Scott Ritter & Larry Johnson: Iran Retaliates, Hormuz CLOSED – Israel ENDS Trump Ceasefire
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Scott Ritter and Larry Johnson react to Iran's massive response to Israeli and US ceasefire violations, and what it means for the ongoing war.
Scott Ritter is a former UN weapons inspector and Marine Corps Intelligence officer. Larry Johnson is a former CIA analyst. You can support their work below:
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Transcript
Welcome everyone. Welcome back to the show. It's your host Danny Hifon. I am joined by two friends of the show. Larry Johnson, former CI analyst, now geopolitical commentator and analyst.
And we have Scott Ritter, former UN uh weapons inspector, and US Marine Corps intelligence officer, author, and geopolitical analyst. Gentlemen, thanks so much for joining me today.
Yeah, good to be here. I'm sorry I didn't get the word about the uniform,
otherwise I would have come appropriately dressed.
We got our blues on. We got our blues on. And you have your you have your signature Hawaiian shirt. So everything is everything is well. But what isn't
going well? Let's get right to it. Hit the like button everyone as you come on.
What isn't going well is this ceasefire debacle. Um you know Iran's deputy foreign minister said that they delayed a missile strike and drone strike
retaliation against Israel as uh Israel has been bombing Lebanon, killing over 200 in the last , thousands more
injured. Um Iran said that Pakistan assured it that it would uh the Pakistani mediators would uh talk to
1 minuteTrump and get Trump to essentially reign in Israel. Now there are reports that uh uh Israel is uh is this the report here?
Yep. That Trump called Netanyahu urging him to scale back Israel strikes in Lebanon to protect the negotiations per NBC. While the Trump administration
Israel both said Lebanon is not covered by the ceasefire, Israel agreed to be a helpful partner. Yet other reports are saying uh Scott and Larry that uh Israel
is going to conduct negotiations with Lebanon's government under fire. Um now Scott I want to start with you. You know
Iran has kept very strict control over the straight of Hormuz. Some reports have said that they've kept it closed or
have closed it further because of these strikes because Lebanon is a key part of this ceasefire. Uh there's it there's reports that only one vessel now in the
last has uh went through and uh that this ceasefire is very much on the brink. So how about we start with you
Scott? What's going on here? Uh and how should we see the current situation regarding the ceasefire and the war?
First of all, there is no ceasefire. So let's stop talking about a ceasefire. Um it doesn't exist. Uh there are
precursors to a possible ceasefire. Um but this was always going to be a mess.
We knew that on day one when Israel bombed Beirut and when the United Arab Emirates bombed uh you know bombed Iranian oil infrastructure. Um you know
this is this is a conflict that has u many moving parts. Uh we also have 31 autonomous military districts in Iran
that some of which may not be communicating effectively with uh with you know the Iranian government. And so
you know because they are autonomous if they haven't been given the word to cease and desist they may continue operating. So this was always going to be a mess. It's also a political mess.
uh you know there's a lot of um you know politically sensitive tightroppes that have to be walked here by the United States, by President Trump and by Iran.
um you know what what you have is um an agreement in principle that uh Iran's
10 um you know salient points are on the table and um United States 15 salient
points are on the table and uh the parties are supposed to meet and begin a two-eek process of reconciling these
points. So the notion that everything's agreed to up front is absurd. Nothing's been agreed to up front except that there's a need to talk. Um it's tragic
what's happening in Beirut. Absolutely tragic. But it's Israel. What do you expect? Um you know there's a game being played here and the you know there's a
script being followed. The you know the the fact is the United States did agree that Lebanon would be part of the ceasefire that was stated upfront. Um
because when they accepted the Iranian points as a precursor to further discussion, the Iranian point said that Lebanon will be included. Uh the
4 minutesAmerican points didn't say that, but that doesn't automatically prelude the Iranian point and the Pakistani president made it clear that the United States understood that Lebanon would be
included. The problem is the United States was negotiating without coordinating with Israel. So now they have to go back and coordinate with Israel. BB was very unhappy. Um he said
he could tolerate a discussion with Iran, but Lebanon's a special issue.
Hezbollah is a special problem and that uh they need to, you know, continue doing what they're doing. What they can't do is allow Lebanon to
automatically be rolled into Iran. So what what Israel is doing is playing a game where they can now uh you know be seen as linking any ceasefire with a
negotiation with the Lebanese government separate from the US Iranian talks. This is all just part of a game that's being
played. Um I I what I say and I'll leave it with this is that um both Iran and the United States have reached the
maximum uh level of their uh escalation ladders, their respective escalation ladders. To go further for each one of them is to invite permanent harm.
permanent harm to Donald Trump politically, meaning that things will will be done that can't be reversed in time to have an impact on a positive
impact on the November election. Donald Trump is only cares about Donald Trump.
He's the ultimate narcissist. We have to stop talking about American national security, foreign policy objectives,
etc. This is all about Donald Trump's legacy. And Trump is panicked right now because um it's not looking too good for him. And so, you know, we have to let
Donald Trump be Donald Trump. Iran is concerned about going so far that it doesn't matter if sanctions are lifted.
If if enough harm is done to Iran um that you know the the promise of the Iranian government to take care of the Iranian people will not be fulfilled.
Right now Iran is on the cusp of being able to fulfill a 47-year promise to the Iranian people that u there will be
economic good times and that's the Iranian objective right here. There's other things wrapped in. You know the nuclear issue is one about pride not
about necessity. So Iran will negotiate on that. The straight hormuz is about survival. So Iran won't negotiate that
away, but they will negotiate some sort of you know joint um you know stewardship. There's a lot of maneuver room here. But what's clear from at
least from my perspective is that neither party can afford to continue this conflict. There must be a resolution. So there's going to be a lot
of games being played and unfortunately these games involve people dying such as nearly 300 Lebanese. But um I I there
isn't a ceasefire, but I'm very optimistic that there will be a ceasefire.
Yeah. Larry, what's your uh what's your thoughts here?
I see this this is like a negotiation between two people about where and what to eat. Uh the one party, let's call it
the United States, uh they want to eat a worm encrusted piece of cow manure. Um,
the other party, Iran, is wanting to eat steak.
So, how do you think that negotiation's going to go? Where where where's the middle ground? There is no middle ground. That's the point number one. So,
the 10 points that Iran laid out were not negotiable points. They are their
expectations and demands of what must be made in met in order for there to be negotiations.
So they're not going to negotiate over how much of the straight of Hormuz they close. In fact, I think uh the Ayatollah
Mushtava Kame just said, "Hey, it's under new management. uh you know so uh get rid of it's it'll be the straight of
Iran not her moves have got to be lifted. They're not
they're not going to go they're going to sign up to an agreement and oh yeah we promised that we'll lift the sanctions just like we did under JCPOA.
Iran's already you know they've already been down that path but they signed up to that agreement. They fed they thought they even had the assurances of Russia
and China back in 2015 and it's signed. Then all of a sudden,
you know, Europe's like, "Well, we're not sure yet. You got you got to jump through this hoop. You got to do this extra thing." And then Trump tears up the agreement. And despite having signed
it, despite having complied with allowing inspectors, despite doing what had been asked of the agreement, they didn't get a goddamn thing. So, I think
they understand now. No, we're not going to have promise you, you know, double pinky swear that we'll do it. No, it's
that's that's got to happen before any they make movement on anything else.
Number one. So, um it'll be interesting to see if Iran allows Witoff and and uh Jared Kushner in the room uh tomorrow.
And that's assuming that the talks go forward. Now, we got to look at how this how this evolved. When the initial agreement was announced, I I I'm not sure if Trump hadn't read it properly,
but as Scott said, you know, the United States had agreed, okay, Lebanon's on the table, Lebanon and Yemen and Iraq,
those three, it wasn't just Lebanon. Um the initial reaction in Israel and among
the Zionist crowd including the Christian Zionists like uh uh the Mr.
Huckabe the Christian Nut out of Arkansas and uh then the the Ben Shapiro and the Mark
Leven's. You knew you knew it was bad when Levin who normally can't talk without screaming. Okay. Is like you
need to get a sedative and hit him up with a couple of darts to drop him down to a level of normality. He was almost
depressed and he was he was talking in a in a low voice. So that that told me right away, uhoh, here come here comes
the storm. And so between uh so this was agreed to Tuesday night. So, between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, uh
I I think Trump got uh the, you know, a number of verbal beatings and lashings and all of a sudden he was like
Butterfly McQueen from uh you know, Gone with the Wind. I don't know nothing about birthing no babies, Miss Scarlet.
I don't know nothing about Lebanon. No,
no, no. We didn't agree to that. No, we and boy, they got to get rid of they got to open that straight now. And you know,
so he was reversing everything that that they had agreed to. Uh the it was the intervention and that's why Israel said,
"Great, this is our chance. We're going we're going to take try to take Beirut back to the stone age, which they did on
Wednesday." And you know, Iran was reacting. Okay. Uh there is no there is no they're not honoring this agreement.
But it was the intervention of Pakistan and I believe also China. And you know,
while that one uh document or tweet is that you showed was see seemed to be a polite
conversation, no. Uh it was I I think somebody on the Trump team called and threatened Israel. You know, you cut
this out now. So since since the end of Wednesday, we haven't had any more of those bombings. Now, there's there's
still fighting going on on the ground between uh Hezbollah and Israel. And I think where that is headed,
Israel's ultimately they're going to have to they're going to have to withdraw their forces in a couple of weeks probably. So the the talks
the talks that will take place, you know, starting on Saturday, the the parties will arrive on Friday, but the
actual talks will be on Saturday. We'll know how serious they are. Will they be in person? And by that I mean, will they be sitting in the same room talking to
each other? Are they going to continue this other nonsense of, you know, the the Pakistanis walk in and talk to the Iranians and then they walk down the
hall to another room and talk to the Americans and then, you know, that that that's You know, they call that diplomacy and that that will achieve nothing.
Yeah. You go a long way to do something as as indirect as that. Uh Scott, uh I want to get you in here and maybe to comment on, you know, the various
positions that both sides have taken amid these uh uh you know, bad faith uh actions taken by Israel and the United
States since uh talks have been announced. Uh here was what Donald Trump said today that the shooting is going to start bigger, better, and stronger than
anyone else has ever seen before until a real agreement is if a real agreement is not reached and complied with. Um so you
know and there was a lot more to it but uh let's not read the whole thing here.
And then Iran is saying of course that this these talks are in danger of uh falling apart if the Lebanon question is not resolved. So but what do you make of
Trump's stance here? The Trump administration stance it seems to always be a lot of bluster talking about coming back in and destroying everything if
Iran doesn't do what the US says. Uh Iran doesn't seem like it's budging. And
uh you know uh Larry mentioned China. Um some of what I heard about why China got involved is because well what happens if
the United States did what it threatened to do uh just a couple days ago and then Iran did what it said it was going to do in retaliation, take out uh all of the
Gulf energy. Well, a lot of the world's energy would be destroyed and that would hurt China. That would hurt the entire world economy. But your reactions to uh these developments?
Well, first of all, you know, I I I I hearken to uh Game of Thrones um uh season one. Uh
I love that show, by the way. I know what reference you're about to make. I just heard you say, sir. Okay. Which part of G which part of season one?
Okay. Well, when when when Joffrey is the new king and he's being dressed down by Tyrion in the council and u and
Joffrey says, "You can't speak to me that way. I am the king." And he speaks,
"I am the king." And then his grandfather says, "Any man that has to say he is the king is not the king." And that's how I view Donald Trump's posts.
If you got to sit there and say, "The shooting's going to start. We're going to kick your butt 40 days after the shooting started." and you haven't kicked their butt. Um,
it's empty bluster. Look, the United States expended the totality of their so-called good targets. There are no
good targets left. All that's left now is a war crime, a blatant war crime. We know that what's going on right now is a war crime, an illegal war of aggression.
We know that war crimes have been committed. the massacre of the uh 1605 170 uh school girls in Minab and other
atrocities uh you know of equal um you know horror um so I'm not trying to pretend that the United States hasn't
been committing war crimes they have but one could articulate um you know military intent on some of
these that you know or accident but now the expanded target deck that Trump was talking about is 100% collective
punishment, 100% cultural genocide. His own words convict him and his own words are what basically got him in trouble
because I believe the establishment push back. I believe that um generals put him on notice that we won't execute these
orders. These are unlawful orders. Um we're not going to do that. And Donald Trump may have never intended to uh
execute those orders. These were all the bluster before he accepted something that had been put on the table prior to the bluster. That's why I believe this.
