Another Trump Iran claim falls apart after Rubio’s revelation on Ayatollah | Janta Ka Reporter Janta Ka Reporter Jun 2, 2026 #MarcoRubio #IranCrisis #MojtabaKhamenei
US President Donald Trump’s Iran strategy is beginning to worry even his supporters after it emerged that he had to admonish Benjamin Netanyahu for derailing the peace process. Furthermore, Trump’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, today revealed that the new Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, was alive and actively engaging with his military to coordinate their moves. Rifat Jawaid examines the sharp contradictions between Trump’s public statements on Iran and the reality on the ground.
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Did Israeli slave Donald Trump indeed give war criminal wanted by the International Criminal Court Benjamin Netanyahu a dressing down in a phone call yesterday? This is what Western media outlets claimed the deranged occupant of the White House did. Trump's minion Marco Rubio today appeared before the Senate where he confirmed two things. First, the Iranian supreme leader Mashtabali Khame was alive and actively coordinating the war moves against the US and the settler colony. And second, the fear caused by the Iranian military in the state of Hormuz in Lebanon. The Israeli terrorists have continued to drop American bombs. This will be the broad focus of my video tonight. Also in this video, an American journalist is banned from entering the UK for criticizing not the UK or its monarch, but a foreign settler colony of Israel. So, please stay tuned. So, the reported claims that Israeli lab dog Trump called bloodthirsty terrorist Netanyahu to admonish him for derailing the peace process with Iran has dominated the global media coverage. You're effing crazy. You'd be in prison if it wasn't for me. I'm saving your So the headline when it comes to Lebanon is that Donald Trump has said that Israel and Hzbollah have agreed to step back from the intensity and the renewed fighting that we've seen recently.
But this comes after this phone call between President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister. And there are reports that it was completely explosive. So, this conversation was reported by the US outlet Axios, coming from two US officials and a third source. Apparently, a Washington official said,
"You're effing crazy. You'd be in prison if it wasn't for me. I'm saving your ass; everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this."
If this is true, and they've got multiple sources saying it is, it's unbelievable. You're definitely right not to say the swear words, cuz it's pre-watershed at 5:15 a.m.
What led to this? Is this really what Trump wants? And is it really going to be adhered to?
Yesterday, the first development US time was Iran saying, "We're done with these talks." Then in middle of the morning US time, President Trump spoke to CNBC and said, "I don't care about these talks." He then backtracked very quickly as oil prices spiked, and put out a truth social to say talks are going great, and had this call with Netanyahu. Why do I say all of that? Because there's a sort of process now that is on repeat. Participants in the market are definitely saying this, which is he basically says whatever he needs to say to make sure oil stays within a band, and that the economy doesn't get too derailed in the US.
But many called the claim highly dubious, and rightly so given the control of Netanyahu over US politics and its president. They argued that Trump was simply incapable of speaking to baby killer Netanyahu in such a language, adding that the reported content of this conversation was deliberately leaked by the White House to make this Israeli lap dog look strong in the eyes of his own support base, which by the way is beginning to question his move on Iran.
How will he explain the continued Israeli barbarism in Lebanon? The Israeli army has carried out several attacks and several more attacks today on southern Lebanon's Nabatia governorate. An air strike hit the town of Dubai in the Marayun district following a bombing in the same area while air raids also targeted the towns of Hadatha and Kakayyad Aljis. Take the example of British foreign secretary and unknown Zionist Iet Cooper who wrote this yesterday and I quote, "Israile's military escalation in Lebanon has killed and displaced civilians, destroyed infrastructure and eroded space for diplomacy. It must end." Hisbah must end attacks on Israel and disarm. All sides must respect the ceasefire and engage with negotiations in good faith. end quote. Just see the utter shamelessness of this vile woman. She admits that Israeli atrocities have displaced civilians. Israeli atrocities. She is saying that and destroyed infrastructure. But Hezbollah must end attacks on Israel and disarm. She's not talking about IDF disarming themselves. These are the parasites masquerading as civilized lawmakers. 5 minutesNot just her. Watch this clip of the UK representative at the UN Security Council. He admits that children and babies have been mercilessly slaughtered in Lebanon, but he refuses to name the perpetrators, i.e. genocidal Israeli human devils. President UNICEF reported that 15 children were killed and 62 injured in Lebanon last week as a result of the conflict. That's 11 children killed or injured every . Healthare workers are also facing death and injury as they carry out their duties. The escalation must end. We call upon all parties to uphold their obligations under international law. No wonder these thugs are unable to explain their wararmongering activities even to their own people. America's Secretary of Thugri, Marco Rubio, today appeared before the Senate, and boy, he was completely exposed. Senator Chris Van Holland set the scene. Secretary, this is your first public hearing since President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu launched an illegal war against Iran. Netanyahu said he's been waiting 40 years to do this. Turns out he finally found a president who was both stupid and reckless enough to join him. The war has killed 14 American service members, wounded hundreds more, and killed thousands of civilians. It's driving up the price of gas, food, and much more. Trump obviously doesn't care. He called high gas prices peanuts and said, "I don't think about Americans financial situation." That's from the president of the United States. And all for what? President told us 91 days ago that we had quote won the war in Iran. Last year he told the country Iran's key enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Was that false? Let's face it, Mr. Secretary. The Trump foreign policy has become a dumpster fire. This is the same president who's more interested in flattering Vladimir Putin than in protecting Ukrainian sovereignty. The president who lifted restrictions on the transfer of sophisticated US chips to China but came back from his trip there with nothing but ballroom envy. Tweeted about that the other day. This is the president who brought on Elon Musk to take a chainsaw to aid which has enabled the current Ebola outbreak in the DRC. We've also witnessed corrupt crypto deals with the UAE royal family that have enriched the Trump family at the expense of our national security. We've seen an administration engage in extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean, hijack Venezuelan oil, threaten to invade Greenland, and weaken the NATO alliance. Senator Cory Booker followed the street of Hummus was open before this unjustified war. We're now scrambling to try to find a way to get it back opened again. Not only is it causing economic havoc to our country and to residents all around this nation, families trying to make ends meet, but you see on top of that, the Iranians finding ways to leverage that as we allowed them to do with the Chinese for tens of billions of dollars. And so my point is before we even get to a nuclear negotiation, this regime is getting money to rebuild, purchase more drones, cause more havoc, and this is before we're even trying to get back to But I don't I apologize. I don't understand how they're getting this. What What revenue are you referring to? Well, there's two sources of revenue we're seeing. One is the revenue from the Chinese that's factually documented. And number two, the revenue that you're proposing that they should receive by releasing all of their highlyenriched uranium as well as in in making a commitment about their enrichment capacities. Hold on. And that was the exact deal that you guys vilified that the president and you vilified President Obama from having. Yeah. Now here we have a worse situation where our adversary and our enemy who's causing havoc in the region who is funding proxies and terrorists has discovered thanks to you all the power of shutting down the street of Hermuz. No they didn't discover they knew that a long time ago and they clearly we all knew that a long time ago. That's why this and they intended to do this war should have never happened. You have made our adversary in a stronger negotiating position. We are the strongest nation on the planet earth and we're in a stalemate with Iran and now we're begging to get back into a deal that you all trashed in the first place. There's no one begging. Clearly, this is a Senator Booker. Senator Booker, your time's up. And when it was time for Chris Murphy, his penetrating questions forced Rubio to inadvertently express his fear of the Iranian armed forces in the state of Hormos. the same Iranian armed forces that Rubio's boss says have been decimated. The straight is closed because of our decision to invade Iran. This is a consequence of our military action. So I I guess I'm not interested in litigating that question. We all know why the straight is closed because you took military action against Iran and we knew ahead of time that that would be their likely response. The question is how are we going to get it reopened? Are you gonna drive a bargain that is so tough and so hard that the straight remains closed? So, how are we gonna get it open? The first thing that is a predicate to anything else happening. The straits have to be reopened. So, the way to think about it is this. If Iran wants to be able to move its oil again through the straight, they will have to reopen the straits. If they refuse to do so, then we have other options available to us, but we would prefer to negotiate the opening of this, which means Tell us about the negotiations. What do you need from them in order to get the straight reopened? We need the straight reopened tomorrow. Well, what needs to happen is very simple. They need to they need to announce that they will no longer fire on commercial ships that are going through or threatened to fire on ships because in many cases ships just won't move. They won't go not because they got fired on, but because of the risk of being fired upon and so they have to announce very clearly the straits are now open. We're not charging a toll. We will help remove the mines that they put in there. And they will not fire on ships. But the president says they also need to make commitments on their nuclear program. That's what I'm asking. What Oh, I see what you're saying. What commitments do they need to make in order for the strait to be reopened? The second thing they have to agree to as part of this is so in addition to the straits, that's the predicate that opens the door to phase two. Phase two is they have to commit to very specific negotiations on highlyenriched the disposition of the highlyenriched uranium that still is buried deep in a mountain somewhere. They have to they have to in they have to agree on negotiating severe if uh and long-term limitations and or cancellation of enrichment activity in their in the second phase of negotiations. Well, that would obviously these are highly technical matters. So I don't think you could work those out in 5 days. You that would require a team of experts to meet over a 30 60 90day period and work out the details. But they have to commit to their willingness to do that. For example, they have to commit to say we will dispose of the enriched uranium. And the question now is what are the mechanisms by which we do so that that can be negotiated. Final question. In order to get to that second phase, are you willing to release sanctions or release frozen money that uh the United States is withholding from right now everything that's been discussed with them is that any sanctions relief, now remember sanctions come, there's international sanctions, there's congressional sanctions, there's executive sanctions. So some we can release and some we cannot. But any sanctions relief is conditionbased, which means it has to be in return for the reason why those sanctions were put in place in the first place, which is their nuclear program. Rubio was perhaps referring to yesterday's attack on a commercial vessel in the state of Formos. This was after the Mediterranean shipping company MSC confirmed that its vessel Sariska Vi was struck by two projectiles in the port of Umaser. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations first reported the attack southeast of Umakaser, but did not name the ship. Iran's IRGC later claimed to target the US-owned Sariskavi following an attack on an Iranian ship near Oman. MSE said the strikes were completely unjustified based on the allegations made by the IRGC since MSC according to them is a completely neutral carrier with no affiliation to the United States or Israel. Then Rubio did another unthinkable act. Perhaps the pressure of intense grilling over his boss's illegal war against Iran got him rattled as he contradicted Trump by saying that not only was Mushtab alive and well he was also coordinating the war moves during the ongoing conflict. I think there are indications out there that he is increasingly engaging at some level although all of his communications have been in writing and through intermediaries. So you the way to think about is the following. You have the supreme leader and understand that at the end of the day the supreme leader in their system is there really is no analogy to it in our system or anybody else's system. Now we are in talks and I say talks because talks with Iran are not like talks with Switzerland. Okay? They're very different. But Trump would call media outlets who report on the defeat of the US and Israeli forces at the hands of the Iranians both militarily and diplomatically fake news. This is what he wrote today and I quote, "Fake news reports that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the USA stopped speaking a few days ago are false and eronous. The conversations between us have been going on continuously, including four days ago, 3 days ago, 2 days ago, one day ago, and today. Where 15 minutesthey lead, one never knows. But as I told Iran, it's time one way or another for you to make a deal. You have been doing this for 47 years and it cannot be allowed to go on any longer. President Donald J. Trump. End quote. Such is the condition that even Trump's own favorite TV channel, Fox News, is now confused over his strategy visa v Iran. I was going to start this off by saying, Brett, that I'm I'm a little puzzled as to what the actual strategy of negotiation is, but President Trump put this out seconds ago on Truth Social. He says, "Fake news reports that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the USA stopped speaking a few days ago are false and erroneous. The conversations between us have been going on continuously, including four days ago, 3 days ago, two days ago, one day ago, and today. Where they lead, no one knows. But as I told Iran, it's time one way or another for you to make a deal. Does that give you hope that something's in the offing? Uh, not really. I will now leave you with two clips of American journalist Jenk Huger, who has been denied entry along with another journalist called Hassan into the UK by British Home Secretary Shabbana Mahmud for criticizing Israel. And the same people have a problem when I say the UK has been colonized by the murderous regime of war criminal Netanyahu. In the first clip, Jenk explains what happened to him and the second clip shows him shut up the pro-Israeli LBC presenter. The most remarkable thing just happened. Uh I went to the airport to go to London. I'm going to give panel speeches at uh South by Southwest London and two speeches at Oxford. But it turns out I'm not because the person at the United uh counter said you have been banned from the United Kingdom. Uh it says here the government has rejected you. So I already had a visa. It was a 2-year visa. I was in the middle of it. So they went in and pulled the visa apparently. I had no idea why. And I have to say that it was a bit of a gut punch. I it's a little bit hard to shake me, but I was uh shaken there because if that feeling of having your freedom taken away was so visceral. No, you're not allowed to travel to Oxford, to London, to the United Kingdom, you're banned. You don't have that freedom anymore. Why? At the time, I didn't even know. I uh saw a Times of London article uh which is filled with total nonsense uh and but bit of a hatchet job against me. Um and I they said it's because I've criticized Israel. Guys, are we free anymore? This is insane. So 60% of America is critical of Israel. They have nothing that I've said that's anti-semitic because I haven't said anything anti-semitic because I'm not anti-semitic and I don't believe that you should discriminate against anyone. That's actually my core philosophy. I'm for complete nonviolence and equality for every race and religion. So since they don't have that they said well by definition criticizing Israel is anti-semitic. My god how many people are they going to ban from the United Kingdom? Millions of people. Billions of people. 60% of Americans are critical of Israel. Are we all going to get banned? You've described Israel as barbaric and savage. You've claimed Israel uses Jews as human shields. Your critics claim that you're sitting dangerously close to the kind of language uh that is creating the kind of conspiratorial fever that's lead that's led to a huge amount of anti-semitism on our streets. Now, you know, you we cannot lay all of that we cannot lay all of that at your feet. Of course, we can't. But do you ever question the language you use? No, not at all. I I question whether it should be tougher. Uh I mean, we're all going to ask ourselves later, what did we do to stop a genocide? And so what people who are Zionists and fervent supporters of Israel do is they hide behind anti-semitism and they use anti-semitism as a weaponized charge to defend disgusting immoral actions of a foreign government. For what it's worth, and I speak to the British public every day for three hours, 5 days a week, nobody in this country thinks you can't criticize Israel. I want to ask Well, I just got banned for it. Well, well, we'll see. We'll see exactly what the reasons were given. And then you may you may be right that that has happened, but people But that is the reason they gave they gave it to the press. That's the government. I'm talking about the people of the country. Can I ask Well, the people of the country are beautiful. They agree with me. Can I Well, not all of them do. But can I ask is that not the kind of inflammatory language that might have contributed to being banning because most hang let me let me finish my question. More disgusting than the Holocaust. More disgusting than camp in our lifetime. It's that's the kind of inflammatory stuff that does get people fired. Okay. No, no, no, no, no. That's insane. So wait a minute. You want me to just give a pass to this foreign government? That's so No. Then how? No, no, no, no, no. These are all tricks. These are all tricks to say don't criticize this way. Don't criticize that way. No, you're immoral if you're not deeply criticizing the Israeli government. That's it for me. Thank you very much for your support of this platform and our journalism. If you haven't subscribed to my channel, please do so because that's one of the many ways you can support independent journalism. God bless you all.
Trump Family Gets NASTY SURPRISE As Their International Corruption BACKFIRES! Really American and U.S. Democratic Socialists Jun 2, 2026 #trump #albania #trending
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are facing MASSIVE BACKLASH As Their Corrupt Attempt to take over protected Albanian land in a $1.4 billion project to build luxury resorts, resulted in mass protests, corruption allegations and probes, and the Albanian Prime Minister's House being set ablaze in retaliation for him changing the law to allow the Trump Family to build what many are referring to as a "European Epstein Island" . . .
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back to my real estate roots, which has been a lot of fun. And I'm working on an incredible project with my husband in the Mediterranean. The Trump family is getting hit with a nasty surprise today as their international corruption sparked a global scandal. A luxury project linked to President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has sparked protest in Albania's capital where thousands of people took to the streets to protest against a luxury resort project. Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his daughter Ivanka Trump are in the process of taking over protected Albanian land in a $1.4 4 billion project to build luxury resorts because of course and an Israeli linked development. The Albanian prime minister, this is where the corruption comes in, changed the law in his country to allow this to happen. And now his house is burning. This is insane levels of corruption. And you probably won't see much of this on the mainstream media because they think they can just get away with this in foreign countries. So help us out here at Really American by sharing this important information around liking, subscribing, all the things. And let's dive in here because that initial imagery may have seemed extreme if you don't know what is going on here. And I feel like a lot of people don't. This is being being massively protest in Albania for a long time now. It's massive in scale. I think that's an understatement. Can you explain it? There's no power on this island. You're building You're building everything from scratch, correct? Well, it's an unbelievable, beautiful 1,400 hectare private island in the middle of the Mediterranean. We were on a friend's boat and we stopped for a swim. Effectively, that's how we found it. We swam to the islands. We went on a hike barefoot all the way up to the top and we were just captivated. Right. Great. So Ivanka and Jared Kushner get to start their own Epstein island sparking civil unrest across Albania so they can make a few bucks I guess. And I want to show you where this is in case people don't know. This is Albania. It's right next to Italy. You know this is over in Europe. And look at this. They are doing this. I'll show you the clip after in I forgive the pronunciation. Vio norte protected area right here is Sesan Island part of what they're talking about. And like who the [ __ ] says [ __ ] like that other than a [ __ ] Bond villain. Oh, we were out in the Mediterranean and I we jumped off our friend's boat and I saw this island and I was like, "Yeah, I want to colonize the [ __ ] out of that." And forgive me for sounding hyperbolic and facitious here, but listen to this stuff. This is from David Miller for from Tracking Power. Here's Ivanka Trump with the first level of her cover story for their purchase of Saison Island, which you just saw. That thing is huge, in Albania, just across from the heel of Italy. It's a result of a lot of reflection on How I Want to Live, she says. And the second level of her cover story, this is all from that interview, which gives in like just ick. The island hosts 3600 Soviet era tunnels and hardened bunkers built to withstand a nuclear attack. Bunkers for end times billionaires. This is their plan for Albania. Luxury resort for their rich buddies. Once they finish bribing Albanian officials and demined the island, they'll be able to host the ultra-wealthy PDF file Epstein class again under the Trump brand in secret with no accountability and with bunkers they can use for their six fantasies and experiments on okay now we're getting into conspiracy but like at this point like it's hard to even not give into that. And thankfully, Albanian authorities are probing into this seaside resort, quote unquote. But you have to wonder if the Trump corruption was able to get so far even in the United States. Like, think of how far it can go internationally. And right now, the only people standing in the way are largely the people of Albania. Not the prime minister, the people. Now this very project is planned to be built on several hectares of the protected Voza Narta coastal landscape in Zevu nets and on the uninhabited island of Suzan. Environmental NOS's have long raised concerns that the project could very much threaten the area's biodiversity and disrupt bird migration roots. On Monday, protesters uh chanted slogans while holding plards that read hands of Vioa Nata. The situation in NA lagoon is that in practice we have a protected area but above all our state has allowed construction work to continue without consultation and without transparency regarding what is happening in some of the most beautiful areas or in one of the last untouched regions of Europe. Public alarm grew in early May when excavators began clearing pine forests and dunes to open new access roads and construction sites. An activist who took part in the protest said that public outrage escalated after a video was circulated on social media that showed what she said was an activist being forcibly removed from that very site. Yeah. And both fortunately and unfortunately, I have that video of the activist being removed. Fair warning, graphic content may be disturbing, but here it is. That is [ __ ] sickening. That is an activist being dragged off of protected land so that Donald Trump's family can go and start a construction for a real estate project for a luxury resort for their billionaire buddies. that is definitely if not definitely then 99% most likely going to be some sort of billionaire escape similar to little [ __ ] St. James and even if by some miracle that's not the case and that's not what happens. Here's someone pointing out why Albanians are so angry about this even more so. Listen, this commenter on that video of the activist being yanked away says, "To those who don't seem to understand why these people are upset about the Trump Kushner taking of their land and resources to build a luxury development, dot dot dot, Saison Island is within the Caribouan Saison National Marine Park and is home to rare bird and marine species. It's a protected area. This development is destroying protected habitat. It was used as a military base in the past and is considered a strategic coastal area. There is a lot of local concern about foreign control of the island. And for this reason, as well as foreign influence, transparency of the process, and environmental destruction, none of which the Trumps could give a flying [ __ ] rat's ass about. So for [ __ ] sake, can we please blast this out? Show that the Trump family is terrorizing the rest of the world. All so they and their Epstein elite class can go have a [ __ ] island somewhere in Europe to did kids probably. I'm not even one to give into conspiracy theories, but for [ __ ] sake, can we not forget about the Epstein files and see this [ __ ] for what it is? You know, it's not even a business for me despite the scale of it. We not only the island, but we have five miles of beachfront directly across from the island. This beautiful peninsula with a lagoon on one side, the ocean on the other, um, beautiful white sand beaches. For me, this is it feels more like a challenge than anything else. the the culmination of all of my experience in real estate, all of my travel, a lot of reflection on how I want to live, how I think people increasingly are wanting to
Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman BREAKING: IRGC URGENT WARNING:
“We announce to the settlers in northern occupied Palestine that the area specified in the attached map, which includes the Upper Galilee, the Lower Galilee, the Golan, and Haifa, has become a closed military zone as of this moment. If your criminal leaders target the southern suburb of Beirut or the city of Beirut, this area will be a target for attacks by the Iranian armed forces. And we say to the honorable Palestinian people: The time has come to reclaim your land. Our fire is at your service. The departure of settlers from the occupied territories may be a prelude to your return to it.
