 secondsWe're live already. Just don't bleed from your mouth. Well, good to have you back, man. I know you've been off for a few days and glad you're okay. And funny enough, just as you're coming on, um,
0:1414 secondsMax, it's like every unthinkable thing keeps happening. The war initially was unthinkable. Here we are. A war, a
0:2222 secondsprolonged war was unthinkable. Here we are. The discussion of boots on the ground was unthinkable. Here we are. And
0:2727 secondsnow we have reports that Iran is mining the trade of Hormuz. For me,
0:3535 secondsthat's probably the most significant thing the the the most damaging thing Iran could do to the world economy, but also to the US to
0:4444 secondspressure the US to pressure Trump and they've done it because that would that would that would impact all transit through the trade of homes, including
0:5151 secondsChinese ships. So, I'd love to get your thoughts. We haven't spoken since the war started. We only spoke about the 12-day war. You did say that will happen again in in discussions we've had then
1:001 minutehere we are. So I'd love to get your thoughts max on everything we've seen all the discussions about boots on the ground and the latest developments about the mining of the Shremuz.
1:121 minute, 12 secondsWell you you've had Muhammad Morandi on your program during this cycle of of conflict right?
1:201 minute, 20 secondsNot in this war yet. We've had him after the 12-day war and in the protests as well during the protests.
1:261 minute, 26 secondsOkay. Well, you should have him on. If anyone has been listening to Muhammad Morandi and what he's been saying for the last few weeks as this war became it
1:351 minute, 35 secondsas it became inevitable that Trump would impose war on Iran for Israel in coordination with Israel. everything Muhammad Morandi said is coming true.
1:451 minute, 45 secondsThat Iran was not going to first of all that that the negotiations were a sham and that Witoff and Kushner
1:531 minute, 53 secondswere dedicated Zionist ideologues who were going to be pushing uh Israeli terms in order to cross Iran's red lines
2:022 minutes, 2 secondsso that Trump could believe that he had to go to war and blame Iran. That's number one. Number two, Iran would have
2:102 minutes, 10 secondsto launch a regional war when it was attacked in order to escalate the economic pain and exercise its economic
2:182 minutes, 18 secondsleverage, which means either partially or totally closing the straight of Hormuz. It's partially closed it. Uh ships are reluctant to cross. Iran
2:272 minutes, 27 secondsdoesn't even have to mine it to prevent them from crossing. This was inevitable.
2:312 minutes, 31 secondsIran had to launch a regional war and go all out because if it had just uh kind of if it had tempered its response as it
2:402 minutes, 40 secondsdid during the 12-day war to avoid escalation as it's always done in the past, the Israelis would come back for more and they
2:492 minutes, 49 secondsessentially control Donald Trump. And so Iran would just be delaying the inevitable. Iran is actually was wrongly
2:572 minutes, 57 secondsit was wrongly said by many analysts and not just kind of like neoonservative ludnik analysts that Iran was at its weakest point. Iran is actually at its
3:063 minutes, 6 secondsstrongest point militarily, which helped color Israel's calculus on why it had to do this. And so this was all very
3:143 minutes, 14 secondspredictable. And Miranda said that the US and Israel will pay a heavy price.
3:203 minutes, 20 secondsAnd while Iran will also face heavy heartbreaking losses as we know the Israelis attack civilians for political
3:293 minutes, 29 secondsin order because they according to their Dahi doctrine they attack civilians in order to force concessions from the leadership and the US will be following
3:373 minutes, 37 secondsthat doctrine uh that Iran will be suffering but they will gain a strategic advantage in this war and they gained
3:453 minutes, 45 secondsthat strategic advantage early on. So everything Professor Morandi predicted is coming true right now. And I saw some
3:533 minutes, 53 secondsclowns online calling him Baghdad Bob and saying he doesn't know what he's talking about. But now Trump is in a really serious quandry and he doesn't
4:024 minutes, 2 secondshave any way of getting out of it. Every objective going into this war to the extent that there were any objectives at all for the United States has completely
4:114 minutes, 11 secondsfailed and been repudiated not just by the IRGC but by the uh Iranian
4:184 minutes, 18 secondspopulation regime change was I mean I don't know how anyone could have believed that this would take place but they actually Trump was actually
4:254 minutes, 25 secondsconvinced by the Israelis that if they assassinated Ayatollah Ali Kame and his
4:334 minutes, 33 secondsyou know general staff or generals from the IRGC that Iran would collapse. And that delusion was fueled by bogus
4:414 minutes, 41 secondspropaganda about the two days of rioting in Iran, where it was believed in delusional neoconservative and think
4:504 minutes, 50 secondstank lanyard circles on K Street in Washington that the Iranian people were primed for this massive revolt to topple the Islamic Republic. that was exposed
4:584 minutes, 58 secondsas sheer fantasy by the massive unprecedented rallies of Iranians coming out in squares uh to voice their
5:065 minutes, 6 secondsdefiance and we see it night after night in squares from Thran to cities across Iran and it's not just hardcore
5:145 minutes, 14 secondssupporters of the Islamic Republic coming out. So regime change has been repudiated. Then uh the USIsraeli coalition
5:245 minutes, 24 secondsunderestimated Iran's ability to hit back. They thought they could suppress ballistic missile fire and send B2s on
5:305 minutes, 30 secondsthese dramatic top gun Tom Cruz missiles to take out Iran's missile cities. And the ballistic missiles keep coming. But
5:395 minutes, 39 secondswhat they also misjudged was uh that Iran hadn't learned lessons from the 12-day war. Iran isn't leading with
5:465 minutes, 46 secondsballistic missiles. It's used ballistic missiles to deplete interceptors which were already badly depleted from the 12-day war in order to get the Shahed
5:545 minutes, 54 secondsdrones in. They underestimated Iran's reconnaissance and intelligence capacity to actually be able to target US troops,
6:026 minutes, 2 secondsC CIA agents, CIA bases and Israeli uh officers where they are, including in
6:116 minutes, 11 secondstowers from Bahrain to other Gulf countries. They also underestimated the
6:176 minutes, 17 secondsor they overestimated the uh leadership of the Gulf countries which have been exposed as paper tigers who are afraid
6:266 minutes, 26 secondsof their own population. And now the wars, I mean just to to to recap, the war started with a plan for regime
6:356 minutes, 35 secondschange through air war, instant air war kind of instant regime change through a bloodless air war like uh you know the
6:426 minutes, 42 secondsUS and NATO just carving up Yugoslavia without use losing a single US service member. And now US troops are dying.
6:506 minutes, 50 secondsReuters just reported over 150 US troops wounded. They've been hiding the injuries in bases in Germany. And there
6:586 minutes, 58 secondsthere's no more talk about regime change. Trump is vowing an all-out campaign of state terror just to open up the straight of Hormuz. And the the
7:067 minutes, 6 secondseconomy globally is tanking. And the US is on the verge of losing many of its bases, its forward positioned military
7:137 minutes, 13 secondsbases throughout the region. It's clinging on to US empire right now. That is something they didn't expect. But
7:227 minutes, 22 secondsMuhammad Morandi and others who understand the Iranian system from the inside and the resilience of the Islamic Republic could have told you that. And
7:307 minutes, 30 secondshonestly, I I could have told you that or I could have told Trump that as well,
7:347 minutes, 34 secondsbut he was listening to his golf buddy Steve Whitoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is uh a member of the Habad cult and a dedicated Zionist ideologue.
7:447 minutes, 44 secondsSo, here we are in a uh disastrous war for Israel with senators emerging from a briefing of the gang of eight today with
7:527 minutes, 52 secondsMarco Rubio and Trump's national security team again pulling their hair out declaring that I've never believed that we would be this close to a ground
8:018 minutes, 1 secondwar. Well, this is what happens when the air war fails and when you lose the you've already lost the political and
8:098 minutes, 9 secondsstrategic war. Trump has already lost politically and strategically, and all he has left is the option of uh throwing
8:168 minutes, 16 secondsin hundreds of thousands of workingclass Americans who signed up for the military so they could like go to college uh to
8:248 minutes, 24 secondstake over Car Island or something disastrous like that.
8:308 minutes, 30 secondsI want to comment on the on the point that Iran is winning militarily. I'm not saying I disagree with you, but I want to give it a I didn't say that. Just just want to be clear. I didn't say militarily, but I said politically and strategically.
8:408 minutes, 40 secondsThen I agree with you. I think Iran is winning strategically because for Iran to win, all they need to do is survive. If this is a regime change operation,
8:478 minutes, 47 secondsthey need to survive and keep a leader that continues the the ideological um foreign policy and strategy of the
8:558 minutes, 55 secondsformer Supreme Leader Ali Kame. And obviously having a supreme leader with the same last name is the best way of doing that. So you think Iran is losing militarily?
9:059 minutes, 5 secondsWell, there I mean everybody even supporters of the Islamic Republic would have acknowledged that Iran was at a mil
9:129 minutes, 12 secondsat a sort of a was out I wouldn't say outgunned but they don't have the same firepower of a military with a $1.5
9:219 minutes, 21 secondstrillion budget or the Israelis which Israel is essentially an army uh an army with a state.
9:299 minutes, 29 secondsIt's like an army with a do you think do you think Iran is is beating expectations? I I think they are. But then my counterpoint, so I think you'd agree with me that they no
9:389 minutes, 38 secondsone expected Iran to be to drag in the Gulf, which is shocking to me because Iran made it clear that if they're attacked again, they would close the trade of Hormuz. They would drag in the
9:469 minutes, 46 secondsGulf. They'll go all out to ensure this never happens again. Professor Miranda told me this in the interview. He said if Iran is attacked again, Iran will not accept a ceasefire. Even after the
9:559 minutes, 55 seconds12-day war, he said Iran will not accept to end this war because Iran wants to ensure that this never happens again.
10:0110 minutes, 1 secondAnd the only way to ensure this never happens again is to cause as much damage as possible to the US military, as much damage as possible to Trump politically,
10:0810 minutes, 8 secondsas much damage as possible to Israel,
10:1010 minutes, 10 secondswhich is the main, you know, their biggest enemy, and if there's in future wars, probably going to be Israel, not the US, and the global economy to ensure
10:1710 minutes, 17 secondsthat American allies and other countries don't allow the US or Israel to strike Iran again. So, this is where I agree with with Professor Mandi.
10:2810 minutes, 28 secondsToday's news though that Iran is mining the straight of her home that is pretty shocking to me that came in initially reports according to CBS according to intelligence reports they're planning to
10:3610 minutes, 36 secondsfew minutes later Trump makes a post saying don't you dare mind the tram or I don't know what he says in the post something along the lines that we'll we'll destroy you we'll bomb the hell of
10:4410 minutes, 44 secondsyou I'm assuming there because that's what usually says let me read the post exactly it's important says if Iran has put any mines in the home strait we have
10:5210 minutes, 52 secondsno reports of them doing so we want them removed immediately if for any reason mines were placed and they are not removed forth with the military consequences to Iran will be at a level
11:0011 minutesnever seen before. If on the other hand they remove what may have been placed it'll be a giant step in the right direction. So this might be an indication of Trump saying look I want
11:0911 minutes, 9 secondsto end this war. Please don't put mines in the straight home. That's my way of interpreting it. But there's another counterpoint that putting mines shows desperation because when you mine the
11:1711 minutes, 17 secondsstraight home, you're not even Chinese ships are not able to go through now.
11:2111 minutes, 21 secondsAnd China needs Iranian oil. Unless Iran is doing this with China and Xi Jinping, who's going to meet Trump soon,
11:2711 minutes, 27 secondspressures Trump as well. I just don't see the strategic benefit of mining the straight.
11:3111 minutes, 31 secondsWell, Iran has other means of exporting oil, including pipelines. So, uh they don't ne they don't necessarily need
11:3911 minutes, 39 secondsthat. uh that we don't know that I uh Iran is mining the straight of Hormuz.
11:4411 minutes, 44 secondsThis came from US intelligence, which may be an intelligence assessment fed to the media to justify Trump's campaign of terror against what he called uh defenseless targets. And as we see,
11:5511 minutes, 55 secondsthey've bombed another school today.
11:5711 minutes, 57 secondsThey've bombed an oil depot. They're they've run out. Their target bank of IRGC top targets is exhausted. and the
12:0512 minutes, 5 secondsIranian this resilience of the Iranian system has forced them into this kind of uh spiraling war of
12:1312 minutes, 13 secondsclassically characteristically Israeli terror on the Iranian people which has of course discredited the idea of regime
12:2112 minutes, 21 secondschange. So we don't even know if they're mining the harbor. If they are, I mean that's straightforward moves. If they are, they got what 2,000 to 5,000 mines.
12:2912 minutes, 29 secondsIran has mobile mines which are difficult to clear. They're like drone mines which can mine mind sweepers. They
12:3712 minutes, 37 secondsthey can do that. But to me that would be sort of a strategy of last resort.
12:4112 minutes, 41 secondsLet's consider how the Yemeni Ansorala movement blocked the Red Sea and contributed to a massive drop in
12:4912 minutes, 49 secondsglobal shipping during the US failed war to dislodge them. Another war on behalf of Israel.
12:5712 minutes, 57 secondsThey simply targeted a few ships and then shipping companies like Marisk decided it was too expensive to ensure
13:0513 minutes, 5 secondstheir shipping. The insurers weren't going to come through and and that was a wrap. So I don't even think they need to mine the straight of Hormuz. But if they
13:1413 minutes, 14 secondsdo, it's going to be difficult to clear the mines. And if Iran lasts two to three more weeks like this, there the
13:2213 minutes, 22 secondsgas prices in Los Angeles are peaking above $8 in some areas. Uh the American consumer is getting hit very hard. This
13:3113 minutes, 31 secondswill cause massive inflation. It's discrediting the petro dollar. It's discrediting the US as a global hegeimon.
13:3913 minutes, 39 secondsAnd it also can't be separated from the domestic politics in the United States where we have midterms coming up. Donald
13:4713 minutes, 47 secondsTrump before launching this war which he was clearly goated into by Israel and
13:5413 minutes, 54 secondsIsraeli assets surrounding him. Before that he was underwater. He was below 37%
14:0014 minutesapproval rating which means he is lower than where most presidents were going into midterms.
14:0714 minutes, 7 secondsuh Americans are very upset about affordability.
14:1214 minutes, 12 secondsThe uh affordability of goods is going to make it it's going to be much harder to afford basic goods for Americans and
14:2014 minutes, 20 secondsfor companies now that gas prices are surging just because getting them to market is going to be so much more
14:2614 minutes, 26 secondsexpensive. So Trump is facing uh political oblivion and it won't just be the destruction of Donald Trump. It
14:3514 minutes, 35 secondswon't just be Donald Trump going down in flames. It will be the entire GOP coalition, which is built up entirely around Donald Trump, including his
14:4314 minutes, 43 secondschosen successor, JD Vance, who will go down with the ship.
14:4814 minutes, 48 secondsAnd that is something that will color Donald Trump's calculus as he seeks to find a way out of this war. And that will be the worst nightmare for the
14:5714 minutes, 57 secondsIsraelis who clearly can't be left alone. There are so many who say Israel has a right to defend itself. Well, it clearly doesn't have the might to defend itself.
15:0715 minutes, 7 secondsYeah, there's a just by the way, I just I believe now they're definitely mining the the the straight number one because Trump when he said in this post, if they
15:1415 minutes, 14 secondsremove the mines, it will be a giant step in the right direction. That's a pretty important statement. Um because it means that, you know, he's trying to
15:2215 minutes, 22 secondsgive them an offra. Maybe he's trying to give Iran an offramp. Now, I don't know if Iran will take it. As we said earlier, Iran wants to ensure this never happens again. Well, Trump just put out a new post as we're speaking. Sorry, I
15:3015 minutes, 30 secondslook down. I look down as news is coming through. uh everyone's gone losing their mind after this uh information about the the reports about the mining of the straight. Additionally, we are using the
15:3915 minutes, 39 secondssame technology and missile capabilities deployed against drug traffickers to permanently eliminate any boat or ship attempting to mine the Homo straight
15:4815 minutes, 48 secondsthat will be dealt with quickly and violently.
15:5115 minutes, 51 secondsSo, they're using the same technology they used to uh murder uh fishermen carrying like bags of marijuana to Trinidad and Tobago, and that's going to
15:5915 minutes, 59 secondssettle it. I mean, this is this is a joke.
16:0216 minutes, 2 secondsAnd absolutely I want to comment on u Max I want to comment on something you said earlier.
16:0516 minutes, 5 secondsThis is a point where we disagree. I'm struggling to disagree with you a lot on this particular war because I'm very critical of it but on the reason for the
16:1316 minutes, 13 secondswar. Now I understand you're very critical of Israel. Me too, especially when it comes to Gaza. Um I'm more nuanced when it comes to Lebanon and
16:2016 minutes, 20 secondsIran. But I even though I think Israel has too much influence over the American government, I refuse to believe that Trump is in this war because of Israel.
16:2816 minutes, 28 secondsIt just doesn't make any sense. You know, the same Trump that ended the 12-day war, the same Trump that forced Netanyahu to end the Gaza bombing, end
16:3616 minutes, 36 secondsthe Gaza war to an extent to reduce the bombing of Gaza, the same the same Trump that forced Netanyahu to apologize to
16:4316 minutes, 43 secondsthe leader of Qatar. I'm not saying that Israel might play a role in bogging Trump down in this war. But my theory is
16:5016 minutes, 50 secondsthat the reason for this war, the strategic benefit for the US is having a more friendly regime. I know sounds like a fantasy because regime change just
16:5816 minutes, 58 secondsdoesn't work. having a more friendly regime like Venezuela and having an Iran which controls the straight of Hammuds which is an important choke point for China having an Iran that's more
17:0717 minutes, 7 secondsfriendly that's more um open to working with the US which can then be leveraged against China um to choke them off if they decide to invade Taiwan.
17:1617 minutes, 16 secondsWell, unfortunately Benjamin Netanyahu,
17:2017 minutes, 20 secondsMarco Rubio, Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham disagree with you. They've all said so. Uh Benjamin Netanyahu said
17:2717 minutes, 27 secondsTrump has realized his 40-year plan for waging war on Iran using the US as the uh heavy muscle that
17:3717 minutes, 37 secondsIsrael didn't have. And we know that Benjamin Netanyahu had this plan. The plan was spelled out clearly in the clean break document issued about 30
17:4617 minutes, 46 secondsyears ago by a group of so-called neoonservatives in Washington who are actually Israeli moles. Douglas Feith,
17:5417 minutes, 54 secondsRichard Pearl, David Wormser, Merrav Worms, and basically the clean break document was prepared at an Israeli
18:0118 minutes, 1 secondsponsored think tank in Washington for Benjamin Netanyahu when he came into first came into office in 1996
18:0818 minutes, 8 secondsto prevent a Palestinian state from coming into being. And the concept was to prevent a Palestinian state, defeat
18:1618 minutes, 16 secondsall of the regional rivals in the region through regime change by drawing in the US military. You know,
18:2418 minutes, 24 secondsSyria, Libya, Sudan, I mean, South Sudan was heavily, you know, intertwined with
18:3218 minutes, 32 secondsMossad and uh, you know, breaking up all these countries. And then the big prize,
18:3618 minutes, 36 secondsof course, was Iran. So Netanyahu is realizing the clean break document now through Donald Trump who has been a
18:4318 minutes, 43 secondsvehicle for Israeli influence. You know that I saw Donald Trump's first major rally when he became a a viable
18:5118 minutes, 51 secondspresidential candidate and many people won't remember this. It was right in front of the US capital and it wasn't a Donald Trump rally. Ted Cruz was there
18:5918 minutes, 59 secondsas well but no one really cared. Donald Trump appeared in front of the US capital at a rally against the Iran
19:0719 minutes, 7 secondsnuclear deal. And Mario, that was a deal that got the US a friendly government in Iran. The reformist camp was very
19:1419 minutes, 14 secondsfriendly to Iran, represented Iran's business interests, its middle class.
19:1919 minutes, 19 secondsAnd uh they were, you know, ready to make all kinds of deals with the US in exchange for the lifting of sanctions.
19:2619 minutes, 26 secondsTrump was being paid to shred that by Sheldon Aden, the late casino baron who was a close ally and friend of Benjamin
19:3319 minutes, 33 secondsNetanyahu, sponsor of Netanyahu, and his wife, who now continues his empire,
19:3819 minutes, 38 secondsMiriam add. And that rally was sponsored by the Addens. Basically, all the candidates came up and auditioned for
19:4519 minutes, 45 secondsthe add's money and Donald Trump won because everybody was just into Trump.
19:5019 minutes, 50 secondsThe rest of the candidates didn't matter. And so from that point on, Trump was a vehicle for the adds and he's come out and said, "They've given me hundreds
19:5719 minutes, 57 secondsof millions of dollars. They don't care about any other issue in the they don't care about uh what Americans are going through. They only care about Israel
20:0520 minutes, 5 secondsbombing Iran, doing what Netanyahu wanted. Look at who's surrounding Donald Trump. His advisers, Mike Waltz, his entire career has been backed by Apac.
20:1620 minutes, 16 secondsHe he actually I leaked audio. Uh, I I got leaked I I obtained leaked audio from a private Apac session in which the
20:2320 minutes, 23 secondsCEO of Apac, Elliot Brand, said, "We groomed Mike Waltz and Marco Rubio from the beginning because they went into
20:3020 minutes, 30 secondsthey were in Congress." And John Ratcliffe, he mentioned John Ratcliffe,
20:3420 minutes, 34 secondsthe CIA director, and we made sure that they were like good candidates and then we've backed them since the beginning and now they are in key national
20:4220 minutes, 42 secondssecurity posts and they are our lifelines within the administration. and if anything goes ary, we have clear lines of communication to them. That's
20:5120 minutes, 51 secondsan unregistered foreign lobbyist describing Trump's almost his entire national security team. I had a highlevel Trump source tell me during
20:5820 minutes, 58 secondsthe 12-day war that John Ratcliffe was functioning like the Mossad stenographer basically getting fed
21:0721 minutes, 7 secondsmisinformation and disinformation by his Israeli counterpart David Barnea from the Mossad and feeding it right to Trump that the Houthies are going to get an
21:1521 minutes, 15 secondsIsraeli an Iranian nuclear warhead in a week. We have to attack attack attack.
21:1921 minutes, 19 secondsAnd then you have Donald Trump coming out and saying, "Well, the Israelis were going to attack Iran, so you had to go in."
21:2821 minutes, 28 secondsTrump has also said about as much. We had uh three senior Trump officials tell the Washington Post the same thing as
21:3721 minutes, 37 secondsand as you said, Marco Rubio also said after a Gang of Eight briefing that the Israelis were going to attack first. Uh
21:4521 minutes, 45 secondsLindsey Graham has been advising Benjamin Med Lindsey Graham's statements are just insane. Lindsey Graham and he's been a very he's captured
21:5421 minutes, 54 secondsTrump. I mean Lindsey Graham is I don't I don't think so. Like Tucker was there with Trump. I think Trump is Trump just denounced
22:0222 minutes, 2 secondsTrump just denounced Tucker because he's got to keep the donor class on his side for the midterms. It's Trump has been totally turned into a vehicle for
22:0922 minutes, 9 secondsIsraeli influence. And then you have Tony Blinken who is Biden's Secretary of State and really his closest foreign policy adviser and and someone who's
22:1822 minutes, 18 secondsvery close to Israel revealing that Israel was constantly threatening Obama and telling Obama we are going to attack Iran first and you have to follow us.
22:2622 minutes, 26 secondsBut Obama consistently said no. Blink did say that. Um and yeah, I mean if your producer wants to bring up that
22:3322 minutes, 33 secondsclip, it's easily searchable on X. So this is the dynamic. We have the least
22:3922 minutes, 39 secondspopular war at its onset in recent American history. Maybe in American in all of American history. The American
22:4722 minutes, 47 secondspublic is solidly against this. The MAGA coalition is cracking. The economy is starting to crater over this war.
22:5422 minutes, 54 secondsGlobally, Trump is facing massive defeats in November.
22:5922 minutes, 59 secondsUS bases are being hammered and US troops are being withdrawn. I assume US intelligence assets are being withdrawn.
23:0823 minutes, 8 secondsUS empire is like unraveling before our eyes. Like if I were an imperialist,
23:1223 minutes, 12 secondslike a real like, you know, cold realistminded supporter of US empire, I would be
23:2023 minutes, 20 secondsfurious right now with where this is going. This does not serve American interests. And yet Trump did it and it's
23:2823 minutes, 28 secondsfor one reason, which is Israeli influence. And you know, I'm not trying to exonerate the American system. I'm
23:3623 minutes, 36 secondsnot trying to say, "Oh, we're just a fundamentally good country." Like, I don't think Israel forced the US to go into Vietnam. I don't think Israel
23:4223 minutes, 42 secondsforced the US to commit genocide in the Korean War against the North Korean people where it killed 20% of the
23:4923 minutes, 49 secondspopulation. We have our own history of crazy wars and crimes, but you know,
23:5423 minutes, 54 secondsthose were done with real imperial interests in mind like rolling back communism. This is something different. And it also just it shows a transition.
24:0324 minutes, 3 secondsIt it it elucidates a very disturbing transition within our political elite where they have essentially been hacked
24:1224 minutes, 12 secondsby this foreign entity, this borderless foreign entity of greater Israel and its influence networks.
24:2024 minutes, 20 secondsYou're you're right about Blink. He did make that statement. Um Blinken stated that Israel Israeli leaders urged Obama to take military action against Iran.
24:2824 minutes, 28 secondsExplicitly warned they might launch a strike on their own if Washington refused.
24:3424 minutes, 34 secondsUm where are the rallies for the war? Where are the rallies in America for the war?
24:3824 minutes, 38 secondsLike I don't No, there's no support. There's no support for the war. I understand. Um but your statement about the American empire is unraveling. I understand if
24:4624 minutes, 46 secondsyou're referring to America's debt. I think it's a big issue. But America just removed Maduro and put in Deli Rodriguez. No one did anything about it.
24:5324 minutes, 53 secondsVenezuela who was very close to China is now close to the US. Um, America just got rid of Kame um the supreme leader of
25:0125 minutes, 1 secondnot only Iran but a very important the most important religious figure in the Shia faith um or living religious figure
25:0725 minutes, 7 secondsin the Shia faith and he's gone and no one's doing anything about it. What is China doing about this? What is Russia doing about this? Russia sharing
25:1525 minutes, 15 secondsintelligence with Iran. China sending some cargo ships. So I'm not agreeing with the war. I I think with that, you know, we disagree on the reasons for it.
25:2325 minutes, 23 secondsI think Israel plays a role, but not the only main role, but you make a very good argument that Israel plays the main role. You know, a lot of lot more than I about this. But also, it's hard to argue
25:3225 minutes, 32 secondsthat the American empire is falling when America's doing whatever they can like a hedgeminist uniolar in a uniolar world.
25:3825 minutes, 38 secondsUm, and no one's doing anything about it.
25:4225 minutes, 42 secondsI was in uh South Korea which is kind of like the whole country is basically a forward US imperial base against China
25:5125 minutes, 51 secondsback in um 20 I think it was 2018 my wife my wife to be Ana Parill was
26:0026 minutesshooting a documentary so I was just there and you know kind of producing on the side and you know she got a lot of interviews with highlevel South Korean
26:0926 minutes, 9 secondsformer intelligence officials very hardline anti-China hawks uh figures in the Korean South Korean
26:1826 minutes, 18 secondsparliament and you know we we actually uh we went out to sushi with the South Korean version of John McCain or Lindsey
26:2626 minutes, 26 secondsGraham who was on his way to meet with John McCain and what they were lobbying for was more THAAD systems you know the
26:3326 minutes, 33 secondspremier Lheed Martin air defense system which will enable South Korea to wage
26:4026 minutes, 40 secondswar on the north and on China and uh also tactical nuclear weapons. He was he
26:4726 minutes, 47 secondswanted tactical nuclear weapons.

