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00:31:18.180All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are very excited now and honored to bring on Eric Prince joining Human Events Daily live from an undisclosed location.
00:31:30.740But Eric, you're someone who's been at the forefront of major geopolitics, particularly in the Middle East.
00:31:37.960What we've seen over the last 24 to 48 hours, this situation with the first the loss of the helicopter and then the confirmation of the death of the president of Iran and numerous members of the highest levels of their government.
00:31:52.880What does this mean geopolitically going forward for the region?
00:31:57.840There is already set to be a change of power, as the Supreme Leader does have cancer and was, I think, set to be replaced and voted on.
00:32:08.140So there's certainly a chance of some kind of internal power struggle or perhaps was done by the M.E.K., an internal opposition group to the regime.
00:32:18.020I would say the likelihood of it being an external hit, meaning a Israeli or U.S. or someone sponsored hit, is exceedingly unlikely.
00:32:26.400Honestly, my educated guess would come from the fact that when you look at the rescue pictures, they're walking in heavy fog and rain.
00:32:38.580And I actually happen to be driving into Los Angeles on the morning that Kobe Bryant's helicopter smashed into the side of a mountain at full speed.
00:32:48.680And if it's one thing the Iranians would suffer from, from all the sanctions, is that they have not a good supply of park, not a great supply of maintenance.
00:32:59.160And they probably don't have access to something called PAWS, rain awareness warning system, which pilots would refer to as the bitch box.
00:33:09.480Because if you're too low to the ground, you're descending too fast, it'll say, pull up, pull up, pull up now.
00:33:15.000Or if you're nearing rain, it'll say, terrain, terrain.
00:33:20.720I would almost guarantee they didn't have that on that aircraft.
00:33:24.020And so flying in what were clearly awful conditions, I think they drove it right into the side of a mountain with all the passengers on board.
00:33:32.480I don't know if it was a Bell 412 or if it was an MI-17.
00:33:36.840I've seen pictures of him flying around in both types of helicopters.
00:34:39.280Unless, of course, you wanted it to blow up.
00:34:40.760The question is, if this is the president, all right, those are going to be some of the top pilots that they've got in Iran.
00:34:50.420That's got to be the aircraft that is the most well-maintained in the entire Islamic Republic.
00:34:55.620Should we be asking those kind of questions about whether or not this wasn't just a pilot error, aviation, or a maintenance issue?
00:35:04.900Sure. If it wasn't that, then it's either going to be the MEK, or it could even be an internal power struggle between people that are posturing effectively for the throne.
00:35:18.100But the real—and this guy, the president that died, it's the head of state.
00:35:23.260It's not the real end-all, be-all power like the supreme leader is.
00:35:26.640And the president, the deceased, was certainly, I would say, the odds-on favorite to be the next supreme leader of Iran.
00:35:35.400And with his track record of marauding against the citizens, having killed and executed thousands of them,
00:35:43.440there could easily be the case made that someone got after them.
00:35:47.380But why I think it was not sabotage is the chances of trying to do sabotage and timing it so that the weather is perfectly awful at the same time you're going to do your sabotage.
00:35:59.940That's a very hard—that is a needle upon a needle to try to thread, and that's a tough one.
00:36:08.580Looking at the—and you would know, certainly—looking at the regional picture, though, what should we be looking for as Iran's regime responds to this?
00:36:20.780Do you predict that they'll go into a period of inactivity, or could they potentially be looking to make it look as though it will be business as usual and perhaps get more aggressive in the near term?
00:36:35.760There will be people posturing for credibility and street cred amongst themselves, who is going to be the most aggressive, who is going to carry on, really, almost the legacy of Qasem Soleimani and the rest of the really bad actors that surround the power structure in Tehran.
00:36:51.960Because, remember, you have the Guardian Council, which effectively is a board over the supreme leader.
00:36:59.720Maybe somewhat of a check and balance on their power, but really, it's the supreme leader and the head of the IRGC that calls the shot, just like the—almost like the Fuhrer and the head of the Gestapo did during the Nazi Reich.
00:37:16.920And you see amazing similarities between those two, equally hated by the rank-and-file people of the country, the power structure that enriches themselves at the expense of everyday people.
00:37:28.660And really, from the women's life freedom protests, to students, to environmentalists, to labor unions, to other different ethnic minorities, the Iranian regime is exceedingly unpopular with its own people.
00:37:45.140And, you know, when you think about from 2009, I would say that the Arab Spring, all the protests throughout the Middle East, started in Iran amongst the Iranian people, who are sick of their regime and want freedom.
