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IRGC Begins Revenge Phase 2? Iran Sets Israel's Oil Infra On 'Fire', Then Makes Stunning IDF Claim
Hindustan Times
Mar 7, 2026 #Iran #Israel #USA

Iran has escalated its campaign with the 27th wave of Operation “True Promise 4”, unleashing precision missiles and swarms of armed drones that Tehran claims have hit Israel, U.S. bases and key energy hubs across the region. Israeli officials insisted most missiles were intercepted and no injuries were reported despite fragments hitting homes in cities like Lod. Watch the video for more.



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From now on, anything built in the name
of an enemy similar to these bases,
facilities, and equipment will be
destroyed again and again with crushing
blows.
Iran's latest and most menacing warning
to its enemies has dropped [music] in
spectacular fashion.
Israel may be trying hard to conceal the
true scale of damage to its vital oil
depo, but on the ground, the reality in
Hifur appears far more dire.
As its much hyped defenses appear to
falter under sustained attack, Israel
now stands accused by Iran of taking an
unusual shield.
The IRGC has openly charged that the
Israeli army is using its own civilians
as human shields to protect its
soldiers.
It is not just Israel that is feeling
the heat as American military bases
across the region also come under
intense pressure in the 27th wave.
Bahrain, Kuwait, and Iraq have been
thrust into the line of fire with
Iranian drones and missiles setting
sights ablaze.
Iran has now unleashed the 27th wave of
Operation True Promise 4, combining
precision missile strikes with swarms of
armed drones in a coordinated
multiffront assault. According to an
official IRGC statement, this latest
phase specifically targeted US and
[music] Israeli military positions,
aiming to weaken command hubs and
strategic assets simultaneously.
Iran says it struck an oil refinery in
Israel's Hifer area using Kashar Shika
missiles fitted with cluster bomb
warheads designed to maximize damage
across the sprawling industrial
facility.
While Israeli media insist the incoming
missile landed harmlessly in an open
area, Iranian sources firmly maintain
that the projectile directly hit the
refinery complex and sparked major
damage.
Reports further suggest that Iranian
missiles also struck near the city of
Kadira, which houses Israel's crucial
Orat Rabbine power plant, raising fears
over potential hits on energy [music]
infrastructure.
Additional blasts were reportedly heard
around Jerusalem while air raid sirens
wailed across Tel Aviv, signaling yet
another wave of incoming threats over
Israel's heartland.
The IRGC further alleged that Israeli
authorities were trying to confine
residents to [music] the north and
center of the country, limiting their
movement under the pretext of security.
Tran's forces went even further,
accusing Israel of restricting civilians
in order to use them as human shields,
supposedly to protect high-ranking army
officers and sensitive facilities.
Even Israeli outlets appeared to
acknowledge that Iran had fired cluster
munitions toward Israeli territory,
signaling a dangerous escalation in the
types of weapons being deployed.
However, the Israeli military claimed
that the majority of Iranian missiles
were successfully intercepted by its air
defense systems before they could reach
their targets.
Despite those interceptions, fragments
from one destroyed missile reportedly
fell on a home in the city of Lud,
causing damage and panic among residents
there.
Israeli reports stressed that no
injuries were recorded in this latest
barrage of Iranian attacks, even as
explosions and alerts disrupted daily
life across multiple cities.
Beyond Israel itself, US military bases
stationed in allied Arab countries also
came under heavy fire, signaling Iran's
intent to broaden the pressure on
American forces.
The IRGC said it targeted command units
and weapons warehouses linked to the US
Navy's fifth fleet in Bahrain, striking
at the heart of Washington's maritime
presence in the Gulf.
Iranian drones are also reported to have
hit hotels in Bahrain and Iraq that were
believed to be hosting US military
personnel, expanding the battlefield
into civilian adjacent zones.
Kuwait 2 reported a wave of hostile
drone incursions with at least some
strikes said to have targeted fuel tanks
at its international airport in a brazen
show of reach.
The IRGC has warned that it will keep
launching operations against what it
labels as legitimate targets, vowing
that its campaign will not stop as long
as threats persist.
The Islamic Republic of Iran respects
the interests and sovereignty of its
neighboring countries and has not
carried out any incursions against them.
However, any location from which
aggression against Iran is launched will
be regarded as a legitimate target. Iran
will not compromise with the United
States or the Zionist regime. Countries
that have not provided space and
facilities to the United States and the
Zionist regime have not been and will
not be our target. But all bases that
are the origin of attacks against Iran
will, as before, be heavily targeted on
land, sea, and in space. We explicitly
say that we struck them and destroyed
them as a lesson for anyone who dares to
violate our nation. And know that from
now on, anything built in the name of an
enemy similar to these bases,
facilities, and equipment will be
destroyed again and again with crushing
blows. The Islamic Republic of Iran
strongly welcomes the escort of oil
tankers and the reported presence of
American forces seeking to pass through
the strait of Hormuz and says it is
awaiting them. We advise the Americans
to remember before taking any decision
the burning of the super tanker bridge
ton in 1987 and the oil tankers targeted
more recently. In this battle, entering
the area vertically does not mean you
will leave it the same way. The same
applies to your ships. You may intend to
enter as floating vessels, but they may
sink vertically to the bottom of the
Persian Gulf. And a reminder to the
corrupt island man, US President Donald
Trump, the ground on this war map is in
our hands, and we will continue. Iran's
latest attacks were framed as
retaliation, coming after Israel
reportedly launched strikes on vital oil
infrastructure in and around Tehran. The
Israeli army claimed that its earlier
raids had focused on Iranian fuel
depots, which it alleged were directly
linked to Thran's military logistics and
operations.
Iran's National Oil Refining and
Distribution Company confirmed that key
energy infrastructure came under missile
attack on March 7th, triggering fires
and emergency responses. According to
the company, oil depots in both Tran and
neighboring Albbor's province were
struck by missiles, igniting large fires
as firefighting teams rushed in to bring
the blazes under Control.
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Chas Freeman: Iran’s Strategy in the US-Israel War | Why Pezeshkian Halted Strikes on Gulf States
India & Global Left
Premiered Mar 7, 2026 Left take with IGL\

Former US diplomat and China expert Chas W. Freeman Jr. joins us to analyze the rapidly escalating conflict between Iran, Israel, and the United States.



Transcript

Hello and welcome to another episode of India and Global Left. If you are new to the show, please hit that subscribe
button. Also consider becoming a YouTube member, a Patreon or donate small amount given in the link in the description
box. Let me welcome our guest tonight, Ambassador Chess Freeman. Ambassador Freeman is a former American diplomat,
an author and a geopolitical analyst. Ambassador Freeman, welcome back to Indian Global Left.
Thank you, Jodish. Glad to be with you. There's a lot going on. Yeah. Um, we had you on last time. It
was about 10 days if I'm not wrong. And you said that war is inevitable. But
towards the end you also said you wish we could meet and talk about something
else because it's so depressing. But I had to unfortunately I had to send you
another email saying that uh I want to talk to you again. So if you could uh
give us your assessment of what happened in the last 8 days or so in so far as the conflict.
Yeah, let me um describe what I think is happening. Um basically December 29th
there was a meeting between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Donald Trump at Mara Lago uh Donald Trump's club uh in
[clears throat] Florida. uh and at that meeting they agreed uh on an attack on
Iran. Um therefore the negotiations which took place in January and February
were a sham. Uh they were cover again uh for the marshalling of forces to mount
the attack that finally was mounted on February 28th. Um uh the the attack is
in pursuit of Israeli strategy. There is no American strategy. There is an
American campaign plan uh to implement the Israeli strategy. The aim of the
Israeli strategy is uh to devastate Iran
uh to eliminate it as a competitor for influence uh in the in West Asia.
um and thereby facilitate the greater India greater Israel project uh which in
en invisages everything from the Euphrates to the Nile becoming a Jewish
ma managed um state presumably an apartate state as Israel itself is so um
that's the theory um that's the strategy uh it's part of a long-term plan Um,
Prime Minister Netanyahu has openly admitted that he's had this fever dream
of finding an American president willing to do his way for 40 years. And in
Donald Trump, he's found that man. Uh the campaign plan on the US side really
um involves uh a very intensive uh set of strikes on Iran on multiple targets
in Iran um with a view to um destroying Iran's capacity to conduct a war with
with Israel. That campaign plan in my view is failing for the simple reason
that the Iranians have spent 20 years preparing for an air campaign against them.
um when they think they're about to be attacked, they relocate the sensitive materials or equipment uh that might be
destroyed in an attack uh to hiding places. Uh now let me talk about the
Iranian strategy because they do have a strategy. Uh first um point is that u
they are sick and tired of continual provocations, assassinations,
attacks, negotiations that are cover for surprise attacks. Uh and they're going
for broke. Uh they are following a uh a
strategy that will not stop until they reach their objective which is to devastate Israel. In other words, having
received an existential threat from Israel, they now pose an existential threat to Israel. Um, and I
sorry um uh I'm I used to chair a group in
Washington that um called the Committee for the Republic. Uh and they have
awkwardly decided this is the precise moment uh to get me back I guess. Anyway
um you can cut all that out I hope. Um let me go back. So the Iranian strategy
uh in is basically modeled on Muhammad Ali's strategy called rope a dope. that
is take the all the punishment you can [clears throat] u behave if you will like Afghanistan or
or Vietnam uh and b your time hide your capabilities until the other side is
sufficiently exhausted so that you can deliver a knockout punch. Uh and um the
uh here um uh we see uh a familiar pattern from the June war of 2025.
Namely, Iran has begun the war [clears throat] uh by expanding its least advanced
ammunition in an effort to deplete the intercept capability and the defense
capability uh of Israel and the United States. And if the June June war is any
guide, u about 10 or 12 days into this, Israel will in fact have exhausted its
capacity to defend itself. Shortly after that, the US will run out of uh
munitions. Why? Because every inter intercept attempt involves at least two
or three and sometimes as many as a dozen or more interceptors being fired.
Each one very expensive and each one in short supply. So the inventory of
interception capabilities is rapidly depleting. Uh we are beginning, the United States is beginning to
cannibalize systems in South Korea, Tamad,
Patriot, and in Japan um in order to supplement um the dwindling uh uh
logistical support for this war uh in West Asia. Um so Iran has not even begun
to use its hypersonic weaponry which remains underground in storage
waiting for the right moment. Um let me talk about the most important development today which is that
President Peshken of Iran on behalf of the threeman governing council that has
replaced the slain uh supreme leader Ali Kam uh has apologized to the Gulf
Cooperation Council countries uh Kuwait, Bahrain uh Qatar, UAE and uh Oman for
attacks on them. Uh and he's claimed that uh this is this was because Iran
deliberately decentralized its military command after the attack on the on the
supreme leader and that people were conducting unauthorized attacks. Uh that
is not true. uh but it is a very deaf way of uh giving uh an excuse to the
Gulf Arabs uh that they need in order to do to meet the Peskians uh conditions
during the time the the the war opened with on Saturday about 1:00 a.m. with um
an attack on uh the Supreme Leader by the Israeli Air Force. Um
it was immediately responded to by Iran which knocked out um most of the radar
systems and other equipment that the US had deploy deployed to the region. Uh
there is some evidence that all five THAAD radars theater high altitude air
defense radars were destroyed. a $ 1.1 billion dollar radar in Allade in Qatar
was destroyed or severely damaged. Um they not only knocked out the uh eyes
and ears of the United States in the region, but at least one of those installations was aimed at China and
Russia. Uh so the United States has been decisively weakened uh in in in those
terms. Um the American bases became militarily inoperable.
The personnel were evacuated to hotels. Iran then followed up by attacking the
hotels. So um what is going on here is a very deliberate
uh strategy combining diplomacy with force
u to convince the Gulf Arabs that they cannot afford to have American bases on
their territory that far from defending them these bases make them vulnerable to
attack and Iran has gone farther. It has openly threatened to destroy their oil
production and gas production capabilities. It has closed the straight of Hormuz. I'll come back to that. But
um alongside the military attacks uh
although there's no I'm now speculating there must have been a very intense dialogue between the various GCC
capitals um uh Riyad, Abu Dhabi, Doha,
Kuwait and so on um uh and the Iranians um about Iran's terms for calling off
the attack. So they have now called off the attacks on the condition that none
of these bases be used against them. Uh Donald Trump has said this is an Iranian
surrender to the Gulf Arabs. It's not at all. What it is is a ceasefire and it
probably includes now again I'm speculating an undertaking by the Gulf
Arabs not only to prevent American use of these facilities against Iran but
after the war is over which will be determined I think by Iran not by Israel
or the United States uh to remove those bases. So Iran is achieving a long-term
objective that it has had of removing the American military presence from the
Gulf. That's my interpretation of this. Um only time will tell whether that
interpretation is correct or not. Uh but I think AAM's razor the simplest
explanation for what has happened usually is the best suggests that this
is what happened. Um now this Gulf of uh the straight of Harmuz has been closed.
Uh it has been closed um uh by it was not closed by naval uh forces. The
Iranian Navy appears mostly to have been sunk including one Iranian cruiser that
was in was participating in a multinational exercise with India that
was sunk off Sri Lanka by an American submarine despite the fact that I believe the American Navy was also
involved in this multinational exercise. So this was a a war crime, not a uh
unjustified, but it has the effect of legitimizing Iranian globalization of the war. That
is, it need no longer be constrained to the region. It's very dangerous for that
reason. Um now the Gulf, the straight of Hormuz is closed um on the model of the
Houthi closure of the Red Sea. That was the first successful sea blockade
conducted from the land. Uh Iran has spent 20 years preparing the land-based
closure of the straight of Hormuz. Uh and while Donald Trump has directed the
International Development Finance Company Corporation of the United States to to step in to provide insurance now
that insurance is not available from other sources. um they don't have the legal authority or the funds to do that.
So I suspect this is an empty gesture uh although they are in discussion with insurance companies. Uh second he's
ordered the US Navy to escort uh any tankers that are brave enough to try to run the blockade. But I think the US
Navy lacks both the ships uh and the capability to do that against land-based
missiles and artillery which cover the straight from the Iranian uh uh earth.
So um so this is uh u this is not the
short victorious war that Donald Trump imagined. uh he has cited multiple objectives,
some of them self-contradictory. There is no clear explanation for this
war. Uh some say it's to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, but we
killed the supreme leader who was the only cork in the bottle on that issue.
Everyone else in Iran below him appears to have decided that there must be a nuclear weapon for deterrent purposes.
And look to the example of North Korea, which responded to maximum pressure by
developing a uh a an ICBM with multiple
re-entry vehicles, nuclear and Duke decoys that can strike anywhere in the
United States. That's probably the next stage in Iran. Anyway, Iran now has um
the the obstacle to Iran making a decision to build a nuclear weapon has been removed both because the supreme
leader who opposed it has been murdered and because the fatwa that prevented
Iran from building a nuclear weapon um made an exception when there was an
existential challenge to the Islamic Republic, which there now is um explicitly
A second objective supposedly was to counter Iranian missile capabilities
against Israel. And here there's been a very convoluted argument. Um on the eve
of the Israeli attack backed by the United States, this is an Israeli
American war, not an American Israeli war. I mean the prime mover is Israel
and Iran knows that which is why it is focused on wreaking havoc in Israel and
I'll come to that. Um the um uh this this war um uh before it was started
there were people in Washington arguing that we should encourage the Israelis to go first because then we can argue that
we're responding defensively to a threat of actual Iranian retaliation. Um that
uh convoluted argument found expression in Marco Rubio. Um and then a day later
he had to do 180°ree turn and say no no no because Donald Trump said no, Israel
didn't start this war. I did. Um I take credit for it. Um and so we see American
officials behaving like Soviet apparachics uh in the uh in the Soviet era. uh
turning uh pretzel logics into pretzel-like convolutions and reversing
themselves at a moment's notice quite shamelessly. And one wonders whether the
end result will not be for Mr. Rubio what Molotov the Soviet foreign minister
suffered namely reassignment to a hydroelectric project in outer Mongolia.
Perhaps Mr. Rubio will end up running a lemonade stand in uh Tijuana or perhaps
San Diego. Anyway, um um in the middle of all this, I should add
u the Trump administration is threatening uh the Cuban government with
annihilation. Um so there's a certain consistency here. U the savagery of uh
the newly renamed Department of War is much evidence. Let me turn finally to
the issue of what is happening in in Israel. Uh first uh let us acknowledge
Israeli military and censorship is very effective. Uh it's effective not only
because it is applied strenuously to people in Israel but also because the
Zionisttoriented American media respect it. So when Israel says
something they just dutifully repeat it when that is challenged they say well we
can't verify that. Um so we know very little in the mainstream media about
what is happening in Israel. There is an interesting clip um from
an Indian journalist Braj Moan uh who just posted this on X uh which indicates
what other sources are saying uh namely the interception of incoming Iranian
missiles is failing uh the damage is extensive and I recall that in the June
war 408 buildings [clears throat] were destroyed in Israel. Many Israelis are
still homeless as a result of that. U this now is much worse. Uh and um uh Mr.
Mahan um is quite panicky in his little clip. Um uh and um he clearly has been
uh renewed his uh done puja. He's got a nice red mark on his between his eyes.
Um India uh is in a very poor position.
Uh it has almost no strategic petroleum reserve. I believe there's about 9 and a
half days supply in the Indian strategic petroleum reserve whereas China has 253
days of of strategic petroleum reserve and uh Japan incur quite a bit less but
still far more than India. So it's entirely natural that uh uh the Indian
government has petitioned the United States for a an exemption from the
Russian oil embargo that the United States had imposed and the Russian Federation has offered to resupply India
with oil which it will have to do by the Pacific or around Africa because uh
so Um, India's going to suffer power outages. Um, the one that you just
experienced is probably not related to that. Uh, but um, things are going to
get pretty tough. Second effect is about half the world's fertilizer supply has
just been cut off in the northern hemisphere. This is right in advance of
the planting season. So, we're going to have a food shortage down the road. Um
and if we look at the energy picture, gutter uh has had to stop production of
gas uh both for export and domestically.
I mean, for example, there's a Norwegian aluminum factory in gutter that has had
to shut down uh because no gas is available to power uh it. Um and uh the
land-based facilities u that produce uh liqufied natural gas in gutter have been
uh damaged. We're told it will be uh many weeks, perhaps months before they
can be brought back online. Um, and so, um, we're in a situation where, uh, the
United States and Israel, following Israel, a long-term Israeli ambition,
has started a war, which is not going to be the short victorious war that its u
proponents imagined, but a long war of attrition in which
industrial capacity uh, and inventory of weaponry and defensive equipment will
decide the outcome along with the ability to take punishment. Again,
Muhammad Ali and Rope a do you know I'll take all the punches you give me. I'll
punch you enough to exhaust you and when you are exhausted I will strike you. And
that is the Iranian strategy. And no, of course it may not work but at the moment it appears to be working. And so um I
think uh the mainstream media and the boastful statements of the central
command must be taken not with a a grain of salt but a boulder of salt. Um so uh
this is sort of a summary I think of what is happening uh at least as I see
it and of course I may be wrong because information is in very short supply and
I would point out we're only seven or eight days into uh this uh war. I guess
it's eight um seven and a half eight days now. um we um and it's going to go
on for quite a while and um and uh the um uh I think probably midweek next week
um uh sometime around the 10th of March the 11th or 12th um we will see um
whether I'm correct about um the capacity of the United States and Israel to defend themselves against hypersonic
missiles which is almost non-existent anyway. way uh is uh is essentially
eliminated. Um we're hearing talk out of the Pentagon about um uh about falling
back to um air launched cruise missiles um from that is standing off um hundreds
of miles and firing missiles at targets in Iran. But the assumption there is
that the United States has wiped out Iranian air defenses.
I think it's an open question whether it has or not uh for two reasons. Uh, first
the Iranians given the rope a doe strategy may well
have decided to save those by moving them underground out of the way and not
expending their own self-defense capacity at the opening when [clears throat] Israeli and
American capacities are at their peak. So they may be uh uh these air defense
capabilities may still exist to be brought forward uh when required
um or appropriate. Second um battle damage assessment uh in an air war is
exceedingly difficult. I was reminded of a friend of the NATO American air
campaign against Serbia in the war to u vivbec Serbia and remove Kosovo from it.
Um uh the Serbs had apparently 17 U
launchers for their air defenses. Um and we reported destroying 64 of those 17.
So I mean uh and I remember from my time as ambassador during the Gulf War of 1999
uh that uh uh our air force and the Israeli air force were continuously
announcing the destruction of Iranian Scud launchers uh and then they turned out not to be destroyed. Uh so we've
seen um videos of missiles launching from beneath the sands that is they are
uh they are in silos covered with dirt and a very thin protector between them
and the sky and suddenly they burst forth from an apparent a desert empty
desert. So I don't know um uh whether you know Iran is holding back
appropriate things. I suspect it may be. I want I wanted to ask you a little bit more about uh President Bzkian's
decision or announcement to halt strikes u at the Gulf uh states uh uh
conditional uh conditioned on u that no attacks are coming no further attacks
are were to come from from them again. Um I I wonder what what makes them take
this decision. I mean um of course on one hand as you said it's uh uh it's
it's it's a strategy of uh attacking US and Iran while opening diplomacy to to
the rest of uh the states in the region. But one may also wonder what makes them
hope that the Gulf states are independent enough to take uh uh open friendship or or or or or push the
United States out of the region.
Well, the basic lesson that they're trying to impart, I think has to provide in the name of defending the Gulf States
against Iran or other attackers in fact don't do that. They become they justify
Iranian attacks on these very states. So they are not a source of protection but
of vulnerability and they therefore should be removed. That's the basic lesson Iran has been trying to d draw
draw home. The two other two possible reasons for that I see for the timing of
the uh uh of the ceasefire uh unilateral ceasefire announced by Iran against
these states, not against the United States. Uh Iran has made it clear it's going to continue to attack Israel and
the United States, but it has now exempted the Gulf States um and done so
uh in a um tactful apologetic
manner that maximizes the chances that they will accept the ceasefire. In other
words, Pzeskian says, "We're really sorry. This was all a mistake." Of course it
wasn't a mistake but um he gives them the out of accepting that it was a mistake. So two possibilities one there
were there were agreements reached to diplomacy which is not visible uh between the Gulf states and Iran and the
Gulf states agreed that as they have said publicly they would not allow any American use of their bases against
Iran. And second they probably also agreed that when the war is over those
bases will disappear. So, Iran has achieved its long-standing objective.
That is the most likely possibility. As a secondary consideration,
Iran has expanded mostly drones, very few missiles um on these spaces.
um and uh it may want to just save them for further use against the United
States and Israel having made its point it believes
uh to the Gulf Arabs. So uh I think this is u a very important uh uh development
and I don't think uh it is as Donald Trump suggested an Iranian surrender to
the Gulf Arabs. Yeah, I wasn't surprised about the
announcement itself because uh my reading um in the recent days has been
Iran had been very very cautious even while they were attacking even um their
attacks on hotels. uh they came out unjustified saying that oh we only attacked the hotels because it was US
personnels who had to retreat back to the hotels effectively saying that we are still maintaining that difference or
discrimination between attacking military assets and so I wasn't surprised by that but
right but they did they attacked for example uh the port of Dukam in Oman uh which is a purely Omani
port but it has all storage for than the US Navy draws on and it's a US Navy
anchorage. So Oman which has been the indispensable
neutral mediator in these sham negotiations
uh Oman is I think a gasast at having been used in this fashion twice. Um but
the uh foreign minister um bad alidi has
has uh has been very clear that there was real progress being made
uh in the um in the in the negotiations by the Iranians. They had gone well
beyond the so-called JCPOA or joint comprehensive plan of action.
They had agreed to forego any storage of material that was substantially
enriched. Um and um they had agreed to go back to low levels of enrichment. Um
and uh we've heard Steve Whit um the who of course knows absolutely
he's a real estate um uh manipulator. He's Donald Trump's crony. He knows
nothing about nuclear weapons or Iran or the Arabs or anything else. And nor does
Jared Kushner um who does not have a PhD in nuclear physics last time I looked.
Um no, these people say, well, it's the inherent right wickoff says it's the inherent right of President Trump to
insist that they have no enrichment, but it's the inherent right of of Iran under article 4 of the non-proliferation
treaty to have enrichment. So once again, the United States is in contempt
of international law and making assertions which have no basis at all um
in in uh in law and practice. Um, so I think the Trump administration has
thoroughly discredited itself abroad. Um,
not not only with this unprovoked attack, but
with with Israel, but with the manner in which 65 people at a girl school in
Minab. Normally, one would expect an apology. This was a targeting error. We're really
sorry. No, nothing. Um the the sinking with us by a submarine of an Iranian
cruise ship cruise cruiser that had been engaged in an in essentially diplomatically organized uh
multinational exercise off India. Um you know is another this is like s the
German sinking of the Lucitania in World War I. It discredits the United States and um so uh and uh Secretary of Defense
self-styled Secretary of War Ex Hath's statements could well have been made by
Adolf Hitler. They are um totally savage. He dismisses so-called
international institutions. He says in so-called international law, he said
there should be no rules of engagement or no holds barred. everything should uh you know the objective is to destroy,
murder uh and uh erase uranian
power. So um this is bad enough um
internationally but domestically you know we have a we have a situation
where Israeli impunity depends entirely on support from the United States and
that support is rapidly crumbling. Uh the American public is not behind this
war. Even some Republicans who normally behave like members of a Leninist party
falling in line with the great leaders judgments um are condemning this. There
is a split in MAGA between those who favored restraint. U Tucker Carlson,
Marjorie Taylor Green come to mind as the two most prominent spokespeople for
this view. uh and uh and wararm mongers like Lindseay uh Graham. Um and uh so um the
the the basis both for support for the continuation of the war [snorts] and for
MAGA and for President Trump are all being rapidly eroded by this. uh and I
think the effort to or the statement that you know Cuba is next is an an
effort to finesse this reality. I don't think it will succeed.
So this is a disaster uh for the United States, for Israel, for Iran. Of course,
Iran is being battered. Um and um I guess I should say one final thing and
that is um the preparation for this uh for the
regime change u operation that this is uh you know some days Donald Trump
admits that sometimes he doesn't and Marco Rubio always seems to insist
except when he's told otherwise that it is a regime change operation. The basis
for this was very carefully prepared. The Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, brought down the Iranian
currency. He says he did so. He takes credit for doing so in order to produce protests by
making Iranians so miserable that they would take to the streets. They did
that. At that point, agents of influence who had been supplied with Starlink
receivers to coordinate their actions without regard to the internet. Um uh
50,000 such receivers infiltrated into Iran.
They went into action to try to um ensure that the pre peaceful protests
would become violent and evoke violence from the government, which they did. Uh so Iran says 3,710
people including uh both members of the police and the basie the voluntary
volunteer militia as well as members of the public were killed. Uh west has
vastly exaggerated numbers. The truth is probably somewhere in between. I don't I
don't think we should expect the Iranian government to tell the truth any more than western governments have been
doing. Um so um this was the justific one one of the
justifications for the one that initially came out from Donald Trump was there's uh human right
violations in in Iran. We have to stop this and we're coming to your rescue which uh you know is nonsense because
coming to the your rescue from the air by bombing you and making you even more
miserable um is not a good solution. Um now the final thing here is uh one of
the uh things that Iran did with its closure of the straight of Hormuz of
course was to sever the revenues from oil and gas of all the producers in the Gulf. Uh some uh like Saudi Arabia are
very close to uh fiscal uh emergency. Others like Kuwait um basically live off
coupon clipping on investments that they have made with previous uh uh profits
from oil and oil and gas. Um Bahrain is dependent [snorts] on Saudi Arabia.
Qatar is the third largest gas producer in the world. It's had to stop producing
gas as I mentioned. Um UAE is also bottled up in the straight of Hormuz.
Oman is not uh but Oman is a very minor oil and gas producer. Uh so the revenues
of these countries have all been stopped. Uh Iran has stopped its own revenues. Um and clearly it has made a
calculation that it can do that for quite a while. Um and uh I don't haven't
seen any studies of how long that might be, but I'm sure the Iranians have made
such studies and in preparation for this strategy. Uh so um we're looking at u uh
uh pre terrible pressure on governments in the Gulf.
um not just um financial because of course their populations their native
populations at least and some of them have very small native populations large
populations of South Asians Indians Pakistanis Bangladeshis Sri Lankans
Filipinos and so forth um um we're looking at um population native
populations that have been turned almost 100% % against Israel and the United States by the genocide in Gaza.
So they're under pressure, these governments are already under pressure politically to dissociate themselves
from the United States and Israel. Uh now they there is fiscal pressure,
revenue pressure on them as well. And um uh they're not known for their courage.
So we'll see what they decide. It's their decision. Uh if I'm correct, they
have made a decision and communicated it to Iran. Uh but I might be wrong about
that. So um outside u the region, we face u uh
reduced crops in the in in the next harvest cycle. Um reduced supplies of
petrochemicals and fertilizer. an increase in oil prices.
Oil is now at about $94 a barrel um and headed upward. Uh I think it's going to
hit 150 or more. Uh this means uh that in the United States which has a
policy of trying to keep gasoline prices low to benefit consumers and um appease
voters that we're going to see uh the doubling of price
gas at the pump at a minimum. So we're going to have $4.50 50 cents, $5 in much
of the country, seven or eight, maybe nine in California. Uh and um uh as we
go into midterm elections, assuming Donald Trump can't stop them as he would like to do, um uh the voters are not
going to be in a good mood for and this therefore could be the demise of MAGA u
and much of the Republican party if the voters take their revenge.
So this is an earthquake uh and very high on the recctor scale.
This is probably first American war that is unpopular right from the beginning. Um remind me if there was another
um I think it's uh it's the first war in
which we have taken the level of damage to infrastructure and presence that
we've already taken. [clears throat] In other words, [snorts] um we've been
we've been immune. We make war through proxies. And and let me just mention the proxy
impact on this because it's also considerable. If the United States is focused on
resupplying the stocks of Israel and itself,
it is not going to be able to make those things available to the Europeans to transfer to Ukraine. So Ukraine has just
suffered a strategic blow which may be fatal. Uh you know this is all an
illustration jish that before you start a war you should set clear and feasible
objectives. You should u devote the resources necessary to achieve those
objectives. You should try to achieve them in a way that does not do permanent
damage to your reputation and you should um have a plan for terminating the war.
We have no plan for terminating this war and I don't think we're capable of doing it because as I said at the outset Iran
is playing for keeps. They want to destroy Israel as a threat to them.
You know Iran may have been a potential threat to Israel but Israel is a very real threat to Iran. uh and Iran has
every right under international law uh to retaliate against um the attacks uh
uh from uh American and other western bases. Uh and in this connection I would
just say the performance of the Europeans has been amazingly um
maladroid illconsidered and fatal to the Europe's reputation.
someone like Sir Kristarmmer who says, "Well, I I don't we're not going to support this war from Diego Garcia or
Cyprus or RAF bases in in Britain and then turns around and says, "No, we have
to protect the uh Gulf Arabs from the unprovoked attack by Iran." I mean,
Orwell would turn in his grave at this um and other statements. uh Macron
saying, "Well, this should show Iran that it should negotiate in good faith when it did negotiate in good faith and
the United States did not." Um so, uh I go back to the Soviet analogy.
Even the Europeans didn't. There was a snapback of the E3, uh the E3.
Yeah, of course. And but I'm I'm I'm I'm
uh I don't know in what respect they are differentiated from the members of the
Warsaw back under uh the Soviet Union
whenever the Soviet Union with it. So one day, one day Hitler was the great
monster. And then after the Molotov Ribbentrop pact, no, we have to support
the uh Soviet pact with Nazi Germany and you know this is all correct. And then
we get into the cold war and [clears throat] every time uh the Soviet Union changes course for does something
really foolish like invading Afghanistan, everybody in the Warsaw fact does what the US Congress and the
Europeans do, namely stand up and applaud. Have you lost the power again?
No, no, no. It's it's fine. So I think we've probably exhausted this
topic for now. Uh it is again I I know less than eight full days into this war
and uh uh much is uncertain. Uh I um
I've put forward various hypotheses about what is happening but that's all they are. And uh we may find that I'm
wrong. I don't believe so. Uh I believe there is good reason to believe that uh
the hypotheses I've stated are correct but time will tell.
We'll leave it there ambassador Freeman. Thank you so much for your time.
Well thank you Jesish and I hope the power stays on in Delhi.
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Unexploded Iran missile goes off in Tel Aviv moment after IDF arrives - Nobody expected it - OPTM
OPTM
Mar 8, 2026



