00:07:26.880I would be interested in knowing what exactly this plus other things are.
00:07:35.400Because, again, obviously President Trump, the way he talks is always a way to play mind games.
00:07:45.340It's not necessarily going to be what's going to happen.
00:07:49.940But obviously many people are going to look at this language and their evaluation is going to be,
00:07:56.880again, those other people, is that, okay, so we're not going back to full-on head-to-head
00:08:05.120confrontational war with the Islamic Republic beyond these different tensions that we're seeing
00:08:13.640in the Persian Gulf and, you know, small here-and-there explosions that we're hearing
00:08:20.300sometimes in Bandar Abbas or in Tehran or in other places. So some people might think like,
00:08:26.480okay so we're going to be here in this situation for a while we're not going to go to
00:08:31.520soon we're not going to go to a rapid escalation like in the sense in in the same level of
00:08:38.980bombardments that we saw at the beginning of operation epic fury some people's analysis is
00:08:44.940going to be this language is suggesting that again that all i'm just saying is like before
00:08:51.940you take out your pitchforks i'm just telling you guys what other people will take from this which
00:08:57.780is also one reason why we're seeing uh fall in brent uh crude oil prices in the past five days
00:09:08.020we saw a seven percent drop on average um but obviously goldie uh your your analysis is
00:09:15.460different so how do you see this i see this as um project freedom plus boom booms
00:09:26.660yeah so i mean we have to keep in mind president trump is not going to give away
00:09:32.740the military strategy he's not going to do that and and he said that several times in numerous
00:09:41.860press conferences where the press have asked him, okay, well, what's the military strategy?
00:09:47.220What are you guys planning on doing? And President Trump has always answered, saying,
00:09:52.100I'm not going to tell that. He's like, I would be stupid to tell you what we are planning,0.99
00:09:58.120and all options are on the table. So for me, when President Trump is saying Project Freedom Plus,0.98
00:10:08.000to me that signifies that that it's it's project freedom plus boom booms plus additional military
00:10:17.480uh operations but obviously he's not going to give that away because why would he why would
00:10:25.340he want the islamic regime to know what's going on right so again i mean this reminds me of um
00:10:34.420Friday, February 27, when the reporters were asking President Trump, well, are you going to
00:10:43.240continue the negotiations? Are you going to attack the Islamic regime? What's going to happen? And,
00:10:49.420you know, at that point, President Trump had already made the decision that they're going0.99
00:10:55.640to boom, boom, hominay, right? So during that, he actually had, I think, two, at least two,0.94
00:11:01.780like sort of press conferences on Friday, February 27, less than 12 hours before Khamenei was
00:11:07.960exterminated. And in both of those press conferences, President Trump never spoke about
00:11:15.040attacking Iran, never spoke about boom booms, never spoke about military operations. All he said
00:11:21.540was that we're not happy with the way things are going. Let's see what happens. Let's see what
00:11:26.560happens. And then when they asked him, will negotiations continue? He's like, yeah, let's
00:11:30.700what happens so president trump is never ever going to come out and say what he's planning on
00:11:38.540doing because that that would be ridiculous like why would he want to give away the strategy to the
00:11:44.220islamic regime and give them an opportunity to prepare or counter or whatever the case might be
00:11:49.260so um i see project i see project freedom um plus as plus boom booms plus getting rid of the regime
00:12:01.900plus military operations right that that's how i interpret this but what level of boom
00:12:08.940booms are we talking about like uh because we are already seeing like like the explosions we're
00:12:15.660We're seeing some tensions between the United States and the Islamic Republic and the Persian Gulf.
00:12:22.480We're already seeing some explosions here and there in different parts of Iran.
00:12:26.180When 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,
00:12:39.880when so many of IRGC leaders were being killed, Ali Khamenei was being killed.
00:12:44.140like that level of military operation or to the same level that we're just seeing right now here
00:12:48.640and there i mean obviously i can't say for certain because i'm not like a military
00:12:54.780analyst or strategist but i have a feeling that like they're just gonna go all out
00:13:04.860i have a feeling that they're going to go all out and um what gives me this feeling
00:13:13.940is what president trump posted on truth social uh this morning
00:13:19.860i don't know if you saw president trump's post on truth social so let me just pull that up for you
00:13:28.000So this morning, he posted a link to an article, and he writes, very important, this is where
00:13:43.800And the article, the title of the article is, majority say, preventing Iran from acquiring
00:13:51.200nukes, more important than ending war.
00:13:58.000So to me, this indicates that President Trump is not interested in ending the conflict.0.79
00:14:07.040He is interested in making sure that the Islamic regime can never acquire nukes.
00:14:14.100And the reality is, and this is what people like Mark Levin and Sean Hannity and, you know,
00:14:21.800others that we've watched on Fox News have said, people that are close to President Trump,0.93
00:14:27.060Every 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
00:14:48.680So 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
00:14:59.780So 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
00:15:16.460so that's that's how i see this and you know here's the article so majority say preventing0.75
00:15:24.880iran from acquiring nukes more important than ending war poll vance is set to begin negotiations
00:15:31.880this weekend alongside special envoy steve whitkoff and jared kushner the president's son
00:15:37.140in law as vice president jd vance heads to pakistan to negotiate a deal to end the iran war
00:15:45.260polling data suggests that the public prioritizes accomplishing key American objectives over ending
00:15:51.640the matter quickly. So there you go. Even the American people know that it's more important to
00:16:01.280make sure that the objective is met. And the objective is making sure that the Islamic regime1.00
00:16:09.300can never acquire nukes. And the only way the Islamic regime will never acquire nukes is to0.96
00:16:14.840completely eradicate and destroy them so that's what i think uh president trump is referring to
00:16:22.880going back to your post when president trump is talking about project freedom plus other things
00:16:30.420or you know project freedom plus i think that's what he's referring to
00:16:35.440and do you have any uh time estimates for when do you think we're going to see that level of
00:16:42.000escalation? Because the thing is that when it comes to an escalation, it is inevitable that
00:16:48.840one way or another, United States and the Islamic Republic are going to have military tensions again,0.78
00:16:54.660because at the end of the day, it's very difficult to see the United States accepting a nuclear
00:17:02.620Iran. And it's also very difficult to see an Islamic Republic giving up its nuclear
00:17:08.680leverage so that always leaves us with you know the most likely outcome being more tension more
00:17:16.860military tension between united states and israel or at least just united states and or israel on
00:17:24.320one side and the islamic republic on the other side it is inevitable but the question most people
00:17:31.680have for us when we say something like that is okay but when when when when when when and usually
00:17:37.380we don't have a satisfactory answer for them um but what do you think goldie when it comes to when
00:17:44.900i don't know i mean um i'm i'm biased because if it was up to me i mean i would have wanted
00:17:51.460the islamic regime eradicated decades ago years ago right so i mean for for us um
00:18:00.180we want this to happen as soon as possible however we also have to recognize and understand
00:18:07.300that we only have one shot of doing this right and doing this properly. We also have to keep
00:18:17.140in mind that Israel and the United States have much better intelligence than we do, obviously.
00:18:27.540So I think we just have to unfortunately be patient and we have to trust the plan.0.97
00:18:33.380um president trump has wanted the islamic regime eradicated for a very very long time we already0.99
00:18:40.020know this since since the uh early 1980s we've seen you know his his speeches his comments about
00:18:46.660the islamic regime so you know president trump is a winner president trump is a winner and
00:18:54.100And I think he understands and he knows that the only way that he will win in this situation0.99
00:19:03.680is to completely eradicate the Islamic regime.1.00
00:19:07.060He's only going to have pretty much one chance to do it, right?0.99
00:19:11.620And so I think he's just waiting for the right time.
00:19:15.660We also know that a lot of military assets are being moved into the area.
00:19:19.540We don't know the status of those military assets, of course, for OPSEC reasons.
00:19:24.100Um, so we just have to wait. I mean, I would, I would hope that this is going to happen
00:19:29.300sooner rather than later. Um, I think it's also interesting that
00:19:34.660president Trump, I believe if I'm not mistaken, still has not delayed, further delayed his trip
00:19:43.740to China. And President Trump did say that this excursion will be over before he goes to China.
00:19:56.220So, I mean, I don't know. I don't know. But what's interesting is Mark Levin just posted
00:20:02.36030 minutes ago. He actually posted his, I think it's his full interview.
00:20:13.740I think he may have posted his full interview, his full comments with Sean Hannity from last
00:20:24.580night. And he just posted this on X. And he says, stay the course. So have you seen what
00:22:05.900What else do these people have to show where they make it clear they want liberation?
00:22:11.880All I know is this, and maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think so.0.97
00:22:16.380When we armed the Afghan people, the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, it worked.0.67
00:22:22.220When we armed the Angolan rebels, it worked.
00:22:26.640When we armed all kinds of freedom fighters in Central and South America,
00:22:30.920during the Reagan administration, we pushed communism out of there.
00:22:33.640Not everywhere, but in a lot of places.
00:22:35.900These 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.
00:23:22.440And 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.
00:23:30.880And it's so great that now so many other people are talking about it.
00:24:03.800So 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.
00:24:22.260And now he's talking about the response that he has gotten.
00:29:06.420a miscalculation regarding how much storage space the islamic republic has for their oil before they
00:29:12.580have to do shut-ins because there's infinite amount of oil that they could put into the
00:29:17.860water and nobody that i know of talked about this yeah i agree and i mean i remember uh the whole
00:29:26.660topic came up because it was one of our viewers who sent a super chat um who was concerned about
00:29:33.220the environmental impact and it was one of our viewers i think who who asked asked us um
00:29:41.860do you you know ask us if if we think that the islamic regime would dump oil into uh the the
00:29:49.060persian sea if that meant its survival and you know i said yes and then uh you came back from
00:29:55.540the discussion group and you know you basically said the exact same thing um without without
00:30:01.460hearing my input first because um you know well i mean but but arvin that's important because
00:30:08.340um you know sometimes people wonder okay well how aligned you know like like you know how
00:30:14.340aligned are people or how much do people actually know how much do they understand and so you know
00:30:19.380i think it's always very interesting very fascinating for our viewers when you know they
00:30:23.780ask me a question and i answer and then they ask you a question and you give the same answer right
00:30:29.860because it i think it kind of gives people peace of mind it's kind of like when um uh that the
00:30:35.540other night when i was away and then president trump posted something and then you gave your
00:30:41.620analysis and remember you reached out to me and you're like goldie what do you think and i told
00:30:44.980you what i thought on whatsapp and you're like that's that's what i said and i'm like see so
00:30:49.300we're on the same page here so and it's it's not just you and me um many iranians uh as well because
00:30:55.860Because 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.
