00:04:25.960If President Trump didn't want to see Iran hitting back and pushing back, President Trump should have not started this war from the beginning. It was a war of choice. There was no necessity to start this aggression. That was act of aggression.
00:04:44.960Chuck Schumer is elected from New York. Bernie Sanders is elected from Vermont. They wanted the commander in chief to be elected by the entirety of the nation.
00:04:54.500And they're even talking about impeaching him if they take the House of Representatives. Ladies and gentlemen, we have an enemy within. And it is the Democrat Party. Every reprobate, miscreant and malcontent is in that party.
00:05:09.860The Marxists and the Islamists are in that party. Do they act like they love the nation? Do they? When we have men and women in uniform, Democrats and Republicans and independents fighting an enemy, fighting terrorists, the greatest terror regime in America in the world history.
00:05:27.360And we're winning. And that's why they're going nuts. We're winning. This is so spectacular what's taking place. And I want our troops to know something.
00:05:37.940These people who are trying to undermine you, they are a small percentage of the population. We red-blooded Americans, we love victory. And we love you. You are of us. And most of us have had relatives, if not ourselves, in the military. Chuck Schumer means nothing to us.
00:05:57.660Hakeem Jeffries means nothing to us. You, Mr. And Mrs. America, we support our military. We support our commander-in-chief. We support victory. This is a spectacular, spectacular military operation with our spectacular ally, the Israelis, with their spectacular prime minister. It's working. It's effective. It's spectacular.
00:06:22.620It's spectacular. And these guys. We have to hurry back to Congress. We need to have a vote on the War Powers Act of 1973. This would be the same party that dragged us into Vietnam. Right? Was that a declared war? No, it wasn't a declared war. And I could go on and on and on about the hypocrites in that party. It's their president that was about to hand nuclear weapons to this enemy. It's their president who handed them billions of dollars in cash and so forth.
00:06:51.860But this president isn't going to put up with it. And he hasn't. God bless our president. God bless the prime minister of Israel.
00:07:00.160The Israelis are striking targets in Iran's capital this morning. The U.S. operation is also expected to continue. Do you think these two forces will be able to decimate all of the hardliners in the Iranian regime?
00:07:13.960Good morning, Pamela. That's a great question. But the short answer is no. You have to remember, this is an ideology that permeates the entire society.
00:07:24.840Now, that doesn't mean that that ideology and the people that represent it aren't weakened. They certainly have been weakened. There's no question about it.
00:07:32.780But what we're talking about is really what is in people's hearts and minds. And that is really hard to change, especially if they have the belief system that they've had for, what, 47 years now.
00:07:44.940That's a really difficult thing to change. And the strikes that Israel and the United States have launched against Iran have been very directed at leadership targets,
00:07:55.140taking out the head of the armed forces of Iran, taking out just a few minutes ago, the IDF reported they were taking out two fighter jets, old fighter jets, F-4s and an F-4 and an F-5 that was about to take off from Tabriz airport in Iran.
00:08:14.100And that really shows that this is a multiple targeting effort. In other words, what we're doing is we're taking out the leadership, but we're also taking out some of their instruments of power.
00:08:25.140And that's going to go a long way to neutralizing Iran. But it is not going to completely eliminate the ideology behind this regime.
00:08:55.140But what we are seeing is a very divided picture, of course. I want to take the city of Isfahan, the second largest city in Iran, as an example.
00:09:03.060We saw these massive pro-government rallies in the streets, people mourning, crying for the supreme leader's death.
00:09:09.640You have to remember, of course, though, that Iran is trying to orchestrate an image of strength because just hours earlier, social media video shows people honking their cars in the streets, celebrating women, waving their hijabs in celebration again.
00:09:23.640And that divided picture that we're seeing on the ground in Iran is, of course, reflected across the region.
00:09:29.920You mentioned the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Karachi, where you see those protesters breach the initial security barrier and then bang on the consulates with sticks.
00:09:40.180Very dramatic images, very similar to what we saw in the green zone in Baghdad, which is where the U.S. embassy is located.
00:09:45.960There as well, flashbangs being used, security forces cracking down on protesters, angry about the death of the supreme leader.
00:09:54.420But you're also seeing celebrations abroad as well, particularly among Iran's expat community.
00:10:00.560There's a strong expat community here in London.
00:10:02.840Some of them were out celebrating this weekend after the announcement of the death, as well as in Los Angeles, of course, in the United States.