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Now there are many people Elbridge Kby for example in the Trump administration who
26:5426 minutes, 54 secondssee China as the major threat to US hijgemony. They're correct. Uh JD Vance too he's kind of an anti-China guy.
27:0227 minutes, 2 secondsChina is beginning to supersede the US economically through years and years of
27:1027 minutes, 10 secondsvery wise planning economic relationships below the radar, not imposing themselves on others. And the
27:1927 minutes, 19 secondsUS has these kind of these vassal states that surround China that are heavily militarized. They're working on, you
27:2627 minutes, 26 secondsknow, unraveling the Japanese pacifist constitution to militarize Japan as well. And the but the point is I mean
27:3527 minutes, 35 secondsSouth Korea will be a key base against China along with the Philippines and then you have Taiwan and the THAAD
27:4227 minutes, 42 secondssystems are essential to deterring uh Chinese forces and the for the first
27:4927 minutes, 49 secondstime we're seeing after South Korea went through kind of a political crisis and lost so many economic deals with China to get those THAD systems on its soil.
28:0028 minutesthe transfer of the THAAD system to defend Israel. And we saw this from Ukraine during the 12-day war in a war.
28:0828 minutes, 8 secondsHe's talking about the transfer happening right now, correct? Because of the Iran war just a few days ago. Because of the Iran war,
28:1428 minutes, 14 secondsIsrael, it's moving to Israel to defend Israel.
28:1728 minutes, 17 secondsNot moving to the It's moving to the region. It could be to defend the Gulf States as well. The US is I mean is so depleted with its interceptors that we
28:2628 minutes, 26 secondssaw at the Sulmania base in northern Iraq. uh troops trying to repel Iranian shahed drones with uh machine gun fire.
28:3428 minutes, 34 secondsSo there's a a a shortage in a region where there should not even be this kind
28:4228 minutes, 42 secondsof conflict that figures like Bridge KBY or JD Vance, the more like traditional
28:5028 minutes, 50 secondsAmerican imperialists see as a distraction and the South Koreans feel
28:5628 minutes, 56 secondsbetrayed. They lost a lot of trade with China in order to bring those systems on
29:0329 minutes, 3 secondsboard and those are also key bases. I mean Taiwan I I could see uh you know systems being pulled from there as well
29:1129 minutes, 11 secondsbut Patriot batteries were pulled from from Ukraine during the 12-day war. So the whole so so for China you ask about China and Russia
29:1829 minutes, 18 secondswere they sorry were they returned to Ukraine after the 12- day war? I I don't know, but they were at Ukraine was at war.
29:2729 minutes, 27 secondsThat's pretty significant. Yeah.
29:2829 minutes, 28 secondsAnd and another point that another point that one of your frequent guest, Larry Johnson, keeps making and you know, I've seen some um visual evidence of this is
29:3629 minutes, 36 secondsthat the Patriot Interceptors are um you know, not the new generation. They're not PAC three. They're resorting to pack
29:4429 minutes, 44 secondstwos increasingly. So the Yeah, there's been reports that someone took a photo of a pack two munition on the ground in one of the Gulf countries.
29:5129 minutes, 51 secondsunverified, but that got a lot of speculation that they could be using PAC 2 interceptors, which would be would be insane. Like if the munitions are that
29:5929 minutes, 59 secondsdepleted and this was going on, um that would be insane. That would be mindboggling. So militarily uh for China, you just sit back and watch.
30:0830 minutes, 8 secondsIran's military industry is almost entirely domestic.
30:1330 minutes, 13 secondsuh they they're they've demonstrated that they're prepared for this moment.
30:1730 minutes, 17 secondsEven if the US is able to degrade their stocks of shahad drones by like 80%
30:2330 minutes, 23 secondsthey're going to still be able to score hits against, you know, depleted air defenses.
30:2930 minutes, 29 secondsAnd uh for Russia, you know, provide intelligence, provide targeting. If they're doing that, Iran's intelligence is actually pretty good. So I don't know
30:3630 minutes, 36 secondsif Russia's doing that, but they can just kind of sit back and watch. And uh economically the pro dollar is being dis
30:4530 minutes, 45 secondssort of discredited and for China that's another massive win. So if the straight of hormone remains closed uh that you
30:5330 minutes, 53 secondsknow the whole basis of American empire is the petro dollar and you know if countries start selling off their dollar back bonds that's kind of significant.
31:0631 minutes, 6 secondsUm there's just a few developments while you're speaking. Trump put out another post. I am pleased to report how this is this is developing so quickly. This is like within minutes it's happening.
31:1531 minutes, 15 secondsEvery few minutes there's an update. I'm sure the price of oil just going all over the place right now. He said, "I am pleased to report that within the last few hours we have hit and completely
31:2331 minutes, 23 secondsdestroyed 10 inactive mine laying boats and or ships with more to follow."
31:3031 minutes, 30 secondsUm and then yeah, I put out a claim and by the way,
31:3531 minutes, 35 secondsthere's missiles heading to Jordan as we speak. So the attacks on the Gulf nations are still ongoing. And then uh um Arachi Iran's Archi said the the
31:4331 minutes, 43 secondsclaim that Iran was planning on attacking the US or US forces whether pre preventively or preemptively is a sheer and utter lie. The sole purpose of
31:5131 minutes, 51 secondsthat lie is to justify operation epic mistake. A misadventure engineered by Israel and paid for by ordinary Americans. That's Iran's foreign
31:5931 minutes, 59 secondsminister. So I agree with the first statement there that there's there was no threat to American forces by Iran.
32:0532 minutes, 5 seconds100% confident of that. Um the second one is obviously what we've been discussing and how big of a role Israel's been playing and now we saw Jordans being struck again as we speak.
32:1632 minutes, 16 secondsThe attacks on Gulf nations have dropped significantly but they have not stopped on a daily basis. Um what are the geopolitical implications
32:2432 minutes, 24 secondsof all this? uh Max like we've just crossed so many red lines with this war whatever the reason is whether the mining of the trader the attacks on Gulf
32:3332 minutes, 33 secondsnations the uh I wouldn't say indiscriminate bombing of Iran but the bombing of heavy bombing of Iran
32:4032 minutes, 40 secondsincluding the oil storage facilities um the attacks on Cyprus that we've seen early on in the war like there's just so
32:4832 minutes, 48 secondsmany things that again I would have thought were unthinkable are happening as we speak and it just keeps getting worse by the day. Um, what would you say
32:5732 minutes, 57 secondsare the geopolitical implications of all this? Number one. And then number two, I also want to get your thoughts on whether Trump would seek an offramp soon. That's my thought. I think Trump
33:0533 minutes, 5 secondsis very pragmatic here. And I think he would, even though Israel wants him to continue attacking Iran as much as possible until the regime collapses and Israel, sorry, Iran becomes a failed
33:1333 minutes, 13 secondsstate. I think he's too pragmatic for that. Economy is more important.
33:1733 minutes, 17 secondsAmerican public and voter base is more important. US strategic interests are more important. military munition stockpiles are more important that Trump would seek an offramp soon. So I want to get your thoughts on that as well.
33:2733 minutes, 27 secondsWell, I've addressed a number of the geopolitical angles, but since you brought up Cyprus, that's a really interesting issue that raises a lot of disturbing questions.
33:3833 minutes, 38 secondsCypress was supposedly attacked by Iran at a very pivotal moment when the unpopular British Prime Minister Kier
33:4633 minutes, 46 secondsDharmmer was attempting to hold the line against US military assets deploying
33:5233 minutes, 52 secondsfrom British bases. Um especially Diego Garcia is pretty key and uh you know the UK has bases in Cyprus.
34:0434 minutes, 4 secondsuh that you know you can see today Ursula Vanderlayan who has refused to condemn the bombing of the US bombing of
34:1234 minutes, 12 secondsthe Iranian girls school in Minab which killed 160 uh students or the massive deacto
34:2134 minutes, 21 secondschemical attack with the bombing of the oil depot in Thran. She's refused to condemn that, but she's condemning
34:2734 minutes, 27 secondsattacks on Cyprus and that's to reverse Starmer's position and to get Starr to
34:3434 minutes, 34 secondscrack under this kind of pressure and to say, well, you know, Iran's attacking uh your bases and your assets. Cypress is also a major
34:4334 minutes, 43 secondsuh it's become sort of a repository for Israel's elite that doesn't want to be in Israel during these wars. They're
34:5134 minutes, 51 secondsbuying up lots of land. They flock to Cypress by boat. It's right there in the Mediterranean. So, you know, I think it's legitimate to raise questions about
34:5834 minutes, 58 secondswhether the attacks on Cypress have been false flags because Iran understands that this does compromise or contravene
35:0835 minutes, 8 secondssome of their objectives. Whereas attacking US bases in the Gulf is their objective. It's their main objective right here, which is to roll back the US
35:1635 minutes, 16 secondspresence in the region. Azarbaijan was supposedly attacked and there are some questions about the ownership of that
35:2435 minutes, 24 secondsdrone. Israel wants to draw in Azerbaian and the Gulf states and start an Arab
35:3035 minutes, 30 secondswar with Iran and with with Azarbaijan on their side because Azarbaijan is a key ally of Turkey and Azarbaian has
35:3935 minutes, 39 secondsresisted that war and I think it raises questions about yeah who sent in that drone to Azarbaijan. Uh we we should also
35:4735 minutes, 47 secondsraise even more uh even even Yes. Yes. Turkey as well. Um and the Turkish public is and the Turkish media
35:5635 minutes, 56 secondsright now are solidly with Iran. Uh darker questions if Israel starts to
36:0336 minutes, 3 secondsfeel very cornered. Um could they stage a false flag attack at the Alaka compound and say that an Iranian an
36:1136 minutes, 11 secondsIranian missile hit Alak? I don't think it will I don't think it will work cuz that video clip going viral of some I don't know who in Israel saying that would be a great idea. So kind of that video if it was ever an idea by Israel.
36:2336 minutes, 23 secondsI think that idea would be kind of crossed out now after that video went viral. Even Tucker talked about it. You talked about it.
36:2936 minutes, 29 secondsYeah. I think the next the next two weeks are a very dangerous period if the politics and the and the
36:3736 minutes, 37 secondsthe politics and the economic dimensions remain the same. I think Israel becomes increasingly dangerous. Israel has used
36:4736 minutes, 47 secondsvarious means to transform Trump into a vehicle for its interests. It's not just financial. I explained the relationship
36:5636 minutes, 56 secondsbetween the ads and Trump. There's also Paul Singer, the Israel first billionaire is one of tops Trump's donors. There are psychological
37:0337 minutes, 3 secondsdimensions Trump has. I wrote I wrote a piece about this at the greyzone. It's at the top of our site, the greyzzone.com.
37:1137 minutes, 11 secondsAnd uh it hasn't been discussed enough.
37:1337 minutes, 13 secondsI think the Washington Post covered it slightly. But what did Trump say after he killed I he um claimed credit for the
37:2137 minutes, 21 secondsassassination of Ayatollah Ali Kame, the 87year-old Iranian leader who was killed in his office in Thran. He said, "I got
37:3037 minutes, 30 secondshim before he got me." What did he mean by that?
37:3537 minutes, 35 secondsTrump has been convinced by the FBI and Israeli intelligence that Iran was seeking to assassinate him while he was a candidate.
37:4337 minutes, 43 secondsI don't believe that and he clearly believes it. Um, and I can demonstrate that he believed it.
37:5237 minutes, 52 secondsAnd even more cynically, Benjamin Netanyahu publicly claimed that the Butler, PA assassination attempt and the attempt one month later by Ryan Roth,
38:0538 minutes, 5 secondsthis drifter who was recruiting, you know, American troops in Ukraine and seemed to be mentally disturbed that
38:1238 minutes, 12 secondsboth of those attempts were actually Iranian intelligence operations, IRGC operations against Trump. He said that on Fox News in an interview with Brett
38:2038 minutes, 20 secondsBear about one week before Trump authorized Operation Midnight Hammer.
38:2638 minutes, 26 secondsDonald Trump when he was a candidate justifiably was afraid for his life. A bullet missed his ear by a few millime
38:3638 minutes, 36 secondsmissed his head by a few millimeters in Butler, PA. And it's a that's a very weird that was a very weird incident because
38:4438 minutes, 44 secondswe were just told that this politically unaffiliated, unknown 20-year-old engineering student, Thomas Krooks, with
38:5138 minutes, 51 secondsno social media history, just climbed on a rooftop after flying a drone for 15 minutes on this fairground. On the same day, the Secret Services uh anti- drone,
39:0239 minutes, 2 secondsyour drone monitoring systems happened to be down and then was able to peel off eight rounds uh from 130 yards away.
39:1339 minutes, 13 secondsAnd you know, it turned out there was a lot of obstruction around the investigation. The FBI lied. He did have an extensive social media history. He
39:2039 minutes, 20 secondshad a clear objective to kill political leadership in the United States. Um and he may have been known to the FBI. There
39:2839 minutes, 28 secondsare questions about that. But the day before Butler, what was Butler? Butler
39:3439 minutes, 34 secondswas July 13th, July 12th, a Pakistani man named Assaf Mant was arrested in
39:4139 minutes, 41 secondsHouston. And this figure was being led around by an FBI confidential human
39:4839 minutes, 48 secondsinformant who was trying to get him to enact various operations to supposedly
39:5639 minutes, 56 secondsassassinate Trump. And these the operations included like a large protest or demonstration as a distraction, a
40:0440 minutes, 4 secondssniper, all kinds of things that kind of mirrored what was taking place in Butler. It was all being controlled by the FBI and then they came in and
40:1240 minutes, 12 secondsarrested him. Asaf Mant, I think four days ago, was just convicted in Brooklyn of attempting to assassinate Trump on behalf of the IRGC.
40:2240 minutes, 22 secondsAnd this convinced Trump, you know, when Trump found out this guy was arrested and everything, Trump actually flew on
40:2840 minutes, 28 secondsdecoy flights when he was a candidate where the rest of his campaign staff would fly on Trump Force One. And Donald Trump would fly on a decoy flight, which
40:3740 minutes, 37 secondswas Steve Witoff's private jet. And Trump actually was told by the FBI that there were IRGC assets in the United
40:4440 minutes, 44 secondsStates who had man pads and were going to take down his flight. He really,
40:4940 minutes, 49 secondsreally believed this. But this it all of these uh warnings and plots were
40:5640 minutes, 56 secondscompletely controlled by the FBI. And then following Butler, just hours after Thomas Krooks was shot and Butler was
41:0441 minutes, 4 secondswrapped up. Literally hours after the FBI sends a team to the jail cell of Afant,
41:1241 minutes, 12 secondswho's said to be acting on behalf of Iran, to interrogate him without a lawyer, in violation of his rights to determine if Iran was responsible. And
41:2041 minutes, 20 secondsan FBI official later told the Washington Post, "If we could have concluded that Iran was responsible, it would mean war." So, there are a lot of
41:2941 minutes, 29 secondsquestions that I have about What did they conclude?
41:3341 minutes, 33 secondsThey concluded he had nothing to do uh with Butler, but there are questions to raise. What if he did have something to
41:4041 minutes, 40 secondsdo with Butler and were just not being told the truth? What if Butler itself was the result of a failed controlled
41:4741 minutes, 47 secondsFBI operation? Uh, and that the FBI was also watching Thomas Crooks and this,