00:31:04.120Like, do not put anything, like do not think that the Islamic regime is incapable of these sorts of things.0.72
00:31:11.380Like, it's a brutal terrorist just cult, right?0.95
00:31:17.980So they don't care about the environment.
00:41:12.360And 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.
00:41:29.360amil is saying why is the international community community radio silent on this environmental
00:41:35.040disaster i don't know they were silent about it before but goldie and i were telling mentioning
00:41:42.320that people should pay attention to it uh before it even happened and now that it happened you're
00:41:48.000right actually they're not they're still we're not seeing as much of a backlash as we should be
00:41:52.240that's a good point and 99 and no nofx is also saying he's the perfect politician much double
00:42:00.640meaning he's the perfect politician stands exactly where you put him never says the wrong thing and
00:42:06.320you can recycle him if the economy tanks okay that's another good one thank you and the last
00:42:12.080super chat again from 99 nofx saying iran just unveiled supreme leader 2.0 now with 100 percent
00:42:19.120less depth, 25% more transparent. Okay, thank you. Thank you so much for the jokes and the
00:42:27.780support for the channel. Okay, guys, I am going to put a QR code on screen. And guys, today's
00:42:40.100discussion group is open to all. And one day, one day, one of these days, Goldie will honor us
00:42:47.460again we're coming to our discussion group one day okay oh you're muted
00:42:55.060muted uh yeah 100 i will i will do that for sure i would love to love to join um but uh i just
00:43:03.540wanted to say armin you know i really appreciate everything you're doing and yeah i will have to
00:43:08.020come come join uh because i'm not going to be around tomorrow actually until very very late so
00:43:14.340We're going to have to figure out the schedule for tomorrow at some point
00:43:33.700It might be like, you know, super, super late, though.
00:43:36.120But Armin, you and I, we'll figure something out for tomorrow.
00:43:39.460By the way, Goldie, whenever it comes to whatever plans you have
00:43:42.960for changing schedules and everything i'm i will become i'm completely flexible like i'm gonna
00:43:48.720always try to make it work with whatever you need okay so appreciate that thank you so much
00:43:54.800no worries no worries and also also guys as somebody who doesn't have a mother anymore i could
00:44:01.600promise you promise you that when you lose your mother you're going to regret not reaching out to
00:44:09.600her as much as you could have okay so just wanted to let you know that just take it from somebody
00:44:16.240who has lost his mother that no matter how much you talk to her no matter how many times you call
00:44:22.720her and no matter how much you spend time with her when you lose her you're going to
00:44:31.040you're going to think to yourself i should have i should have called her more i should have told
00:44:36.480her i love you more i should have spent more time with her and i did it okay so just letting you
00:44:43.680know okay um guys you know your mom's i know you're an atheist but i'm not and so your mom's
00:44:52.340spirit is always with you so i just want you to know that but um you know what you should do
00:44:57.780tomorrow is uh you should um uh because your your wife is a mother to your puppies so you need to
00:45:05.900get your wife a mother's day gift on behalf of your puppies so you should you should treat your
00:45:11.100wife because she's a mummy okay yes you know what she'll love that if you if you like you know get
00:45:21.440her some gifts on behalf of your dogs and get her some like cards you know mother's day cards on
00:45:26.400behalf of your dogs she's gonna love that you know what that's a genius and that's a genius idea you
00:45:32.040what i'm gonna do that i'm gonna do that she's gonna be so shocked and then and then yeah okay
00:45:37.880that's a great idea okay oh my god yeah take her for brunch you know treat her somewhere i don't1.00
00:45:42.760know like get her like a bouquet of roses i don't know get her like a gift and like a bouquet of0.91
00:45:47.320roses and like a mother's day card but don't put your name put like the dog's names in there and
00:45:52.600then you'll get a lot of brownie points and bonus points for that oh my god that's a genius idea
00:46:00.680thank you goldie thank you i appreciate that okay okay i'll do i'll do that okay okay okay
00:46:06.760all right guys one more time link in the description gonna go to the discussion group
00:46:11.800uh or you could scan the qr code and i'll see you guys in about two hours joining goldie and
00:46:19.320yeah see you guys then all right guys bye take care okay guys you're stuck with me mohahaha
00:46:28.920Oh, you're stuck with me, guys. All right. So the first thing that I want to do is I want to
00:46:37.200listen to Marco Rubio's comments from yesterday. And let's see what Marco Rubio had to say after
00:46:47.380meeting with the Pope. We've seen a few clips here and there. So we're going to watch this.
00:46:54.380And 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
00:47:17.220we're going to go to the video that KP recommended, how Iran's apocalyptic quest for
00:47:27.480nuclear weapons brought its own destruction. So looks pretty interesting. I mean, the fact that
00:47:35.440the Islamic regime is apocalyptic, and basically wants to destroy the world. I mean,1.00
00:47:42.560We as Iranians, we already know that. But it's interesting to see other people speaking about
00:47:49.640this. Now, you know, of course, I don't like when they say Iran, because this apocalyptic
00:47:55.120Shia Islamic death cult, they're not Iranian, right? There's nothing Iranian about them. It's1.00
00:48:02.600the Islamic regime. It's that Islamic Shia jihadi mentality. However, however, you know, we'll let0.99
00:48:10.140it slide. But yeah, so after we're done watching Marco Rubio, we're going to go and watch this
00:48:16.980because I'm curious to see if their analysis is correct. So there you go. That's what we're
00:48:24.720going to do for the next couple of hours. Marcus Muster says, one more super chat. Let's effing
00:48:34.220go that's a thing go and then hi z hezi her shorn says no goldie you are stuck with us0.61
00:48:42.300yeah okay guys do not make me don't make me torture you guys because i will
00:48:47.180i will you guys don't want me to torture you guys because i can and i will right
00:48:54.940remember i have all the power i have all the power right now and
00:49:04.220If I, if I wanted to, I could do something like this.
00:53:33.860But 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.
00:53:46.920The 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.
00:53:54.620The church obviously has a very important presence in Latin America.
00:53:57.860The bishops from Venezuela had just been here a few days earlier.
00:54:01.360So we shared thoughts about those sorts of things.
00:54:03.220I 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.
00:54:18.100In some cases in the past, the church has been an important interlocutor, not just with governments, but with societies.
00:54:23.580And then, of course, on the practical level, the church plays an important role in humanitarian efforts in different parts of the world
00:54:29.400and in many places has served as a facilitator of U.S. humanitarian assistance,
00:54:34.000such as I highlighted a moment ago when it comes to Cuba.
00:55:16.200And some countries in Europe, some countries in Europe, like Spain as an example,
00:55:19.720denied us the use of those bases for a very important contingency.
00:55:23.020that 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.
00:55:32.620So 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,
00:55:41.340and 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.
00:55:46.580but ultimately that's a decision for the president to make his team and people like myself and others
00:55:51.820will provide him what those potential options are but ultimately he'll have to make that decision
00:55:55.840he hasn't made those decisions yet as far as recent news of deployments like for example the
00:56:00.740one those were all already ongoing for example in germany the the troops that were withdrawn
00:56:05.720which represent less than 14 percent of our total troop presence there that's already pre-programmed
00:56:10.440and in fact all it did is take us back to where we were in 2022 and and so there was there was
00:56:15.740always a plan to do some shifting within NATO. As far as broader changes, I don't have an
00:56:22.120announcement for you on that today, but that's a decision for the president to make. Certainly,
00:56:26.040we'll present both options and perspectives, but I don't have anything new to announce on that
00:56:30.540today. Your former colleagues on the Hill, the Republican senators, believe that troops' withdrawal
00:56:36.080will embolden Putin and will benefit Russia. Do you agree with that assessment?
00:56:44.980Well, in the end, the United States is always, the president is going to always do what's in the national interest.
00:56:49.100We have global obligations all over the world.
00:56:51.400We have troop deployments all over the world, and those are constantly shifting and changing.
00:56:55.140For example, we increased troop presence in NATO in the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine.
00:57:00.320So we're always making these decisions, and there were some already previewed before any of this had happened in terms of the base denials.
00:57:07.960But 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.
00:57:18.160We have to always assign resources around the world, including military resources on the basis of what serves the national interest.
00:57:24.900That'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.
00:57:33.300but you know with no decisions been made on that yet that's something the
00:57:36.960president's still working through. Have you managed to bridge differences on Iran
00:57:41.180both with Rome and with that matter? Yeah I mean I don't I think everybody agrees
00:57:46.440that Iran having a nuclear weapon is unacceptable. I mean I don't know of
00:57:50.420anyone who thinks it's a good idea for Iran to have a nuclear weapon except the0.91
00:57:53.640Ayatollah so I think the question is what do you do about it and the0.89
00:57:58.060president's actually trying to do something about it and so I mean that's
00:58:02.160I don't think there's any disagreement that they can't have a nuclear weapon.
00:58:07.060I think the question is, what do you do about it?
00:58:08.780And, you know, we've had every American president says, oh, they can't have a nuclear weapon.
00:58:12.660This is the first American president that's actually trying to do something concrete about it.
00:58:17.700I don't know who would disagree with that.
00:58:19.180I mean, it's an important thing that has to be confronted.
00:58:21.060Can we give us an official update on the status of negotiations with the broad right?