Those 10 points had been articulated by uh Iran well before Donald Trump threatened to erase Iranian civilization.
So it's not as though the Iranians went,
"Oh god, no. He's threatening to erase us. Here's 10 points." The Iranians already had the 10 points out there.
Zarif had already published his paper in foreign affairs. I mean, so the Iranians had their position. This is Donald Trump
impressing himself, you know, talking to himself. Um, but there will no there there won't be any more shooting because
there's nothing to shoot. The war is over. We lost. He just can't admit it.
You know, we there's nothing more we can do. We're out of significant quantities of standoff precision guided munitions.
So, we can't do long range strike anymore. Not in a meaningful fashion. uh part of the strike package that was moving in were B-52s armed with Mark 84
gravity bombs with the satellite guided components of the JDAM components. Um they pulled back when it suddenly became
clear that oh the Iranians have long range standoff radar guided missiles still in service. That's what shot down
the F-15 E. And we can't come in and suppress those effectively anymore because they also have this whole new
thing that we hadn't planned on electro electroloptical guided infrared guided combination thereof. The we didn't
defeat the Iranian air defense. The Iranians played us. We didn't destroy their navy. Who the hell do you think laid those mines in the water?
The Iranian Navy. Hey Pete, how's that looking for you, pal? And I can guarantee you this. Iranian aircraft will be flying in the Iranian skies
because they haven't been destroyed either. They've been stored. The Iranians wrote out our attack, wrote out the best we have. And now they've come
in with phase two and we don't know how to deal with it. We we had two options to save face. First option was to go
into Natan, not to not Natan's Isvahan and do the seizure. Um I'm writing something up right now. I don't want to,
you know, drag on forever, but, you know, there's more to this mission than meets the eyes. This this rescue mission. It's not what it's much more
than that. Um, it it was the effort to go after the uranium and it failed.
Absolutely failed. Desert one type calamity. Um, and two, we can't carry out an amphibious operation. The USS Tripoli couldn't get near the shore. U,
it's impossible. The military said,
"We're done." Trump has no options. He He can't secure the straight horror moves. And that's the critical thing.
Iran has their fingers on the throat of the global economy right now. They can squeeze anytime they want. And there's nothing Donald Trump can do to change
that. No amount of bluster will change that. And that's what's really hurting him. He can't declare victory. So, he had no choice but to bluster, bluster,
bluster, and make it appear that he brought the Iranians to the table. Well,
you saw PEG Seth, we have dominance. We dominate everywhere. Again, if you have to say you have dominance, you don't have dominance. It becomes quite
obvious. Um, so I, you know, I take everything this president says, right?
There's nothing more the United States can do. We don't have the military capacity. And, you know, we bring in China. Understand this. We just proved
to the Chinese that we can't defeat them in Taiwan. I just want everybody to understand that. We just proved there's no longer a question that we can't do
anything to China. The national security strategy document published in November of last year said the United States will dominate the Chinese by seeking
conventional military overmatch in the Pacific. Overmatch. That means we're superior. We're superior to nothing. We can't beat the Iranians. Imagine what we do against the Chinese and Taiwan.
Nothing. We can't secure the South China Sea. So the Chinese just proved that they have their fingers on the throat of
the international shipping lanes that go through that. They control everything.
20 minutesThis is a game changer. The United States needs to pull back and regroup.
And that's what we're doing. Look at what we're doing in Europe. I mean, I take I I think we're withdrawing 100,000 troops. That's what Marco Rubio says
we're probably going to do. I think NATO's dead because we're disengaging from Europe because we can't compete in Europe anymore. It's too expensive. It takes 6 months to deploy a heavy armored
brigade. It used to take us 10 days to deploy 300,000 troops rolling in on pre-positioned equipment. That doesn't
exist anymore. The United States is literally a paper tiger. We look good,
but all of our capabilities are legacy capabilities that don't match modern, you know, modern realities.
I'll just leave you with this. comedon of the Marine Corps Burger in 2019 said,
"We we can't carry out our mission because we're we're trapped by legacy amphibious operations. We can no longer put all our Marines on a handful of
amphibian ships and go in and project power short because they'll sink us before we get there." That was just proven. USS Tripoli is retreating from the region, not advancing on the region.
Um, and there we are. This is why the United States will have a will accept a ceasefire. It'll be interesting to see how we play it because there's a lot of
politics involved, but we have no other options. There will be no shooting because there's nothing to shoot with and there's nothing to shoot at.
Larry, please come in the same.
Well, you know, as long as we're fighting Grenada, man, we are badass.
Um, back in uh 1983 when the we did invade Grenada, uh there was a the SEAL
team led by uh the commander uh I think he was commander maybe his lieutenant commander Rick Ward and Rick was a
Vietnam veteran uh and he and his SEALs went to secure the governor of Grenada and they got him and then you know
they're carrying basically uh you know shortbarreled rifles and they've got handguns. Well, they were pinned down with some 50 caliber
machine guns, heavy machine guns that were manned by some Cubans. So, what did they do? They had to wait until the
Marines landed and deployed their tanks and the tanks came roaring up the road.
Now, why am I telling a story that's like 43 years old? Well, the Marines got rid of their tanks now. So, so, so if the same situation was unfolding today,
Rick and his buddies would be screwed,
okay? Because the Marines couldn't come rescue him because they don't have the tanks anymore. And and it's exactly what Scott was talking about that uh you
know, we've got we have a 20th century military model. It's based upon, you know, we've got these aircraft carriers
that can they can sell out and they can they have this this air power on board and boy, they can project force
except if they get within 500 miles of shore, they're vulnerable now to these
hypersonic missiles. And in case of China, they got to stay like a,000 miles off. And that creates a problem for the
projecting air power because the combat radius of like the F-35s is something like 500 600 miles. So, you know, just
do the math. If if you're if you're 700 miles offshore and you launch your F-35s, they're still they're going to
have to get refueled somewhere. And those air refuelers,
they're they're pretty easy targets to shoot down. They're uh they're not stealth. So you we've got that problem
that that the traditional way of projecting naval power no longer works and and that was highlighted in the Red
Sea last eight months ago as we tried to establish freedom of navigation. At least they had a very specific objective
military objective and the the US Navy failed. They got driven out of the Red Sea by the Houthies. Except Donald Trump
in classic Trump fashion proclaimed it uh they capitulated and and so let's go guys. They've they've won. We we've won. They've lost.
Let's go again. We retreat. And you know I can I've always I could see the Houthies. It would be like a a Monty Python skit. All the Houthy leadership
would be sitting around the table going capitulate. Did you capitulate me? I can't even spell capitulate, you know.
So, that kind of thing. Um, so we've got we've gotten to the age where it's it's pretend victory. Um, similarly, ground
forces. Oh, boy. We're going to we got this army, man. We're going to invade.
Well, okay. We got we got like 452,000 in the army now, and I think it's like 140,000 within the Marines. Um, and uh,
you know, that pales in comparison. We we had about that total number on the ground in Vietnam at the height in 1968
69. Uh so we couldn't we can't field that kind of army. Uh in 2003 when we
were going to invade uh Iraq we had 11 months to assemble troops in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
165,000 I believe was the number. We can't do that today. I mean you do that today. They're going to be getting hit with missiles and with drones, you know,
as as Scott recalls back back in those days, uh, going out for Scud hunts.
Well, the Scuds, you know, one, we never found them, but they were not very effective. Not today. The the those miss
the combination of missiles and drones make it completely ineffective.
So that that leaves us with air power and air power has its limits and but and
you know Iran they watched carefully you know 23 years ago what we did to Iraq
and they said okay we can't keep this stuff above ground no we can't do that we got to go underground and so they've
moved an enormous amount of their actual military assets underground and we no matter how many bombs and buster bunkers we drop, we're not touching it. So, uh,
this then brings up the point of how do you define victory? Well, okay, you got to have some objectives. The Iran's Iran
didn't choose this. So, it's it's had one objective. Survive and force the other side to come and seek negotiation.
That's exactly what has happened. It was not Iran running to Pakistan pleading,
"Oh, please call the Americans up, tell them we're sorry. We'll we'll we'll bend over and they can do whatever they want to us." No. No. It was the opposite way
that that the United States was pleading.
And and Israel's too too stupid and too damn proud to do the pleading, but they need it because her own chief of staff warned the government to two weeks ago,
we're collapsing. We can't continue this. So, you know, the the the United States is going to paint this as if a,
you know, it's a great victory. We forced the Iranians to surrender and and the Iranians might allow some of that to
go on without challenging it. Just, you know, be a little benevolent, but they're they are going to insist this
war against Lebanon stops now. And if it doesn't stop, you know, back back to the battle stations.
And that that leaves the world in um in in a difficult straight. And that straight is called the straight of
Hormuz because the Iranians basically have the world by the balls. It's worse than a chokeold.
Yeah. Yeah. Scott, I mean, and Larry,
you know, when I saw Iran publicly say that uh the reason why there will need to be naval coordination for any vessels coming through the street of Hormuz,
it's because there are mines laid out there. And uh if Iran if the milit navy and the military aren't coordinating and and uh escorting, you know, you might go
boom. So that's uh that that was that was really interesting, especially in this moment. But um you know,
actually, let me interject. Ask Scott have Scott put together a battle plan to retake the straight of Hormuz because I
want I want him to explain just how damn difficult if not impossible this thing is.
Sure. Yes, Scott, please. That's a great question. So, if I'm going to take the straight to Hormuz,
um first of all,
you're going to have to come through um Jordan. Um because you can't you can't
land 300,000 4 300 400,000 American troops in Saudi Arabia um that close to
Mecca Medina. So, you're going to have to come through Jordan. um which means now that you're going to um you're going
to need to go through Iraq and that's going to be contested. So right off the bat we're going to have a precursor fight securing lines of communication through Iraq. You're going to have to
set up several logistics uh hubs on the way in. So it's going to be um you know it's going to be an advance um contested
uh you know through resistance forces and attacked by drones and missiles as you're going in. But you're you're going to have to come through Jordan, set up
bases until you get to a position where you can um project fire
control over Kar and about 20 kilometers inside um of of Iran. Um and then you're
going to have to initiate an air campaign that's going to last as long as it takes to uh suppress meaningful resistance there. Um, and then you're
going to have to land um, land troops and sweep the coastline. Um, it's going to take, you know, when we plan to do
this, because we've been planning to do this for a while, uh, you know, we were going to come in through Chabahar, uh,
forceful entry in Chabahar. Um, you know, we're talking about 60 to 80,000 Marines followed up by 120 to 200,000
Army soldiers. That was the op. That op got modified to be operation Desert Shield, Desert Storm. um you know, but
this is the number of troops you're talking about. So, right off the bat,
and now we have to defend a long line of communication. You got to almost double the troops. Um we got to have air
defense that we don't possess. Um we can't do it. That's the problem. We
can't do it. We have we don't have the capacity to do it. If you really want to plan, then I would say we have to mobilize the United States of America.
We have to put two million um men uh and women uh primarily men in uniform. U and
we have to uh basically do a World War II style invasion and occupation of the
of the march going in. we're going to have to occupy Iraq and then we're going to have to move into Kuwait and occupy Kuwait and then we're going to have to
sweep into um Iran and and sweep our way down and uh you know we're talking you know millions of of troops to do this.
Um and we still might not win because the lines of communication are too tenuous. Uh you know the the Iranian
missiles will will create havoc on our logistics. Uh so there's just not a snowballs chance in hell that the US
military today is capable of securing the straight or moves. Zero, no capability, no capacity. But we knew that going in. That's the frustrating
aspect of this. And when Donald Trump says, well, we never anticipated. All we did is anticipate and we saw this when I
was uh a weapons inspector in Iraq. I I worked often with the fifth fleet and um you know, sitting there just having casual conversations. At that time we
felt confident that we could secure the straight armies using conventional naval power. Uh but as Iran developed, you now, its ballistic missiles, Iran got better and better and better. The reality became that we we can't penetrate their area denial weaponry. Um and so Iran owns the straight war moves and they will forever own the straight horror moves and there's nothing we can do to to change that equation. It's not even worth trying to come up with a plan because it won't work. it just will lead to massive casualties on the part of the United States.
