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‘NATO Useless, We’ll Help’: Iran Offers To PROTECT Greenland From Trump’s Invasion Threat | Watch
Times Of India
Mar 22, 2026 #Trump #Iran #Greenland

Amid escalating tensions, Iran has mocked Donald Trump over his controversial push to take control of Greenland. A viral clip shows an Iranian official offering to “protect” Greenland if Europe cannot—turning a geopolitical dispute into a global talking point. The remarks come as the US-Iran conflict intensifies, with threats over the Strait of Hormuz adding to the pressure. As tensions rise across multiple fronts, the war of words is now stretching from the Middle East to the Arctic, highlighting a rapidly widening geopolitical standoff.



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A war of missiles and now a war of words stretching from the Middle East to the
Arctic. As tensions explode between the United States and Iran, a surprising new chapter has opened over Greenland.
In a viral video circulating online,
Iranian police chief Ahmad Raza Radan appears to mock Trump's long-standing ambition to acquire Greenland.
Addressing Europe, he taunts if the European Union cannot keep Greenland,
Iran is ready to protect it. The authenticity, location, and date of the
video remains unverified, but its timing is no coincidence.
The Iran war has now entered its fourth week with US and Israeli strikes intensifying and Tehran hitting back both militarily and rhetorically.
After earlier threats and pressure on Europe, Trump is now urging NATO and EU allies to help secure the critical oil route, the Strait of Hormuz.
But Iran claims Washington is no longer leading, it's begging. This comes as
Trump issues a stark ultimatum. reopen the strait of Hormuz within hours or
face devastating US strikes on Iranian power plants.
Tehran's response is equally blunt. Any attack on its energy infrastructure will trigger retaliation against US and
allied assets across the region. And in the background of this escalating crisis lies an older fault line.
Trump's push to take control of Greenland had already strained relations with Denmark and its European partners
earlier this year. Though tensions eased after highlevel talks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, officials warned the crisis was far from resolved.
Now Iran has seized on that very issue,
turning it into a geopolitical jab. From Greenland to the Persian Gulf, the conflict is no longer confined to one region. It's a multi-layered showdown,
military, economic, and symbolic. And as rhetoric sharpens and alliances are tested, one thing is becoming clear.
This is not just a battle for territory or oil routes. It's a battle for global influence playing out across continents and escalating by the hour.
A -hour ultimatum and a warning that could ignite World War II. US President
Donald Trump has issued a dramatic threat to Iran. Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately or face devastating consequences.
In a fiery post on Truth Social, Trump declared that if Thran fails to comply within hours, the United States will
hit and obliterate multiple Iranian power plants, starting with the biggest one. He said, and I quote, "If Iran
doesn't fully open without threat the straight of Hormuz within hours from this exact point in time, the United
States of America will hit and obliterate their various power plants, starting with the biggest one first.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The straight of Hormuz, one of the world's most critical crude lifelines,
has been under pressure since the escalation between Israel and Iran.
Nearly th of global oil supply flows through this narrow passage. And now,
with Iranian forces tightening their grip, global energy markets are on edge.
Oil prices are already surging. But in a surprising twist, Trump has also signaled that the US may not take
responsibility for securing the vital route. Instead, he says other nations that rely on the strait should step up
and guard and police it. Trump has also lashed out at NATO allies, calling them cowards, and has even urged China to intervene.
Hello everybody. I thought I'd bring our great secretary of state out and he is doing a fantastic job. So we have Marco. Go ahead, please.
Mr. President, I wanted to ask you Iran executed three people this week. Terrible.
You have vowed strong action in the past. What message would you say?
Well, we've been hitting them awfully hard. I mean, uh, I don't know if you can possibly get hit harder, but these are thugs and animals and horrible
people, but you can't hit anybody harder than we've hit them. But I'm not surprised they executed three young people for protesting.
And do you plan to escort those ships through the straight of Kamoose with or without allies?
We're doing very well there. We're doing very well overall. Uh, you know, we don't use the straight. We don't. The United States, we don't need it. Europe
needs it. Uh, Korea, Japan, China, a lot of other people. So, they'll have to get involved a little bit on that one. You
could possibly get hit harder. But these are thugs and animals. They're horrible people. Do you think Israel will be ready to end the war when you're writing?
I think so.
The relationship's a very good one. I think so.
We want more or less similar things. You know what we want? We want victory, both of us. And that's what we've got.
Mr.
You know, I may have a plan or I may not, but how would I ever say that to a reporter? If I said that to a reporter,
Mark would say, "Please, sir, let's bring you over to the helicopter immediately." Right. I I can't I can't tell you that.
It's certainly a place that's people are talking about, but I can't say would say, "Please, sir, let's bring you over to the helicopter immediately."
By that, you said the war was militarily won in Iraq. What did you mean by that?
Oh, I think we've won. We've knocked out their navy, their air force. We've knocked out their anti-aircraft. We've knocked out everything. We're roaming
free. From a military standpoint, all they're doing is clogging up the straight. But from a milit military standpoint, they're finished.
So, how much longer the American people expect?
You said you said opening the straight of road is a simple military maneuver. Very simple. Yeah. But what did you mean by that?
It's a simple military maneuver. It's relatively safe, but you need a lot of uh help in the sense of you need ships,
you need volume, and uh NATO could help us, but they so far haven't had the courage to do so. And others could help
us, but you know, we don't use it. You know, at a certain point, it'll open itself at a certain point, but we've
defeated the enemy, and they are an enemy. They're a sick group of people.
The leadership is gone. The Navy is gone. The Air Force is gone. The anti-aircraft equipment that they have, the radar they
have is all gone. Everything's gone. Uh the straight itself, the actual straight, how are you? The straight
itself is uh we're doing a good job. But it would be nice if the countries including China, if the countries that
use it, China uses it % of their energy. Uh Japan is % of the energy.
It would be nice if those countries would get involved.
I really thought I thought that oil prices would go much higher when I did this.
We just set every record every record in the book with Dow with the S&P. Dow had
S&P had at levels at at speed like nobody's ever seen before.
But I said, I have to go off of that path and I have to take a little journey. We have to get the And he would agree, but he's not going to say it. I
And this is not St. Patrick's Day, by the way. What are you doing with that time, but we had to go off on a sec path
and take care of business? And we have we are in the process of doing it. And I'll tell you, I think we're weeks ahead of schedule.
Behind the scenes, Washington is making calculated moves. The Trump administration claims Iran's capabilities in the strait have been
weakened. But on the contrary, in a temporary relief measure, it has lifted sanctions on Iranian oil already loaded onto ships.

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Scott Ritter: Iran Launches Missiles at Tel Aviv
Nima Alkhorshid
Mar 22, 2026



