Goldie Ghamari - IRAN REVOLUTION LIVE： DAY 133

00:00:00.000 Look at us here today. We see so many flags representing so many nations. We know we are

00:00:14.140 not alone. And we thank you for being with us. For all people around the world who stand

00:00:26.320 today in unity with the iranian people this is not just because it's good for us

00:00:33.360 and you do it out of compassion and care for our rights to liberty and justice and equality

00:00:40.720 and human rights but understand that it is in your best interest too to have unlike this regime

00:00:47.840 that has been propagating terror and radicalism we the people of iran are peacemakers and not

00:00:55.360 warmongers we like to be friends especially with the free worlds

00:01:06.320 we'd like to be able to have the best neighborly relationship with the people of our area in the

00:01:12.560 region with the arab countries with israel and all our other neighbors

00:01:17.360 We are fighting for justice, we're fighting for human rights, we are fighting for liberty,

00:01:26.360 we're fighting to put an end to all sorts of discrimination.

00:01:31.360 Because as an Iranian, I stand here to tell you that I've dedicated 47 years of my life

00:01:38.360 because I think that my country deserves far better than what we have right now.

00:01:47.360 To now understand that their best remedy is to support the people of Iran, because ultimately

00:01:56.280 a free Iran will be your best partner, not just to bring stability and peace, but it

00:02:02.160 will be in your best economic interests and opportunities. 1.00

00:02:06.600 Together we can prosper again, and the world will be so different once the Iranian people 1.00

00:02:12.600 are free.

00:02:14.600 I am here to guarantee a transition to secular democratic future.

00:02:22.600 I am committed to be the leader of transition for you, so we can one day have the final

00:02:29.740 opportunity to decide the fate of our country through a democratic, transparent process

00:02:35.960 through the ballot box and free elections.

00:02:38.760 And let's make sure that this time, especially the free nations of this world and their governments,

00:02:47.540 stand on the right side of history.

00:02:56.760 Well, Dhroud patriots, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are.

00:03:02.980 Welcome to day 133 of Iran Revolution Live.

00:03:08.760 with your wonderful and amazing host mr armin the bobby and your wonderful and amazing host

00:03:16.600 goldie camari thank you armin 133 days wow wow wow how are you doing i'm doing good doing good

00:03:31.400 president just very interested in seeing what president trump said he just came out again

00:03:38.040 with some very new updates so goldie what do you think is happening are we getting closer

00:03:45.320 i mean you know as the iranians we can't like we're all eager sometimes we'd be a little bit

00:03:50.520 too impatient to get back to military operations um but i'm always interested when i'm following

00:03:58.280 the news i'm like always thinking like what is goldie is going to say about this what is goldie

00:04:01.640 is going to think so i'm always i'm interested to think to come here and ask you to see what's your

00:04:07.560 a take on when this is all going to start because president trump is giving us new updates again

00:04:14.120 you know i think i think something's going to start sooner rather than later um that's how i

00:04:20.680 see it i mean we were watching sean hannity last night when you left and there was a segment where

00:04:27.880 sean hannity was speaking with mark levin and it was incredibly informative but um why don't we go

00:04:34.120 to these new uh these new messages from president trump that you're talking about and then we can

00:04:39.800 kind of talk through it together and also get the perspective from our viewers as well okay okay

00:04:46.120 let's do that let's see what president trump said over here

00:05:04.120 So the audio is very bad, but I'm going to read the caption after.

00:05:07.760 all right so this is really bad idea but it

00:05:37.360 the one of the most important things that president trump says so let's read the caption

00:05:41.920 so president trump on project freedom saying we'll go a different route if everything doesn't get

00:05:48.720 signed up uh button up we may go back to project freedom if things don't happen but it'll be project

00:05:57.680 freedom plus so everybody is talking about this new plus part of project freedom that's the new

00:06:05.040 thing that everybody is referring to meaning project freedom plus other things okay so here's

00:06:10.080 the thing what are these other things can i can i just add something really quickly about the plus

00:06:14.560 thing so that's the language that senator lindsey graham has been using for a very long time right

00:06:21.040 he's uh he's basically referred to president trump as like you know ronald reagan plus right like so

00:06:27.520 so this plus terminology that's something that senator lindsey graham has been using for quite

00:06:34.160 a while you know uh he says president trump is not an obama um president or biden he's like

00:06:40.960 president trump is is reagan plus so i find it very interesting that president trump is now using

00:06:50.080 that same language and terminology that senator lindsey graham has used in the past which to me

00:06:56.880 me is further proof that Senator Lindsey Graham is one of the key players in all of this.

00:07:05.480 And that's why I always have time for Senator Lindsey Graham, and I always pay attention

00:07:12.240 to what Senator Lindsey Graham is saying, because a lot of times I believe that President

00:07:16.640 Trump is speaking through Senator Lindsey Graham.

00:07:20.920 That's my thoughts on this.

00:07:26.880 I would be interested in knowing what exactly this plus other things are.

00:07:35.400 Because, again, obviously President Trump, the way he talks is always a way to play mind games.

00:07:45.340 It's not necessarily going to be what's going to happen.

00:07:49.940 But obviously many people are going to look at this language and their evaluation is going to be,

00:07:56.880 again, those other people, is that, okay, so we're not going back to full-on head-to-head

00:08:05.120 confrontational war with the Islamic Republic beyond these different tensions that we're seeing

00:08:13.640 in the Persian Gulf and, you know, small here-and-there explosions that we're hearing

00:08:20.300 sometimes in Bandar Abbas or in Tehran or in other places. So some people might think like,

00:08:26.480 okay so we're going to be here in this situation for a while we're not going to go to

00:08:31.520 soon we're not going to go to a rapid escalation like in the sense in in the same level of

00:08:38.980 bombardments that we saw at the beginning of operation epic fury some people's analysis is

00:08:44.940 going to be this language is suggesting that again that all i'm just saying is like before

00:08:51.940 you take out your pitchforks i'm just telling you guys what other people will take from this which

00:08:57.780 is also one reason why we're seeing uh fall in brent uh crude oil prices in the past five days

00:09:08.020 we saw a seven percent drop on average um but obviously goldie uh your your analysis is

00:09:15.460 different so how do you see this i see this as um project freedom plus boom booms

00:09:26.660 yeah so i mean we have to keep in mind president trump is not going to give away

00:09:32.740 the military strategy he's not going to do that and and he said that several times in numerous

00:09:41.860 press conferences where the press have asked him, okay, well, what's the military strategy?

00:09:47.220 What are you guys planning on doing? And President Trump has always answered, saying,

00:09:52.100 I'm not going to tell that. He's like, I would be stupid to tell you what we are planning, 0.99

00:09:58.120 and all options are on the table. So for me, when President Trump is saying Project Freedom Plus, 0.98

00:10:08.000 to me that signifies that that it's it's project freedom plus boom booms plus additional military

00:10:17.480 uh operations but obviously he's not going to give that away because why would he why would

00:10:25.340 he want the islamic regime to know what's going on right so again i mean this reminds me of um

00:10:34.420 Friday, February 27, when the reporters were asking President Trump, well, are you going to

00:10:43.240 continue the negotiations? Are you going to attack the Islamic regime? What's going to happen? And,

00:10:49.420 you know, at that point, President Trump had already made the decision that they're going 0.99

00:10:55.640 to boom, boom, hominay, right? So during that, he actually had, I think, two, at least two, 0.94

00:11:01.780 like sort of press conferences on Friday, February 27, less than 12 hours before Khamenei was

00:11:07.960 exterminated. And in both of those press conferences, President Trump never spoke about

00:11:15.040 attacking Iran, never spoke about boom booms, never spoke about military operations. All he said

00:11:21.540 was that we're not happy with the way things are going. Let's see what happens. Let's see what

00:11:26.560 happens. And then when they asked him, will negotiations continue? He's like, yeah, let's

00:11:30.700 what happens so president trump is never ever going to come out and say what he's planning on

00:11:38.540 doing because that that would be ridiculous like why would he want to give away the strategy to the

00:11:44.220 islamic regime and give them an opportunity to prepare or counter or whatever the case might be

00:11:49.260 so um i see project i see project freedom um plus as plus boom booms plus getting rid of the regime

00:12:01.900 plus military operations right that that's how i interpret this but what level of boom

00:12:08.940 booms are we talking about like uh because we are already seeing like like the explosions we're

00:12:15.660 We're seeing some tensions between the United States and the Islamic Republic and the Persian Gulf.

00:12:22.480 We're already seeing some explosions here and there in different parts of Iran.

00:12:26.180 When you say plus boom-booms, are you talking about a level of military escalation basically close to what we saw when Operation Epic Fury started,

00:12:39.880 when so many of IRGC leaders were being killed, Ali Khamenei was being killed.

00:12:44.140 like that level of military operation or to the same level that we're just seeing right now here

00:12:48.640 and there i mean obviously i can't say for certain because i'm not like a military

00:12:54.780 analyst or strategist but i have a feeling that like they're just gonna go all out

00:13:04.860 i have a feeling that they're going to go all out and um what gives me this feeling

00:13:13.940 is what president trump posted on truth social uh this morning

00:13:19.860 i don't know if you saw president trump's post on truth social so let me just pull that up for you

00:13:28.000 So this morning, he posted a link to an article, and he writes, very important, this is where

00:13:39.860 our nation stands, President DJT.

00:13:43.800 And the article, the title of the article is, majority say, preventing Iran from acquiring

00:13:51.200 nukes, more important than ending war.

00:13:58.000 So to me, this indicates that President Trump is not interested in ending the conflict. 0.79

00:14:07.040 He is interested in making sure that the Islamic regime can never acquire nukes.

00:14:14.100 And the reality is, and this is what people like Mark Levin and Sean Hannity and, you know,

00:14:21.800 others that we've watched on Fox News have said, people that are close to President Trump, 0.93

00:14:27.060 Every single person has said, even Marco Rubio, they have said that as long as the Islamic Republic remains in power and as long as the Islamic Republic exists, they will never, ever stop trying to acquire nukes. 0.92

00:14:48.680 So they might back down for a little bit, but eventually they will restart and they will continue and they will do what they've been doing behind the scenes. 0.95

00:14:59.780 So to me, this indicates that President Trump is aware that the only way to prevent the Islamic regime from acquiring nukes is to eradicate the Islamic regime and to get rid of them. 0.94

00:15:16.460 so that's that's how i see this and you know here's the article so majority say preventing 0.75

00:15:24.880 iran from acquiring nukes more important than ending war poll vance is set to begin negotiations

00:15:31.880 this weekend alongside special envoy steve whitkoff and jared kushner the president's son

00:15:37.140 in law as vice president jd vance heads to pakistan to negotiate a deal to end the iran war

00:15:45.260 polling data suggests that the public prioritizes accomplishing key American objectives over ending

00:15:51.640 the matter quickly. So there you go. Even the American people know that it's more important to

00:16:01.280 make sure that the objective is met. And the objective is making sure that the Islamic regime 1.00

00:16:09.300 can never acquire nukes. And the only way the Islamic regime will never acquire nukes is to 0.96

00:16:14.840 completely eradicate and destroy them so that's what i think uh president trump is referring to

00:16:22.880 going back to your post when president trump is talking about project freedom plus other things

00:16:30.420 or you know project freedom plus i think that's what he's referring to

00:16:35.440 and do you have any uh time estimates for when do you think we're going to see that level of

00:16:42.000 escalation? Because the thing is that when it comes to an escalation, it is inevitable that

00:16:48.840 one way or another, United States and the Islamic Republic are going to have military tensions again, 0.78

00:16:54.660 because at the end of the day, it's very difficult to see the United States accepting a nuclear

00:17:02.620 Iran. And it's also very difficult to see an Islamic Republic giving up its nuclear

00:17:08.680 leverage so that always leaves us with you know the most likely outcome being more tension more

00:17:16.860 military tension between united states and israel or at least just united states and or israel on

00:17:24.320 one side and the islamic republic on the other side it is inevitable but the question most people

00:17:31.680 have for us when we say something like that is okay but when when when when when when and usually

00:17:37.380 we don't have a satisfactory answer for them um but what do you think goldie when it comes to when

00:17:44.900 i don't know i mean um i'm i'm biased because if it was up to me i mean i would have wanted

00:17:51.460 the islamic regime eradicated decades ago years ago right so i mean for for us um

00:18:00.180 we want this to happen as soon as possible however we also have to recognize and understand

00:18:07.300 that we only have one shot of doing this right and doing this properly. We also have to keep

00:18:17.140 in mind that Israel and the United States have much better intelligence than we do, obviously.

00:18:27.540 So I think we just have to unfortunately be patient and we have to trust the plan. 0.97

00:18:33.380 um president trump has wanted the islamic regime eradicated for a very very long time we already 0.99

00:18:40.020 know this since since the uh early 1980s we've seen you know his his speeches his comments about

00:18:46.660 the islamic regime so you know president trump is a winner president trump is a winner and

00:18:54.100 And I think he understands and he knows that the only way that he will win in this situation 0.99

00:19:03.680 is to completely eradicate the Islamic regime. 1.00

00:19:07.060 He's only going to have pretty much one chance to do it, right? 0.99

00:19:11.620 And so I think he's just waiting for the right time.

00:19:15.660 We also know that a lot of military assets are being moved into the area.

00:19:19.540 We don't know the status of those military assets, of course, for OPSEC reasons.

00:19:24.100 Um, so we just have to wait. I mean, I would, I would hope that this is going to happen

00:19:29.300 sooner rather than later. Um, I think it's also interesting that

00:19:34.660 president Trump, I believe if I'm not mistaken, still has not delayed, further delayed his trip

00:19:43.740 to China. And President Trump did say that this excursion will be over before he goes to China.

00:19:56.220 So, I mean, I don't know. I don't know. But what's interesting is Mark Levin just posted

00:20:02.360 30 minutes ago. He actually posted his, I think it's his full interview.

00:20:13.740 I think he may have posted his full interview, his full comments with Sean Hannity from last

00:20:24.580 night. And he just posted this on X. And he says, stay the course. So have you seen what

00:20:36.380 Mark Levin said last night, Armin?

00:20:39.180 Nope.

00:20:40.160 Okay, so maybe let's go to that.

00:20:41.660 So he literally posted this 30 minutes ago, stay the course.

00:20:45.540 And then here's the actual video.

00:20:49.340 But this is a rigid regime.

00:20:51.340 It's an ideological regime.

00:20:52.740 It's not even like a communist regime or a fascistic regime. 0.95

00:20:56.540 It is a barbaric Islamist regime. 0.92

00:20:59.700 And they believe Allah, God, is telling them to do this. 0.95

00:21:03.960 People need to understand this is not really a nation state regime.

00:21:08.000 It is a revolutionary regime.

00:21:09.700 And by revolutionary regime, I mean that their faith, as they practice it, tells them to conquer the world.

00:21:17.440 So they're not going to give up nukes, even if they say they're going to give up nukes at some point.

00:21:22.120 They're going to be right back at it.

00:21:23.980 Is that not the history over the last 47 years?

00:21:26.620 I think it is.

00:21:27.760 So my view is I agree with Secretary Rubio. 0.83

00:21:31.320 I agree that we hit them when we have to hit them.

00:21:35.000 But I don't think tit for tat is going to really handle it here.

00:21:37.460 It's a good start.

00:21:38.260 I do think we need to put the pedal to the metal, pick up where we left off militarily, keep choking them off economically.

00:21:47.580 And for God's sakes, arm these people.

00:21:49.580 We keep saying they're in a position to rise up.

00:21:52.100 Well, they rose up.

00:21:53.380 These people rose up like no people I've ever seen before, and they lost 50,000 of their fellow citizens, most of them young people.

00:22:00.280 And as I speak to you tonight, they're being hanged one after another. 0.95

00:22:03.500 They're being raped. 0.99

00:22:04.360 They're being tortured. 1.00

00:22:05.180 They're being butchered.

00:22:05.900 What else do these people have to show where they make it clear they want liberation?

00:22:11.880 All I know is this, and maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think so. 0.97

00:22:16.380 When we armed the Afghan people, the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, it worked. 0.67

00:22:22.220 When we armed the Angolan rebels, it worked.

00:22:26.640 When we armed all kinds of freedom fighters in Central and South America,

00:22:30.920 during the Reagan administration, we pushed communism out of there.

00:22:33.640 Not everywhere, but in a lot of places.

00:22:35.900 These people are ready to fight, but they can't fight with their bare hands when they're facing automatic weapons and tanks and so forth and so on.

00:22:45.220 Can't we give them a chance?

00:22:47.300 I read, and it could be dead wrong, that Erdogan in Turkey has objected to the Kurds and so forth.

00:22:53.920 All I know is this.

00:22:55.420 There are other people who would rise up.

00:22:58.780 There are other groups that can be armed.

00:23:00.840 If there's not, we should have been working on them during the ceasefire.

00:23:04.060 All I know is the CIA in the 1980s was up to the task in doing this.

00:23:08.960 And we did it.

00:23:10.840 Arm the people.

00:23:12.220 We give them a chance. 0.94

00:23:13.740 Keep the ball in your throat and keep the military pressure on.

00:23:17.700 And we'll get this over with and we'll have a victory.

00:23:20.300 That's my view. 0.73

00:23:22.440 And guys, on Iran Revolution Live, you have been hearing about the solution needing to be arming the Iranian people for a very, very long time.

00:23:30.880 And it's so great that now so many other people are talking about it.

00:23:35.780 So there you go.

00:23:36.800 That's what Mark Levin was saying.

00:23:40.740 That's what he said last night.

00:23:42.160 And now he just posted it.

00:23:43.820 So, you know, again, to me, that's what I think Project Freedom Plus means.

00:23:55.300 Right.

00:23:56.520 And, okay, hold it.

00:23:57.640 Let me, there's another important update from President Trump that we need to listen to.

00:24:01.900 This is very big.

00:24:03.800 So this person is asking President Trump about the deal that the Islamic Republic, the letter, because remember guys, yesterday we, President Trump said that these people, like the Islamic Republic has like 24 hours to come up with a response.

00:24:22.260 And now he's talking about the response that he has gotten.

00:24:25.120 So this is a very key video.

00:24:27.640 wow two very important questions back to back okay have you received a new letter from iran

00:24:49.800 this guy said and he says we're getting one tonight and this this lady right next to him

00:24:56.660 ask another question so he says we're receiving one tonight we'll see how that goes and the woman 1.00

00:25:07.780 do you think they're intentionally slow rolling it to buy time 0.99

00:25:12.500 president trump says i don't know we'll find out tonight

00:25:17.540 so guys that's a very very big deal that was a very big deal video we're gonna see the updates

00:25:24.420 from that uh oh yeah see here here's another i think is that the same lady let's listen to this

00:25:35.860 oh that's that's the same question from a different angle um also goldie we should uh talk about this

00:25:44.180 so experts say the islamic republic may be dumping oil as u.s blockade puts tehran regime under

00:25:52.740 growing pressure so this is something that everybody is now talking about so do you want to

00:25:59.860 talk about that as well yeah yeah okay so what do you think about this because now

00:26:07.700 i saw reuters fox news everybody is now talking about pictures showing that the islamic republic

00:26:14.340 is dumping oil into into the sea you let me show you the before and after here

00:26:22.740 Look at this is now. This is Harg Island. Harg Island. And this is the oil that they're dumping. So this was before. And this is now.

00:26:34.660 I mean, we spoke about this and we basically said that this is a regime that does not even care about the lives of its own citizens. 0.99

00:26:45.620 I mean, Iranians aren't the citizens, right? Iranians are being held hostage.

00:26:49.020 So this is exactly what you can expect from a brutal Islamic dictatorship that does not respect or value the sanctity of life. 0.97

00:27:01.740 They don't care about the environment. 0.94

00:27:04.020 I mean, the environment in Iran is terrible. 1.00

00:27:06.960 There's forest fires everywhere.

00:27:09.260 Lakes are drying up.

00:27:10.440 Rivers are drying up.

00:27:12.540 Endangered species are pretty much close to extinction at this point, like the Iranian cheetah. 0.97

00:27:19.020 pretty much extinct, thanks to the Islamic regime. So of course, you know, they would they would dump 1.00

00:27:25.240 oil into the ocean because they don't care. Like these are, this is a brutal, savage Islamic Shia 1.00

00:27:33.560 death cult that is willing to do anything and everything in order to survive. And so, you know, 1.00

00:27:40.200 for them, you know, dumping oil into the water like this, they don't care. They literally don't

00:27:45.380 care they they're willing to do anything to survive and this is just another aspect of it

00:27:49.760 and yeah and goldie um we here on iran revolution live were warning about this

00:27:56.980 uh before any other analyst was talking about it like nobody like it was weird because we were

00:28:04.640 wondering here that why is nobody like everybody was talking about the islamic republic running 0.57

00:28:11.880 out of storage um and we considered uh the fact that like we said like well there's they they

00:28:21.720 could just dump it into the sea and i asked you like why is nobody talking about the fact that

00:28:27.720 they could just dump it into the sea and then i remember you specifically answering me saying that

00:28:33.400 well because people don't understand how evil this regime is and what they're capable of

00:28:37.480 and that's why we were considering it here

00:28:40.300 on the Iran Revolution

00:28:42.840 that the Islamic Republic could do such a thing 0.68

00:28:44.980 and I didn't see

00:28:46.620 a single other analyst anywhere

00:28:48.780 I'm sure if we look for it

00:28:50.480 somebody who said something somewhere

00:28:51.880 but at least all the mainstream

00:28:54.860 media and every single major analyst

00:28:56.920 were not

00:28:57.780 because this is a big deal

00:28:59.360 obviously for environmental impact

00:29:02.280 is the most important part of it

00:29:04.280 but it also shows

00:29:06.420 a miscalculation regarding how much storage space the islamic republic has for their oil before they

00:29:12.580 have to do shut-ins because there's infinite amount of oil that they could put into the

00:29:17.860 water and nobody that i know of talked about this yeah i agree and i mean i remember uh the whole

00:29:26.660 topic came up because it was one of our viewers who sent a super chat um who was concerned about

00:29:33.220 the environmental impact and it was one of our viewers i think who who asked asked us um

00:29:41.860 do you you know ask us if if we think that the islamic regime would dump oil into uh the the

00:29:49.060 persian sea if that meant its survival and you know i said yes and then uh you came back from

00:29:55.540 the discussion group and you know you basically said the exact same thing um without without

00:30:01.460 hearing my input first because um you know well i mean but but arvin that's important because

00:30:08.340 um you know sometimes people wonder okay well how aligned you know like like you know how

00:30:14.340 aligned are people or how much do people actually know how much do they understand and so you know

00:30:19.380 i think it's always very interesting very fascinating for our viewers when you know they

00:30:23.780 ask me a question and i answer and then they ask you a question and you give the same answer right

00:30:29.860 because it i think it kind of gives people peace of mind it's kind of like when um uh that the

00:30:35.540 other night when i was away and then president trump posted something and then you gave your

00:30:41.620 analysis and remember you reached out to me and you're like goldie what do you think and i told

00:30:44.980 you what i thought on whatsapp and you're like that's that's what i said and i'm like see so

00:30:49.300 we're on the same page here so and it's it's not just you and me um many iranians uh as well because

00:30:55.860 Because I remember I posted about this and others of like, yeah, like this is, yeah, like this, this is not like this is something that is 100% to be expected.

00:31:04.120 Like, do not put anything, like do not think that the Islamic regime is incapable of these sorts of things. 0.72

00:31:11.380 Like, it's a brutal terrorist just cult, right? 0.95

00:31:17.980 So they don't care about the environment.

00:31:19.680 They don't care about animals.

00:31:20.960 They don't care about the ocean.

00:31:22.540 They don't care about human life. 1.00

00:31:23.960 All they care about is their Islamic Shia death cult and just conquering the world, right? 1.00

00:31:30.720 They just want to go scorched earth. 1.00

00:31:32.300 That's basically what they want to do, and that's what's happening here.

00:31:36.540 Yeah, so guys, this is why you need to take our warning seriously,

00:31:42.640 because this was something that more people should have included as part of their analysis,

00:31:48.260 and they did it, and they did it.

00:31:50.960 and um and this is why you come here because we were talking about these we were talking about

00:31:59.620 this for like we were talking about this first time on day 123 um we basically brought this up

00:32:07.840 to you um i actually have the timestamps and everything and this is we're on day 133 um so

00:32:15.600 So you guys need to, like, this is, this shows how unaware people are of what the Islamic Republic is capable of.

00:32:26.380 And this is why it leads to a lot of miscalculation. 0.83

00:32:30.740 And this is why also, guys, when Goldie tells you that there is no way of negotiation with the Islamic Republic, 0.81

00:32:37.220 it's not going to end in anything, that the only thing this Islamic Republic understands is force, 0.97

00:32:42.400 is because Goldie understands 0.93

00:32:44.400 the nature of this Islamic Republic

00:32:45.940 and that's why her voice out there 1.00

00:32:48.160 warning people about this should be 0.99

00:32:50.420 you need to go amplify her voice

00:32:52.000 even more than it is right now

00:32:53.540 because so many other people are giving

00:32:55.780 are not paying attention

00:32:58.680 to what the Islamic

00:33:00.360 how the Islamic Republic thinks

00:33:02.060 and how they calculate and how they operate

00:33:04.440 we got new reports

00:33:08.320 that Russia is shipping weapons to Iran

00:33:10.400 and it says this is what mark levin is saying so mark levin seems to be really trusting this

00:33:18.480 jason guy so i think that we should also follow like jason as somebody to trust because i think

00:33:24.400 like if mark levin keeps quote tweeting this person this man must be somebody important that

00:33:29.900 we need to take into account okay so russia is shipping weapons to iran imagine what they'll do

00:33:34.820 if the regime survives after we leave, and China too.

00:33:38.960 So let's look at this.

00:33:40.380 Russia is shipping drone components to Iran via Caspian Sea,

00:33:45.100 U.S. officials say.

00:33:47.120 Okay, by the way, so many people were asking

00:33:49.140 why wouldn't they just ship the oil from the Caspian Sea

00:33:57.520 out to wherever they need to, like to China or whatever.

00:34:01.520 The problem is that the bottleneck would be the land

00:34:04.440 most of the sources of oil of the islamic republic comes from the persian gulf getting the oil from

00:34:09.660 the persian gulf all the way to north of iran to the caspian sea will be very very expensive and it

00:34:15.720 will be a huge bottleneck and you don't have the capacity for how many millions of barrels of oil

00:34:22.140 that you could transfer will be severely limited right to to basically move at that high up but

00:34:27.660 When it comes to drone components, this is not a big volume transfer of goods.

00:34:37.260 So this is how the Caspian Sea will be an important route for the Islamic Republic to be able to get access to important parts.

00:34:49.260 And Russia is now providing the Islamic Republic with that,

00:34:52.340 helping the Islamic Republic rebuild its offensive abilities

00:34:55.760 after losing roughly 60% of its drone arsenal during recent fighting.

00:35:01.980 The officials spoke anonymously.

00:35:03.860 Okay, so here's an important thing, guys,

00:35:05.720 because we're wondering if all of these negotiations and ceasefires,

00:35:11.360 is that time in the benefit of the Islamic Republic

00:35:17.280 or is that time in the benefit of the United States?

00:35:20.680 because we keep saying that, oh, Trump is buying time

00:35:26.680 or the Islamic Republic is buying time. 0.79

00:35:28.420 Who's buying time? 0.67

00:35:29.560 Are both sides buying time?

00:35:31.360 Who benefits from the extra time, right?

00:35:35.620 So both sides could benefit from buying time.

00:35:41.660 The Islamic Republic, though, is hurting a lot because of the blockade

00:35:45.520 on the Iranian ports.

00:35:49.500 So time from that sense is not on their side.

00:35:53.700 The United States has time on its sides because first we're going to have the USS Boxer getting closer to the Persian Gulf, one.

00:36:01.640 Two, the United States has time to resupply its interceptor stockpiles.

00:36:12.260 So in that sense, time is in the benefit of the United States. 0.98

00:36:16.420 However, we could see based on this report that time could also help the Islamic Republic

00:36:21.420 because it's managing to get shipping of drone components from Russia

00:36:26.560 and as Mark Levin says, maybe China as well.

00:36:30.440 So he China too.

00:36:31.320 So this is a very important information to consider.

00:36:36.160 Goldie, do you have anything else before I go?

00:36:39.840 because i if it before because i wanted to talk about uh three uh different strategies of three

00:36:47.920 different types of countries around the persian gulf but i think like if you want to make it

00:36:52.560 if you have something important newsworthy right now to talk about let's talk about that

00:36:57.440 before i go to our discussion group what's the topic of your discussion group today

00:37:03.120 well i'm actually going to go into well thank you for asking goldie i'm always interested in knowing

00:37:09.280 okay i'm actually i'm actually going to go into more detail about this i'm going to put the

00:37:15.760 countries in the that's how the starting topic is and then the rest is going to be based on the

00:37:21.360 questions people ask it will go into different directions but i want to put the countries um

00:37:26.640 around the persian gulf into three different categories based on how they're responding to

00:37:31.680 the hostilities of the islamic republic so we're going to have one category of countries like uh

00:37:37.600 like Qatar and Oman, and then another group of countries like the UAE and Bahrain,

00:37:44.800 and then the third category of countries like Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

00:37:50.260 So Saudi Arabia and Iraq, yes.

00:37:53.660 So three different categories and three different,

00:37:56.520 because a lot of people, when we're talking about the countries around the Persian Gulf,

00:38:00.540 the Arab countries around the Persian Gulf, they treat it as a monolith,

00:38:04.040 as if they're all basically have the same concerns

00:38:07.240 and responding in the same way.

00:38:09.280 So it's good to create three different,

00:38:11.240 and some people who don't,

00:38:13.000 they're put in two different categories

00:38:14.600 with Qatar and Oman in one category

00:38:17.220 and UAE and Saudi Arabia in the same category,

00:38:20.520 in the same camp.

00:38:21.200 But I'm actually going to separate Saudi Arabia

00:38:23.740 and the UAE in two different camps

00:38:25.920 and provide three different categories

00:38:28.360 and see if the people in the group agree with me on that.

00:38:32.840 Okay.

00:38:34.040 sounds very interesting yeah um i mean in terms of breaking news um well i was going to play like

00:38:42.360 when when you're gone uh when you go for the discussion group i was gonna play marco rubio's

00:38:47.880 full remarks from yesterday because he met with uh pope leo and then he did he had like a

00:38:55.560 there's a 23 minute video called full remarks marco rubio speaks after meeting pope leo amid

00:39:02.200 Trump clash over Iran war. So, um, I was going to play that. Um, and then the other thing that I was

00:39:10.900 going to play, uh, that, you know, we haven't really had an opportunity to play yet, but I

00:39:15.580 really, it's been on my radar is, um, um, uh, the crown, uh, princess of Iran, Noor Pahlavi.

00:39:23.760 She was at the Richard Nixon foundation a few weeks ago. Uh, we never got around to actually

00:39:29.420 playing that video so i wanted to share that as well um with our with our audience

00:39:35.600 okay okay um i forgot we have also super chats is it okay if i quickly go

00:39:42.000 okay yeah okay uh so i'm here thank you so much five memberships to liberty politics thank you

00:39:49.720 so much for that and then we have kp saying good afternoon kids armin find max afterburner for your

00:39:58.060 daily guy stuff goldie when you have time check out how iran's apocalyptic quest for nuclear

00:40:05.160 weapons brought its own destruction t tb in israel it is in it's intense thank you for the

00:40:11.980 suggestions and for the support of the channel and then we have todd uh todd rough garden

00:40:19.000 oh yes it's saying i am from u.s i am from the u.s president trump doesn't want to break the

00:40:25.280 ceasefire. He wants Iran to break it because he's getting so much pressure from Congress. He's

00:40:31.980 actually not getting as much pressure from Congress. Congress has tried to stop him and

00:40:39.180 he wasn't able to. He might get more pressure from Congress through the power of the purse

00:40:44.400 after the midterms.

00:40:48.020 But the White House is ignoring anything

00:40:51.620 that is regarding the War Powers Act

00:40:55.500 because they consider it to be unconstitutional.

00:40:58.900 But I don't know.

00:40:59.900 We'll see how much Congress could pressure

00:41:01.880 President Trump through controlling the spending.

00:41:05.880 I don't know if they will be able to, but we'll see.

00:41:07.940 But right now, they are not able to put

00:41:09.900 that much pressure on him.

00:41:11.160 After the midterms, we'll see.

00:41:12.360 And then we have another super chat saying, is Cardboard Leader really cut out for the job? I'm afraid he'll fold under pressure as he's too one-dimensional. Okay, 99 NOFX. That was pretty good. I like it. Like, good job. Thank you. And thank you for your support.

00:41:29.360 amil is saying why is the international community community radio silent on this environmental

00:41:35.040 disaster i don't know they were silent about it before but goldie and i were telling mentioning

00:41:42.320 that people should pay attention to it uh before it even happened and now that it happened you're

00:41:48.000 right actually they're not they're still we're not seeing as much of a backlash as we should be

00:41:52.240 that's a good point and 99 and no nofx is also saying he's the perfect politician much double

00:42:00.640 meaning he's the perfect politician stands exactly where you put him never says the wrong thing and

00:42:06.320 you can recycle him if the economy tanks okay that's another good one thank you and the last

00:42:12.080 super chat again from 99 nofx saying iran just unveiled supreme leader 2.0 now with 100 percent

00:42:19.120 less depth, 25% more transparent. Okay, thank you. Thank you so much for the jokes and the

00:42:27.780 support for the channel. Okay, guys, I am going to put a QR code on screen. And guys, today's

00:42:40.100 discussion group is open to all. And one day, one day, one of these days, Goldie will honor us

00:42:47.460 again we're coming to our discussion group one day okay oh you're muted

00:42:55.060 muted uh yeah 100 i will i will do that for sure i would love to love to join um but uh i just

00:43:03.540 wanted to say armin you know i really appreciate everything you're doing and yeah i will have to

00:43:08.020 come come join uh because i'm not going to be around tomorrow actually until very very late so

00:43:14.340 We're going to have to figure out the schedule for tomorrow at some point

00:43:17.220 when today's show is done.

00:43:19.100 And to all our viewers, just giving you a heads up,

00:43:21.480 because tomorrow is Mother's Day.

00:43:24.980 So I do have, you know, some plans scheduled for tomorrow.

00:43:30.200 So I will still try to make it.

00:43:33.700 It might be like, you know, super, super late, though.

00:43:36.120 But Armin, you and I, we'll figure something out for tomorrow.

00:43:39.460 By the way, Goldie, whenever it comes to whatever plans you have

00:43:42.960 for changing schedules and everything i'm i will become i'm completely flexible like i'm gonna

00:43:48.720 always try to make it work with whatever you need okay so appreciate that thank you so much

00:43:54.800 no worries no worries and also also guys as somebody who doesn't have a mother anymore i could

00:44:01.600 promise you promise you that when you lose your mother you're going to regret not reaching out to

00:44:09.600 her as much as you could have okay so just wanted to let you know that just take it from somebody

00:44:16.240 who has lost his mother that no matter how much you talk to her no matter how many times you call

00:44:22.720 her and no matter how much you spend time with her when you lose her you're going to

00:44:31.040 you're going to think to yourself i should have i should have called her more i should have told

00:44:36.480 her i love you more i should have spent more time with her and i did it okay so just letting you

00:44:43.680 know okay um guys you know your mom's i know you're an atheist but i'm not and so your mom's

00:44:52.340 spirit is always with you so i just want you to know that but um you know what you should do

00:44:57.780 tomorrow is uh you should um uh because your your wife is a mother to your puppies so you need to

00:45:05.900 get your wife a mother's day gift on behalf of your puppies so you should you should treat your

00:45:11.100 wife because she's a mummy okay yes you know what she'll love that if you if you like you know get

00:45:21.440 her some gifts on behalf of your dogs and get her some like cards you know mother's day cards on

00:45:26.400 behalf of your dogs she's gonna love that you know what that's a genius and that's a genius idea you

00:45:32.040 what i'm gonna do that i'm gonna do that she's gonna be so shocked and then and then yeah okay

00:45:37.880 that's a great idea okay oh my god yeah take her for brunch you know treat her somewhere i don't 1.00

00:45:42.760 know like get her like a bouquet of roses i don't know get her like a gift and like a bouquet of 0.91

00:45:47.320 roses and like a mother's day card but don't put your name put like the dog's names in there and

00:45:52.600 then you'll get a lot of brownie points and bonus points for that oh my god that's a genius idea

00:46:00.680 thank you goldie thank you i appreciate that okay okay i'll do i'll do that okay okay okay

00:46:06.760 all right guys one more time link in the description gonna go to the discussion group

00:46:11.800 uh or you could scan the qr code and i'll see you guys in about two hours joining goldie and

00:46:19.320 yeah see you guys then all right guys bye take care okay guys you're stuck with me mohahaha

00:46:28.920 Oh, you're stuck with me, guys. All right. So the first thing that I want to do is I want to

00:46:37.200 listen to Marco Rubio's comments from yesterday. And let's see what Marco Rubio had to say after

00:46:47.380 meeting with the Pope. We've seen a few clips here and there. So we're going to watch this.

