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Chas Freeman: The War Against Iran Could Destroy the U.S. Republic
Glenn Diesen
Feb 28, 2026

Ambassador Chas Freeman discusses the US attack on Iran. In a war of attrition, Iran could outlast the US and the crisis from a lack of victory could destroy the US republic.

Ambassador Freeman was a former Assistant Secretary of Defense, earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense for his roles in designing a NATO-centered post-Cold War European security system and in reestablishing defense and military relations with China. He served as U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm).



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Welcome back. We are joined by Chaz Freeman, a former diplomat and former assistant secretary of defense and also
very relevant for the discussion today, the former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia. So, uh, thank you for taking the
time. It's great to see again. Glad to be back with you. uh a lot is
happening and we don't know a great deal about uh what is happening um because we
have military censorship in Israel again um which means that reporting from there
is in unreliable and of course the internet is shut down in Iran
uh and we don't know uh the damage that has been done at the various US bases
that have been struck although we're told there are no casualties ies.
Whether that's still true or not, I don't know. But uh from your perspective though,
when you look at the overall picture here, what are the strategic objectives for the United States uh to achieve with
this attack? Well, the United States uh has a laundry list of objectives. Uh which one is at
the top of the list depends on how the laundry is sorted from day to day. Um uh
but overall I' I'd say the question is irrelevant. Uh the question is what are
Israel's strategic objectives because they have they have determined this war.
Uh we now know from an Israeli source that the timing of the fighting was in
fact agreed. The time of the attack was agreed December 29th at Mara Lago. uh
which butresses the conclusion that the negotiations conducted by Witco and
Kushner with the Iranians were another deception intended to string things out.
Um uh Israel's objective is clear and President Trump has obviously embraced
it. Uh that is to remove Iran from the geopolitical chess board in West Asia.
Um, and uh to do that by eliminating the Islamic Republic, uh, the regime, if you
will, uh, starting by murdering the uh, the leaders of it. Uh, the Israelis are
now claiming that they have confirmation that they killed uh, the Ayatollah,
that his body was found in the rubble of his compound. Um whether that's true or not, I don't know, but I suspect uh it's
very plausible. Uh then, uh this has all sorts of implications.
Um if I may just jump ahead to those because there's a there's a lot of other
implications to this. Um for one thing, uh Iran has a very wellestablished um
constitutional succession mechanisms. Presumably that will now go into effect.
Uh the Ayatollah uh Kam has been a viciferous opponent apparently of
building a nuclear weapon for Iran. His removal will strengthen the hands of the
many in Iran who see that following North Korea uh as an example is the only
effective way to assure the integrity of the state. that is maximum pressure in
the case of North Korea uh had as its principal result the development of an
ICBM with a nuclear warhead or actually multiple nuclear warheads on it aimed at
the continental United States. So that is one set of uh consequences that we
may now expect. In other words, if the objective or one of the many objectives
in this attack was as has been stated to finally eliminate the Iranian nuclear
program, it is likely to have exactly the opposite effect. Um the second uh
major implication is uh imponderable and that is uh there was there were
statements from husbah before this war began um or this aspect of the war began
uh because the war has been ongoing uh just low intensity up to now um uh they
said that if uh if the supreme leader in Iran was murdered they would enter the
frackas the Israelis are obviously very concerned about this because they called
up reserves to buttress the border uh with uh with Lebanon fearing a
repetition of something like October 7th. Um so those are immediate uh
implications. Uh there are others of course um the people being or the
equipment or the bases being attacked in uh Kuwait, Bahrain,
um Qatar and the UAE, not Oman or Saudi Arabia. Apparently um
uh are are American. They're not local.
Um there's no indication that any Kuwaitis, Bahrainis or Qataris or
Amiratis have been killed as far as I know. I mean I suspect that eventually this they will not be immune from uh
from uh from from these attacks but at the moment those attacks are focused not
on them but on uh the basis they are permitted to be established on their territory by the United States. And
therefore uh they face a dilemma. On the one hand they were moving toward a sort
of informal coalition with Iran to counter Israel. On the other hand the
Israeli and American action has resulted in the violations of their sovereignty.
you know, of course, Israel violated Gutter's sovereignty in an earlier uh in
June, but um um uh this is um
uh this is no doubt a dilemma for them. Uh what do they do? Um uh they can't
really uh endorse an attack on Iran that includes an attack on themselves. they
can't ignore the attack on themselves and thereby excuse
the Iranian retaliation. Uh so I think uh this will be uh
interesting to watch. I don't know what the reaction will be. Uh so uh the main
point however Glenn I think is that um we're told that if the um if the plan of
attack was approved on December 29 uh the original date for it to take
place was February 20th. There are reports that Russian intelligence
managed to acquire the entire battle plan and hand it to the Iranians that
the United States became aware of that or Israel became aware of it and um
passed that information to the United States and that therefore the attack was postponed.
Um I have felt from the beginning and I believe I said so about a week and a half ago in a discussion with you that
uh the negotiations were fraud. Uh that they had no serious purpose. Uh that the
terms being demanded were um out of line with any um reasonable
expectation of Iranian response. Uh and that therefore uh an attack was almost
inevitable. We have now seen that that is the case. Uh and uh this has caused
uh I think a real constitutional awakening in the United States.
uh because in a sense a president who
launches an attack uh of this magnitude on another country without even
informing Congress until the very last moment and not going through the
constitutionally mandated process of obtaining u of of debating the issue uh
in the Congress and having u a congressional legislative decision.
to back the war. But and not only does he do that, but 75% or so of Americans,
it depends on the poll you look at, have been opposed to this war. Uh so it's not
only a constitutional violation, but it is a dictatorial act at odds with
entrenched public opinion. Uh so we'll see as the week ahead comes uh goes
along whether uh any of the inver invertebrates people who inhabit
Congress uh will be able to grow a backbone and uh reassert any aspect of
their constitutional authority. We have mixed reactions. Of course, the the
loyalists, loyal Trumpists, uh are all behind this. Uh and um those
who were skeptical about Trump, even in the Republican party, um are now
of a different uh view. Interestingly, perhaps the strongest condemnation of
the attack came from Donald Trump's former cheerleader, Marjgerie Taylor Green. Uh but uh there
have been other voices on the Republican side that seem to recognize that it if
this is not corrected, it marks the end of the American republic and its constitutional aspirations.
It could be this serious for for the United States. Indeed. Well, there are levels of
seriousness. We know for example that uh whoever prevails in this uh in this war
which is not going to be a few days but uh has aspects of a war of attrition to
it. Uh the United States is going to expend a great great part of its arsenal
uh depleted as it already is um through the defense of Ukraine uh in
an earlier period and more recently the defense of is of Israel.
So, um, the ability of the United States to respond to other challenges, whether
they're in Europe or in the Pacific Asia, um, is greatly diminished no matter what
happens. Um, and of course, if uh, some of the, um,
uh, estimates of Iranian capabilities are in fact correct, uh, it's not at all
certain that the United States will prevail. uh and uh a defeat on this
level uh would be enormously discrediting not only to Donald Trump who bears the sole
responsibility for for this attack. Uh having decided that Netanyahu was a
better source of authority than the US Congress or the Constitution. Uh he now is out on a limb. Uh but for
the United States, this would be a humiliation. it would devalue the uh
reputation of the American military considerably. So um I don't see anything particularly
good coming out of this for anybody but including um I include in that my own
country the United States but you are um yeah the former US
ambassador to Saudi Arabia. So when the United States attacked Iran today and
the Iranian retaliation uh came following uh it seemed to have
focused very heavily on the Gulf States or maybe that's just where we get information from because we can see the
attacks happening in you know from Dubai and well across the region but um but
but what do you think is going to be the consequence of this though? Why will
will they will will some of these small kingdoms fall or how how do you view
No, I don't think so. Um uh I think they're all very nicely entrenched. Um
some of them depend on Israeli u surveillance technology
to manage, you know, police state technology to stay in power. Um um I
think um uh they have a pro political problem. They can certainly can't be
pro-Israeli. Um they can't support the United States. They can't endorse Iran.
They're in a hard place politically. Um but um you know um they have a
long-standing habit of uh differentiating their rhetoric from their actions.
Uh and they're very risk averse. They're very cautious. The exception is the UAE.
Um the others are notoriously cautious. Uh so we've had a reaction from the
Saudis which has strongly condemned um the Iranian attack on fellow members of
the Gulf Cooperation Council. But as far as I know, as I said, there's been there
are American aircraft um that have been moved to Princettown Air Base, which is
south of Rian um at Alcades. Um and um
uh but I don't see any reaction from the Iranians um uh to that. So I have to
assume that there is some kind of effective communication going on between
Riad and Tehran. Yeah. Well, uh, but given that you see
the US, uh, well, the republic at, uh, at stake here, what other long-term
impacts do you think this could be have on US interests? Well, a lot of it depends on how it
comes out. you know in a sense um as I think we discussed before a week and a
half ago this there are elements of sign of American cooperation u competition
involved here uh and uh American competition with Russia u there are
Russian and Chinese u defensive weapons systems that um are going up against
American u offensive systems um and uh one of the consequences would
that you know either the US reputation for leadership in high-tech weaponry
would be butressed or it would be tarnished now and we don't know yet. In fact, there's a great deal we don't know
at this point. Um we don't know for example
uh what installations were actually taken out uh in Iran. Um I mentioned we
don't know what's happening in Israel either. Um and uh if the you know the
last round uh in June the 12 so-called 12-day war um resulted in the
destruction of about 480 buildings and in Israel none of it reported in the western press uh due to military
censorship and Zionist command of the of the American and other western media. So
um we don't know um uh it's far too early to judge uh the answer to the kind
of question you raised. Uh I will however say in one respect there's a
security council meeting which got underway as we began to speak. U it'll be interesting to watch that. Uh we have
u the usual vassal state sorts of uh statements of support from some key
European countries. Uh we have a a a ridiculous statement from President Mron
who said that you demanded the Iranians to negotiate in good faith as though
they were the ones who were managing a deception. Uh very hard to understand um
unless you understand his political weakness and the and the strength of the Zionist lobby in in France as well as
Islamophobia in France which is very strong. Um so uh but we've had the
statements from uh Germany, from Britain uh and so on um that um uh basically
seem to tow the American line. Uh we'll see what happens in the security council. Um I think uh anyone who was in
any doubt that the former um uh regulation of international affairs
by international law was still alive should um should now understand that it
isn't and uh and that is a loss for the United States in terms of reputation I
think. Yeah. uh German chancellor as well um Mertz he was also tweeting out his uh
comments well that uh now the Iranians can choose their own leadership so
they're they seem to be going with that this is about democracy yeah regime change this is about somehow
democracy I I find it um well it's bizarre I mean it's very bizarre the card you play
let us let us recall that um they protests were fueled by the smuggling in
of 50,000 um Starlink sets uh for Iranian uh
discontented Iranians. Um this the protests themselves were set off by in
in or at least Scott Bessant, the American Secretary of Treasury uh claims
that he and the Treasury u destroyed the Iranian currency which and therefore
were able to initiate the protests. Once the protests began, the people with the
Starlink links um um began to agitate to move them from peaceful protests into
violent riots. We've had a huge propaganda campaign uh greatly
exaggerating the number of deaths in Iran on the part of um of protesters or
maybe a agents um uh of foreign interests who were exploiting the
protest. We know that those those those claims are exaggerated. We don't have an
exact reliable figure from Iran itself. Um and so uh this is yet another case
where it's right out of the playbook that um uh you emiserate people. You
make them so wretched that they feel obliged to protest and um and demand
change from their own government some kind of response to the misery that
you're causing. And then you say to them, as which is what we did say apparently in these negotiations, look,
you got to give up your ability to defend yourselves, get rid of your missiles or we'll bomb
you. And of course, if we get if you get rid of your missiles, we'll probably bomb you, too. Uh so what kind of a
thing is that? Um there's so many bizarre elements to this. uh and uh I
think the underlying assumption that u Iranians
will react to misery uh by blaming not the source of the
misery, the the United States and its sanctions and the West, but their own
government is very very um dubious at least.
Well, I see the same propaganda being very heavy in this country. The whole narrative is essentially we can't let
the Ayatollahas acquire a nuclear weapon. So, the whole premise being that they are irrational actors, that they're
extremist, and that they're pursuing a nuclear weapon. And uh you know this is
um yeah and then of course you add that additional layer about democracy and human rights and then
it's almost immoral to be against war by this point. Yeah. And then you know actually the
country in the region that did cheat and clandestinely develop a nuclear weapon
including through the theft of uranium from the United States is Israel. And so
this is uh in a sense an extreme case of mirror imaging. Israel looks in the
mirror and thinks good heavens I what I did they must be doing too. Um well uh
so far there's no evidence. You know there's a wonderful uh thing circulating on the internet which is a a steel
in written in pun form from 3000 BC which says Iran is only a few days away
from a bomb. And um you know I mean they have been only a few days away or a few
years or a few months or something um uh for as long as I can remember. I was
being I was told in 1991 to go to the then crown prince Abdullah when I was
ambassador in Saudi Arabia and and warn him that Iran was two years away from a
bomb. That was 1991. Um you know here we are. I think it's a more than two years
have passed since then. Um and uh so we have these uh continual uh warnings
about something that the intelligence agencies that look at these things say is not true. Uh but it's politically
true. It's not factually true. In a world in which uh nothing is true and
everything is plausible, this is the accepted wisdom. Why? Because Prime
Minister Netanyahu, who knows better from his own intelligence services,
finds this an extremely convenient way to get countries like Norway or the
United States or whoever uh behind him in his hostility to Iran. Uh and uh you
know obviously if you listen to uh Israeli spokesman um I just heard
Naftali Bennett the uh previous foreign uh prime minister speak his wording is
identical to that of Donald Trump. Uh well one might expect that there's been
a bit of coordination and it's something of a conspiracy. Um and uh one would be
right. Uh but um the mainstream media, I don't know about Norway, but the
mainstream media certainly in the United States will not print anything that is
critical of Israel or the Israeli line. They tow it. U therefore
uh there is no opposition to the flood of falsehoods.
Well, if we look beyond the bes the sides the the strategy or lack thereof
and uh what's actually happening in terms of who's striking what how do you
assess the the impact on the economy especially for the Gulf States because
as you've seen Iran has uh now shut down the straight of Hermoose there's about
uh 20% of the world's oil going through there more importantly for the Gulf
states this is uh well how are they going to survive or of course you know
they have reserves but but what will be the wider impact here? Well it varies from country to country.
I mean um oddly enough Oman which is mostly outside the straight of Hormuz
has very limited reserves and uh to the extent its oil exports are affected it
will be in financial difficulty. The UAE is got a strong reserve position
huge state um uh investment fund. Um
Saudi Arabia is somewhat behind it. Saudi Arabia is in already is already in
financial difficulty because of the low price of oil to the extent it's able to
export oil um which it won't be able to do through the Persian Gulf um which is
where it does most of its exporting um to the extent it's able to export oil
it's going to benefit from the enormous inflation of energy prices on the global level that we can now expect. Uh so um
uh you know a country like Kuwait is far less dependent on oil exports than it is
on coupon clipping from uh bonds and stocks and uh other investments. Um that
dwarfs the equity the Kuwaiti income from investments dwarfs its oil income.
Uh Bahrain is very vulnerable. Um it is in some respects an offshoot of Saudi
Arabia uh which can be expected to help it but um charity generally begins and
ends at home and um Bahrain of course the has been the headquarters of the
fifth fleet which was apparently struck during this initial round of retaliations.
Clutter um has enormous reserves um and of course shares the ga the gas
field in the in the Persian Gulf with uh with Iran. Uh but they're all going to
get shut down including Iran. Iran ships its oil through the straight of Hormuz.
So this is in fact a um uh a kind of suicide
move by uh Iran in economic terms. what the implications will be depends on how
long this goes on. Um and uh there we don't we don't know u you know uh uh we
can't tell how long it will go on. It's not going to it's not going to be over in a few days. Um so um at what point
the um uh oil oil oil prices will become ridiculously high as a matter of
conjecture at this point but it seems likely. And let me just say one thing about shutting the straight of Horns.
Um, the minute you um you you declare a blockade of some sort, as the Houthi
government in Yemen did in the Red Sea, insurance companies don't provide insurance to ships. So, the shippers
can't use that route. And it's not a matter of shooting, you know, sinking ships. You just um get Lords of London
to be unwilling to underwrite insurance on ships. Um and that is
exactly what will happen. So uh you won't have anyone other than a military
vessel daring to uh brave the blockade.
And here again I would just say that you know um the Houthies
uh who were fairly primitive um in their weaponry and capabilities
uh were able to defeat the United States which spent over a billion dollars and
expended a vast amount of weaponry uh to try to uh relieve the blockade and
failed. The Iranians are vastly more capable than the Houthies.
So, I don't think anybody's going to be running this blockade anytime soon.
But as we see now, Iran has struck the airport in Dubai to the ports
in United Arab Emirates. How how far can this go before it
pulls these actors directly into war, or they don't really have anything to fight with to begin with?

Well, I don't think they want to get involved in this war. You're correct. Dubai
International Airport, which is the largest in the world, is now shut down as is the Maktum airport, the other
one. And so I think there's an enormous disruption of transit, air
travel, ship travel, energy supply all in store. And it will be
very painful for not just the countries in the region but for the world.

Yeah, we already know they've shut down our access to air travel across Russia. Now,
all air travel seems to go through the Middle East. And now
this whole region appears to be shutting down as well. It's a bit surprising, or maybe not surprising, but
concerning, that all these conflicts around the world, that the only
thing being done is to throw more gasoline at the fire. There's very little serious attempt it seems to actually put an end to any of this.

Sorry. if by a serious attempt you mean diplomacy, obviously diplomacy is now used
simply as a means of deception to serve military purposes. You know, that is the
lesson of multiple American negotiations with others. And I note that
this is having its effect. We're talking about Iran, and the United
States and Israel. But we might as well be talking about Russia and
Ukraine and the Europeans. I think the interest of Moscow continuing
negotiations about the Ukraine issue with the United States is clearly on the wane. There's no
enthusiasm.

Why should there be? The negotiators that we have appointed have
no credibility. They have been flying all over the place, largely in Geneva
recently, deceiving people, not reaching any
agreement, and when they do agree to specific elements of an agreement, they
repudiate them. They have no authority from anybody other than Donald
Trump, and Donald Trump makes up his mind from minute to minute.

But uh in terms of escalation uh both regionally and globally do you well
regionally I guess we yeah we we we have seen this but the
possibility of pulling in Turkey or Egypt some of the larger countries uh do
you see a threat of this or or even worse if uh the Russians or Chinese
begin to play a more overt role? I'm not I assume they're already doing a little
bit to make sure that Iran doesn't get defeated. Well, I think the the Russian and
Chinese response will, as you suggest, largely be limited to a combination of
rhetorical support, political diplomatic support at the UN and elsewhere. um and
uh uh and and and and technology and weapon uh defensive weapons transfers um
which are going to be a bit difficult in under conditions of u uh where shipping
lanes are shut down and so forth. But um but um the uh the the broader point I
think um is that the Chinese and Russians will make hay out of the discrediting of the United States. to
your question about whether the war should widen. Um what would uh Egypt and Turkey do? Why
would they be in on this? Um uh they certainly wouldn't support
Israel and the United States in this context. Um
could they um could they make common cause with Iran? Well, the Turks
might usefully provide weaponry and um indirect military support. Um Egypt does
not really have the capability to do that. Uh I don't think the Egyptians have are very unhappy with the Israelis,
but I don't see them uh creating a diversion. Um so uh I'm not sure how the
war would expand beyond uh the Levant and Iran um the Persian
Gulf countries. Um there is a possibility of course depending on how
badly Israel behaves that uh Pakistan which has a defense pack now with Saudi
Arabia and uh which has been the target of Israeli operations
which is currently the target of Indian operations. The Indians supporting the Taliban um uh in the war between
Afghanistan and Pakistan. There is some danger that Pakistan could be drawn in.
It has a huge number like India of has a huge number of its citizens working in
the Gulf in Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf countries and it has a history of
having provided support uh in the past uh for example during the uh war of the
cities of the war between Iran and Iraq. Pakistan helped garrison Saudi Arabia.
Um there there is u uh during uh operation desert storm uh Pakistan
garrison in southern Saudi Arabia and protected Saudi Arabia against Yemen which was part of the of the U
triad that was attempting to rewrite the Middle East borders. Saddam Hussein,
King Hussein of Jordan, and Ali Abdullah Salah in in Yemen were all part of a a
plan which didn't work. U so uh there are possibilities,
but I don't think great powers, China, Russia want to get involved. I don't see the Egyptians taking action and and and
and I think Turkey would limit its support to um technology and weaponry
rather than directly involve itself. But who knows? I mean war one of the
things about war is you know the wars are very easy you to start unilaterally.
They're very very hard to end. and um you can't control them. They are a
gamble. Uh so you're right to be concerned, but I'm I I don't I don't see
the mechanism for expansion at this point. Yeah. Well, the comments coming out of
Turkey and Egypt so far has been focused on concerns for the their well they're
not allies but at least their friends that is the Gulf States. So, not
expressed in any support for the US or Israel in terms of the attack, but more
um yeah, but I guess something like that had to be said uh in order to show some
solidarity with the Gulf States without actually doing anything. Um this was the
last question. Do you has a train left the station now or is there any way to put an early end to
this? Can Trump realize he made a horrible mistake? you know, claim that, well, I called Iran. They promised they
will behave better now. They're going to be serious in negotiation, some of this nonsense. Or is it all over? And uh if
if this war will go on now, I know there's a lot of unknown variables, but
where where do you think it will be heading if you would not guess? ice button.
I many people um uh uh believe rightly
or wrongly that Iran is actually better equipped to manage a war of attrition
than Israel and the United States. Um the United States, as I mentioned, has
depleted a great deal of its arsenal in other adventures elsewhere.
um uh and in the earlier defense of Israel
uh Israel basically uh was wasn't able to continue defending
itself during the June so-called 12-day war at the end of it. You know, it it
was vulnerable uh to Iranian attack. Here's a question I don't know the
answer to. Um uh perhaps uh uh someone does. Um but if you look at the June war
uh where Iran mounted the first effective um response to Israeli
aggression by anybody in the region for many decades. Um uh it began its missile
barrage on Israel by expanding its more obsolete,
less capable uh missiles with the purpose of depleting Israel's
self-defense capability. and it succeeded at that. Uh it ended the war
with hypersonic missiles um breaking through is what remained of Israeli
defense uh and American and British assistance and defense. Um so and by the
way, you know, you asked about the expansion of the war. uh K Starmer uh
you know began by saying well you Britain wasn't going to be part of it but now he's talking about having the
RAF the British Royal Air Force up and about um supporting American ally and
everything else. So there is an expansion right there um uh happening in
front of our very eyes. Um so I you know um it's um
uh I I don't think at this point anybody really can tell you with assurance uh when this will stop, how it will
stop. Eventually it will stop. Um but when how long eventually is and and what
the conditions will be when that eventuality occurs. Uh they may very well be um um an Iran that um has been
shaken but not stirred into uh rebellion as Mr. Trump and Mr. Netanyahu
uh I think falsely believe it might be. Well, that's what you said. this um war
of attrition. Uh we already had this in June and uh and the the Israelis uh and
Americans were exhausted by after 12 days. So I'm wondering what would be
different now I guess but uh exactly and know we don't know um you
know the charge is that the Iranians had ramped up missile production
um uh you know and of course the n their nuclear program which had previously
officially been obliterated had somehow revived and was becoming an imminent
danger. I think the correct analogy here is North Korea. Uh you know you if you
push hard enough uh at a proud people they will respond um by developing some
capability that you don't like. And you know, we saw this in a sense on 9/11
when uh we learned that if you bomb people, they will bomb back and if they don't have uh bombers to do it with,
they will repurpose passenger aircraft as cruise missiles to do it. Uh human
ingenuity will not be subdued by threats. In fact, it tends to be
stimulated by them. So, how will this end? I don't know. Um and uh I think we
have to leave it there. Yeah. Well, I think at least can seems very certain that Trump's assumption
that this could be a quick victory. I think uh on the contrary, this I think
this will have implications for decades to come. So, uh well, thank
you very much for taking the time. I know you're Yeah, you're supposed to be on a holiday
now, so I appreciate you taking the time. Well, um, it's always a holiday with you, uh, Glenn. Thank you.