01:12:15.900What we've really been focused on in Sudan is sort of establishing a humanitarian ceasefire
01:12:20.080that allows us to provide aid to people that are suffering tremendously there,
01:12:23.960but not doing so at the expense of a broader deal.
01:12:26.240So 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.
01:12:37.360But you can't do that unless you have the security to be able to provide the aid.
01:12:41.400But we don't we also want we don't want that to be the final outcome.
01:12:44.760In addition to the humanitarian corridors and the humanitarian sites, we need to bring this conflict to an end.
01:12:51.600And the way to bring this conflict to an end is for the countries and the parties who are supporting the fighting elements
01:12:57.300to force these elements toward a peace deal that ends this conflict.
01:13:01.580And as I said, we've been very involved in that quad process, invested a lot of time in it,
01:13:05.520continue to be engaged on a daily basis, and in fact have people in our bureau in Africa,
01:13:09.920as well as our special envoy, Saaboulos, involved almost daily on this topic.
01:13:14.880Okay, guys, I've got to run. I apologize.
01:13:16.520Were you surprised by your Italian organs?
01:13:18.400Oh, Mr. Secretary, are you surprised by your Italian origin?
01:13:36.660Okay, so that was Marco Rubio, his comments yesterday.
01:13:40.600Not only is he focused on Iran, he's also focused on Cuba,
01:13:46.560which I think is really important. So, okay, now let's go to this. I'm now interested to watch
01:13:54.300this and see how accurate it is. Just keep in mind, like, again, my only criticism is they say
01:14:01.800Iran, and it's obviously not an Iranian ideology. It's an Islamic Shia ideology. It's a foreign
01:14:09.780It's a foreign ideology, right? It has nothing to do with Iran or Iranians.
01:14:16.040But anyways, let's start. And I'm interested to see what this is all about.
01:14:24.800Right 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.
01:14:35.800This war is far from over, and that's exactly why what you're about to see now matters so much to all of us.
01:14:45.260That's right. Yair and I had the privilege of being part of a landmark documentary series
01:14:50.120hosted by the one and only Eric Stackelbeck, Heroes of October 7th and beyond.
01:14:56.300In a powerful episode called The Head of the Snake, the big picture of Israel's ongoing war against Iran,
01:15:03.420We 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.
01:15:15.940This is the episode that you need to watch. So stay with us.
01:15:25.500The regime began to give the Mein Kampf in the mosques and in schools.
01:15:31.720Iran is no ordinary enemy. It's the head of the snake.
01:15:37.720Our assessment was that it would take them less than a year to create not only a nuclear device,
01:15:42.720but possibly one or two nuclear bombs.
01:15:44.720They're looking to do massive damage to the global economy.0.73
01:15:48.720Remind you some words from the Nazi final solution?0.90
01:15:53.720Israel is defending Western civilization.0.59
01:15:56.720There was footage out of Mossad agents assembling drones in Teheran.0.51
01:17:07.280iran boasted it was retaliation for a recent israeli strike in damascus
01:17:14.160israeli jets leveled an irgc command hub killing two top kudz force generals
01:17:20.400But 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.
01:17:36.820Israelis huddled in their homes, sirens screaming.0.80
01:17:42.060That night felt like the turning of history.0.52
01:17:45.000Iran, not a terror cell, not a proxy army, but the regime itself was now attacking Israel head on.
01:23:02.020before the revolution there were 120 000 jews in iran that's true they had good life they had jobs
01:23:13.060an ancient community by the way from biblical times yes esther mordecai yes 2500 600 years of
01:23:19.860ups and downs and pogroms and other things but it was a secular and free country and jews
01:23:25.700had prosperity and also christians and many other minorities there
01:23:32.020So, 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.
01:23:46.860But there's actually one movie that, surprisingly, I would highly, highly recommend.
01:23:54.440If you haven't seen it, go watch Septembers of Shiraz.
01:23:59.180It's with Adrienne Brody, Salma Hayek, Shohra Ogdashlu.
01:31:52.300I mean, they literally know where the Iranian generals sleep.0.54
01:31:56.700How is Israel able to do this inside the borders of its greatest enemy?
01:32:02.000yes the reason of that is because the iranian people hate their regime the iranian people
01:32:09.780loathe this regime so much that they were willing to work with israel it's not about money
01:32:15.000it's about i'm hating this regime more than the risk of cooperating with israel
01:32:23.460so guys ben's english isn't the greatest obviously um you know he as you guys can tell
01:32:34.740so what he meant by that is that um so what he means there is that um the the iranian people
01:32:45.000hate and despise the islamic regime so much that they're literally willing to risk their lives
01:32:51.380and cooperate and work with Israel in order to help overthrow the Islamic regime.0.98
01:32:56.700So that's how much they hate the Islamic regime, willing to risk their lives.0.91
01:33:01.460And guys, if you remember in previous shows, we've shown you footage and documents0.95
01:33:10.400and evidence that supports this, that proof of Iranians working with Mossad,
01:33:17.440giving them information so that Mossad can target IRGC bases and checkpoints.
01:33:26.200What happened next will be studied in military academies and debated by analysts for decades.
01:33:33.720A mission known as Operation Rising Lion and a war named the 12-Day War.
01:33:40.880Who 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,
01:33:53.480that this tiny country, just 77 years old, would turn and take on the heart of evil itself?0.90
01:34:01.680But as the war dragged on, Israeli intelligence discovered that Iran was on the brink of delivering
01:34:11.920a fully assembled nuclear weapon, not just one, but the foundation to build many.
01:34:19.860At the same time, new intelligence revealed a massive missile production factory in development,
01:34:26.900one designed to produce 20,000 new ballistic missiles over the next few years,
01:46:33.620Iran's program wasn't about peaceful energy.0.54
01:46:36.920It was about enrichment, uranium stockpiles, secret facilities buried deep underground,0.64
01:46:44.300and the ultimate prize, a nuclear warhead.0.65
01:46:51.740Moreover, to allow this to a regime that has bullied the entire Middle East for decades
01:46:58.120with an ideology held bent on world domination through extremism would be catastrophic.0.63
01:47:07.620Israel always knew this day would come.0.86
01:47:10.420Every general, every intelligence officer, every leader understood that at some point, Israel would have to neutralize Iran's nuclear program.
01:47:26.120Yeah, except I just want to add here.0.97
01:47:29.140I 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
01:47:40.420Right. 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
01:47:51.260And they see, you know, a country like North Korea and no one touches North Korea because they have a nuclear nuclear bomb.0.99
01:47:58.560So 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
01:48:10.420Because that would ensure their survival.0.95
01:48:14.500Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to understand the full implications of a nuclear Iran.0.96
01:48:21.720Mr. Prime Minister, thanks so much for joining us in Jerusalem and hosting us.
01:48:26.220How close was the Iranian regime to the bomb?
01:48:29.240And when did you get the sense that the United States would join the fray
01:48:32.780and assist in destroying Iran's nuclear program?0.85
01:48:36.160Well, I can say it was very close.0.82
01:48:38.060And I'll tell you when it rushed to do so.
01:48:40.420as long as it had its noose of death. Oh, we love Bibi. I don't want to get into internal
01:48:46.500Israeli politics, but you know, externally, we Iranians, we love Bibi.
01:48:51.260Death around us, you know, with Hamas in the south and Hezbollah in the north,
01:48:55.860both trying to invade Israel and exterminate the state of Israel with ballistic missiles and
01:49:03.800rockets raining down on us. And Israel is a tiny country. It's, you know, it's smaller than New0.76
01:49:08.160Jersey. They had a plan to destroy us. When we destroyed Iran's terror axis, especially when we
01:49:16.640knocked out Nasrallah, the most important Iranian proxy, then Iran saw that its axis, the noose of0.94
01:49:24.400death, had been gone. It's been stripped away. That's when it decided to rush on what it calls0.51
01:49:30.520weaponization. That's creating a weapon, an actual nuclear weapon, for the enriched uranium that
01:49:36.380they had amassed. So our assessment was that it would take them less than a year to create not
01:49:43.340only a nuclear device, but possibly one or two nuclear bombs. And at that point, we decided to
01:49:48.200act. That's the decision. After the defeat of Nasrallah and the collapse of the Assad regime
01:49:53.980in Syria, they rushed forward. And so we had to rush forward. And President Trump joined us. And0.88
01:50:01.800it's a partnership like no other. You mentioned President Trump making that decision. And there
01:50:07.520was a lot of pressure, counter pressure, I would say. Can you tell us why the Iranian nuclear
01:50:13.560program and the Iranian terror axis in general is a threat not only to Israel, but to America?0.93
01:50:19.320So that regime started out just the very first days. They took over the American embassy and0.89
01:50:25.800held over 50 Americans hostage a tradition that is continued by their0.93
01:50:30.520despicable allies Hamas and taking 250 Israelis hostages but they also did0.80
01:50:38.520other things they and their proxies arranged the murder of 251 Marines in
01:50:43.500Beirut they have bombed American embassies they have killed and wounded0.87
01:50:50.120thousands of Americans in Iraq and Iran all the time they chant death to America0.97
01:51:00.220Iran its plans for destroying America are first to take over the Middle East0.97
01:51:05.500and Israel stands in their way then to continue to Europe but ultimately to0.96
01:51:12.460build intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach the United States
01:51:16.400Right now, they're building an ICBM of 8,000 kilometers.
01:57:52.000But a regime that had held power for nearly half a century wouldn't go down quietly.
01:58:00.180It closed the Strait of Hormuz, cutting off 20% of the world's oil supply overnight.
01:58:07.780It fired on its own neighbors, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE.0.63
01:58:13.380It 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.
01:58:25.920Its strategy wasn't just military. It was economic. It was global.
01:58:31.020And for every person around the world who had quietly filed this away as Israel's problem,
01:58:38.020the fuel pump, the grocery bill, and the evening news were now telling them something very different.0.85
01:58:45.160The Iranian regime was everybody's problem.
01:58:51.980Mati Shoshani is sitting down with Jonathan Spire, one of the most...
01:58:57.100Okay, 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.