00:46:54.380 And then, guys, stay tuned, because after this, I'm actually going to go to, because based on this super chat that we received from KP, so after we're done watching Senator Marco Rubio, 0.56

00:47:17.220 we're going to go to the video that KP recommended, how Iran's apocalyptic quest for

00:47:27.480 nuclear weapons brought its own destruction. So looks pretty interesting. I mean, the fact that

00:47:35.440 the Islamic regime is apocalyptic, and basically wants to destroy the world. I mean, 1.00

00:47:42.560 We as Iranians, we already know that. But it's interesting to see other people speaking about

00:47:49.640 this. Now, you know, of course, I don't like when they say Iran, because this apocalyptic

00:47:55.120 Shia Islamic death cult, they're not Iranian, right? There's nothing Iranian about them. It's 1.00

00:48:02.600 the Islamic regime. It's that Islamic Shia jihadi mentality. However, however, you know, we'll let 0.99

00:48:10.140 it slide. But yeah, so after we're done watching Marco Rubio, we're going to go and watch this

00:48:16.980 because I'm curious to see if their analysis is correct. So there you go. That's what we're

00:48:24.720 going to do for the next couple of hours. Marcus Muster says, one more super chat. Let's effing

00:48:34.220 go that's a thing go and then hi z hezi her shorn says no goldie you are stuck with us 0.61

00:48:42.300 yeah okay guys do not make me don't make me torture you guys because i will

00:48:47.180 i will you guys don't want me to torture you guys because i can and i will right

00:48:54.940 remember i have all the power i have all the power right now and

00:49:04.220 If I, if I wanted to, I could do something like this.

00:49:13.060 Let me, oh my gosh.

00:49:17.900 If I wanted to, I could do something like this. 0.99

00:49:21.440 I could torture you guys. 1.00

00:49:22.300 Oh, wow. 0.99

00:49:25.420 Wow.

00:49:26.020 Dang it.

00:49:27.280 Oh, wow.

00:49:29.920 Oh, wow. 1.00

00:49:31.080 Yeah, I could just play the high Houthi guy for you guys. 1.00

00:49:48.820 Yeah. 1.00

00:49:50.640 See?

00:49:52.680 See, now you guys actually wish I Rick-rolled you.

00:49:56.100 Now you guys wish that I Rick-rolled you guys.

00:50:01.080 you guys wish that I Rick rolled you because that even Rick rolling is way better than this crazy 0.98

00:50:07.100 dude. So, but okay, let's go to Senator Rubio and let's go to Senator Rubio. All right. I think 0.86

00:50:16.640 everyone's had time to, to scan the widget. So I'm going to change the layout here and let's go.

00:50:24.380 Okay, let's just go to questions, you ready?

00:50:28.380 Go ahead.

00:50:30.380 Hi, thanks for doing this.

00:50:32.380 I wanted to ask you first about your meetings yesterday with the Pope Leo.

00:50:36.380 President Trump has had very harsh language and words for the Pope,

00:50:40.380 I guess the backdrop of the war in Atlanta.

00:50:44.380 Did you make amends with the Pope yesterday?

00:50:46.380 No, we had a very good meeting.

00:50:48.380 I mean, ultimately, it's important, first of all,

00:50:52.380 that we work together with with the church and we talked about those areas that we're working

00:50:56.620 together on different parts of the world i know everyone's interested in you know the other

00:51:00.780 aspects of it but i expressed you know updated them on the situation with iran expressed our 0.65

00:51:05.360 point of view about why this was an important and the danger that iran poses to the world which is

00:51:09.360 largely recognized so obviously the you know the the the holy father is a is a spiritual leader

00:51:15.800 he's the first and foremost i mean that's that's his role to play and obviously the church has

00:51:21.020 always interacted on behalf of a mission for peace and uh and and a respect for all of humanity and

00:51:27.960 and but at the end it was a very cordial important meeting and it's important to share our points of

00:51:33.280 view and an explanation and an understanding of where we're coming from and i thought it was very

00:51:38.120 positive you also mentioned uh talking about the western hemisphere with the pope and of course

00:51:45.780 the Catholic Church is instrumental in delivering humanitarian aid to Cuba.

00:51:51.760 I wondered if you discussed that and whether there was any disagreements on U.S. policy towards Cuba.

00:51:58.120 We discussed, I mean, we've provided $6 million of humanitarian aid,

00:52:03.000 U.S. humanitarian aid that was distributed by Caritas, the Catholic Church agency.

00:52:07.240 We're prepared to do more.

00:52:08.480 In fact, we've offered the regime near $100 million of humanitarian aid

00:52:11.820 that unfortunately, so far, they have not agreed to distribute to help the people of Cuba.

00:52:15.860 So we did the hurricane relief, but we're offering more.

00:52:19.320 And it's the regime that's not accepting it.

00:52:21.140 It's the regime that's standing in the way of it.

00:52:22.720 So we discussed that, and we hope we can do it,

00:52:25.440 because we do want to help the people of Cuba who are being hurt by this incompetent regime

00:52:30.520 that's destroyed the country and the economy.

00:52:33.180 Can I ask about the meeting with the Pope?

00:52:35.820 I mean, after this meeting with the Pope, which you've described as cordial and productive,

00:52:39.240 Are you going to recommend to the president that he stops criticizing the Pope and social media?

00:52:44.640 Why would I tell you what I'm going to recommend to the president?

00:52:46.640 But beyond that, the president will always speak clearly about how he feels about the U.S. and U.S. policy.

00:52:51.820 The president of the United States is always going to act in what's in the best interest of the United States.

00:52:55.780 I think we can do that and continue to also have a very productive and fruitful and important relationship with the church

00:53:02.460 because it plays an important role in the world as well.

00:53:04.680 Secretary Rubio, were there any themes from your conversation yesterday with Pope Leo that resonated with you personally?

00:53:16.840 Well, if it was personal, what would I tell you?

00:53:19.220 No, here's the bottom line on that is that the church is an important global institution.

00:53:24.040 It has a presence all over the world.

00:53:25.380 I know you guys are fixated on who said what about who at what time.

00:53:28.840 I understand all that, OK, because media, you guys have headlines, you have editors, you have people that want you to post.

00:53:32.840 These are interesting stories.

00:53:33.860 But at the end of the day, the Pope just returned from Africa, a very important continent with growing Christian populations, many of whom are threatened or feel threatened by the spread of radical Islamic terrorism.

00:53:45.460 So we care about that.

00:53:46.920 The Pope and the church has an interest in Christian communities in Lebanon, a place that we're very involved in trying to establish a peace between Israel and Lebanon.

00:53:54.620 The church obviously has a very important presence in Latin America.

00:53:57.860 The bishops from Venezuela had just been here a few days earlier.

00:54:01.360 So we shared thoughts about those sorts of things.

00:54:03.220 I think it's an opportunity to personally express our point of view from the standpoint of foreign policy and the areas we're involved in and share insights, but also to gain insights, because the church has a unique role in many of these countries in terms of the insights and information that they're receiving.

00:54:18.100 In some cases in the past, the church has been an important interlocutor, not just with governments, but with societies.

00:54:23.580 And then, of course, on the practical level, the church plays an important role in humanitarian efforts in different parts of the world

00:54:29.400 and in many places has served as a facilitator of U.S. humanitarian assistance,

00:54:34.000 such as I highlighted a moment ago when it comes to Cuba.

00:54:36.600 Yes, go ahead. I'll get to that.

00:54:38.240 Mr. Secretary, can you say in your meeting with Prime Minister Maloney

00:54:41.100 whether you talked about the possibility of withdrawing U.S. troops from Italy

00:54:43.980 as well as the possibility of the United States withdrawing from NATO altogether?

00:54:47.180 We didn't discuss any specifics like that, and that's a decision for the president to make.

00:54:51.280 It's a decision every president makes.

00:54:53.020 The fact of the matter, though, is, and I said, you know, publicly, and I've said repeatedly,

00:54:59.820 I've been a strong supporter of NATO throughout my career in the Senate and even now.

00:55:03.160 And one of the advantages of being in NATO is that it allows us to have forces deployed in Europe and bases

00:55:09.600 that allow us a logistical ability to project power in the case of contingencies.

00:55:14.700 But we had a contingency.

00:55:16.200 And some countries in Europe, some countries in Europe, like Spain as an example,

00:55:19.720 denied us the use of those bases for a very important contingency.

00:55:23.020 that in some ways the denial of those bases actually impeded the mission, not severely, but had a cost and, in fact, even created some unnecessary dangers.

00:55:32.620 So if one of the main reasons why the U.S. is in NATO is the ability to have forces deployed in Europe that we could project to other contingencies,

00:55:41.340 and now that's no longer the case, at least when it comes to some NATO members, that's a problem and has to be examined.

00:55:46.580 but ultimately that's a decision for the president to make his team and people like myself and others

00:55:51.820 will provide him what those potential options are but ultimately he'll have to make that decision

00:55:55.840 he hasn't made those decisions yet as far as recent news of deployments like for example the

00:56:00.740 one those were all already ongoing for example in germany the the troops that were withdrawn

00:56:05.720 which represent less than 14 percent of our total troop presence there that's already pre-programmed

00:56:10.440 and in fact all it did is take us back to where we were in 2022 and and so there was there was

00:56:15.740 always a plan to do some shifting within NATO. As far as broader changes, I don't have an

00:56:22.120 announcement for you on that today, but that's a decision for the president to make. Certainly,

00:56:26.040 we'll present both options and perspectives, but I don't have anything new to announce on that

00:56:30.540 today. Your former colleagues on the Hill, the Republican senators, believe that troops' withdrawal

00:56:36.080 will embolden Putin and will benefit Russia. Do you agree with that assessment?

00:56:44.980 Well, in the end, the United States is always, the president is going to always do what's in the national interest.

00:56:49.100 We have global obligations all over the world.

00:56:51.400 We have troop deployments all over the world, and those are constantly shifting and changing.

00:56:55.140 For example, we increased troop presence in NATO in the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine.

00:57:00.320 So we're always making these decisions, and there were some already previewed before any of this had happened in terms of the base denials.

00:57:07.960 But in the end, look, here's the bottom line is the we always, you know, while we may be the most powerful country in the world and we may have the most resources, our resources are not unlimited.

00:57:18.160 We have to always assign resources around the world, including military resources on the basis of what serves the national interest.

00:57:24.900 That's a decision the president has to make, especially within the context of recent developments by some countries within NATO and the stance they've taken towards the United States.

00:57:33.300 but you know with no decisions been made on that yet that's something the

00:57:36.960 president's still working through. Have you managed to bridge differences on Iran

00:57:41.180 both with Rome and with that matter? Yeah I mean I don't I think everybody agrees

00:57:46.440 that Iran having a nuclear weapon is unacceptable. I mean I don't know of

00:57:50.420 anyone who thinks it's a good idea for Iran to have a nuclear weapon except the 0.91

00:57:53.640 Ayatollah so I think the question is what do you do about it and the 0.89

00:57:58.060 president's actually trying to do something about it and so I mean that's

00:58:02.160 I don't think there's any disagreement that they can't have a nuclear weapon.

00:58:07.060 I think the question is, what do you do about it?

00:58:08.780 And, you know, we've had every American president says, oh, they can't have a nuclear weapon.

00:58:12.660 This is the first American president that's actually trying to do something concrete about it.

00:58:17.700 I don't know who would disagree with that.

00:58:19.180 I mean, it's an important thing that has to be confronted.

00:58:21.060 Can we give us an official update on the status of negotiations with the broad right?

00:58:26.120 Well, we should know something today.

00:58:27.400 I mean, we're expecting a response from them.

00:58:28.960 We'll see what the response entails.

00:58:30.980 The hope is it's something that it can put us into a serious process of negotiation. 0.72

00:58:35.620 Obviously, we've seen the reporting overnight that Iran has established

00:58:38.540 or trying to establish some agency that's going to control traffic in the Straits.

00:58:43.220 That would be very problematic.

00:58:44.240 That would actually be unacceptable.

00:58:46.420 I mean, the normalizing of their controlling of international waterways

00:58:50.660 is both illegal and it's just something that's unacceptable.

00:58:53.580 And the world has to start asking itself, 0.96

00:58:55.240 what is it willing to do if Iran tries to normalize a control of an international waterway? 0.94

00:59:00.240 I think that's unacceptable. 0.99

00:59:02.480 But we're expecting a response from them today at some point.

00:59:05.780 We have not received that yet in the last hour, but perhaps that will come.

00:59:10.580 Their system is still highly fractured and a bit dysfunctional as well.

00:59:13.980 So that may be serving as an impediment.

00:59:16.820 I hope it's a serious offer. I really do.

00:59:19.180 Can you confirm there's a resume of talks between Israel and Lebanon next week?

00:59:25.480 Do you expect talks?

00:59:27.760 I don't know if we've set the exact date yet, but we expect that there'll be additional talks.

00:59:32.120 Look, it's one of the areas that I think we can work with Italy on.

00:59:35.780 They can play a very productive role and a constructive role in providing resources to the Lebanese government.

00:59:41.180 In the end, we all share the same goal.

00:59:42.880 And by all, I mean including the Lebanese government and the Israeli government,

00:59:46.160 that we want the relations between Israel and Lebanon, its legitimate government, to be very strong. 0.93

00:59:51.780 The impediment to that is Hezbollah.

00:59:54.260 again, an Iranian agent, Hezbollah, who is victimizing not just Israelis, but Hezbollah

00:59:59.460 is also victimizing Lebanon. The reason why Lebanon faces bombings, the reason why Lebanon 0.92

01:00:04.100 faces violence is because of Hezbollah. It is Hezbollah that's imposing this on them. So I 0.96

01:00:08.600 think we all share the same goal, which is a strong Lebanese government that doesn't have

01:00:13.120 an armed Hezbollah operating within its national territory, imposing a threat to any of its

01:00:17.280 neighbors. And to do that, we have to empower and equip the Lebanese government to be able to

01:00:21.280 confront that threat and I think Italy and other countries but Italy in

01:00:24.460 particular can play an important role and not just helping equip the

01:00:28.280 government but in cutting off the illicit financing that supports helping 0.64

01:00:31.400 them to cut off the financing that supports Hezbollah and the danger they 0.81

01:00:34.660 pose. Is it possible to get a peace deal on Lebanon without first solving the

01:00:40.960 conflict with Iran? How linked are those two conflicts right now? I mean Hezbollah

01:00:45.100 is an Iranian agent 100%. I mean Hezbollah wouldn't exist without Iran's 1.00

01:00:48.640 support. But I think it's possible. I mean, Hezbollah has been both weakened, but still 0.82

01:00:55.040 capable of inflicting damage and doing terroristic activities, as we've seen. So I think the

01:01:00.820 way I would phrase it is, we're not going to negotiate with Iran over Hezbollah, because 0.93

01:01:04.240 Hezbollah is a dangerous, other than they're willing to stop funding them and supporting 0.83

01:01:09.760 them. I think our role is with the Lebanese government. Lebanon should be governed by

01:01:15.400 Lebanese government. It should not have a terrorist group operating within its

01:01:18.820 national territory that poses a threat both to its own people, including the

01:01:22.960 Shia population, and to the government, and to Israel, and to its other neighbors. 1.00

01:01:27.040 So that's what we're going to focus on. Mr. Secretary, can we come back to Cuba a

01:01:31.120 little bit? The United States, including yesterday, are ramping up sanctions

01:01:36.400 against Cuba, the regime, and all that. With the exchange with the Pope, did you

01:01:43.000 feel any convergence of views on that? Let me clarify something for you. Our sanctions are

01:01:48.920 against a company named Gaisa. This is a holding company set up by generals in Cuba that has

01:01:55.220 generated billions of dollars of revenue, none of which benefits the Cuban people. Not one cent of

01:01:59.980 it benefits the Cuban people. You understand this, right? I don't know if you know this.

01:02:04.100 There's the Cuban government, and they have a budget, and then there's this private company

01:02:08.440 that has more money than the government does.

01:02:11.180 None of the money in that company

01:02:12.520 goes to build a single road, a single bridge, 0.98

01:02:15.100 provide a single grain of rice to a single Cuban, 0.71

01:02:17.840 other than the people that are part of Gaisa. 1.00

01:02:19.820 So that's what we're sanctioning,

01:02:21.240 is a company that basically is taking

01:02:23.040 anything that makes money in Cuba

01:02:24.420 and illegally putting it into the pockets

01:02:26.700 of a few regime insiders.

01:02:29.480 So that's not sanctions on the Cuban people

01:02:31.020 because the Cuban people don't benefit from Gaisa.

01:02:33.140 It's a sanction against this company

01:02:34.660 that is stealing from the Cuban people

01:02:36.580 to the benefit of a few.

01:02:37.740 and we didn't discuss those sanctions yesterday but we imposed them yesterday and we're going to

01:02:42.340 be doing more by the way many people thought that your your was a mission impossible after the

01:02:50.300 trump's attacks heavy attacks which mission i'm sorry the mission impossible yes well what's your

01:02:56.940 judgment at the end of the visit mission we work with the vatican on a lot of things our relationship

01:03:03.160 between you know for example our mission here in the vatican like i told you i mean we're working

01:03:06.880 together on humanitarian issues. We're focused on other issues as well. The president's perspective

01:03:12.900 is clear. He thinks that Iran is a threat, and it needs to be addressed. And that position

01:03:18.880 remains unchanged. And I think we're capable of having that position and expressing that position

01:03:24.080 clearly, and also working cooperatively, and as we have for centuries, as we have for decades,

01:03:30.780 with the Vatican and with the Catholic Church, who has a global presence.

01:03:33.580 Did you just recently ask the Pope to stop his criticism of the Iran War?

01:03:39.280 I'm not going to discuss when I talk about the Pope, but I'm not going to ask him.

01:03:42.260 That's not the purpose of it.

01:03:43.500 I told you guys before I even came here, and that is that we have a very strong relationship with the fact

01:03:48.600 we work with him on a lot of things around the world.

01:03:50.840 This was a trip that had been planned even before all these things had happened.

01:03:54.060 So just as an example, why would I not want to hear the perspectives of the most important,

01:04:01.240 in many cases, a far-reaching religious leader in the world,

01:04:04.820 on his perspectives about what he saw on his trip to Africa

01:04:07.380 or what his bishops and others and agencies are hearing in the Western Hemisphere

01:04:11.020 or the plight of Christians in Africa, but also those in Lebanon.

01:04:17.120 So, of course, we're going to engage with them on these things.

01:04:19.200 That was the purpose of our meeting, and in that realm, it was very, very productive.

01:04:21.940 And it was a good meeting because we were able to talk about these different areas of the world

01:04:25.760 where they have a presence, where they are engaged, and we are as well,

01:04:29.260 and, of course, find opportunities to either continue cooperating

01:04:32.220 where that already exists, like in Cuba,

01:04:34.060 or expand our cooperation in other places where it makes sense.

01:04:37.060 Is it fair to expect a phone call between the president and the Pope anytime soon?

01:04:41.700 I don't know. Maybe. I don't know. I mean, it could happen.

01:04:45.020 May I ask you about Iran, if possible?

01:04:47.360 You declared that Operation Epic Fury was over.

01:04:50.820 Now, given all these military actions we're facing on the ground,

01:04:55.160 what does over mean militarily?

01:04:57.560 No, no.

01:04:57.900 Operation Epic Fury was an offensive operation designed to destroy their missile launches, 0.80

01:05:01.940 their Navy, their Air Force, and it achieved that, and their factories, and it achieved 0.55

01:05:05.360 that.

01:05:06.040 What you saw yesterday was U.S. destroyers moving through international waters being

01:05:09.980 fired upon by the Iranians, and the U.S. responded defensively to protect itself.

01:05:14.880 That's what you saw. 0.90

01:05:17.560 I mean, that's separate and distinct from Operation Epic Fury.

01:05:22.680 If you fire a drone or a missile at our destroyer, what are we supposed to do?

01:05:27.040 it hit it we have to respond to it we have to knock down the missile we have to knock out whatever 0.52

01:05:31.440 it is that launched that missile the alternative is to let it sink one of our ships that's crazy

01:05:35.840 so of course we responded to it well i guess but the point is if uh if there's not much seizing 0.54

01:05:41.520 in the firing because we well you should ask that of the iranians don't ask me we didn't fire they

01:05:45.600 fired on us my point is if you fired a u.s navy ship what are we supposed to do say oh there's 1.00

01:05:50.400 a ceasefire we're not going to shoot down your drone that's a stupid question that's a stupid 1.00

01:05:54.320 position to take. Of course we fired back at them. They were shooting at us. That's what I would 1.00

01:05:58.420 expect to do. Only stupid countries don't shoot back when you're shot at, and we're not a stupid 1.00

01:06:02.660 country. Do you expect that there, or have you conveyed any red lines to Iran where, you know, 1.00

01:06:08.560 if the ceasefire or whatever you call it, if they cross certain red lines? Well, the red line is 0.56

01:06:12.420 clear. If they threaten Americans, they're going to get blown up. I mean, that's how much clearer

01:06:16.280 can you be than that? If you fire on, if you are a missile launching guy, whatever they call that

01:06:21.080 job and you're sitting there and you fire a missile at the United States and we saw you fire 0.99

01:06:25.040 it, we're going to hit you. Of course we are. Who doesn't do that? Unless you want to get your ship 0.99

01:06:29.440 sunk. I mean, we're not going to let our ships get sunk by the Iranians with their little, you know, 1.00

01:06:34.500 their drones that they're firing. You know, they don't have a Navy anymore, but they bring out 1.00

01:06:38.160 these little Boston whaler fishing boats and they try to swarm you. We're going to blow those boats

01:06:41.660 up if they're coming towards our boats. I don't know if that's a red line, but I hope they know

01:06:45.360 it is by now. So if I were one of these Iranians on a fast boat and they tell you, hey, your mission 1.00

01:06:49.660 is to go after a U.S. destroyer, you're probably not going to survive.

01:06:53.360 I think that's a red line.

01:06:54.980 Can I use a word about the European reaction?

01:06:57.300 Does anybody have any questions?

01:06:59.480 These guys are like a monopoly over here.

01:07:01.520 Yes.

01:07:02.740 The President has expressed disappointment in support or lack thereof in Europe.

01:07:08.520 Was there any discussion today in your meeting with Prime Minister Maloney

01:07:11.360 or Foreign Minister Tahani about them providing escorts in the Strait of Homeland?

01:07:15.260 No, it was that level of specificity.

01:07:17.360 Here's the bottom line.

01:07:18.380 Okay. Everybody says Iran is a threat. Everybody says that Iran can't have a nuclear weapon.

01:07:23.480 Okay. But you got to do something about it. The president's trying to do something about it. 0.97

01:07:27.780 And I don't understand why anybody would not be supportive of that. And he doesn't understand

01:07:31.740 and rightfully so are somebody would be supportive of that. But here's a more fundamental problem.

01:07:35.140 Iran now claims that they own, that they have a right to control an international waterway. 0.93

01:07:41.140 They claim that they have a right to control it. What is the world going to do about that? 0.97

01:07:44.980 Is the world going to accept that Iran now controls an international waterway? 0.99

01:07:49.020 Because if the world is prepared to accept that, then be ready, 0.97

01:07:51.760 because there's like 10 other countries that are going to start doing the same thing

01:07:54.380 in their international waterways, or in international waterways near their countries.

01:07:58.780 That's an unacceptable thing that they're trying to normalize. 0.94

01:08:02.300 So if the answer is no, we don't think Iran should be able to control the Straits of Hormuz, 0.98

01:08:06.280 then the next question is going to be for everyone, 0.89

01:08:08.500 well, what are you going to do about it?

01:08:10.080 What is the world prepared to do about it?

01:08:11.880 And we're trying to do something about it diplomatically.

01:08:13.860 we have a resolution at the United Nations that we're trying to move forward in which the world

01:08:18.200 and the UN will have an opportunity through the Security Council to vote and say we are not going

01:08:23.320 to allow them to mine the straits. We're not going to allow them to try to control the straits. And

01:08:27.560 by the way, you have a bunch of humanitarian aid that's trapped inside the Persian Gulf and needs

01:08:31.540 to be released and has not been able to move. We're going to give the world a chance to pronounce

01:08:36.280 itself on it. And if Russia or China or some other country decide to veto it, then you know what the

01:08:40.820 impediment is. But the fundamental question every country, not Italy, every country needs to ask

01:08:44.940 themselves is, are you going to normalize a country claiming to control an international

01:08:50.180 waterway? Because if you normalize that, you set a precedent that's going to get repeated in a dozen

01:08:53.900 other places. And if the answer is, no, we don't want to normalize it, then you better have something

01:08:58.000 more than just strongly worded statements to back it up. And that's the point I've made in all of

01:09:02.920 my visits, not just here. I didn't come to Italy just to make that point. I would say that to any

01:09:06.760 country that complains about the straits because that's what we potentially are facing unless we

01:09:11.800 get a good deal from the iranians and we're waiting to hear that today to taiwan actually

01:09:18.200 sorry geographically you can go around the world parliament just approved a a pretty big massive

01:09:25.880 defense bill uh today or last night um there was a little bit less than what uh the president of

01:09:33.160 taiwan was asking for but nonetheless it's a it's a big bill including money to buy u.s arms

01:09:40.600 what is your reaction to that if any and specifically in the context of the trip you

01:09:45.160 will be doing with the president next week in china well all i would say in context of the

01:09:49.800 trip next week in taiwan in specific is the united states does our policy remains unchanged

01:09:55.240 you know we don't want to see any forced or compelled change in the situation now i think

01:09:59.880 would be destabilizing to the world it's uh our position on that has been you know we've heard 0.87

01:10:05.240 obviously the chinese position but we've made our position on that clear as well and um and

01:10:11.080 i imagine that will be discussed in the trip but i don't think it'll be a feature of our trip but

01:10:16.280 it'll certainly be an item that's discussed we think it's to the benefit of china the united

01:10:20.120 states and the world writ large that there be stability in the straits there and that continues

01:10:24.120 to be our position that's the one we'll continue to stand by and advocate for i'd have time for

01:10:28.120 For one more, we have to move.

01:10:29.120 Let me ask you about Ukraine before you go.

01:10:30.780 You spoke with Lavrov recently, and they targeted kindergarten in Ukraine even after they advocated

01:10:35.960 for ceasefire.

01:10:36.960 Where does the negotiations stand out?

01:10:39.880 Well, right now, the negotiations aren't – we're not – we've tried to play a mediator

01:10:44.000 role in that.

01:10:46.040 So far, it has not led to a fruitful outcome for a variety of reasons.

01:10:51.300 We remain prepared to play that role if it can be productive.

01:10:53.820 We don't want to waste our time and invest time and energy in an effort that's not moving

01:10:57.440 forward. But if we see an opportunity to act as a mediator that brings both sides closer to a peace

01:11:02.840 deal, we'd like to see it. Our position at the end of the day is that this war is a tragedy.

01:11:06.980 Both sides are paying a very heavy price for it, both economic and obviously at a human level.

01:11:12.600 It's destructive. We're against it. And anytime you tell me about strikes and people, every time

01:11:16.800 I hear about these things, it just reminds us of why this war needs to end. And while we're prepared

01:11:21.460 to play whatever role we can to bring it to a peaceful diplomatic resolution, unfortunately,

01:11:26.460 You know, right now, those efforts have stagnated, but we always stand ready if those circumstances change.

01:11:31.360 Can I just ask one on Africa?

01:11:34.280 I mean, the president committed last year to personally intervening to help try to end the war in Sudan.

01:11:40.580 The pope, in one of his addresses, called this one of the world's greatest tragedies.

01:11:45.720 Did this come up at all in your discussions?

01:11:47.440 And do you see any movement?

01:11:48.860 Well, we discussed Africa broadly and, of course, Sudan being an incredible tragedy. 0.93

01:11:53.460 We've been heavily engaged through that quad process. 0.55

01:11:56.460 Obviously, Sudan has become in some way sort of a proxy engagement between multiple countries

01:12:00.580 who are behind some of the elements that are fighting.

01:12:03.100 There are other countries that are not directly involved but have allowed their national territories

01:12:06.680 to be used as a way to ship weaponry.

01:12:10.300 We recently had a pretty positive announcement for the first time on a statement of principles,

01:12:14.060 but we have to give it some action.

01:12:15.900 What we've really been focused on in Sudan is sort of establishing a humanitarian ceasefire

01:12:20.080 that allows us to provide aid to people that are suffering tremendously there,

01:12:23.960 but not doing so at the expense of a broader deal.

01:12:26.240 So we do want the humanitarian ceasefire where we can identify a number of communities that are safe havens for the distribution of humanitarian aid for what is one of the world's worst humanitarian crises ever.

01:12:37.360 But you can't do that unless you have the security to be able to provide the aid.

01:12:41.400 But we don't we also want we don't want that to be the final outcome.

01:12:44.760 In addition to the humanitarian corridors and the humanitarian sites, we need to bring this conflict to an end.

01:12:51.600 And the way to bring this conflict to an end is for the countries and the parties who are supporting the fighting elements

01:12:57.300 to force these elements toward a peace deal that ends this conflict.

01:13:01.580 And as I said, we've been very involved in that quad process, invested a lot of time in it,

01:13:05.520 continue to be engaged on a daily basis, and in fact have people in our bureau in Africa,

01:13:09.920 as well as our special envoy, Saaboulos, involved almost daily on this topic.

01:13:14.880 Okay, guys, I've got to run. I apologize.

01:13:16.520 Were you surprised by your Italian organs?

01:13:18.400 Oh, Mr. Secretary, are you surprised by your Italian origin?

01:13:22.540 Well, not surprised today.

01:13:24.260 I learned about it in 2017 when PBS did a Finding Your Roots special.

01:13:29.980 That's where I found it.

01:13:31.120 How about the 2028 buzz?

01:13:33.520 Any comment on that, sir?

01:13:36.660 Okay, so that was Marco Rubio, his comments yesterday.

01:13:40.600 Not only is he focused on Iran, he's also focused on Cuba,

01:13:46.560 which I think is really important. So, okay, now let's go to this. I'm now interested to watch

01:13:54.300 this and see how accurate it is. Just keep in mind, like, again, my only criticism is they say

01:14:01.800 Iran, and it's obviously not an Iranian ideology. It's an Islamic Shia ideology. It's a foreign

01:14:09.780 It's a foreign ideology, right? It has nothing to do with Iran or Iranians.

01:14:16.040 But anyways, let's start. And I'm interested to see what this is all about.

01:14:24.800 Right now, the Middle East is sitting on a knife's edge until the Iranian regime will fall or until the head of a snake is finally cut off.

01:14:35.800 This war is far from over, and that's exactly why what you're about to see now matters so much to all of us.

01:14:45.260 That's right. Yair and I had the privilege of being part of a landmark documentary series

01:14:50.120 hosted by the one and only Eric Stackelbeck, Heroes of October 7th and beyond.

01:14:56.300 In a powerful episode called The Head of the Snake, the big picture of Israel's ongoing war against Iran,

01:15:03.420 We sat down with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister Ron Dermer, IDF commanders on the front lines and some of the sharpest mines covering this war anywhere in the world.

01:15:15.940 This is the episode that you need to watch. So stay with us.

01:15:25.500 The regime began to give the Mein Kampf in the mosques and in schools.

01:15:31.720 Iran is no ordinary enemy. It's the head of the snake.

01:15:37.720 Our assessment was that it would take them less than a year to create not only a nuclear device,

01:15:42.720 but possibly one or two nuclear bombs.

01:15:44.720 They're looking to do massive damage to the global economy. 0.73

01:15:48.720 Remind you some words from the Nazi final solution? 0.90

01:15:53.720 Israel is defending Western civilization. 0.59

01:15:56.720 There was footage out of Mossad agents assembling drones in Teheran. 0.51

01:16:03.720 Your role saves lives.

01:16:05.720 And if you make a mistake, people die.

01:16:26.720 on april 13 2024 for the first time ever iran struck israel directly

01:16:48.240 in the dead of night a storm of about 170 suicide drones

01:16:53.600 30 land attack cruise missiles and 120 ballistic missiles came roaring out of the skies

01:17:02.080 launched from over 1 000 miles away

01:17:07.280 iran boasted it was retaliation for a recent israeli strike in damascus

01:17:14.160 israeli jets leveled an irgc command hub killing two top kudz force generals

01:17:20.400 But more than that, Iran was looking for an opportunity to showcase its military might, to prove to the region and to the world that it could hit Israel head on.

01:17:36.820 Israelis huddled in their homes, sirens screaming. 0.80

01:17:42.060 That night felt like the turning of history. 0.52

01:17:45.000 Iran, not a terror cell, not a proxy army, but the regime itself was now attacking Israel head on.

01:17:54.640 This wasn't Hamas.

01:17:56.540 This wasn't Hezbollah.

01:17:58.780 This was a nation of 90 million people sitting on mountains of oil, boasting the region's largest arsenal of ballistic missiles.

01:18:09.080 and driving toward nuclear weapons Israel had been warning the world about for decades.

01:18:15.480 If this regime were to acquire nuclear weapons, this could presage catastrophic consequences for all of mankind. 0.82

01:18:25.600 Preventing the arming of Iran with nuclear weapons is a global imperative. 0.77

01:18:30.060 Iran will not have nuclear weapons.

01:18:33.660 It was the most frightening night many Israelis had ever lived through.

01:18:40.700 And then a miracle happened. 0.58

01:18:44.560 Almost 99% of projectiles were intercepted.

01:18:50.660 Thanks to Israel's superior multi-level air defense system, Iron Dome, David's Sling, and the Arrow.

01:18:59.400 Three layers of protection built to shield the people and land of Israel

01:19:05.600 from rockets, missiles, and long-range threats.

01:19:10.700 And they weren't alone.

01:19:13.340 The United States, the United Kingdom, France, and surprisingly,

01:19:17.920 Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE,

01:19:21.100 countries that had historically stood against Israel,

01:19:24.660 opened their airspace, shared intelligence,

01:19:27.560 and help Israel shield its skies. 0.99

01:19:30.900 They, too, were exhausted by Iranian tyranny

01:19:35.040 and quietly rooted for Israel's survival. 0.98

01:19:39.920 But Iran didn't stop. 0.78

01:19:44.200 Months later, when Israel executed a mind-blowing intelligence operation 0.73

01:19:49.680 on Iranian soil, taking out Hamas leader Ismail Hanea

01:19:54.240 right under the ayatollah's noses,

01:19:56.700 the regime vowed revenge again once more iran struck but once more it failed 0.67

01:20:06.740 their firepower could not breach israel's defenses 0.69

01:20:11.120 let's be clear iran is no ordinary enemy it's the driving force behind the terror

01:20:22.120 the head of the snake for decades the regime has funneled its oil revenue not into building a

01:20:30.860 strong economy and infrastructure for its people but into a military axis of evil

01:20:38.260 weapons factories missile sites churning out self-destructing drones 0.71

01:20:46.080 cruise missiles, solid and liquid-fueled ballistic weapons

01:20:51.580 capable of striking capitals hundreds of miles away

01:20:55.740 with nuclear warheads if unleashed.

01:21:00.560 They built an empire.

01:21:03.100 Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen,

01:21:08.000 Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria,

01:21:10.180 all financed, armed, and trained by Iran.

01:21:16.080 Its proxies choked Israel's borders, while Tehran stayed far from the front lines,

01:21:23.600 fighting from the shadows, pulling strings, keeping its hands clean,

01:21:28.500 until it couldn't anymore.

01:21:31.980 And until Israel and the United States reached a moment of historic resolve,

01:21:37.740 it was time to stop focusing on the tentacles and go for the head. 0.56

01:21:42.280 But the real question is, why? 0.87

01:21:46.700 Why has Iran devoted its treasure, its youth, its future, to endless war?