00:10:10.200But then there's also some anger and some resentment in the U.S. as well.
00:10:13.340There was a demonstration in New York saying, hands off Iran.
00:10:17.060So as the memory of the Ayatollah is being debated and played out across the region and globally, you're seeing this very divided reaction.
00:10:26.360But very importantly, this is a man who's going to be remembered in his final months for a brutal crackdown that killed thousands of Iranians.
00:10:43.340But very importantly, this is a man who's going to be remembered in his final months for a brutal crackdown that killed thousands of Iranians.
00:10:44.340But very importantly, this is a man who's going to be remembered in his final months for a brutal crackdown that killed thousands of Iranians.
00:10:48.340But very importantly, this is a man who's going to be remembered in his final months for a brutal crackdown that killed thousands of Iranians.
00:10:49.340But very importantly, this is a man who's going to be remembered in his final months for a brutal crackdown that killed thousands of Iranians.
00:10:53.340This has been served in his final months for a brutalered ty Monsieur on Iran.
00:11:31.340We Americans like that, especially when it comes to dealing with terrorists, Khomeini is dead, he's not six feet under, he's in hell. He's got a river of blood on his hands. The Iranian people are going to be free. They're going to be free. America's going to be safe. The Israelis are going to be safe. The world's going to be safe. No thanks to the U.N., no thanks to the U.N., and most of all, no thanks to the Democrats.
00:11:54.860And if we lose anybody in this operation, they will have died a noble death because they will have risked their lives and sacrificed their lives to make us safer here at home.
00:12:04.280This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:12:11.600Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:12:16.800You're just not going to free shot at all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it.
00:12:22.980I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
00:12:28.140And where do people like that go to share the big lie? Mega Media.
00:12:33.100I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:12:38.540Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:12:42.300If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:12:48.640War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance.
00:12:51.920It's Sunday, 1 March, in the year of the Lord, 2026.
00:13:00.600The noble and honored dead of America.
00:13:03.640We're going to get to that in just a minute.
00:13:06.900I want to thank Real America's Voice, Parker and Rob Sieg, our entire team in Denver.
00:13:12.160Also, our fantastic team here at the War Room.
00:13:14.560We're going to go seven days a week because of like events that have just happened here in covering this major military operation, as the president defines it, or war.
00:13:25.380Until that time, it's deemed unnecessary to cover it seven days a week.
00:13:33.460And I want to thank, we've got, we're packed with some of the smartest minds about the region, the nation, geopolitics, military operations.
00:13:41.960And I really want to thank them for changing their Sundays up to be with us.
00:13:50.300Lindsey Graham, Mark Levin, I mean, I think to torture the War Room Posse, we'd play an hour of Mark Levin, just the over-the-top revolting comments of Levin.
00:14:03.980And, but we'll spare you one in the cold open just to see what's playing on Fox 24-7.
00:14:10.040But we're trying to give you a, quite frankly, a more detailed and sophisticated look at what is actually happening.
00:14:17.160Jack Bosobik, CENTCOM has just announced, I think, three Americans killed in action, many others wounded, sir?
00:14:26.340And I'm working right now with my sources at the Department of War within the Pentagon and other areas of the intelligence community and the military to be able to try to figure out exactly who that was.
00:14:39.900CENTCOM's saying that they're going to be holding back the information for 24 hours while family members are contacted.
00:14:50.540I'm trying to see if we can figure out if they'll release at least which branch it was.
00:14:55.000Early indications seem to be, just based on what I've seen, that this may be related to some of those on-base attacks, those strikes that we've seen, Bahrain, Qatar, some of the other ports all along the Middle East.
00:15:08.140But, of course, we've also seen attacks on U.S. bases otherwise.
00:15:12.980One of the interesting pieces that we've seen is that there was a Sikorsky helicopter that was flown from Bahrain.
00:15:59.260And to be sure, if the Lincoln was hit by a ballistic missile, there would certainly be more than four.
00:16:04.340Well, let me ask you, the Iranians claimed earlier they had targeted the Lincoln with four ballistic missiles.
00:16:10.520So CENTCOM's – because a lot of times the Iranians are, you know, obviously in the fog of war, the first casualty is truth.
00:16:18.460They're always putting out – obviously the first hit yesterday they said was a girl's school that's still being – you know, that's still being worked through whether it happened or not.
