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They're trying to create greater Israel and they will not stop unless they're stopped. Same way Trump is trying to create
greater America. But in the case of Israel, its support in the west is rooted in Christian
evangelicals at all who believe this is all in pursuit of bringing about biblical prophecy or whatever. But
Israel is all about building greater Israel and much like the Nazis will not stop trying to take more and more territory unless they are stopped in my
I am in my opinion. So I mean this is how do how does the world deal with this? I I keep saying um that there has
to be some kind of global cooperation. Uh that the only I mean we don't have
the Soviet Union anymore, right? Obviously, the only way it seems like um the West, and it's not just the West, I
guess the West and its Arab um enablers or its Arab um conspirators, collaborators can be stopped is if the
many many many governments that are less powerful unite together and cause, you
know, military damage or uh fin economic damage. Uh what what is to be done?
I know it's an overwhelming question, but uh Dr. Morandi and then and then H please.
Well, first I'd like to ask respond to the the question about why Iran negotiates
if that's okay. Yeah. U contrary to what they say in the west and I'm as sure I'm sure that three of you know this quite
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uh basically Iran is a country which is has very diverse schools of thought and
very different world. But you know in the west they say
it's a dictatorship and so it's you know it's a oneman show or one man rule. It's not at all like that. So in Iran you do
have a significant number of people who believe that we should negotiate and they think that there is a there may be
a solution. I agree with you. I don't I I dur during the first series of
negotiations and the more recent ones uh meaning eight nine months ago and now I was
convinced that we're not going to get a solution. Even when the JCPOA was signed in 2015
during Obama, I I was there. I was with the team,
right? And I told Dr. Zif who was the foreign minister back then that I don't think the Americans are going to abide by
their commitments and they did it under Obama. You were an adviser. I was a media adviser. Yes.
Media. Okay. So um so my skeptic I'm I'm I've been skeptical for a long period of time.
But uh there there are a number of things. One is that I if the state uh if
the government if the the U the administration
or at least parts of the state want or public opinion want to negotiate and the
government or the states decides not to do so
then if something happens the Americans will say exactly There was a solution. You refrained from
even talking. So it's your fault, right? And you know how western media works.
You know how western think tanks work. As we speak, we negotiated. There was
progress. The United States again carried out a blitz creek attack. And Western media is blaming Iran. And even
those who are opposed to the war, they're saying Iran is evil, but we shouldn't attack. And in a sense, as I
if you know in in the previous show that we had, we were talking I believe that these people are just as bad as the neocons because they legitimize
aggression by saying that the Iranians are evil or the Venezuelans are evil.
No, if anyone's evil, it's the the country that wants to wage war, not not
the victim. So that even using that language and opposing war enables war
because it sort of it it it attempts to or at least effectively legitimizes it
or makes it seem legitimate. Not that it really is legitimate. But in any case, so if there is war, then these people
say, "Look what you brought upon us there. We could have had a solution, but you were stubborn. You refused to talk."
So the Iranians negotiated It's also it's also it's useful for
uh internal politics, internal public opinion, but also external public
opinion because again the western media is hostile towards Iran. At least if the Iranians are trying or at least as seen
to be trying, then countries in the global south uh that have
influence, they would understand or they would see that yes, the United States is not being honest. The United States is
uh just using this as a ruse and it is secretly conspiring on in in both cases.
That's what the United States did in the last year that the negotiations were simply a tool to so that the United
States could attack Iran. That's my interpretation. So I agree, but I think
I do think that uh it is necessary at times to negotiate because if you have a
and remember the United States and Iran is unique in this regard. The United States and the West have built an an
elaborate media Persian language media apparatus that's hostile towards Iran.
Hundreds of media outlets. There are more anti-Iranian media outlets outside
of Iran than there are media outlets inside. And they're extremely hostile and
they're very well funded. And uh there are troll farms in Albania. They have
one that as I said thousands of people. So, um
the um the the um the these media outlets are constantly
trying to uh based on the interest of Western governments uh tell Iranians that you
could have had a deal, but you insisted, your government insisted they were
stubborn, they were mule-headed, and we were forced to act. Of course, that doesn't legitimize war anyway, but you
get what I'm saying. So um I think in many instances the the the government uh
or the state has to do certain things that may seem useless and a waste of
time but it does so in order to well in case let's say there's a 1% chance that
somehow uh Trump comes to the senses and actually does a deal well they will take
that opportunity but 90 the other 99% is that they want to show the Iranian
public as well as the international community that we're not the problem.
Right. Yeah. Very true. And then we get to your phil and then we get to your much deeper question which
I'll I'll do the listening. Okay. Take it away. You know easy question.
How to stop uh Israel which is acting like you know the Nazis basically.
Basically Israel and the West supporters. Yeah. Yeah. Israel is the uh destructive
engine, the chaos engine of the west. This is how it started um since 1948.
Um he joined uh the two decrepit empires in 1956 by attacking the brightest light
in the Arab world uh President Nasser and um his panarabism program of having
a new Arab modern Arab um world um the minute that he talked about
that he became a target. Um and Egypt became a target of course
and and so Israel started with the colonial powers and is still with the
colonial powers. One thing which is good is that the colonial powers are in
serious decline in terminal decline and Israel is
sharing also this terminal decline. I believe that uh Zionism is on the way
out because uh it is a movement of the 19th century and we're living in the
21st. Uh but that might be too optimistic. But
what is in it for Israel and what do we need to do in order to defeat it?
Uh Israel is living on death and destruction uh on blood. Yeah. It's it's a kind of a
militarized vampire nation. Uh they live on producing death and
destruction and advertising as a way of selling
their wares uh which are all um causing death and destruction. And they sell it
by um the unwritten um line tried on
Palestinians in Gaza. They don't need to tell uh anyone that that's what they
have done. Actually, a lot of these weapons don't work and we've seen that
uh in the 12-day war, but they sell. That's the most important thing. And now Europe uh due to the uh um situation in
Ukraine. Europe is a great um buyer of
um those systems that don't work. um like you know Kipad Brazil you know all
those system that don't work u are selling very well they're also selling to India
uh India is a major buyer of um Israel
and um India of course is uh a nuclear nation u so Israel is now helping India
by uh working with the Beluchis which of course you know there are no
there are no strangers to the situation in Iran as well with the Beluchis against Pakistan.
So Israel has worked out a plan of how to control uh Western Asia and is well
on the way to achieving it. and Mark Huckabe um the um well should I call him
uh the uh ambassador of Israel in Israel because he's definitely not an
ambassador of the United States uh and he doesn't um represent real
American um needs and values. Uh I believe the American people are a decent
people with a great history. So, um they don't need uh this government and it's
um it dogs and he's one of the dogs. He he's a a Christian Zionist. He's
slightly more uh extreme than Netanyahu probably. And uh totally in agreement
that Israel can take he said that not yeah take it all you know we will we'll
help you. Yeah. Take it all. So all this is done for a reason. Uh the Israelis uh
act with a lot of sadism but sadism is not the motive. The motive is control.
The motive is running the Middle East. And Iran is standing there as um a great
opposition to that um aim and objective of Israel. So unless they the way they
think about it, unless we move Iran out of the way and that means total
destruction, it's not Venezuela. They can't do that. Uh and they know
that. So what they want to do to Iran is total destruction of the state, the
society, the culture. I mean, Iranian culture is 5,000 years old. So, we're
talking about a destruction on so many levels. They're talking about returning Iran to the stone age. This is the kind
of talk um that Israelis are very good at. H and uh they're very good at
killing little babies, the children, you know, tens of thousands of children
already in Gaza in the genocide. So the first thing they did actually on the
first day is killed those little girls. This is in a sense a signature of the
Israeli system. This is their signature and you know they have good um
information and and intel on Iran and yet this is the first thing they do. So
they didn't do it by mistake. Um they did it because they wanted to do it. Uh
they wanted to break um the morale of the Iranian people. The Iranian people
are stronger than that. I I do believe that. So uh this is functional. This is
this um brutality, this cruelty, this madness is very calculated. It is
functional. It is there in order to take over the Middle East. And that's why
Iran and later they're now talking about it in Hebrew every day. Egypt, uh
Jordan, uh Turkey and Saudi Arabia will have to disappear as a functioning uh
state. Now remember, they're not just talking. They have done that in Libya,
in Syria, in Iraq, in Lebanon, in Yemen,
uh in the Horn of Africa. Everywhere where the Israelis touch, they touch
with death. Um uh you know, with death and destruction. Uh and the societies
will take maybe a hundred years to come back to where they were uh before the
Israelis were involved. So I I want to end by saying that this is no longer
about Gaza. It's not even about Iran. It is about the project of controlling an
important part of the world which Iran is at the heart of which Iran has uh
been the at the heart of for the last thousands of years. uh and that's why be
they will attack it because it is an important cultural and uh now also uh an
important nation in many other ways. I mean least not least of all Iran is an
industrial force uh despite uh the uh attacks despite the fact that since 1953
the west has not allowed Iran to to breathe I I mean the Iranian society the
Iranian people the Iranian culture. Um so the revolution came and changed that
and that is why Iran must be attacked must be finished as a functioning
society because it is in the way of the project of controlling the Middle East.
So until Zionism is finished I don't talk about killing people. I'm talking
about um you know uh ideology. You mentioned the Nazis Katy. Yes that's
what we're talking about. uh this is an equivalent of uh and you know for Jews
to come up with something which is an equivalent of Nazism is a terrifying thing. It really is um a sad uh
reflection on humanity. Until that ideology and that practice is brought to
a heel, we will none of us is safe. So what can we do? Well, we can do a lot of
things actually. Uh, bricks is not doing enough. Yeah, I'm saying this not because I'm against
bricks, but because I think it has to do more in order to save our legal systems,
in order to save the UN. Maybe the UN is not possible in order to save the world maybe and
humanity. Yeah. To save humanity, to save the planet. Yeah. first and um all this, you know, uh the
the wells burning, um the explosions,
Gaza now is unlivable because they poisoned the air, they poisoned the earth, they poisoned the water, they
poisoned the sea. Um we must stop Zionism so we can um get Israel out of
the UN. Why is Israel in the UN? Uh in within few years um South Africa was
removed from the UN because of apartheid. Now Israel is a million times
more evil than South Africa ever was. So why is it still in the UN? Why is Israel
the only country that never suffered any sanctions? Look at the sanctions that Iran has since 1980.
uh within a a week of Russia moving into Ukraine, it's immediately suffered in
incredible sanctions. There are sanctions against China. There are sanctions against many countries, but
not against Israel. What's the reason for that? So, I think we we have ways of
controlling things like this, but we are not actually employing those methods.
Why are people still trading with Israel? They didn't trade with South Africa.
Why are universities in my country here um working with universities in Israel
which are training the murderers? So there is a whole range uh of um
available sanctions. Uh I just want to end by saying you know any system of
justice needs sanctions. If a murderer is not punished, not punished, then
murder is possible. It's regul it's it's regularized. It's normalized. That's
what we have. So either the UN is operating uh in a in a
manner that sees seems to be objective. In other words, if um this country is
causing the harm um and another co country is causing a similar harm, they
need both to be punished. And actually at the moment, the only people who are punished are the victims.
Yeah. Like the Palestinians, the Iranians, etc. So I I think this is unacceptable
and will bring to the end of humanity through uh means which we now see. we
all share the need to control Zionism. And I should also add when you were
talking about how this is, you know, the uh I I'll just add that Heim's parents
were both survivors of the Holocaust. So, it's pretty painful and ironic obviously for you to see um what the
Israeli state is doing visav being equivalent to Nazis. Um uh Dr. Mandi,
what's your response to this? And also let us know, you are probably exhausted. It's late where you are. Um later where
you are where he is. So I I'm happy to keep he prisoner longer and later than you. Um but let us know of course if you
need to tend to anything. Um I I'll have to leave in about 10 minutes. But
uh to to you know as Riley pointed out a
partite in Palestine is far worse than in South Africa. when Archbishop Desmond
Tutu visited Palestine um and he's he was from South Africa of
course for your younger viewers and listeners u he said that uh
things in in in Israel or in Palestine are far worse
than in South Africa and this was far before October the 7th this was years
ago because he's he's passed away. So right um the boycotts that we saw in South
Africa the western governments were supporting apartheid South Africa but gradually
under pressure from civil society they began to distance themselves but
with the in the case of Israeli regime it's really extraordinary how
uh the links and the bonds are so strong and the British government that we were discussing earlier it carries out. It's
been carrying out intelligence flights over Gaza during the whole course and
and as the genocide goes on, but almost since the beginning of the genocide, uh
they've been car carrying out air um intelligence flights over Gaza to help
the Israelis with their genocidal assault on Gaza. So that's that's that's
the West today. the Germans when Netanyahu attacked Iran during the 12-
day war last time they the German chancellor said Netanyahu does our dirty
work for us right that was insane and just today the German chancellor as Iran is being assaulted says Iran is
illegitimate so everything that is done to Iran is is legitimized through these
or at least given an aura of legitimacy through through these narratives
uh and everything that Israel does is legitimize through through these narratives and
it's it's you know extraordinary. Uh so it it is an up it is an uphill battle.
Of course to you know to add some optimism the mood is changing even in
the west. I I saw a Jewish um
prof law professor from Harvard. Unfortunately, I I didn't
save his um name, but I saw him give a presentation at some hearing, I suppose.
Oh, yeah. Where he was saying, I guess you know who I mean, but a young man uh lawyer, well spoken, but and he
was he was saying that we cannot equate um anti-Zionism with anti-semitism.
And he was saying that uh I think he said that Jew young American Jews
between the age I'm I'm I may be wrong a bit but between 19 and or 18 and 29 or
something like that. Uh the majority of them um I think he said consider themselves
to be anti-ionist Jews but let's say non-Zionist Jews. But this is how I
remember it. It was online. It was it was on YouTube, so I'm sure your viewers could find it. But the point is
that the mood is changing and young people in the United States think
differently than the older generation. And we saw the poll come out, I think it was pub, I may be wrong. I have a
terrible memory, but a couple of days ago where for the first time in the United States, the
sympath sympathy for the Palestinians is greater than for Israel. So you see
the Jewish young Jewish population, young Americans in general. And of course across the world it's even more
so because the United States is the most heavily propagandized country in the world and the most pro-Zionist
especially with the very large number of um um Christian Zionists that they have
and Huckabe of course the outrageous things that he said
are may seem outrageous to us but to that segment of the Christian Zionist
population I suppose they see it all as absolutely uh acceptable and I personally think
this is unofficial western policy and unofficial US policy just like the
two-state solution. It was never really western policy. It was just um
uh a way to buy time so that the Israelis could colonize. the unofficial policy was to allow Israel to colonize
the West Bank and but they would give lip service to the two-state solution. Here I think this is it's the same. They
talk about sovereignty and uh that Israel should not
colonize but unofficially I think that Hakabe's position is the position in
Washington and probably European many European capitals as well. So you do
have this reality that the wealth and power and the political establishment is
completely on the side of the Israeli regime. And of course mainstream media and legacy media or Epstein class media
is completely captured and so is social media social media platforms to a large
degree. Um but despite all that you see the younger generation which is not very
powerful financially or politically but still it's a force to reckon with and
even some older people I think I'm pretty sure that older people to lesser
degree are shifting they are changing so what happens how long will this take you know what what
will be the end result I don't know but getting back to Iran
I don't believe that the United States and the Israelis will succeed and I
personally think that murdering Ayatam and making him a martyr actually
strengthens him and strengthens the resistance and makes people more
determined and steadfast not just in Iran but also in Iraq and other places
where the the resistance has a lot of sympathy and support and We're seeing
sympathy and support grow. The the the amount of the number of
people in different countries and different parts of the world that have shown support and for over the last day
and a half is quite extraordinary. But but I think that um the ultimately the
uh Israeli regime and the Americans will be they will fail the war. Uh uh in in war
everyone loses. I mean war is just a terrible thing. I've I've lived through war and I can say that with great
confidence. In war everyone loses. But relatively speaking or let's say uh for
the United States not to win that's a failure. And I think that the cost of
this war, both financial uh direct and indirect, the burden of
the war is going to increase. And I think that ultimately Iran is going to
deal the United States and the Israeli regime with strategic uh defeat. It will
come at a great cost. you know, as we've been speaking, uh, as I said, there were there were at
least two explosions, one very close by. And so, you know, some I'm sure some
people are either dead or injured or property has been destroyed or, you know, this is going on day and night
every day. So, I don't want to uh ignore the reality that war is a
horrible thing, but I think that US failure means Iran's victory. And if and
if the United States fails, and I think it will, it will be very difficult for
the United States ever to return again for a second round, especially as the world is changing and as the West is
declining, as was right, in my opinion, rightly pointed out. So I'm I do see
signs of to be optimistic, but I also see why we could if someone
was pessimistic, I would understand that. But um we have to see how things
play out. It's it's a very complicated thing. It's quite extraordinary for me that Hakabe says the quiet part out loud
and Turkey continues to sell transport oil from Baku.
uh the Emirates continues to have a relationship. All of these countries are
giving the United States the capability to attack Iran, whereas a weakened Iran
would make the chances of the Israeli regime turning
on them much more likely. So, and I think the reason is that these regimes
are proxies. Uh Tokia is a bit different, but uh Tori is an American
camp. And um we saw that when Trump had
his really silly show in in Egypt
after the ceasefire, the circus, Erdogan went and helped whitewash,
right, the genocide that Trump carried out. and he had his hand on his chest and when
Trump said he's my close friend, he was whenever I needed him, he was there for
me. So, I'm not optimistic about any of these governments,
right? But I think that Iran's resistance will bear fruit.
Yeah. And just so people know, I just wanted to share some uh quick updates. Um this is I'm just looking at the CBC.
Um and uh some of the latest updates are the Pentagon confirmed Sunday that three
US troops have been killed. Um the first American casualties of the conflict now on the second day. Iran's military has
lashed out. Jesus this language against the strikes with missiles targeting ships and countries across the Middle East. Israeli medics say at least eight
people were killed in a blast near Jerusalem. Um, Iranians were gathering Sunday for the funeral of Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamei. Um, and uh it says
also here um who was uh killed along with about 40 other senior members of the Islamic Republic's regime in the
initial onslaught. Intelligence gathered over months by the CIA and shared with Israeli counterparts led to the missile
strike that killed Kami and other officials. a person familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News and Israeli
Prime Minister Netanyahu said his country strikes on Iran quote will increase even more in the coming days and quote President Trump says he's
agreed to speak with Iran and said the military operation is proceeding quote ahead of schedule end quote and also
apparently there are going to be talks between Trump and um and um Iranian
uh Iran's new leadership. So just want to share some of that.
Highly unlikely the last part. Yeah. If it's okay, I'll I'll I mean I'd love
to say but No, I'm forced to go. No, please do. Yes. Have please stay
safe. Uh hope best uh you know thinking of you all the people of Iran, you and
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Uh, good call. Um, Katie Halper, Iranians will be free. Yes, we hope that
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she's so committed to peace and um uh it's so embarrassing. You know, she of course offered her Nobel Peace Prize to
Trump and the Nobel Committee was upset about that, but who are they? Because they chose to give it to her. That's Yeah, but then but then Trump totally um
basically dropped her. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. She didn't get to be Yeah. Uh in power. Okay. Oh,
I'll ask this to I will ask this to um u Dr. Mandi. Can a new ayat Eduardo ask uh
Eduard Dorado asks, "Can a new Ayatollah revoke the fatwa nuclear war?" It's a good question. Again, these people who
our media portrays as like so violent and irrational and belligerent are the
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that's not accurate. I'm that that's not the case. Beluch people in the southeast are 2% of
Iran's population. and they don't pose a threat to the Persian Corps. Um,
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Setback for Trump as Iran claims it hit US embassy in Saudi Arabia with missiles | Janta Ka Reporter
Janta Ka Reporter
Mar 2, 2026
In a significant development, the US embassy in Saudi Arabia has reportedly been struck by Iranian missiles. Iran has claimed responsibility after the news of the fire at the US embassy emerged. This came just hours after the US authorities confirmed that the death toll of American soldiers has gone up to six. Rifat Jawaid says this development is quite extraordinary and should worry Americans.
Transcript
Three developments related to the Iran
conflict and they are all massive.
First, US Secretary of Tagri Marco Rubio
has just confessed that the US decided
to launch an illegal attack on sovereign
Iran just because Israeli terrorists had
made up their mind. This is the most
explicit confession by a member of the
US administration on America being an
Israeli colony. Then Tucker Carlson has
just revealed the Saudi and Qatari
authorities have arrested Mossad agents
as they planned to bomb these countries
and then blame Iran.
And then Iran have continued to pound
Israeli cities with more powerful
missiles. As expected, Israel's much
publicized Iron Dome has been rendered
useless. These three topics would be the
key focus of my video tonight. Also in
my video is a chilling warning from an
American professor to Trump to not go
against history in his delusional desire
to have regime change in Iran. So please
stay tuned. But before I start, let me
just share this breaking news which is
just happening right now as I speak. The
US embassy in Saudi Arabia has been set
on fire. The Iranians have claimed
responsibility saying they hit the
embassy with ballistic missiles and
drones. The US embassy has issued this
statement on Twitter just few seconds
ago and I quote, "Subject security
alert. Shelter in place. US mission to
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, March the
3rd, 2026. Location Saudi Arabia event
security alert. The US mission to Saudi
Arabia has issued a shelter in place
notification for Jedha, Riyad and Dhran
and are limiting non-essential travel to
any military installations in the
region. We recommend American citizens
in the kingdom to shelter in place
immediately. End quote. This is a
breaking news and I will come back on
the story as and when I have more
details. Elsewhere, the US has confirmed
the death of six soldiers now, and this
number could increase significantly in
days to come. Remember, the Iranians had
claimed to have killed or wounded over
500 US soldiers. This explains why Trump
is desperate to have a ceasefire, but
the Iranians have rejected this offer.
Don't take my word for it. This is Steve
Bannon, a prominent MAGA supporter.
Kind of their spokesman or leadership
spokesman. He's not a religious cleric.
He's saying we have no interest in
talking right now. The president said,
"Hey, I'm open to talk." He said it the
other day, but they're not they're not
interested in talking. So, how do you
get your offramp or your hey, we let's
get this done in 24 48 72 hours instead
of five or 6 weeks? That punch, you have
to have somebody on the other side to
actually talk to, let them do a
transition, get back in a room and talk
about their nuclear program. How do you
do that?
Marco Rubio, whose official title is the
Secretary of State, but the guy is
nothing less than a street thug. One
thing you must commend Donald Trump for
is his sheer ability to handpick the
most uncouthed, uneducated, and morally
bankrupt individuals as cabinet
colleagues. Trump is a genius when it
comes to discovering such a rare talent.
So Rubio has just admitted on camera
that the decision to launch an illegal
invasion of Iran and then massacre over
500 innocent people including
180 plus girls from an elementary school
was primarily to help Israel. First have
a listen to this guy's crazy confession.
What does he say? His boss, an utterly
deranged and depraved man, has been
telling us that the reason for attacking
Iran was to stop the Islamic Republic
from acquiring nuclear weapons. Not that
this would justify his crimes against
humanity, but this is the reason he gave
even tonight. Today, the United States
military continues to carry out
large-scale combat operations in Iran to
eliminate the grave threats posed to
America by this terrible terrorist
regime.
Following our obliteration of Iran's
nuclear program in Operation Midnight
Hammer a short while ago,
we warned Iran not to make any attempt
to rebuild at a different location
because they were unable to use the ones
that we so powerfully blew up. But they
ignored those warnings and refused to
cease their pursuit of nuclear weapons.
But Rubio is now telling us that the
illegal invasion of Iran had nothing to
do with Thran's nuclear aspirations.
According to him, it was to help Israel.
Meaning since Israelis had already made
up their mind to satisfy their genocidal
urge, the Israeli colony, i.e. the US,
had no option but to join them in their
carnage and mass murder. How are
Americans happy about this? How can
Americans be fine with these maniacs
deciding the fate of their and their
country's future?
You do not have to be a Democrat or a
Republican supporter to find this
absolutely nauseating and revoling.
These lunatics are taking such a crazy
decision, not keeping the interest of
Americans in mind, but the interest of
Israelis.
the same Israelis who have historically
survived on American taxpayers money. So
first they sucked into the US taxpayers
money and now they're using the slaves
in the current US administration to
sacrifice American soldiers lives to
fulfill their genocidal agenda. Why must
this be acceptable to any American
regardless of their political
affiliation?
I showed you in my earlier video just
how clueless Pete Hex was when he spoke
to members of the media. Moments later,
when his boss attended a public event,
he was no different. Immediately after
his brief rant on Iran and the death of
US soldiers, Trump moved on to talk
about his beautiful plans on the
renovation of his ballroom. That's how
insensitive this deranged man is about
the loss of American soldiers. Thank you
everybody. We have a lot of great
service members here with us too in this
beautiful building. Isn't it beautiful?
We're adding on to the building a little
bit. We're improving the building. See
that nice drape? When that comes down
right now, you see a very, very deep
hole, but in about a year and a half
from now, you're going to see a very,
very beautiful building. And there's
your entrance to it right there. In
fact, it looks so nice. I don't think
I'll even I think I'll save money on the
doors cuz it can't get more beautiful
than that. I picked those drapes in my
first term. I always like gold, but I
think we can save a lot of money. I just
saved I just saved curtains.
But uh and it will be it'll be
spectacular be the most beautiful
ballroom. I believe it's because I built
many a ballroom. I believe it's going to
be the most beautiful ballroom anywhere
in the world. And when you hear all that
hammering out there, you know why the
first lady is not thrilled. Exactly.
Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson has dropped a
bombshell by revealing the dirty design
of Mossad agents. Tucker says that Saudi
Arabia and Qatar have rounded up several
filthy Mossad agents after they were
found to be planning to bomb key
infrastructure here. They would have
then laid the blame on the Iranians.
Now, that wasn't a risk from the Israeli
standpoint. That was the point.
That was the point.
They wanted to diminish the Gulf. And in
two days, they have. And I think anyone
who likes decency and order and
cleanliness is hoping that the Gulf will
recover. The Gulf is not a threat to us.
We have military bases in these
countries. These are some of our closest
allies. All of them are closer allies
than Israel by far.
They're our friends.
Um, but they've been really hurt. And in
a place like Dubai,
which is basically it's part of a
country, it's an emirate within the
United Arab Emirates, but it's also a
it's a luxury brand. Basically, people
go to Dubai because it's beautiful and
rich and clean and above all because
it's safe and orderly.
It's got the busiest airport in the
world.
You start seeing video and Instagram of
smoke in the Dubai airport and you're
like, I think I'm going to Cabo this
year. Oh, sorry, drug cartels. Whatever.
Maybe you go to Sedona this year. It
really really hurts these countries and
Israel wanted to hurt these countries.
That's the point. Wanted to hurt these
countries. Wanted to sew chaos and
disorder because they are rivals of
Israel. So it's probably not hasn't been
reported, but it's a fact that last
night
in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, authorities
arrested MSAD agents planning on
committing bombings in those countries.
Now that's weird. That doesn't make any
sense. Why would the Israelis
be committing bombings in two Gulf
countries which are also being attacked
by Iran? Aren't they on the same side?
No. No. Israel wants to hurt Iran and
Qatar and UAE and Saudi and Bahrain and
Oman and Kuwait.
And they've succeeded. Why is this
important? because a key Saudi oil
facility was bombed a few hours ago and
Iran was quick to clarify it had no role
in this bombing. Could this have been
the handiwork of Mossad? This doesn't
sound implausible. Meanwhile, Iran has
fired more ballistic and hypersonic
missiles causing widespread destruction
in the settler colony of Israel. Iranian
missiles are finding absolutely next to
nothing resistance from the so-called
Iron Dome. You can watch these videos on
our telegram channel or upscrolled
social media page. Iran's decision to
choke the state of Hormuz, destroy key
American military facilities and bomb
the infrastructure of US allies in the
region have already adversely impacted
energy prices globally. Oil prices today
jumped from $70 a week a few days ago to
nearly $80 a barrel while shipping
through the scritical oil lanes in the
state of Hormos came to a grinding halt.
This is just the beginning. Wait until
this further contributes to the
skyrocketing of oil and gas prices in
the Western world. Inflation here is
bound to go through the roof. and then
they would perhaps realize if being
genocidal against the Iranians was worth
it. I will leave you with the warning
from Professor Robert Epe from the
University of Chicago. He has some
urgent advice for Trump if his brain is
still functional enough to pay heed to
this professor's warning.
I have studied every air campaign since
World War I. This is my specialty. I
spent three years teaching conventional
targeting strategy for the US Air Force.
I've studied leadership decapitation in
detail. I've modeled the bombing of
Foraux, the regime change in Iran for 20
years. So, this is something I know
quite a bit about. And literally 10 days
ago, I started on Substack the
escalation trap because I worried
exactly watching the Armada being built,
we would fall into the escalation trap.
And that's what's happened. We are now
in the grip of the escalation trap or
the smart bomb trap to be more precise.
where the illusion of the 100% tactical
success which is real. It's the the
success of the bombs blowing up the
targets is not false. It creates the
illusion of control of escalation.
And that is the smart bomb trap. And
that is what has gripped us right now.
And the problem is that once we dropped
those bombs and once we announced regime
change is our goal and we had no other
tools trying to do this from the air.
This has never worked in over a hundred
years. This is not like it works
sometimes or rarely works. I'm choosing
my words carefully. President Trump is
up against the weight of history here.
That's it for me. Thank you very much
for your support of this platform and
our journalism. If you haven't
subscribed to my channel, please do so
because that's one of the many ways you
can support independent journalism.
Janta Ka Reporter
Mar 2, 2026
In a significant development, the US embassy in Saudi Arabia has reportedly been struck by Iranian missiles. Iran has claimed responsibility after the news of the fire at the US embassy emerged. This came just hours after the US authorities confirmed that the death toll of American soldiers has gone up to six. Rifat Jawaid says this development is quite extraordinary and should worry Americans.
Transcript
Three developments related to the Iran
conflict and they are all massive.
First, US Secretary of Tagri Marco Rubio
has just confessed that the US decided
to launch an illegal attack on sovereign
Iran just because Israeli terrorists had
made up their mind. This is the most
explicit confession by a member of the
US administration on America being an
Israeli colony. Then Tucker Carlson has
just revealed the Saudi and Qatari
authorities have arrested Mossad agents
as they planned to bomb these countries
and then blame Iran.
And then Iran have continued to pound
Israeli cities with more powerful
missiles. As expected, Israel's much
publicized Iron Dome has been rendered
useless. These three topics would be the
key focus of my video tonight. Also in
my video is a chilling warning from an
American professor to Trump to not go
against history in his delusional desire
to have regime change in Iran. So please
stay tuned. But before I start, let me
just share this breaking news which is
just happening right now as I speak. The
US embassy in Saudi Arabia has been set
on fire. The Iranians have claimed
responsibility saying they hit the
embassy with ballistic missiles and
drones. The US embassy has issued this
statement on Twitter just few seconds
ago and I quote, "Subject security
alert. Shelter in place. US mission to
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, March the
3rd, 2026. Location Saudi Arabia event
security alert. The US mission to Saudi
Arabia has issued a shelter in place
notification for Jedha, Riyad and Dhran
and are limiting non-essential travel to
any military installations in the
region. We recommend American citizens
in the kingdom to shelter in place
immediately. End quote. This is a
breaking news and I will come back on
the story as and when I have more
details. Elsewhere, the US has confirmed
the death of six soldiers now, and this
number could increase significantly in
days to come. Remember, the Iranians had
claimed to have killed or wounded over
500 US soldiers. This explains why Trump
is desperate to have a ceasefire, but
the Iranians have rejected this offer.
Don't take my word for it. This is Steve
Bannon, a prominent MAGA supporter.
Kind of their spokesman or leadership
spokesman. He's not a religious cleric.
He's saying we have no interest in
talking right now. The president said,
"Hey, I'm open to talk." He said it the
other day, but they're not they're not
interested in talking. So, how do you
get your offramp or your hey, we let's
get this done in 24 48 72 hours instead
of five or 6 weeks? That punch, you have
to have somebody on the other side to
actually talk to, let them do a
transition, get back in a room and talk
about their nuclear program. How do you
do that?
Marco Rubio, whose official title is the
Secretary of State, but the guy is
nothing less than a street thug. One
thing you must commend Donald Trump for
is his sheer ability to handpick the
most uncouthed, uneducated, and morally
bankrupt individuals as cabinet
colleagues. Trump is a genius when it
comes to discovering such a rare talent.
So Rubio has just admitted on camera
that the decision to launch an illegal
invasion of Iran and then massacre over
500 innocent people including
180 plus girls from an elementary school
was primarily to help Israel. First have
a listen to this guy's crazy confession.
[Marco Rubio] United States conducted this operation
with a very clear goal in mind. I
haven't got a chance to see a lot of
reporting. I don't understand what the
confusion is. Let me explain it to you,
and I'll do it once again as clearly as
possible. Perhaps you'll report it that
way.
The United States is conducting an
operation to eliminate the threat of
Iran's short-range ballistic missiles,
and the threat posed by their navy,
particularly to [our] naval assets. That is
what he is focused on doing right now,
and is doing quite successfully. I'll
leave it to the Pentagon and the
Department of War to discuss the tactics
behind that, and the progress that's
being made. That is the clear objective
of this mission.
The second question
that's been asked is why now? Well,
there's two reasons why. Now, the first
is it was abundantly clear that if Iran
came under attack by anyone, the United
States, or Israel, or anyone, they were
going to respond, and respond against the
United States. The orders had been
delegated down to the field commanders.
It was automatic. And in fact, it proved
to be true. Because in fact, within an
hour of the initial attack on the
the leadership compound, the missile
forces in the south, and in the north for
that matter, had already been activated
to launch. In fact, those had already
been pre-positioned. [Proving what, beyond their quickness in responding to your attack? Is retaliating a "premeditated" crime deserving of war?]
The third is the
assessment that was made that if we
stood and waited for that attack to come
first [an attack by us] before we hit them [if we attacked them, before we hit them?], we would
suffer much higher casualties. And so
the president made the very wise
decision. We knew that there was
going to be an Israeli action. We knew
that that would precipitate an attack
against American forces, and we knew that
if we didn't preemptively go after them
before they [we] launched those attacks [preemptively go after them, before we go after us? Preemptively go after us before we go after us?]
would suffer higher casualties and
perhaps even hire those killed. And then
we would all be here answering questions
about why we knew that, and it didn't
happen. [Why we knew that we were going to attack, and then we didn't attack?]
What does he say? His boss, an utterly
deranged and depraved man, has been
telling us that the reason for attacking
Iran was to stop the Islamic Republic
from acquiring nuclear weapons. Not that
this would justify his crimes against
humanity, but this is the reason he gave
even tonight. Today, the United States
military continues to carry out
large-scale combat operations in Iran to
eliminate the grave threats posed to
America by this terrible terrorist
regime.
Following our obliteration of Iran's
nuclear program in Operation Midnight
Hammer a short while ago,
we warned Iran not to make any attempt
to rebuild at a different location
because they were unable to use the ones
that we so powerfully blew up. But they
ignored those warnings and refused to
cease their pursuit of nuclear weapons.
But Rubio is now telling us that the
illegal invasion of Iran had nothing to
do with Thran's nuclear aspirations.
According to him, it was to help Israel.
Meaning since Israelis had already made
up their mind to satisfy their genocidal
urge, the Israeli colony, i.e. the US,
had no option but to join them in their
carnage and mass murder. How are
Americans happy about this? How can
Americans be fine with these maniacs
deciding the fate of their and their
country's future?
You do not have to be a Democrat or a
Republican supporter to find this
absolutely nauseating and revoling.
These lunatics are taking such a crazy
decision, not keeping the interest of
Americans in mind, but the interest of
Israelis.
the same Israelis who have historically
survived on American taxpayers money. So
first they sucked into the US taxpayers
money and now they're using the slaves
in the current US administration to
sacrifice American soldiers lives to
fulfill their genocidal agenda. Why must
this be acceptable to any American
regardless of their political
affiliation?
I showed you in my earlier video just
how clueless Pete Hex was when he spoke
to members of the media. Moments later,
when his boss attended a public event,
he was no different. Immediately after
his brief rant on Iran and the death of
US soldiers, Trump moved on to talk
about his beautiful plans on the
renovation of his ballroom. That's how
insensitive this deranged man is about
the loss of American soldiers. Thank you
everybody. We have a lot of great
service members here with us too in this
beautiful building. Isn't it beautiful?
We're adding on to the building a little
bit. We're improving the building. See
that nice drape? When that comes down
right now, you see a very, very deep
hole, but in about a year and a half
from now, you're going to see a very,
very beautiful building. And there's
your entrance to it right there. In
fact, it looks so nice. I don't think
I'll even I think I'll save money on the
doors cuz it can't get more beautiful
than that. I picked those drapes in my
first term. I always like gold, but I
think we can save a lot of money. I just
saved I just saved curtains.
But uh and it will be it'll be
spectacular be the most beautiful
ballroom. I believe it's because I built
many a ballroom. I believe it's going to
be the most beautiful ballroom anywhere
in the world. And when you hear all that
hammering out there, you know why the
first lady is not thrilled. Exactly.
Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson has dropped a
bombshell by revealing the dirty design
of Mossad agents. Tucker says that Saudi
Arabia and Qatar have rounded up several
filthy Mossad agents after they were
found to be planning to bomb key
infrastructure here. They would have
then laid the blame on the Iranians.
Now, that wasn't a risk from the Israeli
standpoint. That was the point.
That was the point.
They wanted to diminish the Gulf. And in
two days, they have. And I think anyone
who likes decency and order and
cleanliness is hoping that the Gulf will
recover. The Gulf is not a threat to us.
We have military bases in these
countries. These are some of our closest
allies. All of them are closer allies
than Israel by far.
They're our friends.
Um, but they've been really hurt. And in
a place like Dubai,
which is basically it's part of a
country, it's an emirate within the
United Arab Emirates, but it's also a
it's a luxury brand. Basically, people
go to Dubai because it's beautiful and
rich and clean and above all because
it's safe and orderly.
It's got the busiest airport in the
world.
You start seeing video and Instagram of
smoke in the Dubai airport and you're
like, I think I'm going to Cabo this
year. Oh, sorry, drug cartels. Whatever.
Maybe you go to Sedona this year. It
really really hurts these countries and
Israel wanted to hurt these countries.
That's the point. Wanted to hurt these
countries. Wanted to sew chaos and
disorder because they are rivals of
Israel. So it's probably not hasn't been
reported, but it's a fact that last
night
in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, authorities
arrested MSAD agents planning on
committing bombings in those countries.
Now that's weird. That doesn't make any
sense. Why would the Israelis
be committing bombings in two Gulf
countries which are also being attacked
by Iran? Aren't they on the same side?
No. No. Israel wants to hurt Iran and
Qatar and UAE and Saudi and Bahrain and
Oman and Kuwait.
And they've succeeded. Why is this
important? because a key Saudi oil
facility was bombed a few hours ago and
Iran was quick to clarify it had no role
in this bombing. Could this have been
the handiwork of Mossad? This doesn't
sound implausible. Meanwhile, Iran has
fired more ballistic and hypersonic
missiles causing widespread destruction
in the settler colony of Israel. Iranian
missiles are finding absolutely next to
nothing resistance from the so-called
Iron Dome. You can watch these videos on
our telegram channel or upscrolled
social media page. Iran's decision to
choke the state of Hormuz, destroy key
American military facilities and bomb
the infrastructure of US allies in the
region have already adversely impacted
energy prices globally. Oil prices today
jumped from $70 a week a few days ago to
nearly $80 a barrel while shipping
through the scritical oil lanes in the
state of Hormos came to a grinding halt.
This is just the beginning. Wait until
this further contributes to the
skyrocketing of oil and gas prices in
the Western world. Inflation here is
bound to go through the roof. and then
they would perhaps realize if being
genocidal against the Iranians was worth
it. I will leave you with the warning
from Professor Robert Epe from the
University of Chicago. He has some
urgent advice for Trump if his brain is
still functional enough to pay heed to
this professor's warning.
I have studied every air campaign since
World War I. This is my specialty. I
spent three years teaching conventional
targeting strategy for the US Air Force.
I've studied leadership decapitation in
detail. I've modeled the bombing of
Foraux, the regime change in Iran for 20
years. So, this is something I know
quite a bit about. And literally 10 days
ago, I started on Substack the
escalation trap because I worried
exactly watching the Armada being built,
we would fall into the escalation trap.
And that's what's happened. We are now
in the grip of the escalation trap or
the smart bomb trap to be more precise.
where the illusion of the 100% tactical
success which is real. It's the the
success of the bombs blowing up the
targets is not false. It creates the
illusion of control of escalation.
And that is the smart bomb trap. And
that is what has gripped us right now.
And the problem is that once we dropped
those bombs and once we announced regime
change is our goal and we had no other
tools trying to do this from the air.
This has never worked in over a hundred
years. This is not like it works
sometimes or rarely works. I'm choosing
my words carefully. President Trump is
up against the weight of history here.
That's it for me. Thank you very much
for your support of this platform and
our journalism. If you haven't
subscribed to my channel, please do so
because that's one of the many ways you
can support independent journalism.
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Re: Part 2 Anti-Anti-Nazi Barbarian Hordes are Knocking Down
by admin » Tue Mar 03, 2026 6:03 pm
US Troops were told Iran war is for ‘Armageddon,’ return of Jesus. Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military
by Jonathan Larsen
Asia Times
March 4, 2026
https://asiatimes.com/2026/03/us-troops ... -of-jesus/
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Jesus, barefoot and bareback, killing people in a poster for the documentary 'Praying for Armageddon. Image: Screengrab / UpNorth Film image
This article was originally published on Jonathan Larsen’s Substack.