Immediate evacuation order
To the residents of the settlements in northern occupied Palestine, it is announced that the area marked on the attached map, which includes the Upper Galilee, the Lower Galilee, the Golan Heights, and Haifa, is hereby defined as a closed military zone. Should your criminal leaders attack the southern Dahiya of Beirut or the city of Beirut, this area will become a target for the Iranian armed forces.
And to the esteemed Palestinian people we say: The time has come to reclaim your land. Our fire is at your service. The departure of the settlers from the occupied territories may be a preliminary step for your return to it.”
Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman JUST IN: A source in the Israeli PM's team says reports about Trump personally warning Netanyahu about prison or saying he is hated worldwide are false.
The call was tense and focused on both leaders' complaints about each other's social media posts after their previous conversation.
Trump felt Netanyahu's post implied the war was continuing at full intensity, while Netanyahu felt Trump's post suggested Israel had agreed to a ceasefire on all fronts.
Trump did say it is becoming harder to defend Israel's position internationally.
In response to the flagrant aggression committed by US terrorist forces against the national sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Qeshm Island, the IRGC Aerospace Force struck US military occupation bases in Kuwait with precise and intensive missile strikes, successfully destroying their targets and setting the aggressors' fortifications ablaze.
The IRGC issues this as an initial response and delivers a severe warning to the US administration and any party permitting their territory or airspace to be used as a launchpad for aggression against Iran: Any new act of aggression, or any move against a single inch of our borders and sovereignty, will be met with a seismic, crushing, and decisive response that goes beyond existing boundaries. Our forces will not hesitate to turn all enemy positions and interests in the region to ash.
"The era of hit and run is over." Last edited 5:50 PM · Jun 2, 2026
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Huge breaking news. We have information now, confirmation that Iran has fired a number of missiles towards a large number of countries in the Middle East. Kuwait has been hit. At least 10 missiles were fired towards uh Kuwait. Two of the possible targets that we're hearing is the US base Ali Al um air base in Kuwait and the other one was the uh is it Arian air base in Kuwait as well. The US fifth fleet in Bahrain was also targeted and hit. We heard multiple explosions. We also heard reports that there were explosions in Dubai as well. We're going to be giving you the breaking news throughout this conversation. We're going to be obviously having on uh ex CIA Larry Johnson come on the show as well. So, do me a favor, like this video. Let's try and get as many people in here as possible. Very important news and we're going to be giving it to you throughout the night. We have uh we have uh XCIA Larry Johnson, then we have XCIA Ray McGovern, and then we have Lieutenant Anthony Aguilera and possibly more guests. but also live on other uh platforms as well. And so people may interrupt to give us some breaking news as well. For example, right now we've heard uh Iran has continuously and in a sustained manner attacked um Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in Iraqi Kurdistan for the last . We also see US bases are on fire. I see here now US base uh in Kuwait is on fire. A US base in Kuwait is on fire. Guy, if you guys, if you're on the YouTube, I do need you to do me a favor. And that favor is to um like this video and get as many people in here as possible. And as I'm looking down, whenever I look down, it is cuz I'm looking for some uh breaking news. And this is breaking explosion in uh just only interrupt guys, if you could do me a favor when there's some breaking news. Thank you. um to the people on the panel if you can cuz normally I mute when I'm on YouTube but if you can just mute uh sorry if you can just open your mic when there's some breaking news that would be marvelous uh just to keep the stream clear and going. So breaking news um explosions in Bahrain there is confirmation Sencom claiming that there was no strikes but there was indeed some strikes. We have got a statement from the IIGC and the statement from the IIGC is as follows. And uh let me get that for you. And actually let me see if this works. And guys like I said like the video, share the video and uh let everybody know that we're on this channel. Many people may not know that we're on this channel. We have XCIA Larry Johnson coming on. And as we normally do, it's something we've always been known for is to provide the breaking news as and when we receive it. So explo So yeah, so there was explosions in Bahrain, Kuwait. We've heard some that there's explosions in Dubai and also alerts in Saudi Arabia too. Now, there also was a report that airspace in Bahrain and Kuwait um has been closed. So, we're going to be talking about that as well. Um I'm just putting this tweet out. That's a flop. Just one second and then we're going to be good to go. Um, and as I said, do let everyone know about it. Like this video. We got Larry coming on in the next minute or two. Uh, so Larry coming on is going to be brilliant, very important. This guy is very knowledgeable and to give the breaking news with him is going to be amazing. We're going to continue on with the space in case anybody thinks that we're not, we are going to. So, there's any breaking news, we'll continue to give you it on the space. If anybody wants the link to the YouTube, I'm going to put it in the nest at the moment. And uh let's get into it. There's going to be a lot of news to speak about, a lot of news to get through. We're not going to end the space. We're going to continue on with the YouTube. Let me just Um, okay, cool. So, we're just waiting for Larry. But in the meantime, let me just give some more news. Um, let me try this. One second. Um, okay. So, I need um and yeah, guys, retweet the space. I'm just going to give some update on the news to the YouTube people just in case any news they missed out on and then we'll take it from there. So here you should be able to see the news and let me spotlight it for you. So we've seen explosions in Bahrain and we have this statement from the IIGGC which says in response to the flagrant aggression committed by US terrorist forces against the national sovereignity of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Keshum Island, the IRGC aerospace force struck US military occupation bases in Kuwait with precise and intensive missile strikes, successfully destroying their targets and setting the aggressors fortification ablaze. The IGC issues this as an initial response and delivers a severe warning to the US administration and any parties permitting their territory or airspace to be used as a launchpad for aggression against Iran. Any acts of aggression or any move against a single inch of our borders and sovereignity will be met with seismic crushing and decisive response that goes beyond existing boundaries. Our forces will not hesitate to turn all enemy positions and interests in the region to ash. The era of hit and run is over. So that was the statement by um Iran. Obviously we'll continue to give you the news as and when we receive it. Um, and then yeah, we'll continue to give you the news as and when we receive it. That's brilliant. That's in the right angles for when I want to give the news there. Okay, awesome. Lots of news, lots to speak about, lots to get through. Uh, let me just give you some more news. Obviously, some of the news we've been tweeting out, but we that statement that statement talked about explosions in specifically Kuwait, but we know there's been explosions confirmed in Bahrain. We know there's reports of uh explosions in Dubai. We know that there's alerts in Saudi Arabia. So, this is a significant and also Iraq. Iraq has been as a has been dealing with explosion after explosion after explosion. So major explosions happening throughout. And uh yeah, let me just have this ready for more news as well. Okay. And yeah, what I'm seeing here is channel 14 news is saying if the Iranian regime fires even a single shot at Israel tonight, all the gates of hell will be opened against it. Cabinet of Kuwait said, "We demand Iran to stop attacking Kuwait and we condemn it. So obviously, we're going to continue giving you the news as and when we receive it." The news is coming out. Uh let me just make sure. And uh yeah, we're just waiting for Larry. He could be a couple of minutes off. Obviously, there's a lot of news, so he's maybe held up in a previous broadcast. But in the meantime, retweet and like this video, guys, and let's try and get as many people in the YouTube as possible. Lots to get through and lots to break down. We will be having former CIA Larry Johnson. He's coming in in a second. He just messaged me. Brilliant. Uh so, this is huge. This is major breaking news. Um, and uh, we're seeing a lot of evidence. It says escalating attacks from Iran in response to ceasefire violations by the United States of America. The US attacked Keshum Island with an at least three projectiles and at least one impact. Iran hit Ali al-Salm air base in Kuwait. They hit Arif Jan military US base in Kuwait. They hit US Navy fifth fleet fleet base in Bahrain. Targets within the UAE, apparently an American base in U um in UAE, possible sirens in Saudi Arabia. There was sirens in Saudi Arabia, but we don't know about if there was any strikes. and uh also separatist HQ in urbal in Iraq were hit as well. Multiple strikes and multiple hits. That's the uh latest news. Obviously, we're going to continue to give you the news and actually let me catch up the YouTube for any of the news that they missed. Although I did a kind of overview give it, but we've seen a multiple hits. Zencom are denying denying that any of these visuals were hit, but they've done that in the past. They've done that in the past where they deny strikes and then we find out that strikes did indeed hit. We're going to have Larry Johnson coming on. He's going to break all of this news down with us as it's coming through live. The only thing I ask of the YouTube audiences, if you can like the video, tweet, brilliant. Everyone's hitting the emojis on there as well. Appreciate that. on the X if you can retweet the space uh as well. We're going to be continuing to give you the news throughout the night. We've got so many great guests coming on uh to break the news down. Uh Larry, thanks for joining us. Can I ask can I ask for a two-minute delay because I've been I've been sitting here back to back to back to back to back since uh . Of course, Larry, you take Never mind two minutes. Larry, take three minutes. Okay. Okay. I was going to say take the number of minutes as missile struck, but there'll be too many missiles. There'll be too many minutes. I'll be I'll be right back. I got to turn the lights on anyway. It's starting to get dark. Appreciate it. So, Larry will be coming on in a couple of minutes. Don't worry about it. I was going to say to Larry, take as many minutes as the number of missiles that Iran just struck today, but then I realized there's so many. I don't want to be waiting so many minutes. So, I changed my mind and I didn't say that to him. But let me continue to give you the news as this is happening. In the meantime, like I said, you guys, I'm not going to repeat it, but you guys know what you need to do. Kuwait did receive a large number of hits too. Um, and this is ongoing. So, obviously, as the news comes in, we'll continue to give you the news as and when we receive it. Um, okay. So the IRGC says the US struck an IR and this is uh was mentioned earlier in the space as well but the IRGC say the US struck an Iranian oil tanker near the straight AUS damaging its engine room and IGC telecommunication mast south of Keshum Island. In response the IGC says it targeted a vessel named Panaya with anti-ship missiles. 13 minutesApparently that vessel is an American Israeli vessel or an American vessel at least a US air and helicopter base in a regional country. They targeted those US HQ of the US Navy fifth fleet with missiles and drones. And I mentioned all of the US air bases where these strikes were carried out. So we have a huge amount of breaking news coming through. Obviously, we'll continue to give you it as and when we receive it. Um, okay. The IRGC, just some more information. I just mentioned this, but the IRGC confirm it struck a vessel called Panaya in the straight of Hermoose in response to alleged US attacks. We also have the US officials who made a statement. They said, "We remain committed to the ceasefire with Iran. The ceasefire remains in place. The ceasefire still stands." What that tells you is the United States of America are not going to be responding to these attacks. Quite clearly, this is a major escalation and major aggression by Iran in response to multiple strikes on their locations. Guys, make sure you've subscribed to this channel as well and put your notifications on. As you know, for many years, we've been the number one place on X for breaking news and now we're doing the exact same thing on YouTube. We have a huge number of people on X and we've got a huge number of people on YouTube as well. Um, so let me just see what else we've got here. Iran is hitting Kuwait very hard with major bombardment. The fact that the United States of America are saying that they're not going to respond, that the ceasefire remains in place is uh interesting to say the least. Okay. And I've got another Oh, you're okay. Brilliant. And we've got another statement. Thank Hi, Larry. How you doing? I'm back. Thanks for coming. Thanks for coming. You There's been a huge amount of news. G Larry. Yeah. Um, I know you're aware of it because you you've been on a number of podcasts. What's your what's your thoughts about what's happening? Well, this is uh let's go back to the the news that Pepe Escobar and I broke yesterday. Uh we received intelligence uh last Thursday. And so when we're getting it like Thursday, I'm getting at midday Thursday. It's already Thursday night. uh and maybe it was early Friday morning in in Iran, but the Iranian Supreme National Security Council had met and they met in response to the attacks that had been taking place on Keshum Island and Bonder Abbas and the attack on two Uh two Iranian uh naval uh speedboats. And so they the the message uh they made a decision and then directed President Peskin to contact foreign minister Shariff of Pakistan and Peskin delivered the following message to Sharif. Now remember this was last Thursday um said one uh we're going to withdraw. We're breaking off the negotiations. The United States is violating it. They've attacked us. They blockaded us and they're and the the Israelis are attacking Lebanon and are and are attacking Beirut. That is complete violation of the ceasefire we're pulling out. Second, we're going to withdraw from the non-prololiferation treaty. And third, we will then at some point after that, as a demonstration to show that we do have a nuclear device, we will detonate a nuclear device in Iranian territory in order to uh say, okay, this this is now uh we've Iran has upped the pressure. And what happened? Then uh Shariff turned around and to his foreign minister and said, "Okay, get off get on the phone or get with Marco Rubio as fast as possible. Let him know this." So the United States was informed of that. Uh I, you know, I think it'd be natural to say, "Well, okay, that's what they're saying, but they don't really mean it." And then 10:00 Eastern time yesterday, 10:00 a.m. Eastern, um the Iran announced, "We're done. The negotiations are over. Uh the United States basically is not trustworthy." Now, it's within that it's conditional that if the United States turned around and began complying with the agreement and doing what they had said they'd do, then then Iran, I think, would reconsider. But until the United States does that, they're not going back. And and this and the point you're making that the United States is saying, "Oh, the ceasefire is still in place." That shows that tells me that that part about the nuke, that's also true cuz they don't want to go there. The United States does not want that to happen. the minute Iran detonates a nuclear device shows that it has one, then Donald Trump is going to be proven the the ultimate buffoon uh that it was under his watch that this whole uh thing fell apart. So, um that that that's where we're at and and I think uh right now what uh Iran is doing what it said it would do. It's it's targeting the these attacks that have taken place on Iranian territory came out of Kuwait. So, they're hitting Kuwait. They're not hitting Saudi Arabia. They're not hitting Qatar. Uh the next one, they're reportedly also hitting Bahrain. and um they they will uh probably hit the UAE if the UAE continues to provide support to US military operations. So yeah, this is this is escalating. U how far it will go, we'll have to wait and see. So Larry, just on that and by the way guys, we are going to give you the breaking news as and when we receive it as well. Uh because I know a lot of people here for the breaking news. Um, who I guess the question is, um, who or how did Iran get the nuclear uh, bomb? Was it something they produced themselves? Was it a third party country that gave it to them? What's the information on this? Well, you remember Ringo Star song, I get by with a little help from my friends. I think this was a Ringo Star moment. uh and without identifying the country, let me just point out that Iran has very good relations with Russia, with China, with North Korea and with Pakistan. What those four countries all share in common is they all have functional nuclear weapons and uh and Iran is aligned with them not to use nuclear weapons as in an offensive manner. And I and I think, you know, if if Iran ever decided to use a nuke, they would use it against Israeli military bases. You know, Israeli military facilities. They're not going to use it against civilians. You know, that that's still they walk that fine line. but within Shia theology and and I'm sure it's shared within Sunni theology too just not am just not among the Wahhabs and the Debandis and the Salopus but for the majority the vast majority of Sunni Muslims the idea of killing a non-combatant is a sin it's haram so um I I the Iranians they they don't pay lip service to that they actually they believe that in fact you notice that uh how many civilians in Israel were not killed and and in Saudi Arabia and in Qatar and in Bahrain and in Kuwait and in UAE during the first five weeks of this war. Iran Iran actually went to great lengths to not inflict civilian casualties. They made sure they were hitting strategic economic targets and military targets. Now, did they kill military personnel? Oh, absolutely. That that's fair. That's, you know, that that's not dishonorable. Killing civilians, dishonorable. And I'll just I'll add a note to that that we had to listen to the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Security Council yesterday complaining about Hezbollah attacks in Israel. And I just wish somebody at the council would have said, "Excuse me, how many how many civilians has Hezbollah killed in Israel in the last four weeks?" And I think Danny would have had to say none or a few. And then somebody say, "Well, Mr. Ambassador, how many civilians has your government killed in Lebanon and in Gaza in the last four weeks?" And that answer is thousands. Women, children, men who are not military, elderly men, thousands. So you tell me who's the threat. No doubt. Um I totally agree with you. Like I only believe in defensive war as well. I think that's very much clear in suddenly Ania theology. Now um Larry, you mentioned four countries that possibly could have given Iran a nuclear bomb. Which country was it? Yeah, I'm not going to say. I know, but I'm not going to say. It's good to ask. Good to ask, but I'm I'm going to leave that out. When I was asking the question, when I was asked the question I thought should I have a smile or not and I thought let's have a serious face and then um Iran has the engineering capability to build a device on its own. So it it it's not really one that's has to go begging for this, but uh to be put into a position where they can now say with a credible threat that don't you know don't tread on me. Uh that's why I again I think um based upon how Trump and his team have been reacting since yesterday they uh it's sort of anti-Trumpian if you will because normally Trump's out calling people names and insulting them and calling them losers and threatening them. We're going to end your civilization. You haven't heard any of that yet. I don't think you will. Uh but I I think one of the major reasons is uh Iran has now said okay we're not playing around with this anymore and we're not going to be your punching bag. We we have laid out very clearly that you know so the next step if these attacks don't stop. I think the next step will Iran will announce we are withdrawing from the non-prololiferation treaty. We're not going to be the only ones following the rule of law while Israel and the United States ignore the rule of law. Just another question on that, Larry. I also you mentioned something about that they're going to they plan a test as well. Is there going to be a test for a nuclear for the nuclear bomb as well to just exhibit the spec the specific language and it's I published it last night on sonar21.com. Uh I said is is Iran going to get the nuke? And I said the answer is yes. And within that, they made it very very clear that they're not using this as an offensive weapon to attack someone. They're going to do it as a demonstration. In other words, to to have a detonation, probably underground because I don't think they're going to do an above ground detonation that would risk contamination with radioactive material. But they're going to do it in such a way that there will be no doubt, at least among Western analysts, that yeah, okay, they they've now joined the nuclear club. Okay. And um in terms of this possible uh nuclear demonstration they're going to do is this I'm presuming based on the information that you've given this was after the assassination of say Ali alham okay and then the second question is was this when what is the timeline of when this happened? Well, the the the time you mean the timeline of this decision-m the timeline of the decision and the procurement of the nuclear bomb. 26 minutesYeah, I don't I don't have any information on that. Um, so but it's it's something that's been done and uh I would I would suspect that they had that uh the Ayatollah had directed um people prepare, you know, if I was him, I'd prepare at least three devices because you don't want to just prepare one that that's all you got. It's to have a credible threat, you got to have more than one. and uh but to have it, you know, in their back pocket, you know, would would Iran return to the table and say, "Okay, let's negotiate that we don't have a nuclear uh weapon." Yes, I believe they would because they want to live in a situation where they're not under nuclear threat from Israel and that they're not under threat of being attacked at whatever moment by the United States or by Israel because the history despite all the Western propaganda the history of Iran for the last 46 47 years 47 years is they've not been out attacking their neighbors. They haven't rallied armies to attack Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, Qatar. No, they they've stayed at home. The only time that they went outside was into Syria when they were asked for help by Basher al-Assad, who was under a concerted attack by the West, by US intelligence, by British intelligence, by Israeli intelligence, who were aiding and abetting the radical Islamists, the the Salophus, the Deabandis, uh the Wahhabis that uh you know, and and they're under their I'll call it the unislamic version of Islam. They would kill other Muslims simply because they took it upon themselves to judge who was a Muslim and who wasn't, which is again uh I think anathema to mainstream Muslim thought. Totally agree. And we've got some more breaking news. This is a statement. We did get a few statements and they and I we'll just give the news as well as we're having this interview. The breaking news, this was the statement by the IGC. The earlier statements allegedly weren't accurate. This is an accurate accurate rendition of the statement. It says, quote, "Late last night, the invading US military target, sorry, the invading US military targeted an Iranian oil tanker near the straight of Hermoose with a hellfire missile, damaging the engine room. In response to this aggression and violation of the regulations of the Strait of Hermoose, the IRGC targeted an enemy Zionist American ship, the Panaya, with missiles. In renewed aggression, the American enemy also targeted an IIGC communication center on Keshum Island. In response to this aggression, its air base and its helicopter base stationed in one of the countries in the region, Kuwait, as well as the headquarters of the US fifth fleet in Bahrain, was subjected to an attack by missiles and drones of the IRGC aerospace force. We warned previously that in the event of an aggression, the response would be different and harsher and we have acted accordingly. These responses should serve as a lesson. We reaffirm that undermining the security of the straus will cost the invading US military a heavy price. We also have another piece of breaking news which says, quote, "A no-fly zone has been set up over Eril in northern Iraq, covering 13 covering 13 nautical mile radius and up 6,000 ft officially for a military exercise running from 7:00 a.m. to 10 uh p.m. So major escalation and also obviously the airport in Bahrain has also been closed and Kuwait, Larry, major attacks by Iran, specifically Bahrain and Kuwait. We heard alerts in we heard also possible reports that there was explosions in the UAE, although that one needs to be verified. The UAE does keep things under wraps. And we did hear alerts in Saudi, although they were not verified either. What's your thoughts about these specific attacks? Well, again, they are measured responses and the key is they are responses to US attacks. These have not been initiated by Iran. And that's been, you know, that's that's been the track record throughout this war, you know. So, you know, Iran is, I'll say, maintaining its integrity that they're not going to they're not going to play into the hands of the West that wants to create a narrative that they're this crazed Islamic fanatics who want to destroy Christians.
