00:56:25.080We told, we told you guys that they want to give us this, they want to give us scorched earth
00:56:44.440Guys, the prince is saying that they're planning on destroying our national heritage and our natural resources and before the regime falls and we need to guard them now.0.92
00:57:03.800They might, oh my God, Goldie, they might go after Takhti Jamshid,
00:57:08.120Paris police, they might go after all our ancient buildings
00:57:12.320before the regime collapses, they might destroy everything.
00:57:19.120They've been trying to destroy them for a very long time.
00:57:23.100Oh no, we're not in a position to be able to,
00:57:28.200so Princess Apalavi is asking us to create groups to guard them.
00:57:33.000Armin, can you read the statement? Because some people said they're driving and they can't read the caption.
00:57:39.560Yes, okay. So, Princess Apalev is saying,
00:57:45.060Dear fellow compatriots, protecting Iran's cultural and natural heritage is a national and perpetual duty for all of us.
00:57:53.380This duty has gained more importance than ever in the current circumstances because there is a concern that opportunists may take advantage of the country's revolutionary situation or some potential disruptions until the establishment of the national government, it means the transitional government, government in the aftermath of the overthrow and seek to plunder, destroy, or seize Iran's national heritage.
00:58:21.620wow that's so scary unfortunately we experienced examples of such events in 1979
00:58:28.060a time when a significant portion of iran's natural landscape and historical monuments
00:58:34.420suffered damage and destruction i ask you to join the iran heritage unit in the immortal guard for
00:58:41.760the safeguarding of the country's cultural heritage and environment the mission of this
00:58:46.980unit is very simple each one of you whatever you are wherever you are in iran from a form a local
00:58:54.520group even a small one with your friends and acquaintances to protect national monuments
00:59:01.120that you believe may be at risk fellow fellow countrymen abroad can also join this unit by
00:59:08.520participating in covering potential costs or through awareness raising and information sharing
01:22:36.560he's just he's sounding shy go ahead please
01:22:41.980of course no uh japan and u.s are very uh different but uh one question why didn't you
01:22:49.580tell us allies uh in europe and in asia i mean he's a beautiful man look at him
01:22:55.820in europe and asia like that about the war before attacking iran so we are very confused about
01:23:05.740with japanese well one thing you don't want to signal too much you know when we go in we went
01:23:11.020in very hard and we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise who knows better
01:23:17.660about surprise in japan why didn't you tell me about pearl harbor okay he's asking me uh now you
01:23:28.620believe in surprise i think much more so than us and uh we had a surprise and we did and because
01:23:36.460of that surprise we knocked out the first two days we probably knocked out 50 of what we and much
01:23:43.180more than we anticipated doing so if i go and tell everybody about it there's no longer a surprise
01:23:49.420yeah goldie so many people are saying this is a common narrative right now like oh president
01:23:54.940trump when it went in without creating a global coalition without telling its allies
01:24:00.540yeah like the whole point was to surprise the islamic republic like of course they would have
01:24:07.020known exactly what's going to happen if if they told the all these other countries especially
01:24:11.820the europeans it wouldn't be a surprise anymore yeah anyways that was fantastic i love that i
01:24:23.120love every second of that um what is that you're highlighting you want to read that sure so we have
01:24:28.620a super chat from george on maria barturoma this morning skapa sand suggested khar island may become
01:24:34.900a u.s asset one hour later the euro allies said they were all coming to save hormuz so armin i'm
01:24:41.020not sure do you know what happened last night no but hard garden is not going to be a u.s asset
01:24:47.400yeah temporary yes that's that's what he's referring to so armin what happened last night
01:24:54.780is the islamic regime they went after uh qatar yes i saw that yeah and saudi arabia yeah but
01:25:04.180when they went after they went after the natural, like they went after the natural gas reserve
01:25:11.320and Qatar, and they've destroyed 17% of it. So it's like, like, they've destroyed it so
01:25:17.360that their commercial output has decreased by 17%. And it's going to take three to five
01:25:23.900years to fix it and bring it back up to the current levels. So the the regime has pretty
01:25:29.500much um threatened the um energy supply of the entire world yes and president trump has a0.95
01:25:41.260statement about that yeah and i think they are playing good backup i think israel the attack
01:25:48.220the south parse um you know facilities um in a way that basically pokes as the islamic republic
01:25:57.500for them to retaliate on saudi arabia and qatar to get them more involved in these military
01:26:04.860operations against islamic republic and this is israel playing the backup and then united
01:26:09.580states will come in president trump will come in and tells israel like tells israel to stop that
01:26:15.580for this is the same playbook that we have seen before these military operations started
01:26:21.420and this is president trump's um uh comment on that the that was that that he put out last night
01:26:29.100uh do you want me to read it yeah you can read it okay i i like i went over this last night but we
01:26:35.500have new viewers today so i think it's important to read it and then i'll give you sort of my brief
01:26:40.540summary and analysis on this because this is this is very very important yes so president trump
01:26:47.420Posted last night, Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out a major facility known as South Park's gas field in Iran.
01:26:58.360A relatively small section of the hole has been hit.
01:27:02.800The United States knew nothing about this particular attack, and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape, or form involved with it.
01:27:10.760Nor did it have any idea that it was going to happen.
01:27:15.160Unfortunately, Iran did not notice or any of the prescient facts pertaining to South Parse attack and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar's LNG gas facility.
01:27:37.140No more attacks will be made by Israel, in all caps, pertaining to this extremely important and valuable self-parsed field, unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case Qatar,
01:27:56.120in which instance the United States of America
01:28:00.540with or without help or consent of Israel0.86
01:28:04.900will massively blow up the entirety of the South Park's gas field0.96
01:28:08.680at an amount of strength and power0.99
01:28:11.540that Iran has never seen or witnessed before.0.88
01:28:14.280I do not want to authorize this level of violence and destruction0.99
01:28:34.460And I went over this last night, gave a very detailed sort of layout about this.
01:28:39.720And now that I'm looking at the mainstream media and the news and like what all the, you know, no war and anti-Semitic people and like, you know, all the usual garbage influencers, they all took the bait.
01:28:51.820So what the mainstream media and all these people are focusing on is like, oh, there's like a rift between the United States and Israel.0.64
01:29:01.800There's infighting. Trump has lost control of the war.
01:29:07.600You know, like the war is lost, things like that. Right.
01:29:11.700So that's how they're interpreting this.
01:29:14.380So everyone's attention right now, Armin, everyone's attention is on the natural gas.
01:29:21.820Okay. Yes. Meanwhile, meanwhile, this is what Senator Lindsey Graham said last night. And I'm
01:29:28.700going to explain to you why this is important. Sorry. He said this yesterday morning before,
01:29:34.600before the attack. So listen to what Senator Lindsey Graham said yesterday morning on Fox
01:29:39.980News. Carg Island, 90% of their income comes from oil and gas revenue. A hundred percent of that
01:29:47.100revenue generating capabilities on a single island mr president take karg island this war is over
01:29:58.940take karg island the war is over mr president take karg island this war is over so that statement by
01:30:10.220president trump yes the focus the purpose of that statement is to get everyone's attention on um the
01:30:19.100oil sorry the natural gas fields he wants everyone to focus there currently what's happening right
01:30:26.540now i don't know if if if it's over or not but earlier today um united states was bombing
01:30:35.660all of the southern part of Bandar Abbas, like the southern border there of Iran, of occupied
01:30:46.180Iran. I don't know if they're done yet. I have to find the update because Pete Hegseth will
01:30:51.420probably speak about that. But they have engaged in heavy, heavy bombing to destroy every single
01:30:58.580IRGC asset in the southern part of Iran. All of the islands as well, all of the Persian
01:31:05.540Gulf islands that belong to, to, to occupied Iran as well. So Armin, I have a feeling that
01:31:12.960they are bringing everyone's attention to the oil fields, sorry, the, the natural gas fields,
01:31:20.540because behind the scenes, they're working somehow and they're going to take,
01:31:25.820they're going to take Harg Island. And once they take Harg Island, that's it for the Islamic regime,
01:31:34.540because they're going to have no more income senator lindsey graham just said carg island
01:31:41.740produces 90 of the islamic regime's income export it goes it it goes 90 of it goes through there yes
01:31:56.140carg island 90 of their income from comes from oil and gas revenue 100 of that revenue generating
01:32:03.820capabilities on a single island. Mr. President, take Karg Island. This war is over.
01:32:11.140And Goldie, you think this was the plan from the very beginning when the Marines are showing up
01:32:15.540and the threat by President Trump is to prepare them, bring attention to them and then do something
01:32:21.160less aggressive than what he's saying, like basically prepare their minds for something
01:32:25.920more destructive and then do something less destructive? Do you think that's what's happening?
01:32:30.120No, it's not about something more destructive versus less destructive.
01:32:33.820President Trump basically wants everyone to focus on a potential rift between Israel and United States.
01:32:40.080He also wants the world's attention on the natural gas.
01:32:44.880Because when everyone's focused on natural gas, no one's paying attention to what's happening elsewhere.
01:32:52.260And are they playing good backup in your opinion?
01:41:04.580So we're contributing to something, to an institution that doesn't contribute back.
01:41:08.980And then, so when President Trump and all these European countries were complaining about oil prices going up and the Strait of Hormuz being, well, semi-closed, not completely closed, but semi-closed, President Trump was like, well, here's your opportunity.
01:41:42.980Like he didn't predict that this will happen.
01:41:45.180But to me, this is actually in line with his prediction.
01:41:50.120And he's showing to the world that NATO is not there for the United States.
01:41:54.200So why are we contributing so much to NATO?
01:41:56.220So, and I do hope, I really hope Japan, I really hope countries around the Pacific like South Korea and Japan gets at least a little bit get involved because we do need like Europe is becoming less and less of a reliable ally to the United States.
01:42:17.980But the countries around the Pacific, they are more important, I think, in my opinion, right now, at least right now, hopefully we could get Europe back.
01:42:27.580But because the main challenge to the United States is China, the allies in the Pacific, if they signal to the United States that they are as good of an ally as they're supposed to be, that would be a huge plus.
01:42:41.720Because, again, we need them for responding for the China challenge.
01:42:47.980So, yeah, let me know, guys, in the chat, if you agree.
01:54:27.600Ladies and gentlemen, we are working on every day to encourage you, to use the learnings and also to do it in the industry, to do it in the field, to speak to a public service,
01:54:40.600also to the employees, also to the employees, also to the employees, and also to the families.
01:54:47.600We are hoping that this is an attack, and we need to add more and more.
01:54:54.600I know, one thing, I know that the path of your spirit, the vision of the PICOD of the PICOD,0.91
01:55:03.600that you are going to the PICOD of the PICOD of the PICOD, every time,
01:55:07.600all of them give me, to the government, to the government and to the government,
01:55:13.600to continue to fight, to continue to achieve the effort to achieve the implementation.
01:55:21.600All the world understands that we are the king of the Jews, and we are also the king of the Jews, everyone knows it from his house, and you know it of course from your parents.
01:55:34.600We are the king of the Jews, the king of Israel, and the king of Israel.
01:58:20.360Now, from all of this, I can say one thing, it is necessary to say if the Iranian people will destroy the issues that we are creating for him to get out of the distance.1.00
01:58:35.360I hope that this will be, we are working that this will be, but in the end of this, it will only be worth them.1.00
01:58:44.360It doesn't mean that the forces of the government are not trying to attack us, they are trying.
01:58:51.360But it's even, and it's too bad, because it also happened to us, to us and to us, and also to us.
01:58:59.360And I want to give up to the families, first of all, to participate in the celebration of the families,
02:14:11.520Today, the Atolla regime is not only attacking America, not only attacking Israel, not only
02:14:19.620attacking the iranian people it is attacking it is attacking the entire middle east and beyond0.91
02:14:25.300they've attacked civilians and americans and american assets in iraq kuwait saudi arabia0.59
02:14:31.300bahrain qatar uae oman and they've even attacked through their proxies cyprus in europe we've
02:14:39.940won for decades that their ballistic missile program would be used to attack these targets0.92
02:14:46.100far and wide and if they're not stopped that's just the beginning the death cult in iran is0.98
02:14:53.460trying to blackmail the world by closing a key international maritime route the straits of homos0.98
02:15:01.220it won't work israel is helping in its own way and intel and other means the american effort0.89
02:15:07.540to open the Straits of Hormuz. But I want to ask you to imagine how the Ayatollah regime
02:15:17.780would be able to blackmail the entire world if they had ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads.0.94
02:15:25.540Just imagine what they would do. Look at what they're doing now and imagine what they would do
02:15:29.620if they had ballistic missiles, international ranged ballistic missiles, and nuclear-tipped
02:15:37.300warheads. Just imagine what a great threat that would be. So today Israel and the United States
02:15:44.580are protecting America, Israel, the entire Middle East, but I venture to say the entire world.0.78
02:15:51.300Despite the fake news that is unfortunately being spread since the start of the war 20 days ago, we are winning and Iran is being decimated.
02:16:03.580Iran's missile and drone arsenal is being massively degraded and will be destroyed.
02:16:09.660Hundreds of their launchers have been destroyed.
02:16:12.040Their stockpiles of missiles are being hit hard, and so are the industries that produce them.
02:31:46.660well we have achievable goals and i'm not going to speak about the
02:31:51.140full battle plans that we have with the united states we're well coordinated with them
02:31:54.660I will say this, that once we achieve our goals, then I have argued, I think, and Americans understand this very well, because we're real partners.
02:32:09.080I think that what has to be done is to have alternative routes, instead of going through the choke points of the Hormuz Straits and the Bab el-Mandeb Straits, in order to have the flow of oil, just have oil pipelines, gas pipelines, going west through the Arabian Peninsula, right up to Israel, right up to our Mediterranean ports.
02:32:36.500and you've just done away with the choke points for forever.
02:33:33.140And the function of leaders is to stand and tell people the truth, even when things are uncomfortable. That's what you have to do. And you don't always see the danger in time. But leaders are tasked with the task of seeing danger in time and acting on it.
02:33:51.600And I hope that in time, people will see the wisdom and the courage of President Trump's decision and his leadership, and the fact that we're working together.
02:34:01.600America is not fighting for Israel.0.94
02:34:03.860America is fighting with Israel for a common goal, to protect our future, to protect civilization against these barbarians.0.97
02:34:10.900Next question. One question. Guy Azriel from I-24 News.0.99
02:34:15.320Thank you, Prime Minister. Guy Azriel, I-24 News.
02:34:17.380President Trump said today he did not like the Israeli strike on the Iranian gas fields.
02:34:23.820My question to you, was the president aware of Israel striking that gas field?
02:35:56.580But Israel has shown that it can do wondrous things.
02:36:00.740And in partnership with our American allies, we can do amazing things, amazing things.
