00:00:54.140Iran's supreme leader, the 86-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is dead.
00:00:59.360He was the target of joint American-Israeli airstrikes.
00:01:03.240Three U.S. service members have been killed, five others wounded, as part of Operation Epic Fury.
00:01:08.740This coming amid growing turmoil in the Middle East as the U.S., Israel, and Iran trade fresh strikes after the killing of Iran's supreme leader.
00:01:16.300Iranians were seen celebrating in the street when the news got out.
00:01:21.260Iran's military forces had already launched retaliatory strikes earlier in the day.
00:01:27.100My message to President Trump is that I'm here to echo and join millions of my compatriots inside and outside of Iran
00:01:34.380to thank him for having done and having the courage to do what is not easy, but intervene.
00:01:41.500And he will go down in the annals of Iranian history as the most celebrated foreign leader that changed the ballgame and changed the world.
00:01:49.020The United States and its partners have launched Operation Epic Fury, one of the largest, most complex, most overwhelming military offensives the world has ever seen.
00:02:01.900To the media outlets and political left screaming, endless wars. Stop. This is not Iraq. This is not endless. I was there for both. Our generation knows better and so does this president.
00:02:15.740He called the last 20 years of nation building wars dumb. And he's right. This is the opposite.0.87
00:02:24.880This operation is a clear, devastating, decisive mission. Destroy the missile threat,
00:02:30.800destroy the Navy, no nukes. What's amazing here is that the president has showed that for the
00:02:35.860first time, someone who comes in as a businessman, someone who didn't have a background in government
00:02:40.840is able to achieve his objectives in the Middle East without boots on the ground.
00:02:45.580This isn't going to be a forever war. We're not seeing the gender studies programs in0.89
00:02:50.420Afghanistan and Pakistan. We're not seeing the pallets of cash to the mullahs. We're seeing0.98
00:02:54.940President Trump understanding what the situation is and figuring out how to deal with it smartly
00:02:59.920and swiftly, and then hopefully getting home and getting to peace.
00:03:04.980Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily. We're here live
00:03:10.320Real America's Voice. Today is March 2nd, 2026. Anno Domine. We're now several days into
00:03:18.680Operation Epic Fury. President Trump announcing on very early Saturday morning, Friday night,
00:03:27.040if you will, the strikes on Iran. Total decimation of the Iranian leadership, the clerical leadership,
00:03:35.600the civilian leadership, remains largely intact, as it seems at this point.
00:03:40.960IRGC and clerical leaders, however, being taken out in joint U.S.-Israeli strikes.
00:03:47.800We're also seeing now, just over the past few days and hours,
00:03:52.800continued strikes on Iran's ballistic missile force, on Iran's Navy,
00:03:57.820on Iran's ability to wage war, their command and control.
00:04:01.720We're seeing now also President Trump coming in and calling for mass protests, calling for people to rise up, calling for new leadership.
00:04:10.480The president making a number of statements around to media, also from the White House.
00:04:15.420He's back at the White House now after conducting this at Mar-a-Lago for the weekend, saying that he's willing to work with the new leadership of Iran when they do come to bear, when that comes into fruition.
00:04:28.840And having said and confirming our reporting from earlier in the day on Saturday, that
00:04:36.080a four week campaign is what was expected, a four week bombing campaign.