01:59:22.980wow what a beautiful set guys this is the only time i don't mind seeing the islamic regime flag
01:59:29.360um you know when i see the islamic regime flag like this on things that are being destroyed
01:59:34.500and boom boomed that makes me happy so this is probably the only time you know like this is a0.96
01:59:39.640kind of example where i love seeing the islamic regime flag because yeah boom boom them get rid
01:59:45.100of them drones dropping like butterflies so he posted that um about like 14 minutes ago0.80
01:59:53.080and then he posted this one bye bye drones and it's like you know lasers beaming up and just
02:00:02.380like boom booming islamic regime drones so there's another like funny ai generated photo
02:00:07.940um and then there's this one 159 iranian ships uh under obama and biden the ships are you know
02:00:19.420floating um and then under president trump all the ships are at the bottom of the ocean
02:00:25.700bottom of the persian gulf so um this is kind of funny this is this is kind of hilarious again0.87
02:00:33.420Again, this is, you know, this is the kind of scenario where I don't mind seeing Islamic regime flags.0.65
02:00:40.600In fact, I enjoy seeing Islamic regime flags and I enjoy seeing the flags at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.0.86
02:00:47.680So there you go. Yeah. And this one he posted. Yeah, he posted all of these posts about 15 minutes ago.0.72
02:00:54.700Then he posted some Gulf stuff. So there you go. That's a quick update on President Trump.
02:01:00.660so obviously iran is very heavy on his mind iran the islamic regime everything that's going on
02:01:08.260very much on his mind um and he's trolling the islamic regime right now
02:01:14.740okay back to uh the show clear-eyed analyst of the middle east at war to make sense of where this is
02:01:21.700going thank you jonathan it's always fascinating sitting down with you thank you and eight months
02:01:28.820after operation midnight hammer israel and the united states start a new operation epic fury
02:01:35.780i'm wondering to hear your opinion on what the background to that decision was and what
02:01:39.300the objective of that war is well this is a regime that was weakened by an unsuccessful war
02:01:44.340that it fought against the united states and israel by the way a war which iran itself of
02:01:49.460course chose to join it's worth remembering this they then received you know a very serious
02:01:54.340punishment for that i mean very serious damage was done to all three of those elements of iranian
02:02:00.340power projection the nuclear program the ballistic missile program and the use of proxies but none
02:02:05.860of them had been conclusively destroyed so it was a weakened regime it had survived and it was seeking
02:02:12.420to rebuild itself what did we see in january we saw indeed the most serious popular challenge
02:02:21.380to islamic republic of iran at any time since the revolution of 1979 without any question whatsoever
02:02:27.140and what happened subsequently the regime has brutal survival instincts and killed
02:02:35.140up to 30 000 but maybe more of its own citizens it means yes this regime is clearly not liked
02:02:41.940by broad sections of the population what we also learn from that is this is a regime with the will
02:02:48.580to survive and to take whatever means it deems necessary to survive the economic situation in
02:02:54.420iran is a terrible mess we saw that the iranian regime is not even able to husband the water
02:03:00.980resources of the country for example in such a way that tehran can have a clear and safe water supply1.00
02:03:07.540so yeah i'm sure that boosted the confidence to say yeah it's a good and opportune time
02:03:12.340to initiate another chapter of that ongoing contest
02:03:17.460and to prevent this regime from rebuilding its strength.
02:03:20.020And from this point of view, the operations have been a clear success.
02:03:24.420Very clearly, the regime has been massively weakened on all fronts.
02:03:29.060You know, the achievement is very apparent.
02:03:31.380The question only is the question of regime survival.
02:10:10.920Immigration is great if it's done properly and if it's done for the right reasons, right?
02:10:18.140What's happening right now is mass immigration, you know, there's like this open border policy or whatever.0.59
02:10:25.360And they're literally importing people into your countries whose values do not align with yours in any way, shape or form. Right.0.86
02:10:34.520Like 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
02:10:50.640that should be the purpose of immigration right immigration should be about wanting to0.93
02:10:56.320bring people to your country who can contribute in a positive way to make the country a better
02:11:04.620place to improve the country also you want to bring people into your country whose values
02:11:10.700align with your own like why would you want to bring in people into your country whose values1.00
02:11:15.680don't align with your own that like that that's just so stupid that's stupid right but that's1.00
02:11:23.400what's happening and now um now because there's been this increase in mass immigration in the1.00
02:11:32.960last 10 15 years all of a sudden politicians have to cater to the durka jihadi marxist communists
02:11:40.160right because they have become a political loading base yeah like canada today is not
02:11:47.360like the canada today is not the canada that my parents immigrated to um back in 1986 totally
02:11:53.440different right totally different um and it's it's wild it's wild but that's what's happening
02:11:59.680right i mean immigration has to be done right uh if people want to immigrate to a new country they
02:12:06.000They need to assimilate into that country.
02:12:09.460They need to align with the values of that country.
02:12:14.920And if you don't align with the values of the country, don't go there.
02:12:18.580Go to some other country whose values you align with, right?
02:12:22.620However, what's been happening now is people have been immigrating to Western countries.
02:12:29.060They bring their own set of values and beliefs with them.0.98
02:12:33.320And if you say, okay, that's not cool.
02:12:35.920that doesn't align with our values um you're the ones who are being accused of islamophobia or
02:12:41.860racism or you know xenophobia or you know whatever right so uh that's how the great
02:12:49.020replacement works that's how the great replacement works they've been doing it um in iran for the
02:12:54.280last 47 years and now they're slowly doing it in western countries as well and it's the same people
02:13:00.140it's the same Durka jihadis. Yeah. It's not worth getting all in behind this regime because this
02:13:08.300regime can't deliver. And also its days may be relatively short in historical terms.
02:13:14.900Well, Israel can deliver. Over two and a half years of ballistic missiles, drones,0.99
02:13:22.020and cluster munitions raining down on a nation of 10 million people who are still standing strong,
02:13:29.220protected by the most sophisticated air defense system ever built
02:13:34.080and battle tested in real time proves this.
02:13:38.380When we return, we go inside that system.0.80
02:13:53.620No country on earth has built what Israel has built.
02:13:58.320An air defense system like no other, because Israel puts the protection of every single civilian life as its highest priority.
02:14:12.280Iran spent decades and billions on Russian and Chinese air defense systems, sophisticated on paper, gone within hours of Israel's opening strikes.
02:16:50.500These are the ones that are launched from over a thousand kilometers away,
02:16:54.420and particularly the ones launched from Iran against Israeli civilians.
02:17:00.020Let's go behind the scenes of what it takes to intercept all these missiles.
02:17:04.340So MRBMs, those are the medium-range ballistic missiles.
02:17:08.100They have what's called a booster, a very large, about a bus-sized type of canister
02:17:14.100that has the fuel that the missile needs to leave the atmosphere.
02:17:17.380And once that booster separates from the re-entry vehicle where the warhead is, where the munitions is, it creates what we call ballistic picture.
02:17:29.880So 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.
02:17:42.480there's a great deal of adjusting the proper defense capabilities the proper interceptor
02:17:50.280to the proper target and then using those interceptors to provide the widest defense
02:17:55.420and the most deep defense basically your role saves lives and if you make a mistake people die
02:18:03.800the majority of these systems are entirely manual entirely operated by
02:18:08.080by soldiers and officers from the air defense battalions.
02:18:12.080We have a big screen in the battle management center
02:18:15.080that counts the numbers of missiles coming in.
02:18:18.080We train not to freak out when those numbers start ticking up.
02:18:24.080There's a great deal of importance of the operators to be ready, to be vigilant.
02:18:32.080There are a few lives that were lost that will forever be in our hearts.
02:18:37.080We 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
02:18:56.600That is the difference between Israel and the Iranian regime.
02:19:01.000One is committed to protecting every life.0.94
02:19:05.060The other is committed to its own power.0.98
02:19:09.440I mean, Islamic regime, Islamic regime, but okay.0.97
02:19:13.060No matter the cost to its people, no matter the bodies in the streets.0.96
02:19:19.400For too long, the world chose to look away.0.90
02:25:38.760It has revealed Israel resilient, steadfast, unshakable.0.87
02:25:44.780And beyond its borders, something else is happening.0.92
02:25:48.200Israel is paving the way for a new Middle East.
02:25:51.420One where nations can rise together, where prosperity and peace replace fear and tyranny.
02:26:00.000That vision is no longer a dream. It's taking shape.
02:26:05.700Next time, we'll look to the future, a future Israel believes is full of promise, potential, and light.
02:26:21.420Wow, that was really good. I really, really enjoyed that.
02:26:27.660Okay, let's go to some super chats really quick.
02:26:31.460Vicky McCollum, we can't win if the IRGC is still in charge of Iran. I 100% agree.
02:26:38.960The 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
02:26:47.500um wiley coyote breaking goldie's rule your hair looks fine thank you thank you uh wiley coyote0.66
02:26:56.600get a quiet goldie unusual yeah i mean like if the documentary is good i'm not gonna i'm not
02:27:02.100gonna say much right like i don't i don't like to speak just for the sake of speaking i'll speak if
02:27:06.840i have something to say of course i have a lot to say when it comes to iran and the islamic republic
02:27:12.200and the iran revolution because there's a lot of fake news and disinformation out there
02:27:17.060But 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.
02:27:44.400So, 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.
02:27:58.180KP, thank you for showing this video. We must wake up to the fact that this story is presently being
02:28:05.340written. I agree. It's choice going forward. Sit on our hands, do nothing, or demanding this regime
02:28:12.340succumbs. I agree. I agree. Because the Islamic regime, it's not just a threat to Israel. It's
02:28:18.300not just a threat to Iranians. It's a threat to the Middle East and the entire world. And that1.00
02:28:23.920includes Americans because they have this like sick, um, jihadi ideology. Okay.1.00
02:28:33.960We're now going to go to breaking point because I haven't seen this and this is from yesterday.
02:28:39.700Um, and I'm, I'm interested to know what's going on right now.