A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that President Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.
From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).
The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night.
The MRFF is keeping the complainants anonymous to prevent retribution by the Defense Department. The Pentagon did not immediately respond to my request for comment.
One complainant identified themselves as a non-commissioned officer (NCO) in a unit currently outside the Iran combat zone but in Ready-Support status, deployable at any time. The NCO said they were Christian and emailed the MRFF on behalf of 15 troops, including at least 11 Christians, one Muslim and one Jew. (Full email printed below.)
The NCO wrote to the MRFF that their commander “urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has enshrined evangelical Christianity at the uppermost levels of the US military, airing monthly prayer meetings throughout the Pentagon. Last year, the Pentagon confirmed to me that Hegseth attends a weekly White House Bible study. It’s led by a preacher who says God commands America to support Israel.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Fellowship Foundation’s Feb. 5, 2026, prayer breakfast, falsely claimed that America was founded as a Christian nation. Photo: Screengrab / C-SPAN video.)
Monday’s email from the NCO said that their commander’s remarks “destroy morale and unit cohesion and are in violation of the oaths we swore to support the [C]onstitution.”
MRFF President and Founder Mikey Weinstein, a veteran of the Air Force and the Reagan White House, told me that since the US and Israel attacked Iran early Saturday morning, the MRFF has been “inundated” with similar complaints:
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Image: Facebook
Weinstein cited constitutional and Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) prohibitions against injecting religious beliefs into official military instruction or messaging.
He said, “Any military members seeking to take advantage of their subordinates by advancing their blood-soaked, Christian nationalist wet dreams upon the flames of this latest non-Congressionally sanctioned attack against Iran, should be swiftly, aggressively and visibly prosecuted.”
Weinstein added that the MRFF receives similar complaints about Christian eschatology — end-of-the-world theology — “whenever this shit blows up with Israel in the Middle East.”
After the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, for instance, the MRFF reported a complaint about an Air Force commander who said at a briefing that, “[T]he war between Israel and Hamas has all been foretold by the Book of Revelation in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and no one can do anything about that.”
After 9/11, President George W. Bush referred to the American “crusade” against terrorism, evoking the ancient clashes between Christian crusaders and Muslims. Bush’s language was seen as potentially inspiring Muslims to take up arms against the US, if it proclaimed itself a Christian army waging war on Islam.
French foreign minister Hubert Vedrine said, “One has to avoid falling into this huge trap, this monstrous trap” set by al Qaeda with the 9/11 attacks. Bush dropped the term “crusade.”
While Christian nationalism has simmered in the military for decades, Hegseth has ended even the pretense of official intolerance for it. Trump, too, has cast himself as a champion of Christian exceptionalism, embedding it within divisions of the executive branch.
As I revealed last year, Hegseth sponsors the weekly White House Bible study that preaches support for Israel.
Some Christians claim biblical prophecy requires Israel to exist for Jesus to return.
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Photo: CNN
But Hegseth’s Bible study leader, preacher Ralph Drollinger, teaches that the reason to support Israel is that God still blesses Israel’s allies and curses Israel’s enemies, even though Israel killed Jesus (this smear, the historic root of antisemitism, has been rejected by every major religion).
After Israel’s attack on Iran last year, Drollinger dedicated two weeks of lessons to preaching support for Israel. His lessons went out to Cabinet members and members of Congress even as Israel, too, was lobbying for US engagement.
Hegseth has also initiated monthly prayer sessions, most recently featuring Doug Wilson, the far-right Christian nationalist. He has also brought in other preachers from his personal circle, rejecting any attempt at making the meetings ecumenical.
Hegseth himself also speaks at these meetings, proselytizing his personal religious beliefs. “This is … I think, exactly where we need to be as a nation, at this moment,” Hegseth reportedly said, “in prayer, on bended knee, recognizing the providence of our lord and savior Jesus Christ.”
While the MRFF historically has been able to get the Pentagon to swat down Christian incursions into the military, the Trump administration is openly disdainful of military norms and law. It remains to be seen whether and how wholesale Christianization of the Iran war will be opposed by officials inside the Pentagon, or political and legal advocates for secular values outside it.
NCO Email to MRFF
Full Statement from MRFF President Mikey Weinstein
by Jonathan Larsen
Asia Times
March 4, 2026
https://asiatimes.com/2026/03/us-troops ... -of-jesus/
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Jesus, barefoot and bareback, killing people in a poster for the documentary 'Praying for Armageddon. Image: Screengrab / UpNorth Film image
This article was originally published on Jonathan Larsen’s Substack.
A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that President Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.
From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).
The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night.
The MRFF is keeping the complainants anonymous to prevent retribution by the Defense Department. The Pentagon did not immediately respond to my request for comment.
One complainant identified themselves as a non-commissioned officer (NCO) in a unit currently outside the Iran combat zone but in Ready-Support status, deployable at any time. The NCO said they were Christian and emailed the MRFF on behalf of 15 troops, including at least 11 Christians, one Muslim and one Jew. (Full email printed below.)
The NCO wrote to the MRFF that their commander “urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has enshrined evangelical Christianity at the uppermost levels of the US military, airing monthly prayer meetings throughout the Pentagon. Last year, the Pentagon confirmed to me that Hegseth attends a weekly White House Bible study. It’s led by a preacher who says God commands America to support Israel.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Fellowship Foundation’s Feb. 5, 2026, prayer breakfast, falsely claimed that America was founded as a Christian nation. Photo: Screengrab / C-SPAN video.)
Monday’s email from the NCO said that their commander’s remarks “destroy morale and unit cohesion and are in violation of the oaths we swore to support the [C]onstitution.”
MRFF President and Founder Mikey Weinstein, a veteran of the Air Force and the Reagan White House, told me that since the US and Israel attacked Iran early Saturday morning, the MRFF has been “inundated” with similar complaints:
These calls have one damn thing in freaking common; our MRFF clients [service members who seek MRFF aid] report the unrestricted euphoria of their commanders and command chains as to how this new “biblically-sanctioned” war is clearly the undeniable sign of the expeditious approach of the fundamentalist Christian “End Times” as vividly described in the New Testament Book of Revelation.
Many of their commanders are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology.
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Image: Facebook
Weinstein cited constitutional and Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) prohibitions against injecting religious beliefs into official military instruction or messaging.
He said, “Any military members seeking to take advantage of their subordinates by advancing their blood-soaked, Christian nationalist wet dreams upon the flames of this latest non-Congressionally sanctioned attack against Iran, should be swiftly, aggressively and visibly prosecuted.”
Weinstein added that the MRFF receives similar complaints about Christian eschatology — end-of-the-world theology — “whenever this shit blows up with Israel in the Middle East.”
After the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, for instance, the MRFF reported a complaint about an Air Force commander who said at a briefing that, “[T]he war between Israel and Hamas has all been foretold by the Book of Revelation in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and no one can do anything about that.”
After 9/11, President George W. Bush referred to the American “crusade” against terrorism, evoking the ancient clashes between Christian crusaders and Muslims. Bush’s language was seen as potentially inspiring Muslims to take up arms against the US, if it proclaimed itself a Christian army waging war on Islam.
French foreign minister Hubert Vedrine said, “One has to avoid falling into this huge trap, this monstrous trap” set by al Qaeda with the 9/11 attacks. Bush dropped the term “crusade.”
While Christian nationalism has simmered in the military for decades, Hegseth has ended even the pretense of official intolerance for it. Trump, too, has cast himself as a champion of Christian exceptionalism, embedding it within divisions of the executive branch.
As I revealed last year, Hegseth sponsors the weekly White House Bible study that preaches support for Israel.
Some Christians claim biblical prophecy requires Israel to exist for Jesus to return.
[x]
Photo: CNN
But Hegseth’s Bible study leader, preacher Ralph Drollinger, teaches that the reason to support Israel is that God still blesses Israel’s allies and curses Israel’s enemies, even though Israel killed Jesus (this smear, the historic root of antisemitism, has been rejected by every major religion).
After Israel’s attack on Iran last year, Drollinger dedicated two weeks of lessons to preaching support for Israel. His lessons went out to Cabinet members and members of Congress even as Israel, too, was lobbying for US engagement.
Hegseth has also initiated monthly prayer sessions, most recently featuring Doug Wilson, the far-right Christian nationalist. He has also brought in other preachers from his personal circle, rejecting any attempt at making the meetings ecumenical.
Hegseth himself also speaks at these meetings, proselytizing his personal religious beliefs. “This is … I think, exactly where we need to be as a nation, at this moment,” Hegseth reportedly said, “in prayer, on bended knee, recognizing the providence of our lord and savior Jesus Christ.”
While the MRFF historically has been able to get the Pentagon to swat down Christian incursions into the military, the Trump administration is openly disdainful of military norms and law. It remains to be seen whether and how wholesale Christianization of the Iran war will be opposed by officials inside the Pentagon, or political and legal advocates for secular values outside it.
NCO Email to MRFF
As redacted by MRFF:
From: (Active Duty Military NCO and MRFF Client’s email address withheld)
Subject: Unit combat readiness briefing and Armageddon
Date: March 2, 2026 at 1:02:53 PM MST
To: Information Weinstein <[email protected]>
Mr. Weinstein thank you for taking my calls and the calls of some of my colleagues as to what happened earlier this morning with our combat unit.
Please protect my identity and the identities of those I’m speaking for as we discussed.
Our unit is not currently in the combat zone AOR regarding the Iranian attacks but we are in a “Ready-Support” function where we could be deployed there at any moment to join and augment the combat operations as participants.
I am a (NCO rank withheld) in our unit. This morning our commander opened up the combat readiness status briefing by urging us to not be “afraid” as to what is happening with our combat operations in Iran right now. He urged us to tell our troops that this was “all part of God’s divine plan” and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ. He said that “President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth”. He had a big grin on his face when he said all of this which made his message seem even more crazy. Our commander would probably be described as a “Christian First” supporter. He has been this way for a very long time and makes it clear that he desires all of us under him to become just like him as a Christian. But what he did this morning was so toxic and over the line that it shocked many of us in attendance at the ops readiness briefing. Besides myself I am reaching out to MRFF on behalf of 15 fellow troops. I know you asked me about the religious views of our group who has requested help from the MRFF. I can only tell you that I am Christian and at least 10 of the others are also Christians. One of the others is Jewish and one is Muslim. I don’t know the religious or non-religious status for the other three at this time.
I and my fellow troops know that it is completely wrong to have to suffer through what our commander said today. It’s not just the separation of church and state as we discussed, Mr. Weinstein. It’s the fact that our commander feels as though he is fully supported and justified by the entire (combat unit’s name withheld) chain of command to inflict his Armageddon views of our attack on Iran on those of us beneath him in the chain of command.
I hope by sending this email to you that this will help expose these wrong actions which destroy morale and unit cohesion and are in violation of the oaths we swore to support the constitution.
Full Statement from MRFF President Mikey Weinstein
Since the start of the unprovoked American and Israeli war on Iran, this past Saturday morning, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been literally inundated with desperate calls for help from military members across all branches, organizations and MOS/AFSC/SFSC designations (military occupational areas). Well over 100 calls have already come in and more keep coming.
These calls have one damn thing in freaking common; our MRFF clients report the unrestricted euphoria of their commanders and command chains as to how this new “biblically-sanctioned” war is clearly the undeniable sign of the expeditious approach of the fundamentalist Christian “End Times” as vividly described in the New Testament Book of Revelation.
Many of their commanders are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation demands that all personnel in the Department of Defense (not “War”) remember and fully internalize that the oaths they swear are not to the narcissistic, sociopathic, orange, POS tRump, nor to little Petey ‘Kegseth’ nor to Jesus Christ. On the contrary, their oath is SOLELY to the United States Constitution, which includes both a full separation of church and state mandate in the First Amendment and NO establishment of any sort of putrid ‘religious test’ in Clause 3 of Article VI.”
Any military members seeking to take advantage of their subordinates by advancing their blood-soaked, Christian nationalist wet dreams upon the flames of this latest non-Congressionally sanctioned attack against Iran, should be swiftly, aggressively and visibly prosecuted for numerous violations of the military criminal code known as the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
You know, that very same criminal code that Secretary “Kegseth” is trying to prosecute Arizona Senator Mark Kelly under for simply advising military members not to obey illegal orders; you know like ordering otherwise helpless, military subordinates to acknowledge that the Iran war has been sanctioned by the fundamentalist Christian nationalist version of our Lord and Savior and the New Testament in specific order to bring about the end of the world and usher in the 1000 year reign of Jesus Christ.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has released quite a powerful video, doubling down on his country's resolve to never join the US against Iran. Meanwhile, Iran has continued to showcase its retaliatory power despite suffering reported losses at sea. Elsewhere, Donald Trump's cabinet colleague, Pete Hegseth, has made quite an extraordinary admission on the Islamic Republic. Rifat Jawaid dissects Hegseth's press briefing and applauds the Spanish PM for his bravery.
Transcript
So Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's
uneducated and unscrupulous attack dog
in the ongoing conflict with Iran, spoke
to the media moments ago and my god, he
exposed himself once again so
spectacularly.
The highlight of his press conference
for me was his doubling down on what
Secretary of Tagri Marco Rubio has said
about fighting Israel's war. Another
high point of his press conference was
how he drooled over his Israeli masters.
In fact, he even termed his slavery to
Israeli terrorist a breath of fresh air.
I shall try and dissect his press
conference in today's video. Also in
today's video, the Spanish Prime
Minister Pedro Sanchez's bravery against
the American Mad Dog called Donald Trump
and the Iranians tricking the Americans
and Israelis into dropping millions of
dollars worth of bombs on a few 2D
painting of helicopters and fighter
jets. So, please stay tuned. Hexath has
spoken to the media at the Pentagon
headquarter to indulge in some fake
chest thumping. Given the outcry against
his rogue boss's decision to fight the
Israeli war in Iran and plenty of early
setbacks, including the deaths of many
American soldiers, it was clear that he
needed to hold this press conference.
But, as expected, he ended up making a
fool of himself. He began by saying that
America is winning.
I stand before you today with one
unmistakable message about Operation
Epic Fury. America is winning
decisively, devastatingly, and without
mercy. Great. Now that we know America
is winning, I suppose it would be a
matter of time before US military
deployment ends in the region and Iran
would have a new government or regime as
the westerners would like to call. So
when can the family members of these
soldiers expect their loved ones to
return home alive and not in body bags?
And as President Trump has said, we will
take all the time we need to make sure
that we succeed. Wait, so you would take
more time to ensure you succeed. You
just said you were winning, but now you
say you would need more time to ensure
that you win. Make up your mind. Okay,
but give us a timeline at least.
They are toast and they know it or at
least soon enough they will know it.
Once again, I'm confused. Do the
Iranians know it that they are toast or
they would know it in the future that
means that they are not toast yet or is
it the case that you have become their
toast but you have to present a spirited
front to keep the morale of your troops
high. Anyway, let's hear more about the
future strategy of the Americans and
Israelis. It means we will fly, all day,
all night, day and night, finding,
fixing, and finishing the missiles and
defense industrial base of the Iranian
military. Finding and fixing their
leaders and their military leaders. By
finding and fixing the Iranian military
base while flying during the day and
night, he meant bombing an elementary
school during the day and dropping
millions of dollars worth bombs on 2D
paintings of F-14 fighter jets and MI17
helicopters at night like these ones.
It's not even a spoof anymore. The
powerful military of America and the
settler colony wasted millions of
dollars worth of arsenal on these
anamorphic 2D paintings and then they
went to town claiming major military
success. Someone asked the Twitter AI
group about its authenticity and its
reply was in the affirmative. In fact,
such a tactic has also been used in the
Russia Ukraine conflict. Either way,
this is hilarious and makes a mockery of
the world's most powerful military. Then
Hex said this,
flying over Tan, flying over Iran,
flying over their capital, flying over
the RGC,
Iranian leaders,
looking up. Can someone tell him is a
part of Iran and is also the capital of
the Islamic Republic. So what's the
point of saying flying over Thran?
flying over Iran and flying over the
capital of Iran. It's all the same. This
happens when you are being cooked by
your enemy, but your boss orders you to
go in front of the media and put up a
brave front. What's the match between
the US army, the Israeli army, and the
Iranian military? Even Iranians would
admit that both the US and the settler
colony have some of the most
sophisticated weaponry in the world.
These two rogue entities have now waged
an illegal war against a country which
has been living under sanctions for over
47 years. And yet the same Iran has made
the life of the so-called most powerful
military in the world so miserable that
its bosses are having to make fake
claims to declare victory.
This chap said he was willing but then
his victory was so monumental and
historic that he needed to send more
reinforcement to the region. He actually
said this.
We are just getting started. We are
accelerating not decelerating. Iran's
capabilities are evaporating by the hour
while American strength grows fiercer,
smarter, and utterly dominant. More
bombers and more fighters are arriving
just today. So the US is either winning
or it's just getting started. And more
bombers and more fighters are arriving
today because the thousands of fighters
that these morons sent to Iran turned
out to be inadequate or joke. You don't
send more reinforcement when you are
winning. You do this when your ass is on
fire. Okay, let's listen to more of his
gold nuggets. And now with complete
control of the skies, we will be using
500 lb,000 lb and 2,000lb GPS and laserg
guided precision gravity bombs of which
we have a nearly unlimited stockpile.
Yes, precision gravity bombs that are so
precise that they do not miss a single
child from an elementary school. trust
the precision of their gravity bombs to
hunt down every single child in the
vicinity. Just the way we saw in Gaza,
these followers of Jewish pedophile
Jeffrey Epstein have special affinity
for or hatred towards children. They
like to showcase their brutality on
children, don't they? In fact, someone
asked him about the bombing of the
elementary school in Minab. His answer
was, "We are investigating." Can you
give us an update on what the
administration knows, what you know now
about the reported strike on a girl
school in southern Iran on Saturday?
Um, all I know, all I can say is that
we're investigating that.
Does he have any more details, remorse,
or even shame to have slaughtered close
to 200 innocent children by using his
precision gravity bombs?
We're investigating it. Thank you. What
he's trying to say here is that they
effed it up and worse they have been
caught too. Hence the much maligned
phrase we are investigating.
Hexad then claimed that his country had
also killed a leader of a group who
tried to assassinate Trump. Also
yesterday the leader of the unit who
attempted to assassinate President Trump
has been hunted down and killed.
Iran tried to kill President Trump and
President Trump got the last laugh.
When did this happen that no one got to
know about this? I mean, how did we all
miss this event? And who was the leader?
I'm sure Hexath and his boss would
happily name and shame that dirty man
who tried to assassinate the demonic
messiah of the deranged community in the
West. So, please tell us more about that
dirty soul. We've known for a long time
that Iran had intentions on trying to
kill President Trump and or other US US
officials. Uh and while that was not the
focus of the effort by any stretch of
the imagination, in fact never raised by
the president or anybody else, um I
ensured and others ensured that those
who were responsible for that were
eventually part of the target list. It
wasn't the uh beginning of the effort.
We were focused on on missiles and
launchers and that's the focus. But
ultimately, if we had the opportunity to
get at those who are trying to get at
Americans specifically, we would. Um,
and so
we eventually had the opportunity to do
that from the air.
Wait, so even he doesn't know who that
person was? I mean, does it even make
any sense to you? Please, can someone
enlighten me here? I would desperately
need a session now with my psychologist
wife after being tortured by this
lunatic.
Hexer then said something profound.
Whilst Thug Rubio may not have been
quite eloquent, this chap was very
explicit when he said his boss was
fighting the Israeli war. In his words,
the US Army was executing the Israeli
war or mission to our steadfast partner
Israel,
your mission is being executed with
unmatched skill and iron determination.
It's like saying your order is my
command. Trump is executing the Israeli
mission with unmatched skills and I am
determination.
Where can you guess such loyal slaves in
the world, but Trump's slavery for
Israel is unprecedented.
Hexet termed it a breath of fresh air.
Fighting shoulderto-shoulder with such a
capable ally is a true force multiplier
and a breath of fresh air.
Can there be a better version of slavery
than this? Whereby slaves publicly
termed the slavery for their masters as
a breath of fresh air? Americans must be
feeling very proud today for having
elected someone like Trump who has
raised the stature of his support base
globally.
Aside from this Cartoon Network
broadcast, in the real world, a morally
upright and brave prime minister of
Spain, Pedro Sanchez, showed his middle
finger to Trump. Remember how Trump had
threatened Spain for refusing to be an
American poodle to help this mentally
sick man in his illegal invasion of
Iran?
But some of the European, like Spain has
been terrible. In fact, I told uh Scott
to cut off all dealings with Spain.
Spain first of all, it started when
every every European nation at my
request paid 5% which they should be
doing. And everybody was enthusiastic
about it. Germany, everybody. And Spain
didn't do it. And now Spain uh actually
said that we can't use their bases. And
that's all right. We don't. We could use
their base if we want. We could just fly
in and use it. Nobody's going to tell us
not to use it, but we don't have to. But
they were unfriendly.
And so I told him, we don't want to.
Spain has absolutely nothing that we
need other than great people. They have
great people, but they don't have great
leadership. And as you know, they were
the only country that in NATO would not
agree to go up to 5%. I don't think they
would agreed to go up to anything. They
wanted to keep it at 2% and they don't
pay the 2%. So we we're going to cut off
all trade with Spain. We don't want
anything to do with Spain.
Today, Sanchez explained why he would
never agree to be an American Putin. He
said that his country would not repeat
the mistakes of the past when it
supported the rogue regime of George
Bush in murdering more than a million
Iraqis.
and
conflict, the bomb.
Meanwhile, what you may not be aware of
is that Tel Aviv is fast being turned
into a ghost town as Iranian missiles
wreak havoc. You can watch the video of
the devastation on our Telegram channel.
Despite being pitted against the
combined military power of the US and
the settler colony, Iran is not showing
any signs of weaknesses yet. Even as I
speak, Iranians are pounding key
American and Israeli targets with
ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
That's it for me. Thank you very much
for your support of this platform and
our journalism. If you haven't
subscribed to my channel, please do so
because that's one of the many ways you
can support independent journalism. God
bless you all.
Janta Ka Reporter
Mar 4, 2026
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has released quite a powerful video, doubling down on his country's resolve to never join the US against Iran. Meanwhile, Iran has continued to showcase its retaliatory power despite suffering reported losses at sea. Elsewhere, Donald Trump's cabinet colleague, Pete Hegseth, has made quite an extraordinary admission on the Islamic Republic. Rifat Jawaid dissects Hegseth's press briefing and applauds the Spanish PM for his bravery.
Transcript
So Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's
uneducated and unscrupulous attack dog
in the ongoing conflict with Iran, spoke
to the media moments ago and my god, he
exposed himself once again so
spectacularly.
The highlight of his press conference
for me was his doubling down on what
Secretary of Tagri Marco Rubio has said
about fighting Israel's war. Another
high point of his press conference was
how he drooled over his Israeli masters.
In fact, he even termed his slavery to
Israeli terrorist a breath of fresh air.
I shall try and dissect his press
conference in today's video. Also in
today's video, the Spanish Prime
Minister Pedro Sanchez's bravery against
the American Mad Dog called Donald Trump
and the Iranians tricking the Americans
and Israelis into dropping millions of
dollars worth of bombs on a few 2D
painting of helicopters and fighter
jets. So, please stay tuned. Hexath has
spoken to the media at the Pentagon
headquarter to indulge in some fake
chest thumping. Given the outcry against
his rogue boss's decision to fight the
Israeli war in Iran and plenty of early
setbacks, including the deaths of many
American soldiers, it was clear that he
needed to hold this press conference.
But, as expected, he ended up making a
fool of himself. He began by saying that
America is winning.
I stand before you today with one
unmistakable message about Operation
Epic Fury. America is winning
decisively, devastatingly, and without
mercy. Great. Now that we know America
is winning, I suppose it would be a
matter of time before US military
deployment ends in the region and Iran
would have a new government or regime as
the westerners would like to call. So
when can the family members of these
soldiers expect their loved ones to
return home alive and not in body bags?
And as President Trump has said, we will
take all the time we need to make sure
that we succeed. Wait, so you would take
more time to ensure you succeed. You
just said you were winning, but now you
say you would need more time to ensure
that you win. Make up your mind. Okay,
but give us a timeline at least.
They are toast and they know it or at
least soon enough they will know it.
Once again, I'm confused. Do the
Iranians know it that they are toast or
they would know it in the future that
means that they are not toast yet or is
it the case that you have become their
toast but you have to present a spirited
front to keep the morale of your troops
high. Anyway, let's hear more about the
future strategy of the Americans and
Israelis. It means we will fly, all day,
all night, day and night, finding,
fixing, and finishing the missiles and
defense industrial base of the Iranian
military. Finding and fixing their
leaders and their military leaders. By
finding and fixing the Iranian military
base while flying during the day and
night, he meant bombing an elementary
school during the day and dropping
millions of dollars worth bombs on 2D
paintings of F-14 fighter jets and MI17
helicopters at night like these ones.
It's not even a spoof anymore. The
powerful military of America and the
settler colony wasted millions of
dollars worth of arsenal on these
anamorphic 2D paintings and then they
went to town claiming major military
success. Someone asked the Twitter AI
group about its authenticity and its
reply was in the affirmative. In fact,
such a tactic has also been used in the
Russia Ukraine conflict. Either way,
this is hilarious and makes a mockery of
the world's most powerful military. Then
Hex said this,
flying over Tan, flying over Iran,
flying over their capital, flying over
the RGC,
Iranian leaders,
looking up. Can someone tell him is a
part of Iran and is also the capital of
the Islamic Republic. So what's the
point of saying flying over Thran?
flying over Iran and flying over the
capital of Iran. It's all the same. This
happens when you are being cooked by
your enemy, but your boss orders you to
go in front of the media and put up a
brave front. What's the match between
the US army, the Israeli army, and the
Iranian military? Even Iranians would
admit that both the US and the settler
colony have some of the most
sophisticated weaponry in the world.
These two rogue entities have now waged
an illegal war against a country which
has been living under sanctions for over
47 years. And yet the same Iran has made
the life of the so-called most powerful
military in the world so miserable that
its bosses are having to make fake
claims to declare victory.
This chap said he was willing but then
his victory was so monumental and
historic that he needed to send more
reinforcement to the region. He actually
said this.
We are just getting started. We are
accelerating not decelerating. Iran's
capabilities are evaporating by the hour
while American strength grows fiercer,
smarter, and utterly dominant. More
bombers and more fighters are arriving
just today. So the US is either winning
or it's just getting started. And more
bombers and more fighters are arriving
today because the thousands of fighters
that these morons sent to Iran turned
out to be inadequate or joke. You don't
send more reinforcement when you are
winning. You do this when your ass is on
fire. Okay, let's listen to more of his
gold nuggets. And now with complete
control of the skies, we will be using
500 lb,000 lb and 2,000lb GPS and laserg
guided precision gravity bombs of which
we have a nearly unlimited stockpile.
Yes, precision gravity bombs that are so
precise that they do not miss a single
child from an elementary school. trust
the precision of their gravity bombs to
hunt down every single child in the
vicinity. Just the way we saw in Gaza,
these followers of Jewish pedophile
Jeffrey Epstein have special affinity
for or hatred towards children. They
like to showcase their brutality on
children, don't they? In fact, someone
asked him about the bombing of the
elementary school in Minab. His answer
was, "We are investigating." Can you
give us an update on what the
administration knows, what you know now
about the reported strike on a girl
school in southern Iran on Saturday?
Um, all I know, all I can say is that
we're investigating that.
Does he have any more details, remorse,
or even shame to have slaughtered close
to 200 innocent children by using his
precision gravity bombs?
We're investigating it. Thank you. What
he's trying to say here is that they
effed it up and worse they have been
caught too. Hence the much maligned
phrase we are investigating.
Hexad then claimed that his country had
also killed a leader of a group who
tried to assassinate Trump. Also
yesterday the leader of the unit who
attempted to assassinate President Trump
has been hunted down and killed.
Iran tried to kill President Trump and
President Trump got the last laugh.
When did this happen that no one got to
know about this? I mean, how did we all
miss this event? And who was the leader?
I'm sure Hexath and his boss would
happily name and shame that dirty man
who tried to assassinate the demonic
messiah of the deranged community in the
West. So, please tell us more about that
dirty soul. We've known for a long time
that Iran had intentions on trying to
kill President Trump and or other US US
officials. Uh and while that was not the
focus of the effort by any stretch of
the imagination, in fact never raised by
the president or anybody else, um I
ensured and others ensured that those
who were responsible for that were
eventually part of the target list. It
wasn't the uh beginning of the effort.
We were focused on on missiles and
launchers and that's the focus. But
ultimately, if we had the opportunity to
get at those who are trying to get at
Americans specifically, we would. Um,
and so
we eventually had the opportunity to do
that from the air.
Wait, so even he doesn't know who that
person was? I mean, does it even make
any sense to you? Please, can someone
enlighten me here? I would desperately
need a session now with my psychologist
wife after being tortured by this
lunatic.
Hexer then said something profound.
Whilst Thug Rubio may not have been
quite eloquent, this chap was very
explicit when he said his boss was
fighting the Israeli war. In his words,
the US Army was executing the Israeli
war or mission to our steadfast partner
Israel,
your mission is being executed with
unmatched skill and iron determination.
It's like saying your order is my
command. Trump is executing the Israeli
mission with unmatched skills and I am
determination.
Where can you guess such loyal slaves in
the world, but Trump's slavery for
Israel is unprecedented.
Hexet termed it a breath of fresh air.
Fighting shoulderto-shoulder with such a
capable ally is a true force multiplier
and a breath of fresh air.
Can there be a better version of slavery
than this? Whereby slaves publicly
termed the slavery for their masters as
a breath of fresh air? Americans must be
feeling very proud today for having
elected someone like Trump who has
raised the stature of his support base
globally.
Aside from this Cartoon Network
broadcast, in the real world, a morally
upright and brave prime minister of
Spain, Pedro Sanchez, showed his middle
finger to Trump. Remember how Trump had
threatened Spain for refusing to be an
American poodle to help this mentally
sick man in his illegal invasion of
Iran?
But some of the European, like Spain has
been terrible. In fact, I told uh Scott
to cut off all dealings with Spain.
Spain first of all, it started when
every every European nation at my
request paid 5% which they should be
doing. And everybody was enthusiastic
about it. Germany, everybody. And Spain
didn't do it. And now Spain uh actually
said that we can't use their bases. And
that's all right. We don't. We could use
their base if we want. We could just fly
in and use it. Nobody's going to tell us
not to use it, but we don't have to. But
they were unfriendly.
And so I told him, we don't want to.
Spain has absolutely nothing that we
need other than great people. They have
great people, but they don't have great
leadership. And as you know, they were
the only country that in NATO would not
agree to go up to 5%. I don't think they
would agreed to go up to anything. They
wanted to keep it at 2% and they don't
pay the 2%. So we we're going to cut off
all trade with Spain. We don't want
anything to do with Spain.
Today, Sanchez explained why he would
never agree to be an American Putin. He
said that his country would not repeat
the mistakes of the past when it
supported the rogue regime of George
Bush in murdering more than a million
Iraqis.
and
conflict, the bomb.
Meanwhile, what you may not be aware of
is that Tel Aviv is fast being turned
into a ghost town as Iranian missiles
wreak havoc. You can watch the video of
the devastation on our Telegram channel.
Despite being pitted against the
combined military power of the US and
the settler colony, Iran is not showing
any signs of weaknesses yet. Even as I
speak, Iranians are pounding key
American and Israeli targets with
ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
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Re: Part 2 Anti-Anti-Nazi Barbarian Hordes are Knocking Down
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Iran STRIKES CIA, Destroys THAAD: Has Trump LOST the War? | Mohammad Marandi & Pepe Escobar
Danny Haiphong
Streamed live 3 hours ago #iran #trump #israel
Mohammad Marandi joins from Iran alongside Pepe Escobar to break down the latest developments in Iran's historic retaliation to US and Israeli aggression, and what the latest hits on both side mean for the future of the war.
Transcript
Welcome everyone. Welcome to the show. It's your host Danny Hi Fong and I am
joined by two very dear friends of the show. We have Professor Mouhamad Mirandi
from uh Tran and we have Pepe Escobar. Both here to talk about the latest
developments in the war. Thank you so much gentlemen for joining me today.
Thank you. Our pleasure. Well, let's let's get right to it gentlemen. Uh there are major updates in
this conflict. Uh Iran is getting uh very strategic, incredibly strategic
with its retaliation, hitting a CIA base station, hitting multiple THAD uh air
defense systems in the UAE, especially one in the UAE uh as of the last 24
hours. I think there are only 11 of these in the world. But I wanted to ask you, Professor Morandi, uh, if you could
put this retaliation in the context of what also is happening in Iran and how
you think this is going at the moment given that the situation, I know, is
quite dangerous in the country, but also Iran's retaliation has uh been uh quite
furious and and many have been taking note of it.
Well, ironically, the war has strengthened Iran despite the bombings and the slaughter and the bombings of schools
and hospitals and the bombing of IIB, the Iranian national radio and television. I went there the night
before last, I think. I usually don't go on Iranian TV, but u because of the war,
I I said I'll go. And then um I mean I have nothing against it but I
just don't want to be like a public figure in Iran. I'm already doing enough
abroad. But I went the night before last and when I got to the studio because I'd been there a couple of years before it
was destroyed and they said no you have to go to another building. So I went to another
building and I did this interview till midnight
and then I left and 1 hour later they bombed it again. So there you know they
bomb Iranian radio and television. You don't hear about this in the western media.
They bomb uh they bomb apartment blocks. They flatten homes and it's it's quite
stunning. But aside from that and the criminality of the Epstein
regime, we see people very united.
And I'm sure you've seen footage of this, and I put this in my Telegram account.
Every night we have gatherings across the country in different cities and in
Tehran they don't have a a single gathering. Sorry. They gather in different parts of the city like in 20 different squares
and each of them are like in the I don't know hundreds of thousands or tens of
thousands depending huge and uh
people on the so there millions on the streets of Tehran even though a lot of people have left because the government
shut down schools after they slaughtered the the little girls in the elementary school. They close all schools and
universities and ask people to leave if they don't have work to do in Tehran.
But the people on the streets and and you can see them in some of the clips that I
put on my Telegram channel.
people on the streets are chanting and then you can see anti-aircraft
defenses working because they're under missile attacks
and people don't budge. They won't move. They won't run. Men and
women, huge crowds in different parts of the city.
I never thought I'd see that sort of thing in my life. And so the
mood in Tehran is is very defiant. People are united.
And actually I totaled an example, an anecdotal example to
the judge on his program that three of my own students, well they're not
there's students of my faculty. A couple of
them I never had class with before, but they were apparently from what they
were saying involved in these riots that we had in January.
Not like with knives and you know not or weapons and guns just like the some of
the young people who are with these who are foolish enough to believe uh the
propaganda coming from the western Persian language media outlets funded by western intelligence agencies
and all these three people contacted me and both of them were very
two of them were very emotional and they were asking me how can we help?
How can we make up for what we did? It was quite
moving actually speaking to a couple of them. And it just shows that you know
what the Trump and Netanyahu and these barbaric regimes
have done is they've taught the younger generation
in Iran. What we could not teach them
because they did not witness the revolution. They did not experience the shah, the savak, his secret police, the
brutality, the the slaughter on the streets of Tehran during the revolution. They didn't experience the US backed war
by Saddam Hussein. They didn't experience chemical weapons. They didn't see these things. So now they're
experiencing firsthand what the United States really is, what the regime in
Washington, what the empire, what this evil empire, what this epstein regime really is.
And so it's it's united people in a way in which not even the 12- day war did. This is just something this is just
something different. And as I told you the scenes on that are on the streets of Tehran, people under you've seen some of
the footage of the vicious air strikes. These these people are sick barbarians.
These Americans and these Zionists just destroying neighborhoods.
But you see the people on the streets and when they see the the the surfaceto-air defenses,
they don't move. They say, "We're ready for martyrdom."
They chant against the United States. Now, I find it, you know, I think if
anyone wonders why people chant death to America in these ceremonies in Iran, do
they still wonder why?
So the Islamic Republic of Iran today is stronger than what it was, much stronger
than what it was a week ago. And Ayatollah Khamenei was always popular, and Pepe has been to Iran. Ayatollah Khamenei
is a popular figure. Administrations, some of them become popular, then they become
unpopular, then they may become popular again, but he's always been popular. Yes, he has his opponents. Some people
despise him. Some people are indifferent to him. But he's popular. But when he was martyed,
his image became even greater in eyes of all
different sectors of society. He refused to leave his house and office because he
said that a lot of people are struggling, and they have nowhere to go. And since
they have nowhere to go, I'm not going anywhere.
He was super clean. None of his children
have businesses, even a small shop. Not because he's against business,
but he says that since you're linked to me, you should you should not be in
business. So they all are educated. They either teach at university. His
son-in-law who was martyed, taught at Tabian Mudes University,
which is near the University of Tehran, near where I teach. His
children are all highly educated. They either teach at seminaries, or universities.
And also he was a person who
was imprisoned many multiple times during the shah's reign, tortured ,and then
after the revolution he was the youngest of the leadership, and when the war started he immediately
went to the war fronts, even though he had never held a gun before, even though he had never been
trained before, he learned how to fight in war fronts. Later when he became president, he survived an assassination attack.
That's why his right arm is disabled. He became president. And then during the last months of the war, when the United
States entered the battle alongside Saddam during the last few months, and
the US shot down an Iranian airliner killing 290 people.
They destroyed a number of Iranian naval ships. They destroyed Iranian oil facilities, and and murdered a lot of
Iranians. So the warfront Saddam Hussein had become
unstable. He went to the warfront as president, and I saw him there, and he was
a target obviously. But he had no fear.
This is an intellectual who spoke four languages, who was fluent in four languages.
Persian -- he is like a literature scholar. His knowledge of Persian
literature is enormous. When he speaks Persian, it's perfect.
He speaks eloquently. His Arabic, and his knowledge of Arabic
culture, and literature, is enormous. His father is Ozari.
He is very fluent in Ozari. Khamenei is a Iranian Ozari city. He is very fluent.
He was a close friend of the most famous Ozari poet of the last
few centuries, Shahiad. And he knew English, and he wrote he read
novels in English, including I think his favorite novel
that he read in English was Les Miserables, Hugo,
which also I think reflects his personality to a degree. Because he was always a person who. just
like when he refused to leave his house, and said I'm staying put, because even
though everyone knew he would be the first target. So he's always
stressing on different administrations, whether leftist or to the right, whether liberal or whatever, we've
had different administrations with very different world views during these years. But he would always stress that we have
to take take care of the marginalized, the underclass, the oppressed, those who've been left behind.
And that's one major reason why he was so
insistent that we have to support the Palestinians, the southern Africans during the resistance against apartheid.
He traveled to southern Africa as president. Nelson Mandela, very soon after he was released, traveled
to Tehran to meet him, and called him his leader.
And he supported Nicaragua, Cuba
and Venezuela, because he saw them as the oppressed.
And he was a unique person. I've never known a person like him in my life. No one near him.
He was an amazing person.
But with regards to the military, he's organized the state in
a way that despite his demise, the armed forces is working 24 hours a day.
Iran is firing missiles and drones at American assets in the Persian Gulf,
and at the Israeli regime day and night. And since the Americans are unable to
destroy any of these underground bases, which itself was an active genius,
this whole notion of setting up a defense system, creating your own drone industry, and your own drone technology,
at a time when the world was still into airplanes and that sort of thing. Remember, the Russians needed Iran's
help. So this was his policy. And then missiles, having them
underground, deep underground.
And so since the American regime and the
Israeli regime can't destroy any of these underground bases, they take it out on people. They bomb schools. They
bomb hospitals. They bomb local police stations. They bomb cultural centers.
They carry out double tap attacks across the city of
Tehran and in other cities. A friend of mine was in Ferosi Square, a place I
think Pepe has visited, they bombed Ferosi Square -- a friend of mine was witness -- he didn't hear of it -- and when people rushed to help, and first responders were trying to find
people under the rubble, they struck again. And they've done this in
different areas in Tehran. A journalist who I think works for Drop Site News
told me himself that he went to one of these public squares,
and saw the devastation there, and the people were saying they did the same thing there too.
So the Americans and the Israelis are trying to take revenge on people, because they can't access
these underground bases. So their viciousness
aside, their medieval character aside, the brilliance of this
military structure I think is is extraordinary. And the fact that despite
all the difficulties and maximum pressure sanctions right now in Iran, you don't see people in these long
queues and lines for bread or whatever. Long before they've gathered
stocks for this day. So for the next few months,
there won't be any real crisis unless the Americans start targeting other
things, which is not impossible. But I'm sure they have answers for that too.
So the point is that Iran is
stronger today. True, they're murdering people. They're destroying
public facilities. They're murdering children. They're murdering men and women. And the Western media is completely
indifferent. They're like cheerleaders for war. And it shows that there's no real difference between any of the
Western media outlets. Although we all know this from Gaza, and from Lebanon, and from Yemen.
There's no difference between CNN and Fox News or the Guardian and the New York Times or Breitbart. They're all
the same. One is more bombastic, one maybe a bit more sophisticated or nuanced, not nuanced, but more subtle,
but they're all the same. So they start the war, we were negotiating like last time and they start the war. That
too in Iran was
an element which strengthened national unity, because even those who were naive, and thought that maybe we could do a deal with Americans,
saw once again, like eight months ago, that the Americans are liars. That the Americans are deceitful. That they have the worst qualities possible, these elites . And so this strengthens each of these elements.