01:21:55.400 Understanding that question is the key to understanding why what began as a regional conflict became a global threat.

01:22:03.900 I'm sitting down with Benny Safdie, someone uniquely positioned to answer that question

01:22:11.620 firsthand. One of Israel's leading experts on Iran, he was just seven years old when

01:22:18.040 the Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile in 1979, igniting the Islamic revolution that

01:22:25.300 transformed Iran into the radical Islamist regime it is today.

01:22:33.900 Benny, you were born in Tehran, you lived through the Iranian Revolution, but how was 0.63

01:22:42.240 it growing up in Iran, before the Ayatollah, and then talk about the changes after he came

01:22:48.660 out?

01:22:49.660 Actually he wrote a book, The Rule of Islam, and most of the book is based on Mein Kampf,

01:22:58.420 on the book of Hitler. 0.63

01:23:02.020 before the revolution there were 120 000 jews in iran that's true they had good life they had jobs

01:23:13.060 an ancient community by the way from biblical times yes esther mordecai yes 2500 600 years of

01:23:19.860 ups and downs and pogroms and other things but it was a secular and free country and jews

01:23:25.700 had prosperity and also christians and many other minorities there

01:23:32.020 So, actually, guys, if there's ever a movie that you want to watch, this one, like, a lot of Hollywood movies about Iran, I don't recommend because they're, like, you know, super inaccurate or whatever.

01:23:46.860 But there's actually one movie that, surprisingly, I would highly, highly recommend.

01:23:54.440 If you haven't seen it, go watch Septembers of Shiraz.

01:23:59.180 It's with Adrienne Brody, Salma Hayek, Shohra Ogdashlu.

01:24:04.960 She's Iranian, by the way.

01:24:07.620 Incredibly good movie.

01:24:10.280 And it's basically about this Iranian Jewish family.

01:24:16.080 And it basically documents their lives before and after the Islamic coup d'etat

01:24:26.380 and how they went from, you know, living this free life under the Shah, because, you know,

01:24:34.740 everyone, like Ben is saying, when the Shah was in power, it was a normal country, freedom of

01:24:41.460 religion, Iranian Jews, you know, lived freely, just like everyone else. And it was only when

01:24:46.440 the Islamists took over in 1979, that they began persecuting Iranian Jews, confiscating their

01:24:52.960 assets confiscating their property and a lot of them had to escape um and i believe september's

01:24:57.980 of shiraz um might be based i think it's based on a a true story like it's it's based it's based on

01:25:05.440 a true story loosely so definitely definitely highly recommended go watch september's of shiraz

01:25:12.920 and it exposes that islamic uh shia fundamentalist ideology and uh it of course you know shows how

01:25:22.720 life was like before and after so there i just wanted to put that movie recommendation in there

01:25:29.920 because it is actually really good all these changed in a few months by propaganda false

01:25:37.600 propaganda against minorities a lot of anti-western slogans

01:25:46.560 they took over the israeli embassy no one was there so they couldn't take hostages

01:25:50.880 but they wanted like what happened in the american embassy of course 444 days they held

01:25:56.080 those exactly exactly and you know what iranian regime said about that they said that this was

01:26:02.720 the real revolution not the physical on the streets taking the u.s embassy we have to listen to them

01:26:14.080 they said that the revolution was not complete unless we took the u.s embassy

01:26:20.880 And the regime began to give the Mein Kampf in the mosques and in schools.

01:26:27.840 They began to give it to every child.

01:26:30.600 And we understood that we have to run away to escape. 0.93

01:26:34.160 To Israel. 0.98

01:26:34.940 Of course.

01:26:37.220 We connected a smuggler that brought us by foot to Pakistan.

01:26:41.960 And from there, flying to Europe and there to Israel, it took two weeks.

01:26:47.560 Thank God you're here.

01:26:48.540 Yes.

01:26:49.440 You mentioned Mein Kampf.

01:26:50.880 hitler laid out to the world in the 1920s what oh my god you see so even ben even ben and his family

01:26:58.400 had to leave iran because prior to 1979 uh iran was was a haven for jewish people aside from

01:27:07.440 israel the only other country in the middle east where jews could live freely without being

01:27:12.960 persecuted was iran up until 1979 before the islamic shia death cult mentality took over

01:27:19.600 there's so many guys so many so many stories like this he planned to do no one listened

01:27:25.760 the iranian regime has done the same over the years they've laid it out as you said

01:27:29.680 listen to what they say they mean what they say the first rule of war sun tzu know your enemy 0.70

01:27:36.380 just look on irgc symbol they have the world and a gun on that we want to take the world

01:27:47.500 exporting the revolution the other thing as well guys this is why like for us iranians it's very

01:27:53.260 frustrating when people call it the iranian regime or the iranian revolutionary guard corps

01:27:59.020 because when you look at the symbol there is nothing here nothing here whatsoever that

01:28:05.020 symbolizes iran or says iran in any way shape or form this is allah which is arabic uh this is like

01:28:11.340 like a gun um and then this is the name of the the irgc it's so it's basically the islamic

01:28:24.440 revolutionary guard corps right so they they talk about the islamic revolution there's nothing about

01:28:30.000 iran not even the name of iran is mentioned here so this is what this is why we iranians say 0.51

01:28:37.000 that we're occupied right we're under a foreign occupation by an invading islamic force 0.97

01:28:44.240 is the most important thing they come with the money they establish free kindergartens they 1.00

01:28:53.380 establish mosques and they begin to bring the propaganda did you see that like guys like this 1.00

01:29:00.740 is why we say that the women the women are even more vile and evil than the men establish look 0.98

01:29:06.900 this look at this jihadi this woman with a gun the women the women are even more cruel and evil 0.99

01:29:14.660 and depraved than the men and they begin to bring the propaganda we are the good ones 1.00

01:29:23.540 jews are the bad ones and they brainwash you you go to heaven to meet some virgins i don't know 0.99

01:29:32.740 so they do it in lebanon they do it in syria in iraq in everywhere they do it in europe islamic 1.00

01:29:39.460 centers and also in u.s the irgc is in everywhere inside iran and outside iran they have 16 propaganda

01:29:53.700 organizations the irgc that stands for islamic revolutionary guards core yes you know what is

01:30:01.540 missing in their name iranian where is iran we had to understand it in 79 another organization

01:30:09.940 that have no name of no country in his name hamas harakat muqabama islamia the islamic movement

01:30:19.060 where is palestine it truly is a global revolution exactly starts in iran it spreads throughout the

01:30:25.860 middle east to europe to america that's the ultimate end game like the irgc symbol if you

01:30:31.060 don't export the revolution the revolution will die why is this regime so obsessed with destroying 0.81

01:30:41.940 the world's one and only jewish state it's not about israel it's about the west all the other 0.50

01:30:48.820 ideologies democratic liberal ideologies they say i am the right all of the others 0.99

01:30:57.060 are wrong so we have to destroy them so the terror program and the propaganda

01:31:04.820 these were the main things that hit israel and west and when terror doesn't bring the answer 0.99

01:31:13.220 you go to the missile program the nuclear program is again another upgrade we cannot destroy israel 0.84

01:31:23.060 not by terror and not by missiles okay so we have to do something that can be final 0.86

01:31:29.940 remind you some words from the nazi final solution again we are there

01:31:36.420 April 13, 2024, it was the first time the Iranian regime directly attacked Israel. 0.83

01:31:45.460 And in doing so, they brought the wrath of Israel upon their own heads, really. 0.99

01:31:49.900 Just incredible accomplishments. 0.99

01:31:52.300 I mean, they literally know where the Iranian generals sleep. 0.54

01:31:56.700 How is Israel able to do this inside the borders of its greatest enemy?

01:32:02.000 yes the reason of that is because the iranian people hate their regime the iranian people

01:32:09.780 loathe this regime so much that they were willing to work with israel it's not about money

01:32:15.000 it's about i'm hating this regime more than the risk of cooperating with israel

01:32:23.460 so guys ben's english isn't the greatest obviously um you know he as you guys can tell

01:32:34.740 so what he meant by that is that um so what he means there is that um the the iranian people

01:32:45.000 hate and despise the islamic regime so much that they're literally willing to risk their lives

01:32:51.380 and cooperate and work with Israel in order to help overthrow the Islamic regime. 0.98

01:32:56.700 So that's how much they hate the Islamic regime, willing to risk their lives. 0.91

01:33:01.460 And guys, if you remember in previous shows, we've shown you footage and documents 0.95

01:33:10.400 and evidence that supports this, that proof of Iranians working with Mossad,

01:33:17.440 giving them information so that Mossad can target IRGC bases and checkpoints.

01:33:26.200 What happened next will be studied in military academies and debated by analysts for decades.

01:33:33.720 A mission known as Operation Rising Lion and a war named the 12-Day War.

01:33:40.880 Who would have believed that after 20 brutal months of war, Hamas in the south, Hezbollah in the north, missiles from Yemen, drone swarms from Iraq,

01:33:53.480 that this tiny country, just 77 years old, would turn and take on the heart of evil itself? 0.90

01:34:01.680 But as the war dragged on, Israeli intelligence discovered that Iran was on the brink of delivering

01:34:11.920 a fully assembled nuclear weapon, not just one, but the foundation to build many.

01:34:19.860 At the same time, new intelligence revealed a massive missile production factory in development,

01:34:26.900 one designed to produce 20,000 new ballistic missiles over the next few years,

01:34:33.600 each capable of carrying a warhead.

01:34:37.780 With Iran's missile arsenal already exceeding 3,000 precision-guided ballistic systems,

01:34:44.440 most capable of reaching distant targets with lethal force, 0.78

01:34:48.660 the threat was not hypothetical.

01:34:51.280 It was real and urgent.

01:34:54.320 All the pieces were aligned. 0.70

01:34:56.060 an American president who understood Iran's threat and backed Israel 100%. 0.60

01:35:02.820 In the dead of night, on June 13, 2025, Operation Rising Lion was unleashed.

01:35:11.400 Mossad sabotaged Iran's defenses from within.

01:35:17.500 Then, wave after wave, Israel's air force slammed over 100 sites across Iran,

01:35:25.420 centrifuges, missile factories, IRGC command posts. In a stunning blow, Israel also eliminated

01:35:34.260 numerous Iranian military commanders and nuclear scientists. The world held its breath, and then

01:35:43.380 the U.S. joined in, dropping bunker-busting bombs on Iranian nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz, 0.62

01:35:51.580 in Isfahan. Back home, Israel braced for the storm. Homefront Command activated a nationwide

01:36:01.180 warning system, giving families enough time to reach shelter as Iran unleashed volleys of deadly

01:36:08.400 ballistic missiles, ruthlessly targeting residential neighborhoods and even schools and hospitals.

01:36:14.900 Israel's air defense system intercepted most of them, but not all. 0.93

01:36:21.900 For 12 days, it was a national mission.

01:36:26.900 The Air Force, intelligence, special forces,

01:36:30.900 Home Front Command and civilians standing together.

01:36:34.900 Operation Rising Lion dealt a significant blow

01:36:38.900 to Iran's nuclear and missile programs, 0.82

01:36:41.900 programs, sending them back and demonstrating that Israel, despite being a fraction of Iran's 0.86

01:36:48.520 size, is a force to be reckoned with.

01:36:53.020 I'm sitting down with Jonathan Conriquez, former international IDF spokesperson and

01:36:58.620 leading defense analyst to unpack Israel's extraordinary deep penetration campaign against

01:37:05.340 Iran.

01:37:06.340 Jonathan, thanks so much for joining us.

01:37:10.220 about the years of planning and intelligence work that went into this operation yes i think there

01:37:16.540 was a collective astonishment at the israeli achievement of actually penetrating iranian

01:37:24.060 airspace dismantling air defenses and striking almost all of the components of the iranian

01:37:30.380 nuclear weapons program it was contrary to what many in the region and in the world believed would 0.74

01:37:38.140 be possible israel was able to do what it did without even one airman or woman being wounded

01:37:56.460 now that's a result of many years of planning of detail oriented intelligence analysis focusing

01:38:05.020 resources on understanding mapping analyzing their military capabilities their air defenses

01:38:11.980 of course being you know like a hawk on the iranian nuclear program all of its components

01:38:18.940 because there are many rogue nations in the world that are willing to supply the iranian regime

01:38:24.460 with the components that they need for the nuclear program china russia north korea pakistan

01:38:30.700 other countries that sadly, recklessly, are, you know, fueling madmen, 0.84

01:38:36.940 giving them the tools for weapons of mass destruction. 0.81

01:38:41.660 But Israel, what it did was to track also the personnel,

01:38:47.180 the scientists, the scientific minds, the key players of the Iranian nuclear program that were

01:38:53.020 taken out. If you don't have people who know what they're doing, then you can have the best

01:38:59.100 centrifuges in the world but you won't get far we're talking about mossad agents in iran over

01:39:07.500 an extended period of time they built the network the facilities the safe houses and everything was

01:39:15.980 in place so that when the order was given all systems were go and all pistons fired

01:39:23.420 in synchronization how does that even happen jonathan for israel to get so entrenched

01:39:27.820 inside iran under the regime's noses is a lot of that due to the discontent of the iranian people

01:39:33.420 against the regime they're willing to work with israel perhaps against the regime yes that's part

01:39:37.900 of it it's done you know by a lot of creative and hard work by men and women of the mossad

01:39:45.020 you don't get to such a level of operating deep into enemy country a thousand miles away from

01:39:51.420 israel without years of going in assessing who can you work with and how can you find common

01:39:58.460 interest with people on the ground who are at risk if they get caught they will face the most

01:40:04.860 severest of consequences and mossad went in their agents and people on the ground were able to

01:40:11.020 establish those networks we're talking about a nationwide network of informers collaborators

01:40:19.020 agents people that really were part of a big system so that's number one number two 0.88

01:40:27.580 the us and israel were coordinated extremely well and in fact were able to lull the islamic regime

01:40:36.220 into a false sense of security by conducting negotiations but by having a military option

01:40:42.620 ready the moment that the presidential deadline expired i would love to be able to make a great

01:40:49.500 deal a deal where and i come to you in good faith if we do progress here and if you the iranians

01:40:56.060 start to show me that you're willing to stop developing nuclear weapons i will tell the

01:41:02.300 Israelis to stand down but the Iranians didn't and you know I have a lot of respect for the 0.85

01:41:13.660 Iranians I have respect for the Islamic Republic I think that they are great planners I think that 1.00

01:41:18.860 they are long-term calculators what I think that got the best of them was hubris I think that they 1.00

01:41:29.580 They overestimated their own capabilities, underestimated Israeli resolve, creativity 0.99

01:41:37.720 and stamina.

01:41:41.300 And I think they did the worst thing that anybody in combat can do.

01:41:44.860 They started to believe their own propaganda. 0.83

01:41:48.060 And they started to believe that they can defeat Israel.

01:41:52.880 When we return, I'll be sitting down with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

01:41:59.880 as the region stands at the edge of its most defining moment in decades.

01:42:09.880 And when we speak about Iran's war against Israel,

01:42:13.880 we're not speaking only about strategy, about missiles or about nuclear threats.

01:42:19.880 We are speaking about real families, real cities, real communities that wake up one morning and

01:42:28.440 discover that war has reached their streets, their homes, their neighborhoods. That's exactly what

01:42:36.440 happened in Dimona, an Israeli city in the middle of the desert. Meir Panim's branch in Dimona was

01:42:43.160 hit after a direct missile strike in that area the building suffered severe structural damage

01:42:50.840 and is now completely unsafe to use what was once a place of warm dignity and daily meals

01:42:59.000 is now filled with broken glass debris and instability more than 470 residents were

01:43:06.520 displaced because of this attack and thousands of homes were affected and right in the middle of

01:43:12.920 all of this mail panim a lifeline for so many people was directly impacted inside the building

01:43:20.200 ceilings are at risk of collapse electrical and plumbing systems have been destroyed

01:43:27.480 entire sections of the facility need to be rebuilt from the ground up and yet the meals

01:43:33.480 that they provide to those that depend on them did not stop coming even without the building

01:43:41.000 even in the middle of the crisis the teams continue to provide food every single day to

01:43:48.120 the people who depend on them but emergency operations are not enough now we need to rebuild

01:43:56.760 not only to restore what was lost but to bring this place back to life a fully functioning

01:44:03.240 dignified space where people can once again receive meals with respect consistency and care

01:44:11.080 government support may cover part of the damage but it will not be enough to restore the heart

01:44:16.040 of this place that depends on us so today as we tell the story of a regime that turned its

01:44:24.520 resources into missiles we also want the opportunity to answer with something very different compassion

01:44:33.240 rebuilding and hope if you want to stand with the people of dimona and israeli city

01:44:39.880 in the south of this country in the desert and help rebuild this place of hope we invite you

01:44:46.200 to give today you can visit bless israel.org again that's bless israel.org and be part of restoring

01:44:56.200 and as we return now to the story of iran remember this contrast one side builds missiles to destroy

01:45:06.920 israel our land our people and those who stand with her and then the other side is rebuilding life

01:45:17.560 from the rubble and investing in the future this is the wall between good and evil

01:45:26.200 if you were to ask any israeli leader any high-ranking general before israel's war with

01:45:35.560 iran what the greatest existential threat to israel was the answer would have been immediate

01:45:42.160 iran's nuclear program for years prime minister benjamin netanyahu stood before the world

01:45:49.040 at the United Nations warning of that very danger.

01:45:53.760 Who could forget the moment in 2012

01:45:56.300 when he held up that cartoon diagram of a bomb?

01:46:00.840 This is a bomb.

01:46:01.980 A red marker in his hand,

01:46:04.300 drawing a line and telling the world 0.88

01:46:06.500 this is how close Iran is to the bomb. 0.88

01:46:10.700 A red line should be drawn right here. 0.99

01:46:14.380 And this is where they must be stopped.

01:46:17.800 Speech after speech, year after year, Bibi hammered home the same message. 0.58

01:46:24.100 Iran's nuclear ambitions were not just Israel's problem, they were the world's problem.

01:46:30.620 The threat was clear. 0.92

01:46:33.620 Iran's program wasn't about peaceful energy. 0.54

01:46:36.920 It was about enrichment, uranium stockpiles, secret facilities buried deep underground, 0.64

01:46:44.300 and the ultimate prize, a nuclear warhead. 0.65

01:46:51.740 Moreover, to allow this to a regime that has bullied the entire Middle East for decades

01:46:58.120 with an ideology held bent on world domination through extremism would be catastrophic. 0.63

01:47:07.620 Israel always knew this day would come. 0.86

01:47:10.420 Every general, every intelligence officer, every leader understood that at some point, Israel would have to neutralize Iran's nuclear program.

01:47:22.680 I'm sitting down with prime.

01:47:26.120 Yeah, except I just want to add here. 0.97

01:47:29.140 I think I think you also have to keep in mind you cannot neutralize the nuclear program of the Islamic regime unless you get rid of the Islamic regime. 0.99

01:47:40.420 Right. Because as long as the Islamic regime is in existence, they will try to build a nuclear bomb because that's like their end goal is to remain in power. 1.00

01:47:51.260 And they see, you know, a country like North Korea and no one touches North Korea because they have a nuclear nuclear bomb. 0.99

01:47:58.560 So unless and until you eradicate the Islamic regime, they will never, ever, ever stop trying to build a nuclear bomb and get access, gain control of a nuclear bomb. 0.99

01:48:10.420 Because that would ensure their survival. 0.95

01:48:14.500 Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to understand the full implications of a nuclear Iran. 0.96

01:48:21.720 Mr. Prime Minister, thanks so much for joining us in Jerusalem and hosting us.

01:48:26.220 How close was the Iranian regime to the bomb?

01:48:29.240 And when did you get the sense that the United States would join the fray

01:48:32.780 and assist in destroying Iran's nuclear program? 0.85

01:48:36.160 Well, I can say it was very close. 0.82

01:48:38.060 And I'll tell you when it rushed to do so.

01:48:40.420 as long as it had its noose of death. Oh, we love Bibi. I don't want to get into internal

01:48:46.500 Israeli politics, but you know, externally, we Iranians, we love Bibi.

01:48:51.260 Death around us, you know, with Hamas in the south and Hezbollah in the north,

01:48:55.860 both trying to invade Israel and exterminate the state of Israel with ballistic missiles and

01:49:03.800 rockets raining down on us. And Israel is a tiny country. It's, you know, it's smaller than New 0.76

01:49:08.160 Jersey. They had a plan to destroy us. When we destroyed Iran's terror axis, especially when we

01:49:16.640 knocked out Nasrallah, the most important Iranian proxy, then Iran saw that its axis, the noose of 0.94

01:49:24.400 death, had been gone. It's been stripped away. That's when it decided to rush on what it calls 0.51

01:49:30.520 weaponization. That's creating a weapon, an actual nuclear weapon, for the enriched uranium that

01:49:36.380 they had amassed. So our assessment was that it would take them less than a year to create not

01:49:43.340 only a nuclear device, but possibly one or two nuclear bombs. And at that point, we decided to

01:49:48.200 act. That's the decision. After the defeat of Nasrallah and the collapse of the Assad regime

01:49:53.980 in Syria, they rushed forward. And so we had to rush forward. And President Trump joined us. And 0.88

01:50:01.800 it's a partnership like no other. You mentioned President Trump making that decision. And there

01:50:07.520 was a lot of pressure, counter pressure, I would say. Can you tell us why the Iranian nuclear

01:50:13.560 program and the Iranian terror axis in general is a threat not only to Israel, but to America? 0.93

01:50:19.320 So that regime started out just the very first days. They took over the American embassy and 0.89

01:50:25.800 held over 50 Americans hostage a tradition that is continued by their 0.93

01:50:30.520 despicable allies Hamas and taking 250 Israelis hostages but they also did 0.80

01:50:38.520 other things they and their proxies arranged the murder of 251 Marines in

01:50:43.500 Beirut they have bombed American embassies they have killed and wounded 0.87

01:50:50.120 thousands of Americans in Iraq and Iran all the time they chant death to America 0.97

01:51:00.220 Iran its plans for destroying America are first to take over the Middle East 0.97

01:51:05.500 and Israel stands in their way then to continue to Europe but ultimately to 0.96

01:51:12.460 build intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach the United States

01:51:16.400 Right now, they're building an ICBM of 8,000 kilometers.

01:51:21.180 That's the present threat.

01:51:22.580 They add 3,000 to it, 3,000 kilometers to it.

01:51:25.760 They reach New York, Washington, where you live right now, Texas.

01:51:29.520 It'll take a little more time. 0.93

01:51:30.880 But all the eastern seaboard of the United States will be under Iranian nuclear blackmail. 0.86

01:51:36.120 That's what Israel is fighting. 0.74

01:51:39.600 And what came next would leave no doubt that being held under Iranian blackmail, 0.76

01:51:45.360 whether in tel aviv or tokyo or new york was something the world could no longer afford to

01:51:52.260 ignore the 12 days um okay let me go to a couple of super chats here push-ups i found an old copy

01:52:05.760 of mek uh speaker ali reza jafar's all this book some wacky stuff in there they claim khomeini 0.61

01:52:13.260 stopped war with iraq for fear of mek yeah guys the mek is is basically a communist marxist islamist

01:52:20.460 uh death and sex cult so they're all insane and uh yeah i don't i don't recommend reading anything 0.99

01:52:28.660 by them they're literally insane it's it's just like the most it's the weirdest propaganda um 0.85

01:52:33.920 yeah ron thanks for the super chat i guess about my hair kind of weird but sure thank you for

01:52:40.560 appreciating my hair but guys this is not this is not a hair or beauty channel so i would suggest

01:52:47.460 that you uh save your super chats for comments or questions about the islamic regime um or the

01:52:56.040 iranian revolution or you know the topic of the live stream but thank you thank you for the

01:53:03.320 comment, I guess. Just remember, Tusi has the number one hair, right? Tusi has the best hair

01:53:11.760 of all the Iranians. I'm never going to take that title from him.

01:53:14.600 The war of June 2025 was a significant military achievement, but it was not enough. Within months,

01:53:21.780 Iran was rebuilding. Its centrifuges were spinning again. Its missile factories were restocking.

01:53:28.680 The regime was preparing itself for another attempt, but there was something else happening inside Iran.

01:53:37.600 For over four decades, the Iranian people had lived under one of the most brutal theocracies on earth. 0.60

01:53:45.240 No free press, no free elections. 0.99

01:53:49.300 Women imprisoned for showing their hair.

01:53:53.400 Dissidents hanged in public squares.

01:53:55.980 An economy destroyed by a regime that spent its people's money on missiles and proxies while its citizens went hungry.

01:54:06.060 Generation after generation growing up with no future.

01:54:10.160 Only the regime's revolution.

01:54:13.920 By January 2026, they'd had enough.

01:54:18.040 Millions took to the streets.

01:54:19.940 And the regime did what it always does when its people demand freedom.

01:54:24.300 It opened fire.

01:54:25.980 tens of thousands killed in a single savage crackdown students workers mothers shot down

01:54:36.800 for daring to say no the world watched in horror the head of the snake had been wounded

01:54:44.060 it had not been severed and now it was devouring its own people 0.94

01:54:50.200 on february 20 so i mean like the islamic regime has been devouring its own people the iranian 0.86

01:55:00.480 people for a very long time because they don't actually consider us their people um they basically 0.91

01:55:05.860 see us as a nuisance um they would rather replace us and that's what they've been doing for the last 0.98

01:55:12.620 47 years they've been trying to um ethnically replace us uh by importing a bunch of like people 0.99

01:55:20.580 from afghanistan and pakistan and like you know like the hezbollah and like you know iraqis and

01:55:26.640 you know all these people um that they've been importing because they want to uh it's it's 0.83

01:55:33.300 basically it's basically like a long-term form of genocide like they are intent on destroying

01:55:39.100 not just the iranian culture but the iranian identity and and the iranian people they want 0.90

01:55:45.000 us gone because we are resisting their islamic jihadi ideology um so they don't they don't 0.95

01:55:53.260 consider us their people they consider us um their hostages they consider us their slaves 0.95

01:56:00.220 they consider us their tools we're just the means to an end for them they view iran as an atm 0.89

01:56:05.460 and they have basically been using Iran's resources to export their terrorism their 0.95

01:56:12.120 Islamic terrorism in the Middle East and around the world so that that's why they're brutal and 0.84

01:56:18.440 savage towards us because they don't see us as one of them right because remember in their 1.00

01:56:23.120 ideology in their religion they are allowed to murder non-Muslims they're allowed to murder 0.99

01:56:30.700 the infidels in the name of Allah and Islam and Jihad. So that's what they've been doing. 1.00

01:56:36.140 We're not their people. We've never been their people.

01:56:39.100 On the 28th, 2026, that changed. In the pre-dawn darkness, it's one of its own people.

01:56:47.720 On February 28th, 2026, that changed. In the pre-dawn darkness, Operation Epic Fury

01:56:55.420 and Operation Roaring Lion were launched simultaneously,

01:56:59.900 the most powerful joint American-Israeli military operation in history.

01:57:05.920 Within hours, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was dead.

01:57:10.800 Iran's air defense network, built over decades, shattered in a single night.

01:57:16.760 Over 11,000 targets struck across Iran's 31 provinces.

01:57:22.960 Eighty percent of Iran's missile launch capacity destroyed. 0.56

01:57:27.120 Its leadership hunted one by one with surgical precision.

01:57:32.220 Within weeks, Iran's navy was at the bottom of the sea.

01:57:35.880 More than two-thirds of its weapons production facilities demolished.

01:57:41.600 Its nuclear program struck repeatedly.

01:57:45.140 Its above-ground infrastructure heavily damaged.

01:57:48.760 Its path to a bomb set back by years.

01:57:52.000 But a regime that had held power for nearly half a century wouldn't go down quietly.

01:58:00.180 It closed the Strait of Hormuz, cutting off 20% of the world's oil supply overnight.

01:58:07.780 It fired on its own neighbors, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE. 0.63

01:58:13.380 It held global shipping hostage, sending oil prices surging, food costs spiraling, and gas pumps climbing in countries that had nothing to do with this war.

01:58:25.920 Its strategy wasn't just military. It was economic. It was global.

01:58:31.020 And for every person around the world who had quietly filed this away as Israel's problem,

01:58:38.020 the fuel pump, the grocery bill, and the evening news were now telling them something very different. 0.85

01:58:45.160 The Iranian regime was everybody's problem.

01:58:51.980 Mati Shoshani is sitting down with Jonathan Spire, one of the most...

01:58:57.100 Okay, guys, sorry. I just want to. President Trump has some new truth social posts and he's totally trolling the Islamic regime. Wow. Like he's he's using the AI game against them. Okay, look at this. So President Trump posted drones dropping like butterflies. So he's referring to Islamic regime drones. You can even see the Islamic regime flag there. Right. So.

01:59:22.980 wow what a beautiful set guys this is the only time i don't mind seeing the islamic regime flag

01:59:29.360 um you know when i see the islamic regime flag like this on things that are being destroyed

01:59:34.500 and boom boomed that makes me happy so this is probably the only time you know like this is a 0.96

01:59:39.640 kind of example where i love seeing the islamic regime flag because yeah boom boom them get rid

01:59:45.100 of them drones dropping like butterflies so he posted that um about like 14 minutes ago 0.80

01:59:53.080 and then he posted this one bye bye drones and it's like you know lasers beaming up and just

02:00:02.380 like boom booming islamic regime drones so there's another like funny ai generated photo

02:00:07.940 um and then there's this one 159 iranian ships uh under obama and biden the ships are you know

02:00:19.420 floating um and then under president trump all the ships are at the bottom of the ocean

02:00:25.700 bottom of the persian gulf so um this is kind of funny this is this is kind of hilarious again 0.87

02:00:33.420 Again, this is, you know, this is the kind of scenario where I don't mind seeing Islamic regime flags. 0.65

02:00:40.600 In fact, I enjoy seeing Islamic regime flags and I enjoy seeing the flags at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. 0.86

02:00:47.680 So there you go. Yeah. And this one he posted. Yeah, he posted all of these posts about 15 minutes ago. 0.72

02:00:54.700 Then he posted some Gulf stuff. So there you go. That's a quick update on President Trump.

02:01:00.660 so obviously iran is very heavy on his mind iran the islamic regime everything that's going on

02:01:08.260 very much on his mind um and he's trolling the islamic regime right now

02:01:14.740 okay back to uh the show clear-eyed analyst of the middle east at war to make sense of where this is

02:01:21.700 going thank you jonathan it's always fascinating sitting down with you thank you and eight months

02:01:28.820 after operation midnight hammer israel and the united states start a new operation epic fury

02:01:35.780 i'm wondering to hear your opinion on what the background to that decision was and what

02:01:39.300 the objective of that war is well this is a regime that was weakened by an unsuccessful war

02:01:44.340 that it fought against the united states and israel by the way a war which iran itself of

02:01:49.460 course chose to join it's worth remembering this they then received you know a very serious

02:01:54.340 punishment for that i mean very serious damage was done to all three of those elements of iranian

02:02:00.340 power projection the nuclear program the ballistic missile program and the use of proxies but none

02:02:05.860 of them had been conclusively destroyed so it was a weakened regime it had survived and it was seeking

02:02:12.420 to rebuild itself what did we see in january we saw indeed the most serious popular challenge

02:02:21.380 to islamic republic of iran at any time since the revolution of 1979 without any question whatsoever

02:02:27.140 and what happened subsequently the regime has brutal survival instincts and killed

02:02:35.140 up to 30 000 but maybe more of its own citizens it means yes this regime is clearly not liked

02:02:41.940 by broad sections of the population what we also learn from that is this is a regime with the will

02:02:48.580 to survive and to take whatever means it deems necessary to survive the economic situation in

02:02:54.420 iran is a terrible mess we saw that the iranian regime is not even able to husband the water

02:03:00.980 resources of the country for example in such a way that tehran can have a clear and safe water supply 1.00

02:03:07.540 so yeah i'm sure that boosted the confidence to say yeah it's a good and opportune time

02:03:12.340 to initiate another chapter of that ongoing contest

02:03:17.460 and to prevent this regime from rebuilding its strength.

02:03:20.020 And from this point of view, the operations have been a clear success.

02:03:24.420 Very clearly, the regime has been massively weakened on all fronts.

02:03:29.060 You know, the achievement is very apparent.

02:03:31.380 The question only is the question of regime survival.

02:03:34.340 They also have a toolbox.

02:03:37.540 They've taken control effectively of Strait of Hormuz.

02:03:40.900 By doing so, they're looking to do massive damage to the global economy. 0.95

02:03:45.660 This is an ongoing battle, which will only end with the fall of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 0.95

02:03:53.400 And that therefore, until that comes, there will be additional chapters.

02:03:56.560 At the end of the day, that's the kind of ballpark strategic view,

02:03:59.500 which I think both the administration and the government of Israel understand well.

02:04:03.300 Let's shift gears a bit. I'm going to talk about the opening notes of this campaign.

02:04:06.320 israel together with the united states remove the supreme leader khamenei and a very substantial

02:04:13.600 number of other leaders within let's call the apparatus of the iranian regime yeah what led up

02:04:19.380 to that moment well israel's penetration of these systems on the intelligence level has been nothing

02:04:24.300 short of astonishing to know when the supreme leader and other key members of his cabinet are

02:04:31.580 to be in a particular room at a particular time and vulnerable to have that ability speaks to

02:04:38.620 years of effort so now what israel has shown is that those capacities and those abilities

02:04:45.420 didn't just apply to non-state actors to paramilitary organizations they have also been

02:04:51.740 applied to the systems of governance and state inside islamic republic of iran itself

02:04:56.460 It's a deeply repressive state that watches its population very carefully.

02:05:02.460 And nevertheless, Israel has managed to penetrate it to nothing less than an astonishing degree. 1.00

02:05:06.460 So the Iranians do something very, very odd in my mind, at least. 1.00

02:05:09.460 They start attacking all their neighbors. 1.00

02:05:11.460 Where does that come from? What were they hoping to achieve?

02:05:13.460 When you hear the Iranian propaganda talking about this, what they tend to emphasize

02:05:17.460 is they're attacking areas that have United States bases.

02:05:21.460 So the initial justification for it was, well, we're at war with the Americans.

02:05:25.460 Americans have assets in our neighborhood, so we're going to hit at them. 0.66

02:05:29.460 And this, I think, has profound implications for the economic future, 0.99

02:05:32.460 above everything else, of those Gulf countries.

02:05:34.460 So the notion is they would put pressure on America to stop.

02:05:38.460 Now, has that happened? 0.73

02:05:40.460 Actually, it may turn out that the Iranians very seriously miscalculated in this regard. 0.87

02:05:45.460 And what they're actually going to produce, and there's some evidence of this, 0.98

02:05:48.460 is that the Gulf countries cleave closer to America and maybe even to Israel also. 0.65

02:05:55.460 They might be saying, hit them harder, take them out, make sure this doesn't happen again.

02:06:04.380 I'd say there's a philosophical question we need to answer right now, which is people might be

02:06:08.120 watching this and asking themselves, why are we even fighting this war? Well, first of all,

02:06:12.940 as we've seen, Iranian missile capacity is very extensive indeed. It can't stretch the United 0.98

02:06:18.240 States, of course, but it can stretch to, you know, United States allies in Europe. They can

02:06:22.540 come under the direct threat of this regime and we're seeing this regime is quite prepared indeed

02:06:26.940 to strike at them so this isn't a local problem the other thing i think we have to bear in mind

02:06:33.100 i think most americans do consider themselves to be in a long and global contest with the people's

02:06:39.100 republic of china and its allies the islamic republic of iran is able to do what it does to

02:06:44.460 a considerable extent because of its relations with china and to a lesser extent with russia

02:06:49.220 It's not, of course, that the Chinese are sending naval forces to assist the Iranians in the Strait of Hormuz,

02:06:55.120 although I would note that evidence has emerged of them providing significant materials called sodium perchlorate,

02:07:01.480 an essential component for rocket fuel, to the Iranians in real time.

02:07:05.680 Right now, ships heading out from China, reaching Iran. 0.78

02:07:09.100 If America continues to prosper and flourish, as we all hope it will in the decades ahead, 0.93

02:07:14.360 it has to successfully meet the Chinese challenge. 0.98

02:07:17.220 This element with Iran is the Middle Eastern component of that Chinese challenge.

02:07:22.100 And I think it should be seen as such.