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Larry Johnson : Trump’s Colossal Mistake
Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom
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Larry Johnson : Trump’s Colossal Mistake



Transcript

Undeclared wars are commonplace. Tragically, our government engages in
preemptive war, otherwise known as aggression, with no complaints from the American people. Sadly, we have become
accustomed to living with the illegitimate use of force by government. To develop a truly free society, the
issue of initiating force must be understood and rejected.
What if sometimes to love your country you had to alter or abolish the government? What if Jefferson was right?
What if that government is best which governs least? What if it is dangerous to be right when
the government is wrong? What if it is better to perish fighting for freedom
than to live as a slave? What if freedom's greatest hour of danger is
now?
Hi everyone, Judge Andrew Npalitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Saturday,
February 28th, 2026. Welcome to this special edition of Judging Freedom with
our dear friend uh and regular colleague Larry Johnson. Larry, of course, welcome
here. Thank you for disturbing your Saturday afternoon. and it's afternoon here in the east coast of the United
States. Uh we have much to discuss. Before we get granular, let's uh let's
look at the big picture. Uh what happened today? What did the United
States and Israel attempt to do? United States and Israel started a fight
that they can't win, that they're going to lose. Uh and they don't have they
don't have an easy out. that they'd convinced themselves that all they had to do is launch this massive strike
because you know Trump foolishly foolishly believes his own nonsense about you know there's no better bigger
more powerful military in the world than us with maybe Israel is a close second but we are the best and we can do
anything and so they fully intended to try a repeat of what happened on June
13th of 2025 to do a decapitation strike take out the upper political milit
military leadership. Well, you know, they've been gesturing for now more than two months that they
were going to do this. The Iranians had no doubt that they were going to do it. And the Iranians were taking
preparations that if it did happen and like you know the Ayatollah Kamei died,
he'd already designated successors. If possession died, he designated they'd all, you know, they all said, "Hey, if I
go, you're in charge." You know, they were planning for this. So here's Israel. they top it off and you you know
we saw from uh a recent article from Seymour Hirs that I don't know if his source was US intelligence or Israeli
intelligence but regardless this source told Sai that oh yeah we we decimated
the Iranian ballistic missile program last year they don't have anything so within an hour and a half of this
surprise attack yesterday morning it was yesterday morning in Iran on uh Saturday
morning there u Iran was firing back and but this time what's different from now
compared to what happened in June of 2025 at that time Iran confined itself
to attacking only Israeli targets they focused primarily on economic and
military targets this time is different way different going after USbas bases
and installations throughout the Persian Gulf into Iraq. And the United States is
suffering significant material losses. I don't know about human loss at this point.
Here's one of the dopiest questions I ever heard asked and I think the Iranian
foreign minister agreed when an NBC correspondent, I don't know who it is, asked him. Chris, the NBC dope,
why is attacking US military bases abroad justified?
But because they are they are attacking us. They are mil US military you know uh
installations facilities bases who are attacking us. We are under attack. Why
don't you you know recognize this this this fact we are under the attack by US
by US forces in the region. So we have every right to defend ourselves and how to defend ourselves we attacked you know
the the the US bases. This is obvious. This is a very simple fact and I hope
that and I'm sure that people would would understand that we are not the one who attacked Americans. We are only
defending ourselves are American uh troops and installations
in the Middle East to the long range offensive capabilities of the Iranian
military. Well, you know what what's happened right now? For example, they made a big
point of attacking the fifth fleet facility in Bahrain. It's a naval, it's a port. That port is critical for
providing service to say US destroyers who remember these destroyers come
equipped with 96 um missile slots. I think they got 50 up front and 40 46 stern. And they're
vertical launch system. So when they launch either Tomahawk cruise missiles or Eegis air defense missiles out of
those tubes, the only way to replace them is to sell to a port. Previously,
they could sail into Bahrain and go there. Not now. Iran has closed the
straight of Hormuz. You've got several US Navy ships that are now basically trapped inside the Persian Gulf and
Iran's got the air ship anti-hship missiles to take those out. I don't know if they have yet, but I think they will.
Number one, so now this means the United States when it's in a in a fight with
the Abraham Lincoln uh carrier in the Arabian Sea accompanied by, you know,
last I checked it was like three destroyers and maybe up to four. Once they're run out of missiles, they got
the nearest port is three three and a half days away at Diego Garcia.
Wow. So, so what we what we have right now is a situation that we cannot
sustain an attack, a naval attack from the south with just the one aircraft
carrier cuz they there's no nearby port they can sail to to get reloaded. So,
three days out, three days back, that's a week. How um how sustained is the American
attack? Is it regular, consistent, systematic without a break or does it go for a couple of hours and they stop and
then they come back? Well, they've got the they can't sustain it continuously because they're they're
using uh the landbased is from planes that are flying out and dropping uh
dropping airguided missiles, airto ground missiles. Um, and again, the same
applies the the the ships that are f those destroyers that are uh firing off
Tom Hawk cruise missiles. Once they fire, they're done. They'll have to wait till they can go reload. Uh, we under I
do understand that Iran has fired some missiles and drones at at the ship at
the carrier strike force. Don't know what the effect has been. We do know that in Bahrain they hit the facility
that housed US naval officers. It's on fire. So the the possibility that they
have uh killed some US naval personnel. Uh you got Bahrainis cheering as Iranian
missiles are slamming in to this US naval facility. But at the same time
what you have is the other countries. You know Saudi Arabia has now declared war on Iran. Uh, I'm sure that Qatar and
United Arab Emirates are going to follow suit and fine. Up to this point, Iran has targeted only the military targets,
the US military targets in these countries. But if those countries want to start getting into it with Iran, Iran
will take out their oil. And Iran very well can do that. And that will be especially true if the West tries to
attack Iranian oil facilities and oil fields. They will then in turn light up
the entire Persian Gulf and say goodbye to 25% of the world's petroleum.
Put your um economics hat on in which I know you are well schooled. What is
going to happen to the price of oil slash gasoline
once the straight of Hormuz is closed for more than just a few hours? Yeah. No, it's it's going to go up. Um
you people have estimated it could go up as you you get the the price of oil could go up$1 $120 a barrel right now
Brent last I checked the Brent price you know the oil selling forward was at around 70 72 so it's headed up but it's
it it's it's it's going to go up dramatically now it appears that China
China had an inkling about this because they started loading up on oil big time over the last four weeks. So they've
they've increased their uh their stock their their their reservoirs. Uh same
can't be said though for Japan or Indonesia or Malaysia. And Iran's
playing a you know I think they're they're playing a deliberate hard ball game here that they're they're not going
to stop like they did last June. Last June they there was a deal cut with the United States. I said, "Look, let us
bomb these nuclear sites and we'll let you hit alouded and then you can continue selling oil to China and we'll
walk away and call it even." And Iran went, "All right." And they received,
you know, Peskin and received some criticism for that. Well, that's not going to happen this time. There's no
deal. there is no deal the United States can offer them short of saying uh yes
you we'll remove all sanctions immediately all s and and Iran say we're
going to continue bombing until those sanctions are off so remove the sanctions and you are free to develop uh
and enrich uranium however you want Iran is not going to be compelled to back
down to fight how did did it happen that uh the
Americans or the Israelis, I don't know who did this, uh attacked a school for
little girls which killed 105 of them. Yeah. It's, you know, they they have
more faith in the accuracy of their weapon systems that don't always work. And and this is you know killing
children you know you remember judge the kind of reaction we had in in the United States
on 911 2001. Sure. And on on 912 2001 the political
differences that had existed in the country on September 10th
disappeared largely disappeared overnight. All of a sudden we were all Americans. We weren't Republican or
Democrat or independent. We were Americans. We had been attacked and we were by God going to make those who
attacked us pay. Well, guess what? That's exactly what's going on today in
Iran. And they've got the bodies of 105 little girls to to stand there and look
at and they were in the midst. They had they had trusted us again, right?
We said we were having peace talks. They were willing to make concessions on Thursday. They said, "Oh, hey, we made
progress. We look forward to Monday." And then Trump, he's worse than Adolf Hitler. He did
exactly what Hitler did on September 1st, 1939. To attack a country that had
not attacked us.
uh Muhammad Morandi your and my uh longtime friend told us the same thing
uh about the unity of the Iranian people as a result of the attack. It's like
Americans on December 8th, 1941. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly right. Right. You know,
right, right. How um how vulnerable is this real? Very vulnerable. You know,
they what they didn't learn, they should have was in June, you we're told they
went to the United States say, "Hey, get us out of this. You know, we can't we we're running out of missiles." Well,
they had not been able to resupply, restock the uh basically the Iron Dome,
the missiles they fire just like what is fired out of the Patriots. And the, you know, the annual production on that in
the United States was asked to have made it 700 a year. And yet, when you realize that every Patriot missile when there's
an inbound target, they're going to fire at least two. And you know, let's say
that so far uh Iran has fired 50 at uh Israel. Well, there's a hundred gone.
And and that that's like 15% of annual production in one day gone. So, we've
already seen images of missiles penetrating Iran, Israel's uh so-called
air defense Iron Dome system, direct strike in Tel Aviv about an hour ago.
So, Iran's going to Iran's just going to pick them apart. I I think Iran will opt
to do more of its strikes at night at again at government facilities, at
military uh headquarters, intelligence headquarters, and and at industrial
sites to minimize loss of civilian life because unlike the Israelis, the
Iranians are not into seeing how many civilians they can kill. Uh Chris, play the we don't know who he
is or what his rank is. We just know he's an Iranian military official, but he's making some very interesting
statements. Chris, the Iranian military official. Trump should know that we are equipped
with the most advanced capabilities today to fight with you for years. At
the start of the war, we'll use whatever we have in storage, but as it goes on, we'll launch our most powerful missiles.
The things we haven't revealed yet, the ones we Iranians say we've been keeping
in reserve, we'll unveil those in these days as well.
Same thing that Scott Ritter told us this morning. Yeah. Well, uh, we've got Alistister
Crook, uh, Professor Morandi, uh, Max Blumenthal.
They all were in Iran about a year ago now, and they all saw several of the
ballistic missiles in the different stages what Iran has developed and got some sense, you know. So, these are the
Iranians are very serious people on this. They're not this this guy is not a
gas bag just, you know, mouthing off to be mouthing off. He's actually telling the truth. And when you see the the
there are videos online, you can see them on YouTube of these, they call them missile cities. These are enormous
underground passageways where you can drive trucks. They're like a full semi-trail.
They got the mobile launchers and they've got the missiles after missile as far as you can see. We're not talking
about 10 or 12. I mean, we're talking about literally you can see hundreds in one passageway. Well, I'm guessing
they've got lots of those and and so the what it's not like you've got fixed
launchers and people run out and like Cape Canaveral and put the missile out and fire because that's easy to destroy.
What Iran has are mobile missile launchers which are extremely almost
impossible for the US to detect and very difficult to destroy. This is a U
Iranian missile striking in downtown Tel Aviv. This just released a moment ago, Larry.
10:39 uh Tel Aviv time. So that's about an hour about 45 minutes ago.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Steve, no air defense, right?
And and and and they're going to continue doing this. Uh Iran will do this. uh you know until they run you
know they may eventually run out of missiles but I see the other thing they've got going for them is they've
got the ability to produce underground so they will continue building underground they've got supply chains in
place with China and Russia and then see here's the problem the United States has some of the some of these air defense
missiles I'm sure include rare earth minerals that are no longer being
exported to the United States that China's withholding. And so you're going
to you're going to run into a situation where the ability of the United States to sustain an air campaign is going to
be extremely limited. One reason, you know, they started off at these bases in Saudi Arabia at Prince Sultan and in
Jordan, Mwafik al-Salti, and but now Iran is attacking those. And again, the
Patriot missiles aren't working. They're not preventing the missiles from getting through. So, they're going to have to
relocate those assets to where? Well, somewhere farther away. Turkey said,
"Uh-uh, not using us." So, it means they probably go out to Cyprus. Wow.
And then then they take off from there and they got a long flight and multiple air refuelers. So, it really creates
some logistical problems for the United States that in the past they could fly out of Jordan, fly out of Saudi Arabia,
and Iran wasn't bothering them. Not now. Iran's taking out every US base that's
there and making it un unusable. Wow. Uh what does
the fact that this is the second time uh that Trump has lulled Iran into a
false sense of security uh and attacked Iran in the midst of negotiations
literally when negotiation a negotiation session was scheduled in the next 24 or
48 hours. What does this do to the Russia US negotiations?
I think it kills it. Now, let's you know the old saying, you know, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on
me. Well, shame on Iran. They took the bait again. They got they got Lucied.
You know, when Charlie Brown would try to kick the football and Lucy had pulled it away, they did it for the second time. Now, Putin's had that done to him
with the mints, too. He got played as well. Um, I think the only thing you can
conclude is not a word that comes out of Steve Witoff's mouth can be trusted
because he, you know, he's supposed to say, "Okay, yeah, we made some good progress. We'll have talks again on
Monday with no no intent whatsoever to have those talks on Monday."
He's just he's just a a tool and he's playing the same role with Russia. So I I would not be surprised the next time
Witov tries to call up uh Vladimir Putin said I'd like to stop by and we can chat. Putin's going to say sorry we're
uh we don't have time for you. We're too busy at home. How long uh can the United
States sustain this given the difficulties you've described about
refueling, caring, and all those problems attendant upon planes taking
off from ships? Uh probably no more than eight weeks. And I base that upon what
we saw last March. Remember when Trump with great fanfare announced, "Oh, we got Operation Ruff Rider, that uh
Operation Prosperity Guardian that the wimpy Biden administration tried. We're
now going to show those Houthies who's boss." And so we put two aircraft carriers in the Red Sea at one point. Uh
we had five destroyers at least. Uh and we tried for seven weeks. And in that
7-week period, you know, pre in the previous like 15 months, u the the
Houthis had shot down one predator drone a month after uh Donald Trump started
Operation Ruff Rider. We they were shooting down one a week. And at the end of seven weeks, we had lost three FA18
uh helicopters. We'd had two Navy Seals drown. uh we had lost uh you know so the
total was like 800 almost $800 million worth of drones gone in the previous 15
months with uh $220 million of that in just seven weeks. So you know I use that
as that's a benchmark. What did we do? We declared victory and left and and the and the Red Sea remained
closed to traffic for Israel. Now what we're going to see in the next day or
two are the Houthies. They're they're they're climbing back in the saddle. They're going to be firing missiles into
Israel. And I I believe Hezbollah will respond as well. This is this is going
the the Shia movement throughout the Middle East, I believe, is now going to take the fight, not just to Israel, but
to the United States. our uh friend and colleague, Colonel Douglas McGregor, who will be on with me
tomorrow at 5:30 in the afternoon, has just informed us that the US base in
Saudi Arabia is under attack. You're not surprised to hear that? Oh, no, no, not at all. Um and and
that's like I said, they're uh Iran's making a point. They're going to crush and destroy make unlivable all these
bases where the United States has operated for years. And frankly, you're going to get uh the destruction of those
bases. You're going to get a lot of Saudis cheering it. A lot, you know, not the royal family, you know, not those
but the average the average Saudis is going to be cheering it. And you got a lot of you got 20% Saudi
Arabia, 20% of the population Shia Muslim. They're going to be cheering it. What what uh do you expect Russia and
China uh might do that they haven't already done uh in light of the um I
don't want to use the word ferocity sustainability frequency whatever you want to call it
of the American attack. Uh well I think they'll do everything they can quietly behind the scenes to
complicate problems for America. Um and uh they they may send additional naval
assets to assist Iran um you know in closing the strait of Hormuz perhaps. Um
they are you know continuing to supply intelligence and they will continue to supply critical critical minerals
through uh that Iran needs to continue building and maintaining its ballistic
missile force. So, you know, they recognized, I think China in particular,
that that this again, this regime change, it had nothing to do with Iran's
so-called quest for a nuclear weapon that they weren't trying to build or trying to get. Uh, and that's, you know,
that's a point that Rey, our friend Rey has made over and over and over, and he is exactly right. Um, this is about
regime change. And the reason we want to change this regime is to stop bricks, to
stop the development of this alternative financial future that does not include the United States or at least doesn't
give the United States the control where it can tell everybody what to do and then if you don't do what we tell you,
we seize your money, we threaten, we make it impossible for you to do international trade. You know, those
days are over and Iran Iran now is seeing a way to break free of that. And
so that that's where this is, you know, this is to destroy Iran and ultimately destroy Russia and China. That's the US
goal. The other US goal is to comply with Netanyahu's wishes to uh to break apart
uh Iran like they did uh like they did Syria. How long before we go, Larry, how long do you think
It's hard to predict, but you're you're the military guy. How long do you think this will go on? Uh I I think it'll go on for at least a
good month if not more. You know there's going to be there's going to be significant economic the US
does not have the ability to bring an end to it militarily. We keep thinking that we do but we don't. Uh neither does
Iran and what what I mean neither does Israel. What Iran has is this enormous
ballistic missile capability that I believe is largely untapped
because they've kept so much of it underground and we've not really had a good measure of what was there. Um and
but we're going to see within two weeks Israel is going to be they're going to be pleading for help and they may and
they may resort to trying to use a nuke on on what they think is a missile site.
Uh and then you know that that adds a whole new layer of uh of danger because
at that point you could see not only Russia and China getting involved but also North Korea North Korea coming to
the aid of Iran and they have nukes. Oh good lord. you know, um
it might have been George Patton who said, you know, fighting a war is like
opening a door in a strange house with a pitched black room behind the door. You
have no idea what's there. And if you go in, you have no idea how you're going to
get out. Yeah. You know, it's always best to say define your objectives clearly and then
put the assets and resources together to achieve those objectives. You know, with operation rough writer to the credit of
of the military planners, they specified very they they laid out very clearly our
goal number one restore freedom of navigation. How do we do that? Well, to restore
freedom of navigation, we've got to stop we've got to stop the Houthis from firing uh ballistic missiles. We got to
take out their ballistic missile capability. So, that was our goal that I'm not saying it was a a doable, but at
least it was a welldefined goal. And we tried for seven weeks where our aircraft
had full run of the air that we weren't having to worry about getting shot down necessarily.
And at seven weeks, we couldn't do it. We could not do we couldn't stop the Houthies. We couldn't reestablish
freedom of navigation. So you step back and say, okay, what's the objective here
and now with respect to Iran? Well, apparently regime change and our goal is
we'll see if we can kill enough of the top leadership that the people will rise up and throw them out. Except our
tactics by killing little girls at school is having the exact opposite
effect. instead of enraging the population against the the the Islamic
Republic, it's building support for it and it's it is it's going to pitch um
you know create a division in in in in the in the Persian Gulf that Gulf allies of the United States. they're going to
be targeted and those countries could very well be easily destabilized because
they are these rich oligarchs who really uh you know don't care much about their
public and you got enough you got enough Shia Muslims in some of those countries that they can wreak havoc. So the we're
looking we're looking for sustained instability and depending on how long the straight
of Hormuz stays shut, you know, Iran is going to keep it shut until it gets an
agreement from the rest of the world that okay, this has got to stop. We
can't keep being attacked unjustly, illegally, and nobody says a thing. So
you're all going to suffer with us until this stops, and it's going to leave the United States isolated. I was surprised
to hear the president, now this is at 3 in the morning. I didn't hear him live, uh, talk about the potential for US
deaths. Chris, I think it's our new cut number two, President Trump on US deaths. The lives of courageous American heroes
may be lost and we may have casualties. That often happens in war. But we're
doing this not for now. We're doing this for the future. And it is a noble
mission. We pray for every service member as they selflessly risk their
lives to ensure that Americans and our children will never be threatened by a
nuclear armed Iran. We ask God to protect all of our heroes in harm's way.
And we trust that with his help, the men and women of the armed forces will
prevail. What is noble about this mission?
Nothing. Yeah. Nothing. Well, you know, Trump stupidly did not learn the lesson of
George HW Bush. Remember, read my lips. No new taxes. See, my lips said it. No
new taxes. And what happened to to Bush? That destroyed public support for him.
And he lost the election to Bill Clinton. an election that he should have easily won having quote just won the war
in in in Iraq against the you know the first first Gulf War. Well, here's Donald Trump who ran on what? We're
tired of these needless senseless wars in the Middle East and we're not going
to do it. And now he's done it. And you know he tries to trot out this lie that Iran was
desperate to build a nuke. They're not. at least weren't and hadn't and they had offered a deal. Come inspect
and and Trump rejected it because as you said uh he he's he's controlled by BB
Netanyahu and other wealthy Zionists and he's unwilling to challenge him and so
what he's done is he has now put America in genuine
danger. Our economy will suffer from this and our standing in the world is
going to suffer dramatically because you know imagine imagine you got a kid who's
you know skinny kid and he's not seen as really a good fighter or he's perceived as not a good fighter and he gets in the
ring with an aging Mike Tyson and he survives three rounds.
Guess what? That kid comes out with respect now. He's proved he could go toe-to-toe with a guy that once was a
super heavyweight champion. Now, the United States at one time was a heavyweight champion, but we've gotten
old. We've gotten fat. We've gotten slow. And we and with that, we've gotten is so arrogant and uh so uncaring of the
rights of others. And that that kind of hubris is going to lead us to destruction.
Larry, I have to tell you, just as an aside, at this moment, you have a truly
enormous live audience. Enormous. And I'm going to ask this enormous live
audience to like and subscribe. Like and subscribe. We're trying to hit 750,000
subscriptions uh this year. So, forgive the the sort of self-promotion there.
Oh, no. Absolutely. the more look the more people that watch and get informed about the reality because again the the
lies that are being told not just by Donald Trump by by JD Vance Larry my friends and former colleagues where I
worked for 20 21 years at Fox News have said a tremendous victory for the United
States. What the hell are they talking about? Well, that may that may be how we get
out of this. We declare victory and leave. Hey, we won. We've done everything we promised to do. They gave
the Iranians a chance to overthrow the mullets on them. Now we're out. See you guys later. Uh I don't think that's going to happen.
And Iran, if uh if if they sink a ship or two, you know, here's what's going to
do in Donald Trump. I think I think this marks the end of his presidency, candidly. Uh cuz when body bags start
coming home and let's say we get uh if we get like 2,000 casualties,
well that's more than we suffered in like 10 years in Iraq. So I mean this could really this could really go south
and sour fast for Trump. And you know what? He could be impeached for taking
the United States to war without congressional approval.
No. uh request to the Congress, no
debate in the Congress, no recognition of the fact that Congress declares war.
Look, when he kidnapped Madura, we claimed it was a law enforcement procedure. We're going after a guy who
was a fugitive from justice. We don't have to involve Congress. He can't claim that now. He's been open about his uh
wish to decapitate, to destroy the state. That's called war.
Yes. Yeah. And and you know, he's he's liable on that front. You know, it'd be it'd be
one thing if there was actually a genuine threat from Iran over, you know, since the establishment of the Islamic
Republic in 1979, Iran has not directly attacked us. Now, they'll say, well, Iran was behind the
bombing of the Marine Barracks in October of 83. No, it actually wasn't. That was a mall. Uh, and and Alistister
Crook can talk at length about that. Amal was a Lebanese Shia group that developed set up and or became started
organizing back in 1972, seven years before there was an Islamic Republic in Iran. But what we do know for sure is
that the United States encouraged Saddam Hussein to attack Iran back in 1980 and then provided the chemical precursors
used to make chemical weapons which killed a minimum a minimum of 250,000
Iranians. And then Americans sit there and why do they chant hate hate to America, you know, death to America? Why
don't they like us? Because we've killed a quarter of a million Iranians. Folks,
wake up. That's why. Larry, thank you very much. Uh my dear
friend, on a slightly lighter note, a much lighter note, have you collected on
your bet from Ray McGovern yet? No. Ray Ray sent a very generous, kind
note, you know, saying and saying, you know, I'll get you your $2. I said, keep
it. Uh I because I wish I sincerely wish Ray had been right.
Same here. Because Larry, we'll uh we'll see you Monday morning. Thank you very much, sir.
Thank you, my dear friend. All the all the best. Byebye. Byebye. Uh thank you for watching uh all
of you. Uh, tomorrow, Sunday, March 1st, 5:30 in the afternoon,
Colonel Douglas McGregor, Judge Laaltano for Judging Freedom.

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US air defence fail to stop Iranian missiles’ fury; Trump ally raises questions | Janta Ka Reporter
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Mar 1, 2026

The news of the Iranian Supreme Leader's death has prompted Iran to intensify its retaliatory strikes across the region. Iran has targeted 27 new US targets in the region overnight. Meanwhile, the much-publicised American air defence system has become completely meaningless as it failed to stop incoming Iranian missiles and drones both at their bases and in Tel Aviv. Rifat Jawaid analyses the rapidly changing developments.



Transcript

So after hours of denying, Iran last
night confirmed the death of Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Khamenei in the joint military
aggression by Israeli and American
terrorists. Also killed in the same
attack were IRGC chief Major General
Muhammad Pakpur and senior adviser to
Ayat Lakami Ali Shamhani, the Supreme
Leader's daughter, his granddaughter and
son-in-law too were killed in these
attacks. Meanwhile, Iran has wreak havoc
across West Asia by raining missiles and
drones since yesterday. The worst hit
has been Dubai, where Iranian missiles
and drones have completely wrecked the
city's image as a safe global business
hub. Elsewhere, Iranian missiles have
made a mockery of the American air
defense system across the Middle East,
particularly in Israel, amidst reports
of at least 200 American soldiers either
killed or injured in Iranian retaliatory
strikes. These would be the topics of my
video today. So, please stay tuned. The
news of Ayat Ali Kam's death has stunned
the Iranians and the Shia world. The
Iranian supreme leader was a spiritual
figure for Shia Muslims around the
world. His followers are agast by the
fact that the Iranian political and
military leadership simply could not
ensure his security despite there being
constant threats from Israeli and
American terrorists. Until yesterday, we
were being told that Kame had been taken
to a safer location even before Israeli
and American strikes began. But that
turned out to be a lie. And this poses
serious questions on the Iranian
government's refusal to learn from last
year's lapses.
This also raises questions on the
Iranian clergy's stubbornness to not do
away with their fatwa or religious
decree that stopped the Islamic Republic
from acquiring nuclear weapons up until
now. Many wonder if they are realizing
what a monumental mistake it was for
them to remain so stupid throughout this
crisis. Worse, they were still being
naive to trust the rogue regime of
Donald Trump and carry out diplomatic
talks.
But the assassination of the supreme
leader is what appears to have prompted
the Iranian military to go berserk or
allout in hitting every single American
interest in the region. and American and
Israeli proxies in the Arab world.
Yesterday, Iran targeted several
strategic and iconic locations in the
UAE, including Fairmont Five-Star Hotel
in Palm JRA, Dubai, Dubai International
Airport, Bourjal Arab, and even Bourj
Khalifa. Although Iranians attempt to
hit BH Khalifa wasn't successful,
according to Iranian media reports, the
choice of Fairmont Hotel over two
Atlantis hotels in the same region was
because of the presence of American and
Israeli spies in the hotel. CIA and
Mossad reportedly reportedly used these
facilities as their regional
headquarters. as Israeli TV channel 12
even tweeted in Hebrew, which translates
as CIA headquarters in Dubai was
attacked with missiles. As the night set
in, Iran launched more attacks on
American interest and its regional
allies. With Dubai's global image as a
safe business hub torn into pieces, Iran
also caused widespread destructions in
Qatar and Bahran. In an astonishing
development, one of Iranian missiles hit
the heart of US Navy's fifth fleet
headquarters in Bahan. Going by the
extent of damage, it's safe to say that
not many would have survived in this
attack. Just so you know, US Navy's
fifth fleet headquarters in Bahran is
home to over 8,000 civilian and military
personnel. Even UK's right-wing TV
channel GB News couldn't stop
broadcasting this truth. you know,
talking about remarkable and astonishing
images all morning, but really look at
this. This is Bahrain. This is the
headquarters of the US Navy fifth fleet
that has clearly uh somewhere within
that vicinity. It has been struck. A
very, very significant plume of thick
black smoke now taken to the skies over
Bahrain. And the thing about this is
it's a joint base. It's a base not just
that the US military, the US Navy uses,
but also the Royal Navy and some other
key allies share that base as well.
Dubai based British journalist Ashin
Ratansi quoted the Iranian news agency
Tashnim to claim that Iranian
retaliatory strikes may have killed or
injured at least 200 US soldiers in
yesterday's attacks. This according to
him would be a death nail for Donald
Trump politically. Well, I mean, many
people see this as the end of Donald
Trump. Tasnim, the agency in Iran, which
uh, you know, I worked and lived in Iran
for a year. We didn't always rely on
Tasnim, an unofficial agency in Thran.
It's reporting that 200 American
soldiers have been killed or wounded
because of this Donald Trump operation.
If the figure is anywhere near that,
that's the worst since the Beirut
barracks bombing in October of 1983.
and that would surely signal the end of
Donald Trump. Already reportedly,
according to some polls, the most
unpopular uh president in US history.
Another UK based right-wing news outlet,
Times Radio, felt that the ferocity of
the Iranian response was set to leave
its enemies in the region doomed.
So, the escalation is is is real and
that means that Iran are are not taking
this lying down. There was a there was a
debate we're told within the theocracy
um last year that they didn't fight back
hard enough and it could be that the
hardliners are winning and that they are
going to inflict pain on US allies or
Western allies in the region in an
effort to get those allies so Saudi in
particular to bluntly talk to Trump talk
to BB Netanyahu and argue you know you
need to hold back. I personally think
that's doomed for the moment. We'll have
to see how this plays out.
Yeah. Sam Alatrush um who's obviously in
the region for the times, he told us
earlier the danger of the Iranian
revolutionary guard going with the view
of use it or lose it with the idea being
that Hezbollah didn't go hard enough
against Israel from their perspective
clearly um and didn't use all of their
arsenal and then were effectively wiped
out. And he says there is a danger that
in Iran they will just think that if we
don't use all of our firepower then we
could just be bombed to oblivion.
Meanwhile, Iranians have been hitting it
targets in the settler colony without
any trouble. Many are raising questions
on the failure of American and Israeli
air defense system. In one instance,
even three Patriot missiles, yes,
Patriot missiles weren't enough to stop
an Iranian missile to hit its target in
Qatar. In Tel Aviv, one American TV
channel broadcast live how an Iranian
missile had hit its target without much
resistance. Mind you, Israeli terrorists
have imposed ruthless censorship on the
broadcast of damages caused by Iranian
missiles. But since this broadcast was
live, even Israeli censorship couldn't
stop the embarrassment for the illegal
settler colony. You can watch all these
clips on our telegram channel and
upscrolled social media platform. But in
the meantime, I will play you the clip
from the broadcast of the American news
outlet. But the reality is when they are
firing that many missiles at one time,
and again, this is the largest missile
barrage we've seen toward the center of
Israel since the US and Israeli strikes
against Iran occurred early this
morning. It can be very challenging to
shoot them down. And again, we're going
to check with first responders right now
to get an understanding of what was hit,
if anything, during that last barrage.
And we'll try to bring you that
information as soon as we get.
You can see here the site of a direct
impact in Tel Aviv. First responders are
currently digging through the debris of
the building behind me. They just pulled
two civilians out. There were a number
of injuries at this location, but the
ongoing ballistic missile fire is making
it incredibly difficult for these first
responders to look for survivors because
every time the siren goes off, they have
to rush into a nearby shelter and get
underground.
The mockery of the American air defense
system was picked up on the show hosted
by Trump's ally, Steve Bannon. I have
gotten confirmation that the radar that
was supposedly hit this morning, our
radar in Bahrain, $300 million piece of
equipment, ENTPS59,
is destroyed. Uh there are likely more
damage to other radar systems. Now, uh,
the key thing here to remember, Steve,
that it is very obvious now that the
Iranian strategy is to first degrade
American, Arab, and Israeli abilities to
detect incoming missiles. I just got
word from uh somebody on the ground in
the Middle East. Their belief is that uh
Iran is attempting to degrade all of our
air defenses in the region, believing
that they will be depleted soon and then
they are preparing to launch a massive
swarm attack with our depleted air
defenses not being able to defend
against them. Again, we don't know for
sure if that's going to happen, but I do
think that seems to be the plan right
now. The US air defenses, as I said
earlier though, have held up relatively
so far, but it does seem like these are
all shaping operations, Steve. I don't
think the big one has even started yet.
And there's rumors now that the British
might be coming in to backfill some of
these um
air defense systems. So, we'll see what
happens with that.
We got a we've got a clip of Starbur
just um
Hifa's also, by the way, Hifa has may
have been hit as well in the last hour.
That is still waiting to be confirmed,
but there is some compelling video
that's been released in the last 30
minutes that indicates perhaps an
Iranian long-range missile did in fact
get through.
Uh describe explain to the audience when
you say shaping. These are all shaping
evolutions. What is shaping? What does a
shaping evolution in the early stages of
uh of combat operations mean?
Yeah, it's just like the name suggests.
Basically, before the big battle or the
big war initiates, you want to go in and
kind of mold the environment through
directed attacks and sort of covert
maneuvers so that your main forces when
they arrive have as much uh maneuvering
room and favorable environment, a
permissive environment as possible.
We're doing it, the Israelis are doing
it to Iran. It looks like the Iranians
are trying to do it to us with these
missile strikes on radar systems and
whatnot. So, that's what's going on
right now. But the the if you look at
the the size of this thing, to me, it
doesn't seem yet large enough to
accomplish that which President Trump is
claiming he wants to accomplish. So
that's why I say it's shaping
operations.
As I speak, Iran has once again hit 27
American bases across West Asia. The
assassination of the Ayatah is indeed a
setback for the Iranian government. But
this hasn't come as a shock to them.
Even the himself expected this when he
told a gathering last year that his body
was of little use as he was an old man
with a frail body. Of course, he was
being philosophical about the certainty
of death.