00:04:39.960So we told you that on the last episode of Human Events Daily, President Trump then confirmed
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00:09:31.680this and look at some of the things that we have seen and also some of the things that we have not
00:09:37.720seen here. You know, we're seeing a lot of these attacks across the Gulf. We're seeing attacks on
00:09:44.400U.S. allies, the Arab Gulf nations, are getting hit by Iran. This is part of Iran's asymmetric0.99
00:09:51.100warfare response. I talked about this last night on Fox, explaining how these are plans,0.86
00:09:56.700contingency operations that were put in place in the case of a leadership loss or lack of
00:10:01.760communication with the leadership. And you saw the Iranian foreign minister sort of signaling
00:10:05.540this when he said that IRGC units are operating independently. That means these are contingency
00:10:11.220plans that were put in place for just such a purpose. What is the purpose? Ratchet up the
00:10:17.800pressure on places like Dubai, the UAE, Qatar, all of these areas, Kuwait and others, to be able to
00:10:25.700try to get the American, to get them to put leverage on the Americans, Riyadh, to sue for
00:10:30.660peace. And of course, we are hearing reports, spotty reports, though, not full confirmation yet,
00:10:36.120out of NBC that it was in Kuwait where the base was hit that, unfortunately, we now have four
00:10:45.400American service members, KIA, and as many as 18 wounded. It was Pete Hegseth, Secretary Hegseth,
00:10:53.380who said this morning in a briefing that it was a tactical operations center, a talk that was
00:10:58.140actually hit during that situation and during that strike. And so we're seeing this, we're
00:11:05.220seeing the United States continue their attacks. President Trump coming out as well. I want to
00:11:09.060bring Tom Sauer in here. Tom's been doing great analysis, riding side saddle. Everything that he
00:11:15.200has put out has come to bear since the beginning of this. We told you last weekend, we said this,
00:11:21.220we said, guys, brace, this operation is going to kick off this weekend. That's exactly what
00:11:24.800happened. We walked you through how it was going to work. The first round was going to be air
00:11:28.660defense. The second round was going to be those larger strikes. That's what's happened over the
00:11:33.400course of this weekend as this operation has been prosecuted Tom Sauer how are you doing good
00:11:38.600brother good to talk again you as well so Tom given that let's just let's just go right there
00:11:43.620and start this this information uh from from Secretary Hegseth the Secretary of Warne himself
00:11:47.900confirming that it was a tactical operations center there likely in Kuwait uh if we go if
00:11:54.920you add in the MDC's uh reporting that was hit um does it surprise you then that if they were able
00:12:01.480to get through the air defense on that base, hit a tactical operations center. Walk us through a
00:12:06.660little bit, obviously unclassified, what a tactical operations center does and why so many people would
00:12:11.240be there. Sure. A talk, a tactical operations center, we usually call it a talk, is simply like
00:12:17.480a watch floor. It's kind of meant to be the nerve center for operations. So it's usually manned 24
00:12:22.300seven. You've got a watch officer on call there. This is when all the communication comes and goes.
00:12:27.240it's typically where a commander or one of their deputies is usually in the room there. And that's
00:12:32.840where they're getting everything from radar communications. You know, we've got global
00:12:37.180command and control systems, you know, formerly known as geeks, as we call it, GCCS. I'm not sure
00:12:42.600if we still use that anymore. I've been out of the game for a little bit. But yeah, we call it
00:12:48.600geeks. Yeah. And but that's where they had that you had folks in there all the time. And some
00:12:54.400people that's their full-time job you know i know a guy who was one of my good buddies was an infantry
00:12:58.260officer in iraq 2005 2006 and unfortunately he wanted to like go out and do things but he was
00:13:05.160stuck inside of a talk which is really just like you know a small building um sometimes underground
00:13:10.760sometimes not uh where all the computers and the screens are just like you see in the movies that's
00:13:15.440a talk so um it looks like you know that hey sometimes the bad guys get lucky right so well
00:13:23.200And it would stand to reason then that it looks like Iran was presumably targeting that specifically.
00:13:31.660So they were able to actually hit their target in this instance.
00:13:34.840Sure. Yeah, they were. And they're able to figure that out.
00:13:37.380I mean, you know, say what you want about Iran.0.99
00:13:39.960I mean, they still have some game, right?
00:13:42.120Even though we all know that the leadership, the military leadership has been dead for about a day or so now.
00:13:49.440You know, it seems like a lot of these hardliners now it's very decentralized.