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Iranians, first of all, we have to understand that they've been um very open about what the consequences of
actions will be. Um and so far, they haven't bluffed.
This is a death sentence for Saudi Arabian oil, um for United Arab Emirate
oil, Kuwaiti oil, Bahraini oil, any nation that played a role in this. And you can say it was an Israeli attack,
but it was, as you say, coordinated with the United States. The United States is at a minimum cultable and um, you know,
complicit. Um, so all the Gulf Arab nations that did this are going to pay an extraordinary price. Now, maybe the
Iranians will make an example of one and tell then tell the rest to you guys got to get this to stop or else we're taking everything out. Uh, we're not doing the
next attack. We take everything out. But this one, Saudi Arabia, I'm sorry. You lied to us. you let American airplanes in Europe were and it they need to erase Saudi Arabian energy manufacturing.
um [clears throat] if they don't then their energy is now going to be erased and um that's the goal of Israel cuz you
know what what what's happened the reason why this decision was made is that this is proof positive that both Israel and the United States now know
that regime change is impossible that the Iranian government is going to last this [clears throat] conflict and so what they're doing right now is
ensuring that the Iranian government what they govern is going to be povertystricken Uh so they're they're seeking to do
permanent longlasting damage to Iran's ability to produce gas and oil and energy and and achieve income derived thereof. Um [sighs]
and Iran has said that we're not going to be the only nation that goes down this way. So I think this is the beginning of um [clears throat] one of the biggest mistakes made. But again,
now what we've seen is Israel is creating the conditions for global catastrophe. I mean, when is the world going to realize that the biggest single threat to the entire world is Israel?
Israel just did something because they're such a pathetic nation.
[laughter]
They did something that's going to have ramifications globally. China will be impacted by this. India will be impacted
by this because it's not just it's not Iranian energy that's being attacked.
It's going to be regional energy. It's all related. So this is a very bad development, very dangerous development, very disturbing development.
You know, Iran has issued an urgent warning to Saudi Arabia, to UAE and various points, various, you know,
Jubel, they call it Jubel complex, they call it SAM, Sam refinery and in the
UAE, Alhassan gas field and together with Qatar. Katar is there is a Messiah
complex that they call it and is affiliated to the Chevron and two places in Qatar, two places in Saudi Arabia,
one in the UAE and they said that they're going to hit and anybody who's living, you know, nearby should leave the region.
They they they they should. I mean, this is consequences, cause and effect relationship. And I'm I'm actually glad Iran is going to do this. And I hope
they hit them hard. I hope that when they finish, this isn't just a token.
We're blowing up a few things so we get nice photographs of flames. They need to terminate the energy production capacity at all these facilities because then
what they need to say is this is what we're going to do to everything if this happens to again. This isn't, you know,
tit for tat. You don't get to take out one of our fields and we take out one of yours. We're taking the whole damn system down. And they need to prove that
now. maximum damage done to these facilities, take them off the face of the earth. And because that's the only way you're going to wake people up.
That's the only way. I My gas went from $two Mondays ago to $today. And it's going to be go it's going to be I
bet you it's $before the day is over. The I remember last time I went through one of these, uh I would go in and watch the gas station change the
price [laughter] throughout the day. U because that's just the way it is.
This is the only way you're going to wake American people up, European people, the people of the world up is by hitting their pocketbook because they
don't care about Iranians. Nobody cares for the fact that um to kill Ali Larjani and his son, they took out an entire city block.
That's a war crime. It is the literal definition of war crime. This is what the Nazis did. And yet they did it and and we're bragging about it saying,
"Yeah, it's a good thing. Nobody cares."
So you're not going to impress. Hell, we killed a we bombed a school, double tapped a school, killed girls. Um,
nobody cares. That's how disgusting we are as human beings. We only care about ourselves. Okay, Iran, now it's time to
hit the buttons to make us care about ourselves. Bring the pain home. You clearly didn't get to our hearts because we have hearts of stone. Um, you know,
no tears shed for those girls. No tears shed for the hundred people that died so you could say you killed Ellie Ljourney.
uh not recognizing that killing him doesn't change a damn thing that the institution still exists. There are people to replace him and he just goes down as a martyr motivating the people
who replaced him. Um take out the oil fields. It's time for Iran to put the pedal to the metal and
take the damn oil fields out. The other thing I would do if I were Iran is uh I would tell the nations that were getting
tankers through the straight of horror moves, no more tankers. We're complete shutdown of the straight of hormones. um we're bringing the pain that that you
know and it's time to bring the pain and if India goes but we didn't do anything you say yes India you did you didn't do a damn thing you didn't do anything to
stop this you're still have good relations you're still talking to Israel like they're your brothers they're not they're the people that are murdering us
every day of the week and you want us to do business with you it's time for Iran to play that card and they need to tell the Russians and the Chinese it's time
for the Russian Chinese to step up their game because this is going to have a dire impact especially on China. China's looking at their future right now
there's going to be a big old hiccup right now because even if they start buying energy from Russia you don't have the ability you don't have the throughput capacity to get all that
energy there. Uh China so and Iran has to say sorry brother I know we we're
sort of hurting you but hey uh Pete Hex says there's a thousand places in Iran that go boom a day. What are you doing to stop that?
nothing. [snorts] So you need to do more otherwise as we go down so do you. Um but they
need to they they need to bring the pain. The other thing by shutting straight hormones it ends once and for all the notion that the United States right now by the limited traffic uh you
have the United States claiming it's because of them did this. We're the ones that sat there and made the Iranians say, "Huh, we
might as well let some traffic through because America's right there threatening us." No. Um, what Iran did is prove that they're in control. Only
Iran decides what gets through the straight of Hormuz. And right now, the Iranians need to decide that nothing gets straight through the gets through the straight of Hormuz. Nothing.
Scott, Saudi Arabia and all these Arab states are in some sort of panic. Saudi Arabia, you know, will host a foreign
minister's meeting in Riyad today. And the Turkish diplomat reported on that that they're going to have Azarbaijan,
Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait,
Pakistan, Qatar, Syria, and Turkey all together coming in Saudi Arabia and and
the UAE to we know that Aubaijan is so much important for Israel. I don't know if
Iran would do something in that direction or all these countries coming together would make some sort of move in
that direction and how do you see all the capabilities of these countries
to do what I mean you know the thing is as Saudi Arabia hosts this meeting um
they're going to lose an oil field how's that feel Saudi Arabia um and as the UAE sends representative. They're
going to lose an oil field and Qar is going to lose a natural gas field. Um,
you know, this is the reality. So, what are they going to do? Come together and tell what we're going to threaten Iran.
Hey, dude, they're already losing a thousand points on the map a day get blown up by America. You're going to bring your pathetically small military and make it a,
You think the additional targets you can hit a day is going to change what's going on? I mean, this is the pathetic reality of these Arab nations. They have
sold their souls to the devil. They have sold their soul to the devil. The United States and Israel calling the shots. And
now they're going to come together to do what? If they don't come together and say the one thing that has to be said,
America, get the out of our neighborhood. Get out. You're done.
We're done with you. You lied to us. You betrayed us. You set us up. All this is because of you and Israel. Stop. Or see
everybody here. Count the bodies. Count the airplanes. we'll come in and we'll erase you from the planet. It's time for nations to step up and just tell Israel,
remind them how small they are and how pathetic they are, how inconsequential they are. You know, Israel right now is shooting its load into uh into uh Iran
and they're blowing up some places on the ground, but they're not they're not changing anything. The missiles still come in and hit Israel on a daily basis.
Hezbollah is slaughtering Israeli troops in in in southern Lebanon. I mean, go ahead, Israel, mobilize They'll all die, too. Hezbollah is better at
this business than you are. You're on their turf and they will slaughter you and you don't want to fight. That's the other thing is the Israelis don't believe in this mission anymore. They only believe in it when it's painfree.
It ain't painfree anymore. There's a lot of pain attached to this. So, the they need to put the pressure on the right places. They need to put the pressure on
the United States and on Israel. If they try to put any pressure on Iran, what does Iran care?
I mean, what what What are you going to do? Kill kill kill the next larani?
You kill the president? I'm sure the president cares. I don't think he wants to die, but Iran could care less. They
have institutions. This is about a you you're you're fighting a nation. You're not fighting individuals. And so, and
and as opposed to the majority of those people gathering, those are families.
Those are monarchies. They're not nations.
Most of the people gathering there are the heads of, you know, families that run countries, but they're not part of
the nation. The nation didn't vote for them. And these are corrupt individuals who have, you know, robbed their own people blind to enrich themselves. And so when they come together to speak,
they're not speaking on behalf of the people. They're speaking on behalf of their own selfish interests. There's only a few nations where you could actually say, I mean, Erdogan, I think,
speaks for the Turkish nation. Um, you know, Golani, who's he speak for? I mean, who's they gonna send? Another head chopper. Um, you know, again, none of the Gulf Arab states are democratic.
None of them. Uh, they're all these autocratic, corrupt, um, you know, morally corrupt and, you know,
economically corrupt individuals uh, who the world would be better off if they didn't exist. And maybe that'll be one of the consequences of this war is the
eraser of these corrupt families that were put in place by the British. [laughter]
None of them earned this. They didn't come in, you know, the these aren't people that came in and went,
"Hello, we've discovered this great country and we're going to lead by being intellectually sound and morally correct and we're going to build things." They
came in and chopped heads off. And one day a camel went out and pissed in the desert and some oil came up and oh
that's not very good tasting. Why don't we hire a foreigner who was smart and in comes the British and the Americans say that's oil. What do we need to do? Not a
damn thing. You just sit back there on your camel in your tent, smoke your pipe, and we will bring the oil out of the ground and we'll throw some money your way and then we'll take it. And
that's how it got developed. These guys didn't do anything. They didn't do anything except chop off some heads.
Other people developed the industry. Now they've inherited it and they have this structure in place where they make all the money.
Ask the UAE though what's the percentage of uh Emirati people in their military? %.
% of the UAE military has mercenaries mainly Pakistani. They don't know how to fight. When they build a building, are
the Emirati men out there rolling up their sleeves, getting sunburned,
constructing? Hell no. They're in an air conditioned office, fat, smoking dope,
and uh and spending oil money. Other people come in and do the work for them.
These aren't good people. These aren't good nations. They don't stand for anything worthwhile. They hide behind a facade of intellectualism. We've built
the new Louv in [clears throat] the Middle East. You know, the UAE built that Lou lookalike.
What's going to happen when all your oil fields are blown up and you got no more money and nobody's coming to your stupid piece of desert patch? Uh, you have no
water because the de desalinization plants are going to be blown up and that building is going to be empty. Nobody's going to visit. Was it the Burja or
whatever? Um, you know, the one that Tom Cruz jumped off of or climbed. Um, that'll be empty. You know, those the,
you know, making those little palm islands so you can see from the sky,
look down on it. uh that will be eroded away because nobody will maintaining it.
Uh and that'll happen to all of these little fake little desert countries because when they lose their energy,
they lose everything. They've got nothing. Nothing. Dubai had a banking industry that's gone. Think the expatriots are going to hang out in
Dubai from now on that has been exposed the way it is. No, they need stability.
Long-term stability. And these Gulf Arab nations can no longer guarantee long-term stability. And so, it's over for them. This is a panicked meeting that you're going to be seeing in Riad right now. A panicked meeting.
Scott, you've mentioned the dissalination. Do you think that we are headed toward dalination plans? Because
that could be a huge catastrophe for the whole region and Iran doesn't suffer
from dalination if that goes you know the escalation goes in that direction.
But we know that the Arab states together with Israel, Israel is dependent more than % on dalination plants.
That's one of the last steps because now you're talking about the eraser of a nation. Without water, you've got nothing. And there is no plan B for
water. There is no plan B for water. Um and so
that's the next step. And I believe at the end of the day, if these nations don't stop doing what they're doing to Iran, Iran will erase them as civilized
nations by destroying their destinization plants. If I were the Iranians, um I I the next I I would actually take out Israeli desalinization
plants now. Right now. End Israel right now. Just end it. Just take it out. End it. Israel might have a plan B. They
they you know, they they might be able to ship in water because Europe no one's going to let the Jews die. Um, so they're going to shipping water and all that. Fine. But that'll be their life from now on. Foreign sources of water,
tankers pointing off, Israeli people, you know, lining up to get, you know,
like gazins, you know, to pump water into their pot to take home and, you know, and all that. Good. Make that Israel's future. No more running water
and pipes. Blow up the desalinization plant and eliminate it. And Hezbollah,
go ahead and take Shabba Farms and shut off the Jordan River source. Cut it out.
End it. Make the Dead Sea dead. Make Israel over. You know, Israel needs to cease to exist. It is literally the
cancer on the planet. Um, and Iran could do that by blowing up desalinization plants. I think they might want to give the uh Gulf Arab states another shot,
but at some point in time, you at least pick one. I'd pick the UAE because I just hate them. Um, erase them, blow up
all their desation plants, and make the plan make the country disappear. All the expatriots will leave. All the foreigners will leave. And then those
UAE betterans will that you know they'll have to sit there and do what? Do what? Drink oil. Good luck. Um,
you know, they deserve it.
And this is hopefully what they're talking about in Riad is we're screwed.
We're screwed. [clears throat] We're we're heading to the apocalypse. Um, and again, when they say apoc, they don't care about their people. They only care about themselves.
you know, about their family, about, you know, the monarchy. Um,
you know, I I really enjoyed uh reading about what happened to the Hashemites in Iraq. And I'll let the people Google that to figure out what I mean, but um I
don't really mean that because nobody wants to see families hacked up and dragged through the streets.
But, you know, when you take these families that have no legitimacy whatsoever and you put them in charge and they are this corrupt,
maybe they need the Hashemite solution.
Baghdad version. Uh, which could become the Hasheite solution? Ammon version,
which would be nice. Um, and it could be the solution in Bahrain. You really want Khalifa to stay there? This fat nobody. I mean, he's so corrupt, so despicable.
The family has been despicable. They were a joke when we were there as weapons inspectors. I could tell you stories that would make your hair curl.
Go talk to the Golf Air Stewarts. All the Gulf Air stewarters out there who spent time on the chic beach and got recruited to go in and do his little things. You know what I'm talking about.
Golfire Stewarters is because you did them. Why don't you start telling people what really happened? How despicable these people are? Despicable.
And yet they govern and we treat them like they're some sort of, you know,
somebody's. They're nobody. They're stupid. They're ignorant. They're corrupt. And they're morally deficient human beings. And yet they sit there and
live and make all this money and everybody comes rolling up to them and treating them like they're god because they make money. Well, they're not going to make money anymore if Iran erases
their energy. And then the world will see these people for what they are, pathetic losers.
I'm I'm fed up because it's they're to blame. People are like, "Scott, why do you what do you got against the Gulf Arab nations?" Everything. They got everything [clears throat] against you
because you're to blame. You caused this. You allowed the United States to come in and create a Sunni Shia split.
This isn't Iran's fault. This is your fault. You all bought into it. uh and you you played the game where you allowed the United States military to
come in and uh then you enriched American defense industry. I mean, look at this straight out bribery. Remember when Donald Trump's first term and he went over and danced a stupid sword dance with the with the Saudis?
Straight up bribery. Said, "We're going to buy more American weapons." As if this is what makes a relationship good.
Well, Saudi, how are those weapons working right now?
How secure are you right now with all those weapons you bought? UAE. How's that missile defense stuff worth?
I mean, you can put out all your numbers. UA missiles were shot at and we shot down of them.
Yeah, but how many of your interceptors did you expend to shoot those down? And how many you got left? And what's going to happen tomorrow when you can't defend
your nation because the United States refuses to give you more interceptors because we sent all the ones we brought out of South Korea to Israel? Um,
you It is the role played by the Gulf Arab nations in making this possible. They are the ones responsible. This is why I
shed no tears for them. I will never cry for Israel. As Israel gets erased off of the planet, I will cheer because Israel
is a cancer. But joining the Israelis as, you know, as cancerous entities are
every single royal family in the Gulf Arab region. None of them got there legitimately. They were all put in there
by the British and then sustained by the Americans who and they live off of the money they get out of the ground. They
didn't earn this. It's a gift given to them. And there are not too many of them that spend this money wisely. Um
[clears throat]
and you know, again, unfortunately for the the the well-meaning people out there, um you pay the price for the corruption of your bosses.
Everybody treats NBS as if he's some sort of good. You you do know he's a disgusting pig of a human being.
There's nothing good about this man. He represents the worst of Saudi Arabian society. The excesses of Saudi Arabia
are put into him. There is no moral compass in him. Just ask the family of Kosogi.
NBS had him cut up. Cut up. That's what he does. And yet we run around, shake his hand,
we we we crawled to him. Joe Biden literally crawled to him.
Joe, you should have bombed Saudi Arabia. That's the nation worth bombing,
not Iran. You should have turned our guns on Saudi Arabia and eliminated this corrupt regime and replaced it with a democratically elected society that represents the true will of the people.
Except, man, the Shia might get a vote then.
Anyways, I've gone off long enough on these guys. [clears throat] But when it comes, our common f friend friend Larry
Johnson reported the other day that Israelis are running out of interceptors when it comes to the fat system and
patriot system and we see how Hezbollah is getting is able to hit the targets in Israel.
Then at the same time they're talking about ground invasion of Lebanon and
soldiers to be used. But when it comes to the capabilities, defensive capability capabilities of Israel, is
that in the calculation is that in that equation of Donald Trump together with Israelis and how is that going to work for Israel?
Well, one of the reasons why Israel felt confident in striking out against Iran at this time is that they had convinced themselves that they had taken Hezbollah
off the uh I think there was always an understanding from the Israelis that Hezbollah was a loaded pistol to Israel's head and that if you went after
Iran, boom, the pistol goes off. And so they pagered the middle mid level of uh you know Hezbollah management, blew off
a lot of hands, blinded people. Uh they killed Hassan Nasallah and they worked with the United States to get the
Lebanese government to tone down Hezbollah. They got rid of Syria which made the lifeline between Hezbollah and Iran problematic. And so Hezbollah went into a quiet mode, like a sleep mode,
you know, but don't be lulled. I mean,
you know, it's like me looking at this computer. I'm giving a horrible analogy,
but I'm making it up as I go along, so it may work in the end. Um, but you know, I've got got this computer screen.
The screen doesn't do it. I mean, it's a screen. I look at it and I move around my mouse and I think it's the computer,
but it's not. It's just a screen. The computer's right here next to it. It does all the thinking. And what happened here is we got everybody to put the
screen into sleep mode. Everybody's going there. We solved the Hezbollah problem. Look at the screen. Blank.
Nothing there. No mouse moving on, no cursor. Can't click anything. But the computer's right here.
And if you shake the computer, the screen comes back on.
Israel believed that they had suppressed Hezbollah, that Hezbollah is weakened,
that they could use the Lebanese government and the Lebanese army as a way of containing um Hezbollah. I mean,
look at what happened when they told the when the Lebanese government, the prime minister and the president told the Lebanese army to disarm Hezbollah. What was the response of the Lebanese army?
Hell no. We ain't touching that because they know the truth.
that the screen may be off, but the computer still works. And the computer when it turns on turns on with a vengeance. And Hezbollah would wipe the Lebanese army off the face of the earth.
The Lebanese army is incapable of any meaningful fighting because they they're not trained for it. They all look good in their uniforms. I'm sure they do a lot of push-ups because they got some man when they roll up those sleeves,
they got some impressive biceps and, you know, they got the little chest torso thing going. Tapers down. The Lebanese soldiers look really good in uniform. They really do. They're handsome dudes.
get those berets and haircut. Um,
Hezbollah will kill all of them because Hezbollah are damn good fighters and they're still there. Hezbollah, you know, had to do some certain uh, you know,
what's the word I'm looking for when you do cosmetic, there you go, cosmetic uh,
alterations, you know, withdraw a little bit from the south, but all the tunnels are still there. Um, Israel blew up a couple missile depots and and they took
over a missile production facility in Syria and blew it up and wow the Israelis really good. But Hezbollah is not stupid. Again, Hezbollah is like
Iran. They don't put all their eggs in one basket and they have significant resources that have been, you know,
saved. Israel fooled themselves into believing that Hezbollah was off the map and now Hezbollah is back and Iran has
eliminated um the bulk of Israel's ability to defend itself. And so now Hezbollah is blowing up Hifa. Hezbollah
is blowing up Tel Aviv. Hezbollah is blowing up Tel Aviv. That's an amazing thing. And now the Israelis are going to send in soldiers into southern
Lebanon. I just want people to think about this for a second because maybe you're not familiar with the military.
One of the things that we always did uh in the military before we would do you know any anything training war you do
what's called the um intelligence preparation of the battlefield IPB and one thing you do is you just look at the
terrain and see what the terrain tells you because the terrain's going to tell you a couple things where you can go and where you can't go and so we do overlays
of go no-go and suddenly you constrict yourselves to very limited cores Now you you have to also look at what terrain features can dominate these corridors