02:07:23.580 And it's vital not to forget that broader picture. 0.99

02:07:26.640 If I look at the axis of evil that is the Iranian regime, 0.99

02:07:30.120 isn't there a scenario where they're weakened enough, 0.99

02:07:32.600 where there is a virtuous cycle instead of a vicious cycle?

02:07:35.100 Oh, yeah, definitely.

02:07:36.000 First of all, I think that there's a positive side to the picture,

02:07:38.040 which is that, you know, we're going to win this, I think.

02:07:41.680 Why do I think so?

02:07:42.840 because i think that our side is the one which can bring prosperity to societies which can bring

02:07:49.040 chances of development to populations and at the end of the day these turn out to be in the longer

02:07:54.160 term the most important thing the other side can only bring poverty it brings poverty and

02:07:58.340 impoverishment along with a claim to bring honor and dignity and it's able to sort of fire up

02:08:04.980 crowds you know to acts of aggression that's its very great capacity and that's not insignificant

02:08:10.240 but it cannot bring development and it cannot bring prosperity so in the longer term i think

02:08:16.040 there's good wait guys so this is perfect proof of what i'm talking about well you know when i say

02:08:23.340 like it's like um like an invading acts of aggression that's its very great capacity

02:08:28.020 so you see this flag here that's the flag of afghanistan right so this is what i mean when 0.59

02:08:34.560 i say the islamic regime they're trying to replace iranians with people from other countries because

02:08:39.780 Iranians we reject the Islamic regime so they're trying to import like Durka jihadis from other

02:08:45.140 countries so look at that like like that's that's the flag of Afghanistan so they've literally 0.87

02:08:50.360 imported a bunch of like terrorist Afghani people who support the Islamic regime um and they pay

02:08:56.220 them to come out so guys I guarantee you like this crowd at least half of them if not more aren't even 0.95

02:09:02.840 Iranian right like this crowd is the vast majority of them these are people imported from other 0.98

02:09:07.860 countries who are here to support the islamic regime and it's basically an invasion yeah 0.88

02:09:12.980 that's the flag of afghanistan right there right so they're waving the flag of afghanistan yeah 0.97

02:09:21.140 not insignificant but it cannot bring development and it cannot bring prosperity 0.99

02:09:26.180 so in the longer term i think there's good cause for optimism in terms of what you just

02:09:30.980 asked about also yeah that's why it's so important that the iranians come out of this current round

02:09:37.060 weakened because yes that i think will cause china and other russia other potential allies to

02:09:43.140 distance themselves they may well say yeah yeah by the way i'm seeing someone comment

02:09:50.020 it's happening in america 100 guys 100 it's happening in america it's 100 happening in

02:09:57.780 america and you guys need to wake up um and you need to like fight back right like like listen

02:10:03.060 And I'm saying this as an immigrant, right?

02:10:04.800 I'm saying this as an immigrant from the Middle East to Canada, right?

02:10:09.480 Listen, immigration is great.

02:10:10.920 Immigration is great if it's done properly and if it's done for the right reasons, right?

02:10:18.140 What's happening right now is mass immigration, you know, there's like this open border policy or whatever. 0.59

02:10:25.360 And they're literally importing people into your countries whose values do not align with yours in any way, shape or form. Right. 0.86

02:10:34.520 Like when my parents immigrated to Canada in 1986, it was because they wanted to immigrate to a society and a country whose values aligned with theirs because, you know, the Islamic regime is an Islamic seventh century hellhole. 1.00

02:10:50.640 that should be the purpose of immigration right immigration should be about wanting to 0.93

02:10:56.320 bring people to your country who can contribute in a positive way to make the country a better

02:11:04.620 place to improve the country also you want to bring people into your country whose values

02:11:10.700 align with your own like why would you want to bring in people into your country whose values 1.00

02:11:15.680 don't align with your own that like that that's just so stupid that's stupid right but that's 1.00

02:11:23.400 what's happening and now um now because there's been this increase in mass immigration in the 1.00

02:11:32.960 last 10 15 years all of a sudden politicians have to cater to the durka jihadi marxist communists

02:11:40.160 right because they have become a political loading base yeah like canada today is not

02:11:47.360 like the canada today is not the canada that my parents immigrated to um back in 1986 totally

02:11:53.440 different right totally different um and it's it's wild it's wild but that's what's happening

02:11:59.680 right i mean immigration has to be done right uh if people want to immigrate to a new country they

02:12:06.000 They need to assimilate into that country.

02:12:09.460 They need to align with the values of that country.

02:12:14.920 And if you don't align with the values of the country, don't go there.

02:12:18.580 Go to some other country whose values you align with, right?

02:12:22.620 However, what's been happening now is people have been immigrating to Western countries.

02:12:29.060 They bring their own set of values and beliefs with them. 0.98

02:12:33.320 And if you say, okay, that's not cool.

02:12:35.920 that doesn't align with our values um you're the ones who are being accused of islamophobia or

02:12:41.860 racism or you know xenophobia or you know whatever right so uh that's how the great

02:12:49.020 replacement works that's how the great replacement works they've been doing it um in iran for the

02:12:54.280 last 47 years and now they're slowly doing it in western countries as well and it's the same people

02:13:00.140 it's the same Durka jihadis. Yeah. It's not worth getting all in behind this regime because this

02:13:08.300 regime can't deliver. And also its days may be relatively short in historical terms.

02:13:14.900 Well, Israel can deliver. Over two and a half years of ballistic missiles, drones, 0.99

02:13:22.020 and cluster munitions raining down on a nation of 10 million people who are still standing strong,

02:13:29.220 protected by the most sophisticated air defense system ever built

02:13:34.080 and battle tested in real time proves this.

02:13:38.380 When we return, we go inside that system. 0.80

02:13:53.620 No country on earth has built what Israel has built.

02:13:58.320 An air defense system like no other, because Israel puts the protection of every single civilian life as its highest priority.

02:14:09.100 The contrast couldn't be starker.

02:14:12.280 Iran spent decades and billions on Russian and Chinese air defense systems, sophisticated on paper, gone within hours of Israel's opening strikes.

02:14:25.420 Twice.

02:14:25.980 across over two and a half years of ballistic missiles cluster munitions deliberately aimed

02:14:33.660 at civilians and thousands of drones that shield held yair pinto is sitting down with one of the

02:14:41.340 brave soldiers guarding israel skies intercepting incoming threats you know i just wanted to say

02:14:48.520 i'm actually really enjoying this documentary that's why i'm not i'm not commenting a lot i

02:14:54.740 you guys remember when we tried to watch that documentary last night like i was interrupting

02:14:59.300 every 10 seconds because i was calling out like durka nonsense or you know some ignorant comment 0.99

02:15:06.580 that like stupid guy with the stupid hat was making right um but i'm actually really enjoying 0.99

02:15:13.620 this that's why that's why i'm not interrupting as much i'm not i'm not speaking as much because 0.99

02:15:17.780 it's uh this is good like i actually just subscribed to to the channel like this is this

02:15:23.460 is really good this is really good i mean obviously there's like certain nuances that you know they

02:15:30.740 they don't uh have or see which is fine right but this is really good information and uh like i'm

02:15:38.500 really enjoying adding sort of commentary or some more background info or you know more contacts

02:15:44.580 from the iranian side but so far like this has been really great like i'm really enjoying this

02:15:49.380 ensuring the nation's safety

02:15:55.140 thank you so much for coming here and sharing from your experiences throughout this wall

02:16:00.340 first of all can you let us know what is your job first of all thank you for having me

02:16:05.700 i'm a reservist officer i'm a part of the interception team in the arrow battle management

02:16:10.820 center we have several types of weapon systems each dedicated to different capabilities

02:16:18.660 Iron Dome, for example, is very famous for its very successful abilities

02:16:23.740 against those short-range rockets from Hamas and Gaza Strip

02:16:27.100 and from Hezbollah in Lebanon.

02:16:30.420 It also focuses on UAVs and those air-breathing targets.

02:16:37.140 We have David Sling for specific targets, particularly from Hezbollah. 0.90

02:16:43.760 The Aero Weapon System is in charge and dedicated to intercept MRBMs 0.99

02:16:48.340 and long-range ballistic missiles.

02:16:50.500 These are the ones that are launched from over a thousand kilometers away,

02:16:54.420 and particularly the ones launched from Iran against Israeli civilians.

02:17:00.020 Let's go behind the scenes of what it takes to intercept all these missiles.

02:17:04.340 So MRBMs, those are the medium-range ballistic missiles.

02:17:08.100 They have what's called a booster, a very large, about a bus-sized type of canister

02:17:14.100 that has the fuel that the missile needs to leave the atmosphere.

02:17:17.380 And once that booster separates from the re-entry vehicle where the warhead is, where the munitions is, it creates what we call ballistic picture.

02:17:27.140 It creates a complicated picture.

02:17:29.880 So a lot of what we do is utilizing our technologies to detect those many objects, those many targets, and then to differentiate exactly what we need to intercept.

02:17:42.480 there's a great deal of adjusting the proper defense capabilities the proper interceptor

02:17:50.280 to the proper target and then using those interceptors to provide the widest defense

02:17:55.420 and the most deep defense basically your role saves lives and if you make a mistake people die

02:18:03.800 the majority of these systems are entirely manual entirely operated by

02:18:08.080 by soldiers and officers from the air defense battalions.

02:18:12.080 We have a big screen in the battle management center

02:18:15.080 that counts the numbers of missiles coming in.

02:18:18.080 We train not to freak out when those numbers start ticking up.

02:18:24.080 There's a great deal of importance of the operators to be ready, to be vigilant.

02:18:32.080 There are a few lives that were lost that will forever be in our hearts.

02:18:37.080 We treat every single one of those names and every single one of those people as a reminder of why we have to continue training, to continue to be as best as we can in what we do, to try to minimize, to try to prevent, to try to save those lives. 0.77

02:18:56.600 That is the difference between Israel and the Iranian regime.

02:19:01.000 One is committed to protecting every life. 0.94

02:19:05.060 The other is committed to its own power. 0.98

02:19:09.440 I mean, Islamic regime, Islamic regime, but okay. 0.97

02:19:13.060 No matter the cost to its people, no matter the bodies in the streets. 0.96

02:19:19.400 For too long, the world chose to look away. 0.90

02:19:23.420 It swallowed Iran's propaganda. 0.95

02:19:26.060 It demonized Israel while embracing the theocracy.

02:19:30.140 It called the victim the aggressor and the aggressor the resistance.

02:19:35.340 The Trump administration refused.

02:19:38.640 Not out of obligation, but from shared conviction that a nuclear-armed, terror-sponsoring Iran serves no one's future. 0.90

02:19:49.220 What is being built through the fire and the cost and the exhaustion is something the Middle East has never had. 0.96

02:19:56.120 the possibility of a region no longer held hostage by one regime's 47-year campaign of

02:20:04.380 destruction that possibility is worth fighting for wait what was that destruction do you guys

02:20:11.580 do you guys see that do you see this that's like yeah look that's Palestine look and not only that 0.79

02:20:19.300 there's like MEK people there too so see like the the whole Islamic regime the Islamic regime

02:20:24.900 its foundation is the fake Palestinian cause in Yasser Arafat. This is why the Palestinians 0.99

02:20:32.420 are against us Iranians, because we're trying to overthrow the Islamic regime. 0.95

02:20:38.320 Meanwhile, the Islamic regime came to power with the support of the Palestinians. 0.87

02:20:45.120 Like, it doesn't get much clearer than this. Like, guys, like, what more proof do you need? 0.97

02:20:49.040 what more proof do you need that the islamic regime is an invading force

02:20:58.720 that possibility is worth fighting for i'm sitting down with ron dermer israel's former 0.99

02:21:04.720 ambassador to the united states and one of the chief architects of that historic partnership

02:21:12.880 minister dermer thanks so much for joining us here at the israeli embassy

02:21:16.080 It seems that the U.S.-Israel relationship is at a new level now at a very crucial time, obviously.

02:21:22.360 Yeah, the partnership between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu has been critical.

02:21:28.040 The closer we stand together, the more powerful our alliance, the greater the prospects for peace in the region and for security.

02:21:35.400 This is peace through strength in real time.

02:21:38.660 I remember when we did the 12-day war against Iran,

02:21:41.440 you had the German chancellor who said Israel's doing the job of all of us for us, right? 1.00

02:21:46.080 It's the one that's getting its hands dirty. 0.88

02:21:49.540 Israel is defending Western civilization. 1.00

02:21:53.540 When Iran goes, the whole idea of this radical Islamic ideology 0.98

02:22:00.120 having history at its back will also go. 0.92

02:22:03.100 And I think it can mark a sea change in the region.

02:22:05.200 That was one of the great sources, the great source,

02:22:09.160 of instability, carnage, chaos in the region. 1.00

02:22:12.140 It's all coming from Tehran. 1.00

02:22:14.760 If that changes, the whole Middle East changes, 1.00

02:22:17.440 and we move away from war,

02:22:19.040 and we rapidly move towards peace.

02:22:21.660 There's a growing course of criticism,

02:22:23.840 even from the right here in the United States,

02:22:25.780 some segments of the right, I should say,

02:22:28.480 saying, well, it's a one-way relationship. 0.62

02:22:30.540 America gets nothing from its relationship with Israel. 0.78

02:22:34.040 Actually, years ago, I had the privilege

02:22:36.240 of being Israel's ambassador to the United States,

02:22:38.780 and the first Independence Day speech I gave

02:22:41.520 on our Independence Day said Israel's gonna be

02:22:43.220 most important ally of the United States in the 21st century, and that sounds like a big statement

02:22:47.360 coming from an ambassador of a country the size of New Jersey. There is no daylight between our

02:22:52.920 two governments. Why did I say that? Imagine you're the president of the United States,

02:23:01.240 and you can only choose one ally for the next 50 years in terms of security, only one. And when you

02:23:07.320 think about security, think about a military that can defend itself by itself, a formidable

02:23:11.820 intelligence service a cyber capability and also the capability to build weapons both

02:23:17.260 offensive and defensive weapons so who's your ally it's a canada hear about the canadian

02:23:22.220 intelligence service is it australia is it france israel has a bigger standing army than france is

02:23:29.100 it germany today building the latest offensive and defensive weapons no we sold the aero missile

02:23:34.700 defense system to germany that's us you're really down to two countries you're down to israel and

02:23:40.700 great britain and israel's actually standing army is bigger than great britain's i would think that

02:23:44.780 we have a better air force on intel the mosad has a reputation but they do have james bond

02:23:51.580 okay now i'm going to give you a second question you can only choose one technology partner for

02:23:55.900 the next 50 years who the preeminent power is will be decided by who will lead the world in 0.57

02:24:02.220 technological development and it's either going to be the us or china and you can't compare israel

02:24:07.500 in britain when it comes to technology so if you only think purely about american interests

02:24:12.360 the partnership is with israel we are america's most important ally alexander hay said that israel

02:24:20.120 1980 he said israel is a unsinkable aircraft carrier in a region that's critical for u.s

02:24:26.960 interests and that's exactly what we are

02:24:28.860 it has been a long and grueling war for israel the longest in the nation's 75 years

02:24:40.060 and it has come at a heavy price lives lost families shattered entire communities scarred

02:24:50.700 yet what israel has accomplished in this time is nothing short of miraculous against overwhelming

02:24:58.380 odds this small nation has stood its ground not just surviving but reshaping the story of who it is

02:25:09.180 for decades israel often felt like it had to justify its existence to the world to explain

02:25:16.860 to defend to seek approval not anymore today israel stands strong and unashamed

02:25:24.380 Not begging for survival, but declaring its right to protect its people, to live in freedom, and to chart its own destiny.

02:25:35.980 This war has not broken Israel.

02:25:38.760 It has revealed Israel resilient, steadfast, unshakable. 0.87

02:25:44.780 And beyond its borders, something else is happening. 0.92

02:25:48.200 Israel is paving the way for a new Middle East.

02:25:51.420 One where nations can rise together, where prosperity and peace replace fear and tyranny.

02:26:00.000 That vision is no longer a dream. It's taking shape.

02:26:05.700 Next time, we'll look to the future, a future Israel believes is full of promise, potential, and light.

02:26:21.420 Wow, that was really good. I really, really enjoyed that.

02:26:27.660 Okay, let's go to some super chats really quick.

02:26:31.460 Vicky McCollum, we can't win if the IRGC is still in charge of Iran. I 100% agree.

02:26:38.960 The only way we can win, all of us, is by eradicating the Islamic regime and, you know, allowing the Iranian people to reclaim the country. 0.99

02:26:47.500 um wiley coyote breaking goldie's rule your hair looks fine thank you thank you uh wiley coyote 0.66

02:26:56.600 get a quiet goldie unusual yeah i mean like if the documentary is good i'm not gonna i'm not

02:27:02.100 gonna say much right like i don't i don't like to speak just for the sake of speaking i'll speak if

02:27:06.840 i have something to say of course i have a lot to say when it comes to iran and the islamic republic

02:27:12.200 and the iran revolution because there's a lot of fake news and disinformation out there

02:27:17.060 But no, this documentary was pretty good. Like, I definitely enjoyed that. I mean, there wasn't really, like, for me, there was no new information, right? So everything they were talking about, I already knew. But I don't mind watching these sorts of things with you guys, so that I can let you guys know if, you know, it's informative, or if it's missing any commentary or context or anything like that.

02:27:44.400 So, no, this was great. I would definitely recommend this documentary. I subscribed to the channel. Yeah, so, I mean, this particular documentary was pretty good. I definitely enjoyed it. Yeah.

02:27:58.180 KP, thank you for showing this video. We must wake up to the fact that this story is presently being

02:28:05.340 written. I agree. It's choice going forward. Sit on our hands, do nothing, or demanding this regime

02:28:12.340 succumbs. I agree. I agree. Because the Islamic regime, it's not just a threat to Israel. It's

02:28:18.300 not just a threat to Iranians. It's a threat to the Middle East and the entire world. And that 1.00

02:28:23.920 includes Americans because they have this like sick, um, jihadi ideology. Okay. 1.00

02:28:33.960 We're now going to go to breaking point because I haven't seen this and this is from yesterday.

02:28:39.700 Um, and I'm, I'm interested to know what's going on right now.

02:28:46.960 And I'm keeping an eye on the news as well, obviously, but, uh, let's, let's watch this

02:28:51.440 for a little bit because I want to see what's going on. State Marco Rubio said earlier tonight

02:28:57.280 we are awaiting what Secretary of State Marco Rubio said earlier he hoped would be a serious

02:29:03.100 offer from Iran following U.S. peace proposals earlier this week. This of course comes as U.S.

02:29:08.740 forces disable two additional Iranian oil tankers trying to breach the American blockade of Iranian

02:29:14.680 ports amid new exchanges of fire in and around the Strait of War modes. White House correspondent

02:29:20.080 Ayesha Hosni has that live from the North Lawn. Good evening, Ayesha.

02:29:23.960 Right, good evening to you. At this hour, there is no announcement from the White House about a

02:29:28.800 potential response or potential deal with Iran. Iran's foreign minister is saying that the

02:29:35.280 Iranians will not bow to U.S. pressure as the U.S. continues to enforce its military blockade

02:29:42.620 on Iranian ports. These are gold star moms. These mothers raised up children so selfless

02:29:49.900 and so devoted that they volunteered to wear the uniform of our nation and laid down their

02:29:55.900 lives for all of us. President Trump honoring Gold Star mothers in the Rose Garden today

02:30:01.020 as U.S. forces disabled two more vessels this morning for violating the U.S. blockade

02:30:06.860 on Iranian ports. It's the latest attack in a tit-for-tat between the two nations.

02:30:12.600 CENTCOM released new images of the four U.S.-guided missile destroyers that faced

02:30:17.580 incoming fire from Iran this week while traversing some 500 miles through the Persian Gulf and the

02:30:24.020 Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. carried out retaliatory strikes, but the president insists the ceasefire

02:30:30.700 is still in place. You won't have to know. If there's no ceasefire, you're not going to have

02:30:35.580 to know. You're just going to have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran, and they'd better 1.00

02:30:40.420 sign their agreement fast. As the administration waits for a response. Well, we should know 0.79

02:30:45.360 something today. I mean, we're expecting a response from them. Their system is still highly

02:30:48.760 fractured and a bit dysfunctional as well. So that may be serving as an impediment. I hope it's a

02:30:54.620 serious offer. I really do. Axios reports Vice President J.D. Vance met with the Qatari prime

02:30:59.800 minister today at the White House to discuss the negotiations with Iran. Meanwhile, Trump is

02:31:05.520 proceeding with Operation Project Freedom. After a brief opposition, the Wall Street Journal reports

02:31:11.160 Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are now allowing the U.S. to use their bases and airspace

02:31:16.700 to help move vessels through the strait. And Brett, on another front, the president today

02:31:22.280 announced a three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. It starts tomorrow. It also includes

02:31:28.800 a 1,000-person prisoner swap from each side. The president says that was a request made

02:31:34.360 specifically and directly by him. Brett? And Aisha, President Trump receiving some

02:31:39.920 pretty good domestic news today, better than expected jobs report. Yeah, the numbers actually

02:31:45.080 blew away expectations from economists out there. The jobs report added 115,000 jobs in April.

02:31:54.840 That's actually down slightly from the March numbers, but it's still 50,000 more than what

02:32:00.300 some economists predicted. Brett, the unemployment rate that remained unchanged at 4.3 percent. The

02:32:06.240 report basically sent the markets soaring today. It's a sign of resiliency amid rising gas prices

02:32:12.640 because of the Iran conflict. Brett. All right. Aisha, thanks. But first to the chief national

02:32:19.680 security correspondent, Jennifer Griffin. She's live for us in Washington. Hey, Jen. Hi, Trace.

02:32:25.200 Well, it was a single F-18 Super Hornet that struck the two empty Iranian oil tankers trying

02:32:31.400 to break the U.S. blockade earlier today. The U.S. military released this video of the Sevda

02:32:37.240 and Sea Star 3 being struck by the Navy Super Hornet. Both ships were seen burning in the Gulf

02:32:43.080 of Oman before they could reach Iranian ports. To date, Sinkham has stopped 57 commercial vessels

02:32:49.720 from entering or leaving Iranian ports and disabled three ships. On Thursday, three U.S. Navy destroyers

02:32:56.640 faced nonstop incoming fire from Iranian drones and missiles as they sailed 500 miles through

02:33:03.600 the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. The USS Truxton, USS Rafael Peralta, and USS Mason

02:33:10.720 were transiting south into the Gulf of Oman when they came under attack.

02:33:14.800 In response, the U.S. military struck a port on Iran's Keshem Island and military targets in

02:33:20.800 Bandar Abbas crucial to Iran's oil export economy and Iran's Bandar Kargan naval checkpoint in

02:33:28.020 Manab. Earlier this week, President Trump abruptly reversed course and suspended Project Freedom,

02:33:33.580 the U.S. military effort to open the Strait of Hormuz after Gulf allies were angry that

02:33:38.500 the Pentagon downplayed the strikes on UAE's Fujairah port. No, the ceasefire is not over.

02:33:46.060 We expected there would be some churn at the beginning, which happened.

02:33:51.680 What I'll say is it's low harassing fire right now.

02:33:54.760 We're still, it's still pretty low-level kinetics at this point in time.

02:33:58.740 These remarks by Secretary Hegseth and General Dan Cain angered Gulf partners,

02:34:04.040 causing Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to halt permission for U.S. warplanes

02:34:07.860 to use their airspace needed for Project Freedom, forcing President Trump to get involved.

02:34:12.840 The decision was later reversed, and the U.S. military was able to resume operations, Trace.

02:34:17.900 Jennifer Griffin, live for us in Washington.

02:34:20.020 Jennifer, thank you. 1.00

02:34:20.800 Let's move to Sandra.

02:34:21.780 John, as the U.S. awaits Iran's response, a brand-new report is revealing more about how Russia is assisting Iran,

02:34:29.800 offering up training and thousands of drones.

02:34:33.160 Let's bring in Dan Hoffman, former CIA station chief in Moscow and Fox News contributor.

02:34:38.240 Dan, you've seen the report.

02:34:39.540 What do you make of it?

02:34:42.840 Well, there are a lot of unanswered questions.

02:34:45.480 It's a report that The Economist obtained.

02:34:47.740 We don't know from whom or when,

02:34:50.300 and it's purported to be an intelligence report from Russia's military intelligence,

02:34:54.760 the GRU, about how Russia would support Iran by providing them with drones

02:35:00.480 that we would be unable to jam.

02:35:02.860 So the Russians are trying to have been using those in Ukraine to great effect, 0.83

02:35:07.200 and that would create problems for us

02:35:09.480 if they're not giving out radio signals that we might be able to jam.

02:35:12.400 That and tactical intelligence would enhance Iran's war effort against us.

02:35:17.380 Now, the report indicated, the economist indicated that the report might have been obtained around the time that the Trump administration was contemplating mounting a ground incursion of Karg Island.

02:35:29.820 And so the Russian response may have been designed to counter that sort of an attack by the Trump administration.

02:35:37.220 But look, in spite of what we don't know about this report, it's absolutely consistent with the way Vladimir Putin would behave towards the United States in the Middle East.

02:35:46.680 We saw it in Afghanistan, where Russia provided material support to the Taliban to help their effort against us.

02:35:53.420 Here is some of the report from The Economist on the secret document, Dan, revealing what they say are Russia's plans to aid Iran.

02:36:02.720 The secret plan involves Russia providing Iran with 5,000 short-range fiber-optic drones of the sort used in the war in Ukraine, an unknown number of longer-range satellite-guided drones, and training to use both sorts.

02:36:17.300 Here's more from The Economist's report.

02:36:19.280 It details, Dan, fiber optic drones, by contrast, have transformed the battlefield in Ukraine by creating large gray zones in which vehicles and soldiers in the open are attacked remorselessly.

02:36:30.900 Instead of being guided using radio signals, which can be jammed, operators control them through thin wires that spool out behind them.

02:36:39.180 Operators can use them to conduct pinpoint attacks at ranges of over 40 kilometers.

02:36:45.080 So considering all of this, Dan, how could or should this change or alter our strategy, the United States strategy with Iran?

02:36:56.860 Well, I think we've already been factoring this into our strategy.

02:37:00.600 Look, the Russians have been unable to deter the United States from launching the attacks on Iran.

02:37:07.360 Russia was unable to do anything when their ally, Bashar al-Assad, was toppled from power.

02:37:12.960 He's now living in Moscow.

02:37:14.180 I'm quite sure that the Iranians have been asking the Russians for help, and I'm sure we're detecting that, collecting on that through our intelligence sources from CIA and other agencies.

02:37:27.040 So I don't think this would be much of a surprise to Director Ratcliffe as well as President Trump.

02:37:33.100 And as far as how we counteract this, I think we need to be prepared for it, and perhaps we may seek to interdict any shipments from Russia.

02:37:42.500 and carry on with our policy, which, as Hugh Hewitt eloquently described,

02:37:48.700 means denying Iran any nuclear enrichment, staying with our strategic objectives.

02:37:54.680 I don't think that these drones are a game-breaker. 0.91

02:37:56.760 We have the military capability to deal with them. 0.99

02:37:59.740 Meanwhile, I'll finish off with Marco Rubio earlier today saying that U.S. isn't a stupid country. 0.88

02:38:05.920 He firmly responded to the activity and questions about it earlier today. 0.95

02:38:10.140 Anderson. What you saw yesterday was U.S. destroyers moving through international waters

02:38:15.080 being fired upon by the Iranians, and the U.S. responded defensively to protect itself. Of course

02:38:20.440 we fired back at them. They were shooting at us. That's what I would expect to do. Only stupid

02:38:24.580 countries don't shoot back when you're shot at, and we're not a stupid country. Dan, I'll give you 1.00

02:38:28.260 a final thought on that. Yeah, look, there's lots of ways to deal with the drones and whatever Iran 1.00

02:38:34.960 has left of their ballistic missiles. That's at the point of attack. Hit the launchers, hit the 0.97

02:38:40.060 sites where the drones are being launched and we'll have the intelligence to do that got it dan

02:38:44.860 always a pleasure thank you so much dan hoffman all right thanks john you're looking at new video

02:38:51.340 of u.s forces hitting iranian tankers trying to break the blockade as fighting flared up yesterday

02:38:56.700 in the strait of four moves iran shooting drones and missiles at american ships during that in the

02:39:01.580 u.s hitting back by decisively striking iranian military targets president trump telling an abc

02:39:07.180 reporter the ceasefire is still on because those strikes are just a, quote, love tap. Meanwhile,

02:39:13.000 President Trump continues to insist that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, as many presidents

02:39:17.900 before him did. And it looks like the D.C. construction workers who are fixing up the

02:39:22.840 reflection pool agree. These guys are fantastic. So they're doing the job. They're working hard.

02:39:29.500 And does anybody think Iran should have a nuclear weapon so they can blow you up? 0.88

02:39:33.480 It's a very important thing that we're doing, right? 0.56

02:39:39.520 So everyone knows that.

02:39:41.160 Well, that is everyone except the former vice president, Kamala Harris.

02:39:45.340 When you look at this war in Iran, which the American people do not want,

02:39:52.740 which was not authorized by conference, but even if it was, it should not have been initiated. 0.74

02:39:58.380 He talked about obliterating, and then he said, oh, he did.

02:40:00.860 it's all just

02:40:01.940 you made me do that

02:40:12.020 I promise I'm not going to curse

02:40:14.900 in public anymore

02:40:16.100 I'm not going to dismiss him 1.00

02:40:19.020 as being an idiot 1.00

02:40:20.040 he's dangerous 1.00

02:40:22.140 Jessica in an October

02:40:25.100 2024 60 Minutes interview

02:40:27.260 Kamala Harris was asked who the greatest

02:40:28.880 adversary to the world was and she said Iran and now it's just BS no the way Donald Trump is going

02:40:37.040 about taking away Iran's nuclear capacity which we haven't even seen that come to fruition is what 0.65

02:40:44.040 she's saying is BS not that Iran isn't a real threat everyone knows Iran is a real threat they

02:40:48.640 have been for 47 years and we know that Netanyahu pitched the same war to Joe Biden and to Barack

02:40:54.960 Obama and he only got Donald Trump to bite. So, you know, that's what she's saying here.

02:41:01.080 The idea that we're in the midst of a ceasefire because it's just a love tap isn't backed up by

02:41:06.920 reality. Iran says we're not in a ceasefire and it does take two to tango with a ceasefire,

02:41:12.880 right? You need both people to be committed to the fact that you're trying to find a way to peace

02:41:17.160 and with these talks. And now apparently we may get a 30-day pause so that we can hopefully get

02:41:22.720 a bigger deal. I hope that that's the case. But what we have seen at each juncture of this,

02:41:27.940 where we hear from our administration, you know, Iran, they're on the back foot, all this economic

02:41:33.380 sanctions are being totally crushed. They're going to fall tomorrow. No, the next day, the next day,

02:41:37.420 the next day. Now there's this new CIA report that Iran can survive a naval blockade for three to

02:41:42.360 four months, three to four months timeline on this. They have dug in. Their foreign minister

02:41:47.960 was in China this week showing the support that they're getting and that they're uniformly on

02:41:53.200 the same page with them. We know that China can prop them up. They can certainly give them

02:41:57.040 the money that they need to keep surviving here. And so I don't really know where all of this is

02:42:02.920 going. I want to remain glass half full. I hope that we get a compromise, a sparkly deal. I'm

02:42:08.020 sure you and I have some sparkles on my jacket today. But the imminent collapse of Iran that 0.98

02:42:12.860 we were promised has not come to fruition. You know, Jesse, when Joe Biden was asked what the

02:42:17.620 message to Iran was he said don't Kamala is asked she said don't when yeah that's because that's 0.97

02:42:25.460 because the Islamic regime is still powerful and they're importing terrorist organizations like 0.82

02:42:33.980 what you you expect and you expect a brutal dictatorship that has what like they could you 0.94

02:42:40.620 know been in control of the country for the last 47 years and is importing terrorists you think

02:42:45.660 what like after like you think you think the regime can just fall overnight like isn't it

02:42:51.880 wild is it insane how all of a sudden like everyone has become like an expert on regime

02:42:57.160 change as if they know how regimes are supposed to change guys if we had the answer we could

02:43:03.160 have toppled the regime 47 years ago so there you go um aaron says the only deal is unconditional

02:43:12.560 surrender i agree push-ups but putin is the savior of the christian west yeah i know that's what the

02:43:19.960 commies and whatever are saying bv um goldie you look especially amazing today thank you

02:43:27.580 appreciate that i'll um i'll let my partner know all right let's continue and trump was asked the

02:43:35.200 same question he said i would bomb the bleep out of them i think i'd take that yeah jessica says

02:43:39.920 China is going to give them money. How, Jessica? There's a blockade. They can't get anything in or 0.92

02:43:43.620 out. It is a fragile sea fire, but we're going to defend ourselves. If you have a mosquito fleet

02:43:48.100 coming at destroyers, you're going to light them up with hellfires from the Apaches. You're going 1.00

02:43:52.040 to hit them with the .50 cal machine guns. And then they tried to lob some drones and short-range

02:43:56.460 missiles at us, and we lit up the whole coastline with airstrikes. Goodbye. We've also

02:44:01.560 knocked out some blockade runners because they can't store oil. We hit them up with the F-18 1.00

02:44:08.440 super hornets, and they turned right around. They're running out of storage, and that's why

02:44:12.740 the New York Times is reporting they're leaking oil all over the strait. It's an environmental

02:44:19.600 catastrophe. Where's Al Gore? Isn't it funny you don't hear any Democrats complaining about Iran?

02:44:26.820 You didn't listen to Jessica. She doesn't say anything about Iran. She just all talks about

02:44:29.780 Donald Trump's the bad guy here. They're slaughtering women. They're polluting the 1.00

02:44:33.580 straight. They have blocked the straight. They have blocked the straight, which have caused

02:44:38.320 energy prices to rise. And they're like lobbying missiles. It's civilian targets. And they're

02:44:44.020 always like Donald Trump this, Donald Trump that. Last week it was, you know what, this war cost

02:44:49.940 too much. They said it was $25 billion. Well, guess what? We just sold $25 billion of weapons

02:44:55.760 to our allies. So now it's a scratch, right? So it's just, nope. Read the news, Jessica. 25 bill.

02:45:02.820 We just that doesn't include the repairs that we have to make to all of the equipment that they've destroyed.

02:45:07.560 OK, so you also said you also said.

02:45:10.340 Yeah, I don't really. Yeah, you are. You also you also said that we were running out of missiles.

02:45:14.080 So how are we running out of missiles? How are we running out of missiles if we're selling all the missiles to our friends in the Middle East? 0.73

02:45:21.860 Then there was this another leak from the CIA.

02:45:26.540 Anonymous sources during the Trump administration.

02:45:28.580 Oh, Iran has 75 percent of their missiles still. Really?

02:45:32.820 We're still going to buy anonymous leaks from the CIA deep state to hurt Trump.

02:45:37.860 Oh, they have four to six months left, really?

02:45:40.460 Then why are they leaking all their oil into the strait?

02:45:43.760 Listen, we're supposed to get some sort of counterproposal tonight.

02:45:47.620 Trump's driving a pretty hard bargain.

02:45:49.200 He's saying give us all the enriched uranium, freeze for decades.

02:45:52.840 You can't do anything underground, shut down every single nuke site.

02:45:57.540 It's a pretty hard bargain.

02:45:59.120 So it's going to take a little while.

02:46:00.700 I don't know what they're going to come back with.

02:46:02.300 no one knows. But if they don't, you still have bridge and power plant day. You can still take

02:46:07.100 card. You just still lop off a few layers of the leadership. I'm willing to play this out. I think

02:46:12.180 we have the upper hand if you look at the economy. Emily, you made the great point today that we

02:46:16.200 follow moment by moment what happens on our TV screen, but we do not know what's happening behind

02:46:19.980 the cameras in the diplomacy. Indeed. And I think the reason that critics are calling this a

02:46:26.160 violation of the ceasefire and whatnot is because they're not used to the fact that he's actually

02:46:30.920 using de-escalating rhetoric, and it's combined with insurance. Usually, he's the one that's

02:46:35.640 sort of escalating in his rhetoric. He is threading the needle of strength and restraint right now.