The fact that Western media is indifferent.
The fact that Iran was negotiating, and the other side tried to deceive Iran. Of
course, this time around, no one was deceived. We all were expecting an attack. In fact, the night before the
attack, me and a number of friends, we were talking together, and we were all saying the chances that it'll be tonight
are very high. So, all of these, the march of Ayatollah Khamenei, the fact that they began
with the slaughter of children, just just like when they shot down the
airliner, which in my opinion was intentional, and the bombing of this school was
definitely intentional, without a doubt. Without a doubt. You could find this
school on Google map. How could they not know where they're
bombing?
So, in any case, national unity today is much stronger. It was always
strong, but it was stronger. Some of those people, at least from my own anecdotal experience, and from
things that a couple of my colleagues have said, some of those young people who got caught up in those riots, many of them have shifted. Their
views have evolved. They've woken up. We couldn't have with hundreds of hundred
years of textbooks and philosophy
professors, and political professors, we couldn't have convinced them to change their views. But Trump and
Netanyahu, within 24 hours they taught
these kids what we learned when we were young, what we experienced when I survived chemical attacks. I'll never
forget it. These kids are witnessing the true America. They are witnessing the
essence of Western Empire, the essence of Zionism, the essence of the Epstein class.
They're feeling it. When you see all these dead kids, or families screaming
from under the rubble, just like in Gaza, and in Lebanon, or in Yemen, you
comprehend it in a very different way. And so the United States, for at
least years to come, have shown to younger Iranians what
it really means, the United States. And hopefully by the time the next
generation grows up, the empire will be gone.
Yeah. Well, Pepe, I wanted to get
your reaction to Iran's retaliation as you have seen it to this aggression,
given all these great points by Professor Marandi.
Hey, can I do my oldest question in the world a little bit with Muhammad? I
want to be the interviewer for 10 minutes, if that's okay.
Go right ahead. Go right ahead.
Okay. And then you can ask me something. But I think we need to get from Muhammad, because he is in the
battlefield, in the theater, a few precisions. Muhammad, I have two sets
of questions, three or four let's say each. First thing is Iran being
carpet bombed day and night. Is it out of revenge,
spite, impotence, pure perversion? Because they know that the only weapon
that they may have now is to intimidate the civilian population. Considering
that they are being hammered all across the spectrum from Israel to all
across the Gulf. And related to that are the air
defense network in Tehran, as you see it is it working properly, or is it disabled? This is the first set, what's really
happening in Tehran on the ground now please.
No, air defenses are not disabled, but the
United States Air Force, which is much larger than that of the Israeli
regime, combined with the Israeli regime, is very large.
And so a lot of the air defenses have been working very hard to
protect the country, but they do get through. Much of the strikes are
with missiles. They fire either from the jets over airspace or Kuwaiti
airspace, or Saudi airspace, or other areas in the Persian Gulf. And
Iraqi airspace. Of course, the Iraqi government is opposed
to this, but they can't do anything about it. Bbut sometimes, from my
understanding, they do enter Iranian airspace. They are met with air defense
and with Iranian jets, but it's a very complicated battlefield, and
the American have lots of jets. So Iranian air defenses, I would say
their major improvement has been drones, and also Iranian intelligence has been
much better. We don't have the sabotage at all that we had eight, nine months
ago, which is a big deal. The drones that the Americans and the
Israelis use to to find targets, they are being shot down very regularly.
And of course, we know that three American jets were shot down over Kuwait. The Iranians say they shot it
down. The Americans say it was friendly fire, which I think is even worse in a way, because if you're going to shoot
down your own jets, that doesn't say much about your technology. But
no, it's not as if the air defenses have collapsed. That's not the case. But they are heavily bombing
Tehran. Sometimes they do strike particular targets, but often they're just striking neighborhoods. Like for
example, the Gandhi hospital They struck this hospital, and it's
been evacuated, but it's a private hospital. So it has nothing to do with the government. And they struck the IVF clinic. So a lot of women who wanted to have babies will probably not be able to
have babies now. And the infant ward was particularly badly damaged. They've
struck many hospitals across the country, and police stations. But when they bomb the police, they bomb the neighborhood. You've been to
Tehran. It's not as if there are separate buildings/ They're just a part of the city. You strike, and the buildings around are damaged or collapsed, or they
miss. But what they're trying to do is they're trying to destroy the
social fabric of Iran. They want to demolish the social fabric, to create chaos. And and in the process they carry out massive air strikes, and when you go see these neighborhoods, it's like hell. So I would say it's a combination, but it's mostly to intimidate. And I think
the real reason behind these air strikes on civilians, and civilian targets, and
and that, is basically out of frustration that they they've not been able to weaken Iran's missile
capabilities, or drone capabilities, and they also underestimated their
capabilities. And the reason is because Iran has many underground missile cities
that they don't know about. The Iranians are not using most of the cities at all. They're using the same missile cities that they used in the previous war.
And the others remain untouched. And Iran's factories to build missiles and
drones are all underground. So Iran continues to make new drones, and
to make new missiles of different types, and the Americans can't do anything about it. So that angers them.
Iran has now been able to, as both of you know, weaken the air defenses
of both the Israeli regime and in the Persian Gulf. They've been using older
missiles for the most part almost exclusively. These missiles were made 20 years ago.
So the Iranians are firing them off and emptying the air defenses, both in the Persian Gulf, but mostly in Israel. In
the Persian Gulf, they've been using older drones for the most part, and again destroying air defenses and emptying air
defenses. But in the Persian Gulf, they're destroying their defenses very effectively.
So as time goes by, Iran can use less missiles to do more, and they haven't
even really touched their newer technology. And they can use less drones to do more, and they haven't really been
using their newer technology.
And one reason that shows Iran's strength
is the fact that the Americans can do nothing about the Strait of Hormuz. So Trump said that he's going to
send in the Navy to escort the ships. Let's see him do it. He can't. Those
ships will all sink. In fact, one reason why the air strikes in Iran
have been less effective across the country is because the Americans there, they have to take their jets and their naval ships,
and keep them far away. And so when the planes come, they have to
refuel in the air, then strike, then go back and refuel,
and then land wherever it is they land. Apparently, a lot of them go to Cyprus.
From what I've heard, a lot of the jets have left Saudi
Arabia, and Jordan, because Iranian missiles have been striking them and
they've gone to Cyprus. And that's where they take off and and murder women
and children.
Thank you, Muhammad. Now the second set is about Mojtaba Khamenei.
He has not been confirmed yet officially as the new supreme leader.
In case he is, and the best information that I had in the beginning of the week is that
he was the front runner, and today there are some indirect confirmations that he
has already been chosen. If that's the case, give us your personal analysis of
Mojtaba Khamenei, which seems to be extremely competent, tough as nails, excellent
relationship with the leadership of the IRGC. What can Iran and the Gulf and the
global south expect of him if he's really the new supreme leader. And
just complementing what you just told us about the situation on the ground in Tehran, and the apparently indiscriminate
attack on civilians, which is the new strategy, especially the past 48 hours or
so, we can read the initial attack on day
one on the elementary girl school by the
Epstein syndicate as a ritualistic murder.
It totally ties with their mindset. It was an intimidation right on day
one, exactly to throw society into total
convulsion, an act horrific beyond belief which, of course, as we all
know, didn't merit a single comma of condemnation by the whole of NATO, the
whole collective west. So maybe they are trying to apply the same methodology
to the civilian population in Tehran and in some other major cities. Thanks Muhammad.
You know, on the first day I think I did a tweet, and I said
that these Epstein class
murderers and rapists now, you know, murder and rape girls, are now bombing
girls. And that's to be expected of these people. And just as I do
not believe that the downing of the Iran Airflight was an accident, we had eight
years of war with Saddam Hussein, and we never accidentally shot down a plane. The only time where we did was
the Ukrainian plane which was tragic. But this was very different. The
Americans were not under duress. The Iranian airplane was flying from Bandara to Dubai, a very short flight. And it was flying in its corridor, and it was very clear as day what was happening.
And the Americans wanted the war to end. They were bombing Iranian facilities, and Iran did not have the naval
capabilities to really fight back effectively, because they're busy with
Iraq. So I believe that the downing of that plane was
intentional, especially since the United States never apologized. And the US vice president at the time.
Bush the senior said, "I'll never apologize for anything that the Americans have done."
But with regards to the leader, so far no announcement has been made, so I can't really comment on individuals, because I'm abroad, and some
people in Iran, for some reason, the more I say something is
not true, the more some people are convinced that it is true. But I'm not in government; I'm not a
part of the state, so if I comment on any of these issues, it could could
push people in the wrong direction. What I can say is that there
will be continuity. The council
of experts, which is an elected body that chooses and removes the leader according to the constitution,
they will vote for someone like Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with the same world view.
And what I
would add here is that a lot of things have changed in Iranian politics.
A lot of things have changed. A lot of
differences that existed until recently no longer exists. Views
on the United States, views on the West, are much more similar among the
political class and and those who are involved in politics,
than they were a few years ago. I don't want to mention websites, but some
of the media outlets in Iran that I really dislike,
and who have been very pro-American in recent days, they have been very critical
of the West. So I see a a new awakening in Iran. Sort of like
those anecdotal examples that I gave earlier. I think that it's not just
the youth, and it's not just ordinary people, but it's also the political elites. So whoever becomes leader, I
think that that person will be pursuing similar policies that we've been
experiencing in the past. And that is not good news for the United
States, especially since, as I said, I don't know if I can put it this way anymore, but the more liberal camp in Iran, many of them have shifted
their views.
You know, when you actually see the slaughter, when you actually see them
targeting women and children, when you see them bomb -- the first hospital that they struck in Tehran was the Gandhi
hospital -- ironically. You know, the Indian
government, which is so much in love with Israel, the Gandhi hospital, and a
private hospital. And so this has changed the way people see things. I mean, these so-called Iranians who live abroad, many of them by the way are on the
payroll, tens of thousands of Iranians abroad are on the payroll in one way or another. You have 4,000 Iranians
just in Albania in a troll farm. And then you have thousands in other troll farms.
You have hundreds of Persian language media outlets, television stations. All of these are funded by Western
governments. They're not making money in expensive studios, or using satellite -- that costs money! The western
governments pay for it. And they have staff. And they have people, they have websites, they have
Telegram channels, they have Twitter accounts. And then you have all these elites cooperating with think tanks.
They're probably 10 or 20,000 so-called Iranians on the payroll.
And these people outside of Iran, they
portray an Iran that -- you've been here so I'm not saying
this to you. I'm speaking this to the audience. These people are portraying an Iran
that is only in their imagination. It's a completely different Iran.
It doesn't exist on planet Earth, no matter how much they try. You can
find people in Iran who think like them, although increasingly smaller in number, but that's not Iran.
That's just a small segment of Iran. Just as we saw during the anniversary of the revolution, the millions who came to the
streets in Tehran, tens of millions across the country, but during the last few nights, it's stunning.
Millions of people under threat of death and destruction, they
won't budge. So whoever comes to power has a very
strong mandate, and has the Iranian population behind them. And Iranians want
punishment, and they are going to punish the United States. And what
they're doing in the Persian Gulf, whatever harm they do to Iranian women
and children, what Iran can do to them in the Persian Gulf
is enormous. Right now, the Iranians are only beginning to show what they can do.
They've shut the Strait of Hormuz, but they're not destroying the ships. They've
badly damaged 10 or 15 tankers who are disobeying, and tried
to cross the Strait of Hormuz, and they badly struck them, and some of them have sunk,
but most of the ships are staying put. And the Iranians are waiting.
Some of these installations in the Persian Gulf are being destroyed, those that are linked to US interests, however that's defined. Hotels which host US forces are their
targets, US bases that are linked to ports, those
civilian ports are targets. None of these Arab dictatorships
are in a position to complain. These family dictatorships have allowed the Americans to set up a base, and conspired
against Iran, and launched a war. They're all complicit.
They can't have their cake and eat it too. They are murdering Iranian women and children. So, [INAUDIBLE], which is a an American
proxy, has no right to complain. The Qatari foreign minister, I heard from someone that he said we will not stay indifferent, if Qatar tries anything against Iran, that will be the end of
Qatar. It'll be finished. In a day.
If Iran wants, they can destroy all these oil and gas facilities, and it will take years to rebuild them. And if Iran wants all the Americans to leave, all they have to do is destroy the desalination plants, and it'll be over.
And they can destroy the tankers. If that happens, there will be no oil to take out of the Strait of Hormuz. And there'll be no tankers to take that non-existent oil or gas out of the Strait of Hormuz.
So right now,
the Iranians are telling the Americans, "This is up to you. We did not want this
war. We want to live, and allow people to thrive.
We want this genocide in Gaza to come to an end, this holocaust. But we don't want to
create a third world war, and we don't want to bring down the global economy. But there's not a thing in the world
that the Americans can do to stop Iran if it wants to do that. Trump just said that he'll open up the Strait of Hormuz. Let's see him do it. Let's see him do it. He can't.
So this is where things are. And I think that as things stand,
we are heading towards a much
more dangerous situation. But again, both of you know, we've discussed
this before in person online. These are things that we've been
saying for years. I mean, when Trump says he was surprised that Iran struck at the Persian Gulf,
well, he's an idiot, and his advisers are idiots. It was obvious it was going to happen. I've said it on
Danny's show, I'm sure, multiple times. Right now, they're bombing Tehran. I don't
know if you can hear it. The air defenses are working, so obviously the bombs are going to explode
any moment. Can you hear? Anyway, so it's clear as day.
I mean, if they had been watching
Danny's show, they would have known that the Iranians are not going to sit back and allow the Americans to destroy
Iran's civil society from bases in the Persian Gulf, and let the Qatari
dictatorship, or the Emirati dictatorship, just sit there and have their cake and
watch it on CNN. It's not going to happen. That's not how it's going to happen. And I've been warning. Some of these Qataris have complained to the Iranian government about me. Last year when the Wall Street Journal said that when Trump comes back to power. he's thinking about bombing Iran. And I wrote
a tweet saying that, "Well. if he does, that'll be bad. because [INAUDIBLE] is in
Qatar near Doha, and it'll be destroyed.
And then the Qataris were very upset, and I'm not even in government. So the foreign ministry called me and said can you delete the tweet? It's the only time in my life that
I've ever deleted a tweet or the [INAUDIBLE] misunderstood my grammar, or something was was wrong. Back then in the day when you couldn't edit, I may have deleted many tweets, or
multiple tweets, but the only time in my life that I deleted a tweet was when the foreign ministry
asked me to do so, because the spokesman for the foreign ministry is a friend. I did it because he's a friend, and that's
it basically. But I was telling facts. It's obvious what would happen.
And then when the Americans bombed Iran last time around, Iran struck Doha. Exactly as I
said. And this time around, when the Americans are waging war against the Iranian people with all those bases in the Persian Gulf, what do they expect
from Iran? And why should the Saudis, or the Emiratis, or the Jordanians, complain?
And the most disgusting thing of all, and this does not reflect on people in this region,
but to see Turkey, the regime, allow US bases in Turkey to be used
against us, allow Awax jets to fly over Turkish airspace to gather data for the
United States to bomb us, while they are transporting the [INAUDIBLE'S] regime, and Azerbaijan's
regime's oil to Netanyahu, discounted oil, is despicable.
And it just shows the AKA party is fake.
They should go and start thinking about football, and the economy, and
television, and movies, and stop talking about Palestine, because it's all fake.
It was all just to build up their own image. When they allowed Hamas
to go there, it was because the Americans asked them to do it, and the Israelis, just like Doha, and the same is
true with Doha. Doha is a proxy, the Emirates, but all of these countries are
helping the United States. Some more, and some less. In the Persian Gulf, they're all in. Jordan, it's all in.
They're all in. Turkey is more subtle, but they're helping. And they're cooperating
with it.
So, it's basically Iran against the whole West. these proxy regimes. And
what is Iran's sin? Two things.
Iran wants to be independent. And two, Iran can't accept genocide and ethnic
cleansing in Palestine. That's why we're so horrible. That's why we're the "evil regime." That's why for 47 years they've
been demonizing us.
And one final note, poor Danny, it's his show and we're not even letting him talk.
I love it. Keep going. Keep going.
One final note. I've been doing this
program on Almayadin every week, for a few weeks. It's not my thing, but I was sort of pushed into it, and I'm not good at these things. I'm
not doing it this week because of the situation, things have changed, but until the
war ends, I guess. But last Friday I did a program. It's a monologue, and
it was about the forever collapsing Islamic Republic, how in the west the Islamic
Republic of Iran is always collapsing. And I did some research, thanks
to Deepseek mostly, so I didn't really
do any research, but Deepseek really gave me a lot of information. I just put it
together. And the headlines in the New York
Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and so on. If you
remove those headlines, and the key phrases and sentences in the articles,
and put them in today's New York Times, and Washington Post, and so on, you
wouldn't know the difference. And anyone can go and take a look
at my program. They can look at my program. I quote them.
"The revolution is failing." "The youth," like in the 1990s,
"the youth don't have memories of the revolution and don't want it anymore." The
1990s. "A second revolution is brewing." This was back then, and nothing has
changed. So every time they say people are protesting; of course it's an
evil regime; it's unpopular; they gun down peaceful protesters on the streets; and all that nonsense, and all
those lies. And many in the West believe it, because they're brought up with this fake narrative. But when they act
against Iran, their head hits a brick wall. Why? Because the reality is one thing, and their fake narratives are
something else. It's an alternative Iran. It's a fake Iran. It's their imaginary Iran, these Iranians in exile who are on their payroll, and some of the Iranians who are left Iran with the Shah, or they left
with the MEK. I know quite a few
Iranians in the west. If you speak in favor of Iran, it's not going to do you any good in getting a job, and getting
employed. If someone like me went to the United States, they wouldn't allow
me to teach in a kindergarten class because of my political views. So
obviously people are conditioned to think in a certain way as well. But in any case, those segments of the
diaspora, if we can call them the diaspora, that advocate war, death and
destruction, they have nothing to do with the reality in Iran, and public opinion in Iran. But nothing is
going to change in Western media because it's Epstein class control. Just
like Trump is Epstein class controlled, the media is Epstein class controlled. So that is the narrative. And
anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool. Gaza I think was
evidence enough.
And then in addition to the western media, there's this Arabic media, and regional media. They're the
same. Because these oil and gas rich despots, which are proxies of the west, their
media, whether it's Qatar, they have an empire, each and every one of them, it's not just Al Jazzeera, or Al Arabia, or Sky
News Arabia. They have all sorts of funding for websites, and TV channels, and
these Wahhabi and Salafi clerics, and their centers and so on. They've been
doing the same thing, demonizing Iran, telling everyone how evil the
Iranians are, how evil the Shia are. They've been always telling the Palestinians
how evil the Shia are. And then the Persian media empire that the west created, whenever someone would say
these things, they translate it into Persian, and then broadcast it. So Iranians would see,
"Wow, they hate us. They hate the Shia. They want us dead." And then if a
Palestinian says something about Iran, which some have, then they would focus on that.
So that Iranians would say, "Well, why are we helping the Palestinians when they they want us dead?"
I know
some of these people. I know people have TV stations in London
they're [INAUDIBLE]. But Ayatollah Khamenei,
he didn't care. He wouldn't allow this sort of thing to
change his view, or the views of his supporters about the Palestinian people. He said they are oppressed,
they are being ethnically cleansed, and we have to
support them. And that says a lot, by the way, about the Iranians in general, those who support the Palestinian cause,
because they are being told day and night that the Palestinians hate you, that the Arabs hate you, and so on and
so forth. But yet, and a lot of this is not true. It's
exaggeration, and that's the objective. It's divide and rule. Looking at the marches, you can see how much support he has
across the region, and what people are saying about him: scholars, Sunni, Shia
Christians, Jews. But the point is that
these regimes, and those on the payroll, like the western media, they have been
trying their best to create division. But despite that, Iran, Islamic Republic
of Iran, has been steadfast in its support for the Palestinian people. And I think that's a very big thing.
If you're still there, Danny, you can join the conversation.
Yeah. No, I'm still here. It's a
incredible analysis. First, Pepe, incredible questions. Thanks so
much for bringing those in. You know, my only question, if Pepe wants to join --
Maybe we should just take over the
show and call it the Muhammad Pepe show, the Pepe Muhammad
showm and just remove you from the YouTube channel.
And it would work because your
names are all in the title. So, it would be convincing.
But Pepe, if you wanted to chime in here, I named just some of the developments in
the beginning of the show with Iran hitting the CIA station in Riyad, they've hit this absolutely critical radar in Qatar, Qatar is shutting down
their gas trade, there's been so many developments rolling in on
Iran's retaliation. And I wanted to ask you what have you made of it, and maybe you can help the audience
understand just how big in scope it is. Because now we also have Hezbollah back in. I don't think we've mentioned that.
Maybe professor Marandi did earlier in the program, but there's so many elements to this, but if
you could help the audience understand it.
Yes, I was putting together a very long column before our conversation. So
it may be the middle of the night here in Southeast Asia. I'm trying to put all these
interlocking elements together to give an overall view of how this
decentralized mosaic strategy, which is the official
Iranian denomination to what they're doing, how it is evolving, and how
immensely sophisticated it is. From the beginning, and starting
with the fact that the counter punch to the decapitation strike started half
an hour after the decapitation strike, and it was relentless, and it was
multifactor, simultaneous, all over the spectrum, Israel and
Israeli and US interests across the Gulf, and that continue. Maybe in the
past 24 hours, the Iranians are launching less
missiles. It doesn't matter. And as Muhammad was saying, super correctly,
these are the old ones. So they still have a lot of
old missiles to launch, because they haven't even started with the new ones,
and with the ones that we don't even know that they have. This is going to be for the next stage when we're gonna have
the interceptor crisis, especially after four or five days time from the
beginning. At the beginning of next week, we're going to be in the interceptor crisis hell for Israel and for the US.
So the timing of the escalation, the way it has been planned, this was obviously months in planning. Of course, it obviously
started before the 12-day war, but they learned from their mistakes during the 12- day war; they are not repeating
their mistakes after the 12-day war. And of course, now they have that extra
I would say pigment in the whole picture which is
direct intel satellite and first class
information in real time from Russia and from China. This doesn't have to be advertised by
any one of this strategic triad. It's there, and it's
working. And obviously everybody knows, considering Muhammad has been
to Moscow many times. We even met in Moscow several times. And we know how the interaction at the highest level of the Russian Ministry of Defense, and the
Iranian Ministry of Defense, how it works and how they help each other.
And for instance, there are some elements of even poetic justice. They discovered in
some of the drones used in the
current battlefield which theoretically are shahids, but
they were sort of upgrades of the shahids that Russians bought, and then
manufactured in Russia as geraniums, and using the jamming devices in the
geraniums but now in the shaheds in Iran. This is absolutely fascinating. It's a
back and forth of technology which implies the strategic
relationship, in terms of exchanging state-of-the-art technology, is up there.
And stuff that people discover only late after the fact. In fact, the
comet jamming device in the Iranian shahed drones, now I see we are progressing across two parallel tracks, and
it's very very dangerous because they won't intersect. They were two parallel tracks, and they
are running towards the finishing line,
which is not going to be a finishing line for the next few weeks.
Can Iran resist for the next few days
until the interceptor hell is definitive on the Israeli side, and on the American
side, and then they can go to the next stage which is totally obliterate all
these bases, CIA cells, and American installations all across the Gulf, those
that are not obliterated yet, and of course go against Israel no holds barred
with their latest generation hypersonic missiles. This is one thing. And the
other parallel track is if the Americans see that they are entering interceptor
hell, and this is going to be the next stage of the war, they can do what
they are already doing as Muhammad explained to us only a few minutes ago, which is bombing civilian targets in
Tehran and in other major cities of Tehran, and then go for the Gaza syndrome, level
a great deal of Iran out of impotence, revenge, total perversion, and because
they think they can get away with it, which is even worse. So that's very very dangerous . And this is where we are in
the next crucial, I would say five days, one week from now. This is going to
change everything that is behind this centralized
mosaic strategy. And the Iranian strategy, which is essentially death by a
thousand cuts against the US, and against Israel, at the same time. No, it's not
going to change.
So if we follow the logical
conclusion of these two parallel tracks advancing like crazy on both sides, and
never meeting, it is really an existential war. It's a do or die war,
especially for Iran.
And of course Iran now is representing
the whole global south. That's my personal thesis. This is a war not only
against Iran, but against the three top BRICS: Iran, Russia and China, against
BRICS as a whole and against BRICs partners, and against the global south as
a whole. This means against 88%, or 89% of the global
population. So that's why this is the word that is going to define geopolitically the
rest of the century. And this is not hyperbolic at all. These are the facts
now. And Iran is in the front line. And what what I found particularly touching,
and it's not a stretch at all, is that we owe this to three
Shiite martyrs. In fact, we owe this to General Salmani. We owe this to Sed
Nazrallah. And we owe this to the triad that was martyed, and
that was killed by the empire of chaos, and that death cult in West Asia.
And now Shiite Islam, with the leader of 300 million plus Shiites all over the
world, killed by this genocidal empire,
and of course their aircraft carrier in West Asia, they are defending the whole
of the global south in fact, which is something that a lot of beyond stupified and brainwashed so-called "leftists" all across the west, from France and Germany, to Brazil for that matter,
they still don't get it. They can't, because they have been completely
brainwashed. So that's why we are in the
middle of the defining moment of the 21st century geopolitically. It cannot be more clear than that. And
we all hope Iran is not going to be destroyed, which is something that they
would not even think twice about, the empire of chaos, and the death cult in West Asia, to do. If Iran is destroyed, the rest of the century, in terms of real freedom for the
global south as a whole, is destroyed. At the moment, these people have already
managed to blow BRICS from the inside. Blow the SEO from the inside. The SEO
launched an absolutely ridiculous communication a day or two ago. They are
two crippled crypto walking dead
organizations at the moment. A great deal of the global south is
too apoplectic to organize any sort of reaction. The United States, well it
was six feet under and now it's 12 feet under. And is not going to resurrect any time
soon. There's not going to be a return of the living UN dead. So, it's terrible.
The only glimpse of possible
light at the end of this very dark tunnel, is that series of phone call of
Vladimir Putin early this week with everybody that matters in the Persian Gulf. In fact, they called him.
They asked him, "Do something. Can you be the mediator?"
So, I was in Moscow last week before the war. Unfortunately, I left
Moscow three days before the war, and I went through, of all
places, Oman. I was in Oman two days before the war. Of course, there was all sorts of rumors
all around the world, but we will never expect that, Muhammad was saying that on Friday in Tehran they were expecting that
it could happen between Friday and Saturday. In Oman on Thursday people were saying, "No, we're gonna have the next meeting on Monday. And they are still discussing. There's a possibility of a
deal!" And the poor Omanis, very gracious of course, but poor Omanis
of course.
So at least a lot of stuff is now
absolutely clear: death of international law; death of the UN; death of any
possibility of mediation, or negotiation, or diplomacy, with the Empire of sChaos,
Plunder and Permanent strikes, and if we don't like you, we kill you.
That's what it is now. The total mafiiazation of the American
presidency led by a megalomaniacal mafioso, taught by an advisor of Marketist
Senator Joseph McCarthy. That tells you everything about Trump. Who taught Trump to be the thing that he is now. He
learned it from a Marketaree. That's it. That's a very simple answer. So he has to act like
a boss, or an aspirant to Tony Soprano, the way he is
now. That's what he really is. We should not be astonished by all that.
What we should be astonished at is that the sovereignty of the United States is
also six feet under after the start of this war. This is a war by a mafioso presidency, basically following orders of a genocidal war criminal.
And when we have historians in the 21st century, independent historians from the
global south who will be writing the history of the 21st century, this is what is going to be written. And this was the final moral, not to mention geopolitical geoconomic collapse of so-called western civilization, which by the way, at the
U.N. security conference via the little pathetic Gusano Marco Rubio,
was described as, "Yes, we are the heirs of western civilization, the heirs of you
Europeans, and now we're going to recolonize the global south, and you Europeans you have to be with us, and
you're going to recover all the historical bling bling that you
have thanks to us Americans."
So at least now everything is clear.
The enormous tragedy of all that is that this is clear via another completely
absurd, murderous, incredibly perverted war that started with
the decapitation strike of a leader of a sovereign nation, and the killing of 160
or 70 girls in elementary school, in a ritualistic murder by a bunch of
perverts who adore their piece of shit God that nobody can stand. At least it's clear to all of us, you know. And what
we're living these days at least is, "Okay, let's see if Iran, with their
decentralized mosaic strategy, are capable of putting up enough resistance to turn the game around, and to teach a
lesson to this bunch of perverts.
Yeah. Yeah. Powerful stuff. Are you guys
good for another 10 minutes? Do you have that Pepe and Professor Marandi?
Yeah, I have. Yeah, I want to hear Muhammad. Absolutely.
I have to leave in 10 minutes
because I have to go on Piers Morgan's
show. Anyway, so but yeah, I can be on for a few more
minutes.
Okay. All right. Well, I guess my final question --
Are you gonna talk with that
piece of again, Muhammad?
I didn't want to, but --
Hey, I understand --
Thank you for your patience and your wisdom.
You're very kind.
Well, I guess my final question to both of you, the United States of course is
not talking like this, they're talking about how the Trump administration says it's wiped out
everything. We've even seen Israel and the US post videos essentially of bombings of what look like decoys
painted helicopters and jets on the ground, and showing that as some kind of
major feat. But of course, Iran is getting hit, and now they're talking about, Professor Marandi, a possible Kurdish insurgency and uprising that they want to bring into the country to help with the overall
goal it seems of regime change? What do you make of this, and the overall hubris of the United States right now?
Well, just first a reminder, if we go back a few months to the 7-week war
against Yemen, every day they were telling us how they're wiping out the
Ansarallah forces, or the Houthis as they like to call them,
and that they're devastating them. And I think Pepe knows a thing or two
about that. He was there. So we were hearing how it's finished,
and then suddenly after 7 weeks Trump came on television and said they capitulated; we won; it's over; and he walked away. And
it turns out that it was the exact opposite. Yemen won, despite the fact
of course that the Trump regime slaughtered many innocent people. We recall those messages on, I think Signal,
where they said this guy, their missile leader, went into a building to
see his girlfriend. I mean obviously they're clueless about what they're talking about. There was no missile
leader killed. There was no girlfriend. They just brought down an entire apartment block slaughtering everyone
based on fake intelligence. But they lost the war. So I wouldn't take
anything that they say seriously. The Trump regime is always winning, and
they're winning on all fronts about everything in the world. So when they talk about winning against Iran, put it
alongside all their other winnings, and it has about the same amount of credibility. They won in the trade war.
They won in Yemen. They're always winning. So okay, they can continue saying that. But the reality on the ground is that no oil is leaving the Persian Gulf until the Iranians say so.
And Trump said he's going to open the Persian Gulf. He's going to open the Strait of Hormuz. Let's see him do it.
That is where Iran has Trump by the throat. The entire Persian Gulf. Anyone
who knows a thing or two about the Persian Gulf knows that it's the most sensitive place on this planet. It's not
very wide, and it's full of oil and gas facilities. If you land at any airport in the
Persian Gulf, you fly over oil and gas installations and tankers. I don't know
if you saw that clip two, three days ago when the Iranians hit a tanker with a missile and
the missile was flying by all these other tankers. Because those tankers were obeying orders, and the other one was listening to the Americans. They went
and struck that tanker. So the Iranians, they can pull the plug, and
there's nothing that the Americans can do about it. If the Iranians hit the desalination plants, they have to leave
immediately. Everyone has to go to Jordan or wherever. If they destroy
the oil and gas installations, already nothing is coming out of the
Persian Gulf, but if they destroy the installations,
then it's over. And they can do the same with Azarbaijan. So Trump should be very careful. I mean,
he can boast all he wants. But the Iranians are steadfast. And the Iranian
culture, Iranian religious ideology, and the march of Ayatollah Khamenei has made them
extremely steadfast. We are being bombed as we speak, but we're not afraid. We're
not intimidated, and we're not going to relinquish the Palestinian people, nor
are we going to relinquish the Cubans. And here, just before I leave, I want to remind everyone that as this war is
going on, they're starving the Cuban people, and they've taken the people of Venezuela hostage.
So, these are dark days, as Pepe has said, very dark days, but they will not defeat
the Islamic Republic of Iran. And as General Solomani said, as Pepe alluded to, we are the nation of [INAUDIBLE] Hussein. So there's no such thing as surrender
for us.
Anyway, I'll come back later and listen to
Pepe because I have to leave now and sign in for their program
which is recorded. But I'll listen to Pepe later on, and to what you have to say. But I hope your audience
remains active, and prays for the Iranian people, and for the resistance, and for
the Palestinians, and for the Lebanese, who are also being battered. They're slaughtering the Lebanese because
Hezbollah is battling the Israeli regime.
If people can boycott US goods or western goods, if people can raise
awareness about what's going on in Cuba,
in our region, in Palestine, in Gaza, and Lebanon,
I am absolutely certain that there will be light at the end of the tunnel. Whether people like me are around to see
it is completely irrelevant. So, bye for now.
Goodbye, Professor Mirandi. Great to be
with you. We'll be in touch. Definitely. Thanks so much.
Thank you, Muhammad. Bless you.
Thank you, Pepe. A
ll right. Uh, yeah, Pepe, we don't have to stick around too much longer. I just want your maybe your closing comments and anything we haven't mentioned with regard to this.
I need to go as well.
So, sorry. Yeah, sure. No problem. No problem. Any final comments, Pepe, that you want to
impart?
No, I think what I wanted to say I said it a few minutes ago.
This is the the lesson for all of us in the global south, and all of you in
the global north, who have critical thinking, and who think and act like
real human beings. So I assume the majority of the planet. Let's be auspicious. You know, our future is being decided now, and the geopolitical future of the whole
planet. It could not be more serious than what's going on now.
Yeah, I just want to thank everyone. Thanks so much Pepe, we'll head out together. I want to thank everyone for watching, all those who gave super chats that I'm pulling up on the screen right
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Pepe, great to be with you. We'll head out together, and take care everyone.
Thank you so much, Danny. And thanks to all of you, our audience. Thank you. And you know, don't forget, the struggle
continues.
It does. All right, everybody. See you tomorrow, 12:00 noon Eastern time.
Danny Haiphong
Streamed live 3 hours ago #iran #trump #israel
Mohammad Marandi joins from Iran alongside Pepe Escobar to break down the latest developments in Iran's historic retaliation to US and Israeli aggression, and what the latest hits on both side mean for the future of the war.
Transcript
Welcome everyone. Welcome to the show. It's your host Danny Hi Fong and I am
joined by two very dear friends of the show. We have Professor Mouhamad Mirandi
from uh Tran and we have Pepe Escobar. Both here to talk about the latest
developments in the war. Thank you so much gentlemen for joining me today.
Thank you. Our pleasure. Well, let's let's get right to it gentlemen. Uh there are major updates in
this conflict. Uh Iran is getting uh very strategic, incredibly strategic
with its retaliation, hitting a CIA base station, hitting multiple THAD uh air
defense systems in the UAE, especially one in the UAE uh as of the last 24
hours. I think there are only 11 of these in the world. But I wanted to ask you, Professor Morandi, uh, if you could
put this retaliation in the context of what also is happening in Iran and how
you think this is going at the moment given that the situation, I know, is
quite dangerous in the country, but also Iran's retaliation has uh been uh quite
furious and and many have been taking note of it.
Well, ironically, the war has strengthened Iran despite the bombings and the slaughter and the bombings of schools
and hospitals and the bombing of IIB, the Iranian national radio and television. I went there the night
before last, I think. I usually don't go on Iranian TV, but u because of the war,
I I said I'll go. And then um I mean I have nothing against it but I
just don't want to be like a public figure in Iran. I'm already doing enough
abroad. But I went the night before last and when I got to the studio because I'd been there a couple of years before it
was destroyed and they said no you have to go to another building. So I went to another
building and I did this interview till midnight
and then I left and 1 hour later they bombed it again. So there you know they
bomb Iranian radio and television. You don't hear about this in the western media.
They bomb uh they bomb apartment blocks. They flatten homes and it's it's quite
stunning. But aside from that and the criminality of the Epstein
regime, we see people very united.
And I'm sure you've seen footage of this, and I put this in my Telegram account.
Every night we have gatherings across the country in different cities and in
Tehran they don't have a a single gathering. Sorry. They gather in different parts of the city like in 20 different squares
and each of them are like in the I don't know hundreds of thousands or tens of
thousands depending huge and uh
people on the so there millions on the streets of Tehran even though a lot of people have left because the government
shut down schools after they slaughtered the the little girls in the elementary school. They close all schools and
universities and ask people to leave if they don't have work to do in Tehran.
But the people on the streets and and you can see them in some of the clips that I
put on my Telegram channel.
people on the streets are chanting and then you can see anti-aircraft
defenses working because they're under missile attacks
and people don't budge. They won't move. They won't run. Men and
women, huge crowds in different parts of the city.
I never thought I'd see that sort of thing in my life. And so the
mood in Tehran is is very defiant. People are united.
And actually I totaled an example, an anecdotal example to
the judge on his program that three of my own students, well they're not
there's students of my faculty. A couple of
them I never had class with before, but they were apparently from what they
were saying involved in these riots that we had in January.
Not like with knives and you know not or weapons and guns just like the some of
the young people who are with these who are foolish enough to believe uh the
propaganda coming from the western Persian language media outlets funded by western intelligence agencies
and all these three people contacted me and both of them were very
two of them were very emotional and they were asking me how can we help?
How can we make up for what we did? It was quite
moving actually speaking to a couple of them. And it just shows that you know
what the Trump and Netanyahu and these barbaric regimes
have done is they've taught the younger generation
in Iran. What we could not teach them
because they did not witness the revolution. They did not experience the shah, the savak, his secret police, the
brutality, the the slaughter on the streets of Tehran during the revolution. They didn't experience the US backed war
by Saddam Hussein. They didn't experience chemical weapons. They didn't see these things. So now they're
experiencing firsthand what the United States really is, what the regime in
Washington, what the empire, what this evil empire, what this epstein regime really is.
And so it's it's united people in a way in which not even the 12- day war did. This is just something this is just
something different. And as I told you the scenes on that are on the streets of Tehran, people under you've seen some of
the footage of the vicious air strikes. These these people are sick barbarians.
These Americans and these Zionists just destroying neighborhoods.
But you see the people on the streets and when they see the the the surfaceto-air defenses,
they don't move. They say, "We're ready for martyrdom."
They chant against the United States. Now, I find it, you know, I think if
anyone wonders why people chant death to America in these ceremonies in Iran, do
they still wonder why?
So the Islamic Republic of Iran today is stronger than what it was, much stronger
than what it was a week ago. And Ayatollah Khamenei was always popular, and Pepe has been to Iran. Ayatollah Khamenei
is a popular figure. Administrations, some of them become popular, then they become
unpopular, then they may become popular again, but he's always been popular. Yes, he has his opponents. Some people
despise him. Some people are indifferent to him. But he's popular. But when he was martyed,
his image became even greater in eyes of all
different sectors of society. He refused to leave his house and office because he
said that a lot of people are struggling, and they have nowhere to go. And since
they have nowhere to go, I'm not going anywhere.
He was super clean. None of his children
have businesses, even a small shop. Not because he's against business,
but he says that since you're linked to me, you should you should not be in
business. So they all are educated. They either teach at university. His
son-in-law who was martyed, taught at Tabian Mudes University,
which is near the University of Tehran, near where I teach. His
children are all highly educated. They either teach at seminaries, or universities.
And also he was a person who
was imprisoned many multiple times during the shah's reign, tortured ,and then
after the revolution he was the youngest of the leadership, and when the war started he immediately
went to the war fronts, even though he had never held a gun before, even though he had never been
trained before, he learned how to fight in war fronts. Later when he became president, he survived an assassination attack.
That's why his right arm is disabled. He became president. And then during the last months of the war, when the United
States entered the battle alongside Saddam during the last few months, and
the US shot down an Iranian airliner killing 290 people.
They destroyed a number of Iranian naval ships. They destroyed Iranian oil facilities, and and murdered a lot of
Iranians. So the warfront Saddam Hussein had become
unstable. He went to the warfront as president, and I saw him there, and he was
a target obviously. But he had no fear.
This is an intellectual who spoke four languages, who was fluent in four languages.
Persian -- he is like a literature scholar. His knowledge of Persian
literature is enormous. When he speaks Persian, it's perfect.
He speaks eloquently. His Arabic, and his knowledge of Arabic
culture, and literature, is enormous. His father is Ozari.
He is very fluent in Ozari. Khamenei is a Iranian Ozari city. He is very fluent.
He was a close friend of the most famous Ozari poet of the last
few centuries, Shahiad. And he knew English, and he wrote he read
novels in English, including I think his favorite novel
that he read in English was Les Miserables, Hugo,
which also I think reflects his personality to a degree. Because he was always a person who. just
like when he refused to leave his house, and said I'm staying put, because even
though everyone knew he would be the first target. So he's always
stressing on different administrations, whether leftist or to the right, whether liberal or whatever, we've
had different administrations with very different world views during these years. But he would always stress that we have
to take take care of the marginalized, the underclass, the oppressed, those who've been left behind.
And that's one major reason why he was so
insistent that we have to support the Palestinians, the southern Africans during the resistance against apartheid.
He traveled to southern Africa as president. Nelson Mandela, very soon after he was released, traveled
to Tehran to meet him, and called him his leader.