Transcript

This is a special report. The images you
are about to hear described are graphic.
The truth is brutal and the silence from
official channels is deafening. Over the
last 48 hours, a video has been burning
up the timeline on X.com and it shows a
moment of such devastating irony that it
would almost be comedic if it weren't so
tragic. We are talking about an incident
that just occurred in Tel Aviv. A moment
that the Israeli military machine
desperately does not want you to see.
Imagine the scene.
Sirens blared across Tel Aviv and parts
of central and southern Israel as Iran
launched another round of ballistic
missiles, sending residents rushing into
bomb shelters. Waves of Iranian missile
attacks rock Israel.
Israel is in panic after Iran conducted
missile drills across several cities.
Sirens have stopped. The allclear has
been given. A missile presumed to be a
dud, is lying dormant in a residential
area. The fire crews move in. The rescue
teams arrive to help civilians. The IDF
bomb squad, the best of the best,
surrounds the warhead to render it safe.
And then, in the split second they are
all clustered around it, the device
detonates. Sources on the ground citing
emergency services that are now being
muzzled are indicating that the casualty
count from that single horrific moment
is staggering. We are hearing reports of
over 500 confirmed killed, primarily
first responders and military personnel.
But that number is fluid and it is
climbing. It was a trap, a brutal,
calculated trap. This is not just a
malfunctioning piece of weaponry.
Military analysts are already calling
this a new and terrifying phase in
warfare. What Iran appears to have
deployed is what some are calling
intelligent munitions or sleeper
missiles. These aren't just bombs. They
are hunter killers. The theory based on
the footage we are seeing is that these
specific projectiles are designed to go
silent. They fake a malfunction. They
land without detonating and they wait.
They are packed with sensors and
explosives, lying dormant, collecting
intel and transmitting data back to
command centers until the exact moment
the enemy's best and brightest crowd
around to investigate. It is a
devastating psychological operation as
much as a military one. They are using
the Israelis own doctrine of protecting
life against them, turning rescue
missions into mass casualty events.
Before we dive deeper into how Benjamin
Netanyahu is trying to scrub the
internet of these images and why the
Pentagon is panicking, I need you to do
something for me. We are one of the last
outlets left that is willing to call
this exactly as it is. No sugar coating,
no bowing to Zionist pressure, no
censoring the truth to protect the
feelings of wararmongers. The corporate
media won't show you these videos. They
won't tell you about the 500 dead in Tel
Aviv because it doesn't fit the
narrative of Israeli invincibility.
If you believe in honest journalism, if
you want the truth about this war that
the establishment is terrified, you'll
see you need to hit that like button. It
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truth here and we need you inside it
with us. do it now and then let's get
into the filth that Netanyahu is trying
to hide. All right, let's talk about the
censorship because what is happening
inside Israel right now is not just war.
It is a war on information. Benjamin
Netanyahu is hiding. He is hiding in
bunkers and he is hiding the bodies. The
official casualty figures coming out of
Tel Aviv after that sleeper missile
incident. A joke. They are calling it a
gas leak. They are calling it a minor
incident with few injuries. Meanwhile,
whistleblowers are flooding out of the
country with testimony that paints a
very different picture. Take the case of
an Indian journalist Braj Moan Singh who
was trapped in the occupied territories
and just managed to escape. He gave a
testimony to the press that should chill
you to the bone. He said that people are
dying in Israeli bunkers, deep 100 ft
deep bunkers, and the government is
simply not reporting it. He described
how journalists are forbidden from
filming bodies, forbidden from visiting
hospitals, and given fake numbers. He
recounted going to a strike site where a
local told him four entire families had
been wiped out, their homes turned to
dust. The next day, the Israeli military
minders told him there was only one
casualty, one. They are literally
erasing people.
right
Indian
city.
Only one one casualty, one person died.
There were four houses. Nobody's alive.
Alarmology
drones.
And here is the kicker that exposes the
lie about their superior technology.
This journalist confirmed what we have
long suspected. The radars are gone. The
much vaunted Iron Dome, the David Sling,
the entire American backed air defense
network. Iran has punched so many holes
in it that it's essentially Swiss
cheese. Sing reported that missiles are
striking without warning. No sirens, no
red alerts on the apps, just a sudden
explosion. Why? Because Iranian strikes
have systematically degraded and
destroyed Israel's radar arrays and
detection systems, the startup nation is
flying blind and they are lying to their
own citizens to prevent a mass panic
that would bring down the government.
And while Netanyahu is busy trying to
control the narrative in Tel Aviv, the
news is tightening elsewhere. Iranian
state media, including Press TV and the
Thrron Times, are reporting that the
IRGC has expanded the theater of war.
They have followed through on their
promise. We are getting confirmed
reports of a significant strike on the
Jufair naval base in Bahrain. This is
not a small thing, folks. Jair is the
home of the US Navy's fifth fleet. This
is the headquarters of American naval
power in the Persian Gulf. According to
Iranian sources, this strike was framed
as direct retaliation for an alleged US
attack on a desalination plant on Iran's
Keshum Island. You see the game here?
The US and Israel thought they could
target Iranian infrastructure, cutting
off water to civilians, no less, and get
away with it. Iran just sent a 2,000 km
message that if you mess with their
civilian infrastructure, they will hit
your military command centers. Videos
circulating online show high-rise
buildings in Manama, Bahrain, engulfed
in flames after the strikes. The US is
downplaying it, of course, saying no
damage to the base. But you don't see
skyscrapers catching fire next to a
military installation without some
serious collateral damage or perhaps
precision targeting. This brings us to
the absolute farce of the American
military machine. While Iran is
deploying hypersonic missiles that can
evade detection and sleeper warheads
that play dead, the United States Air
Force is doing something that would be
embarrassing in a video game, let alone
a real war. We have to talk about the
decoys. Iranian news sources alongside
Russian military experts like Yuri Nutov
are revealing that the US and Israel are
burning through millions if not billions
of dollars in munitions, hitting
literally nothing. That's right.
Satellite imagery and drone footage are
emerging showing that many of the air
bases and missile batteries the Pentagon
claims to have destroyed were actually
inflatable balloons and painted plywood.
We are talking about dummy helicopters,
fake missile launchers, and anamorphic
paintings on the ground that look like
bunkers from the sky. Imagine being a
multi-million dollar pilot dropping a
million-doll JDAM bomb on a target only
to find out later that you bombed a
rubber duck. The IRGC has mastered the
art of asymmetric warfare. They are
cheap, they are effective, and they are
making the United States look like a
bully punching shadows. While the US
brags about degrading Iranian
capabilities, Iran is actually degrading
the US Treasury by tricking them into
wasting precision munitions on decoys.
Who is the superpower here really? And
if you think the lying stops at the
battlefield, let's bring in the analysis
of someone who has seen it all before.
Alistister Crook. Crook has been
exposing the rot at the heart of the
Pentagon and the State Department for
years, and his recent statements are a
damning indictment of the Biden and now
Trump administration's continuity of
deceit.
Trump, I think, is getting quite
desperate about it. But I I think his
way of dealing with it is is actually
going to be counterproductive. He I
mean, he you know, he he keeps saying,
"Oh, we've done great things. you know,
we've sunk the Iranian Navy. We've
destroyed their Air Force. We're
destroying their missiles. But the
consequences of that is that no factual
details are being fed out by the
Pentagon. I mean, put it bluntly,
they're mainly lying about what's
actually happening on the ground. If I'm
sure they know about it, but they lie.
Okay, only six Americans have been
killed in this and all the aircraft that
have fallen were all friendly fire uh
incidents. I mean I think that with a
little bit of time the American public
will realize that things were a little
different from
Crook is exposing that the Pentagon is
actively and with malice lying to the
American public. We are hearing about
friendly fire incidents. American troops
killed by American bombs that are being
swept under the rug. We are hearing
about casualties in the hundreds that
are being reported as zero. The
government is betraying its own
citizens, its own soldiers just to
maintain the illusion of victory in a
war that is being fought, let's be
honest, for the security and expansion
of Israel. The American soldier is being
asked to die for Tel Aviv. and the
Pentagon is lying to their families
about how they died. Crook points out
that the narrative of Western
invincibility is a house of cards. Every
time the US claims a victory, Iran
releases footage of a base they actually
hit. Every time Israel claims they
intercepted 99% of missiles, we see
videos like the one in Tel Aviv today
where 500 people just died because one
missile played possum. The credibility
gap is now a chasm. So, where are we
now? The Zionist entity is in chaos.
Their leader is in hiding, censoring the
press, afraid to even step outside
because Iranian reconnaissance has
likely mapped his every move. The
streets of Tel Aviv, once bustling with
hubris, are ghost towns. The people are
realizing that their government lied to
them about their safety. And the
resistance, led by Iran, has shown that
they are thinking three steps ahead.
They aren't just launching missiles to
cause damage. They are launching
missiles to change the psychology of the
enemy. The message from Thrron is clear.
You cannot hide. You cannot censor. And
you certainly cannot trust your leaders
to tell you the truth about how badly
you are losing. We will continue to
monitor the whistleblower accounts
coming out of Israel. We will continue
to show you the videos they are trying
to delete and we will continue to laugh
at the Pentagon every time they claim to
have destroyed a balloon. This is the
reality of the war. This is the truth
they don't want you to see. Keep sharing
this video. Keep spreading the word. And
for God's sake, subscribe so you don't
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Iran’s ‘TRIO MISSILE BLITZ’ Hits Major US Base In Gulf; ‘RUN, RUN!’ Panic Reported Inside Base
Times Of India
Mar 9, 2026 #irgc #truepromise4 #wave30