[Ayatollah Khamenei] We did what we had to do
We have said what needed to be said
and we will continue to say it
My life has little value
I have a disabled body
I have a little bit of dignity
which you yourself have given me
I put all this on the line
I am ready to sacrifice everything
for the sake of this revolution and for Islam
May all this be sacrified for you
O our leader, O our master
pray for us
You are our owner
You are the owner of this country
You are the owner of this revolution
You are our support
We will continue on this path
We will continue with strength
Support us on this path
With your prayers
Support us on this path
With your attention
Support us on this path

But the Iranian officials have lost
enough members of their political and
military leadership in the last few
years to realize the possibilities of
such assassination. ations by their
enemies. In all likelihood, a new
Supreme Leader would be elected pretty
soon, either during the 40-day morning
period or after that. In the meantime,
the role of the Supreme Leader may be
discharged by a group of four clerics
who the Ayatah himself had handpicked
when he was alive. That's it for me. I
shall be back with more updates later
today. Thank you very much for your
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Scott Ritter: Iran's Hypersonic Missiles DEVASTATE Tel Aviv & Haifa, Ayatollah Khamenei DEAD
Danny Haiphong
Streamed live 4 hours ago #iran #trump #israel

Scott Ritter reacts to Iran's Operation True Promise 4 escalating overnight in heavy retaliation to US-Israeli strikes. Tel Aviv and a host of US bases in region came under heavy fire, and the former UN Weapons Inspector joins to break down what happened and what it means for the future of the war, Trump and much more.