And he supported Nicaragua, Cuba
and Venezuela, because he saw them as the oppressed.
And he was a unique person. I've never known a person like him in my life. No one near him.
He was an amazing person.
But with regards to the military, he's organized the state in
a way that despite his demise, the armed forces is working 24 hours a day.
Iran is firing missiles and drones at American assets in the Persian Gulf,
and at the Israeli regime day and night. And since the Americans are unable to
destroy any of these underground bases, which itself was an active genius,
this whole notion of setting up a defense system, creating your own drone industry, and your own drone technology,
at a time when the world was still into airplanes and that sort of thing. Remember, the Russians needed Iran's
help. So this was his policy. And then missiles, having them
underground, deep underground.
And so since the American regime and the
Israeli regime can't destroy any of these underground bases, they take it out on people. They bomb schools. They
bomb hospitals. They bomb local police stations. They bomb cultural centers.
They carry out double tap attacks across the city of
Tehran and in other cities. A friend of mine was in Ferosi Square, a place I
think Pepe has visited, they bombed Ferosi Square -- a friend of mine was witness -- he didn't hear of it -- and when people rushed to help, and first responders were trying to find
people under the rubble, they struck again. And they've done this in
different areas in Tehran. A journalist who I think works for Drop Site News
told me himself that he went to one of these public squares,
and saw the devastation there, and the people were saying they did the same thing there too.
So the Americans and the Israelis are trying to take revenge on people, because they can't access
these underground bases. So their viciousness
aside, their medieval character aside, the brilliance of this
military structure I think is is extraordinary. And the fact that despite
all the difficulties and maximum pressure sanctions right now in Iran, you don't see people in these long
queues and lines for bread or whatever. Long before they've gathered
stocks for this day. So for the next few months,
there won't be any real crisis unless the Americans start targeting other
things, which is not impossible. But I'm sure they have answers for that too.
So the point is that Iran is
stronger today. True, they're murdering people. They're destroying
public facilities. They're murdering children. They're murdering men and women. And the Western media is completely
indifferent. They're like cheerleaders for war. And it shows that there's no real difference between any of the
Western media outlets. Although we all know this from Gaza, and from Lebanon, and from Yemen.
There's no difference between CNN and Fox News or the Guardian and the New York Times or Breitbart. They're all
the same. One is more bombastic, one maybe a bit more sophisticated or nuanced, not nuanced, but more subtle,
but they're all the same. So they start the war, we were negotiating like last time and they start the war. That
too in Iran was
an element which strengthened national unity, because even those who were naive, and thought that maybe we could do a deal with Americans,
saw once again, like eight months ago, that the Americans are liars. That the Americans are deceitful. That they have the worst qualities possible, these elites . And so this strengthens each of these elements.
The fact that Western media is indifferent.
The fact that Iran was negotiating, and the other side tried to deceive Iran. Of
course, this time around, no one was deceived. We all were expecting an attack. In fact, the night before the
attack, me and a number of friends, we were talking together, and we were all saying the chances that it'll be tonight
are very high. So, all of these, the march of Ayatollah Khamenei, the fact that they began
with the slaughter of children, just just like when they shot down the
airliner, which in my opinion was intentional, and the bombing of this school was
definitely intentional, without a doubt. Without a doubt. You could find this
school on Google map. How could they not know where they're
bombing?
So, in any case, national unity today is much stronger. It was always
strong, but it was stronger. Some of those people, at least from my own anecdotal experience, and from
things that a couple of my colleagues have said, some of those young people who got caught up in those riots, many of them have shifted. Their
views have evolved. They've woken up. We couldn't have with hundreds of hundred
years of textbooks and philosophy
professors, and political professors, we couldn't have convinced them to change their views. But Trump and
Netanyahu, within 24 hours they taught
these kids what we learned when we were young, what we experienced when I survived chemical attacks. I'll never
forget it. These kids are witnessing the true America. They are witnessing the
essence of Western Empire, the essence of Zionism, the essence of the Epstein class.
They're feeling it. When you see all these dead kids, or families screaming
from under the rubble, just like in Gaza, and in Lebanon, or in Yemen, you
comprehend it in a very different way. And so the United States, for at
least years to come, have shown to younger Iranians what
it really means, the United States. And hopefully by the time the next
generation grows up, the empire will be gone.
Yeah. Well, Pepe, I wanted to get
your reaction to Iran's retaliation as you have seen it to this aggression,
given all these great points by Professor Marandi.
Hey, can I do my oldest question in the world a little bit with Muhammad? I
want to be the interviewer for 10 minutes, if that's okay.
Go right ahead. Go right ahead.
Okay. And then you can ask me something. But I think we need to get from Muhammad, because he is in the
battlefield, in the theater, a few precisions. Muhammad, I have two sets
of questions, three or four let's say each. First thing is Iran being
carpet bombed day and night. Is it out of revenge,
spite, impotence, pure perversion? Because they know that the only weapon
that they may have now is to intimidate the civilian population. Considering
that they are being hammered all across the spectrum from Israel to all
across the Gulf. And related to that are the air
defense network in Tehran, as you see it is it working properly, or is it disabled? This is the first set, what's really
happening in Tehran on the ground now please.
No, air defenses are not disabled, but the
United States Air Force, which is much larger than that of the Israeli
regime, combined with the Israeli regime, is very large.
And so a lot of the air defenses have been working very hard to
protect the country, but they do get through. Much of the strikes are
with missiles. They fire either from the jets over airspace or Kuwaiti
airspace, or Saudi airspace, or other areas in the Persian Gulf. And
Iraqi airspace. Of course, the Iraqi government is opposed
to this, but they can't do anything about it. Bbut sometimes, from my
understanding, they do enter Iranian airspace. They are met with air defense
and with Iranian jets, but it's a very complicated battlefield, and
the American have lots of jets. So Iranian air defenses, I would say
their major improvement has been drones, and also Iranian intelligence has been
much better. We don't have the sabotage at all that we had eight, nine months
ago, which is a big deal. The drones that the Americans and the
Israelis use to to find targets, they are being shot down very regularly.
And of course, we know that three American jets were shot down over Kuwait. The Iranians say they shot it
down. The Americans say it was friendly fire, which I think is even worse in a way, because if you're going to shoot
down your own jets, that doesn't say much about your technology. But
no, it's not as if the air defenses have collapsed. That's not the case. But they are heavily bombing
Tehran. Sometimes they do strike particular targets, but often they're just striking neighborhoods. Like for
example, the Gandhi hospital They struck this hospital, and it's
been evacuated, but it's a private hospital. So it has nothing to do with the government. And they struck the IVF clinic. So a lot of women who wanted to have babies will probably not be able to
have babies now. And the infant ward was particularly badly damaged. They've
struck many hospitals across the country, and police stations. But when they bomb the police, they bomb the neighborhood. You've been to
Tehran. It's not as if there are separate buildings/ They're just a part of the city. You strike, and the buildings around are damaged or collapsed, or they
miss. But what they're trying to do is they're trying to destroy the
social fabric of Iran. They want to demolish the social fabric, to create chaos. And and in the process they carry out massive air strikes, and when you go see these neighborhoods, it's like hell. So I would say it's a combination, but it's mostly to intimidate. And I think
the real reason behind these air strikes on civilians, and civilian targets, and
and that, is basically out of frustration that they they've not been able to weaken Iran's missile
capabilities, or drone capabilities, and they also underestimated their
capabilities. And the reason is because Iran has many underground missile cities
that they don't know about. The Iranians are not using most of the cities at all. They're using the same missile cities that they used in the previous war.
And the others remain untouched. And Iran's factories to build missiles and
drones are all underground. So Iran continues to make new drones, and
to make new missiles of different types, and the Americans can't do anything about it. So that angers them.
Iran has now been able to, as both of you know, weaken the air defenses
of both the Israeli regime and in the Persian Gulf. They've been using older
missiles for the most part almost exclusively. These missiles were made 20 years ago.
So the Iranians are firing them off and emptying the air defenses, both in the Persian Gulf, but mostly in Israel. In
the Persian Gulf, they've been using older drones for the most part, and again destroying air defenses and emptying air
defenses. But in the Persian Gulf, they're destroying their defenses very effectively.
So as time goes by, Iran can use less missiles to do more, and they haven't
even really touched their newer technology. And they can use less drones to do more, and they haven't really been
using their newer technology.
And one reason that shows Iran's strength
is the fact that the Americans can do nothing about the Strait of Hormuz. So Trump said that he's going to
send in the Navy to escort the ships. Let's see him do it. He can't. Those
ships will all sink. In fact, one reason why the air strikes in Iran
have been less effective across the country is because the Americans there, they have to take their jets and their naval ships,
and keep them far away. And so when the planes come, they have to
refuel in the air, then strike, then go back and refuel,
and then land wherever it is they land. Apparently, a lot of them go to Cyprus.
From what I've heard, a lot of the jets have left Saudi
Arabia, and Jordan, because Iranian missiles have been striking them and
they've gone to Cyprus. And that's where they take off and and murder women
and children.
Thank you, Muhammad. Now the second set is about Mojtaba Khamenei.
He has not been confirmed yet officially as the new supreme leader.
In case he is, and the best information that I had in the beginning of the week is that
he was the front runner, and today there are some indirect confirmations that he
has already been chosen. If that's the case, give us your personal analysis of
Mojtaba Khamenei, which seems to be extremely competent, tough as nails, excellent
relationship with the leadership of the IRGC. What can Iran and the Gulf and the
global south expect of him if he's really the new supreme leader. And
just complementing what you just told us about the situation on the ground in Tehran, and the apparently indiscriminate
attack on civilians, which is the new strategy, especially the past 48 hours or
so, we can read the initial attack on day
one on the elementary girl school by the
Epstein syndicate as a ritualistic murder.
It totally ties with their mindset. It was an intimidation right on day
one, exactly to throw society into total
convulsion, an act horrific beyond belief which, of course, as we all
know, didn't merit a single comma of condemnation by the whole of NATO, the
whole collective west. So maybe they are trying to apply the same methodology
to the civilian population in Tehran and in some other major cities. Thanks Muhammad.
You know, on the first day I think I did a tweet, and I said
that these Epstein class
murderers and rapists now, you know, murder and rape girls, are now bombing
girls. And that's to be expected of these people. And just as I do
not believe that the downing of the Iran Airflight was an accident, we had eight
years of war with Saddam Hussein, and we never accidentally shot down a plane. The only time where we did was
the Ukrainian plane which was tragic. But this was very different. The
Americans were not under duress. The Iranian airplane was flying from Bandara to Dubai, a very short flight. And it was flying in its corridor, and it was very clear as day what was happening.
And the Americans wanted the war to end. They were bombing Iranian facilities, and Iran did not have the naval
capabilities to really fight back effectively, because they're busy with
Iraq. So I believe that the downing of that plane was
intentional, especially since the United States never apologized. And the US vice president at the time.
Bush the senior said, "I'll never apologize for anything that the Americans have done."
But with regards to the leader, so far no announcement has been made, so I can't really comment on individuals, because I'm abroad, and some
people in Iran, for some reason, the more I say something is
not true, the more some people are convinced that it is true. But I'm not in government; I'm not a
part of the state, so if I comment on any of these issues, it could could
push people in the wrong direction. What I can say is that there
will be continuity. The council
of experts, which is an elected body that chooses and removes the leader according to the constitution,
they will vote for someone like Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with the same world view.
And what I
would add here is that a lot of things have changed in Iranian politics.
A lot of things have changed. A lot of
differences that existed until recently no longer exists. Views
on the United States, views on the West, are much more similar among the
political class and and those who are involved in politics,
than they were a few years ago. I don't want to mention websites, but some
of the media outlets in Iran that I really dislike,
and who have been very pro-American in recent days, they have been very critical
of the West. So I see a a new awakening in Iran. Sort of like
those anecdotal examples that I gave earlier. I think that it's not just
the youth, and it's not just ordinary people, but it's also the political elites. So whoever becomes leader, I
think that that person will be pursuing similar policies that we've been
experiencing in the past. And that is not good news for the United
States, especially since, as I said, I don't know if I can put it this way anymore, but the more liberal camp in Iran, many of them have shifted
their views.
You know, when you actually see the slaughter, when you actually see them
targeting women and children, when you see them bomb -- the first hospital that they struck in Tehran was the Gandhi
hospital -- ironically. You know, the Indian
government, which is so much in love with Israel, the Gandhi hospital, and a
private hospital. And so this has changed the way people see things. I mean, these so-called Iranians who live abroad, many of them by the way are on the
payroll, tens of thousands of Iranians abroad are on the payroll in one way or another. You have 4,000 Iranians
just in Albania in a troll farm. And then you have thousands in other troll farms.
You have hundreds of Persian language media outlets, television stations. All of these are funded by Western
governments. They're not making money in expensive studios, or using satellite -- that costs money! The western
governments pay for it. And they have staff. And they have people, they have websites, they have
Telegram channels, they have Twitter accounts. And then you have all these elites cooperating with think tanks.
They're probably 10 or 20,000 so-called Iranians on the payroll.
And these people outside of Iran, they
portray an Iran that -- you've been here so I'm not saying
this to you. I'm speaking this to the audience. These people are portraying an Iran
that is only in their imagination. It's a completely different Iran.
It doesn't exist on planet Earth, no matter how much they try. You can
find people in Iran who think like them, although increasingly smaller in number, but that's not Iran.
That's just a small segment of Iran. Just as we saw during the anniversary of the revolution, the millions who came to the
streets in Tehran, tens of millions across the country, but during the last few nights, it's stunning.
Millions of people under threat of death and destruction, they
won't budge. So whoever comes to power has a very
strong mandate, and has the Iranian population behind them. And Iranians want
punishment, and they are going to punish the United States. And what
they're doing in the Persian Gulf, whatever harm they do to Iranian women
and children, what Iran can do to them in the Persian Gulf
is enormous. Right now, the Iranians are only beginning to show what they can do.
They've shut the Strait of Hormuz, but they're not destroying the ships. They've
badly damaged 10 or 15 tankers who are disobeying, and tried
to cross the Strait of Hormuz, and they badly struck them, and some of them have sunk,
but most of the ships are staying put. And the Iranians are waiting.
Some of these installations in the Persian Gulf are being destroyed, those that are linked to US interests, however that's defined. Hotels which host US forces are their
targets, US bases that are linked to ports, those
civilian ports are targets. None of these Arab dictatorships
are in a position to complain. These family dictatorships have allowed the Americans to set up a base, and conspired
against Iran, and launched a war. They're all complicit.
They can't have their cake and eat it too. They are murdering Iranian women and children. So, [INAUDIBLE], which is a an American
proxy, has no right to complain. The Qatari foreign minister, I heard from someone that he said we will not stay indifferent, if Qatar tries anything against Iran, that will be the end of
Qatar. It'll be finished. In a day.
If Iran wants, they can destroy all these oil and gas facilities, and it will take years to rebuild them. And if Iran wants all the Americans to leave, all they have to do is destroy the desalination plants, and it'll be over.
And they can destroy the tankers. If that happens, there will be no oil to take out of the Strait of Hormuz. And there'll be no tankers to take that non-existent oil or gas out of the Strait of Hormuz.
So right now,
the Iranians are telling the Americans, "This is up to you. We did not want this
war. We want to live, and allow people to thrive.
We want this genocide in Gaza to come to an end, this holocaust. But we don't want to
create a third world war, and we don't want to bring down the global economy. But there's not a thing in the world
that the Americans can do to stop Iran if it wants to do that. Trump just said that he'll open up the Strait of Hormuz. Let's see him do it. Let's see him do it. He can't.
So this is where things are. And I think that as things stand,
we are heading towards a much
more dangerous situation. But again, both of you know, we've discussed
this before in person online. These are things that we've been
saying for years. I mean, when Trump says he was surprised that Iran struck at the Persian Gulf,
well, he's an idiot, and his advisers are idiots. It was obvious it was going to happen. I've said it on
Danny's show, I'm sure, multiple times. Right now, they're bombing Tehran. I don't
know if you can hear it. The air defenses are working, so obviously the bombs are going to explode
any moment. Can you hear? Anyway, so it's clear as day.
I mean, if they had been watching
Danny's show, they would have known that the Iranians are not going to sit back and allow the Americans to destroy
Iran's civil society from bases in the Persian Gulf, and let the Qatari
dictatorship, or the Emirati dictatorship, just sit there and have their cake and
watch it on CNN. It's not going to happen. That's not how it's going to happen. And I've been warning. Some of these Qataris have complained to the Iranian government about me. Last year when the Wall Street Journal said that when Trump comes back to power. he's thinking about bombing Iran. And I wrote
a tweet saying that, "Well. if he does, that'll be bad. because [INAUDIBLE] is in
Qatar near Doha, and it'll be destroyed.
And then the Qataris were very upset, and I'm not even in government. So the foreign ministry called me and said can you delete the tweet? It's the only time in my life that
I've ever deleted a tweet or the [INAUDIBLE] misunderstood my grammar, or something was was wrong. Back then in the day when you couldn't edit, I may have deleted many tweets, or
multiple tweets, but the only time in my life that I deleted a tweet was when the foreign ministry
asked me to do so, because the spokesman for the foreign ministry is a friend. I did it because he's a friend, and that's
it basically. But I was telling facts. It's obvious what would happen.
And then when the Americans bombed Iran last time around, Iran struck Doha. Exactly as I
said. And this time around, when the Americans are waging war against the Iranian people with all those bases in the Persian Gulf, what do they expect
from Iran? And why should the Saudis, or the Emiratis, or the Jordanians, complain?
And the most disgusting thing of all, and this does not reflect on people in this region,
but to see Turkey, the regime, allow US bases in Turkey to be used
against us, allow Awax jets to fly over Turkish airspace to gather data for the
United States to bomb us, while they are transporting the [INAUDIBLE'S] regime, and Azerbaijan's
regime's oil to Netanyahu, discounted oil, is despicable.
And it just shows the AKA party is fake.
They should go and start thinking about football, and the economy, and
television, and movies, and stop talking about Palestine, because it's all fake.
It was all just to build up their own image. When they allowed Hamas
to go there, it was because the Americans asked them to do it, and the Israelis, just like Doha, and the same is
true with Doha. Doha is a proxy, the Emirates, but all of these countries are
helping the United States. Some more, and some less. In the Persian Gulf, they're all in. Jordan, it's all in.
They're all in. Turkey is more subtle, but they're helping. And they're cooperating
with it.
So, it's basically Iran against the whole West. these proxy regimes. And
what is Iran's sin? Two things.
Iran wants to be independent. And two, Iran can't accept genocide and ethnic
cleansing in Palestine. That's why we're so horrible. That's why we're the "evil regime." That's why for 47 years they've
been demonizing us.
And one final note, poor Danny, it's his show and we're not even letting him talk.
I love it. Keep going. Keep going.
One final note. I've been doing this
program on Almayadin every week, for a few weeks. It's not my thing, but I was sort of pushed into it, and I'm not good at these things. I'm
not doing it this week because of the situation, things have changed, but until the
war ends, I guess. But last Friday I did a program. It's a monologue, and
it was about the forever collapsing Islamic Republic, how in the west the Islamic
Republic of Iran is always collapsing. And I did some research, thanks
to Deepseek mostly, so I didn't really
do any research, but Deepseek really gave me a lot of information. I just put it
together. And the headlines in the New York
Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and so on. If you
remove those headlines, and the key phrases and sentences in the articles,
and put them in today's New York Times, and Washington Post, and so on, you
wouldn't know the difference. And anyone can go and take a look
at my program. They can look at my program. I quote them.
"The revolution is failing." "The youth," like in the 1990s,
"the youth don't have memories of the revolution and don't want it anymore." The
1990s. "A second revolution is brewing." This was back then, and nothing has
changed. So every time they say people are protesting; of course it's an
evil regime; it's unpopular; they gun down peaceful protesters on the streets; and all that nonsense, and all
those lies. And many in the West believe it, because they're brought up with this fake narrative. But when they act
against Iran, their head hits a brick wall. Why? Because the reality is one thing, and their fake narratives are
something else. It's an alternative Iran. It's a fake Iran. It's their imaginary Iran, these Iranians in exile who are on their payroll, and some of the Iranians who are left Iran with the Shah, or they left
with the MEK. I know quite a few
Iranians in the west. If you speak in favor of Iran, it's not going to do you any good in getting a job, and getting
employed. If someone like me went to the United States, they wouldn't allow
me to teach in a kindergarten class because of my political views. So
obviously people are conditioned to think in a certain way as well. But in any case, those segments of the
diaspora, if we can call them the diaspora, that advocate war, death and
destruction, they have nothing to do with the reality in Iran, and public opinion in Iran. But nothing is
going to change in Western media because it's Epstein class control. Just
like Trump is Epstein class controlled, the media is Epstein class controlled. So that is the narrative. And
anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool. Gaza I think was
evidence enough.
And then in addition to the western media, there's this Arabic media, and regional media. They're the
same. Because these oil and gas rich despots, which are proxies of the west, their
media, whether it's Qatar, they have an empire, each and every one of them, it's not just Al Jazzeera, or Al Arabia, or Sky
News Arabia. They have all sorts of funding for websites, and TV channels, and
these Wahhabi and Salafi clerics, and their centers and so on. They've been
doing the same thing, demonizing Iran, telling everyone how evil the
Iranians are, how evil the Shia are. They've been always telling the Palestinians
how evil the Shia are. And then the Persian media empire that the west created, whenever someone would say
these things, they translate it into Persian, and then broadcast it. So Iranians would see,
"Wow, they hate us. They hate the Shia. They want us dead." And then if a
Palestinian says something about Iran, which some have, then they would focus on that.
So that Iranians would say, "Well, why are we helping the Palestinians when they they want us dead?"
I know
some of these people. I know people have TV stations in London
they're [INAUDIBLE]. But Ayatollah Khamenei,
he didn't care. He wouldn't allow this sort of thing to
change his view, or the views of his supporters about the Palestinian people. He said they are oppressed,
they are being ethnically cleansed, and we have to
support them. And that says a lot, by the way, about the Iranians in general, those who support the Palestinian cause,
because they are being told day and night that the Palestinians hate you, that the Arabs hate you, and so on and
so forth. But yet, and a lot of this is not true. It's
exaggeration, and that's the objective. It's divide and rule. Looking at the marches, you can see how much support he has
across the region, and what people are saying about him: scholars, Sunni, Shia
Christians, Jews. But the point is that
these regimes, and those on the payroll, like the western media, they have been
trying their best to create division. But despite that, Iran, Islamic Republic
of Iran, has been steadfast in its support for the Palestinian people. And I think that's a very big thing.
If you're still there, Danny, you can join the conversation.
Yeah. No, I'm still here. It's a
incredible analysis. First, Pepe, incredible questions. Thanks so
much for bringing those in. You know, my only question, if Pepe wants to join --
Maybe we should just take over the
show and call it the Muhammad Pepe show, the Pepe Muhammad
showm and just remove you from the YouTube channel.
And it would work because your
names are all in the title. So, it would be convincing.
But Pepe, if you wanted to chime in here, I named just some of the developments in
the beginning of the show with Iran hitting the CIA station in Riyad, they've hit this absolutely critical radar in Qatar, Qatar is shutting down
their gas trade, there's been so many developments rolling in on
Iran's retaliation. And I wanted to ask you what have you made of it, and maybe you can help the audience
understand just how big in scope it is. Because now we also have Hezbollah back in. I don't think we've mentioned that.
Maybe professor Marandi did earlier in the program, but there's so many elements to this, but if
you could help the audience understand it.
Yes, I was putting together a very long column before our conversation. So
it may be the middle of the night here in Southeast Asia. I'm trying to put all these
interlocking elements together to give an overall view of how this
decentralized mosaic strategy, which is the official
Iranian denomination to what they're doing, how it is evolving, and how
immensely sophisticated it is. From the beginning, and starting
with the fact that the counter punch to the decapitation strike started half
an hour after the decapitation strike, and it was relentless, and it was
multifactor, simultaneous, all over the spectrum, Israel and
Israeli and US interests across the Gulf, and that continue. Maybe in the
past 24 hours, the Iranians are launching less
missiles. It doesn't matter. And as Muhammad was saying, super correctly,
these are the old ones. So they still have a lot of
old missiles to launch, because they haven't even started with the new ones,
and with the ones that we don't even know that they have. This is going to be for the next stage when we're gonna have
the interceptor crisis, especially after four or five days time from the
beginning. At the beginning of next week, we're going to be in the interceptor crisis hell for Israel and for the US.
So the timing of the escalation, the way it has been planned, this was obviously months in planning. Of course, it obviously
started before the 12-day war, but they learned from their mistakes during the 12- day war; they are not repeating
their mistakes after the 12-day war. And of course, now they have that extra
I would say pigment in the whole picture which is
direct intel satellite and first class
information in real time from Russia and from China. This doesn't have to be advertised by
any one of this strategic triad. It's there, and it's
working. And obviously everybody knows, considering Muhammad has been
to Moscow many times. We even met in Moscow several times. And we know how the interaction at the highest level of the Russian Ministry of Defense, and the
Iranian Ministry of Defense, how it works and how they help each other.
And for instance, there are some elements of even poetic justice. They discovered in
some of the drones used in the
current battlefield which theoretically are shahids, but
they were sort of upgrades of the shahids that Russians bought, and then
manufactured in Russia as geraniums, and using the jamming devices in the
geraniums but now in the shaheds in Iran. This is absolutely fascinating. It's a
back and forth of technology which implies the strategic
relationship, in terms of exchanging state-of-the-art technology, is up there.
And stuff that people discover only late after the fact. In fact, the
comet jamming device in the Iranian shahed drones, now I see we are progressing across two parallel tracks, and
it's very very dangerous because they won't intersect. They were two parallel tracks, and they
are running towards the finishing line,
which is not going to be a finishing line for the next few weeks.
Can Iran resist for the next few days
until the interceptor hell is definitive on the Israeli side, and on the American
side, and then they can go to the next stage which is totally obliterate all
these bases, CIA cells, and American installations all across the Gulf, those
that are not obliterated yet, and of course go against Israel no holds barred
with their latest generation hypersonic missiles. This is one thing. And the
other parallel track is if the Americans see that they are entering interceptor
hell, and this is going to be the next stage of the war, they can do what
they are already doing as Muhammad explained to us only a few minutes ago, which is bombing civilian targets in
Tehran and in other major cities of Tehran, and then go for the Gaza syndrome, level
a great deal of Iran out of impotence, revenge, total perversion, and because
they think they can get away with it, which is even worse. So that's very very dangerous . And this is where we are in
the next crucial, I would say five days, one week from now. This is going to
change everything that is behind this centralized
mosaic strategy. And the Iranian strategy, which is essentially death by a
thousand cuts against the US, and against Israel, at the same time. No, it's not
going to change.
So if we follow the logical
conclusion of these two parallel tracks advancing like crazy on both sides, and
never meeting, it is really an existential war. It's a do or die war,
especially for Iran.
And of course Iran now is representing
the whole global south. That's my personal thesis. This is a war not only
against Iran, but against the three top BRICS: Iran, Russia and China, against
BRICS as a whole and against BRICs partners, and against the global south as
a whole. This means against 88%, or 89% of the global
population. So that's why this is the word that is going to define geopolitically the
rest of the century. And this is not hyperbolic at all. These are the facts
now. And Iran is in the front line. And what what I found particularly touching,
and it's not a stretch at all, is that we owe this to three
Shiite martyrs. In fact, we owe this to General Salmani. We owe this to Sed
Nazrallah. And we owe this to the triad that was martyed, and
that was killed by the empire of chaos, and that death cult in West Asia.
And now Shiite Islam, with the leader of 300 million plus Shiites all over the
world, killed by this genocidal empire,
and of course their aircraft carrier in West Asia, they are defending the whole
of the global south in fact, which is something that a lot of beyond stupified and brainwashed so-called "leftists" all across the west, from France and Germany, to Brazil for that matter,
they still don't get it. They can't, because they have been completely
brainwashed. So that's why we are in the
middle of the defining moment of the 21st century geopolitically. It cannot be more clear than that. And
we all hope Iran is not going to be destroyed, which is something that they
would not even think twice about, the empire of chaos, and the death cult in West Asia, to do. If Iran is destroyed, the rest of the century, in terms of real freedom for the
global south as a whole, is destroyed. At the moment, these people have already
managed to blow BRICS from the inside. Blow the SEO from the inside. The SEO
launched an absolutely ridiculous communication a day or two ago. They are
two crippled crypto walking dead
organizations at the moment. A great deal of the global south is
too apoplectic to organize any sort of reaction. The United States, well it
was six feet under and now it's 12 feet under. And is not going to resurrect any time
soon. There's not going to be a return of the living UN dead. So, it's terrible.
The only glimpse of possible
light at the end of this very dark tunnel, is that series of phone call of
Vladimir Putin early this week with everybody that matters in the Persian Gulf. In fact, they called him.
They asked him, "Do something. Can you be the mediator?"
So, I was in Moscow last week before the war. Unfortunately, I left
Moscow three days before the war, and I went through, of all
places, Oman. I was in Oman two days before the war. Of course, there was all sorts of rumors
all around the world, but we will never expect that, Muhammad was saying that on Friday in Tehran they were expecting that
it could happen between Friday and Saturday. In Oman on Thursday people were saying, "No, we're gonna have the next meeting on Monday. And they are still discussing. There's a possibility of a
deal!" And the poor Omanis, very gracious of course, but poor Omanis
of course.
So at least a lot of stuff is now
absolutely clear: death of international law; death of the UN; death of any
possibility of mediation, or negotiation, or diplomacy, with the Empire of sChaos,
Plunder and Permanent strikes, and if we don't like you, we kill you.
That's what it is now. The total mafiiazation of the American
presidency led by a megalomaniacal mafioso, taught by an advisor of Marketist
Senator Joseph McCarthy. That tells you everything about Trump. Who taught Trump to be the thing that he is now. He
learned it from a Marketaree. That's it. That's a very simple answer. So he has to act like
a boss, or an aspirant to Tony Soprano, the way he is
now. That's what he really is. We should not be astonished by all that.
What we should be astonished at is that the sovereignty of the United States is
also six feet under after the start of this war. This is a war by a mafioso presidency, basically following orders of a genocidal war criminal.
And when we have historians in the 21st century, independent historians from the
global south who will be writing the history of the 21st century, this is what is going to be written. And this was the final moral, not to mention geopolitical geoconomic collapse of so-called western civilization, which by the way, at the
U.N. security conference via the little pathetic Gusano Marco Rubio,
was described as, "Yes, we are the heirs of western civilization, the heirs of you
Europeans, and now we're going to recolonize the global south, and you Europeans you have to be with us, and
you're going to recover all the historical bling bling that you
have thanks to us Americans."
So at least now everything is clear.
The enormous tragedy of all that is that this is clear via another completely
absurd, murderous, incredibly perverted war that started with
the decapitation strike of a leader of a sovereign nation, and the killing of 160
or 70 girls in elementary school, in a ritualistic murder by a bunch of
perverts who adore their piece of shit God that nobody can stand. At least it's clear to all of us, you know. And what
we're living these days at least is, "Okay, let's see if Iran, with their
decentralized mosaic strategy, are capable of putting up enough resistance to turn the game around, and to teach a
lesson to this bunch of perverts.
Yeah. Yeah. Powerful stuff. Are you guys
good for another 10 minutes? Do you have that Pepe and Professor Marandi?
Yeah, I have. Yeah, I want to hear Muhammad. Absolutely.
I have to leave in 10 minutes
because I have to go on Piers Morgan's
show. Anyway, so but yeah, I can be on for a few more
minutes.
Okay. All right. Well, I guess my final question --
Are you gonna talk with that
piece of again, Muhammad?
I didn't want to, but --
Hey, I understand --
Thank you for your patience and your wisdom.
You're very kind.
Well, I guess my final question to both of you, the United States of course is
not talking like this, they're talking about how the Trump administration says it's wiped out
everything. We've even seen Israel and the US post videos essentially of bombings of what look like decoys
painted helicopters and jets on the ground, and showing that as some kind of
major feat. But of course, Iran is getting hit, and now they're talking about, Professor Marandi, a possible Kurdish insurgency and uprising that they want to bring into the country to help with the overall
goal it seems of regime change? What do you make of this, and the overall hubris of the United States right now?
Well, just first a reminder, if we go back a few months to the 7-week war
against Yemen, every day they were telling us how they're wiping out the
Ansarallah forces, or the Houthis as they like to call them,
and that they're devastating them. And I think Pepe knows a thing or two
about that. He was there. So we were hearing how it's finished,
and then suddenly after 7 weeks Trump came on television and said they capitulated; we won; it's over; and he walked away. And
it turns out that it was the exact opposite. Yemen won, despite the fact
of course that the Trump regime slaughtered many innocent people. We recall those messages on, I think Signal,
where they said this guy, their missile leader, went into a building to
see his girlfriend. I mean obviously they're clueless about what they're talking about. There was no missile
leader killed. There was no girlfriend. They just brought down an entire apartment block slaughtering everyone
based on fake intelligence. But they lost the war. So I wouldn't take
anything that they say seriously. The Trump regime is always winning, and
they're winning on all fronts about everything in the world. So when they talk about winning against Iran, put it
alongside all their other winnings, and it has about the same amount of credibility. They won in the trade war.
They won in Yemen. They're always winning. So okay, they can continue saying that. But the reality on the ground is that no oil is leaving the Persian Gulf until the Iranians say so.
And Trump said he's going to open the Persian Gulf. He's going to open the Strait of Hormuz. Let's see him do it.
That is where Iran has Trump by the throat. The entire Persian Gulf. Anyone
who knows a thing or two about the Persian Gulf knows that it's the most sensitive place on this planet. It's not
very wide, and it's full of oil and gas facilities. If you land at any airport in the
Persian Gulf, you fly over oil and gas installations and tankers. I don't know
if you saw that clip two, three days ago when the Iranians hit a tanker with a missile and
the missile was flying by all these other tankers. Because those tankers were obeying orders, and the other one was listening to the Americans. They went
and struck that tanker. So the Iranians, they can pull the plug, and
there's nothing that the Americans can do about it. If the Iranians hit the desalination plants, they have to leave
immediately. Everyone has to go to Jordan or wherever. If they destroy
the oil and gas installations, already nothing is coming out of the
Persian Gulf, but if they destroy the installations,
then it's over. And they can do the same with Azarbaijan. So Trump should be very careful. I mean,
he can boast all he wants. But the Iranians are steadfast. And the Iranian
culture, Iranian religious ideology, and the march of Ayatollah Khamenei has made them
extremely steadfast. We are being bombed as we speak, but we're not afraid. We're
not intimidated, and we're not going to relinquish the Palestinian people, nor
are we going to relinquish the Cubans. And here, just before I leave, I want to remind everyone that as this war is
going on, they're starving the Cuban people, and they've taken the people of Venezuela hostage.
So, these are dark days, as Pepe has said, very dark days, but they will not defeat
the Islamic Republic of Iran. And as General Solomani said, as Pepe alluded to, we are the nation of [INAUDIBLE] Hussein. So there's no such thing as surrender
for us.
Anyway, I'll come back later and listen to
Pepe because I have to leave now and sign in for their program
which is recorded. But I'll listen to Pepe later on, and to what you have to say. But I hope your audience
remains active, and prays for the Iranian people, and for the resistance, and for
the Palestinians, and for the Lebanese, who are also being battered. They're slaughtering the Lebanese because
Hezbollah is battling the Israeli regime.
If people can boycott US goods or western goods, if people can raise
awareness about what's going on in Cuba,
in our region, in Palestine, in Gaza, and Lebanon,
I am absolutely certain that there will be light at the end of the tunnel. Whether people like me are around to see
it is completely irrelevant. So, bye for now.
Goodbye, Professor Mirandi. Great to be
with you. We'll be in touch. Definitely. Thanks so much.
Thank you, Muhammad. Bless you.
Thank you, Pepe. A
ll right. Uh, yeah, Pepe, we don't have to stick around too much longer. I just want your maybe your closing comments and anything we haven't mentioned with regard to this.
I need to go as well.
So, sorry. Yeah, sure. No problem. No problem. Any final comments, Pepe, that you want to
impart?
No, I think what I wanted to say I said it a few minutes ago.
This is the the lesson for all of us in the global south, and all of you in
the global north, who have critical thinking, and who think and act like
real human beings. So I assume the majority of the planet. Let's be auspicious. You know, our future is being decided now, and the geopolitical future of the whole
planet. It could not be more serious than what's going on now.
Yeah, I just want to thank everyone. Thanks so much Pepe, we'll head out together. I want to thank everyone for watching, all those who gave super chats that I'm pulling up on the screen right
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Pepe, great to be with you. We'll head out together, and take care everyone.
Thank you so much, Danny. And thanks to all of you, our audience. Thank you. And you know, don't forget, the struggle
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Several US senators have reacted angrily as they lashed out at Donald Trump for his decision to launch strikes against Iran without any planning. The central theme of these senators' reaction was that they appeared worried about Iran's ability to retaliate and hurt US interests. Rifat Jawaid examines the development and highlights how Iran is changing the rules of the game. This came on the day Iran targeted the US consulate office in Dubai with drone strike
Transcript
Hours after I reported on the most
brutal strike on the US military
facilities in the Middle East by Iran,
several American experts have now
confirmed the news. Last night, I shared
the Iranian claim that it had destroyed
the US and FPS 132 radar system
installed at the US military base in
Qatar. This is massive in so many ways
and raises serious questions on the
future of US military presence in the
region. Iranian missiles have also wre
havoc across the settler colony of
Israel. But the ruthless censorship
imposed by the Israeli terrorist mean
that much of this destruction can't be
reported.
Not when these demonic creatures
arrested two CNN journalists for simply
trying to capture the damage caused by
Iranian missiles. Meanwhile, US
lawmakers have reacted with shock after
attending a classified briefing on Iran.
The Trump administration has now told
them to be prepared for more US soldiers
deaths. And this comes amidst claims by
an Iranian general who said that
Iranians had killed or wounded more than
600 US personnel in this conflict. This
would be the broader focus of my video
today. Also in my video is a fraudian
slip by top Jewish Democrat Senate
leader Chuck Schumer on nuclear Israel.
So please stay tuned.
It's now confirmed that the Iranians
have indeed inflicted a body blow to the
American military apparatus in the
Middle East by destroying their most
prized radar system. Just how important
this radar is for the Americans can be
understood by the fact that the cost of
ANFPS132
early warning radar system at Al- U air
base in Qatar is valued at $1.1 billion.
Qatar has confirmed that this was hit
and badly damaged by Iranian missiles.
And this is not the only bad news for
the US military assets in the Middle
East. This is what David Pine, a former
US Army headquarters staffer, wrote on
Twitter, and I quote, "While Fox News
and other regime media outlets continue
to spin the war as a major victory for
the US and Israel, Iran is currently in
the process of destroying America's
premier military base in the entire
Middle East, the US fifth fleet
headquarter in Bahran.
This is the only US military base in the
Middle East that I have stated is worth
keeping and there is a good chance the
US may never rebuild it because it is
much too vulnerable to Iranian short
range ballistic missile strikes. End
quote. Can you understand what Pine is
saying here? The US may never be able to
rebuild the fifth fleet headquarter in
Bahrain. And then we are not talking
about the other damage caused to
American assets. Last night after I
posted the video, we learned that the
Iranian missiles had struck a US
consulate in Dubai. It was on fire.
You can watch that video on our Telegram
channel. So Iranians have been
successfully hitting every single
strategically important American assets
in the region.
Imagery showing the extent of the damage
to US military facilities across Gulf
Arab countries is starting to emerge.
Part of Iran's furious response to an
Israeli American campaign that decimated
its leadership.
At least nine US military positions have
been hit in less than 48 hours. These
are relatively close targets. They're
much nearer to Iran than its usual
target, Israel. That proximity may give
Iran's missiles and drones a better
chance of hitting their targets. This is
the port of where just after 9:00 a.m.
on Sunday morning, an Iranian strike set
a makeshift US operations center at the
civilian port ablaze. Six American
service members were killed in the
attack. You can see smoke rising from
the fire. The blown out three wide
trailer blackened on the inside. There
are few signs of fortification.
In another attack, a drone, this appears
to be the Arash 2, crashes into US
positions in Camp Buring.
A building severely damaged. American
helicopters parked inside the base were
nearly hit. In Bahin, a Shahed attack
drone flies into the base that hosts the
US Navy's fifth fleet, one of the
largest American naval formations in the
world. It looks alarmingly defenseless.
The drone hits one satellite
communication terminal, clearly seen
here,
but the scale of the damage is more
obvious here. Warehouses and other
buildings damaged and another satellite
communication terminal destroyed in a
separate attack. We see this pattern of
targeting throughout the region. At
least five satellite communication
terminals were destroyed. It points to a
possible Iranian effort to cut US bases
off from the outside world. Iran used an
unprecedented barrage of missiles and
drones. US Patriot missiles and other
multi-billion dollar air defense systems
shot most of these out of the sky. But
the ones that got through were enough to
puncture the veil of security around oil
richch Gulf Arab states and the heart of
America's security infrastructure in the
Middle East.
Now the question is just how long can
Iran sustain these attacks? That depends
on how big their stockpiles of missiles
and drones are, which is currently
unknown. And really, Aaron, it comes
down to how quickly can the US and
Israel achieve their stated objective of
obliterating the missiles. Until that
happens, Iran has made it clear that in
the aftermath of the killing of Kam, it
plans to sew as much chaos as possible
to US interests in the Middle East and
beyond.