41:5441 minutes, 54 secondsyou know, went beyond the FBI in order to implicate Iran in attempting to assassinate Donald Trump. And then there's another scenario we can consider
42:0342 minutes, 3 secondsthere. What if Thomas Krooks had actually uh succeeded in taking out Donald Trump? Who would the candidate
42:1042 minutes, 10 secondshave been? It would have been Nikki Haley with Assaf Mashant being interrogated about Iran. She would have blamed Iran. Her whole campaign was
42:1942 minutes, 19 secondsfunded by the Iran hawks and she would have led the charge to attack Iran as
42:2642 minutes, 26 secondsrevenge for killing Trump in order to capture the Trump coalition and the Ads.
42:3142 minutes, 31 secondsBut what they wound up getting these uh Israel first forces who saw at war with Iran was a president with a cult
42:4042 minutes, 40 secondsfollowing unlike Nikki Haley who was beloved by uh you know MAGA and the
42:4742 minutes, 47 secondsHeartland American base that felt betrayed that would follow Trump anywhere and turned him into a vehicle for influence anyway believing that Iran
42:5642 minutes, 56 secondshad sought to kill him and that he had to get revenge by killing the Ayatollah.
43:0343 minutes, 3 secondsMax, I really hope you're not right about any of this. I really Well, it's all I laid it all out using I laid it all out using public sources at
43:1143 minutes, 11 secondsthe gray zone and anyone can fact check me. What I what I the questions I raise about Mant somehow being con connected
43:2043 minutes, 20 secondsor the orifant the guy that was arrested Mash the guy that was arrested a Pakistani national
43:2743 minutes, 27 secondswith alleged ties to the IRGC um trying to hire Hitman to kill Trump.
43:3243 minutes, 32 secondsLike it makes zero sense for me that Iran wants to kill Trump. Like this is a death sentence for Iran. Like it makes zero sense. Like these are as much as
43:3943 minutes, 39 secondsyou hate them, they I know they're very you know ideological etc. No, I I hate the regime. I was very critical of it in
43:4643 minutes, 46 secondsJanuary. They're also not stupid, dumb people that just want to get killed and get their country destroyed. Killing Trump would lead to exactly that. So,
43:5643 minutes, 56 secondsfor me, that makes zero sense. But then I look at, you know, first I listen to you and how much you know and then I start, you know, checking things. I'm like, "All right, cool. You say all the
44:0444 minutes, 4 secondsdonors are pro-Israeli donors. I'll check what are the top donors of Trump."
44:0844 minutes, 8 secondsElon's number one, so he doesn't count in this. Timothy Timothy Melon number two. He counts. But go ahead.
44:1444 minutes, 14 secondsI don't think Elon and Timothy Melon count. But the third one is Miriam Allison number three. Um, obviously extremely pro-Israel Zionism etc. Um,
44:2344 minutes, 23 secondsRichard Elizabeth Erlin um, donated to pro-Israel anti-Muslim groups targeting pro Palestinian activism. Kenneth Griffin paused Harvard donations over
44:3244 minutes, 32 secondsanti-semitism handling. Condemn pro Palestinian protests urged support for Israel. Jeffrey Yas, Jeffrey Janine Yas,
44:3844 minutes, 38 secondswho you talked about just now, donated $16 million plus to anti-Muslim,
44:4244 minutes, 42 secondspro-Israel groups, funds right-wing Israeli think tanks like Cohellet supporting settlements. Obviously you know all this, you've done a deep dive into this, but I start looking at things like this,
44:5144 minutes, 51 secondsIke Pearl Mutter, Paul Singer,
44:5444 minutes, 54 secondsuh Elon, I think does count, although he's not like as a zealot, but you know,
45:0045 minutesto uh be a major Pentagon contractor, AI contractor, you have to work with Israeli interests. Uh he made some was
45:1045 minutes, 10 secondslike attacked by as an anti he made some com he made some comments that got him attacked as an anti-semite.
45:1545 minutes, 15 secondsNext thing you know, he has to go on an Awitz tour with Ben Shapiro, which is,
45:1945 minutes, 19 secondsyou know, I mean, going to Poland with Ben Shapiro is like, you know, I mean, I don't think it's as bad as going in a
45:2545 minutes, 25 secondscattle car to Awitz, but it's it's not the next thing you know, platform,
45:3145 minutes, 31 secondsbut I think it's different to like someone platforming someone platforming Fuentes and Alex Jones on one side and then comparing him to like what what Allison did or Kenneth Griffin. I think
45:4045 minutes, 40 secondsI wouldn't put him in the same bucket as them. Now we Elon Elon supported this war in the beginning and he was like cheering it on. I mean, you know, X's X has clearly
45:4945 minutes, 49 secondslike algorithmically juiced all of those uh, you know, Persian monarchist accounts like the four UAB is was at
45:5745 minutes, 57 secondsleast in the first week it was all cheerleading the war and I don't know if that's you know Elon's own ideological
46:0546 minutes, 5 secondszeal uh who who who who his um, you know, main sort of official sensor and uh, you
46:1446 minutes, 14 secondsknow, who controls the algorithm? It's Nikita Beer who is himself a Zionist. So I mean the the these things really
46:2146 minutes, 21 secondsmatter and in a lot of cases the person who is making the decisions may not be a
46:2946 minutes, 29 secondszealot for for Israel who's chanting am Israel high. It's someone like Donald Trump who real who understands which side his bread is buttered on.
46:4046 minutes, 40 secondsYeah. Yeah, I I don't know much about Nikita Bear, but I look on the Elon side, I'm very critical of the war. My feed is full of people critical of the
46:4846 minutes, 48 secondswar and you know, my reach hasn't been reduced. If anything, I've had the biggest days yet. So, I just think that platforming for speaks for itself. Um,
46:5746 minutes, 57 secondsbut I I'm I'm worried when I see Miriam add, Elizabeth Ulen, Kenneth Griffin, Jeffrey Janine Yas, uh, number 3, four,
47:0447 minutes, 4 secondsfive, six, I worry about how much influence Israel has. By the way, I still believe, Max, I still believe Israel does have a lot of influence over
47:1047 minutes, 10 secondsAmerican politics too much. I want I want, you know, I want the US to do well. I want the US to beat China and the AI race. US is democracy. I'm from
47:1947 minutes, 19 secondsAustralia, democracy. I believe in democracies. And I want America to come up with policies that are best for the US. I still would believe I still think
47:2647 minutes, 26 secondsbased on everything I'm seeing the main reason for this war is a long-term strategic interest for the US with the straight of home was to win the AI race.
47:3447 minutes, 34 secondsBecause if you're right and I'm wrong,
47:3647 minutes, 36 secondsif Israel is the reason, the per pro-Israelis and Israel is dictating what happens in this war, then we're in
47:4347 minutes, 43 secondsfor Iran becoming a failed state, the US being bogged down in a long war and troops being sent on the ground. Like
47:5047 minutes, 50 secondsthis is the scenario that will happen if your theory is right. because destroying Iran as a state, as a threat to Israel
47:5947 minutes, 59 secondsis obviously in the interest of two main countries, Israel and Russia, Moso Israel. So for the sake of Iranians, for
48:0648 minutes, 6 secondsthe sake of the Gulf region, for the sake of Americans and the American Empire, um I hope it isn't the case. Um
48:1448 minutes, 14 secondsbut obviously time will tell. So based on what you're saying though, and for the sake of Iranian civilians, yeah, I said for the sake of Iranians,
48:2148 minutes, 21 secondsthat was my first statement. So for the sake of Iranians above everyone, I think Iranians are suffering the most out of this and I'm critical of the war. Now
48:3048 minutes, 30 secondsmy decision on what my stance on the war will change based on how it ends. If Trump scene seeks an offramp now, um I
48:3848 minutes, 38 secondswould say look that was an attempt to get rid of a regime I hate, a failed attempt. Iran decided to end the war to not cause more harm, even though I'm a
48:4648 minutes, 46 secondspacifist. That's very different to the US sending troops on the ground, which I want to get your thoughts on. Do you really think
48:5548 minutes, 55 secondsthe odds on one of the betting platforms, Max, I saw it yesterday?
48:5948 minutes, 59 secondsThat's mindboggling. The odds of the US sending troops on the ground is the same as the odds of the war ending this month. The odds of the war ending this month was at 65% at the beginning. 65%.
49:1149 minutes, 11 secondsNow it's down to it was like 25% at one stage, now 30 31. The odds of troops being sent boots on the ground, it's the
49:1949 minutes, 19 secondssame. It's about 30% boots on the ground by this month. I think by this month,
49:2349 minutes, 23 secondsnext couple of months. Well, I don't know how freaking wild.
49:2749 minutes, 27 secondsI don't know how anyone could live with themselves betting and making money off US troops being sent in. Uh poor
49:3449 minutes, 34 secondsAmericans Americans of color disproportionately make money on it. They don't have money to gamble away being killed and they're
49:4349 minutes, 43 secondsgambling on that at a site like look people buy people bet on stock market movement based on what Trump will do in Iran. People bet on oil prices
49:5249 minutes, 52 secondsbased on what Trump will do on the on you know this is capitalism and the ugly side of capitalism but do you think there will be troops on the ground? You
49:5849 minutes, 58 secondssound like a B. I'm not not but just just to be clear, Max. I'm uh when I say these betting platforms, I didn't mention uh poly. I'm not this is not a
50:0750 minutes, 7 secondssponsorship whatsoever, but I look at them as a way of that. For me, they're very different to polls because polls people just say anything and people vote anything on X. When people put their
50:1650 minutes, 16 secondsmoney on something, I'm like, they really got to believe that. Um I just pull back the curtain a little bit, you know, for everyone watching.
50:2450 minutes, 24 secondsYou know, Poly Market, its main investors are Donald Trump Jr. and Peter Teal. They're making money off this and Poly Market was clearly uh you know
50:3250 minutes, 32 secondsjuicing up the war starting in January putting up you know do they ever put up they're putting up p uh you know helping
50:3950 minutes, 39 secondspeople g they're encouraging people to gamble on whether the Ayatollah will be killed do they ever have people gamble on whether Trump will be assassinated or
50:4650 minutes, 46 secondsNetanyahu will be assassinated or Ben Gverier will be assassinated no so it's clear which direction they're going in and who's profiting are these pro-war
50:5450 minutes, 54 secondselements Peter Teal Palunteer here AI systems being used to do targeting through Maven which is being combined
51:0251 minutes, 2 secondswith Claude without the consent of anthropics leadership. I mean it's all we need to peel back the curtain and see the material interests in promoting the
51:1051 minutes, 10 secondswar when we look especially when we look at these predictive markets and I think it's important to look at the the politics first uh rather than numbers.
51:2151 minutes, 21 secondsWe can't always play moneyball and we also have to look at personalities and psychology. Um, that's why I was, you know, went down the rabbit hole on, uh,
51:3151 minutes, 31 secondsTrump and his fears of Iranian assassination because ultimately Trump's going to make the decision. I don't know if you saw Trump's uh, remarks
51:4051 minutes, 40 secondsyesterday. It was pretty disturbing. He really was he was incoherent. It reminded me of uh, latestage Biden. He
51:4951 minutes, 49 secondscouldn't he said, "We may get out of the war, but then again, we might not." Uh and uh you know that might have been an Iranian Iran using a US tomahawk missile
51:5851 minutes, 58 secondson that school in Minab killing those girls.
52:0052 minutesThat's I mean it raises questions about his uh mental fitness.
52:0552 minutes, 5 secondsThat's politics. He talks about invading Greenland. I think that's politics, Max. I don't like it.
52:0952 minutes, 9 secondsInvading Greenland has a is a real thing. This is like, you know, Trump is unable to to to
52:1652 minutes, 16 secondselucidate a clear objective or goal and it's harming him politically. So, I could actually see him being duped into
52:2452 minutes, 24 secondssending in US ground forces. This is something that Netanyahu wants. And Netanyahu may not actually want. He doesn't want a quick US victory through
52:3252 minutes, 32 secondsground forces. He wants the US to be bogged down in the region indefinitely,
52:3652 minutes, 36 secondssuffering losses so that the American public becomes vengeful, at least a segment of it, and wants revenge on Iran
52:4452 minutes, 44 secondsas he sits back there with his uh air force only.
52:5052 minutes, 50 secondsand you know just just hides in his bunker. This is and it's a fantasy to
52:5752 minutes, 57 secondsthink that US ground forces could actually dislodge the Islamic Republic.
53:0353 minutes, 3 secondsWe're witnessing kind of a leaderless we're witnessing kind of a leaderless revolution in Iran right now. uh the
53:0953 minutes, 9 secondssuccessor to Ali Kame his son hasn't been seen yet but people are out in the streets even under bombardment in the
53:1853 minutes, 18 secondscentral square in Isvahan in squares around Thran chanting their defiance against the US and Israel uh there's
53:2753 minutes, 27 secondsthere's there I don't know how you're going to break those people with special forces. It's been assessed by US intelligence that it you that special
53:3553 minutes, 35 secondsforces would not be able to seize Iran's nuclear stockpile in Isfahan. It will require a very large ground force. I've
53:4253 minutes, 42 secondsseen assessments calling for upwards of 500,000 US troops. I don't know if you remember during the Iraq war, but the initial
53:5053 minutes, 50 secondsforce that Donald Trump Rumsfeld sent in was far too low to suppress the insurgency that inevitably followed the process of debathification.
54:0154 minutes, 1 secondand uh shock and awe and generals were even fired uh who had suggested we need over 250,000 troops. Well, Iran is much
54:1054 minutes, 10 secondslarger than Iraq. It's a much more resilient system. It's not uh you know you you had Saddam Hussein who represented some tribes around Toree and
54:1954 minutes, 19 secondsMosul who represented the Sunni uh Sunni tribes when the majority of the country was Shia. Iran doesn't have that issue.
54:2654 minutes, 26 secondsIt has 90 million people. The country is gigantic. There's so so what are they going to do? Invade Car Island? That
54:3454 minutes, 34 secondsitself is insane. And this has been floated publicly uh in in in mainstream media that if if Car Island was taken
54:4254 minutes, 42 secondsover, it would prevent Iran from ever exporting oil again and then Iran's economy would collapse. Well, to get Car
54:4954 minutes, 49 secondsIsland, they're going to have to come in under Iranian mobile artillery. It won't just be ballistic missiles or drones.
54:5754 minutes, 57 secondsmobile artillery can be brought uh to within range of Car Island and US troops will I mean this is an assessment
55:0455 minutes, 4 secondsI've seen will lose hundreds of troops in the initial that'll be any any troops on the grounds would be [ __ ] dis the American public has no appetite for
55:1255 minutes, 12 secondslosing that number of troops they're already freaking out over like seven dead troops and and and so what does Trump do next
55:2055 minutes, 20 secondsdoes he find an off-ramp and abandon Israel or does he send in the goyam as Netanyahu for the film. I'm hoping
55:2755 minutes, 27 secondsfor the first. I'm really hoping for the first and offramp. I really would bet on this as well.
55:3155 minutes, 31 secondsAnd he would have to abandon Israel and this would be such a massive blow to Israel's go uh goal of regional hegemony
55:4055 minutes, 40 secondsand it would be a blow to uh US empire as uh bases have already been partially or US troops have already been partially
55:4855 minutes, 48 secondswithdrawn. I don't think Iran will accept a return to the status quo. Yeah.
55:5655 minutes, 56 secondsMax, pleasure as always. Thank you for coming on. Uh, good to have you back after your uh, little time off and um,
56:0356 minutes, 3 secondsI'd love to do this again, but um, yeah,
56:0556 minutes, 5 secondsreally appreciate it, man. Really appreciate it. It's crazy times. Thanks a lot, Mario. Good seeing you. Thank you, brother.