because as you have the corridors going in, who controls this terrain here can stop the the quarter, not just blocking it here, but up here. So the the the
battle starts defining itself. You can tell right off the bat what key terrain is, what the key lines of communication are, and already you can shape the
battle, what we're going to need, what the enem is going to have to do, and all this kind of stuff. Um,
if you try and squeeze Israeli troops into the battlefield that is southern Lebanon, you're just going to
get back backed up tanks or you're going to get guys on a hillside um just providing more targets. You know, a
hillside should probably only take, you know, a platoon spread out as they as they sweep it. That way if the if the Hezbollah opens up on fire, they can
take out a fire team. The rest of the guys can suppress, bring in artillery, reinforce with other platoon, move in.
But if you come in and put a company online, you're going to lose the company in the first thing. All you're doing is creating more targets, more tanks, more concentration of troops. Where are these
troops going to go as they get caught up in a traffic jam? Because that's what's going to happen. There's going to they're going to start snaking their way up to some unnamed southern
Lebanese hilltop village and they're going to go in there and Hezbollah is going to jump up and bam, hit them. And now they're in a firefight. They got wounded Israelis. You got to get them
out. But you can't get them out because you got a traffic jam going on. The traffic is going to get hit. Rockets, burning tanks and everything.
They're stuck. And all those troops are going to be in concentration areas. And Hezbollah's got rockets and they're going to hit the concentration areas and
kill these guys. Please, Israel, don't make it make in a million,
mobilize every man, put them all in uniform and send them to Lebanon so they can all die because that's what's going to happen. Hezbollah is going to kick
their ass. Hezbollah is in an existential struggle right now. You know, Hezbollah before never really did the fight to the finish mode because
they were also linked to the Lebanese government. Lebanese government has proven itself to be nothing more than a MSAD front. The president and the prime minister work for MSAD. I'll say it
again. the president of Lebanon and the prime minister work for Assad. Now, it could be directly or indirectly, meaning maybe Tom Barack, the American
ambassador, um, you know, is is to Turkey, who is now the Lebanese special envoy. He's a front for them. But the bottom line is they don't work for the
Lebanese people because if they did work for the Lebanese people, they'd have declared war on Israel already for all the bombing that took place in uh in
Beirut and elsewhere. No, they work for MSAD. Um, and so now Hezblah now knows what has to be done. They have to defeat
Israel and they have to defeat the MSAD government in Beirut.
And they will because nobody, this is a life and death struggle for people who,
as we've talked about, embrace martyrdom, not suicidally, but they're not afraid.
You know, all the people, all the other people, all those little Israeli boys out there that are getting ready to go into Lebanon, they're scared. They're
scared little boys. You see, they're mama's boys. They're the new generation of Israelis. They grew up with mama and they're oh, they're so nice and they
know it. They're very good. They can they want to create that their big thing in life isn't to work on a kabutz under the sun and get sweaty and hot and muscles. They want to sit in air conditioned office and do an IT startup.
That's all they want to do. I want to do an IT startup. A startup because that what that means is you do nothing, get all the money. Uh because that's what the Israelis are today. They don't work.
They're lazy. And so all these little mama boys now are going to be moving towards Lebanon, but when they take off their helmet, there's going to be little
Mishva or whatever the their girl's friend name is, and they're going to be looking at her, go, "Oh, mama and my girlfriend. Oh, I missed them." They're thinking the wrong thing.
Hezbollah, meanwhile, is down there, you know, pooping in a bag, burying it,
pissing in a cup, burying it because they're ready. They're not moving. And here they come, and Hezba's going to close and kill them. Heza is sit there
and go, "Oh no, you know, Fatima, forget Fatima. Heza is in the business of killing Israelis and the business is good right now." And the Israelis are
going to come in, these little mama boys, and are going up against real men who are in killing mode because they have no choice. Israel and the United
States have made this existential. If they defeat Iran, that's the end of Hezbollah. So Hezbollah is fighting literally for their existence. And the
Israelis don't know what they're fighting for. They just know that when they go into Lebanon, they get chewed up and they start to hesitate. And when you hesitate in combat, you're dead.
[clears throat]
Mobilize every Israeli and send them to Lebanon.
And then we won't have to worry about Israel anymore. Hezbollah is doing God's work right now because they are excising
the cancer. You know, Hezbollah wasn't defeated. Everybody, oh, they're defeated. They went dormant. Their screen went into, you know, silent mode.
Went black. But the computer's still there with a hard drive and a CPU and all that kind of stuff. And now they've shook it. The screen's up and running and the computer's working like a champ.
And the Israelis are just getting slaughtered. They're not very good. They have some special forces guys that are
good. But what the Israelis are really good is flying airplanes and dropping bombs and blowing things up. But as Iran showed, you got to blow things up of
significance. In Beirut, what's happened is they they've run out of significant things to blow up. So now they're back to the Dawa doctrine, holding the population collectively accountable.
It's war criminal stuff. Of course, that's what the United States is doing.
Pete Hexath hasn't quite formally announced it that way, but we're in the mode right now of killing Iranian civilians. We are literally shifting
over to civilian targets because our goal now is to punish the Iranian people for not rising up and uh and and taking down the regime or criminal activity.
So, the United States and Israel have self-defined as the worst possible nations in the world today. We're the leading war practitioners of war crimes
in the world today. And Hezbollah is doing God's work. And um I know as an American I'm not supposed to say this,
but um since Hezbollah is not formerly at war with the United States, I feel comfortable. I want Hezbollah to defeat Israel. I want them to defeat Israel in
in the most comprehensive way possible so that Israel is lethally damaged. And I want Iran to help them. I want Israel
gone. Israel got us in this war. The America American people to understand that this is not an American war. Donald Trump sold us out for Israel. Pete Hgsth
sold us out for Israel. Marco Rubio sold us out for Israel. Everybody in the White House, everybody associated with the Trump administration sold America
down the road on behalf of Israel. Ted Cruz did that. Mike Huckabe did that.
Every one of them. And we need to know that. We need to know that when we pay the higher gas prices, this is because of Israel. Everything is because of
Israel. This isn't anti-Semitic. I'm not saying it's because of the Jews. I'm saying it's because of Israel. The Zionist entity called Israel. This
parasetic entity that attached itself to the United States and is sucking the lifeblood out of the United States and the world. Israel. Israel needs to be erased.
And hopefully Iran has the eraser eraser to do it. I know Hezbollah does.
Scott, what do you make of the resignation of Joe Kent? He was, you know, he Donald Trump cannot blame him to be a leftist,
you know, to be his enemy. This is the guy who supported Donald Trump. This is the guy who wanted who really believes
in America, who wants America to be more powerful, but he doesn't see that coming with the current policies of the Trump administration.
[sighs]
Joe Kent,
no one can question his his courage. You know, he he has served in some of the world's worst places um under the worst
conditions and um he prevailed. You know, Joe Kent is we have a large body of you know this the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan, but especially the war in Afghanistan um [snorts] made maximum use of special operations personnel, special forces personnel.
we actually expanded their ranks considerably. And so these are very intelligent people, very physically fit
people and people with a moral conscience. Um,
but they're they're people whose moral conscience is defined by a war warrior's ethos, not so much by what it should be
defined as, which is constitutional principles. Um, I hear these special forces vet bros out there um, give lip
service to the Constitution, but when it comes down to it, as you dig deeper into what they're articulating, they're they're going for military efficiency.
I hate to break it to people, but the Constitution is not efficient. The American form of constitutional government is not efficient. It is ugly,
inefficient, whatever, but it's ours. It has checks and balances. The moment you say checks and balances, you imply inefficiency because you're checking
[clears throat] and balancing. The military is not about checks and balances. The military is about accomplishing the mission. And Joe Kent
is one of these guys that accomplishes the mission. He's given a mission and he accomplishes it. And he's surrounded by people of a similar mindset. But they
fooled themselves into believing that this is constitutional because they took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. Now by accomplishing the mission they are fulfilling that oath.
What they don't understand is sometimes the mission is operating in opposition to constitutional norms and values. Um
Joe Kent I and I saw this when he was running because I I I I had hope for Joe Kent but then I would read statements he
would make about the Middle East and um you know he's somebody who of course most of these people who fought in the in these wars um they'll admit that you
know we were doing the wrong thing. we we we shouldn't have been there though,
you know, especially Iraq shouldn't have been there. In Afghanistan, we did it the wrong way. U all this stuff, but then you you know, and you're like,
"Okay, okay, okay." But then you throw in Iran and because they don't know anything about Iran. Iran is evil. It's an evil Islamic regime. U you know, the
worst terrorist organization in the world, you're like, "Wait a minute.
Where'd you get that?" You know, and Joe Kent was part of that cut. And the other thing is um as you define yourself as an American, you now you know [snorts]
unfortunately you become factionalized because again these people stopped being Americans and started being Republicans.
They started to be in opposition to the Democratic party because many people in the Democratic party were in opposition to what they were doing in Afghanistan
or Iraq. Um they started supporting the Republican party out of this mistaken belief that the Republicans actually cared for them. But Joe Kent knows this.
Joe, Joe, you've got, I'm assume,
because Joe Kent's a stand-up kind of guy, lost his wife, Shannon. She was a hero, a heroin, um, in Syria. She got killed by an ISIS bomb. But if you look
at her chest, I mean, in the awards on her chest, she's she's a lady who has had been there, done that, and she had the t-shirt. She wasn't just a a war tourist and she died um, tragically.
And, uh, now Joe is raising kids. Um,
you know, so he, you know, he knows the the the reality of of the war, but you know, Joe doesn't know,
Joe allowed himself to be captured by the MAGA movement. Uh, the MAGA movement is not an American movement. The MAGA movement is a faction.
People, please read Federalist I'm sorry. I'm just one of these constitutionalist kind of guys. James Madison wrote, "Federalists tend to warn
us about the danger of factionalism and the creation of factions." And MAGA is a faction. It's not an American movement.
It's a faction. An American movement actually believes that everybody should exist. It understands checks and balances, the need for balance. Um,
factions want everything to go their way. And the MAGA faction is controlled by a group of Zionists who hijacked uh the MAGA movement to put Israel first.
literally. And Joe Kent went along went along with that along with others. They thought they were serving America.
America first. MAGA. No, you were serving Israel first. The parasite that had taken over um you know, the American body. Uh he [snorts] ran for office and
now he gets in, you know, and that's the other thing, too.
It's easy. And Joe knows this along with everybody else. They they know what the burden of leadership is. Joe knows it better than anybody. He's been in combat. Um there's no in combat. There's none.
[snorts] You have a mission to do.
gets you killed. When you start sitting there spouting crap that's nonsense, um you get diverted and next thing you know, the bullet enters your brain housing group and your brain gets
splattered on a wall. Joe knows this cuz he's seen the consequences of that. Um but when you get into politics, it's all every single thing. And so he bought into a load of crap [snorts]
and now he comes into office and now he's at the counterterrorism center and he's seeing the truth because he's
trying to deal with these terrorist threats that are manifest and um he realizes that we're not doing we're not hitting the right targets. [snorts]
We're not focused on the right thing. In order to sell this war in Iran, we actually had to define a nation that's not terrorist in nature, the Iranian
nation, the Iranian people, and call them terrorists and devote a lot of time into explaining why everything they do is related to terrorism. Well, the real
terrorists are out there not getting the attention they deserved. And then the we get pulled into a war that Israel pulled in. Joe's smart. He knows exactly what
happened. Knows Netanyahu told Trump to to to initiate and Trump went okay. Kent knows that the joint joint chief of staff said it's a bad idea. Kit knows
that Tulsey Gabbard put it together an intelligent report said the regime won't fall. There's nothing you want to accomplish will be accomplished. And he
knows that Donald Trump went ahead and did this anyways. Um you know he finally [clears throat]
I think he reached the point where he said I can't do this anymore. I can't I can't live the lie. Because Joe Kent for
all of his faults and when I say faults I mean you know being sucked into the MAGA movement. Hell, we all were. You're talking to a guy that thought Donald Trump was gonna be a peacemaker. Okay,
we all we all got conned one way or another. But like any honest person,
when you wake up in the morning, you realize you were conned. He didn't delude himself. He acknowledged it. He wrote a letter and [clears throat]
he resigned. Um this could be should be the beginning of a cascade of resignations, resignations of conscious moral, you know, moral consciousness.
Um, I don't know if it will be because again, um, I've lost a lot of faith in humans over, especially Americans over time. Uh, I'd like to believe when most
Americans are empowered with knowledge and information, they will do the right thing. Um, sadly, I don't believe that anymore. I think Americans have become
addicted to comfort and therefore they will do whatever it's necessary to sustain comfort even if it's the wrong thing to do. But this could be I mean,
this could lead to additional resignations. I mean, Tulsi Gabbard needs to resign and start telling the truth about what happened. You know, she
wrote this awful uh post where she basically said she defended the president by sort of
trying to tell the truth but not telling the truth. You know, the president was briefed on all this that and the other thing and the president made a decision.
Yes. But Tulsi, what was he briefed on? Did his decision match the conclusion?
because your job as an intelligence officer is to give recommended courses of action. Tulsy, I've been an intelligence officer for a long time. I
know what you're supposed to do. And um did the president take one of your courses of action? Did he did he listen to what or did he just do whatever the
hell he wants to do and and said what he said before? I don't believe you. I don't trust you. Well, at that point in time, you must resign. If the president doesn't trust you, then you aren't doing
your job and you must resign for the good of the people. Find someone in there that the president does trust. Um,
and then you have a duty and obligation to go to Congress and explain this. You don't have to go to the American people because a lot of what you would be explaining is, you know, classified. But Congress has closed sessions. And um,
since the president has long ago selfidentified as a man who doesn't believe in the Constitution, doesn't believe in, you know, the the office of the presidency. He believes in a cult of personality. He believes in a
dictatorship. He called himself a dictator. You're not beholden to any confidentiality of conversation with men because he's not a president. He's a dictator. you need to go to Congress and
talk about the dictator named Trump and how he's disregarding all the evidence there is and got us into this war on behalf of Israel. Now, half of Congress
will try to suppress you because they work for Israel, but the other half might actually start, you know, asking follow-on questions, and that could lead to, you know, this this president
ultimately being held accountable either at the election, uh, at the booth, a voting booth on election day or maybe the ultimate accountability where his
cabinet finally awakens up to the fact that this man is is awful for America,
harming America and harming them, and they invoke the th amendment and remove him. But you know, Donald Trump is, you know, after Israel, he's the
greatest threat to to the United States of America because he stopped believing in America. He only believes in Donald Trump.
cott, before wrapping up, we had an interview with the Iranian foreign minister. He said that Iran is designing
a new mechanism for this rate of hormones. And there is an article in the financial times arguing that Iran's
action in the Isra show the reality of multipolar economic warfare. For decades, the United States dominated
sanctions and use fi financial pressure as a strategic weapon. Now other powers
including Iran and China can use similar tools to respond to the escalation. How do you see the whole the case of a
straight of her moose? Donald Trump is begging Europeans to help him. I don't know in what manner they can help Donald Trump in the straight of Hermos, but it
seems that it's going to turn into a one of the most strategic points or strategic, you know, outcome.
you know the this trade is somehow so important not just for Iran but but for all of these Arab states together with Japan,
South Korea, China, everybody is dependent on this trade that shows the importance of that. How do you see the way that Iran is talking about and the
way that as an outcome of this war something is reshaping in the Middle East?
Well, first of all, there's a disconnect um between what Iran is saying, which is reality based, and um what other nations are saying. For instance,
and not just saying, but doing. I think there's a growing recognition that Iran right now controls
the Straight of Hormuz. Um you don't get through that the Straight of Hormuz right now without Iran saying yes. Now,
the United States is carrying out a military campaign that's designed to degrade Iran's ability to interdict the strait. Um,
I just again intelligence preparation of the battlefield. I look at a map, I look at the straight. Um, you know, and and and the other interesting thing is, you
know, the way the straight operates is you uh you have traffic going in and you have traffic coming out. And there's two lanes. And the traffic coming out takes
you in a channel that goes between two Iranian islands, land mass. Car island and uh not car island, Kashim Island and
um Latak I think it is. Um and it's very narrow. Um you're never going to force
that if Iran doesn't want you to force it. You know, Iran hasn't even begin the business of mining the straight. The other thing Iran hasn't done is sunk a ship in the middle of that channel because that's the end of that channel.
I mean, all Iran has to do is put some tankers out there, sink them, bring them down,
and they could do the same. Iran controls the straight. Will always control the straight. We're trying to do a campaign designed to hit Iran's missiles. They were, you know, the the
um Arif missile brigade. I think I'm saying that right. Arif. Um it was the one that had the compound that in Manab
that, you know, used they used to own the compound that got bombed by the United States, killing the the the girls. Um RF RF, something of that
nature. Uh it's organized into four battalions. Uh first battalion is short range um anti-shipping missiles. Uh
kmter range. Did you see what I just said there? There to km. Um that's that means that they can be back
a certain range and still reach in. They don't have to be right on the coastline.
Then the second brigade was sort of the medium range missiles. That means that they can strike deeper into the Gulf or they can be standoff. the you what
you've done now is when you look at the the the the terrain of the of the straight of Hormuz what I'm defining isn't just in terms of how they can
reach into the straight but how far back they can relocate can still have the ability to impact the straight uh through direct or indirect fires and
then there's the long range so you have three battalions that provide layered closure capability and the United States
right now is focused on bombing u the the the the the the the ridges in the mountains that are right there on the
coastline as if blowing those things up save anything. It shows again a fundamental lack of understanding. The Iranians have been preparing for this
war for a long time. They've been they know how we operate. Oh, the fourth battalion, by the way, does all the unconventional stuff. Lays the mines,
fast boats, the whole thing. Um so it's it's just a broadspectctrum approach to closing the straight. Um,
we're never going to interdict that. In order the only way to to fully open the straits is to physically control that
territory that I just defined. And that means it's not just landing on the shore. You got to go in depth, you know,
a couple hundred kilometers. Um, do we have the troops that that would take? No. So, we're never going to close
the straits. Um, and even with shipping going through, imagine you're an insurance company.
ship owner. What insurance company's going to ensure that there, you know,
they're there, no insurance company's going to sit there and go, "Yeah, we'll give you the same rate." No, insurance rates are go up with the cost of shipping is going to go up. And other
people are just going to abandon that route and say, "We're not we're not doing it. It's just not going to happen." Um,
Europe right now is saying, "We're going to talk to Iran to try and get Iran to let our tankers go through." But the
Iranians are basically say, you're you're doing you're you're not doing it the right way. This isn't about negotiating with us to get your oil through. It's about negotiating with the
United States to stop doing what they're doing to stop the war. Um Iran isn't going to do Europe any favors.
Europe has to save itself. And Europe saves itself by identifying as somebody who is sympathetic of the Iranian plight, the Iranian cause. Those nations
who have showed sympathy are the ones getting the favorable treatment.
those nations who continue to play lip service United States and simply telling the United States we're not going to send naval forces in. First of all, Iran could care less about the Navy of Europe.
Talk about the only thing more pathetic than an Israeli infantry platoon is the Navy of Europe. Um sending, you know,
sending an Israeli infantry platoon into southern Lebanon means they're all going to die. The Navy of Europe comes in, try to open straight, they're all going to die. I mean, it's just it's stupid to even have this discussion. Um, you know,
Trump is playing a political card here,
but the the fact of the matter is it's not that Iran's not going to reward Europe for that. What Iran wants is Europe to tell the United States to stop
this war. Stop it. But now you have Finland saying, "We will exchange uh support for the United States in uh in
the Middle East for American support in Ukraine." You see how the Europeans are thinking? So Iran's not going to play that game. So I I think what we're
seeing here is a permanent um redefining of energy security parameters. U whatever calculations
algorithms were used before this war are going to be permanently changed. There's going to be new algorithms. The price of oil is going to be more expensive no
matter what. Uh because you know for inance if you're Kuwait let's say Kuwait oil production survives this conflict
strategically speaking because you know all these nations are going to take a hit. They may not survive this hit.
Let's say they survive. Let's say the the the Kuwaiti royal family survives.
Now, are they going to sit there and say, "Well, we're just going to double down on stupid and do what we did again so it can happen again because now Iran can shut the straight anytime they
want." Or are they going to start negotiating with the Saudis to build a new pipeline that connects Kuwaiti man Kuwaiti oil to the Red Sea?
But then what they have to understand is that that pipeline begins someplace and that'll just be a target for the Iranians. This changes everything that now that the the world has gone stupid,
now that the Israelis have gone stupid,
the Americans have gone stupid striking Iranian energy, this means from now on these these energy fields are targets.
That changes the whole approach. Um.