[Danny] You know, another question I had, and Larry, you can start, and I know Scott is writing about this, the timing of this whole incident of the F-15 being shot down, came at the same time developments led to these upcoming talks, and talks of a potential ceasefire. And of course what happened after the rescue operation, plus whatever else was happening, seizing uranium operation, I just want to know Larry what your thoughts are on exactly what happened there, and how it influenced the US's position?
[Larry] You know, 20 years ago I worked on what they called an attack on a hardened deeply buried target, an HDBT inside Iran, to go after a nuclear site. And the lesson back then was it's too costly, not in terms of dollars, but in terms of human life and material. I do believe that the deployment order was given sometime around March 11th, March 10th, because we saw an uptick then in deployment out of all of the bases in the United States that service US special operations forces. It was coming out of Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia, that had the 75th Rangers, and an element of the Task Force 160. It was coming out of Pope Army Airfield that had both the 82nd, but also Delta Force, and some other units that are the Special Tactical Squad STS 24th. They're the preeminent special operations parachute rescue jumpers/combat controllers, the ones that go out and recover people. You had the 160th there being loaded up and moved at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. You had the other Ranger battalion out of Joint Base Lewis McCord. You had SEALs coming out of Oceanana Naval Air Station. So the only times that I ever saw those kinds of forces being assembled, was either for some big-ass exercise, or they were doing it for real world. And in this case, it was clear it was real world.
So now they were teed up. I don't know if they were going after Busher, after Isfahan, or after Natanz, because Natanz is about 30-40 miles north of Isfahan, maybe a little farther. What the F-15 was doing in the area was, let's call it preparation of the battlefield, or trying to destroy some assets.
What was unusual is that the chief weapons system officer, the WSO that was sitting in the back seat, which is normally handled by a lieutenant, or a captain, was a full-bird Colonel, who was the vice wing commander of the US forces at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base.
Now, I've talked to some friends that have worked at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, the combined air operations center in Aludeid, and it was unusual. It was rare. But it wasn't unheard of that a senior guy like that would say, "I want to get my time in the plane, and I want to get my feet wet in this endeavor." It clearly got shot down. What we do know now is that as soon as they got shot down, the Pentagon, Centcom, and CIA, launched a massive disinformation campaign. Reports were getting leaked that the plane actually went down 120 miles southwest, down towards the the coast, let's say 80 miles from Kharg Island, instead of just south of Isfahan. I saw a map reproduced that showed the Colonel actually ejected the aircraft near a road juncture, a north south highway 65, and the Colonel landed say three-four miles away and probably broke his ankle. There were also reports of a broken leg. But he was able to crawl and hobble about a mile up the slope of this mountain, and hide himself.
Now the CIA started to later put out this nonsense that they found him because they detected his heartbeat from outer space. Horseshit. And they're putting that story out so they can hide what other capability they may have used to actually locate him. Because the only way you're going to identify someone by their heartbeat is by digitizing it. Putting it into a file, and then when you crash, we can come looking for you. You know, find Private Schmuckatella's heartbeat. Puhleeze.
So here's the question, and I'm trying to lay out a scenario that makes sense to me for what we see on the ground. And instead of landing at an airstrip that was in a valley about 8 kilometers north, these C130Js land on this desert land that's near one of the holy shrines of Ali. They're carrying two little birds, two AH6 little birds. We know just by basic math that if you've got two C130s loaded with two AH6 helicopters a piece, then the maximum number of troops that you can carry on each of those, apart from the three-man crew, is basically about 15 people. That's maximum. So that gives us a total of 30. And I'm thinking, how do you break out at 15? Do you want to have the two pilots that you'd need for each little bird? No. If you're running a rescue mission, you just want two pilots for one little bird on each plane. So you got a total of four pilots among the 30. That gets us down to 26.
Then, how many PJs do you want? Again, I'll put two PJs on one C130, and two PJs on another. You got backup in case something happens to the first one. So now we're down from 15 to 11. So 11 are made up of either Rangers, 75th Battalion, or SEALs. And that's just if this is a rescue scenario. Normally, when they go out to land those kinds of planes in a desert environment, you do a sight survey in advance. They didn't do a sight survey. So maybe that explains why the planes came in, and on landing they just dug in. And there is some damage to the wings, or to the propellers, like they hit the ground. So maybe that's the explanation. But in some of the photographs that were provided, you could see that the boom that's used to refuel was shot up. So, had these things been shot up and shot down out of the sky? That's a possibility. The one that really is bizarre is they they recovered an ID card from the wreckage along with her. It's a woman, a Major apparently. Amanda Ryder is her name. And she's got her platinum American Express card. "Don't leave home without it." I think the downing of this plane caused the mission to be cancelled. I think the reason they had those little birds already packed up in the planes was because that was part of the intended operation, and they repurposed it. But I'm just offering an opinion. I'd be curious what Scott thinks.
[Danny] Yeah. Scott, what's your assessment? I know you're writing about it.
[Scott] Look, this is all crazy stuff, so there's a lot of informed speculation. Let's start with this though. The intent to launch a raid against Isfahan was public information, right? Straight up public information, that included not just unnamed sources, but named sources, including General Votel, former commander of Special Operations Command. And also people who could be identified. The reason why I'm bringing this up is that Kash Patel just announced the arrest of some people who were speaking to the media in an unauthorized fashion, and he said we can't allow this. We hunt this down. We shut it down. Boom boom boom. But you have people talking to the media about this major raid that's being planned, and they're going to land, and 82nd Airborne is going to parachute a brigade in. They're going to build a runway, and then land aircraft with heavy excavation equipment. And they're going to spend weeks, perhaps months, digging out the south tunnel of Isfahan. This is the plan that's put out there. It's so absurd, it's not even funny.
I mean, Larry, you were involved in planning this. I will bet my entire paycheck that your plan didn't involve people staying on the ground more than a couple hours.
[Larry] Yeah. It's get in and out. Don't stay.
[Scott] Yeah. And nobody was prosecuted for the publicly released plan. General Votto wasn't called in to say, "Why are you talking about these things? Those are TTPs, baby. You can't talk about that." Because it's disinformation. It's a 100% disinformation campaign run by the White House. Why? Because the plan's completely different. We're not going to land and go in through the front tunnel.
And Larry, if you disagree with me anytime, please step in. Because I've worked with Joint Special Operations enough that I can say this confidently: Past patterns repeat themselves. They're not that innovative when it comes to many things, especially when it comes to national level planning. Before there's a briefing to the president, there will be models built, scale models, and full-scale models, and rehearsals conducted, where they're going to do every aspect of this mission: secure the airfield, unload the helicopters, fly to a point with special equipment, and execute the mission. They will have rehearsed this, and we even know where they rehearsed it, because this will have been done at the Nevada test site. I had a mission that trained up there. We also trained nearby at Edwards Air Force Base. This is how this works.
[Larry] Just by the way, that's where the exercise in 2006 took place.
[Scott] Yeah. It's just past patterns repeating themselves.
[Larry] I can probably even tell you the airfield that they landed at to simulate airfield seizure. It might be the same airfield that they landed at to simulate airfield seizure for Desert One. And it's the same one they used to simulate the rescue of UN weapons inspectors taken hostage by Iran, Iraq.
[Scott] But my point is this. President Trump made a decision sometime in March that they were going to launch this raid. They did a deception campaign to get the Iranians looking here. This was going to be an in-n-out operation. They were going to land. Again, we can take guidance from Ferdos. What we now know about Ferdos is that there was a ventilation shaft. When you have these deep underground facilities, there will be ventilation shafts. There has to be ventilation shafts because it's required for safety. You can't function down there without it. DARPA studied the National Geospatial, used to be Defense Mapping Agency --
[Larry] NGIA. NGIA.
[Scott] Yeah. They came up with some fancy name like Geospatial intelligence agency or something. They do modeling. They do the whole thing. They've been looking at this for years. We also know that IAEA inspectors were in this facility. They were in the tunnels. They reported back to the CIA. I promise you, I know this for a fact that they were debriefed by the CIA, and they took all the dimensions. They know where the ventilation shafts are, and they built models, and they found a vulnerability. And they were going to land, assault, go down the vulnerability, seize or destroy, and get the hell out of there. It was going to be a wham bam thank you ma'am kind of operation, because that's what they do.
You've heard about Master Sergeant Vining, the EOD legend from Delta Force during Desert Storm. He had a mission to go into Taji, and I can talk about it because he talked about it. If he hadn't talked about it, I couldn't talk about it. But he was going to go into Taji, a facility that I inspected later, which is one of their big sector operations command centers. There's a giant massive slab of concrete with a command center in there. We thought that's where Iraq was running their Scudwart. We tried to hit it with bombs, but they bounced off. So near the end of the war, he was going to go in with the Delta crew, Rangers were going to secure that site. He was going to go in, blast his way in, destroy the site, and come out. It was an in-n-out job. It wasn't going to last days. It was going to last hours. He has to get it done now. And that's just the way it is.
I believed, and now we also know again listening to Hegseth and company that the man in charge of the rescue mission was the commander Lieutenant General Bearer, I think his last name is. He's a former Delta guy. Lieutenant Generals don't command rescue missions. They just don't. He was the commander of a joint special operations task force that operates separate from central command authority, working directly for the president of the United States. These assets were brought in as part of this joint special operations task force, and they were given the mission of launching the Isfahan raid.
Now when you take a look at the timelines available here, I had been working under an assumption that maybe they were given an audible, meaning that getting this Colonel out was so important that they had to drop everything else to get it. I don't believe that anymore. Because if you take a look at the load out of the aircraft, I believe that this was an airfield seizure. There would have been follow-on echelons coming in that were called off because it went bad from the start, but the whole pilot-rescue thing, I don't believe we sent air helicopters out. I don't think Navy Seals made contact with the guy. I think this guy was picked up either earlier or whatever.
The president said there were only three little birds. Now, he could have misspoke, but he also talked about a package that was on there that contains specialized equipment, including anti-aircraft missiles. That means you're seizing an airfield. Again, we go back to Desert One. They don't change what they do. When the guys took over Desert One, took over that landing strip that Jim Carney had pre-surveyed, they came off with surface to air missiles. That was their thing. They were there to secure against a possible air attack. This team had similar loadout with more modern air defense equipment. They also had specialized scaling equipment, mountain climbing equipment, the President called it. They weren't climbing mountains; they were going into the mountain down a shaft. This was all on a pallet that could have been removed. Two of the three AH6 didn't get off the aircraft. They were in the aircraft, and were destroyed in the aircraft when it got blown down. Only one exited the aircraft. And according to the Iranians, it didn't fly. The Iranians are saying there was no aircraft rescue mission. They unloaded it. Some vehicles came off, airfield seizure guys. I'm thinking ATVs, some motorcycles to secure the airfield. But one of the planes apparently got hit by anti-aircraft fire, too. The Iranians claimed that they hit it, and there's physical evidence that suggests that this thing got screwed from the start. And when it got screwed, they needed to see if they could save the plan. And so they changed it from a failed raid on Isfahan, to a successful pilot recovery mission. But there's nothing about what happened on the ground that lends itself to believe that this team saved that pilot. The guys I've talked to were legitimately spun up on what was called a personal recovery mission. And everyone I scripted, over last count it was like 153 of the J-C exercises during that 23-year period, starting in 1994, it became a joke that every one of those missions, regardless of where it was, had to have an airfield seizure for the Rangers. That's what they do. So that's why you bring the 75th Rangers.
But again, the thing that doesn't add up for me is you've got only two J130s there. Now maybe there was another one involved that got away. That could have been the Rangers, because I role-played the US ambassador to Algeria in an exercise that was done at Jacksonville, Florida, and it was simulated. Delta Force came in to launch an assault, and we did it on the fire tower in one of the downtown areas of Jacksonville, and it was pretty funny. The general that was commanding was General Bargewell, who unfortunately later died in a tractor accident after he retired. But when Delta hit the tower, and started shooting, all the drug dealers on the street dropped their drugs, and we could have collected like a pharmacy later from all the drugs that were scattered about. But when they hit the airfield, as the plane lands, the C130 comes out, the ramp drops down, and the guys come riding out on motorcycles. You know, it's very Hollywood.