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0:00The world is waking up this morning to a development that has shifted the tectonic plates of the Middle East. And frankly, it's the kind of news that
0:077 secondsmakes you wonder if the architects of Western foreign policy have lost their collective minds. All hell is breaking loose because North Korea has just
0:1616 secondspulled the plug on any pretense of neutrality after the Israeli strike on the DPRK embassy in Thran. A strike that was not just an act of war against Iran.
0:2626 secondsAs the war in West Asia rages on, North Korea is keeping the tensions alive. And as the US and Israel launched strikes on
0:3333 secondsIran, as global leaders held emergency meetings, as news anchors pulled out giant touchcreens, the internet zoomed in on one man, Kim Jong-un, the leader
0:4343 secondsof North Korea. Guess who has stepped in to support Iran? It's Kim Jong-un.
0:4747 secondsAccording to local reports, the North Korean dictator has said that if Iran were to request military assistance, his country would be prepared to provide missiles against Israel.
0:5757 secondsBut a direct slap in the face to Pyongyang, Kim Jong-un has made his decision. He is entering the fray. We are now looking at the very real
1:051 minute, 5 secondsprospect of North Korean military might being unleashed not in the Sea of Japan,
1:111 minute, 11 secondsbut against American and Zionist forces in the deserts of Iran. Let's paint the picture clearly for you because the
1:181 minute, 18 secondshypocrisy dripping from this scenario is enough to flood the tigress. For weeks,
1:231 minute, 23 secondsthe mainstream narrative has been consumed with whatifs regarding North Korea. Pundits have been ringing their hands, reminiscing about the fate of countries that gave up their weapons.
1:331 minute, 33 secondsPundits have been ringing their hands,
1:351 minute, 35 secondsreminiscing about the fate of countries that gave up their weapons, pointing at Kim Jong-un and saying, "Look how peaceful he is because he has the bomb.
1:451 minute, 45 secondsAnd you know what? They're accidentally telling the truth. Kim is sitting in Pyongyang, absolutely serene, enjoying a
1:521 minute, 52 secondslevel of strategic invincibility that his father and grandfather could only dream of. He is watching the news from Thran, and he is seeing the ultimate
2:002 minutesvalidation of his life's work. Iran, a nation that never pursued the actual test of a nuclear device, a nation that
2:082 minutes, 8 secondsby all accounts had a religious fatwa against the very weapons that could have saved it, is being torn apart by American and Israeli bombers. Its
2:172 minutes, 17 secondsembassy was hit, its scientists are targets, and its soil is burning.
2:222 minutes, 22 secondsMeanwhile, Kim Jong-un, the man with the verified warheads, is left alone. He is left alone because the west for all its
2:302 minutes, 30 secondsbluster understands mutually assured destruction. They understand that attacking North Korea means soul turns
2:372 minutes, 37 secondsinto a sea of fire. So tell me, who is the rational one here? Who is the madman? The man who built a shield to
2:452 minutes, 45 secondsprotect his people or the superpower that attacks a country desperately trying to negotiate simply because it doesn't have that shield? Before we dive
2:542 minutes, 54 secondsdeeper into the specifics of this new and terrifying military alliance, I have to ask you, does this outrage you as
3:023 minutes, 2 secondsmuch as it outrages us? If you are tired of the media spinning this narrative that it's okay to bomb non-uclear states
3:093 minutes, 9 secondswhile cowtowing to nuclear powers, then you are in the right place. We are one of the few outlets telling you the truth about Western hypocrisy and the strength
3:173 minutes, 17 secondsof the resistance. If you believe in honest journalism that doesn't just regurgitate Pentagon press releases, hit that like button. Hammer the subscribe
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3:353 minutes, 35 secondsthe corporate media won't tell you that Kim Jong-un is about to hand Iran the keys to the kingdom. The keys to stopping the American and Zionist
3:433 minutes, 43 secondsinvasion dead in its tracks. Now, let's get into the nitty-gritty of what entering the war actually means. We
3:513 minutes, 51 secondsaren't talking about North Korean soldiers in formation marching through Tehran. We are talking about the transfer of some of the most deadly and
3:593 minutes, 59 secondssophisticated conventional weaponry that the world has seen, funneled through a partnership that has been decades in the making. When the Israeli F-35s struck
4:084 minutes, 8 secondsthat diplomatic compound, they awakened a sleeping giant. Sources are indicating that within hours of the attack, senior
4:154 minutes, 15 secondsdelegations in Pyongyang were finalizing expedited shipments. We are talking about the complete reversal of any arms
4:224 minutes, 22 secondslength policy. North Korea possesses one of the largest stockpiles of artillery and missiles in the world, and they have been itching to field test some of their
4:314 minutes, 31 secondsnewer systems against American air defenses. Specifically, we need to look at the missile core. The backbone of this new aid package will likely center
4:404 minutes, 40 secondsaround the Hasang 11 NG, also known as the KN23,
4:454 minutes, 45 secondsa missile that has terrified American and South Korean strategists for years.
4:504 minutes, 50 secondsDubbed the North Korean version of the Iscander, this is a short-range ballistic missile that is frankly a nightmare for air defense operators. It
4:594 minutes, 59 secondsis designed to be maneuverable. It flies on a depressed trajectory and pulls high G maneuvers at the end of its flight path to evade interception. For Iran,
5:095 minutes, 9 secondswhich has been reliant on liquid fuel missiles that take hours to prep, the arrival of solid fuel road mobile 11s
5:175 minutes, 17 secondschanges the calculus instantly. These are weapons that can be hidden in tunnels, rolled out, fired, and moved within minutes. If these are supplied to
5:265 minutes, 26 secondsLebanese resistance or the IRGC directly, those American bases in Qatar,
5:325 minutes, 32 secondsUAE, and Kuwait just became sitting ducks. Let's talk about the drones.
5:375 minutes, 37 secondsEveryone loves to talk about the Iranian Shaheds. And yes, Iran has indigenous capability, but North Korea has been
5:455 minutes, 45 secondswatching the war in Ukraine as closely as anyone, and they have developed their own extensive UAV program. We are looking at systems like the kamicazi
5:535 minutes, 53 secondsdrones that mimic the Israeli harpy loitering munitions designed to home in on radar emissions.
6:006 minutesImagine the US Navy sailing through the straight of Hormuz turning on their defensive radars and immediately being swarmed by North Korean designed
6:086 minutes, 8 secondsanti-radiation drones that lock onto that signal. The combined Iranian North Korean technical bureaus are likely working right now to integrate North
6:176 minutes, 17 secondsKorean guidance kits onto Iranian ballistic missiles. It's a match made in heaven or hell, depending on which side of the bomb blast you're standing on.
6:266 minutes, 26 secondsBut to truly understand the rage and the fear gripping the White House right now,
6:306 minutes, 30 secondsyou have to look at the history. This isn't just a spur-of-the- moment decision by Kim Jong-un to help a fellow Muslim state. This is a brotherhood of the sanctioned.
6:426 minutes, 42 secondsThe relationship between Thran and Pyongyang goes back to the Iran Iraq war in the 1980s. Back then, when Iran was isolated, who sold them Scud missiles?
6:526 minutes, 52 secondsNorth Korea. They traded missiles for gold and for technical cooperation. That relationship deepened through the 1990s
6:596 minutes, 59 secondsand 2000s with North Korean technicians reportedly being spotted at Iranian missile test sites. The Shahab 3
7:067 minutes, 6 secondsmissile, the cornerstone of Iran's medium-range threat to Israel, is essentially a North Korean no dong missile with a Persian name tag. This is
7:157 minutes, 15 secondsa partnership built on decades of shared suffering under US sanctions. They trust each other because they have bled together in the shadows. Now you have
7:247 minutes, 24 secondsDonald Trump who during his time in office was tweeting about fire and fury for North Korea, yet he never touched them. Why? Because Kim had the button.
7:347 minutes, 34 secondsHe had the hydrogen bomb. Trump, for all his bluster, is a dealmaker who respects power. He looked at North Korea and saw
7:427 minutes, 42 secondsa nut too hard to crack without losing soul. But he looked at Iran, a country that was actually abiding by the nuclear deal until he tore it up. A country that
7:517 minutes, 51 secondswas negotiating, and he decided, "Let's go." The illogical rationale is now on full display for the entire global south
7:597 minutes, 59 secondsto see. The West's policy is exposed for what it is. Do not get a weapon and we will destroy you. Get a weapon and we will be forced to negotiate with you.
8:118 minutes, 11 secondsIt's an insane asylum run by the inmates. The message from Tyrron and Pyongyang is now unified. We are seeing reports from the North Korean ambassador
8:198 minutes, 19 secondsin Tyrron, Hansung, meeting with Iranian coalition leaders vowing to stand powerfully alongside Iran. They aren't
8:278 minutes, 27 secondshiding it. They are flaunting it. They are telling the West, "You have created a monster. You have pushed us together and now we will burn your empire down.
8:368 minutes, 36 secondsThe ambassador specifically pointed to the attack on the nuclear facilities under IAEA supervision as proof that international standards are worthless.
8:468 minutes, 46 secondsAnd he's right. If the IAEA stamps of approval couldn't protect Iran's facilities, then why would any country trust inspections over having their own
8:548 minutes, 54 secondsbomb? Digging deeper into the mouthwatering tale of historical correlation, we have to look at the concept of the embassy trigger. There
9:039 minutes, 3 secondsare precedents for this, but usually it's the west using an embassy attack as a kasus belly. Think about the
9:109 minutes, 10 secondsSpanishame war. The sinking of the main was used to whip up frenzy. Think about the Gulf of Tonkan. But here, the
9:189 minutes, 18 secondsopposite is happening. An eastern power is using an attack on its diplomatic soil to justify entering a war against the west. The last time something of
9:279 minutes, 27 secondsthis magnitude happened regarding embassy seizures, it was in Thran in 1979, which severed US Iran ties for
9:349 minutes, 34 secondsgenerations. Now, an attack on a different embassy in Thran is going to bring in a nuclear armed state to fight the US. The historical irony is so thick
9:449 minutes, 44 secondsyou could cut it with a knife. In terms of thwarting the American plan, the North Korean aid is a gamecher,
9:509 minutes, 50 secondsspecifically in the realm of range and payload. The US military relies on overwhelming air superiority. They park
9:589 minutes, 58 secondstheir carriers in the Gulf. They launch jets from Qatar. They refuel over Iraq.
10:0310 minutes, 3 secondsNorth Korea has been perfecting missiles that are designed explicitly to hit those choke points. If Iran receives
10:1010 minutes, 10 secondseven a dozen of the newer North Korean intermediate range ballistic missiles,
10:1410 minutes, 14 secondsthe entire US logistical chain from Diego Garcia to the Mediterranean becomes vulnerable. The Americans planned for a quick surgical campaign to
10:2310 minutes, 23 secondsdecapitate the Iranian leadership. They didn't plan for a prolonged slugfest where their bases are showered with dozens of missiles daily. missiles that
10:3210 minutes, 32 secondsare built in underground factories in North Korea and shipped across China or via sea lanes that are impossible to fully blockade, that are impossible to fully blockade. So, what happens next?
10:4510 minutes, 45 secondsWe are likely seeing the opening stages of World War II, but not as we imagined it. It won't be tank divisions clashing
10:5210 minutes, 52 secondsin Europe. It will be proxy wars amplified by direct state-to-state weapons transfers. The Americans thought they could smash Iran in a few weeks.
11:0111 minutes, 1 secondThey thought the Supreme Leader's death would cause a collapse. Instead, they have galvanized the resistance and now they have invited the wrath of a nuclear
11:0911 minutes, 9 secondsarmed North Korea. Kim Jong-un is laughing. He is laughing because every bomb that drops on Thran is a commercial
11:1711 minutes, 17 secondsfor his nuclear program. He is laughing because he is safe. He is armed. And he is now the kingmaker in the Middle East.
11:2511 minutes, 25 secondsThe Zionists and the Americans have opened Pandora's box, and out of it came not just demons, but ballistic missiles
11:3211 minutes, 32 secondswith North Korean serial numbers. The game has changed, and it has changed forever. We will be tracking these shipments, these alliances, and these strikes around the clock. Stay with us,
11:4311 minutes, 43 secondsstay informed, and keep resisting the lies of the Empire.