No, they Iran is defending itself and it's specifically targeting Kuwait because u you know the the Hellfire missile I suspect that was fired by a drone not by a pilot and those drones apparently are coming out of Kuwait and so that's why they're hitting both the air base and the uh army uh base in Kuwait, US Army facility. So, uh, you know, the US is going to have to make a decision. Are they going to escalate? And if they escalate, then that's the end of the ceasefire. Uh, and, you know, putting Donald Trump in a real real pickle. You know, I I I heard I haven't verified it independently, but I was told um on an earlier broadcast uh with Peter Kersonen that um the the Trump's popularity is now below 30%. And I I find that quite believable. We're also seeing that, you know, with the past manipulation of oil prices that the price prices now are climbing because I think the oil market's waking up and realizing that this whole this whole thing about an imminent peace agreement was a complete fraud. Yeah. And um guys, make sure you like this video and get as many people in here as possible. Very important breaking news happening. Uh Larry, the Americans are b obviously the Americans are denying that these missiles struck their targets. They're saying that Iran is lying. What's your thoughts on that? This is directly from Sencom. Yeah, America's lying. If I'm telling the truth on this, Iran's not looking for a pretext. Uh you know, Iran is content to let things run. It's it's United States attacking. I mean, who who can give the United States any benefit of a doubt since they're the ones that in the midst of peace negotiations or negotiations to secure and ensure that Iran did not have a nuclear weapon, the United States betrayed those negotiations and used that as a pretext to launch that attack on the 28th of February. Even though the mediator from you know the for I think he was the foreign minister of Oman he was very very upbeat on the 26th of February said oh boy we got you know uh things are looking really good I think we're making some real progress and that got blown to hell on the morning of the 28th of February. Okay we've got some more breaking news. Bahrain has closed its entire airspace until 400 p.m. All flights grounded amid fresh regional security alerts and Gulf air defense activity. That's the latest news on that. We did hear earlier on today that Bahrain had cancelled their flights to Iran and Iraq. Could that be in relation to this? Did they kind of smell something was coming? Yeah, I'd say so. You know, I don't believe in coincidence. So if it's if it's in fact um you know if if that is true then yeah that would that would show that they they knew this was coming. They knew the United States was going to go after this Iranian tanker. So the US uh Larry is saying that they don't want to escalate. They're trying to again play this down the countries that were hit, the smaller Gulf countries like Kuwait, like Bahrain. Um do you think this does escalate or do you think that Trump's as you mentioned because of the fear of the nuclear bomb, because of the fear of various other things, Trump wants to play all of this down? Yeah. Well, I think I think he's trying to play it down right now. um because of again because of that message that was delivered to Marco Rubio pointing out that this this could advance to uh a demonstration that Iran has a nuke and I think Trump and company want to avoid that embarrassment. I mean that would be a complete you know it would completely the the questions that would be coming up at the press conference was wait you said you obliterated their capa capability. Now, of course, they turn around and say, "See, we told you all along Iran was going to do this, but but um it is the fact that Trump has avoided getting into the name calling and doing that kind of thing that he normally does uh tells me that he he recognizes that this is this is quite serious and uh that, you know, they're trying to keep this from getting out of hand. But in order to stop it from getting out of hand, the one thing you've got to do is to make sure that you don't cause the initial confrontation that will cause this to get out of hand. And if you look at each one of these incidences, every single one of these days have been initiated by the United States of America. So why produce? Why attack and cause such a response when you know you don't have the ability, the capability to respond? Yeah, I think a continued test that they they're not certain that Iran means what it says and that's why Iran's responding as it is. Yeah, we absolutely mean it. Trust us and uh you know, we're not going to talk, we're going to do our talking with missiles now. We're not going to do our talking with words. So, we have got some visuals. Actually, it's not. Yeah. Okay, it's posted. And guys, by the way, guys, when I'm looking down, it's cuz we're looking for news. We're looking for new information and clips, but this visual should hopefully show. And let me here here it is. Uh let me show a better angle. Here we go. Um let me remove this off. Okay. So you can see here hopefully you can see this American air defense failing in Kuwait after failing to destroy Iranian missile. So you can see the Iranian missile does end up striking. So this kind of um debunks the claim, Larry, about them um stopping the missile. Are you suggesting that the United States is lying? Oh my goodness. Um yeah, I mean Yeah. Yeah, you are. And they are okay. Yeah. Yeah. This is that we intercepted everything. Yeah. Sure. Sure. Tell that to the people on the ground. Now, I I I don't I don't rule out the the possibility that Iran in its missile response is using what I'll call lower grade, lower capable missiles that they are using. That these are more just as a reminder that okay, we're not hitting you with our full weight. We're just we're hitting you enough that you know we're serious about this, but if you keep [ __ ] around, you're going to find out. Yeah. And that's exactly what's happening. Larry, um just on this actually, let me get up the targets that were struck in um these different locations. So, it was Ali alsu. It was Arif John military US base in Kuwait. There was the US Navy fifth fleet in Bahrain. There were also allegedly targets in the UAE. We did hear there were sirens in the UAE. We also heard the possibility that there were sirens in Saudi Arabia. And then we also heard that the Separatists HQ, which some call Mossad HQ in Bil also received consistent attacks as well. What's your thoughts about those locations and why those specific locations are I I I don't see Iran attack doing anything against the Saudis unless the Saudis allow their airspace to be used for attacks and I don't think the Saudis are in fact I don't Qatar as well you know they're not um they've got the major air base in the area aloud but apparently that air base is not being used for any kind of offensive operations against Iran As far as Bahrain, there is no fifth fleet there anymore. Where the fifth fleet used to be located, where the fifth fleet headquarters used to be, but uh now those those buildings, my understanding, basically empty. So, you know, the United States is not in a position to really do much damage to those. So, if the fleets are empty and nonoperational, why would Iran waste their time attacking it? Well, that again it's the West claiming that it's attacking it, not Iran. I didn't see the RGC say we're hitting targets in Bahrain. Um the well this one claims this unless this is a fake one but I'm being told this is a legitimate uh IGC statement. The one I read you know the one I read it Larry it says uh in response to this aggression its air base and its helicopter base stationed in one of the countries in the region Kuwait as well as the headquarters of the US fifth fleet in Bahrain was subjected to an attack by missiles and drones of the IRGC aerospace forces. Okay. Yeah. Well, they're they're attacking an empty shell because the fifth fleet command is not back in Bahrain. It'd be insane to be back there. They don't have any protection. So, so you think that this attack then, this specific attack on that specific base was more of a kind of not an act, a reminder, a reminder. You know, they may have the reason they may have targeted that was because the other the the other the what is it the Pan or Panaya that Iran hit as sort of a tit for tat. You hit our ship, we'll hit your ship. Yeah. Now, um we also saw that the telecommunication another telecommunication radar was hitting Kashm Island. I brought this up to you the other day, Larry. They are starting to consistently hit a number of telecommunication and radars on the straight of Hermoose. As someone who is intelligence, how important is that? Like if they take enough out, what would that do? Well, it depends. Um I I and and so I start with the assumption that Iran is not dependent upon one type of communication system. uh they have both visible systems that are above ground, but I I think they also have other systems uh some below ground. Uh and you can't rule out that they've also created decoys. 42 minutesThey'll create a if you will a a target that looks like a communications node. Turns out that it isn't. But if if the United States plan is to, you know, gradually try to wipe out the ability to communicate between these units, then that could be a prelude to another attack. You know, maybe try to insert ground forces. But but I don't think the US is there yet because I I'm just I'm not hearing the chatter that you normally would hear that if that kind of major operation was planned uh then there would be activities undergirling it that would be underway right now and I'm not seeing or hearing that. Well that's interesting because we've got some news that suggests the opposite but then I guess this could be just fake reporting. Uh but there is some news claiming air defense activity is reported or in Isvahan. Lo locals within western Thran are reporting a possible power cut and also locals in um in western Thran are also reporting aerial jet activity. Now this may not be a US attack. It could be for example Iranian jets. It could be for example power that has been cut by Iran themselves because of certain defense procedures they're putting in place. It could also be that the air defense activity is ready for anything possible even though it may not be coming. But these are the latest and breaking news. Well, and also consider that what might be taking place over Ishvahan is a US drone trying to do intelligence collection and the Iranian air defense systems naturally would engage that target. They've shot they've shot down over 25 MQ9 Reapers and several MQ1 Predators over the course of the last, you know, 12, 13 weeks. So that that that could be another explanation. I I do think it's more likely that the the air traffic that they're hearing over Iran is Iranian air traffic, not US air traffic. Fair enough. Fair enough. That makes sense. That does actually make sense cuz you I remember you mentioning to me that if something like that was to be happening, you would be hearing chatter at least about 5 to before something happened. Yeah. There's a whole a whole host of let's call them bureaucratic things, message messages that have to be sent, messages received. um you know uh and when you get get up to what's called an execute order um you know they they issue first the flow is there's what issued a a concept of operations and then the uh or there's an alert warning order and then the the units that are actually going to carry out the military activity they have to go back with a proposed con concept of operations and then that concept of operations is accepted or modified communicated back down the line and then that becomes the plan and then they have to wait for the execution order. So, uh I I don't think we're at that stage yet. But again, I'm not I'm not sitting in any of the uh command centers monitoring that message traffic. Yeah. Yeah. Um and guys, make sure you like the YouTube and retweet the X. We've got so many people on both and people need to are here for the breaking news. Let's get as many people in here as possible. Um, so just bringing this back over. So previously when there was an attack on UAE and there was an attack on Saudi, there was this kind of annoyance with the United States of America when they didn't respond. This time the attacks, let's say they were only on Kuwait and Bahrain. Would there be the same level of angst amongst the Gulf States or do you think they're going to just let this slide? No, I think well it's sending a message. Now my understanding is that both Qatar and the Saudis were basically saying okay with us we're going to we're going to push your bases out. I think Qatar has given the United States 9 months to relocate aloud which that that's going to be significant if if true but again that comes that comes from the same source that said uh Iran's going to pull out of the negotiations. Iran's going to withdraw from the non-prololiferation treaty and Iran's going to do a nuke demonstration and then pointed out as well that this is there has been a decided shift in the attitudes of key Gulf states like I call Saudis and Qataris those are the t two key Gulf states because of the volume of sulfur ura helium oil liquid natural gas that is produced between those two. They're far more important than Kuwait, Bahrain or the UAE. What's um you know when you me when do you in terms of a timeline when do you think they basically leave the MPT or when do you think they actually do their test? You explain how they're going to do the test, but what was the date you said again? Well, I I think I think it depends a large measure on the US what it does. So far, at least Trump has tried to reign in BB Netanyahu as not not it hasn't been necessarily fully effective. Um, and the United States, as you've acknowledged earlier, they're not retaliating and they're making emphasis. No, no, the the ceasefire still holds. We still we're still abiding by the ceasefire. So, uh, and and it makes no sense because they're not abiding by the ceasefire. if they're attacking an Iranian flag vessel. So there's no plans of actually leaving the MPT, doing the test. They're looking at what the situation's going to how the situation is going to unfold. Well, my reading of it is it's let's call it it's an escalatory ladder. They've taken the first step. We're cutting off the talks. Second step would be we're withdrawing from the NPT. I I didn't receive no information giving the guidance upon when that would happen or under what conditions. Similarly with the de nuclear explosion demonstration we got no further details upon under what what would be the triggering uh activity or activities that would lead Iran to say okay we've got to we have to do this now. But it's the point is it's moving in a direction away from an agreement instead of towards an agreement. Yeah. And we actually got a chat here which uh is actually true cuz I had to double check here which is that Russian news are saying and it's not just Russian news. It's been throughout saying the billiondoll Patriot system spectacularly fails right after launch in Kuwait because we've got visuals of the interceptors failing in order to try and stop these uh missiles. Well, I mean, I I I'm surprised they even have some interceptors left because the number of the packs pack three missiles is way down. And and understand they got to fire two of those against if there's if Iran has fired one missile, that means they got to fire two packs. If Iran has fired four missiles, they've got to fire eight packs. So, just, you know, do the math at a minimum. in terms of um you you mentioned this right and there was a report saying that in this previous confrontation the 39 day war Iran made sorry Israel made the United States of America use their supply more so and so the US is significantly more depleted than even Israel what's your understanding and if that's the case as per what you said like there's not going to be much to go around for the Gulf states what's your understanding of how something like that would even happen. Well, let's be clear as well. Israel's in no great shape either. It's not like they've got a they're husbanding a bunch of very effective missiles. The Israeli Iron Dome is less effective than uh the Patriot missile. The Israeli iron Iron Dome is good against subsonic rockets that the Hezbollah used to launch from the north. uh but ballistic missiles or the drones uh not effective or minimally effective. So um this is whatever they're using though if they are actually firing some Patriot missile batteries every missile they fire is one more missile that the United States cannot replace anytime soon. So it ends up depleting the US stock. Yeah. And so one of the things you mentioned, Larry, was when you look at the US stock and how they've shared it between Ukraine, how they've shared it between um the gold state and Israel, they're severely depleted. Um I mean, even these strikes will be depleting the stock even more so, right? Mhm. And yeah, I mean it's like I said, if they're firing, they'll fire a minimum of two. Sometimes they'll fire three or four at the same time at the same target. But uh you know what what what's clear is that um the United States does not have unlimited supplies and they've been having to cannibalize supplies from other countries uh other theaters such as the Pacific theater. So this you know uh we're back in this uh I'll call it the waiting game. We're going to wait and see what the United States does to uh respond. Um yeah, and guys, we'll continue to give you the news as and when we receive it. The news is a bit more lighter at the moment. Obviously, we do keep checking for updates at the same time. Uh Larry, um you know, you mentioned I know I'm a bit excited about the nuclear bomb and actually that's what the conversation about today was going to be. I even had the post ready. Iran has a nuclear bomb. Uh but then this breaking news took over so I changed the poster. But the point was is um in terms of one of these countries possibly giving Iran the nuclear bomb, would that not cause major issues in terms of the way they have to deal with America? And so what I mean by that is for example, let's say it was Pakistan. Well, Pakistan is vehemently connected to the America in a number of ways. I know you we've discussed this many times and how you believe they're moving away and various other things, but someone like them would never want to draw the ear of the United States of America. Same with China in the sense of China obviously isn't afraid of the US, but at the same time they don't want this kind of combative nature. And so other than possibly North Korea, how in what scenario would any of these countries even have the Kutzbah to even give the nuclear bomb to Iran? Well, I don't think they necessarily gave the nuclear bomb to Iran. Um I I think what I'm hearing is more assistance and developing uh a functional warhead that could fit on any of the Iranian missiles. So to that extent they are um it's it's it's an Iranian creation but it's been it's had had support uh from one of the other countries. Um, but it's all being done in the context of not to initiate or escalate the war into a nuclear war. Rather to force the United States and Israel to re-evaluate their strategy to say, "Okay, we got to stop attacking uh we've got to stop attacking Iran just like the same reason we don't attack North Korea because they do have a nuke and they could use it and we don't want we don't want to go down that road. Okay. So, this is an Iranian creation with some support by some other country that has the expertise in this area is what you're saying, right? That that that's what I've been told. Okay. And now again, can I I can't independently verify that, but the the source came from uh a person that's in a position to know that this is true. That's huge. And um the other uh question I have for you is you mentioned how the the nuke would be used in a defensive posture. How they're going to be used in you know the different moralistic logistical reasons they'll be used. That being said obviously there is this fatwa by the previous leader of Iran say Ali alham which prohibited it. So therefore, I'm presuming that his son say alham will have to or probably did maybe didn't do it publicly issue a new fatwa a new ruling to supersede the ruling of his father. Very possible. I mean, I I argued early on that I could see him doing that having, you know, having watched his wife and daughter being killed by the Americans and his mother and father that, you know, just human human nature alone dictates that you can't set back and let that happen and do nothing in response. But uh I also believe that he is he is a man of deep faith and conviction and he's not going to uh carelessly throw away you know Islamic teaching and doctrine. Uh he will he will remain faithful to that. Uh and so um again I think what Iran's looking at is a measure of last resort. Um, in other words, you know, they this isn't their first option. This is their uh last option. Yeah. Yeah. It's a deterrence, right? I'm I'm actually someone who only believes in defensive war. I think if you have a nuclear bomb, it probably stops more war than actually causes and you just know that you're never going to use it. Uh, and hopefully no one will use it against you and you never have to use it. Right. No. Exactly. Right. Um because the whole issue with Israel is that it is the nuclear bomb that gives them the gall to act in the manner that they do because like we know you know Larry they don't have the military capability to succeed in many of these fronts that they're trying to succeed in whether it's Lebanon whether it's in Gaza whether it's in Iran. Now they know that defeat will come but what they also obviously always fear is the idea that they would be demolished in and I mean that in terms of their military being demolished and if they were to get into an expansive war with someone like Iran their country would be demolished and decimated. Yes. And then in their mind sorry no go ahead go ahead. Sorry. And in their mind they think that if that was to happen we'll just nuke them. We've got all these nukes. We'll just nuke them. So this equalizes that, right? And maybe it may that Yeah, that forces them to say, "Okay, if we nuke them, they could nuke us." And Israel, I use the imagery of a giant sumo wrestler fighting a [ __ ] fighting a little person who's say 3'6 in tall and weighs uh, you know, 30 kilos. Um the the little person can can only absorb a few blows from a massive sumo wrestler whereas the suma wrestler could you know it could it could take hits all day from the uh little person and not flinch. So Iran has prepared the contingency for being attacked with nuclear weapons. At least it's secured ballistic missiles. production facilities etc. underground in hardened hardened shelters that uh and as we've seen uh in the last uh 7 weeks, 8 weeks, they've been digging out the ones that were damaged or where they the US attempted to close the entrances and they failed. They were dug out. And you mentioned about you gave the example of sumo wrestler and a [ __ ] and just for the audience because we know that obviously Israel has a large number of nuclear bombs. But on the other hand, Iran is a very huge place with a 90 million population. Iran is as big as Alaska. It's a huge huge country. And so it's the seven it's the 17th largest country in the world. 17th largest country in the world. But then Iran, Israel has a large number of nuclear bombs. The number obviously no one knows, but the claim is that it could be even in the hundreds. On the other hand, Iran may have, as you mentioned, three, but Israel is a tiny place and more than that, Larry. It's a tiny place, but actually most of Israel is actually deserted. There's actually three or four key areas where there is Israelis, right? So almost it equalizes it. What's your thoughts on that, Lori? Yeah. Well, again, that size differential allows, you got to ask um if you dropped one nuke on Israel and one nuke on Iran um and let's say they were dropped on military targets. Iran has far more military targets that would actually exhaust an Israeli supply, whereas Israel's got a very, very finite number of military targets that are relatively easy to hit. Again, that's saying if this thing goes hot, goes beyond what it is right now. I mean, the thing is you you mentioned military targets, um, Larry, but the Israelis won't target military targets. That's going to be the problem. Oh, yeah. Well, they they'll target civilians, but then they're going to be in worse worse shape now or worse shape then than they are right now. And they're already suffering massive massive public relations damage. Well, I don't think they care about public relation damage, though, Larry. If they cared about it, they wouldn't have acted in the manner they've acted over this entire three years. Well, they calculated they could get away with it, but now what they're discovering is they can't. And that is, you know, that's sort of what has created the challenge for them. They they've they've jumped into the abyss and they don't have any good way back. Yes. Yeah. They don't. And this has been the major problem, right? That they're obvious obviously disliked. They're obviously not respected. Um but despite that being the case, um I don't think they care about that. I think they think that look, everyone hates us anyway. Let's do what we got to do. Let's get what we want and then later people will forget about it. People forgot about when America used the nuclear bomb. People will forget that we did it. This is their psychology and I don't think that impacts them. I think that won't stop them doing what they plan to do. 2 minutesWell, no, you you may be correct. I can't argue with that. I think that's a reasonable argument. Um Larry, the other question I've got for you is um looking at what's happened now, do you think this now doubles down or do you think that there is going to be more escalation tomorrow? Do you think the GCC countries are going to start forcing Trump to do something or do you think because of this whole nuclear bomb situation that you referred to, this is now Trump's just going to do everything in his power not to go to war? Um I think it will continue to escalate. Now, at the same time though, as we've seen so far, Trump is avoiding escalating it. And and I think they re recognizes that if he does escalate, if he does start retaliating to this, it it's it's going to threaten the entire US presence in the Persian Gulf and it's going to further discredit the United States in the eyes of the Saudi Arabia and Qatar and Oman and probably Kuwait too because Kuwait said, "Why are you making us the target?" you know, why why are you bringing all this, you know, this madness to us? Uh so that, you know, we're trying to get away from this. We're not trying to get embroiled in more. But isn't that because Kuwait's using America's using Kuwait to launch these attacks on Iran even now? If Kuwait wanted out of it, they could. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that that's and that's the issue right there that if uh the United States wants to uh put an end to this, then they've got to stop launching attacks from these Gulf countries or those Gulf countries need to stand up themselves and say stop. You're not going to do any more of these attacks from here. Exactly. But then they're not doing that. I I know your your position is Saudi Arabia aren't and possibly Qatar aren't. uh but we know that for example Kuwait our Bahrain our UAE is um and so those are key allies that are doing something. Now in terms of UAE Larry why has the Iran not struck the UAE in these strikes if if they well again if if if there were no launches of drones or aircraft from uh UAE that attacked Iran Iran's not going to attack them. M yeah you know sending a very clear message you don't hit me I don't hit you what do you want to do there was um a report this was relayed by uh a few people such as treaty and the claim was this Larry it was that as part of this kind of deal that they were going to put together between the US and Iran that there was this understanding that if Israel breaks the deal as in if Israel bombs another country Israel sorry bombs Lebanon then Iran as a response would be able to bomb the UAE and that would be the kind of equalizer. You bomb Lebanon, an ally of Iran, Iran bombs your ally, which is the UAE, and that would stop both sides from basically breaking the deal. What's what's your understanding or thoughts of that? Well, I'm sure that's one of the one of the policy positions calculated by Iran. But again, this is this thing is dynamic. We we we have a sort of an everchanging picture and right now the picture says warning. It's flashing a warning lights because um this this thing could escalate out of hand. Yeah. Um no doubt. And obviously we continue to give you the breaking news. We got Larry on. We got Larry. We've got your friend on next as well. We got um Ray McGovern on next. Oh, okay. Yeah. We'll give you a good rundown. Yeah. And then we got uh Anthony Aguilera as well. So, we're not going anywhere. But Larry, always appreciate you coming on. I know that they've been working you. We've all been working you really hard, Larry. You've been doing about seven or eight podcasts a day. I was looking through your Substack on Sonar 21 yesterday. So, on uh Sona 21, which is on Substack and your website. And it was like seven or six or seven podcasts. I was like, you're grinding, Larry. Yeah, it's a it's it's a grind, but it's worth it trying to get good information out to people. Ask people to think about things. Don't get uh overwhelmed or flooded with the propaganda. Learn how to discern what's true, what isn't. And I and certainly, man, I congratulate you on the good work you're doing. Talk about grinding, man. Appreciate you, Larry. You're Yeah, but you're young. You could you can you could do this. True. True. Although I don't feel it sometimes, Larry. But yeah, I I Larry, we always appreciate you. Really value you. The fact that you're getting the truth out there, the information out there. We need more people like you. So, thank you so much for joining us and everyone should be following your Substack. I know I read it every night. Even if I'm tired, then I'll skim a read it. I'll skim read it and just look at like some of it, but yeah, definitely. Well, I I appreciate that, my friend. 7 minutesYou stay well and I'm sure we'll be talking again this week. Definitely. Definitely. It's going to go down. Thank you so much, Larry, for joining us. That was Larry Johnson. Make sure you're following him and subscribing. We're continuing on guys, so don't leave, but make sure you're following this channel and subscribing. Have your notifications on. We are the place to go on breaking news on YouTube and X. We're the only place for news. And uh on X, we became the biggest platform for breaking news with thousands upon thousands of real listeners. And we've been doing the exact same thing on YouTube. And wow, I'm so blessed that right now the YouTube is even bigger than the X. I never thought that in this short month that we started this specific YouTube channel that we would grow so big. So guys, make sure you like this YouTube and make sure you subscribe and have your notifications on. Larry gave some huge news and everyone make sure you like. Yeah, thank you. Larry gave some huge news that he's saying Iran has a nuclear bomb. Yes, Iran has a nuclear bomb. It is the great equalizer. When you look at all of the things that are occurring, you look at all the um things that are happening, this basically will stop any kind of possible attack by anybody, including Israel and maybe stop major escalations. I just want to thank I am Valentina with the level one membership. Thanks for becoming an important part of the moral resistance community. We're the next person we've got coming on is Ry McGovern. He is also ex CIA. He is again also intelligence and uh um yeah we're going to give that news. This is what's been tweeted by treaty. He says quote Iran just struck US targets in Kuwait after the US struck Keshim today. Also, alarm just went off in Bahrain. Seems Iran is striking there, too. Iran Iranian sources tell me Iran has stopped playing the tit for tat game. Instead, it's now striking back back at least one and a half times x as hard for every attack against the US and Israel. Guys, we're going to continue giving the news. So, don't leave the YouTube or the X. If you're on the X, retweet. If you're on the YouTube, like. Um, and we're just waiting for Ray McGovern to come. While we're waiting for Ry to come, I am going to um just give you some more news, which is um here one second. Let me just give you some more news. The news is coming thick and fast. Okay, here we go. Um, okay. So there are reports saying that the fighter activity over the was not enemy activity. So the fighter jet activity over Iran was not enemy activity. So it doesn't look like that there are strikes in Iran. Okay. Okay. Just looking for more news and obviously we'll continue to give you the news as and when we receive it. Lots of news coming out. I just want to give a recap for the audience because there's a large number of people who've joined. Um so Iran struck a number of key locations. Those locations were as follows. It was Let me get the locations up. It was a number of bases in um a number of key bases in um in Kuwait, a number of key bases in Bahrain. We heard sirens in um Dubai allegedly and also Saudi Arabia. So guys, what we're going to do is like, comment, and subscribe. Have your notifications on. You see the link that's pinned in the YouTube? go to that link because that link is the interview with Ry McGovern. As we're doing the interview, as we're speaking to Ry about a number of issues, we will also be giving you the breaking news as per what we did with Larry Johnson. So, click on that link and come across cuz that's where we are all moving to. Um, I'm just going to make sure we've got the thing on to move everyone. Yes, we have. Okay, guys. So, see you guys there. Appreciate you guys joining in. I appreciate you guys listening and for sure we will see you guys in a minute as well. And uh yeah, I'm just waiting for the stream to load up on the new channel.