All I know for sure is the explanation that Donald Trump, John Ratcliffe, and Pete Hegseth gave the other day, and General Kaine, was a lie. It was not true. They dressed it up. They were putting lipstick on the pig, and putting a wig on her too. But it was not as they said. I still had clearances, and was in the inside, when operation Redwing took place. That became the movie Lone Survivor. So I was seeing real time what was happening then. I watched in real time back then the taking out of Bin Laden, and Pat Tillman, the whole thing surrounding Pat Tillman's death. All I saw was consistently that they tend to lie. You don't get the truth. You get a bunch of lies. Either it's to cover up incompetence, or sometimes it's covering up some genuine operational opsec information that you want to keep from the public. But more often than not, it's just trying to create a narrative that has a political objective.
Yeah. Well, in the last five minutes or so, both your takes on on just this question of then how much does this, uh, incident uh, as well as just a broader because now there's more reports for example about Kuwait and the disaster that happened there that led to the drone strikes uh, by Iran which uh, did cause the most casualties uh, for US troops during the kinetic part of this conflict. uh uh how much did all of this lead to the United States, Donald Trump uh you know uh agreeing to working toward a uh ceasefire and an eventual end to this?
Scott, you first.
I I I think the the failure of the um of the raid on Isvahan was the straw that broke the camel's back. Um there was
talk about amphibious operation against Carg. It was never going to happen. It just couldn't happen. Um, as I already pointed out, I think this was the straw
that broke the camel's back. Uh, the straight or horm closure was the thing that was killing um, this whole
operation. Um, this was an embarrassment and the president had no choice but to go into uh, you know, his crazy mode to make it appear that he forced the
Iranians to agree to a deal that the Iranians had already said they're willing to have a discussion about. Um,
but this was that's why I think this thing deserves so much scrutiny because this was u the thing this was the high
risk gamble that uh Trump was going to take so he could have a victory. Um, I don't think they were going to recover the nuclear material because that
stuff's just too heavy and too much of it. I think they were going in to destroy it. Um, and um and and and
that's that. But uh all right, Danny, I gotta run right now, Larry. Yeah, I just saw that message. Yeah, Larry. Yeah. See you later, man.
All right, Larry. Yeah, your final your final comments.
Yeah. No, I agree. I agree with Scott on that. Look, this um we don't have a clear military objective that we can
point to that we've accomplished in the course of now going on seven weeks of war. Uh and you know, Iran's objective is simple. Survive. They've survived.
Not only have they survived, yeah,
but they've now gained control of the world economy. They've recognized they got economic leverage that they didn't have before and they have shut down uh a
number of US critical military bases throughout the the Gulf. So, you know,
from that standpoint, uh Iran's actually now in a better position to support uh Hezbollah. And what we saw in this war was close coordination between the two.
So, um the there is a deal to be had, but it's going to be on Iran's terms,
and it'll be difficult for Trump to paint it as uh a great victory for the United States. But they may find a way
to try to do that. But if if the if they don't come to agree on Iran's terms, uh
then the the war will restart and we're going to I think the US is going to focus its efforts to militarily take the straight of Hormuz, which is mission
impossible because let's say they capture they got troops on Oman and they got troops on Kamesh. Great. the what the the the insurance companies insist,
you can't have uh ships going into an area where they might get hit with missiles. And as long as they've got missiles and drones that are too that
have a reach to to get to the straight of Hormuz, it's not open. It's that simple.
All right, my friend. Yeah, I got a bail to Garland Nixon will be mad at me.
So, Garland, I said hi and I'll I'll uh I'll close up here. Thanks so much, Larry. All right. And you have a safe travel, too.
Yeah. Take care. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Bye-bye.
59 minutesYeah, as Larry said, I am actually traveling to China very soon. I won't uh release the date. Uh but it will be in this period of the the ceasefire talks.
Um but I won't release the exact day and time, but I'll be trying to do shows there. So, everyone hit the like button because that helps keeps the show going.
Um with that news though, I just want to just end on this with the analysis that we just heard from Scott and Larry. Just
think about this sentence and uh then you tell me everyone if the world has changed. Iran has gained control over
the global economy. That's what Larry Johnson just said. You just re say that to yourself over and over again and then I think the message of the world has
changed and the reality that the world has changed dramatically just from the last six weeks, five, six weeks of this
war. Uh I I think tells us all we need to know about where the balance of forces are right now in the geopolitical
realm, but really in terms of the entirety of global political and economic organization. It's a it's it really is a massive defeat for the
United States. Maybe the biggest since Vietnam, maybe bigger. We will have to see how things of course transpire because that will dictate exactly what that looks like. But nevertheless,
everyone hit the like button. That helps keep the show going. I want to thank everyone who gave a super chat
um uh today. That was very much appreciated. I'll pull up some of you right now. Uh given what we say, uh why
did they not respond to the US when they bombed them at the end of the 12-day war? Hope to meet you, Scott. That's a good question. Um I, you know, my
opinion about this question is that what the United States did during those so-called bombings, the B2 bombers going
over the nuclear facilities, I have to say that it must have been coordinated and the damage was not significant. All right. And and I think and I think
that's why the it was an agreement. I think it was an agreement to uh give uh Donald Trump uh you know the uh the uh
apparent uh big strong moment he needed to then tell Israel to stop doing what it's doing. Uh the CRO said the USA
worked with Israel to strike worked with Israel to strike Israel yesterday. I think you mean to strike either Iran or Lebanon but uh nevertheless uh yeah the
United States is always working with Israel. Uh so we can't you know we can't say it's not. It always is. Whatever Israel is doing, the United States is doing. Thank you, Danny, for your work
and bringing the best analysts. Thank you so much for the generous super chat.
Um, here we have uh So, you should go into politics on Danny Foundation of Black America. Appreciate you. We Well,
I appreciate that. I'll never go into politics, but I appreciate that. I'll go into politics when the system is different. How about that? Uh when when
we have uh won a just and fair system for humanity. Uh I love Larry Sherk with the program. Scott and all. Love you
too. Thank you so much. Hussein, oh Hussein, yeah, go. Hey, hey, hey. How's it going? Thanks for watching. Um, I know you from DD Geopolitics. Uh, great
commentator. Everyone should follow DD Geopolitics on YouTube. It's quite possible uh that just as Russia faced diplomatic pressure from its friends to negotiate with Ukraine, Iran is facing
same as if we satisfy those demands and its core strategic position. Yeah, I mean I think that there are some pressure on Iran, right? And I think this is my position on this everybody
and then I will head out as well. My position on why Iran is willing to engage as this process, yes, has a lot to do with China, but I don't think it
is China trying to squeeze Iran into essentially stopping the war. I think Iran as well as the uh China and
Pakistan, they all looked at what was going to happen and they all saw that it was going to be a really big disaster for the it would have been a disaster
for the multipolar world. Iran could get through this. China could get through it. But uh if the United States crossed
the red line and began bombing the uh energy infrastructure, the bridges, all of this um to a massive scale or at least as massive scale as they could,
3 minuteseven if they just did it once, you know,
it did a little bit, then Iran would be forced to hit really hard the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Gulf countries
energy, turn their lights out and maybe make it irreparable the damage that they would have done which um for Pakistan,
for China who have really close relationship by the way uh that would have been really difficult for them economically uh in the long term because
it would have been long-term damage and so that's why I believe that uh uh China stepped in to mediate but I really think
it was Pakistan who was like look with China at its back that was like look to the United States look if you do this it's going to not go well for you it's
not going to go well for anybody it's going to really harm us your interests are going to be devastated and destroyed and of course China, Pakistan to come to
China and say, "Hey, our relationship is so good, just understand that if uh we can't get Iran to the ta, you know, if
we can't get this to stop, uh then the consequences of the escalation would have been too dire." So, I think that's what happened. I mean, of course, with
more I don't have the details. I don't have uh what was happening in the back rooms or anything like that or on the the back channels, the calls or
anything, but uh that seems to be why China would intervene. It's not to discipline Iran and say, "Stop doing the war." No, no, no. If Iran is being
attacked, China just like most, you know, they follow the UN charter. It's like, nah, you got to defend yourself.
But if there's a chance to get the US to stop, they're going to take it because um what was being said, promised,
especially by Iran because we know the United States, we don't never know what the Trump administration or any US administration is going to do actually.
Uh it's words, right? But the words the civilization ending strikes um they you know if they had conducted any of that
uh any of the energy strikes then yeah we would have seen Iran hit back in kind and and China trusts Iran to do that. So they just didn't want to see that.
Nobody nobody really wanted to see that.
5 minutesUh it would have been born out of a necessity of this criminal war. And uh now we have the conclusion of Iran has control over a major part of the global
economy and the US can do nothing about it which is really the big checkmate at the end. Um without further ado everyone
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US disaster in Isfahan showed Iran’s geography a ‘quagmire’ for invaders: General
Thursday, 09 April 2026 3:59 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 09 April 2026 4:20 PM ]
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A still image shows US aircraft destroyed during a botched American operation at an abandoned airbase in Isfahan, Iran, released on April 5, 2026.
The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force says Iran’s geography is a “prison and a quagmire” for any ground invader, citing the US botched operation in Isfahan as a prime example.
Brigadier General Mohammad Karami emphasized Thursday that the failed US operation in the central region of Shahreza demonstrated the consequences of attempting to infiltrate Iran.
He stated that the Pentagon and the CIA jointly carried out the operation with more than 500 personnel and extensive resources, including nearly $1 billion in technical, military, and human investments.
Despite the efforts, the mission was halted, and the US forces were forced to retreat after Iranian forces dealt them a crushing blow.
“The disastrous failure of the US forces in Isfahan is a clear example of how Iran’s geography becomes a trap for any aggressor,” General Karami said.
Information obtained by Press TV has also revealed that the recent US-Israeli operation ended in a major strategic defeat for the enemy.
According to exclusive details, the US and possibly Israeli forces conducted extensive aerial reconnaissance ahead of the raid, during which they lost several aircraft, including at least one A-10 Thunderbolt II and two Black Hawk helicopters.
These initial operations set the stage for a disastrous mission orchestrated by the White House.
Contrary to the official narrative of a rescue operation for a downed F-15 pilot, Press TV’s investigation confirmed that the real objective was to infiltrate and attack one of Iran's nuclear facilities in Isfahan.
The landing site for the C-130 transport aircraft was chosen near a critical nuclear site, and Iranian forces had anticipated the operation.
When the first C-130, carrying U.S. special forces, landed on an abandoned dirt airstrip, it veered off the runway. As a second C-130 approached with support equipment, Iranian forces struck, forcing an emergency landing.
American commandos were trapped, and the operation quickly shifted from a nuclear infiltration to a desperate rescue attempt.
Despite efforts to extract the trapped forces, many soldiers abandoned equipment, including an officer’s identification, as they fled. US fighter jets bombed their own aircraft to prevent them from falling into Iranian hands.
Speaking during a visit to security units in western Iran on Thursday, General Karami underscored the importance of Iran’s unique defense strategy, which has been tailored to the country’s specific conditions.
He stated that Iran’s defense model is unlike any other in the world, relying on a decentralized structure and asymmetric tactics.
Karami highlighted the role of over 17 million volunteers, alongside military and Basij units, in forming a powerful national defense network. This, he said, reflects the unwavering determination of Iran’s armed forces and the people of Iran.
The commander added that Iran’s military forces have established a multilayered security belt across the country, making it nearly impossible for adversaries to execute successful military operations.
He credited the confusion experienced by enemy forces on the battlefield to the preparedness and resilience of Iran’s defense units.
“The enemy’s confusion in the battlefield is the product of Iran’s military readiness,” Karami stated, expressing full confidence in the strength and unity of Iran’s defense forces and the resolve of the Iranian people.
The US and Israel launched an unprovoked war against Iran on February 28, assassinating Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, along with several senior officials and military commanders as well as hundreds of civilians.
General Karami stressed that the war led to the creation of “unique convergence and synergy between the country’s defensive pillars and the Armed Forces.”