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Kim Jung Un To Iran: "We Are Ready To Help, Just Say The Word"
Worldnomics and Worldnomics-Power & Strategy
Mar 5, 2026 #militaryanalysis #kimjongun #northkorea

What happens when one of the world’s most unpredictable nuclear powers suddenly says “We are ready to help” in the middle of a major Middle East war?

In the hours after devastating strikes hit Iran’s military infrastructure, a message emerged from Pyongyang that sent shockwaves through intelligence agencies around the world. Kim Jong Un publicly signaled support for Iran with a short but chilling statement: North Korea is ready to help — just say the word.

But what exactly does that mean?

In this video, we break down the deeper geopolitical meaning behind those five words. North Korea and Iran have maintained a quiet but extensive military relationship for decades — from ballistic missile technology to covert weapons networks and intelligence cooperation. Now, with tensions escalating across the region, analysts are asking whether Pyongyang’s statement is simply political rhetoric… or something much more serious.

Could North Korea be offering missile resupply?
Cyber warfare capabilities?
Military advisors?
Or even nuclear technology that could accelerate Iran’s ability to rebuild its program?

We explore the historical relationship between Pyongyang and Tehran, the strategic signals hidden inside Kim Jong Un’s message, and why intelligence agencies across Washington, Tel Aviv, and Europe are paying very close attention.

Because sometimes the most dangerous move in a war…
is the one that hasn’t happened yet.



Transcript

0:00Somewhere in Pyongyang, the lights are still on. It is past midnight and Kim Jong-un is watching. He's watching the fires over Thran. He's watching the
0:088 secondssmoke rising from what used to be Iran's most fortified military installations.
0:1313 secondsHe is watching the same thing the rest of the world is watching. American and Israeli precision strikes, dismantling piece by piece the military architecture
0:2020 secondsof a nation that dared to stand against the West. And as he watches, he smiles.
0:2626 secondsNot because he is happy for the destruction, but because he has just been handed the greatest argument he will ever need to never ever give up his
0:3232 secondsnuclear weapons. But then he does something unexpected. He picks up the phone. Within 48 hours of the strikes on
0:4040 secondsIran, a statement emerges from Pyongyang. Not from a junior diplomat, not from a low-level ministry official,
0:4545 secondsfrom Kim Jong-un himself. Five words cut through the diplomatic fog like a blade.
0:5050 secondsWe are ready to help. Five words and the entire world stops. Now let's slow down because those five words are doing a
0:5858 secondstremendous amount of work and every intelligence agency from Langley to Tel Aviv to London is right now asking the same question we are asking. What
1:061 minute, 6 secondsexactly is Kim Jong-un offering? Is it political solidarity? A strongly worded statement from a regime that has mastered the art of saying much while
1:141 minute, 14 secondsdoing little or is it something else entirely? Let's think about this carefully because with North Korea,
1:201 minute, 20 secondswords are never just words. Every syllable from Pyongyang is calculated.
1:241 minute, 24 secondsEvery statement is drafted and reddrafted. Nothing leaves that country by accident. So when Kim Jong-un says,
1:301 minute, 30 seconds"We are ready to help." The operative word is not help. The operative word is ready. Ready, as in, the preparations
1:381 minute, 38 secondshave already been made. The assets are already in position. The decision has already been taken. All that remains is Iran's request. That is not the language
1:461 minute, 46 secondsof political sympathy. That is the language of a man standing next to a loaded weapon, finger near the trigger, waiting for someone to give the order.
1:541 minute, 54 secondsSo, what could North Korea actually put on the table? Let's speculate. And we want to be clear. This is informed speculation based on the deep intelligence record of what North Korea
2:022 minutes, 2 secondshas done before, what it is capable of doing, and what it has every incentive to do right now. Option one, ballistic missiles. This is the obvious one. North
2:112 minutes, 11 secondsKorea has supplied Iran with missile technology for decades. Since the Iran Iraq war in the 1980s, Pyongyang has been Tyrron's most reliable arms dealer.
2:202 minutes, 20 secondsScud variants, medium-range ballistic systems, guidance technology. North Korean engineers have been spotted inside Iranian missile facilities. This
2:282 minutes, 28 secondsrelationship did not end. It went underground. But now, with Iran's missile stockpiles degraded by the strikes, could Kim be signaling a direct resupply, fresh off the production line,
2:382 minutes, 38 secondsdelivered through the same shadowy networks that have evaded sanctions for 40 years?
2:432 minutes, 43 secondsOption two, cyber warfare. This one keeps Western analysts up at night.
2:482 minutes, 48 secondsNorth Korea's cyber capabilities are world class. Their hacking units, known collectively as the Lazarus Group, have stolen over $3 billion in
2:552 minutes, 55 secondscryptocurrency, penetrated defense contractors, and demonstrated the ability to bring down critical infrastructure. Could it ready to help?
3:023 minutes, 2 secondsMean North Korean hackers are preparing to hit Israeli or American financial systems, power grids, military communications. Option three, not
3:103 minutes, 10 secondstactical military advisers. This sounds dramatic, but it has precedent. North Korean military personnel have been documented in conflict zones before.
3:183 minutes, 18 secondsSyria, various proxy theaters in the Middle East, boots on the ground,
3:223 minutes, 22 secondsquietly, deniably, but effectively. His Kim offering Iran the expertise of soldiers who have been drilling for exactly this kind of asymmetric conflict
3:303 minutes, 30 secondsfor decades. Option four, and this is the one that nobody wants to say out loud, nuclear sharing. Not a nuclear
3:373 minutes, 37 secondsstrike, but technology. warhead miniaturization data, delivery system blueprints, the kind of transfer that would take Iran from a nation whose
3:443 minutes, 44 secondsnuclear program was just bombed back to the stone age to a nation that could rebuild it faster than anyone thought possible. We do not know which of these options Kim means. And that ambiguity,
3:553 minutes, 55 secondsthat beautiful, terrifying ambiguity is entirely intentional because Kim Jong-un does not need to fire a single missile to change the calculation of this war.
4:044 minutes, 4 secondsHe just needs Washington in Tel Aviv to wonder what he meant. That uncertainty,
4:084 minutes, 8 secondsthat is leverage, and leverage is the only currency that matters in Pyongyang. Now, let's be clear about something.
4:144 minutes, 14 secondsThis is not Kim Jong-un performing outrage for the cameras. The condemnation coming out of Pyongyang right now is the strongest language North Korea has used in years. The
4:224 minutes, 22 secondsforeign ministry called the US and Israeli strikes, and we quote, "An illegal act of aggression and the most despicable form of violation of
4:294 minutes, 29 secondssovereignty." They called the United States hegemonic and rogue. They warned that nations that fail to resist American power with powerful
4:384 minutes, 38 secondscounteraction will put it up to will pay a dear price. This is not boilerplate. This language was chosen word by word.
4:464 minutes, 46 secondsAnd one phrase in particular deserves our attention. Pay a dear price. That is a warning. Directed not at Iran but at the United States. Here is why this
4:544 minutes, 54 secondsmatters. Just days before the strikes on Iran, North Korea had closed its Ninth Party Congress, a major political gathering, and had actually signaled
5:025 minutes, 2 secondscautiously an openness to dialogue with Washington. There was a diplomatic window, barely cracked open. Then the bombs fell on Tan, and that window
5:105 minutes, 10 secondsslammed shut. In Pyongyang's reading of events, the United States walked up to the edge of diplomacy, looked it in the eye, and chose destruction instead. That
5:185 minutes, 18 secondsis the lesson Kim Jong-un is drawing from Iran. That is the lesson he will repeat to his generals, to his scientists, to every man and woman
5:255 minutes, 25 secondsbuilding his nuclear arsenal. This is what happens when you trust America. This is what happens when you negotiate.
5:315 minutes, 31 secondsThis is what happens when you are not strong enough. Now, let's pull the camera back. Because what is happening inside North Korea right now may be just
5:395 minutes, 39 secondsas significant as what Kim is signaling to Iran. Kim Jong-un has a domestic audience and that audience just watched something extraordinary. They watched a
5:485 minutes, 48 secondsnation, Iran, that had been pursuing nuclear negotiations, that had been attempting to reach agreements with the West, that had been operating through diplomatic channels, get bombed into the
5:565 minutes, 56 secondsground. Anyway, in the official North Korean narrative, the message writes itself. Look what diplomacy gets you,
6:026 minutes, 2 secondslook what trusting the Americans gets you. The only reason we are still here, the only reason our children are safe,
6:086 minutes, 8 secondsis because we have the bomb, and we will never give it up. This is political gold for Kim. In one stroke, the war in Iran has justified every sacrifice his people have made. Every year of sanctions,
6:186 minutes, 18 secondsevery bowl of thin rice, every blackout,
6:216 minutes, 21 secondsevery resource poured into the weapons program instead of into hospitals and roads and schools. It was all worth it because Iran didn't have what North
6:296 minutes, 29 secondsKorea has. And look at Iran now. Within days of the strikes, Kim Jong-un was photographed inspecting a newly built 5,000 ton destroyer. He personally
6:386 minutes, 38 secondsoversaw the test launch of a strategic cruise missile. The message to the North Korean people was unmistakable. We are building. We are strong. We will never
6:466 minutes, 46 secondsbe Iran. Here's where we need to shift the conversation. Because while the world has been focused on the question of whether North Korea will help Iran, a
6:546 minutes, 54 secondsmore unsettling question has begun circulating in intelligence circles,
6:586 minutes, 58 secondswhat if the help has already begun? When we think about the recent strikes in Iran, it's easy to focus on the immediate players. But what if we're missing a critical piece of the puzzle?
7:077 minutes, 7 secondsWhat if the most important moves are being made by a country not even officially in the conflict? Let's rewind the clock. The deep military relationship between North Korea and
7:157 minutes, 15 secondsIran wasn't built overnight. It's the result of 40 years of cooperation. The weapons pipelines, the technical exchanges, the creative financial
7:237 minutes, 23 secondsworkarounds. These aren't things you scramble to build in a crisis. You build them in peace time precisely for moments like this. So when Kim Jong-un says, "We
7:317 minutes, 31 secondsare ready," he might not be making a promise about the future. He could be announcing something that's already happening. Think about how they communicate. North Korea and Iran don't
7:397 minutes, 39 secondsneed official channels that Western intelligence can easily monitor. They've spent four decades creating pathways that are deliberately invisible. We're
7:467 minutes, 46 secondstalking about shell companies, third country intermediaries, shipto- ship transfers in international waters, and encrypted communication channels likely
7:547 minutes, 54 secondsdeveloped with Russian help. The infrastructure for covert military assistance between Pyongyang and Thrron isn't just a theory. It's real. It's
8:028 minutes, 2 secondsbeen tested and it works. But here's the twist that changes everything. What if that statement, "We are ready to help.
8:098 minutes, 9 secondsJust say the word," wasn't really for Iran at all. What if it was a message directed at Washington? It could be Kim Jong-un telling the United States, "I am
8:188 minutes, 18 secondsinvolved in this war, whether you acknowledge it or not. Every strike you launch, every escalation you choose,
8:238 minutes, 23 secondsevery move you make, I'm a variable in your equation." Don't you forget that.
8:278 minutes, 27 secondsThat's not just an offer of help to a friend. That's a nuclear armed state inserting itself into a conflict quietly, deniably, but unmistakably, and
8:368 minutes, 36 secondsdaring the world's superpower to call its bluff. The conflict in Iran is reshaping the world. That much is clear.
8:428 minutes, 42 secondsBut what's less discussed, and what should keep every strategic analyst awake at night, is the country that hasn't officially fired a single shot.
8:498 minutes, 49 secondsThe country that may be shaping the outcome more than anyone currently in the headlines. A nation of 26 million people, economically isolated, yet technologically formidable,
8:588 minutes, 58 secondsdiplomatically unpredictable, and armed with nuclear weapons. This country is led by a man who just watched the United States dismantle a regional power and
9:069 minutes, 6 secondsdrew a chilling conclusion. Not that power is dangerous, but that not having enough power is the real danger. Kim Jong-un isn't sending flowers to tan or
9:149 minutes, 14 secondswriting poems of solidarity. He is a calculating cold-eyed strategist who has outlasted every prediction of his regime's collapse. And right now he's
9:229 minutes, 22 secondslooking at this global moment and seeing pure opportunity. An opportunity to arm,
9:269 minutes, 26 secondsto sell, to leverage. An opportunity to expand his influence and make himself indispensable to Russia, to Iran, and to every nation that views the United
9:349 minutes, 34 secondsStates as an existential threat. And perhaps the most dangerous opportunity of all to remind the world that in the most volatile region on Earth. With the
9:429 minutes, 42 secondsmost powerful military in history conducting strikes, there is still one man in a fortified compound in Pyongyang who has not yet played his hand. He said
9:499 minutes, 49 secondshe's ready to help. He said, "Just say the word." The real question isn't whether Iran will say the word. The question we should be asking is, "What
9:579 minutes, 57 secondshappens if they already did?" Thanks for watching.