The American and Israeli terrorists have
claimed that they had destroyed
thousands of missile launch pads in
Iran, but this appears to be nothing
more than a propaganda. Iranians aren't
firing their missiles from a static
location in a designated area. One of
the reasons why Americans and Israeli
terrorists have been unable to stop the
barrage of Iranian missiles hitting them
so hard is because of this video.
Harmony.
The bat of harmony.
Clearly, Iranians are using a regular
truck to carry missiles before using the
same as missile launchers.
The Iranians are also changing the rule
of the war. Last night, an American
journalist noticed something bizarre. He
noticed that an Iranian missile had hit
its target in the settler colony, but
the Israeli radar system had failed to
detect it.
Well, Bianca, that's a first for us. the
uh air overthe-air siren sounds in Tel
Aviv and just seconds later uh an
explosion exoicer detonation that's
outside the earth's atmosphere took
place what I believe is due north over
Hifa but we were getting the sirens we
have on every attack been given 10
minutes heads up the launches are
detected either with satellites or other
facets of the Israeli or US apparatus
intelligence gathering tools that give
us a 10-minute warning warning and that
heads up uh that you should seek shelter
uh and you have about 10 minutes to get
to shelter. Here was uh over the air
siren and then we saw seconds later an
explosion overhead. uh more concerning
about an environment like that is why
why was there why is this the first
instance when we're not getting 10
minutes leeway especially with the
regime's ability to launch these
missiles being degraded every minute uh
by this joint USIsraeli targeting
campaign to take out their missile
launchers take out their missile
stockpile I can't share the video of
that missile hitting the Israeli target
here but you can watch that video on our
telegram channel or upscroll social
media page. Meanwhile, several US
lawmakers have reacted in shock after
learning about Trump's plans to
sacrifice more and more US troops for
the Israelis.
Watch how they reacted after attending a
special briefing on the ongoing Iran
war. This was Senator Ed Murky.
I just left a classified briefing on
Iran and it only confirmed what we
already knew. Donald Trump is waging an
illegal war and he has no plan to end
it. Today he said, "We attacked Iran
because he had a feeling, but we know
the truth." Trump is lying about Iran's
nuclear capacity. He's lying about
Iran's missile capabilities and he's
dragging the United States into another
endless war in the Middle East. Trump is
completely out of control and Americans
have already lost their lives because of
his lies.
This was Senator Elizabeth Warren.
I just left a classified briefing on
Iran and here's what I can say. It is so
much worse than you thought. You are
right to be worried. Trump
administration has no plan in Iran. This
illegal war is based on lies and it was
launched without any imminent threat to
our nation. Donald Trump still hasn't
given a single clear reason for this
war. And he seems to have no plan for
how to end it either. Like a lot of you,
I am really angry. I am angry at what
Donald Trump is doing. And I feel grief
for those already killed in this
unnecessary conflict. And I will keep
doing everything I can to fight to end
this war.
Just so you know, this woman was
applauding Trump when he threatened to
attack Iran in his State of the Union
address only a few days ago. She had
given the deranged occupant of the White
House a standing ovation and she's not
even Republican.
So don't change your tune now that you
know his action and your support for
that action will have catastrophic
impact on the lives of American
soldiers. This is Senator Chris Van
Holland. Just a little earlier, I got
out of the administration's briefing to
the Senate about the situation in Iran.
And what you hear behind closed doors is
essentially what we're hearing in the
public domain, which is complete
incoherence.
No explanation for why Donald Trump
broke his promise to the country when he
said he wasn't going to drag us into
additional wars. and constantly shifting
narratives about what this is all about.
Right? Even today in the Oval Office,
you know, the president was spinning all
sorts of rationes. On the one hand, they
say it's to go after Iran's nuclear
program. We know Iran has no nuclear
weapons capability. After all, the
president told the country that it had
been decimated last year. So then they
say, "Well, we're going to go after
Iran's ballistic missiles." Well, Iran
has no ballistic missiles that can get
anywhere close to the United States.
Zero. And of course, then Donald Trump
said he was going to liberate uh the
people of Iran.
But if you look at public reporting
about the CIA's assessment, it says that
they concluded that if you get rid of
the Iranian leadership, you're very
likely to get a much more even more
radical group in their place. But we do
know from Secretary Rubio that Netanyahu
decided to strike Iran.
And so here we are doing what Prime
Minister Netanyahu said he wanted to do
for 40 years, which was to attack Iran.
It's just Netanyahu had not found a
president stupid enough to drag the
United States into that war before. And
now Donald Trump has done it and they
don't have a clue as to what the endgame
is.
This is Senator Chris Murphy.
Senate. This is as serious as it gets.
This is war and peace. They told us in
that room that there are going to be
more Americans that are going to die.
That they are not in the short run going
to be able to stop these drones that are
going to continue to fly into the Middle
East. We have to have a debate in the
United States Senate on an authorization
of military force. It will likely fail.
It will likely fail and we shouldn't be
voting to proceed to other pieces of
legislation until we get a debate on
this deeply unpopular, immoral and
illegal war with Iran. Senator
Israelis and the slaves in the West have
been instructed to fervently defend
their another genocidal project. This
time against the Iranians, but once
again they're getting the push back.
American podcast host Dave Smith shut up
one Israeli apologist on the PS Morgan
show this week.
Okay, so I've heard the talking point a
million times that Iran is the number
one sponsor of terrorism. It is
something that the Warhawks love to say.
I have actually never once heard a
coherent definition of terrorism and
then a demonstration that they're the
worst of it. The IDF is the worst
terrorist organization in the region.
Let's get real. The United States of
America is arguably the worst terrorist
organization in the world. If you want
to look over the last 25 years how many
innocent civilians we've slaughtered,
you're getting us you're getting us into
what uh the neocon Yeah, that's right.
You're getting us into the neocon
seventh war uh which they've been dying
for for the last 25 years.
You might want to take down by the way.
No, actually if you love this country,
if you're a real patriot, you'd have to
hate this government.
Yeah. Yeah. DC DC killed a lot more
people than Iran did. And that's George
W. Bush and Barack Obama and Joe Biden
and Donald Trump. It has nothing to do,
dude. Just all all you can do is just
interrupt because you know you have no
point on your side. Anyway, Pierce,
look, what actually matters here in what
actually anyway, what actually matters
here is that the calculation has been
drastically changed and the incentives
have been changed by Donald Trump even
since the 12-day war. Look, that for the
12-day war to work out the way it did
really relied on a major piece of that
puzzle, which was that Iran for
self-preservation reasons showed
restraint in their response. They they
called ahead. They let us knew where
they were going to target. They made
sure they didn't kill any Americans.
This time, once Donald Trump killed the
Ayatollah, they offered through their um
Italian uh negotiators, they offered a
ceasefire. Iran said no. Iran has now
made the calculation that they simply
can't let America come in and kill the
Ayatollah and not respond because then
they'll just keep picking on them.
Donald Trump already announced this was
a regime change war with no plan.
Absolutely no plan. As he has admitted,
as Rubio has admitted, they have no plan
for what comes next. And this is the
scenario. I got to say, man, I hate to
be vindicated like this, Pierce, but
this is the scenario that all of us were
warning about since well before the
12-day war that now you've gotten
yourself into a situation Americans are
dead. I I think uh Mr. Miller misspoke
when he said four people are dead. Four
Americans are dead over there. Probably
more to come. Donald Trump says more to
come. We've had a couple Americans
killed in Austin in a blowback terrorist
attack that's happened already since
then. And like dude, the lack of wisdom
here from the Trump administration, like
you have no idea what you just kicked
off. There is absolutely no reason to
think that this thing is not going to be
a catastrophe just like the last six
theaters in the global war on terrorism.
And by the way, you know, for just final
one one very quick last point. I'm
sorry, Pierce, but really, you know,
interrupting you there a bunch. Uh, let
me just say one thing for all the like
supposed like pretend intellectuals out
there like the the Gad Sads and the Sam
Harris who have spent a career talking
about how violent and irrational the
Muslim world is because you can't even
draw a cartoon of Muhammad or they'll
start killing people. Hey, what do you
think happens when you murder an
Ayatollah? Did anyone know that that's
not just a political figure to the
Shiites who we've had no beef with
really
don't kill bad guys because they fight
back? That's like the the most stupid
foreign policy I've ever heard of.
I will leave you with the clip of Chuck
Schumer, who is the Senate leader for
the Democratic Party in the US.
This guy is also the highest ranking
Jewish elected official. When a reporter
asked him whether Israel had boxed the
US into war with Iran, Schumer replied
by saying that he didn't want a nuclear
Israel. But then he realized what he has
said. He returned to clarify that he
meant he didn't want nuclear Iran.
Nuclear Israel that commits genocide
every now and then is kosher.
Do you think Israel, you know, forced
the US's hand here, boxed the US in on
this?
Look, no one wants a nuclear war. Uh, no
one wants a nuclear Israel, but we
certainly don't want an endless war.
Plain and simple.
What did I say?
Nuclear Israel.
Oh, no. Got it. Let me say that again.
No one wants an endless war, but we
certainly don't want a nuclear Iran.
That's for sure. Okay.
At what point does the lack of DHS
funding?
That's it from me. Thank you very much
for your support of this platform and
our journalism. If you haven't
subscribed to my channel, please do so
because that's one of the many ways you
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Janta Ka Reporter
Mar 4, 2026
Several US senators have reacted angrily as they lashed out at Donald Trump for his decision to launch strikes against Iran without any planning. The central theme of these senators' reaction was that they appeared worried about Iran's ability to retaliate and hurt US interests. Rifat Jawaid examines the development and highlights how Iran is changing the rules of the game. This came on the day Iran targeted the US consulate office in Dubai with drone strike
Transcript
Hours after I reported on the most
brutal strike on the US military
facilities in the Middle East by Iran,
several American experts have now
confirmed the news. Last night, I shared
the Iranian claim that it had destroyed
the US and FPS 132 radar system
installed at the US military base in
Qatar. This is massive in so many ways
and raises serious questions on the
future of US military presence in the
region. Iranian missiles have also wre
havoc across the settler colony of
Israel. But the ruthless censorship
imposed by the Israeli terrorist mean
that much of this destruction can't be
reported.
Not when these demonic creatures
arrested two CNN journalists for simply
trying to capture the damage caused by
Iranian missiles. Meanwhile, US
lawmakers have reacted with shock after
attending a classified briefing on Iran.
The Trump administration has now told
them to be prepared for more US soldiers
deaths. And this comes amidst claims by
an Iranian general who said that
Iranians had killed or wounded more than
600 US personnel in this conflict. This
would be the broader focus of my video
today. Also in my video is a fraudian
slip by top Jewish Democrat Senate
leader Chuck Schumer on nuclear Israel.
So please stay tuned.
It's now confirmed that the Iranians
have indeed inflicted a body blow to the
American military apparatus in the
Middle East by destroying their most
prized radar system. Just how important
this radar is for the Americans can be
understood by the fact that the cost of
ANFPS132
early warning radar system at Al- U air
base in Qatar is valued at $1.1 billion.
Qatar has confirmed that this was hit
and badly damaged by Iranian missiles.
And this is not the only bad news for
the US military assets in the Middle
East. This is what David Pine, a former
US Army headquarters staffer, wrote on
Twitter, and I quote, "While Fox News
and other regime media outlets continue
to spin the war as a major victory for
the US and Israel, Iran is currently in
the process of destroying America's
premier military base in the entire
Middle East, the US fifth fleet
headquarter in Bahran.
This is the only US military base in the
Middle East that I have stated is worth
keeping and there is a good chance the
US may never rebuild it because it is
much too vulnerable to Iranian short
range ballistic missile strikes. End
quote. Can you understand what Pine is
saying here? The US may never be able to
rebuild the fifth fleet headquarter in
Bahrain. And then we are not talking
about the other damage caused to
American assets. Last night after I
posted the video, we learned that the
Iranian missiles had struck a US
consulate in Dubai. It was on fire.
You can watch that video on our Telegram
channel. So Iranians have been
successfully hitting every single
strategically important American assets
in the region.
Imagery showing the extent of the damage
to US military facilities across Gulf
Arab countries is starting to emerge.
Part of Iran's furious response to an
Israeli American campaign that decimated
its leadership.
At least nine US military positions have
been hit in less than 48 hours. These
are relatively close targets. They're
much nearer to Iran than its usual
target, Israel. That proximity may give
Iran's missiles and drones a better
chance of hitting their targets. This is
the port of where just after 9:00 a.m.
on Sunday morning, an Iranian strike set
a makeshift US operations center at the
civilian port ablaze. Six American
service members were killed in the
attack. You can see smoke rising from
the fire. The blown out three wide
trailer blackened on the inside. There
are few signs of fortification.
In another attack, a drone, this appears
to be the Arash 2, crashes into US
positions in Camp Buring.
A building severely damaged. American
helicopters parked inside the base were
nearly hit. In Bahin, a Shahed attack
drone flies into the base that hosts the
US Navy's fifth fleet, one of the
largest American naval formations in the
world. It looks alarmingly defenseless.
The drone hits one satellite
communication terminal, clearly seen
here,
but the scale of the damage is more
obvious here. Warehouses and other
buildings damaged and another satellite
communication terminal destroyed in a
separate attack. We see this pattern of
targeting throughout the region. At
least five satellite communication
terminals were destroyed. It points to a
possible Iranian effort to cut US bases
off from the outside world. Iran used an
unprecedented barrage of missiles and
drones. US Patriot missiles and other
multi-billion dollar air defense systems
shot most of these out of the sky. But
the ones that got through were enough to
puncture the veil of security around oil
richch Gulf Arab states and the heart of
America's security infrastructure in the
Middle East.
Now the question is just how long can
Iran sustain these attacks? That depends
on how big their stockpiles of missiles
and drones are, which is currently
unknown. And really, Aaron, it comes
down to how quickly can the US and
Israel achieve their stated objective of
obliterating the missiles. Until that
happens, Iran has made it clear that in
the aftermath of the killing of Kam, it
plans to sew as much chaos as possible
to US interests in the Middle East and
beyond.
The American and Israeli terrorists have
claimed that they had destroyed
thousands of missile launch pads in
Iran, but this appears to be nothing
more than a propaganda. Iranians aren't
firing their missiles from a static
location in a designated area. One of
the reasons why Americans and Israeli
terrorists have been unable to stop the
barrage of Iranian missiles hitting them
so hard is because of this video.
Harmony.
The bat of harmony.
Clearly, Iranians are using a regular
truck to carry missiles before using the
same as missile launchers.
The Iranians are also changing the rule
of the war. Last night, an American
journalist noticed something bizarre. He
noticed that an Iranian missile had hit
its target in the settler colony, but
the Israeli radar system had failed to
detect it.
Well, Bianca, that's a first for us. the
uh air overthe-air siren sounds in Tel
Aviv and just seconds later uh an
explosion exoicer detonation that's
outside the earth's atmosphere took
place what I believe is due north over
Hifa but we were getting the sirens we
have on every attack been given 10
minutes heads up the launches are
detected either with satellites or other
facets of the Israeli or US apparatus
intelligence gathering tools that give
us a 10-minute warning warning and that
heads up uh that you should seek shelter
uh and you have about 10 minutes to get
to shelter. Here was uh over the air
siren and then we saw seconds later an
explosion overhead. uh more concerning
about an environment like that is why
why was there why is this the first
instance when we're not getting 10
minutes leeway especially with the
regime's ability to launch these
missiles being degraded every minute uh
by this joint USIsraeli targeting
campaign to take out their missile
launchers take out their missile
stockpile I can't share the video of
that missile hitting the Israeli target
here but you can watch that video on our
telegram channel or upscroll social
media page. Meanwhile, several US
lawmakers have reacted in shock after
learning about Trump's plans to
sacrifice more and more US troops for
the Israelis.
Watch how they reacted after attending a
special briefing on the ongoing Iran
war. This was Senator Ed Murky.
I just left a classified briefing on
Iran and it only confirmed what we
already knew. Donald Trump is waging an
illegal war and he has no plan to end
it. Today he said, "We attacked Iran
because he had a feeling, but we know
the truth." Trump is lying about Iran's
nuclear capacity. He's lying about
Iran's missile capabilities and he's
dragging the United States into another
endless war in the Middle East. Trump is
completely out of control and Americans
have already lost their lives because of
his lies.
This was Senator Elizabeth Warren.
I just left a classified briefing on
Iran and here's what I can say. It is so
much worse than you thought. You are
right to be worried. Trump
administration has no plan in Iran. This
illegal war is based on lies and it was
launched without any imminent threat to
our nation. Donald Trump still hasn't
given a single clear reason for this
war. And he seems to have no plan for
how to end it either. Like a lot of you,
I am really angry. I am angry at what
Donald Trump is doing. And I feel grief
for those already killed in this
unnecessary conflict. And I will keep
doing everything I can to fight to end
this war.
Just so you know, this woman was
applauding Trump when he threatened to
attack Iran in his State of the Union
address only a few days ago. She had
given the deranged occupant of the White
House a standing ovation and she's not
even Republican.
So don't change your tune now that you
know his action and your support for
that action will have catastrophic
impact on the lives of American
soldiers. This is Senator Chris Van
Holland. Just a little earlier, I got
out of the administration's briefing to
the Senate about the situation in Iran.
And what you hear behind closed doors is
essentially what we're hearing in the
public domain, which is complete
incoherence.
No explanation for why Donald Trump
broke his promise to the country when he
said he wasn't going to drag us into
additional wars. and constantly shifting
narratives about what this is all about.
Right? Even today in the Oval Office,
you know, the president was spinning all
sorts of rationes. On the one hand, they
say it's to go after Iran's nuclear
program. We know Iran has no nuclear
weapons capability. After all, the
president told the country that it had
been decimated last year. So then they
say, "Well, we're going to go after
Iran's ballistic missiles." Well, Iran
has no ballistic missiles that can get
anywhere close to the United States.
Zero. And of course, then Donald Trump
said he was going to liberate uh the
people of Iran.
But if you look at public reporting
about the CIA's assessment, it says that
they concluded that if you get rid of
the Iranian leadership, you're very
likely to get a much more even more
radical group in their place. But we do
know from Secretary Rubio that Netanyahu
decided to strike Iran.
And so here we are doing what Prime
Minister Netanyahu said he wanted to do
for 40 years, which was to attack Iran.
It's just Netanyahu had not found a
president stupid enough to drag the
United States into that war before. And
now Donald Trump has done it and they
don't have a clue as to what the endgame
is.
This is Senator Chris Murphy.
Senate. This is as serious as it gets.
This is war and peace. They told us in
that room that there are going to be
more Americans that are going to die.
That they are not in the short run going
to be able to stop these drones that are
going to continue to fly into the Middle
East. We have to have a debate in the
United States Senate on an authorization
of military force. It will likely fail.
It will likely fail and we shouldn't be
voting to proceed to other pieces of
legislation until we get a debate on
this deeply unpopular, immoral and
illegal war with Iran. Senator
Israelis and the slaves in the West have
been instructed to fervently defend
their another genocidal project. This
time against the Iranians, but once
again they're getting the push back.
American podcast host Dave Smith shut up
one Israeli apologist on the PS Morgan
show this week.
Okay, so I've heard the talking point a
million times that Iran is the number
one sponsor of terrorism. It is
something that the Warhawks love to say.
I have actually never once heard a
coherent definition of terrorism and
then a demonstration that they're the
worst of it. The IDF is the worst
terrorist organization in the region.
Let's get real. The United States of
America is arguably the worst terrorist
organization in the world. If you want
to look over the last 25 years how many
innocent civilians we've slaughtered,
you're getting us you're getting us into
what uh the neocon Yeah, that's right.
You're getting us into the neocon
seventh war uh which they've been dying
for for the last 25 years.
You might want to take down by the way.
No, actually if you love this country,
if you're a real patriot, you'd have to
hate this government.
Yeah. Yeah. DC DC killed a lot more
people than Iran did. And that's George
W. Bush and Barack Obama and Joe Biden
and Donald Trump. It has nothing to do,
dude. Just all all you can do is just
interrupt because you know you have no
point on your side. Anyway, Pierce,
look, what actually matters here in what
actually anyway, what actually matters
here is that the calculation has been
drastically changed and the incentives
have been changed by Donald Trump even
since the 12-day war. Look, that for the
12-day war to work out the way it did
really relied on a major piece of that
puzzle, which was that Iran for
self-preservation reasons showed
restraint in their response. They they
called ahead. They let us knew where
they were going to target. They made
sure they didn't kill any Americans.
This time, once Donald Trump killed the
Ayatollah, they offered through their um
Italian uh negotiators, they offered a
ceasefire. Iran said no. Iran has now
made the calculation that they simply
can't let America come in and kill the
Ayatollah and not respond because then
they'll just keep picking on them.
Donald Trump already announced this was
a regime change war with no plan.
Absolutely no plan. As he has admitted,
as Rubio has admitted, they have no plan
for what comes next. And this is the
scenario. I got to say, man, I hate to
be vindicated like this, Pierce, but
this is the scenario that all of us were
warning about since well before the
12-day war that now you've gotten
yourself into a situation Americans are
dead. I I think uh Mr. Miller misspoke
when he said four people are dead. Four
Americans are dead over there. Probably
more to come. Donald Trump says more to
come. We've had a couple Americans
killed in Austin in a blowback terrorist
attack that's happened already since
then. And like dude, the lack of wisdom
here from the Trump administration, like
you have no idea what you just kicked
off. There is absolutely no reason to
think that this thing is not going to be
a catastrophe just like the last six
theaters in the global war on terrorism.
And by the way, you know, for just final
one one very quick last point. I'm
sorry, Pierce, but really, you know,
interrupting you there a bunch. Uh, let
me just say one thing for all the like
supposed like pretend intellectuals out
there like the the Gad Sads and the Sam
Harris who have spent a career talking
about how violent and irrational the
Muslim world is because you can't even
draw a cartoon of Muhammad or they'll
start killing people. Hey, what do you
think happens when you murder an
Ayatollah? Did anyone know that that's
not just a political figure to the
Shiites who we've had no beef with
really
don't kill bad guys because they fight
back? That's like the the most stupid
foreign policy I've ever heard of.
I will leave you with the clip of Chuck
Schumer, who is the Senate leader for
the Democratic Party in the US.
This guy is also the highest ranking
Jewish elected official. When a reporter
asked him whether Israel had boxed the
US into war with Iran, Schumer replied
by saying that he didn't want a nuclear
Israel. But then he realized what he has
said. He returned to clarify that he
meant he didn't want nuclear Iran.
Nuclear Israel that commits genocide
every now and then is kosher.
Do you think Israel, you know, forced
the US's hand here, boxed the US in on
this?
Look, no one wants a nuclear war. Uh, no
one wants a nuclear Israel, but we
certainly don't want an endless war.
Plain and simple.
What did I say?
Nuclear Israel.
Oh, no. Got it. Let me say that again.
No one wants an endless war, but we
certainly don't want a nuclear Iran.
That's for sure. Okay.
At what point does the lack of DHS
funding?
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for your support of this platform and
our journalism. If you haven't
subscribed to my channel, please do so
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Trump & MAGA Clash Over Whether Iran War Is a "War," Trump Says Wars Can Last Forever: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Mar 4, 2026
Seth takes a closer look at Republicans in Congress who said Trump would end foreign wars having a new strategy for defending the Iran war.
Transcript
-Republicans in Congress
who said Trump would end foreign wars,
have a new strategy for defending the Iran war,
claiming it's not actually a war,
even though Trump himself calls it a war.
For more on this, it's time for "A Closer Look."
♪♪
As you all know, before Trump took office,
our military was run by liberal,
bleeding heart, tofu eating wokesters.
They forced our troops to wear rainbow-colored uniforms
and swap their weapons for books on critical race theory.
But those days are over because
President Kick Ass Now and Forget Names Later
is in charge.
Along with his Secretary of War, Pete "Drain the keg" Seth,
[ Laughter ]
AKA the bad guy from every Steven Seagal movie.
And they have one, they have one mission --
bringing lethality and war fighting back
to the US-a-mother-[bleep]-A.
-President Trump signed an executive order
to rebrand the Defense Department
as the Department of War.
-We've renamed the Department of Defense
into the Department of War.
The Department of War.
I love the name. I think it's so great.
-We're unleashing the warfighter to be ready,
trained, disciplined, accountable and lethal.
Every day we have to be prepared for war.
We're training warriors, not defenders.
We untie the hands of our warfighters
maximum lethality and authority for warfighters.
Restoring the warrior ethos.
We're going to go on offense, not just on defense.
Maximum lethality, not tepid legality.
Violent effect.
Not politically correct.
We're going to raise up warriors, not just defenders.
-Yeah, did you hear our Secretary of White Rapping?
[ Laughter and applause ]
We're doing maximum lethality, not tepid legality,
violent effect, not politically correct.
We're going to serve and protect while fully erect.
Also...
[ Laughter and applause ]
You guys also...
[ Cheers and applause ]
Somebody needs to tell him like rhyming is woke.
[ Laughter ]
That's like poetry stuff. He's fully doing poetry stuff.
[ Laughter ]
The point is, America is done playing nice.
That's what got us in this mess in the first place.
According to renowned military historian
Donald J. Trump Ph.D.
-So we won the First World War,
we won the Second World War,
we won everything before that and in between.
And then we decided to go woke
and we changed the name to Department of Defense.
So we're going Department of War.
I think it's a much more appropriate name,
especially in light of where the world is right now.
-Exactly, everybody remembers how woke America was in 1945.
I mean, sure, the president was Harry Truman,
who dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.
But if you read your history,
you would remember the names of those bombs
were they and them.
[ Laughter ]
Point is, America is done with being polite.
We're done with euphemisms.
We're calling it the Department of War.
We're calling our troops warfighters,
and we're calling our missions war fighting,
because that's what it is now and forever, war.
-I wouldn't call this a war as much as I'd call it a conflict.
-Strategic strikes are not war.
-It's a defensive operation.
-Nobody should classify this as war.
It is combat operations.
-This isn't a war.
I don't know if this is technically a war.
-[ As Graham ] I don't know if this is technically a war.
A war is when a mee-maw hides my porcelain doll collection
'cause I refuse to clean her CPAP machine.
Just put it in the dishwasher, you old crone!
[ Laughter ]
And give me back my Lladrós!
[ Laughter ]
They are too worth money!
[ Laughter ]
[ Normal voice ] Come on, guys, didn't you hear?
It's the Department of War.
Our troops are war fighters. This is a war.
Trump and Hegseth have both called it that.
-We may have casualties.
That often happens in war.
We have unlimited middle and upper ammunition,
which is really what we're using in this war.
-We set the terms of this war.
We didn't start this war, but under President Trump,
we are finishing it.
-Yeah. We didn't start this war.
This was going on long before Trump took office.
Remember when Joe Biden slipped on those stairs?
That's because Iran switched his shoes with rollerblades,
covered the steps to Air Force One
with grease and banana peels.
And don't --
Don't get me started on Trump's [bleep] up hand.
Do you think that's because he's 79 and takes aspirin every day?
No, it's because Iran made the lid
on every jar in his kitchen extra tight,
so he has to spend hours trying to twist it off
if he wants his peanut butter.
And this just in, he wants his peanut butter.
[ Laughter ]
That's why he always sounds like this...
-God bless [garbled] the United States.
[ Laughter ]
-Someone had their peanut butter.
[ Laughter ]
The point is, Trump and Hegseth have both been clear.
This is a war.
-It is not the intention
of the U.S. government to invade.
That is not what is happening.
These are isolated, strategic, large-scale attacks.
-I'm sorry you say it's not the intention
of the U.S. government to invade?
Did we not just invade?
-We are not invading. Are you seeing --
Are you seeing boots on the ground there, because I'm not.
And I've been told directly by the State Department
and the White House says... -I didn't say, "Boots on the ground."
...-that's not the intention. -I mean, we just killed
the leader of their country. -That's what an invasion is.
-That's not --
Okay.
-Targeted strategic military strikes and invasions
are two totally different things
according to military -- -They're calling it a war.
The president has called it a war.
-And targeted airstrikes have -- -Strategic, strategic strikes.
Strategic strikes, and according to the White House,
and I just talked to them
and talked to the Secretary of State,
strategic strikes are not war.
-Okay, I see now.
It's not a war unless you're actually on the ground.
It's like when you were growing up and you'd annoy
your siblings by putting your hands in their face
and saying, "I'm not touching you."
[ Laughter ]
"I'm not touching you.
But I'm not touching you, though."
Just bombing someone doesn't count as a war.
You have to send troops in.
That's why in Independence Day,
when the alien ship blows up the White House,
the president goes on TV and says,
"No need to panic. It's not an alien invasion.
It's just an alien strategic strike."
[ Laughter ]
Look, I get you guys don't want to come off as shameless liars
for telling voters that Trump would end foreign wars.
But this is getting confusing.
Can someone please take another shot at this?
How about Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin,
one of the biggest supporters of the insert euphemism with Iran?
Can you please clarify, Senator,
is this a war or is it not a war?
-Did the president not run on not starting a war with Iran?
-He ran on two things ending wars.
He's ended eight of them, and he also ran
on keeping America safe. -He started this one.
-This isn't a war.
We haven't declared war. Everybody wants to say
we're at war with Iran. -Wait hold on, hold on.
I want to play the secretary -- the Secretary of Defense,
who calls himself the Secretary of War,
said today, this is a war.
Is it really not a war?
-What he declared on us was war,
meaning us as Ayatollah, he declared war on us.
We are not at war with the Iranian people.
The Ayatollah who declared war on us,
we've already taken him out.
Now we're eliminating the threat.
So we're not at war with Iran.
-So the Ayatollah declared war on us,
but we didn't declare war on him.
And also we killed Ayatollah who declared war on us.
[ Laughter ]
It makes sense that this guy has two first names
because he can't make up his mind.
[ Laughter ]
I mean, maybe I'm being harsh.
I'm sure it was just a slip of the tongue.
Let's give Mark or Wayne
whichever one's talking today another shot.
[ Laughter ]
Can you clarify? Are we at war?
-This is war and we're taking out the threat.
And if you're part of the threat,
then you have the -- You're a target.
-Okay. Thank you. That was clear.
It is a war. Got it.
-We haven't declared war. They declared war on us.
But we haven't -- We haven't declared --
They've called it war. What I was saying --
-[ As Mullin ] I'm sorry.
[ Laughter ]
Did a classic misspoke?
[ Laughter ]
Always do it. You know what happened?
Mark was thinking with the brain,
and Wayne was talking with the mouth.
[ Laughter ]
For argument's sake, let's say, hypothetically,
that the war is over because the Ayatollah is dead.
In that case, I'm sure every breathalyzer's best friend,
Pete Hegseth, dialed down the rhetoric earlier today.
-B-2s, B-52s, B-1s, predator drones,
fighters controlling the skies, picking targets.
Death and destruction from the sky all day long.
-Oh, it sounds so much like a war to me, you guys.
[ Laughter ]
Just admit it. Stop getting so defensive
when we call a war a war.
This is like if during the whole
"am I a clown to you" speech in "Goodfellas,"
Joe Pesci was in full clown makeup.
[ Laughter ]
They'd be like, "Yeah, man, you're a clown."
There are two reasons they're all talking
in Orwellian circles like this.
One, if they acknowledge it's a war,
they also have to admit that it's illegal
since only Congress can declare war.
And two, they don't want to admit that Trump lied.
He said he would keep us out of exactly these type
of open-ended wars, and specifically forever wars.
-We ended the forever wars in Iraq and Syria
and Somalia and Afghanistan.
You're not going to have a war with me.
We will expel the warmongers from our government.
We just fight forever.
Sometimes we don't fight to win, you know.
We'll stay around the country for 15 years.
Just bomb the hell out of everybody.
Make everybody miserable.
Nobody knows why we're there.
You know the wars that never end.
-My God, he's so philosophical.
I like when Trump starts sounding like one
of Wooderson's stoned friends in "Dazed and Confused."
[ As Trump ] You know, sometimes we don't fight to win, you know?
We'll stay around the country for 50.
We'll just bomb the hell out of everybody, you know?
Make everybody -- Nobody knows why we're there.
You know, the wars they never end, man.
[ Laughter ]
Once again, Seth threw in a reference to a movie
that he thought would work, and it didn't really land.
[ Laughter ]
Seth really over his skis this week, dialing it back.
He thinks everybody remembers the '90s.
But he does. They don't.
[ Laughter ]
Struck out with a "Dave" reference on Monday
and now he's back on Wednesday...
[ Laughter ]
...eating [bleep] with "Dazed and Confused."
And he was so -- He was so --
You should have seen him earlier.
He was so confident.
[ Laughter ]
And the writers said, "I don't know Seth."
And he goes, "Trust me, we're gonna be out there.
We're gonna be able to."
And a lot of people are saying it worked.
A lot of people are saying.
[ Laughter ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
[ Laughs ]
Sympathy, he won't even say later.
He'll say it wasn't sympathy, applause.
[ Laughter ]
The point is, people are tired of pointless wars.
Trump knew that and shamelessly exploited it
by claiming he would stop so-called forever wars.
So I have to assume that at the very least,
he's insisting this war with Iran will be short,
contained, and limited in scope.
-President Donald Trump wrote late last night
on Truth Social about the U.S.
stockpile of munitions.
"We have a virtually unlimited
supply of these weapons," he said.
"Wars can be fought forever
and very successfully using just these supplies."
-I'm sorry, is that supposed to sound like good news?
You're saying it like you're expecting us all to cheer,
"Yeah. The war can go on forever!"
You're like the guy at the party who forces everyone
to play Settlers of Catan.
Good news, guys, I just got the expansion pack
so this game could go on forever.
And before you nerds come after me,
I like board games, okay?
I just don't want to be forced to play one at a party.
I already spend half my day pretending to lose
to my kids at Connect Four.
You know how [bleep] hard it is to act like
I don't see three red circles in a row?
[ Laughter ]
Ah, you got me again. I can't believe I missed that.
I didn't miss it, dude.
I'm just a great dad.
[ Laughter ]
Sorry I got so heated, everyone. That whole thing was a misspoke.
[ Laughter ]
What we're seeing play out is the absurdity of life
inside the Trump cult.
One minute they all have to pretend Trump
is a working-class savior who will end foreign wars.
The next, they have to pretend the war he started isn't a war,
even though he's the one calling it a war.
They lied, not just to their own voters, but to the entire...
-[ Garbled ] United States.
-This has been "A Closer Look."
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
[ Squelching ]
-It's a face off!
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Mar 4, 2026
Seth takes a closer look at Republicans in Congress who said Trump would end foreign wars having a new strategy for defending the Iran war.
Transcript
-Republicans in Congress
who said Trump would end foreign wars,
have a new strategy for defending the Iran war,
claiming it's not actually a war,
even though Trump himself calls it a war.
For more on this, it's time for "A Closer Look."
♪♪
As you all know, before Trump took office,
our military was run by liberal,
bleeding heart, tofu eating wokesters.
They forced our troops to wear rainbow-colored uniforms
and swap their weapons for books on critical race theory.
But those days are over because
President Kick Ass Now and Forget Names Later
is in charge.
Along with his Secretary of War, Pete "Drain the keg" Seth,
[ Laughter ]
AKA the bad guy from every Steven Seagal movie.
And they have one, they have one mission --
bringing lethality and war fighting back
to the US-a-mother-[bleep]-A.
-President Trump signed an executive order
to rebrand the Defense Department
as the Department of War.
-We've renamed the Department of Defense
into the Department of War.
The Department of War.
I love the name. I think it's so great.
-We're unleashing the warfighter to be ready,
trained, disciplined, accountable and lethal.
Every day we have to be prepared for war.
We're training warriors, not defenders.
We untie the hands of our warfighters
maximum lethality and authority for warfighters.
Restoring the warrior ethos.
We're going to go on offense, not just on defense.
Maximum lethality, not tepid legality.
Violent effect.
Not politically correct.
We're going to raise up warriors, not just defenders.
-Yeah, did you hear our Secretary of White Rapping?
[ Laughter and applause ]
We're doing maximum lethality, not tepid legality,
violent effect, not politically correct.
We're going to serve and protect while fully erect.
Also...
[ Laughter and applause ]
You guys also...
[ Cheers and applause ]
Somebody needs to tell him like rhyming is woke.
[ Laughter ]
That's like poetry stuff. He's fully doing poetry stuff.
[ Laughter ]
The point is, America is done playing nice.
That's what got us in this mess in the first place.
According to renowned military historian
Donald J. Trump Ph.D.
-So we won the First World War,
we won the Second World War,
we won everything before that and in between.
And then we decided to go woke
and we changed the name to Department of Defense.
So we're going Department of War.
I think it's a much more appropriate name,
especially in light of where the world is right now.
-Exactly, everybody remembers how woke America was in 1945.
I mean, sure, the president was Harry Truman,
who dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.
But if you read your history,
you would remember the names of those bombs
were they and them.
[ Laughter ]
Point is, America is done with being polite.
We're done with euphemisms.
We're calling it the Department of War.
We're calling our troops warfighters,
and we're calling our missions war fighting,
because that's what it is now and forever, war.
-I wouldn't call this a war as much as I'd call it a conflict.
-Strategic strikes are not war.
-It's a defensive operation.
-Nobody should classify this as war.
It is combat operations.
-This isn't a war.
I don't know if this is technically a war.
-[ As Graham ] I don't know if this is technically a war.
A war is when a mee-maw hides my porcelain doll collection
'cause I refuse to clean her CPAP machine.
Just put it in the dishwasher, you old crone!
[ Laughter ]
And give me back my Lladrós!
[ Laughter ]
They are too worth money!
[ Laughter ]
[ Normal voice ] Come on, guys, didn't you hear?
It's the Department of War.
Our troops are war fighters. This is a war.
Trump and Hegseth have both called it that.
-We may have casualties.
That often happens in war.
We have unlimited middle and upper ammunition,
which is really what we're using in this war.
-We set the terms of this war.
We didn't start this war, but under President Trump,
we are finishing it.
-Yeah. We didn't start this war.
This was going on long before Trump took office.
Remember when Joe Biden slipped on those stairs?
That's because Iran switched his shoes with rollerblades,
covered the steps to Air Force One
with grease and banana peels.
And don't --
Don't get me started on Trump's [bleep] up hand.
Do you think that's because he's 79 and takes aspirin every day?
No, it's because Iran made the lid
on every jar in his kitchen extra tight,
so he has to spend hours trying to twist it off
if he wants his peanut butter.
And this just in, he wants his peanut butter.
[ Laughter ]
That's why he always sounds like this...
-God bless [garbled] the United States.
[ Laughter ]
-Someone had their peanut butter.
[ Laughter ]
The point is, Trump and Hegseth have both been clear.
This is a war.
-It is not the intention
of the U.S. government to invade.
That is not what is happening.
These are isolated, strategic, large-scale attacks.
-I'm sorry you say it's not the intention
of the U.S. government to invade?
Did we not just invade?
-We are not invading. Are you seeing --
Are you seeing boots on the ground there, because I'm not.
And I've been told directly by the State Department
and the White House says... -I didn't say, "Boots on the ground."
...-that's not the intention. -I mean, we just killed
the leader of their country. -That's what an invasion is.
-That's not --
Okay.
-Targeted strategic military strikes and invasions
are two totally different things
according to military -- -They're calling it a war.
The president has called it a war.
-And targeted airstrikes have -- -Strategic, strategic strikes.
Strategic strikes, and according to the White House,
and I just talked to them
and talked to the Secretary of State,
strategic strikes are not war.
-Okay, I see now.
It's not a war unless you're actually on the ground.
It's like when you were growing up and you'd annoy
your siblings by putting your hands in their face
and saying, "I'm not touching you."
[ Laughter ]
"I'm not touching you.
But I'm not touching you, though."
Just bombing someone doesn't count as a war.
You have to send troops in.
That's why in Independence Day,
when the alien ship blows up the White House,
the president goes on TV and says,
"No need to panic. It's not an alien invasion.
It's just an alien strategic strike."
[ Laughter ]
Look, I get you guys don't want to come off as shameless liars
for telling voters that Trump would end foreign wars.
But this is getting confusing.
Can someone please take another shot at this?
How about Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin,
one of the biggest supporters of the insert euphemism with Iran?
Can you please clarify, Senator,
is this a war or is it not a war?
-Did the president not run on not starting a war with Iran?
-He ran on two things ending wars.
He's ended eight of them, and he also ran
on keeping America safe. -He started this one.
-This isn't a war.
We haven't declared war. Everybody wants to say
we're at war with Iran. -Wait hold on, hold on.
I want to play the secretary -- the Secretary of Defense,
who calls himself the Secretary of War,
said today, this is a war.
Is it really not a war?
-What he declared on us was war,
meaning us as Ayatollah, he declared war on us.
We are not at war with the Iranian people.
The Ayatollah who declared war on us,
we've already taken him out.
Now we're eliminating the threat.
So we're not at war with Iran.
-So the Ayatollah declared war on us,
but we didn't declare war on him.
And also we killed Ayatollah who declared war on us.
[ Laughter ]
It makes sense that this guy has two first names
because he can't make up his mind.
[ Laughter ]
I mean, maybe I'm being harsh.
I'm sure it was just a slip of the tongue.
Let's give Mark or Wayne
whichever one's talking today another shot.
[ Laughter ]
Can you clarify? Are we at war?
-This is war and we're taking out the threat.
And if you're part of the threat,
then you have the -- You're a target.
-Okay. Thank you. That was clear.
It is a war. Got it.
-We haven't declared war. They declared war on us.
But we haven't -- We haven't declared --
They've called it war. What I was saying --
-[ As Mullin ] I'm sorry.
[ Laughter ]
Did a classic misspoke?
[ Laughter ]
Always do it. You know what happened?