Transcript

Welcome everyone. Welcome back to the show. It's your host Danny Hiong. As you can see, I am joined by former UN weapons inspector, US Marine Corps
intelligence officer, and current geopolitical analyst and author Scott Ritter. Scott, thanks so much for
joining me again. Thanks for having me. Yes. Uh it's been it's been too long in
these times, Scott, unfortunately, because we've had an absolutely historic
uh crisis erupt. The US and Israel have launched a war of aggression on Iran and
Iran has launched its retaliation. There are reports that Iran has been uh uh
gradually escalating its retaliation to include the FATA, I believe two uh older
hypersonic missiles. Now, uh a lot of the focus has been on both US bases and
Israel. I'm just going to pull up some of the footage lately of Israel because there's been a lot of strikes there uh
overnight. Uh here is uh just some of the footage that's coming out of there
in Tel Aviv and also in Bait Sheamesh, which um I believe is militarily significant. Here we go.
this fun.
So there's a missile hitting there and then here's in bait sheamesh. Oh [ __ ] it's a [ __ ] rocket. Oh
my. So a lot of this has been going on, Scott, and it has actually led to
significant casualties. Of course, Israel has a long history of under reporting, but I believe 12 have died in
Beamesh, Tel Aviv. The numbers are a little muddled. Uh, Iran is also saying in strikes on Kuwait, the military bases
in Kuwait, there has been US casualties. The US has denied this. How about you take us to where we are now in this war
now that we have entered day two. Well, first of all,
I mean, no, this isn't meant as a a swipe on you, but uh
the the war porn of looking at things blow up and counting bodies is totally irrelevant to what's happening here.
This is a regime change operation. Uh and that's all people should be focused about because everything else is simply
a distraction. Um, you know, you can easily match the um the the missile
strikes on Israel and on Gulf Arab states with the complete devastation of uh downtown Thyron that's taking place
as we speak and other Iranian cities as well. Um, you know, the the the reality
is this conflict has unleashed weapons of extraordinary uh lethality. Um and
you know each side is going to keep trading um blows and so we're just going
to get more of this and more of this and more of this and uh you know it it it's viscerally pleasing I guess um to in a
sort of sickening way to to watch this uh depending on which side of the uh aisle you're on. Um, I'm sure the anti-
um Islamic regime people are just thrilled every time they see a giant cloud of uh smoke rising from Thran or
other Iranian cities. Uh, tragically, one of those clouds of smoke
hit a children's school and over 100 little girls are dead. But, you know,
the bloodthirsty uh war mongers don't seem to to care about that. And of
course those who um believe that the US and Israeli aggression against Iran is illegal, unjustified, uncalled for. Um
uh silently cheer every time Iran strikes a blow against uh you know their
attackers. Um but this isn't what this is about. This isn't about body counts.
This isn't about the accumulation of destroyed facilities, etc. This is about regime change. This is a regime change
operation. Um and this operation began with a decapitation strike against um
Iran. It was the most predictable decapitation strike in the history of decapitation strikes. Um I mean even an
analyst as misguided as me according to many in your chat um you know called it accurately. I said the first thing that
will happen is that they will kill Ali Kaman. It's an absolutely essential part
of their plan because they want to um create the impression of a weakened
Islamic Republic and then they will suppress and that's what's happening today is the ongoing bombardment of the
Iranian revolutionary guard command and bus siege and police facilities in around uh Thrron and other cities so
that the Iranian people can do the bidding of Donald Trump who in his 8-minute statement announcing this conflict on his social media platform
truth social uh said, you know, America will do its job. We will blow these
people up, kill these people, but then it's up to you, the Iranian people, to rise up and take matters into your own
hand. This is a once-ina-lifetime opportunity. You must do this. So, we know what's at stake here. Regime
change. Um, you know, but we also therefore see the fatal flaw in the
American plan. The first six bombs that struck Iran killed Ali Kame and a number
of Iranian officials that were around him. The first six bombs. And those
first six bombs spelled the doom of the American effort. We lost the war at that
moment because we don't understand anything. to all the ignorant people in
your chat and in other people's chat and around the world. If you want to
discredit Ali Kame, you keep him alive. You have him running from bunker to
bunker to bunker while Iran is destroyed. You show his impotence as a
leader. Um and then you openly mock this impotence on social media abroad
promoting uh the strength of those whom you seek to replace him with. For
instance, the sha's son Raa Palevi could get on the air over and over again and
say, "Where is Ali Kaman? Where is your supreme leader hiding in a bunker while
you pay the price for his sins?" That's how you destroy Ali Kaman. Do people
know anything about the Shia faith? All you haters in the chats out there, do you know Jack's squad about it? Do you
know what the Battle of Carbala is? 10 October, I think, uh, 688, something
like that. Um, do you know who Hussein is? You know, Hussein leading the
faithful in the battle of Carbala was martyed at the hands of, you know, the unbelievers. Um, do you know who Ali is?
Do you know the significance of the last posting on Ali Kam's exac account where
they invoke Ali? Um, you you just made a
martyr of one of the most important religious figures in the Shia faith, second only
to Sistani out of Njaf, the uh the twerver.
Do you guys even know what twvers are? If I say twver, the ignorance people out there promoting this conflict. you even
know what I'm talking about. If you don't, that's why we lost. See, the the twer uh faith um is the largest branch
of the Shia faith. Uh and it it deals with succession of uh the caliphate um
etc. You guys can Google it, you can look it up, do your own research, but the fact is that you don't know about
it. Donald Trump doesn't know about it. Uh Pete Hexath certainly doesn't know about it. Um, and anybody who planned
this attack doesn't know about it. If the goal was to empower the Iranian people who are opposed to the regime of
the Islamic Republic to rise up in the streets and take matters into their own hands, look at the streets of Iran
today. I have video, Scott. I have video. I can show I can show the streets of Iran
today. So, here's one video. Uh, I believe there's another. Let me see if I have
it. Um, here we go. There's another one here.
So, all of this is in reaction to the confirmed uh killing assassination of
Ayat Ali. Continue. Scott, well, my point is
you just made it impossible for regime change to take place. you've just provided, you know, more legitimacy to
the Islamic Republic than you could possibly imagine. And for all the morons out there, um, and I I don't mean to be
too insulting, Danny, but I'm in an insulting mood. I was up all day talking about this, reading about this, writing
about this, and I've just basically had it up to here with stupidity. So, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to
turn off your comments because otherwise I'm just going to go apeshit at some of the stupidity that's there.
It's a large crowd today, Scott. It's a large crowd. So, we're going to get a lot of stupid. I'm sure there's smart people in
there, too. But, you know, my god, I've never seen such ignorance in my entire life. So, uh, and it's not just here.
It's everywhere. Judge Npalitano has a very large and active audience, many of whom are just stupid and ignorant like
the many people in this audience. Um, you don't know what you're talking about. You literally don't know what
you're talking about. Iran is a constitutional republic, an Islamic republic, but a constitutional republic.
And therefore, do you does anybody realize what just happened? Because constitutionally when the supreme
leader, Vilat Ephaki, guardian of the sup supreme jurist juristprudence, do you even know what this is? You stupid
people, Donald Trump, the leader of the stupid people. Do you know what this is?
And do you know what happens when he dies? They form a special committee. the president, the head of the judiciary,
and somebody appointed by the assembly of experts. Do you guys know what that is? No, you don't, do you? No, you guys
are just so stupid. The Assembly of Experts who will designate the next Supreme Leader in consultation, but they
will appoint somebody on this uh three-person committee to continue the government of Iran. Now the person
that they have appointed again how stupid can people be if the
purpose of this strike was to create the conditions in which Iran could not have
a nuclear bomb. You just killed the one man that stopped Iran from having a nuclear bomb. Has any
of you brilliant uh you chat misters u studied the buildup to the 12-day war in
June and what was going on there? the internal discussion and debates taking place in Iran about whether or not they
should in fact build a nuclear bomb to deter the very kind of action that's taking place today. And at the end of
the day, and I got this personally from the Iranian president who is still alive, um he told me in a question I
asked him in September, he said, you know, we don't want a nuclear bomb. You
know, he said, there's two things. when secularly speaking, we view the path to a nuclear bomb to be suicidal. Uh that
we only invite our own destruction. But he said as importantly or even more importantly
from a religious standpoint, the supreme leader has issued not one but two fatwas
or religious edicts saying that the pursuit of a nuclear bomb is incompatible with Islam
and therefore Iran is not pursuing a nuclear bomb. Do you guys know the guy
they just appointed to be the the new supreme leader designate?
He thinks differently. You see, he actually is a part of the Shia faithful
who believe that even though the original fatwa which was put about out by um you know the Ayatollah Hi, not
Kane but Humei again idiots look it up. Um he said no we're not going to presume
it's incompatible with Islam. Ali Kam continued this saying this is the desire
but theologists when you look at the Shia faith you know you have the ability
first of all the thing about the Shia faith I'm just just going to give these ignorant people a little quick class here you know how you become an
ayatollah in the Shia faith you you spend about 30 to 40 years studying
you know the Quran studying the hadith um so but you you have a final test you
have to pass you See, because the Shia faith is very democratic. If
you want to become a grand ayatollah, you have to form what's known as a
marga, a marga or you have to become a mara through aa. You have to basically
rally people to your cause. You have to show yourself to be worthy of the faithful. So you will write a you will
pick an element of Islamic juristprudence and you will write your interpretation of it because you are
after all a great religious scholar. So you pick something music on the radio.
How is it compatible with Islam? And you write this up and you put it out there and the people read it and they say wow
I like this the way this guy thinks. I like the approach this guy's taking. And then they come to your mara and you
develop a flock. And if you show that you can develop a flock, a self- sustaining flock, because they rely on
donations and the whole thing, then you've passed that hurdle and you can move up. But what happens if you publish
your little thesis and the people read it and they go, "Nah, not buying this one and you got nothing.
You failed the test." Now, Ali Kame uh has said that the fatwa no is no nuclear
weapons. But the point is in the Shia faith, the the role of Islam in society
is not dictated by what happened during the time of Muhammad or Ali or Hussein.
It's dictated on modern realities. Um and so those people who the Shia
understand that you can say one thing and say 1700 and it had no longer
applies today because society has changed. Times have changed. And in that debate leading up to um the 12-day war
um in the reaffirmation by Ali Kam and the president that they do not seek a nuclear bomb, there were many
theological scholars who were advising Kame that you could change your fatwa if
the conditions surrounding the issuance of the original fatwa were no longer in play. For instance, if Iran was
threatened by Israel, uh, who has nuclear weapons, Iran would be able to
reconsider this fatwa and under extraordinary circumstances determined that Iran could have a nuclear weapon.
The guy who was making that argument is now the senior Islamic cleric in Iran.
You stupid idiots. The man who believes that Iran has a
right to have a nuclear bomb is now the guy that interprets the Islamic faith
for the Islamic Republic. And the people of Iran are in the streets saying this
is what we want. How stupid can you be? Well, the answer is extraordinarily
stupid. And so now we see the the reality. This Islamic Republic is not
built on the backs of one man. It's built on the back of a constitution that
is being applied as we speak. No deviation from the constitution whatsoever. Things are going exactly the
way the constitution says it must happen and on the backs of the faithful. And
you just empowered the faithful to say we need nuclear weapons.
Now we're in a very dangerous position. But let's continue down the path of regime
change for a second. You see, regime change is a double-edged sword. Donald Trump unshathed it along with Israel and
sought to wield it against the Iranians. But it cuts both ways.
Donald Trump lost the war on day one. the first six bombs that fell on on uh
Iran. He lost the war, which means there will be regime change in the
United States before there's regime change in Iran. Donald Trump's cult of personality will
not survive the midterm elections. Because in order to win the midterm elections, Donald Trump needed to
deliver a very quick, relatively bloodless war to the American people. One that accomplished what no other
American president in 47 years has been able to do. but instead he's going to go
down the path of yet another failed president who's gotten the United States involved in a long drawn out war that we
won't win. Uh we will lose we don't know how many lives we will lose but it'll be
devastating. The Iranians will not buckle. There will be no popular uprising in Iran to overthrow the
regime. Ali Kame is a martyr now. A martyr. A martyr of the significance of
Hussein himself. a martyr that in the eyes of the Shia faithful is the equal
to Ali. That's why the last posting on the on his exac account invoked Ali, a
symbol of defiance. And so the Shia faithful rally around Ali Kam,
a man who was what 88 years old at his death 86 but closer 86 uh had disease. U his biggest fear
was to die a fragile old man. He said he wanted to go out a martyr. People keep saying why did he stay in his residence
knowing what was going to happen. Why did Hussein lead the charge against the
unfaithful in the battle of Carbala? Because he chose martyrdom. He chose
martyrdom as a way of exposing the lack of Islamic uh adherence on the part of
the Umayid Khifs. He chose martyrdom to protect his followers who were seeking
to flee from the battle. Ali Kaman, this frail old man, didn't want to die hiding
in a bunker, allowing his legacy to be tarnished by those who diminished him
through that action. Ali Kame sat down with a circle of fellow martyrs.
Everybody at that meeting knew what was going to happen. And they knew that
through their sacrifice they would elevate the cause of the Islamic Republic back into the heart and soul of
the Iranian people. And that is manifest today. Ali Kam chose martyrdom. We gave
it to him because we are truly the stupidest people on the planet. We don't
know anything about the people that we seek to engage in combat with. We disrespect their faith. We disrespect
everything about them. And what's going to happen is has been actually
pre-ordained by American admirals. The, you know, Trump fired the uh
director of the joint chiefs of staff for having the temerity to say we don't have enough uh ammunition to finish this
job. Yeah. We're going to start something and we can't finish it. uh if we don't get this quick uh revolution in the streets um
and the Iranians decide to resist then uh we will run out of ammunition
before they run out of resistance and then we lose this war and when we lose this war the American people will be
awoken to the reality that Donald Trump is not the president of a peace but he is a pro-Israeli wararmonger that put
Israel above American interests sacrificed the lives of Americans slaughtered innocent Iranians these dead
school children will become sort of the poster child of the pery of the United States who once again use diplomacy as a
means of setting up a surprise attack. We will never be trusted by anybody again, nor should we. But this is the
end of Donald Trump. his regime will collapse in the midterm elections and he
will spend the last two years of his presidency being impeached and if this war goes bad enough maybe being
convicted and being hauled out of the White House in an orange jumpsuit in handcuffs because that is his faith
regime change. This is going to be one of the most successful regime change operations in the history of regime
change operations, but is literally a self-inflicted wound by Donald Trump on his own political legacy.
Yeah, know I really appreciate all that, Scott. I think it's really important especially for American audiences to
hear exactly what you just said. And I want to just pull up uh just to
emphasize a point that you made. uh you know uh Ali Rajani said it directly to
the media that he insisted on living his life normally without any exceptional
measures like hiding in bunkers. And when I saw that, Scott, I said this was
a calculated move to unite the Iranian people and it's and
it and it's working and you know and what did Ali Ham Ham say just what was it a few weeks ago when there was all
kinds of rumors about strikes? He publicly said there was a a a succession plan, a strategy that's already been put
into place very rapidly. And Scott, we see the response. Iran is is is, you
know, hitting back. Their their operations have not been disrupted. At least this is what I'm seeing. What are you seeing?
No, it's the same thing. I mean, you say their operations aren't being disrupted. Of course, they are. Iran's being pounded by the most
technologically advanced militaries in in in the world. uh the Israeli military
which achieved its you know technological prominence because of American weaponry and the
United States which of course when you pour in nearly a trillion dollars a year
or 1 point 1.5 trillion if this budget goes through uh you you better have
advanced weapons and so we are inflicting death and destruction on Iran as we speak but Iran is a very large
nation four times the size of Iraq 90 million uh population um that have How
again threatening to bomb people to death in a nation that reveres martyrdom
is really the dumbest path to take. As you said, Ali Kame opted to stay at home
and do his business from home together with people who believe the same thing because they are leaders. Uh they are
going to lead by example. And the example for Iran to set right now is their willingness to uh absorb the the
damage inflicted by, you know, the evil modern-day Umayids, uh Trump and
Benjamin Netanyahu. Um because they believe in the end that they will emerge
victorious. Um, so we are blowing things up, but the Iranians are responding and
they're responding in a way that took everybody um, offguard because I think most people thought that Iran would
respond directly to Israel and then there would be a sort of a escalation ladder taking place as they started to
strike one American base, then another, then another in an effort to get the United States and Israel to the negotiating table. But Iran literally
just went out and hid everything. And even the Trump administration like we didn't
expect this to happen. They've hit us in a way that nobody's ever hit us before and they're sustaining that. Um, you
know, yes, we are blowing things up, but if we don't understand that for the last 20 years, Iran has been preparing for
this very scenario that Iran understands better than we do what we do. Um, you
know, they will take losses, but they will continue to launch as we're seeing now. and they have prepared stockpiles
that are successfully hidden, sequestered, spread out that they'll be able to draw upon for months. Um, we on
the other hand will run out of ammunition in weeks. Uh, you know, and again we we look at regime change just
to look at coming at from a targeting perspective. Um, again for the ignorant masses in your chat and everybody else's
chat, um, I used to do this for a living, so shut up and listen. uh when
you know we prepare a strategic air campaign of this nature, we have objectives that we want to reach. We say
that by this period of time we should achieve this results. Then we move to this and that and it's sort of a campaign of sequential events that uh
that build up on one another till you get to the culminating moment which is the collapse of of the enemy that you
were targeting. We have a finite amount of resources. So we take these resources and we allocate them accordingly. We put
them on for instance the first phase, the first goal objective to achieve that and then we take these resources and
reapply them part of a planned process to achieve the next and the next and the next and the next. But what happens and
it happened in the Gulf War where for instance we had resources two F-15E Strike Eagle squadrons that were applied
to one of the primary phase one objectives of suppressing Iraqi ballistic missile launch capability in
western Iraq. and we send them out to strike fixed arm launchers and hit the mobile launch sites. Um, and according
to the plan, we were supposed to have achieved all this on the second day. First day of primary strikes, second day
of restrikes, and then we have wiped that target deck off and we moved these squadrons over to their next mission
assignments which await them outside of Bazra and outside of Baghdad. But we
didn't destroy anything. The missiles kept launching. So we had to keep these F-15E squadrons on target and reinforce
them diverting resources away from the other target decks to go down this route and it degraded the strategic air
campaign. But at that time we had sufficient resource. We had a lot of airplanes, a lot of bombs. So we just lengthened the strategic air campaign
and we rode out this problem set. Um here we have a strategic campaign that
is crippled from the start by insufficient resources. The admiral that was fired said, "We don't have enough
airplanes and we don't have enough bombs, so we can't do what you want us to do." But the others came in and said,
"No, no, we've planned this very carefully. We are going to kill a bunch of people. The first six bombs are going
to kill Kamee and 40 people and that will cascade the the collapse of the
regime and then we move to suppression of the security forces and then we achieve regime change and we win." and
Trump could do his stupid little Trump YMCA moronic dance. Um, so they fired a
whole bunch of missiles, a whole bunch of missiles to achieve regime change. If you heard what we just said, I hope the
audience is listening. The regime has not collapsed. It has fallen on the constitution and the president of Iran
has is sits at the head of a three-person uh succession committee until they elect a new supreme leader.
There is the Assembly of Experts, which by the way is democratically elected. I want to remind all you haters out there
that Iran is probably the most successfully functioning democracy in the Middle East. Um, and they elect the
assembly of experts who then through the will of the people monitor the supreme leader and will select the new supreme
leader. And the regime continues. It's there. It's a viable. It is functioning. We failed in regime change. So all of
those resources that we used up on day one are gone. And now we have to reallocate resources to continue hunting
down the regime. And so we have already put ourselves behind the eightball. And we're chasing something that we'll never
catch up to because we don't have time. We don't have time because we don't have the resources. We don't have the ammunition. We're burning through our
ammunition at rates that we'll never be able to replenish. And it's not just what we're doing against Iran, what Iran
is doing against us. By continuing to fly these attacks, they are sucking up
resources. Over a thousand Iranian missiles were launched on day one. The average expenditure rate for the air
defense is three to four missiles per missile. That means that we have burned through 3 to 4,000 interceptor missiles
and the missiles are still flying. The Iranians have planned a campaign that will last months. We have the ability to
sustain this for maybe another week and then we run out of missiles. We got nothing left. Nothing. And just again
for all you genius geopolitical analysts out there, when I say nothing, that means we have nothing in the Pacific.
What would happen if China decided they wanted to take Taiwan right about now? We got nothing. All our cruise missiles
are being chewed up. All our interceptor missiles are gone. What would happen? I mean, Russia's not
going to do it. But if Russia wanted to make a move on Europe, we got nothing. Nothing. This is the stupidity of this.
We gambled everything to achieve what? To make Israel happy.
The Iranians had agreed to. There's a wonderful post on X written by uh one of
the diplomatic advisers to uh the the ruler of Oman who was managing this um
negotiation and he talks about what had been accomplished and he said that the
deal that was agreed to by the Iranians got rid of their nuclear enrichment
program and everything but name only. Meaning that if you wanted to ensure that Iran would never have a nuclear
weapon, this was the deal. This would have been Donald Trump's great peacemaking diplomatic victory. Peace
through strength. Threaten an attack. Get the Iranians at the table and get them under pressure to agree to
something so fundamental that you could stand up legitimately and say there will
never be an Iranian nuclear war because there are no sunset clauses in this unlike the JC PUA which aged out. This
one is permanent forever. And the Iranians had agreed to it. It was in
writing. They were moving to a signing ceremony. This guy talks about how he ordered 12 uh Mont Blanc Meister pins
for the signing ceremony at $620 each. But we weren't serious about the nuclear
program. We're using as a subtrauge to do the Israeli pleasing regime change operation which has now failed. But it
not only failed in terms of failing to get rid of the regime, but that nuclear program could very well become active. I
want to ask all the morons in your chat, what is the status of the 60% enriched uranium that we failed to destroy in
Donald Trump's first attack against Iran? We didn't know where it is. We don't know where it is. Do you think we're getting it today? And if we don't
get it, do you think Iran may have over the period of time sequestered away enough uh final manufacturing capacity
to convert that into at least five or 10 U nuclear bombs the size of Hiroshima.
But you don't know, do you? Cuz you're stupid. You're as stupid as the president is. I'm sorry, Danny. I shouldn't be insulting your audience or
in the audience, but I am so fed up because it is because of the ignorance of people like this that the president believes he has legitimacy to do what
he's doing. We have stupid people out there that don't think through the problem, who are
ignorant of the problem. And, you know, I'm just I'm just fed up with them because, you know, we are looking at a
world that's going to hell. the defeat of America, as pleasing as it may be to,
you know, the pro-Iranian community out there, if you're an American patriot, you can't want this. You cannot be
seeking this. If you're somebody like me who actually took the oath, swore allegiance, put on the uniform, and went
to war for my country. You you you you can't celebrate anything that results in the death of the men and women who put
on that uniform. And yet, they're dying. The the the Defense Department, I call it the Defense program legally, that's
what it is. It's not a war department. That title doesn't exist under law. But the defense department has acknowledged
uh at least the deaths of at least three American servicemen. They said in combat operations against Iran. We don't know
if they died on the ground in Iran because there's ongoing raids taking place. That's outside the scope of what
most people are talking about. Special operation forces are on the ground. Um I think there was an attempt to raid a one
of those underground missile cities. Uh it didn't go well and we had to withdraw. Um, you know, so there's
there's this activity. You know, we we can say like I do that I don't want the
Iranian regime to collapse, but I will never cheerlead in favor of the death of any American at all, ever. Um, and yet
that's the situation we're in right now where Americans are dying. Um, and then again, how can you cheerlead for what
America is doing? because one of the first missiles that struck Iran hit a a a secondary school and over a hundred
children, school girls ages between six and 12 are dead. Um, imagine being a mother who sent their children to school
that morning because you believe there would be peace because the United States was engaged in a legitimate
uh negotiation. U Marco Rubio announced he was traveling to Israel on Monday and therefore of course there can't be a war
if Marco Rubio is traveling. So in good consciousness, he said, "I'm sending my children to school so they can become
educated, become part, have a brighter future." And you send them to school only to have an Israeli missile hit that
school and kill virtually everybody inside that school. Um,
you can't celebrate this. You can't celebrate any aspect of this. Um, and yet here we are because of the stupidity
of a president who is guided by the stupidity of his political faithful who
are as ignorant as the day is long about the world we live in.
Yeah. No, I mean anyone the the United the Donald Trump administration of
course all the wararm mongers the hawks uh they've put uh you know regardless of
whatever you think of the US bases there whether they should be there or not they've now put the U you all of the any
everyone who's there they've put them under heavy fire I mean this is what's happening and maybe you can also comment
on this air defense question Scott because there are videos everywhere coming out where does this factor in
I'll just one. This is Bahrain and we know that Iran has taken particular attention to the uh facility there to
the naval facility there. Here's just the image of it. And I just want to play this uh it's I believe an image of
interceptors failing uh to uh intercept Iranian missiles because this is just
being shown all over the internet and I think what and all over social media and
I know you've talked a lot about air defense systems in the past but this is ostensively what's going to protect uh
those who have been put in harm's way by the Trump administration and it doesn't look like if Iran were to escalate even
further it doesn't look like these are working very well. Well, again, I think uh the first day um
33% of the Iranian missiles fired against Israel hit their targets.
Now, I'm not too good at math, but the implication is that 70 or 67% did not.
Um and that they were intercepted. So, we are intercepting missiles. We intercepted missiles during the 12-day
war. We intercept missiles all the time. Um, you know, but the the thing is when you fire a missile that cost Iran, I
don't know, $500,000 to make and we have to fire
three to four interceptor missiles that cost us, you know, three to$4 million
each. Um, that's a mathematical equation that we're not going to win. Also, when Iran has uh a very large number of these
relatively inexpensive missiles and we have a finite number of these very expensive interceptors um you know when
you look at these attacks you see explosion taking place in the air. Now some of these are explosions are taking
place uh on the safety mechanism of the warheads after they've missed their target but others reflect the fact that
they are intercepting um the missiles. Some of the film that you've seen of
burning um missile bodies, fueled fully fueled missile bodies coming to the ground and exploding are, you know,
reflective of the fact that they were successfully intercepted by an intercepted missile. Um you know, and
these are the debris coming down. So we we shouldn't create the impression that
these interceptor missiles don't work. They do work. They're they are successful, but they're not 100%
successful. And um the Iranians have developed tactics and procedures that
basically allow them to overwhelm these defenses and successfully strike. So when they plan an attack, uh it's just
the same with the Russians when they do their drone attacks and missile attacks against Ukraine. You flood the zone with
capability. you lead with your cheaper stuff to absorb um and most of the
interceptors and then you overload the radars, confuse the radars and then you penetrate in and you destroy the targets
you want with the final phase of the attack. And this is what the Iranians are doing against the Israelis. they are
flooding the zone um getting launches confusing radars and then penetrating
and hitting um you know so we're we're getting now if we were to weight the
value of the targets intercepted if there was a way I could find out exactly what the Iranians launched and at what
segment and then you could weigh it meaning that let's say they have five uh you know fatus uh you know in the end
that they and they have five targets they want to hit but to guarantee that these five penetrate the defense defenses. They fire 40 uh older missiles
and they come in with a bunch of drones and stuff. Do you give the same weight and value to the missile that wants to
hit a target that you do to the decoy missile? No, you don't. So if we if we did a you know a mathematical balancing
act here um we would see that you know we can speak of 33% intercepts but when
it comes to the interception of the missiles that count it's a 0% intercept
or close to 0% intercept which means that the Iranians have basically nullified the um you know the the
Israeli American missile defense system. Yeah. And Scott, how long can the US and
Israel go on uh with this war of aggression? Because uh Israel is talking
about as long as it takes. Uh I believe the Trump administration told the Western mainstream media that there will
be uh at least uh through the week uh they're going to continue onward. Uh,
and I want to just pull up what uh, Lindsey Graham said, reiterating word by word Donald Trump's basically promise
that yeah, US troops are going to die, but it's it's noble, Scott. And I think this is what is particularly concerning
and if we lose anybody in this operation, they will have died a noble death because they will have risked
their lives and sacrificed their lives to make us safer here at home. The comm
the man. So that's that's the messaging, Scott, which is all astounding messaging, too, because it's very this
war was very unpopular before it started and uh the Trump administration, Donald Trump himself promised that he said
Americans will likely die in this. And of course, Lindsey Graham unsurprisingly uh paring the same. But what's your how
long can they go on like this uh with this war of aggression? And uh uh what do you make of these kind of statements?
First of all, I just find it grotesqually amusing that these fat perfume princess named Lindsey Graham is
talking about the nobility of sacrifice. He was a lawyer. Uh the the biggest risk
he ever made to his life while serving was a you know dying of an infected paper cut. He wouldn't know personal
courage or individual courage um because he will never allow himself to be in a situation where be confronted with the
need to develop that. This man is a disgusting pig of a human being. Um, and
I I just hope that he gets the fate that he deserves. And it uh, you know, in the
old days we tar and feather him and lead him out of town and throw him into a, you know, bees nest. Um, who knows
what'll happen, but um, this man does not deserve uh, to die a peaceful death
after living a long and fulfilling life. He deserves to rot in hell. Uh he's a horrible horrible American, horrible,
horrible human being. Um you know, but the the again the nobility of death,
first of all, the nobility of death is a um is a notion that exists in theory only. Uh ask me why I joined the
military. Why did you join the military, Scott? Oh, I'm glad you asked. Um I joined to
serve my country. I joined because my father put in 26 years of service as a United States Air Force officer. I lived
during the cold war. I grew up believing that the communist threat from the Soviet Union and China was real and that
there was a necessity for American patriots like myself to volunteer, put on the uniform and defend my country,
defend my constitution, defend my way of life from these people. And I trained I
trained very hard and the training was very realistic. But while you're training, you know, what you're
developing is muscle memory so that if you're under stress, you will perform to an adequate standard and you won't
freeze, you won't yield. Um, but you know, you're you're training in an environment that um, you know, if you
make a mistake, it's like, oops, okay, I'll learn from that. uh but when you experience war when you understand the
consequences of war the consequences of actions that people die and people don't come home places are destroyed you know
I played a very uh heavy role in targeting Iran Iraq during the first
Gulf War now I could have done what most people did uh view it from long distance and then go home to America pat myself
on the back and say I did a hell of a great job um but you know I then went on to serve for seven years as a chief
weapons inspector in Iraq I led inspection teams. And in the first two years of my uh of my time, I spent most
of my time inspecting destroyed facilities, trying to figure out, you know, did we get what we were trying to
get when we bombed this facility? Did the Iraqis recover anything? One of the places we struck was the Ministry of
Information. Um, and I remember, you know, we struck it because of command and control target and all that good
stuff, but I remember going to that site and inspecting it. And we had asked that the people who work there be present to
answer any questions. And there was a young girl, a journalist in her late 20s
standing there and she was literally shaking in fear and crying and sobbing
and shaking. She was inconsolable. She was afraid of me, afraid of me when I
was trying to have a conversation with her. She just literally couldn't look at me. She was shaking. She was fearing. And I said, "My God, what have we done?
What have we done? We didn't blow up a building. We destroyed a human being. We didn't kill her, but we've ruined her.
we've broken her. Is this what we fought for? Is this what we were trying to accomplish? And it's moments like that
that repeated over and over and over again. I remember, you know, um we it's
sort of a famous incident. Uh but F-15's uh you know, blew up seven targets that
General Schwarzkov and General Guas and head of the air campaign briefed to the world that were scuds. And I remember I
said that they weren't. And I got into a famous pissing contest with Schwarzov. They got me fired. uh it went up to uh
the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff column pal who eventually sided with me and I got my job back. But the
point is you know this was a big deal the lies that were told and I remember
uh in December of 1991 uh leading an inspection element into that area and we
came upon this very site and I remember looking at the oil tankers on the ground and reflecting that it wasn't just oil
tankers but this was right next to a truck rest stop. We blew up the oil tankers, incinerating the drivers, men
who had families, who were simply driving oil to make money to feed their families. And we killed the people in
the uh in the in in the rest stop. We burned them to death because the oil tanks ruptured and they and they burned
that facility down. And you just have to sit there and say, "Why did we do this? What was the purpose of it all?" War is
not the answer. This is the one thing that people like Lindsey Graham will never understand because they've never experienced it. They don't understand
it. They don't understand the cost. They glorify death. There's nothing glorified about death. For all you Americans out
there that think that you are, you know, supporting this war, you know, we fought
a 20-year war against al-Qaeda, the global war on terror. How many of you have gone to the VA to look at the uh
the the men and women who lost their limbs, people who have to poop into a colosity bag? Will you change that bag
for them? Will you take them out? Will you will you give them a quality of life because their families have abandoned
them? men who once had a fiance, but the fiance couldn't put up with what that man had become and abandoned that man.
He's now alone, an alcoholic, a drug addict. Are you going there to comfort him? Are you going there to talk to
them, get them out of their building, give them a quality life? Or have you forgotten them? And the answer is you've forgotten them. You don't even think
about them. You don't wake every up morning thinking one thought about these people. I do every morning. You know, to
me, the red the the yellow ribbon on the back of the car, which I took off a long time ago because I realized the
emptiness of the sentiment. We support our troops. No, we don't. We support our troops only as they are alive and they
represent something glorious. But we never support the troops when they come home in body bags or worse, they come
home broken psychologically and physically. We abandon them. We look away from them. We pretend they don't
exist. And yet, Lindsey Graham wants to encourage a war that kills even more Americans. Lindsey Graham is despicable
human being and anybody who supports that sentiment, you know what I think of you. I'm not
going to I'm trying to control my language, Daddy, but you know what I think of you. We now have put ourselves
in that same population set. We're not the good guys, people. We're the bad guys. And we will go down in history as
the equivalent of the Nazi Germans, as the samurai bushidto embracing Japanese.
We are the MAGA cult. The people that for that threw away our constitution and
embraced this cult of personality that has led us down this path of death and destruction.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I've watched the movie Scott Dead to Rights, which was a Chinese film about uh the Japanese war
of regression on on China and got to say uh the what they did in China, what they
did in Nanjing and the Non, the rape of Nan King. Yeah. I mean, my god. I mean, oh my god.
But what the Germans did, I mean, I was just in Belarus in in November. I went to Katin, uh the village, you know. Yes,
the village was burned. Yes. Couple hundred people were burned to death. But it was part of an overall plan, plan O
by the Germans to literally depopulate Belarus. When I say depopulate, I don't mean deport. I mean slaughter. The
systemic murder of millions of Slavs so they could make room, Leen's realm, for
the German soldiers and officers who would come back from conquering the Slavs and they'd have a place to take
their families with a lot of living room and the beauty and the grace of the fields. what the Japanese did to the
Chinese, what the Germans did to the Slavs, what the Germans did to the to the to the gypsies, what they did to the
Jews, what they did to every I mean, this is the same mindset we have for anybody who's promoting conflict against
Iran. Iran is a nation of 90 million people, unlike half of the morons in your chat. I have been to Iran. I've met
them. Um, what a wonderful people they are. And the people, if you don't know
anything about Islam, shut up about Islam. I don't want, you know, if you want to sit here and talk about ma, you
know, Osama bin Laden and the uh in the cult of of Wahhabism, feel free to do
so, but do not conflate Shiism or the rest of Islam with this cult of death.
Islam is a peaceloving religion. I have dealt with these people. Some of the most peaceful people I've met are imams
of both Shia faith and uh and Sunni faith. Um, I've been to Cheschna and
I've been in the Grand Mosque and I've speaken to the imam there about the role Islam played in creating peace between
Chachchna and Russia. If this was this cult of death, it was only a cult of death because the CIA was exporting
Wahhabism into Cheschna, perverting the minds of select clans. But the mainstream Chetchin, a Muslim, is a
person of peace who believes in peaceful coexistence. And when you take a look at right behind
me, that flag right here, the signature on that flag is AI Aladinov, Lieutenant
General of the Russian Army, a Chetchin. But that flag uh the flag of the Akmat special forces is a flag that has
Orthodox Christian cross and the U and and in and the Islamic uh moon and star
together on one one flag, one banner uh that shows how they are united uh to
support the cause of of Russia. Um don't don't tell me you know anything. If I
hear another stupid Sarah Adams remark about the evil nature of Islam, Laura Loomer and all that. These are people
who are ignorant. They don't understand Islam. They don't understand anything. Um, if you want to talk about a religion
of hate, just look at Christianity. Lindsey Graham is notable Christian.
Um, again, I just saw something in the chat. I just
wish I could reach in, pull some people out, and let them say it to my face. Um, none of you have the courage to say it
to my face. None of you have the courage to say it to my face. Um, that that's
who you are, keyboard warriors. Um, I'm sorry. I was up all night talking about this issue. This issue has to be pissed
off like you won't believe. Um, I shouldn't be taking it out on you because you were kind enough to give me
Look, I really appreciate. Look, we're we got it. We got to get it out. You know, it's I I understand. I I was up
all night as well, so every night since this war has begun, but continue. Well, it's going to You asked me a
question. How long is it going to continue? Yeah. Um, it'll continue till we run out of ammunition. The, according to some
people, the original uh war plan was 96 hours, four days of sustained non-stop.
Uh, that's what Israel said. That's what Israel said. Yeah. And you know, the the goal here, just so people again, I you know, I was
quite clear before this war began that the United States has tremendous military power. And if you think we're
out of the, you know, that that that the war is already lost,
when we speak of military force, let's say Iran is a is a is an engineering
problem, a cube of reinforcing the angles and such. We bomb the cube on day
one. The cube is still intact, but we've weakened the joist here. We've weakened the joist there. We bomb them on day two
and the cube is still attacked, but now internal collapse has taken place on some of the supporting beams. We bomb on
day three and now the the thing is is shaking. We bomb on day four and it collapses. So the fact that we're
entering day two and you're looking at Iran saying it's a cube. Um
don't be misguided. There is significant harm being done right now to the Iranian people and to the Iranian military uh
and to Iran in general. And this harm is pre-programmed into an air campaign designed to last at a minimum of 96
hours. Now, I believe that um we we have additional phases planned. This first 96
hours is designed to achieve uh a result. One of the results is decapitation, which unless they
miraculously kill everybody between now and the 96-hour window, they have failed
because Iran has reconstituted. Not only that, the streets are filled with people who aren't shouting death to Kame.
They're shouting Kame is dead. Two different things. And one is glorifying
the death of somebody that you hate. The other one is rallying around the cause of a martyr who you worship. Um, and so,
you know, we've totally screwed the pooch on that one. But at the end of 96 hours, I think the the planners will
come together. I'm not I don't know how much of a pause they're going to give, but the idea is to give a pause for the Iranian government to surrender and turn
over uh power, but then they will seek to continue to the next phase. And I
think that we probably have three to four phases, 96-hour phases built into the system before we run out of
ammunition. Um and so, you know, that's four days with a pause five. You know,
we're so we're looking at, you know, again, basic marine math, 15 to 20 day campaign. Um, that's their plan. The
Iranians, on the other hand, are preparing for a campaign that will last months. Um, they have planned this thing out to
last months. So, uh, unless we get what we want to get, and again, I believe
that we have, I'll say it again, we lost the war on the first six bombs that we dropped on Iran because we don't have a
clue about what we're doing. We turned a man who if I were advising the president
I would have said keep Jame alive,
kill his family. I know you guys are going to say, "What is Scott talking about?" I'm saying if I were advising the president, which assumes that I
believe in what the president's doing, I don't. So I'm putting on my evil hat. My evil hat would have said kill his family
so that he's exposed as a hypocrite. A man who was let willing to let his daughter and daughter-in-law die to let
his granddaughter die. you know, we killed a a grandson or a granddaughter. We killed somebody. This is what we do.
We just kill kids. We don't care. But you expose him as this hypocrite who's willing to hide while he let other die
for him. And then you start putting out all the evil propaganda you want. I would even sit there and literally, you
know, come up with CGI crap to uh, you know, AIdriven imagery to show him to be
a pedophile and to show him to be a drunkard and to show him to be a hypocrite. And I would flood the airwaves with this stuff. Secret images
from when Kamanet made a visit to Berlin and he went to a wh house back in, you know, 1982. And people say, "Well, he
never did that." Well, there's a picture here and it's so long ago. You've clouded up. And you do this and you destroy the image of the man. You
destroy what he stands for. You have I would have flooded the airways with uh
imams coming in who talk about the evil nature of the theocracy to point out every mistake every Iranian theocrat has
ever made. There are films out there of religious figures and comb uh going to
bed with with hookers because there's this thing that where you can have a marriage for a day or something like I don't know but they they do it and you
film it and you put that out there and you destroy the the the viability of this of this by attacking human frailty