00:13:52.620and now you're seeing them lashing out everywhere just trying to create chaos so a lot of these you
00:13:58.140know irgc units uh and various other conventional unconventional units some of these guys are true
00:14:04.820believers i guess and uh they're just lashing out everywhere they can this could have been a
00:14:09.580pre-planned target probably wouldn't be too hard to figure out uh that where the tactical operation
00:14:15.980center is at any given base. So, yeah, and they put it, they target it, and sometimes they get
00:14:22.980lucky. Well, and honestly, that's what the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is chosen for. When0.82
00:14:29.020those recruits are brought in, they're going through, they're checking your family history,
00:14:33.120they're checking your history for any signs of disloyalty to the regime, disloyalty to the
00:14:38.720revolution, to the Ayatollahs. That's exactly the point of the, what people don't understand about
00:14:45.100Iran, and I feel like I have to keep going back to this, is that Iran has two militaries. It has
00:14:50.140the regular army, it has the regular navy, but then it has the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
00:14:55.040And the whole point of that is very simple. Their job is to guard the revolution, which in effect
00:15:00.300means to guard the regime. That's why if people rise up against the regime like protesters,
00:15:06.820it's the IRGC who takes them out Tiananmen Square style. Their job is not necessarily
00:15:11.700protecting the country of Iran, although in many cases, you know, you see the overlap there
00:15:16.880because they do also run the ballistic missile force of Iran. Their goal is also protection of
00:15:22.420the regime. And so they will do anything. And of course, when they're in their recruitment process,
00:15:27.700they're recording, as you say, Tom, they're absolutely going to be recruiting for those
00:15:31.480hardest line, totally loyal, no question of loyalty to the regime, to the fight when they
00:15:38.760go to bring those people in. That's how you get to be in or not. And so when I hear that
00:15:45.200the foreign minister saying that there's independently operating units, now this is
00:15:49.960not really something that you would see in the United States. We do not have a revolutionary
00:15:54.820state, you know, at least not since 1776 or 50 years ago. And so we don't operate with those
00:16:00.860types of those types of plans. I suppose in the Civil War, the Confederacy actually used this a
00:16:07.460little bit with their light infantry. You could probably go there to point to any actual like
00:16:11.400American unit using something like this. But that's a totally different kind of tactic. And
00:16:15.840Tom, would you agree with the assessment that these attacks on the Gulf states, does this
00:16:20.720constitute asymmetric warfare? Yeah, I think it could constitute asymmetric warfare. But also
00:16:25.800one thing to go back is when you mentioned the IRGC is, you know, it's not a perfect analogy,
00:16:30.580but it's very similar to like the Waffen-SS. It's a paramilitary. It is meant for more political.
00:16:35.260And like you said, to control the regime, for example, though, as well, like before I was an EOD officer, I served on ships and we would interact often with the Iranian Navy and the Iranian Air Force.
00:16:46.340And they were actually, generally speaking, a polite, quiet, you know, professional.
00:16:50.860They acted normally. But sometimes we also had to act with, you know, we had to interact with the IRGCN, which is the Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy.
00:16:58.460And that was a bunch of crazy people screaming and swearing at us over the radio and pointing RPGs at me.
00:17:03.920so uh for example the um the small boats uh but when we had our small boats the swick boats that
00:17:10.760were taken in 2016 and people remember those images those just horrifying images that came out
00:17:16.440um uh at uh i think it was a i think it was kesham island and uh you know that that was the irgcn
00:17:24.260that's right and i actually knew the officer who was in charge we weren't friends though
00:17:28.720of that of that boat thing that was a very embarrassing i knew i knew so there's a lot
00:17:34.740a lot of small community put it that way very small people that were yeah is uh that was the
00:17:39.700that was the famous uh the guys with the with the white socks remember yeah yeah i know it was
00:17:44.940ridiculous uh but to get back to your question about asymmetric warfare yeah i i definitely
00:17:49.100think it is because they're really just trying to incite chaos just get everyone pissed off make
00:17:53.200everyone afraid i mean for instance this this morning you saw this when uh you know the kuwaiti
00:17:58.520The Kuwaitis accidentally, foolishly shot down three of our own F-15s, which is really unfortunate.
00:18:05.100Looks like at least one guy got hurt pretty bad.
00:18:09.340But, you know, but fortunately, they're all alive and safe.
00:18:12.460But you can see people were paranoid because right away when civilians found the downed pilots with their parachute and everything, they were coming at them.
00:18:22.180They didn't know what was going on.1.00
00:18:23.600And so these were really there just to create chaos.0.92
00:18:25.520And so I think right now, just with the Iranian, the IRGC, just lashing out at everyone as they can is I think that's the goal right now to create as much chaos as possible.0.99
00:18:36.320Fortunately, it's not that effective. I mean, yes, you know, there are some people getting hurt and killed, which is terrible, but it's not to anywhere near the kind of scale.0.98
00:18:44.440But in terms of effectiveness of vending operations, it's not it's not anywhere near what they need.
00:18:49.240We're coming up on a quick break, Tom. I do want to get back into that with you some more.
00:18:52.380These reports of three F-15 fighters downed over Kuwait.
00:18:58.560Same spot where we're told four Americans were killed in a tactical operations center.
00:19:02.760Right back, Jack Posobiec, Human Events Daily.