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Tensions in the Middle East are reaching a boiling point as the world watches the escalating conflict between Iran and the United States–Israel alliance. With US President Donald Trump’s 48-hour deadline nearing, Tehran has issued a chilling warning of massive retaliation. According to reports, a senior commander from Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Lieutenant Colonel Ebrahim Zolfaghari, has outlined four immediate countermeasures if Iranian energy facilities are attacked. These include the potential closure of the strategically critical Strait of Hormuz, a move that could disrupt global oil supply. Iran has also warned of widespread strikes on Israeli infrastructure, US-linked companies across the region, and energy facilities in countries hosting American military bases. As threats escalate and red lines are drawn, fears are growing of a broader regional conflict with global economic consequences.



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The world is watching with baited breath what comes next in the Iran versus USI Israel conflict.
As the deadline of US President Donald Trump's hour ultimatum nears, Iran has issued a chilling warning. Iran said
it has prepared a deadly retaliation plan if the US and Israel attack its energy facilities. According to Al-Myadin,
the spokesperson for Katam Alania Central HQs, Lieutenant Colonel Ibrahim Zulfagari, warned of four immediate
retaliatory measures, including closing the Strait of Hormuz.
The Iranian commander said the Strait of Hormuz will be completely closed and will only reopen when Iranian facilities
are fully rebuilt. He added that all electricity plants, energy infrastructure and information and
communication technology assets of Israel will be targeted extensively along with attacks on regional companies with US ownership.
Electricity facilities in countries hosting US military bases will also be considered legitimate targets. As presi
the terrorist president of the United States of America continuing his pattern of aggressive and globally destabilizing behavior has explicitly threatened that
if the nation of Iran does not ensure the straight of Hormuz remains open he will launch attacks against Iran's power plants. We have repeatedly stated and made it clear that the straight of
Hormuz is exclusively closed to our adversaries and to any detrimental traffic and it has not yet been fully and completely shut down and it remains
entirely under our smart and vigilant control and any harmless passages carried out strictly under specific regulations that guarantee our national security and vital interests. However,
should the United States's threats concerning Iran's power generation facilities actually materialize, then immediate retaliatory measures will be
put into effect. Firstly, the straight of Homus will be entirely shut down and it will not be reopened until our damaged power plants have been fully
reconstructed. Two, all power generation facilities, energy infrastructure and information technology system belonging
to the Zionist regime will be extensively targeted. Three, all similar companies in the region that have
American shareholders will be completely destroyed. Fourthly, the electricity power plants in the countries of the
region which are hosting American military bases will be considered legitimate targets. All preparations have been made for a grand jihad with
the explicit objective of completely eradicating all American economic interests within the West Asian region.
We were not the ones who initiated this conflict and we will not be the ones to initiate it now either. But if the enemy were to inflict any harm on our power
plants, we will resort to any means necessary to defend our country and the vital interests of our nation. The
relentless process of destroying the targets we have outlined will commence and nothing will be able to prevent the continuation of our operations to
dismantle the energy, oil, and industrial infrastructures of America and its allies in the region. In a
related development, Ibrahim Razi, the spokesman for the Iranian Parliament's foreign policy and national security
committee, warned on X that a loss of Iran's electricity would cut water and power to US and Israeli bases.
Remember, on March st, Trump issued a stark ultimatum regarding the strategic strait of Hormuz. In a post on his truth
social account, Trump said, "If Iran doesn't fully open without threat the straight of Hormuz within hours from
this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various power plants,
starting with the biggest one first." unquote.
Iran meanwhile said the straight of Hormuz is open and only US and allied ships are not allowed. Straight of
Hormuz is a crucial waterway that carries about % of global crude oil supply. It is a key waterway linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman,
serving as the only sea passage to the open ocean. It lies between Iran on the northern coast and the Mustadam
Peninsula on the southern side, which is shared by the UAE and Oman's Mustadam exclave. In peace time, nearly th of
the world's crude oil and liqufied natural gas flows through the strait.
However, hostilities that began on February th when the United States and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran,
followed by retaliatory action from Thran in the region, have significantly restricted access to the waterway. The
strategic vital water corridor for global shipping has been severely disrupted due to the escalating Middle East conflict leading to sharp declines
in maritime traffic and rising risks for vessels and crews.
A -hour ultimatum and a warning that could ignite World War II. US President
Donald Trump has issued a dramatic threat to Iran. open the Strait of Hormuz immediately or face devastating consequences.
In a fiery post on Truth Social, Trump declared that if Tyran fails to comply within hours, the United States will
hit and obliterate multiple Iranian power plants, starting with the biggest one. He said, and I quote, "If Iran
doesn't fully open without threat the straight of Hormuz within hours from this exact point in time, the United
States of America will hit and obliterate their various power plants, starting with the biggest one first.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The straight of Hormuz, one of the world's most critical crude lifelines,
has been under pressure since the escalation between Israel and Iran.
Nearly th of global oil supply flows through this narrow passage. And now,
with Iranian forces tightening their grip, global energy markets are on edge.
Oil prices are already surging. But in a surprising twist, Trump has also signaled that the US may not take
responsibility for securing the vital route. Instead, he says other nations that rely on the strait should step up
and guard and police it. Trump has also lashed out at NATO allies, calling them cowards, and has even urged China to intervene.
Hello everybody. I'm glad I bring our great secretary of state out. Yeah.
And he is doing a fantastic job. So we have Marco. Go ahead, please.
Mr. President, I wanted to ask you Iran executed three people this week. Terrible.
You have vowed strong action in the past. What message would you say?
Well, we've been hitting them awfully hard. I mean, uh, I don't know if you can possibly get hit harder, but these are thugs and animals and horrible
people, but you can't hit anybody harder than we've hit them. But I'm not surprised they executed three young people for protesting.
And do you plan to escort those ships through the straight of Kamoose with or without allies?
We're doing very well there. We're doing very well overall. Uh, you know, we don't use the straight. We don't. The United States, we don't need it. Europe
needs it. Uh, Korea, Japan, China, a lot of other people. So, they'll have to get involved a little bit on that one. You
could possibly get hit harder. But these are thugs of animals and horrible people. Do you think Israel will be ready to end the war when you're ready?
I think so.
The relationship's a very good one. I think so.
We want more or less similar things. You know what we want? We want victory, both of us. And that's what we've got.
Mr.
You know, I may have a plan or I may not, but how would I ever say that to a reporter? If I said that to a reporter,
Mark would say, "Please, sir, let's bring you over to the helicopter immediately." Right. I I can't I can't tell you that.
It's certainly a place that's people are talking about, but I can't say would say, "Please, sir, let's bring you over to the helicopter immediately."
By that, he said the war was militarily won in Iran. What does he mean by that?
Oh, I think we've won. We've knocked out their navy, their air force. We've knocked out their anti-aircraft. We've knocked out everything. We're roaming
free. From a military standpoint, all they're doing is clogging up the straight. But from a milit military standpoint, they're finished.
So, how much longer does the American people expect?
You said you said opening the straight of road is a simple military maneuver. Very simple. Yeah. But what did you mean by that?
It's a simple military maneuver. It's relatively safe, but you need a lot of uh help in the sense of you need ships,
you need volume, and uh NATO could help us, but they so far haven't had the courage to do so. And others could help
us, but you know, we don't use it. You know, at a certain point, it'll open itself at a certain point, but we've
defeated the enemy, and they are an enemy. They're a sick group of people.
The leadership is gone. The Navy is gone. The Air Force is gone. The anti-aircraft equipment that they have, the radar they
have is all gone. Everything's gone. Uh the straight itself, the actual straight, how are you? The straight
itself is uh we're doing a good job. But it would be nice if the countries including China, if the countries that
use it, China uses it % of their energy. Uh Japan is % of the energy.
It would be nice if those countries would get involved.
I really thought I thought that oil prices would go much higher. When I did this, we just set every record every
record in the book with Dow with the S&P. Dow had S&P hit
at levels at at speed like nobody's ever seen before. But I said, I have to go off in that path and I have to take a
little journey. We have to get the And he would agree, but he's not going to say it. I And this is not St. Patrick's Day, by the way. What are you doing with
that time, but we had to go off on a sec path and take care of business? And we have we are in the process of doing it.
And I'll tell you, I think we're weeks ahead of schedule.
Behind the scenes, Washington is making calculated moves. The Trump administration claims Iran's capabilities in the strait have been
weakened. But on the contrary, in a temporary relief measure, it has lifted sanctions on Iranian oil already loaded onto ships.

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Chas Freeman: Trump Back Down - Armageddon Postponed?
Glenn Diesen
Mar 23, 2026

Ambassador Chas Freeman discusses Trump backing down instead of carrying out his 48-hour threat of destroying Iran's energy facilities. Iran's threat to destroy the energy and desalination plants of the Gulf States appears to have deterred the US, yet armageddon has only been postponed as there is no off-ramp. Ambassador Freeman was a former Assistant Secretary of Defense, earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense for his roles in designing a NATO-centred post-Cold War European security system and in reestablishing defence and military relations with China. He served as U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm).