in hopes that people uh transfer faith over to human frailty and abandon their
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This is what you do. This is how it works. And then you destroy the the the the the security mechanisms etc. But
you you have to destroy people's confidence um and belief and faith. We
didn't do that. We made a martyr on day one. We made a martyr. We allowed this man uh through his ex post to exit a
hero. Exit a man in literally the the a man of the equivalent of Ali of Ali.
this man we've elevated to the equivalent of Ali, which is sort of the heart of the 12 vers Shia faith concept.
We lost. We're we're we're stupid. But there's going to be a lot of death and destruction between now and then. We
have a lot of ammunition. That ammunition is capable of doing extraordinarily uh horrific damage to include again
because we don't care. You know, if our if our intelligence is so bad that we
mistook a um a children's secondary school for a target of relevance on day one, imagine how bad our intelligence is
going to be when we get near near the end of this campaign and we haven't achieved our objectives. Guys, I've been
there. I've done that. I'm telling you, the desperation that existed at the end of the Gulf War when Iraq continued to
fire missiles against Israel and we weren't interdicting them. We got so desperate that we basically threw away
all rules. We were blowing up school buses because they were long enough to carry a Scud missile. We blew up Bedawin
camps because the heat signature of the goats they put inside during those freezing nights created a long oval
shape that could have been u you know was a Scud missile and we blew it up. We slaughtered people. We blew up truckers.
We blew up families. We killed everybody in the name of trying to interdict Scuds. Do you understand how desperate
we're going to be at the end of this campaign when we are running out of bombs and the Iranians haven't run out
of missiles and they're still firing missiles against Israel, which now has absorbed well over the 700 missiles that
Netanyahu said was the maximum capacity absorption. Um, it's only and it's only 24 hours, mind
you. We have to put that in. It's only been a day. Yeah. In a day. and and so you know the the the the the fact is we're going to
start we will drop our standards if we ever had any in this conflict. Uh the
destruction of a children's school suggests that we don't. Um and we will be killing everything.
Everything. We will be slaughtering Iranian civilians. uh because we are so
desperate and unwilling to accept failure, defeat that we will go down wielding a sword that will be laying
innocent lives low till the last bomb is dropped. I only have to say Gaza for you
to understand the lack of moral compass that exists in these military planners minds, Israel and American. This is not
going to end well for the United States. In addition to Donald Trump losing his political credibility and hopefully his
political legacy collapsing uh in a midterm election that sees him and his party routed to the extent that he can
not only be impeached but convicted. For all the people out there that basically don't like Donald Trump, stop uh
shouting at me and make sure you vote enough Democrats in um in November to
convict him. pick weak Republican senators and topple them because the
goal here isn't to say we support the Democrats. The goal here is to say we want to punish Donald Trump. We want to
break Donald Trump. You need to break the sickness of American society that elected Donald Trump. And you can only
do that. Remember what I said about Ali Kame? Don't make a martyr out of him. Don't shoot him in Butler, Pennsylvania.
That was stupid. What you want to do is expose him as the pedophile that he is, the Epstein supporter that he is, and
the horrific man that he is, and you want him to be impeached by Congress, and you want him to be convicted by
Congress. And you want his legacy not to be a man who won two elections, but a man who's the only president to serve
time in prison because he's a traitor of his [ __ ] country.
Yeah. Yeah. Well said, Scott. Well, uh perhaps uh if you could uh help the
audience understand now because what you are are portending what you are forecasting I believe is very much of
course in the wrong possibility even if we don't have a crystal ball that this desperation will get very will go to
fever pitch. Um, if Iran, what it's saying, it's prepared for years to
fight, uh, that means Iran is at least confident in what it has in its stock piles, what it has in its capabilities
to fight, uh, for as long as you predict it, Scott, this could go on, the bombing
could go on. So, uh, my question to you, Scott, is, uh, what if you could maybe assess and help the audience understand
what Iran's response has been and what it could be given that there are also Iran is saying that, yeah, you know,
you're going to continue to hit us and we are going to continue to also escalate and show weapons that you
haven't seen before. Things I don't even know what these weapons are. I I guess I'm I I want uh if you could to for you
to help the audience understand what the US is confronting as it uh goes down
this very perilous path. Well, first of all, we don't know what
weapons the Iranians have. That's the beauty of them saying we're going to unveil weapons that you don't know anything about. So, it leads to
speculation and I would believe that we are reading far too much into that
than uh reality suggests. I think when they say weapons that you don't believe we have, I think the Iranians have
developed an archnic analog, basically a um medium-range
hypersonic missile uh that can deliver um you know the kind of arric type
kinetic uh uh warheads. Um and um I'm
fairly confident it's not the archic. They don't have the arric. They have the Iranian analog to the archnik. I think
that's one of the missiles that will be revealed and and we'll see it in all of its glory one night because half of the
arric is the psychological value of watching these uh projectiles come down,
scream down with the at the speeds that create this horrific roar and impact on the ground. Um it's psychologically
devastating. Imagine the Iranians delivering a dozen of these three weeks into this war when we're running out of
ammunition and they just unveiled a new weapon. um so I think this is probably what we're looking at as they unveil new
missiles. They might even unveil a few missiles of significant range that um that can strike targets in Europe. I
would imagine that if the Iranians could they would take out um you know the bases in Europe, Lake and Heath, maybe
some bases in Germany, take out Sophia airport in Bulgaria. Sorry Bulgarians, you shouldn't have allowed American
airplanes to land on your uh on your runways, but strike European targets as well. make Europe pay a price for the
sin of supporting this illegal war of aggression. Um, but I also think you're
going to see them unveil new weapons, hypersonic weapons, um, of great
accuracy. U, but there's there's also other things at play here. Um,
you know, yes, the United States provided Israel with the targeting of
Ali Kam, but if let's think about it for a second. If Ale
wanted to be a martyr, wouldn't he make targeting easy? I mean, how much easier does it get? It wasn't
the greatest intelligence coup in the world to have Alleame at home in his
residence. Exactly with other people having advertised that
they're meeting. This isn't the greatest intelligence coup in the world. This doesn't mean
that the CIA and Assad have a spy on the inside and all this stuff. It means that
Alam played the game and said, "Kill me and lose the war." And we took the bait.
But now we look what happened in Israel. Bim I think is the name of the play. I'm not an expert on it pronouncing Hebrew
names. But um the building that was struck was apparently hosting a very
high level Israeli military conference in great secrecy. A conference that
because of the sensitivity of um the the subject matter, the personnel broadcast,
they probably didn't pick the location until that morning. So imagine you pick
a location and that's transmitted to the Iranians who are able then to take a weapon
system and have it launched in time to strike that building while the people are inside with great accuracy.
If you're an Israeli and you're not scared to death by that, then you're not very smart. Israel, the Iranians have
been hitting targets in Israel that the Israeli these targets are designed to
send a signal. They don't just hit targets of relevance. They hit them in a way that shows the Israelis that the
Iranians know everything. Everybody talks about the MSAD penetrating the Iran Iranian Revolutionary Guard
Command. The Israelis have been penetrated by the Iranians and this I don't know how
they're doing it through technical means um human intelligence um a combination
thereof. But the bottom line is Israel is being taken apart. piece by piece by
piece and it's done deliberately. The Iranians are some of the smartest
people on the planet when it comes to understanding the world they live in. Just again to give you an example um in
2006 u during that short uh war that was fought um in between Israel and
Hezbollah um Israel sent some of their best special forces to um to to to
Lebanon to to fight Hezbollah and they're fighting for this one particular village and I believe it was Sat Matal
was getting ready to launch this attack to to to take out certain places uh
Matal uses is advanced frequency hopping tactical radios uh that are encrypted
real time. So right off the bat, let's say it's a single channel, me talking to you, Danny, the the the the signal is
going to be encrypted, which means whoever intercepts it, it's just going to get digital garbage. And normally you
have to capture that signal, handshakes and everything, take it back and have a computer process it. And a couple days
or weeks later, depending on the effectiveness of the decryption uh programming, you can listen to what
happened. Uh but now we complicate that because we have frequency hopping five to 12 different channels justop pop. So
if we're intercepting uh we have to know what channel it is and as if we get on one it instantly
goes in. These are happening, you know, multiple switches per second. um which
makes literal real time interception and exploitation impossible
except that the Iranians were intercepting, decryptting these signals
in real time and then hacking into the signal and having a
Hebrew voice operator who exactly mimics the voices of the Israeli commanders
using the code names, using their call signs that are supposed to to be, you know, only known to a handful. And they
triggered an ambush by breaking in to this signal, giving the the call sign of the commander and giving the order for
execution. And Sarat Mal, the Delta Force of Israel, stepped off into an
ambush and got the crap knocked out of them. That's who we're dealing with here. The Iranians are that good. They
hijacked the beast of Kandahar again hacking into a signal satellite signal
from Nellis Air Force Base to the the the drone encrypted hacking into it
stealing that drone. Um so these Iranians are very very good. They're working with Hezbollah, uh, who has, as
I said, great capabilities. And the Iranians apparently are inside the
Israeli decision-making cycle. And this attack on this building um, proves that.
So now the the the Israelis are scared to death. You can have them out there. We're doing this. We're we're going to
build a bridge to Iran and our airplanes are going to go there and they're going to come back and go there and they come back and there's no
Yeah, go change your diapers while you're saying that because you you know that the Iranians are on you and at some
point in time the next missile's going to hit your damn building and you're going to die. Your bloated corpse is
going to be pulled from the rubble. Um, and that's the fate that many Israelis are recognizing uh is their future if
they can't win this war. This is why Israel stopped Donald Trump from pulling the trigger back in January. They said,
"Don't do it because we can't win this thing." And they also said, "Don't start this thing unless you can guarantee
victory." And this is where we come to the last phase of regime change. Because the advice I just put out there was the
advice of Israelis who may not be friendly to Iran. They may promote greater Israel, but they're realistic.
Benjamin Netanyahu when he came to the United States,
and I said it at the time, I mean, just on record saying it, so uh I'll say it again. He came to the United States to
tell Donald Trump to work with Donald Trump on how to use diplomacy as a means of setting up the next attack.
Yeah. It wasn't about setting the conditions of a nuclear negotiation or anything. It was how to use diplomacy to set because
immediately Donald Trump said we're entering into negotiations and they began that process. they had made the
decision that they were going to attack and when they were going to attack and um that decision was made back then um
Benjamin Netanyahu did this against the advice of his senior military commanders
and said we can't pull the trigger until we have guarantees and he came back and said I have the guarantees the United
States is willing to lose now one of the things that happened is after he told his people that they began preparing for
this war which they would initiate um the joint chiefs of staff started saying, "Well, may maybe we don't have a
plan. Maybe we don't have enough ammunition." And uh that created problems. But Netanyahu overrode these
people and said, "No, we're going forward." So now when the air campaign starts to peter out and Israel's run out
of ammunition, run out of interceptor missiles. Israel's getting pounded to death. Um the United States can't finish
the job because we're out of ammunition. What do you think the political future of Benjamin Netanyahu is going to be? Do
you think that he's going to emerge as the modern-day uh you know David Bengurian uh you know a hero or is he
going to be reviled as a despicable cowardly liar who led Israel down the path of destruction. So in addition to
Donald Trump being toppled Benjamin Netanyahu could very well be toppled too. This may be one of the greatest
regime change operations in the history of regime change operations but not the way those who envisioned it. And we can
go on and on and on. For instance, Bahrain I I I bring Bahrain up. I traveled
extensively through the Middle East, but I spent an awful lot of time in Bahrain. That was where the uh UN weapons
inspectors would go to train up before we deployed to uh Iraq for our missions.
Um and I'm very familiar with the the Shia of Bahrain and the uh Khalifa
family that governs Bahrain. Um you know we good friend of mine was my deputy
commander uh and he um you know we we had a unique kind of team uh bunch of
alpha males um doing some alpha male stuff and um when they came back to Bahrain they like to let off steam like
only alpha males can do and they had befriended the Gulf Air Stewartist academy they knew the head of the
academy and so these guys would all get dates with the Gulf Air stewardists and they'd go out and they were just the
time of their life. I mean, they were living the life. Um, but you'd sit down with these Gulf Air stewards and have,
you know, meaningful conversations with them. And you realize just how despicable the Bahraini government is.
These girls are brought in not just to be flight attendants. They're brought in to be prostitutes. The Khalifas are the
epitome of the elite Arab ruling class. Uh, sick people of the worst kind.
There's nothing redeeming about any aspect of them. They are just too rich to to to understand the reality of life.
And they are replicated in Saudi Arabia, in Kuwait, in the United Arab Emirates,
and elsewhere. There might be some people who are noble, the exceptions to the rules, but the bottom line is these
royal families are all the same. They're all the same. people who claim to be
pious Muslims and yet they fly to London and as halfway there they take off all their clothes they come back and pretend
that they're all pious if you come from the causeway from Bahrain to Saudi Arabia as you enter Saudi Arabia you'll
see a plethora of small mosques and these mosques are built by pious Saudi men who coming across realize the sins
they have committed and so they absolve themselves by building these small mosque and say I am now repented I am
clean I am pure till the next trip to Bahrain Bahrain is a um is is a den of
um of excessiveness. Um but the population
is majority Shia and they hate the Khalifa family. They hate the Khalifa family. As Iran is bombing um the
Muharak facility, fifth fleet and starting to bomb targets in um in in Manama. Um the Shia are in the streets
cheering. We may get regime change in Bahrain. The Saudis are sort of worried
about what's going to happen in the eastern provinces because that's where the bulk of their oil production is. But it's also provinces dominated by a Shia
majority population. Israel dropped six bombs on Thran killing
Ali Kame. Do you think the Shia of Saudi Arabia are just going to sit there and say, "That's okay." Do you think the
Catholic of the world would say, "That's all right. You killed the Pope. No problem. We'll just we'll vote for another one. We'll vote for the the
smoke to to emerge from the chimney." No, there'll be outrage, people rising up. Um, so there may be more regime
change. These Gulf Arab states who encourage this war as a mechanism getting rid of the Iranian government,
the Islamic government, so that they could u betray their people by fully
embracing the Abrams Accords, which would elevate Israel into the supreme economic power of the Middle East. they
if they lose and they're going to lose they may feel a backlash
from their people presents the end of these disgusting regimes. So you know who knows we may get lucky here and um
emerge this time in six months to see that uh these these corrupt disgusting
Gulf Arab shikums and royal
uh Scott I think I lost your connection. Are you there? I think the Saudis just jammed our signals. I need to stop talking.
You were just saying the Saudi oil shikims continue. I think we we lost the last part of that.
No, I'm just saying that the you know this regime chain storage cuts both ways and I think you're seeing a lot of fear
now in everywhere. Um, I mean, I was
interviewing being interviewing Nafal yesterday on X.
Um, he was just an Israeli apologist of the worst sort. Uh, but he was sitting there doing his Israeli apologist thing.
Um, when I reminded him that uh, Dubai was a target, I said, "They would
never attack Dubai." I said, "Yeah, they would. They're going to attack Dubai." And as we spoke, Dubai was being
attacked. And you suddenly saw the look on his face. He went, "This [ __ ] just got real." Yeah. And that's the same
look that's on the face of the of the various chics. This [ __ ] just got real. And they're sitting there looking at
going, they're attacking us. And the people on the streets are loving it
because these chiks are not well-loved at all. They live this excessive lifestyle. Um they're elitists. They u
they abuse their power, their authority. And now people are looking out realizing how fallible they are because they're
not all powerful. They're not all strong. And the Iranians are taking them down. And there are significant Shia
populations. Again, I don't know how they're going to respond, but I would just imagine that when you kill
the important person in the Shia faith, don't expect the people to rise up in the streets and pop corks of champagne.
No. And uh maybe just to uh close with your final thoughts, Scott, I just want
to show people exactly the kind of things you are talking about. Uh you
know, we're talking about just one day, Scott, and I just want people to know that Israel has absolutely taken it
because there's a lot of people out there, Scott, that don't believe anything is going on, that Israel has not taken any hit. This is one day of a
country that is saying it has it's fighting it can fight for years uh uh
experiencing this kind of damage and here's um the damage done to Bait
Sheamesh I think you were talking about earlier Scott and their body bags and this is going to continue to get worse
it seems like Scott because Iran has promised that they have years of this in
them and you know and then we have this horrific I don't know if you saw it, the Israeli FM spokesperson went, I believe
this is to Tel Aviv to show and say Iranians are targeting children, elders, and and this is the response he got from
the media, which to to the credit to whoever asked this. Here we go. So, school girls in Iran that are that
have been killed in a strike and this must stop. This must be stopped. And this is what we're trying
to do. Yes. Next question, please. just completely I mean like literally somebody just in front of a building
that has been blown out by Iranian fire asked the question this is who the U this is who the Trump administration you
know people like Lindsey Graham this is who they're supporting this is this is the they're one and the same here
Danny Gaza Gaza Gaza why are we surpris why do we even think there's an iota of
humanness in the Israeli government these are despicable genocidal maniacs And if you're not Jewish, they view you
as goyam. They say it. I'm not out here spouting anti-semitic tropes. They say
it. You are inferior to us. We are the chosen ones. God has given us the right
to greater Israel. Hell, Michael Huckabe said that. He agrees with that. Tucker Carlson's interview with him the other
day. Why do we expect anything different from these people?
These are horrible human beings. These are people who slaughtered tens of
thousands of Palestinian children. Henry Jab, never forget her name, but she's
just one of thousands that the Israelis mowed down, massacred. Israeli snipers
would print t-shirts bragging about they shot a pregnant Palestinian woman because he got two for the price of one.
They would wound a Palestinian mother to have the child come out to try and rescue and kill the child in front of
the mother. So the child bled out in front of the mother who was bleeding out. So the last thought in the mother's
mind was her dying child. That's the sickness of these people.
And so what we're supposed to pretend that somehow, you know, this poor uh Israeli spokesperson was confronted
with, you know, very difficult. No, he's a murderous sack of crap. They all are. They all are. There are no innocents in
Israel at this point in time. If you didn't believe in this, you would have left. But the if you stay in Israel and
plant your flag in Israel, you are buying into greater Israel, which means you're buying into the concept of
Zionist supremacy, which is an excuse for all host of sins, including the
murder of Palestinians and the ongoing murder of Iranians.
Yeah. And uh Yeah. Yeah. I think very well said, Scott. We had a lot of
questions from the audience. How about I just ask you one? You can answer as quick or two and you can I can answer as many as you want.
I'm in a competitive mood, so bring it on. Well, here's an interesting question, Scott, given all that we've talked
about. Uh, what needs to happen for the pro Palavi Iranians to overthrow the
current government? What do you have to say to this, Scott? Well, understand that uh when you say proalavi and you're
talking about basically the son of uh raash sha palevi the last sha of Iran um
and raa palevi um you know
first of all he can't overthrow anything what he is relying upon is the United States and Israel to create conditions
in which uh a sufficient number of people within Iran rose up and took matters into their own hands this is the
president's own game plan and So, you know, right now, um, Palevi through the
Israelis has been able to infiltrate, uh, certain cells of opposition throughout Iran, so that at any given
demonstration, there's a handful of people who suddenly unveil the Iranian monarchist flag, you know, the flag of
Iran with the with the the lion there with the sword and uh, and and shout things like death the Kame and long live
the Sha and all this stuff. And then they quickly put those away and run away because they can't stay there too long because the Iranian security service
will come in, knock him on the head and pull them away. But they do this, they film it, and then they broadcast it out so idiots like the people in the chat
can go, "Oh, look, the Shaw is very popular in Iran." He's not. Um there's no there there's no chance whatsoever.
There's a reason why Donald Trump won't meet with Raza Palevi because he doesn't want to breathe life into something that
has no chance. there is no viable consistent con constituency inside Iran.
Um you know when the embassy was taken over in 1979 uh the students that that took it over
uh got a hold of the CIA vault. Um the CIA had been frantically shredding uh
documents and they were using I think 1/8 inch shredders uh not crosscut single straight line shredders and they
put them in these bags and they didn't have a chance to burn the bags. So the students got them and then they had the
greatest uh student project in the history of student projects. They all sat down and they pulled these strips out one by one and they lined them up
and they taped them together and they reconstituted the documents and then they published these books. And it is a
condemnation of the role played by the CIA empowering ravi the sha the the
complicity between the CIA and the excesses of Savak in torturing Iranian people. And this
this this book has been read by every Iranian. They all know the truth. And you really think for a moment that the
Iranian people that live in Iran want to return to this? the the Raza Sha has a
or Raza Palevi has a constituency in the um Iranian diaspora here in the United
States. People who you know people today whose fathers whose parents fled uh the the Islamic revolution because they were
complicit in the crimes of Rajasha Palvi, they came to the United States. They've established themselves as business people here and they live the
uh they live the fantasy of the of of first of all they've glorified they've whitewashed the time of the sha. I mean,
you know, their defense of the sh to show us pictures of women in Iran in the mid1 1970s. Iranian women are
good-looking women. There's no doubt about that. You put them in a in a minikrt and boots and western style hair
and you're like, "Wow, they're all like, you know, Raika Welches running around
Persian Raquel Welches and they're saying this is the glory of Iran."
Uh, Scott, we lost you at this glory of Iran. Sorry, are you still there? Now, I've pissed off the uh Iranian
women in diaspora, so they're jamming us, too. But but my point is the simplicity of the argument here to to
sit there and defend uh the horrific excesses, criminal excesses of racial razor shavi by showing a bunch of hot
Iranian women in miniskirts. It just shows how stupid people are. Um the Iranian people know the truth about this
and there will never be a moment when the monarchy has any chance. If rays a pivia, let's say hypothetically um the
the Islamic Republic fell and there was chaos and the people in the streets demanding alternative. If he showed up,
he'd be killed. He has a zero life expectancy. Uh nobody supports him.
Nobody believes he's viable. They just need him to serve as um a motivating
point for people willing to commit violence in his name because that's all he's good for is to have a bunch of Iranians uh in Iran believing in him.
murdering other Iranians to create the perception of society out of control.
Yeah. And uh what you were describing that tactic of using uh beautiful looking women uh to sell this sort of
thing. It's very Israeli too. Uh this is what Israel does all the time. It's
uh which again that's only further insult to the Iranian people. So here is
um another question. I think this is a good one. Uh, we've seen multiple regime change in the Arab speaking world. Iran
being the latest target. What's the endgame here? I don't understand the why for all this death and destruction.
The endgame is greater Israel. There's the why. That's it. Greater Israel. Uh the goal is to collapse um
any notion of sovereignty, any notion of uh Arab self-governance, any notion of
Arab respect and uh replace it with uh a region that is totally subordinated to
greater Israel. There's your goal. There's your objective. Iran was the thing standing in the way. Iran was 90
million um you know believers that said that you know Iran is the only nation. It's just amazing. uh you know the
Persians of Iran in their constitution their constitution required to support a
free and independent Palestinian state it's part of their constitution Persians non-Arabs um and the Arab world is
governed by leaders who have abandoned the Palestinians who have sold out to
Israel the king of Jordan if there was any justice would be dragged through the streets of Aman and hung upside down
like Mussolini so the collective population could been on his corpse. Um, I mean, he's sold out. He's betrayed the
cause of his people. You know, this last of the Hashemites. Um, he's betrayed the
cause of his people. He's betrayed himself. He stands for nothing. He is literally the definition of sellout. Um,
the Saudis are the same way. Talking big and one way, meeting with the Iranians, shaking hands, saying, "No, we're
friends and brothers." And then telling Donald Trump in the background, "Kill them. Kill them. Kill them." The same
thing with United Arab Emirates. They love the umbrage. Why are you attacking us? Because you've encouraged United
States to kill them. Kill them. Kill them. You are complicit in the crimes of the Israelis because you are secretly
the allies of Israel. You believe in the Abrams Accords. You believe in the empowerment of greater Israel. Um that's
what that's what's going on here. Yeah. Yeah. Great point, Scott. Um here's a member of 14 months. Thank you,
Kevin. Uh, please advise what's going on with Iranian missile defense provided by Russian China. Are they working or not?
Are they being used? Scott, any insight into this? You know, again, I I don't know enough
to be definitive about this. I would just say the following.
Missile defenses are not standalone systems. They have to be integrated.
um you know if Iran started receiving advanced Chinese and Russian missile defenses um they're not integrated at
this point in time there is not an integrated air defense network you might have nodes of protection first of all
Iran is a very big country you know question why do Ukrainian drones roam
freely in the interior of Russia because Russia is a big ass country that you can't you know have levels of air
defense throughout once you break through that initial screen. There are nodes that you can maneuver around and
then hit your target. Iran is a very big country. They have screens. They have
places where they have put air defense. Um uh you know, but there's much of it that you can't defend against. And
again, please have respect. I know people the the I hate America, you know,
spirit is out there. At least put your thinking cap on. What do you think we've been doing with the
trillion dollars we spend on defense every year? I know we line the pockets of defense industrialists and
congressmen, but some of this money actually gets spent building weapons that are pretty damn good. And we put it
in the hands of men and women who are highly trained on how to use these weapons. And they train in realistic
fashion. And the US Air Force and the US Navy trains extensively on what's known
as suppression of enemy air defense. We train for it 24/7. And the US intelligence community is very good at
collecting this information. You don't think for a second that uh the Russians provided S400s to Turkey and S400s to
India and the CIA hasn't gotten the complete package of information about how that system works, brought it back
and we've replicated been training against it. You don't think that's been happening with the S300? You don't think
that's been happening? You don't think that when Iran provided some of the most advanced air defense systems to Syria as
part of the agreement Bashar al-Assad when Syria fell. You don't think the CIA ran in there with their technical
exploitation teams and grabbed this stuff and brought it out. What the hell do you think I did for a living for a
while, guys? Okay, I know what I'm talking about when I say this stuff. We're pretty damn good. It doesn't mean
the cause that we're fighting for is good or supportable, but we're pretty damn good. All the people out there
saying America can't fight. You don't know anything about America. We have the most capable military in the world. The
most capable military in the world carrying out one of the most unsupportable evil plans. You know, it's
not the military's fault that the idiots thought it was a good idea to put six bombs on Ali Kam's residents. They just
obeyed their orders, you know, but they had the munitions and the capability to do it and they did it. Um, you know, so
you know, why aren't the Iranian air defenses working? Cuz we're better than Iran in this case, but the Iranians
don't need their air defense to work. I remind people, we blew away the Iraqi Integrated Air Defense Network on day
one of the Gulf War. Blew it away. And we were running around dropping bombs all over. And yet
we didn't destroy anything because the the Iraqis were better at moving stuff out of buildings than we were at blowing
up the buildings. I'm sorry, I don't mean to interrupt,
but I I've heard too that that's part of Iran's strategy as well with their mobile systems is to move them faster
than they can be hit. Um, yeah. And they use decoys decoys. when
you take a look at the uh images coming out. I mean, I remember during the Gulf War, I uh I went to uh RR and the u you
know, that's where Delta Force and Task Force 160 were um the Nightstalkers were based out of doing their counter Scud
operations. And uh I had seen a strike video uh put out by the Nightstalkers um
of them strafing a um what what looked like a Scud launcher. And I'm looking at
the video and I go, "No, no, no, no, no. This is off this. This is a decoy." But I told the guys, I said, "Uh, you got to
be careful because if you're if this was an actual Scud loaded up, fueled, and
you were that close shooting, had it blown up, you'd be dead. You wouldn't be here today. The secondary would have
would have engulfed you in flames." Um, and that you you just saw, you know,
their eyes go, "Oh, yeah, you're right. Maybe we'll do this different next time." But, um, my point is, you look at
some of the strike video of what the Israelis are putting out. They're destroying things that look like missiles. And many of these are decoys.
Uh I'm I'm here to tell you right now that if it's daytime and a missile sitting there all by itself in the open
line lined up and you don't see, you know, indications of immediate launch, uh it's a decoy. Uh and if I'm a
targeter and I see a missile with the line up, I don't bother sending an aircraft there unless it can get there
within five minutes. Uh because uh if it's a real missile, it'll fire and be gone by then. That's the standard. five
to seven minutes uh show up five to seven minutes having launched and gotten out of there. That's a standard from the
Gulf War. It's a standard today. It's a good standard. If you can if you can raise that missile and and launch it in
five minutes, you'll probably live. So, if we're detecting a raised missile and we don't have an asset that can hit it in five minutes, um we're not going to
kill it and don't waste the asset. Um because if we get there in 15 minutes and it's still raised, it's a decoy and
then therefore they've they've, you know, they've tickled the system. So, a lot of the targets being hit are uh are
decoy targets. Um some I imag based upon the secondary explosion and the
immediate proximity of people who look like they were preparing for a launch were probably the real thing which
implies that we have an ongoing uh sweep taking place over the launch areas. Uh
but none of this is taking the Iranians by surprise.
There will be casualties, you know, I mean that's just war. Um, but the Iranians are playing the odds. The
Iranians are playing the odds that using enough decoys. Let's say I want to do a launch operation. Again, I'm just using
what the Iraqis would do. They want to do a launch operation. They will set in place fixed decoys and then they will do
mobile decoy operations that are designed to divert resources away. And while we're playing games down here,
over here, two missiles come out and fire against Iraq. And by the time we get there, they're gone. Um that's just
the way this game is played. And this is what the Iranians are doing in my opinion is that they know where they
want to launch and um what they do is they set up conditions and some of these may be sacrificial. They may be telling
guys go out there. Your job is to get attention. Be obvious. Raise the
missile. Pretend to have a malfunction. Hang around there because we need them to divert to you so these guys can fire
the two missiles against uh Israel. And we're talking about a nation of people
who embrace martyrdom. Because you know, if I told two Marines, "All right, guys, here's your job."
Yeah. You're going to get in this decoy. You're going to drive in the middle of the desert. You're going to raise the decoy, run around, do jumping jacks and
push-ups until they bomb you and kill you. They look at me and go, "Uh, what? No, that's not a good plan,
boss. We don't want to do that." But the Iran are like, "You mean we we we get to join Ali and Hussein in in
heaven as martyrs?" Oh, hell yeah. How can I sign up for that mission? Um, so
you know, they're and they're very effective. I I I think again we're not
as good as we think we are. We're very good in terms of the weapons we have, etc. But in
you target based upon the fundamental understanding of the enemy. Um, we lack any fundamental understand.
We've allowed ourselves to be infected by the stupidity of Adams and Laura uh
you know what what god I can't remember you keep you keep bring you keep you
keep manifesting her into into the into the show you know but well because she's just
stupid um and I want people to recognize how stupid she is and um but the point is we've allowed ourselves to be
infected with this psychosis and as a result we don't respect and the moment You stop
respecting your enemies the moment you've lost the war. Even in Vietnam,
the people that fought the the Vietkong, they may have used derogatories terms, Charlie, they, you know, Kong, um,
zippers, whatever. Yeah. They never stopped respecting them
because the moment they disrespected Charlie, Charlie kicked their ass. And I
had my colonel fought uh the the North Vietnamese in the Vietkong and he there was no love lost between him and them
because they killed a lot of his marines. He killed a lot of them. Uh but never once did he have anything but the
utmost respect for his opponent, his enemy as a fighting force. He respect
their professionalism, which meant that he had to work double time, triple time to make sure that what he was asking his
Marines to do uh could defeat the enemy that was in front of him. But the moment you disrespect them, well, they're
nothing. They're this, they're that. you walk into the ambush. Uh have you seen that movie um Kingdom of Heaven
um where the uh where the crusaders march out to fight Salahadin? God is with us
and they march out into the famous battle where basically the um you know
the the the Sarris army sucked them in, no water, nothing in the heat and their armor and then basically annihilated
them uh because the crusaders lost respect for their enemy. They didn't
understand what was going on. Um, and I think that's what's happening here. We have a military that's being ill-
advised by intelligence. Uh, they don't respect their enemy. They're they're they're denigrating their enemy. Um, and
as a result, we go off and do things and we are falling into traps. I think a lot
of the countermissile campaign that's being run today is one giant trap set by
the Iranians who know us better than we know them. And one of the proof that this is the case is the fact that they
continue to launch missiles. They're launching missiles and they're hitting targets and they're not going to quit.
And until we recognize that, until we change, I mean, my whole thing during the Gulf War is to try and get us to
change what we were doing. Because I was saying what we're doing is wrong. What we're doing is not killing Scuds. What we're doing is doing exactly what the
Iraqis want us to do. And they will continue to launch missiles. If we want to interdict the Iraqis, we have to change things. And I was arrested by
that. General Schwarzov arrested me for daring to speak out like that because I was trying to create my own war and do
all this kind of stuff. But I was right. We uh we never stopped the Iraqi Scudes because we had bought into our own
simplistic analysis of who the Iraqis were and what the Iraqis were and we never once gave them credit for doing
innovative things. And I think right now Donald Trump is out there how you know and when you have Pete Hexet benching
315 pounds standing up and spitting out testosterone and say, "Hey, we can do this. God wills it. And everybody goes
out there and says, "God will do it." without somebody sitting there going, "Hey, um, what about this, that, and the
other thing? What? No. Get Can you bench press 315?" Uh, no. I'm too busy doing
analytical work. You thin armed, skinny neck geek. Get out of my way. I only want real men who can bench 315 pounds
out here doing real manly stuff. And then they get sucked into a trap and they all die.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, uh, you mentioned earlier, Scott, uh, you know, somebody asked wanted to ask the
question if there's any news because there have been news about, uh, Iran now targeting the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Yeah. Um, we don't know anything really. You're not going to sink to Lincoln right now. First of all, Lincoln way the
hell out there. So, the Iranians, isn't it like all the way out like a thousand like a thousand kilometers or something close to
so far that their airwing is not really a factor in this war as of yet. Yeah. I mean, they've taken themselves out of
the fight, literally, because they're scared. But what the Iranians are doing is probing. They're sending out drones,
um, trying to collect intelligence, see if they can get a visual or at least identify the various elements out there
because as we, again, the Chinese are photographing the fleet in real time and
they're providing that real-time linkage. So, it's not like the the Iranians have to say, you know, where's
the fleet? But they need to know where the fleet is right now because if you're going to launch this attack, um it's got
to go through layers of defense. And so, what you need to do is send a
drone out there that is getting detected by radars. And as it's being detected by
radars, it's capturing that signal and sending that signal back to either the
Chinese or to the Iranians on what kind of radars are out there, the frequency,
where they're located, etc. And you start building this map of the layer defenses to the Abraham Lincoln. And
once you get enough of that data, you find the seam and you fire the missiles
into the seam and you hope for the best. But we're talking about firing at long range. One of the things that's happened
though is one of the key elements of our missile defense shield in the region is this advanced radar that was located in
um other day air billion dollar radar part of an early warning system to detect
missiles on launch. It doesn't exist anymore because Iran took it out. Now this was primarily geared towards
detecting launches against Israel. Uh, if the Iranians are gonna fire on the Abraham Lincoln, they're gonna be
uh oh, Scott, it seems like you said if they're going to fire on the Abraham Lincoln and that was the last thing we
heard. I guess I should get into a tactical discussion because the US government will take but um you know, but the point
is if the Iranians are going to fire against the Abraham Lincoln, they're going to do from a location in the south
of Iran closer to where the Abraham Lincoln uh is. Um, but you know, so yes,
they've they put drones out there, but these drones are reconnaissance drones. They're not really attacking. When they attack the Abraham Lincoln, if they
attack the Abraham Lincoln, they will do so using um hypersonic missiles with maneuvering warheads that are programmed
to shoot the seam in the radars and um have a good chance a better than even
chance of of hitting the Arab Lincoln. Thanks. Yeah, Scott, I know your time is
limited and uh you have been very generous. Um there was a question about
uh your thoughts on the China's responses to this conflict. You did go over that a bit. And then I'm going to pull up some nice comments as you're
talking in the last 30 seconds or so because a lot of a lot of audience members I don't audience members came out and
and you know I see I see them and I appreciate them. Um and thank you. Uh China and Russia I
think are going to be looking for diplomatic offramps to try and avoid the the escalation of this conflict into economic uh devastation. They want to
keep the straighter horm moves open. They want to uh prevent the targeting of um of u of u you know oil fields um
because that that's it. And they also they want to keep um
I mean I had this discussion with someone else too. Russia's goal is not to see the United States weakened or
collapsed. Russia doesn't want that. Russia wants a strong America as is
about. The Russian goal is consistency and predictability and they want to be able to project that out. A collapsing
America is not consistent. It's chaotic and it's not predictable and it's a very dangerous situation. So, Russia's not
looking for America to be defeated here. What they're looking for is a a viable
diplomatic off-ramp that can preserve Iran as a sovereign state, a member of bricks and uh with a functioning economy
that can be plugged into a eur Eurasian economic union. Um
we lost you at Eurasian Economic Union. I can't say European economic union or
Eurasian economic union. Apparently that irritates the uh haram. Yeah, it's haram. Haram. But I I think
China right now um they did what they did they could do to strengthen Iran's defenses, but their goal right now
together with Russia is stability. Stability. Stability. And a key to that is not just the survival of Iran, but
the uh continued viability of the global energy uh based economy. And to do that,
you need to ensure that, you know, a part of the world that produces 22 25% of the world's oil and gas resources
isn't destroyed in the process. And so, I believe China and Russia are making phone calls behind the scenes like
crazy, especially to the Iranians, cautioning, saying, "Look, we will provide you intelligence. We will do
what you need to do to keep targeting these targets that you're going after." Um, I hope that's not a sign of having
an on-air stroke, but okay. There's just an eye blowing up on me. Um yeah, please no.
Yeah, that'd be interesting. But um the the you know, so the Iranians that the Chinese are in the posture like with the
Russians to make Iran as strong as possible, but not to create the conditions for a war that is devastating
on the on the global scale from an economic standpoint. So I think the Chinese are um are are playing that role. It's a
frustrating role for those people who support Iran. But understand this that China needs Iran to survive. China Russ
Iran is part of bricks. A very important part of bricks. And if the United States succeeds in removing Iran from bricks,
that is a fatal blow to bricks. Yeah. And Iran, as you said, Russia and China, Iran also doesn't want those
things too. They also don't want the economic correct and that is important in the although
um as our good friend professor Muhammad Morandi has said um
a world without Iran is not a world worth living in. Meaning that Iran isn't
just going to sit by and let the the United States and Israel destroy Iran. That if Iran's going down, everybody's
going down with them. I mean they're already closing. the straight of hormuz is not officially
closed, but they're they're I mean we we're talking about Iran is showing that it's not going to hesitate if it needs
to do that. Um yeah, it's the goal of China and uh and Russia to ensure that Iran's not pushed
into that corner. Exactly. And so the as this war continues to go south, there are rumors that Trump has already been
confronted by the reality that we're not achieving the objectives we wanted to achieve and that he went through the
Italians to reach out to the Iranians for a ceasefire. I can't say that I know this to be a 100% case, but there's a
rumor out there. uh if that's true uh you know the these are the windows of opportunity that Russia and China are
looking for because once you get that initial outreach they're going to take that and run with it and keep that as a
possibility keep pushing the Iranians and working with the Iranians to achieve an outcome that um you know doesn't
create the conditions for a resumption of this conflict but an outcome also that doesn't um humiliate the United
States to the point where we have to see this through to its horrific end. Uh to
find a safe face saving mechanism out for Donald Trump. I think that's the goal right now of the Russians and the
Chinese is to is to find a face saving offramp for the United States and Israel.
Well, Scott, uh we got to get you out of here. We got to get out of here. I want to say that this was one of my favorite
conversations. We got to get you on uh more to to cover this horrific war that
the US and Israel are waging right now. I want to make sure everybody knows to go to the video description and support
your work. Your websitestack as well as places to support your work
monetarily are also there. Yeah, if I can just make it an appeal. Um, sure.
I'm going to Russia next month if the United States government lets me. Um, and it's a it's a very ambitious
program. uh I can't give away too much of it uh in advance but one of it will
deal with uh the role that Islam plays in um in the world today. Um it's a very
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could go to my Substack, um, scott Ritter, scott Ritter.com, um, and
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it's become more important today than ever before because when I first conceived it, um, we didn't have the
reality of this existential conflict in Iran. uh that is u a large part of it is
based on um a misunderstanding of the Islamic faith um and and and and a
perversion of the Islamic faith. And so now I've spoken to the people that I'm
that I'm working with and they too agree that this project that we had which
could have been sort of a minor project of of of interest peripheral interest has a potential of actually becoming a
mainstream discussion about the reality of Islam, the compatibility of Islam
with um the rest of the world. And um you know this is the kind of healing
approach we need because one day this war with Iran will end and when it ends
how do we you know how do we live with the Iranians? How do we begin the process of
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Russia STUN the World: CONFRONTS U.S & Israel LIVE at UN After Iran Strikes!
WLA
Feb 28, 2026 #iran #israel #middleeast