00:38:02.280They want a lot more of a traditionally liberal, free society.
00:38:07.260When you look at pictures, pre-1979, the women were wearing a skirt, they were drinking beer, listening to music, and it was much more of a freewheeling, independent-thinking society.
00:38:20.820And the mullahs have really put them on an opposite track, and that is in historic opposition to the way the Iranian people really want to live and conduct their lives.
00:38:30.140So I would not be surprised if there's an enormous amount of hate.
00:38:34.720There's a lot of cheering that went on for the death of this guy.
00:38:39.220But I would still put the odds on it being a weather-related incident, weather-slash-pilot error, not a conspiracy.
00:38:50.260But, because remember, a helicopter is like 34,000 pieces of metal, bolted, strapped, welded together, actively trying to shake themselves apart.
00:39:01.840So there's a lot of things that can go wrong in a helicopter, and they just don't glide very well.
00:39:05.440And that's actually a huge question, though, that I have.
00:39:10.940And I know we have a break coming up in a couple of minutes, but I'd like to get into it.
00:39:14.960Because really, so you've seen, so Soleimani's been gone for a few years now.
00:39:19.380IRGC leadership has been restructured since then.
00:39:23.420Obviously, the president leaving, there's going to be a huge reshuffling.
00:39:25.960The death of the supreme leader has always been a time for internal power struggles within Iran.
00:39:31.480Do you think there's another Soleimani or Soleimani type on the horizon there?
00:39:37.960Well, remember that the IRGC head of all their operations in Lebanon was just clipped within the last two weeks by the Israelis,
00:39:47.820which led to that exchange of missiles into each other's countries.
00:39:52.000So apparently the Israelis felt strongly enough about that target to risk that level of provocation to take him out.
00:40:00.120So, look, Soleimani was a very unusual character, because he was a combination of like an Otto Skorzenny,
00:40:06.820Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels all rolled into one guy.
00:40:12.260His loss, they still haven't fully recovered from.
00:40:15.900I'm glad the Israelis took out that guy a few weeks ago.
00:40:18.500And again, it's such a miss from the Obama administration and the Biden administration that they've never really sided with the Iranian people.
00:40:29.380Just the diplomatic statements that came out and say, we support women's rights in Iran, we support people's actual right to vote.
00:40:37.060But, you know, it seems the maybe the administration here in the states welcomes the Guardian Council controlling who can go on the ballot,
00:40:47.880kind of like the Biden administration has been trying to do to their political opponent, Donald J. Trump.
00:41:03.740Human Events editorial board, this case is a joke.
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00:41:23.220Jack, we're back live, Human Events Daily.
00:41:25.480We're speaking now with Eric Prince, exclusive interview.
00:41:29.400Eric was talking about how there is going to be a huge shakeup power struggle in Iran, more than likely, not just because of the death of this president,
00:41:38.200but also because of the impending bad health and then death of the current supreme leader.
00:41:46.620Given Iraq's current status, the fact that they've been getting schwacked, they got hit up in Lebanon, which led to, of course, this missile exchange between Israel and Iran,
00:41:56.760the first time we've ever seen a direct missile exchange between the two countries.
00:42:00.420Usually it's, as you well know, these proxy fights that go on between the two of them.
00:42:04.980Do you see escalation along those lines where we actually see more state-on-state violence and this thing bubbles over into a more of a regional conflict,
00:42:16.400Or do you think that it will stay at that proxy level?
00:42:18.960I think it will resort to a proxy-type fight because when the Iranians responded to the hit on this so-called diplomatic facility in Lebanon
00:42:33.580where they schwacked this IRGC guy, the Iranians launched 230-type devices from Iran, from Yemen, from Iraq,
00:42:46.380all headed towards Israel, I think 98% or 99% of them were shot down.
00:42:52.600And the Israelis responded to that with a very specific hit, not on a nuclear facility,
00:42:58.800but on an Iranian facility right next to the nuclear facility, which means, hey, we can smack you still in your nuclear facilities
00:43:06.160right next to your state-of-the-art S-400 Russian air defense system.
00:43:10.740And they did that as kind of a last warning shot to say we can still touch you anywhere we want to
00:43:15.920and you really can't do anything about it.
00:43:17.440So I think the Iranian regime ends up looking weak after that exchange,
00:43:22.280and so I think they'll go back to their long-proven model of trying to hide behind surrogates.
00:43:29.320The Houthis will still be ravaging the Red Sea and shutting off, continuing to close that off.
