Goldie Ghamari - November 13, 2026


IRAN EXPLAINED： Why Rubio Says Trump's Economic Pressure on Iran Is Working

🚨 BREAKING： IRGC Threatens U.S. Bases as Trump Weighs Iran Deal — What Happens Next？ 🚨 BREAKING： ALL U.S. FLIGHTS GROUNDED! Trump REMOVES Vance From Iran Talks — NO DEAL!

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00:00:00 Listen, that's the key point here.
00:00:02 This is the key point. 0.92
00:00:03 The Islamic regime wants a deal. 0.83
00:00:05 But the deal that the Islamic regime wants is not the deal that America wants.
00:00:11 The deal that the Trump administration wants is a surrender deal.
00:00:15 Remember, there are five terms, five conditions that the Islamic regime needs to agree to in order to come to a deal. 0.68
00:00:30 so I want to now get to a statement from Marco Rubio and he had an amazing
00:00:36 session with the press gallery and this was after the g7 meeting so we're gonna
00:00:41 watch this and we're gonna analyze this together so we had a good g7 meeting
00:00:45 obviously hosted by some partners as well that came from Saudi Arabia and
00:00:49 Brazil and Egypt and South Korea we talked about a couple things today just
00:00:54 to bring you up to speed first of all in the situation the Middle East in
00:00:57 particularly Straits of Hormuz, you know, I inform our partners, as we've been discussing with you
00:01:02 and others, that at this point, the economic campaign and the pressure and the devastation
00:01:09 that our economic campaign is having on the Iranian regime is working so well that the
00:01:15 president really doesn't have any need to conduct major combat operations. Now, obviously, if Iran 0.62
00:01:19 crosses certain red lines, their regime does certain things that should not happen. I'm not 0.50
00:01:25 and speculate what those are, but you know what they are. Obviously, the U.S. military,
00:01:29 the most capable military in the world stands ready to address it. But as of now, there's really
00:01:33 no need for major combat operations any longer because the blockade and the economic sanctions
00:01:38 are doing devastation to their economy. And it's sad. You know, the Iranian people deserve better
00:01:44 than to be a third world country, which is where their leadership is taking them. But that's what 0.99
00:01:48 their leaders have brought upon them. In addition, I reported back to them. You know, I really
00:01:52 appreciate Marco Rubio saying that because he's absolutely right. Um, Iran was a modernizing 0.99
00:01:59 country and Iran was pretty much becoming, you know, going from a third world country to a first
00:02:08 world modernizing country. And then literally overnight, as soon as the Islamic regime took 0.67
00:02:13 over and imposed Sharia law, um, they took us back to the, the, the seventh century and, you 0.97
00:02:20 it's become a third world country again, not because of a lack of resources, but because the 0.89
00:02:25 Islamic regime is a foreign terrorist occupying invading force. And they're basically only there 0.99
00:02:31 to steal the resources from the Iranian people and use it for terrorism. So all the money, 0.98
00:02:41 the billions and billions and trillions of dollars that should be going to invest in Iran 0.61
00:02:46 is being invested in Hezbollah and, you know, Palestine and, you know, Hamas, the Houthis,
00:02:53 Ashdashabi, none of that money is actually going to Iran or the Iranian people. So he makes a very,
00:02:59 very good point there. I mean, it's sad. You know, the Iranian people deserve better than to be a
00:03:03 third world country, which is where their leadership is taking them. But that's what 0.99
00:03:07 their leaders have brought upon them. In addition, I reported back to them and just got an update just
00:03:12 a few moments ago. It looks like the talks in Abu Dhabi were very productive. I think the most
00:03:16 important thing obviously there's a lot of work to be done in that regard it's not like something
00:03:20 that's on the verge of being solved in the next 24 hours or anything like that but what's really
00:03:24 important is that the europeans are at the table they'll be discussing with our people they've been
00:03:29 working very closely with jared and steve who are there on every step along the way and it's
00:03:34 actually our goal at some point to expand this trilateral so it's not just the us ukraine and
00:03:39 russia but also that the europeans be represented at that table directly with these talks so uh
00:03:44 Hopefully, they'll be – I think they put out a joint statement today with the European partners that are there alongside our team.
00:03:50 And obviously, in the days to come, perhaps we can make some progress on including them in that front.
00:03:55 So that was the main focus today of the talks, was about the Middle East and about Ukraine.