We hereby inform the honorable people and heroic fighters of the Resistance Front that, as we had previously promised, in the early hours of today, following the aggression of the U.S. terrorist military, a targeted and large-scale combined operation was carried out. During this operation, an updated and newly classified target database of U.S. terrorist military bases was provided by the Handala Cyber Command to the active missile and drone units of the proud Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and all of these classified bases were successfully struck for the first time.
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Pepe Escobar : Does Iran Have the Bomb? Part 1 Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom Streamed live 2 hours ago
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Undeclared wars are commonplace. Tragically, our government engages in preemptive war, otherwise known as aggression, with no complaints, from the American people. Sadly, we have become accustomed to living with the illegitimate use of force by government. To develop a truly free society, the issue of initiating force must be understood and rejected. What if sometimes to love your country you had to alter or abolish the government? What if Jefferson was right? What if that government is best which governs least? What if it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong? What if it is better to perish fighting for freedom than to live as a slave? What if freedom's greatest hour of danger is now? 1 minuteHi everyone, Judge Andrew Npalitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026. Our dear, intrepid friend Pepe Escobar joins us now. Pepe, thank you very much for your time as always. Greetings from Moscow, judge. Very important. Yes, I know you're in Moscow and you will soon be in St. Petersburg, which I understand was was attacked by drones today and you and I have a lot of friends there. I trust that everybody is okay. Uh I saw a comment from Dimmitri Peskov indicating that nobody was hurt. Of course, the government wasn't happy, but nobody was hurt. But let's get right to our topic. Just a second, uh judge. It's important. Uh this is in the outskirts of St. Petersburg and slightly far away from the airport. So, it's not inside the city. Got it. Got it. Um, let's get right to the topic at hand uh from you and Larry. Larry is on shortly after you in about two and a half hours uh from now. The two of you have opined to me and others that you have sources which have informed you that Iran has a nuclear device, a deliberable nuclear device. Is that true? What do they have and how do you know it? Well, first of all, uh we revealed that I would say the soft launch of a new uh platform called Powers Shift. Uh Larry and I are involved in this project. Uh it's about deep info, deep intel, deep analysis, and we hope that it's going to work. And of course we would like to invite uh many of our mutual friends in the weeks ahead to be part of it as well. Well the information is absolutely surefire judge and I was very skeptical from the beginning. I asked our Pakistani uh connection to can you grill this guy again and again and again and at the end we got a definitive answer. Look, uh, if I didn't want you to break the story, I wouldn't never have given it to you. Well, very very important the context. Uh, I I I think I sent you judge uh the column that I published I think two two or three days ago, which is more or less the background that led to what happened last week. And the most important thing that last that happened last week was a phone call on May 28th. That was uh last Thursday between uh Iranian President Pzashkin and the Pakistani Prime Minister Shabbaz Sharif. So why did this happen? because Pakistan as our audience knows very well they are the sole mediator towards a possible memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran. So we had this phone call Thursday last week and this is what our sources revealed to us and this this is the bombshell in itself. Pzashkin to Sharif over the phone directly. He delivered a very well ststructured three-step sort of ultimatum that he said to Sharif should be uh communicated to the White House immediately. Number one, which is something that the Iranians have been uh insisting on for the past few weeks, no nuclear talks. That's it. Unless we go to stage number one, end of our wars. Stage numbers number number two, we start discussing straight news. Then we have nuclear talks. Number point number two, no more prospective nuclear treaty framework. These were the words that our source uh meaning nothing like the JCPOA. Exactly. Not even getting towards a JCPOA which considering the circumstances the best the Trump administration can get now is a sort of diluted JCPOA. And the Iranians are saying no not even that because first you need to go to stage one and two end of all wars and then we start discussing horm without that we discuss nothing and then the number three which is at the heart of what we revealed on Monday and of course there's a lot of controversy more than expected everywhere. Pesashkin said, "If American threats persist, we can go for the detonation of a nuclear device on Iranian soil without specifying. Is this a bomb that Iran already has? Is this a bomb that Iran only Iran developed? Is this a bomb that they could count on Russian input to develop or it was delivered readym made let's put it this way by Pakistan or by North Korea nothing uh the source did not elaborate on that he was elaborating on what Pzashkin actually told Sharif so this detonation would happen in in the words of Pzashkin translated via uh by our source executed not as an act of war but as an irreversible ible sovereign demonstration of capability to control scalation dominance. o my first interpretation judge when when I get this and I start asking questions until we got the final answer from the okay this is it it's more than reconfirmed otherwise I wouldn't even bother to give this information to you guys if was telling sharif all of the above this means that he was cleared by ayatahaba kame so this means this is a mustaba directive if this if the Americans go over every possible red line which is uh happening as we speak. There will be a demonstration. There will be no more nuclear ambiguity and they will have an undeniable demonstration and obviously we can imagine the consequences for the global non-puriphilation system. What's going to be right? So this is it. So it's extremely nuanced and very very important judge and I'm breaking this to you now ahead of everybody else. I am waiting for a response whatever that is from somebody very very close to Moshaba Kame. This was organized via our friends of the cradle. I am the lead international columnist whatever for the cradle in Beirut. So I sent them my article, my new article which is already written uh containing everything that I explained to you a few minutes ago. So this is getting to u in front of this guy who is very very close to the supreme leader and we are waiting for a response. Uh they said that it might happen tonight. So tomorrow we're going to have a response total denial plausible deniability whatever. But if whatever he responds, we plan to publish the column because I tell the whole timeline, everything that happened last week, what led to uh this uh phone call between Pzashkin and Sharif, and then what happened afterwards, which was uh foreign minister Dar telling the whole story to Marco Rubio in person one day after that at the uh in question. So this is where did the uh Iranians acquire uh a nuclear device? Well, this is we already have uh a story that might shed light on what h has been happening for the past few decades. In fact, judge and of course with Pakistani help. Uh we would like to tell the story next week, Larry and myself once again. Well, we're going to have to go through this intelligence carefully. Uh get confirmation and then we can reveal next week. But well, do you do you have do you have a gut feeling or an instinct? Did they develop it on their own or did someone sell it or bring it to them in which case there's a a limited number of sources? All all all scenarios are possible a judge first of all because this is so sensitive that nobody will ever confirm anything on the record about what really took place. So this is the first time that we have perhaps an indirect a direct indirect confirmation via the president of Iran in a phone call with the prime minister of Pakistan that they are able to detonate a nuclear device without specifics of course and of course I'm not expecting this gentleman very close to leader Moshaba Came to spill the beams about it. Right. Right. So there's going to be a lot of guess work. Okay. How did they obtain that? Was that indigenous scientific proess by Iranian uh physicists and engineer? Quite possible because they are extremely capable. Number one. Number two, did they have outside help? There are three major candidates for that. Russia, Pakistan, North Korea. North Korea is a very very good candidate. In my previous travels to Thran in the 2010s, I was always bumping into North Korean delegations. Very very interesting. But they would never talk to us because they don't talk to foreigners. They were always huddle in their group, but they would never talk to anybody. So there were a high level North Korean delegations in all the time. So th this might have involved a nuclear cooperation as well. and the Pakistani story. We hope to at least tell the story next week of how Pakistan have been collaborating with the Iranian nuclear program for the past few decades in fact. So all options are plausible. Wow. Do the CIA, MI6 and Mossad know what you have just revealed to us? They obviously know it because you're saying it in public, but did they know about this beforehand? We would have to ask and obviously there'll be plausible deniability everywhere. But uh in the story that we plan to talk about next week, uh Larry, there is a Mossad component and there is an Indian component as well. The RW uh Indian Intel apparatus. They were aware that was very close nuclear collaboration between Pakistan and Russian and Mossad also knew. Mossad had to know. Yeah. Does Russian intel does Chinese intel know about this? I I can it's it's too early to tell judge uh Russia maybe I'll have a chance tomorrow in St. Petersburg or on Friday to talk to some of my connections. Uh in fact I will present this directly to them. I say okay how do you read this China well for for and it's and it's a pity because this thing broke when I was leaving China. I left Shanghai this weekend. I was in Shanghai until Saturday in fact and we learned the final contours of the story when Larry and I were talking about it on Monday only through the weekend. So this is something that will have to return to China and and obviously China won't this this is for them this is a ultra matter of national security but there's an extra element that is very very interesting that happened between yesterday and today judge guess who is the special envoy of the government in Thran for high level Iran China relations Galibbath and Galibah. That's the speaker of the parliament. The speaker of the parliament. This is an extra role for Galibbah. Very, very close strategic partnership. Iran, China. Do and foreign minister Arachi get along? Yes, they do. The Americans are spreading words that these guys are antagonistic. Now, both presidentkin is resigning and they don't know who to talk to. So sorry J this is total first of all because they are uh in the political sphere together uh in the parliament and in the foreign ministry uh the the only difference is that Galibav has an IRGC background but and not Arai it doesn't matter now because now let's say the political factors and the military factors in tan they merge And something that is absolutely impossible for people in Washington to understand the aglutinator is Moshaba under ultraheavy protection. Of course, he has to be. But he's he may he is wounded. There's no question about that. But he's very very sharp and he's coordinating everything. So he has personal meetings with all of the above from the foreign ministry to of course Galibah who's very close to him as well and the top ARGC leadership. Let me ask you what uh John Mirshimer raised and that is is there more than one nuclear device because if they only have one are they going to waste it on a demonstration in the desert? Uh that's a that's another thing that we don't know. Nobody knows and obviously we will have a confirmation from anybody not to mention from Iraq. So they might have a few quite quite possible if they had only one they would never waste it on a demonstration and and the way and this is very important judge uh if you analyze the words at least the words that we assume were used by possession in Farsy that's complicated because this is Farsy translated to English and probably Farsy translated to Udo translated to English so we hope this is not lost in translation but anyway he said that if American provocations go beyond all the current thresholds they will consider um this demonstr this nuclear demonstration as a test as a symbol of sovereignty so I'm I'm already imagining what uh the man that uh we we are in touch with close to MTA what's going to be his response probably is going to be plausible deniability. If you're if everything you're saying is accurate, this is a basis in the minds of Netanyahu and his cohorts and Trump and his for the attacks in June and February, is it not? Could be. Could be. Uh but then you have to interpret in reverse. I doubt I I doubt if they had any um evidence three months ago that Iran was on the brink of detonating a nuclear weapon. They don't have that kind of intelligence with the top IRGC. They don't. Well, very important. So if there is plausible deniability, which is probably going to be uh the likely response, we're going to hear something along the lines of uh yes, uh leader Moraba Kam is reviewing the nuclear posture since the first fatwa by Kmeni and the second fatwa by Kame. And this now is on the table because now we are in the middle of an existential threat is already it's already discussed openly in uh Iran judge that Iran will have to revise his nuclear posture. Is the fatwa issued by his father still the law of the land number one. Yes. Is he able to supersede that fatwa? Well, as supreme leader now, he has the institutional authority to do that. That's very very important. Of course, he's going to have to explain this in I would say infinitismal detail because this is at the heart of Shiite theology according to which a nuclear bomb is unislamic because it kills civilians deliberately. o he would have to frame it in a theological political way which is a very complex as exercise to explain the change. But now there is a widespread popular consensus in Iran that they need something like this otherwise these provocations will continue add infinitum and that's what's changed. Let me uh switch gears for a minute before we uh conclude. Um Axios reported of course on President Trump using very harsh, even vulgar language toward uh Prime Minister Netanyahu. I'm sure you've seen this. Yeah, sure. The president said to Netanyahu, "You're effing crazy." Trump fumes at Netanyahu in call on Lebanon. Uh you'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this. Netanyahu basically said, I had a conversation with the president uh and it's not going to change what we're doing. This position of ours remains unchanged. The IDF will continue to operate as planned in southern Lebanon. So, first question, was this real or was it performative? Uh well it looks like a very uh stage style or WWF kind of thing completely but uh the main that would be that Trump is bringing to the front lawn of the White House. You bet. It's like a cage match in front of the White House which I cannot think of anything more bad taste than that but that's another story. uh he's not exactly a an aesthetic model or a cultural model, right? But anyway, he he confirmed it himself. Uh judge, if I'm not mistaken, I think I saw it on NBC or whatever a few hours said was true. We'll run the confirmation, Chris. I think it's number six. You were angry with him. You said, "Are you effing crazy? What are you effing doing?" Um uh I helped you stay out of jail. Is that true? Did you speak to him in those terms? I did. I I wouldn't say angry. I was a little bit perturbed at his uh constantly fighting with Lebanon. You know, at some point I said maybe we got to stop this. We got to stop it. Oh gosh. And and this is very serious just because what's happening southern Lebanon is Gaza 2.0 zero in a smaller scale, but it's exactly the same thing. Wow. Destruction of whole villages and civilian populations. When I was in Lebanon last year, I saw what Israel did uh uh during the fake ceasefire. They destroy everything inside. I visited two villages on the border, different parts of the border, and they were completely destroyed. And this is exactly what they're doing again. Wow. All right, Pepe, I have to let you go. This is all dynamite. Uh Larry is watching us now because he knows that he and I will be discussing the same thing in in two hours. Uh and if this uh matures into anything beyond what we've talked about, Chris will find you. Safe travels. Thank you. Russia, my dear man. Tomorrow is another story, Judge. tomorrow. Uh there's going to be a lot of discussion about what what's going to happen to Ukraine afterwards. All right. You uh you you let you let us know. You'll be with uh Ritter. Uh if I hope so. We have to if you can find Ritter and Chris can find the two of you and the internet works. We'll do a show together. We could ask the bar Scott Ritter what's going to happen in Ukraine. How about that? Excellent. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you, Judge. Thank you. Well, my friends, this is dynamite stuff and we will run it all past uh Larry Johnson if you're watching us live in two hours and six minutes at 2 this afternoon and we'll run it past the great Phil Geraldi who has much to talk to us about at 3:00 today. Judge Lalano for judging freedom.
End of 'tit-for-tat' era: Iran’s broad, asymmetric response to US attacks redraws deterrence equation By Press TV Strategic Analysis Desk Wednesday, 03 June 2026 3:16 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 03 June 2026 3:16 PM ] https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/06/0 ... e-equation
For far too long, a grim and predictable choreography governed the US shadow war in the Persian Gulf: an act of American provocation, a measured Iranian response, and an escalation contained by unspoken rules.
That era has now effectively ended, and Wednesday's events in the strategic waterway drove the point home with unmistakable clarity.
After the US Navy targeted an Iranian oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz and struck a communications tower on Qeshm Island in the early hours of Wednesday, the response from the Iranian armed forces defied all expectations.
It was broader, faster, and strategically asymmetric – firing not just at the vessel involved in the aggression but simultaneously hammering hostile targets across five allied countries. This was no mere retaliation but a fundamental reset of the operational equation.
Iran's message, delivered with unmistakable clarity, is that the old "tit-for-tat" or "run-and-run" paradigm has expired. The assumption that Tehran would sit idle or mirror the scale and location of any American provocation – a ship for a ship, a tower for a tower – has been permanently invalidated, tossed onto the ash heap of failed calculations.
This reflects a broader strategic signal that the Iranian armed forces stand fully prepared for any escalation scenario, while simultaneously reinforcing the cohesion and battle-readiness of the Axis of Resistance in confronting threats – from Iran to Lebanon.
Iran has now unveiled a new doctrine of qualitative asymmetry, under which the volume, type, and target of its response will no longer be chained to the enemy's original action. This shift is not a tactical adjustment but a strategic earthquake. By severing the reflexive link between aggression and response, Iran has thrown the US war machine's escalation calculus into complete disarray, as demonstrated on Wednesday.
Washington can no longer assume that a limited harassment will yield a limited response – or any response at all. The Iranian calculus now means any act of aggression from the enemy, however limited in scope, may trigger a response that knows no limits.
This is the operationalization of a core strategic principle: the removal of the option of military aggression from the enemy's table. By responding with overwhelming and unpredictable force, Iran is rendering the option of war profoundly unappealing.
When the enemy understands that a minor provocation could result in the simultaneous targeting of multiple allied sites, the cost-benefit analysis of aggression collapses into ruin.
Iran has fully demonstrated that it no longer fears crossing thresholds that once defined the brink of war. Having emerged victorious from the most unequal of wars, the Islamic Republic has internalized a grim, unshakable confidence: if war is imposed on it, it will fight with every ounce of its might. But more importantly, it has now proven it can deter decisively and emerge stronger on the other side.