Iran's IRGC has launched the 30th consecutive wave of Operation True Promise 4, firing Khorramshahr, Fattah and Khaybar family ballistic missiles from multiple sites — with the IRGC confirming all munitions hit their targets. Separately, the IRGC Navy struck Camp Buehring in Kuwait, destroying 11 high-value targets including fuel tanks, helicopter ramps and logistics infrastructure. The strikes came concurrently with the appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran's new Supreme Leader. Iranian state media published an image of a missile bearing a handwritten inscription: "Labbayk, Seyyed Mojtaba" At your service. Israel has since said the new Supreme Leader may himself be among its next targets.



Transcript

Iran's IRGC unleashed the 30th
consecutive wave of Operation True
Promise 4, a relentless retaliatory
campaign that has now stretched across
more than a week of open warfare with
the United States and Israel. As per
reports, liquid and solid fuel ballistic
missiles of the Koramshar, Fatah, and
Kaibar families were launched from
multiple sites. The IRGC confirmed that
all launched munitions hit their
designated targets successfully.
The IRGC Navy announced it carried out a
dedicated offensive operation against
the Aludi helicopter base known as Camp
Buring in Kuwait. According to the
announcement, 11 highly important
targets within the base were hit by a
combination of drones and cruise
missiles. Among the destroyed targets
were the base's fuel tanks, gas storage,
the American helicopters ramp, logistics
and support facilities, and core
infrastructure installations.
Eyewitnesses and informed sources
reported a panicked evacuation from the
base in the aftermath. This
is right right out front. These condax
is
the strikes were launched concurrently
with the appointment of Ayatollah Seed
Moshtaba Kamei as the new leader of the
Islamic Revolution. A succession that
followed the assassination of his father
Ayatollah Seyed Ali Kamani during the
opening hours of the USIsraeli offensive
on February 28th.
Iranian state media published an image
of a missile bearing a handwritten
inscription lab seeded mojaba
translating at your service seeded
mojaba. The word lab reframes the strike
as a consecrated oath of allegiance. The
IRGC signaling continuity of command and
undimemed resolve to a world. Israel,
however, has said the newly appointed
Supreme Leader is among the target it
may hit, attracting sharp reactions from
allies.
A week after the assassination of the
late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Kamune
in joint United States Israeli strikes,
Iran has finally announced his
successor. The assembly of experts
announced the decision just after
midnight teon time, announcing the son
of the former supreme leader Moshtaba
Hoseni Kamune as the leader of Iran.
Moshtaba Kamune, the second eldest son
of Iran's longtime supreme leader Ali
Kam is widely expected to take a far
more hardline stance than his father.
Analysts warned that his rise could
usher in an even more repressive phase
for the Iranian regime, tightening the
grip of the country's powerful security
establishment. But even as the
announcement of Moshaba's appointment
sent shock waves through the region, one
major global power moved quickly to back
Thran. China issued a clear warning
saying it strongly opposes any attempt
to target Moshtaba Kamune. Beijing
emphasized that the selection of Iran's
new supreme leader is an internal matter
of Iran carried out through the
country's constitutional mechanisms. The
swift show of support underscores
China's growing alignment with Thran and
signals that the geopolitical stakes
surrounding Iran's leadership transition
could be far larger than the country's
borders alone. China firmly opposes
interference in the internal affairs of
other countries under any pretext.
Iran's sovereignty, security, and
territorial integrity must be fully
respected. China urges an immediate
sessation of military operations, a
prompt return to dialogue and
negotiation to prevent any further
escalation of tension. The reaction from
Beijing came following reports that the
newly appointed Supreme Leader may soon
be targeted by Israel and the United
States.
But it seems to me that any leader who
comes up and says, "I'm going to uh
continue the campaign to destroy this
country," then Israel is duty bound to
try to eliminate them. uh if there's a
different leader who comes out and says,
"Listen, I'm gonna change the way Iran
re react re interacts with its with its
neighbors and the way the way way it
looks at the world, the way we see
Iran's role in the region and globally,
then Israel would have no problem with
it." Washington's reaction has also been
openly hostile with Trump claiming he
will be involved in the appointment of
Iran's next Supreme Leader. A dramatic
political warning from Washington is now
adding tension to an already sensitive
moment in the Middle East.
US President Donald Trump says Iran's
next Supreme Leader may not last long if
he does not have the approval of the
United States. In an interview with ABC
News, Trump made the striking remark as
Iran prepares to announce the successor
to its longtime supreme leader. Trump
said, "He's going to have to get
approval from us. If he doesn't get
approval from us, he's not going to last
long.
The statement comes at a critical moment
for Iran's political future. The
country's powerful clerical body, the
Assembly of Experts, has confirmed that
it has already voted to choose Iran's
next Supreme Leader. According to
members of the assembly, the vote has
been completed and a decision has
already been made. However, the identity
of the new leader has not yet been
officially announced. One member of the
assembly, Ahmad Alam Hoda, told Iran's
mayor news agency that the secretariat
will reveal the name of the chosen
leader at a later time. The supreme
leader is the most powerful position in
Iran's political system. The role was
held for decades by Ali Kamanet who
became Iran's Supreme Leader in 1989 and
remained the country's highest political
and religious authority. The position
has sweeping powers. The Supreme Leader
has the final say over Iran's military,
judiciary, intelligence agencies, and
nuclear policy. On the other hand, Iran
has slammed Trump and insisted that the
Iranian people will elect their new
leader.
We allow nobody to interfere in our uh
domestic affairs. This is up to the
Iranian people to elect their new
leader. They have already elected the
assembly of experts and the assembly of
experts would do the job. It is uh the
only the business of the Iranian people
and nobody else business. We are
retaliating. We have not started this
war. It is Americans who started this
war against us, attacking us and we are
defending ourselves. So our it is
obvious that our missiles cannot reach
the the US soil. What we can do is to
attack American bases and American
installations around us which are
unfortunately in the soils of our you
know neighborly countries. Well, first
of all, apology in our culture is a sign
of dignity and strength.
Secondly, he apologized from the people
peoples of the region for the
inconveniences they have faced because
of this aggression by the United States
and retaliation by us. So as a matter of
fact, it is it is in fact the the
president of the United States who
should apologize from peoples of the
people of the region and Iranian people
for the killings and destructions they
have done again done against us.
Tensions along the Israel Lebanon border
have sharply escalated after two Israeli
soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah
attack in southern Lebanon.
The Israeli military confirmed that the
incident occurred early this morning
near an army post just across from the
northern Israeli community of Manara.
One of the soldiers killed has been
identified as Mahair Qatar, a
38-year-old sergeant first class and
heavy machinery operator serving in the
91st Galilee Regional Division. The name
of the second soldier has not yet been
released by the Israeli military.
According to a preliminary investigation
by the Israel Defense Forces, the deadly
incident began during engineering
operations in the area.
An armored Puma personnel carrier
reportedly became stuck while operating
in southern Lebanon. In response,
Israeli forces dispatched another Puma
armored vehicle along with two heavily
armored D9 bulldozers to recover it.
During the recovery operation, IDF said
one of the bulldozers was struck by a
projectile believed to be either an
anti-tank missile or a mortar fired by
Hezbollah fighters. The strike triggered
a massive fire, killing the two Israeli
soldiers on the scene. One officer was
also lightly wounded in the attack, but
the escalation did not stop there.
Earlier, Hezbollah launched a large wave
of rockets towards northern Israel. Air
raid sirens blared across the Israeli
port city of Hifa, sending residents
rushing into bomb shelters as Israeli
air defense systems scrambled to
intercept the incoming rockets. Israeli
media reported that more than 40 rockets
were fired from Lebanon in the initial
barrage alone. Some of the projectiles
were described as heavy rockets capable
of causing significant destruction,
raising fears that the conflict could
expand far beyond the border region.
Several impacts were reported in and
around Hifa, intensifying concerns among
residents. The attacks continued to
escalate rapidly. Within minutes,
additional rockets and swarms of attack
drones were launched toward the northern
coastal city of Niharia.
According to Israeli reports, nearly 100
launches from Lebanon occurred within
just 30 minutes, placing enormous
pressure on Israeli air defense systems.
Thousands of civilians were forced to
rush into shelters as sirens echoed
across northern Israel. The barrage
marks one of the most intense rounds of
crossber fire in recent weeks, fueling
fears that the conflict between Israel
and Hezbollah could spiral into a wider
regional conflict.
Military forces on both sides are now on
high alert as the situation along the
northern front continues to deteriorate.
And with rocket fire intensifying and
casualties mounting, the region is
bracing for what could be the next major
escalation in the Israel Hezbollah
conflict.

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‘Bibi’s Bunker Blown Up’: Iranian Missile Hits Israeli Leaders' Underground Shelter In Tel Aviv
Times Of India
Mar 9, 2026 #telaviv #iranisraelwar #iranmissilestrike

Massive destruction has been reported in Tel Aviv after a powerful Iranian missile allegedly struck one of the city’s most secretive underground shelters believed to be used by Israeli leaders during wartime. The impact triggered a huge fire, burning vehicles and scattering debris across nearby streets as firefighters rushed to contain the flames. The facility is part of Israel’s civil defence network protected by systems like the Iron Dome.



Transcript

Fire and destruction all around in Tel
Aviv.
One of the most secretive underground
facilities is now in ruins. According to
unverified reports, an Iranian missile
has struck what is believed to be one of
Israel's largest underground wartime
shelters in Tel Aviv, a heavily
protected facility reportedly used by
Israeli leaders during major conflicts.
Witnesses described a massive explosion
followed by a raging fire at the site.
Flames quickly spread across the area,
burning buses and cars nearby as thick
smoke poured into the sky. The
surrounding streets were left littered
with debris while firefighters rushed to
the scene, struggling to contain the
blaze as residents fled in panic. The
underground shelter is believed to be
part of Israel's extensive civil defense
and command network, a system designed
to shield top officials and security
leadership during wartime emergencies.
According to these initial reports, the
Iranian missile may have penetrated the
area's defenses, triggering a powerful
blast that set parts of the underground
facility ablaze. Authorities have not
yet confirmed whether any senior Israeli
leaders were inside the shelter at the
time of the strike. However, the attack
has already sent shock waves through
Israel's security establishment, raising
urgent questions about the vulnerability
of even the country's most fortified
wartime command sites.
This video showed Iranian missiles
lighting up the night sky over Tel Aviv.
below. Sirens were blaring, forcing
people to rush to bomb shelters to save
their lives. A massive thunderous impact
from the missiles can be heard in the
video. This comes as the IRGC confirmed
it fired the 30th wave of missiles
toward Israel and US bases in the
region.
This video shows the impact of Iran's
cluster warheads carving out craters on
the roads in Tel Aviv. Shocked Israelis
can be heard saying, "Look what happened
to cars."
At least one injury was reported in
Rishon Lazion, Tel Aviv, due to an
impact from the latest missile attack
from Iran. Mgan David Adam said a woman
in her 40s was moderately injured as a
result of falling shrapnel. The woman is
being treated for a head injury after
being hit by flying rocks following the
missile impact. The woman was apparently
not inside the bomb shelter. There is
notable damage to a local building. The
mayor tells Channel 12 News. Impacts
have also been reported in Lad and Modí.
This purported video shows an Iranian
missile splitting midair into multiple
warheads, triggering chaos on the
ground.
The Israeli air defenses look completely
crippled, failing to stop Iranian
missiles as they successfully wade
through their targets.
someone.
Not just Tel Aviv, Iran also rained fire
on the Israeli port city of Hifa. This
video showed a missile hitting the
target, lighting up the night sky amid
the sound of sirens.
A barrage of Iranian ballistic missiles
has rocked Israel's commercial hub, Tel
Aviv, triggering multiple explosions and
sending millions of residents scrambling
for safety. Air raid sirens echoed
across the country as incoming
projectiles strey.
The dramatic escalation comes as Thrron
unleashes yet another wave of strikes in
its intensifying confrontation with
Israel.
According
to Israeli media reports, at least 15
explosions were heard across Tel Aviv
following the arrival of cluster
warheads fired from Iranian ballistic
missiles. The strikes came shortly after
Iran announced the launch of the 30th
wave of its military campaign known as
Operation True Promise 4.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
said the barrage included Kuramshar,
Fatah, and Kaibar ballistic missiles as
well as strategic drones aimed at
Israeli targets. The IRGC said the
strikes were directed at military and
strategic locations linked to Israel and
United States forces in the region. As
the missiles approached Israeli
territory, air raid sirens began
sounding across large parts of the
country.
Alerts were reported in Tel Aviv, Hifa,
the Galilee, the Jordan Valley, and
several settlements across central
Israel.
Media reports also reveal massive power
outages in the wake of Iran's
bombardment.
Footage circulating on social media
appeared to show the aftermath of the
explosions with damaged vehicles,
shattered shopfront windows, and debris
scattered across streets. Reportedly,
Iranian cluster warheads have carved
massive craters across the Tel Aviv
region.
One missile fragment reportedly struck a
residential building in Tel Aviv,
causing heavy structural damage and
prompting a major emergency response.
Images from the scene showed large
sections of the apartment block
destroyed while rescue teams searched
through the rubble for possible
survivors. Residents were seen moving
rapidly towards shelters as emergency
crews secured the damaged area.
Authorities said several people were
injured during the latest wave of
missile strikes across central Israel.
The attacks come amid continuing
exchanges of missile barges between Iran
and Israel with densely populated urban
areas increasingly caught in the
crossfire.
In recent days, air raid sirens have
repeatedly forced millions of Israelis
into shelters as air defense systems
attempted to intercept incoming
missiles.
Explosions rocked parts of central
Israel after Iran launched another wave
of ballistic missiles toward Tel Aviv
and surrounding areas. Dramatic visuals
from the scene showed thick black smoke
rising above the skyline and a car
overturned on a street in the Benet
Brock area following the impact.
Authorities say multiple impact sites
were reported across central Israel
during the latest barrage. Police
officials say the widespread of the
blast locations suggests that at least
one of the incoming missiles may have
carried a cluster type warhead.
First responders from Israel's National
Emergency Service, Minan David Adam,
rushed to several locations after the
strikes. Paramedics initially reported
three people injured by shrapnel when
debris from the explosions hit
residential and commercial areas. Among
the injured was a man in his 40s who
sustained serious wounds in Tel Aviv.
Two others were also hurt in the nearby
city of Pak Tikva. A 25-year-old
reported to be in moderate condition and
a 56-year-old man with lighter injuries.
Officials later said the number of
wounded had risen to six as more
casualties were located at impact sites.
In Pak Tikva, five people were reported
injured, though most were described as
being in stable condition. Emergency
teams and search and rescue units from
the Israel Defense Forces were deployed
to the affected areas. Authorities say
investigations are underway to determine
the exact type of missile used in the
attack and assess the full scale of the
damage.
The latest barrage marks another
escalation in the rapidly widening
confrontation between Iran and Israel.
With missiles striking densely populated
urban areas and emergency teams
scrambling across central Israel, fears
are mounting that the conflict could
intensify further in the days ahead.

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Iranian retaliation forces US to abandon Saudi embassy; global oil prices soar | Janta Ka Reporter
Mar 9, 2026

In a massive development, the US has decided to evacuate all its staff from the Saudi Arabian embassy due to sustained retaliation from Iran. Announcing the news of the US abandoning its embassy in Saudi Arabia, Senator Lindsey Graham said the Arab countries ought to have helped the US against Iran. Meanwhile, Australia has already started to feel the pain of the rising global oil prices. Rifat Jawaid looks at the day's developments and the further impact on Donald Trump at home due to soaring oil prices.