00:43:37.920The Egyptians are losing $800 million a month from the Red Sea being shut off.
00:43:44.900Iraq, you know, look, the popular mobilization forces, the Hashdashabi, effectively like the Hezbollah of Iraq,
00:43:52.220controlled by Iran, paid for by the Iraqi government, armed with American weapons.
00:43:56.840They will continue to do bad things there, and eventually they're going to drive the United States out of Iraq.
00:44:02.240So the use of surrogates by the Iranians, they're pretty good at it,
00:44:07.400and the U.S. is not particularly good at pushing back in a clear and convincing way to make it stop.
00:44:14.700That said, when we're looking at the wider or, I guess, acuter Israel-Gaza conflict,
00:44:19.900we see ICC has put out these, you know, prosecutions or warrants for Netanyahu and the head of Hamas.
00:44:28.080I'm not sure that anything's actually going to come of that other than a few press releases,
00:44:31.560but when it comes to the actual fighting that we're tracking on the ground,
00:44:35.540do you think that we're going to see peace before the election,
00:44:38.140and what role will it play as we move into these debates?
00:44:43.320I think the administration is pushing hard to try to settle the Ukraine fight by August.
00:44:50.300I would predict some kind of freezing of the lines or some kind of a ceasefire called,
00:44:57.820because they have to unburden themselves and try to scrape out not even a win, but at best a draw.
00:45:05.560I think in Gaza, the IDF will continue to struggle because they can't clear out RAFA,
00:45:12.180not with that many civilians on the surface.
00:45:13.800I think you have absolutely political paralysis.
00:45:19.220The Netanyahu administration can't even conduct a full-on war cabinet meeting anymore
00:45:24.820without it breaking down into a shouting mat.
00:45:28.320That's the level of tension between Netanyahu and Gallant.
00:45:33.460So I don't see the Gaza situation being solved.
00:45:36.760It'll probably go down to a lower boil.
00:45:39.540I don't see the Hezbollah guys fully lighting off.
00:45:43.800That would be a real threat if they did, because Hamas had tens of thousands of rockets
00:45:48.840that they launched at Israel, but the Lebanese Hezbollah have hundreds of thousands,
00:45:54.080and it would become overwhelming even for the Iron Dome
00:45:57.480and the other defensive systems the Israelis have in place.
00:46:00.520And so they would sustain a lot of civilian casualties,
00:46:03.540and then they would have to respond and really annihilate all of southern Lebanon.
00:46:07.780So I don't think Hezbollah knows that those consequences would come very hard,
00:46:14.280to include even Arat Harek, which is kind of the Hezbollah neighborhood of Beirut.
00:46:18.960And so I see things kind of calming down there to a low boil,
00:46:22.860but certainly not getting to any kind of peace deal,
00:46:27.080or there's not going to be any Appomattox moment with one side winning and one side surrendering.
00:46:31.580So it's kind of like both fighters going back to their quarters and regrouping.
00:46:35.200And so essentially, you kind of get back to a pre-October 7th situation.
00:46:43.540It seemed to me that, as you say, that Netanyahu's plan going in
00:46:48.300was to get rid of the political entity known as the Gaza Strip
00:46:52.140and replace it with something that doesn't have anywhere near the level of autonomy.
00:46:56.260But as you're getting into, it doesn't look like the military operations have gotten them that effect that he wanted.
00:47:02.780And it also, it clearly seems like he's the one driving for more of these ground operations
00:47:07.460into places like Rafa and into some of these strongholds.
00:47:10.820And that's what's really driving a lot of the pushback.
00:47:12.980Yeah, and the really sad thing is I gave them the option back in November
00:47:17.540to really take the best of Texas horizontal drilling.
00:47:22.040I had pumps lined up that would pump, 12,000 horsepower pump,
00:47:26.460moving 60,000 gallons a minute, 1,000 gallons a second,
00:47:30.680to flood the entire network of tunnels, the 300 miles of tunnels underneath Gaza.
00:47:36.020PR-wise and humanitarian-wise, it would have been vastly more effective
00:47:41.840because it would have destroyed all the weapons caches,
00:47:44.680it would have prevented the enemy from using the tunnels for maneuver,
00:47:47.720and it would have forced Hamas to move the hostages
00:47:50.780because they don't really want dead hostages because they can't negotiate with them.
00:47:54.800But it would have prevented, it would have negated the IDF using Mark 82s, 3s, and 4s,
00:48:03.240big bombs dropped amongst civilians, which killed a lot of them,