00:03:59 And I thought it was a good meeting, and we'll see many of them in December in Doral.
00:04:05 Mr. Secretary, your counterpart at the Department of War, Pete Hexiv, just defended himself against the Articles of Impeachment.
00:04:13 I wonder if you can confidently say that Secretary Hedges' actions and orders on the Iran war, on drug boat strikes, on the capture of Maduro, on actions against Yemen have been entirely lawful.
00:04:27 Yeah, the President of the United States is the Commander-in-Chief, and he has a right to defend this country and to address imminent threats that pose a threat to the United States, and he's done so.
00:04:36 I don't know how anyone could argue that drug dealers trying to import poison into our country is not an imminent threat.
00:04:40 It's a real and imminent threat, and it's been addressed. 0.90
00:04:43 We've discussed Iran extensively and the threat they've posed to the United States, not in the last year, but since 1979. 1.00
00:04:51 That's a very, very good point. 1.00
00:04:53 So the Islamic regime has posed the threat to America since 1979. 1.00
00:04:59 They declared war on America 47 years ago. 0.98
00:05:03 And they've been engaging in terrorist attacks and, you know, proxy war against the United States for the last 47 years.
00:05:11 And Marco Rubio gets that.
00:05:12 not a lot not a lot of people do right and it's been addressed we've discussed Iran extensively 0.63
00:05:18 and the threat they've posed to the United States not in the last year since 1979 a threat that's
00:05:22 grown in the case of Nicolas Maduro that was in many cases a law enforcement operation because
00:05:27 he was a fugitive of American justice who was captured and brought to justice and by the way
00:05:32 had the ancillary impact of also opening and paving the path for Venezuela to have a better
00:05:37 future um so as i said the the on all those things not only that the pete execute on a direct order
00:05:45 from the commander-in-chief in our constitution is is empowered and trusted with the job of keeping
00:05:51 americans safe but they did it quite effectively on all those fronts mr secretary on that ran you
00:05:56 said that there's no need for any major military campaign right now because the blockade is working
00:06:02 not just the blockade sanctions yeah they're truly devastating um so where does that leave a status
00:06:09 quo no not status quo the economic pressure is going to get even worse i mean understand that
00:06:15 these sanctions begin to compound so for example iran still has a small number of just a handful
00:06:20 of barrels of oil left on the water that got past the blockade when there was the mou in that brief
00:06:25 ceasefire period once that dries up almost all of their oil revenue will dry up there's other 0.92
00:06:30 sanctions of Asians tools that they're choosing. Like there's other things that Iran is trying to 0.71
00:06:33 do to get around the sanctions. But Scott Besson and the Treasury Department working alongside our
00:06:38 intelligence agencies and others keep closing those off. So the economic pain that is being
00:06:43 inflicted on Iran right now and on that regime is extraordinary. And it compounds. It's growing
00:06:47 every day. Like these sanctions, they get worse over time. They get more painful as time goes on.
00:06:52 And it's all brought about by the fact that this radical regime of lunatics is imposing this on 0.97
00:06:56 their own people. They're destroying their own country and how they're doing it. And it's been 0.98
00:07:00 so effective. You know, the president has taken the time. He's consulted with regional leaders.
00:07:04 He's heard input from people throughout the Middle East and around the world. And based on
00:07:07 the input he's getting from all of our partners in the region and beyond, it's clear that at this
00:07:11 time, there's no need for major combat operations because the economic campaign that's being waged
00:07:17 by the Department of Treasury, alongside others, is devastating. It's going very well. There's no
00:07:22 need to disrupt that. Does that leave room for negotiations? I mean, you think with this economic
00:07:29 devastation, Iran is ready to come back to the negotiating table? Oh, I think Iran would love 0.97
00:07:35 a deal. The problem is the conditions they continue to place are absurd. They're not even
00:07:38 serious right now. But that could change. Listen, that's the key point here. This is
00:07:43 the key point. The Islamic regime wants a deal. But the deal that the Islamic regime wants is not 0.95
00:07:50 the deal that america wants the the deal that the trump administration wants is a surrender deal
00:07:56 remember there are five terms five conditions that the islamic regime needs to agree to in order to 0.86
00:08:04 come to a deal and those five conditions are number one ending its nuclear military program 0.93
00:08:11 number two allowing the united states to go in and remove the enriched uranium you know the nuclear
00:08:16 dust. Number three is ending support, financial support for all of its terrorist proxy groups like 0.54
00:08:23 Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, you know, Hashdashabi, the Fatimou, and all these terror groups.