Transcript

The Iranian retaliation and the Islamic
Republic's ability to hit the US
interest across the Arab world hard has
disturbed Donald Trump and his minions
ability to think rationally. In one of
my earlier videos, I described them as
headless chickens. Their symptoms are
turning out to be far worse than I could
have diagnosed. Today, Trump's mad dog
on Israeli payroll, Lindsey Graham,
demanded that the US sever ties with
Saudi Arabia. This, he said, while
informing that the US was abandoning its
diplomatic mission in Saudi Arabia. This
is massive. Iran, on the other hand, has
dealt a body blow to the settler colony
through sustained missile attacks. One
video showed dead bodies strewn all
across the streets. Another video showed
chaos and fighting breaking out at the
Bengurian airport. Meanwhile, Trump is
just about to be hit by the biggest
consequence of his illadvised military
adventurism as the oil prices soar
alarmingly across the globe.
This would be the broad focus of my
video tonight. So, please stay tuned. So
Lindsey Graham, one of the biggest
cheerleaders of the illegal invasion of
Iran, has been humbled by the brutal
Iranian response. This Israeli slave has
now come down from his high horse and
realized that Iran was no Venezuela or
Gaza. Remember how he was flying around
the Arab countries to drum up support
for an illegal war on Iran only a few
weeks ago? Yesterday he said Trump was
going to massacre people in Iran. Today
he realized that there was no way
Americans or his Israeli masters could
defeat the Iranians. So he now wants the
Arab country to fight for the illegal
war that his country started. He said
this by lamenting on the news of the US
abandoning its diplomatic mission in
Saudi Arabia. He wrote and I quote, "The
American embassy is being evacuated in
Riyad because of sustained attacks by
Iran against the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia. It is my understanding the
kingdom refuses to use their capable
military as a part of an effort to end
the barbaric and terrorist Iranian
regime who has terrorized the region and
killed seven Americans. Question, why
should America do a defense agreement
with a country like the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia? that is unwilling to join a
fight of mutual interest. Americans are
dying and the US is spending billions to
dislodge the terrorist Iranian regime
that threatens the region. Meanwhile,
Saudi Arabia seems to be issuing
statements and doing things in the
background that are marginally helpful
but unwilling to participate in military
operations to end the reign of terror
coming out of Iran. Hopefully Gulf
Cooperation Council countries will get
more involved as this fight is in their
backyard. If you are not willing to use
your military now, when are you willing
to use it? Hopefully, this changes soon.
If not, consequences will follow. End
quote. Here too, he ends his post by
threatening Saudi Arabia and others with
consequences.
These demonic creatures think they have
the effing divine right to dictate their
terms on the Arab world and Muslim
world. I think Saudi Arabia and other
slave Arab rulers are partly to blame.
For decades they treated these barbaric
Americans and Zionist as their god and
sought protection from them. Now the
Americans are showing them their real
worth. Look at the cowardice of these
Americans and Israelis. They first
attacked Iran thinking this would be a
cakewalk. Now that the Iranians have set
their ass on fire, they have been left
with no option but to seek protection
from those whom these Americans had
promised to protect from Iran in
exchange for trillions of dollars worth
investment.
Hope the Arab world becomes wiser this
time around and kicks out the Zionist
and their supporters from their land.
Wherever these Zionists go, the fact is
they cause trouble for themselves and
the people around them. The UAE is a
prime example. And I hope the Emirati
are learning this the hard way. Such is
the frustration within the Trump
administration that these human devils
have now started bombing civilian
infrastructure. They're slaughtering
school children, bombing hospitals,
destroying stadiums, and yesterday they
bombed every single oil refinery and oil
storage depot in Thran. These are all
war crimes. This has made even those
useful idiots change their mind about
their support for these genocidal
maniacs. Remember some women of Iranian
origin living in the west had demanded
the bombing of the Islamic Republic
because they weren't being allowed to
dance semi- naked. Now that the
indiscriminate bombings by Americans and
Israeli terrorists are killing their
loved ones too, their Persian pride has
returned. In Iran, the people who wanted
to ou the ayatah are now rallying behind
him.
That well technically regime change has
already happened. Well, no it has not.
They replaced one Islamist leader with
another. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard
Corps remains in control. There has not
been a revolution as promised. In fact,
because the Israelis irresponsibly
and against our wishes destroyed those
oil refineries in northern Thyron and
created a toxic soup above the city. uh
what they have done now is actually
weakened the protesters uh ability to
overthrow the government and they have
rallied people around the regime. The
Persian nationalism is now in full swing
and they are standing with their
government because they realize as
President Trump said the other day the
goal now is not just unconditional
surrender but to break Iran up into
smaller countries. So here we are. It's
like the worst case scenario.
The closure of a state of hormones and
Iran's retaliatory strikes across the
Middle East have also adversely impacted
the production of oil and gas thereby
forcing the prices to shoot
exponentially.
This is going to bring down the global
market. Australia is already
experiencing the pain.
Good evening. We felt the tremors, but
today it was an earthquake as the war in
the Middle East hit with full force. As
Iran burned, the value of Australian
shares melted before our very eyes. The
stock market was on track for its worst
day in 5 years. 130 billion wiped early,
hitting superanuation balances. A late
rally ease the red wave slightly, but
petrol stations in some parts of the
country have started running dry as the
price of oil takes off. Tonight, the
warning. Inflation is set to spike
again, inflicting even more pain on
every Sydney household.
When the servo says sorry,
there is nothing. You'd probably bet
best bet would be to drive.
In Karunda, east of Adelaide, they're
referring customers to the next petrol
station 50 kilometers away. The pumps
are dry.
School buses can't fill up. Don't know
how the kids are going to get to school.
One servo in South Australia has begun
limiting how much you can buy in King
Aoy northwest of Brisbane.
If this keeps going on, it's going to be
dire.
This fuel wholesaler can't supply 90% of
the farms needing diesel.
They're running into harvest shortly,
mate, and we we won't be able to get it
to them.
Fuel drying up in Australia. The
economic ripple from Iran's regime
putting a death grip on the straight of
Hormuz shutting down 20% of the globe's
exported oil and gas.
Even Sky News's US correspondent thinks
that Trump is in for a root shock at
home.
Well, look, I I I don't see one at the
moment, but what I do see is that the
war is not going as Donald Trump had
expected. And we can we can make that
judgment because you just left to listen
to his different justifications for the
war. Is it about regime change? Is it
about nuclear weapons? Is it about
ballistic missiles? Is it about Iran
being a state sponsor of terror? Is it
all of those things or just one of those
things? And his view has shifted has has
morphed has evolved over the course of
the last week which at times feels like
like a lot longer. So he clearly does
not think this war is going as he
expected. I think there was an
expectation of a of a Venezuela part
two, a one and done and in and out.
Clearly his his um uh the advice he was
getting on that well well off. He will
be looking at the stock markets. He will
be looking at the oil prices. He's been
told for months to focus on the home
front and not on far away foreign wars.
What's really really interesting is
that, you know, as you saw there, his
most loyal are taking his word for it at
the moment. They openly admit they don't
really understand what this war is
about, but they trust him on it. But
there's a large part of the population
beyond that base who doesn't trust him
any longer. He is losing them for sure.
Um, and I so I do think that his mind
will be very very focused now. He needs
to find an offramp, but it's very hard
to see what that now looks like. He can
claim victory. He can say objectives
met. He can say job done. That does not
re mean the Iranians uh will stop
fighting or stop firing. What's
troubling Trump and his Israeli master
Netanyahu is the fact that Iranians are
continuing to fire missiles and causing
death and destruction. One video that I
saw today, it showed dead bodies strewn
all over the place in Tel Aviv. You can
watch these videos on our Telegram
channel. Details are on the screen and
in the description of this video.
Another video showed a scuffle breaking
out at the Bengurian airport as
desperate Israelis were being prevented
from fleeing the settler colony. Twitter
is replete with SOS post from local
Israelis who are now abusing Netanyahu
for posing risk to their well-being.
They need
the American
and Israeli cowards today bombed a
civilian target in Iran. And when an
ambulance arrived to help the victims,
these depraved and mentally sick Zionist
dropped another bomb to destroy the
ambulance. You can see the visuals on
your screen now. This is who they are.
Cowards, war criminals, and savages who
should not have any place in our
civilized society. 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
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BREAKING: First Trump–Putin Call On Iran War: Putin Offers Plan To End Conflict; 'ONLY WAY AHEAD...'
Times Of India
Mar 9, 2026 #Trump #Putin #IranWar

A high-level phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin has drawn global attention as tensions surrounding Iran continue to escalate. According to Kremlin officials, the conversation lasted nearly an hour and focused heavily on the growing confrontation in the Middle East and the ongoing war in Ukraine. Putin reportedly shared several diplomatic ideas aimed at preventing further escalation around Iran and urged a return to negotiations instead of military action. Russia has also signaled support for Tehran during the crisis, warning that continued attacks could destabilize the wider region.



Transcript

A crucial phone conversation between US
President Donald Trump and Russian
President Vladimir Putin has brought
fresh diplomatic focus to the escalating
Iran conflict and the ongoing war in
Ukraine. According to Russian media
reports, the call was initiated by
President Trump and lasted for nearly an
hour.
The discussion reportedly centered on
two major global flash points. The
growing confrontation involving Iran and
the stalled negotiations surrounding the
Ukraine war. RT News described the
conversation as [music] constructive
with both leaders exchanging views on
possible ways to ease tensions.
Kremlin aid Yuri Ushakov said President
Putin outlined several ideas for a
political and diplomatic settlement
around the Iran conflict during the
call. Moscow he suggested believes that
diplomacy remains the only path to
[music] preventing further escalation in
the region. Putin also reportedly
offered a positive assessment of US
mediation efforts in the [music] Ukraine
crisis, indicating that Russia sees
potential for progress through
negotiations if diplomatic channels
remain open. The phone call comes at a
time when tensions between Iran, the
United States, and Israel have sharply
intensified, raising fears of a wider
regional confrontation that could draw
in global powers.
Just hours earlier, Russian President
Vladimir Putin had publicly reaffirmed
Moscow's support for Iran amid the
escalating conflict. [music]
In remarks reported by international
media, Putin said Russia would stand
firmly with Thran during what he
described as a period of severe
challenges.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has
reaffirmed Moscow's support for Iran
amid the escalating conflict with the
United States and [music] Israel. In
remarks reported by international media,
Putin said Russia would stand firmly
with Thrron during what he described as
a period of severe challenges for the
country. Putin also congratulated
Mushtaba Kamei on his appointment as
Iran's new leader following the death of
Ayatollah Ali Kamei. According to
reports, the Russian president expressed
confidence that Mushta Kamani would
continue his father's legacy and unite
the Iranian people during the ongoing
crisis. Speaking about the situation in
Iran, Putin said the country was facing
armed [music] aggression and that
leadership during such a moment would
require courage and dedication. He said
Russia wished to confirm its unwavering
support and solidarity with what he
called Iran's friends and partners.
Earlier, Putin also held a phone call
with Iranian President Masud Peskan.
During the conversation, the Russian
leader conveyed condolences over the
killing of Ayatollah [music] Ali Kamini
as well as several Iranian political and
military figures and [music] civilians
who were killed during the recent
strikes. Putin's strong message of
support comes as Israel has [music]
warned it could pursue the successor to
Iran's late Supreme Leader. The warning
[music] signals that the conflict may
continue to target the highest levels of
Iran's political and military
leadership. Meanwhile, new [music]
reports suggest Russia may already be
assisting Iran in the conflict.
According to the Washington Post, US
officials say Moscow has [music] been
providing Thrron with intelligence on
the locations of American warships
[music] and aircraft operating in the
Middle East. The report says the
information could help Iran track and
potentially target US [music] military
assets across the region. While Russia
has not publicly confirmed the claim,
the allegation [music]
points to the possibility of deeper
geopolitical involvement as the war
continues [music] to widen
Russia is providing Iran with
intelligence on the locations of
American warships and aircraft in the
Middle East. According to a report by
the Washington Post, US officials say
the information is helping Thran target
American military assets in the region.
The Washington Post reported that the
intelligence sharing marks the first
indication that another major US
adversary may be indirectly involved in
the expanding conflict. Three officials
familiar with the intelligence said
Moscow has passed targeting data to Iran
since the war began.
According to the Washington Post, the
information reportedly includes
positions of US warships, military
aircraft, and radar systems across the
Middle East. Officials say such
intelligence could help Iran plan
attacks against American forces and
installations.
The report says Russia has been sharing
the information since the conflict
escalated on Saturday. While Moscow has
not commented publicly, officials say
the assistance signals a deeper
geopolitical dimension to the ongoing
war.
The Washington Post also reported that
the conflict has already turned deadly
for American troops. Six US service
members were killed and several others
injured in an Iranian drone strike on a
military site in Kuwait on Sunday.
Since the start of the war, Iran has
launched thousands of one-way attack
drones and hundreds of missiles at US
military positions, embassies, and other
targets in the region, according to
officials cited by the Washington Post.
At the same time, the joint USIsraeli
campaign has struck more than 2,000
targets inside Iran. These include
ballistic missile facilities, naval
assets, and sites linked to Iran's
leadership structure. The Washington
Post reported two officials familiar
with the intelligence told the
Washington Post that China does not
appear to be providing similar
assistance to Iran. While Beijing
maintains close ties with Thran, there
is currently no indication it is sharing
targeting data.
As missiles hit oil facilities and
tankers in the Gulf, Moscow is stepping
into the crisis. The Kremlin [music]
says President Vladimir Putin will
convey Arab leaders concerns [music]
directly to Thrron over strikes on
energy infrastructure. The move follows
a flurry of calls between Putin and Gulf
state leaders. [music]
Oil prices have now risen for a third
straight day [music] as attacks target
regional energy assets. Russia says it
will try to ease tensions even as
fighting widens. But notably, there
[music] are no plans for a Putin Trump
conversation.
According to Kremlin spokesman [music]
Dimmitri Pascov, President Putin will
convey deep concern from Arab leaders
about Iranian strikes on oil
infrastructure. Pescov said Putin
[music] would use Moscow's ongoing
dialogue with the Iranian leadership to
press for at least a slight easing
[music] of tensions.
Russia maintains a strategic partnership
with Iran, giving it a rare
communication channel at a volatile
moment. The Kremlin described the
outreach as part of efforts to contain
escalation spreading [music] across the
Gulf. Putin held multiple calls with
four Arab Gulf leaders over the past 24
hours. [music] Among them was Muhammad
bin Zed al-Nahan, president of the
United Arab Emirates. The UAE described
recent Iranian strikes as blatant
attacks targeting Amiradi territory and
other Arab states. Both leaders reviewed
what they called serious military and
security developments unfolding [music]
across the region. The joint message,
halt escalation before the conflict
widens further. The outreach underscores
growing alarm among Gulf states [music]
as energy infrastructure comes under
fire. Oil prices have climbed for a
third consecutive day. The spike follows
Iranian retaliatory strikes against
energy facilities in Gulf [music]
countries and against tankers in the
Strait of Hormuz. The strait remains one
of the world's most critical oil choke
points. Any disruption there
reverberates [music]
instantly across global markets.
With infrastructure targeted [music]
and shipping threatened, energy security
has moved to the center of the crisis.
The economic ripple effect now matches
the military escalation.
Despite the widening confrontation,
Putin has not spoken with US President
Donald Trump since the US and Israel
launched strikes against Iran. Pescav
confirmed there are no plans for such a
conversation at [music] this time. That
absence is notable. As Washington and
Tel Aviv press forward militarily,
[music] Moscow is engaging Gulf
capitals, not the White House.
Diplomatic lines remain active, [music]
but selectively. And in a rapidly
escalating conflict, who speaks to whom
can matter as much as what is said.

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Scott Ritter: Iran HITTING US BASES & ISRAEL LIKE NEVER BEFORE, Trump's Oil War Backfires
Danny Haiphong
Streamed live 7 hours ago #ira

Scott Ritter unleashes on US and Israeli strikes on Iran's oil depots and details Iran's ongoing retaliation to the war of aggression entering the second week. Are we headed toward economic and military armageddon? Watch the stream in full as we break it all down.