00:16:25.600But did CENTCOM actually concur that four ballistic missiles had targeted the Lincoln?
00:16:33.500Well, they said that the missiles did not come even close.
00:16:37.080So I take that to mean that the missiles did target the Lincoln.
00:16:40.660We know that Iran had supplied those anti-ship cruise missiles to the Houthis across the Arabian Peninsula there in the Red Sea area with anti-ship ballistic missile – or anti-ship cruise missiles in the past.
00:16:53.140So certainly this is within their capabilities to target the carrier.
00:16:57.620Of course, the carrier would be the ultimate target for any of their strike forces, strike packages.
00:17:02.980And that's why the carrier has that defensive screen with the standard missile three interceptors fired from the Arleigh Burke destroyers with their Aegis air defense systems.
00:17:15.020Again, we don't know exactly what the status was, how it was that those missiles did not strike.
00:17:19.520Now, they're saying ballistic missiles, not cruise missiles, that could be something that's lost in the wash.
00:17:23.780But of course, it remains to be seen exactly what capabilities they're bringing to bear.
00:17:28.520But yes, it does appear that it was targeted by missiles and the missiles, at least as of now, as we know, they have not been struck.
00:17:35.580And of course, if the carrier had been struck, we'd be seeing images and videos and Iran would be showing it everywhere.
00:17:41.220I mean, this would be a high-value target in terms of propaganda for them.
00:17:45.400So we would know immediately if that were struck.
00:17:47.320There was a carrier that Iran seems to have struck, or excuse me, a tanker that Iran seems to have struck in the Gulf of Oman, the port of Oman, a Palau-flagged oil tanker that is currently sinking right now, as well as, by the way, CENTCOM striking an Iranian naval Corvette that is currently on its way to Davy Jones' locker.
00:18:06.840Yeah, Captain Fennell is going to be on about this, the Straits of Hormuz, because that will have a definite impact on oil markets tomorrow.
00:18:15.860Jack, it's interesting, I'm going to bring you Eric Princeton now.
00:18:17.700Jack, you know, one of the justifications, rationale for why it had to go now, as the White House said yesterday, is that they had intelligence that the Revolutionary Guard was going to target American,
00:18:30.320they were going to strike first and target American, particularly American vessels and bases, but that's where they went.
00:18:37.280Eric, a real, the, it seems like it's not as intense as the strike that ended the 12-day war, but spectacular results, correct?
00:18:48.360I mean, they took out the Ayatollah and its top 40 guys, what, having a picnic lunch in the afternoon or gathering.
00:18:56.820The intelligence was pretty, pretty, pretty special in the fact they took the Ayatollah and 40 of its top guys out, sir?
00:19:06.000Look, Steve, it's, I'm not happy about the whole thing.
00:19:11.640I don't think this was in America's interest.
00:19:13.660It's going to uncork a significant can of worms and chaos and destruction in Iran now.
00:19:23.920You still have tens, hundreds of thousands of IRGC people that will be positioning for, to be number two, to be the next rulers of that country.
00:19:34.780I don't see how this is in keeping with the president's MAGA commitment.
00:22:16.500And it will uncork a lot of chaos in the area.
00:22:22.200And I really wonder, what is the plan if there is not a clear successor person that actually takes power to try to keep some kind of interim government together?
00:22:33.220It's – and subjecting our foreign policy to Israeli foreign policy, I have real issue with that.
00:22:43.440I said it weeks ago in your show, not that this should not be the path forward.
00:22:48.960And the president has chosen to do it.
00:22:51.620I just wonder who pressured him that much to do it this way.
00:22:55.220You're one of the president's biggest supporters.
00:22:59.500You've worked around and with the administration the first time you've been a – I've known you now for, what, 15, almost 20 years.
00:23:08.620You are certainly America first, but you've seen all the conflict all over the world.
00:23:13.760You've been supportive of what the president's done to date, particularly in things like Venezuela, although for hemispheric defense, a lot of people are not even happy with that.
00:23:21.340But just – let's walk through this because you're an important voice here.
00:23:25.800Why are you disappointed with what the president's actions have been?
00:23:31.540If there is a viable ground force that can seize and hold terrain and control terrain, then I guess air power and a decapitation strike makes more sense to me.
00:23:44.660But clacking off against the leadership and leaving a real void right now, I'm concerned that it's going to ensue with a lot of chaos because who knows what other weapons the Iranians have stocked away and they're going to unleash on the region or what they would do inside the United States now.