Profound implications for any military adventurism
The implications for any future American miscalculation are nothing short of seismic. For months, conflicting signals emanated from within Iran – whispers that negotiation and compromise at any cost were the only paths to relief from sanctions. Such narratives fed a dangerous illusion in Washington that maximum pressure would eventually force Tehran to capitulate and accept American terms of the deal.
Wednesday's events effectively torched that illusion, reducing it to cinders. Iran demonstrated that decisive and swift resistance remains not just viable, but a fully valid and legitimate option. The choice is not between compromise or war, but between measured deterrence and catastrophic miscalculation.
By refusing to behave as a pressure-breakable state, Iran has forced the US military-industrial complex to rethink whether its harassment campaigns are worth the price.
Perhaps most critically, Iran has expanded the geographical canvas of its retaliatory actions. In response to an attack on a vessel's engine and a communications tower, Tehran did not limit itself to maritime targets. It struck land-based facilities in five countries allied with the United States – simultaneously, precisely, and without apology. The message is unmistakable: no point on enemy-aligned territory is safe anymore.
This represents a significant expansion of Iran's operational theater, a widening of the battlefield that Washington ignored at its peril. The old "vessel-for-vessel" policy had already evolved into "vessel-for-vessel plus point of origin of aggression." Now, it has transformed again, decisively and irrevocably: potential and actual points of aggression – anywhere in the region, anytime, without warning – are legitimate targets. And the list is extensible.
If unprovoked hostilities against Iran continue, locations deep inside the occupied territories could also be included on the potential target list.
This is not a threat of indiscriminate war but a sacrosanct promise of calibrated, strategic pain directed at every sanctuary from which the enemy operates. Every base, every allied capital, every logistical hub now lives under the shadow of Iranian military arithmetic.
For the Persian Gulf states hosting US military bases, the message is particularly chilling. Iran has long tolerated the presence of American soldiers on the soil of its neighbors, provided those arrangements were not directed against Iranian security.
Iran's decisive operation sent an unambiguous warning: as long as even one American soldier remains on your soil, and as long as American threats against Iran persist, your territory is not secure. Military agreements with third parties are respected only if they remain strictly neutral in Iran's confrontation with the American war machine. The moment they become launch pads for aggression, they become legitimate targets.
But Iran has gone a step further. It has linked economic security to military security in a single, terrifying equation. A new doctrine has been declared: "economy for economy and security for security." If the US continues its economic warfare against Iran, the economies of regional countries that partner with the enemy will also be threatened.
Iran is signaling, with absolute clarity, that it will no longer compartmentalize its responses. A US economic strike can and will be met with a response that directly disrupts the economic stability of America's regional allies. Their ports, their shipping lanes, their energy infrastructure, and their financial corridors are now variables in Iranian retaliation.
The days when Persian Gulf states could enjoy American security guarantees while passively – or actively – profiting from anti-Iran sanctions are over.
Iran is forcing them to internalize a stark, unforgiving choice: true neutrality, or shared vulnerability. There is no third option and no middle ground.
https://t.co/S154GN9KYJ Press TV @PressTV Analysis - Beirut retreat: Credible Iranian deterrence ends US-Israeli impunity to escalate unchecked By Press TV Strategic Analysis Desk From presstv.ir 9:40 AM · Jun 2, 2026
Axis of Resistance: From parallel warnings to unified field response
No analysis of Iran's firm posture is complete without understanding the synchronized choreography of the broader Axis of Resistance. To view Tehran in isolation is to miss the entire picture, and the same goes with Hezbollah and Yemen.
Just two days before Iran's response to US maritime aggression, the Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters, the central command center of the Iranian armed forces, issued a strong warning to both the Zionist regime and the United States following threats of aggression against Beirut and its suburbs. That warning was no routine communiqué. In retrospect, it was the prelude to a coordinated, unified operation already set in motion.
The Axis of Resistance – Iran, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Ansarullah-led Yemeni armed forces, and other components – does not rush to exhaust all its tools. It deploys them strategically, layer by layer, with patience and precision. But with the continuation of Zionist crimes in Lebanon and the implicit cooperation of the governing authority there, the Axis has determined that the time for layered warnings has passed.
Other components, beyond Iran, are now entering the field to support Lebanon. This is not a symbolic gesture but a functional military alignment
The simultaneous statements by the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and the Yemeni armed forces laid out the new map of resistance. The warning was explicit, leaving no room for doubt: if Zionist aggression continues in Gaza and Lebanon, new options will be activated immediately, including control over the Bab al-Mandab Strait – one of the world's most critical chokepoints – alongside missile and drone responses from Yemen.
This is an open and unambiguous declaration of expanded geography, a gauntlet thrown at the feet of the enemy. The Axis has informed the enemy, in language it understands, that aggression against any part of this broad territory, from the Levant to the Arabian Peninsula, is considered an attack on the whole. The old divide between arenas has been erased, burned away by shared threat and unified purpose. A strike on Beirut can now trigger a blockade in the Red Sea. An attack on Dahiyeh can silence the Bab al-Mandab.
This coordinated warning also dismantles a dangerous enemy assumption, one that has guided Zionist strategy for years. The Zionist regime had apparently calculated that a threat to attack Beirut could be traded for the consolidation of occupation in southern Lebanon.
The thinking went, in its cold logic: offer a symbolic retreat from attacking Iran proper, and in exchange, maintain a permanent occupation of large southern areas. The Axis response has proven that assumption categorically false, smashing it to pieces. Neither the Lebanese resistance nor its Yemeni ally accepts such an equation.
There will be no deal that trades Beirut's safety for Lebanon's land. The only acceptable outcome is the end of aggression and the full cessation of occupation.
Perhaps the most immediate and telling effect of this unified posture has been on US decision-making, where paralysis has set in at the highest levels. Iran's recent warning alone was sufficient to push the country into paralysis.
Reports indicate that President Donald Trump rebuked and asked Benjamin Netanyahu not to carry out the planned attack on Beirut, fully aware of the consequences. That is the power of credible, coordinated deterrence – not firepower, but the fear of it, precisely calibrated.
Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו @netanyahu Translated from Hebrew Tonight, I spoke with President Trump and told him that if Hezbollah does not cease attacking our cities and citizens—Israel will attack terror targets in Beirut.
This stance of ours remains unchanged.
In parallel, the IDF will continue to operate as planned in southern Lebanon. Rate this translation: 1:32 PM · Jun 1, 2026
Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman JUST IN: A source in the Israeli PM's team says reports about Trump personally warning Netanyahu about prison or saying he is hated worldwide are false.
The call was tense and focused on both leaders' complaints about each other's social media posts after their previous conversation.
Trump felt Netanyahu's post implied the war was continuing at full intensity, while Netanyahu felt Trump's post suggested Israel had agreed to a ceasefire on all fronts.
Trump did say it is becoming harder to defend Israel's position internationally.
- Israeli Channel 12
Now, with other Axis components openly threatening field responses, including from Yemen, Trump's negotiating position regarding ending the war with Iran has weakened considerably. The US war machine can no longer pressure Iran in isolation while assuming the rest of the Axis will remain passive, watching from the sidelines.
Those days are gone. The unified front has transformed the regional balance of power, shifting the center of gravity away from Washington and toward the Axis.
Trump PANICS as He CAN’T STOP DEVASTATING Fraud FINDING!!! Legal AF Jun 3, 2026
Will Judge Williams find that Trump "Defrauded" the Court in his IRS suit and "weaponization fund" case? On a special Legal AF, J. Michael Luttig, retired federal appellate judge and one of the leaders of the 35 judges that got Judge Williams to reopen the case and determine if there has been fraud on the court, and Andres Rivero, local counsel for the judges, joins Popok to brief the audience on what Judge Luttig says is the END of the fund and Trump's attempts to get out from under more than 100 million in tax liability!
Transcript
I don't come on your show to make news as you know but today as of today for the first time I'm prepared to say that uh Donald Trump has lost his war on the federal judiciary the constitution and the rule of law in America. Welcome to a special edition of Legal AF. Um, as we reported last week, among a series of losses for the Trump Department of Justice, probably the biggest one, the most historic one is, um, the order issued by Judge Williams in my backyard, Southern District of Florida in Miami in response to a motion filed by 35 former federal judges citing rule 60 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which our audience is now expert on, which allow allows really even strangers to the lawsuit, especially strangers to the lawsuit to raise with the court that she they've been had that there's been a fraud on the court and to reopen a closed matter in order for the court to uh to do justice and to determine whether there has been u as the judge has alleged or citing to the the filing uh grievous allegations of corruption and fraud on the court And this is about Donald Trump's original lawsuit in which he sued his own Internal Revenue Service, a division of the of the Treasury Department, and then use that lawsuit and the settlement of it. An operative term there is used use that lawsuit to try to have the Department of Justice use the judgment fund to compromise claims to set up the the anti-weaponization fund, $1.776 billion. But if the lawsuit was phony and the settlement was phony, then the then the not only the fund, but the next day attempt by Donald Trump to absolve himself and his family of audit liability and tax liability for 16 years, which Todd Blanch signed off on by himself. That would also fall by the wayside. And when I saw who was involved, our friend of the pod, uh, uh, J. Michael Ludig, Judge Ludig, and then local council for all the judges, a friend of mine, Andre Rivero at Rivera Mestri and Coral Gables. I was like, I got to get these people on to talk about what just happened in their wildest dreams. Did they ever imagine that that filing would lead the judge to issue such a strong and costic order? Well, let's bring them on. Judge Michael Ludig and Andres Rivero, how are you and congratulations? Well, thank you, Michael, for having us on. It's a It's certainly a great pleasure for me to be on with not just you, but but your friend Andre. It's uh that is a real honor. Yep. And and judge, so rule of law important to you. Um uh and and stepping out and joining together with 35 federal judges, including one formerly in the Southern District of Florida that Andress and I know well, Ursula Angaro, somebody that Judge Williams knows well. signs off on this and what why did you decide this was the moment to go back after Judge Williams um sort of begrudgingly closed the case after Donald Trump's Department of Justice filed a stipulation of dismissal and said nothing to see here we're not giving you the settlement papers uh and closed the case I let me just say this one thing judge I had implored in my own with my own uh platform Judge Williams not to do that I said use your inherent authority. So you're you're being used. As soon as we saw the settlement agreement and the reference to the litigation and aspects of the litigation that were not even true, I said I hope she reopens this case and right on Q you and your brethren filed all that motion. Talk about why you did it and and and have you accomplished beyond your wildest dreams so far what you thought you'd be able to accomplish. Well, Michael, thank thank you for the the question. Um, you know, as I I said on Ali Veli last weekend, it it it it feels like the tectonic plates of American politics shifted overnight in response to uh Judge Williams call for additional briefing to reopen the case. That's how consequential this is. Why was it consequential in the first place? It's because uh every person in America instantly understood this this as a a a corruption of the highest order by the president of the United 5 minutesStates at the taxpayers's expense. when you show showed America that Donald Trump had created a $2 billion fund to quote compensate himself, his family, his friends, his allies and supporters, most of whom were there and responsible for the insurrection on the United States capital on January 6, 2021. That was a bridge too far for America. It was Americans. Every single American, you know, from the main street to the caf cafes, the restaurants, the bars, the streets of America, instantly understood that that is a a corrupt act of pure self aggrandisement at the expense of the American taxpayers. Now turning to to the group of judges who who challenged uh this fund before Judge Williams. Uh, I want your viewers and listeners to know that that this group of of approximately two or 300 former federal and state judges uh have loosely come together beginning a year and a half ago uh to have their voices heard about what is occurring in America today and for the past five or six years. Think about that long and hard. Never before in American history has a group of judges, retired or otherwise, ever come together, much less to speak publicly against what they are witnessing in the United States of America with respect to the corruption of the Constitution and the rule of law in this country. I could not be any prouder of this group of judges. Two or 300 former federal and state judges have come together over the past year and a half enthusiastic and willing to be heard collectively as that group on many of the issues that are facing America today. extraordinarily unprecedented and this is why they have done it. There is not a question in the world that the only voices that can be heard today above the den of the political you know partisanship are judges. sitting active judges and even retired judges. They are the only people in this country, Michael, who can save America today. And these judges, both active and retired, are prepared to honor their oaths in trying to save America. Well, that sound you hear is a collective sigh of relief from our audience. And to prove your point in this rock, paper, scissor, 35 federal judges beats 93 members of the House because they had an amicus brief that was filed just before, but it was your filing with your 34 other judges that got Judge Williams attention and more. Before I turn to Andres, let me just read some of the powerful language being used, which I've never seen. I mean, I've never seen a judge reopen a case under rule 60, but I've certainly never never seen language like this um on page three of her order, which we'll put up on the screen as well. The nonparty movements, that's the judges, advance grievous allegations that plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed this litigation solely to avoid judicial scrutiny of a lawsuit that was collusive from the start. It was only filed to provide the impromater of legality for an unlawful settlement. They point to the fact that the settlement in question includes a three paragraph addendum which was signed only by Todd Blanch by the way that purports to forever bar and preclude the United States from pursuing claims that could have otherwise been asserted against the plaintiffs. Every time we say plaintiffs, that's Trump and his family. and highlighted the fact that defendants did not even try to defend against claims despite their active opposition to nearly identical claims in other litigation. And what she wants to hear by June the 12th, I mean, if I were I want to hear Andre's view. If I were the lawyers and there's a fellow Coral Gable's bar member who's on the side of Trump in this case, and I got this from a judge, uh, it would it would be a huge gulp. One, I want you to tell me why the you I want you to answer to the charges of collusion and whether the parties are truly adverse, which was the original question that the judge had been asking before they dismissed the case. Two, that the assertion that addressed that the assertion that the dismissal in this case was premised on deception, that means deception to of the federal judge by the parties. and three, the question of whether the case should be reopened because the court was the victim of a fraud. Wow. Andres, you elected to get involved with this case and represent the 35 judges. Talk about that decision-making. Why did you think it was important to to be the local council for this case? You know, and and Michael, first, thanks for having me on the show. And I want to say I am really honored to represent Judge Ludic and the other 34 federal judges including Ursula Angaro who's right here in this district. American heroes and and Judge Ludic comes with with you know the background is already in that status but this was an important move. We know that this group including the the president um is uh is vindictive. And so um I think this is very brave of all these former judges. And I agree with you uh judge that that the behavior of the judges has been remarkable and is really uh I think what uh what could save save us from this. Michael, here's the deal. I'd be very worried. I'd be very worried. We we both know and he's a friend. We know the other lawyer here in Miami. Um, you don't mess around with Judge Williams. Judge Williams was a federal prosecutor in this district. She was a very fine private lawyer. She was the public defender and she's a very, very serious judge. She does not like what's happened here. She does not like it. And I just want to add one thing which you've alluded to to what the judge said besides the $1.776 billion slush fund which is you know just offense the the immunity to the to the to Donald Trump and his two sons and the Trump organization is absolutely outrageous. As a federal prosecutor, I indicted 22 tax indictments. To get the Department of Justice in any sort the the the tax division of the Department of Justice to make any decision is has always been traditionally extraordinarily difficult. For them to have made this decision from one day to the next because we know it was signed on the 18th and the case was dismissed. this outrageous is a complete disregard for the due process of the law and it's very very important besides stopping the slush fund stopping this kind of immunity giveaway. Well, and I want to ask both of you this. I mean, there's a lot of talk now that Donald Trump may be, you know, another taco moment, chickening out, talking to Mike Johnson about walking away from an obviously politically unpopular uh besides legally unpopular politically unpopular fund. But I don't hear any discussion about, and maybe this was Trump's point, his uh this is the needle in the haststack for him. There's not a lot of talk because people don't understand it about the exoneration of tax and audit liability that that um that probably led to the Treasury Department general counsel resigning because the timing of it. He resigns between the announcement of the settlement and the amendment of the settlement or attempted amendment by Todd Blanch with a one paragraph and all I ever hear is well maybe Trump will walk away from the fund. I don't hear that he's willing to walk away from having the IRS exonerate him and not look back on 16 years of tax filing for one year alone. It's a $100 million exposure because if he took that $75 million refund improperly, which wiped out all the tax liability that he paid on the Celebrity Apprentice for his past years with interest, it's that alone is a hund00 million, let alone the rest. Why isn't there more conversation about what about that? Is that also going to fall? Is that also going to be terminated or not? Well, Michael, let me let me take a stab at that first and and say this. Um, there's not a chance in the world that Donald Trump will not withdraw his 15 minuteslawsuit and that this fund will not go forward. Uh there's this case before Judge Williams as well as Judge Brinkma will be mooted by the president of the United States if not by the Congress of the United States. Now, as to why there's not been much talk about the the audit uh uh liability uh immunity, I think it's because it's too soon and too early. This just happened at the end of last week. In fact, uh, uh, Ally didn't reach out to me until 9:00 Friday or Saturday night, I forget which one, and and asked me to come on the next morning, and I said, "I will be there." So this is this is as they say this is truly breaking news and it's breaking news on on the single largest issue of the day uh in America with respect to Donald Donald Trump. Now with this caveat it is unlikely that Donald Trump himself would ever walk away from this. But if he persists and if he does not walk away, then this actually could end up uh with audit with with the audits going forward and the imposition of as you said $100 million or more in liability uh out from which Donald Trump could not possibly get. Uh at the end of the day, one thinks that that would uh have an effect on on Donald Trump, but he is the one person who who it might not affect. He he he gets so obsessed, vindictive, and he might just say, you know, screw it. you know, I'm going to order my IRS to give me immunity without the fund. If he does that, Donald Trump will go down on this this issue, right? In subsequent cases and and but but back to Andre's point, um maybe the Brinkma case goes by the wayside or the or the Jan 6 officers case. I'm not sure yours does. Uh because if there's a fraud on the court, right? And and and the case already been dismissed. This is about reopening the case to determine whether and the reason I like this and I want to hear from Andre, too, is because if the if we get a federal judge to declare that the lawsuit was phony, the settlement was phony, the Department of Justice, AG, doesn't have the power under the judgment fund to compromise the suit. and we get that established, then that helps us in the next two years of a Trump administration when they try something else. And for me, I think she's I mean, she's throwing around rule 11 sanctions. Uh she's not, like you said, she's not happy with the lawyers or the Department of Justice or Donald Trump. And you know, you you refer to this taco concept. I I think he, you know, if if he does chicken out here, um, and it has to be on the whole thing because this this the the judge, the case in front of Judge Williams is not going away because they get rid of the slush fund. They cannot keep this immunity giveaway. But if he does chicken out again, the heroes are the former federal judges and the lawyers, and I should mention Matt Plattkin, uh, the Freedom Defenders, uh, Neil Manny Susman, who who who brought this thing and and put it together. But that would be an awesome result and we may be looking at that right now. But I tend to think from what we've seen over the last 10 years um that this is too 19 minutesgood for him to just walk away and that if he keep if he keeps it I suspect right now his lawyer is counseling don't do this. But if he tries to hang on to this I think this could be a fiasco for Donald Trump. You know let me say this Michael as I was listening to to you two gentlemen. Um th this this could be uh uh analogous to Judge Boseberg's uh contempt hearing and if it is it would put the Supreme Court of the United States again in the hot seat. Uh not that we need anything to see anything further from the Supreme Court to understand where it stands on these issues of Donald Trump. But that's where it could end up with the Supreme Court called upon to affirm or reverse a holding by a federal district court that the court had been defrauded by the president of the United States of America. I would I would pay a fortune to be there in that in in that chamber that day. A and he's done it to as we've said time and time again even on this interview. He's done it to himself. He's suing in his personal capacity while he's the sitting president. You know, as opposed to all the other presidents which are like, "No, you can't sue me civily. I'm the president of the United States. I got a job to do." And judges go, "Yeah, you're right." No, but when you actively sue the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Pulitzer Prize, you know, here the IRS, yes, you may that's the point I've been making in my hot takes, my inter my my videos, is that this is Trump as a as an individual, not as the president of the At least that's what he's going to try to argue. Um, you know, the Department of Justice is not representing him. this guy in Coral Gables that we know. Michael, as you as you say that that that also reminds me, as it did you, that Donald Trump would not have immunity, you know, for criminal liability for criminally defrauding a court of the United States under Trump versus United States. Yep. Which gave him absolute immunity for any crime committed against America and the Constitution, arguably in connection with his official duties as president of the United States. I think I think Judge Ludig is writing the amicus brief to be submitted to the Supreme Court as we speak. Let me ask Andre something. You're because we do know this guy. So, he's got to file a paper. Okay. He can't just go, "No, there's no more fun. You've read the paper, your honor. We're not we're not the Senate's there's no will in the Senate and we're not doing it. No, he has to answer this. So, he's got to type up about why there's not collusion, why there's not been deception on the court, and why she has not been the victim of fraud. In other in other words, why hasn't the federal court been used? When you and I and Judge Ludic looked at the settlement papers, we all smacked, I'm sure, our collective foreheads and we said, "There's the case caption. There are recitalles as if this was a settlement agree. Okay. And then there's a reference the same lawyer made to say, you know what, I was going to amend my lawsuit in order to make it a class action in order to give them the the way to expand it to the Jan Sixers. And I'm like, wait a minute. You were going to amend an a lawsuit that the judge was this close to tossing out the window for lack of adversariness? I don't get it. So, that was a series of not not true things in the settlement papers. I thought when the judge saw the settlement papers, she'd go, I I've been used. I've been used and do something about it. And and Michael, let me just make the observation. It's extraordinarily unusual. 