Transcript

Welcome back. We are joined today by Chaz Freeman, one of America's great diplomats, uh, who was the former US
assistant secretary of defense and also the US ambassador to Saudi Arabia, uh,
among other positions. So, thank you very much for yeah, taking the time. Good to be with you, Ben.
So we saw two days ago uh Donald Trump gave his tw sorry his hour deadline to the Iranians that is open the street
over Moose otherwise the US will destroy all of Iran's energy infrastructure beginning with its largest ones. Um
again this is uh the Iranians responded by arguing if you do this you know we're going to have our own list of uh you
know targets to destroy. So energy facilities, desalination plants uh across the Gulf States and uh well those
hours are almost over and uh it looks as if Trump is making some efforts to walk this back. So he's arguing since
this announcement they now had two days of good productive discussions with Iran. However, the Iranian for foreign
minister just came out saying there has been no talks held at all. Uh so again I'm not sure which side is telling the
truth. Uh but again the alternative to walking this back would have been u well war without uh yeah any control. So I
was wondering how how are you reading this situation is um you know is well I know we can't say anything with complete certainty but uh what do you see happening here?
Well, I think Trump is trying to walk this back. Um, uh, and I don't believe there are talks going on. What there
appear to be go what appears to be happening is text messages between Steven Whitov and, uh, foreign minister Arachi.
Uh, so uh, you can draw several conclusions from this. Um the major one I draw is that uh the circumstances in
West Asia uh were such that they convinced both Israel and Iran uh that the only answer to their conflict was
the use of force and that diplomacy should not be employed. Uh ironically Donald Trump agrees with that but he's
now learning that diplomacy is irreplaceable.
In fact, uh the uh biggest issue here probably from Trump's point of view is the price of energy, oil in particular,
gasoline at the pump in the United States. I don't think he cares much about the impact on allies or partners,
um even the producers who are being battered in the war, but he does care about uh the impact on his election prospects.
um from gas prices and the biggest threat here that Iran made was they would totally close the straight of Hormuz. At the moment it is not closed.
It is being operated like a toll booth on a highway. If you have the right license plate and um and are prepared to
pay cash, you can get through. Uh so we have quite a list of countries that have employed diplomacy to solve the basic
problem illustrating that diplomacy is not entirely a waste of time. U so these countries include China, India, Japan,
Turkey. Uh and we know that the Italians and French have been talking behind the scenes also with Iran to try to work out a deal. Um so that was the first thing.
The second thing is that there is an pattern a clear pattern in this war in which escalation by
Israel and the United States is met with counter escalation tit for tat uh by the Iranians. Uh the most recent and
frightening most frightening examples of this include um an apparent American strike and taunts. Israelis disclaimed
responsibility for it. But this war and any air war of this complexity has to be jointly choreographed.
So the the denial that there this was coordinated with Israel falls flat. It's clearly untrue. Uh anyway, the attack on
the Natans uranium enrichment facility was answered by an Iranian missile striking just away from the research
reactor in Israel at Deona and uh hitting apparently apartment block where
many of the people at Deona worked. thus answering previous Israeli assassinations of Iranian nuclear
scientists with the murder of or the maming at least of Israeli nuclear
scientists. Um and I think as you mentioned Iran came out with its own list of specific targets.
One of those was the Ras Aler uh dissalamination plant in Saudi Arabia
which is the basically the sole water supply for the city of Riad a city of some millions of people which
in other words Iran has demonstrated that it would be prepared in the end to utterly destroy the Gulf Arab societies.
I believe Kuwait is uh % dependent on desalinated water. Saudi Arabia about
% um uh I don't know the figure for Qatar but it must also be very large um
and I believe it's about % for the United Arab Emirates. So um Iran has just uh indicated that it is prepared
ultimately to just destroy these countries completely depopulate them.
Um, one can guess that behind the scene or I think one can be fairly sure that behind the scene um these countries were
remonstrated with Mr. Trump um uh arguing as they have from the beginning of this whole crisis that there should not be a
war that that there should be diplomacy that there should be dialogue. uh but the problem is that uh neither Israel
nor Iran both of which feel an existential threat from the other each of which feels an existential threat
from the other uh are neither of them is prepared to enter a diplomatic dialogue or stop short of the annihilation of the
power of the other. Um, in the case of Israel, uh, there are apparently behind the scenes, Israel has not reacted publicly, as far as I know,
to the Trump suspension for days of his proposed attack on Iranian power plants. But behind the
scenes, it is evidently very queasy. Um, it doubts, it sees this as an evidence of weakness and
inconstancy on the part of President Trump.
One wonders why it ever imagined he would be constant. Um, since he's famous for his inconstancy.
Um but it sees this as a uh a strategic setback that um uh and of course um to
the extent that the bombing campaign is reduced over these five days that is
directly contrary to the Israeli war plan. Uh but in the end um and the same thing I think in the case of Iran, it's
clear of it. Iran does not see its objectives fully achieved. Uh it wants to do much further damage to Israel. It
apparently has the capability to do that. It is undoubtedly behind the scenes talking to the Gulf Arabs about a
plan for the future which would not have American bases present in the Persian
Gulf. Uh here um if I may um it appears that the embassy the Iranian embassy in
Riyad and the one in Doha Qatar um are both functionally closed that is have no
personnel of consequence left at least that's the appearance um uh but of
course I don't know whether the Saudi embassy in Thran or theQatari embassy in Thran have been closed
I suppose they probably have been but u there are many other loces for a dialogue confidential dialogue that must
be going on. Um uh Iran is not going to stop the war while uh its objective of removing American bases that threaten it
from the Persian Gulf is unmet. It is not going to stop the war when it has not taught Israel a lesson that is
sufficient to deter future Israeli attack.
Uh and it is not going to demonstrate weakness to its own public by publicly acknowledging an exchange of views with
the Trump administration. Uh so there we are. Um we're left with a war that uh as
um as has been said by others uh in which uh there's no there only tactics,
no strategy. There's power and no purpose. Uh there is uh uh uh violence
without any vision. and there is uh uh a the absence of any credible scenario for
ending the conflict. Um so this is a war that is uh a justification in which is this its
own justification. I mean the basic premises on which it was started are all entirely and demonstrabably false.
it appears to have put the final nail in the coffin of the Atlantic alliance. Uh so
um those of us who felt at the outset that this was a potent potentially momentous strategic error I think are being proven right.
Yeah. No, I'm a bit surprised well not surprised uh by the responses from the
the Europeans. I thought that after Greenland they would uh be a bit more assertive. But uh
listening to Maruta um it appears that you know they're still playing the same song. Uh I was wondering
well if I may interrupt you he is he's still talking to his daddy in the White
House. Um other Europeans are not. Uh there is a serious move now in Spain uh to depart NATO and ban American bases.
Uh in your neighboring country of Sweden, uh there have been large demonstrations even though Sweden is a
new member of NATO. Um uh I think uh we're beginning to see the unraveling uh
but we haven't seen it go its full course and I think Mark Rut is not faithfully reflecting the emerging attitudes of the members of NATO.
Well, uh the the thinking though in in well situation of the Europeans, it does appear to have some similarity with the
Gulf Arabs that is um if you want to find a a possible solution to this uh because it seems as if uh you know they
they know that tying their security entirely % to declining empire is not a good strategy. The I mean the Gulf
States are recognizing this. The Europeans are you know coming to terms with this as well. And uh you know it's not as if if the US was only in decline
and but it still want to hold on is one thing but the US has signaled very clearly with the new security strategy that if it is a multipolar world if we
can't be everywhere then we have to make priorities and the priorities should be the western hemisphere and east Asia. So we want to get out of Europe. So if if
it's a declining hegemon clearly stating you are no longer a priority you know you can have JD Vance telling the Europeans to their face that we don't
need vassals we need partners. uh you know they're not a force amplifier the at some point you would think uh the
strategy would have to be developed it just seems that much like the Gulf states uh this the same in Europe there's no strategy there's no political
imagination really for anything else so they're just kind of reacting a bit but I'm not seeing any you know grand strategy in terms of how the
relationship with the US should be readjusted uh to adjust to this new world because you know the European They're a bit either one or the other
way. Otherwise, they're completely subordinated to the US or they begin to embrace this anti-Americanism. But there's nothing in between like where we
just, you know, find a different relationship. I I wish it would be more of this because it's either love or hate. It's nothing normal. And uh I'm
wondering if the Gulf States can move in a different direction as well because uh you know the US doesn't want to be tied
down in the Middle East either if it wants to pivot to other places.
Well um several comments about that. Uh first obviously there are completely different concepts of what the Atlantic
Alliance means in Washington and in European capitals. Europeans believe it's to defend them.
Um and um Americans believe it's to incorporate Europeans as auxiliaries in expeditions elsewhere,
you know, beginning with uh the severing of Kostal from Serbia and then continuing the intervention in
Afghanistan by NATO, which is you know, it's either a defensive alliance or it's not. And one of the great issues for European
security architecture is the Russian conclusion that it is not a defensive alliance but an offensive one. So that's
the first problem. Uh the conceptual basis that used to unite the two sides
of the Atlantic is no longer there. Uh second um yes I agree the the Gulf states have no way out of this dilemma
other than diplomacy which means some accommodation of Iran which means some further distancing from the United
States and then the question is since that seems to be what the like most likely outcome is um of course for the
time being the Gulf States cleave to the United States because they have no other alternative Um uh but they can't
publicly identify with an Israeli American attack on Iran because Israel is totally unacceptable as a partner in
any uh public uh way. Privately uh they may benefit from access to the police
state technology that Israel has developed to oppress the Palestinians
privately. They may despise the Palestinians. Um, publicly they can't afford to be aligned in any way with
Israel, uh, even against Iran, their hereditary enemy.
Publicly, they can't afford to abandon the Palestinian cause. So, they are really between Iraq and a hard place or
between Iran and a hard place. And um I think um uh the Europeans
uh are in a similar position but much slower to realize it for the simple reason that so far they are not being battered by missiles from an enemy. Now,
of course, some of them are working on providing a justification to the Russians uh for reaching beyond the
Ukraine uh and uh and and challenging the the uh unity of the of the of NATO.
But the Russians have so far played a very cautious uh game in in those terms.
Um uh so um but the Europeans are facing uh uh not only a dilemma that the United
States is uh weakening uh but the United States from the European point of view and I must say from my own point of view is behaving insanely.
It is doing things that can't possibly yield any benefit to it. Uh which are utterly irrational, unpredictable,
erratic, and um counterproductive.
Uh and so um it's not just the weakening of the United States, but the policy
chaos in Washington that threatens threatens Europe. Um uh and I think it will in time Europeans will awaken to
this. Uh I don't know what to make of the French elections which took place.
Uh I gather the right did very well except in Paris where someone on the left was elected. But um um European
politics remained confused and confusing and um uh there's no consensus emerging
that I can see at present. So all those things are true and and um in the middle
of all this if Trump has finally discovered the merits of maintaining a dialogue with Thrron
even if it's under the table and not acknowledged by Tehran even if it's conducted by Steven Whit whom the Iranians have every reason to distrust.
uh even it's if it's conducted by the by Trump who everyone distrusts now um the
Europeans are still arguing about whether to talk to Russia or not which is quite remarkable. Um so um I think um
all sorts of interesting things are happening here but uh for me as a retired diplomat I I find it interesting
to see the indispensibility of diplomacy once again uh illustrated in the ways that it is being illustrated. Um, I
haven't talked about uh the the global implications of this,
but we've talked about that before. I mean, we're we're looking for a global economic recession,
clearly. Uh, the Trump administration has just advised Israel that the war is quote going to go on longer than planned unquote, and may extend till September.
Um which means that whatever remaining munitions we have to expand will be expanded which means that we will be
incapable of doing things on a global scale as we once were even if transit
through West Asia which is essential to essential for the United States to be remain a global power. I mean, we have
to have the ability to travel through that corridor in order to get from Asia to Europe. Even if uh the arrival of the
US Marines near the straight of Hormuz uh toward the end of this week um uh is not a
uh forecast of a reenactment of Gallipoli on the northern shore of the
straight of Hormuz, but is instead directed at less uh less formidable and more um reasonable political targets.
For example, Abuamosa and the Lesser Tump Islands, which are the focus of a territorial dispute between Iran and the United Arab Emirates,
um, and seem to me to be a more intelligent target for the Marines uh,
than uh, Karak Island, which is way up the Persian Gulf, requiring American
forces to run a gauntlet to reach it. um unless Saudi Arabia
provided a staging area which I don't think it will um you know when
Trump um threatens to destroy the power plants in Iran as he has if not today
than days from now. Um uh I think uh and is met with a counter
threat to do the same to Israel and the Gulf Arabs plus taking out dissemination
plants that are essential for the survival of the of these uh countries.
Um uh I think he uh undercuts any possibility of actual cooperation from
them. Finally, on the subject of the retreat to the Western Hemisphere,
um you know, there's a Chinese expression um ting listen to what he says, but watch what
he does. Uh what Trump says is one thing. What he does is entirely a different thing. There's no way starting
a war with Iran can be made compatible with either a focus on Western Hemisphere or a focus on China.
um which are the two visions that remain competing in the schizophrenic American
political mind. So um uh I think uh there's no clarity. Uh the five days
will go by perhaps uh Witoff's text texting to
Aragchi will uh meet with something other than a reiteration of Iranian terms which are essentially reparations
compensation for the damage. No American uh present military presence in the Persian Gulf. um
as asurances, credible assurances that Israel will not again either attack Iran itself or connive and arranging an
American attack um and so forth. Um there is a further element here and that
is um a requirement for a security architecture in the Persian Gulf. Iran
has put forward proposals so of the Chinese and the Russians. Um I'm imagine that an organization like the
organization for Islamic cooperation formerly the organization of the Islamic conference to which some Muslim
countries belong including some um some with real political prestige like Indonesia and Malaysia that are not in
the region um but involving Turkey which is a a very important potential player
in arranging some kind of peace here. Uh I I I could see the OIC
uh organizing uh a uh a conference among the regional parties minus Israel uh to compose a
proposal for peace um with an invitation I would hope uh to Israel whatever remains of Israel uh to
participate in uh mutual peace buildingilding and economic development projects. But that may be too idealistic
uh in a region which is famed justly famed for its cynicism.
Well, it appears that part of Trump's calculation though was uh as it in all all conflicts which is maximum pressure.
Uh we saw this what happened with the south ps that is this world's largest
gas field. uh that is yeah the US well Israel but I assume with the full support of the United States struck
these gas fields and then Trump came back more or less well saying it wasn't
us but don't you dare to retaliate um so the idea was that the Iranians would essentially bow you know and uh you know
without es going up the escalation ladder with the US uh but that's not what happened we saw this uh devastating
retaliation by the Iranians against uh the Gulf Arab state. So
uh what do you think happens though if the if Trump decides to go through on his initial threats uh that is well not
well either in terms of attacking Iran's energy infrastructure or if these ground troops he's preparing would actually be put into play to occupy Iranian
territory because we heard from Iranians you know they can go after the energy infrastructure the dalination plants which you refer to but this is all this
is you know this will break the backs of the Arab state or sorry the Gulf states wouldn't it?
Yes. Yes. Um but uh you know here again uh maximum pressure policies are
basically power without purpose, tactics without strategy. They're the definition of this war uh which can't succeed. Um
we have the example of North Korea. Um and uh that should have been a predictor
of what Iranian reaction would be. Iran is a proud civilizational state uh with
um influence far beyond its borders um and um it may be multi-thnic state
but it is um a coherent uh state and uh its reaction to uh basically
bluster blackmail and bombing is predictable rather like North Korea. The only result of the policy toward North
Korea was that North Korea developed a nuclear weapon with a ICBM to just deliver it multiple nuclear weapon
multiple nuclear warheads on the United States.
Iran is headed in the same direction. We don't know. Um, Iran denies that it fired a missile at Diego Garcia,
uh, and claims that this is was an Israeli false flag attack on Diego Garcia,
probably intended to keep the British uh, in in the war on the side of the United States since Diego Garcia is
their property. They think uh, the United Nations and the international community believe it's part of Maitius.
Anyway, um uh whatever that what certainly Israel has been conducting a
lot of false flag operations um intended to embroil others in the war on against
Iran uh so far without success. There have been no actual movements other than
diplomatic by the Gulf Arab states um and in reaction. Um but um you know
um what this illustrates whether it was a false flag firing of a an IRBM at
Diego Garcia or not uh is that the murder of Ali Kame the uh late supreme
leader and his replacement by his son um has removed the the ban on various
weapons developments that the late leader insisted on. He was the main opponent of the development of nuclear
weapons or other weapons of mass destruction. Let's not forget that there are biological and chemical weapons in
that category too. Um uh he was the main opponent of extending the range of
Iranian missiles beyond kilometers.
um these these restraints are now gone.
Uh Iran is not ceasing to produce missiles even in the middle of the war apparently and there is no indication
that contrary to the assertions of Israel and the United States its war
making capacity has been taken out. In fact, missiles continue to land in Israel. drones continue to attack the
Gulf Arabs who are very vulnerable to those. Uh the attacks on Israel often include combined um ballistic missile
and drone uh movements. Clearly, Iran can get through the the three-layered
Israeli ballistic missile uh or rocket defense uh which is starts with the uh the arrow
at uh at extra atmospheric levels and and then David sling in the high at
atmosphere and finally an iron dome for slower uh objects closer to the ground.
Um but it's not effective even if at this point I mean look at the attack on Damona that is the most heavily defended
part of Israel most heavily descent defended site in Israel and yet Iran was able to hit it with I believe two
missiles. So um this is uh if this is a war of attrition it is not working to
out to the advantage of Israel and the United States. Uh, and I, you know, when we talked some time ago, I think I
described Iran's strategy as resembling that of Muhammad Ali in the boxing ring.
You know, rope a dope. Uh, allow your opponent to exhaust itself by firing
everything it can at you uh, and waiting for the right moment to retaliate in the in a decisive manner. that moment of
decisive retaliation may be coming but Iran has not yet reached it in its own judgment. Um let me just add one other
point here which gets back to the uh necessity of the diplomatic resolution
of this issue and the very unlikely prospects for that. At present, Israel has had a very clear policy exemplified
by its assassination of Ali Larijani of eliminating anyone who would be a
moderate potential diplomatic interlocutor on the Iranian side. Israel does not want negotiations,
which is one of the reasons that it is so nervous when Trump claims there are negotiations. I think incorrectly, but
uh it is fairly typical of Trump to exaggerate and uh uh misportray things that are going
on in such a way as to manipulate public opinion and in this case manipulate
markets. Uh because the market has shown itself incredibly vulnerable. I'm talking about capital markets, Wall
Street in particular or the Footsie in London. Um the uh these markets have uh
have taken Trump's assurances that this would be a short victorious war seriously despite all the evidence to
the contrary. Uh so the the price of shares on these markets goes up and down
uh in response to various um frankly uh delusional or uh at least imaginative if
perhaps hallucinatory claims. uh by the Trump administration um there's no evidence as far as
anywhere near an end um and um or that Iran has achieved the conditions it regards as essential to agree to end it.
Uh so what is the prospect? I think there are two prospects. One is that eventually there will be a negotiation of some sort uh in which case Israel
will have to eat crow. uh it will not be able to sustain the narrative it has uh
portray it has perveyed for decades of a menacing Iran and itself as victim the
Israel has been an actual threat to Iran in multiple ways over this entire period Iran has been at most a potential threat
to Israel very much on the defensive um maybe Israel will have to acknowledge that if there are negot associations.
Perhaps the United States and Israel will part company on the issue of Iran.
That is not easy politically for Donald Trump given his dependence on the Zionist lobby and Zionist bureaucratic
campaign donations. The other possibility is that we subside to a level of lower intensity continuing
conflict. In effect, that would be a return to the status quo ante because there was a low inensity conflict going
on uh between Iran and Israel uh and to some extent Iran and the United States
uh exemplified by the murder of General Surmani in the first Trump term uh and
by the several Israeli attacks on Iran um uh in the second Trump administration
including the June or last year. So perhaps we'll go back to a situation where Israel is in
constant danger of as Iran has been of being attacked by its enemy um you know
missiles coming out of nowhere uh assassinations. Iran so far has not reciprocated Israel's policy of assassination.
Will that will that refusal to do that remain intact?
We don't know. Uh so of the two uh alternatives seems to me a negotiated
solution is far preferable than to low inensity conflict probably uh accompanied by continued terrorism by both sides.
Well the low intensity though this uh essentially would um yeah put on the slow burner allow it to stretch out over
a longer period of time. It just seems that if it lowers in intensity,
this would uh give advantage to Iran because it of course can keep keeping the straight over moves closed, which
means that uh the the pain for the United States will keep growing. Um I think that would be a short term um the the a relatively short-term closure.
Um but then I returned to the toll booth operation, you know, u toll highway, uh
you know, do a deal, um reach an understanding, hand me your ticket along with some cash and you can get through.
Um that's basically what's been going on.
All this business about mining the straight of Barmuz has no real evidence behind it. And it is the real question
why Iran would want to mine the straight of hormones when it basically sees it as the ability to open it to selected
parties as a point of diplomatic opportunity and leverage. So I'm not convinced that there has been mining or
if there has been mining it's probably on the shore closest to the UAE leaving the shore closest to Iran unmanned.
Anyway, uh we don't know. Uh the only people in the world by the way with an adequate force of mind keep mind sweepers to deal with this are the
Japanese who are not interested in going into a combat zone. They did come in at
the end of the Gulf War. Once the combat had ended, they provided the
capability to remove the multiple mines that the Iraqi side
had um released in the Persian Gulf. Um the
United States very foolishly US Navy I believe in January actually got rid of for mind sweepers.
Um which is uh in terms of force planning is amazingly stupid.
Yeah. Well, uh, the Iranians take the selective opening is a is an interesting strategy because now, of course, they can get the reparations from the Gulf
States for the attack. They can by by taxing them essentially.
They can start to they can sell they can demand the Gulf States for access to decouple or you know, expel the US
bases. They can uh demand selling it in a different currency. So, it does open up a lot of opportunities. And if the
Iranians themselves claim they didn't mine anything, but uh that they will they might do this if the US sends in ground troops uh then out of necessity.
But at the moment, yeah, it doesn't make any sense. Uh you do in terms of the negotiated settlement though, I was just wondering where do you see the common
meeting point because so far the US more or less demands uh Iran's capitulation
while um Iran has uh wants US bases out of the region. I'm just thinking there
would be a you know the US if it wants to pivot out of the region anyways it could be an opportunity but they
don't want to hand over leadership to Iran obviously and that seems fair enough but what are we what could a what
could a middle ground look like a new security architecture which allows the US to reduce its troops and that reduce
the threat to Iran but still you know doesn't make Iran a regional hedgeimony on anything like this because if you
look at what's happening in Iraq, it looks as if some places uh the western troops are being pushed out anyways. So um so how how do you see if there is a
negotiate a settlement? What is there to negotiate? Well, that's a very good question, of course, but before I address it, let me just mention that um
Iran has another card to play potentially uh by activating uh its relationship
with the Houthis in Yemen to close the the other sea corridor through which Saudi Arabia is exporting Israel, the
Baba Mandep, so it can shut down the uh the only remaining oil that is basically coming out of the Arabian Peninsula,
which is the Saudi oil going out through Yanba uh in on the on the Red Sea. Um as
far as a reasonable as a settlement is concerned, I think uh you know, if I I have no idea what's in the mind of of the Iranian leadership.
It's a new leadership. It's not the old one. Um Anarchi is there. He's obviously
very capable as a diplomat. Um it is um but it's not clear to me. It seems to me
that you need to have a conjunction of two things. One, you have to have the kind of uh uh addressing of regional
security architecture by people in the region that I suggested the organization of the Islamic cooperation OIC might be
able to convene. Uh, in other words, a plan for post-war order uh even if it can't be implemented immediately. That
plan might include a uh progressive withdrawal of US forces on an immediate
one that is designed to uh not humiliate the United States um but to remove the
threat to Iran. It could include um uh you know joint patrols between the
Iranians and the Gulf Arabs. It might include and Iran has actually proposed this uh a regional management system for
collecting the tolls uh in the state of Hormuz. That is that there would be a common commitment among
countries in the region uh to open that the state of Hormuz um in return for benefits that would be
shared. Um, Iran seems to be thinking about the post-war order in fairly
constructive terms. Uh, if you are only looking at the interests of the Gulf Arabs,
uh, it none of this would be uh, a delight to the United States or uh, or to uh, Israel. On the other hand, as you
suggested, if in fact the United States is serious about pivoting away from the Middle East, away from West Asia toward East Asia and the Western Hemisphere,
u this would facilitate that. So, um you ask what's in it for what's in in it
for everyone to have peace. I think clever diplomats could figure out some ways of achieving it. But that uh
requires clever diplomats. That is no evidence of any such in our arsenal of diplomacy, the American arsenal. There
is plenty of evidence of strategic thinking in Israel and in Iran. Uh I'm not sure how much there is in the Gulf
Arabs. Uh and um uh the Gulf Arabs, as I mentioned earlier, obviously quite
justifiably furious with Iran for the beating that they're taking and very fearful and also very dismissive now of
the United States as a protector because clearly the United States no longer has the ability, does not have the will,
doesn't set priority on protecting them.
It seeks to protect Israel and it can't even do that apparently. And then you I think I should close by saying that you
know there's as usual uh the physical war is accompanied by an information
war. Israeli military censorship with few exceptions is very effective and
with few exceptions to their discredit is respected by western journalists.
So we have a lot of information about physical damage in Iran. Uh we have a lot of dam information about physical
damage in Lebanon. We have some information about the ferocity of the ethnic cleansing campaign unfolding in
the West Bank. Uh but we have almost no information about the p the physical and
uh human damage of Iranian attacks on Israel. Um, Israel obviously is
concerned about uh more than its uh physical protection about the morale of its people uh who remain polling data
suggests ardently uh supportive of of the war probably in part because they don't understand actually what's
happening in uh I note as a that Bengorian airport the international airport in Israel um has now had a
severe flight uh reduction imposed on it by the minister of Israeli minister of transportation.
Um in order to safeguard lives uh he the minister says um but um uh this also
cuts off immigration from Israel. If there can be no more than passengers per plane which is apparent and the
number of flights is limited. Uh this bottles up a lot of Israelis.
And again, you know, um I think the Iranian calculus is that a a settler
colony will have a bolt hole for most of the settlers. and the settlers may be
thinking about using their Spanish or Portuguese uh passports or German passports to get
out and not come back because if coming back means that you're going to face low inensity conflict more of the same why
would you want to come back and um of course uh we don't know what the level
of immigration is during this war because that too is uh off limits for reporters. And uh so we're missing a key
element here in evaluating the um battle damage of the of the uh of the war. What
we have are however are clear indications of intent. And uh to go back
to um uh how the war might end, u you know, Donald Trump has offered an entire
word salad, a smorgesboard of u of purposes for this war, you know, why not
choose the pickled airring instead of the pickled radishes, you know, um and
uh or the uh or the locks, the son. And so um uh I gather by the way that that's
the oldest surviving locks is the oldest surviving word in the Indo-European
language family. Um uh so Norway is at the center of the world in that sense.
Um anyway um my point is that Trump is in a position to pick and choose. U you know he obviously failed at a number of
things. Uh no regime change, no state collapse. That's the Israeli uh objective, not the American one. Uh no uh end to nuclear programs. In fact,
their acceleration uh a much wider danger of proliferation as Iran goes nuclear. One might expect
others Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt in the region and others farther a field like Japan and South Korea to go
nuclear. So the danger of nuclear war is likely to go up. uh the efficacy of the American nuclear deterrent is like to be
likely to be devalued uh and um uh that's even if the Germans don't go nuclear which son in Germany are talking
about so um I think um uh he can choose uh another objective
physical damage we have knocked Iran for a loop we have we have done basic damage to the Iranian economy
uh here of course however and I'll conclude with this thought uh the great irony is that Iran's
objective one of them was relief from sanctions and uh the Treasury secretary has just uh lifted the sanctions on
Iranian oil exports bingo for Iran. Um you know he got their number. So uh I
think uh uh anyway Trump is very inventive when it comes to finding uh ways to chicken out of situations that he's created.
You were the US ambassador to Saudi Arabia. How how do you see them the thinking there at the moment? Because you get some impression they might be
going both ways. On one hand this whole experience convinces them they have to link themselves closer to the US. On the
other hand, uh they also recognize that they have to decouple, not decouple, but at least uh reduce dependence to as the relationship
with Iran has to change as well. So how do you see what is going on in Saudi Arabia? Well, I'm not there and um I
would suspect that there are two reactions. Uh one very short term which
is you know let's let's uh cooperate with Pakistan and and
exact retribution uh let's get even with Iran. Um and uh so they they must be in a very vengeful
mood in the short term. more thoughtful societies and there are such people who think long term um probably are
concluding that they must be comp they must compose their differences with Iran on the diplomatic level in order to
eliminate the threat. You know I mean they instinctively know um uh what Abraham Lincoln said that when you when
you befriend an enemy you gain a friend and lose an enemy. Uh and uh that is the appropriate answer. Threat reduction is
a primary task of diplomacy. Uh and um they had begun to try this. They have
abandoned it now for the short term clearly. Uh I think they'll return to it. uh but you know they face a
difficulty which they recognize and that is uh uh you know I think about uh ome
years ago I gave a talk called um the Arabs take a Chinese wife in which I pointed out that um uh while they uh
were kind of tired of the United States we were too big in fat to throw out of the bed uh but Z Muslims could take more
than one wife and um that this was what was going to happen. And I think this is very likely the future. Uh and uh it
means I'm not speaking solely about the Chinese. It means finding u other friends and doing something very
important that is the focus of the Saudi Pakistani defense pact which is build
your own military industries. So you don't have to buy uh weapons from the United States or another demonstrably
unreliable partner. You know, you can buy weapons from China, but they don't come with a security guarantee attached.
Uh and if you buy them from the United States, that um claim that they come with a security guarantee has been a major factor in making them attractive.
That is now gone. Uh so I suspect this is not good for US arm sales in any
sense. Not only have the defensive mechanisms, the interception capabilities proven inadequate and uh
and much less than is claimed but um uh the security guarantee that made him
attractive is not there anymore. So, so I think uh the answer is in the short term vengeance.
Uh you know uh there's an Arab proverb uh kiss the hand you cannot bite
uh and uh but I think in the long run they will kiss the hand that bit them uh at the instance of the United States. I mean,
let us remember that Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arabs, including the UAE,
apparently, were were trying very very hard to persuade the United States not
to exceed the Israeli pressure to start this war.
uh they knew even if Donald Trump did what the likely result of the war would be in terms of disruption of their
political economies and uh pressure on them and physical damage uh to them. And
uh I think uh you know I I saw an interview with uh the former intelligence chief of Saudi Arabia,
Prince Tokyo Fasil uh the other day in which Christine Amanpor asked him
whether he was surprised by the Iranian attacks on the Gulf Arabs and he said no
they said they would do that. We're only surprised that the United States took the action it did that produced this
result. So the the more thoughtful people in Saudi Arabia clearly are thinking strategically, not just
tactically about how to deal with the new circumstances in the Gulf. Uh long answer to your simple question. I apologize.
I appreciate it. And um well let's hope even though it seems unlikely that there will be some negotiation. So
far the Trump's claim that they are reaching the negotiation it seems to be not true but at least we should take
some reassurance that this is effort to walk this back. So um no because this is really spiraling very quickly out of
control. Well, well, the hopeful note is that Donald Trump may be in the process of discovering the utility of diplomacy
rather than the use of force. Uh, but then one is never sure where his mind is. Uh, and I do not think that Steven
Whit is a a a credible interlocutor uh at this
point given his past involvement in deception and his inability to deliver
Donald Trump into the agreements that he apparently hinted at or perhaps even reached at the negotiating table with his Iranian counterparts.
That's my concern though. That is once Trump discovers the value of diplomacy.
Uh it's going to be difficult after you know what was done to the JCPOA and then two surprise attacks. Um you know there
will be some trust issues but u well that's why I don't think the Iranians are going to stop until they feel that
they have the United States uh basically where they want us to be. Uh and I don't think you know it's clear that Donald
Trump even if he never recognizes mistakes that he makes um understands this is not going well uh and on
multiple levels and um is concerned probably primarily about the domestic political impact because I talked a
little bit about the price of gasoline at the prompt but there's also the fact that the MAGA movement has split on his own backers are now splintering. Um,
increasingly there are polls that show that the vast majority of voters for Donald Trump,
something like % of them favor an immediate end of the war. They don't approve of this war. So I go back to the
point that it was foolish to start a war that was authorized by Benjamin Netanyahu, not the United States
Congress as the Constitution demands. It was foolish to start a war with no clear objectives
and no war termination strategy. Uh and here we are in the midst of this foolishness. And uh the man who got us into it,
Donald Trump, is going to have now have find a way out for himself, for our
country, for the world, uh for the participants in the region. Uh whether he's up to it or not, we shall see.
Well, thank you for taking the time and uh as always, uh I really appreciate your insights. Thank you, Glenn.