02:46:43.000 And we know that he has significant deterrence. That's the U.S. military, and that's been how

02:46:47.100 we've been acting this entire time. But right now, he's trying to control the political temperature,

02:46:52.340 and that's a good thing. So I'm not quite sure why those on the left are decrying this

02:46:56.280 and sort of looking at his dismissing of it, not that it's insignificant militarily,

02:47:01.400 but that he's saying, look, guys, I'm trying to signal to Iran that they're acting out and they

02:47:05.760 will absolutely meet the heat if they continue doing this. I'm showing them what's going to 0.88

02:47:10.320 happen. But it's a preview. It's not some type of explosion. And I think he wants Iran to know

02:47:15.640 that America can hit back instantly and decisively while also signaling to voters and markets that

02:47:22.100 this isn't an endless war and that we're not going to be there for months. So this is what you do

02:47:26.700 when you correct a puppy. This is what you do when you course correct a ship. And we're seeing it in

02:47:31.440 real time in these up to the moment updates, which I think for some reason seem to be catastrophic

02:47:37.000 to those on the left every 30 seconds. But to us, it's as you said earlier, it's how we make the

02:47:41.820 sausage. Yep. Greg. Well, I'm going to be honest, my personal opinion, I feel like this story is

02:47:48.580 getting old you know I mean it reminds me of you know the Saran story reminds me when you have

02:47:54.560 relatives come stay and first week's great second week I just want to get back to my den I want the

02:48:01.600 place to myself uh you don't want a bored Greg Gutfeld because then I'm up to no good the things

02:48:07.800 I do when I have when I draw oh my god it's horrible but that's my that's my personal opinion

02:48:13.460 But I trust the guys in charge. If they need a few more weeks to drain Iran's economy, 1.00

02:48:19.780 I'm going to give it to them because they've been pretty good on everything else. 0.98

02:48:23.500 They're not lying to me. I mean, it's quite a change from the old administration. I mean,

02:48:27.860 why are we listening to Kamala Harris? Remember, she told us she was the border czar. What did she 0.89

02:48:33.420 do? And also, I don't know what the Democrats really want. What do they want? If they could

02:48:41.020 could tell Donald Trump, get out of Iran now, is that what you want him to do? You don't know

02:48:45.160 what you want. You don't know what you want. Trump's just doing what the Dems promised they

02:48:52.200 would do, but never would, which was get rid of the Iranian threat. So it's always deeds versus 0.84

02:48:57.640 words. The Dems fill the air with these words, but then there's no action. Meanwhile, the border

02:49:03.120 is closed. Crime is dropped. Maduro is locked up. Drug kingpins and boats are dead. Iran's mulch.

02:49:09.500 what drives Dems crazy is Trump did these things and made it look easy. And that kind of makes

02:49:15.540 them look really, really stupid because they were like, we can't do this. How could he do that? 1.00

02:49:20.220 It's just called having balls and knowing how to do things. And when you work in real jobs,

02:49:26.540 you do know how to do things. That's the problem with Democrats, Jessica. They don't know how to

02:49:30.600 do anything. And it makes me sick to my stomach. And right now I'm essentially just talking.

02:49:34.660 I gathered that. All right, well, on to this Fox News alert.

02:49:40.020 Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. expects a response from Iran today to a possible peace proposal.

02:49:47.860 In the meantime, he says the message is clear. If the Iranians threaten Americans, quoting here, they are going to get blown up. 0.98

02:49:56.060 What you saw yesterday was U.S. destroyers moving through international waters being fired upon by the Iranians, 0.83

02:50:02.240 and the U.S. responded defensively to protect itself.

02:50:05.240 That's what you saw.

02:50:07.920 I mean, that's separate and distinct from Operation Epic Fury.

02:50:11.600 Of course we fired back at them.

02:50:12.840 They were shooting at us.

02:50:13.880 That's what I would expect to do. 1.00

02:50:15.420 Only stupid countries don't shoot back when you're shot at, 1.00

02:50:17.940 and we're not a stupid country. 1.00

02:50:19.920 And with that, let's bring in Christian Whiten, 0.99

02:50:21.880 former State Department senior advisor

02:50:23.460 during the first Trump administration

02:50:25.280 and under President George W. Bush.

02:50:28.340 Christian, great to see you as always.

02:50:29.660 I mean, you know, the whole idea behind this

02:50:31.960 is that even Trump is acknowledging that Tehran has agreed to these broader proposals,

02:50:37.460 but then the next day he says they just, they forget all about it.

02:50:42.080 Right, which means they haven't agreed, Trace. 0.52

02:50:44.640 You know, Iran, of course, is also famous for entering into agreements and violating them. 0.72

02:50:50.000 So you heard the Reagan-era mantra of trust but verify. 1.00

02:50:53.380 With Iranians, it has to be mistrust and verify. 1.00

02:50:56.100 And clearly we're being jerked around. 1.00

02:50:57.980 There is no agreement.

02:50:59.240 There is no ceasefire.

02:51:00.960 The president says there was.

02:51:02.400 The War Department says, well, this is below the threshold of when the ceasefire would be over.

02:51:07.200 I think most of the American public thinks that if we're firing at the Iranians because the Iranians are firing back at us,

02:51:12.020 also firing at our allies, ballistic missiles at the UAE, we are in a state of conflict and need to react harshly.

02:51:19.840 You know, what kind of amazes me is that as you go through these negotiations, every day it kind of changes. 0.67

02:51:24.660 And then you get these statements and Iran suddenly morphs into this Baghdad-Bobbyan society where everything is just so blown out of proportion and so incorrect.

02:51:37.040 In fact, this expose by the Iranian foreign minister says, quote, every time a diplomatic solution is on the table, the U.S. opts for a reckless military adventure.

02:51:45.860 It is a crude pressure tactic or the result of a spoiler once again, duping POTUS into another quagmire.

02:51:51.760 Whatever the cause is, outcome is the same. Iranians never bow to pressure. 1.00

02:51:56.440 They keep on with this big charade like they're the ones dominating this whole thing. 1.00

02:52:02.820 Right. So clearly their communications are flat out nutso. But you do have to look at the real

02:52:07.880 world factors. We are enforcing a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, but Iran also effectively 0.83

02:52:12.360 has one in place. Oil tankers are not transiting. The Pentagon botched Project Freedom. How that

02:52:17.980 was botched is still unclear to me. I don't really believe the Gulfies were upset that we were

02:52:22.680 doing too much, but whatever, the Pentagon did not pull that off. And so we have to react. And if you

02:52:28.980 go back, just go back to Richard Nixon for inspiration, when the North Vietnamese were 0.95

02:52:33.480 jerking us around at the negotiating table and he ordered Operation Linebacker 1 and Linebacker 2, 0.89

02:52:39.460 severe bombing campaigns of North Vietnam in 1972, which enabled the 1973 agreement that got us out

02:52:45.780 and got our POWs out. We need to hit Iran. We've gotten to this point. We're in a war, and that's 1.00

02:52:50.740 it. Yeah, Nixon campaigned on getting us out. He said he would, but it took a little bit of

02:52:55.140 adjusting to do it in the first place. Christian Whiten, great to see you as always. Thank you.

02:52:59.440 And former senior policy advisor to the Secretary of State, welcome to you, sir. So we do await the

02:53:04.680 Iranian response here to the U.S. proposed peace plan. What do you see coming?

02:53:08.960 well it seems like iran is testing the limits of this ceasefire

02:53:14.720 and president trump i think is showing a disciplined deterrence he is made very clear

02:53:22.480 that if iran like like secretary rubio just said if iran is going to be firing on the u.s

02:53:28.240 there is going to be a price to pay and so i think that's the dynamic while we await

02:53:35.440 the Iranian regime's response to the Pakistan diplomacy. What I think the president is doing

02:53:42.740 is again building up the economic and military deterrence that's going to be required to get 1.00

02:53:49.080 the kind of a deal that ends Iran's nuclear program, takes care of the highly enriched 0.68

02:53:54.560 uranium in the country, and gets the Strait of Hormuz open without the Iranian regime running

02:54:00.320 the Tehran toll booth that would net them $125 million a day. So this is going to be very

02:54:07.360 difficult diplomacy. This was never going to be easy given this regime. What I would just say is

02:54:14.140 that if this is how the Iranian regime behaves without a nuclear weapon, it's an entirely 0.82

02:54:20.180 different world if they were to have one. You know, we put this together for our audience to

02:54:26.620 take from it what they do, and you can tell us what we should make of it. This is an expose from

02:54:33.060 the Iranian foreign minister on the latest on the negotiation posture from just a short time ago.

02:54:41.720 Every time a diplomatic solution is on the table, the U.S. opts for a reckless military adventure.

02:54:47.260 Is it a crude pressure tactic or the result of a spoiler once again duping POTUS into another

02:54:54.860 quagmire. Whatever the cause's outcome is the same. Iranians never bow to pressure. What do you make

02:55:01.580 of that? Well, it's pretty ironic to be hearing the Iranian regime lecture the world about 1.00

02:55:10.660 reckless military adventures. That is not this. This is a conflict that is designed

02:55:17.360 to end Iran's nuclear blackmail and its economic blackmail.

02:55:23.020 And Iran, for its 47-year history, has been engaged in these military adventures,

02:55:29.640 which is exporting revolution that they started in 1979.

02:55:34.100 This is a regime that has a very hard...

02:55:36.640 Guys, this is really important. 0.95

02:55:40.320 um this whole this whole line of how the islamic regime is exporting its revolution right guys

02:55:49.020 those of you who've been watching us for a while now and even those of you who um were watching

02:55:53.620 um armin and i you know on our various channels before um the iranian revolution began you know 1.00

02:55:59.720 one of the things that we kept on saying is that this this islamic regime it's not satisfied with

02:56:05.220 just the borders of Iran. They're expansionary. Their whole mentality is jihad. They want to 0.99

02:56:16.680 create this global Islamic caliphate, this ummah or whatever they want to conquer under the name 0.98

02:56:24.020 of Islam and, you know, Muhammad and Allah, Ali and whatever. Um, and now to see, um, people 0.98

02:56:33.400 acknowledge this fact in the mainstream media, that's really important. So, you know, people

02:56:40.560 are waking up to this reality because, you know, when, when we have, we Iranians have been saying

02:56:45.200 it, a lot of people don't believe us or, uh, you know, they, um, they're like, Oh, like you guys

02:56:52.020 conspiracy theorists or you have no idea what you're talking about blah blah blah um but it's

02:56:57.300 true it's true and the fact that we're now seeing people understand and acknowledge this this is

02:57:06.260 really important this is really important and i think that um like this is a this is a very

02:57:13.380 significant shift in the narrative comic blackmail and iran for its 47 year history has been engaged

02:57:25.220 in these military adventures which is exporting revolution that they started in 1979 this is a

02:57:32.580 regime that has a very hard time simply being at peace with its neighbors and i think if you were

02:57:39.060 to pull our Gulf partners in Israel. All they would like to see is an Iran that is at peace

02:57:45.100 with its neighbors and is not pursuing a nuclear weapon. But instead, for 47 years, they have been

02:57:50.820 sowing terror and violence, chaos. This regime has killed over 1,000 Americans and has injured

02:57:58.980 so many thousands more. And they want to get a nuclear weapon. And President Trump, I think,

02:58:05.580 deserves a lot of credit for not managing the problem, as other presidents have tried to do, 0.94

02:58:10.680 but is trying to end Iran's path to a nuclear weapon. Perfect. I want to end with this. This 0.95

02:58:15.120 is Marco Rubio responding to questions about the U.S. strikes on Iran, describing them as

02:58:21.940 self-defense. Let's listen. What you saw yesterday was U.S. destroyers moving through international

02:58:27.300 waters being fired upon by the Iranians, and the U.S. responded defensively. Of course we fired back

02:58:32.740 at them. They were shooting at us. That's what I would expect to do. Only stupid countries don't

02:58:36.880 shoot back when you're shot at, and we're not a stupid country. Did he need to explain that? 1.00

02:58:42.920 Well, President Trump is sending our Navy through international waters in a peacekeeping 0.99

02:58:50.720 operation to open a choke point that was created by the Iranian regime. It is simply unacceptable 0.98

02:58:57.300 to allow one country to choke off 20 percent of the world's oil supply just because it feels like

02:59:03.940 it. This is international waters. The president is protecting a principle, a bedrock principle

02:59:10.360 of freedom of navigation in international waters. I wish the rest of the international community

02:59:16.060 were as frustrated over Iran's behavior, but they're not. They seem to be spending most of 0.99

02:59:22.220 their time criticizing the operation when they should be helping it. But I think at the end of

02:59:28.040 the day, we have to respond to any of these attacks. We have. We're going to continue, I think,

02:59:34.940 to maintain escalatory dominance while keeping the path open for diplomacy. That's the best

02:59:40.340 formula right now. Got it. Brian, appreciate your time today. Thank you very much. I take you through

02:59:45.020 the week and what a week it's been here on Friday. Remember where we started on Monday? That's when

02:59:49.460 the president launched Operation Project Freedom. That idea was to help the U.S. Navy to escort

02:59:55.240 commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz. But later on that day is when the IRGC launched

03:00:00.760 the drones and the missiles at U.S. naval assets. So then by Tuesday, that was put on pause.

03:00:06.660 And then on Wednesday, the U.S. responded by hitting some of those tankers,

03:00:10.360 these empty vessels we showed you yesterday. It's more than 1,000 feet long on the open seas. You

03:00:15.140 You have that F-18 with the Gatling gun on the nose of that plane, go after the rudder for the ship, and it rendered it useless there on the sea.

03:00:22.980 And then you've got Thursday, where the U.S. launched the self-defense strikes at Iran that Lucas was just showing us.

03:00:28.300 We'll show you right now.

03:00:29.280 Jimmy's showing the back wall here.

03:00:31.100 And the map that Lucas was referring to is right in here in this elbow of water.

03:00:37.020 You see it stretch around here in the Strait of Hormuz.

03:00:39.460 You have three U.S. naval vessels that were here in the Persian Gulf.

03:00:43.100 And through the Strait of Hormuz, they were the ones apparently were the targets of the Iranians.

03:00:48.800 Here at Bandar Abbas, there was a reaction, naval checkpoint at Coggin here,

03:00:52.680 and also the island of Qashem that we've been watching for some time.

03:00:55.880 Keep in mind, the blockade starts down here, okay?

03:00:59.440 It stretches from Oman to the border where Pakistan meets Iran.

03:01:04.360 That's where it's been, and it's been very effective stopping more than 70 vessels

03:01:08.240 from going in and out of Iranian ports.

03:01:10.580 I want to bring in Dana and Michael Allen with us, former National Security Council senior director.

03:01:15.320 Michael, welcome back to our show today.

03:01:17.660 Marco Rubio earlier today said he expects a response from Iran on the latest peace proposal or peace idea or ceasefire, end of the war.

03:01:28.440 We haven't seen it yet.

03:01:30.360 Now it's in the evening in Iran.

03:01:33.040 What would you expect, Michael?

03:01:33.980 Well, I think they'll get back to us, but I'm not sure that we should expect that it will reflect

03:01:41.040 the kind of concessions, the kind of compromises that President Trump says he needs. I think

03:01:46.900 President Trump's blockade of Iranian ports is the right thing to do, but it has a shorter,

03:01:52.480 it has a longer fuse. It's a slow burn. And I think what the president ought to do is resume

03:01:59.320 what he was doing Monday, which is helping, by way of the U.S. military, commercial vessels

03:02:05.800 to get through the Strait of Hormuz. It will be costly. It won't be costless anyway,

03:02:12.000 and it is more risky, but it is the most direct way to negate the power that Iran has over us 1.00

03:02:19.940 right now by way of being able to threaten and dominate this international passageway

03:02:26.000 of commerce and oil. So I think we've got to go back to that, what we did earlier this week

03:02:32.060 and break the straight open. Okay, Michael, I have a question because obviously there's

03:02:37.200 the United States and we're covering this from our perspective. And I'm curious though about

03:02:42.180 the UAE, the Emirates, what they're thinking because they have civilian targets who are being

03:02:48.000 hit by Iran or they're attempting, Iran is trying to, attempting to do that. And then you have a

03:02:52.840 Saudi Arabia situation where they they want the straight open they want it back to normal they

03:02:57.960 want but the clocks are very different here and I'm wondering if you could give us from your

03:03:02.420 perspective how they're looking at this and how we try to help them yeah I think they're seeing 0.89

03:03:08.960 this as the grave threat that it is Iran is their neighbor I don't think they wanted us to do this 0.97

03:03:15.900 in the first place but as long as we were getting involved in military action against the Iranians 0.99

03:03:21.020 I think they wanted them to be neutered to a degree that they couldn't threaten the Gulf Arabs. 0.98

03:03:27.720 And so I'm not sure we're there yet.

03:03:30.540 I know the UAE is thinking about its own retaliatory actions against the Iranians.

03:03:36.620 But I think they want us to stand in, finish the job, and help protect them because that's sort of the tacit or explicit arrangement that we have with a lot of these countries in the region.

03:03:49.200 Michael, so we'll see if the president addresses this.

03:03:53.480 He's going to be in the Rose Garden at noon Eastern time, so two hours from now.

03:03:56.740 And we'll cover that, obviously, live when that happens.

03:03:58.540 And maybe we'll get some commentary on what we've been reporting on.

03:04:01.280 But in the meantime, a week from today, the eyes of the world are going to be on Beijing.

03:04:05.860 And the president was asked about that trip last night.

03:04:09.800 Mr. President, is your trip with China still going ahead?

03:04:13.480 Which companies you have?

03:04:15.480 I have a very good relationship with presidency.

03:04:17.580 We've had a great economic time.

03:04:19.640 China has been great for us economically, but not for other presidents.

03:04:23.500 But we've done very well with China.

03:04:26.800 We're going to have a meeting with President Xi.

03:04:29.060 It's going to be, I think, quite amazing.

03:04:31.560 So I tried to get an answer out of Kevin Hassett.

03:04:33.500 He said, I'm not going to get in front of the boss.

03:04:35.360 So I will ask you, what would be the expectation out of Beijing in a week?

03:04:41.620 Well, I think there's some commercial deals and trade-related announcements 0.94

03:04:45.780 that the White House is going to make, but I think in general that the Iran war will be the

03:04:50.980 dominant story as we have this historic summit. I think they will be trying to figure out where

03:04:57.640 is China, are they urging the United States to take certain measures, or are they going to put

03:05:04.280 any pressure on Iran? By the way, I think one of the reasons the president didn't want to declare

03:05:10.540 the ceasefire broken, was that he is on the way to this summit, and I think he wants to try and

03:05:16.300 get to this world stage without us being again resumed in a kinetic hostilities situation.

03:05:23.120 But all of this is going to come to a head, I think, in Beijing, and we're going to see

03:05:28.280 news and discussion of what China is going to do in the Middle East.

03:05:34.340 Michael Allen, thanks for being here. We have so much to cover, and thank you for

03:05:38.220 always answering our text messages as well. Yeah, thank you, Michael. Thank you. A live look at the

03:05:43.420 White House, where any minute from now, President Trump is expected to speak at the Angel and Gold

03:05:47.960 Star Moms Luncheon in the Rose Garden. Mother's Day may be the focus of the event, but we'll be

03:05:53.060 listening to see if the president provides any updates on the situation in Iran as we await

03:05:57.620 Tehran's response to the latest U.S. peace proposal to end the war. We'll bring you President

03:06:02.960 Trump's remarks when they happen live. Hello, everyone. This is Outnumbered on this Friday.

03:06:07.160 I'm Kayleigh McEnany. Here's my co-host, Harris Faulkner and Emily Campagno.

03:06:10.960 Also joining us, Rosanna Escotto, Fox 5 New York anchor and host of The Underground Economy on

03:06:16.120 Fox Nation, and Guy Bidson, Fox News political analyst and host of The Guy Bidson Show on Fox

03:06:21.880 News Radio. Well, as we await President Trump, the action continues to pick up in the Middle East.

03:06:27.140 Today, CENTCOM shared this video you're looking at of U.S. forces disabling two Iranian flag

03:06:32.840 tankers trying to break through the naval blockade in the Gulf of Oman. This, as the U.S. says the

03:06:39.080 ceasefire continues to hold. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio with an update on when Tehran

03:06:45.480 may respond to the latest peace proposal. Well, we should know something today. I mean,

03:06:50.840 we're expecting a response from them. We'll see what the response entails. The hope is it's

03:06:55.060 something that it can put us into a serious process of negotiation. Obviously, we've seen

03:06:59.800 the reporting overnight that iran is established or trying to establish some agency that's going

03:07:04.980 to control traffic in the straits that would be very problematic that would actually be

03:07:08.300 unacceptable but we're we're expecting a response from them today at some point we have not received

03:07:12.600 that yet as you know the last in the last hour but perhaps that will come president trump also

03:07:18.660 issued this warning to iran if they don't sign a peace deal the talks are going very well but

03:07:24.740 But they have to understand, if it doesn't get signed, they're going to have a lot of pain.

03:07:29.520 How well should you say that you are to a deal right now with Iran?

03:07:32.700 Could happen any day.

03:07:34.880 And it might not happen, but it could happen any day.

03:07:38.100 I believe they want the deal more than I do.

03:07:43.120 You know, Guy, everything that is coming from the White House these days, and it's important, I think, a note,

03:07:49.500 is expressed that there could be an Iran deal, and then there's always this kind of tepid note at the end.

03:07:54.460 you know, if they step up to the table, if they follow through. And you get the sense that there

03:07:58.760 is this realization that we are not dealing with a rational actor here. And we all wait to see if

03:08:03.080 this is, in fact, the moment you get the deal. But I think the tepid tone is merited. Yeah. And

03:08:08.280 we've never been dealing with a rational actor in the Iranian regime. And despite the decapitation 0.81

03:08:13.560 of the top of the regime, next man up level has been seemingly equally intractable and deranged.

03:08:20.240 I mean, it's sort of confusing, I think, for a lot of Americans to see not just the blockade continuing,

03:08:27.000 but earlier the United States, this was yesterday, quote,

03:08:30.140 responded with self-defense strikes against Iranian targets after they attacked our ships.

03:08:36.760 So technically they're calling this the ceasefire still underway, but it doesn't really feel that way. 0.53

03:08:42.660 And unless this regime out of nowhere decides, OK, we will agree to all of these crucial demands from the United States,

03:08:49.780 I would not be surprised if we see a re-ignition of Operation Epic Fury, at least on some level here.

03:08:57.260 Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised either.

03:08:58.780 And Harris, one thing that's increasingly clear, and really from the very beginning, 0.91

03:09:02.500 is Iran, I guess, is not interested in self-preservation, 0.53

03:09:06.100 because they've stared down the greatest hegemonic power in the world, the United States,

03:09:10.120 and yet they're still trying to break through a blockade after they've lost their Ayatollah, their Navy, so on and so forth.

03:09:15.540 What's brilliant about what you just said, though,

03:09:17.400 No, they don't they don't have any kind of fear around losing all of their people because it's not about them.

03:09:23.540 It's about the IRGC. It's about the military. It's about this sort of dedication, sick obsession, if you will, to rule just completely through radical Islam.

03:09:36.640 I mean, if you're Islam in that country, if you're Muslim in that country, and if you and there are many other religions in that country of Iran, beautiful nation of 93 million people. 0.99

03:09:45.780 that isn't you necessarily, but there are about a million or so of those people 0.70

03:09:50.320 who are there to kind of keep that propped up to in addition to the IRGC, which is why it makes it

03:09:56.140 so complicated. I like everybody else. I wonder who the heck are we dealing with? Like who's

03:10:00.580 actually at the table? Are they the same group every time we go? Is it who Vice President J.D.

03:10:05.440 Vance saw? Was that a different group than we're dealing with now? It's all over the road, but it's

03:10:09.500 very dangerous right now because we are trying to hold a position of defense, only hit them.

03:10:15.880 Our rule of engagement is only hit them when they hit us, but their neighbors are getting hit. 0.76

03:10:20.780 And the Abraham Accords, that's what I'm really worried about now. Our friends in that region

03:10:25.400 that they are hitting now. And the UAE and Saudi Arabia and those neighbors having to say

03:10:31.120 just a couple of days ago, look, we're going to choke off the airspace to you,

03:10:34.360 to the United States because what they are doing is actually a violation of the ceasefire

03:10:40.360 to them. Then the president smooths that out. There's only so much of that capital that we're

03:10:44.960 going to have. We need them. And General King, Lieutenant General Kellogg, they're right.

03:10:52.480 Karg Island, 90 percent of their income. You take that. You choke everything off economically

03:10:57.060 and then perhaps also give the people a better chance for a revolution. Mind you,

03:11:01.520 they don't have any weapons, but they will outnumber everybody on the ground. And so how long

03:11:06.800 does that take? I don't know. I think you have to I think you have to do a guy said you got to step

03:11:10.540 in now. Why wait? You know what they're going to do. I think that's an important point you make

03:11:15.320 to about the UAE. I mean, it was the attempt to go through the blockade, Emily. And then with the

03:11:19.620 UAE, you saw the 15 ballistic and cruise missiles at one of the UAE's ports. And that's been one of

03:11:24.280 the standout features from the very beginning. You had many of the Gulf states standing down 0.99

03:11:28.360 and not saying we're with the U.S., in fact, we don't condone this, and yet Iran attacks them.

03:11:33.240 Yeah, and also coinciding with their independent decision to leave OPEC, right?

03:11:36.920 So there's a restructuring happened where every nation state is essentially protecting themselves,

03:11:42.740 persevering, while also strengthening the alliances with us, to your point.

03:11:46.140 Keep in mind, too, there's a big clock in the sky for Iran, not for a proverbial sense,

03:11:50.400 in sort of the obvious realm, but also for the oil storage.

03:11:54.420 And so they are abutting a serious parameter here that they only have so much time for.

03:11:59.160 We can go all day.

03:12:00.400 We can go all week.

03:12:01.260 We can go all year and then some.

03:12:02.680 And I think this entire time we've seen the braid between the military might of the United

03:12:07.840 States, the leverage diplomatically in negotiations, the pressure from the Gulf Arab states there,

03:12:16.380 obviously the reaction from NATO.

03:12:18.240 But I think that sort of that trifecta approach, that's the pressure that they need.

03:12:22.980 we've seen before what happens when we lift sanctions. There's no obedience here. There's

03:12:27.140 no compliance. It's just a spinning out. So here, that's why I think we see the dance and the tango

03:12:32.780 of using those two parameters. But I think the up-to-the-minute media coverage, frankly,

03:12:38.400 does no one any favors. I think it feeds into the exhaustion of this. So it would do well to sort of

03:12:43.420 take a beat and let it play out, because by the minute we're seeing them in their newly

03:12:49.180 research weapons. Where are those from? Sort of acting out again. So I think while this dance is

03:12:55.660 happening, it may look sort of ugly at times, but thank God for our allies and for the patience 0.98

03:13:01.480 that the United States has in terms of that flexibility that Iran doesn't. Yeah, and Rosanna,

03:13:06.640 President Trump has said every step of the way, if we don't get the sign, they're going to have a

03:13:10.340 lot of pain. But the question I have is if Iran even cares about that pain. I was talking to

03:13:14.340 former special forces um individual yesterday great hero of our country and he said to me

03:13:20.700 look they're willing to sacrifice their own people that's who we're okay guys um so i'm

03:13:27.020 gonna go to uh one of my favorite analysts um and basically i'm gonna take a little bit of a break

03:13:35.580 so we're gonna go to uh my favorite analyst i know that like i can play um this video and i can turn

03:13:42.720 off my camera. I don't have to worry about a copyright strike. So the title of this video

03:13:49.260 is called Exposed, the fake meeting between Pizishkion and Mochtaba, and it's liberty

03:13:57.580 politics. So let's see what Mr. Navabi has to say about this fake meeting between Pizishkion

03:14:03.840 and Mochtaba. And I'll be listening. I'm just going to grab something to eat. And I think

03:14:08.660 Armin's still eating. So he'll be back soon as well. Came out from Iran. A news came out from

03:14:14.040 Iran that many people are not paying attention to. Even the people who are covering it are not

03:14:20.620 really paying attention to what this really means and the consequences of it. And I think this piece

03:14:26.420 of information tells us a lot about what's going on behind the scene with the Islamic Republic and

03:14:32.420 the power between the different camps of the Islamic Republic fighting for survival against

03:14:37.180 each other. My name is Armin Nawabi. I'm an Iranian political activist with deep connections

03:14:42.000 to activists against the regime inside Iran. In this video, I want to bring attention to

03:14:47.480 the news regarding President Pazeshgian coming out and mentioning that he met with Mushtaba

03:14:53.100 Khamenei. Most people didn't cover this and the people who did cover it, I saw that the interest

03:14:58.480 was what this is about, whether Mushtaba is alive or not, whether he's in a coma or not,

03:15:04.160 whether he's healthy or not. That was the main angle that people were covering. But there is a

03:15:10.000 lot more to this story. First of all, it's important to realize how we got to this meeting.

03:15:14.740 President Pazeshkian up to this moment has not seen Mushta Bukhomini. In fact, most people within

03:15:19.980 the Islamic Republic have not met ever with Mushta Bukhomini. Even the highest ranking people

03:15:25.440 have not met with him ever since he became the supreme leader. I actually had an interview

03:15:29.840 with one of the only few people who had a meeting with him on my Persian channel. He told me a lot

03:15:35.500 about Mushtaba. But today I want to focus about this alleged meeting between President Pazeshkian

03:15:40.200 and Mushtaba. So why did this meeting take place? And did it even take place? Remember, Pazeshkian

03:15:47.260 is not that important of a person when it comes to the power struggle right now within the Islamic

03:15:53.060 Republic. He's one of the least powerful people among the known leaders within the Islamic

03:15:58.340 Republic. And he doesn't have the security clearance or the importance to have that meeting

03:16:04.060 with Mojtaba, even if he could have that meeting with Mojtaba, even if he's alive, he would be one

03:16:09.640 of the most irrelevant people to have that meeting. We got to this point because President

03:16:14.480 Pazishkian was desperately trying to find a way to stop the head of IRGC, Vahidi. There were

03:16:21.260 constant reports with regards to President Pazishkian being angry with Vahidi attacking

03:16:27.560 countries around the Persian Gulf, especially the UAE and even Oman. President Pazishkian has been

03:16:34.320 trying to and failing to reach out to the countries in the region and try to make peace with them,

03:16:40.820 trying to figure out a way to fix the damaged relationship between the Islamic Republic and

03:16:45.580 the countries in the region. Every time he comes out and says, we're not going to attack you, 0.58

03:16:49.300 Our fight is not against you, it's against Israel and the imperialist West and all that

03:16:54.640 nonsense.

03:16:55.300 Right after he says that, the IRGC starts bombing these countries, especially the UAE,

03:17:01.040 which was a very important country for the Islamic Republic in many different ways that

03:17:06.060 I'm not going to even go to right now when it comes to actually trade, the relationship

03:17:10.240 with the financial institutions that they had in the UAE to be able to bypass the sanctions.

03:17:15.220 it was such an important country for the Islamic Republic for their survival, and none of that is

03:17:22.260 coming back. And Pazeshgian, even though he's not that smart, he understood that. And he was very 0.99

03:17:27.940 angry with Wahidi and trying to figure out how to stop all of this. But obviously, the president

03:17:32.780 in the Islamic Republic doesn't have much power, if any power. And he was basically looking for

03:17:38.500 Mujtaba, trying to find out where he is, trying to find out how he could have a meeting with him

03:17:43.400 so that he could use Mujtaba to stop Vahidi because he didn't have any leverage over Vahidi.

03:17:49.340 So eventually we got to a point where he came out and he said that,

03:17:53.640 Oh, I had a meeting with him.

03:18:13.400 Here's what happened after this claim.

03:18:20.380 Iran International came and said that this meeting was fake.

03:18:25.440 That President Pazishkian is lying.

03:18:28.180 So the tweet that they put out there is just part of the story

03:18:31.440 because I was watching Iran International and Persian while I was eating

03:18:35.260 and I remember when they went over this and they gave the details,

03:18:38.140 I actually had to go back and just stop eating and just go back

03:18:42.420 and listened to it a couple of times because it was incredible.

03:18:45.360 Iran International is claiming that they got access to leaked information

03:18:50.040 from a meeting of top IRGC commanders being shocked that Pazishkian is saying this

03:18:59.160 and clearly saying in that meeting that President Pazishkian is lying.

03:19:03.200 So not only President Pazishkian is lying,

03:19:06.480 it wasn't, this lie was not an order that came to Pazishkian from IRGC. This is an extraordinary

03:19:15.040 development because Pazishkian doesn't have the personality to go and maybe challenge the 1.00

03:19:21.740 greatest powers within the Islamic Republic. So either he is deciding to improve his influence 0.73

03:19:27.520 within the Islamic Republic by claiming that he met with Mujtaba and Mujtaba was very nice with him,

03:19:33.260 which is very unlike his character, unless something has changed about him, or he's getting

03:19:40.160 the order from somewhere else. So remember, if IRGC is surprised that Pazeshkian is saying this,

03:19:46.380 and they seem to know that this is fake, that he's lying. So it wasn't IRGC that got him to do this.

03:19:52.260 So what are the other main sources of power within the Islamic Republic that could give such an order 0.79

03:19:58.040 to Pazeshkian to say such a thing? And why would they? Let me give you a scenario. And by going

03:20:05.220 through this, you're going to really better understand the power dynamics within the Islamic

03:20:10.580 Republic and what this could mean. So remember in my previous videos, I told you that the main

03:20:15.960 factions within the Islamic Republic are four. We have the intelligence security network that

03:20:21.420 we actually refer to as the Beta Rahbari, which means the office of the supreme leadership.

03:20:27.780 These are the people within the circle of the supreme leader.

03:20:31.400 So within this first group, the main person is obviously the supreme leader, Mushta Bahamini.

03:20:36.300 But remember last time I included another main figure within this group, which is Hossein Taib.

03:20:41.380 And I told you that we're going to come back to this name at some point.

03:20:45.460 And today is the day that you need to learn more about Hossein Taib.

03:20:48.720 And maybe at some point I'm going to make a video dedicated to Hossein Taib

03:20:53.480 because he's the kingmaker.

03:20:55.280 He was and still is the kingmaker

03:20:57.400 within the Islamic Republic.

03:20:59.000 So the next main faction right now

03:21:00.740 is the negotiation facing track

03:21:02.600 with the main person in this group being Qalibov.

03:21:05.400 Qalibov as the head of the parliament,

03:21:08.080 the speaker of the parliament,

03:21:09.180 but his main source of influence

03:21:10.900 is him being IRGC connected

03:21:12.880 and having a certain camp within IRGC loyal to him.

03:21:16.140 Not all of IRGC, but certain people within IRGC.

03:21:18.940 Pazishkan also belongs to this camp.

03:21:21.220 However, his main source of influence is his association with this camp.

03:21:25.700 He's not a source of power.

03:21:27.600 He's belonging to this camp, gives him the influence of this camp. 0.89

03:21:32.980 Araqchi is supposed to be in this camp, but we got reports that he's now more loyal to 0.74

03:21:37.740 Vahidi, which is the third camp, and he's not really taking commands from Galibov anymore.

03:21:42.740 So let's go to the third camp.

03:21:44.100 The third camp was the military corps, which is mostly the IRGC.