02:28:46.960And I'm keeping an eye on the news as well, obviously, but, uh, let's, let's watch this
02:28:51.440for a little bit because I want to see what's going on. State Marco Rubio said earlier tonight
02:28:57.280we are awaiting what Secretary of State Marco Rubio said earlier he hoped would be a serious
02:29:03.100offer from Iran following U.S. peace proposals earlier this week. This of course comes as U.S.
02:29:08.740forces disable two additional Iranian oil tankers trying to breach the American blockade of Iranian
02:29:14.680ports amid new exchanges of fire in and around the Strait of War modes. White House correspondent
02:29:20.080Ayesha Hosni has that live from the North Lawn. Good evening, Ayesha.
02:29:23.960Right, good evening to you. At this hour, there is no announcement from the White House about a
02:29:28.800potential response or potential deal with Iran. Iran's foreign minister is saying that the
02:29:35.280Iranians will not bow to U.S. pressure as the U.S. continues to enforce its military blockade
02:29:42.620on Iranian ports. These are gold star moms. These mothers raised up children so selfless
02:29:49.900and so devoted that they volunteered to wear the uniform of our nation and laid down their
02:29:55.900lives for all of us. President Trump honoring Gold Star mothers in the Rose Garden today
02:30:01.020as U.S. forces disabled two more vessels this morning for violating the U.S. blockade
02:30:06.860on Iranian ports. It's the latest attack in a tit-for-tat between the two nations.
02:30:12.600CENTCOM released new images of the four U.S.-guided missile destroyers that faced
02:30:17.580incoming fire from Iran this week while traversing some 500 miles through the Persian Gulf and the
02:30:24.020Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. carried out retaliatory strikes, but the president insists the ceasefire
02:30:30.700is still in place. You won't have to know. If there's no ceasefire, you're not going to have
02:30:35.580to know. You're just going to have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran, and they'd better1.00
02:30:40.420sign their agreement fast. As the administration waits for a response. Well, we should know0.79
02:30:45.360something today. I mean, we're expecting a response from them. Their system is still highly
02:30:48.760fractured and a bit dysfunctional as well. So that may be serving as an impediment. I hope it's a
02:30:54.620serious offer. I really do. Axios reports Vice President J.D. Vance met with the Qatari prime
02:30:59.800minister today at the White House to discuss the negotiations with Iran. Meanwhile, Trump is
02:31:05.520proceeding with Operation Project Freedom. After a brief opposition, the Wall Street Journal reports
02:31:11.160Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are now allowing the U.S. to use their bases and airspace
02:31:16.700to help move vessels through the strait. And Brett, on another front, the president today
02:31:22.280announced a three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. It starts tomorrow. It also includes
02:31:28.800a 1,000-person prisoner swap from each side. The president says that was a request made
02:31:34.360specifically and directly by him. Brett? And Aisha, President Trump receiving some
02:31:39.920pretty good domestic news today, better than expected jobs report. Yeah, the numbers actually
02:31:45.080blew away expectations from economists out there. The jobs report added 115,000 jobs in April.
02:31:54.840That's actually down slightly from the March numbers, but it's still 50,000 more than what
02:32:00.300some economists predicted. Brett, the unemployment rate that remained unchanged at 4.3 percent. The
02:32:06.240report basically sent the markets soaring today. It's a sign of resiliency amid rising gas prices
02:32:12.640because of the Iran conflict. Brett. All right. Aisha, thanks. But first to the chief national
02:32:19.680security correspondent, Jennifer Griffin. She's live for us in Washington. Hey, Jen. Hi, Trace.
02:32:25.200Well, it was a single F-18 Super Hornet that struck the two empty Iranian oil tankers trying
02:32:31.400to break the U.S. blockade earlier today. The U.S. military released this video of the Sevda
02:32:37.240and Sea Star 3 being struck by the Navy Super Hornet. Both ships were seen burning in the Gulf
02:32:43.080of Oman before they could reach Iranian ports. To date, Sinkham has stopped 57 commercial vessels
02:32:49.720from entering or leaving Iranian ports and disabled three ships. On Thursday, three U.S. Navy destroyers
02:32:56.640faced nonstop incoming fire from Iranian drones and missiles as they sailed 500 miles through
02:33:03.600the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. The USS Truxton, USS Rafael Peralta, and USS Mason
02:33:10.720were transiting south into the Gulf of Oman when they came under attack.
02:33:14.800In response, the U.S. military struck a port on Iran's Keshem Island and military targets in
02:33:20.800Bandar Abbas crucial to Iran's oil export economy and Iran's Bandar Kargan naval checkpoint in
02:33:28.020Manab. Earlier this week, President Trump abruptly reversed course and suspended Project Freedom,
02:33:33.580the U.S. military effort to open the Strait of Hormuz after Gulf allies were angry that
02:33:38.500the Pentagon downplayed the strikes on UAE's Fujairah port. No, the ceasefire is not over.
02:33:46.060We expected there would be some churn at the beginning, which happened.
02:33:51.680What I'll say is it's low harassing fire right now.
02:33:54.760We're still, it's still pretty low-level kinetics at this point in time.
02:33:58.740These remarks by Secretary Hegseth and General Dan Cain angered Gulf partners,
02:34:04.040causing Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to halt permission for U.S. warplanes
02:34:07.860to use their airspace needed for Project Freedom, forcing President Trump to get involved.
02:34:12.840The decision was later reversed, and the U.S. military was able to resume operations, Trace.
02:34:17.900Jennifer Griffin, live for us in Washington.
02:35:09.480if they're not giving out radio signals that we might be able to jam.
02:35:12.400That and tactical intelligence would enhance Iran's war effort against us.
02:35:17.380Now, 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.
02:35:29.820And so the Russian response may have been designed to counter that sort of an attack by the Trump administration.
02:35:37.220But 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.
02:35:46.680We saw it in Afghanistan, where Russia provided material support to the Taliban to help their effort against us.
02:35:53.420Here is some of the report from The Economist on the secret document, Dan, revealing what they say are Russia's plans to aid Iran.
02:36:02.720The 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.
02:36:17.300Here's more from The Economist's report.
02:36:19.280It 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.
02:36:30.900Instead of being guided using radio signals, which can be jammed, operators control them through thin wires that spool out behind them.
02:36:39.180Operators can use them to conduct pinpoint attacks at ranges of over 40 kilometers.
02:36:45.080So considering all of this, Dan, how could or should this change or alter our strategy, the United States strategy with Iran?
02:36:56.860Well, I think we've already been factoring this into our strategy.
02:37:00.600Look, the Russians have been unable to deter the United States from launching the attacks on Iran.
02:37:07.360Russia was unable to do anything when their ally, Bashar al-Assad, was toppled from power.
02:37:14.180I'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.
02:37:27.040So I don't think this would be much of a surprise to Director Ratcliffe as well as President Trump.
02:37:33.100And 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.
02:37:42.500and carry on with our policy, which, as Hugh Hewitt eloquently described,
02:37:48.700means denying Iran any nuclear enrichment, staying with our strategic objectives.
02:37:54.680I don't think that these drones are a game-breaker.0.91
02:37:56.760We have the military capability to deal with them.0.99
02:37:59.740Meanwhile, I'll finish off with Marco Rubio earlier today saying that U.S. isn't a stupid country.0.88
02:38:05.920He firmly responded to the activity and questions about it earlier today.0.95
02:38:10.140Anderson. What you saw yesterday was U.S. destroyers moving through international waters
02:38:15.080being fired upon by the Iranians, and the U.S. responded defensively to protect itself. Of course
02:38:20.440we fired back at them. They were shooting at us. That's what I would expect to do. Only stupid
02:38:24.580countries don't shoot back when you're shot at, and we're not a stupid country. Dan, I'll give you1.00
02:38:28.260a final thought on that. Yeah, look, there's lots of ways to deal with the drones and whatever Iran1.00
02:38:34.960has left of their ballistic missiles. That's at the point of attack. Hit the launchers, hit the0.97
02:38:40.060sites where the drones are being launched and we'll have the intelligence to do that got it dan
02:38:44.860always a pleasure thank you so much dan hoffman all right thanks john you're looking at new video
02:38:51.340of u.s forces hitting iranian tankers trying to break the blockade as fighting flared up yesterday
02:38:56.700in the strait of four moves iran shooting drones and missiles at american ships during that in the
02:39:01.580u.s hitting back by decisively striking iranian military targets president trump telling an abc
02:39:07.180reporter the ceasefire is still on because those strikes are just a, quote, love tap. Meanwhile,
02:39:13.000President Trump continues to insist that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, as many presidents
02:39:17.900before him did. And it looks like the D.C. construction workers who are fixing up the
02:39:22.840reflection pool agree. These guys are fantastic. So they're doing the job. They're working hard.
02:39:29.500And does anybody think Iran should have a nuclear weapon so they can blow you up?0.88
02:39:33.480It's a very important thing that we're doing, right?0.56
02:45:10.340Yeah, I don't really. Yeah, you are. You also you also said that we were running out of missiles.
02:45:14.080So 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
02:45:21.860Then there was this another leak from the CIA.
02:45:26.540Anonymous sources during the Trump administration.
02:45:28.580Oh, Iran has 75 percent of their missiles still. Really?
02:45:32.820We're still going to buy anonymous leaks from the CIA deep state to hurt Trump.
02:45:37.860Oh, they have four to six months left, really?
02:45:40.460Then why are they leaking all their oil into the strait?
02:45:43.760Listen, we're supposed to get some sort of counterproposal tonight.
02:45:47.620Trump's driving a pretty hard bargain.
02:45:49.200He's saying give us all the enriched uranium, freeze for decades.
02:45:52.840You can't do anything underground, shut down every single nuke site.
02:51:02.400The War Department says, well, this is below the threshold of when the ceasefire would be over.
02:51:07.200I think most of the American public thinks that if we're firing at the Iranians because the Iranians are firing back at us,
02:51:12.020also firing at our allies, ballistic missiles at the UAE, we are in a state of conflict and need to react harshly.