Transcript

There are obvious parallels with the
events of 2003 when the US
representatives waved a test tube around
in this room to justify their invasion
of Iraq by saying that there were
weapons of mass destruction present
there that no one actually found. In
2023,
US Vice President JD Vance said that the
Iraq campaign was unforced.
as a result, innocent Iraqis and
Americans died and that that and that
Washington had to learn that lesson.
However, as it turns out, that lesson
has not yet been learned
in the statements of the European
colleagues
and we'll hear that again today. Instead
of condemning aggression and the deaths
of Iranian civilians, we once again will
hear the we hear the statement of the
president of France, Emanuel Macarron,
saying the Iranian regime must
understand that it has no other option
but to engage in good faith negotiations
to end its nuclear and ballistic
programs as well as its regional
destabilization activities." End quote.
Similar
assessments were voiced by the prime
minister of the United Kingdom, Kesh
Dharma.
These absurd statements were then backed
up by a joint statement of the leaders
of the United Kingdom, France, and
Germany condemning only Iran's strikes
on the countries in the region.
Colleagues, just think for a moment.
This sort of reaction is coming at a
time when Iran has been uh subject to
armed attack to military attack at the
peak of the an active negotiating
process. The hypocrisy of our European
colleagues knows no borders.
These aren't even double standards. It's
a a parallel reality.
Uh the other side of the looking glass.
In the English language, there's an
ideal term to describe the situation,
victim blaming.
One gets the impression that London,
Paris, and Berlin are living within
illusions that they have created for
themselves and are broadcasting to the
world. However, attempts to mislead the
international community are doomed to
fail. Any common sense person will fully
well understand who is responsible, who
bears responsibility for this latest
uncontrolled escalation.
First of all, I wish to express our firm
rejection of the fact
that the presidency today
that the the meeting today is taking
place under the agenda item the
situation in the Middle East. We wish to
recall that Russia and China requested
that it be held under the agenda item
threats to international peace and
security.
That request was also contained in the
relevant letter of the Iranian
colleagues. The aggression that Iran has
been subjected to today threatens
to lead to escalation in an already
escalated region and it could go far
beyond its borders.
particularly given the fact that one of
the two initiators of this military
venture is far from being a state in the
region.
Attempts by the British presidency to
artificially downplay the degree of
danger of the current situation is
simply unacceptable.
The presidency also grossly um scorned
Russia and China's request to invite as
a briefer to today's meeting the
professor at Columbia University,
Jeffrey Saxs.
The British colleagues do everything
they can to assert the importance of
inviting representatives of civil
society to security council meetings.
That clearly does not apply to cases
when you world recognized um academics
are going to present the truth that is
um unacceptable to the western
governments.
In recent hours, we have witnessed a
further extremely dangerous
ratcheting up of escalation in the
Middle East.
Early in the morning of the 28th of
February, the United States and Israel
began launching massive military strikes
on the territory of Iran.
It was declared that one of the aims of
the attacks were one of the targets were
the senior political leadership of the
country and also nucle civilian nuclear
facilities.
In real time, we are getting reports
from the Iranian authorities about
casualties including among the civilian
population. More than 200 people have
died in 24 provinces of the country. We
were particularly agrieved to learn of
the strike on a girls school in Minab
where it is reported that 85 pe 85
children were killed. We sincerely
express our sincere condolences to the
family and loved ones of the victims and
we wish a swift recovery to the injured.
Our country will do everything necessary
to ensure the security and safety of
Russian citizens that are on the
territory of the Islamic Republic of
Iran.
Mr. President
Washington and West Jerusalem's actions
are nothing other than uh yet another
unprovoked act of armed aggression
against a sovereign and independent UN
member state in violation of the charter
of the organization and of the
fundamental principles of international
law.
They are openly aimed at further
interfering in the internal affairs of
Iran and at destroying
a state that is um that has found
disfavor with the West.
The US and Israel's irresponsible step,
reckless step as we warned previously
has already led to a sharp escalation of
the situation across the region.
Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, the
United Arab Emirates and Syria and Saudi
Arabia have all been affected
and those countries that have repeatedly
and said to their American partners that
they they don't need this escalation in
the Middle East.
Moreover, the US and Israel military
operation has been a betrayal of
diplomacy.
These countries once again are bringing
to bear military force against Iran at
the very height of negotiations just as
they did in June 2025.
Just the day before yesterday on the
26th of February in Geneva, there was
the latest round of US Iranian contacts
with the facilitation of Oman. The
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran,
Abbos Arachi, noted that um an
understanding and agreement had been
reached to continue the dialogue.
For our part, we underscore that the
Russian side has repeatedly received
signals that the Israelis have no
interest in a military confrontation
with Iran.
And then despite Tehran's willingness to
engage in the diplomatic process,
it once again is stabbed in the back.
Moreover, the fact that Washington for
such a long time and methodically was
building up its military presence in the
region only confirms the fact that
aggression against Iran was planned in
advance.
The actions of the United States and
Israel risk triggering a humanitarian
and economic catastrophe.
Of particular concern, once again, are
the threats to nuclear safety and
security and radiological safety and
security.
the statements today from the president
of the United States, Donald Trump, to
the effect that this operation was aimed
at preventing Iran from acquiring a
nuclear weapon are not justified.
They are unfounded. Tean has
consistently stated that it does not
have any such plans and that is
fulfilling its obligations under the
nuclear non-prololiferation treaty.
Moreover, Iran has repeatedly
underscored its readiness to put at the
basis of new agreements with the United
States
the preservation of its status as a
state as a non-uclear weapons state,
provided that there is observation and
respect for the legitimate right of the
Islamic Republic of Iran as a state
party to the NPT to develop peaceful
nuclear technologies Against this
backdrop, the attempts of Western
countries to justify the US and Israeli
aggression uh as though there were some
alleged threats to international peace
and security are unfounded. These are
threats that were allegedly coming from
the Iranian nuclear program. We of
course recall that the only source of
reliable information in this regard are
the relevant reports of the IAEA
director general and those reports never
indicated that
and they never said that Iran
may be engaging in the development of a
nuclear weapon.
The objects that strikes are being
launched against are under the AY's
safeguards that is to say a priaryy.
They cannot be used for any such
activities.
Against this backdrop, we expect that
the IAEA Director General Rafael Gcei
will provide unambiguous assessments and
will condemn this latest undermining of
the NPT's authority and undermining of
the global regime for the
non-prololiferation uh by the USA and
Israel.
Nuclear energy objects, including the
Busher nuclear power plant, cannot in
any circumstances be the target of
strikes by armed forces. That is
unacceptable.
Mr. President, we note that today's
events
were the latest phase of um consistent
escalatory steps around Iran by Western
countries. that includes the USIsraeli
strikes on the country's territory in
June 2025
and US the US's open interference and
the open interference by US allies in
the domestic political situation in Iran
in January of this year. We also
remember the failed attempts by the
United Kingdom, France, and Germany to
trigger the mechanism to restore the
effect of Security Council anti-Iran
resolutions, the so-called snapback
mechanism.
However, that did not happen. Russia and
a number of other UN member states
repeatedly and in detail explained the
reasons why the United Kingdom, France,
and Germany did not have the right to
invoke that mechanism.
However, that did not work and the
United States and Israel once again have
brought military force to bear.
There are obvious parallels with the
events of 2003 when the US
representatives
waved a test tube around in this room to
justify their invasion of Iraq by saying
that there were weapons of mass
destruction present there that no one
actually found. In 2023,
US Vice President JD Vance said that the
Iraq campaign was unforced.
as a result, innocent Iraqis and
Americans died and that that and that
Washington had to learn that lesson.
However, as it turns out, that lesson
has not yet been learned.
in the statements of the European
colleagues
and we'll hear that again today. Instead
of condemning aggression and the deaths
of Iranian civilians, we once again will
hear the we hear the statement of the
president of France, Emanuel Macarron,
saying the Iranian regime must
understand that it has no other option
but to engage in good faith negotiations
to end its nuclear and ballistic
programs as well as its regional
destabilization activities." End quote.
Similar
assessments were voiced by the prime
minister of the United Kingdom, Kesh
Dharma.
These absurd statements were then backed
up by a joint statement of the leaders
of the United Kingdom, France, and
Germany condemning only Iran's strikes
on the countries in the region.
Colleagues, just think for a moment.
This sort of reaction is coming at a
time when Iran has been uh subject to
armed attack to military attack at the
peak of the an active negotiating
process. The hypocrisy of our European
colleagues knows no borders.
These aren't even double standards. It's
a a parallel reality.
Uh the other side of the looking glass.
In the English language, there's an
ideal term to describe the situation,
victim blaming.
One gets the impression that London,
Paris, and Berlin are living within
illusions that they have created for
themselves and are broadcasting to the
world. However, attempts to mislead the
international community are doomed to
fail. Any common sense person will fully
well understand who is responsible, who
bears responsibility for this latest
uncontrolled escalation.
Mr. President, we demand that the United
States and Israel immediately cease
their aggressive actions.
The uh uh an alternative to resolving
the Iranian subject, including its
nuclear component, uh the alternative to
to peaceful and diplomatic means, simply
does not exist, and it never has. We
insist on the immediate resumption of
political and diplomatic settlement
efforts and the p pursuit of solutions
based on international law, mutual
respect and a balance of interests.
Russa unchangingly stands ready to
provide all necessary assistance for
that work. Thank you.
I thank the representative of the
Russian Federation for the statement and
I give the floor to the representative
of China.
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IRAN: A Hidden World Beyond the Headlines | Travel Documentary
Nations Uncovered
Aug 13, 2025 ÍRÁN

From majestic mountains and lush valleys to dramatic deserts and ancient cities, this travel documentary explores the most beautiful places in Iran. Journey through breathtaking landscapes, historic Persian sites, and vibrant local culture. Discover UNESCO World Heritage sites, colorful mosques, remote villages, and timeless traditions that define Iran’s rich heritage. A cinematic look at one of the world’s most fascinating and underrated travel destinations.

Each travel documentary on this channel is individually written, edited, and narrated to provide a high-quality and original experience for viewers.



Transcript

Iran is one of the most misunderstood countries on Earth.
Some people think it’s just desert. Others imagine only politics and headlines.
But the reality? It’s something entirely different.
Iran is a place where ancient civilizations left behind impossible architecture…
Where volcanoes rise above emerald forests… And where islands bleed red into the sea.
In this video, we’re going to explore the most incredible places in Iran — But before we get to the locations, there are some facts you need to hear.
Because they’ll completely change how you see this country.
And some of them? Are so surprising, even most Iranians don’t know them.
Let’s start with something extreme. Iran is home to the hottest land surface temperature ever recorded on Earth.
In the Lut Desert, NASA satellites once measured the ground at a scorching 159.3°F (70.7°C) —
Hotter than the Sahara, Death Valley, or the Australian Outback.
And yet… life survives here. Microbes cling to the salt.
Nomadic tribes live on the edge. And winds carve the land into shapes that look like alien ruins.
But here’s what’s even more surprising: While southern Iran is one of the driest places on Earth, the north is a rainforest.
Yes, a rainforest.
The Hyrcanian Forests, stretching along the Caspian Sea, are over 50 million years old.
That makes them older than the Amazon — and they once covered almost the entire northern hemisphere.
Today, they survive only in a narrow strip of Iran and Azerbaijan.
These forests are so rich in biodiversity, UNESCO called them one of the last remaining ancient broadleaf forests on Earth.
And that’s not all. Iran has four distinct seasons — all at the same time.
In winter, you could be skiing on Mount Damavand — the tallest volcano in Asia at 18,406 feet (5,610 meters) —
While just a few hundred miles away, tourists are sunbathing on islands in the Persian Gulf.
How is that possible? It’s because Iran spans climates from snowy alpine to subtropical to desert,
all packed within a single country.
Now, let’s talk scale. Iran is the 17th largest country in the world — bigger than France, Germany, and the UK combined.
That means there’s room for some serious natural diversity. For example: • The Caspian Sea to the north is actually the largest enclosed inland
body of water on the planet, often called the world’s largest lake.
• The Zagros Mountains stretch over 990 miles
(1,600 km) and contain hundreds of hidden valleys and tribal villages.
• And Iran’s coastline along the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman spans
more than 1,550 miles (2,500 km) — much of it wild, unexplored, and stunning.
But it’s not just nature that surprises people. Iran is also a civilizational powerhouse.
It’s home to one of the world’s oldest continuous cultures, with urban settlements dating back over 7,000 years.
And at its peak, the Persian Empire stretched from the Balkans to India — the largest empire the world had ever seen.
To this day, Persian influence can be seen across Asia, from architecture and language to gardens and astronomy.
And here’s a lesser-known twist: Iran has the world’s largest collection of underground aqueducts, known as qanats.
These ancient engineering marvels — some over 2,500 years old — still deliver
fresh water to remote villages using only gravity, no pumps.
Together, they stretch thousands of kilometers beneath deserts and mountains.
It’s one of the reasons Iran’s ancient cities were able to thrive in dry regions long before modern plumbing.
But modern Iran isn’t stuck in the past. The capital, Tehran, is home to over 13 million
people and has one of the busiest metro systems in the Middle East.
It’s a city of paradoxes — where women in colorful hijabs walk past glass skyscrapers,
and where street food vendors sell saffron rice beside high-end malls.
Iran also has one of the highest numbers of cultural heritage sites in Asia,
with 27 UNESCO World Heritage Sites — More than Japan.
More than Egypt.
Yet it receives a fraction of the tourists that other countries get. Most people don’t know what’s actually here.
They don’t know that Iran invented early algebra. Or that Persian carpets are still considered the finest in the world.
Or that ice cream was likely invented here — using underground pits of snow and rosewater, over 2,000 years ago.
And here’s something even weirder: There’s a village in Iran where people still live inside caves —
Not as a museum, but as actual homes. No spoilers yet — we’ll visit that place later in the video.
But first… Let’s explore Iran’s most breathtaking wonders. From glowing islands to hidden castles, frozen volcanoes to lush green villages —
You’re about to see a side of Iran most people never imagined. And by the end, you might just want to go there yourself.
It’s Iran’s largest island — and one of the least expected.
Qeshm Island sits in the Persian Gulf, just off the southern coast of Iran.
But this is no ordinary beach destination.
Instead of resorts and palm trees, Qeshm offers a wild, otherworldly landscape.
Here you’ll find the Valley of the Stars — a maze
of twisted rock formations that look like they’ve been sculpted by aliens.
According to local legend, a star once fell here and shattered the earth.
Scientists say it’s caused by millennia of wind and erosion.
Nearby is Chahkooh Canyon, a narrow sandstone gorge carved into deep passageways — some just wide enough for a person to squeeze through.
When it rains, water collects in natural basins, sustaining small desert wildlife.
The island is also home to the Hara mangrove forests, where saltwater trees rise from the sea and herons hunt at low tide.
It’s one of Iran’s few UNESCO Geoparks.
And the most surprising part? This massive island — more than 80 miles (130 km) long — remains mostly untouched by mass tourism.
But we’re just getting started. Because just across the water lies a volcanic island…
with blood-red beaches and rainbow-colored hills.
From above, it looks like a painter spilled their palette into the sea.
Hormuz Island, just a short boat ride from Qeshm, is one of the most colorful places on Earth — and one of the strangest.
The soil here is rich in minerals, especially iron oxide, which gives the land a deep red color.
On the Red Beach, waves crash against crimson sand, turning the shoreline into something that looks like it belongs on Mars.
But red isn’t the only color.
Just inland, you'll find hills in shades of yellow, orange, white,
even purple — all formed by centuries of volcanic activity and mineral sediment.
It’s no surprise geologists call this a “rainbow island.”
One of the island’s most unusual features is Edible Soil — yes,
locals actually use the red powder as a spice in traditional dishes.
And yet, despite its surreal landscapes and rich geological value,
Hormuz remains almost unknown outside of Iran.
The entire island is only 26 square miles (42 km²) — easily explored in a single day.
But don’t let the size fool you. Because our next stop is even more extreme.
We’re heading deep into the desert — To a place where temperatures once broke world records.
It’s not just the hottest desert in Iran. It’s the hottest place ever recorded on Earth.
In Dasht-e Lut, NASA satellites once measured surface temperatures of 159.3°F (70.7°C).
That’s not air temperature — it’s ground heat, strong enough to fry eggs on rocks.
But the real mystery? Nothing should survive here. Yet researchers found life — microbial organisms clinging to salt and stone.
That discovery raised new questions about life on Mars, because Lut looks uncannily similar.
This desert isn’t just hot — it’s surreal. The Gandom Beryan plateau is a massive black basalt
field where heat builds like a pressure cooker.
And to the east, the Kalouts rise from the sand like the ruins of an alien city — massive wind-carved ridges stretching for miles.
There’s no shade. No water. No permanent settlements. And yet, this extreme environment draws geologists, filmmakers,
and explorers from around the world. Why?
Because nowhere else looks like this.
And now, we’re going from a dead, dry land…
to a place where people have lived for thousands of years — using only mud, brick, and brilliant design to survive the desert.
Kerman might look quiet on the surface. But it’s the gateway to some of the most bizarre landscapes in Iran.
Located at the edge of the Lut Desert, Kerman is one of the oldest cities in the region, with roots going back more than 4,000 years.
It was a key stop on the Silk Road and is still known for its carpets, pistachios, and architecture.
The heart of the city is the Ganjali Khan Complex, a stunning combination of bathhouse, mosque, and bazaar —
built in the 17th century. Its ceiling mosaics and sunken hammam are among the best-preserved in the country.
But here’s the part most people miss: Kerman is also the base for exploring the Kalouts — the
strange, ridged formations of the Lut Desert. They lie just 95 miles (150 km) from the city and feel like a different planet.
But the desert isn’t the only place where humans adapted to harsh conditions.
Next, we travel to a city built from adobe — where towers don’t just rise above the streets…
they catch the wind.
In the heart of Iran, where the desert sun beats down for over 300 days a year,
lies a city that mastered survival — long before air conditioning was invented.
Yazd is known as the city of windcatchers. These tall, chimney-like structures,
called badgirs, cool homes by channeling even the slightest breeze into underground rooms.
It’s one of the oldest passive cooling systems in the world.
But that’s just the beginning. Yazd is also home to one of the oldest Zoroastrian communities still in existence.
Their sacred Fire Temple houses a flame said to have
been burning continuously for over 1,500 years.
The city itself is a maze of mud-brick alleys, rooftops, and hidden courtyards.
From above, it looks like a wave of sand-colored domes stretching to the horizon.
What makes Yazd even more impressive is its underground water system.
Qanats, ancient tunnels dug by hand, have supplied water for more than two millennia — using only gravity.
And while tourists often focus on Iran’s grand mosques and palaces…
Yazd is about quiet genius. Innovation.
Survival.
But now we’re heading to a city known for poetry, roses — and one of the most spectacular shrines in the Islamic world.
Shiraz isn’t just a city — it’s an idea. For centuries, it was known across the Islamic world as a center of poetry, gardens, and wine.
Even today, its reputation holds. This is the birthplace of Hafez and Saadi, two of the most celebrated poets in Persian history.
Their tombs are not quiet monuments — they’re gathering places,
where people still come to recite verses and leave handwritten poems among the flowers.
But Shiraz is more than literature. The Nasir al-Mulk Mosque,
often called the “Pink Mosque,” is one of the most photographed buildings in Iran.
Every morning, sunlight pours through stained glass windows, lighting the prayer hall in waves of color.
It looks fake — but it’s real.
Nearby, the Shah Cheragh shrine glows from the inside.
Its walls and ceilings are covered in tiny mirror tiles, designed to reflect light like a chandelier.
No camera truly captures it.
And outside the religious sites, there are gardens filled with roses and cypress trees — echoes of ancient Persian design, which later influenced Mughal India.
But to understand why Shiraz once ruled empires… You need to leave the city.
And walk among the ruins of a civilization that once ruled the known world.
This wasn’t just a palace. It was a statement.
Persepolis was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire — one of the largest empires in history.
Built over 2,500 years ago by Darius the Great, it was meant to impress… and intimidate.
The entrance is still guarded by the Gate of All Nations, flanked by giant stone bulls.
From there, a staircase leads to vast halls once lined with gold and silver — now bare,
but still hauntingly powerful.
One of the most striking parts? The detailed carvings.
Dozens of delegations from across the empire — Ethiopians, Babylonians,
Indians, Greeks — are shown bringing gifts to the king. It’s a visual reminder that Persia was once a superpower
stretching from the Balkans to the Indus River.
But it all came crashing down in 330 BCE, when Alexander the Great burned the complex during his conquest.
Some say it was revenge. Others say it was an accident, fueled by wine and celebration.
Either way, what’s left today is astonishing. And while Persepolis shows ancient power…
Our next stop reveals something else: a city of symmetry, tiles, and architecture so perfect, it was once called “half the world.”
Isfahan doesn’t shout. It mesmerizes. At its heart is Naqsh-e Jahan Square — one of the largest squares on Earth,
surrounded by mosques, palaces, and bazaars.
The proportions are so balanced, so intentional, that many architects consider it a masterpiece of urban planning.
The Shah Mosque, built in the 1600s, features towering minarets,
7-color tiles, and an echo chamber dome that amplifies even a whisper.
Not far from it is the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque — smaller, but even more refined.
It was built not for the public, but for royalty — and it shows.
Inside, a single beam of light shifts across the dome like a moving clock.
And outside, the tiled exterior changes color depending on the sun’s angle — from cream to gold to soft pink.
Across the square stands Ali Qapu Palace, with its music room carved to enhance acoustics.
And then there’s the Si-o-se-pol bridge, a 33-arch marvel that spans the river.
At night, it becomes a gathering place — lit, lively, full of music.
But Isfahan is not just a destination. It’s a blueprint for elegance.
Next, we head north — To a quieter town, where elegance takes the form
of traditional homes carved in stone and built around silence.
If you want to understand how wealthy Persian families lived 200 years ago — this is where you go.
Kashan is famous for its historical houses, especially the Tabatabaei and Borujerdi homes.
These aren’t ruins. They’re time capsules. Carefully preserved mansions with stained glass windows, windcatchers,
and underground chambers that kept the air cool in scorching summers.
Many have multiple courtyards — each one designed to manage light, privacy, and temperature.
Some were built with secret tunnels and even indoor water channels, connected to the city’s qanat system.
But Kashan isn’t just about houses. The Sultan Amir Ahmad Bathhouse offers a look at traditional Iranian bathing culture,
with domed ceilings and turquoise tiles. You can even climb onto the rooftop, where the clay domes offer panoramic views of the old city.
Kashan is also known for its rosewater — still distilled in the nearby village of Qamsar every spring using centuries-old methods.
And it’s just a few hours from Tehran — Iran’s modern capital.
But don’t expect another historic town. Because next, we enter a city of glass towers, smog,
expressways — and unexpected depth beneath the noise.
Iran’s capital is chaotic, noisy, and massive — over 13 million people live here.
But beneath the traffic and skyline, Tehran holds stories most visitors never hear.
Start with the Golestan Palace — a Qajar-era complex filled with mirrored halls, royal thrones, and mosaic courtyards.
It’s a reminder that Tehran wasn’t always the capital — but when it became one, it aimed for grandeur.
Then there’s the National Jewelry Treasury, where you’ll find crowns, swords, and a globe made of emeralds and rubies.
It’s only open a few days a week, and security is tighter than most banks.
Outside, Azadi Tower marks the gateway to the city — a blend
of modernism and traditional Persian architecture.
And rising above it all is the Milad Tower, one of the tallest in the world at
1,427 feet (435 meters).
But what most don’t realize? Tehran sits at the base of a mountain range — and on a clear day, you can see
a snow-capped volcano looming over the skyline. That’s where we’re going next.
To Iran’s highest peak. A place of myth, science, and extreme altitude.
It’s not just the tallest mountain in Iran. It’s the tallest volcano in all of Asia.
Mount Damavand rises to 18,406 feet (5,610 meters),
dominating the Alborz mountain range — and the skyline of northern Tehran. On a clear day, it’s visible from over 60 miles (100 km) away.
But Damavand isn’t just a peak. It’s a symbol. In Persian mythology, this mountain was where the evil tyrant Zahhak
was chained — and it’s mentioned in the Shahnameh, Iran’s national epic.
Today, it attracts both climbers and scientists. The summit often steams slightly — a reminder that it’s dormant, not dead.
And while it’s covered in snow most of the year, volcanic sulfur vents dot the slopes.
Climbing Damavand isn’t easy. Altitude sickness can strike fast.
But in summer, the trails turn green, and wildflowers bloom around old lava flows.
The mountain has its own climate. Its own legends. Its own dangers.
And once you descend, you’re not far from something completely different:
Castles. Cloud forests. And valleys where assassins once ruled from stone fortresses in the sky.
At first, it looks like a peaceful mountain valley. But high above the cliffs lies one of the most mysterious fortresses in Iranian history.
Alamut Castle, perched at 6,560 feet (2,000 meters) above sea level, was once the stronghold
of the Assassins — a secretive Ismaili sect that operated in the 11th and 12th centuries.
From here, they controlled a vast network of hidden castles, striking fear into kings and caliphs across the region.
The castle ruins are now reachable via a steep hike, offering panoramic views over the Alamut
Valley — known for its deep canyons, almond trees, and fog-filled mornings.
Nearby villages preserve a quiet way of life. Some still bake bread in outdoor ovens, and children walk for miles to reach school.
It’s isolated. Rugged. And unforgettable.
But if you descend from these mountains and head north, something surprising happens.
The terrain changes. The trees thicken. And suddenly, you’re in a world that feels more like Southeast Asia than the Middle East.
This isn’t what most people picture when they think of Iran. On the southern edge of the Caspian Sea, the landscape flips entirely.
Gone are the deserts and stone. Here, it’s all rice fields, palm trees, and misty hills.
The Mazandaran and Gilan provinces sit between the Alborz Mountains and the sea — forming a lush,
subtropical region that feels like a different country altogether. Villages here are built on stilts to survive flooding.
The air is humid. Markets overflow with smoked fish, pickled garlic, and tea grown on the nearby slopes.
And the Caspian Sea itself? It’s the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth,
covering 143,000 square miles (371,000 km²).
On hot summer days, locals crowd the beaches in cities like Ramsar and Bandar Anzali — but turn
inland, and you’ll find forests, waterfalls, and ancient cemeteries lost in green.
But it gets even older. Because deep within these woods are trees that predate human civilization.
They’ve stood for tens of millions of years. And they’re waiting just a few miles away — in one of the last surviving ancient forests on Earth.
These trees are older than the Ice Age. The Hyrcanian Forests stretch along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea,
covering over 21,000 square miles (55,000 km²) across Iran and Azerbaijan.
They’ve existed for more than 50 million years — making them one of the oldest surviving temperate forests on the planet.
In prehistoric times, similar forests covered much of Europe and Asia.
Today, this is one of the last places where that ancient world still lives.
Inside, you’ll find oak, beech, hornbeam — and species found nowhere else on Earth.
Birds migrate through here. Leopards still roam the higher elevations.
And fog clings to the forest floor like a whisper from the past.
UNESCO designated the Hyrcanian Forests a World Heritage Site in 2019.
But they’re still relatively unknown — especially compared to rainforests in South America or Southeast Asia.
Trails here are often muddy. Weather changes fast. But the air is rich with oxygen and the scent of wet leaves.
And hidden deep in these hills is our next destination — a fortress built inside the jungle,
once lost to time, and now slowly being reclaimed by it.
You don’t see it at first. You hike through trees. Climb old stone steps.
And then, suddenly — it appears. Rudkhan Castle, hidden in the green mountains of Gilan Province,
is one of the most impressive fortresses in Iran. Built during the Sassanid era and expanded in the 11th century,
it sits at 2,300 feet (700 meters) above sea level.
Its walls stretch for over 4,900 feet (1,500 meters) and connect 42 watchtowers, making
it feel like a miniature version of the Great Wall — but covered in moss, mist, and forest.
Today, reaching Rudkhan takes about an hour of uphill hiking — past waterfalls,
streams, and jungle-like terrain. But the payoff is massive.
But now we leave the forests behind. Because up ahead lies a legendary village…
built into volcanic rock, where families still live inside caves.
Some places are ancient. Others are alive. Kandovan is both.
This village, located in East Azerbaijan Province, is famous for its cone-shaped homes
carved directly into volcanic rock — the result of ancient lava flows from nearby Mount Sahand.
Unlike similar sites in Turkey’s Cappadocia, people still live in these rock dwellings.
Not as museum pieces — but as functional homes, many passed down through generations.
The stone acts as natural insulation: cool in summer, warm in winter.
Many homes have multiple floors, carved vertically into the cone.
Some even have electricity, running water, and Wi-Fi — all inside 700-year-old cave walls.
There’s also a natural spring believed by locals to have healing properties,
especially for kidney issues. Visitors fill bottles to take the water home.
Kandovan isn’t large — just a few narrow paths winding through the rock formations — but every angle looks like a fantasy film set.
And just a short drive away lies a city that helped shape Persian identity in the northwest.
A cultural hub. A historic crossroads. And a place that once rivaled Tehran itself in influence.
For centuries, Tabriz was the beating heart of northwestern Iran.
It was the capital of multiple dynasties, the starting point of Silk Road caravans,
and a melting pot of cultures — Turkic, Persian, Armenian, and more.
Its most famous site is the Tabriz Bazaar, one of the largest covered markets in the world and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
With over 4 miles (7 km) of interconnected corridors,
it’s not just a place to shop — it’s a city within a city. The architecture is stunning: brick vaults, arched ceilings,
traditional caravanserais, and light streaming in through centuries-old openings.
You’ll find spices, carpets, copperware, and tea houses buzzing with life.
Tabriz is also known for the Blue Mosque, once called the “Turquoise of Islam.”
Though heavily damaged in an earthquake, its remaining tilework hints at past glory.
And beyond the city lies the Azerbaijani Plateau, leading to the final stop on our journey —
A lake that once dominated the region… but now, tells a very different story.
It was once the largest saltwater lake in the Middle East. Now, it’s a warning.
Lake Urmia, located between Tabriz and Urmia city, used to cover over 2,000 square miles (5,200 km²) — almost the size of Luxembourg.
But over the last few decades, the lake has shrunk by more than 80% due to dam
construction, irrigation, and climate change.
The result? Vast salt flats stretch where water once shimmered.
Old piers now stand in the middle of cracked earth. And what water remains is often blood red — caused by salt-loving algae and bacteria.
Still, Urmia remains visually striking. The salt creates bright white crusts around the shoreline,
and flamingos occasionally return during wet seasons. Efforts are underway to revive the lake, including
redirected river flows and conservation plans — but the outcome is uncertain.
And that’s what makes it unforgettable.
And with that, our journey through Iran comes to an end.
We’ve seen deserts that defy life, forests older than civilization,
and cities built to outsmart the sun. But Iran doesn’t fit into one story.
It’s not just ancient or modern. Not just dry or green. Not just one culture or one landscape.
It’s all of them at once — layered, complex, often contradictory.
And even after all these places, one thing becomes clear: You could spend a lifetime here… and still feel like you’re only beginning.