02:36:06.920beat hexa the secretary of war said these are the two most amazing air forces in the world
02:36:12.760it's the two most amazing intelligence services in the world uh it's the cape it has the capabilities
02:36:18.760to confront these barbarians uh and to outstrip them both in innovation and when necessary in
02:36:26.040lethality it's directed it's targeted lethality it's going against the killers and as much as0.90
02:36:31.160possible to avoid civilian casualties we have those capacities we're building them for the future
02:36:36.680that is what safeguards the future you know if people want to be naive that they don't see
02:36:43.160the kind of world we're living in in this world it's not enough to be moral it's not enough to be
02:36:51.400just it's not enough to be right you know uh one of the greatest uh writers of the 20th century
02:37:00.120someone that i admire a lot was the historian will durant now he wrote many volumes i read most
02:37:08.360of them he also wrote the lessons of history very brief each book in which he said well history
02:37:17.240proves that unfortunately and unhappily jesus christ has no advantage over jenny's khan
02:37:26.360because if you are strong enough ruthless enough powerful enough evil will overcome good
02:37:34.780aggression will overcome moderation so you have no choice if you look at the world as it is today
02:37:42.600you have to be blind not to see that the democracies led by the united states have to
02:37:49.580reassert their will to defend themselves and to oppose their enemies in time while there's still
02:37:55.660time before the jarring gong of danger wakes them up and wakes them up too late this is where we are
02:38:03.580now the fact that people don't see that the fact that a lot of the news media are harking on
02:38:11.020a lot of fake news but also a lot of a lot of short-sightedness and do not see the historic
02:38:18.140period and the historic struggle that we are in engaging now doesn't obviate these truths we are
02:38:25.340we have to be strong we have to be armed we have to be more powerful than the barbarians
02:38:31.020or they will not be merely at the gate they'll crash our gates and destroy our societies that's0.80
02:38:36.460what israel is doing now with the united states and i'm very proud of the fact that the israeli0.71
02:38:41.660people are standing strong that the israeli army is standing strong we rose from october 7th our
02:38:50.060people our soldiers rose like lions but in protecting ourselves and in joining
02:38:56.180with our great American friends we're also protecting the entire world thank
02:39:00.560you next question Tom Burridge from ABC News hi Tom Sophie Burridge ABC News
02:39:06.440Prime Minister given the escalation of attacks on US allies across the Gulf
02:39:11.240given the spiraling energy costs the high costs in general that the US
02:39:15.860service personnel killed in this war many americans are asking that question whether you misled their
02:39:22.500government into starting this war and for how long should americans keep paying the price well i
02:39:28.500misled no one and i didn't have to convince president trump of the about the need to prevent
02:39:34.580iran from developing its nuclear program putting it underground and being able to launch nuclear
02:39:41.140tipped missiles at the united states same question he explained it to me to me i didn't explain it
02:39:46.820wait i just guys that's that's that's an insane question like like that reporter is basically
02:39:55.060trying to say that um president trump and like president trump does not have good intelligence
02:40:03.140and that um israel tricked the united states right so not not only is this like an attack
02:40:10.500against like Prime Minister Netanyahu. They're also like insulting President Trump. Guys,
02:40:17.780President Trump spoke about this. I can't remember which day it was, but it was in one of the,
02:40:23.540you know, one of the, I think it was one of the bilateral meetings he was having or something.
02:40:27.540And he even pointed out, because there were these rumors about how like, you know, Israel is
02:40:32.580forcing President Trump to go to war with the Islamic regime. And President Trump said,
02:40:38.740actually it was the other way around it was it was the united states who wanted to do this and we
02:40:46.100you know we got israel involved so president trump is the one that said no this was my decision
02:40:52.580and you know we're glad that israel is joining us so he's he's basically like with that question
02:40:58.660he's like insulting both prime minister netanyahu and president trump like like they're they're
02:41:04.980basically saying president trump is incompetent man these some of these journalists are terrible
02:41:14.500and i think that our partnership is the only way to avoid this catastrophic development
02:41:22.020the loss of servicemen is painful i um early on in my military service a fellow soldier died in
02:41:28.660my arms i lost a brother who fought terrorists uh led the historic contemporary rescue the
02:41:38.980the cost to bereave families is enormous and i sympathize and send the condolences of the
02:41:44.820people of israel to these families and to the american people freedom is precious it has its
02:41:52.820costs but if you're not prepared to defend it if you're not prepared to resist the tyrannies that
02:41:59.460are trying to arm themselves with the weapons of mass death you will have no future and therefore
02:42:05.220we're doing what we can as far as old prices rising spikes you know what a spike is you know
02:42:11.300what a spike is it goes up and goes down the americans are working very hard and we're trying
02:42:17.780help them in every way that we can to open the straits of hormuz and if they succeed which i
02:42:24.500think they will then oil prices will come down but if you say all right i'm suffering right now
02:42:33.060and people are then i shouldn't do anything i just just succumb to the blackmail
02:42:37.620let iran get on with it let them develop nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles to deliver them to
02:42:44.100new york and los angeles you're going to be blackmailed in ways that you can't even imagine
02:42:49.300i think what this what this war has done is unmask what iran is you know we've said for years look at
02:42:55.620these people they're doing things that normal regimes do not do i don't hear even adversaries
02:43:03.060of the united states chanting death to america death to the great satan massacring tens of
02:43:10.340thousands of their own people that were like that in two days you have that sometimes but to come
02:43:17.940even even prime minister netanyahu just acknowledged that the islamic regime massacred
02:43:23.140tens of thousands of people in two days january eight and nine guys
02:43:29.940guys the the some of the reports we're getting
02:43:32.740it might be even worse like like the number of people massacred might be even worse than what
02:43:42.560we initially thought because we initially thought it was like 30 000 in two days it might be even
02:43:48.020higher and then like people are trying to gaslight us and be like no that's not true
02:43:54.660oh guys so so the overall guys the overall number of iranians massacred since january 8
02:44:01.500is at least 90,000. I'm not speaking about the overall number. I'm speaking about in the first
02:44:10.760two days, in the first 48 hours. In the first 48 hours, when we were saying that it was 30,000,
02:44:17.960we actually think that number might actually be much higher. Well, President Trump initially said
02:44:25.08032,000. And then later on in the day, he said 41,000. So President Trump himself raised the
02:44:34.600number. I haven't said 40,000 or 41,000 in two days, but President Trump said that.
02:44:41.060And now Prime Minister Netanyahu is acknowledging that as well.
02:44:44.400These people, they're doing things that normal regimes do not do.
02:44:49.320nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles to deliver them to new york and los angeles
02:44:58.200you're going to be blackmailed in ways that you can't even imagine i think what this what this
02:45:03.720war has done is unmask what iran is you know we've said for years look at these people they're doing
02:45:10.120things that normal regimes do not do i don't hear even adversaries of the united states chanting
02:45:17.320death to America, death to the great Satan, massacring tens of thousands of their own
02:45:24.200people at will like that in two days. You have that sometimes. But the combination,1.00
02:45:29.380the combination of fanaticism, deep ideological lunacy, there's no other way to call it.
02:45:36.080The total and utter ruthlessness of this regime makes it uniquely dangerous. Uniquely dangerous
02:45:43.880not only to to Israel into the United States but to everything in between and
02:45:48.440far beyond and the fact that this is not recognized you ask me okay what do
02:45:53.600people think what did they think in the 30s what did they think in the 30s when
02:46:00.380you had a terrible ruthless killer regime led by a lunatic that took one
02:46:07.840country after the other did it very sequentially what did they say they said what they said let's0.97
02:46:17.520stay out of this it's not our war it's not our problem maybe it's only the jews have we learned0.98
02:46:24.900nothing absolutely nothing in these 80 years we cannot see the danger that lurks it doesn't lurk1.00
02:46:33.080it's risen from the mud it's right in our face it's splattering blood right at us
02:46:40.160i can't believe i can't believe that we've uh that we're clueless we're not clueless
02:46:48.400i talk to many american friends they're not clueless they understand this some don't some
02:46:55.100are adamantly opposed but many are adopting a wait-and-see attitude uh but i can tell you that
02:47:00.700I've spoken, as I said a minute ago, I've spoken to many, many leaders. We're talking about dozens
02:47:05.900and dozens of leaders. And they all say the same thing. I understand it. Some of them come out and
02:47:12.760say it. They're bold. And some of them say, you know, I don't know, you know, I wish I understand
02:47:22.240it, but some of my people don't or my news media are against me and so on. I was glad to see in
02:47:27.280the United States that an enormous number, enormous percentage of President Trump supporters,
02:47:33.320traditional supporters, understand it. And I hope that my friends and colleagues of many years on
02:47:39.540the other side of the aisle, those who understand and agree with what I just said, and there are
02:47:46.180quite a few of them, have the courage to come out and say it. Because at the end, at the end,
02:47:52.700what is the task of leaders if you're a leader the most important the most important thing
02:47:59.780is to assure the security of your people and that means identifying danger in time
02:48:05.900and acting against it that is a prerequisite for the survival of any biological organism
02:48:14.000you have to identify danger in time and act in time against it you either fight or flight that
02:48:20.320these are the two options you have where can you flee nowhere because iran can reach any part of
02:48:24.800the world so you have to at a certain point fight and this is a juncture where we've reached in time
02:48:31.680not too late but in time i just will encourage all those who agree with what president trump
02:48:39.760is saying with what i'm saying to act i didn't have to convince president trump of anything
02:48:45.440he didn't need any convincing he acted as a great leader does to protect his country and to protect
02:48:53.760the future alex treyman from jns jns right behind you yes mr prime minister hezbollah has opened up
02:49:02.900another front against israel launching rockets against israeli israeli civilians uh now ground
02:49:08.780troops are inside lebanon is there any hesitancy toward launching a full ground operation uh to
02:49:14.340eradicate Hezbollah and what would eradicating Hezbollah do to transform Israel-Lebanon relations
02:49:19.840and the greater Middle East? Look, Alex, I can't divulge our battle plans. Obviously, Hezbollah
02:49:26.660is not what Hezbollah had been. I said in my opening remarks in Hebrew that they were talking
02:49:33.260about 150,000 rockets and missiles that they had, ballistic missiles. They had thousands of Ridwan
02:49:41.920terrorists right at our right next to our fence underground ready to invade and we knocked them1.00
02:49:49.400back we destroyed the bulk of their missile capacity in six hours we knocked out nasrallah0.99
02:49:55.580we destroyed the the all the hamas or rather all the red one infrastructure right next to our border0.89
02:50:03.600we now have a security corridor security zone that we're that is there that prevents this kind0.58
02:50:10.620of invasion. And we have plans for the future. Obviously, our number one effort is geared
02:50:16.180towards Iran. If the regime goes, you know that Hezbollah goes. But in any case, we're0.96
02:50:23.120devising our plans in such a way that we could remove the slide as well.
02:50:36.940assassinated iran's supreme leader and dozens of other senior iranian officials the result of that
02:50:42.620so far has been the appointment of a new supreme leader considered to be even more hardline than
02:50:47.100his father uh the iranian regime is not showing any signs of collapse as of now so i wonder what
02:50:53.420do you say to those what are you kidding me what
02:51:06.940Is this reporter trying to say that the conflict has failed because the regime picked a new supreme dictator, but the guy's, like, literally in a coma and his leg is missing and he's...
02:51:34.820i was i was responding to a media request because i'm doing guys i'm doing an interview with uh
02:51:40.020one america news later today so i was dealing with that but here towards iran uh if the regime goes
02:51:47.540but in any case we're devising our plans in such a way that we could remove the sled as well
02:51:54.260this is honestly guys this is the most low iq narrative i have ever heard in my life
02:52:06.780right where cnn is like oh well how is this a success when uh when you killed the supreme
02:52:15.080leader but the regime picked another one okay so so what so they can elect as many supreme
02:52:21.780dictators as they want. How does that have any impact on anything? By the way, have you even
02:52:26.840seen the supreme dictator? Have you seen Mojtaba? Where is he? Why hasn't he spoken? Why hasn't he
02:52:33.900shown his face? Like, this is such low IQ embarrassment. It really is. Like, they're all0.88
02:52:40.640dead. Who cares if they keep on replacing people? Who cares if they're replacing people? Just
02:52:46.960because you replace someone doesn't mean that you're a legitimate government. It's so stupid.1.00
02:52:53.320Like, this is so stupid. Mr. Prime Minister, Jeremy Diamond, CNN. Nice to you. You've assassinated1.00
02:53:00.840Iran's supreme leader and dozens of other senior Iranian officials. The result of that so far has
02:53:06.540been the appointment of a new supreme leader considered to be even more hardline than his
02:53:10.560father uh the iranian regime is not showing any signs of collapse as the iranian regime isn't
02:53:17.680first of all it's the islamic regime second of all it hasn't shown any signs of collapse0.73
02:53:22.480they're all dead buddy they're all dead they're literally all dead0.87
02:53:32.000like these people these people think that like you know if something doesn't happen overnight
02:53:37.520If something doesn't happen overnight, oh, it's a failure. What, you think a 47-year
02:53:44.780occupation is going to just collapse overnight, you idiot? You think 47-year occupation is going1.00
02:53:52.620to collapse overnight? Things are going so much quicker than we Iranians actually anticipated.
02:54:02.780Like, things are moving so quick because of how efficient the United States and Israel have been in totally destroying and decimating the Islamic regime.0.81
02:54:16.500But then this guy is like, there's no signs of collapse.0.83
02:54:19.680Really? Have you not seen the videos of the Basij, the Gestapo, that are changing their outfits in the straits because they have no base?0.71
02:54:29.280Have you not seen the photo of the, you know, Gestapo that are outside of the destroyed police
02:54:36.940station? And then, and then guys, they feed this garbage narrative to like half of America. So0.71
02:54:44.580half of America basically think, oh, this is a failure because, because a 47 year totalitarian
02:54:51.560dictatorship that has been oppressing the Iranian people for 47 years didn't collapse overnight.
02:54:58.140Well, buddy, you know what? Maybe, maybe it takes a little bit of time, right? Because it's not like these people came in yesterday. They've been here for 47 years. This is shameful.
02:55:11.360now. So I wonder what do you say to those who say that killing those individuals is in fact
02:55:17.820empowering the hardliners in Iran? And are you confident that your strategy will still lead to
02:55:23.440regime change? And then secondly, if I may, you've also indicated today that you made a commitment
02:55:28.780to President Trump not to strike these oil and gas facilities in the future. Should President
02:55:35.080Trump come to you one day and say oil prices are too high, it's time to end this war? Will you
02:55:40.040listen to him and do you need the united states in order to continue this campaign alone was that
02:55:46.600a single question jeremy really hogged it but i'll answer your questions uh
02:55:56.600i'm not sure who's running iran right now much about
02:56:03.320the replacement ayatollah has not shown his face
02:56:07.000have you seen them we haven't and we can't vouch exactly what is happening there there is
02:56:16.640there is a cloud here that's not clear what we see is that there is a lot of tensions inside
02:56:27.540the the people who are edging for the top it's not a uniform position you see that sometimes
02:56:35.480with the contradictory orders that are given you know they do one thing and then they withdraw it
02:56:41.160and so on i think it's important that they know that if they think they're going to target the
02:56:46.200world target the president of the united states and so on they themselves are being targeted
02:56:51.560that creates a lot of uncertainty we found that that can have an effect the removal of
02:56:58.760of Nasrallah has never really been replaced, because some people are not replaceable.
02:57:10.820I think the authority and the hold that Khamenei has had is not going to be translated to anyone,
02:57:17.320not to much to buy if he's there, not to anyone else.
02:57:21.300But I think this is part of the effort to crack the regime.