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ON CAM: Iran Drops GIGANTIC 2-TON WARHEAD Missiles On Israeli Capital Amid Huge Escalation?
Times Of India
Mar 11, 2026 #iran #iranisraelwar #iranuswar

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said the missiles used in its latest strike on Israel carried a two-ton warhead as part of the 37th wave of its “True Promise-4” operation. Footage shows the launch of Khorramshahr missiles, each armed with massive two-ton warheads, targeting US bases in the region as part of the 37th wave of Operation True Promise 4, Al Mayadeen reported.



Transcript

0:00Heat.
0:1717 secondsHeat.
0:4646 secondsIn the name of God, the most gracious,
0:4848 secondsthe most merciful, the brave and courageous personnel of the Air Force of the Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran in A retaliatory response to the recent aggression against oil dep depots which
0:5656 secondsinvolve the use of destructive drones launched a significant assault on the oil and gas refinery and fuel storage facilities of the Zionist regime in Hifa. Following the 33rd wave of
1:061 minute, 6 secondsoperation true promise 4, the Hila satellite communication center situated just south of Tel Aviv was completely destroyed. This facility served as one
1:141 minute, 14 secondsof the primary communication hubs for air bases and the fighter jets of the Zionist regime.
1:211 minute, 21 secondsThe destructive drones of the powerful aerospace force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in a special operation struck and completely destroyed this center. Furthermore,
1:301 minute, 30 secondstoday the headquarters of the aggressive American army at the Harer base in the Kurdistan region was targeted with five missiles by the brave missile men of the
1:391 minute, 39 secondsIRGC ground force. Yesterday, through the diligent efforts of the Islamic combatants and the integrated air defenses operations, in addition to the destruction of a homage drone in Thran,
1:481 minute, 48 secondsa number of cruise missiles were also intercepted in the skies of Makazi province.
1:541 minute, 54 secondsAn advanced orbiter for spy drone belonging to the enemy was targeted,
1:581 minute, 58 secondsshot down, and completely destroyed in the skies over Isvahan province.
2:042 minutes, 4 secondsToday a Haron drone was intercepted and destroyed in the skies over Marcazi province and a Heron TP drone was also
2:122 minutes, 12 secondsbrought down near the airspace of Tehran province. Both were targeted by the advanced new defense systems of the IRGC
2:202 minutes, 20 secondsoperating under the integrated air defense network. Additionally, two Hermes 900 unmanned aerial vehicles were successfully intercepted and brought
2:272 minutes, 27 secondsdown by the sophisticated air defense systems of the army's air defense force operating in the airspace above Lorestan and K provinces. The battle against the
2:352 minutes, 35 secondscriminal American regime and the child-killing Zionist entity will continue until the ultimate victory of the righteous front over the forces of
2:422 minutes, 42 secondsevil and the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran with the unwavering support of its loyal people will steadfastly pursue their sacred jihad
2:512 minutes, 51 secondsuntil they bring the child killing and satanic enemy to its knees. Just hours ago, the 34th wave of Operation True Promise 4 was launched. This occurred on
2:592 minutes, 59 secondsthe night commemorating the martyrdom of the commander of the faithful under the sacred code Ya Ali Iban Abi Talib, peace be upon him. The operation targeted
3:083 minutes, 8 secondsmilitary and logistical support bases belonging to the United States and the Zionist regime executed with precisiong guided missiles equipped with warheads
3:153 minutes, 15 secondsweighing over one ton. And victory is not but from Allah the Almighty, the all- wise.
3:233 minutes, 23 seconds[groaning]
3:453 minutes, 45 secondsIran's foreign minister seed Abus Arachi has said that thrron was prepared to continue attacks for as long as necessary.
3:553 minutes, 55 secondsWhile speaking to US broadcaster PBS News, Iraqi said negotiations with the United States were no longer on the
4:034 minutes, 3 secondsagenda. Iraqi's remark comes amid the Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson
4:084 minutes, 8 seconds[music]
4:094 minutes, 9 secondssaying that Thrron had refused requests for a ceasefire from countries [music] including France, Russia, and China.
4:184 minutes, 18 secondsSome contacts are being held with the Islamic Republic of Iran as you follow in the news from China, Russia, France
4:254 minutes, 25 secondsfor and even some countries in the region are in contact with us and other countries both Islamic and non-Islamic ones.
4:344 minutes, 34 secondsSome of them, yes, are actually willing to act to stop this war or
4:434 minutes, 43 secondsestablish a ceasefire. Well, this is their request and we are fulfilling it.
4:504 minutes, 50 secondsThe sessation of this war is in the hands of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
4:544 minutes, 54 secondsThis means that whenever the Islamic Republic of Iran decides for them to stop, the ultimate decision rests with the Islamic Republic of Iran in this matter because they were the ones who
5:025 minutes, 2 secondscommitted aggression. They carried out armed attacks. We must actually stop when we can feel or have a guarantee
5:105 minutes, 10 secondsthat these aggressive actions will not happen again and that they will accept full responsibility for their own
5:195 minutes, 19 secondsactions. These two conditions they must accept responsibility. It's not uh it's not like they'll just come today and say
5:265 minutes, 26 secondsstop stop and cease fire and we'll say very well and it's all over. We currently hold the upper hand. Look,
5:325 minutes, 32 secondsevery single effort they have made has utterly failed. Even now they have not achieved their objectives. The Islamic Republic of Iran has inflicted severe
5:405 minutes, 40 secondsand painful losses upon the Zionist regime, America and their allies. Just observe the state of the global economy and energy. This is extremely painful
5:485 minutes, 48 secondsfor them. So you see, we have delivered truly devastating blows in this regard.
5:535 minutes, 53 secondsSo we actually have the upper hand here and therefore the Islamic Republic of Iran will determine the end of the war.
6:026 minutes, 2 secondsEarlier, Donald Trump claimed [music]
6:036 minutes, 3 secondsthat the war in the Middle East would end very soon.
6:086 minutes, 8 secondsThank you, Mr. President. On Iran, you called it an excursion. You said it would be over soon. Are you thinking this week it will be over? Are you talking about days?
6:166 minutes, 16 secondsI think so.
6:166 minutes, 16 secondsOkay. And and with respect to very soon. Look,
6:206 minutes, 20 secondseverything they have is gone, including their leadership. In fact, there two levels of leadership and even actually as it turns out more than that, but two
6:286 minutes, 28 secondslevels of leadership are gone. Most people have never even heard about the leaders that they're talking about. So,
6:346 minutes, 34 secondsuh, it's obviously been very, very powerful, very effective.
6:396 minutes, 39 secondsThe Iranian military has also slammed Trump over his claims, even as a Wall Street Journal report claimed that
6:466 minutes, 46 secondsTrump's advisers had urged the US president to exit from the war.
6:546 minutes, 54 secondsIs Donald Trump seeking an exit from the ongoing war against Iran? A bombshell report from the Wall Street Journal has
7:037 minutes, 3 secondsclaimed that the US president's advisers have privately urged him to look for an exit plan amid spiking oil prices and
7:127 minutes, 12 secondsconcerns that a lengthy conflict could spark political backlash.
7:207 minutes, 20 secondsWhile speaking to reporters in Florida,
7:237 minutes, 23 secondsTrump had claimed that the US military had mostly achieved its goals. So, we're winning very decisively.
7:327 minutes, 32 secondsWe're way ahead of schedule. Uh it's our military is the greatest in the world with the greatest equipment and the greatest people in the world. There's nobody's ever seen anything like it.
7:437 minutes, 43 secondsIran's a very powerful country. They were going to take over the Middle East.
7:477 minutes, 47 secondsIf we did not hit them, they were going to take over the Middle East. They had thousands and thousands since their last hit. They had thousands and thousands of
7:567 minutes, 56 secondsmissiles and everything else. Most are now destroyed, but they were going to take over the Middle East. Those weapons
8:048 minutes, 4 secondswere aimed at Middle Eastern countries that had nothing to do with this. They were going to take over the Middle East and they were going to try and destroy
8:128 minutes, 12 secondsIsrael. So, we stopped it with good timing and we're very proud to be involved in
8:198 minutes, 19 secondsthis and it's going to be ended soon and if it starts up again, they'll be they'll be hit even harder.
8:268 minutes, 26 secondsYou promised the Iranian people you would help them, but it sounds like you're willing to end this fight after military objectives have wrapped up. Is that Isn't that a betrayal of Will I help them?
8:368 minutes, 36 secondsWill I help them?
8:378 minutes, 37 secondsI'd like to if they can behave, but they've been very menacing. You know,
8:428 minutes, 42 secondsthey're great people. They have an amazing population. It's amazing. Smart,
8:498 minutes, 49 secondsbrilliant, energetic. They have a great I'd love to help them, but they have to be in a system that allows them to be helped. And right now, they're in a
8:578 minutes, 57 secondssystem that only allows failure. And I don't want that. And I want a system that's not going to be attacking us. We
9:059 minutes, 5 secondswant a system that can lead to many years of peace. And if we can't have that, we might as well get it over with right now. Yeah, please.
9:139 minutes, 13 secondsAccording to the WSJ report, some Trump administration officials said that as long as Thran continued to attack
9:219 minutes, 21 secondsregional countries and Israel still wanted to strike Iranian targets, it was unlikely Washington DC could easily withdraw from the war.
9:339 minutes, 33 secondsTrump had said he was prepared to continue targeting Iran if the country continued blocking the flow of oil through the straight of Hormuz.
9:449 minutes, 44 secondsTrump won't stop fighting until he can claim a satisfactory victory, a senior administration official told the Wall
9:519 minutes, 51 secondsStreet Journal, especially when the US has a military advantage.
9:589 minutes, 58 secondsLast week, Trump in a truth social post said there will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender.
10:0710 minutes, 7 secondsOn Monday, Trump [music] told the New York Post he was nowhere near issuing such an order. Later, the US president
10:1510 minutes, 15 secondssaid, "We could go further and we're going [music] to go further."
10:2110 minutes, 21 secondsTrump has hinted in public and told aids in private that he would back the killing of new Iranian Supreme Leader
10:2910 minutes, 29 secondsMojaba Fmeni if he proves unwilling to seed to US demands, current and former [music] US officials, told the Wall
10:3710 minutes, 37 secondsStreet Journal. His comments came as oil prices surged, then [music] fell, adding
10:4410 minutes, 44 secondsto already existing concern among Trump's allies over the economic costs and political fallout of the war.
10:5310 minutes, 53 secondsAccording to the WSJ report, [music]
10:5610 minutes, 56 secondssome of Trump's advisers have encouraged him to articulate a plan to extract the US from the war and make the case that
11:0311 minutes, 3 secondsthe military had largely achieved its objectives according to people familiar with the matter.
11:1111 minutes, 11 secondsWhile many in the president's conservative base still support the initial operation, some of the president's advisers have privately
11:1911 minutes, 19 secondsexpressed concerns that a longer war could deplete that support.
11:2511 minutes, 25 secondsTrump [music] has been briefed on some polling about the war. The People said public polls released in recent days show that most Americans oppose [music]
11:3411 minutes, 34 secondsthe war. Some of Trump's advisers watched with alarm as oil prices shot to over $100 a barrel. They have also
11:4311 minutes, 43 secondsfielded calls about the midterm elections from some nervous Republicans,
11:4811 minutes, 48 seconds[music] according to people familiar with the matter.
11:5111 minutes, 51 secondsAs per the report, Trump's team concluded they needed a more aggressive communications plan to sell the public
11:5811 minutes, 58 secondson the war as many consumers deal with rising gas prices.
12:0412 minutes, 4 secondsWhite House press secretary Caroline Levitt rejected the news report, saying it was full of crap from anonymous
12:1212 minutes, 12 secondssources who I can guarantee are not in the room with President Trump. The president's top aids are focused 24/7 on
12:2112 minutes, 21 secondsensuring Operation Epic [music] Fury continues to be a tremendous success and the end of these operations [music]
12:2812 minutes, 28 secondswill ultimately be determined by the commanderin-chief.