00:33:10.060The Sunnis and the Shia. This is what it's all about. One side supporting their version of Islam and their their power axis and then one side supporting the other.1.00
00:33:21.700There's always been more Sunnis. That's who the U.S. tends to work with.1.00
00:33:26.100Of course, however, the Sunnis also include elements like Al Qaeda and ISIS who have risen up and also become problems for everyone.1.00
00:33:35.200So this has been one of the biggest hot-botton issues of the Middle East, the hot-box issues.0.95
00:33:41.440And so there's not going to be any tear shed for the Shia.0.98
00:33:46.880There's not going to be any tear shed for the Ayatollah among the Sunnis.0.73
00:33:49.820But I just want to point out again to everybody that the Shia adherents have just been given a major martyr.
00:33:59.840They are going to give the Ayatollah a major martyr's funeral.
00:34:03.660He is going to be given a state funeral. He was going to be considered a martyr for Allah, a martyr for his country, a martyr for his people.
00:34:11.320And that will galvanize support of which there is no question.
00:34:14.900So understand that whoever steps up is going to be stepping into those shoes and is likely going to be trying to use that to continue the regime's efforts and continue the survivability of that regime.
00:34:27.440And, Tom, that's that's one of the reasons that, you know, we look at Iraq and Afghanistan.
00:34:31.840That was one of the things that we started coming up against again and again.
00:34:35.980Yeah, that's right. I would say that, you know, for those who might not be as familiar with Middle Eastern history and politics and all that, it's OK.
00:34:43.660You don't need to be for the average person at home.
00:34:46.960But with the Shia versus Sunni conflict, it's roughly, roughly analogous to Protestants and Catholics, you know, in many ways.
00:34:56.440And a lot of the Arab world has a popular majority of Shia, but they are dominated by a Sunni elite minority.
00:35:05.680So that's we did used to see that in Iraq. Right.0.72
00:35:09.540Because you had Saddam Hussein, who was a fairly secular Sunni Muslim, but it was still the Sunni majority that ran the show.0.87
00:35:17.180But then the largest and most powerful and influential Shia country out there has always been Iran.0.83
00:35:23.260So that's what a lot of this comes down to.
00:35:25.380And also, it's worth pointing out that I never fully understood this.
00:35:29.480And this is something that's like a question.
00:35:30.880Maybe, you know, the answer to this, Jack, is that it always seemed like a lot of the
00:35:34.120folks on the right, this includes the Trump administration, the previous Bush administration,
00:35:39.860they were always a little bit more favorable and siding with the Saudis to be the regional
00:35:46.180hegemon and regional hegemon, meaning the big dog in the neighborhood.0.82
00:36:11.360But that's something that I always think about as well, that we've always, it's always been that side.
00:36:14.940And now, especially, though, with the Abraham Accords, where now that we're seeing actual partnership or at least maybe a modus vivendi between Saudi Arabia and the Israelis, everyone's starting to act like adults and grownups now.
00:36:29.060I think that's very, very encouraging. And that's why we see, you know, President Trump, you know, making the Saudis really the regional hegemon in the Middle East.0.89
00:36:39.620Well, and that's that's clearly what the Saudi Arabia's goal is here.
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00:40:20.780We voted for mass deportations and no new wars.
00:40:23.400We're getting new wars and aren't getting mass deportations.
00:40:26.680The administration's constant focus on foreign policy over domestic issues is one of the most disheartening things I've experienced in following politics.
00:40:38.460My thoughts are clear as I watch the greatest president of my 70 years perform, not just for the interests of the Iranian people, but for the future safety of our nation.
00:40:48.260God bless President Trump and all of our fierce warriors.
00:41:45.820She is 73. She has three grandchildren.
00:41:48.580She says we want to win, but very concerned if under 30s will bleed support over anything not involving affordability.
00:41:55.860This one's from Cody. He says, I trust my president. That's my stance.
00:41:59.040This one's from Wesley. Striking Iran is less about preventing the regime from obtaining nukes or any of the reasons we hear from the talking heads on TV.0.78
00:42:07.100It's about the reshaping of the global world order, establishing and carrying out grand strategy.0.91
00:42:12.760We need to talk more about grand strategy.
00:42:15.940And, you know, certainly he's talking about whether or not we're going to have the strategy vis-a-vis China, vis-a-vis Russia.
00:42:22.260We certainly have talked about the impacts here that this would have on China's China's oil supply and their ability to source oil from Iran and the Middle East at large.
00:42:31.780Hi, I saw your tweet. I usually scroll, scroll past these, but I wanted to let my thoughts known.
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