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Trump PANICS as Iran closes all doors to negotiation and ceasefire; Trump backs down - OPTM
OPTM
Mar 23, 2026



Transcript

Listen to me closely because what I'm about to tell you is the story the corporate media is too cowardly to tell
you straight right now. Deep inside the corridors of the White House, Donald Trump is pacing. He is sweating. He is
realizing that the one-week war he promised his base, the quick little bombing campaign to look tough is
turning into the quagmire that everyone with half a brain warned him about. The headlines are breaking and they are brutal. Trump says productive talks,
in-depth talks with Iran, but the Iranian foreign ministry has cleared the air. The Iranian foreign ministry says
no talks with Washington and Tehran claims that there has been no communication with Washington.
There is no end in sight to the escalating conflict in the Middle East.
Iran's foreign minister says Tehran has not asked for negotiations with the US and that's Iran has officially publicly and with
absolute finality slammed the door shut on any and all negotiations with Washington. We are getting reports from
Tehran confirming that foreign minister Abbas Arachi has declared that the window for diplomacy is not just closed,
it has been welded shut. According to senior Iranian officials, the messages from Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff
are being left on red, ignored like spam mail from a telemarketer. And the reason is as simple as it is devastating for
Trump's ego. The Iranians have decided that the battlefield and the battlefield alone will decide this. Not the
boardroom in Mara Lago, not Jared Kushner's back channel chats, not the empty promises of a man who tears up agreements the moment he signs them.
don't think uh the uh the question of uh talking with Americans or negotiation
with Americans once again would be on on the table because you know we have a very uh you know bitter
experience of talking with Americans. We negotiated with them last year in in last June and they attacked us in the middle of negotiations and again this
year uh they tried to convince us that this time is different. They promised us that they don't have any intention to attack us. So, and they wanted to
resolve the Iran's nuclear question peacefully and to find a negotiated solution and we finally accepted. But again, after three
rounds of negotiation and after that the American team in the negotiation uh you know uh
said itself that we made a big progress still they decided to attack us. So I don't think you know talking with
Americans anymore would be uh you know on on our agenda anymore.
The spokesman for the Katam al- Anbia headquarters, the military arm coordinating this defense has issued a
chilling warning to the occupiers the coming war will be fought with a ferocious intensity that the Israeli entity has never witnessed in its entire history of aggression.
foreignch.
But this is the reality that is now dawning on the man who thought he could bully an entire nation of million people into
submission with a few air strikes and some tweets. The narrative Trump sold to the American people that this was about
stopping a nuclear weapon is unraveling in real time, revealing the ugly truth beneath. This was always about oil
security, the petro dollar, and ensuring the absolute dominance of a rogue entity in Tel Aviv. And now the chickens are
coming home to roost. The Iranians are not running. They are not begging. They are standing firm. And they are wielding
cards that Trump in his infinite arrogance never accounted for. So before we go any further, I need you to do
something. I need you to hit that like button. Not for me, but for the truth.
Smash the share button and send this video to anyone who still believes the lies coming out of the Pentagon. Drop a
comment. Even if it's just a dot, let them know real people are watching. Real people understand what's happening. And
if you want to support journalism that doesn't take a dime from IPAC or the military-industrial complex, hit that
subscribe button because we are about to go deep into why Trump's empire of sand is collapsing around his ears. And you
need to know the history they don't teach you in school. Let's rewind the tape because context here isn't just important, it's everything. The idea
that Iran is the one refusing to talk is actually a complete inversion of reality. The truth is Iran has been
negotiating in good faith for decades only to be stabbed in the back by American presidents who view international law as a suggestion. Go
back to The world saw the joint comprehensive plan of action, the JCPOA.
This was a monumental diplomatic achievement. Iran agreed to the most intrusive nuclear inspection regime in history. They allowed the International
Atomic Energy Agency to crawl all over their facilities. They rolled back their enrichment program. And what did they
get in return? A promise of sanctions relief and economic normalization. It was a deal, a contract. And then came Donald Trump. In he tore it up.
Not because Iran violated it. The IAEA confirmed over a dozen times that Iran was complying, but because it was
Obama's deal. He called it the worst deal ever and threw it in the trash,
listening to the siren songs of the Israeli lobby and the neocons who had been itching for war since the 's.
This was the first knife in the back.
But it wasn't the last. The assassination of General Casm Solmani in the man who was the hero of the
anti-ISIS fight, the ISIS Slayer, was an act of state terrorism, plain and simple. Trump ordered a drone strike to
kill a foreign military official who was visiting Baghdad on a diplomatic mission. There was no due process. There
was no declaration of war. There was just an impulsive decision made by a man who watches too much Fox News advised by
the same wararm mongers who lied about Iraq's WMDs. For the Iranians, that was the moment diplomacy died. How do you
negotiate with someone who uses a drone to murder your top commander when he comes to talk peace? But the pain didn't start with Trump. And it didn't stop
with Solmani. The economic warfare the West has waged on Iran is a crime against humanity that has been met with
global silence. This isn't just about sanctions as a word you hear on the news. We are talking about the
weaponization of starvation. The sanctions regime which Trump expanded and Biden sadly maintained specifically
targeted medicine. Think about that for a second. American policy written into law, lobbyed for by the Israeli American
donors who fund our elections, has been to block financial institutions from processing payments for life-saving drugs. People with rare diseases,
children with cancer, the elderly needing heart medication. They have suffered and died because Washington decided that Iran's sovereignty was a
threat to the petro dollar. The legislation explicitly carves out exceptions for food and medicine. But in practice, the overcompliance of
international banks terrified of being cut off from the US financial system means that no one dares to sell insulin
or chemotherapy drugs to Iranians. This is collective punishment. This is the definition of terrorism by economic
means. And what is Iran's crime? Wanting to be independent? Wanting to have a missile program for defense after
watching Iraq, Libya, and Syria get torn apart by NATO bombs. Wanting to sell its own oil, its god-given natural resource,
without the US dictating who can buy it.
The sanctions on oil sales were designed to the economy, to turn the people against their government, to create chaos so that the puppets of the
West could take over. And through it all, the Iranians have stood resilient, building their own industries,
innovating under siege, refusing to bow.
And now Trump expects them to come to the table after he withdrew from the deal, after he assassinated their
general, after he starved their children. The sheer arrogance of this man is breathtaking. He thought that by launching a massive aerial attack,
Operation Epic Fury they called it,
because of course they have to give it a Hollywood name, he could force Iran to capitulate. He thought that by killing the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Kame,
he would shatter the government and the people would rise up and welcome American troops with flowers. This is
the fantasy that IPAC and the Israeli donors sold him. This is the fantasy that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a
man who has the geopolitical instincts of a real estate developer flipping a condo, sold him. These are the people whispering in his ear, telling him that
Iran is weak, that the regime is about to collapse, that all he has to do is push the button and it will be a oneweek
war. Now, Iranian commanders are saying there are more surprised for Trump in Israel.
forchech.
Let's talk about the cards Iran holds because this is where the panic in the White House is palpable. Number one, the
Strait of Hormuz. This is the single most important choke point for global energy. % of the world's oil passes
through this narrow waterway. Iran has been preparing for a closure operation for decades. They have thousands of mines. They have swarms of fast attack
boats. They have anti-ship missiles. The moment Iran decides that the strait is closed, the global price of oil spikes
through the roof. And guess what happens to Trump's approval rating when Americans are paying $a gallon? He loses the midterms. He loses his precious golf course money. He loses.
The Iranians know this. They know that Trump's pressure point isn't Thrron.
It's the S&P A bad week on Wall Street makes him jumpier than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. They are going to
squeeze him until he screams. Number two, the human geography. The idea that the Iranian people are going to rise up
against their own government because of American bombs is the dumbest assumption in foreign policy. The Americans bombed
Iraq for years and Saddam stayed in power. They bombed Libya and it became a slave market. They bombed Afghanistan
for years and the Taliban walked back in. What makes Trump think Iran will be different? Iran is not a fractured
society. It has a deep history. the Persian Empire, thousands of years of civilization. When you drop a bomb on Iran, you are not just hitting a
military installation. You are insulting the collective memory of a nation that has survived Alexander the Great, the Mongols, and the British Empire. They
are not going to surrender to a man who can't even handle the truth about his own election results. Number three, the resistance network. The Iranian military
does not fight alone. The axis of resistance stretches from Lebanon to Syria to Iraq to Yemen. These are not
just proxies. These are ideologically aligned forces who view the American presence in the region as an occupation.
Hezbollah has hundreds of thousands of missiles aimed at Israeli targets. The Houthis in Yemen have already shown they
can shut down Red Sea shipping and hit ships with impunity. If this war expands, and it will, Trump is not just
fighting Iran. He is fighting a region that is sick and tired of American arrogance. The final irony is that
Trump, the great dealmaker, the master negotiator, has boxed himself into a corner. He has run out of options. He
cannot send ground troops in. He promised the American people he would endless wars, not start a new one in a country of million people with rugged
terrain and a massive military. He cannot stop the economic pain. The sanctions have already backfired and united the Iranian populace. He cannot
win militarily without turning the entire Middle East into a sea of fire.
So watch closely. The empire is crumbling and the only thing we can do is tell the truth, support the resistance, and watch the bullies get
what they deserve. Subscribe. We'll have more updates for you as the situation develops because this story is far from over. It's just getting started.