02:51:19.840You know, what kind of amazes me is that as you go through these negotiations, every day it kind of changes.0.67
02:51:24.660And 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.
02:51:37.040In 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.
02:51:45.860It is a crude pressure tactic or the result of a spoiler once again, duping POTUS into another quagmire.
02:51:51.760Whatever the cause is, outcome is the same. Iranians never bow to pressure.1.00
02:51:56.440They keep on with this big charade like they're the ones dominating this whole thing.1.00
02:52:02.820Right. So clearly their communications are flat out nutso. But you do have to look at the real
02:52:07.880world factors. We are enforcing a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, but Iran also effectively0.83
02:52:12.360has one in place. Oil tankers are not transiting. The Pentagon botched Project Freedom. How that
02:52:17.980was botched is still unclear to me. I don't really believe the Gulfies were upset that we were
02:52:22.680doing too much, but whatever, the Pentagon did not pull that off. And so we have to react. And if you
02:52:28.980go back, just go back to Richard Nixon for inspiration, when the North Vietnamese were0.95
02:52:33.480jerking us around at the negotiating table and he ordered Operation Linebacker 1 and Linebacker 2,0.89
02:52:39.460severe bombing campaigns of North Vietnam in 1972, which enabled the 1973 agreement that got us out
02:52:45.780and got our POWs out. We need to hit Iran. We've gotten to this point. We're in a war, and that's1.00
02:52:50.740it. Yeah, Nixon campaigned on getting us out. He said he would, but it took a little bit of
02:52:55.140adjusting to do it in the first place. Christian Whiten, great to see you as always. Thank you.
02:52:59.440And former senior policy advisor to the Secretary of State, welcome to you, sir. So we do await the
02:53:04.680Iranian response here to the U.S. proposed peace plan. What do you see coming?
02:53:08.960well it seems like iran is testing the limits of this ceasefire
02:53:14.720and president trump i think is showing a disciplined deterrence he is made very clear
02:53:22.480that if iran like like secretary rubio just said if iran is going to be firing on the u.s
02:53:28.240there is going to be a price to pay and so i think that's the dynamic while we await
02:53:35.440the Iranian regime's response to the Pakistan diplomacy. What I think the president is doing
02:53:42.740is again building up the economic and military deterrence that's going to be required to get1.00
02:53:49.080the kind of a deal that ends Iran's nuclear program, takes care of the highly enriched0.68
02:53:54.560uranium in the country, and gets the Strait of Hormuz open without the Iranian regime running
02:54:00.320the Tehran toll booth that would net them $125 million a day. So this is going to be very
02:54:07.360difficult diplomacy. This was never going to be easy given this regime. What I would just say is
02:54:14.140that if this is how the Iranian regime behaves without a nuclear weapon, it's an entirely0.82
02:54:20.180different world if they were to have one. You know, we put this together for our audience to
02:54:26.620take from it what they do, and you can tell us what we should make of it. This is an expose from
02:54:33.060the Iranian foreign minister on the latest on the negotiation posture from just a short time ago.
02:54:41.720Every time a diplomatic solution is on the table, the U.S. opts for a reckless military adventure.
02:54:47.260Is it a crude pressure tactic or the result of a spoiler once again duping POTUS into another
02:54:54.860quagmire. Whatever the cause's outcome is the same. Iranians never bow to pressure. What do you make
02:55:01.580of that? Well, it's pretty ironic to be hearing the Iranian regime lecture the world about1.00
02:55:10.660reckless military adventures. That is not this. This is a conflict that is designed
02:55:17.360to end Iran's nuclear blackmail and its economic blackmail.
02:55:23.020And Iran, for its 47-year history, has been engaged in these military adventures,
02:55:29.640which is exporting revolution that they started in 1979.
02:55:34.100This is a regime that has a very hard...
02:55:40.320um this whole this whole line of how the islamic regime is exporting its revolution right guys
02:55:49.020those of you who've been watching us for a while now and even those of you who um were watching
02:55:53.620um armin and i you know on our various channels before um the iranian revolution began you know1.00
02:55:59.720one of the things that we kept on saying is that this this islamic regime it's not satisfied with
02:56:05.220just the borders of Iran. They're expansionary. Their whole mentality is jihad. They want to0.99
02:56:16.680create this global Islamic caliphate, this ummah or whatever they want to conquer under the name0.98
02:56:24.020of Islam and, you know, Muhammad and Allah, Ali and whatever. Um, and now to see, um, people0.98
02:56:33.400acknowledge this fact in the mainstream media, that's really important. So, you know, people
02:56:40.560are waking up to this reality because, you know, when, when we have, we Iranians have been saying
02:56:45.200it, a lot of people don't believe us or, uh, you know, they, um, they're like, Oh, like you guys
02:56:52.020conspiracy theorists or you have no idea what you're talking about blah blah blah um but it's
02:56:57.300true it's true and the fact that we're now seeing people understand and acknowledge this this is
02:57:06.260really important this is really important and i think that um like this is a this is a very
02:57:13.380significant shift in the narrative comic blackmail and iran for its 47 year history has been engaged
02:57:25.220in these military adventures which is exporting revolution that they started in 1979 this is a
02:57:32.580regime that has a very hard time simply being at peace with its neighbors and i think if you were
02:57:39.060to pull our Gulf partners in Israel. All they would like to see is an Iran that is at peace
02:57:45.100with its neighbors and is not pursuing a nuclear weapon. But instead, for 47 years, they have been
02:57:50.820sowing terror and violence, chaos. This regime has killed over 1,000 Americans and has injured
02:57:58.980so many thousands more. And they want to get a nuclear weapon. And President Trump, I think,
02:58:05.580deserves a lot of credit for not managing the problem, as other presidents have tried to do,0.94
02:58:10.680but is trying to end Iran's path to a nuclear weapon. Perfect. I want to end with this. This0.95
02:58:15.120is Marco Rubio responding to questions about the U.S. strikes on Iran, describing them as
02:58:21.940self-defense. Let's listen. What you saw yesterday was U.S. destroyers moving through international
02:58:27.300waters being fired upon by the Iranians, and the U.S. responded defensively. Of course we fired back
02:58:32.740at them. They were shooting at us. That's what I would expect to do. Only stupid countries don't
02:58:36.880shoot back when you're shot at, and we're not a stupid country. Did he need to explain that?1.00
02:58:42.920Well, President Trump is sending our Navy through international waters in a peacekeeping0.99
02:58:50.720operation to open a choke point that was created by the Iranian regime. It is simply unacceptable0.98
02:58:57.300to allow one country to choke off 20 percent of the world's oil supply just because it feels like
02:59:03.940it. This is international waters. The president is protecting a principle, a bedrock principle
02:59:10.360of freedom of navigation in international waters. I wish the rest of the international community
02:59:16.060were as frustrated over Iran's behavior, but they're not. They seem to be spending most of0.99
02:59:22.220their time criticizing the operation when they should be helping it. But I think at the end of
02:59:28.040the day, we have to respond to any of these attacks. We have. We're going to continue, I think,
02:59:34.940to maintain escalatory dominance while keeping the path open for diplomacy. That's the best
02:59:40.340formula right now. Got it. Brian, appreciate your time today. Thank you very much. I take you through
02:59:45.020the week and what a week it's been here on Friday. Remember where we started on Monday? That's when
02:59:49.460the president launched Operation Project Freedom. That idea was to help the U.S. Navy to escort
02:59:55.240commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz. But later on that day is when the IRGC launched
03:00:00.760the drones and the missiles at U.S. naval assets. So then by Tuesday, that was put on pause.
03:00:06.660And then on Wednesday, the U.S. responded by hitting some of those tankers,
03:00:10.360these empty vessels we showed you yesterday. It's more than 1,000 feet long on the open seas. You
03:00:15.140You 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.
03:00:22.980And then you've got Thursday, where the U.S. launched the self-defense strikes at Iran that Lucas was just showing us.
03:03:30.540I know the UAE is thinking about its own retaliatory actions against the Iranians.
03:03:36.620But 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.
03:03:49.200Michael, so we'll see if the president addresses this.
03:03:53.480He's going to be in the Rose Garden at noon Eastern time, so two hours from now.
03:03:56.740And we'll cover that, obviously, live when that happens.
03:03:58.540And maybe we'll get some commentary on what we've been reporting on.
03:04:01.280But in the meantime, a week from today, the eyes of the world are going to be on Beijing.
03:04:05.860And the president was asked about that trip last night.
03:04:09.800Mr. President, is your trip with China still going ahead?
03:08:58.780And Harris, one thing that's increasingly clear, and really from the very beginning,0.91
03:09:02.500is Iran, I guess, is not interested in self-preservation,0.53
03:09:06.100because they've stared down the greatest hegemonic power in the world, the United States,
03:09:10.120and yet they're still trying to break through a blockade after they've lost their Ayatollah, their Navy, so on and so forth.
03:09:15.540What's brilliant about what you just said, though,
03:09:17.400No, they don't they don't have any kind of fear around losing all of their people because it's not about them.
03:09:23.540It'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.
03:09:36.640I 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
03:09:45.780that isn't you necessarily, but there are about a million or so of those people0.70
03:09:50.320who are there to kind of keep that propped up to in addition to the IRGC, which is why it makes it
03:09:56.140so complicated. I like everybody else. I wonder who the heck are we dealing with? Like who's
03:10:00.580actually at the table? Are they the same group every time we go? Is it who Vice President J.D.
03:10:05.440Vance saw? Was that a different group than we're dealing with now? It's all over the road, but it's
03:10:09.500very dangerous right now because we are trying to hold a position of defense, only hit them.
03:10:15.880Our rule of engagement is only hit them when they hit us, but their neighbors are getting hit.0.76
03:10:20.780And the Abraham Accords, that's what I'm really worried about now. Our friends in that region
03:10:25.400that they are hitting now. And the UAE and Saudi Arabia and those neighbors having to say
03:10:31.120just a couple of days ago, look, we're going to choke off the airspace to you,
03:10:34.360to the United States because what they are doing is actually a violation of the ceasefire
03:10:40.360to them. Then the president smooths that out. There's only so much of that capital that we're
03:10:44.960going to have. We need them. And General King, Lieutenant General Kellogg, they're right.