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US F-15s DOWNED by Iran, Israel Under HEAVY Missile Fire | Patrick Henningsen & Col. Wilkerson
Danny Haiphong
Streamed live 3 hours ago #iran #israel #trump

Geopolitical analyst and war reporter Patrick Henningsen joins to discuss the latest breaking developments in the US-Israeli war on Iran including: Iran's massive retaliation escalating in attack on USS Lincoln, missile hellfire over Israel, Hezbollah joining the war, and new revelations that Trump may be tapping out.



Transcript

Welcome everyone. Welcome back to the show. It's your host Danny Hiong. As you can see, I am joined by Colonel Lawrence
Wilkerson, former chief of staff of Colon Powell, the State Department, and US Army Colonel, retired. Now, we also
have Patrick Hennington, geopolitical analyst, independent journalist joining today. Thanks so much, gentlemen, for
joining me. We have a lot to get to. Thank you. Cheers, Jenny.
Yeah. Well, let's get to it. So I want to begin with the breaking news. Okay.
The the breaking news is that there have been three F-15 fighter jets that have
been downed in Kuwait. Centcom is saying that this was friendly fire by Kuwaiti
uh you know firing off their air defenses at these F-15s. They happened in a very short period of time. Iran is
saying that they fired at these uh uh uh F-15s and are responsible for it. I'm
just going to play a quick video and get your reaction especially Colonel Wilkerson because this I think is a
pattern that we are seeing now in this war. Here we go. Here is the fighter jet
that the video is going around not only on social media but western mainstream media has been confirming this. So, uh,
Colonel Wilkerson, uh, please help us understand what may have happened here and what has been your reaction overall
to what's been going on, uh, in this war that the US and Israel launched at the
end of February.

[Col. Wilkerson] To the specific incident that you're showing the video of, we will probably
never know the truth of who did what to whom. Both sides stories are
believable. Friendly fire on three aircraft is approaching unbelievability,
but it could be but that's irrelevant really, except as it exemplifies the
nature of this conflict. What we have here is a failure to understand as
Klausewitz was so emphatic in saying was critical the nature of this war. And the
understanding is gross and most unbelievable on the side of the Empire.
I cannot believe that we have started this the way we started it. The way we
are propagandizing it -- and it is major propaganda; you can't find a mainstream
media source in America, I dare you, that isn't putting out the propaganda of
the Administration and ultimately of You Know Who, BB Netanyahu and the Israel
lobby. So, you just have to discount that.

And then you have to say to yourself, well, Americans aren't as
stupid as I thought they were because polls now show damning evidence that
even MAGA, and much of the Republican following of Donald Trump, to percentages unparalleled in the past, with actions like this, are against it. And across the
country, it looks like you could say fairly that three-quarters of the American
people are opposed to this war. So we have a president starting a war
unconstitutionally. No question about that. No question whatsoever about that. Toss the War Powers Act out. It was an abridgement of the Constitution anyway. Go to the actual Constitution and this is an
impeachable offense of the first order that Donald Trump has embarked on.

And then let's talk about the nature of the war which Klausewitz, of course, points out
is a crucial crucial assessment on the Iranian side, and that is the valid side
I think, it's going to be a very long war. A very long war And it's going to
incorporate a lot of casualties no one was contemplating, in both material,
in economies, and in actual people killed. Ask the Israelis who had one
strike that I think let's see nine killed, 70 wounded and six missing in
action already. And that's a couple hours or at least maybe 24 hours ago. So
this is going to have ramifications all across the region that none of us can calculate or estimate right now.

I think one of the reasons for example Iran is doing something that I thought as a military professional would be unwise to
do early on but I think I see I glean their operational approach here and even
the strategy behind it. They are attacking some of the people in the region, Arab countries in particular,
that aren't necessarily their enemies, or not their avowed enemies at the moment. And they're doing that because they want
to get the people on the street, as happened so vividly in Bahrain, to cheer
when they attack. And that's what they're getting. We might have another Arab Spring, if you will, that is
actually successful in overthrowing some of these tyrants who are our allies.

And then the last thing I would say about the nature of the war which I think is critical here. There's no way the Empire
can put up with this. And let's just look at some parameters here. When we went to
war in 1944, and we really went to war in 1936 and 37, we were already building the supply route through Iran for example into the belly of the Soviet Union. So when we went, we had 70 million roughly in Germany, and 70 million roughly in Japan.
We put 12 million men in the field, and the strategic assessment by Admiral King
and by George Marshall was that that was inadequate to confront the German number
of divisions. The maximum we could build from that was 100 divisions. But we were
smart. We knew the Soviets ultimately would take the bulk of the casualties in
that war. And we knew that we had to supply the rest of the allies. All of them we supplied with from the arsenal
of democracy as it were. That's the best title of our World War II strategy. By the way, we kept a lot of men, in other
words, in the industrial base, in order to be that arsenal of democracy. 12
million men. We couldn't put half a million, Danny, in the field today. And
that's what it would take to subdue this very resolute country of 90 million
people in Iran, about 53% of whom are Persian and another 20 to 25% are right
there with them in solidarity with regard to this. And you've seen that sort of exemplified by -- I couldn't
believe the mainstream media putting up the pictures of the people protesting
the regime, and then just a brief look at the people protesting the death of Khameini.
It was incredible the difference. Millions came out, and they coming out all across the Muslim world too, from
Pakistan down to --

Pakistan is on fire right now.

and at war with Afghanistan of all
things! I mean, Kabul going up against a nuclear power. Are you dumb or something? But this is what we're doing.
And the nature of this war is not realized by this Idiot in charge of the
Empire, or the Idiot in charge of his Pentagon. They simply do not understand
what they're embarked upon. And they are going to get a rude, rude awakening.

Yeah. Well, Patrick, I'm going to pass it to you. And as I do, I'm going to play more footage of what happened with
these down F-15 fighter jets. When I heard this, Patrick, I said, "No matter what the explanation,
this is an incredibly humiliating scene." Even the explanation that Centcom is giving is incredibly
humiliating, given that it's Iran's response that has caused this panic, and
of course all of the military problems that we are seeing surface in the mainstream media. But your thoughts, your assessment?

Yeah, I'm not surprised if it was friendly fire,
I'm not surprised at all. And you can see that, you know, manned
fighter aircraft is not something that the Iranians have invested heavily in in
the last 20 years. They're invested in drones, missile technology, air defense. So this is one of the deconliction issues that you might see that's somewhat embarrassing.

But one of the good things about this from the Iranian point of view is obviously the public relations optics for the US public opinion
as we're approaching a a vote in Congress. But I just want to backpedal to the congressional vote, that this vote could have happened last week. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie had this
ready, on the table, and it was people like Chuck Schumer the Democratic senator that said, "Oh yeah, sure, sure. We want to vote on that, but let's do that later. Let's do that in a week." So clearly Chuck Schumer and others knew this war was happening on the weekend. And they
chose to drag their heels on that effort. And that's something that should be known to the American people in the world is that all of these senators and congressmen that are bought and paid for by the Israeli lobby are intervening in our
Constitutional due process on behalf of a foreign entity. The other thing is
Donald Trump did not consult Congress beforehand, and this is
important. US are working hand-in-glove with Israel. You can't separate the two. They like to play good cop bad cop. This
is all theater. So BB Netanyahu briefed the Knesset and his security committee
about US operations that were coming up on the weekend. But Donald Trump didn't
brief our Congress and senators on US operations that were coming up on the
weekend. To me this is a Constitutional crisis in the United States of America.
And this president has completely disregarded his obligations and his
duties as a chief executive of the United States of America and bypassed
our system, our Constitutional system in order to serve and accommodate a
foreign entity. And I think this is so clear. This is so clear. It's
embarrassing on one level, but on another it really should shock people. And then the cavalier attitude of Trump
and people like Lindsey Graham just kind of waving their hand about US servicemen being killed like, "Well, it
happens." There's going to be more, but you know this is a fight worth fighting for.

And then Pete Hegseth
goes in front of a press briefing saying that we we didn't start this
war but we're going to finish it. No, no, no. The US did start this war. The US did start this. This is premeditated. They agreed on December 29th in Mara Lago on the date of this attack. Might
have been delayed a week or a few days or whatever, but this was already premeditated. So the the whole facade of
peace negotiations, or nuclear negotiations, was a ruse and
used to provide cover for a sneak attack. So this is the way
the United States is doing its business in the world, and this is what they're projecting out to other superpowers like
China, Russia, India and everybody else. And the US has kind of inadvertently put
the world on notice as to the fact that it is a rogue actor in the
international system. We don't even need to comment on Israel. Everybody knows
what you're dealing with there. But there should be no question globally that this this administration particularly, of what they're capable of doing,
highlevel negotiations, even bringing it to Geneva with full intention.

And this is why I'm going to make this point, and this is not a flippant point.
This is absolutely factual. This is why Donald Trump has the Israeli
lobby have inserted Steve Witkoff and
Jared Kushner as the chief diplomats of US foreign policy so they could front-
run all of these negotiations that multiple times have been used as cover
for a sneak attack. So they're working on behalf of Israel. That means
effectively de facto, these are Israeli agents who are posing as diplomats who
don't have any official portfolio at the State Department, and are sitting there
basically running this facade, this vaudeville show that looks like diplomacy or is meant to look like diplomacy. Meanwhile, they're preparing
military actions to start an undeclared unprovoked war of aggression.
Not once. They've done it twice.

If I count the the Hezbollah negotiations, or the Hamas
negotiations, or the two times they've done this in Ukraine, we're up to five sneak attacks in 12 months. Excuse me! I mean, this just defies analysis at this point. You're dealing with a
criminal gang that have usurped the White House and they are not working for
the American people or the United States of America. They are working exclusively on behalf of a foreign entity. I mean,
fhere's no way to deny this at this point. This is all the proof that we would ever need. They did
it again. And I don't know. I don't know at this point.

Yeah. No. Um uh important words, Patrick. Now, uh Colonel Wilkerson, given what Patrick is saying, I just
want to play I just want to show some of the casualty numbers on the US side. Of course, Iranians have taken a a beating,
hundreds, including uh of course the horrible attack on the school that
killed over 150 school children, girls. Um, but here's what Iran has said. They
say that 560 service members uh have been injured or killed up until this
time under Operation True Promise 4. That's from the IRGC itself. Uh what
Sentcom is saying is that about four people have been killed or at less
about this but SenCom is keeping it very low. Uh about six have been killed so far and uh this is what Iran has done.
This is all of the places that it has hit uh US military, naval, air bases,
etc. So, uh, Colonel Wilkerson, uh, what do you make of this? I mean, Donald Trump
has said that there will be a guarantee that more Americans die. Pete Hgsth just said it as well. Um, I mean, how do you
react to such a thing? Well, the first thing let me say is that I agree with every word that Patrick D
said and I'll just re-emphasize the fact that this is the highest impeachable
offense anywhere. Certainly on the agenda of people like
James Madison and Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and a host of others of our founders. This was it. This is
why they put the impeachment clause in our constitution. taking the country to
a nefarious, undeclared, unconstitutional violation of international law. Lay down
your marker and it will be valid. I assure you, is a number one impeachable
offense. And the very first thing that should start and it won't for the very reason that Patrick said because Schumer
is a lobbyist is a is a compliment for the Jewish
lobby. uh par excellence and is buried in Israel's rear end just like Mike
Cuckabe and a host of other people including the director of the CIA. So it isn't going to happen. But that shows
you how perilous our straits are right now to remain even a modicum of a
democratic federal republic or better said a federal republic with democratic aspects. We're disappearing and counting
beans in a field and targets hit and tactical things like that are really not
what should be going on right now. What should be going on is a fundamental
assessment of this enterprise that we are embarked upon right now which has no
outcome, none whatsoever but disaster. And I don't just mean on the side of the
United States. I mean on the side of regional players too, not least of which
is Iran. A lot of people are going to die in Iran, but they are resolute. And
they are resolute to the point where this is going to be a long bloody
conflict. And even if Trump were to say, "Let's stop," they probably would not.
And the deeper we get into it, that probably becomes a certainty. So the nature of this conflict is significantly
misinterpreted by people like Hegsth and Trump and others in the administration
and by people like Lindsey Graham and Chuck Schumer. This is we are embarked
upon something that is going to really tear at us, majorly tear at us. And
we're doing it at a time when Xi Jinping has publicly announced
in a in in a document that you can make no mistake about that China has reached
the pinnacle in so many areas, technology, economic might, industrial base, ship
building, you name it. But the one place they have it, and he says this in his pronouncement, I didn't think I'd see
this uh in Xi Jinping's time. I thought Dung Xiaoing still had enough influence
going forward, if you will, that he wouldn't do this, but he's done it. The one thing they're missing is control of
the international financial empire. So they are now going to make a move and it
will be successful. I guarantee you to replace the dollar with the remni. This
is a major move for them because they understand viscerally what that does to
a power. It really begins to corrupt them as you've seen with us because you
can do deficit spending out the rear end because your currency is the one that the deficit spending is denominated in
oil sales and so forth and Saudi Arabia right now is on the cusp of agreeing
with Xi Jinping. I think we'll see that agreement within the next 12 months where they will turn everything they do
in terms of oil sales denominated in remi rather than dollars. This is a monumental change in the world. And look
at where we are right now. Look at what we're doing right now. And if we wanted to bring this to some kind of successful
end, which I don't think is even possible with regard to run, we put 12
million men in the field for for Germany and Japan and had the Soviets to help us
with 20 million plus casualties. They beat the Vermach. We didn't. They beat
the Vermach. 90 million in Iran. We couldn't put half a million soldiers and marines on the
ground in Iran. They would be consumed. They would be destroyed. They would be How would they even get there, Colonel
Wilkerson? How would they even get there? That's, you know, that's possible. You could get them there because there are
enough bottoms, amphibious bottoms to mount an attack on the Iranian coast that would probably suffer a lot of
casualties, but nonetheless, you might get a quarter of a million men ashore. They would be engulfed. They would be
enveloped. So what are we going to do? That's the pity here in
the revolts in America in the US would be incredible. The casualties that are going to occur.
Let's think if he tried to implement a draft. Half the American youth would be in Mexico and the other half would be in
Canada overnight. There's no way we would have a successful draft. I don't care what dracone he could send ice. I
wish he would. I disappear. He would disappear real fast. You just
you can't fathom the depth of the danger that he has placed this country in
constitutionally, domestically, in other words, and internationally, globally.
Patrick is absolutely right. We have no reputation left. We have nothing. It's in shreds. If I were Putin, I'd turn to
Whit and Kushner. I'd say, "Special envoys, get out of my country. Get out of my face and don't come back."
powerful Colonel Wilkerson and Patrick Colonel Wilkerson said this is going to be a long war and Ali Rajani who's now
the head of the defense forces in uh Iran said the same thing he said it on
his ex he said Leanran like the US has prepared itself for a long war and this
is a unanimous statement across the IRGC across the Iranian military political
officials are all saying the same thing your reaction to anything that Carl
Wilkerson said, but also to this I mean I mean this this has to be frightening the Trump administration to a bit. We've
heard reports of them already scrambling what do we do the air defenses surge
more make, you know, send more troops, send more equipment if we have it versus
the opposite, you know, like they're they're in a bind here, Patrick. Oh, sorry. Hold on. There you go.
Uh Patrick, uh I don't know why I can't hear you. You're not muted. Sorry. Yeah, sorry about that. On my
end, um I accidentally hit the button. Uh Iran's been planning for this for,
you know, since since the 80s, effectively, since the uh Iran Iraq war,
uh they've been planning for this. They they know that this confrontation was inevitable. And so they have with what
little resources that they have, our government talks as if like every single
penny in the balance of payments in the Iran's political economy uh goes towards
missiles and uh and drones. It's just patently ridiculous. I mean, they're literally working on shoestring budgets.
But what they're able to do on their those relatively, you know, marginal and humble budgets
for their defense is quite incredible. And they've been able to do this
methodically over a period of years. And so what that you're seeing the result of this now, they only have to be lucky
once. you know, the United States has this uh undefeated record supposedly, which isn't really undefeated, but in
the minds of the Warhawks in Washington anyway, that they're, you know, they have an undefeated season of the last
uh, you know, 100 years or whatever. Um, but Iran only needs to get lucky a few times. Trump needs to throw, I said this
uh on our interview last week, Trump needs to throw a no hitter. Trump needs
to throw a no hitter. He's not He's not He's now lost a no hitter. Now, you
know, who there's who's the relief pitcher that's going to come in and save this or what sort of desperate move are
the neocons uh or the, you know, the Zionist lobby, if you will. Uh what what sort of desperate move are they going to
do if the United States seems to be taking too many hits, too many casualties? the what what Trump has done
is is effectively sacrifice he's he is potentially sacrificing the US military
footprint around the Persian Gulf. This is a fortification that the United States has built up um over many
decades, many decades in fact. And so now he's he's he's threatening to to to
sacrifice that uh on behalf of of Israel, Israel's short-term uh political
and uh military means. So that that's quite significant, you know, in terms of
the US ability to project power. And people say, well, Iran's made a huge mistake because they've hit targets and
the Gulf States instead of rallying behind them, the Arab Gulf States are
now, you know, uh now opposing them. So this was a bad move by Iran. No, I I think this was a very shrewd, canny, and
a very deliberate move by the Iranians because they're like a normative power.
And if you if you study international relations, which nobody in Trump
administration has done, if they have, I I don't see any evidence of it. But what
a normative power would do, a China, a Russia, a previous United States, other
uh significant countries, they will try to impose a cost on their neighbors for
acting as accessories or uh accompllices to another power. In other words, they
want to impose a cost on the Gulf States for hosting all of these US bases. And
each of these US bases in Bahrain, uh in Saudi Arabia, in Qatar, uh in uh in
Oman, there's facilities as well and the UAE uh in Kuwait. Each of these bases uh
fulfills a specific role. This is a division of labor for the US military.
So each of them in in some way or another form a central role. And uh so
now that that all comes into question uh and I think the each of these countries
are like well do we want to be permanently at war with Iran in order to and the US is there to defend them
supposedly. I mean that's the sales pitch. We're going to provide defense for you when in fact they're just
drawing fire by hosting these US bases there. So I mean it's pretty obvious how
this is actually turning out and it took Iran to push the issue. The other thing people said is Iran would never strike
Cyprus because that's a NATO country and that would trigger Article 5. And that's the stupidest argument I've ever heard
because the United States is the leading NATO power and they've already initiated an undeclared war. So, forget Article 5
or any of this nonsense. And what did Iran do? They have they have attacked or or hit RAF Acritori, the British base in
Cyprus, which Israel uses as an escape hatch during missile attacks and which
they use to to put uh temporarily stash uh F-35 fighters and other assets
including men Benjamin Netanyahu himself uh in the event of a of a siege on Tel
Aviv and so forth. So they've they've shown that what are the European uh countries going to do? They're going to
do nothing. They're going to do nothing. Why? For the simple reason is that US and Israel started this war. They
brought they drew the fire to Cypress. Cypress is so important uh for GCHQ,
for the NSA as a relay station, it is absolutely essential to base in Cyprus.
The fact that Iran had that on their target list, the bank of targets, shows you that Iranian intelligence in the
UAE, I can tell you and I have this on extremely good authority. Their intelligence is par excellence in the
with regards to the Gulf States. They know where everything is. They know where every US CIA base is. They know
where every Israeli base is. They know in Herbiel in uh the Kurdish uh regional
government in Iraq, they also have demonstrated that they will hit those Israeli bases as far back as uh January
2020 when they responded to the assassination of Kasamsulammani. So people have this idea that that
Iran's a backward country and they don't know what they're doing and they're it's mull bumbling around with, you know,
missiles and things like that. No, no. They they're very specific in their strategy. They have they have prepared
to respond immediately if they were attacked. They did not believe the negotiations were uh were were
legitimate or sincere. And I think the US has lulled itself just institutionally into a kind of
complacency uh from the Iraq war period and the Afghanistan war period. They've
reconfigured their entire military around a certain type of uh profile for missions. Douglas McGregor had said this
uh uh previously I think in the summer he said that uh the current US forces
they really only have uh around just over 400,000 or 420,000
um troops and out of those that are combat ready. He said that uh 120,000
maybe 150,000. He said this uh repeatedly on on interviews. And so if
if it's about deploying uh in in the event of the need to put ground troops
or show create leverage in that way, you're talking about what available
120,000 potentially combat ready troops. That's the United States of America. They've really scaled down their
capabilities over the last couple of decades and totally relied on this overwhelming deterrence. And Israel's
entire defense profile is based on overwhelming deterrence. They wouldn't believe that
anybody would have the tumarity to attack Israel's homeland uh uh
territories and and that anyone would dare hit US bases in the region. and
Iran has done both of those things not once but uh but twice and now in this
round. Uh so then they're just banking on the fact that you know Iran's going to sort of run out of missiles. They're
going to run out of drones. Uh I I I wouldn't make that bet. But the United States, you can calculate more or less
what they have in terms of anti-uh anti-aircraft or anti-missile munitions
and what they have in terms of offensive munitions and capabilities that you can calculate. That's that's a fairly uh
straightforward equation here. So the the numbers don't add up. And so then
then the question is what is the upside to this attack for the Trump
administration for the for America in in the short term or or anything else? What is the upside? No one, any of the
intelligent pundits I think that you have on your program and the other podcast and Judge Knap and they nobody
could identify the upside of this attack. And so so h who what are they
doing in Washington? Like who who's running operations? Well, we we've
answered that question previously. So uh now you're in a hole. Now you now what
are you going to do in that hole? You're going to get desperate. you're going to use tactical nuclear weapons to try to save face and then you're into a bigger
hole at that point. So yeah, uh yeah, that's incredible.
Well, what Patrick just said is is the most frightening aspect of it to me because I I got my hands on a
transcript. He was speaking in Hebrew, of course, but I I trust the translation. I don't
speak Hebrew of his remarks not only to the Knesset but his remarks before that
members of his cabinet as it were and one of the things he ended with in
Hebrew and when he speaks in Hebrew he's speaking expressly for if he can
maintain the the secrecy around it his audience in Israel not the United States
when he speaks in English of course he's speaking for the US Congress for the everybody in America America and so
forth. He's very shrewd at that. In Hebrew, he ended his remarks in a way
that really was frightening. He said essentially if everything turns sour,
they will get the surprise of their life. That can only mean one thing. That he's
maybe even uploaded some of the weapons from Deona and he's perfectly willing to
use them if everything goes sour. if it turns bad, which it has every prospect
of doing. So, not only is it scary from the perspective of the conventional
warfare that's going on, which can't possibly go for the empire ultimately
for America ultimately, but also the prospect of bringing nuclear weapons into it. Um very very
vivid prospect with this man who is the number one pariah leader in the world
today. The 60% of the world if not more that's a lot of people realized that he
is a homicidal maniac. And one of the things that Patrick was just talking about stirred my memory of
a briefing three days ago. Napali Bennett was not just blowing in the wind
when he said Turkeykey's the next target. One of the reasons Israel is
doing some things in Cyprus and southern Greece that have nothing to do with what Patrick was enumerating, all of which
was accurate, but this is a separate operation altogether. They're trying to destabilize Turkey and they're going to
use Cyprus to do it because that's their next target. If I were Erdogan right now
and I had a half a brain and I know some people in his military and an intelligence apparatus actually do
unlike what we think of the Turks in general if if the truth was known they would realize that it's not in their
interest whatsoever to even be neutral in this that they need to make a
decision on which side they're going to enter and how they're going to enter
because all kinds of prospects for Turkeykey's advantage or disadvantage
marketkedly are here and Netanyahu has every intent and I suspect his follow on
entourage of leadership once he's in jail or whatever uh has every intent of
expanding Israel's writ greater Israel is greater Israel and
they are very interested in it and when Mike Huckabe gave his disquisition on it
he was not joking He's been in the quarters of power as it
were of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and he knows what the Israelis are planning. So there's some people that got to wake up
here. Not least of all Greece, Cyprus, Turkey and other countries that are going to be impacted because they are
going to be impacted by this and maybe in a very significant way. So this has
all kinds of ramifications. Here's what heret said in one word.
I I was surprised to see this, but even Herets has got on my bad side here of
late because they have so much balance, if you will, and to the balance, they have to tell lies.
They called it a war without end. Bingo. Bingo. And wars without end have a
tendency to pull all manner of other antagonists, protagonists, whatever into
them. Yeah. Well, Patrick, I'm wondering also what role the air defense depletion
shortage is going to have. I can just uh uh show this video as you're talking.
You know, uh Israel and the United States are just This is Israel, by the way. They are expending such a large
number of uh air defense interceptors to counter what usually is just a single
missile. Um, and the mainstream media, and I'll show there's the Iranian missile completely uh evading all of it.