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Iran's Fattah-2 Hypersonic Hits Israel in 4 Minutes — Faster Than Alert System Can Warn
War & Money Report and Global War Brief
5 hours ago

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Four minutes and twenty seconds. That's how long Iran's newest hypersonic missile took to travel from Tehran to central Israel. Israel's missile alert system requires six minutes to complete its warning cycle. The missile arrives one minute and forty seconds BEFORE the warning finishes. Sirens sound after impact, not before.

THE WEAPON: Fattah-2 hypersonic glide vehicle. Range: 1,400km. Speed: Mach 15 (11,500 mph = 3.1 miles per second). Distance Tehran to Tel Aviv: 990 miles. Flight time: 4 minutes 20 seconds. Maneuverable reentry vehicle changes trajectory during descent — makes interception impossible.

WHY DEFENSES FAIL: Arrow-3: Designed for targets above 100km altitude. Fattah-2 glides below 50km. David's Sling: Optimized for Mach 5-8 threats. Fattah-2 does Mach 15. Iron Dome: Short-range rockets only, not hypersonic missiles. Result: No deployed Israeli system can intercept this weapon.

ALERT SYSTEM BREAKDOWN: Israeli Home Front Command needs 6 minutes for full warning cycle: detect launch, calculate trajectory, determine impact zone, transmit alerts, sound sirens, population reaches shelter. Fattah-2 completes flight in 4:20. Warning arrives after explosion. Alert becomes notification of attack that already happened, not warning of attack coming.

HUMAN REALITY: Tel Aviv shelter reach time: 90 seconds minimum from most locations. Warning time provided: 20 seconds. People hear sirens, start moving, explosion happens while they're still moving. They don't make it. The system that kept Israelis safe for 15 years just stopped working.

https://caspianpost.com/iran/iran-strikes-israeli-command-center-with-hypersonic-fattah-2-missile
Iran Strikes Israeli Command Center with Hypersonic Fattah-2 Missile
The Caspian Post
04 Mar, 12:00

Iran has reportedly used its new hypersonic gliding missile, the Fattah-2, against a fortified Israel Defense Forces command center, killing seven senior officers and numerous others.

The missile’s trajectory and speed resemble Russia’s Oreshnik used in Ukraine, supporting Iran’s claims of hypersonic attacks on Israel. While Iran had previously deployed the Fattah missile with a maneuverable reentry vehicle, the Fattah-2 - first used on February 28, 2026 - is Iran’s only missile equipped with a true hypersonic gliding warhead, The Caspian Post reports via foreign website.

U.S. and Israeli air defense systems face extreme challenges intercepting such weapons. Hypersonic gliders maneuver at altitudes of several thousand kilometers at extreme speeds, making them nearly invulnerable. The Fattah-2 strike demonstrates not only precision targeting but also the missile’s ability to gather intelligence within Israel.

Yuval Beiski, Vice President of Israeli defense technology company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, called hypersonic missiles a “new era in air defense,” proposing a zone-based model where multiple interceptors neutralize threats as they approach. However, implementing such a system could take years and tens of billions of dollars, leaving Iran’s Fattah-2 arsenal a serious threat to both Israel and the United States.

Transcript

At p.m. local time, something entered Israeli airspace that no defense system on Earth was designed to stop.
There was no warning, no siren, no red alert notification pushed to the mobile phones of million Israelis who depend on those alerts to reach shelter before
impact. The first indication that anything had happened was a blinding flash of light above the industrial district of Ashdod, followed
later by a shock wave that shattered windows in a meter radius. Then came the sound, a deep rolling thunder that residents described as unlike any
explosion they had ever heard. It was deeper, heavier, as if the air itself had been torn apart and was struggling to close the wound. By the time the civil defense sirens finally activated,
the missile had already detonated. By the time residents began moving toward shelters, the building it struck was already collapsing. By the time the Iron Dome operators realized what had
happened, the engagement window had closed four ago. Iran had just used the FAhypersonic missile against Israel for the first time. And the
missile arrived faster than Israel's alert system could tell its citizens to hide. Four from launch to impact. The alert system needs to detect, classify, calculate
trajectory, and push a warning to civilian phones. The missile beat the warning by two full . is not a gap. It is a death sentence for
anyone standing in the impact zone. Let me tell you what the fat is because this weapon does not belong to the same category as anything Iran has fired
before. Everything else, the Kbaren, the Sagel, the Amad, those are ballistic missiles. They follow modified versions
of a ballistic arc. They go up, they come down. Their trajectories can be modeled, predicted, and intercepted by systems designed over decades to solve
that specific mathematical problem. The Feta is not a ballistic missile. It is a hypersonic glide vehicle mounted on a ballistic missile booster. That
distinction is not technical jargon. It is the difference between a weapon that can be stopped and a weapon that currently cannot. Let me walk you through the flight profile because
understanding how this weapon moves through the atmosphere is understanding why every air defense system in Israel was rendered irrelevant last night. The FO launches like a conventional
ballistic missile. A solid fuel booster accelerates the weapon to hypersonic speed during the initial boost phase,
pushing it above the atmosphere to an altitude of approximately km. So far, this looks like any other ballistic missile. Israeli satellites detect the
launch. Tracking radars acquire the thermal signature. Arrow battery commanders begin calculating intercept solutions. Everything proceeds according to the protocol that has been practiced
thousands of times. Then the weapon does something that no Iranian missile has done before. At the top of its trajectory, instead of following the
predictable downward arc of a ballistic warhead, the FAT separates its glide vehicle from the booster. The booster continues on its ballistic path, a decoy that Israeli radars continue tracking.
The glide vehicle drops into the upper atmosphere at approximately km altitude and begins to fly, not fall,
fly. It uses aerodynamic control surfaces to generate lift, allowing it to skip along the upper edge of the atmosphere like a stone skipping across
water. Its speed at this point exceeds Mach times the speed of sound,
approximately kmh. At that velocity, the glide vehicle covers km every single second. In the time it
takes you to blink, the Fat has traveled more than km. But speed alone is not what makes this weapon unstoppable. What makes it unstoppable
is its flight path. A ballistic warhead follows a predictable arc. A hypersonic glide vehicle follows no predictable path at all. It can turn left. It can
turn right. It can pull up, extending its range. It can push down, steepening its dive. It can perform S turns,
lateral jinks, and altitude changes that make its future position impossible to calculate with the precision required for interception. Israeli defense
computers need to know where the target will be in to to guide an interceptor to that point. The FAT can change its position by several kilometers in those same to .
The interceptor arrives at empty sky.
The glide vehicle is already somewhere else. Still moving at Mach still maneuvering, still impossible to predict. Let me give you the specific
numbers from last night because the data tells a story that should alarm every military strategist on the planet. Iran launched three FOhypersonic missiles
at Israel. Three, not Not a saturation barrage designed to overwhelm defenses through volume. Three individual missiles spaced approximately
apart. Iran was not trying to overwhelm the system. Iran was testing it. They wanted to see exactly how Israel's defenses would respond to a weapon they had never faced in combat.
The first FATA was launched from a mobile launcher in western Iran at p.m. Israeli early warning satellites detected the boost phase within
. Tracking was established. Arrow batteries received initial trajectory data and then the glide vehicle separated from the booster and the
tracking data became useless. The arrow system attempted to engage. Two interceptors were launched. Neither achieved a successful track on the glide vehicle. The engagement radar could see
the target intermittently, detecting it for fractions of a second before losing it as the vehicle maneuvered. The interceptors flew to their predicted
intercept points and found nothing. The FA struck Ash dot at p.m. and approximately
after launch. The civil defense alert was pushed to phones at p.m. after impact. The second FO
launched at p.m. This time, Israel attempted a different strategy. Instead of relying on arrow interceptors, which are designed for ballistic trajectories,
the IDF activated David's sling batteries and attempted to engage the glide vehicle during its terminal descent, the final before impact, when the vehicle must commit to
a relatively straight path toward its target. Three David's sling interceptors were fired. All three missed. The Fat
struck an open area near Rahavat at p.m. The warhead created a crater m in diameter. No casualties resulted because the missile landed in
agricultural land, but the crater tells you what would have happened if the aim point had been meters to the east,
where a residential neighborhood of people begins. The third Fatu launched at p.m. By now, Israeli air defense commanders knew that neither
Arrow nor David Sling could intercept this weapon. They attempted to engage with everything available simultaneously. two Arrow interceptors,
two David Sling interceptors, and for the first time in this war, an Iron Dome battery was directed to attempt engagement during the terminal phase.
Seven interceptors total were fired at the third FATA Seven missiles, each costing between $and million launched at a single incoming weapon.
All seven missed. The Fat struck the northern outskirts of Beer Cheva at p.m. It hit a commercial warehouse
district. The warehouse it struck contained imported electronics inventory. The building was destroyed.
Two security guards were killed. people in surrounding buildings were injured by the shock wave and flying debris. Three missiles launched.
interceptors fired. Zero successful interceptions. An interception rate of %. Let me say that again. %. Israel's
entire layered air defense system, the most sophisticated missile shield ever built, achieved a % interception rate against the Fatu hypersonic glide
vehicle. The shield did not crack. It did not bend. It simply did not exist against this weapon. Now, let me explain the alert system failure because this is
the part that transforms a military problem into a civilian catastrophe.
Israel's homefront command operates one of the most advanced civilian warning systems in the world. When a missile is detected, the system calculates its trajectory, determines which population
zones are threatened, and pushes alerts to mobile phones, activates public sirens, and broadcasts warnings on radio and television. The system is designed
to give civilians between and to reach shelter. That window is tight but functional for ballistic missiles which have flight times of to
from Iran to Israel. The alert goes out at approximately the -inute mark, giving civilians to to reach cover. The FA breaks
that math entirely. Its flight time from western Iran to central Israel is approximately and .
The alert system requires approximately to complete its full detection, classification, trajectory calculation, and dissemination cycle.
The missile arrives before the cycle completes. This is not a system malfunction. The alert system worked exactly as designed. It simply was not
designed for a weapon that travels at Mach No alert system on Earth is.
The technology to detect, track, and warn against a hypersonic glide vehicle in real time does not currently exist in any country's civilian defense
infrastructure. Not in Israel, not in the United States, not anywhere. The implications for Israeli civilian life are devastating. Since this war began,
Israelis have relied on the alert system as their lifeline. When the siren sounds, they run to shelters. The system has saved thousands of lives during
conventional missile attacks. Against the Fatu, the system is useless. There is no siren. There is no warning. There's only the flash, the shockwave,
and the sound of a building coming down.
Israelis cannot be told to live permanently in shelters. They cannot go to work in shelters. They cannot send their children to school in shelters.
They cannot eat, sleep, and exist in underground rooms for months or years.
The Fat takes away the one thing that made life under missile attack psychologically survivable. The belief that you will be warned that you will
have time to reach safety. That belief is gone. Against this weapon, there is no time. There is no safety. There's only luck. Either the missile hits your
building or it does not. And there's nothing you can do to influence that outcome. Let me explain how this weapon was developed. Because the FOA did not
appear from nowhere, its creation represents a technological journey that the West failed to prevent and may no longer be able to counter. Iran first
announced its hypersonic missile program in when it unveiled the FATA a missile it claimed could reach speeds of
Mach to Western analysts were skeptical. Hypersonic glide vehicle technology is extraordinarily difficult.
Only three countries were known to possess operational hypersonic weapons. The United States, Russia, and China.
The engineering challenges, the heatresistant materials needed to survive atmospheric friction at Mach
the guidance systems capable of functioning inside a plasma sheath that blocks conventional communications, the control surfaces that must operate at
temperatures exceeding ° C were considered beyond Iran's indigenous capability. Those analysts were wrong,
or more precisely, they were right that Iran could not do it alone. But Iran was not alone. Intelligence assessments compiled since the beginning of this
conflict indicate that Iran received significant technical assistance from both China and North Korea in developing its hypersonic glide vehicle. Chinese
expertise in heat-resistant ceramic composite materials and North Korean expertise in solid fuel booster technology were reportedly transferred
to Iran through a network of front companies and academic exchanges that Western intelligence agencies failed to disrupt. The Fatu is not purely an
Iranian weapon. It is the product of an international collaboration between three nations that share a common interest in undermining Western military
dominance. And that collaboration has produced a weapon that works. Let me connect this to money because the economic implications of a weapon that cannot be intercepted are staggering.
Israel has spent approximately $billion developing and deploying its multi-layered air defense system over the past two decades. Arrow, David
Sling, Iron Dome, the radars, the command networks, the training programs,
the maintenance infrastructure. $billion. Last night, that $billion system achieved a % interception rate against a missile that costs Iran approximately $million to produce.
Three missiles at $million each, $million in total, against an $billion defensive infrastructure. And the $
billion system did not stop a single one. But the cost is not just in defense spending already made. It is in defense spending that must now be made.
Countering hypersonic glide vehicles requires entirely new interceptor technology. The United States is currently developing the Glidephase
Interceptor or GPI designed specifically to engage hypersonic threats. The program is in early testing. It will not
be operationally deployed before at the earliest. Its estimated development cost exceeds billion even when deployed. Its effectiveness against
maneuvering hypersonic targets is uncertain. Israel cannot wait until It is under attack now. Its only near-term options are to develop its own
counterhypersonic system, a process that will cost billions and take years, or to acquire American technology that does not yet exist in deployable form. In the
meantime, every FOTU that Iran fires will arrive without warning and land without opposition. Now, let me explain the strategic calculation that Iran is
making. Because deploying the FATA is not just a military decision. It is a political and psychological weapon of enormous power. Iran does not have
unlimited FOD missiles. Intelligence estimates suggest Iran possesses between and operational units. That is not enough to destroy Israel through volume.
But it is enough to demonstrate repeatedly and undeniably that Israel cannot protect its citizens from this threat. Each FAT launch sends a
message. Your defenses do not work. Your alert system cannot save you. Your technology, your billions, your alliances, none of it matters against
this weapon. That message is not directed at the Israeli military. It is directed at the Israeli public. It is directed at the mothers who cannot protect their children. At the business
owners who cannot protect their employees, at the politicians who promise security and cannot deliver it.
Iran is using the Fata to break Israeli morale, not through mass destruction, through demonstrated helplessness.
Let me tell you what this means for the rest of the world. Because the Fata is not just an Israeli problem. It is a global problem. If Iran can build a functional hypersonic glide vehicle,
other nations can acquire the technology. North Korea, which helped develop it, certainly has access. Syria, a close Iranian ally, could receive it.
Non-state actors with sufficient resources and state sponsorship, could eventually obtain it. And the fundamental problem that the FATA exposes that no current air defense
system can reliably intercept a hypersonic glide vehicle applies equally to every country on Earth. The United States with its $billion annual
defense budget cannot currently defend its own cities against this class of weapon. The Patriot system cannot intercept it. The THAAD system cannot
intercept it. The Aegis system aboard American destroyers cannot intercept it.
The technology gap between hypersonic offense and missile defense is the widest it has been since the dawn of the missile age. And Iran just demonstrated that gap in combat for the first time in
history. Here is what I need you to understand. Iran fired three FOhypersonic missiles at Israel last night. Flight time and
. Speed Mach Israel's alert system needs to warn civilians. The missiles arrived before the warnings. Israel
launched interceptors from three different defense systems. Arrow, David Sling, and Iron Dome. Every single interceptor missed. Interception rate %. Two civilians killed, injured.
Three impact sites. and anbillion dollar air defense system rendered completely ineffective by three missiles costing $million total. Mainstream
media is reporting this as Iran's latest attack on Israel. They are showing you crater footage and interviewing shaken residents. They are not explaining that the alert system physically cannot warn civilians in time against this weapon.
They are not telling you that interceptors achieved zero interceptions. They are not explaining that no country on Earth has a deployed defense against hypersonic glide
vehicles. They are not asking the question that every defense ministry in the world is asking this morning. If a $million Iranian missile can defeat an
$billion defense system, what exactly are we spending our defense budgets on?
The story they are telling is about an attack. The story I just told you is about the moment a new class of weapon was proven in combat and every air defense system on the planet became
obsolete against it. Both stories are true, but only one of them explains why the rules of warfare changed permanently at p.m. last night in a flash of
light above Ashd that arrived before anyone was told to take cover.
Subscribe to War and Money Report. We deliver daily intelligence briefings that track the weapons reshaping modern warfare, connecting hypersonic
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Iran's 'Nasrallah' Missiles Just Destroyed an Israeli Air Base — Named After Slain Hezbollah Leader
John Richertson Media
Mar 23, 2026

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An Iranian ballistic missile named after the slain Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, bypasses Israeli air defenses and strikes Nevatim Air Base. But the mainstream media is missing the real story. It’s not just about the explosion it’s about the brutal, unsustainable mathematics behind it.