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Press TV Exclusive: US suffered major strategic defeat in failed Isfahan operation
Tuesday, 07 April 2026 11:24 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 07 April 2026 1:25 PM ]
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Information obtained by Press TV regarding the recent operation by the US-Israeli coalition in the central Isfahan province reveals a major strategic defeat for the enemy.
US President Donald Trump's frantic threats in the past few days to target Iran’s civilian infrastructure, including power plants and bridges, are a direct consequence of the heavy defeat suffered by the US forces in the Isfahan operation.
The failed raid was carried out after the enemy conducted extensive aerial reconnaissance operations in the days leading up to the attack, according to the exclusive information.
During those initial infiltration and reconnaissance missions, the US and possibly the Zionist regime lost a significant number of aircraft, including at least one A-10 Thunderbolt II and two Black Hawk helicopters.
The information obtained by Press TV reveals that "zero hour" for the failed Isfahan operation was set during a secret meeting at the White House under the direct supervision of the US president himself.
It has now become clear that this operation had no connection to the claimed rescue of a downed F-15 fighter pilot, a narrative initially pushed by American officials. Instead, evidence examined and confirmed by Press TV indicates that the real objective was to infiltrate and attack one of Iran's nuclear facilities in Isfahan.
The landing site for C-130 transport aircraft, chosen based on previous reconnaissance, was an abandoned airstrip located dangerously close to one of these nuclear sites.
The Americans miscalculated, believing that Iran's air defense would be unable to confront the aircraft involved in the operation. However, Press TV learned that the deployment of numerous US aircraft occurred while the Iranian Armed Forces were in full alert, waiting for them. In fact, American special forces fell directly into a trap set by Iranian forces.
The Iranian Armed Forces, including the Army, Law Enforcement (Faraja), the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and local popular forces, initially did not show a serious reaction to the landing of the first C-130, which was carrying dozens of special forces commandos. Evidence shows this aircraft veered somewhat off the runway while landing at the abandoned dirt airstrip.
Minutes later, a second C-130 aircraft approached, carrying specialized vehicles, several MH-6 Little Bird helicopters, and other support equipment. At that moment, Iranian forces on the scene targeted the second aircraft before it could land, turning its normal landing into an emergency one. Two Black Hawk helicopters also arrived shortly after.
It was at this moment that the aircraft, helicopters, and commandos who had disembarked from the first plane became perfect targets for the Iranian Armed Forces.
After the special forces realized they had fallen into the trap, the White House situation room made a critical decision: the main operation to infiltrate the nuclear site was changed into a desperate rescue operation for the dozens of US commandos trapped under Iranian fire.
The Americans immediately sent several smaller aircraft to extract their forces, barely managing to gather the individuals and withdraw them from the deadly situation.
The rescue operation was conducted so hastily that some soldiers and officers abandoned their equipment, including, according to the evidence possessed by Press TV, the identification document of an American officer left behind in the area, to save their lives.
After the commandos were evacuated, American fighter jets established a line of fire with a 5-kilometer radius to prevent Iranian forces from approaching the abandoned C-130s at the airstrip. The jets also carried out heavy bombing of their own equipment to prevent it from falling into Iranian hands.
In this failed operation, US special forces did not even have the chance to fly the special Little Bird helicopters; some were destroyed on the ground, while others were destroyed inside the second C-130 aircraft.
Following this disgraceful and heavy defeat, Trump hastily and chaotically held multiple press conferences to cover up the failure and falsely portray it as a pilot rescue operation.
The information obtained by Press TV describes these propaganda shows, led by Trump and his Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, as reminiscent of Hollywood films – lies that have not even been accepted by many American audiences.
The information available notes that Trump will continue to fabricate other "Hollywood-style" operations to falsely claim achievements and appease public opinion in the US.
However, his and Hegseth's repeated storytelling and lying, which have reduced public confidence in him both in the US and across the world to the lowest possible level, have made his "Goebbels-style lies" very difficult to believe.
People in the US and across the world are asking a pointed question: "How is it that a country which supposedly has neither air defense left nor an army or armed forces has managed to shoot down and destroy so many fighter jets and various aircraft, and continues to add to its album of different types of destroyed fighter jets, planes, helicopters, and drones," a highly-placed source in Tehran told Press TV.
The heavy defeat of the Isfahan operation, he noted, could be recorded in history as the worst and most disgraceful failure of the US military, even worse than the failed Tabas operation of 1980, which saw a botched rescue attempt end in disaster for Washington.
The information obtained by Press TV notes that the heavy aftershocks of this "great debacle" for Trump will affect not only the fate of the ongoing war against the Islamic Republic of Iran but also the political future of "America's gambling and ignorant president," his Republican party, and the American political scene for years to come.
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A still image shows US aircraft destroyed during a botched American operation at an abandoned airbase in Isfahan, Iran, released on April 5, 2026.
[Danny] You know, another question I had, and Larry, you can start, and I know Scott is writing about this, the timing of this whole incident of the F-15 being shot down, came at the same time developments led to these upcoming talks, and talks of a potential ceasefire. And of course what happened after the rescue operation, plus whatever else was happening, seizing uranium operation, I just want to know Larry what your thoughts are on exactly what happened there, and how it influenced the US's position?
[Larry] You know, 20 years ago I worked on what they called an attack on a hardened deeply buried target, an HDBT inside Iran, to go after a nuclear site. And the lesson back then was it's too costly, not in terms of dollars, but in terms of human life and material. I do believe that the deployment order was given sometime around March 11th, March 10th, because we saw an uptick then in deployment out of all of the bases in the United States that service US special operations forces. It was coming out of Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia, that had the 75th Rangers, and an element of the Task Force 160. It was coming out of Pope Army Airfield that had both the 82nd, but also Delta Force, and some other units that are the Special Tactical Squad STS 24th. They're the preeminent special operations parachute rescue jumpers/combat controllers, the ones that go out and recover people. You had the 160th there being loaded up and moved at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. You had the other Ranger battalion out of Joint Base Lewis McCord. You had SEALs coming out of Oceanana Naval Air Station. So the only times that I ever saw those kinds of forces being assembled, was either for some big-ass exercise, or they were doing it for real world. And in this case, it was clear it was real world.
So now they were teed up. I don't know if they were going after Busher, after Isfahan, or after Natanz, because Natanz is about 30-40 miles north of Isfahan, maybe a little farther. What the F-15 was doing in the area was, let's call it preparation of the battlefield, or trying to destroy some assets.
What was unusual is that the chief weapons system officer, the WSO that was sitting in the back seat, which is normally handled by a lieutenant, or a captain, was a full-bird Colonel, who was the vice wing commander of the US forces at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base.
Now, I've talked to some friends that have worked at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, the combined air operations center in Aludeid, and it was unusual. It was rare. But it wasn't unheard of that a senior guy like that would say, "I want to get my time in the plane, and I want to get my feet wet in this endeavor." It clearly got shot down. What we do know now is that as soon as they got shot down, the Pentagon, Centcom, and CIA, launched a massive disinformation campaign. Reports were getting leaked that the plane actually went down 120 miles southwest, down towards the the coast, let's say 80 miles from Kharg Island, instead of just south of Isfahan. I saw a map reproduced that showed the Colonel actually ejected the aircraft near a road juncture, a north south highway 65, and the Colonel landed say three-four miles away and probably broke his ankle. There were also reports of a broken leg. But he was able to crawl and hobble about a mile up the slope of this mountain, and hide himself.
Now the CIA started to later put out this nonsense that they found him because they detected his heartbeat from outer space. Horseshit. And they're putting that story out so they can hide what other capability they may have used to actually locate him. Because the only way you're going to identify someone by their heartbeat is by digitizing it. Putting it into a file, and then when you crash, we can come looking for you. You know, find Private Schmuckatella's heartbeat. Puhleeze.
So here's the question, and I'm trying to lay out a scenario that makes sense to me for what we see on the ground. And instead of landing at an airstrip that was in a valley about 8 kilometers north, these C130Js land on this desert land that's near one of the holy shrines of Ali. They're carrying two little birds, two AH6 little birds. We know just by basic math that if you've got two C130s loaded with two AH6 helicopters a piece, then the maximum number of troops that you can carry on each of those, apart from the three-man crew, is basically about 15 people. That's maximum. So that gives us a total of 30. And I'm thinking, how do you break out at 15? Do you want to have the two pilots that you'd need for each little bird? No. If you're running a rescue mission, you just want two pilots for one little bird on each plane. So you got a total of four pilots among the 30. That gets us down to 26.
Then, how many PJs do you want? Again, I'll put two PJs on one C130, and two PJs on another. You got backup in case something happens to the first one. So now we're down from 15 to 11. So 11 are made up of either Rangers, 75th Battalion, or SEALs. And that's just if this is a rescue scenario. Normally, when they go out to land those kinds of planes in a desert environment, you do a sight survey in advance. They didn't do a sight survey. So maybe that explains why the planes came in, and on landing they just dug in. And there is some damage to the wings, or to the propellers, like they hit the ground. So maybe that's the explanation. But in some of the photographs that were provided, you could see that the boom that's used to refuel was shot up. So, had these things been shot up and shot down out of the sky? That's a possibility. The one that really is bizarre is they they recovered an ID card from the wreckage along with her. It's a woman, a Major apparently. Amanda Ryder is her name. And she's got her platinum American Express card. "Don't leave home without it." I think the downing of this plane caused the mission to be cancelled. I think the reason they had those little birds already packed up in the planes was because that was part of the intended operation, and they repurposed it. But I'm just offering an opinion. I'd be curious what Scott thinks.
[Danny] Yeah. Scott, what's your assessment? I know you're writing about it.
[Scott] Look, this is all crazy stuff, so there's a lot of informed speculation. Let's start with this though. The intent to launch a raid against Isfahan was public information, right? Straight up public information, that included not just unnamed sources, but named sources, including General Votel, former commander of Special Operations Command. And also people who could be identified. The reason why I'm bringing this up is that Kash Patel just announced the arrest of some people who were speaking to the media in an unauthorized fashion, and he said we can't allow this. We hunt this down. We shut it down. Boom boom boom. But you have people talking to the media about this major raid that's being planned, and they're going to land, and 82nd Airborne is going to parachute a brigade in. They're going to build a runway, and then land aircraft with heavy excavation equipment. And they're going to spend weeks, perhaps months, digging out the south tunnel of Isfahan. This is the plan that's put out there. It's so absurd, it's not even funny.
I mean, Larry, you were involved in planning this. I will bet my entire paycheck that your plan didn't involve people staying on the ground more than a couple hours.
[Larry] Yeah. It's get in and out. Don't stay.
[Scott] Yeah. And nobody was prosecuted for the publicly released plan. General Votto wasn't called in to say, "Why are you talking about these things? Those are TTPs, baby. You can't talk about that." Because it's disinformation. It's a 100% disinformation campaign run by the White House. Why? Because the plan's completely different. We're not going to land and go in through the front tunnel.
And Larry, if you disagree with me anytime, please step in. Because I've worked with Joint Special Operations enough that I can say this confidently: Past patterns repeat themselves. They're not that innovative when it comes to many things, especially when it comes to national level planning. Before there's a briefing to the president, there will be models built, scale models, and full-scale models, and rehearsals conducted, where they're going to do every aspect of this mission: secure the airfield, unload the helicopters, fly to a point with special equipment, and execute the mission. They will have rehearsed this, and we even know where they rehearsed it, because this will have been done at the Nevada test site. I had a mission that trained up there. We also trained nearby at Edwards Air Force Base. This is how this works.
[Larry] Just by the way, that's where the exercise in 2006 took place.
[Scott] Yeah. It's just past patterns repeating themselves.
[Larry] I can probably even tell you the airfield that they landed at to simulate airfield seizure. It might be the same airfield that they landed at to simulate airfield seizure for Desert One. And it's the same one they used to simulate the rescue of UN weapons inspectors taken hostage by Iran, Iraq.