03:10:52.480Karg Island, 90 percent of their income. You take that. You choke everything off economically
03:10:57.060and then perhaps also give the people a better chance for a revolution. Mind you,
03:11:01.520they don't have any weapons, but they will outnumber everybody on the ground. And so how long
03:11:06.800does that take? I don't know. I think you have to I think you have to do a guy said you got to step
03:11:10.540in now. Why wait? You know what they're going to do. I think that's an important point you make
03:11:15.320to about the UAE. I mean, it was the attempt to go through the blockade, Emily. And then with the
03:11:19.620UAE, you saw the 15 ballistic and cruise missiles at one of the UAE's ports. And that's been one of
03:11:24.280the standout features from the very beginning. You had many of the Gulf states standing down0.99
03:11:28.360and not saying we're with the U.S., in fact, we don't condone this, and yet Iran attacks them.
03:11:33.240Yeah, and also coinciding with their independent decision to leave OPEC, right?
03:11:36.920So there's a restructuring happened where every nation state is essentially protecting themselves,
03:11:42.740persevering, while also strengthening the alliances with us, to your point.
03:11:46.140Keep in mind, too, there's a big clock in the sky for Iran, not for a proverbial sense,
03:11:50.400in sort of the obvious realm, but also for the oil storage.
03:11:54.420And so they are abutting a serious parameter here that they only have so much time for.
03:41:25.640I mean, I think most of us are proud of that bias, right?1.00
03:41:29.240But 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
03:41:48.480And 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
03:42:05.580Guys, again, I'm going to say something that some of you might get offended, okay?0.98
03:42:09.980But we don't have that right now, something like that, for the massacre that the Islamic Republic already did in early January.0.96
03:42:17.240So 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
03:42:29.820But for some reason, like in international institutions, you need something more than, you know, I mean, we have high standards.0.85
03:42:40.460We 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
03:42:56.960But then there's still another higher level to this that will come and completely verify it, like 100% verify it.0.51
03:43:05.980And usually something like that takes years.
03:43:10.460October 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.
03:43:23.260So 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?
03:43:36.900Do you guys understand what I'm saying?
03:43:40.460So different institutions have different standards to what they will consider, and I think it's important.
03:43:57.320All 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.
03:44:07.920let me know if you want more information
03:44:36.880and this is big guys this is big like the islamic republic is losing it's already lost syria
03:44:43.840is losing its influence in hezbollah in lebanon because of this new government because of the new
03:44:50.140dynamics political dynamics in lebanon right now and hezbollah's constantly reduction reduced power
03:44:57.380political power within lebanon and now we're going to go for iraq as well iraq is one of the most
03:45:02.740important areas for the islamic republic and the us is doing is playing a very very good strategic0.85
03:45:09.460game here right now in trying to cut the level of influence that the islamic republic has inside
03:45:15.540iraq so we need to pay very close attention to this and i suspect that this is going to become
03:45:20.900bigger news pretty at some point okay so saying a new iraqi initiative aims to disarm or fully
03:45:29.300integrate iran-backed militias inside the pmf so guys pmf is hashal shabby is popular mobile
03:45:36.580mobilization front or in arabic hashal shabby okay so they're trying to integrate iran black
03:45:43.780militias inside the pmf or popular uh or the pmf or hash shabby into iraqi state apparatus
03:45:50.740If 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.
03:46:10.400guys this is very important update so pay attention to this the plan is reportedly being
03:46:16.420finalized by outgoing uh prime minister muhammad shia al-sudani and prime minister designate ali
03:46:27.420al-zaidi and hadi al-amiri one of iraq's most influential pro-iran figures so guys even the
03:46:35.960people who are pro-Islamic Republic are working with the United States to basically to get this
03:46:40.900done. This is a big, big update from Iraq. This would represent one of the biggest blows to Iran's0.88
03:46:46.480regional network in years. For decades, the Islamic Republic used Iraqi militias to project0.82
03:46:52.580power across the region without direct IRGC deployment. These groups helped Iran threaten0.99
03:46:59.620U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria, move weapons and logistics across the region, pressure Baghdad
03:47:07.380politically, expand IRGC influence across the Levant, support repression efforts during unrest
03:47:16.600inside Iran. In early 2026, reports emerged that convoys of Haish al-Shaabi fighters crossed into
03:47:25.680Iran during protests and instability raising fears they were being used to reinforce regime
03:48:09.040This is a longer-term investment, by the way.
03:48:12.740It says, weakening these militias would significantly damage Iran's axis of resistance and reduce
03:48:18.280its ability to wage proxy warfare across the region, says, for the U.S., this would represent
03:48:23.980a major strategic victory. Iran-backed Iraqi militias have launched hundreds of attacks
03:48:28.980on American interests since late 2023. Neutralizing or integrating them into the Iraqi state
03:48:35.880will reduce threats to U.S. personnel and weaken Iran's leverage inside Iraq.
03:48:41.440It would also signal that renewed U.S. maximum pressure is creating real structural strain on Iran's regional network, not just symbolic economic pressure.
03:48:53.780Iran is unlikely to accept this quietly.
03:48:56.440Possible responses could include political pressure on Baghdad, militia resistance, proxy escalations in other theaters, and expanded repression inside Iran.
03:49:10.460The 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.
03:49:29.560If 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
03:49:41.440Guys, this is why I think longer term, everything is looking in our favor.
03:49:46.480I understand that short term, like guys, I understand lack of patience.
03:49:51.580I understand it because I have friends and family inside Iran.
03:50:26.600It'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
03:50:43.280I 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
04:05:42.400those blessings well thank you so much blessings yes the pictures above them are new but even
04:05:50.080though the article is from april he used the fact that he brought attention to the fact that 53 of
04:05:58.080americans are oh yeah so actually now that you've now that you say that i wonder if more updated
04:06:06.720polls would show a different number. I would bet you that what we're going to see is some other
04:06:13.920anti-Trump media now coming out in response to President Trump posting this
04:06:20.480with some polls that might suggest that the war is not as popular.
04:06:26.560That would be the response that you could expect, I think, from the media.
04:06:29.840all right i thank you for your support oh and goldie shared us some things
04:06:35.920share something with us so let's take a look at that well you know armin um it's interesting it's
04:06:42.060a little bit of a slow news day yeah it's a little bit of a slow news day however um
04:06:49.840i feel like the silence means that there's a lot going on behind the scenes
04:06:55.160and did you see the the recent posts that president trump put on truth social not the
04:07:02.220one with the article but the more recent one where he's true yeah we went yeah we were just
04:07:07.120going through them right now with the chat the memes right there was the butterfly one right so
04:07:14.520here we had a butterfly one drones going down like butterflies and then we had the
04:07:21.980bye-bye drones taken down by lasers and then we had uh we had the 159 iranian ships at the bottom
04:07:34.220of the sea during trump's time compared to under obama's biden's time okay and then we had if we
04:07:42.460go up up up up up up and then we have president trump in the persian gulf managing what's
04:07:51.920over the islamic republic ships being blown up we had that and then we had some food for some reason
04:08:01.040okay and then we had more ships iran's navy at the bottom of the persian gulf he posted that
04:08:10.480and then the ufc ufc and that's it that was the last the last one iran related was this one
04:08:18.800So, 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?
04:08:35.900Like there is something going on behind the scenes, and he's doing this to pressure and embarrass the Islamic regime in a way.
04:08:43.920I mean, Goldie, to your point, we had some slow news days before Operation Epic, before Khamenei died, right?
04:08:53.400Yeah, and I remember what we were doing is we were, of course, sharing funeral videos, right?
04:09:01.120We were going over the funerals of the people who had been massacred by the Islamic regime.
04:09:06.860um you know armin last night so we started watching a documentary and i can only get0.98
04:09:14.020through about like 10 minutes of that documentary because it was just some like the most garbage
04:09:18.960thing i'd ever seen wow it was about it was supposed to be about like ancient persian magic0.84
04:09:25.240but the guys the people who were with me um oh my gosh it was just complete and utter nonsense
04:09:31.040because um the whole thing was obviously like you know the the guy was like oh i'm here with0.54
04:09:38.100my tour guide and the tour guide was obviously like his islamic regime handler and then oh my
04:09:44.320gosh i don't know i don't know if we should like re-watch it and then get your commentary on this
04:09:49.960because it was just so insane it was so insane wow like i couldn't get through it i literally
04:09:58.940couldn't get through it and and i blame i blame our viewers because i did a poll and the the poll
04:10:08.620here i think i still have the poll from last night so it was this one it was uh
04:10:16.700which conspiracy theory documentary about iran should we watch ancient persian magic or alien
04:10:24.140sighting in iran in 1976 and it was it was a close vote it was a close vote but uh our viewers
04:10:33.980chose ancient persian magic and the documentary was like i couldn't get through it i was like i
04:10:41.500can't do this i was just i was literally ranting the whole time you know what let me let me pull
04:10:47.580it up let me pull it up and i don't know maybe you can give your thoughts on this because we have a
04:10:53.340little bit of time and i'm you know i'm just doom scrolling but uh let me go to history
04:15:43.960In 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
04:16:09.520so we have the opposite problem the tourists just come and go and they have this they see so many0.97
04:16:18.000you know amazing beautiful hotels and amazing beautiful tourist spots and some so many luxurious
04:16:24.320attractions and then yes exactly see sardis said like they and but we run they enjoy so many things
04:16:31.760that many iranian people themselves cannot enjoy and they go back home and like oh iran is fantastic
04:16:37.360is safe everything is wonderful we they have they have everything there it's actually better there
04:16:44.320than it's in here in the united states and they were like we're watching it like what the hell
04:16:49.200what are these people talking about and like i talked to my friends like you know we talked to
04:16:54.000my friends in iran they're like oh they they're making it seem like it's heaven there like yeah
04:16:58.000it's heaven for somebody who comes with us dollars or i don't know british pounds or like euros and
04:17:04.480they could live like kings there and have like the most fabulous time for sure so but that's not our0.99
04:17:11.680that's not our experience here so he said like oh it's like iran is like close to foreigners
04:17:19.360those are close foreigners the fact islamic republic loves loves loves bringing foreigners
04:17:24.000there and show them a one-sided view of what living in iran is like to whitewash their image0.51
04:17:31.040so i don't know this this first part is wrong amateur sports like iranians in the chat you
04:17:38.320agree with me on this like am i am i misrepresenting this or am i right about this because some iranias
04:17:43.920might feel like oh army you don't know you know you haven't been in iran for 20 years
04:17:48.480but i think that's i'm giving you an accurate picture of what the iranians feel feel armin0.91
04:17:53.280armin i would say yes and no because you're right the islamic regime definitely will pay
04:17:59.520influencers to go there and, you know, portray this image of, you know, the Islamic regime.