Mark was thinking with the brain,
and Wayne was talking with the mouth.
[ Laughter ]
For argument's sake, let's say, hypothetically,
that the war is over because the Ayatollah is dead.
In that case, I'm sure every breathalyzer's best friend,
Pete Hegseth, dialed down the rhetoric earlier today.
-B-2s, B-52s, B-1s, predator drones,
fighters controlling the skies, picking targets.
Death and destruction from the sky all day long.
-Oh, it sounds so much like a war to me, you guys.
[ Laughter ]
Just admit it. Stop getting so defensive
when we call a war a war.
This is like if during the whole
"am I a clown to you" speech in "Goodfellas,"
Joe Pesci was in full clown makeup.
[ Laughter ]
They'd be like, "Yeah, man, you're a clown."
There are two reasons they're all talking
in Orwellian circles like this.
One, if they acknowledge it's a war,
they also have to admit that it's illegal
since only Congress can declare war.
And two, they don't want to admit that Trump lied.
He said he would keep us out of exactly these type
of open-ended wars, and specifically forever wars.
-We ended the forever wars in Iraq and Syria
and Somalia and Afghanistan.
You're not going to have a war with me.
We will expel the warmongers from our government.
We just fight forever.
Sometimes we don't fight to win, you know.
We'll stay around the country for 15 years.
Just bomb the hell out of everybody.
Make everybody miserable.
Nobody knows why we're there.
You know the wars that never end.
-My God, he's so philosophical.
I like when Trump starts sounding like one
of Wooderson's stoned friends in "Dazed and Confused."
[ As Trump ] You know, sometimes we don't fight to win, you know?
We'll stay around the country for 50.
We'll just bomb the hell out of everybody, you know?
Make everybody -- Nobody knows why we're there.
You know, the wars they never end, man.
[ Laughter ]
Once again, Seth threw in a reference to a movie
that he thought would work, and it didn't really land.
[ Laughter ]
Seth really over his skis this week, dialing it back.
He thinks everybody remembers the '90s.
But he does. They don't.
[ Laughter ]
Struck out with a "Dave" reference on Monday
and now he's back on Wednesday...
[ Laughter ]
...eating [bleep] with "Dazed and Confused."
And he was so -- He was so --
You should have seen him earlier.
He was so confident.
[ Laughter ]
And the writers said, "I don't know Seth."
And he goes, "Trust me, we're gonna be out there.
We're gonna be able to."
And a lot of people are saying it worked.
A lot of people are saying.
[ Laughter ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
[ Laughs ]
Sympathy, he won't even say later.
He'll say it wasn't sympathy, applause.
[ Laughter ]
The point is, people are tired of pointless wars.
Trump knew that and shamelessly exploited it
by claiming he would stop so-called forever wars.
So I have to assume that at the very least,
he's insisting this war with Iran will be short,
contained, and limited in scope.
-President Donald Trump wrote late last night
on Truth Social about the U.S.
stockpile of munitions.
"We have a virtually unlimited
supply of these weapons," he said.
"Wars can be fought forever
and very successfully using just these supplies."
-I'm sorry, is that supposed to sound like good news?
You're saying it like you're expecting us all to cheer,
"Yeah. The war can go on forever!"
You're like the guy at the party who forces everyone
to play Settlers of Catan.
Good news, guys, I just got the expansion pack
so this game could go on forever.
And before you nerds come after me,
I like board games, okay?
I just don't want to be forced to play one at a party.
I already spend half my day pretending to lose
to my kids at Connect Four.
You know how [bleep] hard it is to act like
I don't see three red circles in a row?
[ Laughter ]
Ah, you got me again. I can't believe I missed that.
I didn't miss it, dude.
I'm just a great dad.
[ Laughter ]
Sorry I got so heated, everyone. That whole thing was a misspoke.
[ Laughter ]
What we're seeing play out is the absurdity of life
inside the Trump cult.
One minute they all have to pretend Trump
is a working-class savior who will end foreign wars.
The next, they have to pretend the war he started isn't a war,
even though he's the one calling it a war.
They lied, not just to their own voters, but to the entire...
-[ Garbled ] United States.
-This has been "A Closer Look."
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
[ Squelching ]
-It's a face off!
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Trump Can't Stop Saying "War" | Israel: We'll Eliminate Iran's Next Leader | Awkward Burger Launch
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Mar 4, 2026 #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
President Trump keeps undermining his administration's own talking points about the combat operations against Iran, Israel's foreign minister threatened "elimination" to anyone selected as Iran's next supreme leader, and the CEO of McDonald's is making food influencer videos.
Transcript
Welcome one and all in here out there,
Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships
at sea to the Late Show. I'm your host
Steven Colbear. Uh
folks,
I really didn't want to start the
monologue by talking about the war, but
in honor of this administration, I went
into this without a plan. So,
I we got to talk about it. I guess we I
guess we got to start with that. Uh I
say war because it sure looks like a
war. and Trump keeps calling it a war,
but Congress never declared it a war and
MAGA was promised no new wars.
So the White House sent out a list of
talking points to all the congressional
Republicans telling them in no uncertain
terms that if a reporter asks, "Can you
promise the American people this will
not be a long drawn out war?" The answer
to give is these are targeted major
combat operations.
So it's worse than a war.
It's a war that got a thesaurus for
Christmas.
Okay.
So, it's not a war. It's not a war.
Don't call it a war. Got it. I'm sorry,
Mr. President. You were saying
I think you probably want to speak about
war rather than this, but this is very
important. This is very important and uh
we're doing very well on uh on the war
front to put it mildly. I have to go
back and look at the war. Oh no.
Oh damn it. You know you're not supposed
to say it, but that just puts the word
in your brain. It's like It's like when
your boss has a huge pimple on his nose
and you're like, "Don't talk about the
pimple." But as soon as he walks in, you
go, "Hi, Mr. Pimple. Oh,
no surprise." Uh, everybody thinks that
this stupid terminology is stupid. So
today, Speaker Johnson tried a new
tactic. It is a war, but it's not our
war. Iran has attacked three of our US
embassies in the last couple of days.
Okay, those are sovereign territories of
the US. They have declared war on us.
We're not at war right now, folks. I
totally buy it, babe. She declared sex
on me.
I simply I simply reciprocated with a
targeted heat-seeking moisture missile.
One things that Okay, one thing's for
sure. This not a war is not a stopping
anytime soon cuz yesterday US Central
Command said America's conducting 24/7
strikes into Iran. Is it good when
you're bombing for as long as 7-Eleven
is open?
Though I will say the Monterey Jack
Chicken Taquito is a war crime.
You know it slogan. I've been on this
roller grill since we killed Saddam.
Looks pretty good actually. Yesterday,
yesterday, Israel bombed Iran's top
mullers as they counted votes for the
next supreme leader. And then Israel's
defense minister threatened elimination
to anyone selected as Iran's next
supreme leader. So no matter how many
people the Iranians put into that job,
Israel is going to kill them all. just
proving the old Warhol quote in the
future everyone will be Ayatollah for 15
minutes.
We don't we don't we don't know who's
next, right? We don't know who is next
going to get this coveted extremely
brief job, but we do know Ayatollah Ali
Kamei's son is emerging as the leading
choice. Great. Another nepoto
sad. It's sad. at the White House press
briefing today.
Say it again. At the White House press
briefing today, Caroline Levit was asked
why the president acted so quickly in
launching the attack. And here's what
she said. This decision to launch this
oper operation was based on a cumulative
effect of various direct threats that
Iran posed to the United States of
America. And the president's feeling
based on fact that Iran does pose an
imminent and direct threat to the United
States of America. The president had a
feeling again based on fact that Iran
was going to strike the United States,
was going to strike our assets in the
region.
A feeling based on a fact. Okay.
Incidentally, I've got a feeling based
on a fact. is the Black Eyed Pe's worst
song.
It's right up there. It's right up there
with Let's Get It Started once we
establish where the fire exits are.
One of the reasons One of the reasons
the administration is given for the
targeted limited combat operation is
Iran's nuclear program. But according to
the UN's nuclear watchdog, Iran has no
structured program to build a nuclear
weapon. But the administration disputes
that. One official told Politico, quote,
"They basically could have been days or
weeks away from a weapon if they would
have put the effort into it." Yeah, come
on, you lazy bones.
Are we frosting cupcakes here? We're
making bombs. Pull your panties up and
put your back into it, ladies. The
world's not going to blow itself up.
This is what I hate about young people
these days. They don't earn anything. It
all starts in grade school when we give
them those participation nukes. Let's
go. Let's hit it. Let's roll.
Iran is not going to go away quietly.
Okay. In fact, an Iranian commander is
threatening to set fire to ships
crossing the straight of Hormuz.
Oh,
that sound means it's time for our once
every eight-year segment. Hormuz news
you can use.
I got something. I got something.
In this segment, we educate future
generations on where the street of
Hormuz is. It is right there.
This has been Hormuz News
you can use.
See our next installment in eight years
on my new network, Plumbbo with ads.
Ships passing through the straight of
Hormuz deliver about a fifth of the
global oil supply. So the price of oil
shot up as much as 13% to over $82 a
barrel. Okay, but that's a barrel. What
if we bring our own container? Can we
get like an empty Cool Whip tub or
something like that or little plastic
bags? Later you can just jab a straw in
there like a Capri Sun.
Voters uh hate expensive gas. So to keep
the dinosaur juice a flowing, Trump said
that the US will offer ships in the
region coverage against losses caused by
war and hostile actions called political
risk insurance. Political risk insurance
is so important that it's the plot of
the classic film saving private Ryan 15%
on car insurance by switching to Geico.
Not everything Not everything
that joke comes in real late that comes
that comes in real late at the end. Not
everything in the news is a violent
international cluster munch. Some things
are just a giant munch cuz yesterday
McDonald's launched their new signature
burger sandwich. Say it with me. The big
arch, which is Why didn't you say it
with me? Which has everyone's talking
about it, which has gotten some
attention thanks to an awkward promo
video from the company's CEO. Check it
out.
Chris K here with You've heard about it.
Here it is. The Big Arch.
Okay, first of all, that's the CEO of
McDonald's.
He's a skinny little guy in a cashmere
pullover. The CEO of McDonald's should
be a big loud rosy cheicked oily
mannugget who can't stop bellowing.
Yeah, that's it. That guy.
That's his That's
Can we get him that job? Can't we just
give him that?
Okay, let's go back to the video. Here's
Chris K ready to chow down on the big
arch. This is something that we have
tested already in Portugal, Germany,
Canada,
and they all liked it.
So, I assume it's maple glazed octopus
schnitle.
Keep talking, burger man.
I love this product. It is so good.
Okay. Weird to refer to food as product.
Kids, you eat your product. If you
don't, I swear to God, I will send you
to bed with no content.
No Plumbbo with ads for you.
I'm I'm sorry, Chris. I interrupted you
again. You were saying
I'm going to do a tasting right now, but
I'm going to eat this for my lunch, just
so you know.
Thanks.
I'm glad to know that you will eat it
for lunch and not for the other reason
folks eat McDonald's cuz the only other
place at the rest stop is Roy Rogers.
And you're pretty sure the cashier lives
there. Okay, dazzle us with your new
burger.
We've got a very unique kind of sesame
poppy sort of bun on it. We've got two
quarter pound patties, a delicious big
arch sauce, and of course some lettuce.
Okay, I want to pause here again for a
second. I just want to take this moment
to apologize to influencers. It turns
out what you do is incredibly difficult.
Not all heroes.
Not all heroes wear capes. Some do this.
Oh my god. This is a five out of five
game.
Boo. Boo. Boo. Boo.
I believe the children of the future.
Back at M McDonald's HQ, uh the talking
paper napkin continued to examine his
burger.
So, oh, there's so much going on with
this.
You're the CEO.
Is this the first time you're finding
out what your company does? Uh, it
appears a clown is trying to get me to
eat shredded fried potatoes with the
help of his friend, the obese purple
ghost.
Now, finally, the moment came for him to
take a giant bite.
First of all, let's try to get this
thing. I don't even know how to attack
it. Got so much to it. All right, the
moment of truth.
That is so good.
Really?
Cuz it looks like you took the smallest
possible bite
in the history of human chewing.
That's the bite you take when your
three-year-old says, "Try the cookie I
made, Daddy."
Now go have mommy try.
We got a great show for you tonight. My
guest
for you. Believe that. When we come back
for a chance of late show history, stick
around.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Mar 4, 2026 #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
President Trump keeps undermining his administration's own talking points about the combat operations against Iran, Israel's foreign minister threatened "elimination" to anyone selected as Iran's next supreme leader, and the CEO of McDonald's is making food influencer videos.
Transcript
Welcome one and all in here out there,
Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships
at sea to the Late Show. I'm your host
Steven Colbear. Uh
folks,
I really didn't want to start the
monologue by talking about the war, but
in honor of this administration, I went
into this without a plan. So,
I we got to talk about it. I guess we I
guess we got to start with that. Uh I
say war because it sure looks like a
war. and Trump keeps calling it a war,
but Congress never declared it a war and
MAGA was promised no new wars.
So the White House sent out a list of
talking points to all the congressional
Republicans telling them in no uncertain
terms that if a reporter asks, "Can you
promise the American people this will
not be a long drawn out war?" The answer
to give is these are targeted major
combat operations.
So it's worse than a war.
It's a war that got a thesaurus for
Christmas.
Okay.
So, it's not a war. It's not a war.
Don't call it a war. Got it. I'm sorry,
Mr. President. You were saying
I think you probably want to speak about
war rather than this, but this is very
important. This is very important and uh
we're doing very well on uh on the war
front to put it mildly. I have to go
back and look at the war. Oh no.
Oh damn it. You know you're not supposed
to say it, but that just puts the word
in your brain. It's like It's like when
your boss has a huge pimple on his nose
and you're like, "Don't talk about the
pimple." But as soon as he walks in, you
go, "Hi, Mr. Pimple. Oh,
no surprise." Uh, everybody thinks that
this stupid terminology is stupid. So
today, Speaker Johnson tried a new
tactic. It is a war, but it's not our
war. Iran has attacked three of our US
embassies in the last couple of days.
Okay, those are sovereign territories of
the US. They have declared war on us.
We're not at war right now, folks. I
totally buy it, babe. She declared sex
on me.
I simply I simply reciprocated with a
targeted heat-seeking moisture missile.
One things that Okay, one thing's for
sure. This not a war is not a stopping
anytime soon cuz yesterday US Central
Command said America's conducting 24/7
strikes into Iran. Is it good when
you're bombing for as long as 7-Eleven
is open?
Though I will say the Monterey Jack
Chicken Taquito is a war crime.
You know it slogan. I've been on this
roller grill since we killed Saddam.
Looks pretty good actually. Yesterday,
yesterday, Israel bombed Iran's top
mullers as they counted votes for the
next supreme leader. And then Israel's
defense minister threatened elimination
to anyone selected as Iran's next
supreme leader. So no matter how many
people the Iranians put into that job,
Israel is going to kill them all. just
proving the old Warhol quote in the
future everyone will be Ayatollah for 15
minutes.
We don't we don't we don't know who's
next, right? We don't know who is next
going to get this coveted extremely
brief job, but we do know Ayatollah Ali
Kamei's son is emerging as the leading
choice. Great. Another nepoto
sad. It's sad. at the White House press
briefing today.
Say it again. At the White House press
briefing today, Caroline Levit was asked
why the president acted so quickly in
launching the attack. And here's what
she said. This decision to launch this
oper operation was based on a cumulative
effect of various direct threats that
Iran posed to the United States of
America. And the president's feeling
based on fact that Iran does pose an
imminent and direct threat to the United
States of America. The president had a
feeling again based on fact that Iran
was going to strike the United States,
was going to strike our assets in the
region.
A feeling based on a fact. Okay.
Incidentally, I've got a feeling based
on a fact. is the Black Eyed Pe's worst
song.
It's right up there. It's right up there
with Let's Get It Started once we
establish where the fire exits are.
One of the reasons One of the reasons
the administration is given for the
targeted limited combat operation is
Iran's nuclear program. But according to
the UN's nuclear watchdog, Iran has no
structured program to build a nuclear
weapon. But the administration disputes
that. One official told Politico, quote,
"They basically could have been days or
weeks away from a weapon if they would
have put the effort into it." Yeah, come
on, you lazy bones.
Are we frosting cupcakes here? We're
making bombs. Pull your panties up and
put your back into it, ladies. The
world's not going to blow itself up.
This is what I hate about young people
these days. They don't earn anything. It
all starts in grade school when we give
them those participation nukes. Let's
go. Let's hit it. Let's roll.
Iran is not going to go away quietly.
Okay. In fact, an Iranian commander is
threatening to set fire to ships
crossing the straight of Hormuz.
Oh,
that sound means it's time for our once
every eight-year segment. Hormuz news
you can use.
I got something. I got something.
In this segment, we educate future
generations on where the street of
Hormuz is. It is right there.
This has been Hormuz News
you can use.
See our next installment in eight years
on my new network, Plumbbo with ads.
Ships passing through the straight of
Hormuz deliver about a fifth of the
global oil supply. So the price of oil
shot up as much as 13% to over $82 a
barrel. Okay, but that's a barrel. What
if we bring our own container? Can we
get like an empty Cool Whip tub or
something like that or little plastic
bags? Later you can just jab a straw in
there like a Capri Sun.
Voters uh hate expensive gas. So to keep
the dinosaur juice a flowing, Trump said
that the US will offer ships in the
region coverage against losses caused by
war and hostile actions called political
risk insurance. Political risk insurance
is so important that it's the plot of
the classic film saving private Ryan 15%
on car insurance by switching to Geico.
Not everything Not everything
that joke comes in real late that comes
that comes in real late at the end. Not
everything in the news is a violent
international cluster munch. Some things
are just a giant munch cuz yesterday
McDonald's launched their new signature
burger sandwich. Say it with me. The big
arch, which is Why didn't you say it
with me? Which has everyone's talking
about it, which has gotten some
attention thanks to an awkward promo
video from the company's CEO. Check it
out.
Chris K here with You've heard about it.
Here it is. The Big Arch.
Okay, first of all, that's the CEO of
McDonald's.
He's a skinny little guy in a cashmere
pullover. The CEO of McDonald's should
be a big loud rosy cheicked oily
mannugget who can't stop bellowing.
Yeah, that's it. That guy.
That's his That's
Can we get him that job? Can't we just
give him that?
Okay, let's go back to the video. Here's
Chris K ready to chow down on the big
arch. This is something that we have
tested already in Portugal, Germany,
Canada,
and they all liked it.
So, I assume it's maple glazed octopus
schnitle.
Keep talking, burger man.
I love this product. It is so good.
Okay. Weird to refer to food as product.
Kids, you eat your product. If you
don't, I swear to God, I will send you
to bed with no content.
No Plumbbo with ads for you.
I'm I'm sorry, Chris. I interrupted you
again. You were saying
I'm going to do a tasting right now, but
I'm going to eat this for my lunch, just
so you know.
Thanks.
I'm glad to know that you will eat it
for lunch and not for the other reason
folks eat McDonald's cuz the only other
place at the rest stop is Roy Rogers.
And you're pretty sure the cashier lives
there. Okay, dazzle us with your new
burger.
We've got a very unique kind of sesame
poppy sort of bun on it. We've got two
quarter pound patties, a delicious big
arch sauce, and of course some lettuce.
Okay, I want to pause here again for a
second. I just want to take this moment
to apologize to influencers. It turns
out what you do is incredibly difficult.
Not all heroes.
Not all heroes wear capes. Some do this.
Oh my god. This is a five out of five
game.
Boo. Boo. Boo. Boo.
I believe the children of the future.
Back at M McDonald's HQ, uh the talking
paper napkin continued to examine his
burger.
So, oh, there's so much going on with
this.
You're the CEO.
Is this the first time you're finding
out what your company does? Uh, it
appears a clown is trying to get me to
eat shredded fried potatoes with the
help of his friend, the obese purple
ghost.
Now, finally, the moment came for him to
take a giant bite.
First of all, let's try to get this
thing. I don't even know how to attack
it. Got so much to it. All right, the
moment of truth.
That is so good.
Really?
Cuz it looks like you took the smallest
possible bite
in the history of human chewing.
That's the bite you take when your
three-year-old says, "Try the cookie I
made, Daddy."
Now go have mommy try.
We got a great show for you tonight. My
guest
for you. Believe that. When we come back
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Iran POUNDS Israel, US Bases FLATTENED as War Blows Back on Trump | Greg Stoker & Lowkey
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Started streaming 87 minutes ago #iran #trump #israel
Former US Army ranger Greg Stoker and rapper/journalist Lowkey join the show to break down Iran's latest round of Iran's Operation True Promise 4 as the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran begins to unravel.
Transcript
Welcome everyone. Welcome back to the show. It's your host Danny Hiong. You are tuning in to another update of the
war as on Iran. As you can see, I am joined by Greg Stalker, former US Army
Ranger, geopolitical analyst. He's also running for Congress in Texas. Greg, good to be with you.
Thanks for having me on. Crazy times. Yeah. Yes, they are. Well, uh, how about
we get started? you know, overnight there were massive uh missile salvos
sent at Israel. Um the the videos I'll just pull up are uh pretty damning and
convincing. Uh here is just Tel Aviv in one instance. I'll turn off the volume because it can get quite loud. Um and
this comes in conjunction of what I believe now is wave 15 of Operation True
Promise 4. Uh we know that uh you know uh uh the United States and Israel are
continuing their bombing campaign. Uh and uh there's a lot of talk about
running out of air defense interceptors, Greg. Um and I want to actually just
pull up even what Donald Trump just said about the war. What an amazing unhinged. very
contradictory statement given that uh uh you know we're only in about day four of
this war and that Donald Trump is both talking about going on forever how wars
can be fought forever and very successfully with these unlimited supply of weapons but saying that at the
highest end we have good supply but are not where we want to be much additional hybrid weaponry is stored for us in
outlying countries and he blamed of course Joe Biden for this problem. So,
Greg, uh, where are we at right now? We know that Iran's, uh, retaliation this
time is far different than the 12-day war, especially given the factor of hitting US bases, US air defense
systems. There's just been a report of a THAAD taken out in the UAE by Iran. U,
they're tridding with drones now, it seems like, in the latest waves of Operation True Promise force. So, what's
been your reaction to uh the latest developments here in this conflict? I mean, it's almost boring to talk about
at this point. I think you had me on last week when we had this exact discussion about how we knew we didn't
have the stock piles for these kind of interceptors. They take forever to produce. They're hugely expensive and we
don't really have the industrial base to really uh pump these things out. And it wasn't just us warning about it. It was
like Defense Magazine, all of these defense reporters and ex uh like Air
Force colonels talking about munition stockpiles. We've been talking about this since the genocide in Gaza started,
right? Um and now, you know, a lot of generals didn't want this war to happen,
especially inside the Pentagon. That's why the Pentagon was leaking like a civ up to the start of this operation
because we don't have munition stockpiles. You know, we could reference the old war game from last year uh done
by the uh inst uh the yeah uh the what was it? Oh, the CSIS um study where, you
know, we they war gamed it out using over 60 ex-military uh general officers
that we'd run out of munitions within four to five days over a conflict over the straight of Taiwan. This is like
nothing new. And what I wanted to talk about, especially like when it comes to like drone warfare and these hypersonic
missiles, it kind of like when you don't have air superiority and you don't have
completely complete domination of the skies, this is what allows you to democ like democratize warfare against a power
that has massive uh air assets and carrier strike groups. And we're seeing
that now. I've talked about especially early on when Hamas was still firing rockets into uh Israel proper uh during
the opening days of the genocide that there was a massive cost imbalance with respect to you know these asymmetric
missiles and drones versus these interceptors you know and it speaks more to the equalization of the ability to
wage aerial warfare whether defensively or offensively than they do of the exhaustion of financial capacity to run
wars. You know, these missiles and drones are a fraction of the cost of these massive interceptors. You know, as
aerial explosives really get like cheaper and cheaper, it makes deterrence and the ability to inflict reprisals
more and more accessible to semi like peripheral or non-state forces. you
know, kind of makes aerial warfare, you know, originally the monopoly of the imperialists available to poorer or
sanctioned countries, you know, um, and this is kind of what we're seeing right now because they can keep sending like
the United States has hit a lot of stockpiles. They've hit hundreds of military targets in Iran, but you're not
going to get them all. And it's highly likely, and this is the main concern in the Pentagon, that they're going to run
out of interceptors, which have not been completely effective obviously, uh,
before uh, Iran runs out of its stockpiles of more democratized, cheaper
aerial assets. Yeah. And we're seeing, Greg, I'll just pull up some of these, too. I'll pull up
uh what has shocked especially Israeli but also US military analysts as well as
they're watching what's happening in these waves in Operation True Promise 4 is there are some weapons that I think
they underestimated Iran even having for example like these multiple cluster head missiles that actually break off into
many different parts right before they land. Here is one example of this as the
interceptors are trying to hit it. uh we see uh that there is just uh an absolute
I mean they're just they're just uh absolutely just demolishing the the effectiveness
of these uh uh of these interceptors, Greg. And then here's the hypersonic weapon I wanted to uh to show because I
I think people don't understand. You're talking about them being cheaper and you know how Iran builds these weapons, but
they're incredibly effective. I mean, here is the just how
fast. I mean, people just have to not don't blink when you watch this because
you can't even see it. I I mean, you can't even like that's how fast this these missiles are. Uh, and Iran doesn't
even have to fire that many of them uh in order to uh make this work. And
here's another one I'll just play here uh that uh shows all of these
interceptors in the air. Uh uh you know uh it's funny in one of these videos you
just see Iranian missiles getting through despite it. You'll hear settlers in Israel say, "Oh, it's like
fireworks." And then when the missiles get through, they're they're screaming for their lives because they they just
don't understand how this could be happening. So Greg, uh continue your analysis of of uh especially Iran's
strategy here because I I think there's a fundamental misconception about this. A lot of people uh are are maybe not
getting this. Yeah. I mean, it was kind of hard to anticipate like what the strategy would
be. Like this is very much an open air weapons test way more so than the uh
last operation true promise like or like during the 12-day war. uh this is more uh of Iran going you know on the attack
mode uh targeting US assets in different Gulf states that were complicit or
giving support to these attacks of course like Saudi Arabia the UAE didn't want to get hit that's kind of why they
wanted to close their airspace and that's why US had the US had moved some of its troops out and reallocated assets
because you know uh they didn't want their our quote unquote allies or subimperial states uh to get hit but
Iran did Anyways, um and so basically Iran's strategy as to make uh a conflict
that the US wanted contained. Israel, whether that it wants it contained is very debatable and we can have that
conversation, but the US wanted it contained and now it's not. And there's a lot of problems being demonstrated in
this open air weapons test. It's not just the hypersonic missiles getting through putting rounds on target. It's
not just a cheap uh like shorter or medium range ballistic miss uh ballistic
missiles arrange uh Iran's shooting and uh the Patriot missile batteries and THAADS really not intercepting massive
problems with radar detection and also uh it seems like we had a friendly fire incident uh where three F-15 air
superiority fighters got shot down over Kuwait. You know, I was on here last week talking about like mechanical
failures and one ina million shot, like what happens if a fighter goes down over Iran and the massive problem that would
be. I mean, luckily for the US, it happened over friendly airspace. Um, but it's it's actually been a mess. No one
who has ever existed in the defense sector or in the military from an analytical perspective is thinks that
this is going well. Everybody knows this is a dumpster fire of an operation and
there's no clear vision going forward. And just like when we were talking about like Hamas uh like fighting the uh IOF
in Gaza, what they have to do to win is just survive,
you know, like the Vietkong were never going to defeat the US Empire in the
field. They just needed to survive long enough and do enough damage and cause enough friction at home for the American
people to be like, "Yeah, we're we're really not doing this anymore." And so that's kind of what the strategy is. And
so, of course, it seems overwhelmingly likely and actually I think the Iranian
state media put it out that the Ayatollah was killed this weekend. Uh, and it that was done by Israel. All the
controversial strikes are being done by Israel with US intelligence support. Uh,
so they're doing the Ayatollah Girl school can probably the massacre at the girls school can probably be attributed
to an Israeli strike. I can't confirm that. I don't think anybody can at this point. Uh, but they also uh reporting
coming out of the Jerusalem Post from an hour ago, they hit the assembly of experts, you know, the body of like 88
people or I forget the exact number who chooses the next replacement for the
Ayatollah. So, they're just trying to kill anybody that could take that role. And that's basically the the strategy
from their perspective, just to uh keep a power vacuum um open long enough for the government
to collapse. And it doesn't look like that's going to work because the myth I think of decapitation strikes should
have been uh you know debunked a long time ago. It didn't work with Hezbollah.
Might not probably not going to work here. Um, so what their plan is is just to uh kill everybody who would step into
that role. Of course, uh, Peshkan is at large. Um, and I'm not sure if there's
another process going in for picking another pro, uh, president, but what happened and when you talk about Iranian
strategy, they decentralized a lot of their military command before it happened. The IRGC didn't. There's other
uh elements like the regular army and the besiege in the state, too. So the
decapitation strike strategy is unlikely to work. And now Hezbollah has entered
the battle space. Houthis might also enter as well. Uh at least they've disrupted red uh shipping uh Red Sea
shipping traffic with threats. But yeah, the uh Iranians just need to hold on and
uh there's currently in Congress right now, I think as we're recording, a war
powers resolution being fought on the floor of the house. And this is deeply
unpopular. So, they just need to hang on, do enough damage, um, and hope the U
for the US to stop doing what it's doing. Yeah. Well, how likely is that, Greg?
Uh, because I'll just pull up uh, you know, you mentioned that they are targeting uh, US bases and we can see
the damage here. I'll put it. There's there's satellite here, satellite imagery of what happened to uh Bahrain,
the US naval sports facility, the fifth fleet, the alu deed air base of course, sentcom's headquarters, and of course
what happened in Kuwait where uh we are told, Greg, that that's where the six
casualties, US casualties of this conflict have originated from due to
Iranian drone fire. But Iran is saying the casualties are far higher uh on the
US side. Uh right now Iran is saying 650 casualties in two days. Uh that is the
latest update on that number. And you've heard it Greg. Uh I'm sure you have.
Donald Trump and uh I believe Raisin Kaine just said it as well. Dan Raisin
Kane that there's going to be more. So and it's not a popular war either. So, what do you make of of of this? The the
US side is taking a lot of hits. They are uh they're trying to minimize it.
They're saying, "Oh, well, this isn't really happening." They're the Abraham Lincoln hasn't, you know, moved back. It
wasn't hit at all by missiles and uh there's only minimal damages to our bases. What What are we supposed to
believe here? Okay. Well, it's not minimal. First of all, uh that's like the most significant
damage a US base has taken since like the opening days of the global war on terror. Um
yeah. Uh so when it comes to the casualties, I am very mistrustful of
wartime propaganda coming from both sides. It's just a basic um basic uh
information war. So I'm definitely distrustful. Now from my own experience and again I don't like to use like
personal experience so much because it's really not a data set but the US didn't lie about its casualties during its
engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan. You know we had casualties like every hour on like the evening news. You know you'd
have the people killed in Iraq and Afghanistan put up their units and stuff like that. That's really not happening
right now. Uh, it's kind of like a a different age and a different military than what I was in. What was interesting
is Sentcom put out that three people, three service members were killed and
then they released the footage um of the the caskets being brought back uh to a
US air base in the continental United States and there were like four caskets. So, that was kind of weird that they
messed that up and now it's six. So the it was a makeshift command center,
tactical operations center. It was like a triple wide trailer kind of sophisticated I guess that Iran knew
about that because it wasn't a hard site or a traditional tactical operations center especially on one of those bases
that has been developed and built up for a long time. It's all deeply bizarre. Do I think 650 service members have been
killed? No. That's not something you can actually hide. Uh it's it's US standard
operating procedure to actually uh like if someone's killed in theater to shut down all comms until the families can be
contacted because there's an entire branch of service uh that goes and contacts families like in person uh
before comms can go back up and we haven't seen those comms blackouts that you'd see uh when like a mass casualty
happens. So I it looks like a lot of wartime propaganda. However, US service members are getting wounded. Uh they're
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Could they be talking about casualties as in wounded and killed? Because uh killed
might be far lower than 650 casualties. Yeah. Well, they don't really have to release uh wounded and injured in the same way
that they have to do uh with casualties. Uh but again, this is a completely new
ideological military that I wasn't in back in the day. So
yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it seems like SenCom is uh kind of every other day, every day
uh updating it by like two. Uh, so we don't know actually what what exactly is going on, but um we'll have to keep
we'll have to keep we'll probably know a lot more once this is over. But I wanted
to actually uh Greg, you know, I I'll just pull up this because I think um you
know the the issue of air defenses is getting pretty intense. Uh there's now
talk about relocating THAAD and patriots to the Middle East from the Pacific, which is something the Pentagon really
did not want to do before this even uh started. Uh there there's also uh just
ample evidence that Israel's air defenses in and of itself are running
out uh very dramatically. I'll just uh pull up uh that while you react to it
because you know I I think it's uh becoming Let
me just pull this up. Yeah, here we go. Um I think it's become quite clear that
this is a major problem and I can pull up Marco Rubio talking about it. So
here's the video. uh uh they a lot of people are saying that Iran is using older missiles, older technology uh to
begin all of this and that there might be more in store. I don't know what the accuracy of all that is, but this is the
scene we're kind of getting where there even in Israel there's no sometimes there's just no interceptors going up to
to fight off these attacks. How big of a problem is this? And can the US, we were
talking a little bit before the show, can the US actually transfer these uh systems from the Pacific as rapidly as
they need to? Uh first of all, uh when it comes to interceptors,
Israel has a very like low threshold for taking damage or casualties. In fact,
you know, when US politicians talk about stop arming Israel with offensive weapons, actually what you want to be
voting against is defensive weapons because the defensive weapons allows them to have their, you know,
psychological safety net of the Iron Dome, which gives them public consent or
the government and the military public consent to wage these messianic expansionist wars and bombing campaigns
throughout the region. So, you know, in my political journey, I I always advocate for no no defensive weapons.
That's actually what gives them the impunity to do that. So, a lot of people aren't enjoying it right now. We've seen
the massive amount of booked flights going out of Tel Aviv back to Europe and New York City and LA. Uh so, yeah, when
it comes to bringing more fads into the region from South Korea, I'm just
reminded like even since I was like a kid, like I'm I'm fourth generation Army. I grew up in the whole arsenal of
democracy propaganda. Uh we've always been trying or trying to prepare for you
know an existential like war conflict uh against China over the straight of
Taiwan. You know that's why we have the base in South Korea, Okinawa, Taiwan. Like every time we when I say we, I mean
the imperialist government of the United States tries to shift its focus to isolating and directly confronting
China, we always get dragged back into a Middle East conflict. So there's kind of a running joke in defense circles is
like everyone shifts assets to Indo-Pacific command and then something
happens and it goes back to central command and then back to Indoaccom. And so it's just this running cycle of
assets, be they naval, be they air defense, just moving based off these conflicts that don't need to happen and
are completely avoidable. Can they get if if we just lost a THAD battery, that's an insanely expensive piece of
hardware. There are much How much is it, Gray? I would have to fast 40 million 40 million something of that
sort. Well, I think interceptors are their THAD interceptors are multi-million dollars per per
interceptor and they can only produce only a handful a year. So, it's like, okay, so they make the B they they ship
the battery, but like do we have these munitions? You know, I I think this this
really speaks to how like endstage finance capitalism has really captured
the US uh you know, defense industry to privilege precision over mass. So we
actually cannot fight a highintensity conflict anymore. Like we only have one
factory in Poland right now that produces all of our 155 Howards or shells for mass artillery. Like what's
this is revealing is, you know, we can only do things like uh Venezuela operations, send in Delta Force uh and
our special operations community because no one else has that capability. They don't, but it's all we can really do.
And as I talked a uh with you after the Venezuela operation, that's where we get a lot of our military propaganda. You
know, it's what I call special operations porn. But like when it comes to actually highintensity conflict
stuff, we can't do it anymore. We don't have the industrial base. everything's financialized priv uh privileging uh
like all of these high dollar research and development um contracts like
Northrup Grumman and General Dynamics to make these interceptors which are defensive. They don't really even work
but they're hugely hugely expensive. So it's not really about winning the war
anymore. It's about making money for private contractors which is why half of over half slightly over half of the
Pentagon's budget doesn't go to the military. It goes to these private contractors and there's this deep rot
inside the military. It's not just because, you know, there's a lack of readiness or a recruiting crisis. It's
because all of our logistics, all of our industrial base, quote unquote industrial base doesn't really exist, is
done by the private contractors. You know, I was talking to my uncle about this. He was like this still this MAGA
guy. And so I had to use like a a Roman Empire uh analogy because like he knows
about that. Uh could you imagine how effective the Roman army would have been if they didn't handle their own
logistics? Like that's what allowed them to be this massive imperial force. So we
don't have that right now because it's all done for profit, not for the actual functioning of the military. So what
this conflict has definitely exposed and highlight is uh this massive rot with
inside the department of war and the military apparatus that there is no political will to fix. The Democrats
don't have it, Republicans don't have it. It just makes too much money. And
again, all we can do is special operations. And that's really not something that a
lot of people are interested in trying in Iran. you know, we have a really bad track record of uh special operations
disasters in Central Asia, so we'll see. Yeah. And uh Iran's terrain is very
challenging as well. Um we Yeah, we'll have to see. I wanted to
uh pull this up. You know, I I think I've seen this cost. This is from the Islander, but I feel like I've seen this
cost that up it can be up to $44 million a shot for Patriot interceptors. uh at
chasing down what often is $250,000 worth. Um I think the I think the 44 million is
closer to the THAAD or arrow interceptors. I think Patriots are going to be way cheaper than that.
Right. Right. Right. So, you know, their lack of effectiveness though in terms of
being able to uh hit an Iranian missile or drone, I think really speaks to
exactly as you said, there's a a changing way of how war is fought. And the US seems very behind, which begs the
question, Greg, you know, a lot of people in the audience wanted to to ask this um of my guests today is who do you
believe is winning this conflict? Because I think right now, of course, Iran has taken civilian casualties. The
US and Israel are bombing, you know, they bomb the media. What is that? The IIB. Uh they're bombing schools. They're
bombing anything. Every they're trying to essentially uh break the Iranian
people. Um and Iran has been very strategic and and very intentional about
how they are going about this and have hit very important targets and have
already caused a bit of panic inside of the Pentagon. So uh what's your take on
this question? My take on this question is it's it's not this equivalent relationship. you
know, the conditions for victory for Iran are different than the conditions of victory for the United States. And
can you actually can anyone in the audience actually describe to me what the United States conditions for victory
are? like like regime change, uh killing the Ayatollah and anyone who would
succeed him, destabilization, balkanization, destroying all of the
IRGC, collapsing the central bank, like what are we talk what are the conditions for victory for the United States? They
haven't set any. You know, it's it's it's like Iraq 2.0 in some ways. uh you
know the the conditions for victory for Iraq were to overthrow Saddam and do a
interminable nation building forever war exercise but we don't even have that for Iran. So I don't know what the
conditions for victory for the United States are because they haven't been set. We're just doing this kind of
mowing the grass operation every two years it seems now with Iran or every
year where we just ignite this new conflict, kill a bunch of people, IRGC commanders, politicians, nuclear
scientists, uh declare victory and then walk away. However, this time is going
to be different because we clearly started this con uh conflict in
conjunction with the initial Israeli strikes. Whether or not, you know, people in the White House or the
Pentagon were super excited about that prospect, it's debatable. Uh it doesn't matter. Um this conflict has expanded in
dimensions way beyond what the United States decision makers would have liked
and it's not going well. It's it's revealed deep strategic weaknesses and
operational weaknesses. And I don't know, can anybody tell me what a US condition for victory would look like?
It hasn't been set. And again, all Iran needs to do is just survive as an entity
and they win. Like there there is really no way out of this uh for the United
States unless they, you know, they've lost the propaganda or the information war. uh the Trump administration, this
is going to like destroy his legacy, I believe. Um, a lot of people are jumping ship. A lot of people are realizing like
this was the final straw. Like he has straight up lying to you now. Um, I
mean, it it was a not just it's not just been a military disaster, but also an information disaster as well. So, I
don't know how the United States pulls itself out of the fire and achieves quote unquote victory conditions, which haven't even been set, if that makes
sense. Yeah. Well, let's uh let's talk about that information disaster because we can definitely uh uh pinpoint the incredible
difficulties that the Trump administration is having. Not just justifying the war, but also I think a lot of this is trying to hide uh what we
know, we played it the last time you were on the show. We know that Sentcom, we know that the US military breast, the
foreign policy that they pay attention to what people are seeing on social media. They're seeing the same things
that we're seeing. They know. I mean, they're they're in this war, so they obviously know uh what Iran is doing and
how that looks. Oh, yeah. There there are entire specializations within the military that
just monitor this stuff. Exactly. So, they know. And now we have
uh So, as they're trying to hide exactly what's going on, the difficulties, as
well as justify this war, we see some pretty uh stark uh contradictions. So,
here's Marco Rubio's longer uh reasoning for why the US is doing this in the
first place. This operation with a very clear goal in mind. I haven't had a chance to see a
lot of reporting. I don't understand what the confusion is. Let me explain it to you and I'll do it once again as
clearly as possible. Perhaps we'll report it that way. The United States is conducting an operation to eliminate the
threat of Iran's short-range ballistic missiles and the threat posed by their navy, particularly to naval assets. That
is what it is focused on doing right now and it's doing quite successfully. I'll leave it to the Pentagon and the
Department of War to discuss the tactics behind that and the progress that's being made. That is the clear objective of this mission. The second question
that been asked is why now? Well, there's two reasons why now. The first is it was abundantly clear that if Iran
came under attack by anyone the United States or Israel or anyone they were going to respond and respond against the
United States. The orders had been delegated down to the field commanders. It was automatic and in fact it bared to
be true because in fact the within an hour of of the initial attack on the on
the leadership compound the missile forces in the south and in the north for that matter had already been activated
to launch. In fact those had already been pre-positioned. The third is the assessment that was made that if we
stood and waited for that attack to come first before we hit them, we would suffer much higher casualties. And so
the president made the very wise decision. He we knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew
that that would precipitate an attack against American forces. And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after
them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even hire those killed. And then
we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that and didn't. So which the last part is is is actually
an interesting admission. First of all, nothing about nuclear, which we can get into in a second when we hear JD Vince.