[Scott] But my point is this. President Trump made a decision sometime in March that they were going to launch this raid. They did a deception campaign to get the Iranians looking here. This was going to be an in-n-out operation. They were going to land. Again, we can take guidance from Ferdos. What we now know about Ferdos is that there was a ventilation shaft. When you have these deep underground facilities, there will be ventilation shafts. There has to be ventilation shafts because it's required for safety. You can't function down there without it. DARPA studied the National Geospatial, used to be Defense Mapping Agency --
[Larry] NGIA. NGIA.
[Scott] Yeah. They came up with some fancy name like Geospatial intelligence agency or something. They do modeling. They do the whole thing. They've been looking at this for years. We also know that IAEA inspectors were in this facility. They were in the tunnels. They reported back to the CIA. I promise you, I know this for a fact that they were debriefed by the CIA, and they took all the dimensions. They know where the ventilation shafts are, and they built models, and they found a vulnerability. And they were going to land, assault, go down the vulnerability, seize or destroy, and get the hell out of there. It was going to be a wham bam thank you ma'am kind of operation, because that's what they do.
You've heard about Master Sergeant Vining, the EOD legend from Delta Force during Desert Storm. He had a mission to go into Taji, and I can talk about it because he talked about it. If he hadn't talked about it, I couldn't talk about it. But he was going to go into Taji, a facility that I inspected later, which is one of their big sector operations command centers. There's a giant massive slab of concrete with a command center in there. We thought that's where Iraq was running their Scudwart. We tried to hit it with bombs, but they bounced off. So near the end of the war, he was going to go in with the Delta crew, Rangers were going to secure that site. He was going to go in, blast his way in, destroy the site, and come out. It was an in-n-out job. It wasn't going to last days. It was going to last hours. He has to get it done now. And that's just the way it is.
I believed, and now we also know again listening to Hegseth and company that the man in charge of the rescue mission was the commander Lieutenant General Bearer, I think his last name is. He's a former Delta guy. Lieutenant Generals don't command rescue missions. They just don't. He was the commander of a joint special operations task force that operates separate from central command authority, working directly for the president of the United States. These assets were brought in as part of this joint special operations task force, and they were given the mission of launching the Isfahan raid.
Now when you take a look at the timelines available here, I had been working under an assumption that maybe they were given an audible, meaning that getting this Colonel out was so important that they had to drop everything else to get it. I don't believe that anymore. Because if you take a look at the load out of the aircraft, I believe that this was an airfield seizure. There would have been follow-on echelons coming in that were called off because it went bad from the start, but the whole pilot-rescue thing, I don't believe we sent air helicopters out. I don't think Navy Seals made contact with the guy. I think this guy was picked up either earlier or whatever.
The president said there were only three little birds. Now, he could have misspoke, but he also talked about a package that was on there that contains specialized equipment, including anti-aircraft missiles. That means you're seizing an airfield. Again, we go back to Desert One. They don't change what they do. When the guys took over Desert One, took over that landing strip that Jim Carney had pre-surveyed, they came off with surface to air missiles. That was their thing. They were there to secure against a possible air attack. This team had similar loadout with more modern air defense equipment. They also had specialized scaling equipment, mountain climbing equipment, the President called it. They weren't climbing mountains; they were going into the mountain down a shaft. This was all on a pallet that could have been removed. Two of the three AH6 didn't get off the aircraft. They were in the aircraft, and were destroyed in the aircraft when it got blown down. Only one exited the aircraft. And according to the Iranians, it didn't fly. The Iranians are saying there was no aircraft rescue mission. They unloaded it. Some vehicles came off, airfield seizure guys. I'm thinking ATVs, some motorcycles to secure the airfield. But one of the planes apparently got hit by anti-aircraft fire, too. The Iranians claimed that they hit it, and there's physical evidence that suggests that this thing got screwed from the start. And when it got screwed, they needed to see if they could save the plan. And so they changed it from a failed raid on Isfahan, to a successful pilot recovery mission. But there's nothing about what happened on the ground that lends itself to believe that this team saved that pilot. The guys I've talked to were legitimately spun up on what was called a personal recovery mission. And everyone I scripted, over last count it was like 153 of the J-C exercises during that 23-year period, starting in 1994, it became a joke that every one of those missions, regardless of where it was, had to have an airfield seizure for the Rangers. That's what they do. So that's why you bring the 75th Rangers.
But again, the thing that doesn't add up for me is you've got only two J130s there. Now maybe there was another one involved that got away. That could have been the Rangers, because I role-played the US ambassador to Algeria in an exercise that was done at Jacksonville, Florida, and it was simulated. Delta Force came in to launch an assault, and we did it on the fire tower in one of the downtown areas of Jacksonville, and it was pretty funny. The general that was commanding was General Bargewell, who unfortunately later died in a tractor accident after he retired. But when Delta hit the tower, and started shooting, all the drug dealers on the street dropped their drugs, and we could have collected like a pharmacy later from all the drugs that were scattered about. But when they hit the airfield, as the plane lands, the C130 comes out, the ramp drops down, and the guys come riding out on motorcycles. You know, it's very Hollywood.
All I know for sure is the explanation that Donald Trump, John Ratcliffe, and Pete Hegseth gave the other day, and General Kaine, was a lie. It was not true. They dressed it up. They were putting lipstick on the pig, and putting a wig on her too. But it was not as they said. I still had clearances, and was in the inside, when operation Redwing took place. That became the movie Lone Survivor. So I was seeing real time what was happening then. I watched in real time back then the taking out of Bin Laden, and Pat Tillman, the whole thing surrounding Pat Tillman's death. All I saw was consistently that they tend to lie. You don't get the truth. You get a bunch of lies. Either it's to cover up incompetence, or sometimes it's covering up some genuine operational opsec information that you want to keep from the public. But more often than not, it's just trying to create a narrative that has a political objective.
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The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force says Iran’s geography is a “prison and a quagmire” for any ground invader, citing the US botched operation in Isfahan as a prime example.
Brigadier General Mohammad Karami emphasized Thursday that the failed US operation in the central region of Shahreza demonstrated the consequences of attempting to infiltrate Iran.
He stated that the Pentagon and the CIA jointly carried out the operation with more than 500 personnel and extensive resources, including nearly $1 billion in technical, military, and human investments.
Despite the efforts, the mission was halted, and the US forces were forced to retreat after Iranian forces dealt them a crushing blow.
“The disastrous failure of the US forces in Isfahan is a clear example of how Iran’s geography becomes a trap for any aggressor,” General Karami said.
Information obtained by Press TV has also revealed that the recent US-Israeli operation ended in a major strategic defeat for the enemy.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/04/07/766446/press-tv-exclusive-us-suffered-strategic-defeat-failed-isfshan-operation
Press TV Exclusive: US suffered major strategic defeat in failed Isfahan operation. Information obtained by Press TV regarding the recent operation by the American-Israeli coalition in the central Isfahan province reveals a major strategic defeat for the enemy.
According to exclusive details, the US and possibly Israeli forces conducted extensive aerial reconnaissance ahead of the raid, during which they lost several aircraft, including at least one A-10 Thunderbolt II and two Black Hawk helicopters.
These initial operations set the stage for a disastrous mission orchestrated by the White House.
Contrary to the official narrative of a rescue operation for a downed F-15 pilot, Press TV’s investigation confirmed that the real objective was to infiltrate and attack one of Iran's nuclear facilities in Isfahan.
The landing site for the C-130 transport aircraft was chosen near a critical nuclear site, and Iranian forces had anticipated the operation.
When the first C-130, carrying U.S. special forces, landed on an abandoned dirt airstrip, it veered off the runway. As a second C-130 approached with support equipment, Iranian forces struck, forcing an emergency landing.
American commandos were trapped, and the operation quickly shifted from a nuclear infiltration to a desperate rescue attempt.
Despite efforts to extract the trapped forces, many soldiers abandoned equipment, including an officer’s identification, as they fled. US fighter jets bombed their own aircraft to prevent them from falling into Iranian hands.
Speaking during a visit to security units in western Iran on Thursday, General Karami underscored the importance of Iran’s unique defense strategy, which has been tailored to the country’s specific conditions.
He stated that Iran’s defense model is unlike any other in the world, relying on a decentralized structure and asymmetric tactics.
Karami highlighted the role of over 17 million volunteers, alongside military and Basij units, in forming a powerful national defense network. This, he said, reflects the unwavering determination of Iran’s armed forces and the people of Iran.
The commander added that Iran’s military forces have established a multilayered security belt across the country, making it nearly impossible for adversaries to execute successful military operations.
He credited the confusion experienced by enemy forces on the battlefield to the preparedness and resilience of Iran’s defense units.
“The enemy’s confusion in the battlefield is the product of Iran’s military readiness,” Karami stated, expressing full confidence in the strength and unity of Iran’s defense forces and the resolve of the Iranian people.
The US and Israel launched an unprovoked war against Iran on February 28, assassinating Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, along with several senior officials and military commanders as well as hundreds of civilians.
General Karami stressed that the war led to the creation of “unique convergence and synergy between the country’s defensive pillars and the Armed Forces.”
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Press TV Exclusive: US suffered major strategic defeat in failed Isfahan operation
Tuesday, 07 April 2026 11:24 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 07 April 2026 1:25 PM ]
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Information obtained by Press TV regarding the recent operation by the US-Israeli coalition in the central Isfahan province reveals a major strategic defeat for the enemy.
US President Donald Trump's frantic threats in the past few days to target Iran’s civilian infrastructure, including power plants and bridges, are a direct consequence of the heavy defeat suffered by the US forces in the Isfahan operation.
The failed raid was carried out after the enemy conducted extensive aerial reconnaissance operations in the days leading up to the attack, according to the exclusive information.
During those initial infiltration and reconnaissance missions, the US and possibly the Zionist regime lost a significant number of aircraft, including at least one A-10 Thunderbolt II and two Black Hawk helicopters.
The information obtained by Press TV reveals that "zero hour" for the failed Isfahan operation was set during a secret meeting at the White House under the direct supervision of the US president himself.
It has now become clear that this operation had no connection to the claimed rescue of a downed F-15 fighter pilot, a narrative initially pushed by American officials. Instead, evidence examined and confirmed by Press TV indicates that the real objective was to infiltrate and attack one of Iran's nuclear facilities in Isfahan.
The landing site for C-130 transport aircraft, chosen based on previous reconnaissance, was an abandoned airstrip located dangerously close to one of these nuclear sites.
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WATCH: Press TV has obtained information about recent US-Israeli operation in Isfahan which reveals the failure of the operation.
According to evidence, the FAILED OPERATION has NOTHING to do with the so-called rescue operation for an American airman
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The Americans miscalculated, believing that Iran's air defense would be unable to confront the aircraft involved in the operation. However, Press TV learned that the deployment of numerous US aircraft occurred while the Iranian Armed Forces were in full alert, waiting for them. In fact, American special forces fell directly into a trap set by Iranian forces.
The Iranian Armed Forces, including the Army, Law Enforcement (Faraja), the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and local popular forces, initially did not show a serious reaction to the landing of the first C-130, which was carrying dozens of special forces commandos. Evidence shows this aircraft veered somewhat off the runway while landing at the abandoned dirt airstrip.
Minutes later, a second C-130 aircraft approached, carrying specialized vehicles, several MH-6 Little Bird helicopters, and other support equipment. At that moment, Iranian forces on the scene targeted the second aircraft before it could land, turning its normal landing into an emergency one. Two Black Hawk helicopters also arrived shortly after.
It was at this moment that the aircraft, helicopters, and commandos who had disembarked from the first plane became perfect targets for the Iranian Armed Forces.
After the special forces realized they had fallen into the trap, the White House situation room made a critical decision: the main operation to infiltrate the nuclear site was changed into a desperate rescue operation for the dozens of US commandos trapped under Iranian fire.
The Americans immediately sent several smaller aircraft to extract their forces, barely managing to gather the individuals and withdraw them from the deadly situation.
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The rescue operation was conducted so hastily that some soldiers and officers abandoned their equipment, including, according to the evidence possessed by Press TV, the identification document of an American officer left behind in the area, to save their lives.
After the commandos were evacuated, American fighter jets established a line of fire with a 5-kilometer radius to prevent Iranian forces from approaching the abandoned C-130s at the airstrip. The jets also carried out heavy bombing of their own equipment to prevent it from falling into Iranian hands.