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Pepe Escobar: Iran's Deadly Missile Strike STUNS Israel, Trump LOSING the War
Danny Haiphong
Streamed live 2 hours ago #iran #trump #israel

The US-Israeli war on Iran has backfired on the aggressors as Tehran launches a new military strategy that has placed Israel under heavy missile fire and turned up the economic pressure on Trump to surrender. Pepe Escobar joins the show to break it all down!



Transcript

0:00Welcome everyone. Welcome back to the show. It's your host Danny Hiong. I have with me today geopolitical analyst and independent journalist Pepe Escobar.
0:088 secondsPepe, thank you so much for joining me today.
0:1212 secondsAlways a pleasure, Danny. Greetings from Southeast Asia to you and to all of you everywhere.
0:2020 secondsYeah. Yeah. Well, Pepe, let's first talk about the first the last 24 hours of this war on Iran because uh things are
0:2929 secondschanging quite dramatically and very rapidly. So, first I wanted to get your
0:3535 secondscomments on this. Uh the uh Iran has launched what was its most powerful
0:4242 secondstoate attack on Israel. The sensors are starting to work a lot less effectively.
0:5050 secondsuh we're seeing images of the one ton plus missiles hitting Israel and then of course the aftermath. Now I also wanted
0:5959 secondsyour comments on what was I think a while unverified and unconfirmed uh massive reports that happened over the
1:071 minute, 7 secondslast 24 to 36 hours about who got hit in these strikes. Uh, of course there's been since the beginning of the war,
1:141 minute, 14 secondsNetanyahu has come under uh uh the scope of is he around, is he alive? It seems like he is. But then his brother got
1:221 minute, 22 secondsinto the fray and there's been a lot of damage control around this. His brother Ido might have been killed. Maybe the
1:301 minute, 30 secondsMossad chief has been killed. But regardless, it seems like both the United States and Israel are not only getting hit harder than before, uh,
1:381 minute, 38 secondsPepe, but they're also losing this narrative war quite dramatically. I'm going to pull up the sources as you speak, but I want to get your reaction to these things.
1:471 minute, 47 secondsUh, well, first of all, Danny, I prefer not to comment on rumors spin, a tsunami
1:541 minute, 54 secondsof spin, in fact, and a tsunami of info war going around. We don't know. I prefer to comment on facts and the most
2:032 minutes, 3 secondsimportant fact is that Iran once again tweaked their strategy which as we have
2:112 minutes, 11 secondsbeen discussing it's the decentralized mosaic strategy.
2:182 minutes, 18 secondsThis means uh 31 uh commanders in all Iranian provinces with total autonomy to
2:282 minutes, 28 secondsstrike and to conduct any sort of operations without having to check with
2:342 minutes, 34 secondscentral command in terent uh in many ways also reactive.
2:472 minutes, 47 secondsuh there were uh let's say volleys of uh swarms of drones and ballistic missiles
2:562 minutes, 56 secondsbut not in interrupted from now on and that came from the central command
3:033 minutes, 3 secondsincluding the IRGC now it's going to be it's going to be literally around the clock
3:113 minutes, 11 secondsand that we we we are not even seeing the amount amount of destruction that they can
3:193 minutes, 19 secondsinflict not only on American interests all across West Asia but especially
3:263 minutes, 26 secondsIsrael and in terms of Israel as I'm sure all of you our audience know that is the in terms of censorship is the
3:353 minutes, 35 secondsmost censorship territory on earth nothing compares to it especially when they are being hammered like they are
3:433 minutes, 43 secondsbeing hammered especially this past two three and especially starting with the latest offensive, the one tonight. Well, it's late night here in Southeast Asia. So,
3:543 minutes, 54 secondsin a few hours, just wait about the it's going to be what the 35th or the 36th
4:024 minutes, 2 secondsuh Iranian offensive and it's going to be the order of magnitude compared to
4:094 minutes, 9 secondsthe past ones because they already admitted uh uh live in public
4:174 minutes, 17 secondsuh the strategy that we saw from the beginning. they were launching their uh old batches of missiles. These were made
4:274 minutes, 27 secondsin 2012, 13, 14, 15, etc. And from now on, it's only a missiles with at least one ton in their warheads.
4:394 minutes, 39 secondsSo destruction absolutely guaranteed. and the Kwar Shakhan and the Koramshar,
4:464 minutes, 46 secondsyou know, much more than the Fata, their top missiles, not to mention the ones that they haven't announced yet because
4:544 minutes, 54 secondsthese are in the missile cities in the eastern part of Iran, which has not been touched by the Absent Syndicate so far.
5:035 minutes, 3 secondsSo, uh, once again, they tweaked the rules of the game and the absolutely
5:105 minutes, 10 secondsextraordinary announcement that we had a few hours ago once again from their
5:175 minutes, 17 secondscentral command, which also includes the IRGC,
5:215 minutes, 21 secondsthat uh, the Strait of Hormuz will only be open and it's in fact open to
5:295 minutes, 29 secondsfriendly nations that includes especially China and Russia and some other ones of
5:385 minutes, 38 secondscourse and for instance example Bangladesh because Bangladesh needs oil badly. The Iranians are not attacking
5:465 minutes, 46 secondsany uh vessel that is going to Bangladesh.
5:505 minutes, 50 secondsAnd the straits are and the strait of course is completely closed for in uh their terminology hostile nations and
5:595 minutes, 59 secondsevery vessel linked to US, Israeli or interests of
6:066 minutes, 6 secondsu for all practical purposes NATO stand that may include Japan. It's not clear
6:136 minutes, 13 secondsif that would include South Korea for instance, unless the South Koreans have a back channel to get to the Iranian
6:206 minutes, 20 secondsleadership and they may be exempt. So they are all legitimate targets.
6:276 minutes, 27 secondsAnd the last point of the communic was something extraordinary. Prepare for $200 for a barrel of oil.
6:406 minutes, 40 secondsSo let that sink in slowly. We are around 100, a little less, a little more. So in the next few days, we're
6:496 minutes, 49 secondsgoing to hit 200 and after that the sky is the limit. And this had been gained years before by Goldman Sachs analysts.
6:596 minutes, 59 secondsIt could get to 500. If we go over two weeks or two weeks of u straight of horm
7:067 minutes, 6 secondsblocked, it could easily get to 500. We are already on the way to 200. So for
7:137 minutes, 13 secondsall practical purposes, Danny and all of you, the global economy is collapsing in real time in front of all of us.
7:247 minutes, 24 secondsThis is absolutely unthinkable until only a few days ago. Now it's happening and it's going to be accelerated.
7:327 minutes, 32 secondsBecause of course there's not going to be taco anytime soon unless he gets into an absolutely
7:397 minutes, 39 secondsdesperate position. We have already confirmed that he tried taco already with four key actors.
7:487 minutes, 48 secondsOman Oman probably twice. I think they tried taco with Oman today again.
7:537 minutes, 53 secondsTurkey, Qatar and Russia in that famous phone call that you know there was there
8:018 minutes, 1 secondwas practically zero leaks about the phone call that Trump called Putin very very important not the other way around
8:098 minutes, 9 secondsand when you read the Russian transcript and when you read what Ushakov was saying it's absolutely fascinating
8:178 minutes, 17 secondsis an old fox as we all know basically basically he said very diplomatically that Putin was telling a few facts of
8:268 minutes, 26 secondslife to Trump and Putin offered his services in case uh of a possible mediation.
8:368 minutes, 36 secondsSo this does not mean that uh Putin is endorsing an an immediate taco. Putting left in the air, hanging in the air the
8:458 minutes, 45 secondspossibility of uh if you have a really serious offer to Iran and it's not going to be the other way around. Now it's the
8:538 minutes, 53 secondsAmericans have to offer something to Iran to stop the war. It's a completely different story. Russia could be the mediator.
9:019 minutes, 1 secondBut Russia is not interesting to be the mediator for several reasons. One of them is every second that the Strait of
9:099 minutes, 9 secondsHormones is closed, the Russian budget goes exponentially higher
9:169 minutes, 16 secondswithout lifting a finger. That's the beauty of the whole thing. Right.
9:219 minutes, 21 secondsSecond, and this is what I I I detail in one of the columns that I wrote this week. This one, if I'm not mistaken, is
9:309 minutes, 30 secondscoming out tonight in Moscow. Uh the actual hardcore, softcore, and
9:389 minutes, 38 secondsunderground help that Russia is being uh offering uh Iran even before the start
9:459 minutes, 45 secondsof the decapitation strike. it started uh I I don't think this has been reported in the US
9:549 minutes, 54 secondsum correct me if I'm wrong Danny and any of you but one week before the decapitation strike February 28 one week
10:0210 minutes, 2 secondsbefore uh the ministry of defense in Russia they gave to the IRC
10:1010 minutes, 10 secondsthe full American battle plan in detail what the Americans would do how uh launch platforms, what kind of weapons,
10:2110 minutes, 21 secondsyou name it. So the IRGC had at least one week to start digesting all that.
10:2610 minutes, 26 secondsAnd that's one extra element uh compounding the fact that the response the counter punch from Iran was so fast
10:3510 minutes, 35 secondsthis time only half an hour after the decapitation strike on February morning teran time. And of course, uh, something
10:4410 minutes, 44 secondsthat, uh, I I I I I called it the Astraan Terran shuttle,
10:5010 minutes, 50 secondswhich is Russian cargo planes bringing all sorts of stuff that obviously we don't know exactly what it is from
10:5710 minutes, 57 secondsRussia to Iran practically full-time for a long time, for weeks. and of course the division of labor between Russia and
11:0611 minutes, 6 secondsChina in terms of helping Iran with everything from uh upgraded shahid
11:1311 minutes, 13 secondsdrones which in fact are the Russian geraniums.
11:1911 minutes, 19 secondsIt's it's fascinating the story. Russia buys the shahid drones from Iran. They upgrade
11:2611 minutes, 26 secondsin Russia. They become Geranians five or six and now they are back to the
11:3311 minutes, 33 secondsbattlefield uh uh in the Iran among the Iranian forces using the Russian upgrades including the comet antenna for
11:4211 minutes, 42 secondsjamming all sorts of signals. So this is part of their uh military military collaboration.
11:5011 minutes, 50 secondsSo, so this is all very important in terms of setting uh uh describing the degree the interlock degree of
11:5811 minutes, 58 secondscollaboration between Iran, Russia and China. Obviously, the Americans were completely oblivious about all that. So,
12:0712 minutes, 7 secondswe have the pathetic real estate negotiator WTOV accusing Russia of uh supplying intel to Iran.
12:1812 minutes, 18 secondsBut he said that Ushakov said that and when you read the Russian transcript,
12:2212 minutes, 22 secondsUshakov never said anything remotely similar. No.
12:2612 minutes, 26 secondsAnd don't forget that in Russ and with obviously doesn't know how Russian politics works. Top uh mil top political
12:3412 minutes, 34 secondsuh operatives in Russia, they never comment on military secrets. Never. This is something that only the Ministry of Defense will talk about and they don't.
12:4512 minutes, 45 secondsSo all of us we have to dig and and try to find something about and talk to our connections etc.
12:5612 minutes, 56 secondsYeah. Yeah. No, I think those are uh uh really important to note because I think we're seeing a huge difference between
13:0413 minutes, 4 secondshow uh both sides right now are viewing this war, Iran and of course uh the US
13:1113 minutes, 11 secondsand Israel. There's uh differing I think uh reactions right now. One, Iran appears to be very uh forthright and
13:2013 minutes, 20 secondsfirm and steady and calm in its pursuit of its strategy and the United States and Israel do not seem like this. I mean
13:2913 minutes, 29 secondseven you what you said earlier Pepe with the massive censorship in Israel. Just take a look at this everyone. This is AP. Okay, this is the Associated Press.
13:3813 minutes, 38 secondsThis is Tel Aviv. And watch what the camera does. The sirens are on. I'll play them for a second. The sirens are on and look at what it does as the sirens go on. It leaves the skyline.
13:4913 minutes, 49 secondsThis is a live chat. It leaves the sky in order to leave the skyline. Exactly. So,
13:5813 minutes, 58 secondsthey will not show it. And and so you have this panic. You have Israel after these strikes have been intensifying. Uh
14:0514 minutes, 5 secondsPepe uh they are growing concerned. uh they're growing concerned that there's so many unanswered questions. They're taking regime change. This is neocon
14:1414 minutes, 14 secondsDavid Ignatius. They're taking regime change off the table supposedly both the US and Israel. And uh there's just a lot
14:2214 minutes, 22 secondsI think of panic and in a frantic nature while Iran uh has been every single day
14:2914 minutes, 29 secondsannouncing it's going to do this and it's going to do and then it does it.
14:3214 minutes, 32 secondsAnd and I maybe you could comment on this because I showed the videos. You know, Israelis, the sirens are going off. They're running for shelter. Uh we see the damage getting worse and worse.
14:4214 minutes, 42 secondsIsrael is starting to admit this. They claim it's still less than uh June 2025 uh uh damage. But nonetheless, Pepe,
14:5114 minutes, 51 secondsthere seems to be a widening gap uh between the two sides and how they're approaching this war.
14:5814 minutes, 58 secondsWell, because in Iran simply there is no censorship. We know what's being attacked and sometimes we see it in real
15:0715 minutes, 7 secondstime when you have Iranian reporters in the middle of crowds uh pledging their allegiance to Ayatah and there are missiles in the sky.
15:1915 minutes, 19 secondsIt's it's something that we saw for uh when I when I saw this images the first time, I immediately connected to the
15:2615 minutes, 26 secondsfuneral of Shik Nazala in Beirut last year when we were all in the stadium and
15:3315 minutes, 33 secondsthere were four uh Israeli jets that went over twice and they were greeted
15:4015 minutes, 40 secondswith you can imagine how they were greeted by the everybody that was at at the stadium. So uh Iran the population is not intimidated.
15:5115 minutes, 51 secondsThey are suffering horribly because what is the tactic of uh terrorist regimes
15:5815 minutes, 58 secondslike this American regime and obviously the death cult in West Asia? They go after civilians. So now civilian neighborhoods, installations, hospitals,
16:1116 minutes, 11 secondsschools, inter highway intersections are being bombed by the abstenticate
16:1916 minutes, 19 secondsout of impotence, rage and the fact that those idiots did not, you know, rise up
16:2716 minutes, 27 secondsagainst the moolas. So there's not going to be regime change cowards. So now we're going to bomb you. It's
16:3616 minutes, 36 secondsit's filthy. It's filthy. It's you you cannot even quantify
16:4316 minutes, 43 secondseverything that is behind it. It's another flagrant mirror of who we are
16:5016 minutes, 50 secondsdealing with in terms of the whole abstent syndicate. And now because they underestimated Iran from the get-go
16:5916 minutes, 59 secondsbecause they didn't plan for a war from the beginning. The Iran is not only they had been planning for this war for
17:0617 minutes, 6 secondsdecades but especially the let's say the last week before the decapitation strike which they knew it
17:1417 minutes, 14 secondswould happen but they were ready when it happened. Ayatal had already organized
17:2017 minutes, 20 secondsall the meticulous planning with four levels of replacement for every
17:2717 minutes, 27 secondsimportant uh military commander, leader etc. including himself.
17:3417 minutes, 34 secondsVery important point which uh I prefer to tell it right now.
17:4017 minutes, 40 secondsUh he uh he did not leave a successor.
17:4617 minutes, 46 secondsHe did not live in his will uh the name of his successors like Kmenini did.
17:5217 minutes, 52 secondsKmenini had appointed before he died Kame as his successor.
17:5917 minutes, 59 secondsKamei did not uh much less his own son.