00:08:28 Number four is ending its ballistic missile program. And number five is, of course,
00:08:33 reopening the Strait of Hormones. Those are the five terms that President Trump has said
00:08:37 from the very beginning that the Islamic regime must agree to. And the Islamic regime
00:08:43 has refused to agree to any one of those terms because agreeing to those terms will essentially 0.73
00:08:52 mean surrender. And surrender will then mean that the Iranian people can rise up and overthrow 0.95
00:09:02 the Islamic regime because the Islamic regime knows the only reason it's still in power is 0.95
00:09:08 through violence and through force. The Islamic regime is illegitimate. The Iranian people don't 0.99
00:09:15 want the Islamic regime. That's why the Islamic regime murders Iranians because they're executing 1.00
00:09:22 Iranians every single day because they want to use this machinery of death and fear to keep the 0.99
00:09:31 Iranian people oppressed because they know that they're illegitimate. They know that no one wants 1.00
00:09:36 them. This is why I think it's really important to arm the Iranian people. And based on previous
00:09:44 interviews with the Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, it seems that that might be slowly happening. I mean,
00:09:54 we don't know. And to be perfectly honest, we're not going to know about any of that
00:09:59 until the Iranian people rise up. And the reason that we don't know is because it's obviously a 0.68
00:10:06 security issue, right? Like, if we don't know, then the Islamic regime doesn't know. So but I
00:10:13 can I can only assume based on previous interviews that we've watched that that is what's happening.
00:10:18 So will the Iranian people rise up? Yes, 100%. When that's going to happen? I have no idea. No 0.86
00:10:26 one can predict that. But what I can tell you is that no totalitarian dictatorship lasts. And we
00:10:34 all saw what happened on January 8 and 9 when millions and millions of Iranians all around the
00:10:39 country rose up peacefully. They were brutally gunned down and at least 100,000 Iranians across
00:10:46 the country were murdered in two nights alone on January 8 and 9. Certainly, I mean, the pain that
00:10:52 they're feeling is that eventually you have to eat. Eventually, you have to be able to pay your
00:10:56 own fighters and your own security forces and so forth. Eventually, the economic realities
00:11:00 penetrate the skull of even the most radical unit. So I think as time goes on, I mean,
00:11:05 that will have an impact. And remember, that's the whole concept of the paradox of the fridge
00:11:15 and the TV. And this relates to Soviet Russia, actually. Let me bring it up. The phrase fridge
00:11:20 versus TV or the refrigerator versus a television set is a well-known political metaphor in Russia
00:11:26 describing the constant tension between two competing forces shaping public opinion.
00:11:31 The fridge, which is economy slash daily life, represents tangible lived material realities
00:11:38 such as rising food prices, inflation, empty grocery shelves, falling real wages and household
00:11:44 financial stress. The TV is state propaganda slash narrative, represents official state
00:11:50 controlled media, geopolitical pride, patriotic narratives, and externalized blame, such as
00:11:56 focusing on foreign conflicts or blaming Western sanctions. So, um, this metaphor initially comes
00:12:04 from, uh, you know, Soviet Russia, but it directly relates to what is currently, sorry, it directly
00:12:13 relates to what is currently happening in occupied Iran. So the struggle between the fridge and the
00:12:23 TV is very, very real. And that's where, remember, I showed that video of Iranians who are sarcastically 1.00
00:12:34 speaking about their wages and the fact that they can't afford food. So this is Iranians, 1.00
00:12:42 basically being very sarcastic um about the fact that the economy has you know gone to hell 1.00
00:12:51 they can't afford food they can't afford rent
00:12:56 Guys, so 200,000 tomans is like the equivalent of, I don't know, like one dollar, one US dollar.