40 after 40 years of litigation. First of all, this settlement is like nothing I've ever seen described as a settlement before. Number one, but separately, when you dismiss in these circumstances, you would file the settlement. So they hid this settlement from her at the time of filing the motion, the voluntary dismissal. So it has all of the marks. It has all the flags of fraud in the court. So I don't envy I wouldn't want to be on the other side of this uh chess game. Um but you know there's just there's just things here that the that when the judge is looking at it, it promises legal peace as you as we know generally you do that. But if you look at the details, it does not cause legal peace as to any claimant in to the slush fund uh except under very limited circumstances. So this settlement doesn't settle anything and there was no adversariness to start with. Right? Even the description of the lawsuit in the settlement agreement is is wrong. It's not what the case was about. Um a weaponization and and all sort like what are you talking about? It's not what the lawsuit was over. It was about a a contractor for Booze Allen, right? Releasing tax returns for Trump and others, not because Biden told him to. He did it on his own like a Wikileaks thing. That's what the case was. And Michael, not to raise the stakes uh more than they already are. And I do think it's a it's fantastic result that a possibility is that all this will be withdrawn. I think that would be good for our system. But our system, our judicial system which is so important as the judge referred to at the beginning has really been stress tested from top stress tested from top to bottom. Um I I think we'll come through you know as you know I do a lot of crossber work to Latin America and one of the key differences between our system and those systems is that we have due process of law and that our system uh really delivers it's human justice but it attempts to deliver due process. I hope we come through on this. I I hope so, too. Two questions for both of you to kind of end it on it. Um Andreas, um or the judge, um is she do you believe after she gets this filing and she's given the judges the right to file a reply on June on June 19th, do you think she holds um a hearing? I I I I do. Mhm. And then going back to to your discussion previously, we can take judicial notice of the fact as sitting federal judges have done already that this Department of Justice and its lawyers are very very often dishonest and untruthful in their argument. ments and in their briefings before the federal courts. So, Judge Williams is expecting that kind of dishonesty here uh above all else because there is no arguments arguments that can be made to support this result as being a settlement of an of an of a dispute between adverse parties. at arms length for the s in the service of the judgment fund. There is no argument. The white house knows that. The department of justice knows that. But they now have to brief it. and what they are going to say will it will be not only dishonest it will be embarrassingly silly and nonresponsive. Now as a former judge when I got that kind of brief from anyone that told me what I needed to do and it was easy and that's what Judge Williams will do. Yeah, that's a very good point that you raised. I think the New York Times just did a good article about all the things that have um that the Department of Justice all the times they have misled federal judges where the judges not only don't give them the presumption of regularity but don't give them any um credibility. I mean I listen I've done federal practice on the other side of the Department of Justice. Andress has too. The only thing I ever had to worry about was the asymmetry of theformational exchange and the fact that they had an unlimited budget and I didn't I never had to worry necessarily about prosecutorial misconduct or that they would throw their reputation away when they said they were the United States of America. Right? That was a powerful thing even for the defense lawyers to have to go up against. Now I feel like I'm on a a better than even playing field because the judges are looking a pretty pretty jaundist view of of DOJ and it's their own fault. It's not because of the judge. It's because of the things that they're doing and saying in court and and I saw the article you're referring to, Michael, and and as an alum alumni of the Department of Justice, as is the judge, it it's really disheartening. I mean it, you know, I I was I I h I'm very proud of my service and of what I what the Department of Justice was, but but it's it's way too accurate what's what's going on. You know, Michael, let me let me just say that, you know, your viewers and listeners can assume that for 150 years, the government's lawyers have never once intentionally 29 minuteslied to or deceived or misled a federal court in open court. Against that backdrop, as I just said, for a year and a half, the Department of Justice lawyers representing Donald Trump have lied. They've deceived. They've misled the federal courts over and over and over. And the federal courts have called them out for it. Never before in American history has this ever happened, anything like it. It is the complete corruption of the Department of Justice of the United States. I mean, even in the Nixon administration, once you got rid of some of the people that were in that were the lawyers, you could at least trust the Department of Justice during the trials in the case. It was the it was the defendants that you needed to worry about, but not the lawyers. here. It's the other way around. I I am just troubled after 35 years in law about how many people are willing to throw away their ethics and their reputations and potentially uh in endanger their law licenses in the service of Donald Trump. And you would have thought from the first Trump era with lawyers personal and otherwise who were indicted and disbarred and convicted that this new crop including Todd Blanch would have learned their lesson. But it doesn't What is it, Judge? Is it the proximity to power? It's a it's a it's an intoxicant. What what is it that people are willing to I mean I I learned from day one you do nothing to risk your ability to be an officer of the court and to hold your license. Nothing. Not for any client. The answer is very simple, Michael. It's not at all the proximity to power. As I just said, never in 250 years have have lawyers done this ever. It's proximity to Donald Trump. Those lawyers watch and they hear Donald Trump every single day just like the rest of Americans do calling the judges and the federal courts of the United States corrupt. If the president of the United States is calling the judges corrupt and you represent the president of the United States, then that's your mindset and that's what's going on. That's that's a that's perfectly put. Let me ask just something. I got one itch to scratch because you and I, Judge, have talked about the United States Supreme Court and our listeners and and watchers know your views. Well, you we've got this new reporting out there and it and it relates back to the IRS that that Sam Alto's kid went from being an Eastern District of Virginia prosecutor to working without anybody knowing it has he's been working for Bessant in the general counsel's office for the Treasury Department for some time now. Never revealed by Sam Molo, you know, during the tariff case or any of these other cases that are wending their way up to the Supreme Court. Is is there an issue here with with with that? I mean, I listen, I'm not here to to do what Trump does, which is to attack children and and wives and and husbands and all that thing, but but shouldn't that have been revealed to the American people by some somebody that Alito's kid has been working in the Treasury Department all this time? Well, um you're not going to be expect this, but I've never heard that, Michael. And uh and and the answer is of course that should is a fact of relationship and position that ought to be publicly known and known before the Supreme Court of the United States. Yeah. Yeah. Once again. So um just we'll end it here. Andreas, we're going to get full briefing by it looks like uh the n the 19th, right? And then you'll know soon after whether the judge is interested in some sort of evidentiary or other hearing, right? That's right. Excuse, you know, stay tuned. I think there may well be a hearing. If there's a hearing and it's open to the public, let me know because because we we will phone in or I will go down there depending upon what she end what she ends up doing. Thank you both for uh being defenders of democracy and the rule of law. I totally agree with Judge Ludig that it is that group alone that that that can save that can save our country that can save our nation in a way that even elected officials can't. And now we're seeing the realm of the results of it. As you said, judge, over 200 judges in various cases have filed briefs. You've been on most of them. You're one of the common denominators. But but um look for those that in my audience that often are crestfallen about well what does it matter? Trump's got immunity and you know you report about he lost this or he lost that but what does it matter? It matters. It matters to the rule of law. It matters to our democracy that judges do what Judge Williams just did and that these cases get filed um and pursued. That's why there's a couple of thousand cases already against the Trump administration. I'm not even counting the habius corpus cases. That's that's another 4,000 cases. I'm just talking about the ones against his executive orders and for being, you know, violating the separation of powers. And these cases matter um to to the rule of law. Ultimately, we can't ignore it just because we think, well, he may win it or or the Supreme Court may bail him out. Right, Judge? That's right, Michael. But I don't come on your show to make news as you know. But today, as of today, for the first time, I'm prepared to say that uh Donald Trump has lost his war on the federal judiciary, the Constitution, and the rule of law in America. I may lead with that, your honor. Thank you for Thank you, J. Michael Litig, former federal judge, appellet judge extraordinaire, and defender of the rule of law, along with a good friend of mine and local counsel for the 35 judges, Andress Rivero of Rivero Mastree in Coral Gables, Florida. We're going to I mean, the the eyes of the nation, gentlemen, are upon you and upon this case and upon the hearing and we will be watching it closely. For updates, everyone knows, come to Legal AF. take a minute and hit the free subscribe button and uh we will keep you all apprised of the developments in this very very important case and if Judge Ludik is right it could be the the case that brings down the Trump administration. I mean it certainly would go a long way to doing that. No pressure Judge Williams. So until till we get to together next time. Thank you very much. I'm Michael Popock uh for the Legal AF YouTube channel. Can't get your fill of legal AF? Me neither. That's why we formed the Legal AF Substack. 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Blow for Trump as Iran strikes damage Kuwait airport; Araghchi's Lebanon redline |Janta Ka Reporter Janta Ka Reporter Jun 3, 2026 #KuwaitAirport #USMilitary #IranNews
More details have emerged on the extent of damage caused by Iran's latest retaliation targeting US military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain. The Kuwait airport has sustained heavy damage. Though Iran claims this was caused by a malfunctioning American Patriot missile, the US military has denied the allegation. Rifat Jawaid brings the day's rapidly changing developments with his sharp commentary.
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Last night, Iran hit the US hard as the IRGC fired missiles and drones targeting the American military bases in Kuwait and Bahan. Such was the ferocity of the Iranian strikes that even the much publicized American Patriot missile failed to function and allegedly hit the Kuwait airport. As I speak, Iran has now claimed to have hit an American military ship in the Gulf of Oman. Marco Rubio was today once again exposed for his double standards at the US Congress on Iran's right to nuclear enrichment versus the settler colony's possession of nuclear bombs. The deranged occupant of the White House today said that the illegal settler colony of Israel was there because of him. This will be the broad focus of my video tonight. Also in this video, Israeli terrorist Danny Dannon plays the victim card at the United Nations Security Council as he complains about Hezbollah for its deadly use of FPV drones against Israeli barbarians in Lebanon. So please stay tuned. Last night, Iran made it abundantly clear to its enemy, namely the US on this occasion that its patience was running thin over its constant violation of the ceasefire. Immediately after I uploaded my video, the Iranian military began to pound American military targets in Kuwait and Bahran by firing a barrage of ballistic missiles and drones. The IRGC justified its military strikes by saying that the attacks were in retaliation to an American strike on Kashm Island, a strategically located island in the state of Hormuz. According to reports, the Iranian retaliation came in response to the targeting of a strategically significant communications tower in the Kesam Island. This is how Turkey's TRT World reported the development. United States has a network of military bases and facilities across the Gulf region. These bases support US forces including the fifth fleet based in Bahrain and US Central Command in Qatar. Attacks by Tean were concentrated on Kuwait and Bahrain, while the US attacked Iranian military facilities on Keshum Island for a second time in three days, having also hit Guruk and Sitk on Monday. Keshum Island has become a primary target for the US military due to several key factors. It's been described as an unsinkable aircraft carrier and has a network of tunnels where Iran conceals coastal missile batteries and fast attack boats. Kisham Island's also one of the keys to Iran's control of the Strait of Hormus. It was clear that the US military was testing Iran's patience by repeatedly targeting Iranian infrastructure in the last few days. Iran's inaction had surprised many. But what happened last night simply stunned Eve and the Americans. In fact, the scenes were a reminder of what we witnessed in the 40-day war in February and March this year. Here are some of the videos captured by local residents in both Kuwait and Bahran. Just in case I'm forced to take down these videos, you will still be able to watch them on our Telegram channel. Details are on your screen and also in the description of this video. Oh, you got to swoon, huh? Oh, Okay. Sish The situation in Kuwait was particularly terrifying for local residents. Just see this car driver who lost his balance by the mere sight of the incoming projectiles. [screaming] Then it emerged that the Kuwait airport had been significantly damaged. When Kuwait, Bahran and even the UAE last night announced the closure of their respective airports, no one knew the extent of the damage caused by the Iranian retaliation in Kuwait until this morning when the first visuals of the damage to the Kuwait airport emerged. How do we say liquid? However, Iran said the airport wasn't damaged by its missiles. Instead, it blamed the American Patriot missile, which failed to function as intended. Once again, a user in Kuwait shared this video of a Patriot missile misfiring immediately after being launched. You want another job? Yum. Go a little bit go you fought. One Kuwaiti professor told CNN that the Iranian attack had caused a sleepless night to the population in this Gulf Kingdom. A staggering human toll um where you are. One death um over 60 injured. What are you uh hearing and seeing on the ground there? Let's start there, Becky. It's been a sleepless night for many of us in Kuwait. We've sustained a lot of missiles and drone attacks, close to 30. And you know, every life lost is is a disaster and a tragic incident for us. Uh this is something that we would like to not see happen in Kuwait or anywhere else in the region. Um the airport has been open for some time by the way. What's been new in the last two days was the reopening to international airlines and that was the target I guess with the Iranians coming in for the third time in this week attacking us with these targets uh interceptions but unfortunately the airport was hit but our resolve is strong in Kuwait. Within hours, flights were resumed from other terminals. And that's the spirit that we're going on with. Life continued normal. People went to work. It's final exam season for many high schoolers. They also went to their exam. Iran has warned the US that the deadly strikes from Kuwait should serve as a reminder to its military on what it faces in the event of future aggression against the Islamic Republic. While Iran has maintained that its missiles weren't responsible for the destruction of the Kuwait airport, no one is surprised by the change in tactics by uh the Iranian armed forces. You may remember my own warning in one of my earlier videos that Iran will not hesitate to target the civilian infrastructure in Kuwait, Bahran and even in Dubai if the war resumes. That's because both Trump and his minions have been talking about, in fact, boasting about the role played by these countries in providing their soil to cause death and destruction in Iran. Even today, Trump's Secretary of Thug, Marco Rubio, when he appeared before the Congress for testimony, praised the UAE and Kuwait for their fantastic cooperation, his words, not mine, in causing carnage in Iran during the 40-day war. No, I think our allies in the region have been very cooperative. Some obviously very aggressively cooperative, like the UAE, as an example. Kuwait's been fantastic. The UAE would be extremely worried now about the safety of its iconic landmarks such as Bj Khalifa, Bourjul Arab and even two Atlantis hotels among others. Bahran has reportedly arrested 15 of its own citizens to avenge the Iranian air strikes. Bahran has been conducting crackdowns on the country's Shia majority on suspicion of being sympathetic to Iran. Rubio was then asked about the aparthide settler colony of Israel possessing nuclear weapons. His answer was in the affirmative even though he tried his best to deflect the question. 30 of us wrote to to you and to the state department asking our government for an answer and assessment about a foreign nation's nuclear capabilities. In your opening statement, you referred to India and Pakistan as nuclear nations. We've also spoken in different sessions, both in closed and open sessions. You know, as a US senator, former US senator, about the nuclear capabilities of other nations, Iran, China, Russia, France, the UK, both adversaries and allies. And so I wanted to ask you the question today, will you tell us, the Congress, and the American people, whether Israel in fact possesses nuclear weapons? You know that that's a question that we don't, they've never acknowledged to have a nuclear program. People can have, as you know, in open source and other reporting suspicions about what they possess if we're speaking frankly. I think most of the world assesses that they do, but we've never they've never acknowledged that publicly and as as a feature of our foreign policy for a variety of reasons. We don't discuss it in that way either. Well, and yet this genocidal maniac had the audacity to question Iran's rights to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes. He has no problem with Israel possessing nuclear bombs and then threatening every single country in the in the region and then committing the biggest holocaust in living memory in Gaza. But his depraved boss can murder thousands of people including school children to stop Iran from simply enriching uraniums. This was what everybody said. You don't have to be some uh expert in foreign policy. You don't need to get into a skiff. You could literally put into this put this into an LLM and say what'll happen if we take kinetic action against Iran and the first thing that would pop out is well they'll probably close the straight of Hormuz. So it's really shocking to me the degree to which this administration expresses shock that the thing that everybody said was going to happen ended up happening. But but here's the point I would make on that in that the reverse of that is so that the the the alternative is to say well then we have to go ahead and let Iran develop a nuclear weapon or they'll close the straits of Hormuz. Can you ever imagine these thugs, these depraved barbarians, I'm talking about Trump and his genocidal maniacs taking similar action against an entity which already possesses nuclear weapons. Iran may or may not develop nuclear weapons. There is one rogue entity which has them in plenty. 12 minutesBut Iran must be bombed with the help of the same rogue entity which already has more than 90 atom bombs. This is the bloody double standard of the rogue regime of Trump that has baffled people around the world. But at home, the Israeli lab dog today boasted about his fake bravado as he said there would be no Israel without his support. I heard that the other day for the first time. I said he tricked me. I mean, I'm the one that started it because again, I don't want to bore anybody, but I started because we can't let them have a nuclear weapon. Now, that pertains to Israel because they probably would have been the first one to get hit. There would be no Israel. Tell you what, if there wasn't me, there would be no Israel right now. And it started off as when I terminated the horrible Barack Hussein Obama, the Iran nuclear deal that he penned and that would have given Iran a nucle that was a road to a nuclear weapon and I terminated it, which was lucky I did. 13 minutesAnd then I stopped it a second time with the B2 bombers flying in and bombing the hell out of them. They would have had a nuclear weapon with if I didn't do that attack which you know somebody very few people would have done it if I didn't do that attack Iran would have had a nuclear weapon and they would have used it almost immediately. Trump was also asked about the leaked story of him allegedly giving his terrorist Israeli master Netanyahu a dressing down. Axios reported that you had a phone call with BB Netanyahu the prime minister of Israel in which you were angry with him. You said, "Are you effing crazy? What are you effing doing?" Um uh I helped you stay out of jail. Is that true? Did you speak to him in those terms? I did. I I wouldn't say angry. I was a little bit perturbed at his uh constantly fighting with Lebanon. You know, at some point I said maybe we got to stop this. We got to stop it. [snorts] But I have a very good relationship. We've done well done well together. He always says we could never have done it, but everybody knows that we could have never done it without the United States. But we've we've I've worked very well together. I like BB a lot and I've worked very well with him. We had a you know where he I'm a wartime president. He's a wartime prime minister. He may claim whatever he wishes, but the truth is for everyone to see. US lawmaker for from Trump's own Republican party, Thomas Massie, summed it up so well when he wrote this and I quote, "It's all talk. Just withhold foreign aid to Israel for a month and they will stop bombing their neighbors. Instead, peace, the state of hormones can be open and gas drops $2 a gallon." Israel has been and continues to be the biggest welfare recipient from American taxpayers. End quote. Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Sayy Basarakshi has warned that the Israeli attack on Beirut will lead to the resumption of a full-blown war. He also justified his country's decision to target Kuwait and Bahran in the latest strikes. Using Rubio's testimony video from the Congress, Arachi wrote, and I quote, "Our armed forces are conducting self-defense strikes on sites the US is permitted to use to attack civilian shipping and violate the ceasefire. Any hostile act will be met with an immediate decisive response. What sanctions and war failed to achieve won't be won with more war." End quote. Iran has also claimed to hit a US military vessel in the Gulf of Oman moments ago, but the US military central command said that there was no truth in the Iranian claims. Naturally, this raises serious questions on the ongoing talks between the two countries. Arachi said that Iran was still in touch with the US via Pakistan, but there was no progress on the negotiations. Iranian expert parci too feels confident that talks will eventually resume. Had conversations with folk on the U on the US side and their sense is that they are close. I know it sounds strange because we keep on hearing that and um a lot of challenges eventually. Yeah, eventually it will be true. And of course when it comes to the Iranians cutting it off, um I saw the Washington Post report that is not corresponding with what I was hearing from the Iranian side in which essentially they said that they had issued a threat to close off or suspend negotiations but hadn't actually suspended. And it's also very important to understand the choice of the word suspend. It does mean that it's a temporary pause. It does not mean that they're cutting off negotiations altogether. it would mean that they're change, you know, they're pausing it until circumstances change back to where they wanted to be. But even that, as I understand, has not happened, but rather it is um more of a threat, a threat that seems to have worked because we saw I I know there's going to be a lot of question marks as to whether the axis story is entirely true. And I think there's good reasons for people to be quite skeptical about a lot of these different things. It is particularly important to be skeptical about it, mindful of the fact of how the Biden administration kept on saying that they were really tough on Netanyahu behind the scenes where whereas but uh in front of the cameras they kept the united front. I I just put up something on my Substack that doesn't in any way, shape or form say that look, you know, what Axis said here with Trump actually did happen exactly the way they said. But I did point out that there is a history counterpoints to that Biden pattern in which Trump actually has lashed out very aggressively and very openly against Netanyahu at specific moments um and has put pressure on them. The problem has always been that he doesn't sustain the pressure. clip. Iran has singlehandedly brought the spotlight on billions of dollars of funding by American taxpayers to the rogue settler colony of Israel. More and more Americans are now asking why their tax money was being used to fund the genocides committed by Israel when they themselves lived in poverty at home. This is Joe Kent, former head of Trump's counterterrorism department, speaking on the PS Morgan uncensored show. Mike Huckabe, the American ambassador to Israel, today has called you out for saying Israel only existed as a regional power because of America. He posted, "Joket is either not very smart or just dishonest. Israel received $3.8 billion, but spends far more than that buying US military goods. US also receives Intel tech innovations. So the ROI is many times more. Newou with Israel ends aid and will be based on trade. What do you say to that? Uh so look f first off the the aid that we give Israel that 3.8 billion, it's actually a lot more than that in terms of how much military hardware that we end up parking there to defend them. Not to mention the fact that we pay Egypt a similar amount so that Egypt basically does not attack or do any kind of hostility uh against Israel. It it is pretty much irrefutable. If America pulled away the military assistance that we give and just really the political top cover that we give to Israel, they would behave in a much different way. They would at best case be able to defend themselves and their their borders and that's even debatable to a certain extent. they most certainly wouldn't be able to go on the offense. They most certainly wouldn't be able to get away with what they get away with in terms of the Palestinian territories. So, I I I just believe the amount of data that's out there for how much support that we give the Israelis, it's basically irrefutable. I will now leave you with uh this comical clip from the United Nations Security Council where Israeli terrorist Danny Denon who functions as the Israel's prominent representative there unsuccessfully tried to get support from the international community on the use of deadly firsterson view drones by Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon. Before I play the clip, let me explain the background. Hezbollah has claimed to cause heavy losses to the Israeli terrorists with the help of these drones. The fact that even the western propaganda outlets such as the BBC are now reporting on the success of these drones and that this terrorist has been forced to play the victim card at the United Nations Security Council show just how effectively Hezbollah fighters have used this weapon against Israeli tanks. These human devils have no shame at all. Let's not forget that these barbarians were celebrating the mass murder of innocent people using pillager bombs and not to forget the Israeli drones murdering children and babies in tens of thousands in Gaza. But today he was complaining about the use of FPV drones byah. This is an example of a drone used bybala. This is what we are dealing with now. Hisbala are using different kinds of drones. Few of them with fiber optic. These drones weigh less than 2 kg. It flies low. It is very difficult to detect. And by the time you hear it above your head, it's too late. It can fly undetected for tens of miles and all of a sudden you you see it above your head. A thin cable is what makes this drone different. It does not rely on a radio signal. It cannot be easily jammed. Unfortunately, it gives the operator a live video feed and direct control until impact. This is a modern warfare. cheap, precise, deadly. That's it for me. Thank you very much for your support of this platform and our journalism. If you haven't subscribe to my channel, please do so because that's one of the many ways you can support independent journalism. God bless you all.