00:24:14.160I hope it was the president's decision alone to do this and that he wasn't arm twisted by supporters or billionaire donors around him to do this.
00:24:22.640They're saying now, Axios reports, that if there had been a viable diplomatic solution – and the reporting is pretty deep on this – that Kushner and Witkoff did think they were getting tapped along at the end, that the Persians really weren't addressing the issues the Americans needed to address, particularly ballistic missiles and other things about the nuclear program.
00:24:46.520Do you believe it's a correct response that the president's put down, they can't have a nuclear weapon, and I'm not really getting anywhere in negotiations to go in and take out the leadership?
00:24:58.920Or do you think there's so many – it's so deep in the Mula bench, in the IRGC bench, that you're just going to get even worse bad hombres up there?
00:25:07.260Why are we so worried about nuclear weapons now if we had all these strikes a few months ago that supposedly eliminated their nuclear program?
00:25:18.640Again, if regimes get changed by, yes, removing the top management, taking away the inevitability, but then having a viable replacement, I have yet to see any evidence that there's a viable replacement anywhere that can actually seize control of what was a significant empire.
00:25:38.34090 million people, intelligent, hardworking, with a lot of tech and a lot of capability, is not an easy endeavor to accomplish.
00:25:50.880And so the air power alone, I'm concerned, and I'm concerned that this is not our fight, that this is Israel's fight that we got dragged into.
00:26:02.260And already, three Americans dead, five seriously wounded, that's troubling to me.
00:26:09.940You said you had to have a substantial ground force to really do regime change here.
00:26:14.900You're not implying that that would have to be an American.
00:26:17.200You're saying Israel or some combination of UAE?
00:26:23.500Iranians, Iranians from across the ethnic spectrum there that are willing to take up arms and go against the IRGC and free themselves.
00:26:33.600So they have a huge army that's not IRGC.
00:26:37.140Now, it may be equivalent to a militia.
00:26:39.980But you're arguing that to see regime change here, that that army or some part of that organized that's not IGRC or maybe some rebel units from that are going to have to lead the Persian people against the apparatus?
00:26:53.500Yeah, I mean, the natural option here would be the Kurds, the Kurdish, the Iraqi Kurds, supporting the Iranian Kurds to do it.
00:27:08.140I don't know why it was decided that I had to do it now.
00:27:12.040I'm shocked, and I'm just wondering what political pressure was brought to bear for the president to make this, because this is certainly not what he campaigned on.
00:28:08.980I appreciate you taking time away on Sunday to join us, Eric.
00:28:11.740Jack Posobiec, we've got about a minute to break.
00:28:14.020Your observations on Eric Prince, who's been one of the president's biggest supporters, sir.
00:28:20.020Well, Steve, nobody knows this territory better than Eric himself.
00:28:25.340And, you know, it reminds me, in a sense, what he's talking about.
00:28:31.340I wonder if he's drawing back from the lessons of Libya, where the United States came in, United States Navy predominantly, with airstrikes on the infrastructure, airstrikes on missile defense, the leader being taken out.
00:28:44.400People in that case rose up, but those people ended up being rebels.
00:28:52.440Yes, I think some very tough days ahead of us, although the top of the regime, Ayatollah, Graveyard Dead, 40 of his top associates, Graveyard Dead.
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00:32:43.080Jack Posobiec, by the way, once again, I want to thank Real America's Voice.
00:32:45.920You're watching special Sunday coverage, and we're going to continue with this seven days a week until that time when it's not necessary to have seven-day-a-week coverage.
00:32:56.720Because you see, so much has happened overnight and this morning.
00:33:00.280Jack Posobiec, do you think we're going to come to a point, particularly got three casualties.
00:33:04.160I think CENTCOM has also just reported that the missiles fired at the Lincoln did not come close, according to CENTCOM.
00:33:12.860Do you think the president, you know, Eric Prince, a big supporter of the president, clearly in the mumble tank about this.
00:33:20.520And Captain Fennell, I think, is going to give us a very different perspective.
00:33:24.320Do you think the president, at some point in time, tonight, tomorrow, next couple of days, has more than the 2 o'clock in the morning video, which was very straightforward?
00:33:32.160I mean, he laid out regime change, we're going to go to war, all of it.
00:33:36.220Now it's a little bit of a firestorm on Capitol Hill about what exactly is the authorization.