02:57:26.740not going to happen in one day we're 20 days into uh into this war yes yes we're seeing cracks we're
02:57:32.660seeing cracks uh and we're trying to propagate them as fast as we can not only in the top command
02:57:38.180we're seeing cracks in the field uh you know it's sort of like a hollowed out rotten uh piece of
02:57:45.620wood that's holding on the outside but there's a lot of rot inside we're seeing uh some defections
02:57:52.260we're seeing fear and trepidation in the irgc units that are manning the uh the ballistic missiles
02:58:00.260you know why isn't afraid to die they're not they're not all suicidal in fact most of them
02:58:05.780are not so we're seeing cracks but uh we're going to hit them again and again the minimum thing we
02:58:13.060want to do is again erase the industrial capacity that they had to produce these weapons they'll
02:58:19.540have to build it from a start and that's very hard it's very hard to do underground too
02:58:24.820so they're not going to be able to just take the pieces and move them below
02:58:28.340below the earth it's going to be a lot harder for them but ideally if it cracks enough and with some
02:58:36.100other things that i won't get into yes the regime could change is it guaranteed no and is it up to
02:58:42.980the iranian people in the final accounting to make use of the conditions that we're doing in
02:58:49.540weakening this regime? We'll see. I cannot tell you. They're very brave, by the way. I don't
02:58:56.240come and criticize them in any way. I think they're very brave. I think they've suffered
02:59:00.400enormously. And the question is, will we have a meeting ground between the weakening of the
02:59:05.820regime and the rising of the people in many ways that could develop? We'll see. On the oil and gas
02:59:14.040the questions, I can only tell you this. Look, I don't think any two leaders have been as
02:59:22.000coordinated as President Trump and I. He's the leader. I'm, you know, his ally. America is the
02:59:30.120leader. Israel is, as the national security memorandum described us, I think a month ago,
02:59:37.600six months and six weeks ago i think something like that they called israel the model ally
02:59:43.520that's how they call it the model ally uh it's not a superpower but america is seeking around
02:59:49.820the world and you hear it from the uh the speeches of president trump and others uh in the
02:59:57.220administration they say where are you you know we've helped you all these years where are you
03:00:02.940when we're doing something that is as important at least as important for you as it is important
03:00:07.100for us and yet one country is there and against all the vilifications that are leveled at israel
03:00:13.740is sponging off america and all that no it's not it's not israel is a brave country a resolute
03:00:23.180country with an incredible army incredible soldiers incredible courage and we're fighting alongside
03:00:29.660the united states when the chips are down we're fighting with the united states we're fighting
03:00:36.060for a common goal uh so i uh i can tell you that that's the most important coordination
03:00:42.700but in practice president trump and i speak regularly uh you know we we discuss things
03:00:48.780our staff discuss things our militaries are in close coordination as never before
03:00:54.220but ultimately president trump makes his own decisions and do i respect them yes i do
03:03:47.660Because, Sohail, again, like, neither President Trump nor Prime Minister Netanyahu will come out and publicly endorse King Reza Pahlavi because King Reza Pahlavi has made it very clear he does not want an endorsement.
03:04:03.200What he wants is the world to listen to the will of the Iranian people.
03:04:08.340And so Prime Minister Netanyahu basically confirmed that.
03:04:12.200he said well I mean I don't know this guy seems good but you know and he's he's done a lot of
03:04:19.640good stuff but ultimately it's it's up to the Iranian people right so he's respecting our right
03:04:26.180to self-determination because if he comes out right now and says yes you know I support King
03:04:31.120the woke the lefties the Islamists the jihadis are going to be like oh look Pahlavi is like an
03:04:36.840Israeli puppet or I mean they're already like putting that out anyway right but but this this
03:04:41.220is the exact same line that uh prime uh president trump uses as well where he says i don't know
03:04:48.180i don't know it's up to the iranian people
03:23:54.960We've damaged or sunk over 120 of their Navy ships with battle damage assessments pending for many more.
03:24:01.940See, oftentimes we have to wait a few days on battle damage assessment to get the real number.
03:24:07.140Their surface fleet is no longer a factor.
03:24:09.080Their submarines, they once had 11, are gone.
03:24:11.500Their military ports are crippled.0.98
03:24:15.020Iran has terrorized the United States and our interests for 47 years.0.88
03:24:20.560Their core industries, not steel or agriculture or tourism, their core industries are state-sponsored terrorism, proxy militias, underground networks, ballistic missiles, and a violent, messianic, Islamist ideology chasing some sort of apocalyptic endgame.0.90
03:24:40.960A regime like that, refusing to abandon its nuclear ambitions, is not just a regional problem.
03:24:49.480It's a direct threat to America, to freedom, and to civilization.
03:24:54.860The world, the Middle East, our ungrateful allies in Europe, even segments of our own press, should be saying one thing to President Trump.
03:25:07.280Thank you for the courage to stop this terror state from holding the world hostage with missiles while building or attempting to build a nuclear bomb.
03:25:17.140Thank you for doing the work of the free world.
03:25:23.120Yesterday's ceremony reminded us why we fight.
03:25:25.980Not for nation building or democracy promotion, but to crush direct threats to America, Americans and our interests.
03:25:37.280We fight to win, and we are winning on our terms, following our objectives.
03:25:46.100My 13-year-old son popped into my office last night while I was editing these remarks.
03:25:51.780He asked about the war and the families I met at Dover.
03:25:56.520And I looked at him and I said, they died for you, son, so that your generation doesn't have to deal with a nuclear Iran.1.00
03:26:07.280It's the truth. And they did. So to the families who said, finish this, we will. And I say the0.97
03:26:17.140same to every American who wants peace through strength. May almighty God continue to bless
03:26:24.640our troops in this fight. And again, to the American people, please pray for them
03:26:29.220every day, on bended knee, with your family, in your schools, in your churches, in the name
03:26:39.280of Jesus Christ. To the troops, keep going, and Godspeed. Over to you, Mr. Chairman.
03:26:48.180Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning, and thank you all for being here.
03:26:52.780I also had the honor yesterday, as the Secretary said, of traveling up to Dover with the President
03:26:57.400to welcome home our six fallen. It was an honor and a privilege for me to be there and to say
03:27:03.240thank you to their families. And I want to mention their names this morning. From the 6th Aerial
03:27:07.920Refueling Wing out of McDill Air Force Base, Florida, but stationed as part of an active
03:27:12.620associate unit at Birmingham, Alabama, Major Alex Klinner, John Alex Klinner, Major Arianna
03:27:22.600Sabino, she was posthumously promoted from captain to major, and technical sergeant Ashley Pruitt,
03:27:28.800the boom operator on that crew. From the 121st Area Fueling Ring, Ohio Air National Guard out
03:27:35.960of Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base in Columbus, Ohio, Captain Seth Koval, Captain
03:27:42.280Curtis Angst, and now Master Sergeant Tyler Simmons, who was also promoted in the boom operator on that
03:27:48.920crew. To a person and every family member I spoke with yesterday, they all shared that their family
03:27:55.560members love serving. They loved being part of a great team and a crew, and they loved airplanes
03:28:01.620and aviation. Our nation's tanker crews really are unsung heroes, incredible warriors who put
03:28:08.980their lives on the line so we can continue to take the fight to an enemy. I've personally
03:28:14.160witnessed their courage and tenacity many times from the morning of September 11th where they
03:28:20.660answered my call for some help to the skies over foreign countries where they've come forward out
03:28:26.520of their safe tanker track to give me gas when I simply could not leave a ground force that was
03:28:32.460engaged in a firefight. They've answered the call and come forward time and time and time again.
03:28:39.460I'm filled with incredible pride and gratitude for all that the tanker crews do, our pilots,
03:28:46.000our boom operators, and the maintainers.
03:28:49.020And to the families of our six fallen, know that we share your grief.
03:28:54.620Our nation will never forget their sacrifice, and we will never forget their names.
03:28:59.960Our entire joint force mourns with you today and will continue to remember their incredible
03:29:06.100gift of a great example for all of us.
03:29:08.740Now, let me turn to an operations update. U.S. CENTCOM remains on plan to achieve our military
03:29:15.380objectives and remain unrelenting in our pursuit of Iranian missile capabilities, UAV capabilities,
03:29:23.000and their Navy, and as the Secretary said, their industrial base. Each day, we continue to attack0.97
03:29:28.900deeper into Iranian territory. As reported by U.S. Central Command yesterday, the U.S. military
03:29:36.380dropped 5,000-pound penetrator weapons into underground storage facilities, storing coastal
03:29:42.640defense, cruise missiles, and other support equipment. These weapons are bespokely designed
03:29:48.140to get through concrete and or rocks and function after penetrating those barriers.
03:29:56.820We continue to hunt and kill mine storage facilities and naval ammunition depots.
03:30:01.620We continue to hunt and kill afloat assets, including more than 120 vessels and 44 mine layers, and the pressure will continue.
03:30:11.360We're flying further to the east now and penetrating deeper into Iranian airspace to hunt and kill one-way attack garrisons,0.93
03:30:19.020destroying Iran's ability to project power outside of its borders.0.78
03:30:23.760The A-10 warthog is now in the fight across the southern flank and is hunting and killing fast attack watercraft in the Straits of Hormuz.
03:30:31.920In addition, AH-64 Apaches have joined the fight on the southern flank, and they continue to work on the southern side, and that includes some of our allies who are using Apaches to handle one-way attack drones.
03:30:46.480In Iraq, AH-64s have been striking against Iranian-aligned militia groups to make sure that we suppress any threat in Iraq against U.S. forces or U.S. interests.
03:31:01.120And we remain focused on pursuit of any platform that Iran could field to harm Americans or our partners.0.64
03:31:08.520Last Friday, Admiral Cooper and the CENTCOM team conducted precision strikes against more than 90 targets on Karg Island, which included all of their military-only infrastructure, which included air defenses, naval base, mine storage, and deployment facilities.0.95
03:31:25.840And as the Secretary mentioned, we continue to strike against Iran's defense industrial base, and will continue to do so.0.87
03:31:33.580Today, I want to continue my theme of talking about members of our incredible joint force.0.90
03:31:38.980Today, I want to talk about some exceptional airmen who are engaged in the fight daily.
03:31:43.480United States Air Force, Air Force Reserve, and Air National Guard crews within our bomber force.
03:31:49.960The B-1s, B-2s, and B-52s, and the airmen on the ground who maintain and load these weapon systems.
03:31:57.100They are the backbone of America's long-range strike capability, and their contributions to Epic Fury have been decisive.
03:32:06.180Assigned to STRATCOM under Admiral Rich Correll and supported by TRANSCOM, the tanker force that we've talked about, under the command of General Randall Reed,
03:32:15.860every mission is designed to achieve overwhelming outcomes on behalf of the United States and our allies.
03:32:22.780Last weekend, I had the chance to go out and see some of our deployed bomber forces, the B-1 and B-52 crews, and I had a chance to sit down with some young aviators and maintainers and ask them, how do you feel? Tell me about your typical day.
03:32:38.600And these are crews comprised of between two and five airmen, two on the B-2s, five on the B-52s, and four in the B-1s out there.
03:32:52.780Some of these Americans are in their early or mid-20s, and we give them the gift of this incredible responsibility, hundreds of thousands of pounds of aircraft, and they take off and go do our work as required.
03:33:07.640Their mission actually begins the day prior when they're given a target or a bunch of targets, and they begin to study those targets, look at what are the effects required, what are the weapons required to get there, how will we program these weapons,
03:33:23.060It's an incredibly complex problem that we give each and every one of these crews.
03:33:28.140And they work it over the period of 24 hours prior, get some rest, and then step out the door to go fly.
03:33:35.060The last thing they do is they check all of their equipment, their oxygen mask, survival gear, load pistols, and get ready to go.
03:33:42.420They crank the jets about an hour prior to takeoff and then launch into the daylight, doing their pre-flight checks.
03:33:48.680And as the kids say, lock in and prepare to go to war, sometimes on a long and stressful journey.
03:33:55.800During the flight, they're surrounded by technology and capabilities, and they'll do multiple aerial refueling efforts across tankers on the way to the AOR, Area of Responsibility, either coming from the States or coming from a forward deployed basing.
03:34:12.380And I will tell you, as a fighter pilot, getting gas is a lot easier in an F-16 than it is in a B-1, B-2, or a B-52, where you are handling this airplane.
03:34:24.820It is a physical thing, unlike a fighter that's a lot easier.
03:34:29.060And they stay on that boom for sometimes up to 30 minutes, taking hundreds of thousands of pounds of gas.
03:34:35.400It is a physical demanding thing to take gas and they do it multiple times on the way there and they do it multiple times on the way home.
03:34:45.300As they enter the operating area, they bring the entirety of America's joint force together to go do the things that we've tasked them to do to put bombs on time on target with the proper effects.
03:34:57.420and I know they're feeling a range of emotions, but the thing the American people should take
03:35:02.840away from it is they're filled with a focus that is incredibly impressive and they have fear of
03:35:08.740course, but their bigger fear is dear God, please don't let me screw this up. The warrior's prayer
03:35:14.500that we all have in our souls. In the days of Epic Fury, they were shooting as we've talked
03:35:20.760about in this room, a lot of standoff weapons. Now we've switched and rolled as I mentioned last
03:35:26.740week uh to stand in weapons and behind each and every one of them are incredible main
03:35:34.100sorry i just want to share this po this comment and just translate it so um this is a message from0.78
03:35:40.980uh an iranian viewer uh in the live chat and they're basically basically saying trump dammit
03:35:47.460gam which means trump thank you so it's basically like trump thank you trump thank you trump thank
03:35:52.660you over and over again with hearts so there you go there's a perspective from some of the iranian
03:35:59.860viewers um in our in our live stream right now trump thank you containers and weapons builders
03:36:09.380who go out there and make sure these aircraft and their weapon systems are ready to go these
03:36:14.820airplanes are so big that they're not in hangars they're out in the cold out in the snow out in
03:36:20.660in the rain. The bombs are being built outside for protection and to make sure that it's safe,
03:36:26.120and they do it 24-7, 365. It's not comfortable work, but when you go spend just a minute with
03:36:33.540these incredibly young Americans who are so motivated, you cannot come away from that
03:36:39.660exchange not being hopeful for America's future. It is simply awesome. And we hand these Americans,
03:36:46.880young Americans, incredible and weighty responsibility, and they deliver every single
03:36:54.080time, quietly, with professionalism and humility, doing the things that we ask them to do.
03:37:02.340In conclusion, we will continue major combat operations. As the Secretary said, we continue
03:37:07.580to get busier. I know the Secretary and I share that we're incredibly proud of 2.8 million members
03:37:13.080of our joint force. I am personally and we are personally grateful for the tenacity and
03:37:18.840professionalism of the brave men and women who serve inside STRATCOM, CENTCOM, SPACECOM,
03:37:25.200CYBERCOM, TRANSCOM, and the rest of the joint force. And I'll close where I started. I ask
03:37:32.400today that we remember those six fallen that came home. They represent the best of our nation.