Transcript

Welcome everyone. Welcome back to the show. It's your host Danny Hiong. I'm joined by former UN Marine Corps officer
in uh US Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector Scott
Ritter. Thanks so much for joining me again today. Thanks for having me. Of course. It's always great to be on
with you, Scott. Hit the like button, everyone. That helps boost this show in YouTube's algorithm. And we're just
going to get started. Scott, uh, so I wanted your assessment of how, uh, this war is going. I know on previous shows
you have said that, uh, the, uh, US and Israel will soon become, uh,
defenseless, uh, as this war goes on. The New York Times published an article
announcing the seventh US death that we know of in this war. And I just wanted
to pull up a quote here uh that the New York Times wrote uh when they're talking
about this. They said, "For the US, the grim toll in the first week of this war signal that Iran was more prepared for
war than the Trump administration anticipated." US military officials told the Times. Iran has continued to put up
a fight even after Ayatollah Ali Hami, its Supreme Leader, and other top officials were killed by Israeli attacks
with intel help from the CIA. Iran has vowed after oil depots got to increase
its retaliatory strikes by 100% for missiles, I believe 20% for drones. We're seeing the results of that. I can
pull up some images, but really we're seeing Bahrain energy being hit. We're seeing Israel, Tel Aviv taking a a
pounding over the last two days especially. So, uh maybe you can give your assessment of where this war is at
and how you see it going for all sides. Well, let's uh
there's a an American military officer named Colonel John Boyd. People might want to look him up. Uh his uh his his
thinking, his philosophies have been adopted by the military uh and by civilians alike. Uh he is the man who
came up with the concept of getting inside your enemy's decision-making cycle. And uh the uh what what he used
to describe is something called the UDA loop. Buddha is an abbreviation for observe, orient, decide, act. These are
the four um phases in uh in decision making. You observe,
you then orient on what it is you're you're focused on. You make a decision about what needs to be do and then you
do that decision. And the side that can do this the fastest tends to win. Uh he did it as a fighter pilot, you know. So
basically, if two airplanes are coming in, the one initiates, the other one reacts. and he claimed that he could get
into a kill position quicker uh because he could cycle information more quickly
than his opponent. His goal was to have the other side reacting to you. Um now the United States and Israel carried out
a surprise attack against uh against Iran, one that included the murder
assassination of Ali Kaman. Um one would think therefore that
they've reacted and now the Iranians have to react. But um this wasn't the case because we hadn't prepared
properly. We had uh you know goals that were linked to um you know things that
could never happen. You can't say you're going to have regime change by killing Ali Kane. The reality is by killing Ali
Killing murdering Ali K uh you make regime change impossible. Anybody who
knew anything about Iran would know that that's the case. If you know about just you know how revered the supreme leader
is amongst the faithful and Iran is a nation of faithful and if you knew about the constitution Iran is a
constitutional republic. In fact Iran is the most uh effectively functioning democracy in the Middle East. I'll say
that again and I'll be more than happy to take anybody on a debate on this at any time. Iran functions more
effectively as a democracy than any other nation in the Middle East including Israel. Um it's a
constitutional republic. It's an Islamic republic. Um but they have mechanisms in place. They have institutions in place
that filled the gap created by the death of Ali Ham and um they ensured that the
regime continued to function and the murder of Ali Kam you know made sure
that the people would rally around the government. Um so right off the bat this was a regime change war. The purpose of
the surprise attack was to achieve regime change by facilitating the murder of the man that we all believed death
would bring the collapse of Iran. And it turned out to be the opposite. I've said this here and I've said it before. We
lost the war with the first missiles fired um into Iran because we don't know what we were doing. We initiated
something that we that was supposed to achieve a certain result but achieved the exact opposite result. We defeated
ourselves from day one. But more importantly, and we admit it now, we didn't
anticipate the Iranian response. We thought by killing Ali Kam, Iran would be leadership. It'd be like a ship with
no captain at the wheel, the ship just spinning around. Um, that wasn't the case. Iran had a plan and they
immediately implemented the plan. And the plan blew our minds because we didn't think they were going to do this. We didn't think we thought maybe they'd
strike Israel, maybe they'd strike. They struck everything. They did full broadspectctrum strike. And so we
initiated something jked and the Iranians flipped over and we went, "Damn, they're on our six. Now the
Iranians are driving this ship because we're playing reaction." The Iranians are implementing a plan that they have
thought out from the start. They've prepared for it. They have the resources for it. Um and and they're implementing
this plan without deviation. The United States, on the other hand, has changed its plan five times in 10 days. Um, and
we're going to change it again today because there's a new economic reality coming into play. Um, which we didn't anticipate. We didn't anticipate any of
this, which is wild to me. But continue. Yeah, it's the most poorly planned uh military operation in the history of poorly
planned military operations. Meanwhile, the Iranians are executing a plan to perfection. To perfection. All you
naysayers out there. I mean, I love the neocon. First of all, I love fat neocons who've never served in the military.
They're my favorite people because they just sit there and they talk about things they don't understand and they say you just wait. We're going to get a
culmination of forces that are going to sequence together and achieve a result that's going to collapse the regime from within. Trump is a genius. He's a 5D
chess player and you guys don't understand it. Just because it looks bad right now doesn't mean it's bad. That's fake. We're going to get under there.
We're going to undermine. It's going to collapse. We're going to win because we are the lethal fails. Pesh has told us so. Um they're just morons. They don't
know anything about war. They don't know anything about geopolitics and perhaps more importantly they don't know
anything about Iran. We have people talking about Iran who don't know anything about Iran. We have people
talking about war who don't know anything about war. And yet we have a mainstream media that gives echochamber
status to these people. They can sit there and talk and talk and talk get social media, you know, broadcast and
everything. And the stupid American people, I'm sorry, but you are stupid. every single one of you with the
possible exception of a handful of people who are watching your show today. But the rest of them are I look out at my neighborhood. It is just a quiet
little sleepy suburban uh you know neighborhood outside of Albany, New York. No one's panicking. They don't
understand what's happening. They don't comprehend. You can walk the neighborhood and you see, you know, about 30% I stand with Israel signs
dating back of course to the genocide against the people of Palestine. But these are ignorant people, stupid people
who just live their lives insulated from the reality of what's happening and they only believe the crap that they're given
on TV. Um, and it and it and yet this morning they got a little bit of a
wakeup call because it's Monday and I know on Friday the gas was $311 a gallon
when I filled up my tank and today it's $341 a gallon. It's gone up 30 cents and
by the end of the day it's going to go up another nickel and by the end of the week who knows where it's going to be
because the price of Brent crude is going through the roof. Uh why we didn't anticipate that either. No matter how
much our military told us we will secure the straight or moose. There's no way Iran could shut it down. Iran shut it
down. There's not a damn thing we can do about it. Not a damn thing we can do about it. Uh Qatar is no longer
producing gas. Kuwait's no longer producing oil. Saudi producing oil
because not because they wanted to stop but because Iran made them stop because of this because of this. This is
Bamco in Bahrain. I mean continue and then and and the United Arab Emirates is about to be shut down. Saudi
Arabia is on the verge of being shut down. Baku is going to stop its ability to be able to produce oil if they play
stupid games. Um you know and this is it. And the world's going to have an energy crash. We've been talking about
we've been saying it's going to happen you know and there were the the the really the genius Americans out there. That's not going to happen. We're energy
sufficient. We're America. We got Texas. They they frack things. They uh break
this oil open and they get gas out of there. And and we're energy sufficient. We're not affected. And then we invaded Venezuela. We got all their oil. We're
good to go. And ask yourselves why you're paying through the nose of the gas pump if
we're so damn energy sufficient. Ask yourself where the strategic uh petroleum reserves are. Donald Trump
didn't load them up, guys. They're empty. They don't exist. we're screwed. Um, but that's okay. I think it's time
the American people pay a price. Um, you know, and and we are. But we we've lost this war. This war is lost. Um, we've
lost the Iranians were smarter than us about ballistic missile defense. Uh, if you don't mind, I'll give you a
quick fiveminute lesson on ballistic missile defense for the stupid people that aren't listening because everybody
listening here is very smart and very attuned and very but sometimes people will watch the show later on who are
stupid. So, this is for their benefit. Um, all right. If you take missiles defense,
understand that every component of the missile defense shield that we've put together over Israel in the Middle East
wasn't designed to work with the other. They were designed in a vacuum. Uh, some of them like the Patriot missile date
back to the original missile defense shield technology, Sentinel Technology of the 1970s. Uh, and when Rathon was
asked to build a tactical system for the US Army, rather than doing the right thing, which is to design it from scratch, they took the shortcut. They
took 1970s technology and they tried to adapt it and modify it for tactical application and the Patriot system has
never worked properly since then. So yes, the Patriot doesn't work. It never
has and it never will because we're always playing catch-up. When you have to keep putting in, you know, program
updates to fix it, that means you're updating against a threat that already exists. It proves that it's capable of defeating it. By the time you update it,
there's a new threat that you can't meet. And we're seeing that play out in the skies over the Middle East. The Patriot system doesn't work. Iron Dome
isn't designed for this. David Sling and A3 likewise. Uh what you're seeing are
systems that are designed to fire fight. They were designed to fight against a specific missile threat. That means a
standard ballistic missile on a ballistic missile trajectory flying at certain speeds. Uh the Iranians on the
other hand are firing missiles that aren't fine a ballistic missile trajectory. They have the ability to accelerate midcourse. They have be able
to maneuver. And so as these systems seek to acquire something, you might
notice the missiles launch, there's sort of an S-shaped curve to them. They they do that's them adjusting. The radars are
queuing in and they're anticipating a point of intercept. So as the missile travels, the missiles launch and then it
makes the adjustment to get to the point of intercept. But the problem is that point of intercept once the missile
launches changes because the Iranian missile accelerates. So now this missile is trying to play catchup and you'll see
that big curve as it's trying to catch up but it can't. And then it maneuvers. Let's say it gets in gets an intercept point. Then it maneuvers and it can't
maneuver and it misses every single time because the Iranians have built a system
to defeat this. Now, we've overlaid enough architecture though with enough layers that on occasion we successfully
intercept an old missile and everybody goes, "Yay! Aren't we the greatest?" Now, what the Iranians have done though
is they recognize that this is a bunch of this is like building a car um and
getting, you know, we're going to get a Porsche, a BMW, a Chevy, a Nissan, um
you know, and we're going to put all these parts together and call it a car. And yet it it's not going to work
because they're not designed to function with one another. That's what we've built with missile defense. But we have,
you know, we fooled ourselves because we have created early detection. The early
detection is designed to give us as much advanced notice as possible. So what happens is uh this early detection,
let's call it a radar system in I don't know, maybe it cost $1.1 billion. Let's just throw that out there. Um, and so
the missile launches, this early detection, picks it up and starts grabbing as much data as possible and
then communicating that data from satellite relay stations. You might see those little radar drones out there. Um,
and and and it communicates back so that our systems can fine-tune rather than
scanning the sky. We enable now systems to focus in on a predicted path of and
we get depth of data collection that that gives us more time to launch and respond. And so on occasion they
actually hit something. Um so what the Iranians have done is they've saturated
the skies. They've collected the data points and then they've taken our eyes out. They blow up all of the radars used
to collect data early on. Then they blow up all of the communication links. And
so now we have a system that can't work because it wasn't designed to work. And the only way we made it work is by
putting these eyes out in front of us and communication back. Full spectrum dominance we call it. And the Iranians
have blinded us. It made us unable to speak. And so the system has totally broken down. Right now we are looking at
complete system dysfunction. The missile defense system that we put over Israel
doesn't work. It can't work. It won't work because it's all blinded. Ah but enter the Turks. You see the Turks now
they have two facilities. They have one in Perinsulik near Diabre. They have another one I think is Kiranjik also
near Diaber. The Pinsulick facility is an old cold war era facility used to track satellites. In 1997, we turned it
over to the Turks. The Turks may or may not have kept it operational. I don't know. Um, but it is capable of doing
detection. Why? How do I know? because in the Gulf War, we the United States used it to detect Iraqi missile launches
to provide Israel with the detection of launch, time of flight, and possible
impact. Um, and so it was a valuable system. It could use that system still
could be used today to track the Iranian missile launches. Then there's the one in Kirinik. This is
a big Xband radar affiliated with a THAD system. Um, it's linked supposedly to
feed data to Mark 41 Aegis ashore uh missile defense systems in Poland and
Romania. But now it's been repurposed and because they have no more target
acquisition because the Iranians have taken out all the radars in the Middle East, uh, the Turkish radars are now
collecting the data and feeding them into the system. So you may ask yourself, why would Iran attack Turkey?
Because Turkeykey's providing targeting data to the ballistic missile defense shield. And so Iran wants to basically
make a note. Turkey is not an innocent part partner party in this conflict. Turkey is an active participant in this conflict. Um and they're repurposing
purposing um NATO um facilities for America's use. This is not a NATO war.
NATO is not participating in this war. Uh any nations that participate do so on an individual basis. So Turkey can't say
this is a NATO function. Therefore, we're just fulfilling our NATO obligations. Turkey has become an active
participant in this conflict. But the bottom line is our missiles defense system doesn't work. Moreover, if it
ever did work, that's when we had pack three uh missiles, the more advanced version of the uh Patriot interceptors.
We don't have anymore. They're all gone. We're firing PAC twos. Pack twos don't
work. Never did. Never will. But that's all we have left. So now the way we make up for the um the lack of pack 3es is we
do more salvo firing of PAC twos. You might have seen that recently where there's a lot of missiles going up um no
longer contained. We are just blowing out PAC twos because we're trying to intercept things that they can't. The Iranian missiles are too fast, too
maneuverable, and they'll never be intercepted by a pack two. So we're burning through the PAC twos. And when we run out of PAC twos, we ain't got
nothing left. There is literally nothing left. The fad missiles that we have are
very expensive. We've probably blown blown through about 80 90% of our inventory and what we have left won't
work because all the radars are destroyed. You know, they're linked to that Xband radar. There about five of them. Five have been killed. There's
none left except the one in Turkey. Um which the Iranians will probably end up destroying. The Israelis are out of am
ammunition. Um they don't have anything. What we gave they fired. They you know
Israel doesn't have its own. Just so you guys know, they don't produce the missiles. We do. Um
when when when when Iron Dome ran out of interceptor missiles during their their fight with Hezbollah and all that, it
was American military aircraft flying in uh from Europe. They were bringing stockpiles of interceptor missiles that
we had stockpiled here because we make them. Israel doesn't make anything. We make them and we don't make enough and
there's none left and it's game set match. Guess who's not running out of missiles? Iran. Iran has sufficient
missiles to last about six months of sustained activity, maybe even longer. They have enough drones to last for
about a year and a half of sustained launch capability. Iran has planned for this war for 20 years. Iran is operating
on a game plan. Iran is inside our decision-making cycle. Iran is executing the udaloop more effectively, more
efficiently than the United States and Israel. Iran will win this war.
Yeah. So, those are all uh really important points, Scott, and I'll just pull up some images of what you're
talking about. Here's one of those THAAD radars uh that was destroyed uh in Jordan. There satellite imagery of that,
but also the situation in Israel.

How how much, Scott, will the situation in Israel influence the
trajectory of this war? Because we're having people in Israel, this is someone
who lives there talking about being in darkness. The electricity is out. They're getting hit nonstop by
Iranian missiles and drones. The 12-day war ended with Israel coming
to the United States saying this has to stop. What makes this different? I mean, we're seeing the images of Tel
Aviv. They're trying hard to censor it, but the last two nights in particular have been particularly
difficult for Israel. How much will this affect things in the coming
days?

[Scott Ritter] Excuse me, Danny. I just got to wipe my eyes. I was crying for Israel. I mean,
when she sent that to them. Oh, I should I should pull up the comments because it's actually really
Your sentiment is uh very much shared by a lot of people as you can see. Your
poor thing. Oh, let's play on the smallest violin. I mean, we can go on and on. No, no one cares. No one literally
cares. Um, the Israelis mocked the Palestinians, mocked the suffering,
mocked the genocide, denied the genocide, denied the suffering. Uh, and frankly speaking, what Iran is doing to Israel right now doesn't even come close
to what is what Israel did to the people of Gaza. Um, you know, the worst is yet to come. So, if we're gonna, you know,
do you want us to cry because uh Iran took out a power facility after you bombed oil facilities outside of Tyrron,
causing acid rain and oil rain to rain down, causing the sewers to explode in fire, causing rivers of fire to break
through the Iranian cities, causing literally hell to break out in the streets of Thrron, a capital city of one
of the major powers in the region. You want us to cry because you lost electricity? No. And um you I don't know
if you saw but Benjamin Netanyahu's residence was hit last night and Ben Gavir's residence was hit last night.
Benjamin Netanyahu's brother is reportedly dead. Um and Ben Gavir is reportedly severely injured and may not
survive. Again, let me just pause because I'm I'm overcome by emotion uh when genocidal maniacs have the tables
turned against them. I will never shed a tear for anybody in Israel today. If you're in Israel today, you've made a
conscious decision to remain in Israel as it's basically violated the law, committed genocide. It means that you
are an active participant in an overall policy of greater Israel, which means you want to steal the land from
sovereign nations that surround you. And to steal the land, you must depopulate the land. That means that you are going to carry out an Israeli version of plan
ost the plan east the Nazi plan to depopulate bilerus and uh in in in
western Russia to eliminate millions of Slavs to make layman's round living room for the greater German people. Israel is
the modern manifestation of Nazi Germany. They are Nazis. This is not an exaggeration ladies and gentlemen. We're
talking about literally the worst people on the planet. Literally the worst people on the planet reside in this
artificial entity called Israel that no longer has a right to exist. Whatever the world thought about when they
created Israel in 1948, that no longer exists because that Israel has become an
illegal parasitic attachment to humanity and the fact that
Iran is in the process of erasing Israel from the map of the earth. I'm not going to shed any tears. If you live in
Israel, leave Israel. leave. And when you leave, don't bring your sick ideology with you. Go and join other
nations and hopefully integrate into them and live peacefully and harmonious a long and fruitful life. But the idea
of greater Israel driving a nation like the United States, nations in Europe to
commit uh acts of racist genocide because this is what it is. This is literally about the white man's burden.
This is white versus brown straight up. And if you're an Arab and you don't know that, if you live in the Gulf Coast
nations and you don't understand that you're just an inferior human being in the eyes of the Israelis, I mean, I as
an American, a white American know that I'm a And they told me straight to my face. You're you're subhuman.
Okay, I get it. Um, that's why I hate you and I will fight you because nobody wants to be called subhuman. But, you
know, imagine, you know, being an Arab, knowing that your government has bent the knee to Israel, knowing that they've
agreed to the Abrams Accord, which perpetually subordinates uh the the Gulf Arab states to greater Israel. Uh
knowing that they have allowed Israel to call the shots, knowing that Israel has drawn them into a war that's now going to destroy their economies. Um I
wouldn't be very happy. Uh there's reports of the people in the streets of Bahrain seeking to overthrow the king.
Please do. Um, the model you should use is the model that was used against the Hashemites in Iraq. Um, yeah, I'm sorry
that meant the family was taken out, butchered, and dragged through the streets, but basically that's what should happen to illegitimate royal
families that have ruled only because they are the byproduct of, you know, British colonialism in the in the
region. They have no legitimacy to rule. They're not anointed by God. They weren't selected by the people. They were picked by the British and the
British continue to manipulate them. And now the United States has taken over. Now Israel has taken over. So basically the Arab people of the Middle East are
governed by people who have allowed themselves to be subordinated to you know neoc colonial uh actors uh whether
it's the British, Americans or the Israelis. That's the truth. The only nation that doesn't do that is Iran. And
that's why we're attacking Iran because Iran doesn't play the game. Iran is a sovereign state. Iran does what the
Iranian people want them to do. And they have a government that is supported by the Iranian people which is why we will never overthrow it.

Yeah. Yeah. Great point, Scott. And you know, uh, what's so intra, well, I mean,
I I say interesting, but actually it's really it's it's shocking in the stupidity of
it because you have, of course, we know what the US and Israel's goals are. It's regime change, and you outline really
well why that hasn't worked and Iran's retaliatory response. If we get to this point of the oil
question, the economic question, it gets even more stupid because even as the
straight of Hormuz is effectively closed, uh the US not in Israel not only targeted Tan's oil or or Iran's I think
in southern tan its oil depots, but it's still hitting tankers. It just hit an oil tanker as of the last 24 hours.

And as this was happening, Scott, you saw the reports. I know you did. You
mentioned it earlier. Oil has shot way up to $100 a barrel. 90 plus% raise since December in the
cost of oil per barrel. And Scott --

[Scott Ritter] The graph
can't keep up with it, man. It's going through the roof. It's ridiculous.

And even after Europe,
I believe in the last 12 hours, has eased some of their reserves and it dropped. Wall Street Journal said, "No,
it's still going to go up to $200 a barrel if the situation persists." And Iran, their spokesperson for the IRGC
said, "Are you ready for that?" Because they are obviously prepared to ensure that this happens. And I
just want to put up Donald Trump's response to this because this is now being paraded by the Western mainstream
media as long term gain for short term pain.

Short-term oil prices which will drop rapidly when the destruction of Iran nuclear threat is over is a very
small price to pay for USA and world safety and peace only fools would think
differently

And now he has indeed fooled many, at least in the mainstream
media, I'm just going to play this segment for you Scott, and then you can react, because this is the kind of conditioning that the warmongers are trying to pedal
to all of us even as we are witnessing all over what Iran's retaliation, and of course the US war that started it.

This is a short-term disruption for the long-term gain short-term pain for the long-term gain
short-term pain be for long-term gain we're going to have some short-term pain uh with long-term gain
short-term pay for a long-term gain some short-term pain yes but we've got some long-term gain short-term spike for
a long-term gain some short-term pain for American American consumers, we may have to deal with that in the short term. Short.

So, Scott, that's only half of it. So, this is what the environment politically is like in the
United States as everything you said, everything you have outlined about Iran's retaliation, about how the
USIsraeli war of aggression is going, and all of the effects that have transpired around the oil market. That's
the response right now.

[Scott Ritter] You know, it's funny. I just went to a movie this weekend. I can't
remember it's don't don't die. I can't remember what the first two things are, but it's a great movie about AI and people addicted and watching cell phones and the world coming to an
end and everything. But you'd think that what
we just saw was actually part of a very bad Hollywood movie script. I mean, you know, because we're supposed to be
Americans. I mean, we got freedom of speech, baby. Our brains work supposedly. and we're
supposed to be above this. This is the kind of crap we're not supposed to fall for. Those other people around the world fall for this. You know, the Nazis
fell for that propaganda, but we can't because we're Americans, and Americans are smart. We're educated. And we believe in freedom. Freedom would never allow ourselves to become, you know, compliant little
slaves to a unified propaganda statement published by a
mainstream media controlled by the government. The government can't control us because we're Americans. We're better than that. Oh, good God. We're the worst
people in the world for it. I mean, if you're an American, and you're watching TV, and you see "short-term pain for long-term gain," first of all, it's a little too cute.
It happened once. I tell you, you got to work on that one, guys. Bad bad writing. But then they
repeat it and they repeat it and they repeat it and you suddenly realize that we literally don't have a free press. Wake up America. We don't have a free press. That's why you need to hit the like
button for Danny Haiphong. Really seriously because you know Danny Haiphong and Garland
Nixon and Judge Napalitano and other people who provide alternatives to
what you just saw,, "short-term pain for long-term gain." I mean,
we are a dysfunctional country, and we can't work because the American sheep
can't be awoken, because they're being lulled into a false sense of complacency by a mainstream media that's been
hijacked by a singularity controlling this. And that singularity is working on a pro-Israeli agenda. So, all you make
America great again people out there, you do understand that America
doesn't function into this at all. Which is why we need Danny Haiphong to come out and provide alternative
perspectives.

But it's embarrassing. I mean, it's funny. We laugh about it, Danny, but this is actually the
equivalent of being a doctor and throwing up a chest X-ray and going, "Holy cow, you got stage four lung
cancer that has spread to your brain, your pancreas, and your bones, and you're dead. America, you just saw the image. That's us. That's a reflection on
our society. We're dead. We are infected by a cancer. And how do you purge that
out? How do you do that? It's so deeply ingrained into everything we do. Every mainstream institution has
been infected by this. And that means again, it's not just the media. It's the things that feed the media. Do you
understand that there are universities out there to train journalists whose sole function is to graduate from
journalism school and then seamlessly fold into this system? So the journalism
schools have to condition these people to think this is okay. So what we call
journalists aren't just actors in the game that's being played to manipulate data.