03:21:47.260 the main people within this camp are Bahidi as the main person, but also remember people like

03:21:52.880 Zolgaj, people like Abdullahi, people like Nejat, people like Musavi. There are other very important

03:21:58.780 people within this camp, but the main figure right now is Bahidi. And the fourth camp is the

03:22:02.720 ideological pressure camp, which we refer to as the Pahidari camp, with the main person here being

03:22:08.080 Said Jalili. But now the most powerful faction is number three, the military corps, because they have

03:22:13.560 the most money and they have the most weapons. Their soft power is lacking. They have soft power

03:22:20.840 in the sense that IRGC is popular among regime supporters as an institution, but this power is

03:22:27.140 lacking in the sense that they don't have a charismatic figure where pro-regime people could

03:22:32.280 point to and say, oh, we love this guy, we will die for this guy. They don't have that figure in

03:22:37.680 there. Nobody would point to Vahidi and be like, oh yeah, I'm going to go die for Vahidi. This

03:22:41.460 lack of having a charismatic figure within IRGC means that the second most powerful

03:22:47.980 because it's arm inception

03:22:50.860 oh wow Goldie what an honor you thought it was worthy of playing and well for for the filler

03:23:01.140 that's so odd that's so sweet well not even not even a filler like I just thought this was really

03:23:06.920 interesting um i was i was playing fox news earlier for a little bit and uh then i decided

03:23:14.360 i i saw like this came up this popped up on my youtube feed and i was like oh let's go

03:23:18.760 let's go to one of my favorite uh iran analysts and experts hey so

03:23:27.400 wow i figured if i play this i won't get a copyright strike right so

03:23:32.280 well thank you oh my god god you can always whenever you need that's such an honor that

03:23:41.220 you're thinking that this is thank you thank you so much of course obviously like i mean this is

03:23:47.180 great content and i think it's really informative so why not oh my god yeah thank you okay thank you

03:23:54.380 thank you anyways we'll we'll stay we'll save the rest for later when when i you know when you're

03:23:58.960 on but uh uh welcome back um i haven't taken a break at all whatsoever um so if you don't mind

03:24:06.800 uh i'm gonna take maybe like 15 20 minutes to quickly uh eat something and i'll be here in

03:24:11.680 the background okay sounds good um okay i'll i'll i'll i got you i got you okay all right

03:24:20.160 all right thank you goldie how do i okay so guys what do you think of this video how was it

03:24:27.120 am i doing okay any feedback wow guys goldie was playing me oh my god

03:24:38.160 that's so great i feel so honored you know guys when goldie thinks i'm doing something good i

03:24:43.760 really take that very seriously and goldie like because she's she obviously knows what she's

03:24:50.240 talking about so i feel like i can't be doing if goldie thinks i'm doing well then i must be on the

03:24:56.400 the right path oh very super just say armin i will give you a little less than five dollars tell me

03:25:05.840 the story behind that little monkey on your shelf okay well thank you for the support well thank you

03:25:13.080 for the support this little monkey here oh why am i even there is there's two of me this little

03:25:20.720 okay so okay actually this is quite fitting because it's mother mother's day so i'll let

03:25:30.460 you guys know okay my mom before she died when she was in the hospital on the hospital bed

03:25:43.580 One thing that she regretted most in her life was that she was dying before having any grandchildren.

03:26:00.020 And she really wanted to have grandchildren before she dies, and she didn't have any grandchildren. 0.95

03:26:06.180 and she wanted she wanted me to give her a grandchild before she dies and she

03:26:15.400 was dying she knew she was dying and she didn't have that so there was a doll

03:26:21.000 that looked like a baby that she wanted to have next to her on her hospital bed

03:26:27.980 before she dies to pretend that that's her grandchild but she thought that was 0.79

03:26:34.820 too weird to have like a doll that looks like a baby so she didn't have like she wanted to have

03:26:43.320 that but she would she was embarrassed by it so she she picked this one instead so she picked

03:26:50.720 this instead because she was embarrassed to have a doll so she had this next to her bed instead of

03:26:57.560 that other dog that looked like a human baby, right? So this was next to her on her last days

03:27:04.600 before she died. So that's the story behind this.

03:27:14.140 All right. And yeah, this is, we're getting close to Mother's Day. Guys, just remember to say,

03:27:22.180 I love you to your mom

03:27:24.200 as many times as you can

03:27:25.980 because I regret not saying it more.

03:27:34.360 All right.

03:27:36.360 All right.

03:27:36.920 Let's see what else we have here.

03:27:42.660 All right.

03:27:44.440 Let me actually share my...

03:27:46.080 It's okay, guys.

03:27:47.060 Well, thank you.

03:27:47.680 It's okay.

03:27:48.160 It's okay.

03:27:50.580 Thank you.

03:27:51.500 Thank you.

03:27:52.180 All right, let's see this.

03:27:54.900 I have some things I wanted to share with you guys.

03:27:58.800 Thank you, guys.

03:27:59.780 Thank you for all the support.

03:28:01.080 You guys are lovely. 0.89

03:28:04.180 So, Selena, I should follow her.

03:28:07.760 Okay, yeah, this is what we're all waiting for.

03:28:10.600 Selena, good morning.

03:28:11.660 Yeah, good morning to you.

03:28:12.840 The U.S. is still waiting for Iran's answer on those peace talks.

03:28:16.500 The president has said a response was supposed to come last night,

03:28:19.820 but as of now, nothing.

03:28:21.260 And Iran's foreign ministry is now saying they're not bound by America's deadlines.

03:28:26.260 But here's what we know is on the table, a one-page proposal from the Trump administration

03:28:30.440 that gives both sides a month to work through the thorniest issues, including the future of

03:28:35.580 Iran's nuclear program. And during that window, the U.S. would gradually lift its blockade on

03:28:40.900 Iranian ports if Iran allows ships to move freely through the Strait of Hormuz. But for now,

03:28:46.460 the U.S. is still enforcing that blockade. And on Friday, American forces opened fire on two

03:28:52.420 Iranian oil tankers. The Pentagon releasing this video. In the video, you can see the tankers

03:28:57.880 getting hit with smoke pouring from the back of the tanker. Iran is calling those strikes

03:29:03.360 a reckless military adventure. The war is now in its 10th week, and President Trump is pushing for

03:29:09.800 progress before he leaves for Beijing in just a few days early next week, Gio.

03:29:14.500 10 weeks in all right selena thank you so much wow so guys this is i think we need the americans

03:29:22.860 need to respond if we don't hear something positive something like positive in the sense

03:29:28.300 of the islamic republic is serious about bending the knee and surrendering to the americans this

03:29:33.940 is it this is it um because i don't know it's it's going to be hard to see because it's going

03:29:45.700 to be hard to in my opinion it's going to be hard to explain the islamic republic constantly be

03:29:52.260 giving more time to come up with some surrender or offer and then missing deadline after deadline

03:29:59.540 after deadline after deadline without getting a significant response from the americans

03:30:05.540 and i think like a lot of the people are getting tired i mean not just the iranian people i think

03:30:12.260 i think he here are the people who are getting wants the military operations to start in a big

03:30:19.460 way the iranian people the israeli people and now even you know the uae especially the uae

03:30:27.300 i think everybody is getting tired with the islamic republic just playing these games 0.79

03:30:33.220 right so we have a red line you missed the deadline there should be consequences 0.97

03:30:42.580 and look at this actually this is a good segue 0.82

03:30:47.140 mark levin is saying let's go let's get this done breaking israel is pushing for strikes on

03:30:53.540 all of Iran's energy infrastructure within 24 hours.

03:30:59.260 Is this Hebrew or English? English, English, English that are intercontinental.

03:31:04.020 Oh, my God, it's English.

03:31:05.660 Fantastic.

03:31:07.980 Thank you.

03:31:09.380 Let's listen to this.

03:31:10.780 One is developing now ballistic missiles that are.

03:31:14.540 Wait, is this new?

03:31:17.460 I mean, Mark Levin just posted it, like, quote posted it.

03:31:20.660 So I think it's new.

03:31:22.780 Guys, if it's not new, it's not my fault, okay?

03:31:25.400 Mark Levin, Mark Levin quote posted this.

03:31:28.080 The U.S. is developing now ballistic missiles

03:31:31.140 that are intercontinental ballistic missiles

03:31:33.580 for 8,000 kilometer range.

03:31:36.100 What does that mean?

03:31:37.000 They add another 3,000 kilometers,

03:31:39.300 and they've got, under their gun, 0.68

03:31:41.700 under their atomic guns,

03:31:43.620 the New York City in Target, Washington. 0.87

03:31:46.820 It's not new?

03:31:47.540 Boston.

03:31:48.840 So you're saying it's not new, you guys.

03:31:50.520 So thank you guys for saying it's not new.

03:31:53.260 miami mar-a-lago okay so that is a very great day oh yeah i remember this video so why is mark

03:32:01.740 levin posting it like this let's go let's get this done why mark did mark levin think that this video

03:32:10.620 is new i don't know and also the caption doesn't even the caption is not even match the video

03:32:25.900 content who is this guy like why are we trusting this person this is not a news source okay i

03:32:33.420 I don't know why Mark Levin decided to quote post this.

03:32:38.700 This is not like an account.

03:32:40.640 This account is reporting that Israelis pushing for strikes

03:32:44.300 on all of Iran's energy infrastructure within 24 hours

03:32:47.380 and is posting a video that is very old

03:32:50.080 that doesn't even reflect this caption.

03:32:53.300 But I thought I could trust it because Mark Levin was quote,

03:32:56.700 am I missing something here?

03:33:02.540 Hmm.

03:33:03.420 maybe just also texas is saying as a reminder to what islamic republic is capable of 0.92

03:33:08.300 okay but is this news accurate it's because other than the other than the

03:33:14.300 reminder of what they're capable of the caption suggests that israel is pushing airstrikes under

03:33:19.660 iran's energy infrastructure within 24 hours this is what's been quoted by mark levin so i need to

03:33:25.500 see another source for this because this this account is not like a account that we could just

03:33:32.220 trust right that that wemar account here saeed gas minajad posted this thing if the people of

03:33:39.900 iran cannot use the internet the regime is cronies and its propaganda machine should not be able to

03:33:45.100 use it either give the regime an ultimatum that it does not reconnect if it does not reconnect

03:33:50.620 iranians to the world an internet block blackout will be imposed on the regime too hey there you

03:33:57.260 you go. That's a good strategy here. Fantastic suggestion. By the way, for guys, for people 1.00

03:34:02.760 who don't know Said Qasim Nejad, he is the right-hand man of Princes of Halloween. That's

03:34:12.560 a really good suggestion there. And then Lindsey Graham just posted something, well, a few

03:34:20.660 hours ago, in response to this message that President Trump just came out with. President

03:34:26.600 trump remember guys this earlier today we told you that president trump said we'll go a different

03:34:31.400 route if everything does get uh if everything gets signed up and buttoned up we may go back to

03:34:38.440 project freedom if things don't happen but it'll be project freedom plus meaning project freedom

03:34:46.600 plus other things so remember this this earlier today we were wondering what are these other

03:34:52.040 things so lindsey graham is not going to help us with that what does project freedom plus mean

03:34:59.240 so let's read what project freedom is project freedom plus means so amu lindsey says the idea

03:35:08.120 of project freedom plus is very intriguing and i believe it can be it can bear fruit providing a

03:35:14.920 path for safe passage of international shipping in the strait of hormones in the face of iranian

03:35:21.400 resistance is a game is a game changer the plus part is oh guys we're gonna get what the plus

03:35:29.000 part is the plus part is in my opinion the plus part in my opinion would envision more international

03:35:35.320 partners and limited kinetic activity limited okay so limited so not an all-out war like we

03:35:47.480 saw with the beginnings of Operation Epic Fury. As to a negotiated settlement, it must include the

03:35:56.520 end of Iran's state sponsorship of terrorism through their support for Hezbollah and other

03:36:03.560 terrorist organizations. Well, I could tell you that the Islamic Republic will not agree to it,

03:36:09.880 this at least major parts of it at least would not agree to this any deal must be 0.96

03:36:17.880 unequivocal that that continued supports

03:36:25.560 of terrorist proxies by iran would result in this severest of consequences

03:36:32.040 without that lebanon and syria will never be stabilized and israel would never know peace

03:36:36.680 i appreciate that hard work of everyone involved and pray for a successful outcome so guys here's

03:36:43.640 the thing though i don't know if this will work a deal that says that the islamic republic will

03:36:50.840 not support any proxies will be a deal that the islamic republic is just lying about never sex

03:36:57.560 never supporting any proxies they will if if if this is part of the terms of the agreement

03:37:03.560 and if you force them to agree to such a thing

03:37:06.840 they would just sign it

03:37:10.620 and wait for the next president

03:37:12.400 you guys agree?

03:37:17.280 they would just sign it

03:37:18.980 and they would be like

03:37:21.520 okay let's wait for the next president

03:37:24.180 and then violate it

03:37:25.520 I mean not even

03:37:28.340 let's just wait for the American ships to leave the region

03:37:30.640 and then violate it

03:37:31.620 yes i agree sketch to repeat they would have to agree publicly which would destroy the regime

03:37:38.900 yeah it would destroy the reputation but still i think that the terms of the agreement needs to be

03:37:46.260 things that you could enforce now not hope for the best in the future like something because

03:37:55.700 something something that the regime could do like we were just lying to them we're just

03:37:59.780 lying to them don't worry guys we're just lying to them but something that you could enforce now is

03:38:09.220 getting rid of the enrichment uranium handing over the enrichment of uranium

03:38:13.140 that is something that you cannot undo like not supporting hezbollah is something that

03:38:18.900 you could undo in the future giving up the enriched uranium that you have is not something

03:38:24.660 that you could undo in the future destroying allowing the human going through the humiliation 0.99

03:38:31.540 of allowing foreigners to come inside and destroy your enrichment uranium enrichment facilities 0.98

03:38:40.260 is not something that you could do undo in the future getting foreigners foreign observers to 0.89

03:38:47.140 international observers to come into your country and destroy your long range missiles

03:38:54.420 is not something that you could undo in the future

03:39:00.420 right but this you could undo it in the future easily undo it in the future

03:39:06.420 by the way guys there's a new report peer-reviewed and all that shows i mean we already knew this

03:39:13.860 we already knew this but this is that this is now come has been completely proven and established

03:39:20.740 on an academic level i don't know if you guys saw this a report just came out that shows

03:39:28.180 you know you guys know what i'm going to say that the islamic republic was directly involved in

03:39:34.580 october 7th they were directly involved in planning and executing

03:39:46.020 october 7th directly involved and hezbollah so like we already yeah again guys you said we

03:39:54.180 you're saying in the chat we know i already started with we know because i knew you guys

03:39:58.660 are going to say that i know i knew already you guys in the chat saying we know we know

03:40:02.980 I already predicted that you guys were going to say that.

03:40:05.180 That's why I started with saying we already knew.

03:40:07.840 So see, I knew what you guys were going to say.

03:40:10.380 But this is at a different level.

03:40:12.860 Oh, yeah.

03:40:13.200 Okay, good.

03:40:13.820 You're saying I didn't know about the report.

03:40:15.560 But yeah, we already knew.

03:40:17.020 We already knew that the Islamic Republic was involved, obviously.

03:40:22.460 But this is a peer-reviewed...

03:40:25.020 This is something that has been...

03:40:27.740 It's not coming from people like us.

03:40:31.460 We're activists. 1.00

03:40:32.440 we're anti-islamic republic okay so we we have an agenda we want to destroy the islamic republic 0.99

03:40:41.840 this is coming from a body that is taken seriously and is its result of work is is considered to be 0.88

03:40:54.160 undeniable proof of this it wouldn't be like me who is an activist against islamic republic

03:41:01.260 or you guys who are pro-Israeli saying that

03:41:04.080 or anti-Islamic Republic saying this,

03:41:05.820 this is now an established report by a body

03:41:09.880 that is now will be referred to as undeniable proof

03:41:15.220 that it was the Islamic Republic. 0.96

03:41:19.020 Yeah, I admit that I'm biased against Islam. 1.00

03:41:21.760 Yeah, you guys, I admit that I'm biased against the Islamic Republic 1.00

03:41:24.720 and I'm proud of it. 1.00

03:41:25.640 I mean, I think most of us are proud of that bias, right? 1.00

03:41:29.240 But it's important that we have institutions and organizations that don't have that bias to also put a stamp of approval on this claim for us to be able to now get more action against the Islamic Republic. 0.99

03:41:48.480 And now, given that we now have that, given that now we have that, there is no excuse for allowing the Islamic Republic to continue for another second. 0.98

03:42:05.580 Guys, again, I'm going to say something that some of you might get offended, okay? 0.98

03:42:09.980 But we don't have that right now, something like that, for the massacre that the Islamic Republic already did in early January. 0.96

03:42:17.240 So we know, I know, that you know, that I know, that you know, that the Islamic Republic has committed the greatest act of massacre in modern day history upon the Iranian people. 0.94

03:42:29.400 Okay. 0.95

03:42:29.820 But for some reason, like in international institutions, you need something more than, you know, I mean, we have high standards. 0.85

03:42:40.460 We have high-quality investigative journalism by three separate independent bodies that shows that the Islamic Republic has done a crazy amount of killing in early January in Iran. 0.80

03:42:56.960 But then there's still another higher level to this that will come and completely verify it, like 100% verify it. 0.51

03:43:05.980 And usually something like that takes years.

03:43:09.380 Think about it. 0.78

03:43:10.460 October 7th is like years ago, and only now we have finally have an academic piece of work that shows beyond reasonable doubt that the Islamic Republic was involved in doing that.

03:43:23.260 So sometimes we have to wait to get a certain level of support that is at a level that some other institutions will now treat it as fact, right?

03:43:36.900 Do you guys understand what I'm saying?

03:43:40.460 So different institutions have different standards to what they will consider, and I think it's important.

03:43:50.340 Okay.

03:43:57.320 All right, guys, I have information, some really good progress that we have made inside Iraq that I think more of us need to pay attention to.

03:44:07.920 let me know if you want more information

03:44:10.820 like what I'm about to tell you

03:44:12.340 because what's happening

03:44:13.300 we're not paying close enough attention

03:44:16.840 to Iraq

03:44:18.500 and I think it's very important

03:44:19.880 so look at this

03:44:26.300 so guys 0.96

03:44:28.760 Iraq may be preparing to abandon

03:44:30.700 one of the Islamic Republic's 0.70

03:44:32.180 most important proxy networks

03:44:34.200 under mounting US pressure

03:44:36.880 and this is big guys this is big like the islamic republic is losing it's already lost syria

03:44:43.840 is losing its influence in hezbollah in lebanon because of this new government because of the new

03:44:50.140 dynamics political dynamics in lebanon right now and hezbollah's constantly reduction reduced power

03:44:57.380 political power within lebanon and now we're going to go for iraq as well iraq is one of the most

03:45:02.740 important areas for the islamic republic and the us is doing is playing a very very good strategic 0.85

03:45:09.460 game here right now in trying to cut the level of influence that the islamic republic has inside

03:45:15.540 iraq so we need to pay very close attention to this and i suspect that this is going to become

03:45:20.900 bigger news pretty at some point okay so saying a new iraqi initiative aims to disarm or fully

03:45:29.300 integrate iran-backed militias inside the pmf so guys pmf is hashal shabby is popular mobile

03:45:36.580 mobilization front or in arabic hashal shabby okay so they're trying to integrate iran black

03:45:43.780 militias inside the pmf or popular uh or the pmf or hash shabby into iraqi state apparatus

03:45:50.740 If implemented, groups like Kato Abel Hezbollah, Ashab al-Haqq would lose independent command structures, heavy weapons, and autonomous militia control as fighters are folded into state-controlled security forces.

03:46:10.400 guys this is very important update so pay attention to this the plan is reportedly being

03:46:16.420 finalized by outgoing uh prime minister muhammad shia al-sudani and prime minister designate ali

03:46:27.420 al-zaidi and hadi al-amiri one of iraq's most influential pro-iran figures so guys even the

03:46:35.960 people who are pro-Islamic Republic are working with the United States to basically to get this

03:46:40.900 done. This is a big, big update from Iraq. This would represent one of the biggest blows to Iran's 0.88

03:46:46.480 regional network in years. For decades, the Islamic Republic used Iraqi militias to project 0.82

03:46:52.580 power across the region without direct IRGC deployment. These groups helped Iran threaten 0.99

03:46:59.620 U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria, move weapons and logistics across the region, pressure Baghdad

03:47:07.380 politically, expand IRGC influence across the Levant, support repression efforts during unrest

03:47:16.600 inside Iran. In early 2026, reports emerged that convoys of Haish al-Shaabi fighters crossed into

03:47:25.680 Iran during protests and instability raising fears they were being used to reinforce regime

03:47:38.220 crackdowns.

03:47:39.220 This has actually been confirmed that in the crackdown, in the massacre that we had in

03:47:44.180 early January, many of the people who were killing the Iranians were part of these militias.

03:47:50.840 So this is why this is very important for Iran right now, because if we could somehow

03:47:56.520 weaken Haish al-Shabi, that means the Iranian people inside Iran will have a better chance

03:48:03.400 in being successful in their uprising.

03:48:07.280 This is why this is very important.

03:48:09.040 This is a longer-term investment, by the way.

03:48:12.740 It says, weakening these militias would significantly damage Iran's axis of resistance and reduce

03:48:18.280 its ability to wage proxy warfare across the region, says, for the U.S., this would represent

03:48:23.980 a major strategic victory. Iran-backed Iraqi militias have launched hundreds of attacks

03:48:28.980 on American interests since late 2023. Neutralizing or integrating them into the Iraqi state

03:48:35.880 will reduce threats to U.S. personnel and weaken Iran's leverage inside Iraq.

03:48:41.440 It would also signal that renewed U.S. maximum pressure is creating real structural strain on Iran's regional network, not just symbolic economic pressure.

03:48:53.780 Iran is unlikely to accept this quietly.

03:48:56.440 Possible responses could include political pressure on Baghdad, militia resistance, proxy escalations in other theaters, and expanded repression inside Iran.

03:49:10.460 The broader picture is that Iran's regional network is increasingly coming under strain, oil exports are being targeted, Hezbollah has suffered major setbacks, and Houthis remain under pressure, Syria remains unstable, and now even Iraq may begin pulling away from Iran's orbit.

03:49:29.560 If Baghdad follows through, it would strike directly at one of the regime's most important strategic advantages, regional influence through armed non-state actors. 0.70

03:49:41.440 Guys, this is why I think longer term, everything is looking in our favor.

03:49:46.480 I understand that short term, like guys, I understand lack of patience.

03:49:51.580 I understand it because I have friends and family inside Iran.

03:49:55.460 I have many friends inside Iran.

03:49:57.140 and it's not just that people

03:49:59.300 are being executed

03:50:00.580 my friends inside Iran

03:50:03.440 they have been active against

03:50:05.340 the Islamic Republic so they're 0.79

03:50:07.240 also every single day

03:50:09.160 that the Islamic Republic is alive 0.95

03:50:10.800 it's a threat to some 1.00

03:50:13.200 of my closest friends and I see

03:50:15.320 how they're living some of my closest friends

03:50:17.140 that had really comfortable lives

03:50:18.720 are now living in the most tense

03:50:20.680 depressing

03:50:22.980 situation

03:50:25.220 when I talk to them 0.98

03:50:26.600 It's really hard to tolerate what's happening right now, and this is why many of us are eager to go back to kinetic military operations very, very, very fast, because we want this to be over and done with already with the Islamic Republic. 0.99

03:50:43.280 I completely understand that. So when I say that even if we don't win this in the short term, I am very, very optimistic about the long term. 0.98

03:50:54.440 it's not to dismiss

03:50:56.300 this lack of patience

03:51:01.220 that is justified

03:51:02.840 because I feel it every single day

03:51:05.060 I feel it every single day

03:51:06.620 I just want to say

03:51:08.880 the silver lining though is that

03:51:10.660 no matter what happens

03:51:12.780 in the short term

03:51:13.920 I don't know what's going to happen in the short term 1.00

03:51:16.040 hopefully we can get rid of the Islamic Republic 1.00

03:51:18.600 sooner rather than later 1.00

03:51:19.920 I don't know if this is going to happen soon

03:51:24.020 or later.

03:51:26.740 But everything I'm saying

03:51:28.500 gives me a lot of confidence

03:51:29.880 that one way or another 1.00

03:51:31.060 the Islamic Republic is going to go. 0.99

03:51:33.540 One way or another

03:51:35.200 the Iranian people are going to become liberated.

03:51:38.500 We are going to have our liberty.

03:51:40.860 So I say that as a silver lining.

03:51:44.920 The bad news is that

03:51:46.160 I don't know when this is going to happen.

03:51:48.240 Maybe it's going to happen tomorrow.

03:51:50.520 Maybe it's going to happen

03:51:51.600 a long a lot later than that is and that is not something that is easy to accept in my opinion

03:52:00.080 given how much people are suffering given the poverty that we have to deal with right now

03:52:04.560 given the executions that we have to deal with on a daily basis okay um but the silver lining 0.93

03:52:11.680 however to me is that everything is moving against islamic republic every time i hear

03:52:17.600 a news like this, if I read

03:52:19.620 a news like this, I could tell

03:52:21.580 like everything is moving in the opposite 1.00

03:52:23.760 direction that the Islamic

03:52:25.440 Republic wants. Everything. 0.63

03:52:27.780 And there's no way

03:52:29.160 that I could think

03:52:31.640 of that the Islamic Republic could survive all of this.

03:52:40.160 Armin, how's your pops?

03:52:41.540 They're great. They're great.

03:52:43.740 Well, thank you for asking.

03:52:47.600 oh he's yeah he's you know he did him and my family um not just him but it's not just my

03:52:56.080 pops it's like everybody like i have so it's my my my it's him it's my aunties um it's my uncles

03:53:06.260 my cousins everybody's there and thank you guys for thinking about them you guys are awesome

03:53:17.600 but they they they're there they're great and the problem is that their experience

03:53:24.700 is not the same as the experience of my friends so when it comes to my family

03:53:33.000 my main concern is them going outside and when they and then all of a sudden getting bombed or

03:53:42.860 something right um like under bombardment and right now because there's no bombardment i'm not

03:53:51.020 worried about that i was mostly worried about that during uh the middle of the operations epic fury

03:53:57.000 i was trying to convince my dad to stay home i could message him right now by the way i'll do it

03:54:02.820 later. But my friends are now the main people that I'm worried about because my dad is economically

03:54:20.420 in a situation that he's not experiencing what my friends are experiencing. My dad is financially

03:54:29.660 in a much better situation

03:54:31.460 than they are.

03:54:33.560 So when I hear from him,

03:54:37.040 I feel comforted

03:54:38.520 that things are okay with him.

03:54:41.480 But when I talk to my friends,

03:54:47.080 things are not good for them at all.

03:54:49.500 At all.

03:54:53.200 But thank you for asking.

03:54:55.200 Okay, we got another super chat saying

03:54:56.540 check Trump's truth social.

03:54:58.680 Okay.

03:54:59.660 let's do that thank you for the super chat oh yes everything same with my family yes

03:55:12.860 okay so this is not iran this is ufc this is ufc

03:55:20.220 oh there we go oh okay what is this

03:55:25.100 iran's navy so it says iran's navy here just okay here

03:55:34.200 amazing look at that okay wait was that it is that what you wanted me to show

03:55:43.200 oh keep going okay keep going

03:55:50.220 oh there's another one what is the caption for this one okay let's see okay this is

03:56:00.840 President Trump in the Persian Gulf more okay more keep going this is the golf course keep

03:56:17.280 going okay keep going i see is it this one 150 59 iranian ships under obama biden under trump

03:56:30.960 wait why is it why is the flag still waving under the water so under obama and biden they were

03:56:38.960 floating they were like functional and under trump they're at the bottom of the sea

03:56:44.800 but somehow their flags are still okay you say keep going okay keep going okay bye-bye drones

03:56:54.800 is this wow president trump like he posts a lot of meme memes and ai pictures okay drones wow

03:57:06.320 say drone posting this picture saying drones dropping like butterflies okay okay wow okay

03:57:13.520 Okay, does President Trump sleep at all?

03:57:18.200 Like he's posting a lot of memes.

03:57:20.760 Oh, this one, this one we covered earlier today.

03:57:23.280 This one, the article, I could go over the article again.

03:57:27.180 I could read the article for you guys again.

03:57:28.800 Is this the one you wanted to talk about?

03:57:32.060 Or the butterflies ones?

03:57:36.080 Yeah, I don't think, yeah, you're right.

03:57:37.400 Someone's saying, I don't think he does.

03:57:39.000 Yeah, I don't think he sleeps either.

03:57:44.400 Is it this one that you wanted me to highlight?

03:57:47.340 The person in the live chat?

03:57:49.220 Who was it?

03:57:50.000 Say more and more.

03:57:50.880 What is his name?

03:57:53.180 Sherry.

03:57:55.080 That's it?

03:57:55.800 Okay.

03:57:56.580 I will read this article that President Trump posted because some people might have missed it.

03:58:00.740 Actually, it's an important article.

03:58:02.920 But we got a super chat, so let me respond to that first.

03:58:05.460 saying armin john what are your what are you using to speak to your family

03:58:12.820 oh is it okay if i don't say

03:58:15.840 oh my god i have a family in tehran okay i'll just say i'll you i'll just tell you i'll use i use

03:58:26.260 telegram i use telegram but the problem is that it's some so many times he's not online and then

03:58:38.560 sometimes he's online okay telegram i have my fam i have family in tehran and the only way to speak

03:58:45.960 to them is to wait for them to call me please advise okay so i hate to say it but my dad

03:58:53.660 has the ability to get internet and sometimes and that's why he i can contact him sometimes so

03:59:08.940 so if you have to wait to hear from them is it like is your family does your family not have

03:59:15.500 because guys so even though there's internet cut uh has been completely cut

03:59:20.620 But there is a way to pay people, some people, like a lot of money to get you into it.

03:59:27.940 So the problem with that is that it's expensive.

03:59:31.280 It's like really expensive now.

03:59:33.500 So so many people just don't pay it.

03:59:41.500 I don't know if that answers your question, Nima.

03:59:45.480 Sorry to hear what you're going through, man.

03:59:47.680 That must be very tough.

03:59:48.820 I have family in Tehran and the only way

03:59:51.440 to speak to them is to wait for them to

03:59:53.400 man that's a very tough situation

03:59:55.280 I'm so sorry

03:59:56.040 that's horrible

03:59:58.840 I'm so sorry

04:00:02.980 I'm sorry if I'm not giving you

04:00:05.220 a satisfactory response though

04:00:06.960 I'm waiting to see what you have to say

04:00:09.480 like if you have any follow up questions

04:00:11.420 sorry man I'm so sorry

04:00:17.160 i wish i had a better response i am not like a that tech savvy to be able to like oh yeah do

04:00:24.660 this and then that i just know my dad gets internet sometimes

04:00:29.720 the people who are financially better off they will be able to pay for the much more expensive

04:00:39.820 of internet guys the internet the regime still allows people who are pro-regime uh to have

04:00:47.860 internet and that's why some of those people just sell it at a very high price

04:00:52.460 i don't know i should ask him

04:00:57.860 oh goldie's back we have goldie yay i'm back yay

04:01:05.360 what did i mean somebody in the chat wanted us to go over this and i was just telling them that

04:01:15.340 you already went over it this is the article that president trump posted that showed that

04:01:21.100 53 of american voters uh say it's more important to prevent iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon

04:01:29.760 well, the Islamic Republic, I should say, acquiring a nuclear weapon than it is to end the fighting.

04:01:36.480 And then also, this is a very credible survey, by the way, apparently, based on what I'm hearing from other outlets.

04:01:46.600 But also, more importantly, 60% prioritize preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon on stabilizing energy prices in the U.S.

04:01:59.760 That's big, that's big, 60%. 0.56

04:02:02.420 And then, oh, we've got more Super Chats, so let's go through those.

04:02:14.880 Okay, so I'm saying, please accept my sincerest apology.

04:02:18.240 I just stared into that cute monkey's big, adorable eyes in all your videos.

04:02:25.760 I hope I didn't offend you by asking.

04:02:27.880 No!

04:02:28.280 it was actually a fitting question

04:02:30.800 on Mother's Day, you made me talk about my mom

04:02:33.140 on Mother's Day, so

04:02:34.420 no, I wasn't upset at all

04:02:36.940 but thank you, thank you, thank you

04:02:39.100 thank you

04:02:39.540 and then we have another super chat saying

04:02:42.800 same as Nima, Nima Fars

04:02:44.700 however, sometimes for unknown

04:02:46.740 like, okay, so your parents also

04:02:48.600 you have to wait for your family to call you from inside Iran

04:02:51.220 to be able to contact them 0.89

04:02:53.280 so same as that, same as Nima

04:02:54.800 however, sometimes for unknown reasons

04:02:56.740 some people we know will have white sim level white sim level access and we tease them about

04:03:03.060 being spies it comes and goes yeah okay so so the reason why they like why like imagine guys imagine

04:03:12.980 if your brother calls you from iran you're like you're why do you have internet ah are you pro

04:03:18.980 regime do we have us do we have a spy in our family so yeah no the reason why so yeah that's

04:03:27.940 a joke but the reason why sometimes they have that access is because they just pay so much to get it

04:03:34.260 right um and yes so let me see we have another super chat oh wait but that one was from mary

04:03:43.940 And then we have Roman Viking saying, do you think we are going to see something similar to the Lebanese civil war in Iraq now?

04:03:55.220 Army versus Shia militias?

04:03:58.260 Well, Iraq is majority Shia. 1.00

04:04:00.740 So I don't see how that could happen versus Shia. 0.99

04:04:05.340 I mean, I wouldn't be surprised to see some military resistance by these militias, okay? 0.97

04:04:17.300 But how much does that need to escalate to get to civil war territory?

04:04:23.000 Because when we're talking Iraq and civil war,

04:04:25.780 the way that you imagine civil war within Iraq is Sunni versus Shia or Kurdish versus Shia, okay?

04:04:34.520 But this civil war that you're talking about would require a Shia versus Shia type of civil war.

04:04:42.620 I don't know if that type of a military confrontation will escalate to a level that we could call a civil war. 0.96

04:04:50.900 but I wouldn't be surprised if we do see some form of a military resistance 0.93

04:04:57.600 by these Shia militias loyal to the Islamic Republic. 0.95

04:05:06.580 But good question. That's a very good question. 1.00

04:05:10.660 Depends on how much support they could get from the Islamic Republic.

04:05:13.680 so we got another super chat saying

04:05:20.020 the true social article he posted

04:05:22.200 was the one we went over

04:05:24.220 earlier yes it's from April yes it's from

04:05:26.280 April yep here look if we

04:05:28.280 go to the article

04:05:29.560 if we go to the article

04:05:33.900 you can see April right

04:05:36.180 here yeah it's from April

04:05:38.160 the pictures above it

04:05:40.280 are new though he just posted

04:05:42.400 those blessings well thank you so much blessings yes the pictures above them are new but even

04:05:50.080 though the article is from april he used the fact that he brought attention to the fact that 53 of

04:05:58.080 americans are oh yeah so actually now that you've now that you say that i wonder if more updated

04:06:06.720 polls would show a different number. I would bet you that what we're going to see is some other

04:06:13.920 anti-Trump media now coming out in response to President Trump posting this

04:06:20.480 with some polls that might suggest that the war is not as popular.

04:06:26.560 That would be the response that you could expect, I think, from the media.

04:06:29.840 all right i thank you for your support oh and goldie shared us some things

04:06:35.920 share something with us so let's take a look at that well you know armin um it's interesting it's

04:06:42.060 a little bit of a slow news day yeah it's a little bit of a slow news day however um

04:06:49.840 i feel like the silence means that there's a lot going on behind the scenes

04:06:55.160 and did you see the the recent posts that president trump put on truth social not the

04:07:02.220 one with the article but the more recent one where he's true yeah we went yeah we were just

04:07:07.120 going through them right now with the chat the memes right there was the butterfly one right so

04:07:14.520 here we had a butterfly one drones going down like butterflies and then we had the

04:07:21.980 bye-bye drones taken down by lasers and then we had uh we had the 159 iranian ships at the bottom

04:07:34.220 of the sea during trump's time compared to under obama's biden's time okay and then we had if we

04:07:42.460 go up up up up up up and then we have president trump in the persian gulf managing what's

04:07:51.920 over the islamic republic ships being blown up we had that and then we had some food for some reason

04:08:01.040 okay and then we had more ships iran's navy at the bottom of the persian gulf he posted that

04:08:10.480 and then the ufc ufc and that's it that was the last the last one iran related was this one

04:08:18.800 So, I mean, to me, that shows that even though President Trump hasn't made any official statements or comments about the conflict, the Islamic regime is definitely on his mind, right?

04:08:35.900 Like there is something going on behind the scenes, and he's doing this to pressure and embarrass the Islamic regime in a way.

04:08:43.920 I mean, Goldie, to your point, we had some slow news days before Operation Epic, before Khamenei died, right?

04:08:53.400 Yeah, and I remember what we were doing is we were, of course, sharing funeral videos, right?

04:09:01.120 We were going over the funerals of the people who had been massacred by the Islamic regime.