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Uh, the the mainstream media is ma making a lot about this. They're saying that
these interceptors are fading fast and that and I'll pull it up as you're
speaking. Uh, the US and Israel, they're spending upwards of $44 million
uh to try to down missiles that are about a quarter of a million dollars. So, this is a major issue, but your
reaction to anything Colonel Wilkerson said as well as to this and I'll pull up some of the the warnings about this that
I've been seeing around uh hold on one second. Okay, sorry.
Iran's statements have been they sound very confident that they have an advantage the longer this conflict uh
goes. And that confidence is not just hollow bravado or you know it's not
Baghdad Bob. this is they have good reason for that. Now I have a little bit
of knowledge of this because I was in Tran uh you know two 3 weeks ago and uh
I was speaking uh to somebody who is a general in the missile program. We'll
just leave it at that. But the the missiles that we saw launched last June
is important to underline. Um that the newest of the ones you saw last June during Operation True Promise 3 were 6
years old around 67 years old. So there's there's two more generations of
missiles and hypersonic missiles that they haven't uh revealed to the public
um in excess of Mach 10 that have the ability to change course uh in mid-flight that have and this is
important the ability to hit moving targets and you don't need to be a genius to work out what those are for.
And so there's different waves of this conflict as it could escalate and and Iran's prepared to bring out different
types of tools. They have loitering drones. They have uh very effective um
uh drones. They've already demonstrated what those drones can do taking out major US radar facility uh already. And
that's just a taste of of what's to come. they have the ability to overwhelm, as you said, Danny, uh, air
defenses by by Israel. And so that those are all things that are still yet to come. Now, the US and are are are
claiming in the media that they've destroyed all of that capability. Uh, that Iran doesn't really have anything
left and they they wiped it all out in the first 24 24 hours. I have a hard time believing that with the size of the
country and the amount of strategic depth that Iran has just the sheer size
of the country is comparable to continental Europe in terms of its size.
So they have these things that they can unveil and and roll out as time goes by.
The and then the other thing is what when you see the hypersonic missiles start coming and when the air defenses
are depleted then they have the the larger missiles that are something equivalent to advanced Scud missiles
that have huge payloads in terms of explosives. These are big heavy missiles
and they can then come and do a tremendous damage once uh the defenses
are depleted um in Israel and and the then they have old rolling stock which
they will send uh and which has been you know they'll dust off their old rolling stock and then throw that at at Israel
and US bases and you know it's it's going to be you you already saw some of
the damage already uh in the last 12 hours. I mean, it's significant uh in
Israel. And in that level of damage, that level and then more is what you can
expect the longer this thing goes on. So, that's why they're confident. This
is why they're, you know, there's no threat of a ground invasion by the United States or Israel. Maybe special
forces sabotaging. I'm sure the British are are SAS will be deployed to blow
things up uh behind the lines as they normally do and the US will do that. Israel will do that, but that's not
going to be enough. Yeah, Colonel Wilkerson, to you, uh same
question and anything you want to say about this? Well, um to Patrick's last, I understand
the helicopters that I just received were expressly for taking care of SAS,
and I don't doubt that for a minute. Um, I think we're looking at a situation
here, as I said earlier, that we have misjudged majorly.
And I think what Patrick was talking about is one of the things we misjudged.
The Iranians are really, really clever about the way they're using their missile and their drones. They're using
the cheaper stuff, if you will, which is deadly if it gets through, but isn't
going to get through very often because the Israelis or we are going to shoot it down. But what are we going to continue
to shoot things down with? Because we're going to run out and we're going to run out a lot faster than a lot of people
think. I'm not thinking it's much longer than about four days. Then they're going to shoot their better
stuff and it is going to get through without any inhibition whatsoever and
it's going to devastate targets in Israel which is a tiny little enclave
really. And I think the Iranians are being judicious as they always have been especially upon
striking someone with their missile and not hitting civilian targets. Unlike
Netanyahu who loves to kill civilians, he just revels in killing civilians.
They're going to take that impromater, if you will, off and they're going to start hitting everything in Israel to
include civilians. They've already killed a few. I think they're going to kill a lot more. Then you're going to
see Netanyahu having an incredible problem keeping people in Israel. He's
already lost probably close to a million of the Jewish inhabitants of Israel. and
he's going to lose many, many more because basically it's not going to be any kind of a safe haven anymore for
them. Nor is there going to be a prospect for it returning to being a safe haven. So, he's got an enormous
problem. That brings me back to that proposition that he stated apparently in
Hebrew that he had the uh you know the ending weapon in his inventory. That was
clearly the insitu uh the insinuation which is extremely disturbing because if
there is a place on the face of the earth and there are several right now to include Pakistan that might use a
nuclear weapon in the near future it is Israel most prominently and that's truly
disturbing in my mind and something I don't think that even with the contacts that Trump has the most of them buried
up his rear end or his he buried up their rear end in Israel are apprising
him of this fact and I don't think he understands that he's embarked on a road that could very well lead to the use of
a nuclear weapon or two or three and then let me come back to the allies
this trilateral alliance now and it is trilateral it's not bilateral Russia
Iran China Iran it's trilateral all three are in an alliance with Iran
if you want to replenish Iran after it has very thoroughly devastated the
region with its more sophisticated missiles, perhaps sunk one, if not more,
US aircraft carriers and combatants like the two stupidly positioned DDs in the
northern Arabian Sea, uh, Persian Gulf, some would call it. If if they do that
and they run out of those kind of really sophisticated missiles or they become close to running out, guess who's going
to resupply them? No doubt in my mind they're going to get resupplied and on a
timely basis. And by the way, so is Alansar, the Houthis in Yemen, who are
going to shut down the Red Sea again, at least for traffic coming up for Israel or for Israel's interests. So, we're
going to have two of the most important choke points in the world essentially
sealed off. We're already seeing insurance companies refusing to insure.
We're already seeing shippers refusing to ship. We're already seeing oil prices
begin to tick up. We're already seeing the possibility of their rising at an
alarming rate, even to exceed the rate they did previously when we got in a real pinch with it. And that's when we
sunk Iranian ships and we went into operation uh earnest will reflag Kuwaiti
tankers. We went into operation praying manis and sunk one Iranian warship and
we're going to sink the other one until Ronald Reagan called us off. They're a different Iran today. And if they want
to close the straight, they can close the straight. And if they want the Houthis to close the Red Sea, they can
close the Red Sea. We've already spent billions of dollars trying to reverse that in a previous operation. Thank you
very much, Pete Hex. And we fail. We fail miserably. So, we're talking about
real, genuine, solid, unbelievable impact on the world economy that Iran
all by itself, but with some help from Russia and China, can affect. And I guarantee you that China who gets a
percentage of the oil through the straight and it's not the percentage someone was saying yesterday on TV. They
don't get anywhere near 40%. But they do get and I ran this by the oil experts
last night. They do get about 20% from Iraq. China is probably Iraq's single
country most prominent buyer. They are not going to let that get cut off. India
gets a significant amount too. So you want to see India suddenly swing to the other side of the coin if you will. This
is tragic what we're doing. This is truly tragic. This is the prospects for
a much wider impact and a much matter wider war. And we are responsible. We
are responsible. Donald Trump is responsible.
Yeah. And uh Patrick uh uh Colonel Works referenced Saudi Arabia earlier and I
thought to myself, Iran's already hitting they're hitting it lightly. They haven't destroyed uh Saudis oil
facilities yet, but they've hit them and that's already causing oil prices to spike. And I'm going to put up some uh
images of uh what Iran has been doing to Israel as you talk because Israel's
already taking a beating. And as you said before, the Iranians have not
unveiled what they say are their more advanced capabilities yet.
Yeah, I I I'm not sure about the reports. I'd have to to check about Iran hitting oil production facilities in
Saudi Arabia. Um I don't know. Uh I can't confirm that. I know that the
Iranian Foreign Ministry made a statement that they're not targeting oil facilities, but maybe I I was looking at
old statement. things are happening very quickly. So I might be out of date already on that. But the obviously the
US have been using the Saudi their bases in Saudi uh in order in order to place
assets to be deployed air air assets lots of air assets. And the Chinese
commercial satellite has unveiled some of those images already um which is incredible that the world has real-time
access to US deployment positions. Uh that's amazing in itself. But as far as
the straight to hormuse, if you look at the end of trading for February was uh
the end of last week uh that Brent uh closed at around 74. So it was already
pushing up over 70. And it'll be very interesting to see what the trading markets as they close today and tomorrow
that I'm sure it's going to gap up to 80, maybe higher. And if you see that
momentum past 80 after today, uh then midweek you could start to see futures
contracts looking towards hundred uh dollars a barrel. And then you know how
long this goes is anyone's guess. But I I will say as a caveat to that, I would not I would not be surprised. In fact, I
I I would be looking if I was a an investigator uh in the United States government that I was actually objective
and an anti-corruption investigator, whatever agency is left that does that
uh that all of Trump's inner circle would have put bets on uh for for a spike in oil prices. That's Howard
Lutnik and the entire inner circle that they would be basically uh looking for
futures uh bets that and what they've done on poly market is disgusting in the
last couple of days. The the amount of money that people are getting uh windfall by betting on the Iranian
attack hours before it was launched. Okay. there should be an investigation
uh a fraud or securities investigation into that organization that I believe if I'm not mistaken Donald Trump Jr. sits
on the advisory board. I might be mistaken but I think I'm not on that but people can correct me if I'm wrong on
that. But the the amount of money that Trump's inner circle would have made off this war for think about it. If the
Straits of Hormuse closed, that's also Qatari uh LNG that's supplying southern
Europe. Who is the number one supplier of LG to Europe? It's the United States of America. What's that going to do to
US LG prices? Record-breaking profits for US producers. So that the straits of
Hormuz closed, there is even an incentive, a short-term incentive, not for the American people in terms of the
inflation hit that we're all going to get, but for Trump's inner circle to make an ungodly sum of money by betting
on an outcome which they themselves have initiated and they've done so intent with the greatest intention. This is a
level of corruption and criminality and I'm not I tell you I would be shocked if
they haven't they're not all making money off this because and this would be very easy to track and and very easy for
people to investigate if that's the case because I think I will bet all
institutionally with Wall Street and Trump's inner circle and these the people who are in the know in advance
have parked their money accordingly to profit off this crisis and and that's
just one aspect of it. I'm not even talking about all the other potential uh financial opportunities. So, bad for the
people, bad for us generally in public in terms of inflation, good for Trump's
inner circle. That's that's that's one thing I'm going to throw out there. If if there there are financial forensic
economists out there who could very easily start to triangulate this uh on a number of pundits and websites that we
probably read every day. Now another person Danny that's going to
benefit from this another country is Russia. Well Patrick I know
wonder what kind of deals might have been made behind the scene with Putin. Yeah. Well Patrick I know you have about
60 seconds until you have to run. Any final thoughts before you head out? Um, no. The last thing I'll say is that
it the other piece of disinformation and propaganda that they've been running with in the western and our politicians
is that the death of Kamani would have triggered a collapse in the Iranian political system. Okay, I can tell you
it's just the opposite. This is what I witnessed 3 weeks ago. People the solidarity, the the cohesiveness
increased. It's this is in a way going to streamline moderates even reformists
together with you know quote hardliners. It's streamlining support for for the
country. When I say the country the Iranian nation and this is the other mistake Americans just write off is that
Iran they think Iran doesn't have a national identity uh as a republican uh
uh form of government. They absolutely do. It happens to have Islam at the center and it happens to be extremely
conservative. socially conservative as well. And so they they've they're getting the opposite result is if the
intended result was that somehow this was going to magically cause a cascading effect and the house of cards of the
mullers is about to fall and Palavi could ride in on a on a lion or something like that. Um it's it's it's
beyond a joke. If I if I ran for president in Iran, I would get more votes than Palavi. And I'm not joking. I
pro I probably are you what Danny and certainly Colonel Wilkerson would
this and see what happens. He has no support base at all. He doesn't even know anybody living in
Iran. So it's just the the level of projection and fantasy on the US side on
this. I'm I'm afraid that a lot of that's informing strategy that level of delusion. And you know
that's that's pretty breathtaking at this point to even cons think that that would be the case, but it seems to be
that's what's happening. Patrick, I'll have to have you back on soon. Thanks so much. I'll uh I'll be in
touch. And thanks so much. Before Patrick leaves, let me confirm something for Patrick.
I had a lot to do with strengthening the consulate, the US consulate in Karach.
Uh, we put windows in, for example, that were impregnable right after 9/11. I watched yesterday. I
watched as the Pakistanis tried to break those windows. I mean, they were assaulting them with everything they
had. Axes, pickaxes, shovels. That's what we're looking at.
And all of this is because, you know, we say Sunni and Shia Islam are poles
apart, but they're not poles apart when it comes to murdering one of the leaders of whatever sect or clan. Um, and that's
happening. Oh, and Pakistan and and Iran have a very uh fraternal uh bond as well to
these two countries as you know. And and just lastly, Larry, on that on that embassy point, I was privileged to be
able to go into the US embassy in Tran, which has been preserved as a museum,
and got to go into the skiff room, which as a US taxpayer, I would never have access to see where all this money gets
spent. And the encryption room, the decryption room, the skiff room, and to see all the shredded documents that they
didn't finish shredding uh in their in their haste in in 1979. So uh they they
rebranded it the den of espionage. They have a sign outside. So um it said as an
American to me it was a it was a great uh uh privilege because no one very few
Americans have get to see that cuz they they can if they go to tan they can actually go and see it. But uh it's to
me I was incredible. I grew up watching that crisis in, you know, when Jimmy Carter was uh was president every night
that countdown how many days the hostages were held, you know, it was like Ted Cppel and Dan Rather and all
these guys. Um, so for me it was a a great uh a great experience. Maybe not
for the neocons would what I just said is absolute heresy, I'm sure. But anyway,
Patrick, great to be with you. We'll close up here. Uh your subject is in the video description so after people depart
the show uh they can tune in or they can find you. Uh Colonel Wilkerson, let's
close out with this. I mean there are so many crises that have
arisen from here. We have the entire Shia and much of the Muslim world in the
region in revolt. We see protests every Bahrain. We see Pakistan. You just
mentioned what's happening to the embassy. We have people getting killed over this. Uh we don't know how many US
personnel are getting caught up in this as well. Uh we have Iranians in the
streets. I don't know if you saw the images while Iranian air defenses are active protesting, cheering, rallying in
the streets after Ali Ki was killed. Uh we have uh Israel
being P. We don't know where Netanyahu is. Iran has said that they have targeted him. uh they sent Israel Herzog
uh out the president out to uh Beameish where there was major Iranian attacks
and we have not yet been able to confirm where he is. Iran says they targeted him and that they are awaiting signs of
life. So Colonel Wilkerson uh take us home with what are are we witnessing
here and what can we expect in the coming days and weeks? The Trump administration says this could go on
weeks. Uh but there's a lot of uh a lot of uh I think concern about all this.
There should be genuine concern, deep concern, profound concern. It can't go on for weeks. It simply can't. Not in
terms of the amount of ordinance that's being dropped now and maybe dropped for another four or five days. It can go go
on in a desolatory fashion, but that desolatory fashion will be met by an
increasing rapidity, increasing ordinance, increasing weight of that
ordinance in terms of explosive power on the other side because the Iranians are
well stocked and their allies are even better stocked and they will not stop. I
think decisions have been made in both Moscow and in Beijing that this is a
serious threat first of all to China's base road initiative in everything that it portends which means a serious threat
to China's economy not to mention the oil and Russia has determined that even
though it's tied down in Ukraine that one we are absolutely untrustworthy and
so no longer present a partner of consequence and it's up to them to
finish it off. But that's a ground operation. She still has, for example,
submarines out the yin-yang submarines that can operate in the North Arabian
Sea, by the way, is one of the most conducive to submarine operations,
bodies of water in the world. The convergence zones there, the salinity
there mean you can hide a submarine beside another submarine and no matter
the active and passive sonar capability of the submarines, they don't even know the other one's there. This is really
perfect submarine water. So you've got all this capacity on the bea be behalf
of China and Russia over a hundred submarines many of which can sort and be
there in a short period of time some very silent diesel electric submarines with regard to China which operate
exclusively and extremely well in this kind of water. So you have the potential
here for taking down much of what the empire, the American empire represents
in the world today. You have the potential for starting the unraveling of
the American empire. Whether or not these other powers will take advantage
of this and move forcibly and fundamentally to do it
is an is a huge question. But it should be a question that is on the mind of the
chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, General Kaine, on the mind of all the leaders of the armed forces. I don't
know if Peter Hexth has a mind, but it should be on the mind of those within
the administration like JD Vance who do seem to have at least a partial brain.
And they should be thinking hard about the prospects for this unwinding in a
very very disadvantageous way for the country they are at the head of right
now. because it is a perilous situation and I think the greatest problem right
now is none of them realize it at all.
Yeah. No, that is uh they don't realize and we even have Donald Trump saying as
we speak uh Colonel Wilkerson that uh they're bragging that they haven't even hit Iran hard yet. And while no doubt
Iran has already Demetri Midv said this uh just earlier he said that Iran is
going to pay a heavy price especially in terms of human costs but uh they have the US has ensured Iran's consolidation
and I just want to play for you Colonel Wilkerson uh just a few snippets of
Donald Trump and what he is kind of demonstrating here what with what you're saying uh he talks about a guarantee of
more loss of life. And then when he's questioned about it, he has nothing to say. Here is uh dear Trump in these
instances. Our immense love and eternal gratitude to the families of the fallen and sadly
there will likely be more before it ends. That's the way it is. Likely be
more. But that's the way it is. Uh Colonel Wilkerson. And then he goes on to be
questioned by the media. You might not be able to hear it.
What do you have to say to the families of the fallen? That is what the uh reporter is trying to ask.
What's your message to the families of the fallen? They already hear it. Yeah. And he just walks away. No, no message,
Colonel Wilkerson, to the families. He wouldn't have a message. He doesn't care. He simply doesn't care. I go back
to his remarks to General Kelly who was his chief of staff. Uh egregious remarks, his remarks to Jim Mattis who
was Secretary of Defense and to others who had spent their lives in service to
the nation in uniform. And he clearly does not have any respect whatsoever for
any of them, the highest rank or the lowest rank. He uses them as a tool for
his political gain. He uses them just as he uses Christians like Franklin Graham and other absurd Zionist loving
Christians in America. The Christian nationalists so-called. He uses them all. And he it just an indication of
this, a minor indication, but nonetheless tell he was reading from a teleprompter when
he was giving those remarks. Watch his eyes. He's reading from a teleprompter. However they constructed it, um there is
no genuine sentiment in the man's heart, brain, wherever it rests in humans at
all. His entire instinct is money.
The immediate family making that money, corruption, staying out of the Epstein
scandal and doing whatever he has to do to appease his MAGA following which is
rapidly, rapidly falling away from him. I saw some polls this morning. I was
astounded by them. And part of that's the Charlie Kirk assassination, of course, and the re-examine of TPUSA
about its membership and and the different things that are going on there. But a large part of it now, the
thing that's eating away at the MAGA constituency now is the fact, as was
expressed in one newspaper this morning, I was stunned to see it, but they actually expressed it this way. What's
happening is they're calling into question Trump's promises. No more stupid wars in the middle Middle East
and such as that. And this they just don't they don't compute. And MAGA is at
least somewhat smart enough to figure that out. And that's going to lose him
the midterms. That's going to lose him the following that is most uh powerful
for him. And God knows what that's going to bring on us domestically because he
does not want to lose that. Yeah. Yeah. And then finally, uh, I I'll
pull up just one of these polls that have come out in the last day. Uh, just
a quarter of Americans back Iran strikes. This is according to Reuters Ipsos's poll, a new poll that found uh
27% of respondents approve of Operation Epic Fury. 43%s disapprove, 29% were
unsure, but it goes o on and on and on. Uh uh you know, of course, it's split
partisan wise, but uh nonetheless, uh there are more there are people dying in
this war. Uh Americans dying. Uh it's likely an underell. Um you know, if we
want to take what Iran is saying, they say it's been far more. Uh it's, you know, regardless of whoever is correct,
uh we know that there's more than likely four that have been killed in this. Uh uh but Colonel Wilkerson, you know, this
is a pretty historic moment in my estimation. It appears that Iran has really shocked the United States and
Israel with what it has been able to do. And do you foresee we know the US is
saying Trump is saying they're going to hit Iran harder but given the overall orientation of the population given the
capabilities that don't seem to be diminishing uh to a significant degree
by US attacks? Uh what do you see as the outcome if this does go on for three to
four weeks? I mean that's that's a significant period of time that uh a lot
could happen until then. So let's close on this. I think we're looking at a lot longer than that, Danny. And I was just
thinking of how appropriate the title we selected, epic fury, is for this
conflation, but not the way we think. The fury and the epic nature of it is on
the other side, and we're going to pay dearly for that. And here's a question for you, Colonel
Wilkerson, as we head out. What would happen if Israel used it nuclear arsenal on Iran? I'm I I have a question to you
about this. I was pondering this earlier. I said, um, how how if does is
Israel good enough to launch these weapons before it before Iran finds out
they're going to launch these weapons and then fires a a a very fast hypersonic missile to uh destroy their
their nuclear facilities and launchers. But your your thoughts about this? Well, that's an excellent question and I would
posit it this way knowing that I really am talking out my hat. But I am talking
from some experience for example the 73 war um when I think this actually
happened they were getting ready to upload and we forbad it along with the Soviets.
I think Iran has very good intelligence about what's happening inside Israel.
But a as in any conflict that intelligence deteriorates to a certain
extent once the bombs start dropping. Sometimes it picks up in specific areas
where the bombs have enabled it to pick up and then in other places it becomes very confusing with the latter being the
more prevalent situation. That said, I do think they would have some intelligence if bombs were being
uploaded. And yes, you're right. They probably would strike them. Here's the concern. The Israelis know that. And if
Netanyahu has enough complicity within the group that's doing this for him, and
that's a question, too. Would they go ahead? Because I saw in 73 big
objections within the IDF to uploading nuclear weapons. They were going to drop one on the Israeli the Egyptian Third
Army, for example, u because they were really seriously in Israel's face at
that point. Um so the question becomes how much turmoil would be will there be
in the high command that's involved with this and will it be uh something that could stop it and then again while
that's going on is Iran going to detect it significantly enough to interdict it and to interdict it successfully but to
your ultimate question look at the size of Iran you could drop several nuclear weapons
on Iran and you could kill some people and destroy some infrastructure, but
that which is underground, you wouldn't destroy. We learned that big time with regard to Soviet silos, which we put as
many as 10 warheads on each one of them, in order to destroy just that little
missile down in the silo. That's how difficult it is to destroy underground targets, even with a nuclear weapon.
ought to say it would not be that physically damaging to Iran.
Right now, if you launched a whole bunch of them, I'd change my view there. If you launched a hundred of them, I think they
have somewhere around 2023, it would be a little bit different, but that would be detected as you said, you
can get a res reverse explosion in Israel. Um, yeah, it's just not somewhere you want to go,
though. And I think Ben Netanyahu is fully prepared to go there and that's very very concerning.
Yeah. And then in 60 seconds or or less for you, Colonel Wilkerson, are they saving the good stuff for the US fleet?
Iran probably those ships stupidly, utterly stupidly
placed in the Persian Gulf, which is so narrow and so shallow that you could swim out there with a mine and sink one
of them. This is going to be quite the uh
historic moment that is unfolding. Uh this war is going to be covered here
daily. Everybody, Colonel Warson, thanks so much for joining me. We're going to head out together. Everyone who gave a super chat, who became a member, uh that
is so much appreciated. Thank you so much for coming out today. We've had some huge audiences for our guests as we
uh you know, as we continue to cover this. I'll be back tomorrow 12:00 noon Eastern time with Greg Stoker and then
Loki will also be joining me after him. So we'll have a long two-hour show tomorrow uh where we will go over
everything that has transpired in the next 24 hours. Caron Wilkerson, thanks so much. We're going to head out of here
together. Hit the like button before you go. Uh be sure to check out all the place support this channel, Patreon, Substack, and much more. Take care and
bye-bye. Thank you, Danny.

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