03:37:37.700for those families that are feeling the pain, know that we are with you and will remain with
03:37:43.120you. May we always prove worthy of their sacrifice. And I'll turn it back over to you,
03:37:48.340sir. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'll take a couple of questions. Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Thank
03:37:52.200you, Mr. Chairman. Given the updated degradation and strike target numbers you laid out, how close
03:37:57.240would you say we are towards achieving the president's objectives? And what is the end
03:38:01.480game of the operation without divulging any sensitive battle plans? Well, we wouldn't want
03:38:05.320set a definitive time frame on that but as we've said we're we're on plan so we're looking at those
03:38:09.480metrics very closely uh relaying that to the president and the national security team uh but
03:38:14.360feel confident that as again we're more stand in means we're over the top even further in
03:38:20.360and we have even more uh of an exact sense of what we're striking and why and even more dynamically
03:38:25.960meaning because the intelligence improves we're able to more quickly identify targets when they
03:38:30.600let's say they come out of an underground facility uh where they've been hiding and
03:38:34.120able to strike it before it strikes or right after it shoots. But we are very much on plan,
03:38:39.000and that's why I want to speak to the American people here. You hear a lot of noise about
03:38:43.640widening or new missions or speculation about what we should or should not be doing.
03:38:48.520This is a clear set of objectives. The president has given us every capability we need to accomplish
03:38:53.320that. We've got the best in the world in uniform executing it on the ground. They believe in and
03:38:59.560are invested in this mission and it will be at the president's choosing ultimately where we say hey
03:39:05.240we've achieved what we need to on behalf of the american people to ensure our security so no no
03:39:10.360time set on that but we're very much on track absolutely yes right here uh good morning mr
03:39:16.200secretary david zia real america's voice news um what countries have been the most cooperative with
03:39:21.880us including the gulf states as europe hedges uh and i also wanted to ask you the internet blackouts
03:39:27.880by the regime. It's been shut down for weeks. Is the U.S. military playing a role in fighting
03:39:34.720against the regime, blocking VPN networks and satellites and other things? Is there a role
03:39:42.220for the U.S. military there? Obviously, on the allies and partners side, Israel from day one0.59
03:39:49.280has been an incredible and capable partner, willing and able. There's nothing like capabilities
03:39:54.240and partners that are able to use them.
03:39:56.880The Gulf states have stepped up incredibly.0.94
03:39:59.060In fact, Iran's sort of reckless attempt0.77
03:40:01.400to strike civilian infrastructure and other things0.96
03:40:04.740has brought countries who maybe would have not been
03:40:21.720And we're grateful for that kind of support.
03:40:23.760As far as the Internet, we're watching the regime try to tighten its grip as much as possible.
03:40:29.360And we're obviously taking countermeasures, many of which we can't talk about here, to ensure that messaging is delivered, not just to the Iranian people writ large, but to the right audiences, certain audiences that need to hear certain things about what their fate might look like or what their choices are.
03:40:44.880So even though that regime is trying really hard to ensure the world can't see, right, they want to put out fake AI-generated images, which, by the way, sometimes our press happens to fall for, like the Abraham Lincoln on fire and turning around.
03:40:58.580These AI-generated images are meant to make it look like something's happening when the exact opposite is.
03:41:03.200So they make up fake reports and fake images to lie to their own people to try to make it.
03:41:09.200But even then, their own people can barely receive a lot of those messages and communicate because of the blackout that they've imposed upon them.
03:41:55.180Thanks for the question on the missile strikes.
03:41:57.620You know, as we said and have always said clearly, they came into this fight with a lot of weapons.
03:42:02.760This is why we continue to be as aggressive and assertive as we can against their ballistic missile capability, both their medium range ballistic missile capability and their short range missile capability.0.96
03:42:16.740So we are continuing to hunt and find them and kill them and we will continue to do so.
03:42:22.900So they still retain some capability and we have layered defenses throughout the region that will allow us to protect those.0.92
03:42:29.800and we're working with our partners across the Gulf region to help them improve any defensive
03:42:34.900capabilities that they may need. To that point on capabilities, you know, Iran is an energy-rich
03:42:40.940country, could be, should be. Instead, like so many other places driven by a radical ideology,
03:42:46.080they've spent that money instead of investing in their people. And that's why you had millions of
03:42:50.980Iranians protesting, because they felt like their condition, quality of life didn't match what it
03:42:55.160could be or should be. And what was the Iranian state? There's a reason we come call Iran the
03:42:59.460number one state sponsor of terrorism because they took the money they make and they invest it0.95
03:43:04.940in tunnels and they invest it in missiles and they invest it in launchers and UAVs. And we are
03:43:09.420destroying and degrading that in historic proportions, but it doesn't mean they won't
03:43:13.960still have some and try to hold people at issue, which is why we're fighting every single day to
03:43:18.680continue to compel. And you mentioned embassies and consulates. Unlike previous administrations,
03:43:23.880We are doubling and tripling down on ensuring that our people, regardless of their Department of War, Department of State, whatever they do, are secure in those facilities.
03:43:33.060And the best defense is a good offense.
03:43:36.380And so we're not afraid to go after and kill anybody.
03:43:39.400And we have a lot of them attempting to target our diplomatic facilities.
03:43:44.020Ron, you know, we're not surprised that they would indiscriminately target, and we're still seeing that.
03:43:49.360As part of the justification for the war against Iran, the White House has laid out in fairly comprehensive fashion that the Iranian regime has 47 years of terrorism aimed at the U.S., including pointing to the IRGC's provision of weapons and EFPs to help kill Americans in Iraq.
03:44:10.240The Pentagon in 2019 assessed Iran was responsible for the deaths of at least 603 service members in Iraq.
03:44:17.240But there hasn't been a similar accounting, public accounting, by Iran's role helping the Taliban in Afghanistan.
03:44:26.080And that also hasn't been part of the White House's public argument.
03:44:29.320I was wondering if you could speak to Iran's role in helping the Taliban during the war in Afghanistan.
03:44:36.380And, Chairman, as you and the Secretary eloquently spoke about, 13 U.S. service members have been killed so far during Operation Epic Fury.
03:44:47.860I was wondering what lessons have been learned from those deaths, both from Iranian strikes, from an aircraft refueling accident.
03:44:56.800How are those lessons being applied to the current conflict?
03:45:00.080And how are those lessons going to be applied to a potential conflict in Indo-Paycon?
03:45:06.380Well, thank you for the question. And it's true. In a town that can have a very short memory,
03:45:11.860President Trump does not. He remembers what this regime, Iranian regime, was founded on,
03:45:17.480what their declaration has been from the beginning, death to America, death to Israel.0.93
03:45:22.280They've stated that. They've intended to, in every way, try to accomplish that,0.91
03:45:26.740killing Americans in any theater they can, embassies for quite a long time. In Iraq,0.62
03:45:32.920that was the deadliest weapon was the EFP, the explosively formed penetrator. I was there when1.00
03:45:37.200that tactic and technique started to emerge. And the realization was it wasn't just jihadis
03:45:42.840putting together one, five, five rounds, daisy chained. It was a entire state, a country with
03:45:48.700its apparatus, apparatus able to mold steel in a way that was specifically designed to penetrate0.93
03:45:53.920American armor and kill Americans. This was not, Oh, maybe we send them a couple of thoughts about
03:45:59.180how to build a bomb. This was Iran specifically passing technology and wherewithal and personnel0.78
03:46:05.600into Iraq to kill Americans specifically. I know the number is said to be 600. A lot of us think0.59
03:46:10.960it's higher than that, given the amount of capability they brought in. So they have been
03:46:15.080at war with us, whether we acknowledge it or not, for 47 years. The same goes in Afghanistan.
03:46:20.920Name the Islamist enemy, whether they are Sunni or Shia, because this is a Shia regime, Sunni or0.97
03:46:26.820Shia, and Iran's been willing to harbor them as long as that group is willing to try to kill0.98
03:46:32.400Americans. So the enemy of their enemy has been their friend as well in the Islamist world. So0.92
03:46:36.880Iran, whether it's Iraq, whether it's Afghanistan, whether it's around the world, has been targeting
03:46:42.220Americans. And what they wanted in this context and what President Trump would not tolerate
03:46:46.680is a regime of that nature being closer and closer to nuclear capabilities, a capability they would
03:46:53.500have said they would want to use, and we ought to believe what our enemies say they would do if
03:46:57.660they got the most dangerous weapon in the world. So it's been across every theater that Iran's been0.98
03:47:02.160a threat to America, and sometimes we have to remind folks of that, but thank goodness we have1.00
03:47:07.740a commander-in-chief who, on behalf of this country, has internalized that and said, hey,
03:47:13.400we're going to do something about it. Jerry, I do want to talk about the lessons learned question
03:47:18.080because it's important to me. I won't share particular tactical lessons, and the KC-135
03:47:25.740incident is under investigation, but I do want to talk about how I think about this and how we
03:47:32.420think about it, and this is something that I'm pretty passionate about. I believe the Joint
03:47:37.160Force has to be a very fast learning organization, early, often, and always, and so in each case,
03:47:45.800both at the strategic, operational, and tactical level, we've charged the joint force to look at
03:47:52.300themselves and say, what was our plan? Well, first, did we have a plan, yes or no? The answer is
03:47:57.040always yes, because we plan for literally everything. Did we execute our plan, yes or no?
03:48:02.580If we did, did it work? If not, why not? If we didn't execute our plan, but did something better,
03:48:09.420what's the lesson learned associated with that? And then how do we quickly capture those lessons
03:48:15.460after every loss or every engagement and quickly adopt those lessons and then share them across
03:48:23.700the entirety of the joint force. And inside the joint staff, we've tasked our J-7 directorate
03:48:30.740under the lead of General Lieutenant General Liszewski, a United States Marine, to be extremely
03:48:37.260entrepreneurial in harvesting and capturing those lessons in a proactive and not reactive way.
03:48:43.260In fact, we've got teammates from the J-7 who are now spread out across the CENTCOM theater, both here in the States and forward, to ensure that in every opportunity, we do not miss a chance to grab that lesson and quickly accelerate it into the practice that we adopt inside the Joint Force, so that if there's a loss or if there's something that we can learn from, that we learn it not only in the CENTCOM AOR,
03:49:10.120but we adapted across all of the combatant commands, not just Indo-PACOM, and it's across
03:49:16.540all of the warfighting functions. I've asked them to look rigorously, to check our egos at the door,
03:49:23.320to remember this is about what's right, not who's right, and to be clinical around the way we look
03:49:29.540at lessons learned, because we owe it to the force to do that. Thanks for that question.
03:49:33.640Absolutely. Brown Jack at the back. Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Jonathan Dre with Roku Politics.
03:49:38.460As you've said, at the end of this war, Iran will be without a missile or drone capability, a navy or the ability to make nuclear weapons.
03:49:45.800Since the largest threat and sponsor of terror in the region will be incapacitated, are there plans to move assets and troops out of the Middle East?
03:49:53.620I guess in a perfect world, a year after the war has ended, what does the military presence in the Middle East look like compared to before the war?
03:50:01.020Well, I appreciate the question. I do think when you address a real threat head on, it creates new0.89
03:50:09.260options on the other side. I think what President Trump refuses to do, which too often this town
03:50:14.800does, is just sit in the status quo. Oh, nobody can do about that. They've got too much capability.
03:50:20.040What if this happens? What if that happens? He instead says, what's in the interest of the
03:50:23.620American people? It's going to take some courage. It's going to take some capabilities. We're going
03:50:27.320to have to gather some forces there in order to do it. We're not going to tell people how many
03:50:31.260or how long or what we're willing to do or what we're not willing to do. But if you do that and
03:50:36.160do that decisively, then out the other end is a recognition that it opens the aperture of what's
03:50:41.220possible. I mean, President Trump did the same thing in creating an opportunity for the Abraham
03:50:44.640Accords. Now you've got a situation where a lot of those countries are coming alongside us
03:50:49.380recognizing the threat of Iran. So I think our posture in the future will be based first and0.99
03:50:55.040foremost on our own national security, power projection, the ability to defend our people
03:51:00.240and our interests. But no doubt, working alongside our partners, the president will look at what
03:51:05.760makes the most sense going forward. Appreciate that question. Yes, right here. Is that the
03:51:09.800policy of the U.S. military now? Thank you, Secretary. Two questions for you. The vice
03:51:15.640president has often emphasized that the goal of this war is to denuclearize Iran while also
03:51:21.780avoiding a larger quagmire. I know that you touched on this. I'd like you to expand on
03:51:27.400how do you do that? How do you denuclearize the country while also avoiding this, you know,
03:51:33.140forever war? And then there was a report last night that the Pentagon asked the White House
03:51:38.040for 200 billion for Iran war supplemental. Can you confirm this and can you explain why a package
03:51:45.880this large is necessary? Well, first of all, none of this would have been possible without Midnight
03:51:50.120hammer without that audacious mission with very clear goals that did obliterate their ability to
03:51:55.100enrich and the capabilities they have in those facilities. So it created the conditions for Iran0.95
03:51:59.620to step forward and say, okay, you can reach out and touch us like that in our nuclear ambitions.
03:52:03.960You can see that we're still trying to do this. Let's make a deal. And President Trump put our
03:52:09.120two best folks on it, Steve and Jared, and they worked diligently, earnestly. I watched it to try
03:52:13.880to pursue that deal. And ultimately, I think the whole time Iran sort of said, well, we'll talk
03:52:19.260As we build more missiles and as we build more UAVs and we create this conventional umbrella so that if we chose to, we could try to reconstitute the program and sort of naively thinking that President Trump wouldn't do something about it.0.58
03:52:33.020And that's why, as Secretary Rubio has said and I've said, it's the conventional umbrella that was growing and growing and growing that was meant to protect that nuclear capability.
03:52:42.220So you had to address both what happened with Midnight Hammer and what happened with that as well.
03:52:46.800As far as $200 billion, I think that number could move, obviously.0.79
03:52:56.240So we're going back to Congress and folks there to ensure that we're properly funded
03:53:01.180for what's been done, for what we may have to do in the future,
03:53:05.160ensure that our ammunition is, everything's refilled, and not just refilled, but above and beyond.
03:53:10.900I mean, President Trump, as he said, rebuilt the military in his first term,
03:53:13.820didn't think he'd use it as dynamically in his second, but he had. So thank goodness he did that.
03:53:19.120And an investment like this is meant to say, hey, we'll replace anything that was spent.
03:53:22.620And now that we're reviving our defense industrial base and rebuilding the arsenal of freedom and
03:53:26.540cutting deals like our great deputy secretary is here is doing, long lead times on exquisite
03:53:31.320munitions, we're going to be refilled faster than anyone imagined. And I think, you know,
03:53:36.720we're also still dealing with the environment that Joe Biden created, which was depleting those
03:53:42.640stockholds and not sending them to our own military, but to Ukraine, uh, which is when
03:53:48.580you, every time we reach back and look at any sort of a challenge we have, it goes back to,0.80
03:53:53.300well, send it to Ukraine. Uh, ultimately we think this should be these, uh, these munitions are0.82
03:53:58.640better spent in our own interests at this point. And this kind of funding bill is going to ensure
03:54:03.800that we're properly funded going forward. We'll take, uh, we'll take one more. Thank you, sir.
03:54:07.980Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Jordan Conradson with the Gateway Pundit. So with the strike yesterday on South Park's gas field, you know, if the U.S. didn't know about it or didn't approve of it, it kind of seems like a trend of Israel apparently pursuing their own objectives over U.S. objectives.
03:54:25.980I'm not sure if you agree with that, but the president has said he doesn't want to hit Iran's oil infrastructure right now.