In this failed operation, US special forces did not even have the chance to fly the special Little Bird helicopters; some were destroyed on the ground, while others were destroyed inside the second C-130 aircraft.
Following this disgraceful and heavy defeat, Trump hastily and chaotically held multiple press conferences to cover up the failure and falsely portray it as a pilot rescue operation.
The information obtained by Press TV describes these propaganda shows, led by Trump and his Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, as reminiscent of Hollywood films – lies that have not even been accepted by many American audiences.
The information available notes that Trump will continue to fabricate other "Hollywood-style" operations to falsely claim achievements and appease public opinion in the US.
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However, his and Hegseth's repeated storytelling and lying, which have reduced public confidence in him both in the US and across the world to the lowest possible level, have made his "Goebbels-style lies" very difficult to believe.
People in the US and across the world are asking a pointed question: "How is it that a country which supposedly has neither air defense left nor an army or armed forces has managed to shoot down and destroy so many fighter jets and various aircraft, and continues to add to its album of different types of destroyed fighter jets, planes, helicopters, and drones," a highly-placed source in Tehran told Press TV.
The heavy defeat of the Isfahan operation, he noted, could be recorded in history as the worst and most disgraceful failure of the US military, even worse than the failed Tabas operation of 1980, which saw a botched rescue attempt end in disaster for Washington.
The information obtained by Press TV notes that the heavy aftershocks of this "great debacle" for Trump will affect not only the fate of the ongoing war against the Islamic Republic of Iran but also the political future of "America's gambling and ignorant president," his Republican party, and the American political scene for years to come.
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Faced with aggressive stand taken by Iran on the inclusion of Lebanon into the ceasefire deal, Benjamin Netanyahu today announced that he had instructed his team to hold talks on Lebanon. This was after several prominent MAGA faces openly criticised Donald Trump over his Iran policy and subsequent actions. Rifat Jawaid looks at the emergence of Iran as a new regional power despite six weeks of military conflict.
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So bloodthirsty terrorist Benjamin Netanyahu has finally agreed to hold talks with his Bullah fighters, but the Lebanese group has refused to talk to the Israeli genocidal maniacs directly.
However, a dreaded war criminal and notorious baby killer agreeing to abandon his urge for bloodshed of
innocent civilians shows the new power equation in the region and new superpower status of Iran. This happened
only because the Iranians put their foot down to include Lebanon in the ceasefire deal as it reimposed its chokehold of
the state of Hormos. This would be the broad focus of my video tonight. Also in this video, another powerful Iranian
Lego film mocking Donald Trump. So please stay tuned. Iran may have suffered a lot both militarily and as a
result of human losses in the six weeks of illegal war launched by the Americans and Israeli terrorists. But this
1 minutemilitary conflict has done one big thing and that is the new power equation in West Asia. Last of developments
have conclusively established Iran's new status of the regional superpower. Iran wouldn't have achieved this despite
developing nuclear bombs. Just a few weeks of control of the state of Hormos has brought the entire world to its
knees. Testament to Iran's new superpower status is in the latest announcement made by Israeli human devil
Netanyahu. Yesterday he launched an indiscriminate bombing of Beirut, killing hundreds of innocent civilians.
He rejected the ceasefire deal agreed between Trump and Iran saying that Lebanon was not included in that deal.
Today he spoke in a different tune altogether as he announced how he had instructed his team to hold direct talks with Hezbollah fighters for a ceasefire.
It's a different matter altogether that Hezbollah has refused to directly engage with Israeli terrorists. This was
possible only because Iran made its intention absolutely clear on Lebanon by reimposing the blockade of the state of
Hormuz. Iran also said that it will not be able to take part in Friday's talks in Pakistan if Trump renegged on the
inclusion of Lebanon in the ceasefire deal. Yesterday from Trump to Caroline Levit, everyone was denying the
inclusion of Lebanon in the ceasefire deal. In fact, Trump's deputy, Jedi Vans, too said that Iran doesn't have a choice to dictate it terms.
I think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding. I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon, and it just didn't. We never
made that promise. We never indicated that was going to be the case. What we said is that the ceasefire would be focused on Iran and the ceasefire would be focused on America's allies, both Israel and the Gulf Arab states.
Fundamentally, we're on the right track.
We got a lot more to do. We got a lot more that the Iranians are going to have to accept as part of this negotiation,
but I think we've got a strong hand and we're going to play it well. Thank you all.
Today, even Netanyahu, who is arguably the most disgusting and evil creature to walk on this planet in living memory,
realized that he simply couldn't blackmail the American poodles, his American poodles in the White House any
longer. Hence his announcement for holding talks with the Lebanese group.
Iranian Foreign Minister Sayyad Basaraki pointed out and rightly so that the depraved and sick Israeli human devil
was desperate to keep the conflict going to avoid his legal trouble in the corruption cases that are scheduled to
come up for hearing next week. He wrote and I quote, "Netanyahu's criminal trial resumes on Sunday. A regionwide
ceasefire, including in Lebanon, would hasten his jailing. If the US wishes to crater its economy by letting Netanyahu kill diplomacy,
that would ultimately be its choice. We think that would be dumb, but are prepared for it." End quote. Sky News
spoke to emergency workers in Lebanon and their testimony is truly harrowing.
Let me just tell you where we are at the moment. We're in the Konishal Maser which is one of the main streets down in
central Beirut, center of the capital city. Um, one entire building has been leveled. It was about four or five
blocks high. What did you notice as soon as you arrived here? Was a devil. Mhm.
Was a devil. people is burned has grilled what you saw as you arrived which
sounded like a scene no one would want to see I was you realizing I arrived to Gaza or to Beirut
in the same point it was the same as Gaza disaster as as you put a a a piece
of burger on a grill people was grilled really the as I tell you it's not like
you see people was grilled. The one who I pick him up up I take him bones
all around here people all around here are large residential blocks. How how would you describe this
area because you're hearing the Israeli military are saying they were specifically targeting Hezbollah infrastructure command and control
centers. I want to tell all people all all world this world will tell us that there is here and here in there's noah
as we are a child of of pyro we are notah and we not including forbalah and we're not withah
well they clearly are some elements in the capital city if now if now they tell me that as a Jewish people here and he need our help
we will help him our message It's peace and humanity but but what happened here yesterday
this area it's a food and beverage containers and as we know and as we see it's for
closes container there's no military here Trump is an evil monster himself
but he's realizing the changing tide even amongst his MAGA base just watch this montage broadcast by CNN on how
prominent MAGA voices are now revoling against the deranged occupant of the White House.
Tonight, a mega revolt growing over the president's war with Iran, even as President Trump claims victory with a shaky ceasefire deal. Listen right here for yourself.
Iran has basically gotten everything it wants in the agreement cuz Trump was desperate to open the trade of Hormuse.
7 minutesThis is a huge black eye to the United States, but this thing 39 days in is a total and complete disaster. And we have been right about it. I am sick of this
s I'm just I'm I'm sick of it. Can't he just behave like a normal human? I
mean, honestly, like the president 3D chess, shut up. Shut up about that
You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization. We're talking about civilians just casually in a social
media post. Those people who are in direct contact with the president need
to say no. I'll resign. I'll do whatever I can do legally to stop this because this is insane. And if given the order,
I'm not carrying it out.
I'm confused. I can't believe we went to this war. I when we started bombing Iran, I was like, they can't this can't be true. Supposedly, they're trying to stop the terrorists.
That's crazy, though. if you're the terrorist.
You know what I'm saying? Like if you want to stop them, stand in front of the mirror.
And when you look at the cumulative reach of these MAGA faces, you would understand the trepidition gripping
Trump right now. Then the New York Times has blown the lid of the secrets surrounding Trump's decision to attack
Iran and therefore endanger the lives of American soldiers. Aside from JD Vance, no one in the Trump administration.
No one, not a single cabinet member opposed this deranged man's decision to sacrifice his soldiers to satisfy Netanyahu's genocidal urge.
The New York Times reporting makes it very clear now that the people who have been alleging that Benjamin Netanyahu
talked Donald Trump into this war now have tremendous support for that position. According to sources within
the Trump government and possibly the Israeli government, the Times does not reveal the sources, but does include
details in the situation room that can only be described by Trump people who
were actually in that room and then secretly revealed it to the New York Times. Vice President J. D. Vance
emerges from the reporting as the only clear opponent of Donald Trump's war in
meetings with Donald Trump. The rest of Donald Trump's adviserss and cabinet were clearly afraid to take a position
that Donald Trump might not like. And so Marco Rubio, who was in the room as both Secretary of State and National Security
Adviser, has proved himself by this reporting to be the worst national security adviser in history, who gave
the president no advice about what to do, no advice about whether he should go to war or not go to war.
Right-wing provocator and Trump voter Tucker Carlson is quoted in the reporting in a telephone conversation with Donald Trump, which is an
indication that Tucker Carlson may well be one of the sources for this reporting. It was just a discussion between those two people. So, the
version of that discussion would have to come from one of them. In a discussion about going to war in Iran, the Times reports a couple of weeks before the war began, Mr. Trump, who had known Mr.
Carlson for years tried to reassure him over the phone. "I know you're worried about it, but it's going to be okay,"
the president said. Mr. Carlson asked how he knew because it always is, Mr. Trump replied.
The rank stupidity of Donald Trump, as it appears in that
passage, is in every paragraph of the Times report. When Donald Trump went around the room to get everyone's opinion before finally announcing his
decision, he got absurd responses from everyone there except Vice President
Vance. His CIA director, according to the New York Times, offered no opinion on whether to proceed. His always incompetent White House chief of staff,
Susie Wilds, according to the New York Times, quote, told Mr. Trump that if he felt he needed to proceed for America's
national security, then he should go ahead. It is exactly exactly the kind of spineless, mindless
council you imagine the most ignorant president in history who has chosen his cabinet and his advisers for their weakness and for their blind and stupid loyalty would get.
When is when it was JD Vance's turn, the Times reports Mr. Vance, whose disagreement with the whole premise was well established, addressed to the
president, you know, I think this is a bad idea, but if you want to do it, I'll support you.
There will be more reporting like that for years and years to come. And most of
the people in those meetings, in those rooms, will be lying for years to come.
Then we are now learning the true extent of Iranian retaliatory strikes across the Gulf region. Saudi Arabia has
announced that work on its key energy infrastructure will remain suspended for the foreseeable future. Why? Due to the
damage caused by Iran. An official at the Ministry of Energy has told Saudi Arabia's state news agency that
operational activities have been halted at several energy facilities in the country due to recent Iranian attacks.
That's because Iranian missiles destroyed the pumping stations on the East West pipeline leading to a loss of
approximately 700,000 barrels per day in Taraput. Iranian missiles also resulted in one death and the injury of seven
Saudi nationals working for the Saudi energy company. The Manifh production facility was also targeted resulting in
a reduction of approximately 300,000 barrels per day from its production capacity. The Kuras facility had previously been targeted as well,
resulting in a reduction of another 300,000 barrels per day in its production capacity. attacks also extended to major refining facilities
directly affecting exports of refined products to global markets. These are some of the damages brought to light so
far. The true extent will be known once the dust settles in days to come. Trump and his war criminal Israeli boss
attacked Iran to diminish its clout in the region. They ended up making the Islamic Republic even more powerful, not
just in the region, but globally. I will leave you with another Iranian Lego video released to celebrate the
capitulation of Trump following the ceasefire announcement.
But pulling strings and your vote is getting cold.
We're not just fighting for Iran. Hear this clear. Your people reached out to us. Yeah, we got the DMs here. If one nation's going to stand against the
Epstein regime's fear, it's us till the last breath. We've been doing it for years. We're standing here for everyone.
Your system never wrong. They've known all along the enemy was always you. The real Brit wore a suit and sung a patriotic song while selling their own
citizens and calling it strong. Stealing from your own people, making them bleed.
Taking tax dollars just to fund your own greed. They waking up to the lies. The illusions of burst. You screamed America first. Now you put losers first. Make
Israel great again. Your government is run by pedophiles. They ordered you to die for Israel.
They ordered you to die for Israel. They lied to you.