Iran SMASHES US Bases in Kuwait & Bahrain, Trump's Bluff CALLED | Mohammad Marandi Danny Haiphong Jun 3, 2026
Mohammad Marandi joins the show to discuss Iran’s massive retaliatory strikes on US bases in the Middle East as major economists panic that catastrophe looms just one week away, Iran called Trump’s bluff but how did he react? What is the significance of this latest escalation? We answer these questions and much More.
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Welcome everyone. Welcome back to the show. Jiro is Danny Hong. As you can see, I am joined by Professor Muhammad Morandi joining me from Iran. Professor Randi, great to see you again. Thank you Danny. It's always a great pleasure being on your show. Everyone hit the like button as we get started here. Well, Professor Mandi, you called it as you have often in this war. Uh Iran has retaliated very hard after a number of developments just in the last Uh what we had first was of course Sentcom uh the United States uh striking Keshum Island, striking an Iranian ship. This happened over the last few days. And then overnight Iran retaliated very hard. They promised the Iranian military did that every response would be harsher and different and that it should serve as a lesson. I'm just going to review the damage and then I can put up some footage as you're reacting to it. Professor Randi, according to now satellite images are coming out. Iran did fire quite a number of missiles. According to reports in the satellite images, four warehouses in Kuwait were destroyed. A hanger in Kuwait as well. the Alial Salam air base a hanger there was destroyed the airport terminal now we don't know exactly what destroyed the airbor terminal because there are footage of US interceptors going completely arai but the terminal one at the airport terminal in Kuwait was destroyed and now there's confirmed and I can pull that one up satellite imagery that shows that there's a fire in Bahrain the other country that saw US assets targeted there a fire at the secure air base So, uh, uh, now we're hearing dozens of people were actually injured in these strikes. We've, we don't know exactly who or like how they were injured because US, uh, provided interceptors were going up and some of them were coming right back down on uh, people's heads. So, Rodi, your reaction to this retaliation by Iran, why is it happening now? And uh we are seeing Donald Trump not saying very much about this other than Sentcom's report that nothing got through and everything was intercepted. I think it shows that Sentcom should never be trusted and that uh the things that they've been saying in the past are probably just as untrue as what we're seeing now. the Kuwaiti uh airport. I don't know if Iran struck it or not, but it is used by uh the United States Air Force and uh every day a number of planes come and go uh which belong to uh the the US armed forces. Uh so um these countries as we've discussed many times before they are a part of this war. they're engaged in war with Iran and uh as long as they're US troops, as long as they're US jets, as long as their US missiles and as long as the United States uses their air airspace uh for Iran, they're legitimate targets and Iran will retaliate. And this round began uh with the United States targeting an Iranian oil tanker or oil tanker that was uh associated with Iran or moving towards an an Iranian port, a civilian target uh at a time of uh ceasefire. Uh so the Iranians basically sent a harsh message that we're not going to tolerate this anymore. From now on, you strike, we strike much harder. And uh so you've seen huge damage uh uh in Kuwait on US bases and in Bahrain. But you know the problem is of course that uh the United States and these regimes uh they continue to engage in warfare against Iran because uh bombing Iran or bombing uh civilian ships or bombing anyone in Iran is an act of war. But in addition to that siege warfare is an extension of the hot war. It is an act of war and again these countries are uh cooperating with the United States and uh for Iran they consider them as uh aggressors. [clears throat] Yeah. Well, here is I was putting up some of the evidence uh contradicting Sentcom statements that nothing hit at all. Uh even the strike that happened a few days ago, Professor Randi in Kuwait again targeting the air base by Iran. Americans were injured in that I think about almost nearly a handful. So uh this is getting uh seems like hot again. Do you feel professor Mandi that Iran is taking these strikes on especially Keshum Island? I think it's been twice now maybe even more times that the US has uh uh struck there. uh are they taking this seriously in in part because they know that the United States and Israel are while they may not feel like they can start the war fully uh because of let's say ammunition issues uh they've been talking about invading an island even a limited invasion they've been talking about targeting islands such as these uh militarily in the medium-term long-term uh plan for the war uh uh Iran what are Iran's calculations here in terms of how it responds to every US ceasefire violation from here. The Iranians believe that the United States, if it has an opportunity to attack Iran, to bomb Iran and get away with it, it will do it. And uh the only way to create deterrence is to make uh Trump and Netanyahu pay a very high price. And so and we've seen that throughout this war that Iran does not escalate. That's not it's it does not initiate war. It does not escalate. But in in this war, what it did was that when there was escalation, it would hit back very hard. And uh we for we saw that for example when they hit Iran's south par gas field the Iranians retaliated retaliated and hit the uh gas field very hard and the Emirati uh Emirati installations very hard and that caused Trump to put out a true social saying that this won't happen again. Right. Uh so Iran believes that they have to respond from a uh with strength. During 7 minutesthe last couple of skirmishes, the US again they initiated the skirmishes. The Iranians responded and this time the Iranians responded much harder which with with severe uh with a very significant strike to send American to send Trump a message and the Trump regime a message that uh we are not im intimidated and we're going to make you regret whatever you do against Iran. And I think it's I think the Iranians feel very confident about their position uh militarily speaking. And we also saw that in Lebanon when the Netanyahu regime uh said that they were going to strike Beirut. The Iranians then uh said that they're going to strike uh start buying missiles at northern uh Palestine. and the uh and then that we saw the Trump Netanyahu phone call and uh or two phone calls apparently and uh Trump allegedly or supposedly used the f-word when speaking to Netanyahu and so on. But regardless of what we think about that conversation and about the um Oxus report because Oxio is not an honest um outlet and not a reliable one. But if if let's assume that this um conversation actually did take place, which is quite plausible in this particular case, um that I think indicates that the Americans understand uh and the the Trump regime understands Iran's strength and it knows that Iran has the upper hand. So in the case of Lebanon, the Iranians say that, you know, enough is enough. you bomb Beirut or any part of Beirut, we're going to pound northern Israel and uh Ansar and Yemen has also 9 minutessaid that they will get involved and uh but simultaneously the siege uh on the straight of Hormones which is a double-edged sword for Trump that siege is also wrecking the global economy. So, the Iranians know that the United States needs a deal. Trump needs a deal. Today, Trump said that he can wait till September, but I don't think that's really uh uh based on what experts on on the energy market and economists are saying, he doesn't have that sort of time. So the Iranians in addition to threatening to strike the Israelis and they were prepared. They were going to strike uh the Israeli regime uh yesterday early in the morning uh but then when they back down they uh they decided to wait. But if they do strike uh Beirut, they will the Iranians will hit them. But in any case, alongside that, the Iranians said, "We're no longer going to send messages to the United States." In other words, the the uh messages that went back and forth for to to see if they can strike a deal, the Iranians have said, "We're not interested right now until the situation in Lebanon becomes uh changes." Now, that of course is a message to Trump saying that if you don't do something about Lebanon and Gaza because Iran has said clearly that Gaza, Iran has from the beginning said it's the entire region. But uh they also in a couple of days ago named Gaza. They they named Gaza. Instead of just saying the entire region, they said Lebanon and Gaza. So, uh, Trump knows that if there is another wave of of, uh, uh, of missiles and and and air strikes, uh, between the two sides, then this this uh,ou or this uh, potential agreement would be would go back weeks at least, right? And that would be catastrophic for the US economy. So I think that the Iranians feel that they are in a uh a strong position. Of course that doesn't mean that the United States will not strike. That doesn't mean the Israeli regime will not strike. But the Iranians do feel that they're in a strong position. That's seems to be uh your words person seem to be backed up by the facts here. And you know Donald Trump himself told New York Post because the New York Post asked him directly. I would play the video but we can't share audio through this platform. But uh basically the gist of it was he confirmed he said those words to Netanyahu. However, he described his feelings about the situation as being perturbed and of course the uh good old we have a great relationship uh wi between each other and all of uh that. But uh nonetheless uh President Ronnie it also seemed like uh you know Israel flaunted Iran's threats. uh the US seemed to he I mean the US seemed to take them very very very seriously and then Israel kept striking Lebanon anyway and in in some respects it seems like uh yesterday's retaliation too uh according to at least Iran and how they're talking the military it's a warning that they you know Iran can still strike and strike very hard uh do you foresee then it doesn't seem like Israel is uh want for doing anything it can't do like for example stop killing people uh in Lebanon and Palestine. Do you foresee then that Iran will have to make good on its threats anyway given that Israel is uh always unhinged and unable to control itself? Yeah. I mean I mean it's not that it can't control itself. It takes pleasure in killing and we see that in Lebanon. this, right? I mean, Western journalists in Lebanon, I mean, legacy media journalists, uh, corporate media journalists, they are partners in this genocide, they're as sinister as the diplomats in Beirut, Western diplomats in Beirut, because they know what's going on, but they refuse to to tell the truth. The Israeli regime is not only bombing families and not only flattening towns and villages and not only carrying out carpet bombing in cities in southern and central Lebanon. U but they're also targeting medics. They are seeking them out across the country and bombing ambulances and and bombing medics. And uh something like 130 to 140 medics have been killed so far. So they seek them out. It's it's quite stunning that uh this is not something in in any of the western uh media outlets or any or none of the western because the west has all these nos human rights nos women's rights nos's wellunded and but they're all they've all gone silent they've disappeared for the last two and a half years I'm sure they're still making a lot of money but uh they're very you know very quiet so um so the Iranians know that the west supports all this and western media through its silence is it's is facilitating the the genocide and therefore Iran they they they they threatened Israeli regime and uh ultimately if Iran feels that things are going to uh go too far uh it will make uh it will extend those threats. it will go further and uh Iran is not going to allow uh le the Lebanese to be ethnically cleansed and Iran is going to take reparations for Lebanon too. Have have no doubt about it. And all of those buildings will be rebuilt. Hezbollah is doing an extraordinary job. They are really humiliating this uh this sinister regime and u and in their rage they go and bomb kids and families and hospitals and and ambulances because they they are losing on the battlefield. And again this is this Hezbollah is um is is just amazing. They've been amazing since it's it's been amazing what they've been doing since their inception. And it's very sad to see that there what the Americans and the Europeans are doing in Lebanon right now. How sinister it is. Those NOS's that I was alluding to right now they and they're funded by the West. What they and these Arab regimes in the Persian Gulf are doing is they're funding their proxies in Lebanon, their agents, and telling them not to allow refugees in their neighborhoods. So the west is telling it it's coordinating with it and its NOS's and th those people who they fund. They are refusing to allow refugees into neighborhoods uh that are controlled or influenced by these by these groups. And the the Saudis and the and the Kataris and the Emiratis and others they too are doing the same thing. They're telling people not to allow the refugees to come to their neighborhood. So what the the plan and the Lebanese government is doing the same. The prime minister and the president, they're basically US agents. they are also preventing the refugees from. So what the the Israelis and the West and these these Arab dictatorships um are trying to do is to corner them to make them desperate to crush the resistance their their supporters. Of course there are people from all uh backgrounds religious and and so on that uh ignore them and support the resistance. The resistance has support from uh all the different communities, Christian, 17 minutesuh Muslim, Jews, Shia, Sunni. Uh polls show that they have strong support, especially among the youth. Especially among the youth. But but I'm just trying to point out how sinister western embassies are and Qatar and Saudi Arabia and the Emirates are. They're all collaborating with Israel. It's the same thing as in Syria. They all collaborated against Syria. Did a dirty war for the sake of Israel. Right now, if the current regime, we we knew that if Syria would fall that it would be a US proxy and al-Qaeda and ISIS are US proxies. Right now is the best time for the Syrians to resist and to to take back their land because the Israeli regime is overextended. But these fanatical Wahhabis and al-Qaeda people, are they going to do anything against Israel? Of course not. That was never a part of the plan. If they would, the Iranians would support. The first people to support them would be Iran and the resistance. I mean, Turkey under Erdogan would never do anything uh like that, but Iran would immediately help. But it was obvious that this was not going to happen. So Hezbollah is surrounded by al-Qaeda and ISIS, by US proxies in Beirut and in Lebanon and and and Saudi and Katari and Emirati proxies and the Israeli regime. But despite all that, despite all that, they're battering the Israeli regime on the battlefield. And uh that is something that uh history books uh will be talking about in in in the decades ahead. This alongside the defeat of the United States on the battlefield against Iran, I think are the two most extraordinary moments uh of this region in decades. Even I think it's greater than the 33-day war where Hezbollah defeated the Israeli regime because this time around Hezbollah is truly surrounded. [clears throat] Yeah. And uh we are I think really witnessing for Randi uh for maybe it's not it's hard to say what the first time in in a in a in a conclusion like this really is but uh what we are witnessing in very clear view is that neither the US nor Israel if you take both of these the US with Iran and Israel uh with Hezbollah has no capacity militarily to affect any kind of outcome and that is uh certainly uh historic in in many ways and uh I just want to pull up because there there's a few big problems that face the United States that are coming up I think uh with Iran's retaliation and I'm sure Iran would view what it did last night with uh striking Kuwait and Bahrain uh as a very limited uh operation but nonetheless it exposes major difficulties for the United States. One is the fact that uh half according [snorts] to CSIS, one of these uh wararm mongering think tanks funded by the US State Department, US Department of Defense, half of all US Patriot air interce defense interceptors have been used before uh the ceasefire of President Mandi. Uh and now uh there are videos like this coming out of last night's retaliation where Kuwait is using what they have left, these Patriot interceptors, and uh they're not working well. So every successive retaliation here uh this is the patriot interceptor coming absolutely back down on Kuwait uh every retaliation that Ronan does even if it is limited according to Iran's own standards uh will continue to pose big problems for the United States and then uh there's the fact that there's some economists who are saying that once in a week's time when these oil reserves at the US has released out into the market in order to somewhat control the the at least what the perceived view uh the public view uh price of oil that we see coming out every day on the market. Uh once that runs out in about a week's time, the real impact of the shortage in oil that has been facilitated by the US and Israeli war aggression will be felt leading possibly to a recession. So you said [laughter] Donald Trump said he could wait. Marco Rubio said the same thing 30 60 90 days. Uh there are economists who are saying you don't even have a week. Uh so this is these are two major problems Russi that seem to point to yeah the US can strike. It can do what it did with Keshum Island. Hell maybe it could do an even bigger strike but it won't last long and it won't have the intended effects. So your thoughts about this? Oil experts and energy experts are are saying between one week, 3 weeks, five weeks that this is going to go downhill. And some say uh by mid June, some say by early July, but even after that, if this continues, it's just going to get progressively worse. And even if we were to have a deal tonight, which is impossible, uh this crisis is going to hit and it's going to hit hard, but uh but if if it continues this this situation, it's going to hit even harder and it's going to last longer. So Trump has already created a catastrophe that we're only we're only seeing the tip of the iceberg, but gradually the we're we're getting closer and closer. And so the Iranians don't, you know, I've seen this online before. Uh people, some people say that Iran is like wants to sink uh US economy. That's not what Iran is seeking to do. What Iran wants is a deal. Iran didn't start the war. Iran didn't start the siege. Iran didn't escalate in the war. Iran never began any war. This is the third time that the United States launches a war against Iran. In 1980, they pushed Saddam Hussein to launch to attack Iran. They gave the West gave him chemical weapons. They these Arab regimes that helped the United States against Iran, gave Saddam Hussein hundreds of billions of dollars. And ultimately, what did he do in return? He invaded Kuwait, but that's a different story. And then, of course, last year's war, we're almost on the anniversary of last year's war and this war that is ongoing. The war is not over. So, uh, the Iranians never initiated war. They never escalated. They only respond to escalation, but they hit sometimes they hit very hard to prevent the United States from continuing this like they did last time last night. It was a Iranian response was much stronger, much more powerful than the American strike on on a tanker. I mean, they they bombed a tanker and these are all civilian targets and these are barbaric acts. But, you know, in the western in Western media, no one is outraged. just as they weren't outra they're not outraged by the carpet bombing in Lebanon. And by the way, in in the southern southern city of Sur in Lebanon, I think in English it's higher. I'm not quite sure what they call it in English. Yeah. But uh the Israelis are telling the Christians not to let the uh the uh the the supporters of the resistance, meaning the the the the refugees, the the Shia predominantly Shia families into their neighborhoods, otherwise they're going to bomb them. So they're sort of like the Nazis who are seeking out who are seek, you know, who we we see in all these movies how they seek out Jews and and so on. that our Nazis are seeking out the Muslims in in Christian neighborhoods or in or uh predominantly Sunni neighbors and neighborhoods and as I said these Wahhabis and the Salafies that are basically proxies of the west uh they are trying to prevent the people from allowing the refugees into their neighborhoods. So but of course as I said many Christians and many Muslims Sunni uh Shia Jews they are ignoring them but it is quite but it is causing a lot of difficulty especially since the the the proxy regime in Beirut is also collaborating to prevent the refugees from finding any place to go. And if they had destroyed Dahi the south of Lebanon it would have been a very desperate situation. But in any case, um I think that uh right now uh we are uh at a at a point where uh Trump cannot wait much longer and he that doesn't mean he's going to sign a deal. I'm just saying that he cannot wait much longer because the effects of the energy shortage and the shortage of helium and the shortage of fertilizers and all other prochemical products is going to hit them. is going to begin hitting hard and I think that uh the the globe is going to become increasing increasingly outraged the world at the US and Netanyahu and Trump and the American people are going to become increasingly angry towards Trump Netanyahu and and the Zionists and their lobby. Yeah. And as you were talking, I got some uh more information about some of the human cost of uh the US provoking Iran's retaliation. Of course, again, we don't know exactly what uh led to these uh casualties, but uh over 60 about 63 people in Kuwait are said to have been injured. At least one has uh died from uh the activity last night. And I'm also hearing that in Bahrain, the government, shocker here, arrested at least 12 people supposedly being blamed or associated with providing some kind of information to Iran in order to affect 27 minutesuh these strikes. So panic all around uh across uh the Gulf. Uh and Professor Randi, I'm hearing too, you said that some have said that Iran wants to crash the US economy. I've heard from many people uh maybe who view the situation in the war closer to how we do say that no it's actually the United States and the Epstein class that has an interest in tanking uh the economy. Now I don't think that's across the board because I do believe that uh there are some uh within the so-called capital markets who are very concerned about what happens in a recession to them they tend to shrink. Some of them tend to lose their status as Epstein class members, lose their wealth, lose their money. But there are of course quite a few who love to cash in especially on uh the government stimulus that comes in when a crash does happen. But what say you to this? because uh there are some who believe that uh uh there are many within the FCN class gambling on an economic crash as like an inevitable outcome that maybe they'll just benefit from anyway and that's why they are reluctant to put any pressure on their uh lieutenant in the White House, Donald Trump, to to stop this war. [snorts] I think that's definitely the case for some because if there is a crash then these very extremely wealthy people will be able to pick up a lot of pieces for themselves and uh they'll be able to purchase lots of assets at a very low price especially if there are uh if if if there is uh government financial assistance which they'll all benefit from but it will not benefit the United States. it will be catastrophic for the United States. But these people, they are in it for themselves. This is all for their own selfish interest. Personally, I'm of the opinion that there there there are many divides, divisions, uh among the the the ruling class, let's say, in the United States, the Epstein class, the Z, even the Zionists. And I I personally think and this is just speculation and I may be wrong but I think that the Axio which I which is completely dishonest and they've they've lied many many times about differences between Biden and Netanyahu to make Biden look as if he's opposed to what's going on. Right. And then Trump as well. I mean, we're at the anniversary of the the 12- day war almost, and back then there was this Axus report that Trump wants to wait and see if diplomacy can work. And then they they attacked Iran. So, it was all just a deceit. But, uh, but this time around, it's a bit different because it what Oxus put out was very humiliating to Netanyahu. It was not a just a you know, it was uh it was not just like that the two have differences. This I think was um I mean uh very hurtful to Netanyahu and you could see it in the um in the Hebrew press and uh people who want to follow what goes on. I mean the Hebrew press is the real Israel and that's where they show their racism and their ugliness and and their ethnosremacism and how they view themselves as a master people uh and all that. uh it doesn't reflect much in the English but uh Conflicts Forum uh Alistister Crook's uh uh think tank uh does a very good job his wife Ashling she she does this and uh I think people should follow uh her her work on the Hebrew press and you the Netanyahu has been attacked severely after this exchange and even by his own political allies let alone his opponents. So, he's been weakened. And I'm of the belief that maybe those people who put out this piece of news in Axios and it's not just Trump because he's, as you say, just a lieutenant, but um maybe they want to they wanted to humiliate Netanyahu. Maybe some of these Zionists uh think that Netanyahu has uh is now his his continued presence is detrimental to their interest because the entire world has turned against the Israeli regime. Yeah. Uh the American people are turning have turned are turning and have turned against American the Israeli regime. And uh many may think that this is dangerous because if the American people turn against uh Zionism and which we see happening already, we see on the right uh people like um Candace Owens and um uh and um um Tucker Carlson, you