04:18:09.940And, you know, it's basically propaganda. But the Islamic regime will also take a lot of
04:18:17.180foreigners hostage, right? So it's a yes and no. If you go there because the Islamic regime wants1.00
04:18:24.780you to go and they're paying you and they're funding you you'll have an amazing time and0.93
04:18:29.760you'll you know they'll only show you this like perfect beautiful whatever country and because
04:18:35.140they want you to share their propaganda that's actually happening right now there are a lot of0.99
04:18:40.380like garbage people who are not iranian who are in occupied iran uh at the behest of the islamic0.86
04:18:47.000regime and they're sharing islamic regime propaganda to make it seem as if oh everything0.99
04:18:52.320is normal everything is okay um israel and the united states are the aggressors right0.80
04:18:58.800but if you are just traveling there as a foreigner um the islamic regime will most likely0.86
04:19:07.040take you hostage because they will use you to um like they'll basically use you as political
04:19:14.400leverage right like that's exact exactly what happened with france with uh like some french
04:19:19.920people right um and then they recently they were recently used um as political leverage
04:19:32.640so look at this for example um so this is just from a month ago
04:19:40.800how french hostages cecile kohler and jacques paris were released from iran two french nationals
04:19:52.100detained by tehran in 2022 were released in exchange for lifting the house arrests house
04:19:58.860arrest of an iranian woman convicted in france for online incitement to terrorism so this is why
04:20:04.960We 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.
04:20:30.280And 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
04:20:49.400something i want to point out as well is that the islamic republic you're actually in a lot0.93
04:20:56.160lot more danger if you're a dual citizen if you're a dual citizen because the islamic republic
04:21:02.160thinks that if you are a dual if you go to iran and you're a dual citizen they know that they0.98
04:21:07.800could use you as a leverage if they kidnap you against the country that you have a citizen
04:21:13.540citizenship of but they also can kidnap you in their mind because they they legally own you
04:21:21.120because you're also iranian so if you are for example just american and go and you're not
04:21:27.740iranian and you go to iran you're much much less likely much much less likely to get kidnapped
04:21:33.720if you're like iranian canadian because they think like well you're a citizen of here so we could do
04:21:40.360whatever the hell we want to you and on top of that on top of that um they will um that you you
04:21:49.660iran doesn't have a way to give up your citizenship so for example if you're canadian there's a way
04:21:54.960for you to be like i don't want to be canadian anymore if you're american there's a way to say
04:21:59.100like i don't want to be american anymore but if you're iranian the islamic republic will say we0.88
04:22:04.040have rights over you whenever we want and they treat their citizens as if they own their citizens
04:22:09.600Right. 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
04:22:21.840So 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
04:22:39.600And 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
04:23:03.440And they're admitting that by kidnapping you.
04:23:06.100all right let's continue so someone was asking like how many westerners are currently held
04:23:15.120hostage um so let me just share this really quickly um so as of may 2026 at least six
04:23:27.400american citizens are confirmed to be wrongfully detained or held hostage in iran according to
04:23:34.460advocates and the james w foley legacy foundation and then total westerners beyond the u.s citizens
04:23:42.940experts estimate a dozen or more westerners including tourists are currently held in iranian
04:23:48.940prisons on charges often described as sham or political bargaining chips okay there you go
04:23:58.780and so and go the what how many of them are dual citizens that i don't know but i mean can you ask
04:24:06.060um well um let's go to fox news digital or i mean let's let's get here so list of foreign
04:24:13.840nationals detained in iran um right so guys hostage diplomacy like this is oh wait let me
04:24:21.220share it so here you go like hostage diplomacy right that's what we're talking about since the
04:24:26.340Iran hostage crisis back in the 1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has engaged in a pattern of
04:24:31.960detaining foreign nationals for extended periods. According to the Center for Human Rights in Iran,
04:24:37.620the Iranian government has imprisoned dual and foreign-only nationals as bargaining chips in
04:24:45.200its dealings with other nations. Iran's repeated dubious detention of dual citizens and thereafter
04:24:51.660bargaining behavior have led observers to qualify the practice as a policy of hostage
04:24:58.700diplomacy. According to French ex-hostage Louis Arnault, who spent two years in Iranian custody,
04:25:07.300those detained are usually kept in solitary confinement. In an interview, he said that
04:25:12.560everything is done so that you are deprived of your humanity. Armin, so like Armin was correct,1.00
04:25:19.300dual nationals, I mean, Armin's always correct, but dual nationals of Iran and other countries
04:25:24.060are particularly vulnerable to arbitrary detention, right? So here's a list of current
04:25:32.020foreign nationals. Nazak Afshar, she's French-Iranian, Ahmad Rizad Jalili, Iranian-Swedish,
04:25:39.960Nahid Taghavi, Mehran Rauf, these are all Iranian dual nationals, probably.
04:25:43.720um oh citizenship citizenship no no no so naheed her citizenship is only german
04:25:51.020so goldie that's interesting because even if your citizenship is only german you could tell by her
04:25:57.760his name that the islamic republic considers him to be iranian because he comes from an iranian
04:26:03.340family even if you don't have an iranian citizenship same thing with mehran so mehran
04:26:08.700is from the uk so these two naheed and mehran have been uh detained since october 16 2020 so
04:26:18.140like almost six years right and then mohammed hassan armin he's australian and iranian
04:26:24.940oh hakop gochumian so this guy is not iranian whatsoever he's armenian he's been detained0.65
04:26:33.100Shahram Namavar, so he's UK and Iranian. Reza Valizadeh, US and Iranian. Ahmad Riyazi, UK,
04:26:44.220Iranian. Oh, look, here's a total non-Iranian person. Bastian Brusek, he's German. So this0.99
04:26:53.500guy is not even Iranian. He's been detained. And a guy from India, Sumit Sud, he's been detained.
04:27:03.100um oh look at this craig foreman craig foreman is not an iranian name like craig foreman is like
04:27:09.740one of the whitest names you can find um yeah so craig foreman is from the uk he's been detained
04:27:16.860uh since january 2025. oh no oh lindsay foreman look at that and lindsay foreman
04:27:23.260both from the uk together yeah probably a husband and wife
04:27:26.860oh my god he's on our bingo card but arvin pull up the boom boom bingo sheet okay okay okay on it
05:15:40.240so that's 55 guys is that right base is that that's 50 55 bucks a night that's pretty cool
05:15:47.440that's not what i'm seeing wait are you maybe i'm looking at the wrong thing 11 million tomans
05:15:55.920yeah that's showing up as eight dollars for me
05:16:01.040am i what are you dividing it by you are you dividing it by 200 or 2 million
05:16:07.040i don't know i just i just asked uh ai
05:16:09.200wait wait let me let me go isn't toman 200 000 right now it would be 55
05:16:18.640i don't know let me let me let me just go to um uh let me see currency converter so
05:16:28.160let's do toman or i guess you have to do reels no just divide it by 200 000. is that what it
05:16:35.120is right now yeah okay all right no guys i know you guys saying 178 uh thousand 178 000 but any
05:16:45.760my friends are telling me in iran that the actual in the market is actually 200 000 two months right
05:16:53.040now okay okay fine you want to go with once with the official number 178 then i don't know i just
05:17:01.360i mean you're probably right i just i just asked uh google i could be wrong though i don't know
05:17:05.840i mean i i trust your conversion um over what ai says because you have better intel
05:17:12.720so what if we go away even if it's 50 bucks a month sorry 50 bucks a night that's still
05:17:18.480like ridiculously cheap right so guys like um you you could live like a millionaire um in iran
05:17:27.440u.s u.s currency right but yeah i mean this this this you have to keep in mind though this here
05:17:36.720is completely unaffordable to at least 70 percent of iranians in occupied iran right so 70 percent
05:17:44.020of iranians in occupied iran remember they can't even afford to buy eggs oh my god look at this
05:17:50.980hotel you can tell baldy i know guys guys so so if we go by the 200 000 rate it's 55 bucks a night
05:17:59.220but if we go with the official 178 000 rate it's 60 a night okay a hotel like this in any other
05:18:08.020country would be like at least 300 a night 200 300 oh way more than oh armin way more than that
05:18:16.580this would be like a thousand dollars a night in certain places like this is like the peak
05:18:20.820this is peak luxury look at that it's so cautious i want to stay here i know it is beautiful it
05:18:28.500looks ancient sorry armin when when iran is free we'll do iran revolution live road trip we'll just
05:18:34.100we'll stream from different parts of iran when iran is free oh my god love that i wanna oh my
05:18:40.820oh my god look at going outside it's so traditional look at the lights so that was
05:18:47.300inside the hotel and this is outside the hotel with the stores but oh and there's somebody singing
05:18:55.140but let me go to the look at the hallways in this
05:18:57.860guys look the floor is not just like a normal floor it's like the floor this is not just like
05:19:19.400painting these are like the handmade tiles like in every single like it's like
05:19:24.200art there's art on the floor so these are all handmade the the the chairs are handmade
05:19:35.160I 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.