04:09:06.860 um you know armin last night so we started watching a documentary and i can only get 0.98

04:09:14.020 through about like 10 minutes of that documentary because it was just some like the most garbage

04:09:18.960 thing i'd ever seen wow it was about it was supposed to be about like ancient persian magic 0.84

04:09:25.240 but the guys the people who were with me um oh my gosh it was just complete and utter nonsense

04:09:31.040 because um the whole thing was obviously like you know the the guy was like oh i'm here with 0.54

04:09:38.100 my tour guide and the tour guide was obviously like his islamic regime handler and then oh my

04:09:44.320 gosh i don't know i don't know if we should like re-watch it and then get your commentary on this

04:09:49.960 because it was just so insane it was so insane wow like i couldn't get through it i literally

04:09:58.940 couldn't get through it and and i blame i blame our viewers because i did a poll and the the poll

04:10:08.620 here i think i still have the poll from last night so it was this one it was uh

04:10:16.700 which conspiracy theory documentary about iran should we watch ancient persian magic or alien

04:10:24.140 sighting in iran in 1976 and it was it was a close vote it was a close vote but uh our viewers

04:10:33.980 chose ancient persian magic and the documentary was like i couldn't get through it i was like i

04:10:41.500 can't do this i was just i was literally ranting the whole time you know what let me let me pull

04:10:47.580 it up let me pull it up and i don't know maybe you can give your thoughts on this because we have a

04:10:53.340 little bit of time and i'm you know i'm just doom scrolling but uh let me go to history

04:11:03.820 i will send the link to you

04:11:08.940 and then what was it yesterday

04:11:13.100 all right here we go guys we've never done a documentary watch party with

04:11:28.140 armin before wow let's see how long armin lasts okay

04:11:35.120 yeah see we number two voters knew better i know

04:11:44.000 this would now be forever the divide within our audience the number one people versus the

04:11:53.720 number two people yeah so the persian magic people versus the the alien conspiracy

04:11:59.140 the eternal divide the civil war has started

04:12:06.580 in the heart of an ancient nation a sacred fire burns

04:12:21.620 make it big

04:12:29.140 it hasn't been extinguished for over 2 000 years its mysteries inspired the faith of millions

04:12:39.220 and lie at the very root of what christians muslims and jews believe in today

04:12:47.140 yeah actually the russianism has caused the foundational beliefs of

04:12:52.180 of many of the views within Christianity, Judaism, and Islam today.

04:12:57.440 Islam as well? 1.00

04:12:59.620 Well, I mean, Islam in the sense that Islam is like a retarded version. 1.00

04:13:09.500 It got some of its ideas from Christianity and Judaism, right? 1.00

04:13:14.320 So because those ideas came from Zoroastrianism,

04:13:18.700 it went from Zoroastrianism to Christianity and Judaism,

04:13:21.440 and then from there to Islam. 0.70

04:13:35.060 If I am to find it, 1.00

04:13:39.040 I'll have to set out on a two and a half thousand mile journey,

04:13:42.460 a journey which takes me behind the lifting veil 1.00

04:13:45.140 of Islamic fundamentalism

04:13:47.020 to a place where time and history

04:13:50.880 began. 1.00

04:14:10.400 By the way, guys, I have a book of demons in front of me, and I'm trying to find the Persian

04:14:16.100 ones in this demonology demons and demonology book i have i'm gonna try to see if i could

04:14:22.940 find any persian demons in there while we're watching this

04:14:46.100 I'm David Adams.

04:14:53.900 I'm a photojournalist, and my work takes me on journeys to some of the most remote corners of the world.

04:15:04.020 Now it takes me to a place where many have been afraid to visit.

04:15:08.240 Iran.

04:15:12.200 Now, Iran's not strictly at the ends of the earth.

04:15:14.940 but because it's been effectively off limits

04:15:17.620 to so many westerners for so long

04:15:20.020 it's still a land

04:15:21.480 shrouded in mystery

04:15:22.860 my journey starts

04:15:25.660 in the Iranian capital

04:15:26.920 how has it been off limits

04:15:29.180 where I discover one of its more

04:15:33.760 lethal

04:15:34.240 has it been off limits

04:15:35.880 we have had the other problem

04:15:38.760 with people 0.94

04:15:40.860 going to Iran

04:15:42.400 it hasn't been off limits 0.96

04:15:43.960 In fact, for so many years, our problem with tourism to Iran is that foreigners will come to Iran, and they're shown so many beautiful things and have the best time, and they leave without understanding the hell that the Islamic Republic has created for so many of the local people there, and they go back home and say, like, oh, everything is wonderful in Iran. 0.94

04:16:09.520 so we have the opposite problem the tourists just come and go and they have this they see so many 0.97

04:16:18.000 you know amazing beautiful hotels and amazing beautiful tourist spots and some so many luxurious

04:16:24.320 attractions and then yes exactly see sardis said like they and but we run they enjoy so many things

04:16:31.760 that many iranian people themselves cannot enjoy and they go back home and like oh iran is fantastic

04:16:37.360 is safe everything is wonderful we they have they have everything there it's actually better there

04:16:44.320 than it's in here in the united states and they were like we're watching it like what the hell

04:16:49.200 what are these people talking about and like i talked to my friends like you know we talked to

04:16:54.000 my friends in iran they're like oh they they're making it seem like it's heaven there like yeah

04:16:58.000 it's heaven for somebody who comes with us dollars or i don't know british pounds or like euros and

04:17:04.480 they could live like kings there and have like the most fabulous time for sure so but that's not our 0.99

04:17:11.680 that's not our experience here so he said like oh it's like iran is like close to foreigners

04:17:19.360 those are close foreigners the fact islamic republic loves loves loves bringing foreigners

04:17:24.000 there and show them a one-sided view of what living in iran is like to whitewash their image 0.51

04:17:31.040 so i don't know this this first part is wrong amateur sports like iranians in the chat you

04:17:38.320 agree with me on this like am i am i misrepresenting this or am i right about this because some iranias

04:17:43.920 might feel like oh army you don't know you know you haven't been in iran for 20 years

04:17:48.480 but i think that's i'm giving you an accurate picture of what the iranians feel feel armin 0.91

04:17:53.280 armin i would say yes and no because you're right the islamic regime definitely will pay

04:17:59.520 influencers to go there and, you know, portray this image of, you know, the Islamic regime.

04:18:09.940 And, you know, it's basically propaganda. But the Islamic regime will also take a lot of

04:18:17.180 foreigners hostage, right? So it's a yes and no. If you go there because the Islamic regime wants 1.00

04:18:24.780 you to go and they're paying you and they're funding you you'll have an amazing time and 0.93

04:18:29.760 you'll you know they'll only show you this like perfect beautiful whatever country and because

04:18:35.140 they want you to share their propaganda that's actually happening right now there are a lot of 0.99

04:18:40.380 like garbage people who are not iranian who are in occupied iran uh at the behest of the islamic 0.86

04:18:47.000 regime and they're sharing islamic regime propaganda to make it seem as if oh everything 0.99

04:18:52.320 is normal everything is okay um israel and the united states are the aggressors right 0.80

04:18:58.800 but if you are just traveling there as a foreigner um the islamic regime will most likely 0.86

04:19:07.040 take you hostage because they will use you to um like they'll basically use you as political

04:19:14.400 leverage right like that's exact exactly what happened with france with uh like some french

04:19:19.920 people right um and then they recently they were recently used um as political leverage

04:19:32.640 so look at this for example um so this is just from a month ago

04:19:40.800 how french hostages cecile kohler and jacques paris were released from iran two french nationals

04:19:52.100 detained by tehran in 2022 were released in exchange for lifting the house arrests house

04:19:58.860 arrest of an iranian woman convicted in france for online incitement to terrorism so this is why

04:20:04.960 We say, like, don't go to Iran because the Islamic regime will take you hostage on some bogus claims and they'll keep you there in jail for years until they can use you as political leverage in order to free their Islamic terrorists and sleeper cells that are operating in your countries and, you know, eventually get caught.

04:20:30.280 And that's exactly what happened here. So, like, don't be a useful idiot for the Islamic regime. Do not travel to Iran. And this is just one example of like hundreds, if not thousands of non-Iranians who've been taken hostage by the regime. I just want to point that out. 1.00

04:20:49.400 something i want to point out as well is that the islamic republic you're actually in a lot 0.93

04:20:56.160 lot more danger if you're a dual citizen if you're a dual citizen because the islamic republic

04:21:02.160 thinks that if you are a dual if you go to iran and you're a dual citizen they know that they 0.98

04:21:07.800 could use you as a leverage if they kidnap you against the country that you have a citizen

04:21:13.540 citizenship of but they also can kidnap you in their mind because they they legally own you

04:21:21.120 because you're also iranian so if you are for example just american and go and you're not

04:21:27.740 iranian and you go to iran you're much much less likely much much less likely to get kidnapped

04:21:33.720 if you're like iranian canadian because they think like well you're a citizen of here so we could do

04:21:40.360 whatever the hell we want to you and on top of that on top of that um they will um that you you

04:21:49.660 iran doesn't have a way to give up your citizenship so for example if you're canadian there's a way

04:21:54.960 for you to be like i don't want to be canadian anymore if you're american there's a way to say

04:21:59.100 like i don't want to be american anymore but if you're iranian the islamic republic will say we 0.88

04:22:04.040 have rights over you whenever we want and they treat their citizens as if they own their citizens

04:22:09.600 Right. And by kidnapping dual citizens, the Islamic Republic is making it clear that they don't care about their citizens, but they know other countries care about their citizens. 0.93

04:22:21.840 So think about that. If you are, for example, an Iranian Canadian or an Iranian American or Iranian, like I don't know, French, they know that they can arrest you because they're Iranian and they only arrest you because you're also French or Canadian or whatever, Australian. 0.54

04:22:39.600 And they say that he's a spy as a way to use you as leverage against Australia or France or Canada or the United States, basically admitting that other countries will try to protect their citizens while Iran will use the citizenship of Iran, while the regime uses the citizenship of Iranians as a way to treat them as pawns against another country. 0.60

04:23:03.440 And they're admitting that by kidnapping you.

04:23:06.100 all right let's continue so someone was asking like how many westerners are currently held

04:23:15.120 hostage um so let me just share this really quickly um so as of may 2026 at least six

04:23:27.400 american citizens are confirmed to be wrongfully detained or held hostage in iran according to

04:23:34.460 advocates and the james w foley legacy foundation and then total westerners beyond the u.s citizens

04:23:42.940 experts estimate a dozen or more westerners including tourists are currently held in iranian

04:23:48.940 prisons on charges often described as sham or political bargaining chips okay there you go

04:23:58.780 and so and go the what how many of them are dual citizens that i don't know but i mean can you ask

04:24:06.060 um well um let's go to fox news digital or i mean let's let's get here so list of foreign

04:24:13.840 nationals detained in iran um right so guys hostage diplomacy like this is oh wait let me

04:24:21.220 share it so here you go like hostage diplomacy right that's what we're talking about since the

04:24:26.340 Iran hostage crisis back in the 1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has engaged in a pattern of

04:24:31.960 detaining foreign nationals for extended periods. According to the Center for Human Rights in Iran,

04:24:37.620 the Iranian government has imprisoned dual and foreign-only nationals as bargaining chips in

04:24:45.200 its dealings with other nations. Iran's repeated dubious detention of dual citizens and thereafter

04:24:51.660 bargaining behavior have led observers to qualify the practice as a policy of hostage

04:24:58.700 diplomacy. According to French ex-hostage Louis Arnault, who spent two years in Iranian custody,

04:25:07.300 those detained are usually kept in solitary confinement. In an interview, he said that

04:25:12.560 everything is done so that you are deprived of your humanity. Armin, so like Armin was correct, 1.00

04:25:19.300 dual nationals, I mean, Armin's always correct, but dual nationals of Iran and other countries

04:25:24.060 are particularly vulnerable to arbitrary detention, right? So here's a list of current

04:25:32.020 foreign nationals. Nazak Afshar, she's French-Iranian, Ahmad Rizad Jalili, Iranian-Swedish,

04:25:39.960 Nahid Taghavi, Mehran Rauf, these are all Iranian dual nationals, probably.

04:25:43.720 um oh citizenship citizenship no no no so naheed her citizenship is only german

04:25:51.020 so goldie that's interesting because even if your citizenship is only german you could tell by her

04:25:57.760 his name that the islamic republic considers him to be iranian because he comes from an iranian

04:26:03.340 family even if you don't have an iranian citizenship same thing with mehran so mehran

04:26:08.700 is from the uk so these two naheed and mehran have been uh detained since october 16 2020 so

04:26:18.140 like almost six years right and then mohammed hassan armin he's australian and iranian

04:26:24.940 oh hakop gochumian so this guy is not iranian whatsoever he's armenian he's been detained 0.65

04:26:33.100 Shahram Namavar, so he's UK and Iranian. Reza Valizadeh, US and Iranian. Ahmad Riyazi, UK,

04:26:44.220 Iranian. Oh, look, here's a total non-Iranian person. Bastian Brusek, he's German. So this 0.99

04:26:53.500 guy is not even Iranian. He's been detained. And a guy from India, Sumit Sud, he's been detained.

04:27:03.100 um oh look at this craig foreman craig foreman is not an iranian name like craig foreman is like

04:27:09.740 one of the whitest names you can find um yeah so craig foreman is from the uk he's been detained

04:27:16.860 uh since january 2025. oh no oh lindsay foreman look at that and lindsay foreman

04:27:23.260 both from the uk together yeah probably a husband and wife

04:27:26.860 oh my god he's on our bingo card but arvin pull up the boom boom bingo sheet okay okay okay on it

04:27:45.340 got it

04:27:47.540 here

04:27:50.080 oh my god

04:27:52.660 so

04:27:54.160 judicial

04:27:55.840 up here

04:27:57.900 guys look when it comes to the judicial

04:28:00.920 branch only two names are on the bingo

04:28:03.040 card

04:28:03.440 and salavati

04:28:05.760 he's the judge 0.98

04:28:08.880 they're the ones who are the bloodthirsty

04:28:11.160 killers who like they just like

04:28:12.980 sign death wards for everyone right 0.97

04:28:15.580 so yeah there you go so so this guy this guy on our boom boom bingo sheet he sentenced that uk

04:28:22.220 couple by the way so so the uk couple thought that it would be completely okay to just like 0.99

04:28:27.580 bike through iran like it's just like like idiots right um and they were captured and 0.99

04:28:34.940 they were put in jail and they were said they were sentenced to 10 years in jail 1.00

04:28:38.700 by this guy on the boom mingo sheet so yeah 0.99

04:28:45.420 meanwhile there's like some you know pakistani demon who lives in the uk she's currently in 0.70

04:28:51.100 occupied iran and she's she's putting out islamic regime propaganda but not once has she spoken

04:28:57.500 about the two uh uk citizens who are being detained by the islamic regime right so go guys don't go

04:29:08.460 to iran yeah don't go to iran until until we liberate iran exactly so yeah you you go to iran

04:29:16.460 you're most likely like there's a very good chance that you can be taken hostage because 0.87

04:29:21.420 the islamic regime uses people um for hostage diplomacy look at this so this guy vladimir 0.91

04:29:27.900 pronin he's from russia sergey cheremisinov is from russia and then then there's a whole list 0.68

04:29:37.020 of like armenian citizens so there's a guy from armenia oh look look at all these australian

04:29:42.540 citizens why i don't know oh my god oh oh these oh these are these are people that were released

04:29:51.820 okay so the first list is the people that are apparently currently detained and then these are

04:29:56.620 like all the other people that were detained and then released eventually so there you go yeah

04:30:01.260 there you go guys so do not do not travel to occupy abroad yes goldie we need to turn armin

04:30:11.340 pull out the boom boom bingo sheet into another sound bite so somebody cut that as well armin

04:30:18.460 pull out the bingo sheet that's a good thing that's a good okay all right by the way guys

04:30:27.020 i found a persian demon in my demonology book look at that i was looking at my demonology

04:30:34.620 book looking for a persian demon this is a persian demon his name his name is i ishma ishma

04:30:45.180 how do you spell that it's a e s h m a is in zoroastrianism the demon of wrath

04:30:57.140 rage and fury a e s h m a 1.00

04:31:02.960 she is the fiercest of demons and is responsible for all acts of aggression and malice with her 1.00

04:31:15.100 committed in war or or drunkenness he has even powers that he can use for the destruction of

04:31:23.140 humanity in the hierarchy of zoroastrian zoroastrian divas the mirror that mirrors a similar hierarchy

04:31:31.380 of divinities ashram as opposed to asha asha asha vahishta the amisha spenta what or or good spirit

04:31:44.420 oh apparently the evil demons in zoroastrianism has an equal rank good counterpart as like a

04:31:53.540 angel like something like an angel yeah because it's all about balance it's about yin and yang

04:31:58.080 so it's all balanced out

04:31:59.620 oh so his other

04:32:02.100 guy the good part

04:32:04.100 the Asha guy that guy

04:32:06.040 embodies truth

04:32:07.120 so that's

04:32:10.260 Ashima's chief adversary

04:32:11.680 oh no Ashima's chief adversary is

04:32:13.620 Sraosha 0.97

04:32:15.100 the principle of religious

04:32:18.180 devotion and discipline

04:32:19.780 Ashima distracts people

04:32:22.220 from proper worship 0.99

04:32:23.220 oh so Sraosha makes you 0.83

04:32:26.120 worship, focus on your

04:32:28.100 worship, Ashramah, 0.99

04:32:30.280 the demon, distracts people from their

04:32:32.020 worship, from proper worship.

04:32:34.200 He interferes with the souls of the dead

04:32:36.320 as they approach the

04:32:38.140 Chinvat bridge.

04:32:40.340 The Chinvat

04:32:42.400 bridge to the underworld. 0.66

04:32:44.720 Guys, remember every time

04:32:46.420 in movies and in other

04:32:48.340 religions you see a bridge

04:32:49.900 in the underworld for the dead to pass?

04:32:52.980 That comes from 0.99

04:32:54.060 Zoroastrianism. That bridge comes from Zoroastrianism, originally was Zoroastrianism. The creator

04:33:00.520 god Ahura Mazda created Sraosha to counter Ashima's mischief and protect people from

04:33:08.900 his attacks. Sraosha ultimately will overthrow Ashima. In medieval texts, Ashima is made

04:33:18.960 a commander of

04:33:20.920 dark forces by

04:33:22.540 Angra

04:33:23.400 Angra Minyu

04:33:25.940 oh later Ahriman

04:33:27.920 so Ahriman was Angra Minyu

04:33:29.580 so Ahriman made him a commander of his army 0.85

04:33:32.600 he is swallowed by

04:33:34.640 Oz, oh my god

04:33:35.780 the demon of, I don't know what is that word

04:33:38.800 I don't know what that word is

04:33:41.640 Ashriman can be driven away

04:33:43.500 by the recitation 0.57

04:33:45.500 of a prayer from

04:33:47.140 a Zoroastrian text 0.60

04:33:52.100 the demon

04:33:53.360 Asmodeus

04:33:55.560 of Hebrew lore

04:33:57.120 may be based in part by Ashram 1.00

04:33:59.200 guys we have demons 0.99

04:34:01.320 in Judaism 0.99

04:34:03.660 that are 0.92

04:34:05.400 inspired by demons in 0.97

04:34:07.340 Zoroastrianism

04:34:08.220 look at this 0.96

04:34:10.620 look at this 0.89

04:34:12.340 so Ashram is a Persian demon 0.96

04:34:14.700 and there's a demon in

04:34:17.020 Hebrew lore

04:34:18.160 Asmodeus

04:34:19.960 who was based

04:34:23.260 on in part by

04:34:25.220 Ashram

04:34:25.780 Guys our 1.00

04:34:32.360 Iranian demons 1.00

04:34:34.120 inspired Jewish 1.00

04:34:37.040 demons 1.00

04:34:37.560 So this is the demon

04:34:41.060 we're talking about here

04:34:42.080 By the way I want to know more about this demon up here 0.99

04:34:45.160 this demon up here looks ridiculous 0.98

04:34:47.220 look at this hold on 0.99

04:34:48.840 look at this demon up here 0.95

04:34:51.840 what the hell is that

04:34:54.720 but this is the demon that we were talking about 0.97

04:34:59.580 but this is another demon

04:35:04.100 what is this one

04:35:05.180 I want to know this one

04:35:06.620 Abraxas

04:35:14.120 This guy is Abraxas.

04:35:19.200 Okay.

04:35:22.580 All right.

04:35:23.460 Let's go back.

04:35:24.200 Let's go back.

04:35:26.260 Guys, I have a book of demons.

04:35:28.340 I have a book of angels.

04:35:29.680 This is my demonology book.

04:35:36.000 Then I have a book of angels.

04:35:39.140 You could study angels.

04:35:40.860 and then i have a book of ghosts and spirits and you have a lot of like religious and supernatural

04:35:49.900 stuff for an atheist armin it's very suspicious i like i love i i love religions i just don't

04:35:58.800 believe in them okay but i love them i like to see their evolution i like to see i like to study

04:36:05.820 the way they evolved and through their history behind them and all of that right yeah yeah i

04:36:15.580 mean hey you're right actually most of my books are about religion okay that's right oh my god

04:36:23.100 exposed guys have been exposed by goldie all right half of them are islamic too okay let's 0.94

04:36:32.620 good where i discover one of its more lethal amateur sports extreme jaywalking 0.99

04:36:46.060 well into the valley of death

04:36:49.740 the trick is to just go instead of trying to dodge them just rely on the cars the guys the trick

04:36:57.420 when you're in iran you're trying to cross the street you have to just rely on the judgment of

04:37:02.140 the driver okay because if you try to if you try to dodge the cars you're going to actually make

04:37:09.020 the job more difficult they're like what the hell are you doing just go in a straight line

04:37:13.180 they will slow down when they need to this is not dangerous at all he's exaggerating it nobody

04:37:36.780 okay okay when there's this much traffic nobody gets hurt because everything is slow

04:37:41.580 only on highways where cars are going like zoom zoom zoom like nobody passes that there's bridges

04:37:47.980 for that but when there's like in places where like this where there's so much traffic

04:37:52.700 it's pretty safe he's exaggerating you just go and the cars nobody is gonna run over you they

04:37:58.860 can see you know you know they can see you right you know they can see you no one's gonna run over

04:38:04.060 you flesh and i'm really oh my god this is a game of chicken you're gonna die okay okay buddy okay

04:38:18.060 this is a daily game 0.96

04:38:26.940 like you're gonna die so let me just read your car let me read your 0.94

04:38:30.060 a quran verse so weird like weird yeah i don't know it's but let me see what there's like okay 0.97

04:38:38.780 you're gonna die let me read the photo wait is this even is this even islam it sounds it like 0.79

04:38:49.100 what is this 0.90

04:38:59.900 okay okay now i see what he's saying

04:39:06.460 this is a daily game but now okay he's saying but now

04:39:12.460 okay he's just basically saying in the name of god in the most weird way

04:39:15.740 oh my god he's exaggerating what the big deal is it like oh this is a game of chicken between

04:39:27.060 flesh and steel dude buddy this is nothing this is like every day going to school like

04:39:34.480 going to work there's nobody dies here people die on the highways when the cars are going

04:39:40.000 like zoom zoom zoom like really fast nobody dies here there are police and stoplights oh this is

04:39:47.360 this is zurkhuna music oh that's yeah guys that's a zurkhuna music

04:39:54.880 god should we show them zurkhuna i've showed zurkhuna before but yeah go for it okay but let's

04:40:02.400 let's go through this one okay hold on let me should i bring one right now you're trying to

04:40:07.300 find one that doesn't have like durka music though because zurkhune has nothing to do with

04:40:11.360 islam but but the jihadis appropriated it right just like everything else like the zurkhune goes

04:40:16.440 back to thousands of years like ancient persian warriors would train in zurkhune's zurkhune

04:40:22.300 means powerhouse so zurkhune's were the original gems that is so accurate i don't know if i could

04:40:30.760 find one that doesn't have islamic

04:40:36.360 oh you know what you can just you know what why don't you just find a video and then play it

04:40:40.120 without audio and then you can explain it and i'll i will add audio wait i will add copyright

04:40:46.840 i don't know if i'm the best person to explain but hold on go for it this is just mute it oh

04:40:52.200 you know what i think this is the one that i actually shared so yeah just play this one and

04:40:56.520 then i oh look the shirt has yali oh no i know because it's been culturally appropriated by the

04:41:03.800 muslims so this is how in ancient iran people trained to for war for to be a warrior these

04:41:14.920 are actually you know what now that i think about it because when i was in iran i was thinking like

04:41:20.520 when i when we when we went to and we see people exercising like this i was thinking like um

04:41:27.080 surely there are better ways to gain muscle or like whatever but now that i think about it no

04:41:33.080 this is actually the best exercises for somebody wielding a weapon yeah right so guys those are

04:41:39.640 called meals m-e-e-l so those are meals and you use these to exercise your muscles it's very difficult

04:41:48.920 to do um the iron shake if you guys uh he was really really big into meals and in fact

04:41:57.240 the iron shake before he left iran and became a wwe superstar he was actually part of the shah's

04:42:04.600 bodyguard so the iron shake was really big into um and this sort of bodybuilding this guys this

04:42:13.800 like the original bodybuilding muscle building exercise yeah in ancient iran yeah like this

04:42:20.840 this is the tradition that goes back like thousands and thousands of years 0.96

04:42:24.680 like before islam was invented yes but now every time you step into one of them they're like ali 0.94

04:42:36.680 it's it's cultural appropriation right cultural appropriation 0.99

04:42:40.600 because they have they have no culture of their own they have they have nothing of their own

04:42:45.960 everything that they have they've stolen from everyone else so right okay all right let's go

04:42:53.640 here okay thank you for the music let's go back now now that people know what the chat was referring

04:42:59.880 to but no one seems to pay much attention to them so for extreme conditions it's best to show extreme

04:43:06.440 confidence well no everybody shows confidence because nobody's worried except you

04:43:15.960 don't try that at home god what do you mean you just walk you just walk and you'll be fine

04:43:23.640 guys here's what you do okay you don't need to worry about the car you just make eye contact

04:43:28.120 with the driver and that when the driver looks into your eye that's an acknowledgement that i

04:43:33.400 see you and you see me that's all good enough okay you just look at the driver you look him in the

04:43:39.240 eye the driver sees you and then that that's good enough information for you to walk because guys

04:43:44.760 nobody wants to kill you so as soon as the drivers makes a contact with you you know you're safe

04:43:51.720 finding myself still alive this guy i'm or goldie i'm already offended by this guy was this the part

04:43:56.680 i was supposed to get offended or am i too am i too easily offended no the whole thing is just 0.82

04:44:02.120 stupid i go and see the sights and discover that some western visitors are still unwelcome 0.97

04:44:14.920 yeah this is like a common graffiti that you see inside iran and the walls 1.00

04:44:22.520 like the statue of liberty like skeleton are still unwelcome

04:44:32.120 These were the walls of the United States Embassy in Tehran.

04:44:36.240 Behind them, a group of revolutionaries once held 52 Americans hostage for over a year.

04:44:44.520 The graffiti still proclaims Iran's hatred for America,

04:44:49.440 a country they call the Great Satan,

04:44:52.000 and everywhere the face of Ayatollah Khomeini, father of the Islamic Revolution.

04:44:58.920 That doesn't look like him at all, but...

04:45:01.240 Khomeini.

04:45:02.240 This is this like whoever was the painter, he did a poor job that does not look like

04:45:08.240 Khomeini. 0.99

04:45:09.240 Father of the Islamic revolution. 0.96

04:45:13.240 While strict Islamic law can still jail a woman who forgets to cover her head or whip

04:45:17.880 a man who drinks a beer, that law is now being observed less strictly.

04:45:24.480 Well, just because they can't, because the number of Iranian women who ended up taking 0.99

04:45:31.680 off their hijab were too high for the regime to be able to enforce it. 0.80

04:45:35.820 This has nothing to do with the Islamic Republic being willing to enforce the hijab laws. 0.93

04:45:41.300 It's only because of their inability, because of the strength of the Iranian women and Iranian 0.99

04:45:47.480 men as well supporting them the old Iran is re-emerging from behind the 0.95

04:45:58.620 fundamentalist veil an ancient land with roots reaching right back to the

04:46:03.720 beginning of time centuries before Jesus a man was born here whose genius still

04:46:10.800 shapes our world his name was zarathustra we call him zoroaster we call him zarathust i don't know

04:46:21.360 what this english word how did that come about is that i don't i don't even know how to pronounce

04:46:26.720 your the english name for zarathust it's just that touched what did they call it in english as well

04:46:33.120 It's just Zarathustra.

04:46:40.120 Whose genius still shapes our world.

04:46:43.120 His name was Zarathustra.

04:46:46.120 Zarathustra.

04:46:49.120 Zarathustra.

04:46:51.120 Guys, the Persian version is so much easier.

04:46:53.120 Just say Zarathustra.

04:46:55.120 Zarathustra.

04:46:56.120 What?

04:46:57.120 Whose genius still shapes our world.

04:47:00.120 His name was Zarathustra.

04:47:02.120 I can't say it. 0.94

04:47:08.500 We call him Zoroaster.

04:47:10.500 No, we don't.

04:47:11.500 We call him Zeratosh.

04:47:17.780 Fire was his fascination.

04:47:19.740 In its flickering mystery, he saw things which few had seen before.

04:47:24.000 Yeah, also, guys, by the way, how do you get from Kourosh to Cyrus?

04:47:29.840 always wonder right it's just kourosh i mean the jews call him kourosh as well so iranians call

04:47:36.480 him kourosh guys jewish people you call them kourish as well right we call them kourish you

04:47:41.760 call them kourish but then all of a sudden in english cyrus like okay and also how many she 0.92

04:47:49.840 how did we get from how many she to accommodate we eliminate to all the greek people who are 0.95

04:47:56.720 watching we blame you we blame the greeks yes so all the greek people we blame you 1.00

04:48:03.920 it's your fault it's your fault yeah 0.99

04:48:09.360 a single supreme being see god in hebrew it's also kurosh so they get it right in before 0.64

04:48:19.760 a single supreme being

04:48:21.440 a heaven for the good and a hell for the wicked yes guys we invented hell and heaven look arvin

04:48:31.460 we have a greek in the chat just chilling yeah see it's your fault i don't know you know what

04:48:36.620 we forgive you because i love euro and i love spanakopita so it's all good it's all good

04:48:42.860 also we forgive you because we're gonna we're gonna say alexander was macedonian and not greek

04:48:50.740 So you guys are off the hook.

04:48:53.680 I don't know.

04:48:54.400 Did I say that?

04:48:55.220 Is that right?

04:48:57.720 Okay.

04:48:58.820 Sorry, it's not your fault.

04:49:00.440 You guys were invaded.

04:49:02.800 By the way, guys, in Zoroastrianism, we don't have one God.

04:49:06.640 We have two gods equal in power, one good and one bad, right?

04:49:11.520 So in Christianity and Judaism and Islam, you have one God. 0.58

04:49:15.060 But in Zoroastrianism, technically, you have two gods, one good God and one bad God. 0.60

04:49:20.740 and they are at the same level of power,

04:49:23.240 but in the opposite direction.

04:49:27.560 A heaven for the good and a hell.

04:49:29.780 And yeah, guys, we, like,

04:49:31.540 we Iranias created the idea of hell and heaven.

04:49:34.240 So, and angels and demons. 0.99

04:49:36.460 A hell for the wicked.

04:49:38.440 A divine savior and a last judgment.

04:49:43.000 And a last judgment.

04:49:45.180 And having a messiah and coming and saving the world

04:49:48.220 and last judgment and all of that.

04:49:50.740 Jews and Christians have long embraced

04:49:58.700 versions of these beliefs

04:50:00.140 beliefs which are still at the center

04:50:02.540 of our civilization today 0.93

04:50:04.420 Gee, thanks for creating hell

04:50:13.340 You're welcome, you're welcome

04:50:14.660 Everlasting punishment for all

04:50:18.080 for me this is as much a spiritual journey as a physical one as i head into iran's remotest 0.58

04:50:24.440 corners in my search for zoroaster goldie look another mosque on fire wow oh actually this is

04:50:31.620 i'm just kidding this is actually a historical site we don't want to destroy this at all

04:50:38.440 as eternal flame

04:50:43.400 my route takes me northwest into the elbras a long finger of mountains i started getting

04:50:49.160 really pissed off armin and i went on a rant oh okay so let's see how how did what what made

04:50:58.600 that so offensive my route takes me northwest into the elbras a long finger of mountains on

04:51:04.840 on the southern shores of the Caspian Sea.

04:51:07.580 Here, I hope to catch a bus deeper into the mountains. 1.00

04:51:24.560 Wait, that's Islamic stuff. 1.00

04:51:25.860 Why are you playing that? 0.86

04:51:26.820 Problems with the pronunciation.

04:51:28.760 You know, it's the high end of all those words,

04:51:30.580 all that , you know?

04:51:32.080 Yeah, that's right.

04:51:33.940 Because it doesn't exist in English, it's very difficult for you to pronounce it.

04:51:37.300 With me is Afshin, a young English teacher from Tehran.

04:51:41.300 But so how do I say, what time does the bus go?

04:51:43.100 Yeah, Armin, a young English teacher.

04:51:46.740 Oh, okay. He's not?

04:51:47.740 That's obviously his handler. 0.99

04:51:49.540 That's his Islamic Christian handler. Really? 0.97

04:51:52.100 Okay, okay.

04:51:52.980 He's a teacher from Tehran.

04:51:54.700 But so how do I say, what time does the bus go?

04:51:56.740 Okay, Armin, how do I say, what time does the bus go?

04:51:58.980 What time does the bus go?

04:52:01.140 You know, who the hell walks from Tehran to like a random bus stop in the middle of nowhere?

04:52:14.620 You know, like, why wouldn't he just like order a taxi and go to where he needs to go?

04:52:22.520 Why is he just like walking on this random road?

04:52:25.200 so if i mean if i had to guess i don't know what's happening here because there are tour guides like

04:52:36.040 when i was in iran my family we will go and order a tour guide and you will show up in the morning

04:52:42.800 at this place where people are getting on buses they give you snacks you get on the bus

04:52:49.060 okay so where's the bus where's the bus where's the location why are they just like walking

04:52:54.060 randomly on a road so i think that maybe once they got there they were like just walk let's

04:52:59.340 walk and talk for but god where where did they get to where did they start where are they going

04:53:05.820 i don't know they might have showed up with the two guys they drove here and now they're

04:53:11.180 just walking to record this conversation i don't know i don't know how they got there okay let's

04:53:16.860 continue okay autobus mary oh so i think it might have got it on the bus because they're talking

04:53:27.900 about when the bus is going to leave aside from his english does that look like a normal bus stop

04:53:34.380 to you like when when you've like hired a tour guide to take because i've you know my family

04:53:38.940 we've also hired tour guides and stuff right when has a tour guide ever like taken you and then

04:53:45.900 and then you walk on like a random road and then you end up at this like disheveled

04:53:51.900 dilapidated like and they're like oh this is the bus stop we're gonna wait at like

04:53:57.180 why wouldn't you just take a cab to this location if this is like the pickup location i don't know

04:54:03.180 and why would this be armin does it make sense that this is like the beginning of like the bus

04:54:07.900 stop wouldn't the bus be coming from somewhere else it's in the middle of nowhere

04:54:15.900 um i mean after you get off the bus there's a lot of walking involved i don't know but

04:54:21.420 yeah maybe you're right i don't know i mean um yeah look up i mean i don't know i'm i'm sure

04:54:28.940 that's not the bus look where the i don't know yeah maybe you're right i don't know

04:54:35.260 well i don't even know where this is depends on where the attraction like what we're like what 0.65

04:54:40.780 is this they're making it look like iran is like some third world shithole i mean yes of course the 0.99

04:54:45.420 the the the muslim durkas have you know turned iran into a seventh century islamic hellhole but 1.00

04:54:51.820 like we're not savages like this is not what a bus stop looks like anyways let's continue 1.00

04:54:58.620 are they saying that's the poster

04:55:03.980 well just a bodyguard to okay an iranian president not a bad skills combination

04:55:10.380 so i hire him go back did you catch that did you catch that

04:55:15.340 aside from his english afsheen was also a bodyguard to an iranian president oh okay

04:55:21.340 he is obviously he's for for the regime with the regime then like he said it then

04:55:28.220 okay there you go i mean yeah sure yeah by the way this reminds me of one of my favorite

04:55:35.980 memories inside iran when my when you know because my mom was so much into going on these

04:55:43.820 different places inside iran like with these tour companies and let me just show you one of the most

04:55:52.660 beautiful places that we my mom took our family you know guys my mom was in charge of whatever

04:56:00.660 like what we do okay masule guys who knows where masule is oh my god i remember this

04:56:09.020 look at this this village is so beautiful because you know the reason why this village is so

04:56:17.600 beautiful is because the roof of the you know the rows are the roof of the it's like steps

04:56:26.280 so every single street is like the roof of the house below you right so let me show you more

04:56:35.640 images of this this is so cute it's such a cute village i want to go back to iran okay we have

04:56:42.700 like villages like this look at this is an older picture so it's like these little cute villages

04:56:49.000 that you go to and you know each one of the the you know and they have like little stores in the

04:56:57.060 corners and it's like a it's like a maze you have to oh let me find this one hold on let me show you

04:57:05.000 this image guys it's so beautiful it's really hard to describe unless you're there to see this

04:57:13.120 images like they get this here you see it just keeps going up step step step step like you see

04:57:20.780 this village on the left each one of these like steps like the the roads here are the roof of the

04:57:26.700 house below them and the rows up there are the roofs of the house below them and then it keeps

04:57:31.340 going up and every it's like difference like the houses are the steps on the next to the mountain

04:57:37.320 so it's so cute anyways

04:57:41.740 not a bad skills combination so i hire him as my translator

04:57:50.380 armin says not a bad skills combination so the fact that this guy was you know

04:57:59.860 the bodyguard for the president not a bad skills combination so i hired him as my

04:58:04.660 interpreter right the regime yeah yeah he says that right after like talking about the regime being 0.59

04:58:11.940 you know oppressing people and being anti-western and lashing people for not wearing the hijab

04:58:18.580 like oh this guy has great skills because he's the bodyguard of the president who's responsible for

04:58:24.820 all this oppression okay okay so it's like k autobus mirror gaza hand

04:58:35.960 k autobus mirad gaza hand

04:58:38.880 same uh three o'clock the bus leaves at three o'clock yeah

04:58:45.800 i mean that's three hours away yeah okay well let's get a drink

04:58:50.180 do you okay so this is a store they have he's asking for some coke okay well actually i mean

04:59:02.420 i mean sparkling drink yeah soda okay he's got everything in here yeah all right all right

04:59:09.860 the old ticket seller is totally blind but he seems to know where everything is

04:59:14.100 is. Except the bus. The bus station isn't exactly brimming with people waiting to start

04:59:25.280 a journey. Maybe they know something we don't.