There's a guy I did
an interview if you guys want to see it. It's on my Russia House podcast free of charge. You can go get it. Andre Elnitzki, former lieutenant general,
senior adviser to Shuyu when Shuyu was the defense minister of Russia. He has published papers and came up with this idea called mental war. And he talks about mental war. Basically, mental
war is what is done by outsiders to cause a society to collapse from within
by taking over the mechanisms of communication, like when you go to the movies the
movies, the cinema is designed to condition you to achieve a certain outcome, because the movies are
controlled by mainstream studios that don't allow outliers to get out there. You can make a great movie,
but if they decide, Well, we ain't putting that out there in theaters," then nobody sees it, and you have zero impact. The
movies they put out in theaters are designed to manipulate your minds. Straight up said it. Anything you see
on TV is designed to manipulate your minds. What you listen to on the radio is designed to manipulate your minds. And they're all controlled by the same
people. And so they're out there conditioning you to accept as normal
things that otherwise sane people would say that's insane.

Mental warfare, the destruction of
America from within. By whom? By the pro-Israeli Zionistic cabal. We have to
start calling it for what it is. I mean, it's not anti-Semitic, ladies and gentlemen. It's not anti-semitic. It's
just the god-awful truth that the pro-Israeli crowd is anti-American, and
is seeking the destruction of America. They're willing to use America as a tool to achieve their broader objectives. And we're just sitting here doing nothing. You'd think there'd be people in the streets, but they don't. They
just they ignore it. They are compliant sheep. They've wrapped themselves in the cocoon of comfort. They became prisoners to this
technology. And they have this cocoon of comfort, and so long as you don't rock it, make everybody happy,
they just let it happen. They don't want to disturb it. And that's where we are as a society. And this war is a
manifestation of that. This war should be opposed by everybody.

If you got a second, can I talk about the murder of
170 school children because most Americans, I mean, listen
to Donald Trump. Iran did it. Iran did it. letting the piece head. Well, we're investigating it, but don't worry about
it. We're the most lethal military in the world. My god, I can bench press 315
pounds and we are killers. That's what we do. We kill. We kill. We kill. And
forget rules. Forget those woke rules that constrained our ability to inject
lethality into the problem. You see the mindset? And Americans went, "Oh, okay."
I mean, I don't know how many people went, "That's what I voted for. That's that's what I voted for. You see that over and over on social media. That's
what I voted for. No, this is why I have to say when people say that,
you know, the way our country was created, um, we we knew about you. So,
you're you're part of what's called a faction. Federalist paper number 10, James Madison warned us about the dangers of factions. And factions are
controlled by a functioning republic, a constitutional republic that has checks and balances in place. But these checks
and balances have to work or else the executive which has been imbued with a great deal of authority becomes a tyrant. That's federalist 51. Again,
James Madison, smart man. He warned us about the dangers of a tyrant in the need for checks and balances. So today
when we have the Congress of the United States basically saying this isn't a war, it's a defensive operation and Congress doesn't need to be involved.
That's the speaker of the house saying that. That means Congress has taken itself off the map. The Supreme Court
has, you know, challenged the president on terrorists, but the president says I don't care. I'm going to do whatever I want. So, Supreme Judiciary is off the
map. We're left with a pirate, the executive. And now the executive isn't
governed by the people who, you know, believe in the necessity of checks and balances, but by factions. I voted for
this. I voted for tyranny. I voted for a cult of personality. I voted for a man who says that I am beholden to no laws.
I only believe my own sense of personal morality which is problematic given the Epstein
files but being that as it may um this is a man who says he governs as a dictator. So there we are and what are
the consequences? The Geneva Conventions 1949
um were passed because of the excesses uh that were under war even by the victors. There was a recognition that
even the victors went too far, that we have to protect civilian populations. It's essential that there has to be laws
governing war. And these were updated in 1977. Um the the the additional protocol to
the Geneva Convention. And now there people out there rolling around, oh come on, skies international law. Ah yes, but
see it was adapted and adopted by the United States Department of Defense through the law warfare manual. So it's
ours now. we own it. One of the interesting things in there is they talk about targeting. They say you have to be
very careful when you start targeting places uh to ensure that you aren't hitting civilian targets that you've
done your due diligence. And there's this thing called distinction that you must make a distinction between military
targets and civilian targets which requires an additional level of analysis in in work. This is the law. It's the
law. And so we did, I can tell you as somebody who has done this in war, um there's a lot of effort goes into
ensuring that the targets we hit are have a military value, uh that they aren't civilian in nature, and that we
look at the consequences of striking this target. Will there be collateral damage to civilians? And then you get
into proportionality. Um is the value you get from militarily from striking this target uh proportional to the
damage you're doing to civilians? And if the answer is no, we're killing far too many civilians, then you don't bomb the target. The answer is if we don't know,
we can't distinguish that this is military, you don't bomb the target. Now, we had screwed up a lot during the
global war on terrorism. So, in 2023, the Department of Defense issued a new
proclamation, a new directive called the uh civilian harm and mitigation response
uh thing. And what this did is create um a new layer of oversight for targeting
and for u you know planning wars. And this team's job was to go through each
target and ensure that we aren't making a mistake here that this isn't a civilian target, that this is a military
target. Um it's what we're supposed to do under the law of war, but we've gotten a little sloppy with it during
the global war on terrorism. So we put in new regulations to say this is what we need to do if we're going to fight a
war to be compliant with our own laws and the laws of international conflict. Um
Pete Haget did away with that directive, canceled it in his effort for lethality.
So there is no civilian harm and mitigation response capability in America anymore. Instead, what there is
is a literal free-for-all. We can do anything we want. Now you all have heard the term double tap. Double tap is a
term that's been used a lot derisively against regimes. We've accused the Syrian government of double tapping of
people, you know, dropping their barrel bombs. We've accused the Iranians of double tapping. We've accused every Russia of double tapping. We accused
everybody of double tap. On the first day of the of this conflict, um we had
picked out several targets to strike. Um we claimed we were striking targets related to the Iranian Revolutionary
Guard Command. Um, one of these was the Manab Naval Base where the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard Command had warehouses and a medical facility, etc. Um, and we struck it with five cruise
missiles. Um, now normally you'd say, okay, but you
know, you'd have confidence that the US military did the right thing. You know, certainly we looked to distinguish the
targets to make sure that there were no uh crossover targets, nothing that could have been a protected target. Um but
that unit doesn't exist anymore. Instead, what we have is we have artificial intelligence assisted
targeting uh a program called CLAD put together by Palunteer um helped create
these targets that just out of the blue. Basically, they scan databases. They're given certain parameters. Find me uh
facilities assiliated the revolutionary guard command who have buildings of the following dimensions. And then they turn
those buildings into targets and then the targets are assigned weaponry etc. So the men naval facility um was
assigned four impact points. Two impact points were warehouses of a certain
dimension. One impact point was a building uh that turned out to be a medical facility. But we didn't do the
distinction. you guys. So, even though everybody knew it was a medical facility, AI didn't and we didn't double check it
because we don't have the civilian harm mitigation response capability anymore. So, we just said put a cruise and then another one was up there in the in in
the upper right corner and um there was a large facility there and we decided we're going to bomb that one too. So, we
sent five cruise miss why five? I thought it was just four. Ah, now we get to the beauty of the Tomahawk Block 4.
The Tomach Block 4 system um has the capability to have a number of targets programmed into it and it can change its
targets on the way because it's communicating. But a really cool part of it is that it can loiter over a facility
collecting imagery that's sent back to be evaluated and it does the immediate battle damage assessment. Back in the
Gulf War when I was doing it, we bombed a target, we got the satellite data and then I looked at it and said, you know,
did we achieve the result? And if not, I said reattack and I sent it back and it got fed back into the queue. It was
bombed a day later. Took a little bit of while. Now we have immediate reattack capability with the block four. So the
fifth cruise missile's job is to loiter over. So now the first four cruise missiles come in and they hit the two
warehouse facilities. There's nothing in there. No secondary explosion, nothing. They're empty. Um they hit the medical
facility. We got smoke coming out. Um so it wasn't empty, but it's smoking that
we criteria achieved. It hit another building, collapsed it. Um, there's smoke coming out, but more importantly,
there's people moving around. Lots of people moving around. And that imagery is being sent back to the ship and the
operators on the ship are looking at going, "We got a lot of people moving around that target. A lot of people
moving around that target. We hit something of importance. Reattack." And they hold that cruise missile to go up
to altitude and fly down. Now, the amazing thing again, the Block 4 is a cool weapon because it's got this
warhead on it that's designed to be a bunker buster. So, it can blow through with the initial warhead, then come in
and boom, blow up what's inside. Very lethal. Pete Hexath loves it. I'm sure he masturbates to this weapon every
freaking night. That's who he is. But now there's an additional thing that they put in there. This is the beauty of
the Block 4. You see, the cruise missile has a lot of fuel in it. And that unexpended
fuel was just being wasted. So the block four can take that fuel, compress it and turn it into a fuel air explosive. Gives
you a thermmoaric um you know weapons capabilility. So
basically you penetrate and then you burn everything inside with this giant thermmoaric explosion. It's beautiful. I
mean Pete Hexath might masturbate twice because of that. So now we get to the
reality of what happened. It was a school. The first cruise missile hit it
uh burst through classrooms etc. The the teachers and the majority of the students who survived some students were
casualties in the first strike but the majority of them were ushered into the prayer hall of this facility. A facility
a prayer hall that met the dimensions of the criteria set by artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, the school's
calling up parents and saying, "Come and get your kids. There's been a bad day here." So, parents in the neighborhoods
nearby come rushing to the facility. operators look at teachers ushering children into the uh prayer hall,
parents rushing in, and at the moment where everybody's come together, we double tapped it.
We sent the cruise missile down, it burst through the prayer hall, exploded, and then the thermobaric
warhead blew up, burning everybody inside. Read the stories of the parents
about how they found their children. There was nothing left of my child. She had been burned to death. I only could
identify her because of the remnants of the backpack. Yeah, that's what we did. We double tabbed
them. Pure 100% murder because Pete Hegat decided that we needed to be more lethal. So, he got away with the
regulations that required the United States military to comply with, you know,
the law of war, our own law of war manual. He he got rid of it. And any
American who sits there and says, "This is okay. I voted for this. Die. Go away. Disappear. You're You're
the reason why this country no longer stands for anything. You're the reason why this country is hated and reviled.
Because you have no soul. This country exists only because of the Constitution. This country exists only because we
pretend to adhere to the rule of law. And as long as we are trying to adhere to the rule of law, there is potential
in this country worth defending. We have been imperfect, and I'll be the first one to acknowledge that. But the United
States has the potential of being a great nation if we only did what we're supposed to do. But we don't do it
because we get lazy. We don't do it because of stupidity, because of ignorance, because of racism, because of hatred, whatever you want to say. We
don't do it because of the control of a Zionistic Cabal. But if you're sitting here right now justifying this double
tap against 170 Iranian children, then problem, you're not the solution. And I
hope that you are erased from this world because you don't belong here. You are
evil. And I say that to everybody who says this is what I voted for. If you're an American, you can't vote for this.
It's the most unamerican thing that's out there. And I apologize for my bad language. This is
we are the worst people in the world right now. We the people of the United States of America are the number one
threat to international peace and security in the world. And it's only going to get worse because our president is going to start to panic when the
price of oil goes up and Israel's already panicking because they the Iranians have won this war.