00:33:40.600Do you think it behooves the commander-in-chief to come forward either tonight or over the next day or two and actually lay out what the plan is and what we're prepared to sacrifice to execute this?
00:33:52.160Well, Steve, unquestionably, the American people want to know what the plan is.
00:33:58.500The American people want to hear from their president, the president that they chose, winning the popular vote, winning seven out of seven of the swing states.
00:34:05.940The American people want to hear directly, especially as we've now seen these stunning operations across the Middle East, also hearing that four B-2 bombers flew an overnight run, pounding some of the underground ballistic missile sites there in Iran and then returning to base within the United States, similar to Operation Midnight Hammer.
00:34:25.580So the American people want to hear, and of course, now that we have confirmed three American KIA, four to five in critical condition, the people of the United States, of course, want to hear from their president, what is the plan, what is the strategy going forward, what is the commander's desire to end state, and how long should we expect this operation to continue?
00:34:47.920Steve, over at Human Events, we're reporting a four-week campaign is what the administration is expected to conduct, so a four-week campaign where we're going to see, just kind of like we reported yesterday, that you'll see strikes, then pause, strikes, then pause to be able to assess the battle damage.
00:35:10.400And we told you that bigger strikes – yesterday, we told you that bigger strikes were going to be coming, and indeed, they came last night when those B-2 bombers flew in after the initial strikes took out the air defense, the early warning radars.
00:35:22.960I do want to report – and Walicki and Kurt Mills are going to be in the second hour, and if I can get treated, we'll do that too.
00:35:30.820There is a – and Kurt Mills tells me this is a pretty legitimate news site in Israel.
00:35:37.600There's another alternative for an off-rant.
00:35:39.380The president feels that – I think they feel they've got coercive diplomacy.
00:35:44.080If they've taken out enough of the leadership, have new leadership, they realize he's serious about a path to peace, that if they agree, there may be four days.
00:35:51.680We'll get into that in the second hour.
00:35:53.480Brandon Weikert, you're totally dialed in everywhere in the region.
00:35:57.020Give us your update from – yesterday, you were great.
00:36:00.360What's happened in the last 24 hours, sir?
00:36:02.840Well, in the last 24 hours, Iran has managed to survive.
00:43:51.800There's no reason to be negative either.
00:43:54.460We're in the war right now, and we're going forward.
00:43:58.900And I think what's really interesting is we haven't seen a lot from CENTCOM.
00:44:03.340We haven't seen a lot from the Pentagon with the president either, because this is deadly serious.
00:44:08.540And so for the past 35 years with CNN, when we did Desert Storm and we watched Baghdad, Bob tell us there was no problems,
00:44:17.000we have been in this age of information where we expect to be hand-fed all this information.
00:44:23.040And I think President Trump and his team recognize we're at war.
00:44:27.080People's lives, Americans' lives are at risk, and our allies' friends are at risk.
00:44:31.360And we're not going to be involved with being so concerned about running a public affairs campaign as we are more focused on taking out and defanging the Iranians
00:44:40.900and taking out their senior leadership, which is what the president said they're about to do and are doing.
00:44:48.840Brandon, to what Cam Fornell is saying, it does look like there's a very systematic approach to just let's go through step by step.
00:44:57.320So what's surprising is that the IGRC and all the legendary strength of the Iranian military, it doesn't seem to be particularly systematic.
00:45:09.540It seems to be kind of a pop gun, you know, a hit here, a hit there.
00:45:13.360I think they've hit Jerusalem. I think they've hit Tel Aviv.
00:45:23.820But before, I wasn't commenting on the B-2 strikes.
00:45:26.280I was speaking about the general sort of situation.
00:45:28.860But yes, there's no doubt that there are pockets of air supremacy that we are clearly exerting.
00:45:33.920But my point was that we have not yet gotten the regime collapse that I think we were hoping for.
00:45:40.560Obviously, this is a longer planned war.
00:45:44.740But I do believe that the Trump administration was hoping the sooner the better.
00:45:48.640So right now, the Iranians are clinging on.
00:45:50.500You're right, though. The systematic nature in which we are dismantling a lot of those AD systems and we're degrading them is very helpful.
00:45:58.660This is why the Iranians haven't gotten a kill shot on us.
00:46:02.600But I do think it's imperative that we point out that the Iranians are still popping off missiles.
00:46:07.760It may not be as coordinated as I thought they were going to be, which is good for us.