03:54:32.980As you said, the U.S. avoided this on Park Island. Oil is nearing one hundred and twenty dollars.
03:54:38.300Why are we helping Israel prosecute this war if they're going to pursue their own objectives?0.79
03:54:42.500We hold the cards. We have objectives. Those objectives are clear.0.84
03:54:48.520We have allies pursuing objectives as well. And the truth speaks for itself.
03:54:52.700I mean, President Trump was very clear about that. Iran has weaponized energy for decades.
03:54:58.520Israel clearly sent a warning, and POTUS has made it clear, very clear. Iran knows when you hit0.86
03:55:04.960Karg Island and you hit military capabilities on Karg Island, which is the only thing we hit,
03:55:11.240we can hold anything at issue, anything. The United States military controls the fate of that
03:55:16.500country. Iran has the ability to make the right choices. It should not, going forward, target0.90
03:55:22.360Arab allies, Arab countries, trying to create pain, the pain that they created themselves.
03:55:29.160Thank you all very much. Appreciate it. Thank you for your time.1.00
03:55:33.780And before we get into the program, and we do have...
03:55:37.420Oh, I want to watch this one for sure later. That was really good. This was excellent.
03:55:46.500Um, I also really appreciated the fact that Pete Hegseth acknowledged that the Islamic regime has mass murdered tens of thousands of Iranians. So that was, um, really interesting as well.0.84
03:56:03.000okay yeah i know uh king is a path levy just posted on x i was just looking at that so let's go to
03:56:17.480that so just moments ago his royal highness there's a palabi who's the leader of the iranian
03:56:29.720national revolution the lion and son revolution he just posted today in the latest desperate0.79
03:56:38.680killing spree the bloodthirsty regime took the lives of five more sons of iran
03:56:45.080soleh muhammadi saeed dawudi mahdi qasimi daniel keramati and muhsin azim niya
03:56:55.880join the long line of Iranian heroes who paid the ultimate price for freedom.
03:57:02.160Their names will be spoken alongside all those who refused to kneel before tyranny.0.64
03:57:09.060The remnants of the Islamic Republic can never extinguish the fire in the hearts of our people.0.55
03:57:15.140These young men now belong to the free Iran that is now within reach.0.94
03:57:49.060So before we do that, and then guys, I actually have an interview in 25 minutes with one America news. So hopefully Armin will be back by then. But in the meantime, I wanted to play this because this is very, very critical.
03:58:08.000this is this is really important will it be live i don't know i don't know but i'm gonna see if i
03:58:16.820can like share my my zoom like i did last time yeah
03:58:24.260okay so hale wants me to share something really quick we've spoken about melika before but people
03:58:34.820are raising awareness about melika again so melika is another um you know she she's an
03:58:42.500iranian girl she has been uh captured by the islamic regime we don't know what's happening
03:58:50.980we know that she is i mean we don't we hope she's alive but people are raising awareness
03:58:56.740about Melika because be the voice of Melika at risk of execution so just wanted to raise
03:59:06.920awareness about that she's one of the you know tens of thousands of Iranian freedom fighters
03:59:14.100who have been arrested and possibly tortured by the Islamic regime so people are trying to raise
03:59:23.600awareness about her and she's just one of tens of thousands. Okay. All right. Let's, let's go to
03:59:35.600this. Welcome back. Good Thursday morning, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us
03:59:46.780this morning. I'm Maria Bartiromo and it is Thursday, March 19th. It is 8 AM on the button
03:59:51.520on the East Coast. I hope you're having a great Thursday morning. The Pentagon is set to hold a
03:59:55.080briefing any moment now on Operation Epic Fury. We will be monitoring it. We will bring you the
03:59:59.780latest, and we could go there live. We will let you know. But first, there's this. The Federal
04:00:04.120Reserve held rates steady for a second time yesterday, as expected, over what they claimed
04:00:09.880was elevated inflation and uncertainty around the Iran conflict. Chairman Jay Powell signaling that
04:00:14.780we will only see one interest rate cut this year. Powell also said he'll remain at the Fed
04:00:19.780until his successor, Kevin Walsh, is confirmed by the Senate, and the investigation into him
04:00:25.700is over, something that I've been reporting all week and asking my guests about. Here's the
04:00:32.240comment that sent markets spiraling lower yesterday. Watch this. I have no intention
04:00:38.060of leaving the board until the investigation is well and truly over with transparency and finality.
04:00:43.640Of course, Powell's term as chairman is up on May 15th. However, he can stay on the board as a
04:00:52.600governor through early 2028. Meanwhile, the war on Iran continues and the Treasury is at the
04:00:58.980intersection of war and the economy as oil prices have moved higher in the middle of this conflict.
04:01:05.220Now entering week three, Brent right now is up 6 percent at 113 and crude oil is up one and a
04:01:12.660third percent right now, sitting at 97.61 on crude oil. Joining me right now is the U.S. Treasury
04:01:19.920Secretary, Scott Besant, joining us. And Mr. Secretary, it's always a pleasure to see you.
04:01:24.080Thank you so much for being here this morning. Good morning, Maria. I want to get your take
04:01:29.220on the impact of this war on Iran. Of course, you are in the middle of this, the intersection
04:01:37.320of the economy in war. And you've been allowing oil flows from Iran, Russia, of course, what the
04:01:45.240president did in terms of Venezuela to try to stabilize prices. But I want to get your take
04:01:51.000about that in terms of potentially funding our enemies in doing all of this. Is the reality of
04:01:58.340this oil shock as a result of this war colliding with the president's maximum pressure campaign
04:02:04.180on Iran? Not at all, Maria, because it's the president's maximum pressure campaign that
04:02:11.220started last March against Iran and its oil exports, the customers, their shadow fleet
04:02:19.420that brought the Iranian economy to its knees in December. They had a very large bank failure. The
04:02:25.880central bank had to come in, rescue the bank, printed money, caused great inflation, and the
04:02:30.720People went out onto the streets, and that was the real turning point for this regime.
04:02:38.400I said last week on another show that they're in Hitler's bunker and Hitler's dead.
04:02:44.960Well, I can tell you, as of this week, Himmler and Goring are dead, too.
04:02:49.000The leadership has been decapitated, and contrary to what the mainstream media in the U.S. wants you to believe, they are in chaos.
04:02:57.680They are having trouble communicating. And all these rocket launches that you see
04:03:03.760are the death throes of a dying regime. Yeah. And, you know, the escalation overnight and
04:03:10.720the president tweeting and posting on TruthSocial about there will be no more attacks on that very
04:03:18.160important gas and oil infrastructure in Iran because it triggered Qatar. I feel like there0.95
04:03:24.480there was an escalation. Can you tell us anything about what the president is trying to message out
04:03:29.640here? He's been very, very direct in terms of obliterating Iran's military infrastructure,
04:03:35.360but holding back in terms of hitting the oil and gas infrastructure.
04:03:41.960Yeah. And Maria, on the military, last night was the biggest night for strikes thus far
04:03:50.100in this campaign. As we move into days 19 and 20, we keep escalating the military campaign.
04:03:58.260President Trump wants to have something for the Iranian people on the other side. So we are not0.51
04:04:05.040attacking their energy infrastructure. On Karg Island, which is the nexus, 90% of Iranian oil
04:04:13.940comes out of there. We did a precision strike against all the military targets on that island.0.65
04:04:20.100and none of the energy assets were targeted. So we have allowed Iranian oil to continue out of0.65
04:04:27.940the Gulf, where some Indian tankers have moved out, some Chinese tankers have moved out.
04:04:34.500And Maria, to be clear, this is a coordinated effort. We had a break-the-glass plan across
04:04:42.840the administration and at Treasury. We unsanctioned Russian oil. We knew that there were about 130
04:04:49.800MILLION BARRELS ON THE WATER AND WE CREATED SUPPLY THAT IS BEYOND THE STRAITS OF HERMOS.0.97
04:04:56.600SO WE ANTICIPATED THIS. WE KNEW THAT THERE COULD BE A TEMPORARY, AND I WANT TO EMPHASIZE0.93
04:05:03.880TEMPORARY CHOKE POINT THERE, AND THERE WAS 130 MILLION BARRELS OF FLOATING STORAGE.
04:05:11.400IN THE COMING DAYS, WE MAY UNSANCTION THE IRANIAN OIL THAT'S ON THE WATER.
04:05:17.480it's about 140 million barrels so depending on how you count it that's 10 days to two weeks of
04:05:23.160supply that the iranians had been pushing out that would have all gone to china in essence
04:05:29.960we will be using the iranian barrels against the iranians to keep the price down for the next 100.97
04:05:37.800or 14 days as we continue this campaign so we have we have lots of believers we've got plenty
04:05:45.080MORE THAT WE CAN DO. THE LARGEST COORDINATED SPR RELEASE IN HISTORY, 400 MILLION BARRELS,
04:05:51.640WAS APPROVED LAST WEEK. AND SOME COUNTRIES ARE GOING TO DO MORE.
04:05:57.080THE U.S. COULD UNILATERALLY DO ANOTHER SPR RELEASE TO KEEP THE PRICE DOWN. AS YOU WILL
04:06:03.560HAVE NOTED, WTI AND EUROPEAN COUNTERPART BRENT HAVE SUBSTANTIALLY DIVERGED OVER THE PAST FEW
04:06:12.200trading sessions. You know, they were trading right on top of each other last week. And this
04:06:16.880is because the U.S., thanks to President Trump in his first term, the continuing efforts here
04:06:21.780is virtually energy independent. And when President Trump says our allies should join
04:06:29.060us in a coalition along the Straits of Hormuz, that they're the ones who need this oil.
04:06:35.540The U.S., we're an oil exporter. Absolutely. And you're hitting at exactly the point that
04:06:42.120I was making at the top of this interview, and that is you are making you are walking this balance
04:06:47.240of energy stability versus keeping the pressure on Iran in terms of the Treasury intervening in
04:06:55.960markets. I mean, secretary markets have been under pressure, obviously, from the beginning of this
04:06:59.820conflict, the Dow down nearly six percent, the S&P and the Nasdaq down as oil prices move higher.
04:07:06.260I mean, Brent at one point this morning was at one hundred and eighteen dollars after those
04:07:10.240attacks overnight that we talked about on the key energy facilities. You've said no plans to
04:07:15.620intervene in markets specifically. What conditions would force Treasury to intervene?
04:07:22.700Well, Maria, we're talking about two things here. I think there's been some speculation that
04:07:28.480U.S. Treasury would intervene in the futures market, and we're absolutely not doing that.
04:07:34.980But we are intervening in markets by creating this excess supply with oil that's on the water.
04:07:41.900So in essence, by the time we unsanction the floating Iranian oil, we would have intervened and we would have created about 260 million excess barrels of energy.
04:07:57.840And if you think that the temporary closure in the strait is leading to about a 10 to 14 million barrel per day deficit, then that is, depending on how you count it, approximately three weeks of oil to stabilize the market.
04:08:26.540We got one Sunday two weeks ago. It was a big price spike. Then we had the largest sell-off
04:08:33.440in history. And my 40 years in the market, I always found, especially people who worked for
04:08:39.040me when they lost a lot of money, they said that there was some mysterious intervention rather
04:08:43.100than bad trading. So to be clear, we're not intervening in the financial markets. We are
04:08:48.600supplying the physical markets. Well, I'm glad that you pointed out the difference in terms of
04:08:55.980where Brent is and where U.S. crude is because I was very taken aback when our European friends
04:09:03.140said we're not going to get involved and send warships to the Strait of Hormuz. We know that
04:09:09.600particularly Europeans need that strait even more so than the United States, much more as they are
04:09:15.240relying on their LNG. And 20 percent of LNG is passed through, supposed to be passing through
04:09:21.300that every day. And natural gas has been surging, right? And they need that for electricity.
04:09:28.680When the Europeans said, this is not my war, this is not our war, did the president discuss
04:09:37.760what he could answer? I mean, that could set up the president for saying, well, Ukraine is not
04:09:42.760my war. I think the president's been very clear here that he believes that those who are benefiting
04:09:50.260from these actions in their economies should contribute. And I think over time, we will
04:09:58.040likely see a clarification here that NATO, maybe some of our Asian allies will not directly get
04:10:09.080involved in the fighting as we continue the bombing campaign. I would be surprised that
04:10:16.200if eventually there isn't some kind of a global coalition to escort ships through the Strait of
04:10:22.820Hermosa. It'd be very disappointing for those who benefit the most not to do something.
04:10:29.140And of course, the prime minister of Japan is at the White House today. You will be meeting
04:10:33.660with her. And I know this is a very close relationship. Are you expecting Japan to
04:10:38.800change its stance on this and perhaps get more involved in this fight and support the United
04:10:43.360States? But again, they don't have to be involved in the actual bombing campaign, but I would expect
04:10:51.160and that Japan, who gets, I can't remember, 90, 95 percent of their crude supplies from the Gulf
04:11:00.880would be very interested in making sure that these supplies, they are safe. The Japanese Navy
04:11:07.340is one of the three great navies in the world. They have some of the best mine sweepers and1.00
04:11:13.100mine detection capabilities. So I think we're going to have a very good discussion with the
04:11:18.600prime minister. President Trump has an excellent relationship with her. She very popular. And with
04:11:26.240his endorsement, she recorded a record in post-war Japan history in terms of her margin in the
04:11:34.980Parliament. So, you know, she's in a very strong position. She's very pro-U.S. I think we're going
04:11:39.640to have a very good discussion today. And of course, she was one of the first when this first
04:11:44.240started to say she wanted to unleash oil into the market to pressure prices. She's been supportive
04:11:51.400in terms of understanding the issues here at hand where oil prices are spiking.
04:11:56.940She's been very supportive. And the Japanese have a very large strategic petroleum reserve.
04:12:03.460my guess is that they will begin releasing in excess of what the IEA equivalent release would
04:12:12.120have been. So, you know, I think they're going to supply the market. And again, they're a good ally
04:12:18.100and the relationship with the president is very good. Now, on the other hand, we have the Chinese0.98
04:12:23.860who have once again proven themselves to be unreliable suppliers. This is why the U.S.,1.00
04:12:30.560We are determined. We don't want to decouple via trade, but we do need a strategic decoupling.
04:12:37.700And what the Chinese have stopped exporting during the Iran conflict here is they've cut off all refined product exports to the rest of the world.
04:12:48.620So people who are depending on them, countries who are depending on them for jet fuel, other refined products, they are now in the lurch.
04:12:57.700and the U.S. continues to export energy. Yes, and the president, of course, postponing that trip
04:13:05.060to China, and he is going to be here focused on the war. I want to be clear on the postponement
04:13:11.960of that trip. The postponement of that trip was the logistics. During this conflict, President
04:13:18.400Trump believed that it was important for him to stay here in the United States, not travel abroad.
04:13:25.820It had nothing to do with an ask to the Chinese to get involved with the Straits or Hermos.
04:13:32.300So it was a decision by the president to move the date out.
04:13:37.020Yes, I understand that, sir. And I think that's completely practical.
04:13:40.340I understand that fully. The president needs to be here in Washington, in the United States, when a war with Iran is undergoing.
04:13:49.400But let's put that aside for a moment, because China has been complicit the whole time.