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So what
happens? We may use nuclear weapons. But here's the fun part, Danny. Because the
Iranians just replaced the one man who said no to nuclear weapons. Ali Kame. He
was it. He was the guy that said no. the system, the conservatives, his son,
they're like, "We need nuclear weapons." And he said, "No, and we killed him."
And now they've replaced with the son who is surrounded by people saying, "We need nuclear weapons." The Iranians
warned Steve Whitoff and Jared Kushner, but they were too stupid to understand what they were being told. The Iranians
said, "You do know that we have 450 kg of 60% enriched uranium. You do know we have that, right? And you do know that
you can't order us to get rid of it. It's our inalienable right to have this. And Woodco and Kushner, I guess, took it
the wrong way. Got insulted by that. But what they didn't realize is the Iranians then worked with us to get rid of all of
it. They said, "We're willing to get rid of everything, to have inspectors come
in and verify, US inspectors, unprecedented the history of IEA inspections inside Iran, American
inspectors. Iran has never allowed that. and they were going to allow that so that the disposition of the 450 kgs
could be confirmed and they were bending over backwards to give Donald Trump the great deal he always said he wanted. He
always condemned the JCPOA Barack Obama's bad deal. I could do a better deal. Well, the Iranians gave him a
better deal, but this was never about the nuclear program. This was always about regime change. And so we attacked Iran. Surprise attack, perity, double
tap against children, all the good stuff that we do. Now the Iranians have a new supreme leader and now they're faced
with the very conditions in which the conservatives tried to to convince Ali Kam to reverse his fatwa prohibiting
nuclear weapons. The conditions where nuclear armed states are threatening the existential survival of the Islamic um
the Islamic Republic. Um even then Kame said no but they did pass an edict that
said fatwas are reversible and and Kame agreed that they are reversible but he's
not going to reverse it. Well now that they have agreement that they are reversible and Ali Kame is dead. Um, we
may very well see the Iranians decide the nuclear weapons are exactly what they need. And they have the ability to
produce around 10 15 to 20 kiloton warheads of a uranium gun design. Very
crude weapon, but very effective. Doesn't need to be tested. For all you people out there that think they have to test it, we didn't test the gun design.
The the test we did at Alagora was the plutonium implosion weapon. the gun design doesn't
need to be tested because it will work 100% of the time. Um, and that's the
direction the Iranians will probably go. They said in the fall of 2024
um, and in the spring of 2025 that they had solved all of the issues pertaining to the delivery of a nuclear weapon,
that they had a warhead design. They had it built. It was ready. All they needed was a fizzile material. They have
missiles that are designed to carry this warhead. Um so all the Iranians have to do is build it construct enriched
uranium. They have the 450 kilograms of uh 60% uranium hexafflloride. Uh they
have 164
Scott if you can hear me. I think we lost you for a second. Um okay we're back. Um
yeah we're back. they they have the ability to enrich the the uranium hex fluoride, convert it
into uranium metal, and form that metal into a into shapes that are conducive to
a gun design. Um, and I'm would not be surprised if Iran um at
some point in time as this war progresses and people threaten them with nuclear weapons if the Iranians come out and say you don't want to do that
because we'll we'll kill Israel, Saudi Arabia, we'll kill the United Dubai will
be a smoking hole. The whole region will be a smoke. You drop one nuclear weapon on us and everybody dies. It's a reverse
Samson option. Um, and I think that's the direction the Iranians should go. I
don't want them to. I still believe, I don't know why, because it's been my life and I'm still naive, but I I still
believe in nuclear non-prololiferation. I believe in the legitimacy of the non-proliferation treaty. I believe in art disarmament, arms control, all these
things that have proven just to be a joke in the eyes of the United States. Um, they disgraced my entire my
entire life has been spent pursuing arms control and this government has just made it a joke. a literal joke, a tragic
joke. And so, who am I to tell the Iranians you can't have nuclear weapons? Who am I to say you can't do this? Um,
and we'll see. I mean, one the one thing that mitigates against it is that the Iranians continue to speak about
operating um honoring the um legacy of
Ali Kam. Um, and his legacy was that nuclear weapons were forbidden under
Islam. We'll see how long that lasts. But it's hard to sit there and make that argument. You can make that in a in a in
a vacuum. But when your nation's being subjected to the death and destruction that's being laid down, wanton murder by
the um uh United States and Israel, the Israelis blew up. I mean, people, you
have to understand the scope and scale of the crime that Israel committed here. Blew up the oil storage facilities outside of Tyrron in a deliberate
fashion. Again, I'm a targeter. I did this for a living. I know the decisions that go in. There are ways to blow
things up to make things not happen and there's ways to blow things up to make things happen. The targeting done here
was done deliberately to achieve the outcome which is to basically coat Thrron with toxic oil rain and to create
the conditions where you have fire breaking out in the sewage systems, streets on fire, a city on fire. This is
the capital city of Iran. the capital city of Iran is being wiped off the face
of the earth by Israel. Um, you know, so
why why not get a nuclear weapon if you're Iran? Why not? I mean, this is the stage we're in. This is this
is where we're at today. And we can only blame one person, Donald Trump. Donald Trump had the ability to tell Benjamin Netany, "Sit down. Shut up. Get out of
my face. I'll cut off all aid. Um, there will be no defense. We'll turn off switch on missile defense shield. we can
do anything we want. You're a pathetic. You're a loser. I mean, he's a dictator. So, if Congress screams, arrest them.
Determine that Israel is a foreign a hostile foreign nation. Any anybody who's taken more than $3 from Israel is
now an enemy of the United States and didn't arrest all of Congress. Why not? You're a dictator. Congress doesn't matter. I mean, I would support this if
it purged purged Israel. I wouldn't support it because it's unconstitutional. But my point is the president had a lot of latitude, but he
is sold out. He took Miriam Adlesen's blood money. uh he is a prisoner of the Zionist cabali, surrounded himself with
Zionists from the vice president on down and there's no push back against anything Israel does. Um maybe the
American people will wake up. Maybe now um we can find a way to unite people to
understand that Israel is calling the shots. That this is no longer about America first. This is America last, Israel first. It's not make America
great again. It's make Israel great again. It's make America last. Um are we going to wake up collectively and
understand this? Are we going to do the right thing at the polls um in November? Because we can cleanse this. We can
cleanse this. And I know people are going to say, "Whoa, we're going to vote for somebody." There's nothing worse than a dictator. There's nothing worse
than a cult of personality. There's nothing worse than a person that openly says, "I will not comply with the
Constitution of the United States." There is nothing worse than that. You can take a Democrat who as long as they
say, "I will comply with the Constitution. I will obey that oath." And they respect the checks and balances. That's imperfect. I don't
agree that I I I agree that the Democrats govern horribly. I agree that they make bad policy. I agree with all
that. But, you know, we can fix that constitutionally if we the people wake up. But right now, we have transferred
power to a functional dictator, a cult of personality.
And we have one chance to fix it. That's this November. Maybe the disastrous war
will wake the American people up. The only way it can because we're all trapped in that cocoon of comfort. But
when suddenly we have to go out there and pay eight bucks a gallon for gas. When we go to Walmart and we see the shelves are empty because uh truckers
can't afford the diesel to ship things around. We see the price of food go through the roof. When we realize our
paycheck doesn't cut it anymore. Um maybe we'll wake up, do the right thing. I don't know.
Yeah. Well, uh let's continue to do our part. Scott, we just one more segment I wanted to get, uh through with you
that's very related to this and then there's one audience question. Uh but first, you know, uh in in line with this
uh very obvious, I guess we call influence uh over the United States by
Israel, there's been many reports uh and and what strikes me so much, Scott, is the hubris of all of this. So, the Times
of Israel, Trump gave an interview with them, and he said straight up that it'll be a mutual decision with Netanyahu when
the war ends. And uh it's even more the hubris even gets worse where he says
Iran was going to destroy Israel and everything else around it. We worked together. We destroyed the country that
wants to wanted to destroy Israel. So past tense destroyed the country that wanted to destroy Israel. Now uh Scott
the new Ayatollah the son of Ali Mojave I believe I'm butchering his name. Um
not only is Don't worry you're in good company. Not only Yeah. Exact. Yeah. But and not
only is he as as you have uh pointed out more uh uh militant in his position on
nuclear weapons and and be in in you know defending the country by any means
but also people are very not first of all Ayatoll Ali's entire family include
including his son's family wiped out and you also have month old granddaughter. Yeah, exactly.
And you have this these are the scenes in Iran as he was named the next
Ayatollah. So, uh, Scott, Israel in and Trump are saying that they are going to
decide when this war ends. It seems like the Iranian people have very different a
very different viewpoints. How does this factor into the entire situation? I mean, I can pull up the military side of
this, what it looks like on the ground for Israel, but also I know you often say that war is an extension of politics
by other means. So, uh, how about, uh, your comments on all of this? Well, damn you, Danny. You stole my
Claus reference. I mean, but you're right. War is an extension of politics by other means. Um, look, I said this
early on that this is a regime change conflict and um, it's existential in nature. um and that the probable regime
change will take place here in the United States as Donald Trump loses in November will be impeached and hopefully
convicted um by the U Congress of the United States. Uh empowered by an American people who voted in people who
believe in the Constitution over factionalism. Um Benjamin Netanyahu has been a prime minister that's been
hanging on by the skin of his teeth ever since October 7th. You know, he was, you know, delinquent in his duties then, but
he kept expanding the war. He called himself the security prime minister. they kept expanding the war and every
time he ran into a problem domestically expanded the conflict um and now he's gone to the ultimate level of expansion
and he is you know counted his chickens before they hatched he's on TV declaring victory uh that he's you know that this
is all because of him and yet the Israelis woke up this morning with no power in Tel Aviv and they will continue to have no power and if they continue
they will have no water and if they continue they will have no infrastructure and um and Tel Aviv will
become a city that's uninhabitable and people start to flee Israel Um and then the rest of Hifa will become an
uninhabitable city. Uh Israel will become an unlivable nation and that will be the death of Israel and that'll be
the death of Benjamin Netanyahu. This is something that Hamas and Hezbollah and um and were on the verge of
accomplishing if you remember right before Hassan Nalla was assassinated how bad how dire the situation was in
Israel. remember to the emptying of northern Israel, people fleeing because of uh Hezbollah's rockets and uh the
bankruptcy of that was taking place economically for Israel. Um but now we have the ultimate war uh a war of
existential proportions and um Iran has a plan. Israel doesn't Israel doesn't have a plan of survival. Israel believed
the nonsense that they could resume Mus's regime. You hear the president just talking in in stupidity. Um I mean
who writes his script? I mean, I remember the movie True Lies, you know, who write this Um, who writes what
Trump says? Because it's a stupidity. Stupidity personified in a man, a stupid man. Um, but Netanyahu is no smarter.
He's, I mean, he's a smart man, politically astute, but he's boxed himself into a corner. U, you know, he basically took all his remaining savings
while he's in Vegas. He's already gambled away everything. He takes everything left and puts it on one number and rolls the dice. Um it ain't
going to come up what you want, Benny. It's over. And so he will be removed. Um he is not survivable. Um you already
see, you know, his uh ideological base under attack. Smot's son is wounded, maybe dead in Hezb at the hands of
Hezblah. Bing Gabir is uh injured, maybe dead. Netanyahu's family is under
attack. His brother is dead. Na is dead dead man walking. Even if he survives this, uh he will not survive. um you
know he he needs to hope that he you know passes through natural causes
because he's he's been marked for death. You don't get to assassinate the supreme leader and walk away. And I would say
the same thing about Donald Trump. He needs to be careful. Um we he's crossed a red line. I mean the American people
have to understand that we don't have a right just because we have the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Um, we don't have
the right to go around and murder people, murder leaders, murder religious leaders, and then pretend that there are no consequences. We are a hunted people.
We are a hated people. Um, and our actions will haunt us and hunt us for a
long time going forward. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, they will. And and
there's no amount, Scott, of uh justifications and and I know that I
know we've talked about Oxio stories in the past too, there's always an attempt to muddle the the narrative too about
why all of this is going on, why this disaster has uh occurred. And now when
it comes to the oil depots, now suddenly when oil prices are spiking, Scott, you have the United States trying to leak
through uh these so-called US officials trying to leak through Axios that oh no, it was Israel that launched all the
strikes on the depots and with no US involvement. They didn't know about it. They vehemently disagreed with it and uh
now there is uh you know now uh there is some kind of plausible deniability here.
But, you know, to me, Scott, I don't know what your what your opinion on this is. It's And yet it seems ridiculous.
And yet and yet we just are passing $50 billion supplemental that goes without any
congressional approval that allows Israel to be replenished with the very bombs they dropped on these uh the
these, you know, oil facilities. So, the the hypocrisy, the lies of this administration are beyond belief. If
Israel actually did something that we didn't want them to do, that was detrimental to our national security, etc., uh we can simply hit the off switch and
then Israel disappears. Uh but we don't we continue to fund, supply, support, facilitate because that's part of our
plan. It's just domestic political cover right now. Blame it on Israel, etc. But no, it's a it's a joint
um you know campaign plan. The target sets are known to all parties. um and
the decision to strike those Israeli aircraft had to take off
and fly a path to uh Israel that was pre-coordinated with the United States. Uh we knew what the targets were.
Anybody who says we didn't know what the targets were is lying. We knew what the targets were because it's an integrated strike plan. And then those planes had
to fly back squawking on IFFF that we were picking up so we don't shoot them down. All coordinated the flow. Uh it
was American tankers that uh refueled those aircraft. Why would we refuel aircraft if we didn't know where they
were going? If we didn't know anything about it. Um, you know, so no, um, this administration
does nothing but lie. They are carrying out a war, an information war against the American people. And we, we're the
dupes that sit there and allow ourselves again,
what was it? Short-term pain for long-term gain. I mean, that's the new
cry of stupidity in America. short-term pain for long-term gain. And uh I don't know how they'll revise
that when the short-term pain doesn't feel so shortterm anymore because that uh that that could change uh
dramatically as things escalate. Scott, well, it's just a matter of time. Well,
time is relevant. Short term could actually mean long term,
but that's okay. buy the newest PS4 or Xbox 5 and play the newest version of
Grand Theft Auto or Call of Duty. You too can be an American hero.
It's absolutely ridiculous. Well, you know, Al Jazer actually, and it's a bit it's a two-minute video. Hopefully, it
goes fast. Uh uh I can't speed it up even though I wish I could. Alazer had a had an interesting um report Scott on
Iran's side and how they're getting through miss how they're getting through all of these defenses uh into Israel
which you know again I want to I just want to point out to the audience that uh we had a 12-day war and Israel ran
out of interceptors uh and had to uh ask Trump to end the war. I'm still very
confused as to how that will um transpire uh any differently in the days
and weeks to come. But here's Al Jazzer's report. And Scott, as a as a weapons inspector, as someone who has
expert knowledge on this stuff, I want your assessment on how they did and what they're missing because I think it's
important for people to understand uh what exactly is happening here. Iran has launched hundreds of ballistic
missiles towards Israel since the conflict began. Now the distance between Iran's capital Thrron and Tel Aviv in
Israel is about,600 km. Now Iran does have missiles that can
cover that distance but they need to transit other countries which makes striking Israel a challenge. Let me
explain. Let's say Iran launches dozens of missiles towards Israel. They travel
through Iraq and Syria. They could also go over Saudi Arabia. But what could
happen in Iraq where you have US military bases?
You have the American Patriot system that engages and destroys these
missiles. So let's say we've lost some of these missiles out here. The ones
that are remaining then enter the Syrian and Jordanian airspace. And by then you
have the Israeli air defenses that engage and destroy these missiles. Now
we have Jordan also that has helps Israel intercept incoming projectiles.
Now we have the missiles entering the
Israeli airspace and then they are targeted by US warships that are stationed here. Remember the US Navy has
a significant presence in the Mediterranean Sea. And finally, we have
the missiles. When they are inside the Israeli airspace, they are targeted by a multi-layer air
defense system that includes the Iron Dome, the David Sling, and Aeros system apart from the American third air
defenses. And despite all of that, you have Iranian missiles that are actually
hitting targets inside Israel. The time taken for a missile from Iran
to reach Israel is about 10 to 12 minutes. And this is the damage we are
seeing inside Tel Aviv after an Iranian missile strike.
So Scott, uh, how accurate was this? I mean, the situation has changed a lot since this war began, obviously. Um and
uh that that poses the question how how long can this actually go on unless the
US and Israel I mean the I pose this question to you too are going to go on without air defense systems.
Well first of all I mean the the report was superficial. I already explained to you about the you know the architecture.
They're not designed to work with each other. You know if you listen to her it sounds like things are seamlessly working together but it doesn't. there's
a there's a architecture bringing these systems that weren't designed to work together together and she didn't mention
about the destruction of the radars up front, the queueing, the communications, etc. um you know and but it's a it's a
superficial um look at it but the point is um it's not working and the Iranian
missiles keep being launched and the Iranians have more missiles than we have the ability to interdict them and we
will run out of uh we've already run out of you know the high-end the high value uh I don't know what the super dupers
maybe Donald Trump would call them we're out of them um so we're using PAC twos may have a lot of PAC twos Pete Hexet
seemed to indicate that we had a lot of PC twos But that's again like you know knowing that um you know you're going up
against a target that requires a 50 caliber bullet to to to kill it and we're out of 50 caliber bullets. We got
a lot of 22s. So we're going to fire a whole bunch of 22s but we know that the 22s can't kill
the target. So we're just wasting time and going through the motions pretending to be defending. We're shooting Patriot missile twos that um have zero impact on
the Iranians. So it's a meaningless uh gesture. Um eventually we're going to run out of the SM3s, the SM Block 3
block twos, the SM6s. These are the missiles on the ships. We're going to run out of them. We don't have the ability to replace them. And then we're
just totally defenseless. And um what we do at that point um I think Donald Trump
will probably try to declare victory and walk away. I don't think the Iranians are going to let him walk away. Um you
know, Iran has made a decision that this war doesn't end until it's over. Uh if
Trump is willing to walk away by saying we're evacuating the Middle East, never to return. Um that's one condition, but
then what about Israel? Um the United States has to ensure that Israel no
longer manifests a threat to the region, that greater Israel is dead. Um you
know, so I don't think the Iranians are taking their foot off of the gas right now. Again, we come back to John Boyd,
which I started this discussion with in the Udaloop. The Iranians are inside our decision-making cycle. They're winning.
Why would Iran pause and allow the United States to recalibrate? They've invested a lot. They've
sacrificed a lot to get to the point right now where their strategic plan is superior than to the strategic planning
of the United States and Israel. They're winning this war. They cannot allow
a ceasefire to take place, conflict termination to take place. that simply
resets the game the game map. They're not going to allow that. So, Donald Trump's in a lot of trouble and I think
you're going to see this war go on for a lot longer. Um and I think the consequences of the American defeat um
are going to be far greater. Um and if he continues, understand that the right now we're looking at a um you know, a
temporary inconvenience, short-term pain for long-term gain in uh in the
economies. But um A lot of what about is about to happen
is irreversible. The damage will be permanent. Um and if
we get into the permanent destruction of energy production facilities in the Middle East, um even if the conflict
ends, it's over.

And I'll just leave this with another nation that I won't shed tears for, you know,
they're showing long lines in India of Indians going out to fill up their their propane bottles. India has admitted they're in a strategic relationship with Israel. India has admitted that they
gave the coordinates of this unarmed Iranian ship, that had gone to India for a peaceful rally, that they gave it to
Israel, who gave it to United States, so that the ship could be sunk. India is a member of BRICS, who has
decided that they will not support a fellow member of BRICS: Iran. India is going to pay a heavy price for its decision to support Israel and support this war. India could have been
one of those nations that got an exception to the transit out of the strait of Hormuz. But India is now a
declared enemy of Iran, and India is going to suffer a huge economic hit.
This is again another nation that I'm just simply not going to shed tears for. And maybe it's time for the Indian
people to rise up and eliminate Modi as their prime minister, because this man has been sitting on the fence, this man
has been playing both sides of the equation for far too long. He's allowed the United States to dictate
solutions to him, and now at the behest of the United States, in order to curry political favor with Donald Trump, he has allowed India's strategic national
security interest to be subordinated to that of the state of Israel. Unacceptable. India has a large
Muslim population, larger than the state of Pakistan. And maybe it's time the
Muslims of India let their feelings be known. But no, India is a despicable
state.

It's not an ally of the United States. It's not an ally of anybody. India is unreliable. Completely
unreliable. And that was proven when you have Iran, a fellow BRICS member,
being betrayed by India.

And before the strike happened
on the 28th, before the initial act of acts of aggression, war crimes began
by the US and Israel, we saw Modi host Netanyahu in the most, how should we
say, accommodating of ways. I mean it's one thing to have any kind of relationship with, but to genuinely not only flaunt it, but then be an
active participant in the war against Iran. when the entirety of the rest of
the world in the global south for the most part, other than maybe those leaders who are getting beaten to hell by
Iran, in the region are against it. So the fact that
India has basically isolated itself, it's economy that can't handle the damage that's about to
come either. cannot handle that the you know for whatever people say about the United States India itself is where it's
located what it needs and its current you know everyone talks about its growth it is not econ it's not the United
States it's not economically developed in the same way it will not be able to say its crisis will be dramatically
worse uh and that soon um so anyway I just wanted to put that out there
because it's it's it's shocking the level of um you know uh you called it
betrayal I I I think It's a great word. Uh that has no benefit to India at all.
None. It's purely it's it's political um cowardism. Yeah.
Um yeah, we're seeing a lot of that. What what nations should understand right now is that Donald Trump
um is a coward. Straight up coward. He only strikes when he thinks there's
going to be a quick, easy victory. Notice what happens when he's faced with a moral uh a morally complicated issue.
Like, do I support Golani, the beheading ISIS leader of Syria? Well, he's a
strong guy, tough guy. He's made some hard decisions, hard things you've never done, Donnie, baby. And so he he caves
instead of saying, "No, we're going to kill you because you're al-Qaeda and uh we don't forgive and um you're going to
die and we're going to come in and we're going to slaughter you." Nope, he didn't do that. He did the opposite. And um
that's what with with Iran right now, he's confronted by the fact he's starting to say they're tough. Even, you
know, they're tough. They're tougher than you are, Donnie. 10 times tougher than you are. Uh, and they're smarter
than Pete Hegath, your testosterone driven 315 pound pressing who's governing what used to be called
the Department of Defense, but is now more euphemistically accurate to the war criminal status that America enjoys, the
Department of War. Um, Donald Trump is a coward. Nations that stand up to Trump
win. Nations that been the need of Trump die. Venezuela could have stood up to
Trump, but they took the easy way out. They took the CIA money. They caved. Uh
Cuba, this is a warning to you. United States doesn't care about you. Donald Trump seeks to dominate you,
seeks to destroy you. Look at Venezuela. There's no pride in being Venezuelan today. You sold out. You got a vice
president Darcy took the money. And um you know, so Cuba, take the lesson. Stand up. Fight back. Don't give in. all
the nations out there with Donald Trump, stand up, fight back, don't give in
because he is a coward. When confronted with the the need to make a hard decision knowing that the consequence
will be tough, he always backs down. He was misled into believing that Iran would fold like a house of cards. And
now look at him panicked. Five war plans in 10 days. There's going to probably be another war plan today or tomorrow
because they don't know what they're doing. Iran is in their decision-making cycle now. Now they have to deal with the economy. You know, is he going to
fire Scott Bessant? Is he going to fire all these people who've been giving him bad political advice? He needs to
terminate his cabinet. Every single one of them needs to be eliminated and
replaced by competent people. But instead, this this is a man who has surrounded himself with a pro-Zionist
cabal. He's a weak man. He's a coward. And he will always take the easy way out
because he's not strong. He's not tough. He's the weakest man possible morally,
physically, intellectually. Yeah. The blowback. We're going to have
uh many episodes in the future, Scott, where we're going to talk about the blowback of this globally as well because uh you know, when it comes to
Ukraine conflict, forget about it. there's no uh you know uh it's going to keep going as it has been going and it's
not that means it's not going to go well for the US and of course NATO as the the
US's uh war tool and then um uh the Pacific the US wants to drain the whole
Pacific of everything that they've sold to South Korea Japan you know if that
happens what does that do for the US's grand plans What do you think the Chinese have
learned from this? You think the Chinese have learned, huh, if we cave into Donnie, everything will
be okay. Or if they learned, yeah, if we tell Donnie to pound sand, stand up and say, bring it on, Uh, Donnie walks
away because we don't have anything. And he said that the again,
the tragedy befalling the Iranian nation, Iranian people is real. I mean, this is this is horrific what's
happening right now. But Pete Hexth has been exposed as a war criminal, as a liar, as as the most
incompetent person. And maybe one of the things that'll happen is that we will shed ourselves of this cancer on
American morality. That is Pete Hexth. That um we will actually prosecute him for war crimes because he he has
committed war crimes. He has lied to the American people, lied. He has violated his constitutional oath. You know, we knew that when he was murdering um you
know, the the the who who whatever those boots were in the uh Caribbean Sea and
off the coast of the Pacific coast. Um it was murder. It it you know, whatever you guys want to say.

Again, "I voted for
this." I don't care. You don't get to vote to violate the constitution. That's why we have the
Constitution to guard against irrational emotions of an enraged
public, a public that's become factionalized. "I voted for this." I don't care. It's against the Constitution.
It's against the law. And if you voted for it, then you're part of the problem, not the solution. Maybe you should be
indicted as a fellow conspirator for the war crimes of Pete Hegseth. That would be
nice. Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and Donald Trump needs to clean house. I don't think Pete Hegseth survives
this conflict. I don't think he can. The gross incompetence of this man has humiliated the United States, humiliated
the president, and has manifested itself in a way that has been destructive to people, to
infrastructure, to economies, and more importantly to the moral compass of
of the American collective. Americans need to wake up and stare in the mirror and feel ashamed about what
we've become. "I voted for this." Then you're a war criminal. You're no different than the Nazis of 1930s that,
enabled Adolf Hitler to seize power in Germany. We're facilitating a
cult of personality, a government that has no
constraint imposed by the rule of law because they don't believe in the rule of law. "That's what you voted for." That makes you an enemy of America. Yeah.