18:0618 minutes, 6 secondsUh and of course high ayatollas in um K they know that Moshtaba is not at the
18:1418 minutes, 14 secondshighest level as an ayat. It doesn't matter because they chose to elect an
18:2118 minutes, 21 secondsidea, a flaming idea and the idea of continuity in fact and of course
18:2918 minutes, 29 secondssomebody that will I wouldn't say exact revenge but cultivate the memory of everything that
18:3818 minutes, 38 secondshis father did right for Iran. uh his father was an intellectual was a
18:4618 minutes, 46 secondsgracious man but a man who went to the trenches during the Iran Iraq war. So he
18:5318 minutes, 53 secondshad battlefield experience, religious experience and leadership experience and this is something that Mosaba inherited.
19:0219 minutes, 2 secondsIt's very very important and that's why he's being universally
19:0819 minutes, 8 secondsuh approved and and and people are extremely touched by this
19:1419 minutes, 14 secondsidea that the son is coming right after the father to preserve the legacy of the father. So this uh all that spells out
19:2419 minutes, 24 secondstotal cohesion between the new setup in Thran, all the
19:3119 minutes, 31 secondsmilitary commanders, the continuity of government, which is something that you know people in America only talk about
19:3819 minutes, 38 secondsthe US. No. Uh really serious um governments and institutions they have
19:4519 minutes, 45 secondscontinuity of government plan in detail and that was the case with Iran uh this time and of course this explains why uh
19:5419 minutes, 54 secondsthe consensus and especially coming back to that uh let's say
20:0120 minutes, 1 secondintimation by the IRGC that we're talking the beginning beginning of our uh of our conversation that now There's no holds barred. In
20:1020 minutes, 10 secondsfact, and if the Americans and Israelis uh go up a notch for instance, they
20:1920 minutes, 19 secondsbombed Bank Sepa, which is one of the two most important banks in Iran. The other one is Bank Mani. Bank Sepa is very intimately linked with the IRGC.
20:3220 minutes, 32 secondsThis mean paying salaries, you know, all that kind of stuff. So now the Iranian response is an absolute killer in
20:4020 minutes, 40 secondsmetaphorically and otherwise. We're going to attack all American linked
20:4720 minutes, 47 secondsIsraeli linked banking uh system all across West Asia. So HSBC standard
20:5420 minutes, 54 secondscharter everybody is freaking out completely.
20:5820 minutes, 58 secondsAnd today there was another uh uh uh let's say advice from the RGC to people living in Abu Dhabi, Dubai etc.
21:0821 minutes, 8 secondsIf you live one kilometer inside the radius of a bank u branch, please move
21:1621 minutes, 16 secondsout because they are all now legitimate targets. I can visualize in Dubai many
21:2321 minutes, 23 secondsof these places, you know, inside shopping malls or in in the, you know,
21:2921 minutes, 29 secondsin in the main artery. Wow. They can attack anyone anytime from now on. So
21:3721 minutes, 37 secondsthat's compounding with the end of uh the business model, tourism, no taxes,
21:4521 minutes, 45 secondseasy life, bling bling, etc.
21:4821 minutes, 48 secondsWell, in the Emirates as a whole, the whole business model, including the banking business model, is dead and it's not and it won't come back. That's it.
21:5721 minutes, 57 secondsThat's the end of it. And we were watching all that from one day to another live in front of us. It's it is mind-boggling.
22:0822 minutes, 8 secondsAbsolutely. But uh we can detect uh a firmness of purpose of the
22:1822 minutes, 18 secondsIranians. They seem to know exactly what they're doing and escalation. Okay,
22:2422 minutes, 24 secondswe're ready to escalate this to you know levels that you think is are absolutely out of this out of the stratosphere.
22:3422 minutes, 34 secondsYes, they can because they have nothing to lose anymore and they have already
22:4122 minutes, 41 secondsuh listed all the major points and this is the theme of one of my columns. I wrote
22:5022 minutes, 50 secondsthree columns in a row. So they are all interlin but one of them was specifically
22:5722 minutes, 57 secondsu the American empire has received uh the eviction notice. Yeah. And the eviction notice is very detailed.
23:0623 minutes, 6 secondsBasically is get out of here and fulfilling all this conditions.
23:1423 minutes, 14 secondsObviously we know that uh not only Neo Caligula but the whole beltway and the industrial military complex they will
23:2323 minutes, 23 secondsnever accept that. So it's uh so the war is really existential. It's do or die until one of the sides blinks.
23:3323 minutes, 33 secondsAnd it's not going to be the Iranian side. They're not blinking. They are going all the way. And when
23:4223 minutes, 42 secondsthe absence syndicate as a whole realizes that, wow, I would not want to
23:5023 minutes, 50 secondsbe in their skins considering the magnitude of the decision that they'll have to make. They will have to accept a massive strategic defeat.
24:0124 minutes, 1 secondYeah.
24:0224 minutes, 2 secondsThis unsailable in Israel and unsailable in the United States. How do you going to how how they going to deal with that?
24:1024 minutes, 10 secondsYeah. Yeah. Especially in the United States where uh there are dead Americans. Uh there are likely more dead
24:1724 minutes, 17 secondsthan what's being reported. the the Iranian government is saying the Iranian military is saying that alone uh there
24:2524 minutes, 25 secondswere hundreds of Americans injured in a strike on Kuwait on the US assets in Kuwait just in the last 24 hours. I I
24:3324 minutes, 33 secondsdon't see how this 140 injured number or so that's out there is accurate at all and uh the what is it like eight dead or
24:4024 minutes, 40 secondssix dead something like that very low numbers. Uh it's likely inaccurate given that even the western mainstream media is saying Pepe that US military
24:4824 minutes, 48 secondsinstallations in the region are essentially destroyed and they were not evacuated. So they were not evac they were evacuated to hotels which have also
24:5624 minutes, 56 secondsbeen hit in Bah hotels were hit in the UAE as well. But I wanted to underscore this point because you know
25:0325 minutes, 3 secondsuh you when it comes to how deadly Iran's strategy at this point is uh we're not going to get the numbers about
25:1025 minutes, 10 secondsthis. They're not going to tell us what exactly is going on, but we can see how people in these countries or, you know,
25:1825 minutes, 18 secondsIsrael in the colony of Israel in the UAE react. I just want to underscore that point that you made about uh the pandemonium at the airports. Pepe, here
25:2625 minutes, 26 secondsis um Dubai. This is Dubai. There's chaos. Absolutely packed like sardines or packed like a tuna can as in this
25:3525 minutes, 35 secondspost uh as people try to leave. That's what they're trying to do. And then the same goes for Israel at Bangarian airport. Just in the last several days,
25:4625 minutes, 46 secondsyou had Israelis trying to leave, but Israel actually has changed their policy and I believe haved the air, you know,
25:5525 minutes, 55 secondsthe airline capacity coming out of Bengarian. So, a lot of a lot of Israelis can't leave. Uh, and that is a
26:0326 minutes, 3 secondslittle bit of a shift from the 12-day war when uh many many many Israelis left. But yeah, I just want to underscore that point because we are
26:1126 minutes, 11 secondsseeing the differences. And then you said uh what will Trump do? What will the US do if they give up Pepe or if they they taco? Well, right now it seems
26:2026 minutes, 20 secondslike Trump is he, you know, he says one thing one day, another thing another.
26:2426 minutes, 24 secondsThis is of the minute of the last half hour to an hour or so telling Axios Trump did. There's practically nothing left to target in Iran and he'll end it
26:3326 minutes, 33 secondssoon likely. You know, anytime he wants it to end, it will end. But it seems like a bit of an indication that he is
26:4026 minutes, 40 secondstrying to or his administration might be trying to find an offramp of Pepe. Every time there's an in, you know, a verbalization that, okay, maybe it's
26:4826 minutes, 48 secondstime to end this, they double down and say, no, we're going to stay stick with it. It seems like suicide in many ways,
26:5426 minutes, 54 secondsbut uh what's your reaction and assessment to this? No, it's suicide for the US economy.
27:0227 minutes, 2 secondsUh anything that comes from Trump is a lie.
27:0727 minutes, 7 secondsmodified, twisted, uh, lie, a lie in three or four angles at the same lie, a
27:1527 minutes, 15 secondssimple lie, complicated lie, you name it. The fact that he's saying now that there's nothing left uh to bomb is a way
27:2527 minutes, 25 secondsto tackle. Of course. Of course. um he cannot possibly admit that he's going to perform taco.
27:3527 minutes, 35 secondsSo he changes the strategy uh in real time. He start throwing all those clowns
27:4227 minutes, 42 secondsaround him under the bus with Kof Kushner uh the pushup clown secretary of
27:4927 minutes, 49 secondsforever war all those idiots he already start throwing in the bus I bombed you run
27:5627 minutes, 56 secondsbecause of them. So of course it's never his fault. It's his mod operandi. We all
28:0228 minutes, 2 secondsknow that's it. Never admit you made a mistake especially a mistake of geopolitical proportions like this. And
28:1028 minutes, 10 secondsnow of course his uh very crass vulgar minimalistic language points to yes
28:1828 minutes, 18 secondsthere's nothing else to do. There's nothing else to bomb. So I'm going to declare victory and run away.
28:2528 minutes, 25 secondstaco once again. So, uh what is going to be the modality of taco this time?
28:3228 minutes, 32 secondsThat's the big uh question, of course,
28:3528 minutes, 35 secondsand considering that it's absolutely impossible to intimidate the Iranians at
28:4228 minutes, 42 secondsthis stage, especially now that they are confident that they are doing exactly what they planned and they are
28:5128 minutes, 51 secondsinflicting monumental damage. not only to Israel but especially to American interests all
28:5928 minutes, 59 secondsover. And of course the straight of hormuz angle which is absolutely key. Yep. Yeah. Which we're going to get.
29:0829 minutes, 8 secondsThey know that their grip on the straight of horm is their grip on the global economy as a whole. They can do
29:1629 minutes, 16 secondsanything they want during the week, during next week, next month, for the next few months and drive
29:2529 minutes, 25 secondsthe whole global economy to a black void.
29:3129 minutes, 31 secondsSo this is unlimited power concentrated in a single fighting force. That's quite something. They don't even need to mind
29:3929 minutes, 39 secondsthe straight of hormones the way it is now. Uh and it's fascinating because they never uh you never see them saying
29:4729 minutes, 47 secondsthat the straight of Hormuse is uh blocked. They say that the straight is open but at the same time it's not open.
29:5629 minutes, 56 secondsIt's open for our friends and it's closed for hostile uh players. Very very
30:0330 minutes, 3 secondssimple. uh the ones who are clever enough to do a backroom deal,
30:0830 minutes, 8 secondsno problem. Like you know certainly Bangladesh they reached uh up there explain their predicament and the
30:1630 minutes, 16 secondsIranians which are very very graceful say okay no problem uh and obviously Russia and China it
30:2330 minutes, 23 secondsgoes without saying and these cargos continue to travel across the street of war with absolutely no problem.
30:3030 minutes, 30 secondsEverybody else is considered hostile and that's it. You are going to be intercepted. Period.
30:3830 minutes, 38 secondsYeah.
30:3930 minutes, 39 secondsAnd we have caros who are displaying their text uh their text messages or in their transponders. I am Chinese owned.
30:4730 minutes, 47 secondsDon't shoot me. You in many cases it may work. They put it into translate and they're like look it's it's Mandarin.
30:5730 minutes, 57 secondsWell, Pepe, let's tell the story then because I it leads right into your article about this actually. this this uh story and narrative of what exactly
31:0631 minutes, 6 secondsis happening right now in the straight of Hormuz which is both fascinating and a huge indication of where this war
31:1331 minutes, 13 secondsactually is beyond the spin because Iran has said yes 10,000 civilian sites have been hit by the United States but does anyone notice that the US and Israel US
31:2231 minutes, 22 secondsand Israel have don't have any other uh options or anywhere they they're they're not pursuing any kind of quote unquote
31:3131 minutes, 31 secondsstrategy They're just hitting civilian targets, hoping that Iranians will give in. But Iran is hitting the Gulf countries,
31:4031 minutes, 40 secondsis hitting Israel methodically, and now has this economic strategy which is uh
31:4731 minutes, 47 secondsabsolutely devastating. I I just want to show uh there's the US Navy Pepe refuses
31:5531 minutes, 55 secondsright now to give escort as Donald Trump said they would to ships in the straight of Hormuz. That is a 100% indication that Iran controls this thing.
32:0632 minutes, 6 secondsYeah, Iran controls this thing. And then Pepe, what happened? Well, you had that ridiculous story um actually not this
32:1432 minutes, 14 secondsone uh but you had the ridiculous story of mines being laid and then suddenly you have Iran or they're saying they
32:2332 minutes, 23 secondsdon't know what it's from. Uh you have uh ships being attacked right now in the straight of Hormuz that are not
32:3032 minutes, 30 secondsfollowing Iran's orders. now up to three. If you don't cooperate with Iran,
32:3532 minutes, 35 secondsif you don't communicate with them and uh you are working on behalf of these hostile interests, you are going to be struck. That's what's happening. Three
32:4332 minutes, 43 secondsof them so far, Pepe, have been hit um and damaged. And then, of course, you have there's our friend Mohamad Radi sharing a video of what Iran still has.
32:5432 minutes, 54 secondsWe heard all this t talk about uh the Navy of Iran being absolutely decimated and obliterated. Well, a lot of their
33:0033 minutesbigger ships got hit, but here is what might matter. You have I don't know how many ships this is underground, but Iran
33:0833 minutes, 8 secondsreleased this to show that they have uh the ability to do this uh and to continue to hit ships in the straight of
33:1633 minutes, 16 secondsHormuz. And then Pepe, this goes to your article. Just look at what Alazer is reporting. uh Iran record uh exports out
33:2433 minutes, 24 secondsof the straight of Hermuz right now and they're going to China which does have a huge in Iranian oil.
33:3233 minutes, 32 secondsYes.
33:3433 minutes, 34 secondsBecause it's it's a bilateral deal. It was clenched uh was finally clenched the the final details only Thursday uh last
33:4233 minutes, 42 secondsweek. They had a lot an understanding before and now it's it's a solid uh deal
33:5033 minutes, 50 secondsuh which uh goes directly to um this was this morning if I'm not mistaken um in
33:5933 minutes, 59 secondsArashi and Galibah the leader of the maj uh if it's uh uh our friends no problem
34:0834 minutes, 8 secondsthere are endless opportunities I think was Arashi that Khalibah Sorry that said that the no I'm sorry Ali Lani said that
34:1834 minutes, 18 secondsyesterday the secretary of the uh supreme national council uh there are plent uh endless
34:2734 minutes, 27 secondsopportunities for our friends in the street of Hormuz and for the war mongers it's going to be hell
34:3434 minutes, 34 secondsand he sent this message in several languages including Russian and Mandarin this message was sent all over the place in Arabic as well in English of course.
34:4534 minutes, 45 secondsSo you know this article is about the very close uh Iran China collaboration
34:5234 minutes, 52 secondsin terms of sharing intel uh 24/7 real time and intel on all the
35:0335 minutes, 3 secondsmovements of the US Navy especially and this is because of the Liao Wang one
35:0935 minutes, 9 secondsresearch vessel which is uh navigating in the uh south the south south of Oman
35:1735 minutes, 17 secondsin fact in in in the the sea of Oman uh with two uh escorted by two very very
35:2635 minutes, 26 secondspowerful uh ships. So uh this has been going on in conjunction with the linkage
35:3535 minutes, 35 secondsof the Iranian grid with BU satellites which of course organize all the Chinese space.