They saw everything. If the public ever saw the files, man, the planet would shake from the level of filth and the crimes in your wake. No wonder Jeff called you the worst. You degenerate
snake. Um, you claimed you never set foot. You went 40 plus times. You sick bastard. You cuss. We stepping up to the plate. Epstein regime got a fall. You
fake Christian elite sacrificing the ball. human. You talk real big for a man with tiny hands.
Tiny hands. Tiny things. Tiny everything. We saw everything. And word got out. The smallness kind of expands.
No wonder all those rage tweets, all those desperate rants. Overcompensating bully always causing the scene. You said you love losers. Well, look at your team.
Your government is run by Your government is run by pedophiles. They ordered you to die for Israel.
They ordered you to die for Israel. They lied to you.
That's it for me. Thank you very much for your support of this platform and our journalism. If you haven't subscribed to my channel, please do so
because that's one of the many ways you can support independent journalism. God bless you all.
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Apr 9, 2026
Faced with aggressive stand taken by Iran on the inclusion of Lebanon into the ceasefire deal, Benjamin Netanyahu today announced that he had instructed his team to hold talks on Lebanon. This was after several prominent MAGA faces openly criticised Donald Trump over his Iran policy and subsequent actions. Rifat Jawaid looks at the emergence of Iran as a new regional power despite six weeks of military conflict.
Transcript
So bloodthirsty terrorist Benjamin Netanyahu has finally agreed to hold talks with his Bullah fighters, but the Lebanese group has refused to talk to the Israeli genocidal maniacs directly.
However, a dreaded war criminal and notorious baby killer agreeing to abandon his urge for bloodshed of
innocent civilians shows the new power equation in the region and new superpower status of Iran. This happened
only because the Iranians put their foot down to include Lebanon in the ceasefire deal as it reimposed its chokehold of
the state of Hormos. This would be the broad focus of my video tonight. Also in this video, another powerful Iranian
Lego film mocking Donald Trump. So please stay tuned. Iran may have suffered a lot both militarily and as a
result of human losses in the six weeks of illegal war launched by the Americans and Israeli terrorists. But this
1 minutemilitary conflict has done one big thing and that is the new power equation in West Asia. Last of developments
have conclusively established Iran's new status of the regional superpower. Iran wouldn't have achieved this despite
developing nuclear bombs. Just a few weeks of control of the state of Hormos has brought the entire world to its
knees. Testament to Iran's new superpower status is in the latest announcement made by Israeli human devil
Netanyahu. Yesterday he launched an indiscriminate bombing of Beirut, killing hundreds of innocent civilians.
He rejected the ceasefire deal agreed between Trump and Iran saying that Lebanon was not included in that deal.
Today he spoke in a different tune altogether as he announced how he had instructed his team to hold direct talks with Hezbollah fighters for a ceasefire.
It's a different matter altogether that Hezbollah has refused to directly engage with Israeli terrorists. This was
possible only because Iran made its intention absolutely clear on Lebanon by reimposing the blockade of the state of
Hormuz. Iran also said that it will not be able to take part in Friday's talks in Pakistan if Trump renegged on the
inclusion of Lebanon in the ceasefire deal. Yesterday from Trump to Caroline Levit, everyone was denying the
inclusion of Lebanon in the ceasefire deal. In fact, Trump's deputy, Jedi Vans, too said that Iran doesn't have a choice to dictate it terms.
I think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding. I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon, and it just didn't. We never
made that promise. We never indicated that was going to be the case. What we said is that the ceasefire would be focused on Iran and the ceasefire would be focused on America's allies, both Israel and the Gulf Arab states.
Fundamentally, we're on the right track.
We got a lot more to do. We got a lot more that the Iranians are going to have to accept as part of this negotiation,
but I think we've got a strong hand and we're going to play it well. Thank you all.
Today, even Netanyahu, who is arguably the most disgusting and evil creature to walk on this planet in living memory,
realized that he simply couldn't blackmail the American poodles, his American poodles in the White House any
longer. Hence his announcement for holding talks with the Lebanese group.
Iranian Foreign Minister Sayyad Basaraki pointed out and rightly so that the depraved and sick Israeli human devil
was desperate to keep the conflict going to avoid his legal trouble in the corruption cases that are scheduled to
come up for hearing next week. He wrote and I quote, "Netanyahu's criminal trial resumes on Sunday. A regionwide
ceasefire, including in Lebanon, would hasten his jailing. If the US wishes to crater its economy by letting Netanyahu kill diplomacy,
that would ultimately be its choice. We think that would be dumb, but are prepared for it." End quote. Sky News
spoke to emergency workers in Lebanon and their testimony is truly harrowing.
Let me just tell you where we are at the moment. We're in the Konishal Maser which is one of the main streets down in
central Beirut, center of the capital city. Um, one entire building has been leveled. It was about four or five
blocks high. What did you notice as soon as you arrived here? Was a devil. Mhm.
Was a devil. people is burned has grilled what you saw as you arrived which
sounded like a scene no one would want to see I was you realizing I arrived to Gaza or to Beirut
in the same point it was the same as Gaza disaster as as you put a a a piece
of burger on a grill people was grilled really the as I tell you it's not like
you see people was grilled. The one who I pick him up up I take him bones
all around here people all around here are large residential blocks. How how would you describe this
area because you're hearing the Israeli military are saying they were specifically targeting Hezbollah infrastructure command and control
centers. I want to tell all people all all world this world will tell us that there is here and here in there's noah
as we are a child of of pyro we are notah and we not including forbalah and we're not withah
well they clearly are some elements in the capital city if now if now they tell me that as a Jewish people here and he need our help
we will help him our message It's peace and humanity but but what happened here yesterday
this area it's a food and beverage containers and as we know and as we see it's for
closes container there's no military here Trump is an evil monster himself
but he's realizing the changing tide even amongst his MAGA base just watch this montage broadcast by CNN on how
prominent MAGA voices are now revoling against the deranged occupant of the White House.
Tonight, a mega revolt growing over the president's war with Iran, even as President Trump claims victory with a shaky ceasefire deal. Listen right here for yourself.
Iran has basically gotten everything it wants in the agreement cuz Trump was desperate to open the trade of Hormuse.
7 minutesThis is a huge black eye to the United States, but this thing 39 days in is a total and complete disaster. And we have been right about it. I am sick of this
s I'm just I'm I'm sick of it. Can't he just behave like a normal human? I
mean, honestly, like the president 3D chess, shut up. Shut up about that
You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization. We're talking about civilians just casually in a social
media post. Those people who are in direct contact with the president need
to say no. I'll resign. I'll do whatever I can do legally to stop this because this is insane. And if given the order,
I'm not carrying it out.
I'm confused. I can't believe we went to this war. I when we started bombing Iran, I was like, they can't this can't be true. Supposedly, they're trying to stop the terrorists.
That's crazy, though. if you're the terrorist.
You know what I'm saying? Like if you want to stop them, stand in front of the mirror.
And when you look at the cumulative reach of these MAGA faces, you would understand the trepidition gripping
Trump right now. Then the New York Times has blown the lid of the secrets surrounding Trump's decision to attack
Iran and therefore endanger the lives of American soldiers. Aside from JD Vance, no one in the Trump administration.
No one, not a single cabinet member opposed this deranged man's decision to sacrifice his soldiers to satisfy Netanyahu's genocidal urge.
The New York Times reporting makes it very clear now that the people who have been alleging that Benjamin Netanyahu
talked Donald Trump into this war now have tremendous support for that position. According to sources within
the Trump government and possibly the Israeli government, the Times does not reveal the sources, but does include
details in the situation room that can only be described by Trump people who
were actually in that room and then secretly revealed it to the New York Times. Vice President J. D. Vance
emerges from the reporting as the only clear opponent of Donald Trump's war in
meetings with Donald Trump. The rest of Donald Trump's adviserss and cabinet were clearly afraid to take a position
that Donald Trump might not like. And so Marco Rubio, who was in the room as both Secretary of State and National Security
Adviser, has proved himself by this reporting to be the worst national security adviser in history, who gave
the president no advice about what to do, no advice about whether he should go to war or not go to war.
Right-wing provocator and Trump voter Tucker Carlson is quoted in the reporting in a telephone conversation with Donald Trump, which is an
indication that Tucker Carlson may well be one of the sources for this reporting. It was just a discussion between those two people. So, the
version of that discussion would have to come from one of them. In a discussion about going to war in Iran, the Times reports a couple of weeks before the war began, Mr. Trump, who had known Mr.
Carlson for years tried to reassure him over the phone. "I know you're worried about it, but it's going to be okay,"
the president said. Mr. Carlson asked how he knew because it always is, Mr. Trump replied.
The rank stupidity of Donald Trump, as it appears in that
passage, is in every paragraph of the Times report. When Donald Trump went around the room to get everyone's opinion before finally announcing his
decision, he got absurd responses from everyone there except Vice President
Vance. His CIA director, according to the New York Times, offered no opinion on whether to proceed. His always incompetent White House chief of staff,
Susie Wilds, according to the New York Times, quote, told Mr. Trump that if he felt he needed to proceed for America's
national security, then he should go ahead. It is exactly exactly the kind of spineless, mindless
council you imagine the most ignorant president in history who has chosen his cabinet and his advisers for their weakness and for their blind and stupid loyalty would get.
When is when it was JD Vance's turn, the Times reports Mr. Vance, whose disagreement with the whole premise was well established, addressed to the
president, you know, I think this is a bad idea, but if you want to do it, I'll support you.
There will be more reporting like that for years and years to come. And most of
the people in those meetings, in those rooms, will be lying for years to come.
Then we are now learning the true extent of Iranian retaliatory strikes across the Gulf region. Saudi Arabia has
announced that work on its key energy infrastructure will remain suspended for the foreseeable future. Why? Due to the
damage caused by Iran. An official at the Ministry of Energy has told Saudi Arabia's state news agency that
operational activities have been halted at several energy facilities in the country due to recent Iranian attacks.
That's because Iranian missiles destroyed the pumping stations on the East West pipeline leading to a loss of
approximately 700,000 barrels per day in Taraput. Iranian missiles also resulted in one death and the injury of seven
Saudi nationals working for the Saudi energy company. The Manifh production facility was also targeted resulting in
a reduction of approximately 300,000 barrels per day from its production capacity. The Kuras facility had previously been targeted as well,
resulting in a reduction of another 300,000 barrels per day in its production capacity. attacks also extended to major refining facilities
directly affecting exports of refined products to global markets. These are some of the damages brought to light so
far. The true extent will be known once the dust settles in days to come. Trump and his war criminal Israeli boss
attacked Iran to diminish its clout in the region. They ended up making the Islamic Republic even more powerful, not
just in the region, but globally. I will leave you with another Iranian Lego video released to celebrate the
capitulation of Trump following the ceasefire announcement.
But pulling strings and your vote is getting cold.
We're not just fighting for Iran. Hear this clear. Your people reached out to us. Yeah, we got the DMs here. If one nation's going to stand against the
Epstein regime's fear, it's us till the last breath. We've been doing it for years. We're standing here for everyone.
Your system never wrong. They've known all along the enemy was always you. The real Brit wore a suit and sung a patriotic song while selling their own
citizens and calling it strong. Stealing from your own people, making them bleed.
Taking tax dollars just to fund your own greed. They waking up to the lies. The illusions of burst. You screamed America first. Now you put losers first. Make
Israel great again. Your government is run by pedophiles. They ordered you to die for Israel.
They ordered you to die for Israel. They lied to you.
They saw everything. If the public ever saw the files, man, the planet would shake from the level of filth and the crimes in your wake. No wonder Jeff called you the worst. You degenerate
snake. Um, you claimed you never set foot. You went 40 plus times. You sick bastard. You cuss. We stepping up to the plate. Epstein regime got a fall. You
fake Christian elite sacrificing the ball. human. You talk real big for a man with tiny hands.
Tiny hands. Tiny things. Tiny everything. We saw everything. And word got out. The smallness kind of expands.
No wonder all those rage tweets, all those desperate rants. Overcompensating bully always causing the scene. You said you love losers. Well, look at your team.
Your government is run by Your government is run by pedophiles. They ordered you to die for Israel.
They ordered you to die for Israel. They lied to you.
That's it for me. Thank you very much for your support of this platform and our journalism. If you haven't subscribed to my channel, please do so
because that's one of the many ways you can support independent journalism. God bless you all.
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