00:13:26 For more information, visit www.fema.org
00:13:56 so here so here so she's saying um this is really important here
00:14:04 so here this woman is saying we can't afford to buy by the kilogram
00:14:11 we have to buy things one piece at the time so instead of buying like
00:14:15 i don't know a pound of apples or a kilogram of apples they have to buy like
00:14:19 individual apples and she's like we can't afford to buy you know kilogram of apples
00:14:29 um we have to buy them piece by piece and she's like but i'm happy
00:14:36 and she says because if i'm upset they'll call and by they she means the islamic regime she's
00:14:41 like but i'm happy because if i'm upset the islamic regime will call me a traitor and a rioter 0.59
00:14:49 there you go um so this is
00:15:17 this is a very very real struggle right now and marco rubio gets that marco rubio gets that which
00:15:23 is why he is focused so much on the economy because uh that is how that's actually one of
00:15:31 the main reasons why the ussr fell it was because of this struggle of the fridge versus the tv and
00:15:38 that's exactly what's happening in the islamic regime right now where uh the islamic regime 0.84
00:15:43 controls the media remember going to our boom boom jihad bingo sheet you can see that um the state 0.52
00:15:51 like the islamic regime media that's actually part of the islamic regime apparatus so um they own
00:15:59 all of the tv stations they own um all the networks they own everything whether it's uh tv
00:16:07 radio magazine online you know whatever it is they control it they run it so um the media there's no 0.91
00:16:15 private media in the islamic regime because it's a dictatorship it's a totalitarian dictatorship so 0.86
00:16:21 there's no such thing as a private media um everything is government owned and government 0.81
00:16:26 controlled so that's why the media has its own box on the boom boom jihad bingo sheet because
00:16:33 it's literally a propaganda outlet and so the propaganda outlet uh is you know constantly
00:16:39 putting out there that oh you know we're uh the islamic regime is victorious and blah blah blah
00:16:44 and they put out all this like islamic jihadi you know haydar stuff but by contrast you just saw the
00:16:52 video where iranians are basically saying we can't afford food we can't afford rent we can't afford 0.80
00:17:02 anything, but we're happy because if we complain, the Islamic regime will accuse us of being Mossad
00:17:08 agents and murder us and execute us. So that's the reality of being an Iranian and occupied 0.99
00:17:15 Iran right now. But what Marco Rubio said here about how the economy is having a strong impact, 0.84
00:17:24 very, very correct, because eventually the food will run out, the money will run out, 0.98
00:17:30 which is already happening, and the Islamic regime will not be able to pay its supporters.
00:17:36 Once that dries up, almost all of their oil revenue will dry up. There's other sanctions
00:17:40 evasions tools that they're choosing. There's other things that Iran is trying to do to get
00:17:43 around the sanctions. But Scott Besson and the Treasury Department, working alongside our
00:17:47 intelligence agencies and others, keep closing those off. So the economic pain that is being
00:17:53 inflicted on Iran right now and on that regime is extraordinary, and it compounds. It's growing
00:17:57 every day like these sanctions they get worse over time they get more painful as time goes on 0.91
00:18:01 and it's all brought about by the fact that this radical regime of lunatics is imposing this on 0.55
00:18:06 their own people they're destroying their own country yeah now they're doing it and it's been
00:18:09 so effective you know i mean the only thing i would say here that i would correct is that the 0.86
00:18:13 islamic regime they're not destroying their own country because the islamic regime is not from
00:18:20 iran so they're destroying the country that they're occupying the islamic regime is anti-iranian so 0.75
00:18:27 that's why they don't care about Iran. They don't care about the Iranian economy. They don't care 0.77
00:18:32 about the Iranian people. They literally just see us as, they just see us as a cash cow. And they
00:18:41 care more about, you know, Palestine and, you know, Hezbollah, because that's where they're from. 0.92
00:18:47 That's where they're from. They're not Iranian. I mean, there are some Iranian supporters within
00:18:51 them now, you know, sellouts and traders, but they're actually, the vast majority of them are
00:18:56 not actually Iranian. That's why they literally don't care about Iran and they don't invest in
00:19:01 Iran because they just see Iran as a tool to get money. And they don't want to give that up because
00:19:09 Iran is a very, very resource-rich country. There is literally no reason why Iran should be poor.
00:19:17 There should not be a single poor Iranian because that's how rich the country is. 0.98
00:19:23 But the Islamic regime is stealing all of the money and using it for terrorism. 1.00
00:19:27 The president has taken the time.
00:19:29 He's consulted with regional leaders.
00:19:30 He's heard input from people throughout the Middle East and around the world.
00:19:33 And based on the input he's getting from all of our partners in the region and beyond,
00:19:37 it's clear that at this time there's no need for major combat operations
00:19:40 because the economic campaign that's being waged by the Department of Treasury
00:19:45 alongside others is devastating.
00:19:47 It's going very well.
00:19:48 There's no need.
00:19:49 So this is actually really interesting.