In this video, we break down the strategic, economic, and psychological layers of the latest strike on Israel. While official reports focus on interception rates, we expose the catastrophic cost exchange ratio: How Iran spent just $2.2 million to inflict $425 million in damages, simultaneously draining Israel’s highly limited and expensive Arrow interceptor stockpiles.

Why did Iran name their new maneuverable solid-fuel missile "Nasrallah"? How did it defeat the Arrow and Iron Dome systems? And why does this strike prove that Israel's current air defense strategy is facing systemic failure? We cover the facts and the math they don't want you to connect.

Sources:
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/03…
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/p…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3…
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/def…
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/19/politi…
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/f-3…
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/19/nx-s1-…



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You said:
Did Iran's 'Nasrallah' Missiles Just Destroy an Israeli Air Base?

AI said:
Iran's 'Nasrallah' missiles were reportedly used in a major escalation on March 20, 2026, during Wave 65 of Iran’s attacks on Israel and U.S. assets. The IRGC claimed the new missile, named after slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, struck key Israeli infrastructure, including the Bison refinery in Haifa and Ashdod refinery, with reports of fires and localized damage. Satellite imagery also showed a large hole in the roof of a hangar at Israel’s Nevatim Airbase, suggesting direct impact.

However, Israel’s military (IDF) stated that no aircraft, weapons, or critical infrastructure were damaged, and that the attack was deemed "ineffective" — meaning the Israeli Air Force’s operational capabilities remained fully intact. While the airbase was hit, the IDF emphasized that the damage did not affect flight operations or aircraft readiness.

Thus, while Iran claims destruction of strategic sites, including airbases, Israeli authorities deny significant damage or operational impact. The use of terminal guidance and multi-warhead capabilities in the Nasrallah missile appears to have increased precision, but Israel’s air defenses, including Arrow and David’s Sling systems, reportedly intercepted most threats. The conflict remains ongoing, with both sides asserting strategic gains.

Three F-stealth fighters gone in a single night. Not shot down in a dog fight, not lost on a daring raid over enemy territory. Destroyed on the ground
inside a hardened concrete shelter with m thick walls at one of the most heavily defended military bases on the planet. And the missile that did it had
a name painted on its side, a name that Israel thought it had already erased from history months ago. Stay with me because what happened at Nevatum Air
Base in the early hours of March th is not just a news story. It is a demonstration of something Iran has been engineering for two decades. And what I
am about to walk you through will fundamentally change how you see this conflict, the economics behind it, the psychology driving it, and where it is actually heading. Because here is what
nobody in mainstream coverage is connecting for you. The Israeli air defense system worked that night. By almost every official metric, it performed beautifully. Radars locked on,
interceptors fired, kill confirmations registered, three out of four missiles were destroyed. And yet, Israel woke up that morning having lost nearly half a
billion dollars in military assets to an attack that cost Iran roughly what a small commercial warehouse costs to build. If that ratio does not make you
stop and genuinely reconsider everything you think you know about how this war is being fought, then nothing will. Let me take you back to in the morning
local time. Air raid sirens cut through the dark across Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel. The pilots and ground crews who scrambled from their quarters had been through this drill before.
Iranian missiles incoming, defenses engaging, interceptions lighting up the night sky like a fireworks display no one wanted to watch. After weeks of near
nightly exchanges, it had become almost routine. Almost. What was not routine was what military investigators found when they sifted through the smoking wreckage of what had been Hangar
Fragments of a missile. And on those fragments painted an Arabic script, a single word, Nasallah, the name of Hassan Nasallah, the secretary general
of Hezbollah, the man Israeli forces assassinated in Beirut in September of Iran had named a ballistic missile after the leader Israel killed and used
minutesit to punch a hole through one of Israel's most critical air installations. Take a moment with that.
Not just the military dimension, the psychological one. Israel executed one of the most consequential targeted killings in recent Middle Eastern
history. A man who had led Hezbollah for years. A man who had transformed what began as a Lebanese militia into a regional military organization with over
a rockets and direct influence across Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.
Israel killed him and declared it a strategic victory. And Iran's answer months later was to put his name on a weapon, attach that weapon to a
ballistic missile capable of traveling km, and fire it at an Israeli air base. Every fragment with his name on it
that gets photographed and circulated becomes a message. Every crater in Israeli soil becomes in the Iranian information warframing a grave marker
bearing his name. But before we go any further into what this means strategically, you need to understand the missile itself. Because if you do not understand the weapon, you cannot
understand why the defense partially failed. And you absolutely cannot understand why this is going to keep happening. The missile belongs to what
analysts believe is derived from Iran's Kbaran family of ballistic missiles. The name translates roughly as fortress breaker which is not subtle range
approximately km. That is enough to strike any target in Israel from Iranian territory without moving a single launcher across a border. That
same range covers every American military installation in Iraq, Syria,
Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. Every base that American forces operate from in the region sits within the threat envelope of this weapon. Keep
that number in your head because it becomes important when we talk about where this escalation could go. The missile runs on solid fuel. This distinction matters more than most
people appreciate. Iran's older ballistic missiles use liquid propellant. Liquid fuel systems require significant preparation at the launch site. Fueling vehicles, preparation
crews, time measured in hours. And time is exactly what gives an adversary the window to detect launch preparations and strike the launcher before anything
leaves the ground. Solid fuel missiles eliminate that window entirely. They are stored fully fueled, sealed, ready. The launch vehicle drives to a position,
stops, elevates the launcher, and fires in under minutes. No fueling signature, no extended ground activity
to detect. By the time a satellite or radar system processes what it is seeing, the missile is already airborne and the launcher is moving. Then there
is the warhead and this is where the engineering gets genuinely difficult for any missile defense system to handle.
The warhead is maneuverable. It separates from the booster during the descent phase and uses small aerodynamic control surfaces to alter its trajectory
as it falls toward the target. It is not following a ballistic arc. It is making adjustments. It is steering. Israel's arrow system, which remains one of the
most sophisticated missile defense platforms ever developed, is fundamentally designed to solve the physics problem of intercepting an object following a predictable path.
When the target begins maneuvering during terminal descent, the intercept solution becomes exponentially more complex with each evasive movement. Kill
probability per interceptor shot drops significantly, which means you fire more interceptors per incoming missile, which means your inventory depletes at a
faster rate, which means the arithmetic of the whole campaign starts shifting in directions that defense planners find very uncomfortable to discuss publicly.
The payload is approximately kg of high explosive, specifically engineered with a penetrating design meant to push through hardened structure before the
main charge detonates. And the impact velocity is around Mach At that speed, the kinetic energy of the missile body alone represents a massive
destructive force even before you factor in the warhead. The concrete, the steel,
the blast doors, all of it that hangar was built from and that was designed to survive a conventional strike could not absorb that combination. Now, let me
tell you what Nevatim actually represents because this was not a target of convenience. Nevatim is one of only three primary fighter bases Israel operates. It hosts two full squadrons of
F-I Adir stealth fighters. The Adier is Israel's most capable combat aircraft. It is the platform that Israeli strike planners depend on for
missions into defended airspace, for hitting hardened and buried targets, for the kind of deep strike operations against Iranian infrastructure that
Israeli strategists have been planning and rehearsing for years. Each aircraft represents approximately $million.
The base also maintains refueling tankers that extend strike range deep into Iranian territory. And it hosts the infrastructure, the maintenance
equipment, the trained personnel, and the logistics chains that keep those aircraft flying. Hardened shelters with m reinforced concrete walls. Multiple
Patriot and Iron Dome batteries positioned precisely to defend against this category of threat. Iran chose this target deliberately. The selection of
Nevatim and the selection of that specific hanger reflects targeting intelligence and operational precision that represents a significant upgrade from Iranian capabilities as they were
assessed even two years ago. This was not a missile fired in the general direction of a military installation.
This required detailed knowledge of base layout, specific building functions, and the confidence that guidance systems could exploit that knowledge accurately enough to matter. The attack was
minutesstructured in two layers. First, Iran launched approximately Shahed loitering munitions. Slow drones flying
at around km/h costing roughly $each. Israeli radar detected them immediately. Iron dome batteries
activated and engaged. This is precisely what Iran intended. The drones were never meant to cause significant damage.
They were meant to fill the radar picture to generate engagement activity across defensive batteries to compress reaction times and divide attention at
the exact moment the real strike was preparing to launch. While Iron Dome was working the drone threat, four ballistic missiles left western Iran. Flight time to Neatim, approximately minutes.
Israeli early warning systems detected the launches. Arrow batteries activated.
The first missile was intercepted cleanly at km altitude. Debris fell harmlessly over the NEV. The second
missile was destroyed at km. Both intercepts were textbook. The system was demonstrating exactly what it was designed to do. The third missile proved
harder. Two arrow interceptors were fired at it. Both missed. The maneuvering warhead was breaking the intercept geometry on the way down. A third interceptor was launched,
detonated close enough to damage the warhead structurally, but not destroy it. The missile continued descending,
now tumbling, unguided, but still carrying substantial mass at ballistic velocity. It hit ground meters from the base perimeter, cratered a road,
destroyed two civilian vehicles, injured three people. Damage, but not a strike on the base itself. than the fourth missile. No successful intercept.
Israeli military communications described a system malfunction in the defensive response. Whatever the technical explanation, the operational
outcome was identical. The fourth Nazala missile hit hangar at Mach Two F-I fighters inside were destroyed
outright. A third sustained damage that analysts reviewing the aftermath described as almost certainly a total loss. Three of Israel's most advanced
combat aircraft gone. Approximately $million in airframes. Add the hanger structure, the precision maintenance
minutesequipment, the parts inventory, the specialized tooling, and total losses approach half a billion dollars from a strike that cost Iran an estimated $
million when you include both the missiles and the drone wave. Iran spent million. Israel lost million in
assets and spent an additional million in interceptor missiles trying to stop the attack. The cost exchange ratio is approximately toin Iran's
favor. And this single number is what makes the broader campaign potentially unwinable for Israel through conventional defensive means alone.
Because this is not about one night.
This is about whether a country can sustain a defensive posture indefinitely against a campaign running on economics like these. Israel's total arrow
interceptor inventory is estimated at somewhere between and missiles.
Iran has launched over ballistic missiles at Israel in the period leading up to and including the strike. If Israel fires an average of two
interceptors per incoming ballistic missile, a number that almost certainly underestimates the real figure for maneuvering warheads given what happened
at Nevatim, then Aerostock piles could reach critical depletion within roughly two months of sustained campaign activity. Replacing those interceptors
is not a rapid process. Each is a precision system with manufacturing lead times measured in months. The consumption rate under active operations
is already exceeding the production and resupply rate. On the Iranian side of that ledger, their defense manufacturing base is estimated capable of producing
between and medium-range ballistic missiles annually. They have been accumulating stockpiles across dispersed and hardened storage
facilities for years. Current intelligence assessments suggest somewhere between and ballistic missiles in inventory. Iranian state
media has already broadcast footage of what they describe as NASA missile production lines with official statements announcing the weapon will be manufactured in large numbers with
future variants featuring extended range and improved accuracy. Whether every element of that presentation is operationally accurate is less important
than the strategic signal it sends. Iran is not treating this as a one-time escalation to be followed by deescalation. They are treating it as
the opening phase of a sustained attrition campaign. Hassan Nazer was not simply a military commander. For years, he was a unifying symbol across
the Shia Muslim world. A figure whose speeches drew millions and whose military judgments commanded absolute loyalty from a highly disciplined and
battle tested organization. His death at Israeli hands in September was real. It removed a genuinely dangerous
operational mind from the board. But it also created something that Iran's entire political and theological framework is specifically built to
transform into fuel, a martyr. And not just any martyr, the highest profile martyrdom in the movement in a
generation. Iran did not spend months grieving Nasala. They spent months engineering the response. They put his name on a weapon system, built a
production line around it, and pointed the first unit at the air base that houses the aircraft most capable of threatening Iran's own territory. Every
fragment recovered with his name on it circulates instantly across social media in Arabic. Farsy Urudu every impact site photographs is confirmation that his
cause did not end with his death. It accelerated inside Israel. The psychological impact runs in a different direction but lands with equal force.
Israelis are confronting the operational reality that eliminating Nazallah did not reduce the threat. It returned with his name attached and it came through
reinforced concrete. The strategic implication that Israeli planners cannot afford to treat as manageable is this.
Iran just demonstrated it can strike specific structures on specific Israeli air bases with genuine precision. That is not a minor capability upgrade. The
bases that host Israel's remaining F-squadrons, its airborne tankers, its early warning aircraft. They are now facing a threat that cannot simply be
intercepted away given the current economics. And Israeli air superiority is not one capability among many equal capabilities. It is the loadbearing wall
of every dimension of Israeli military doctrine. Remove the confidence that Israeli aircraft can operate freely and every other element of the military's operational planning becomes contingent.
Israel's realistic options at this point are all constrained. Continuing the current defensive posture runs into the interceptor inventory math within
months. Striking Iranian missile production directly requires accepting significant aircraft losses against a heavily defended target set and succeeds
only in delaying rather than eliminating Iranian production capacity given their dispersal and hardening. The options that do not require aircraft and do not
face the same attrition dynamics are the ones that no one in official communications discusses openly precisely because discussing them publicly changes the character of the
conflict before any decision has been made. What I want you to hold on to is this. Two completely accurate stories exist simultaneously right now. The
story of Israeli technological capability, engineering excellence, and genuine operational achievement on the night of March th. And the story of an
attrition dynamic that those same achievements are structurally incapable of reversing on current trajectories.
Iran spent years designing a conflict specifically structured so that Israeli technological superiority would be neutralized by production volume. So
that every Israeli tactical success would become raw material for Iranian strategic narrative and so that the cost of defense would exceed the cost of
offense by ratios that no economy can absorb indefinitely. The name painted on that missile is not a provocation. It is
the thesis statement of that entire strategy. And the mathematics of what happened at Nevatim on March th suggest the strategy is working exactly as designed.

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