But also that last part of we knew Israel was going to attack, so we had to
essentially attack as well. Yeah. or or or or if we even break down the quote unquote logic further, it's
like Iran thought we were going to attack them first, so they were going to attack us first, which means we had to
attack them actually first. You know, in his defense, like ar like log trying to
logically argue for this war is kind of like trying to use the scientific method
to disprove gravity. So, I mean, I feel for him. And again, when it comes to these strategic goals, you know, one
person is saying one thing. Marco Rubio is like, "Yeah, it's the ballistic missiles." Then you have another White House official being like, "It's
actually the Iranian nuclear program." Here's JD Vance. So long as we achieve the president's
objective to make it clear that Iran can't build the bomb, I I think the president will be happy with the outcome.
So, you know, the bomb being a nuclear weapon. Yeah. Yeah. And then you have other
officials uh like talking about regime change. So like which which one is it guys? Take a pick. And it's very clear
that there are factions within the White House and the Pentagon that don't support this. But then there are also like actually religious extremists with
inside the US government and the military who are behind this not just for any logical reason but because you
know they need to bring about Armageddon. Literally that's where we're at. Here it is. Asia Times. US troops were told Iran war is for Armageddon, the
return of Jesus. Advocy groups reports commanders giving similar message to more than at more than 30 installations
in every branch of the military. A combat unit commander told non-commission officers at a briefing
Monday that the Iran war is part of God's plan and that President Donald Trump was anointed by Jesus to light the
signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth. So there
you go, Greg. uh help us understand this. This is actually a pretty big story that
nobody's reporting on yet. At least no western mainstream media is reporting on yet. Uh the the complaints were taken by
a nonprofit watchdog that monitors religious extremism in the military. It's the military religious freedom
foundation. and they received like 40 complaints or 110 complaints from 40
different units across 30 different installations I believe uh if I uh
remember the exact numbers from the article uh of non-commissioned officers and lower uh ranking officers reporting
that they're that they're company commanders or battalion commanders or division commanders are saying this you
know like every like every time you go go went off the weekend, you return back
to work on Monday in the military. You get like commanders briefings and emails with a week like your agenda for the
week, your training schedule, everything. And this was in there. Insane.
Iran POUNDS Israel, US Bases FLATTENED as War Blows Back on Trump | Greg Stoker & Lowkey
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Former US Army ranger Greg Stoker and rapper/journalist Lowkey join the show to break down Iran's latest round of Iran's Operation True Promise 4 as the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran begins to unravel.
Transcript
Welcome everyone. Welcome back to the show. It's your host Danny Hiong. You are tuning in to another update of the
war as on Iran. As you can see, I am joined by Greg Stalker, former US Army
Ranger, geopolitical analyst. He's also running for Congress in Texas. Greg, good to be with you.
Thanks for having me on. Crazy times. Yeah. Yes, they are. Well, uh, how about
we get started? you know, overnight there were massive uh missile salvos
sent at Israel. Um the the videos I'll just pull up are uh pretty damning and
convincing. Uh here is just Tel Aviv in one instance. I'll turn off the volume because it can get quite loud. Um and
this comes in conjunction of what I believe now is wave 15 of Operation True
Promise 4. Uh we know that uh you know uh uh the United States and Israel are
continuing their bombing campaign. Uh and uh there's a lot of talk about
running out of air defense interceptors, Greg. Um and I want to actually just
pull up even what Donald Trump just said about the war. What an amazing unhinged. very
contradictory statement given that uh uh you know we're only in about day four of
this war and that Donald Trump is both talking about going on forever how wars
can be fought forever and very successfully with these unlimited supply of weapons but saying that at the
highest end we have good supply but are not where we want to be much additional hybrid weaponry is stored for us in
outlying countries and he blamed of course Joe Biden for this problem. So,
Greg, uh, where are we at right now? We know that Iran's, uh, retaliation this
time is far different than the 12-day war, especially given the factor of hitting US bases, US air defense
systems. There's just been a report of a THAAD taken out in the UAE by Iran. U,
they're tridding with drones now, it seems like, in the latest waves of Operation True Promise force. So, what's
been your reaction to uh the latest developments here in this conflict? I mean, it's almost boring to talk about
at this point. I think you had me on last week when we had this exact discussion about how we knew we didn't
have the stock piles for these kind of interceptors. They take forever to produce. They're hugely expensive and we
don't really have the industrial base to really uh pump these things out. And it wasn't just us warning about it. It was
like Defense Magazine, all of these defense reporters and ex uh like Air
Force colonels talking about munition stockpiles. We've been talking about this since the genocide in Gaza started,
right? Um and now, you know, a lot of generals didn't want this war to happen,
especially inside the Pentagon. That's why the Pentagon was leaking like a civ up to the start of this operation
because we don't have munition stockpiles. You know, we could reference the old war game from last year uh done
by the uh inst uh the yeah uh the what was it? Oh, the CSIS um study where, you
know, we they war gamed it out using over 60 ex-military uh general officers
that we'd run out of munitions within four to five days over a conflict over the straight of Taiwan. This is like
nothing new. And what I wanted to talk about, especially like when it comes to like drone warfare and these hypersonic
missiles, it kind of like when you don't have air superiority and you don't have
completely complete domination of the skies, this is what allows you to democ like democratize warfare against a power
that has massive uh air assets and carrier strike groups. And we're seeing
that now. I've talked about especially early on when Hamas was still firing rockets into uh Israel proper uh during
the opening days of the genocide that there was a massive cost imbalance with respect to you know these asymmetric
missiles and drones versus these interceptors you know and it speaks more to the equalization of the ability to
wage aerial warfare whether defensively or offensively than they do of the exhaustion of financial capacity to run
wars. You know, these missiles and drones are a fraction of the cost of these massive interceptors. You know, as
aerial explosives really get like cheaper and cheaper, it makes deterrence and the ability to inflict reprisals
more and more accessible to semi like peripheral or non-state forces. you
know, kind of makes aerial warfare, you know, originally the monopoly of the imperialists available to poorer or
sanctioned countries, you know, um, and this is kind of what we're seeing right now because they can keep sending like
the United States has hit a lot of stockpiles. They've hit hundreds of military targets in Iran, but you're not
going to get them all. And it's highly likely, and this is the main concern in the Pentagon, that they're going to run
out of interceptors, which have not been completely effective obviously, uh,
before uh, Iran runs out of its stockpiles of more democratized, cheaper
aerial assets. Yeah. And we're seeing, Greg, I'll just pull up some of these, too. I'll pull up
uh what has shocked especially Israeli but also US military analysts as well as
they're watching what's happening in these waves in Operation True Promise 4 is there are some weapons that I think
they underestimated Iran even having for example like these multiple cluster head missiles that actually break off into
many different parts right before they land. Here is one example of this as the
interceptors are trying to hit it. uh we see uh that there is just uh an absolute
I mean they're just they're just uh absolutely just demolishing the the effectiveness
of these uh uh of these interceptors, Greg. And then here's the hypersonic weapon I wanted to uh to show because I
I think people don't understand. You're talking about them being cheaper and you know how Iran builds these weapons, but
they're incredibly effective. I mean, here is the just how
fast. I mean, people just have to not don't blink when you watch this because
you can't even see it. I I mean, you can't even like that's how fast this these missiles are. Uh, and Iran doesn't
even have to fire that many of them uh in order to uh make this work. And
here's another one I'll just play here uh that uh shows all of these
interceptors in the air. Uh uh you know uh it's funny in one of these videos you
just see Iranian missiles getting through despite it. You'll hear settlers in Israel say, "Oh, it's like
fireworks." And then when the missiles get through, they're they're screaming for their lives because they they just
don't understand how this could be happening. So Greg, uh continue your analysis of of uh especially Iran's
strategy here because I I think there's a fundamental misconception about this. A lot of people uh are are maybe not
getting this. Yeah. I mean, it was kind of hard to anticipate like what the strategy would
be. Like this is very much an open air weapons test way more so than the uh
last operation true promise like or like during the 12-day war. uh this is more uh of Iran going you know on the attack
mode uh targeting US assets in different Gulf states that were complicit or
giving support to these attacks of course like Saudi Arabia the UAE didn't want to get hit that's kind of why they
wanted to close their airspace and that's why US had the US had moved some of its troops out and reallocated assets
because you know uh they didn't want their our quote unquote allies or subimperial states uh to get hit but
Iran did Anyways, um and so basically Iran's strategy as to make uh a conflict
that the US wanted contained. Israel, whether that it wants it contained is very debatable and we can have that
conversation, but the US wanted it contained and now it's not. And there's a lot of problems being demonstrated in
this open air weapons test. It's not just the hypersonic missiles getting through putting rounds on target. It's
not just a cheap uh like shorter or medium range ballistic miss uh ballistic
missiles arrange uh Iran's shooting and uh the Patriot missile batteries and THAADS really not intercepting massive
problems with radar detection and also uh it seems like we had a friendly fire incident uh where three F-15 air
superiority fighters got shot down over Kuwait. You know, I was on here last week talking about like mechanical
failures and one ina million shot, like what happens if a fighter goes down over Iran and the massive problem that would
be. I mean, luckily for the US, it happened over friendly airspace. Um, but it's it's actually been a mess. No one
who has ever existed in the defense sector or in the military from an analytical perspective is thinks that
this is going well. Everybody knows this is a dumpster fire of an operation and
there's no clear vision going forward. And just like when we were talking about like Hamas uh like fighting the uh IOF
in Gaza, what they have to do to win is just survive,
you know, like the Vietkong were never going to defeat the US Empire in the
field. They just needed to survive long enough and do enough damage and cause enough friction at home for the American
people to be like, "Yeah, we're we're really not doing this anymore." And so that's kind of what the strategy is. And
so, of course, it seems overwhelmingly likely and actually I think the Iranian
state media put it out that the Ayatollah was killed this weekend. Uh, and it that was done by Israel. All the
controversial strikes are being done by Israel with US intelligence support. Uh,
so they're doing the Ayatollah Girl school can probably the massacre at the girls school can probably be attributed
to an Israeli strike. I can't confirm that. I don't think anybody can at this point. Uh, but they also uh reporting
coming out of the Jerusalem Post from an hour ago, they hit the assembly of experts, you know, the body of like 88
people or I forget the exact number who chooses the next replacement for the
Ayatollah. So, they're just trying to kill anybody that could take that role. And that's basically the the strategy
from their perspective, just to uh keep a power vacuum um open long enough for the government
to collapse. And it doesn't look like that's going to work because the myth I think of decapitation strikes should
have been uh you know debunked a long time ago. It didn't work with Hezbollah.
Might not probably not going to work here. Um, so what their plan is is just to uh kill everybody who would step into
that role. Of course, uh, Peshkan is at large. Um, and I'm not sure if there's
another process going in for picking another pro, uh, president, but what happened and when you talk about Iranian
strategy, they decentralized a lot of their military command before it happened. The IRGC didn't. There's other
uh elements like the regular army and the besiege in the state, too. So the
decapitation strike strategy is unlikely to work. And now Hezbollah has entered
the battle space. Houthis might also enter as well. Uh at least they've disrupted red uh shipping uh Red Sea
shipping traffic with threats. But yeah, the uh Iranians just need to hold on and
uh there's currently in Congress right now, I think as we're recording, a war
powers resolution being fought on the floor of the house. And this is deeply
unpopular. So, they just need to hang on, do enough damage, um, and hope the U
for the US to stop doing what it's doing. Yeah. Well, how likely is that, Greg?
Uh, because I'll just pull up uh, you know, you mentioned that they are targeting uh, US bases and we can see
the damage here. I'll put it. There's there's satellite here, satellite imagery of what happened to uh Bahrain,
the US naval sports facility, the fifth fleet, the alu deed air base of course, sentcom's headquarters, and of course
what happened in Kuwait where uh we are told, Greg, that that's where the six
casualties, US casualties of this conflict have originated from due to
Iranian drone fire. But Iran is saying the casualties are far higher uh on the
US side. Uh right now Iran is saying 650 casualties in two days. Uh that is the
latest update on that number. And you've heard it Greg. Uh I'm sure you have.
Donald Trump and uh I believe Raisin Kaine just said it as well. Dan Raisin
Kane that there's going to be more. So and it's not a popular war either. So, what do you make of of of this? The the
US side is taking a lot of hits. They are uh they're trying to minimize it.
They're saying, "Oh, well, this isn't really happening." They're the Abraham Lincoln hasn't, you know, moved back. It
wasn't hit at all by missiles and uh there's only minimal damages to our bases. What What are we supposed to
believe here? Okay. Well, it's not minimal. First of all, uh that's like the most significant
damage a US base has taken since like the opening days of the global war on terror. Um
yeah. Uh so when it comes to the casualties, I am very mistrustful of
wartime propaganda coming from both sides. It's just a basic um basic uh
information war. So I'm definitely distrustful. Now from my own experience and again I don't like to use like
personal experience so much because it's really not a data set but the US didn't lie about its casualties during its
engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan. You know we had casualties like every hour on like the evening news. You know you'd
have the people killed in Iraq and Afghanistan put up their units and stuff like that. That's really not happening
right now. Uh, it's kind of like a a different age and a different military than what I was in. What was interesting
is Sentcom put out that three people, three service members were killed and
then they released the footage um of the the caskets being brought back uh to a
US air base in the continental United States and there were like four caskets. So, that was kind of weird that they
messed that up and now it's six. So the it was a makeshift command center,
tactical operations center. It was like a triple wide trailer kind of sophisticated I guess that Iran knew
about that because it wasn't a hard site or a traditional tactical operations center especially on one of those bases
that has been developed and built up for a long time. It's all deeply bizarre. Do I think 650 service members have been
killed? No. That's not something you can actually hide. Uh it's it's US standard
operating procedure to actually uh like if someone's killed in theater to shut down all comms until the families can be
contacted because there's an entire branch of service uh that goes and contacts families like in person uh
before comms can go back up and we haven't seen those comms blackouts that you'd see uh when like a mass casualty
happens. So I it looks like a lot of wartime propaganda. However, US service members are getting wounded. Uh they're
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Could they be talking about casualties as in wounded and killed? Because uh killed
might be far lower than 650 casualties. Yeah. Well, they don't really have to release uh wounded and injured in the same way
that they have to do uh with casualties. Uh but again, this is a completely new
ideological military that I wasn't in back in the day. So
yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it seems like SenCom is uh kind of every other day, every day
uh updating it by like two. Uh, so we don't know actually what what exactly is going on, but um we'll have to keep
we'll have to keep we'll probably know a lot more once this is over. But I wanted
to actually uh Greg, you know, I I'll just pull up this because I think um you
know the the issue of air defenses is getting pretty intense. Uh there's now
talk about relocating THAAD and patriots to the Middle East from the Pacific, which is something the Pentagon really
did not want to do before this even uh started. Uh there there's also uh just
ample evidence that Israel's air defenses in and of itself are running
out uh very dramatically. I'll just uh pull up uh that while you react to it
because you know I I think it's uh becoming Let
me just pull this up. Yeah, here we go. Um I think it's become quite clear that
this is a major problem and I can pull up Marco Rubio talking about it. So
here's the video. uh uh they a lot of people are saying that Iran is using older missiles, older technology uh to
begin all of this and that there might be more in store. I don't know what the accuracy of all that is, but this is the
scene we're kind of getting where there even in Israel there's no sometimes there's just no interceptors going up to
to fight off these attacks. How big of a problem is this? And can the US, we were
talking a little bit before the show, can the US actually transfer these uh systems from the Pacific as rapidly as
they need to? Uh first of all, uh when it comes to interceptors,
Israel has a very like low threshold for taking damage or casualties. In fact,
you know, when US politicians talk about stop arming Israel with offensive weapons, actually what you want to be
voting against is defensive weapons because the defensive weapons allows them to have their, you know,
psychological safety net of the Iron Dome, which gives them public consent or
the government and the military public consent to wage these messianic expansionist wars and bombing campaigns
throughout the region. So, you know, in my political journey, I I always advocate for no no defensive weapons.
That's actually what gives them the impunity to do that. So, a lot of people aren't enjoying it right now. We've seen
the massive amount of booked flights going out of Tel Aviv back to Europe and New York City and LA. Uh so, yeah, when
it comes to bringing more fads into the region from South Korea, I'm just
reminded like even since I was like a kid, like I'm I'm fourth generation Army. I grew up in the whole arsenal of
democracy propaganda. Uh we've always been trying or trying to prepare for you
know an existential like war conflict uh against China over the straight of
Taiwan. You know that's why we have the base in South Korea, Okinawa, Taiwan. Like every time we when I say we, I mean
the imperialist government of the United States tries to shift its focus to isolating and directly confronting
China, we always get dragged back into a Middle East conflict. So there's kind of a running joke in defense circles is
like everyone shifts assets to Indo-Pacific command and then something
happens and it goes back to central command and then back to Indoaccom. And so it's just this running cycle of
assets, be they naval, be they air defense, just moving based off these conflicts that don't need to happen and
are completely avoidable. Can they get if if we just lost a THAD battery, that's an insanely expensive piece of
hardware. There are much How much is it, Gray? I would have to fast 40 million 40 million something of that
sort. Well, I think interceptors are their THAD interceptors are multi-million dollars per per
interceptor and they can only produce only a handful a year. So, it's like, okay, so they make the B they they ship
the battery, but like do we have these munitions? You know, I I think this this
really speaks to how like endstage finance capitalism has really captured
the US uh you know, defense industry to privilege precision over mass. So we
actually cannot fight a highintensity conflict anymore. Like we only have one
factory in Poland right now that produces all of our 155 Howards or shells for mass artillery. Like what's
this is revealing is, you know, we can only do things like uh Venezuela operations, send in Delta Force uh and
our special operations community because no one else has that capability. They don't, but it's all we can really do.
And as I talked a uh with you after the Venezuela operation, that's where we get a lot of our military propaganda. You
know, it's what I call special operations porn. But like when it comes to actually highintensity conflict
stuff, we can't do it anymore. We don't have the industrial base. everything's financialized priv uh privileging uh
like all of these high dollar research and development um contracts like
Northrup Grumman and General Dynamics to make these interceptors which are defensive. They don't really even work
but they're hugely hugely expensive. So it's not really about winning the war
anymore. It's about making money for private contractors which is why half of over half slightly over half of the
Pentagon's budget doesn't go to the military. It goes to these private contractors and there's this deep rot
inside the military. It's not just because, you know, there's a lack of readiness or a recruiting crisis. It's
because all of our logistics, all of our industrial base, quote unquote industrial base doesn't really exist, is
done by the private contractors. You know, I was talking to my uncle about this. He was like this still this MAGA
guy. And so I had to use like a a Roman Empire uh analogy because like he knows
about that. Uh could you imagine how effective the Roman army would have been if they didn't handle their own
logistics? Like that's what allowed them to be this massive imperial force. So we
don't have that right now because it's all done for profit, not for the actual functioning of the military. So what
this conflict has definitely exposed and highlight is uh this massive rot with
inside the department of war and the military apparatus that there is no political will to fix. The Democrats
don't have it, Republicans don't have it. It just makes too much money. And
again, all we can do is special operations. And that's really not something that a
lot of people are interested in trying in Iran. you know, we have a really bad track record of uh special operations
disasters in Central Asia, so we'll see. Yeah. And uh Iran's terrain is very
challenging as well. Um we Yeah, we'll have to see. I wanted to
uh pull this up. You know, I I think I've seen this cost. This is from the Islander, but I feel like I've seen this
cost that up it can be up to $44 million a shot for Patriot interceptors. uh at
chasing down what often is $250,000 worth. Um I think the I think the 44 million is
closer to the THAAD or arrow interceptors. I think Patriots are going to be way cheaper than that.
Right. Right. Right. So, you know, their lack of effectiveness though in terms of
being able to uh hit an Iranian missile or drone, I think really speaks to
exactly as you said, there's a a changing way of how war is fought. And the US seems very behind, which begs the
question, Greg, you know, a lot of people in the audience wanted to to ask this um of my guests today is who do you
believe is winning this conflict? Because I think right now, of course, Iran has taken civilian casualties. The
US and Israel are bombing, you know, they bomb the media. What is that? The IIB. Uh they're bombing schools. They're
bombing anything. Every they're trying to essentially uh break the Iranian
people. Um and Iran has been very strategic and and very intentional about
how they are going about this and have hit very important targets and have
already caused a bit of panic inside of the Pentagon. So uh what's your take on
this question? My take on this question is it's it's not this equivalent relationship. you
know, the conditions for victory for Iran are different than the conditions of victory for the United States. And
can you actually can anyone in the audience actually describe to me what the United States conditions for victory
are? like like regime change, uh killing the Ayatollah and anyone who would
succeed him, destabilization, balkanization, destroying all of the
IRGC, collapsing the central bank, like what are we talk what are the conditions for victory for the United States? They
haven't set any. You know, it's it's it's like Iraq 2.0 in some ways. uh you
know the the conditions for victory for Iraq were to overthrow Saddam and do a
interminable nation building forever war exercise but we don't even have that for Iran. So I don't know what the
conditions for victory for the United States are because they haven't been set. We're just doing this kind of
mowing the grass operation every two years it seems now with Iran or every
year where we just ignite this new conflict, kill a bunch of people, IRGC commanders, politicians, nuclear
scientists, uh declare victory and then walk away. However, this time is going
to be different because we clearly started this con uh conflict in
conjunction with the initial Israeli strikes. Whether or not, you know, people in the White House or the
Pentagon were super excited about that prospect, it's debatable. Uh it doesn't matter. Um this conflict has expanded in
dimensions way beyond what the United States decision makers would have liked
and it's not going well. It's it's revealed deep strategic weaknesses and
operational weaknesses. And I don't know, can anybody tell me what a US condition for victory would look like?
It hasn't been set. And again, all Iran needs to do is just survive as an entity
and they win. Like there there is really no way out of this uh for the United
States unless they, you know, they've lost the propaganda or the information war. uh the Trump administration, this
is going to like destroy his legacy, I believe. Um, a lot of people are jumping ship. A lot of people are realizing like
this was the final straw. Like he has straight up lying to you now. Um, I
mean, it it was a not just it's not just been a military disaster, but also an information disaster as well. So, I
don't know how the United States pulls itself out of the fire and achieves quote unquote victory conditions, which haven't even been set, if that makes
sense. Yeah. Well, let's uh let's talk about that information disaster because we can definitely uh uh pinpoint the incredible
difficulties that the Trump administration is having. Not just justifying the war, but also I think a lot of this is trying to hide uh what we
know, we played it the last time you were on the show. We know that Sentcom, we know that the US military breast, the
foreign policy that they pay attention to what people are seeing on social media. They're seeing the same things
that we're seeing. They know. I mean, they're they're in this war, so they obviously know uh what Iran is doing and
how that looks. Oh, yeah. There there are entire specializations within the military that
just monitor this stuff. Exactly. So, they know. And now we have
uh So, as they're trying to hide exactly what's going on, the difficulties, as
well as justify this war, we see some pretty uh stark uh contradictions. So,
here's Marco Rubio's longer uh reasoning for why the US is doing this in the
first place. This operation with a very clear goal in mind. I haven't had a chance to see a
lot of reporting. I don't understand what the confusion is. Let me explain it to you and I'll do it once again as
clearly as possible. Perhaps we'll report it that way. The United States is conducting an operation to eliminate the
threat of Iran's short-range ballistic missiles and the threat posed by their navy, particularly to naval assets. That
is what it is focused on doing right now and it's doing quite successfully. I'll leave it to the Pentagon and the
Department of War to discuss the tactics behind that and the progress that's being made. That is the clear objective of this mission. The second question
that been asked is why now? Well, there's two reasons why now. The first is it was abundantly clear that if Iran
came under attack by anyone the United States or Israel or anyone they were going to respond and respond against the
United States. The orders had been delegated down to the field commanders. It was automatic and in fact it bared to
be true because in fact the within an hour of of the initial attack on the on
the leadership compound the missile forces in the south and in the north for that matter had already been activated
to launch. In fact those had already been pre-positioned. The third is the assessment that was made that if we
stood and waited for that attack to come first before we hit them, we would suffer much higher casualties. And so
the president made the very wise decision. He we knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew
that that would precipitate an attack against American forces. And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after
them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even hire those killed. And then
we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that and didn't. So which the last part is is is actually
an interesting admission. First of all, nothing about nuclear, which we can get into in a second when we hear JD Vince.
But also that last part of we knew Israel was going to attack, so we had to
essentially attack as well. Yeah. or or or or if we even break down the quote unquote logic further, it's
like Iran thought we were going to attack them first, so they were going to attack us first, which means we had to
attack them actually first. You know, in his defense, like ar like log trying to
logically argue for this war is kind of like trying to use the scientific method
to disprove gravity. So, I mean, I feel for him. And again, when it comes to these strategic goals, you know, one
person is saying one thing. Marco Rubio is like, "Yeah, it's the ballistic missiles." Then you have another White House official being like, "It's
actually the Iranian nuclear program." Here's JD Vance. So long as we achieve the president's
objective to make it clear that Iran can't build the bomb, I I think the president will be happy with the outcome.
So, you know, the bomb being a nuclear weapon. Yeah. Yeah. And then you have other
officials uh like talking about regime change. So like which which one is it guys? Take a pick. And it's very clear
that there are factions within the White House and the Pentagon that don't support this. But then there are also like actually religious extremists with
inside the US government and the military who are behind this not just for any logical reason but because you
know they need to bring about Armageddon. Literally that's where we're at. Here it is. Asia Times. US troops were told Iran war is for Armageddon, the
return of Jesus. Advocy groups reports commanders giving similar message to more than at more than 30 installations
in every branch of the military. A combat unit commander told non-commission officers at a briefing
Monday that the Iran war is part of God's plan and that President Donald Trump was anointed by Jesus to light the
signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth. So there
you go, Greg. uh help us understand this. This is actually a pretty big story that
nobody's reporting on yet. At least no western mainstream media is reporting on yet. Uh the the complaints were taken by
a nonprofit watchdog that monitors religious extremism in the military. It's the military religious freedom
foundation. and they received like 40 complaints or 110 complaints from 40
different units across 30 different installations I believe uh if I uh
remember the exact numbers from the article uh of non-commissioned officers and lower uh ranking officers reporting
that they're that they're company commanders or battalion commanders or division commanders are saying this you
know like every like every time you go go went off the weekend, you return back
to work on Monday in the military. You get like commanders briefings and emails with a week like your agenda for the
week, your training schedule, everything. And this was in there. Insane.
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Uh so, you know, I grew up spent
the most formative years of my life in a special operations unit. And there's like two different types of people in these kind of units. There's like the
secular degenerates that all you do is like party. That was me. And then you have like the actual evangelical
Christians who are like married at like super young age. Um they're highly
religious evangelical go do like prayer circles before doing any operations. And
if someone's going to do war crimes it's generally those guys. But those are the two archetypes. So, you're having all
these secular people uh in the military being briefed by these like religious
zealots and that that this is coming at a time and an unprecedented scale that I
haven't seen before. Um, of course, you know, we always had that. You can look at reporting from the early days of the
Iraq war with like generals and admirals who were evangelicals supporting the war in Iraq even though they knew that we
didn't have WMDs, but they're doing it for the messianic vision of a greater Israel. So like a lot of these senior
commanders in the military actually believe in this messianic vision and uh
that's a huge problem because it's killing morale, you know, and no like a
lot of these people are secular. Most people in the military are secular and actually they tend to vote the the
overwhelming majority of the military like over 50% actually votes Democrat
because a lot of them are people of color. Uh they're from the cities, large urban centers. Uh so so this is actually
kind of a huge friction and fraction point in the military that this is coming out. I never saw this um
especially to this extent. It's actually kind of absolutely uh bizarre, but it speaks to uh the the politicization of
the military, especially at the command echelon. And that's something we all should be uh deeply fearful about because, you know, military decisions
should be done by logic and not like what is a religious zealot ideology. So,
uh that's also another point of deep rot with inside the the US imperial armies.
Uh it's not just private contractors. It's not just de-industrialization, it's also the politicization uh of and that's
only going to destroy morale and fracture it even further. So like this war is exposing so many systemic
problems again which there is no political will to fix.
Well, Greg, you know, as we've been going through now four days of this thing, I I there's such a a massive
difference I think when you talk about morale, right? We have for example and I think this is where I I believe Iran has
certainly won especially this part of the battle if not it being a total
turning point in the war. So all the murder, all the the assassinations,
killing the Ayatollah Ali Kamei, uh that was supposed to break the Iranian people, but they immediately came out in
droves. In droves as air I've seen some of these videos, Greg, where there's air defense uh I'll just zoom in more
sometimes putting the video 100% will uh mess with the audio, but I've seen Iranians in the streets as air defenses
are activated right above them. I mean, that is something. And then we've had Hezbollah join. We know that Ensurala is
probably going to get involved if this goes on uh as long as we think. And then
you know on the other side on the US side we've had bases visibly destroyed. We've had uh three fighter pilots having
to eject themselves and their planes falling to the ground because of
friendly fire uh of Kuwaiti air defenses supposedly. And we've had just over and
over again we we have Israel getting pounded every single day with their air
defenses likely running out soon. So this part of it feels very much um at
least on the side of Iran in terms of who has the initiative and and Iran has said Iran is saying they want a long war
and the US can't they can't decide. They keep saying the Trump administration says in secret they only want it a few
days. Then he says it can go on forever. Then, you know, we hear, "Nah, we can't
tell you how long this is going to go on." So, it it one side looks like chaos, the other side looks like they
have initiative. What do you think of that? Well, we we all knew that there was going to be this rallying around the
flag happening if they start hitting girls schools, hospitals, and start killing political and military leaders.
We knew that was going to happen. That's not really surprising. Um, a lot of this, of course, we we went we did more
like a geopolitical deep dive about, you know, bricks and the belt and road initiative and why Iran needs to fall to
basically prevent a tripartite uh strategic alliance between Iran, China,
Russia and you know glo like anti-western essentially global infrastructure. This that's beyond the
scope of our discussion here today. Uh but from the Israeli perspective, they
know that this is kind of one of their last chances to really send it all out
there. Uh there's a deep sense in their leadership
that unconditional US support for what they're doing is not going to last
forever. They need to strengthen their own military and actually do as much damage as they can while they still have
the aegis of the US empire protecting them unconditionally and kind of being led by them from a foreign policy
perspective. So, we're seeing civilian targets getting hit all throughout the
south of Lebanon. Looks like they're going to potentially reinvade or at least establish like security
checkpoints south of the Latani River. Uh they're probably going to if Ansar
law gets involved uh start doing bombing runs on Yemen and they're going to focus on local targets while the US uh focuses
on the targets in Iran because we have more force projection uh than they do and we don't have to like uh refuel over
Iraqi or Syrian airspace like they do like this. So this is going to be one of their last chances I believe to uh enact
the Arts Israel plan. And again, just like I was talking about ideologues in the US military where they think like
this is going to bring about Armageddon and it really doesn't make any strategic sense. We can look at these decision
makers in Israel and say the same exact thing. Like
yeah, we know like they are trying to disarm Hezbollah, never going to happen. Um
I mean they're in it right now. They're hitting tanks. They got drones. They got rockets. they're they're hitting them.
Uh so this is going to be like I think one of the last chances and a lot of this is
if you look at what's happening with like the Venezuela oil uh and and the the leadup to this operation.
Sorry, I have allergies. Like you had to do that first, you know, because everyone was saying, "Oh, we're we're
we're we're stealing Venezuela's oil for us." Like we can't even refine that oil, you know?
It's too crude. It doesn't have the purity that our systems uh require uh to
refine petroleum. So, who can use them? Cuba uh and the Gulf States. And you
know, if you the trade of Hormuz gets shut down, you're going to need another alternate supply of oil. So, this is
helpful for like the Venezuela operation was helpful for like Qatar and Saudi Arabia. And if you actually look at the
moves behind the scene, a lot of actors in the United States are starting to kind of move or envision an alternate
power base inside the region moving from Tel Aviv, which is kind of toxic right now to uh Riad and Abu Dhabi uh going
forward. So, you know, you have massive real estate investment deals. uh the Trump administration is heavily involved
with the Saudis and the Emiratis and joint real estate projects and stuff like this. So it's not just all about
Israel anymore which is interesting and uh because as as a imperial colony it's
kind of been tainted. So we're kind of seeing the ascendancy of these subimperial states coming out of the
Gulf. Um but again it's not that clear-cut because the Gulf States don't
want to be getting hit by Iran either. this regional instability doesn't really
serve them at all. Uh it's it's just an absolute mess.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I wanted to ask you, Greg, uh we don't we don't have firm
numbers on Iran's capabilities. Uh they don't they don't announce them and they
don't actually uh even reveal them. their strategy on how they hit Israel and the you know US military assets uh
don't really reveal it either because they they've taken a very uh measured approach but I'm wondering you said this
is the last chance for Israel to get its greater Israel project and of course to get full the last chance but running out of time
but it is running out of time but it's also to get full US support for that it might be a very there might be there's a
very narrow window I think I would definitely agree with that but Is this last or is this uh time that's running
out, this hourglass that's been turned over and we see the sand uh days of our
lives kind of thing going on for them? Uh do we see this though as being a kind of miscalculation that Iran may actually
hit them hard enough to make life very difficult for Israel's even I mean you
know they always complain about Iran wanting to wipe them off the map. that doesn't seem in play but to make their existence even just difficult unlivable
if if Israel cannot be secured there goes a lot of your foreign investment you know all all these like data centers
that we're building in Israel all all you know even during the first Hezbollah
war that massive intel chip factory that was like a half a billion or $800
million that got cancelled you know a lot of foreign investment which Israel
relies on because it doesn't really produce produce anything other side other than like tech stuff uh and
diamonds strangely even though there's no diamond mines in Israel uh that's it
like that's their economy it's been struggling for a long time a lot of people have left Israel and went
back to Europe there's a brain drain uh situation that's in danger of happening
and you have to we haven't talked about this a lot but what is the morale in the Israeli Defense Force you know the the
the social contract in the Israeli occupation force is that, you know, you
do two years as a conscript and then you go back to Tel Aviv and you get to live
a nice like upper middle class life as a data engineer or something else. And uh that's just
not happening now. They're getting involved in all of these like what is looking increasingly like a forever war,
reinvading the south of Lebanon. Um, and a lot of reporting, if you look at like
Jerusalem Post and Wet News and Con, they used to really be reporting heavily on like troop morale and stuff like
that. It's not they're not really doing that anymore. And they also have a moratorium on reporting on their suicide
rates. So, you know, we can call them ideologues or whatever, but like they
the rank and filed troop, it's highly likely that they don't want to be doing this either. So, uh, like it's it it's
kind of like a house of cards. All they can do is bomb stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think we
talked about before this even started, Greg, that that was likely what was going to happen, that they would bomb
stuff and hope that that that would that that would mean Iran would say and
Iranian people would say, "Yes, welcome. Welcome to our our government. Do whatever you want to it. Uh, do whatever
you want to our sovereignty." Now, Greg, uh, final question before we get to maybe an audience question or two here.
Um, the White House actually just released this memo on what the actual objectives are, and it might be a little
small, so I'll I'll zoom in because the Q&A part is cut off and not really even relevant. Um, it says right here that
major combat operations against Iranian regime were uh were launched this past
weekend and that the objectives are clear. So, here's all the objectives. destroy their missiles, raise the
industry to the ground, annihilate their navy, ensure t the terrorist proxies of the regime can no longer destabilize the
region, and ensure that Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon. Greg, we're in
day four. How successful has the United States been in these objectives, if they
are in fact the objectives? Well, here here's the thing about both the missile industry and the nuclear
program. even if they achieve the objectives, you know, they're not
destroying the knowledge, you know, it can all be rebuilt and it
will be rebuilt if the you if the Iranian government survives, which I predict is likely annihilating their
navy. It's not really a flex. There's a like two nuclearpowered carrier strike groups around. Um, and of course, you
know, Iran has irregular navy vessels, too. Kind of not to the same extent that China does, but it's not just their
their flagged um and armed vessels. Uh, and ensure the region's terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the
region of the world and attack our forces. Um, I don't see that as an achievable objective. We've been saying
that for like three years now. Uh, yeah. So, okay, cool. Also, it's a stupid
operation name, Epic Fury. Um yeah, at least they put out a cohesive statement.
Um it would it will be interesting to see what comes out of the war powers resolution in the uh in Congress today.
Yeah. Yeah. The uh well the resistance groups Yeah. Hezbollah they they said
that Hezbollah was dead and Hezbollah is now fighting uh again after the Ayatollah uh was assassinated. It was
killed. Um and uh you know the missiles, the missiles are still going up. Um so
it's obviously not uh raised as of yet. Uh what else was there? The nuclear
question. Iran has said over and over it doesn't want a nuclear bomb, but it's not going to give up nuclear energy and it's likely that it will continue to
pursue that regardless of what happens in this conflict. And we should also over and over and over.
I don't want to sound like a broken record, but hey, countries are allowed to have navies and they're allowed to have nuclear
programs for uh energy and they're allowed to have missiles. You know, this
is absolute blazing hypocrisy. And a lot of people um in the United States see
that as reasonable. But what they don't understand is the rest of the world sees us as the aggressors and us as the the
terrorists. And this is doing nothing, absolutely nothing for US soft power,
especially when we're doing things like uh implementing on behalf of Israel like
DIA doctrine stuff like bombing civilian targets in order to demoralize the population so much that they abandon
their government who can't protect them. That is actually like the definition of a terrorist attack.
Yeah. you create chaos, destroy civilian life, um, and make people uh, believe
that the government can't protect them. So, they start siding with the terrorists or not wanting their government to exist anymore. So, we're
kind of we're doing that. And, you know, some Americans are coming to the uh, or sorry, US citizens are coming to the
realization that, you know, we're the bad guys in this situation. We are the terrorists. And it's also undoing a lot
of 911 propaganda. That was so I mean the the the polling numbers, what
did Trump say? He doesn't care about polls. He doesn't care about them at all. Yes, he does. He's I know that's what he says, though. He
says he doesn't care, but the polls are not in his favor. They are looking they look bad now and there is no uh sign
that they are going to reverse that uh 2080 spread. 20% in favor, 80% opposed
or don't know, don't care. But either way, uh the 20% support is incredibly
low for this operation. Just like the dispensationalist evangelical block.
Yeah. Yeah. And then the the Navy flex, uh Trump was spewing on and on about
this Navy flex, uh Iran, even if they they were they bombed naval vessels at
port. Okay. So, yes, you destroyed their naval vessels, but if they wanted to shut down the straight of Hormuz, which
is being signaled toward uh they have drones. They have drones that could make life very difficult for naval vessels
and commercial vessels and all that. And what we saw what we saw and they have more sophisticated drones than the
Houthies did. And the Houthies shut down the entire uh choke point. They're going into the Red Sea. So, you know, all you
have to do is just make make sure ships are uninsurable and they won't sail through it. So, uh
they don't want to be hit by drones no matter what. Like that's obvious. So, here's some questions, Greg. Uh just a
couple. Um I think they're Let's see. Uh where's the first one here?
Uh here we go. Is the straight of Hormuz completely shut yet? Uh will it will the
closure escalate the conflict? Uh I think I haven't pulled up my naval
tracker. Um there there are open source sites guys that you can see all the ships transponders that are broadcasting
throughout the world. Um I think there's still I haven't checked today but there was still some traffic going through and
will shutting down the straight of Hormuz escalate the conflict. Uh well it Trump
himself did say that he doesn't care about polling numbers and Americans and presidencies are won and lost over gas
prices. So if the straight of Hormuza shut down and again this goes back to
like the Venezuela operation and getting alternate sources of oil for Gulf States, I I don't I don't see it
escalating the conflict. I mean I think they there's some strategic reasons why they haven't tried shutting it down yet,
but uh I don't think it will escalate anything. In fact, it I think it would uh really curb a lot of military
considerations uh in terms of expanding this conflict. Yeah. Well, it would hit the world
economy uh very hard and then the Trump administration would actually have to
wonder or actually have to consider what do people think of this war?