00:46:11.940But they are still popping them off and they are getting some good shots on us.
00:46:16.800Remember, the radar that was destroyed yesterday.
00:46:20.080I believe there's other damage to key AD systems of ours and the Arabs.
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00:48:27.900But I would definitely not think this thing is over by a long shot.
00:48:32.060The president needs to address the nation.
00:48:34.360As you know, I used to work on the Hill and a former friend of mine who's a Democrat texted me something this morning.
00:48:41.320I don't know if it's true or not, but the Democrats are apparently claiming that the Rubio did not share all intelligence with the Gang of Eight before this began.
00:48:50.740So there could be real political complications going forward if we don't wrap this thing up quickly and successfully.
00:48:58.700We'll get into that in the second hour.
00:49:00.040Also, Brandon, I know you're working on another huge book on hemispheric defense, but can we put up – if everybody wants a quick primer on this situation, on the long war against the Persians, the Iranians, your book, Shadow War, is a great way to start.
00:49:15.860If people want to catch up, can we get the cover there?
00:49:18.000Where do they get that, Brandon, in your writings?
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00:49:38.880You can find that on iHeart every Wednesday at 8 p.m. Eastern.
00:50:10.620Yesterday, I came on here and briefed that we're likely seeing these shaping operations, suppression of enemy air defense to pave the way for those B-2 bombers, the larger strikes.
00:50:26.800Iran is not just attacking U.S. military and coalition military.
00:50:31.920Iran is attacking economic implements, economic infrastructure, tankers, oil platforms off the Emirates.
00:50:38.720They're attacking Dubai, the port of Jebel Ali.
00:50:41.700They're attacking the U.S. partners all across the Gulf.
00:50:45.140And it appears that Iran's strategy is to be able to attack U.S. U.S. naval assets, U.S. military assets when possible, but also employing asymmetric warfare.
00:50:59.020This is their top TTP because they think that those countries can put pressure on the United States to sue for peace.
00:51:08.040So they think they're going to continue these economic attacks, whether it be these business regions, financial regions like Dubai, these ports, or being able to go in and then, of course, attack the oil platforms as well all across the Gulf.
00:51:22.820Captain Fennell, let's talk about the Straits of Hormuz and tankers and oil.
00:51:27.200And also, I'm not sure I totally understand the Iranians' logic for trying to go after the Gulf Emirates at least in the first couple of days.
00:51:35.920I mean, they're hitting, I think, Dubai.
00:51:44.520And are they going to have an impact on oil and the ability to get oil out of the Straits of Hormuz?
00:51:51.620Well, Steve, by just declaring that they were closing the strait, that pretty much started the decline.
00:51:57.060If you look at AIS, Automatic Identification System, tracking through the strait, it was starting to go down when they made the announcement.
00:52:04.100Then there's this attack that was in the port in Oman, right there, south of Kesham Island, Bandar Abbas.
00:52:12.820So virtually now there's no traffic going through.
00:52:16.160There's reports of 150, 200 tankers sitting well outside, south of the strait, waiting.
00:52:21.540So that will spike the oil price, no question.
00:52:23.720But the larger issue is, and my assessment is, is that, and we talk about this when we talk about China, about this impact of Xi and the purging of his generals and admirals, and we talk about the impact on the PLA.
00:52:37.520But what we're seeing here in Iran is this decapitation of these 40 leaders plus others.
00:52:43.720There's reports now today of riot police are being targeted also by our strikes, Operation Epic Fury.
00:52:51.800And so we're going after the people that are terrorizing the people of Iran.
00:52:55.960But it's like if you're a patient and you've been in a car wreck and you're in shock, and what they need to do is get you to the hospital immediately, and then they need to get you on medicine.
00:53:07.140They need to get an IV hooked up, and you need to be stabilized, and you should take no more shock.
00:53:12.180But what we're finding out is that the Iranians are continuing to be attacked.
00:53:16.700We had the B-2 strikes that we talked about, even in this press release from CENTCOM that just said that the alleged ballistic missile strikes or attack against the USS Abraham Lincoln didn't even come close.
00:53:28.760And more importantly, it said in the second part of that announcement, that press release, flight operations continue.
00:53:38.540And so what we're seeing is a reaction, it could have been the last best orders that those on-scene missile brigade commanders received from their leadership a week ago, two weeks ago, who knows.
00:53:50.940But we're not seeing anything that's coordinated.
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