00:19:51 This is like the third or fourth time now that Marco Rubio has said there's no need for military operations.
00:20:01 To me, that makes me think like they're preparing for a military operation because Marco Rubio is just deny, deny, deny.
00:20:12 And as we all know, there's currently a bunch of U.S. military ships that are on their way to the Middle East.
00:20:22 So the fact that Marco Rubio is just constantly saying there's no need for military action right now,
00:20:31 I have a feeling that he's like, this is a distraction, distraction tactic.
00:20:37 That's how I see this.
00:20:38 That's how I see this, because why are you why is he just constantly saying there's no need, there's no need, there's no need to me?
00:20:46 Something's up. He's consulted with regional leaders.
00:20:48 He's heard input from people throughout the East and around the world.
00:20:51 And based on the input he's getting from all of our partners in the region and beyond, it's clear that at this time, there's no need for major combat operations because the economic campaign that's being waged by the Department of Treasury.
00:21:02 He also used a very important qualifier, he said at this time.
00:21:06 so basically what he's saying is right now there's no need okay so right now there's no need
00:21:14 but that doesn't mean there won't be a need in the future so these qualifiers are very important
00:21:19 he says at this time our partners in the region and beyond it's clear that at this time there's
00:21:24 no need for major combat operations because the economic campaign that's being waged by
00:21:30 the department of treasury alongside others is devastating it's going very well there's
00:21:34 There's no need to disrupt that at this point.
00:21:35 So does that leave room for negotiations?
00:21:40 I mean, do you think with this economic devastation, Iran is ready to come back to the negotiating table?
00:21:45 Oh, I think Iran would love a deal.
00:21:47 The problem is the conditions they continue to place are absurd.
00:21:50 Like, they're not even serious right now.
00:21:52 But that could change, certainly.
00:21:53 I mean, the pain that they're feeling is that eventually you have to eat.
00:21:56 Eventually you have to be able to pay your own fighters and your own security forces and so forth. 0.91
00:22:00 because eventually the economic realities penetrate the skull of even the most radical lunatic.
00:22:05 So I think as time goes on, I mean, that will have an impact.
00:22:08 But yeah, the U.S. always stands ready.
00:22:11 If there's a real deal to be done, we're open.
00:22:12 And there's countries out there that are engaged.
00:22:14 The Qataris were in Washington yesterday.
00:22:15 The prime minister met with the president.
00:22:17 We've had discussions with them ongoing.
00:22:18 And they and other countries continue to try to act as mediaries, trying to float ideas back and forth.
00:22:24 We're not discouraging them from doing it.
00:22:25 You know, if there's a deal to be done, the president will be the first one to be in favor of it. 0.99
00:22:28 It's not going to be a stupid deal. 0.99
00:22:30 It's not going to be a bad deal. Otherwise, you know, they'll just continue to impoverish themselves. 0.99
00:22:34 Secretary, how would you describe the differences at the moment between the point of view for the U.S. and the European partners regarding the war in Ukraine?
00:22:43 The differences between the point of view as to this?
00:22:46 I don't think there's a difference. I mean, I think we have the same interest in mind.
00:22:49 Our goals are the same. We want the war to end and we want there never to be a war again.
00:22:54 So that requires not just ending the war, but also ensuring that Ukraine never again feels threatened for its security.
00:23:01 We all share the same goal. And then the question is, how do you construct that?
00:23:04 How do you come up with something that achieves both of those goals? And they're interrelated.
00:23:07 So I think we share the same goal. And I think the one thing I would point to is that.
00:23:11 So just to comment on the Ukraine war, the war will never end unless and until that Russian imperialism ideology is destroyed.
00:23:24 because the reason that Russia attacked Ukraine has nothing to do with land, it has everything 0.76
00:23:30 to do with Russia trying to erase the Ukrainian identity, the exact same way that the Islamic
00:23:36 regime is trying to erase the Iranian, sorry, the erase the Iranian identity.
00:23:43 That's one of the things that I learned when I was in Ukraine, and I'll speak more about
00:23:47 that on a separate live stream, focused specifically on the Ukraine-Russia war. But that's the
00:23:54 angle. The war is never going to end because Putin, it's not about land. It's about Putin 0.54
00:24:01 destroying the Ukrainian identity and the Ukrainian language and everything Ukrainian.
00:24:08 So yeah, it's not going to end until Russian imperialism is directly countered and dealt with.
00:24:17 you