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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