04:13:52.660And we know that China has been supporting Iran for a long time, buying 90 percent of Iranian exports, 90 percent, helping in terms of components, helping in a number of ways.
04:14:05.500So did this issue come up when you had your conversations in Paris last week with your Chinese counterparts that China has obviously been supporting our number one adversary for a long time?0.56
04:14:15.040Well, Marie, you put your finger on something that, you know, Iran is the head of the snake
04:14:23.080for global terrorism. They are the leading state sponsor of terrorism. And the Chinese have been0.94
04:14:30.660buying 90, 95 percent of the Iranian oil. So they were funding the leading sponsor of global
04:14:38.580terrorism. They were getting a discount by buying that oil. If when we go through, as we plan to
04:14:47.240unsanction the Iranian oil, that oil will go up to a market price and it will end up in places
04:14:53.940other than China. It can flow into Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, India, who have
04:15:03.280been good actors in this. And I wonder, the president made an interesting point recently,
04:15:10.240I don't know if it was flippant or not, when he said we'd like to take over the Strait of Hormuz
04:15:14.800at some point. Iran apparently is working on a law to charge ships for the Hormuz safe passage.
04:15:22.000Would the president consider that in terms of once you do get control of the Strait,
04:15:26.920start charging ships that travel through it?
04:17:00.180We understand that your expectation is, is that this is a temporary situation.
04:17:04.120But you have had growth deregulation, you know, economic issues that are positive for the growth of this country on its economy as your number one priority before this conflict.
04:17:18.900Well, again, Maria, I think we have to get the American people and our entire government back
04:17:25.260in the mindset of there is no prosperity without security. There's no prosperity without security.
04:17:31.220Any prosperity without security is an illusion. So now President Trump, by doing this,
04:17:40.360we will be more secure than ever. As Vice President Vance said yesterday, this is short term.
04:17:46.400We are going to get to the other side of this. And Maria, I think it's a decided lack of imagination, both market participants and, you know, the foreign policy commentary at Blob.
04:35:22.180One of my buddies who's been working at the morgue these days said that today they brought in a truckload of bodies from the aerospace, from the aerospace kids, guys.
04:35:35.060Wow, truckload. Guys, look at this. They used to have our bodies in trucks.
04:35:40.260They used to have to, they used to kill so many of our people that they would have to carry the bodies of our people into trucks.
04:35:46.560and now there's so many people of them who are dying
04:35:50.720that they have to carry their bodies in trucks.
04:35:54.860This is Zamingerde, as they say, which means basically karma.
04:36:00.220Apparently, they've been hit in the intakes and exhaust.
04:36:04.940Okay, so I think the translation is bad for the rest.
04:56:52.160the people who are edging for the top it's not a uniform position you see that sometimes with
04:56:59.340the contradictory orders that are given you know they do one thing and then they withdraw it and
04:57:04.880so on i think it's important that they know that if they think they're going to target the world
04:57:10.200target the president of the united states and so on they themselves are being targeted
04:57:14.460That creates a lot of uncertainty. We've found that that can have an effect. The removal of Nasrallah has never really been replaced, because some people are not replaceable.
04:57:33.780I think the authority and the hold that Khamenei has had is not going to be translated to anyone.
04:57:40.840Not too much to buy if he's there, not to anyone else.
04:57:44.420But I think this is part of the effort to crack the regime.
04:57:50.160It's not going to happen one day. We're 20 days into this war.
04:59:49.120I'm, you know, his ally, America is the leader, Israel is, as the national security and memorandum described us, I think a month ago, six months, six weeks ago, I think, something like that, they called Israel the model ally.
05:00:07.840That's how they call it, the model ally.
05:00:10.280It's not a superpower, but America is seeking around the world.
05:00:14.660And you hear it from the speeches of President Trump and others in the administration.
05:00:25.820Where are you when we're doing something that is as important, at least as important for you as it is important for us?
05:00:31.160And yet one country is there and against all the vilifications that are leveled at Israel, Israel is sponging off America and all that. No, it's not. It's not. Israel is a brave country, resolute country with an incredible army, incredible soldiers, incredible courage.
05:00:51.720And we're fighting alongside the United States when the chips are down.
05:00:56.140We're fighting with the United States.
05:23:17.880You have a very good interpreter, but not for a long time, but it's changed now, right?
05:23:36.880Right now, situations in the Middle East and also the entire world, we are actually experiencing a very severe security environment.
05:23:47.880And also the global economy is now about to experience a huge hit because of this development.
05:24:00.880But even against that backdrop, I firmly believe that the global economy is now about to experience a huge hit because of this development.
05:24:14.880But even against that backdrop, I firmly believe that it is only you, Donald, who can achieve peace across the world.
05:24:32.380And to do so, I am ready to reach out to many of the partners in the international community to achieve our objective together.
05:24:44.880So, today, I came here at the White House to directly convey this message to you.
05:25:02.880And speaking of the situation in Iran,0.96
05:25:05.880Iran's development of nuclear weapons must never be allowed.1.00
05:25:10.380And that is why we, Japan, have been urging them1.00
05:25:14.620and also reaching out to other partners in the world.0.78
05:25:36.040In addition, Japan condemns Iran's actions
05:25:39.560such as attacking the neighboring region and also the de facto or effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
05:25:46.560As a matter of fact, my fellow minister, Minister Motegi, Foreign Minister Motegi,
05:25:51.560also had the direct exchange with the Iranian Foreign Minister and urged Iran to stop such activities.
05:26:00.560activities uh before i continue guys i just want to say guys the japanese government is very very
05:26:11.360aware of what's going on because uh the iranian diaspora in japan specifically in tokyo they have
05:26:18.320been incredibly active in going out and doing rallies and gatherings so i just want to share
05:26:24.880a few videos um from uh the iranians in tokyo i've no idea what he's saying because i don't
05:26:35.520speak japanese but uh these are these are uh iranian uh iranians in japan and you know they're
05:26:41.360even like they speak japanese fluently so they're even explaining what's happening in occupied iran
05:26:47.120to like you know the japanese people there
05:26:54.880So there's this one video and then I want to share another one.
05:27:24.880This is like another one in Japan, in Tokyo.
05:28:24.860this is that I noticed a lot of like Japanese people in the crowd who are
05:28:27.980joining the Iranians in Tokyo see like this woman she's Japanese and she's
05:28:50.400walking along with the crowd. There's another one there anyway. So all that to say guys,0.99
05:29:18.640So Japan, the Japanese government, I guarantee you, they're very, very, very aware of what's
05:29:27.860going on, thanks to the Iranian Japanese diaspora, because they have been, even though it's like
05:29:34.960a smaller diaspora, but they have been incredibly active, and they have been holding demonstrations
05:29:40.560every week to raise awareness about Islamic terrorism.
05:29:44.680And I think this is something that the Japanese prime minister appreciates very much because she is very nationalistic.0.76
05:29:54.760And, you know, she has said that she wants, you know, like she basically wants to get rid of people who've immigrated to Japan, whose culture and values don't align with Japanese culture and values.
05:30:08.260And, you know, I think we can all we all know who those people are.0.96
05:30:12.960So yeah, I'm convinced that she is fully aware of what's happening, and that's thanks to the Iranian diaspora in Tokyo, Japan.0.52
05:30:42.960And also the security environment in the Indo-Pacific region1.00
05:31:01.220Donald, you have shown deep trust in Japan
05:31:04.420and also the unwavering commitment to the Japan-US alliance.
05:31:08.440Once again, thank you very much for that.
05:31:11.200And today, I look forward to having a discussion on how we can cooperate to make our two nations, both Japan and the United States, stronger and more prosperous.
05:31:31.560And I also brought specific proposals to calm down the global energy market.
05:31:54.560You know, Armin, there's been a fundamental shift in the narrative when it comes to all these other countries.
05:31:59.560As soon as the, so this is why I think that like the attack last night by Israel against the Islamic regime, like in the natural gas, and then the Islamic regime attacking Qatar, that has created a fundamental shift in the narrative of all these countries.
05:32:22.340because all these countries who before were just taking a step back and they were like
05:32:28.100we're not going to get involved it's not our problem now all of them are getting involved
05:32:36.100your mic is on mute goldie that's such a good point because because they you're right because
05:32:44.020this hurts them more than the united states united states is an oil exporter and united states is
05:32:50.020basically telling them like they're not going to be able to just take advantage of the u.s military
05:32:54.980and this is now their problem like they're poking at them and united is like oh it wasn't us it was0.77
05:33:00.740israel but hey this is your problem not ours if you want to get involved that is such a good point
05:33:07.220effectively that's how it's going to turn out you're right because now a whole bunch of countries
05:33:13.140will put out statements right because because all all these countries all these countries
05:33:19.460um they didn't care when the islamic regime was murdering iranians uh only the united states and
05:33:25.940israel cared never forget that only only the united states and israel came to the rescue
05:33:32.260of iranians when oil and energy was not on the line but now now that oil and energy is on the
05:33:40.180line all the other countries are suddenly interested now all the other countries are like
05:33:45.300like, Oh, we need to get involved. We need to resolve this
05:34:15.300that the gravy train is over like you guys need to participate this is if guys this is why
05:34:22.920american taxpayers are going to save so much money in the long run for because of everything that is0.90
05:34:29.700going to happen right now it's not it's not just that the islamic republic will be over
05:34:34.480and united states resources in the region will be untied to focus on the pacific it's also a
05:34:41.660perfect opportunity for the americans to get the rest of the world's military involved
05:34:47.660in stability of global trade so this in the long run that's going to save a lot of money
05:34:54.860for the american taxpayer there you go and that's why that's why she's talking about energy now
05:35:01.420So today, I really look forward to having our discussion, particularly focusing on our
05:35:15.020collaboration in economic security in the important areas such as energy and bare earth
05:35:21.280minerals, and also I look forward to discussing with you how we can make our two economies
05:35:27.900stronger moving forward. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, and you're doing a great
05:35:32.940job. Again, congratulations on the biggest win in the history of Japan. That's not bad.
05:35:39.240That's a pretty long history. That's a large nation with a great reputation, but it's a
05:35:47.880tremendous victory. Congratulations to everybody. Very proud of you. We've become friends,
05:35:55.800that are very proud of the job you've done it's not easy any questions are you fully satisfied with
05:36:06.120the level of support that you're getting from japan on iran including around the line speakers
05:36:10.600Well, we're going to be speaking about it today. Go ahead, you can go.
05:36:24.680We're doing, we're going to be speaking about it today. We've had tremendous support and
05:36:30.520relationship with Japan on everything. And I believe that based on statements that were
05:36:36.220given to us yesterday the day before yesterday having to do with japan uh they are really
05:36:42.340stepping up to the plate yes unlike nato please
05:36:59.760Mr. President, do you intend to put sanctions on Iranian oil and do you intend to potentially put U.S. troops or more troops in the region?
05:37:08.460No, I'm not putting troops anywhere. If I were, I certainly wouldn't tell you, but I'm not putting troops.
05:37:15.720And we will do whatever is necessary to keep the price as well.
05:37:20.740I actually thought when I did this, the Dow just hit 50,000 a couple of weeks ago.
05:37:27.380They said that couldn't happen for four years.
05:59:43.000Yes, the mullahs and all the Muslim Nazis and the IRGC, they finally have a useful purpose, their target practice for the U.S. military.0.99
05:59:54.260Guys, this is XP farming, extreme XP farming.0.99
06:00:00.640I rebuilt the military my first time.0.98
06:00:04.440Biden gave away so stupidly to Afghanistan a lot.0.99
06:01:57.980He didn't build it. He didn't do anything. And if you listen to the Democrats, they don't even want to have a military.
06:02:04.000Now you see how important it is. But we have the strongest military in the world.
06:02:10.800We have the best equipment. We make by far the best equipment.
06:02:13.580The other night they had 114 rockets shot at a certain location.
06:02:18.520And out of 100 highly sophisticated rockets, out of 114 sophisticated rockets, every single one of them were shot down.
06:02:27.980With our equipment. All our equipment. It's amazing, actually, how good it is. So, we want to be sure, and it's a small price to pay to make sure that we stay tippy-top.
06:02:36.960Mr. President, the Treasury Secretary this morning said there were defections among Iranian leadership. Are you aware of that, and is there anybody in the U.S. can work with as a leader going forward?
06:02:48.620Well, we have a man named the Treasury Secretary here, so maybe he wants to discuss it. Does anybody know who he is? Central casting.
06:02:57.980so arvin i was playing i was playing his uh longer interview earlier this morning
06:03:05.900where he's speaking about kharg he's speaking about like all these defections he's speaking
06:03:10.300about how you know like uh united states is monitoring um all of the the funding transfer
06:03:16.620so basically like he basically says that we know where all the money is being transferred to and
06:03:23.340we're going to return every single dollar back to the Iranian people.
06:03:29.020Goldie, the fact that that's so amazing. And the fact that that's under concern at this stage of
06:03:36.040the military operation, you would think that this is something that they will signal that they care
06:03:40.700about once all of this is over. The fact that this is on the list of things to care about,
06:03:45.960the Iranian people getting their money back. I really don't know what to say other than thank
06:03:51.680you. Like, I really don't know what else to say other than thank you. You guys are amazing.
06:03:57.640This is why you don't mess with America. Like the American intelligence, insane. Like American0.64
06:04:03.360intelligence is insane. We are so grateful. We are, guys, I'm telling you, not just me and Armin,
06:04:09.800but on behalf of every single Iranian and occupied Iran who has been cut off from the internet,
06:04:15.160I'm telling you, we are so, so grateful to the United States and we cannot wait until Iran is free and we can go back to being the allies that we used to be because the Shah of Iran was one of the closest allies of the United States.
06:04:32.860And unfortunately, Jimmy Carter messed it up because he fell for the USSR propaganda about Khomeini.
06:04:44.580But I'm just very grateful that President Trump is rectifying the mistake of Jimmy Carter and the Democrats because we used to be allies.
06:04:54.280And we're going back to that allyship.
06:04:57.320We're going back to that allyship and friendship.0.87
06:04:59.840And guys, I'm telling you, when when Iran is free from our Muslim Nazi occupation, that's going to make America an even bigger superpower, because now you're going to have two reliable allies in that area, Israel and Iran.0.77
06:05:16.900And remember, Iran is even bigger than Israel. Right. And we're going to make sure that the Muslim Nazis never, ever take over our country ever again.0.85
06:05:31.900Yeah. Carter betrayed. Yeah. Carter betrayed the Shah of Iran. But I mean, that's Democrats. Right.0.99
06:05:37.360Democrats are just, I don't know, horrible. Except for John Fetterman. John Fetterman is good. I have a lot of respect for John Fetterman.0.97
06:05:43.280but all the other democrats oh you guys have to like do something with them you guys have like a
06:05:48.120anti-america problem with like all these democrats but yeah yeah and goldie we're going to we're
06:05:57.280going to show that we were worth it we're going to show both the israelis and the americans we're
06:06:03.560going to be such a good ally to israel and united states that it will be so obvious that all of this
06:06:09.440was worth it oh 100 100 yeah i'm so excited for the future
06:06:16.060yeah so and we we are seeing the defections at all levels as they're starting to sense what's
06:06:26.080going on with the regime it doesn't get reported here in the u.s very well but you know we we are
06:06:31.800trouncing them from the air and the regime will probably collapse within itself at treasury we've
06:06:37.760seen where they wired their money out of the country. We're coming for that. We're going to
06:06:41.140get it back to the Iranian people. And are you seeing defections?