04:59:28.400 Oh, no, no. This is the way you're going to do it.

04:59:32.400 See?

04:59:33.400 No, no, no. See?

04:59:35.400 Try it and do the skin out. Okay.

04:59:38.400 And just eat the metal.

04:59:39.400 Yeah, that's right.

04:59:41.400 did he just eat this the dogma with skin did he just eat it like oh my god

04:59:48.760 they know something we don't oh my god he just shoot it with the skin

04:59:54.520 it just oh my god what a savage oh my god wow okay oh no no this is like no no no no no no no 0.67

05:00:05.880 see yeah that's right and do the skin out okay and just eat the middle yeah that's right

05:00:14.280 armin apparently the guy's australian he's australian okay he's australian guys by the

05:00:20.200 way talk like breaking talk man and eating the seed in the middle is like not just snack it's

05:00:25.960 like a hobby because like you know if you just had the seed and had to eat it without

05:00:32.040 breaking the skin it's not as fun like tohme something that you eat and you pass time by

05:00:38.840 eating it by break you like it's actually better to have the shell around it than removing the

05:00:45.000 shell and having the seed because if you just have the seed then you don't get to do the thing

05:00:49.720 where you break the shell and eat the seed right so armin armin before you continue last night i

05:00:56.600 was talking about this exact same thing and i was like you know eating seeds is like a hobby like

05:01:01.480 everyone does it and then i shared i shared this video here this is from the 12 day conflict where

05:01:07.880 there was like this random iranian guy who's just like have you seen this video

05:01:14.040 like so he's like he just he's like eating seeds while he's watching the idf boom boom the islamic 0.62

05:01:26.600 literally the most iranian thing ever the most iranian thing ever just like eating seeds 0.90

05:01:35.560 it's just like watching the show yeah

05:01:41.960 oh my god we call it which means like breaking seeds

05:01:49.900 my suspicions are confirmed when even the ticket seller himself gives up waiting 0.99

05:01:56.880 this part was so stupid pay attention to the the the fontadricks okay pay attention to the 0.99

05:02:07.920 fontadricks the box over here the yellow box here yeah no no no the the drinks in their hands 1.00

05:02:13.880 pay attention to the

05:02:16.060 okay okay long white so one hour that's about 30 40 kilometers yeah how long will that take

05:02:25.500 two or three hours this is so unprofessional you should have gone to a tour guide they would have

05:02:30.140 arranged everything for you they would have brought you snacks they would have arranged your lunch

05:02:36.540 your breakfast your dinner they would have a very comfortable bus like who's your tour guide

05:02:43.180 like you could have just looked online there's so many really good tour guys in iran

05:02:47.340 that would have planned everything for you and they would have arranged all your

05:02:52.380 we had like tour guys that would have arranged everything for our family

05:02:55.980 breakfast lunch and dinner and resting places and like this guy is an amateur

05:03:02.780 but this is why i was like this is why i was getting pissed off because i'm like 0.98

05:03:06.940 this is so stupid like who will walk from tehran to the middle of nowhere at some random convenience 0.98

05:03:15.100 store bus station and then they're just sitting around waiting as if this is like where the bus 1.00

05:03:19.820 is supposed to come like this is this is not the beginning of the bus route obviously there's a

05:03:25.260 bus route like somewhere else but for some reason they just want to make it look like super third

05:03:30.300 world or i don't know something i don't know he's just amateur this this video guys is only from

05:03:37.500 three months ago yeah okay i'm talking about like when i was a kid like 30 years 30 years ago when

05:03:44.940 we wanted to go on a tour somewhere in iran we had like really nice tour guides that would bring

05:03:51.500 everything that we need with them and they will arrange food for us the entire time and i'm pretty

05:03:57.260 sure this guy could afford a proper tour company in iran some people are saying he's an adventurer 0.87

05:04:05.020 if he's an adventurer then he's like a retarded adventurer because this is not adventuring 0.94

05:04:08.940 this he's he's basically fabricating a fake adventure right like he's he's basically like 0.96

05:04:15.820 he realized oh it's very convenient for me to just hire a cab and go where i need to go

05:04:21.180 so i should just fake it to make it look as if like i'm roughing it out or something because

05:04:25.660 this is like the most oh yeah you're right because he was doing the same thing by crossing the street

05:04:31.340 like oh i have to make my oh he's trying to make his video look more adventurous

05:04:36.380 yeah oh i'm somewhere dangerous look at me crossing the street oh i might die oh no

05:04:41.740 and now he's like he's like oh no no no no now we're stranded we're stranded at the bus stop

05:04:49.020 yeah so now he's like trying to like he knew he could have just gone on like online 0.99

05:04:53.580 just hire a cab to take you where you need to go you idiot right oh no i get it but it makes the 0.99

05:05:01.420 video more like oh my god where am i what is this crazy location i'm stranded in the middle of 1.00

05:05:07.180 nowhere kind of you know get it do you understand yeah now i get it now i get it now because i'm

05:05:17.340 comparing it to my experience when i was in the run i was like this guy might be but no

05:05:22.220 this is actually for views okay okay to walk yeah what are you an olympic sprinter

05:05:30.940 i think that's about a day's walk okay well maybe something will come along and we'll um we're gonna

05:05:36.220 lift yeah wow okay okay so armin now they're gonna start a montage of apparently like he's

05:05:47.660 like oh we're gonna we waited for hours okay but keep an eye on the like the new shop in like the

05:05:54.780 the fanta and keep an eye on the shadow as like every montage happens just watch like this part

05:06:00.380 is like i was like yelling last night i was like screaming at this part okay it's a really kind of

05:06:06.300 It's a quiet place in the world, this isn't it?

05:06:17.300 Well, drink it.

05:06:19.300 Wait, why are they not drinking it?

05:06:21.300 Because it's literally the same time.

05:06:25.300 They just basically was like, okay, let's stand here.

05:06:28.300 Let's stand there.

05:06:29.300 Let's make this pose.

05:06:31.300 Let's make that pose.

05:06:32.300 and like the drinks

05:06:33.420 because if it's been hours

05:06:36.140 then you might as well throw the drink away

05:06:37.940 because it has lost all of his fizz now

05:06:39.860 yeah

05:06:40.520 like that drink is useless

05:06:42.820 first of all it's not cold anymore

05:06:44.780 did that guy have

05:06:46.320 and also it has lost

05:06:47.420 if you have been waiting for hours

05:06:49.280 it has lost all of his fizz

05:06:51.880 yeah

05:06:53.060 and then go back

05:06:54.420 you see him the way he's standing

05:06:56.380 he's pretending

05:06:59.700 he's pretending as if he stood so long

05:07:01.620 his feet are hurting so he's like you know you know the thing you do when your feet hurt

05:07:05.420 go back yeah yeah yeah like you kind of stamp the growth like you stomp on the ground

05:07:09.800 buddy just hire like a van or something they have it there you could have just slept in the van

05:07:20.580 what the drink army look the guys drink the regime's drink is still untouched go back

05:07:35.280 the regime he's like he's like looking at his watch but the regime you guys drink is

05:07:39.060 oh yeah still has this bottle oh my god see the bottle's still there oh yeah he still hasn't

05:07:46.820 drunk anything sure baby oh my god they told him to just look tired they're like okay i'm gonna

05:07:53.800 okay so guys this is what happened the cameraman said like okay now come here check your watch now

05:07:58.880 go over there and hey you guy in the back forgot your name put your head back like that like you're

05:08:03.820 tired we're stuck in the middle of nowhere and look the shadows haven't changed the shadows

05:08:11.360 haven't changed either yeah okay this is so time hasn't gone by

05:08:18.800 nowhere oh yeah right it's still the same direction the sun hasn't even moved even a little

05:08:25.960 they may have been able to enforce quranic law but they can't make the buses run on time

05:08:32.460 what are you talking about the bus on time this is not a bus station you should have arranged this

05:08:38.960 before you got there there are easily available people you with your money with your money you

05:08:45.380 would have been able to hire somebody with a very like air conditioning van with all the equipment

05:08:50.900 music and everything with the bed in the back what are you talking about this is like bus on time

05:08:57.140 like he's talking as if like the bus don't arrive on time as if this is like a bus station in the

05:09:02.300 middle of the city or something bus on time what are you talking about do you now understand orman

05:09:08.140 i was so confused i'm like if he wanted to go to this kid like why why did he walk like why

05:09:14.220 did he walk to this random bus station in the middle of nowhere and then from here he's waiting

05:09:19.260 for the bus to go to wherever he needs to go like you you how did he get here just use the same

05:09:25.740 yeah yeah you're right how did he get there just use whatever you got here to move around

05:09:31.020 yeah i mean there are people there are people there the entire business model there are so

05:09:41.020 many companies in tehran that in their entire business model is for you to come and either get

05:09:47.580 a bus or a van or a private car with a dedicated person there not just telling you exactly about

05:09:57.020 the historical significance of everything, but also with degrees, with history degrees from

05:10:02.780 universities, desperately trying to give information regarding not just being good at English,

05:10:08.140 but having deep level understanding of the historical significance of everything,

05:10:12.780 but also arranging everything that you need, your water, your food, cold drinks,

05:10:17.900 everything blankets everything oh my god

05:10:29.900 then just as we're ready to give up hope the mountains ring with the sweet sound of our

05:10:34.460 salvation what the hell oh my how did you get a how did you get camera to the inside before you got

05:10:40.620 there oh my god oh my god you know arvin i was screaming last night i was like

05:10:53.020 like i was just like what is happening right now like who does this i've never experienced

05:10:59.580 anything like this because like just as we give up hope a dump truck showed up

05:11:05.660 this guy is just trying to act like look at the the crazy he went to iran he realized that it's

05:11:14.780 not as crazy as he wanted it to be for like an adventure video so he's just trying to manufacture

05:11:23.020 a really crazy scenario yeah like oh my god okay he thought it would be like i don't know he thought

05:11:28.060 he was going to like i don't know somalia or afghanistan or something and then he realized

05:11:32.540 oh wait no iran's like you know despite the islamic regime uh the people are normal and 0.61

05:11:38.060 it's like still a you know somewhat normal functioning society like it's not as third 0.91

05:11:43.100 world as he thought so he's yeah like you said he's he's manufacturing this weird adventure

05:11:48.860 that for like us iranians we're watching we're like what in the durka is like i don't understand

05:11:56.940 oh my god

05:12:02.540 It's not a bus, just a kind truck driver who takes pity on us wayward travellers.

05:12:15.500 who does this who does this like why wouldn't they sit in the okay if this was legit why

05:12:34.460 wouldn't they sit in the front with the truck driver because there's room for three people 0.66

05:12:38.700 they could have easily sat in the front why the hell are they in the back of the dump truck

05:12:43.300 i bet you the truck the truck driver was thinking like okay come sit here like hmm

05:12:49.860 no that wouldn't be crazy enough we want to go in the back the truck driver were like

05:12:53.660 these partners are retired i bet you the truck never like what are you talking about like that's

05:13:00.360 not for people oh and like it's okay i think that would be more interesting on our youtube video

05:13:05.380 we're gonna go in the back like but you could sit right here we're like nope we're gonna go in the

05:13:09.780 back the truck yeah you're right the truck the truck driver probably thought that this guy is 0.98

05:13:14.040 like retarded yeah hello oh my god what's wrong with you you just sit here like a normal person 0.92

05:13:28.200 oh my god this is great down here the back of his truck is hardly luxurious but at least we're 1.00

05:13:33.720 mobile again you guys like you could have a very luxurious experience inside iran with so little

05:13:43.120 money compared like it would be big money in iran but based on your income from outside of iran the

05:13:50.280 money that you bring into iran you could go to hotels that would be like really like such

05:13:57.900 luxurious hotels in iran that in united states or in dubai or somewhere else will cost you so much

05:14:03.680 money in fact you know what i should show that to you let me yeah this is great

05:14:17.360 it feels great to be on the move again as we head further northwest deep into the alboros mountains

05:14:24.080 one of the great barrier ranges of central asia armin he's making it seem as if going to like

05:14:29.600 the alborz mountains it's like this insane like track right he's making it seem as if going to

05:14:35.360 the alborz mountains is like this huge journey guys people like take day trips to the alborz

05:14:40.880 mountains and their cars like it's it's not that big of a deal it's not that big of a deal to go

05:14:46.480 to the alborz mountains it's like it's you know it's like a day trip for people yeah yeah yeah

05:14:54.240 i mean there's entire company's business model is to go show you these places okay goldie can

05:15:01.600 i show you like a hotel room in iran yeah like like one of these nice hotel rooms i was i wanted

05:15:07.280 to go see look at this this is the hotel room look at this oh my god so nice it looks so ancient

05:15:24.240 million okay so this room is 11 million humans how much is that in

05:15:36.240 it's like nothing

05:15:40.240 so that's 55 guys is that right base is that that's 50 55 bucks a night that's pretty cool

05:15:47.440 that's not what i'm seeing wait are you maybe i'm looking at the wrong thing 11 million tomans

05:15:55.920 yeah that's showing up as eight dollars for me

05:16:01.040 am i what are you dividing it by you are you dividing it by 200 or 2 million

05:16:07.040 i don't know i just i just asked uh ai

05:16:09.200 wait wait let me let me go isn't toman 200 000 right now it would be 55

05:16:18.640 i don't know let me let me let me just go to um uh let me see currency converter so

05:16:28.160 let's do toman or i guess you have to do reels no just divide it by 200 000. is that what it

05:16:35.120 is right now yeah okay all right no guys i know you guys saying 178 uh thousand 178 000 but any

05:16:45.760 my friends are telling me in iran that the actual in the market is actually 200 000 two months right

05:16:53.040 now okay okay fine you want to go with once with the official number 178 then i don't know i just

05:17:01.360 i mean you're probably right i just i just asked uh google i could be wrong though i don't know

05:17:05.840 i mean i i trust your conversion um over what ai says because you have better intel

05:17:12.720 so what if we go away even if it's 50 bucks a month sorry 50 bucks a night that's still

05:17:18.480 like ridiculously cheap right so guys like um you you could live like a millionaire um in iran

05:17:27.440 u.s u.s currency right but yeah i mean this this this you have to keep in mind though this here

05:17:36.720 is completely unaffordable to at least 70 percent of iranians in occupied iran right so 70 percent

05:17:44.020 of iranians in occupied iran remember they can't even afford to buy eggs oh my god look at this

05:17:50.980 hotel you can tell baldy i know guys guys so so if we go by the 200 000 rate it's 55 bucks a night

05:17:59.220 but if we go with the official 178 000 rate it's 60 a night okay a hotel like this in any other

05:18:08.020 country would be like at least 300 a night 200 300 oh way more than oh armin way more than that

05:18:16.580 this would be like a thousand dollars a night in certain places like this is like the peak

05:18:20.820 this is peak luxury look at that it's so cautious i want to stay here i know it is beautiful it

05:18:28.500 looks ancient sorry armin when when iran is free we'll do iran revolution live road trip we'll just

05:18:34.100 we'll stream from different parts of iran when iran is free oh my god love that i wanna oh my

05:18:40.820 oh my god look at going outside it's so traditional look at the lights so that was

05:18:47.300 inside the hotel and this is outside the hotel with the stores but oh and there's somebody singing

05:18:55.140 but let me go to the look at the hallways in this

05:18:57.860 guys look the floor is not just like a normal floor it's like the floor this is not just like

05:19:19.400 painting these are like the handmade tiles like in every single like it's like

05:19:24.200 art there's art on the floor so these are all handmade the the the chairs are handmade

05:19:35.160 I want to see outside, so that's the menu, but it's actually golden, oh my god, it's next to bazar wakil, and then there's food, that's everything has zafran in there.

05:20:05.160 anyways that's the restaurant

05:20:14.280 and then that's the art of the wall look at the look at the bed though this is

05:20:25.400 anyways so um anyways there's so there's so many videos like this that i could show to you guys

05:20:32.680 because this is just one but there's like luxurious hotels in the north there's also

05:20:37.720 in tehran but yeah go on i know like this luxurious stuff is really beautiful but

05:20:43.560 i think it's also important to point out that this luxury is not for everyone and 70 percent

05:20:50.360 of of um iranians live below the poverty line and i actually have a video um about cston and

05:20:57.800 which i think is really important so yeah let's compare this to what goldie is about to share

05:21:04.600 yeah so guys what you're seeing here this is the epitome of luxury okay this is like pure luxury

05:21:12.760 this is for the rich um this is for the tourists right this is what this is what the islamic regime 0.99

05:21:19.880 wants the world to think they want to think oh look iran is a normal country look at these 1.00

05:21:25.480 beautiful hotels blah blah and you know this is all like iranian culture right there's nothing

05:21:30.520 islamic about this but now i want you guys i want you guys to compare this with

05:21:37.080 that so this is what 70 of the country looks like okay so what you're seeing

05:21:43.000 what you're seeing there um that's not that's not uh typical that's the exception here's what

05:21:51.480 the actual rest of the country looks like. And this is a province, Sistan-Baluchistan,

05:21:57.720 one of the poorest, most underdeveloped provinces in occupied Iran. This one.

05:22:04.280 This is the area that was, that had the flood about few, about a month ago, a month and

05:22:27.860 a half ago.

05:22:28.860 still they are suffering. You can see the sign of the flood all the way from Chabahar to here.

05:22:35.000 You see the road. You saw it in the pictures that was shown in this movie. This village is totally,

05:22:41.000 totally out of way. We had to drive from the main road to this area. It took us about 45 minutes

05:22:48.640 in a bumpy dirt road to get to here.

05:22:51.780 look how they live

05:22:58.660 complete poverty

05:23:01.620 if you think about it there are about four to five hundred people living in this environment

05:23:12.880 we need to make them build them a health clinic a small a small health clinic that can serve

05:23:19.500 these families you can see there's their feet there is no shoes the heat outside their feet

05:23:45.260 are burned and the children are sweating they don't have any water you have to come up with ways

05:23:52.460 to kind of milk themselves sufficient takes time they need electricity they need a health cleaning

05:23:59.580 fortunately enough i saw a school over there and a very caring man who introduced himself

05:24:06.780 as being their teacher i don't know how he has a has the passion to be here and teaching these

05:24:14.380 children but we cannot change the world if we don't take care of them. Nothing can ever be

05:24:19.420 change if we don't take care of the children like them

05:24:33.420 give me that

05:24:46.220 there you go so yeah

05:24:59.420 I just wanted to share that as well because I think it's important to

05:25:02.540 compare and contrast right i mean there's there's a lot of beautiful things about iran but

05:25:08.480 70 of people live below the poverty line and and we have to keep that in mind and you know

05:25:16.000 this is what we're fighting for we're fighting for the children of iran we're fighting for the future

05:25:20.880 all right back to the the garbage video because i know that'll cheer you up a little bit and

05:25:28.900 we'll get somewhere arm and lance okay okay okay let's go

05:25:42.580 some of these peaks are over 10 000 feet high that's 3 000 meters

05:25:49.540 for centuries the elders have been a refuge for those who wanted to remain independent

05:25:54.500 this is by the way so dangerous if he if he just breaks what is going to happen you're going like

05:26:02.820 you know like if he just like if he's driving and all of a sudden he hits something or stops

05:26:08.020 suddenly these people are going to get slammed to the back of their truck like what the hell

05:26:12.820 there's no seat belts here there's no seat this is dangerous guys no one does this i mean i don't

05:26:19.220 know maybe like bachada or something in like the rural areas but like no one does this no

05:26:23.380 one travels like this i'm not even much arable cities on the plains

05:26:33.620 they've also been a sanctuary for anyone wanting to hide from authority or just wanting to be

05:26:38.340 different and these mountains have also been a place from which to plot mayhem my journey is

05:26:49.620 about to take me into the lair of the assassins and the fortress of a very dangerous man 0.82

05:26:57.060 wait so what dangerous man like is he trying to justify the islamic republic being like 0.81

05:27:03.620 like he's like oh people who want to be sneaky come into the height into the mountains and 0.85

05:27:08.660 these are very dangerous men like what the hell

05:27:10.500 At last, Afshin and I meet up with the friends we've come so far to see.

05:27:26.440 While Reza is an expert mountaineer, his mentor, Aziz, is a legend.

05:27:32.180 One of only four Iranians who conquered Mount Everest.

05:27:36.200 What better people to have for my next mission?

05:27:40.500 Gear checked and packed, we set off for the place whose name means eagle's teaching, Alamut.

05:27:58.320 Alamut is a rocky skyscraper thrusting 3,000...

05:28:01.840 What is the objective here?

05:28:04.000 Like, how are we getting into Persian magic with all of this right now?

05:28:06.860 they're they're they're trying they're apparently traveling to this mystic location that you can

05:28:13.520 only travel to through like mountain hiking or something there's no way to get there other than

05:28:19.720 this apparently not but but let's let's continue because you'll see the background it's really

05:28:24.940 funny some feet into the air that's 1000 meters look there's houses like right behind them did

05:28:39.900 you see that armin yeah okay yeah yeah there's like there's like houses right behind them but

05:28:45.260 they're they're pretending as if like they're middle of nowhere are they gonna are they gonna 0.99

05:28:52.060 climb the mountain with like the gear because there seems to be steps here

05:28:58.700 yeah they're gonna ignore the stairs

05:29:15.740 maybe it's just the extraordinary shape but as you toil up its slopes you begin to understand

05:29:21.500 why some people believe that certain spots on earth possess uncanny powers a challenge for

05:29:34.540 the toughest of climbers but for an army it's mission impossible this is not a challenge for

05:29:41.580 the toughest of climbers so far there are literally steps here if you're looking for a natural fortress

05:29:48.620 Alamut

05:29:49.740 Guys, I'm pretty sure climbers

05:29:52.220 Is it

05:29:54.800 This is quite a tough climb

05:30:01.960 But in the Middle Ages

05:30:03.480 Anybody traveling in these mountains

05:30:05.520 Would have found it a lot tougher

05:30:07.340 Because they would have been wearing full body armor

05:30:09.480 Because the man who lived on the top of this mountain

05:30:11.780 Was the most feared in all the Middle East

05:30:14.300 And even beyond

05:30:15.560 do you want to know where he's going where

05:30:22.780 he's making it seem as if it's like this big excursion

05:30:28.260 this is where he's going you can literally get there by car oh my god

05:30:35.860 just hire a driver you can literally hire a you can literally hire a cab you can hire a taxi

05:30:47.720 okay to take you from tehran to alamut castle in three hours there's roads that go right there

05:30:58.340 oh my god but do you not understand why i was so confused when he was like he walked to like this

05:31:06.100 random bus stop in the middle of nowhere and then he took like a dump truck to like somewhere

05:31:10.740 and then now now they're like hiking as if it's like oh the only way we can get to this castle

05:31:17.380 this assassin's castle is is by hiking or something you know i mean i could tell he's 0.67

05:31:26.780 of crap because he's talking like we need this expert climber and they're literally just going 0.59

05:31:32.140 upstairs there there's stairs there there's stairs you don't need an expert climber to go 0.99

05:31:39.100 guys it goes like this you put one foot first on the next step and then the next foot comes up

05:31:44.780 i mean i'm sure it's difficult for you know on your it's tiring but it literally requires no skills

05:31:57.660 I'm waiting for them to see at what point their expertise in climbing will come in handy.

05:32:05.780 I don't know because you literally, you can rent a taxi.

05:32:10.200 You can hire a taxi.

05:32:12.020 You can take a taxi.

05:32:13.580 You don't even need to take the stairs.

05:32:15.760 You don't even need to walk.

05:32:17.160 You don't even have to walk. 0.85

05:32:18.380 You just take a cab from Tehran and you can get to the Assassin's Castle. 0.88

05:32:22.980 anyways let's continue

05:32:27.480 so yeah so you need to you could have got on a cab up to you could have taken a cab until the

05:32:35.000 right next to the houses down there and coming up here is just literally walking it's literally

05:32:41.920 walking this mountain was the most feared in all the middle east and even beyond

05:32:47.300 his name was hassan al-sabah the old man of the mountains and from alamut he launched a reign of

05:32:57.300 terror back in the 12th century the turks ruled iran and the crusaders held jerusalem

05:33:05.700 to battle these invaders hassan invented a new weapon 0.98

05:33:09.860 political murder

05:33:15.940 okay i'm saying that there is some climbing apparently going to be involved soon okay good

05:33:21.600 his followers killed princes generals and grand viziers even a crusader king

05:33:28.960 no one was safe from hassan al-sabha 0.56

05:33:32.580 okay so far stairs

05:33:36.260 tradition has it that he acquired such powers over his followers by drugging them with hashish

05:33:43.140 as a result a new word entered the english language

05:33:46.560 Arabic they were called hashishin we call them assassins

05:33:53.760 yes yes everybody everybody knows that now because everybody has been playing that game

05:34:01.640 assassin's creed so this used to be like rare knowledge but now everybody knows this

05:34:07.640 and there's another story if hassan al-sabar wanted to impress a visitor

05:34:12.280 he had only to say the word and fanatical assassins would leap from alamut to their

05:34:17.160 death on the rocks below okay climbing some actual serious climate they're descending

05:34:26.120 wait why did they go up had to go down then there was no other way to get to that other

05:34:33.540 side without going all the way up and then going down i'm pretty sure you could have just gone

05:34:37.660 around wait what really going down yeah they're going down they're not climbing they're going

05:34:47.760 down so why did you come up then oh my god okay all right you could have just gone around it i'm

05:34:59.520 sure there's a way guys unlike what you might believe you know mountains in iran are not like

05:35:05.280 a wall that you can't go around there's actually ways that you could go around them you don't have

05:35:10.560 to go there's no places that you have to go up the mountain and then climb down it to reach through

05:35:15.440 you could literally just go around them we we also have something called tunnels right it's

05:35:21.120 it's a tunnel you can go through the mountain oh wow all right all right now let's go down

05:35:29.280 more controlled sort of way of course it's good what yes yes very good

05:35:35.440 did you hear his laugh such an awkward laugh

05:35:47.840 yeah i'm pretty sure he was he's just trying to make it seem like somewhere that was easily

05:35:51.920 accessible he's just for his purpose of his video getting more views trying to make it seem like it

05:35:57.280 was more difficult so i think what happened is that they came and told this guy that like we

05:36:02.320 just want to go somewhere up that we could come down because you're an experienced climber just

05:36:08.400 like this is a fun activity that we want to do they didn't they maybe they didn't tell him that

05:36:12.720 this is going to be um us making a video seeming like this was the only way to get to our destination

05:36:19.520 maybe i don't know yes very good

05:36:22.320 Reza and Aziz are veteran repellers, or abseilers.

05:36:30.880 Before they'd agreed to help me, they wanted to know if I'd done this before.

05:36:35.040 I tell them I have, but what I didn't tell them is that it was a long time ago, in high

05:36:40.600 school when I was only 18.

05:36:43.840 The difficulty in jumping off a cliff like this is, this is an 800-year-old castle or

05:36:48.720 probably more and the whole thing is rubble on top and at any moment the whole lip of it

05:36:53.120 would actually fall down and fall on top of us as we yes you're you're in so much danger man you're

05:36:59.280 like you're gonna die like i don't know wow this man is so brave guys so brave you know this is

05:37:05.680 this is his entire stick like he this is his entire point like guys look at me i'm crossing

05:37:09.680 the street i don't know a car might hit me oh my god we're waiting so long this is so hard oh no

05:37:15.520 i might die here we could fall and die okay he's trying to increase tension in this video youtube

05:37:22.000 video by basically manufacturing danger that's what he's trying to do sell down yeah real nail

05:37:28.560 biter guys like i wonder if he's going to survive this guys i don't know if he's going to die who

05:37:33.520 uploaded this video i mean maybe he's somebody else did it for him maybe he's dead we'll see

05:37:39.120 if he survived this but uh with a bit of testing we should be able to work out if it's going to

05:37:43.600 hold or not? Wow. That's good. It's like being fitted by an Iranian tailor, I guess.

05:38:07.600 Unfortunately for the assassins, they didn't have all this gear. And thank God I've got 1.00

05:38:12.720 razor instead of hassan al-saba so he's happy for me to go now yeah you're happy to go yeah beautiful

05:38:19.120 thing it's always oh my god i only watched until the cave once i got to the cave i was like i'm

05:38:27.840 done so when after the cave part like we can end it like i'm done i'm okay let's go because i know

05:38:36.400 you have to leave soon anyway but yeah i'm trying to see where they are trying to get to that they

05:38:42.320 couldn't get any other way. Look, there's steps. Look at this. There's steps right below them.

05:38:49.520 I'm pretty sure there's another way to get to wherever you're trying to get. I see,

05:38:53.280 what is that? Is that stairs? Yes, that's a road. Those are stairs.

05:38:59.360 Good. Okay. Yeah. Look at that. Right between your legs, sir. That is a road. That is a stair.

05:39:06.880 I'm pretty sure there's another way to get to that point.

05:39:12.320 Wow! Oh my god! Goldie, I'm so worried! No! Don't do it! It's so dangerous! He's gonna

05:39:19.400 survive this! Oh my god, so much adventure!

05:39:23.200 A little unfurmed.

05:39:25.200 I always knew that someday, I'd go over the edge.

05:39:32.080 Wow, so brave!

05:39:36.320 As I descend from Alamut, I must admit that thoughts of stoned assassins hurtling to their

05:39:43.440 oblivion do pass through my mind, but of more concern are the stones from this crumbling

05:39:48.920 fortress hurtling down by my head.

05:39:54.920 The thing about doing this is that it's somewhere between fear and absolute elation.

05:40:13.920 look that's it now i reached did you see there's a road right there there's a road right there

05:40:33.840 look there's a road look what the hell there's what the hell guys there's no way people built

05:40:40.960 this here if the way that he's getting here is the only way to get here okay if there are stairs

05:40:47.360 here like did did people build these stairs like did they brought all of this here through like

05:40:53.360 with ropes and everything like if there's stairs here that means there's another way to get here

05:40:58.800 i can make your blood run hot doing this

05:41:02.960 i recommend it guys this is up this is absolute proof that there's an easier way to get to this

05:41:07.920 point where he is right now there's no purposes thanks guys this is just guys this is probably

05:41:17.520 just a place where people could have fun rock like experiencing going down okay like enjoying

05:41:24.000 like some rock climbing experience like these people service that they offer is like hey do

05:41:29.040 you guys want to pay us and have this experience going down the mountain and people are like yeah

05:41:33.840 sure that's fine let's do that but this guy is using that service that is supposed to be a fun

05:41:39.040 activity as a way to suggest like oh my god this is my only way of getting here that's what i think

05:41:44.800 happened that's what i think happened yeah that's pretty much it that's pretty much it yeah oh my

05:41:51.440 gosh people are saying i wish you're ruining the experience okay

05:41:59.920 fantastic oh wow

05:42:09.040 what i don't know what language is that that evening we build a fire in a cave from which

05:42:16.240 it has said that hassan al-sabah once directed his campaigns of terror

05:42:23.680 what you didn't have rooms there i'm pretty sure apparently no hotels but armin so listen

05:42:30.080 to the song they're singing you know the song baron barone zamina tarmisha uh-huh okay so so

05:42:37.600 that's so listen to what they're singing they're singing baron barone zamina tarmisha now listen to

05:42:45.200 what he says about the song that's where i just i lost it okay okay

05:42:52.640 aziz sings songs about the mountains and as darkness falls our scene keeps the ghosts of 0.99

05:42:59.280 element at bay stop right there they're singing and then this idiotic australian guy is like oh 0.97

05:43:11.520 Aziz is singing songs about the mountains what the hell does Barun Barune have to do with mountains 0.98

05:43:19.120 go back and listen to that what does it got to do with holding ghosts at bay

05:43:27.040 and as darkness falls our singing keeps the ghosts of Alamut at bay

05:43:41.520 so much i know that song too i know that song is not about ghosts i can't remember the song but

05:43:48.800 that song is not about ghosts either so the guy's like literally just making up at this point

05:43:53.920 he's like oh we're singing songs about mountains and keeping ghosts at bay

05:43:57.920 meanwhile the songs have nothing to do with that maybe ghosts just don't like songs about rain

05:44:05.680 in general is that i don't know man maybe oh i know okay i know how this works ghosts

05:44:14.480 are just basically dead humans and just like they were the time that they were alive they don't like

05:44:21.920 people singing badly right so they're just hovering around and like holy that's

05:44:28.800 annoying and they just go away because i don't know he's not singing very well i guess that's

05:44:34.080 how you do get me out of here this is annoying like this is this is the moment where i just gave

05:44:42.640 up i was like you know what guys i'm done i'm done with this documentary you know maybe armin and i

05:44:47.600 will continue watching this documentary um another night because at this point like you know it's

05:44:54.400 getting late and uh you know armin has to go and i have to go as well um but you know what armin

05:45:00.240 I did play Borun Borune

05:45:02.280 after this to

05:45:04.080 share like the did you want to hear like

05:45:06.020 the traditional

05:45:07.600 lore song

05:45:09.300 yes

05:45:10.620 there we go

05:45:23.740 perfect

05:45:28.580 so thank you everyone for joining us did you see how ready i was for it i know i saw that i saw

05:45:40.680 that that was very impressive okay that was very impressive very impressive so all right guys thank

05:45:47.980 you so much for joining us for day 133 of iran revolution live um i will keep you guys posted

05:45:56.360 on my schedule for tomorrow um but you know we'll see we'll see what happens but uh armin do you

05:46:03.480 want to say a few final words and then end the night yes guys as usual i'm israel hi long live

05:46:12.760 america god bless america javicha pae and iran see you guys tomorrow tomorrow

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05:48:53.920 F T T S A B R A N A B 1.00

05:49:02.700 Oh is the first time studio 1.00

05:49:04.320 The whole world will be able to keep it

05:49:08.240 And the mother, the love, and the happiness of the people of Kishore

05:49:14.340 will be able to get it.

05:49:16.340 It's not a war, it's not a war, it's not a war

05:49:21.320 It's not a war, it's not a war

05:49:24.320 It's not a war, it's not a war

05:49:27.320 It's not a war 0.73

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05:50:30.320 Thank you.

05:51:00.320 The peace, the peace

05:51:02.860 We don't know the end of the last

05:51:06.420 The peace, the peace, the peace

Goldie Ghamari - May 10, 2026

IRAN REVOLUTION LIVE： DAY 133

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