Well, let's get to uh just one or two audience questions. Scott, there was one that I think is is good. Uh especially
given your expertise. Uh Scott, love you from Canada. What do you think Iran will do if Israel uses nuclear weapons on
them? How will this change the war? Is Pakistan helping Iran?
Let's let's deal with the Pakistan issue first. Pakistan has a strategic security agreement with Saudi Arabia. So, um
Pakistan's sort of screwed right now. They don't know what to do um because they are financially dependent upon
Saudi Arabia. They they need Saudi Arabian help and Saudi Arabia also allows Gulf Arab states to um
financially bail Pakistan out. If you take a look at the recent economic crises that have taken place in
Pakistan, it's billion-dollar interventions by Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and others that have
bailed them out. And so Pakistan has to be careful about saying well we're on the side of Iran even though historically Pakistan has been on the
side of Iran against Israel. Uh so Pakistan is u is in a quandry. I don't
think Iran is relying upon anything from Pakistan. Um as I hinted earlier Iran is
literally a few weeks away from having several deliverable atomic weapons. um
when if and when they make that decision, I don't know. I can say this that any Israeli nuclear attack against
Iran um will be more demonstrative than um
you know, ending of Iran. It will not eliminate Iran's nuclear weapons program because we just don't know where it is.
We're going to blow up. I think there's a lot of people right now looking at tunnels in Isvahan that have proven to
be immune to um you know, American conventional munitions. we've struck them with B2s, B-52s, B1's, and we can't
tap them. So, the idea is we would nuke them to collapse the uh the tunnels. But if you're the Iranians um and you have
450 kgs of u of uranium hexafflloride enriched to 60%, would you put them in
tunnels in this vah that you've already sealed off, meaning you can't get access to this stuff because then you sort of
disarmed yourself. So I have a feeling that the Iranian uranium hexafflloride is not in isvahand or any other location
that's known. Uh there are hundreds of high sites that the Iranians have been building since 20 uh 2005
uh buried inside mountains and I believe that um the Iranian uranium hex fluoride
enriches 60%. Um it's probably been divided amongst three or four sites each
one capable of enriching each one capable of producing two three nuclear
weapons. So even if we get lucky and get one, there's duplication of effort. And if we nuke Iran, Iran will nuke Israel.
So it's a suicide pill. Israel, nuke Iran, you die. The difference is Iran's huge, you're small. Three nuclear
weapons ends all life in Israel. Yeah. Yeah. You want to play that game, you'll die.
And the other thing is, um, Iran won't stop there. After they take out Israel, they'll take out the states that
facilitated this. Uh, Saudi Arabia will be destroyed. Dubai will cease to exist.
Um you know and you know we can pick you know Abu Dhabi can go down Kuwait city
can go down. The point is once we cross that road you've made a decision now that you are saying we are going to
physically eradicate the Islamic Republic of Iran and therefore the fatwa automatically gets reversed and Iran
will move forward. Now the question is does Iran wait until they've been nuked or they go ahead and frontload the system? Um and that we don't know.
Again, we're now down to an issue of fundamental um you know, ex
existentialism. Will Iran honor the legacy of Ali Kaman in its totality or
will Iran um take the actions necessary to
create deterrence against the use of nuclear weapons? Because I think if this war continues to go south for the United
States and Israel that there will be a great temptation to use nuclear weapons to break the impass. Um, and the only
way Iran can prevent that is to make it clear that if nuclear weapons are used against Iran, Israel ceases to exist in
totality. Not a demonstrative weapon, not a token, you know, blow up demona.
Israel ceases to exist. And then you need to tell the Gulf Arab states, you will cease to exist as well. That's a
dangerous thing because now you trigger, you know, a nuclear arms race in the region. But, um, again, who cares?
Donald Trump doesn't care. America doesn't care. Let everybody have nukes. Why not? Everybody gets to play. I mean,
people, do you understand how stupid that is? How dumb this is? Why we, you know, why we didn't jump on the get rid
of the Israeli nuclear cancer bandwagon earlier? Um, will be one of those things if we survive this this period of time.
It's one of those questions that people will always be asking. Why did we allow this cancerous parasitic nation, Israel,
to have nuclear weapons and to threaten global peace and security with these nuclear weapons? It's a
crazy question. It is. And then finally, Scott, uh, quickly, have you heard of any
recommendations for active duty for the region? Local command is saving face. Some are ignorant, mitigating loss till
we GTFO. This administration has ruined so much. Staying vague. Have you heard this? I mean, so sad. Too bad. Um, you
you raised your hand, you took the oath, you got the uniform, you serve. I mean, I'm one of these people that believes
that um your duty and responsibility is to your oath, to the cons, and that your job is to
obey the lawful orders given to you to the best of your duty, best of your capability. Um, you know, if you don't
want to serve, then um make a decision, but pay the price. You're not going to get a free ride on this one. I'm sorry.
You you you raised your hand. What the hell were you thinking? You know, what did you think was going to happen? I
mean, we have 20 years of global war on terror. You didn't learn from that. You didn't learn from all the other wars of aggression that we've w you made a
decision. Raise your hand for something for economic reasons, for fake patriotic reasons. And now your ass is in a sling
in a region where it's gone south. Die honorably. Die like a man. Get up and do
your job. Don't cower in the desk. Don't cry to mommy. Get up and do your freaking job. Be a man. Be a soldier. Be
a sailor. Be an airman. Be Do whatever you got to do to die like a man if that's your fate. But don't whimper
around. Oh my god, I shouldn't have joined. Tough dude. You signed you raised your hand. Die like a man. But do
the right thing, too. Maybe before you die, disobey an unlawful order. Maybe
your friend Aegis Aegis cruiser uh at the Tomahawk control station and they
come in and they say, "We're going to be firing off another thing." say time out. I need to see the uh I need to see the
decision-making matrix on this one. This target we're hitting. Have we actually looked at it to make sure it's not a
civilian target? Where's the packet? Where's the targeting packet? I am not firing a missile against the grid
coordinate. I need the targeting packet. I need to ensure that we have done the civilian mitigation. Have we done
civilian mitigation? Yes or no, sir? Yes or no? If the answer is you don't know, then I'm not launching the missile.
Arrest me. move me, put somebody else in. The only thing that matters is the Constitution. That is the only thing
that matters. You didn't take an oath to PXF. You didn't take an oath to Donald Trump. You took an oath to uphold and
defend the Constitution. And that requires you to adhere to the law of warfare. Make sure the target has been
vetted properly. Or else you're just going to murder 170 goddamn school children. And you'll have to live with
that for the rest of your life if you survive this war.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's a that's a great place to end on here, Scott, to send a real message to, you
know, stand up for what is right. Uh if you are put in this situation and uh what did uh Donald Trump and Marco Rubio
say? There's how many? 40,000 50,000. I I can't keep track of the number of US
active duty or US personnel in the region that are engaging in this uh war
right now. So there's a there's a lot and we have 40,000 plus people here, Scott, who have watched us today. I want
to make sure everybody knows while you're still here that's Scott's uh website, his Substack where you can uh
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Yeah. I mean, uh, look, it's actually, you know, when I mentioned the other day on your show that I was, um, looking at
a project on how to engage Islam, um, in a constructive way for conflict, uh,
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me, it will go to, but I have been approached by some very serious religious leaders
around the world. I mean, um, and the
this this has potential. Um, we'll see where it goes. I don't think the United States is prepared to uh to move, but
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USA Panics Over Mojtaba's reply to Trump's ceasefire offer | Khamenei| Arab - OPTM
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Mar 10, 2026

Let’s be very clear about what just happened. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei didn't just say "no" to the ceasefire; he deconstructed the very premise of it. He stated, explicitly, that there is "no point to talks about anything" barring the defense of the nation and the execution of "crushing retaliations" against its enemies .

To translate that from diplomatic language into plain English: Iran is telling the United States and Israel that the era of using negotiations as a pressure valve is over. You cannot bomb the country for a week, assassinate its leaders, strike its schools—as we saw in the horrific Minab elementary school massacre—and then expect to hit the pause button to regroup and rearm .

The Iranian leadership has studied the history of US engagements from Vietnam to Afghanistan to Iraq. They know that the American war machine, for all its trillion-dollar hardware, runs on a very fragile fuel: domestic political will. And that is exactly the pressure point Tehran is targeting. This is not a war of territory; it is a war of timelines.



Transcript

There is a particular kind of panic that
sets in when a meticulously laid plan
crumbles, not because of enemy fire, but
because of enemy logic. And if the
frantic posts on Truth Social and the
hushed emergency meetings at the G7 are
any indication, that panic has
officially taken hold in Washington. We
are now witnessing the complete and
total unraveling of the so-called quick
war theory. Iran displaying a level of
strategic patience that seems to utterly
bewilder the west.
It seems Iran has claimed that it has
said no to offers of ceasefire that were
made by many countries. It
We have another news that is coming in
as a breaking right now. Iran says it is
unlikely to resume negotiations with the
United States following recent
hostilities. Ian Foreign Minister Abbas
Arachi has stated that Iran is unlikely
to resume negotiations with the United
States
has formally and publicly rejected what
is believed to be the fifth back channel
ceasefire offer floated by US
intermediaries. This isn't just a
diplomatic snub. It is a declaration of
a new rule book. While a clearly rattled
Donald Trump takes to social media to
declare that the war appears complete
and that Iran is begging for mercy, a
laughable assertion that contradicts
every single field report. Thrron is
framing this conflict in terms that the
Pentagon clearly never budgeted for,
existential, generational, and
absolutely unforgiving. He said it is an
excursion, but Iran said no, not now.
Mr. President, you've said the war is
quote very complete. But your defense
secretary says this is just the
beginning. So which is it? And how long
should Americans be prepared?
Well, I think you could say both for the
beginning. It's the beginning of
building a new country, but they
certainly they have no navy. They have
no air force. They have no anti-aircraft
uh equipment. It's all been blown up.
They have no radar. They have no
telecommunications.
And they have no leadership. It's all
gone. So, you know, you could look at
that statement. We could we could call
it a tremendous success right now as we
leave here. I could call it or we could
go further and we're going to go
further. But uh
the big risk on that war has been over
for three days. We wiped them out the
first in the first two days. When you
think about it, it's incredible. We
wiped out a big navy, very powerful
navy. You know, these were ships. These
were serious ships. These were ships
that you buy when you want to win
battles. They're all
they're all on the bottom floor. The
sailors are all running off the ships.
They refuse to get on the ships. Uh the
air force is gone. Everything's gone.
The missiles are down to a trickle. The
drones are down to probably 25%
and they'll be soon be down to nothing.
We'll have the where they manufactured
the drones are under fire as we speak.
They're being hit. So the rest is going
to be a determination as to
my attitude along with the people in the
Trump administration what we want to do.
Thank you.
Let's be very clear about what just
happened. Iranian foreign ministry
spokesperson Esmael Bakay didn't just
say no to the ceasefire. He
deconstructed the very premise of it. He
stated explicitly that there is no point
to talks about anything barring the
defense of the nation and the execution
of crushing retaliations against its
enemies. To translate that from
diplomatic language into plain English,
Iran is telling the United States and
Israel that the era of using
negotiations as a pressure valve is
over. You cannot bomb the country for a
week, assassinate its leaders, strike
its schools, as we saw in the horrific
Minab elementary school massacre, and
then expect to hit the pause button to
regroup and rearm. The Iranian
leadership has studied the history of US
engagements from Vietnam to Afghanistan
to Iraq. They know that the American war
machine, for all its trillion dollar
hardware, runs on a very fragile fuel,
domestic political will. And that is
exactly the pressure point Thrron is
targeting. This is not a war of
territory. It is a war of timelines. And
as an unnamed Iranian official
chillingly told CNN, the Islamic
Republic is prepared for this to last
for a very long time. Because for them,
the goal is no longer just to survive an
attack, but to surgically remove the
infection of constant aggression from
the region permanently. They are calling
Trump's bluff. And frankly, it looks
like the president just realized he was
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real story. The narrative coming out of
the White House is that this war is a
surgical strike. Defense Secretary Pete
Hegsth went on television and guaranteed
that Iran will surrender. He actually
used that word surrender. One has to
wonder if Mr. Hegsth has ever actually
read a history book about the Iranian
people or the Persian Empire before it.
This is a nation that has been invaded
by Mongols, Ottomans, and Soviets. And
yet here they are still standing, still
defiant. To think that a few weeks of
bombing, even if it killed senior
leadership, would break the Iranian
spirit, is not just arrogance. It is
strategic malpractice. And that
malpractice has led Trump directly into
a trap of his own making. A trap that is
now springing shut with the jaws of
global economic reality. CNN spoke to
Iran Supreme Leader, foreign policy
adviser.
Iran has a new Supreme Leader. What does
that mean for your military effort and
the confrontation with the United States
and and Israel?
That means the system is quite
functioning.
So the United States is it's drastically
degraded the Iranian military the
capabilities as far as missiles is
concerned, drones is concerned. How much
longer can you do this?
That is one of the false narratives
that the United States government
is producing.
Iranian military is quite strong as you
see because they have the motivation.
They have the
arms that they need which are produced
in Iran. As a matter of fact, we are not
dependent on any other country for
weapons and arms.
So your side is ready for a long war if
the United States and Israel choose
that. Do you consider this an
existential threat to the Islamic
Republic?
It is an existential threat to the
Islamic Republic and therefore we have
to uh say with full might as we are
doing now.
Is your side seeking or will you seek a
ceasefire with the United States at this
point in time and with Israel?
I don't see any room for diplomacy
anymore because uh Donald Trump have
been deceiving others and not keeping
with his promises.
As a result of this position, reports
from the ground and analysis from
outlets like the New York Times. Iran's
strategy is brutally simple. Asymmetric,
an asymmetric protracted war. The goal
isn't to beat the US Navy in a stand-up
fight in the Persian Gulf. The goal is
to make the war so expensive, so painful
for the global economy that the American
people turn against it. And by that
metric, Iran is winning in a landslide.
We are seeing oil prices rocket past
$100 a barrel for the first time in 4
years. We are seeing the straight of
Hormuz through which a fifth of the
world's oil flows through which a fifth
of the world's oil flows effectively
closed. The Revolutionary Guard has
warned that any Western tanker
attempting to navigate it will be set
ablaze. And hundreds of ships are now
sitting idle, unable to move because the
cost of war just became too high. But it
gets worse. The attacks aren't just
happening on the straight. They are
happening in the Gulf itself. Bahrain's
only oil refinery was hit, forcing them
to declare force majour. Facilities in
Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE have been
struck or threatened. Iran is
systematically dismantling the energy
security of the very nations that host
US bases. And here is the trap. Trump
can't escalate without causing a global
depression, and he can't withdraw
without admitting defeat. The markets
are already in freef fall. The
Australian stock market saw billions
wiped out. The NIC plunged nearly 7% and
the S&P 500 futures are bleeding red.
This is the taco trade. Trump always
chickens out, unwinding in real time.
Investors bet that Trump would never
risk a real war because it would destroy
the economy and his political capital.
But now he's in one, and the inflation
that dogged his predecessor is roaring
back with a vengeance. Petrol prices are
set to hit record highs in the UK and
the US. The Federal Reserve, which was
supposed to cut rates, is now looking at
a resurgence of inflation that could
force hikes. The Trump administration's
entire political future, the midterms,
the legacy. It's all riding on an
economy that is now being held hostage
by the very missiles Iran is launching.
The genius of the Iranian strategy,
which the Western media is only just
beginning to grasp, is the expansion of
the battlefield. This isn't 1991 or
2003.
Iran has spent decades building a
network. We saw it overnight when they
unleashed fury on Hifa and the occupied
territories, but also on what were
thought to be safe US assets in Dubai.
The IRGC announced that a site in Dubai
used as a gathering point for US Marines
was struck directly. 40 US Marines
reportedly killed not on a battlefield
in Iran, but in the glittering safe
haven city of Dubai. That is
psychological warfare of the highest
order. It tells every American service
member in the region that nowhere is
safe. It tells every Gulf monarchy that
their skyscrapers and their wealth
cannot protect them from the fallout of
hosting American bases. This is why we
are seeing King Hammad of Bahrain
expressing deep regret and Emirati
officials scrambling to call Trump. They
are terrified. They signed up for a US
security guarantee. They didn't sign up
for their desalination plants and oil
facilities to become primary targets.
Meanwhile, the messaging from Washington
is a masterclass in confusion and
weakness. One minute, Trump is calling
on the Iranian military to mutiny,
telling them to take back their country.
The next minute, Hegathth is saying the
goal isn't regime change. Which is it?
You cannot kill a nation's supreme
leader and his wife and then claim you
aren't trying to change the regime. You
cannot bomb a sovereign nation for over
a week and then when the fighting gets
tough, suddenly declare that the war is
complete and claim victory. Trump's
recent comments that the war appears to
be complete are not a statement of fact.
They are a desperate plea. He is looking
at the economic numbers. He is looking
at the sinking poles and he is trying to
find an exit ramp but the Iranians have
blocked it. They have appointed Moshaba
Kam as the new supreme leader a man
described as vengeful and hardline who
is already marked for assassination by
Israel but who is also reportedly
wounded in the war giving him a
warrior's credibility. This is not a
leadership that is looking to
capitulate. This is a leadership forged
in the fire of an attack promising
revenge. We also have to look at the
complete failure of the maximum pressure
strategy to translate into maximum
surrender. The Iranian foreign minister
Abbas Aragchi laid it out perfectly. We
negotiated with them twice and every
time they attacked us in the middle of
negotiations. They trusted the US once,
they trusted the US twice, and both
times they were bombed. Why would they
trust a third time? I'd like to ask you
first about the news, the selection of
Muchamei, the son of the late Ayatollah,
who's been named the new selected
supreme leader of Iran. Some say his
selection is a message message of
continuity of his father's leadership of
continued defiance to the US and Israel.
Do you agree with that? Is that the
message Iran would like to send?
Well, I think I think that is that is
the correct evaluation. Uh it shows that
uh the continuity
uh and some sort of stability at the
same time.
And since his selection, has he or
anyone in your leadership had any
contact with US officials? Is that
something that he is open to to talk
about negotiations or a ceasefire?
Well, first of all, it's too soon uh you
know for him to make any comment. Uh we
are all waiting for his speeches and
comments which would come later on. But
I don't think uh the the question of uh
talking with Americans or negotiation
with Americans once again
would be on on the table because you
know we have a very uh you know bitter
experience of talking with Americans. We
negotiated with them last year in in
last June and they attacked us in the
middle of negotiations and again this
year uh they tried to convince us that
this time is different. They pro
So what are the failing scenarios facing
a panicking president? They are all bad.
Scenario one, he continues the forever
war. He keeps bombing hoping to degrade
Iran to the point of collapse. But we
saw that in June of last year during the
12-day war. They bombed then and Iran is
still here, still firing, still blocking
the straight. Iran has dispersed its
missile forces, hardened its command
structures, and proven it can take a
punch and hit back harder. Iran has
dispersed its missile forces, hardened
its command structures, and proven it
can take a punch and hit back harder. A
forever war bleeds the US Treasury,
destabilizes the global economy, and
hands the narrative of resistance to
Thran on a silver platter. Scenario two,
the nuclear option. Trump could, in a
fit of desperation, order the use of
tactical nuclear weapons against Iranian
government and military sites to force
total surrender. But that would be the
end of the American century. That would
trigger a global revulsion unseen in
human history. It would unite Russia and
China in open confrontation, destroy the
dollar status as a reserve currency and
literally poison the region for
generations. It is unthinkable, but it
is being whispered about in think tanks,
which shows you how cornered they feel.
Scenario three, and the one that is most
likely Iran wins. Not by marching on
Washington, but by surviving. By forcing
the US to blink, by holding the line so
firmly that the American
military-industrial complex realizes
that the cost of taking Thran is simply
too high. If the US withdraws or
negotiates a face-saving truce that
leaves the current Iranian government in
power, it is a victory for the ages. It
permanently ends the myth of American
military dominance in the region. It
proves that a determined state, even
under savage bombardment, can stand up
to the combined might of the US and
Israel and force a draw. That changes
everything. That sends a signal to every
country in the world that the US is no
longer the uncontested hyperpower. And
let's talk about the man who dragged us
into this, BB Netanyahu.
This is at its core Netanyahu's war. He
has wanted to drag the US into a direct
confrontation with Iran for decades to
solve Israel's existential threat
problem. And Trump, the dealmaker, the
man who promised to end wars, walked
right into the trap. He let Netanyahu
use the US military to fight Israel's
battle. And now, when the going has
gotten tough, when the Iranian missiles
are actually hitting Israeli
infrastructure, hitting the Kyria,
hitting the air force command, Netanyahu
is quiet. He got his war, but he didn't
get his quick win. And now the special
relationship is looking more like a
toxic codependency where the United
States does the heavy lifting while
Israel absorbs the initial blow. Trump's
manhood was played by a foreign leader
and the American people are paying for
it at the gas pump. We are watching the
end of an era. The unipolar moment is
over. The age of the quick, clean Middle
Eastern war is over. Iran has decided
that this time there will be no
ceasefire to save the aggressor. There
will be no pause for the US to catch its
breath. They have decided that the only
way to stop the constant aggression is
to make it so costly that the aggressor
loses the will to continue. And right
now with markets crashing and Trump
scrambling, that strategy looks
terrifyingly brilliant. Stay tuned
because the next 48 hours will determine
the shape of the 21st century. And for
once, it doesn't look like Washington is
holding the pen.