06:06:45.220On Israel. There's a lot of military defections also.
06:06:49.180You have a lot of military defections in Iran. I don't blame them.0.98
06:06:53.920Thank you, Mr. President. Have you talked to the Prime Minister of Netanyahu
06:06:56.620about attacking the oil and gas fields? Yeah, I did. I did. I told him, don't do that.
06:07:01.520And he's won't do that. We didn't discuss. You know, we do
06:07:04.240we're independent, we get along great, it's coordinated, but on occasion he'll do something
06:07:11.400and if I don't like it, then so we're not doing that anymore. And the last one, the Fed chairman
06:07:17.240told me yesterday that he plans to stay until a new Fed chairman is confirmed. He also plans to
06:07:23.620stay on the board until the investigation is the Federal Reserve is done. Well, he's under
06:07:27.260investigation because he's building a building for hundreds of billions of dollars more than
06:07:31.560of us across the building you see over there is under budget and ahead of schedule that's the
06:07:37.460ballroom the ballroom is a much bigger building it's a much more complex building than what he's
06:07:43.540doing and it's at a fraction of the cost and something is going on whether it's contractors
06:07:48.880that's what i do best in the world i build i build great buildings i've always done it
06:07:53.200and i build them under budget ahead of schedule they could have four billion this is a renovation
06:07:59.880job for $4 billion. And if you look at the building, it's not even, I don't know if
06:08:04.980Kevin Walsh is ever going to be able to move into it. It's been under construction for years.
06:08:10.580It's the most expensive building ever built. Now, I know it's gross incompetent because I happen to
06:08:17.420think he's grossly incompetent. Today, certainly you should be lowering interest rates. All right,
06:08:22.000certainly who would not lower them, but he's stubborn and he's got Trump derangement syndrome,
06:08:28.000But a lot of people have that, you know, it's not a curable disease.0.91
06:08:32.400But he's also building, he should be lowering rates immediately, but he won't do that because he's a stubborn, incompetent person.0.78
06:18:00.960We're still sad because of Khamenei's day. We still haven't been able to bury him.
06:18:12.960We still haven't been given the chance to bury him.
06:18:18.960We still haven't had the chance for us to have like a funeral ceremony for Ali Khamenei.
06:18:26.960so he's saying this is making us more making us more sad and miserable that all after all of this
06:18:36.880time we still haven't been able to have a funeral for him but he's saying we have we
06:18:47.280we have a more responsibility right now we need to be present in the field and we need to be0.96
06:18:51.760fighting anyway she's talking about how sad she is which is like i don't give a crap but people the0.90
06:19:10.080the comment people wrote on this video is like we will never give you the opportunity to bury0.94
06:19:14.640your leader so you're in people like keep crying hopefully you will never get to bury them
06:19:21.760Oh, guys, look at this. Iranian people are keeping the festive environment, like keeping the environment festive in Iran. This is in Bazar, Tajish, inside Iran. Look at this. Guys, this is inside Iran, in Tehran. Look at this.
06:19:40.020It says, images of the atmosphere in Tehran's Tajrish market, guys, I used to live close to Tajrish market, on the eve of Nowruz have been published on social media. A girl is seen in the images playing a hang drum. I don't know what that is. Like it's a bowl-shaped instrument that produces gentle sound.
06:20:00.580in the in these images guys this is in the middle of the military military operations in the middle
06:20:06.540of the bombardments this this this young woman is outside playing music for noruz saying in these
06:20:13.920images citizens are seen in tehran tajish market buying flowers and preparing for the new year
06:20:19.380while iran is experiencing noruz under wartime conditions for the first time in nearly four
06:20:25.440decades look at this this is how the iranian people are spending this wartime conditions for
06:20:30.120the new year okay so these are other peeve areas people
06:20:59.240are shopping for the new year guys look you can see like um some women don't wear the hijab these
06:21:13.860it's very common in iran for women not to wear the hijab some some people still do some people
06:21:19.900don't like this woman here is not wearing their job you know i think in tehran i'm seeing let's
06:21:25.220see what percentage are wearing the hijab guys it's still illegal in iran not to wear the hijab0.96
06:21:30.360but you can see people don't give a crap so this is so from in this video every single woman0.88
06:21:36.280every single woman in this video like one two three women i saw here every four all all women0.98
06:21:44.120in this in this on these three oh five five women not wearing the hijab in tehran so this one i see0.89
06:21:52.020one two three women four not wearing the hijab and then i saw a hijabi woman somewhere here0.92
06:21:58.300where is she oh no five six seven eight0.98
06:22:01.600nine ten wow where's the hijab i saw one oh there we go finally saw a hijab i think you know two
06:22:09.520hijabs so around among around 15 women two were wearing the hijab oh there we go three1.00
06:22:17.240three women wearing the hijab here so in that other for in the other video there was 15 women
06:22:24.620at least three of them were wearing the hijab and this is tehran
06:22:27.360four this woman is also wearing the hijab
06:22:47.240uh so guys therefore have seen this is for the have seen people are blind and buying goldfish0.96
06:22:59.560the greens the seven scenes and guys you know what's the most important sin for so
06:23:06.680it you know for new year you have the have seen do you guys know what they have seen is
06:23:12.440this is the have seen so this is what you have to prepare in every home for
06:23:22.580the new year you put this on the table in your home and you have to put seven
06:23:29.480things on your table that start with the sound set oh let me actually see if I
06:23:35.720could get this copy image address yes so here so these are the items that you need to buy and have
06:23:47.240you need to have a fish goldfish you have to have send uh yeah sinjet which starts with the
06:23:53.800say sound you need to have a colored eggs colored eggs painted a lot of iranians are painting
06:24:01.400eggs these days with the iran lion and sun flag with the israeli flag the u.s flag but you need
06:24:08.040to call it have colored eggs we have seer we have sekeh we have sabzeh we have serkeh
06:24:15.480we will also have a mirror and guys we have some ball some ball so these are the items that people
06:24:21.400usually put under have seen right and this is what it ends up looking like to celebrate the new year
06:24:28.440right so this this new year the most important item on the table with this with the s sound is
06:24:41.880so good so good which means downfall of the regime so this in my opinion the most important
06:24:52.040let me know what you guys think the most iranians in the chat the most important do you guys agree
06:24:58.120with me the most important sin the most of sin so guys sin is the letter so the most important s
06:36:42.420If you can't make more of it in the future, then you have a limited supply.
06:36:46.620And so we're going after all of their defense contractors that make all of their exquisite weapons and ensuring that even if they wanted to rebuild more launchers or more missiles, they couldn't in the future.
06:36:56.680And that's a level of devastation for their military that they've never seen before.
06:37:00.280So we have in literally two weeks, we've demolished the Navy, their Air Force.
06:39:35.360Thank you very much. Japan's QG press. Japan's biggest concern is China. Now they're giving us
06:39:44.000its control and very harsh terms to criticize us. So would you plan to bring out the relationship
06:39:57.920between japan and uh china uh while you're there uh you know well i'll be going to china
06:40:07.440very quickly but uh the i think i'd really like to have the prime minister to talk about china
06:40:13.760because i know they have a little bit of an edgy relationship and i'd just like to know where
06:40:18.240it stands how are you doing with china so please
06:40:27.920So, first of all, Japan has been consistently open to dialogue with China, and also, second, we have been addressing our relations with China in the past.
06:40:57.920a calm manner and also speaking of the u.s china relationship my sincere hope is that the relationship
06:41:06.880will be something conducive for regional security and also ensuring the global supply chain in the
06:41:14.000world once again i would like to reiterate that japan has been consistently open to dialogue with
06:41:20.240china and i think we're going to have a great uh trip the trip has been postponed for about a month
06:41:27.760and a half it's been reset uh and we look forward to it and i'll be i'll be speaking uh japan's
06:41:36.240praises when i'm in china with president chi but we have uh but we're gonna have some good talks
06:41:43.040today and i think mostly about trade because they want to do a lot of trade they're a tremendous
06:41:48.320purchaser of our energy our oil gas from in particular alaska because alaska believe it
06:41:55.760or not it's very close it's much closer than any other sauce it's just it seems a little cold
06:42:01.120compared to it but it's just a short it's just a short trip so that's something that we will talk
06:42:08.800we'll be discussing trade and a lot of the talk will be about energy thank you very much everybody
06:42:19.360okay president trump is speaking live right now again we're going to go to that but before i do
06:42:25.680here's a quick video of noru's um explained by mickey mouse guys this is mickey mouse explaining
06:42:35.520noru's this video came out like three years ago and uh we iranians we were like oh my gosh
06:42:42.640we never thought that disney would make a noru's video so watch this guys
07:24:31.740Someone sent this to me. Let me, okay.
07:24:33.900let me share some interesting breaking news. And then I know, oh yeah, of course, of course,
07:24:42.040guys, Haydad is garbage. Haydad is like garbage music. Haydad belongs in the trash. Haydad is1.00
07:24:49.780like, there's nothing cultural about Haydad. Haydad is, right? Haydad is garbage music from0.98
07:24:56.440a garbage culture and a garbage ideology. And Haydad belongs in the garbage where it belongs.1.00
07:25:01.980It's literally terrorist music, right? Like not even comparable, not even comparable. Okay. Let's0.91
07:25:11.040go to some quick breaking news. And then I will share some more Iranian Noruz videos with you in
07:25:19.640honor of the Persian new year, because the Persian new year is happening tomorrow for the time
07:25:27.900change and i won't be here for the time change so this is like our our pre-persian new year
07:25:34.640celebration so i will share with you a bunch of like culture music videos we could you know what
07:25:39.900we could use a little positivity right we could use a little positivity so okay let's go to this
07:25:45.920and then we'll go back to persian new year yeah hey dad is from the bowels of hell and it needs
07:25:51.580to go back to the bowels of hell where it belongs hey that look right it's just so creepy and weird
07:25:57.120It's like weird terrorist music. But do you see the difference between like jihadi terrorist music and actual Persian music? Like it's it's totally different.0.51
07:26:13.060The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that with court approval, it has seized four internet domains linked to Iran's Ministry of Intelligence, aiming to disrupt cyber-based psychological operations and transnational repression activities.
07:26:36.960The ministry statement said this action follows accusations that the Islamic Republic has used online platforms to disseminate stolen data, claim responsibility for hacking attacks, incite violence against journalists, dissidents, and Israeli individuals.
07:27:30.780The ministry, referencing Washington's growing concerns about Tehran's use of cyber tools for espionage, disruption, and intimidation of civil society activists and foreign audiences, emphasized that these actions were carried out as part of a broader pattern of destructive cyber activities by the Islamic Republic.
07:27:56.040All right, guys. So they are starting to be shut down. Yes. Let's go. Let's go. United States
07:28:05.260Department of Justice. I love this. I love this. Thank you. God bless America. Guys, we got another
07:28:13.300Persian Noruz present. We got another like Noruz, Noruz gift. This is amazing. Okay.0.98
07:28:23.240Okay. A lot of you were asking about Amu 40 July. He doesn't have a Noru song, but he does have
07:28:33.380a New Year's song. So this was his song for January 1.
07:28:43.080i'll play it and then i'll i'll try guys so he's he's singing in english
07:28:52.860he's got a very thick accent but he is singing in english
07:28:57.780happy holiday happy new year to you and your family american people to you and your family
07:29:10.520Hey everybody, 2026 is the year, I hope, I hope, I hope of peace in the world, very good, very nice, make peace and love, beautiful, number one, unity of mankind, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la-la, please, please, please, listen to me,
07:29:38.520happy happy holiday happy new year always always always make peace and love in the world in the
07:29:48.600world in the world in the world la la la la la happy holiday la la la la la happy new year
07:30:00.360okay guys what's incredible about this is that every single one of his songs
07:30:05.880like he the melody the melody is from like a pre-existing song so this particular song
07:30:15.620this is a song from like my part of the country from ahvas it's so it's a various uh very famous
07:30:24.460singer called agassi and he sang a song called labe karun labe karun means you know uh uh
07:30:34.400by the shore of the Korun river. So Labekorun, but, but he changes the lyrics completely. So
07:30:44.460instead of singing like Labekorun, he's singing about, um, the, the, uh, the new year, right?
07:30:54.160So January new year. And I love this. I love this. So guys, listen to this. Okay. I will,
07:31:00.060i will i will trans i will translate for people who have difficulty understanding his accent
07:31:05.580because i know some of you um have difficulty understanding the his accent so i'm happy to
07:31:12.460you know translate happy holiday happy holidays hey happy new year happy new year to you and your
07:31:22.300family american people to you and your family american people so happy new year happy holidays
07:31:30.460to you and your family american people to you and your family hey everybody hey everybody
07:31:38.1402026 is the year i hope i hope i hope of peace in the world i hope i hope i hope of peace in the
07:31:52.420world i'm not gonna sing this very good very nice make peace and love very good very nice
07:32:01.380make peace and love beautiful number one unity of mankind beautiful number one unity of mankind
07:32:24.340please please please please listen to me
07:32:31.380happy happy holidays happy new year always always always always make peace and love
07:32:44.020or make a peace and love in the world in the world in the world in the world in the world
07:32:52.780in the world yes it's english to english translation guys whoa baby
07:32:58.000but for for non-iranians they don't they're not used to the accent
07:52:58.040Go ahead. But this is what I mean. When I say Iran is not a Muslim country, this is what I'm talking about. So to everyone, to everyone who says, oh, Iran is a Muslim majority country. Iranians are Muslim. Yeah, okay, whatever.
07:53:13.160because if Iranians were Muslim, why are they celebrating Noruz instead of Eid al-Fitr?0.95
07:53:22.280Because this is not how you celebrate Eid al-Fitr. You celebrate Eid al-Fitr by, I don't know,0.99
07:53:29.460going to mosques and praying and like, I don't know, whatever, right? Again, I'm not judging.
07:53:34.520I'm not judging, right? I respect everyone's religion. You do what you want to do. But this
07:53:40.420is what I mean when I say we're Iranian. We're not Muslim, right? So no one in occupied Iran
07:53:48.000is celebrating Eid al-Fitr. Instead, they're celebrating Noruz. And as you can see, a lot of0.88
07:53:55.220women are not wearing headscarves. And guys, that's not because headscarves are like, it's not0.99
07:54:02.140because like, you know, women have the right to wear what they want to wear. They don't. The fact0.97
07:54:07.640that women are not wearing headscarves, that's a sign of civil disobedience. It's a sign of1.00
07:54:13.680resistance. Unfortunately, what a lot of like the pro-Islamic regime accounts and propagandists do
07:54:21.060is they will take these videos and they will explain it out of context, right? So they're
07:54:26.700going to say, oh, look, there's no mandatory hijab in Iran because these women are walking1.00
07:54:33.600around without a hijab. Meanwhile, there is mandatory hijab laws in occupied Iran. But these0.99
07:54:42.340women are walking around without hijab as a sign of civil disobedience. So these propagandists and1.00
07:54:48.500jihadis have been taking this and they've been turning it against Iranians in support of the
07:54:55.980Islamic regime for a very long time. It's very disingenuous. And it's very frustrating. But yeah,
07:55:01.840as you can see like you know so to everyone who says oh iranians are muslim iran's a muslim country
07:55:07.520yeah okay because no one settled celebrating edel fit everyone is celebrating noru's noru's is the
07:55:15.520the spring equinox it's a celebration that is thousands and thousands of years older
07:55:21.440Then when islam was invented so there you go guys. This is this is the real iran1.00
07:58:22.600This is how Khamenei, like Khabar al-Margish, although he's dead.