I mean, I'm concerned because I I think like they've just completely given up on the midterm elections here this coming
November. And so that's kind of nerve-wracking if you're a US citizen. Like what what kind of shenanigans is
this administration going to uh pull to retain power in the House, the Senate,
and the Judiciary? U so this war is concerning not just for the immediate president, but what it means uh for uh
US citizens in November. This is a interesting question, Greg. Why hasn't Iran issued preconditions for
peace talks? I'm thinking nuclear disarmment of Israel and the closure of US bases in the Gulf. the Epstein axis
couldn't agree to these but regionally uh preconditions for peace talks see the
uh I've been talking about this for a while it's like kind of some reason the same reason why Hamas never
preconditioned uh peace talks even while Israel was uh using diplomatic talks as
uh a tool and a cover for political assassination against them like no matter what Israel did they always
always came to the All right? Because they are waging an information war. And the information war is that these guys
are religious zealots. Uh they're completely unreasonable. They cannot be talked to or trusted. And so them coming
to the table in good faith every time from a very reasonable position is how
it it's what they're doing to frame uh this and push back on literally centur
centuries centuries of orientalizing propaganda that paints these people as
like third world savages. Your their words not mine. U but while exposing
that like they are the third world savage. They're uneducated. They're violent. They're cheering on the death
of people they don't even know and understand. And by Iran consistently acting as a good faith, rational actor
when it as opposed to these religious zealots in the White House and then the loup party in Israel. Uh they are
showing the world that they are an actual part of the Congress of Nations. They're not this rogue state and it's
part of a larger information strategy I believe. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and Iran, Greg, uh,
here is just, um, some, uh, I wanted to pull up. Oh, where where did it go? Oh,
here we go. Donald Trump, I had it up. I don't know why it's, uh, Hold on one
second. Because, uh, Donald Trump has said it's too late for any of these talks. Uh, that's his uh,
that's his his position now. Uh that's what he said here on his true social. Uh
so-called Iran was supposedly reached out. The air defense, air force, navy, and leadership is gone. Now they want to
talk. I said too late. But here is uh Ali Larajani who said uh just a day
before that that Iran didn't start this war. we will fiercely defend ourselves and uh we will make it very difficult
for the uh you know for the enemies. And he said that Iran is prepared for a long
war. So either Iran is bluffing or Trump is lying. I don't know which one it is, Greg. Well, I I know which one it is,
but I'm curious about yours. Uh well, first of all, Trump is lying. uh the Iranian military has not been
destroyed and the navy has not been destroyed and all their air aerial assets have not been destroyed. Like
that's easily verifiable. And even if like what does he mean by the military? Is it the IRGC? Is it the regular army?
Is it the garrison militias? Is it the bassie? Like no. Okay. And Iran is
prepared for a long war. That's why they built the tunnels and the hardened bunker sites and the massive military
stock piles beneath them because that's what you do when you cannot uh establish
air sovereignty against the United States just like the Vietkong just like Hamas just like Hezbollah you build
tunnels. Uh they have been preparing for a long war and one of the reasons uh
they have been they've been doing it since uh since we invaded Iraq. Uh Pete Hexath uh got up on on stage yesterday
and talked about how Iran killed US service members in Iraq. Why was that?
Well, because all the neocons back in the Bush administration, Wolawitz, Rumsfeld,
uh what's it whatever his name is, uh Cheney, sorry. They said Iran was next.
So what did Iran do? They sent an IRGC into Iraq to start training Shia
sectarian militias to bog down the United States intermittently in Iraq so
they didn't get invaded. Like this has all been in response to US
aggression in the region starting with US overthrowing their democratically
uh democratic government in the 50s. And so, uh, when they started building their
nuclear program, they always knew that Israel wouldn't tolerate it. And that's why they built these hard sites deep,
deep underground, not because, not against Israel, because Israel doesn't
have the capabilities to do that. And they never will have the capabilities to use massive ordinance penetrators to hit
these sites. It was always against the United States and US aggression for decades now. So yeah, I think they are
prepared for a long war. And even if they're not, the US is not prepared for a long war. We've been talking, every
time I've come on this show, we've been talking about how we don't have stock piles or an industrial base. So like, what are we even talking about here?
Yeah. Yeah. I don't Great. I mean, even if uh
Donald what Donald Trump said, everything is gone. I mean, there is a desperate attempt, it seems, to make it
look like these objective even still listening to him. He said there they're you know we set their nuclear program
back decades like last year and now obliterated right I thought it was obliterated but then uh JD
obliterated. It was tremendous. So and then March 2nd JD Vance says we can't let them build a B. Well, how
could they? It's obliterated. Uh and you know um the math you know just doesn't
work out for the United States. Even Marco Rubio acknowledged this. I don't know if you saw this. Here it is. They are producing by some estimates over 100
of these missiles a month. Compare that to the six or seven interceptors that can be built a month. They can build a
hundred of these a month. Not to mention the thousands of one-way attack drones that they also have.
So, so not good math there when we talk about just a few interceptors to
even if you take the price differential out of it, it's just Yeah, it's not going to happen.
No. But I I guess we're going to go ahead with it because, you know, um this
is just end of empire imperial violence that you can look throughout history is what happens even even pre- capitalism,
you know. So, uh I I definitely think that I I don't like to make predictions
anymore because the world's so insane and the new the news cycle so insane, but I would be surprised if this lasts
to next weekend, but we'll see. Yeah. I mean, we still have some time as
we wait uh for low key here because there's a lot of course uh first
of all what what I noticed before this started, Greg, was that the mainstream
media, Politico, other outlets were talking about how Donald Trump's administration has not communicated any
kind of message to people in the United States, not just about why, but about how this is going to happen. And they
cited 911. They cited World War II, of course, Vietnam. These were different kind of wars. But then they even started
uh the war on terror began after, you know, that uh really jumped off uh after 9/11. And they said, well, George W.
Bush, you know, he went up to the camera multiple times and said, "This is how it's going to happen." Donald Trump did
it zero times. The one time he did it, they were already striking Iran. Uh which took a lot of people by surprise.
So now it's hard to believe and hard to understand exactly how long this could last. In what in what planet could this
conflict actually last beyond this that this weekend as you're saying? Well uh I guess we'll just have to stop
using interceptors and get hit. Uh you know just like we did back in the good old days. um just you know eating
rounds and hoping to survive which I don't which because we don't have any consent for this war the US service
members are not even going to have an appetite for that you know when you look at why the USS Gerald RR Ford had to go
into port because 80% of the toilets didn't work well you and they started
finding shirts and debris inside the pipes that's like Gen Z's version of fragging I seriously believe that US
service members aboard the the flagship of the US Navy uh sabotaged it and and
that you can't remain at sea if you don't have u any like sewage or any
sanitation because what's the biggest threat like chalera like dysentery all of these like uh diuretic diseases that
you get if you don't have clean water and you're like backed up in sewage so
there's just really not an appetite not in the American people not in the US military. Um I I was uh like the last
time the uh Iran war was happening, I was messaging uh with uh I was talking to Mike Pryzner who's the producer of
the Empire Files. He used to be uh big he's big into like veteran activism and like getting people out of the military
as conscientious objectors and he's like the last time this happened there was an unprecedented a number of people calling
the GI Bill hotline to uh to get out. uh which is not something that's uh
happened very often and people need to know because I've been getting in Twitter fights on this because you know I've been triggering a lot of uh uh MAGA
cultists um being like you know even if you don't disagree with the war play pray for
their safety they they'll get thrown in jail if they don't follow that's not true you can follow as a conscientious
objector you just have to write an essay you have an interview with a chaplain a psychiatrist and your commanding officer
And the overwhelming majority of people who file as a conscientious objector keep their VA benefits and everything
can file for disability blah blah blah get free get free health care for the rest of their life because you get an
honorable discharge and your benefits reflect the time and service you've already done as a conscientious
objector. So you could actually absolutely leave the military and be
protected while doing it. Now they don't teach you this. They don't tell you this because they don't want you to know. But
this has been in place since Viet since after the Vietnam War. And so I know conscientious objectors who did like
couple years in service, filed, got out, I've interviewed them. Uh yeah, and they're good to go. And they have VA
healthcare and dental and all this other stuff. GI Bill, VA home loans. So like
all these people can actually get out if they want to. Most of them don't know about it. So I'm actually kind of trying
to do a education campaign. So I don't think anybody in the military or a lot of people in the military watch watch
your show or listen to my podcast. But if you know somebody in the military and they're kind of like questioning if this
should be happening or like do they want to get out, they can uh just go to the GI Bill or GI rights hotline and has all
the uh all the information that you need for you. Uh, and there's also a bunch of 501c3s that support veterans
transitioning out as conscientious objectors. So, it's absolutely a protected process and everybody needs to
know that so you don't have people like, you know, uh, excusing, uh, this kind of stuff.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, uh I mean there when
we talk about the there could be far more conscientious objectors coming out of this uh war, Greg, should these air
defenses run out and you know the damage to the bases is significant, but once those uh they run out entirely, uh there
will be far more hits uh that are more damaging as long as Iran continues to do
what it's doing. We haven't even heard about the Gerald Ford, Greg. Like where where did that go? What is it doing?
Have you heard about what what it's because it it docked is it is it docked uh outside of Israel? Like is it there?
And it had all of these issues with plumbing and I haven't heard anything from it. A lot made of the Abraham
Lincoln, but not much of the for uh Okay. Trans I'm trying to see if it's
transponder is on right now.
Uh, okay. I think it's AIS transpan
transponder has been off since the beginning of the operation. So, unless someone has like eyes on it in like the
port of Larnica and Cyprus. I don't I don't really know. Yeah. But not a lot of we we're not
hearing I mean we're hearing a lot about the Abraham Lincoln. There was even some rumors that Abraham Lincoln dispatched the aircraft that uh killed all of those
the horrible murder uh massacre of the young girls at the school in Iran. Um
but not anything from the Gerald Ford. A lot you know Iran said they hit the
Abraham Lincoln Sangcom said no but nothing about the Gerald Ford at all. Yeah. Um I I think there was a lot of
really bad press. If you read like stars and stripes or defense.com, like
everybody within that community was like, "Yo, the sailors sabotaged this entire plumbing system." Uh, and that is
a huge personnel problem and a huge security and operational risk. I
wouldn't be surprised, this is pure speculation, if they were just taken off of operational duty to deal with like
internal sabotage potentially because that will that'll get your entire unit just taken off the line until it's
solved. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Um and then Greg uh you
know as we continue what are what are some things that you believe uh in this war so far that uh maybe you know we see
all the chat on social media about the attacks uh the US bombings and then of
course Iran's retaliation but what do you think is the the not being considered here uh so much uh when we're
talking about how this war is going why this war is being fought okay well so every time and I I I speak
about this a lot. Every time we do wars overseas, it comes back home. Uh Danny,
have you heard about the uh the shooter in Austin, Texas? No, but somebody actually wanted me to
ask you about that. So, let I'll pull up that super chat if I can find it, but uh please uh So, uh I I've gr grew up in Austin. I
lived in Austin on and off my entire life. I live about 12 minutes away from where the shooting happened uh over the
weekend. What we're told is on Sixth Street. I don't go to Sixth Street anymore. It's the big party street
that's shut down on the weekends because I'm not in my 20s. Um yeah, he he was a
naturalized citizen from Sagal uh who went around with a rifle and a
gun and shot people at a number of venues. The entire operation is
incredibly sketchy. First of all, uh the classic, oh, there was a Kuran in the car. uh and he was a Sagal Sunni
apparently shooting people at random in solidarity with the Ayatollah a Shia who
was just killed. He has also had a picture of him wearing a property of Allah shirt and um actual practicing
Muslims cannot have the name of God on that or you know any shirt that they're
wearing and the FBI is kind of just like trust me bro it was you know it was terrorism and then Greg Abbott's like
we're going to do a terrorism crackdown you know because the war is coming by uh coming back home and um it's just it's
just got scop written all over it meant to jin up more and more consent for attacking Iran and bringing the hammer
down on Muslims when uh you know the the consent for this war is failing every
time I swear to God every time is don't I might be a conspiracy theorist even though you know CIA and FBI has released
files that they do this kind of thing they recruit mentally unstable people on
the internet in like chat groups or messaging uh and get them to do these kind of things. It's just there's no
compelling evidence after the Charlie Kirk assassination and the Tyler Robinson stuff and there was no transparency. There's zero reason to
trust Cash Patel's FBI at this point and it really is giving scop and it's making
at least massive news here in Texas. Uh, and so I think this war in Iran is just
going to be used to jin up more consent for a further police crackdown and a further mobilization of the Department
of Homeland Security and ICE. Because again guys, whatever imperial violence
and to forms of repression and control we implement overseas is almost
immediately ported back home to us citizens of the Imperial Corps. So that's something that crazily happened
over the weekend. It's absolutely bizarre. There's no transparency and it's very much trust me bro.
Yeah. And it's uh that was a Joseph George member, longtime member. Thanks so much for the question. Uh
and I point out that Yeah, please. You know how many white boys have shot up Sixth Street and it was it was just
like a we're praying for like the mental health crisis and the male white man
loneliness epidemic, but of course um we're going with this narrative now.
Yeah. And uh uh though it gets worse, Greg, though, I feel uh when things
don't go well. Uh and uh everything on the spreadsheet right now uh in this war
is bad. So uh and then we have to factor in the longer this goes on, of course,
the economy, the capitalist economy, the world capital economy is going to take major hits. Hormuz or not. uh because uh
we know how uh these oil companies, these so-called investors and financers, we know how much they while they profit
off of war uh when wars don't go well and things become unstable in major
sites of investments is like Saudi Arabia, which we didn't even talk about this, Greg, after their embassy got hit
by what is being said is Iranian drones. uh they're now looking to directly enter
the war and positioning Haimars uh you know to to fire at Iran.
That would be really insane. Uh if they fired uh long range artillery at Iran,
but again just like Israel, we gave them the highs. Um I don't I don't think they'll enter the war. uh you they
they've been uh cultivating a obviously they're a subimperial state of the US
but uh they've been cultivating a relationship uh you know uh MBS Muhammad
bin Salman the crown prince went to Tran last year for the first time in a very
very long time. Um, again, nobody in the region wants this war and nobody wants a
failed state in Iran and nobody wants, you know, Israel and the CIA getting
involved in controlling resource fums made along territorial and ethnic lines. You know, Donald Trump just before we
got on the street says like probably in response to how poorly the war is going that in the future we might directly
support armed separatist militias. But let's let's talk about that.
Uh so, you know, I grew up spent
the most formative years of my life in a special operations unit. And there's like two different types of people in these kind of units. There's like the
secular degenerates that all you do is like party. That was me. And then you have like the actual evangelical
Christians who are like married at like super young age. Um they're highly
religious evangelical go do like prayer circles before doing any operations. And
if someone's going to do war crimes it's generally those guys. But those are the two archetypes. So, you're having all
these secular people uh in the military being briefed by these like religious
zealots and that that this is coming at a time and an unprecedented scale that I
haven't seen before. Um, of course, you know, we always had that. You can look at reporting from the early days of the
Iraq war with like generals and admirals who were evangelicals supporting the war in Iraq even though they knew that we
didn't have WMDs, but they're doing it for the messianic vision of a greater Israel. So like a lot of these senior
commanders in the military actually believe in this messianic vision and uh
that's a huge problem because it's killing morale, you know, and no like a
lot of these people are secular. Most people in the military are secular and actually they tend to vote the the
overwhelming majority of the military like over 50% actually votes Democrat
because a lot of them are people of color. Uh they're from the cities, large urban centers. Uh so so this is actually
kind of a huge friction and fraction point in the military that this is coming out. I never saw this um
especially to this extent. It's actually kind of absolutely uh bizarre, but it speaks to uh the the politicization of
the military, especially at the command echelon. And that's something we all should be uh deeply fearful about because, you know, military decisions
should be done by logic and not like what is a religious zealot ideology. So,
uh that's also another point of deep rot with inside the the US imperial armies.
Uh it's not just private contractors. It's not just de-industrialization, it's also the politicization uh of and that's
only going to destroy morale and fracture it even further. So like this war is exposing so many systemic
problems again which there is no political will to fix.
Well, Greg, you know, as we've been going through now four days of this thing, I I there's such a a massive
difference I think when you talk about morale, right? We have for example and I think this is where I I believe Iran has
certainly won especially this part of the battle if not it being a total
turning point in the war. So all the murder, all the the assassinations,
killing the Ayatollah Ali Kamei, uh that was supposed to break the Iranian people, but they immediately came out in
droves. In droves as air I've seen some of these videos, Greg, where there's air defense uh I'll just zoom in more
sometimes putting the video 100% will uh mess with the audio, but I've seen Iranians in the streets as air defenses
are activated right above them. I mean, that is something. And then we've had Hezbollah join. We know that Ensurala is
probably going to get involved if this goes on uh as long as we think. And then
you know on the other side on the US side we've had bases visibly destroyed. We've had uh three fighter pilots having
to eject themselves and their planes falling to the ground because of
friendly fire uh of Kuwaiti air defenses supposedly. And we've had just over and
over again we we have Israel getting pounded every single day with their air
defenses likely running out soon. So this part of it feels very much um at
least on the side of Iran in terms of who has the initiative and and Iran has said Iran is saying they want a long war
and the US can't they can't decide. They keep saying the Trump administration says in secret they only want it a few
days. Then he says it can go on forever. Then, you know, we hear, "Nah, we can't
tell you how long this is going to go on." So, it it one side looks like chaos, the other side looks like they
have initiative. What do you think of that? Well, we we all knew that there was going to be this rallying around the
flag happening if they start hitting girls schools, hospitals, and start killing political and military leaders.
We knew that was going to happen. That's not really surprising. Um, a lot of this, of course, we we went we did more
like a geopolitical deep dive about, you know, bricks and the belt and road initiative and why Iran needs to fall to
basically prevent a tripartite uh strategic alliance between Iran, China,
Russia and you know glo like anti-western essentially global infrastructure. This that's beyond the
scope of our discussion here today. Uh but from the Israeli perspective, they
know that this is kind of one of their last chances to really send it all out
there. Uh there's a deep sense in their leadership
that unconditional US support for what they're doing is not going to last
forever. They need to strengthen their own military and actually do as much damage as they can while they still have
the aegis of the US empire protecting them unconditionally and kind of being led by them from a foreign policy
perspective. So, we're seeing civilian targets getting hit all throughout the
south of Lebanon. Looks like they're going to potentially reinvade or at least establish like security
checkpoints south of the Latani River. Uh they're probably going to if Ansar
law gets involved uh start doing bombing runs on Yemen and they're going to focus on local targets while the US uh focuses
on the targets in Iran because we have more force projection uh than they do and we don't have to like uh refuel over
Iraqi or Syrian airspace like they do like this. So this is going to be one of their last chances I believe to uh enact
the Arts Israel plan. And again, just like I was talking about ideologues in the US military where they think like
this is going to bring about Armageddon and it really doesn't make any strategic sense. We can look at these decision
makers in Israel and say the same exact thing. Like
yeah, we know like they are trying to disarm Hezbollah, never going to happen. Um
I mean they're in it right now. They're hitting tanks. They got drones. They got rockets. they're they're hitting them.
Uh so this is going to be like I think one of the last chances and a lot of this is
if you look at what's happening with like the Venezuela oil uh and and the the leadup to this operation.
Sorry, I have allergies. Like you had to do that first, you know, because everyone was saying, "Oh, we're we're
we're we're stealing Venezuela's oil for us." Like we can't even refine that oil, you know?
It's too crude. It doesn't have the purity that our systems uh require uh to
refine petroleum. So, who can use them? Cuba uh and the Gulf States. And you
know, if you the trade of Hormuz gets shut down, you're going to need another alternate supply of oil. So, this is
helpful for like the Venezuela operation was helpful for like Qatar and Saudi Arabia. And if you actually look at the
moves behind the scene, a lot of actors in the United States are starting to kind of move or envision an alternate
power base inside the region moving from Tel Aviv, which is kind of toxic right now to uh Riad and Abu Dhabi uh going
forward. So, you know, you have massive real estate investment deals. uh the Trump administration is heavily involved
with the Saudis and the Emiratis and joint real estate projects and stuff like this. So it's not just all about
Israel anymore which is interesting and uh because as as a imperial colony it's
kind of been tainted. So we're kind of seeing the ascendancy of these subimperial states coming out of the
Gulf. Um but again it's not that clear-cut because the Gulf States don't
want to be getting hit by Iran either. this regional instability doesn't really
serve them at all. Uh it's it's just an absolute mess.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I wanted to ask you, Greg, uh we don't we don't have firm
numbers on Iran's capabilities. Uh they don't they don't announce them and they
don't actually uh even reveal them. their strategy on how they hit Israel and the you know US military assets uh
don't really reveal it either because they they've taken a very uh measured approach but I'm wondering you said this
is the last chance for Israel to get its greater Israel project and of course to get full the last chance but running out of time
but it is running out of time but it's also to get full US support for that it might be a very there might be there's a
very narrow window I think I would definitely agree with that but Is this last or is this uh time that's running
out, this hourglass that's been turned over and we see the sand uh days of our
lives kind of thing going on for them? Uh do we see this though as being a kind of miscalculation that Iran may actually
hit them hard enough to make life very difficult for Israel's even I mean you
know they always complain about Iran wanting to wipe them off the map. that doesn't seem in play but to make their existence even just difficult unlivable
if if Israel cannot be secured there goes a lot of your foreign investment you know all all these like data centers
that we're building in Israel all all you know even during the first Hezbollah
war that massive intel chip factory that was like a half a billion or $800
million that got cancelled you know a lot of foreign investment which Israel
relies on because it doesn't really produce produce anything other side other than like tech stuff uh and
diamonds strangely even though there's no diamond mines in Israel uh that's it
like that's their economy it's been struggling for a long time a lot of people have left Israel and went
back to Europe there's a brain drain uh situation that's in danger of happening
and you have to we haven't talked about this a lot but what is the morale in the Israeli Defense Force you know the the
the social contract in the Israeli occupation force is that, you know, you
do two years as a conscript and then you go back to Tel Aviv and you get to live
a nice like upper middle class life as a data engineer or something else. And uh that's just
not happening now. They're getting involved in all of these like what is looking increasingly like a forever war,
reinvading the south of Lebanon. Um, and a lot of reporting, if you look at like
Jerusalem Post and Wet News and Con, they used to really be reporting heavily on like troop morale and stuff like
that. It's not they're not really doing that anymore. And they also have a moratorium on reporting on their suicide
rates. So, you know, we can call them ideologues or whatever, but like they
the rank and filed troop, it's highly likely that they don't want to be doing this either. So, uh, like it's it it's
kind of like a house of cards. All they can do is bomb stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think we
talked about before this even started, Greg, that that was likely what was going to happen, that they would bomb
stuff and hope that that that would that that would mean Iran would say and
Iranian people would say, "Yes, welcome. Welcome to our our government. Do whatever you want to it. Uh, do whatever
you want to our sovereignty." Now, Greg, uh, final question before we get to maybe an audience question or two here.
Um, the White House actually just released this memo on what the actual objectives are, and it might be a little
small, so I'll I'll zoom in because the Q&A part is cut off and not really even relevant. Um, it says right here that
major combat operations against Iranian regime were uh were launched this past
weekend and that the objectives are clear. So, here's all the objectives. destroy their missiles, raise the
industry to the ground, annihilate their navy, ensure t the terrorist proxies of the regime can no longer destabilize the
region, and ensure that Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon. Greg, we're in
day four. How successful has the United States been in these objectives, if they
are in fact the objectives? Well, here here's the thing about both the missile industry and the nuclear
program. even if they achieve the objectives, you know, they're not
destroying the knowledge, you know, it can all be rebuilt and it
will be rebuilt if the you if the Iranian government survives, which I predict is likely annihilating their
navy. It's not really a flex. There's a like two nuclearpowered carrier strike groups around. Um, and of course, you
know, Iran has irregular navy vessels, too. Kind of not to the same extent that China does, but it's not just their
their flagged um and armed vessels. Uh, and ensure the region's terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the
region of the world and attack our forces. Um, I don't see that as an achievable objective. We've been saying
that for like three years now. Uh, yeah. So, okay, cool. Also, it's a stupid
operation name, Epic Fury. Um yeah, at least they put out a cohesive statement.
Um it would it will be interesting to see what comes out of the war powers resolution in the uh in Congress today.
Yeah. Yeah. The uh well the resistance groups Yeah. Hezbollah they they said
that Hezbollah was dead and Hezbollah is now fighting uh again after the Ayatollah uh was assassinated. It was
killed. Um and uh you know the missiles, the missiles are still going up. Um so
it's obviously not uh raised as of yet. Uh what else was there? The nuclear
question. Iran has said over and over it doesn't want a nuclear bomb, but it's not going to give up nuclear energy and it's likely that it will continue to
pursue that regardless of what happens in this conflict. And we should also over and over and over.
I don't want to sound like a broken record, but hey, countries are allowed to have navies and they're allowed to have nuclear
programs for uh energy and they're allowed to have missiles. You know, this
is absolute blazing hypocrisy. And a lot of people um in the United States see
that as reasonable. But what they don't understand is the rest of the world sees us as the aggressors and us as the the
terrorists. And this is doing nothing, absolutely nothing for US soft power,
especially when we're doing things like uh implementing on behalf of Israel like
DIA doctrine stuff like bombing civilian targets in order to demoralize the population so much that they abandon
their government who can't protect them. That is actually like the definition of a terrorist attack.
Yeah. you create chaos, destroy civilian life, um, and make people uh, believe
that the government can't protect them. So, they start siding with the terrorists or not wanting their government to exist anymore. So, we're
kind of we're doing that. And, you know, some Americans are coming to the uh, or sorry, US citizens are coming to the
realization that, you know, we're the bad guys in this situation. We are the terrorists. And it's also undoing a lot
of 911 propaganda. That was so I mean the the the polling numbers, what
did Trump say? He doesn't care about polls. He doesn't care about them at all. Yes, he does. He's I know that's what he says, though. He
says he doesn't care, but the polls are not in his favor. They are looking they look bad now and there is no uh sign
that they are going to reverse that uh 2080 spread. 20% in favor, 80% opposed
or don't know, don't care. But either way, uh the 20% support is incredibly
low for this operation. Just like the dispensationalist evangelical block.
Yeah. Yeah. And then the the Navy flex, uh Trump was spewing on and on about
this Navy flex, uh Iran, even if they they were they bombed naval vessels at
port. Okay. So, yes, you destroyed their naval vessels, but if they wanted to shut down the straight of Hormuz, which
is being signaled toward uh they have drones. They have drones that could make life very difficult for naval vessels
and commercial vessels and all that. And what we saw what we saw and they have more sophisticated drones than the
Houthies did. And the Houthies shut down the entire uh choke point. They're going into the Red Sea. So, you know, all you
have to do is just make make sure ships are uninsurable and they won't sail through it. So, uh
they don't want to be hit by drones no matter what. Like that's obvious. So, here's some questions, Greg. Uh just a
couple. Um I think they're Let's see. Uh where's the first one here?
Uh here we go. Is the straight of Hormuz completely shut yet? Uh will it will the
closure escalate the conflict? Uh I think I haven't pulled up my naval
tracker. Um there there are open source sites guys that you can see all the ships transponders that are broadcasting
throughout the world. Um I think there's still I haven't checked today but there was still some traffic going through and
will shutting down the straight of Hormuz escalate the conflict. Uh well it Trump
himself did say that he doesn't care about polling numbers and Americans and presidencies are won and lost over gas
prices. So if the straight of Hormuza shut down and again this goes back to
like the Venezuela operation and getting alternate sources of oil for Gulf States, I I don't I don't see it
escalating the conflict. I mean I think they there's some strategic reasons why they haven't tried shutting it down yet,
but uh I don't think it will escalate anything. In fact, it I think it would uh really curb a lot of military
considerations uh in terms of expanding this conflict. Yeah. Well, it would hit the world
economy uh very hard and then the Trump administration would actually have to
wonder or actually have to consider what do people think of this war?
I mean, I'm concerned because I I think like they've just completely given up on the midterm elections here this coming
November. And so that's kind of nerve-wracking if you're a US citizen. Like what what kind of shenanigans is
this administration going to uh pull to retain power in the House, the Senate,
and the Judiciary? U so this war is concerning not just for the immediate president, but what it means uh for uh
US citizens in November. This is a interesting question, Greg. Why hasn't Iran issued preconditions for
peace talks? I'm thinking nuclear disarmment of Israel and the closure of US bases in the Gulf. the Epstein axis
couldn't agree to these but regionally uh preconditions for peace talks see the
uh I've been talking about this for a while it's like kind of some reason the same reason why Hamas never
preconditioned uh peace talks even while Israel was uh using diplomatic talks as
uh a tool and a cover for political assassination against them like no matter what Israel did they always
always came to the All right? Because they are waging an information war. And the information war is that these guys
are religious zealots. Uh they're completely unreasonable. They cannot be talked to or trusted. And so them coming
to the table in good faith every time from a very reasonable position is how
it it's what they're doing to frame uh this and push back on literally centur
centuries centuries of orientalizing propaganda that paints these people as
like third world savages. Your their words not mine. U but while exposing
that like they are the third world savage. They're uneducated. They're violent. They're cheering on the death
of people they don't even know and understand. And by Iran consistently acting as a good faith, rational actor
when it as opposed to these religious zealots in the White House and then the loup party in Israel. Uh they are
showing the world that they are an actual part of the Congress of Nations. They're not this rogue state and it's
part of a larger information strategy I believe. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and Iran, Greg, uh,
here is just, um, some, uh, I wanted to pull up. Oh, where where did it go? Oh,
here we go. Donald Trump, I had it up. I don't know why it's, uh, Hold on one
second. Because, uh, Donald Trump has said it's too late for any of these talks. Uh, that's his uh,
that's his his position now. Uh that's what he said here on his true social. Uh
so-called Iran was supposedly reached out. The air defense, air force, navy, and leadership is gone. Now they want to
talk. I said too late. But here is uh Ali Larajani who said uh just a day
before that that Iran didn't start this war. we will fiercely defend ourselves and uh we will make it very difficult
for the uh you know for the enemies. And he said that Iran is prepared for a long
war. So either Iran is bluffing or Trump is lying. I don't know which one it is, Greg. Well, I I know which one it is,
but I'm curious about yours. Uh well, first of all, Trump is lying. uh the Iranian military has not been
destroyed and the navy has not been destroyed and all their air aerial assets have not been destroyed. Like
that's easily verifiable. And even if like what does he mean by the military? Is it the IRGC? Is it the regular army?
Is it the garrison militias? Is it the bassie? Like no. Okay. And Iran is
prepared for a long war. That's why they built the tunnels and the hardened bunker sites and the massive military
stock piles beneath them because that's what you do when you cannot uh establish
air sovereignty against the United States just like the Vietkong just like Hamas just like Hezbollah you build
tunnels. Uh they have been preparing for a long war and one of the reasons uh
they have been they've been doing it since uh since we invaded Iraq. Uh Pete Hexath uh got up on on stage yesterday
and talked about how Iran killed US service members in Iraq. Why was that?
Well, because all the neocons back in the Bush administration, Wolawitz, Rumsfeld,
uh what's it whatever his name is, uh Cheney, sorry. They said Iran was next.
So what did Iran do? They sent an IRGC into Iraq to start training Shia
sectarian militias to bog down the United States intermittently in Iraq so
they didn't get invaded. Like this has all been in response to US
aggression in the region starting with US overthrowing their democratically
uh democratic government in the 50s. And so, uh, when they started building their
nuclear program, they always knew that Israel wouldn't tolerate it. And that's why they built these hard sites deep,
deep underground, not because, not against Israel, because Israel doesn't
have the capabilities to do that. And they never will have the capabilities to use massive ordinance penetrators to hit
these sites. It was always against the United States and US aggression for decades now. So yeah, I think they are
prepared for a long war. And even if they're not, the US is not prepared for a long war. We've been talking, every
time I've come on this show, we've been talking about how we don't have stock piles or an industrial base. So like, what are we even talking about here?
Yeah. Yeah. I don't Great. I mean, even if uh
Donald what Donald Trump said, everything is gone. I mean, there is a desperate attempt, it seems, to make it
look like these objective even still listening to him. He said there they're you know we set their nuclear program
back decades like last year and now obliterated right I thought it was obliterated but then uh JD
obliterated. It was tremendous. So and then March 2nd JD Vance says we can't let them build a B. Well, how
could they? It's obliterated. Uh and you know um the math you know just doesn't
work out for the United States. Even Marco Rubio acknowledged this. I don't know if you saw this. Here it is. They are producing by some estimates over 100
of these missiles a month. Compare that to the six or seven interceptors that can be built a month. They can build a
hundred of these a month. Not to mention the thousands of one-way attack drones that they also have.
So, so not good math there when we talk about just a few interceptors to
even if you take the price differential out of it, it's just Yeah, it's not going to happen.
No. But I I guess we're going to go ahead with it because, you know, um this
is just end of empire imperial violence that you can look throughout history is what happens even even pre- capitalism,
you know. So, uh I I definitely think that I I don't like to make predictions
anymore because the world's so insane and the new the news cycle so insane, but I would be surprised if this lasts
to next weekend, but we'll see. Yeah. I mean, we still have some time as
we wait uh for low key here because there's a lot of course uh first
of all what what I noticed before this started, Greg, was that the mainstream
media, Politico, other outlets were talking about how Donald Trump's administration has not communicated any
kind of message to people in the United States, not just about why, but about how this is going to happen. And they
cited 911. They cited World War II, of course, Vietnam. These were different kind of wars. But then they even started
uh the war on terror began after, you know, that uh really jumped off uh after 9/11. And they said, well, George W.
Bush, you know, he went up to the camera multiple times and said, "This is how it's going to happen." Donald Trump did
it zero times. The one time he did it, they were already striking Iran. Uh which took a lot of people by surprise.
So now it's hard to believe and hard to understand exactly how long this could last. In what in what planet could this
conflict actually last beyond this that this weekend as you're saying? Well uh I guess we'll just have to stop
using interceptors and get hit. Uh you know just like we did back in the good old days. um just you know eating
rounds and hoping to survive which I don't which because we don't have any consent for this war the US service
members are not even going to have an appetite for that you know when you look at why the USS Gerald RR Ford had to go
into port because 80% of the toilets didn't work well you and they started
finding shirts and debris inside the pipes that's like Gen Z's version of fragging I seriously believe that US
service members aboard the the flagship of the US Navy uh sabotaged it and and
that you can't remain at sea if you don't have u any like sewage or any
sanitation because what's the biggest threat like chalera like dysentery all of these like uh diuretic diseases that
you get if you don't have clean water and you're like backed up in sewage so
there's just really not an appetite not in the American people not in the US military. Um I I was uh like the last
time the uh Iran war was happening, I was messaging uh with uh I was talking to Mike Pryzner who's the producer of
the Empire Files. He used to be uh big he's big into like veteran activism and like getting people out of the military
as conscientious objectors and he's like the last time this happened there was an unprecedented a number of people calling
the GI Bill hotline to uh to get out. uh which is not something that's uh
happened very often and people need to know because I've been getting in Twitter fights on this because you know I've been triggering a lot of uh uh MAGA
cultists um being like you know even if you don't disagree with the war play pray for
their safety they they'll get thrown in jail if they don't follow that's not true you can follow as a conscientious
objector you just have to write an essay you have an interview with a chaplain a psychiatrist and your commanding officer
And the overwhelming majority of people who file as a conscientious objector keep their VA benefits and everything
can file for disability blah blah blah get free get free health care for the rest of their life because you get an
honorable discharge and your benefits reflect the time and service you've already done as a conscientious
objector. So you could actually absolutely leave the military and be
protected while doing it. Now they don't teach you this. They don't tell you this because they don't want you to know. But
this has been in place since Viet since after the Vietnam War. And so I know conscientious objectors who did like
couple years in service, filed, got out, I've interviewed them. Uh yeah, and they're good to go. And they have VA
healthcare and dental and all this other stuff. GI Bill, VA home loans. So like
all these people can actually get out if they want to. Most of them don't know about it. So I'm actually kind of trying
to do a education campaign. So I don't think anybody in the military or a lot of people in the military watch watch
your show or listen to my podcast. But if you know somebody in the military and they're kind of like questioning if this
should be happening or like do they want to get out, they can uh just go to the GI Bill or GI rights hotline and has all
the uh all the information that you need for you. Uh, and there's also a bunch of 501c3s that support veterans
transitioning out as conscientious objectors. So, it's absolutely a protected process and everybody needs to
know that so you don't have people like, you know, uh, excusing, uh, this kind of stuff.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, uh I mean there when
we talk about the there could be far more conscientious objectors coming out of this uh war, Greg, should these air
defenses run out and you know the damage to the bases is significant, but once those uh they run out entirely, uh there
will be far more hits uh that are more damaging as long as Iran continues to do
what it's doing. We haven't even heard about the Gerald Ford, Greg. Like where where did that go? What is it doing?
Have you heard about what what it's because it it docked is it is it docked uh outside of Israel? Like is it there?
And it had all of these issues with plumbing and I haven't heard anything from it. A lot made of the Abraham
Lincoln, but not much of the for uh Okay. Trans I'm trying to see if it's
transponder is on right now.
Uh, okay. I think it's AIS transpan
transponder has been off since the beginning of the operation. So, unless someone has like eyes on it in like the
port of Larnica and Cyprus. I don't I don't really know. Yeah. But not a lot of we we're not
hearing I mean we're hearing a lot about the Abraham Lincoln. There was even some rumors that Abraham Lincoln dispatched the aircraft that uh killed all of those
the horrible murder uh massacre of the young girls at the school in Iran. Um
but not anything from the Gerald Ford. A lot you know Iran said they hit the
Abraham Lincoln Sangcom said no but nothing about the Gerald Ford at all. Yeah. Um I I think there was a lot of
really bad press. If you read like stars and stripes or defense.com, like
everybody within that community was like, "Yo, the sailors sabotaged this entire plumbing system." Uh, and that is
a huge personnel problem and a huge security and operational risk. I
wouldn't be surprised, this is pure speculation, if they were just taken off of operational duty to deal with like
internal sabotage potentially because that will that'll get your entire unit just taken off the line until it's
solved. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Um and then Greg uh you
know as we continue what are what are some things that you believe uh in this war so far that uh maybe you know we see
all the chat on social media about the attacks uh the US bombings and then of
course Iran's retaliation but what do you think is the the not being considered here uh so much uh when we're
talking about how this war is going why this war is being fought okay well so every time and I I I speak
about this a lot. Every time we do wars overseas, it comes back home. Uh Danny,
have you heard about the uh the shooter in Austin, Texas? No, but somebody actually wanted me to
ask you about that. So, let I'll pull up that super chat if I can find it, but uh please uh So, uh I I've gr grew up in Austin. I
lived in Austin on and off my entire life. I live about 12 minutes away from where the shooting happened uh over the
weekend. What we're told is on Sixth Street. I don't go to Sixth Street anymore. It's the big party street
that's shut down on the weekends because I'm not in my 20s. Um yeah, he he was a
naturalized citizen from Sagal uh who went around with a rifle and a
gun and shot people at a number of venues. The entire operation is
incredibly sketchy. First of all, uh the classic, oh, there was a Kuran in the car. uh and he was a Sagal Sunni
apparently shooting people at random in solidarity with the Ayatollah a Shia who
was just killed. He has also had a picture of him wearing a property of Allah shirt and um actual practicing
Muslims cannot have the name of God on that or you know any shirt that they're
wearing and the FBI is kind of just like trust me bro it was you know it was terrorism and then Greg Abbott's like
we're going to do a terrorism crackdown you know because the war is coming by uh coming back home and um it's just it's
just got scop written all over it meant to jin up more and more consent for attacking Iran and bringing the hammer
down on Muslims when uh you know the the consent for this war is failing every
time I swear to God every time is don't I might be a conspiracy theorist even though you know CIA and FBI has released
files that they do this kind of thing they recruit mentally unstable people on
the internet in like chat groups or messaging uh and get them to do these kind of things. It's just there's no
compelling evidence after the Charlie Kirk assassination and the Tyler Robinson stuff and there was no transparency. There's zero reason to
trust Cash Patel's FBI at this point and it really is giving scop and it's making
at least massive news here in Texas. Uh, and so I think this war in Iran is just
going to be used to jin up more consent for a further police crackdown and a further mobilization of the Department
of Homeland Security and ICE. Because again guys, whatever imperial violence
and to forms of repression and control we implement overseas is almost
immediately ported back home to us citizens of the Imperial Corps. So that's something that crazily happened
over the weekend. It's absolutely bizarre. There's no transparency and it's very much trust me bro.
Yeah. And it's uh that was a Joseph George member, longtime member. Thanks so much for the question. Uh
and I point out that Yeah, please. You know how many white boys have shot up Sixth Street and it was it was just
like a we're praying for like the mental health crisis and the male white man
loneliness epidemic, but of course um we're going with this narrative now.
Yeah. And uh uh though it gets worse, Greg, though, I feel uh when things
don't go well. Uh and uh everything on the spreadsheet right now uh in this war
is bad. So uh and then we have to factor in the longer this goes on, of course,
the economy, the capitalist economy, the world capital economy is going to take major hits. Hormuz or not. uh because uh
we know how uh these oil companies, these so-called investors and financers, we know how much they while they profit
off of war uh when wars don't go well and things become unstable in major
sites of investments is like Saudi Arabia, which we didn't even talk about this, Greg, after their embassy got hit
by what is being said is Iranian drones. uh they're now looking to directly enter
the war and positioning Haimars uh you know to to fire at Iran.
That would be really insane. Uh if they fired uh long range artillery at Iran,
but again just like Israel, we gave them the highs. Um I don't I don't think they'll enter the war. uh you they
they've been uh cultivating a obviously they're a subimperial state of the US
but uh they've been cultivating a relationship uh you know uh MBS Muhammad
bin Salman the crown prince went to Tran last year for the first time in a very
very long time. Um, again, nobody in the region wants this war and nobody wants a
failed state in Iran and nobody wants, you know, Israel and the CIA getting
involved in controlling resource fums made along territorial and ethnic lines. You know, Donald Trump just before we
got on the street says like probably in response to how poorly the war is going that in the future we might directly
support armed separatist militias. But let's let's talk about that.
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