know, hitting very hard now. and uh and of course uh Thomas Massie and uh uh I think actually his defeat was a bad thing for the Zionists because it sort of was it was a wakeup call. If he had won, I think it would have been better for Zionism. But this way it's it's sort of creating a greater awareness about how bad things are. And so I think maybe perhaps many Zionists and the the Epstein class, the the the the donor class, they some of them may be worried that uh they have to perhaps have a new prime minister, the elections are closed and maybe if they have a new prime minister, they could put all the blame on Netanyahu and and even though it's a genocidal society and then the opposition is just as genocidal, Netanyahu's, you know, members of the opposition are saying you should flatten Dahi. You should flatten southern Beirut, right? You know, one of their criticisms of him is to ignore is that he should ignore Trump and and do it. So, it's not as if they're any better. But maybe some of these Zionists think it's time to to give the regime a facelift and and that's why they put out this very humiliating uh piece of news. Again, this is just sheer speculation on on my part, but what it it in any case, this was not good for the regime. This was humiliating for the regime. And uh also maybe they wanted to spare Trump because Trump is is increasingly just seen as a pawn of the Zionist and by putting this out maybe it could help him make look uh some more independent which is of course nonsense. But I think that there was a a purpose for this and uh and I think it I think it has to do with the future of the the Israeli elections. I may be wrong. I'm just guessing. [clears throat] Well, uh certainly it was leaked out there for a reason. It almost doesn't really matter whether the conversation took place uh the way it did, the way it was reported or or not. uh uh these kind of things tend to get out there and uh spread like wildfire. Now today Netanyahu is saying that and I think Huber Media where you were saying it's very important that there are some like Ash uh Ashling uh Alistar's wife who actually does review these uh media outlets because I think they show the real Israel and and oftentimes the real Israel for many different reasons tends to be panicking a lot. they tend to uh express deep anxieties and worries about uh how things are going and they've been doing this honestly since uh October 7, 2023 and in large part. And so, you 35 minutesknow, one of the big anxieties that came out of this which was very interesting was uh Israel was saying this isn't good. The United States is running Israel now. you know, like that's how like that's how uh they were framing it as almost as if it should be the opposite, right? It should be the opposite day or it should be uh uh it shouldn't be like that. And then of course they always claim that uh Israel is actually sovereign and independent which of course is nonsense since these two countries are basically at least in terms of governance and intelligence and the like militarily uh fusing literally actually trying to fuse um uh there's there's senators and people trying to make that happen in the US. So, but yeah, personal right, I mean, here we are now, it seems like on the cusp of uh an ongoing escalation that these ceasefire violations are no longer going to be tolerated by Iran. They never really were. Um, Israel is still bombing Lebanon, though. So, we are in a situation that leaves us to wonder uh uh are we just headed on a collision course toward what we've been talking about for days, weeks, and months, which is this economic crash coupled with uh a a restart of war that's even greater than what we saw last night. Well, if it there isn't a a restart of the hot war because it's it would be a continuation. This is one war. It has is never ended. Um we have regular clashes and uh we have siege that the Americans are basically trying to starve Iran. Uh they're trying to prevent um food from getting in, medicine from getting in, medical supplies from getting in, but simultaneously they're they're starving the world, too. But um but if there is a hot war, I think it's going to be far more intense than last time around. Last time the Iranians were pulling their punches because they did not want to escalate. So the Iranians did not really target US naval ships. Uh the Iranians did not target, you know, they they they tried to manage the war. U Ansarah in Yemen, they did not get involved. The resistance in Iraq did not come in with full force. Uh, as I said, Iran only escalated when the Americans and the Israelis targeted Iran's critical infrastructure like the south par gas field or Iran's prochemical plants. But this time around, I think if there's war, it's going to be very very intense and it's going to escalate very fast. And I think that um I think this the the Red Sea will be shut down and that will be another four four and a half million barrels a day of oil gone. I think uh if Iran's critical infrastructure is targeted, Iran will immediately take out the critical infrastructure of all these countries in the Persian Gulf. Then you know um you know something again during the war only 20 people in all these five countries were killed in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Qatar and Bah. Iran is very careful not to kill civilians. 3,500 Iranians died and despite all the damage that Iran did to these regimes so very few people few people were killed. Why? Because Iran is careful about these things. Even in Israel, the Iranians do not target. They they even targeted a synagogue in Tehran. Iran never targeted schools or synagogues, right? But um right now it's the middle of it's the beginning of summer and the heat in the Arabian Peninsula is intolerable. It's just I mean the humidity and the heat it's like and it's this is just the beginning. We're at the beginning of June. So June, July, August and parts and September some I don't know how much of it will be very hot and uh if there's war and Iran Iran and Iran's critical infrastructure is struck Iran is going to do the same and all these regimes will collapse and I said this before and the reason I would say this is not because I wanted these countries to be destroyed. I would, you know, I say people should leave because if the other side targets Iran's critical infrastructure, their critical infrastructure will go and those countries will fall apart. But uh this time around, if that happens and Trump carries out his his threats because he said destroying Iran, he's spoke about sending Iran back to the stone age. You know, no one in the west cares apparently because none of the media left, you know, the mainstream media says anything about it. But you know he'll destroy the civilization or wipe out the civilization or obliterate Iran. If he does that then Iran will have to hit back hard and that would and with the with this sort of heat inhumity imagine what would happen in the Emirates or Kuwait or Saudi Arabia because all of their critical assets are literally are alongside the coast of the Persian Gulf. So this is not a good time for the United States. And as we speak, Danny, US forces stationed in the region, they're not in a good place either because their bases have been destroyed. They are here in large number. US US planes, US the the temperatures, the the humidity, the sailor, the sailors and the ocean. It's it's very tough and I'm sure it's not good at all for morale and it's not good for US military hardware either. So, this is not a smart time for the United States to engage in war. But, um but who knows? Who knows? Well, uh, contrary to pro to mainstream, uh, and, uh, direct, uh, SenCom reports about why the USS Gerald Ford is no longer, uh, perusing the, uh, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, uh, you know, uh, off the coast of Israel, Mediterranean area. uh uh you know it was supposedly mechanical failures, laundry fires, but uh they were out there since the be you know for a year a year they were out there and that spanned from the Caribbean uh to the areas surrounding Iran and don't think they wanted to be there. I think so. And of course we had some of the the toilet clogging and maybe some of that was intentional. Also, we had we had we had drones that struck yesterday. They were attacked. I mean I mean Sentcom said nothing happened in Kuwait or Bahrain, but the satellite footage is showing that major damage was done. So anything that SenCom has said during the last three months or so, three months and a few days, you should deal, you should not really trust. So the damage done to these naval ship, the Iranians have tried not to sink ships and they and they're when they strike those ships, they strike them with drones. Uh the missiles are fired as warning shots. But um but again, but if this time around the war starts it and it escalates quickly, then I think all all bets are off and Iran will remove the gloves and they'll pull no punches. It'll be intense and very bad. And then I think under those circumstances, a a a global economic depression far worse than 19 the 1930s is what we're going to be the world is going to be stuck with as we speak. I think uh an a global economic recession, a major recession is inevitable. But I think if this stalemate continues, I think we're going to have a global economic depression anyway. if it continues for I don't know until September, let's say. I think a global economic depression is and these Arab regimes may not last. Yeah. Know the situation is is only going to get more dire for them, especially if you have Trump taking this posture. It's so interesting watching Donald Trump uh let's just take the last month. Just a few weeks ago, Donald Trump could be heard saying things like, "Oh, we're going to finish the job. Oh, if Iran doesn't come to a deal, they really want a deal, but if they don't do it, we're going to have to come in. He even made a threat against Oman during that ridiculous cabinet session that he held, saying, "Oh, we might have to blow him up, too." Now, he may say this again. He may, you know, if it's Trump, he could he could say five minutes from now while I'm talking, [laughter] right? It's been a few even during this retaliation for Zandia, Donald Trump has not made any comments about it. He he's simply relying on Sentcom's uh couple sentence statement about how nothing got hit. Everything was intercepted. We're on the lookout for uh Iranian aggression from here on out. That's a very different response. Uh it's it's a really akin to to silence and it's coming in league with this so-called row with Netanyahu. It definitely appears that at least for now uh the Trump administration is uh not looking for that escalation. It could have something to do with the fact or at least not looking to expand its escal escalation. It might have something to do with those economic problems you just outlined. You know, Danny, another thing is that one of the foolish things that the Trump regime has done is that they've been playing trying to talk down the oil markets. And of course, they're using their strategic reserves like there's no tomorrow. And as you we discussed earlier, those strategic reserves are going to be uh depleting during the month of June. And uh well there there different people say different things but at they some believe that sometime in the month of June there will be a turning point and things will begin to get very bad. Some say early July, but anyway, the point is that they've been using their strategic reserves and they've been talking down the market and some some say, you know, that that was smart of him. But that would only be smart if this crisis was a short short-term crisis where you could manage and then good things get back to a degree of normality. But basically what has happened is that the United States for over three months has been talking down the markets and that has uh and and and and the west has been using its reserves and that has caused consumption to remain pretty high and um demand destruction uh some limited and so uh instead of gradually preparing for the crisis uh We are the the west is heading full speed ahead towards crisis because their consumption is not being managed. Uh the price is down. People are complacent and uh when things hit when it they hit the wall they'll be almost completely unprepared. Even as we speak, uh the markets are you know and many people are not really talking about uh the uh the the shortages that are going to hit pretty soon. Some are beginning to talk. Some senior oil market people are talking, but it's still not something that's being widely discussed. You'd think by now people would be much more uh worried and the the mainstream media would be uh focusing on this issue day and night but not yet. Yeah. Yeah. And I I want to highlight, you know, as we get into the last or so here, um despite the grave costs uh that this war, even in the perspective of Iran, self-defense and sovereignty, it's still great costs or great costs uh to uh to have continued forward throughout the military escalation by the United States taking the damage, the blockade, which hasn't had the extreme effects that I think the US would have liked them they liked it to have still having somewhat of an effect um on uh the region and Iran too. uh uh despite all of this and despite the fact that Iran has had plenty of opportunities to probably just say well this is uh this may not be I've heard even some commentators friend friends of ours say things like well you know uh maybe uh Iran uh is talking to Russia and China and Russia and China would say well it's not everyone's interest for things to just get better so let's try to get the best uh deal possible but still throughout all of this Iran and I don't I even know if those that's true but uh Iran has said that it will not back down from its position especially in relation to the other fronts to Lebanon uh Palestine. Uh recently, I believe right before this these strikes on Kuwait and Bahrain, it outlined that a big reason why uh Iran remains firm is because uh Gaza, Palestine, Lebanon, they remain under attack from Israel and that's a violation of the ceasefire terms which the United States still refuses to show any [laughter] u uh any uh uh uh true, incredible and realistic uh developments of what's been happening in these indirect talks. So I think that's a big deal. I think that's also a pretty historic thing for us that despite the fact that yeah the United States and Israel they're they're tethered to war. They require war. They're constantly wanting to wage war. Doesn't matter their limitations. It doesn't really matter um the consequences for the world. Both of these entities are going to continue on that path. And yet Iran is still putting Lebanon, Palestine, and the rest of the region uh in terms of resistance at the forefront. I think that's a pretty big deal. We're going to be talking about that for a while. But your reaction to this? Yes, absolutely. It's a it's a moral stance and uh that no other country is willing to to to take. Other countries are not willing to do anything. I mean, other countries are complicit. uh e the Egyptian regime purchasing gas from the Israelis helping their economy. Uh Torian and the Alif and Azaran at a time of oil crisis continue to send cheap oil to their business partner Netanyahu. And of course the regimes in the Persian Gulf and the Jordanian regime which is uh the most uh bound to the Israelis and the Americans of all all of their them are fully complicit. And so Iran is basically alone with its allies, the Yemenes, Hezbollah and the broader resistance which includes people from the Christian and Muslim Jewish community and of course the resistance in Iraq and um and you know uh one some people have been saying why hasn't Iran struck the Israelis over Lebanon? Well, first of all, we saw that the Iranians have have drawn a very clear red line and if it's crossed, they will strike. But and also Iran supports Hezbollah even though al-Qaeda and ISIS are preventing any support and the regime in 51 minutesBeirut is also preventing support. But Iran is doing what it can. But uh the the siege war against Iran was brought about when Iran refused to sign a deal after Netanyahu carpet bombed Lebanon. So after the 39 days of hot war, uh a ceasefire agreement was agreed upon uh a ceasefire deal was agreed upon and that included Lebanon. And then we all recall Netanyahu carpet bombed cities, slaughtered hundreds of people within minutes from different communities, even areas that were hostile towards the resistance just to wreck the ceasefire. And Iran said, "No, you can't do they can't do that." And so the Iranians block those ships that were supposed to be allowed to leave this uh the Persian Gulf because remember the Persian Gulf I, you know, we should always remember this. Iran has never shut the Persian Gulf. It only shut the Persian Gulf to ships that belong to countries that were complicit in the war. Yeah. Meaning Kuwait, the Saudis, not Iraq, not China, not Russia, not Oman or anyone else. So Iran was going to allow their ships to go too. And then the Israeli regime did that. And then when Iran said, "Okay, then we're not going to let those ships go until there's a ceasefire in Lebanon," the Americans impose a siege on Iranian ports. So uh and Iran instead of saying okay then we'll allow the ships to go you lift the siege and forget Lebanon Iran is dealing with a siege and this is a siege that is supposed to crash the Iranian economy. So those people who are you know attacking Iran you know their their uh expectations are not reasonable. In fact, I think some of these are bots online who are just trying to uh to to they're trying to help the Israeli regime and create division or they're from these regimes in the region that are fully complicit or you know like Katar's people on the Qatari payroll, Erdogan's payroll, Saudi or Emirati payroll because they don't do anything and so they want to and you know like the dis you know the sectarian disinformation that they've been giving for years they do that. Why? because they want they don't do anything themselves for the Palestinians or the Lebanese. So they want to undermine Iran's credibility and so on. So um Iran will remain steadfast on Gaza on Lebanon and um it will overcome the siege warfare. I think the United States will lose it. It's it's painful for Iran. There's no doubt about it. The economy is is suffering as a result. But Iran knows that this is a fight for survival. and that the empire must uh be defeated at all costs and then Iran's allies and the victims of the empire uh in the region they have to be protected. So um the road ahead is clear. Either the United States accepts Iran's conditions for a ceasefire or we continue to go down the road of global economic destruction with a possible war or without a war. Yeah. Well, uh final two questions for us. First, your brief reaction to you know I've been seeing our friends uh Larry Johnson and Pepasuar. They've talked about uh source telling them uh that Iran may already have a a nuclear weapon. Uh what's your view on this? Uh just quickly uh and then one audience question and then we'll be out of here. I don't have any information on that. Um, what I can say is that in in the 1980s when the West gave Saddam Hussein chemical weapons and the Arab regimes funded that project um, and he used it he used it extensively against his own people and against Iranians and the West even blocked us from purchasing gas masks. Back then people went to Ayatahi the the first leader of the revolution the founder of the Islamic revolution and said we need to produce chemical weapons and he said no he said it's inhumane and he said you have to just deal with what you have then [snorts] the martyr uh when it came to nuclear weapons he also gave a fatwa against weapons of mass destruction. Now I you know in in in in Shia Islam the gate to juristprudence is is open the gate to juristprudence is open and the gate to edge is open unlike in Sunni Islam. So for Shia Islam for juristprudent the the the much uh time and place is important. Today circumstances are different from 100 years ago on all issues. they they they they have an impact where you are. If you're in Brazil, uh Islamic law could be somewhat different from if you're in Japan or in Iran or somewhere else. So time and place is important and uh and the mutah uh the Jewish prudent the expert the scholar uh you know the these factors can influence the way in which he his his or her approach. So Ayatah his fatwa was was against the weapons. However, however back then Dr. Karoi who was marter during this war he was the foreign minister and he was also later the adviser foreign policy adviser to the leader and Dr. Larani who was also martyed in this war who was who became the chair of the supreme national security council. Both of them said that Iran can for years has been able to make nuclear weapons but Iran chose not to do so. And they both said that only if I think both of them said that if Iran faces an existential threat to his existence, Iran's nuclear posture would change. At the moment, I don't see that. I don't see an existential threat to Iran's existence. However, the martyr, his fatwa was what it was when he was alive and his fatwa is his fatwa. It doesn't it won't change now that he's passed away. But the the next leader, the current leader, he could have a different fatwa. But I have I have not I don't see any indication of a different fatwa. I don't see an indication of a of an existential threat to Iran at the moment. And I don't see any move towards uh public public opinion in Iran is pro- nuclear weapon. I mean after the 12- day war last year, I saw a poll where the public even though the the state narrative has always been opposed to nuclear weapons on you know uh but uh before the 12-day war was sort of close 50/50 after the war the majority wanted a nuclear weapon. I have not seen recent polls. I would assume it's even higher. And when I sometimes meet people on the streets in their gatherings at nights, I sometimes go, people want a nuclear weapon that it's clear as day. But I have not seen any indication at all that that is where the leader or supreme national security council or the state wants to go. I have no I see no sign of that. Well, in , uh, we kind of hit on this a little bit, but, uh, an audience member said there's a theory that the blockade and the war are all part of a master plan to destroy energy trade in the Middle East and route the trade to the West. Your thoughts? Well, I'm not an energy expert, but that really won't work because the type of oil in the first of all, the oil that comes from the Middle East is not cannot be replaced. It's heavy oil. And the only country that has a large amount of heavy oil is Russia. Uh that's outside the the region. The the light oil that other many other producers make cannot replace heavy oil. You cannot make diesel with light crude for example. And then of course there's there are the petrochemicals that come from this. There's there's the LNG. Uh so um and of course replacing this oil will take you know I mean forget the light and heavy the the difference investment in the energy sector it costs huge amounts of money many years and the the best and the largest amount of oil is in this region. I'm sure there are some people who think that they'll benefit personally from this crisis and we you discussed that earlier uh in the program, but I there's no doubt that this does not benefit the United States or the West. Yeah. Well, uh master plan, you know, it's a it's a it's a big word because on the one hand, laws of capitalism still do apply. We know that the US and Israel, they don't like laws. They're very lawless, but uh laws of capitalism do apply. So what you just said about oil uh production and the various intricacies of the supply chain that's a big part of it. There's also this whole notion well first a lot of the destruction of oil energy markets or attempted destruction of energy markets uh Russia uh Iran you know and the way that these wars have gone uh the initial attempt was to starve those countries uh and those countries actually are not starved or uh uh you know having issues with their supplies and and trade. It actually happens to be Europe and a lot of the rest of the world that's having big issues. And then what does the United States do? No matter the short-term profits and gains of these LG companies, what do they do with a glut of oil? I I mean, they don't produce anything. There's the only thing they can do is sit on it and that causes economic recession. Sure, some Epstein class members will get rich, but any kind of glut, any kind of massive overaccumulation of one uh very low value added uh resource like oil will drag the US economy down further and further. That's what's happened overall anyway because the US has very little value in this supply chain globally now. in this huge shortage this during this this huge shortage I mean oil companies in the US may benefit in the short term but the US economy I mean the consumer businesses they all lose big it's oil it's not it's you're not building you know you're not building anything with that oil it's oil uh and that causes you know it's almost uh the US is going backwards in the supply chain just to make meet geopolitical aims and ends that don't seem to be working out very well anyway. But first, I know you got another venture, another appointment, so I want to respect your time. Everyone hit the like button before you go. First of Randy's uh exac account is in the video description. All the places support this channel, uh subsack, patreon, and much more are there as well. Hit the like button. That boosts the show after we are done. For us, Mirandi, any final words? No. Uh I just think we should all remain as active as possible. There's a genocide going on in Lebanon. They're ethnically cleansing Lebanon. They're trying to create a second Gaza. We should all be uh especially because the people of southern Lebanon went into this war knowingly. They supported the people of Gaza. They drew away the Israeli armed forces right after October the 7th when the genocide was beginning. They knew that the Israeli regime would take its revenge. Yet, they did it to spare the children of Gaza. Their heroism is unparalleled. The people of Gaza were fighting for their survival. But these people were fighting for survival of the Gazin children. And history will remember the role of the Hezbollah and the all those who supported in Lebanon from all the different communities. And we have a responsibility to uh to support these people who are really at the height of humanity. Uh very well said. All right everyone. See you tomorrow, 400 p. p.m. Eastern time with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson and Larry Johnson, friends of ours, June 4th. See you then. Bye-bye.