07:58:27.980So, guys, this is what I mean when I say that the Islamic regime hates Iran and hates Iranian culture and heritage, sorry, culture, heritage, identity, right?
07:58:39.100Every single year, this is what Khamenei's message would look like.0.97
07:58:45.340it would basically be him just sitting there in his disgusting, like smelly turbid with like an0.98
07:58:51.380Allahu Akbar flag. But you can see like, there's nothing there about Iranian heritage. Right.1.00
07:58:58.320And then, and then someone made a meme. They were like, you know, compare like the, the Noru's0.75
07:59:04.200greeting from, you know, Mickey Mouse versus Khamenei. Right. Guys, this is how much the
07:59:10.280Islamic regime hates Iran and Iranians, right? Like they're literally anti-Iranian. They have
07:59:16.280tried to erase our cultural identity and heritage for the last 47 years. This is why whenever
07:59:22.860someone refers to them as like the Iranian regime, this is why it's like, it's really
07:59:27.300frustrating to us because there's nothing Iranian about this. This is like pure, like Shia Islam.
07:59:59.860he was exterminated like a rat on february 28th it's been 20 days it's been 20 days they still
08:00:13.760haven't buried him that's the other thing that's the other thing about like like mainstream media
08:00:20.640where like when when the mainstream media is like oh well here you know like the mainstream media is
08:00:29.600like, oh, well, what did you accomplish by executing Khamenei? The Islamic regime is as0.67
08:00:38.440powerful as they've ever been. In my head, I'm thinking, what do you mean? How can the Islamic0.99
08:00:45.260regime be powerful when they haven't even held a funeral ceremony for a Khamenei? They haven't0.91
08:00:54.320buried him. They haven't had a funeral ceremony for him. We don't know where he is, but he's
08:00:58.960definitely, like, rotting somewhere. Like, we don't know. We don't know where they're holding
08:01:09.300him. But guys, think about it. Think about it. The Islamic regime still hasn't had a funeral
08:01:16.220ceremony for their, you know, supreme dictator. His, his corpse is rotting somewhere and they0.99
08:01:25.020haven't been able to bury him. And yet the mainstream media is so ignorant and stupid1.00
08:01:37.620that they're like, oh, well, you know, he's, the regime is just as powerful as ever. Okay,1.00
08:01:44.940well, if they're, if they're just as powerful as ever, you know what, that I really wish,
08:01:50.520Okay, guys, if anyone from, you know, President Trump's administration or someone, if someone has connections to them, please, please tell them, tell them to say this, please.
08:02:03.440The next time someone from the mainstream media asks, you know, President Trump or J.D. Vance or Pete Hegseth or, you know, Marco Rubio or whoever, Senator Lindsey Graham, it doesn't matter.
08:02:14.520The next time the mainstream media asks someone on President Trump's team, okay, if they ask a question like, okay, well, what has, you know, killing Khamenei accomplished, right?0.82
08:02:28.360Like the regime is as strong as ever, blah, blah, blah.
08:02:31.480You know, if they ask that sort of question, please, please, the response, please, the response should be, okay, well, if the regime is as powerful as ever,
08:02:41.200why haven't they held a funeral ceremony for Khamenei and buried him yet?
08:02:46.940Why is Khamenei's corpse rotting somewhere above ground because they're too afraid to bury him?
08:02:53.940If the regime is so powerful, why haven't they buried their supreme dictator yet?
08:04:55.500Yeah, we're not going to do haji firus, but I have some other traditional like videos here. Let me, what's this one? Let me see if this is one.
08:21:14.260okay guys since a lot of people are asking about the rumors um i've heard the rumors myself but
08:21:40.700again, guys, this is not like, like, we're not here to share rumors. I know a lot of you are,
08:21:47.140you know, I listen, I appreciate your help. I appreciate, you know, you guys sending links
08:21:52.780and all of that. But we have our own trusted, reliable sources. And given that there's a lot
08:21:59.860of fake news going around, there's a lot of AI videos. Everyone's trying to, you know, capitalize
08:22:07.040capitalize on um the the conflict with iran so a lot of this is about you know views and um you
08:22:15.840know likes and monetization and things like that so arvin and i we've always been very strict from
08:22:20.960the beginning about which sources we share okay because we don't just sit share any sources but
08:22:28.980i'm gonna i'm gonna share this with you guys because you know whatever because a lot of a lot
08:22:35.200of you guys are commenting on this. So apparently there's a rumor going around. But here's the
08:22:42.060thing. Even like this Iranian news account is saying one single, one single unverified source
08:22:51.600says Mochtaba Khamenei was in a coma at some hospital and now he's dead. We don't actually
08:23:00.780know that. So message from one source, unverified. My friend came online from Iran and said he's
08:23:09.640heard from Lokman hospital staff that Mojtaba was in a coma and passed away today. Guys,
08:23:18.360we have no clue. We have no idea. So this is completely unverified. We don't know. This could
08:23:26.860be, this could be true, but it could be a psyops, right? This could be a way to mess with Iranian1.00
08:23:33.460people, especially since it's like, you know, right before Nooruz. Guys, there's also a lot of AI0.98
08:23:40.360videos going around. And unfortunately, a lot of people are falling for the AI videos. So guys,
08:23:49.240I appreciate that you want to share news, but guys, I'm monitoring the news. I'm monitoring
08:23:56.120the legitimate Iranian news sources. And unless and until I see something from President Trump
08:24:08.020or his team, unless I see something from King Reza Pahlavi and his team, unless I see something
08:24:14.220from Prime Minister Netanyahu and his team, or, you know, Iran International or Manotone News,
08:24:23.820Those are the five sources that I trust right now. Anything else irrelevant to me. Anything else is completely irrelevant. So please, guys, do not trust what anyone says. Like, do you guys actually think that like some random American YouTuber or, you know, social media person would know about Khamenei being dead before President Trump's administration?
08:24:47.360guys a lot of people are trying to capitalize on what's happening right now
08:24:52.560to um take advantage of of the fact that ebron is trending so please don't don't send me links
08:25:03.040from random people send me links from government government officials i'll take links from
08:25:08.920government officials but don't send me links from random people because that's not news it's not
08:25:14.920news. There's a lot of AI videos going around. And from from the beginning of Iran Revolution Live,
08:25:24.720we've only shared the news, right? Sure, there's lots of rumors. But
08:25:30.980there are a lot of Iranian people watching this live stream. And we're not going to play with1.00
08:25:39.940their emotions. People tune into this channel for news, culture, and facts. I don't care what
08:25:48.880non-Iranians, and it's not, it's no disrespect, but at the same time, like, I just don't care
08:25:53.100what non-Iranians say about internal matters in occupied Iran, because we have our own
08:26:00.280legitimate, verified sources. So I just want to share that. All right, let's go back to this
08:26:06.480amazing music. I think someone said their parrots fell asleep to this music.
08:26:26.620Yeah, this is like, this music is very like meditational type of music.
08:55:53.980how can you how can you miss a place that you've never lived in that you've never experienced and
08:56:05.280And yet, every single one of us, every single one of us Iranians, especially those of us who were born after the Islamic regime took over, we feel it in our blood, we feel it in our soul.
08:56:21.240and i think this is part of the reason why even after 47 years
08:56:30.660the islamic regime hasn't been successful in indoctrinating us because
08:56:38.480we're we're feeling homesick for a home that we've never experienced we're feeling homesick0.88
08:56:47.660for a home that we know is out there, but we haven't experienced it firsthand.
08:56:56.940I don't even know if that makes sense.
08:57:00.220It's like a nostalgia that speaks to our soul.
08:57:07.340i i don't i don't know if that makes sense but
08:57:16.660and and guys this is why this is why so many young iranians so many young iranians in occupied iran
08:57:27.100even though even though the islamic dictatorship tried to uh tried to indoctrinate iranians right
08:57:34.140They couldn't. They weren't able to. They weren't able to indoctrinate us. And the biggest enemy of0.50
08:57:41.560the Islamic regime are, you know, millennials like myself, Gen Z and Gen Alpha. Because, you know,
08:57:50.960starting with us millennials, we've never experienced a free Iran. Gen Z obviously haven't0.99
08:58:00.040and alpha, right? But there's something about it in our souls. I don't know. But I see a lot
08:58:08.840of Iranians here are saying that they agree, right? It's just something within us. And so we
08:58:16.760feel homesick. We feel homesick for a home that we've never experienced. And guys, this is why,
08:58:28.880This is why we Iranians are fighting so hard.
08:58:32.700And this is why after 47 years, we haven't given up.
09:18:21.840What I'm saying is that the poetry level, right?
09:18:25.060Like a lot of the poetry in the Persian language, it just, it makes sense in Persian because we're used to the, okay, Middle English, sorry, Middle English, or, you know, someone said Old English, Middle English.
09:18:43.180I'm not going to get into that, but it's more about the depth of the wording and the phrases, right?
09:18:51.100so so persian is very poetic so sometimes it's difficult to translate properly into english so
09:19:01.100for example like these song lyrics is part of that but the song lyrics are all about love and life and
09:32:07.100Vapish man, tuxedo man, this man right here.
09:32:09.860his final wish his final wish was that when i make this song i don't know if i'm gonna be alive
09:32:22.020i don't think i'm gonna be alive but his final wish was that i pray and i hope that
09:32:29.840even after i've been i've been murdered by the regime i pray and i hope that this song
09:32:38.280This song that I wrote in the 1980s will be played during the Iranian revolution, whenever the revolution happens.
09:32:48.320And this is why today we play Bapish on Iran Revolution Live.
09:32:55.800But not only do we play Bapish on Iran Revolution Live, every single Iranian around the world is playing Bapish in honor of Fereydun Farrukhzad.
09:33:13.680We play this song at every single rally in his honor.
09:33:20.980And I'm telling you right now, guys, when Fereidun Farukhzad made this song, I don't think he ever thought that this song would go viral among non-Iranians.
09:33:34.420And yet you have made his voice eternal.
09:44:53.120Jannati is this like Islamic regime mullah, right?
09:44:57.040Like the guy's like, what, 99 years old? I don't even know. Right. Yeah. He's still alive. So,
09:45:06.100so the joke is that Janati is 99 years old and he's still alive. So someone asked Morad Vesey,
09:45:14.320well, what are we going to do with Janati? So Morad Vesey, Morad Vesey being like, you know,
09:45:22.220the king that he is, he responded, well, Jannati can't really speak anymore. I think they're going0.98
09:45:33.420to keep Jannati as an example, like a symbol of the clerical establishment. Because as these0.52
09:45:41.460figures fade away, the regime affiliated clerics will disappear with them. So they're going to
09:45:48.960keep jennati alive so they can have someone to point at and say this is what they were like this0.91
09:45:55.600is an example of the mullahs so so he's saying we're gonna keep jennati alive forever so that1.00
09:46:07.360we could always have like a reminder of how evil the islamic regime mullahs are right because1.00
09:46:14.720Because, yeah, this guy, this guy, this guy is a perfect example of how evil, decrepit, and blip, right, blip, the molas are.1.00
09:46:27.860So, so Morad Vesi, Morad Vesi is saying, we should keep Janati, we should put him in like a museum, we should preserve him, so that, so that basically like we never forget.1.00
09:46:40.580so the whole point of this message is we never forget how evil these muslim nazis are but of0.93
09:46:47.860course he's saying it in persian so the vast majority of people don't know but guys now you0.86
09:46:55.300guys have the intel on this right so again he keeps on saying like jannati right jan i think
09:50:49.560So this is Jannati. The guy's like 100 years old. He's evil, by the way. So he's like, Jannati? Jannati? Oh, we should keep Jannati alive and put him in an exhibit. So whenever anyone asks, what was the Islamic regime like? We can point at Jannati and say, that's what they were like. That's what they were like.
09:51:16.300and then people made like so many memes about this
09:51:19.980guys what's even funnier about this is that like you know
09:58:14.560oh film mission is the best wait how do i where's your like
09:58:22.420wait let me let me find your videos because i actually have it and i and i wanted to share
09:58:33.060that but i wanted your permission before i did that um let's see here so
09:58:40.860where is it travel fund film mission okay so film mission i really do appreciate that i have
09:58:52.600your permission um to share the video that you that you made of me um i will add you as a
09:59:04.900collaborator. And I really, really appreciate that. No, I, I know, I know you, I know you say
09:59:10.360that, but I, I, I want to ask permission before I do something. Right. So I'll tag you when I do
09:59:16.740that, but okay guys. So, um, I'm going to end the live stream because it is getting late and
09:59:22.340tomorrow is Persian new year. And I've shared a lot of, you know, Persian, Persian new year videos
09:59:29.520with you um so here's a video of someone you might know or maybe not i don't know um speaking about
09:59:40.000iran and uh anyways i will see all of you next year i will see you all of you next year and as
09:59:53.120always my end eat on job eachah i'm israel hi and god bless america see you guys next year
10:00:08.400and you spelled my name wrong it's goldie gamari but that's okay
10:00:12.400film mission i forgive you and for 47 years we the people of iran we have been oppressed
10:00:19.040we have been occupied we have been silenced but now we will no longer be silent we are in the
10:00:25.840middle of a revolution we are making iran great again all right here we are at mel asma square
10:00:33.280let's go on a sunday i believe 15th of march this is the anniversary of i guess the birthday of
10:00:43.840reza shah the first palavi king ruler very very popular in the iranian history
10:00:52.240the grandfather of reza palavi right reza shah was grandfather yes and today is his birthday
10:00:59.520yes today is the birthday of reza i think uh in a few days but this is the weekend
10:01:06.560His birthday, Reza Pallavi, and he will be this one, so this is the first Pallavi dynasty ruler, Shah they call it. Shah is like a king, but it's not the same as a king, it's kind of a little bit different, but it translates to king. Check it out, let's go inside.
10:01:36.560Guys, it's super windy. I got to go with the mic.
10:01:43.560All right, let's see. Are we good? Are we good?
10:13:53.560Thank you, Israel, for helping to liberate us.
10:13:56.460But most importantly, thank you to His Royal Highness, King Rizal Pahlavi, the leader of Iran's Lion and Son Revolution, for spearheading this movement, for guiding the entire Iranian nation inside the country, outside the country.
10:14:13.240We are so close to freedom, and now more than ever, when the Islamic regime, the terrorist Islamic regime has shut down the internet, silencing the voices of 90 million Iranians, we will continue to be their voice.
10:14:29.100We will not allow the mainstream media, we will not allow the mainstream media to control the narrative.
10:14:39.020We will not allow the mainstream media to say that we do not want this liberation.
10:14:44.040We will not allow the jihadis to silence our voices.
10:14:47.620We will not allow the terrorists to wave the terrorist flag of the Islamic regime in the streets like they did yesterday.
10:14:54.860They shame on the government of Canada
10:14:57.260for allowing these terrorists to glorify the Islamic regime.0.99