The Anthony Cumia Show - March 02, 2026


World War 3 or Just a Trim？ ｜ 03-01-26


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13 minutes

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132.74

Word count

1,853

Sentence count

109

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

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Toxicity

8

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Hate speech

24

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On this episode of The Anthony Cumia Minicast, the host talks about the latest in the Iran situation and how it affects the chances of the US going to war with Iran. He also talks about why he thinks the Iranians should get rid of their nuclear program.

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00:01:00.080 Listen, all you New Yorkers.
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00:01:05.300 This is the 77
00:01:07.140 WABC Minicast.
00:01:10.700 It is indeed
00:01:11.860 the Anthony Cumia Show, and my
00:01:13.840 God, what is happening?
00:01:16.840 Every single
00:01:17.940 week, every single Sunday,
00:01:19.480 I come on, and I
00:01:21.520 go, this
00:01:22.860 cannot get any crazier we are at a level of insanity uh that just can't be beaten and then
00:01:32.000 i come on the next sunday and we beat it we have won we are winning in the insanity ladies and
00:01:41.380 gentlemen all the ships at sea we're at war beep beep we are at war apparently or maybe not
00:01:49.000 or somewhat a lot of people are uh uh saying this is war uh you know there have been plenty of
00:01:58.120 military actions a lot of the other presidents have taken over the course of the years
00:02:02.480 that didn't amount to war uh people looked at it as military actions i read something today that
00:02:10.440 i was like this can't be true the last time congress actually declared war was
00:02:16.100 world war ii you might have heard of it and every other military action we've done after that wasn't
00:02:22.520 an actual united states of america congressionally approved declaration of war so uh this has been
00:02:31.140 going on for quite some time and uh it seems a lot of uh politicians celebrities uh amazing with
00:02:39.740 celebrities not knowing, but politicians not really understanding the War Powers Act and
00:02:47.140 the authority that the president does have to have the military go in and conduct an operation
00:02:59.100 exactly like this. Now, look, I know I'm going to catch crap from both sides here. This is a very, 0.95
00:03:07.680 very touchy uh situation touchy situation but uh you know i'm looking forward to hearing from
00:03:15.900 uh everybody our phones are already lit up and uh you know a lot of people are going to have
00:03:22.860 opinions that other people do not agree with and uh how could that how could that possibly
00:03:29.320 be a bad thing in 2026 we're all so tolerant to each other's views when we don't agree with them
00:03:37.680 Oh, my God. But me personally, I, based on Iran's actions over decades upon decades, I'm not busted up about this. 0.91
00:03:56.760 I'm not all broken up about this one. 0.88
00:03:59.300 I was a wee lad of 18, I believe, when the Shah of Iran was thrown out and the Islamic Ayatollah and the Mullahs took over Iran.
00:04:20.940 and uh they did in high fashion in 79 taking uh american hostages for over a year well over a
00:04:33.040 year during the carter administration this is how long that's been going on you know i was listening
00:04:38.080 to uh rock the casbah by the clash and i'm like boy this has been going on for a long time that
00:04:45.300 song is awesome and i'm like yeah that was because of this it's actually still this so uh it's been
00:04:53.480 going on a long time there have been so many instances of uh violence uh against the united
00:05:02.920 states directly the military and why why did we feel we had to give iran a pass for so many yeah
00:05:12.400 Yeah, there's been some bombings and some of those embargoes and all the other nonsense political means that politicians use to go, no, no, no, now the finger wag. 0.95
00:05:27.960 And but no one ever really went, let's just kill the entire power base of Iran until the other day, till Friday night. 0.89
00:05:43.640 That's that's when Trump and Netanyahu decided, yeah, let's let's just get rid of this. 0.93
00:05:53.520 Let's just get rid of the problem here.
00:05:56.240 And the Democrats just could not be more crotchety about this whole thing.
00:06:02.680 I've been reading so many ex-posts and other social media posts from Democrats and liberals that are just giving Obama these glowing reviews of how he took care of it.
00:06:17.120 Hey, he had Iran sign a no nuclear proliferation bill and we had crews going in there to make sure that they weren't building nuclear weapons or enriching uranium or that yellow cake stuff that sounds delicious. 0.60
00:06:37.900 But they were like, yeah, that's that's how you're supposed to handle it.
00:06:43.120 Did anyone think Iran was adhering to any of that?
00:06:49.020 Like, Trump just ripped it up and now he's bombing them.
00:06:51.840 Well, again, you will have plenty of opportunity to chime in on what you think the reasoning is or what have you.
00:06:59.900 But like I said, I'm not busted up about it.
00:07:02.980 I think, you know, we looked at a few instances over the course of the years when the Iranian people were trying to fight back protests and they had some, the Arab Spring in the Middle East and a few of the Iranian people decided it was time to let the government know that they weren't happy with the way it was being run.
00:07:29.420 You know, a pre-Ayatollah Iran was an amazing place.
00:07:37.480 There are photos and videos, and look, I'll say it, amazingly hot women in Iran.
00:07:47.100 I don't know what happened. 1.00
00:07:48.720 Decades of wearing a burqa may have done some damage. 0.99
00:07:54.580 But some of those videos from the 70s, they're wearing miniskirts. 1.00
00:08:00.540 They're on college campuses like, you know, like regular girls. 0.93
00:08:04.780 And that all came to a screeching halt.
00:08:07.480 And you would think liberals and Democrats would be amongst the people going, you know, that was freedom, especially for women.
00:08:15.920 You know, everyone talks about how horribly women are treated in the awful, misogynistic United States of America.
00:08:24.200 And then you look at Iran.
00:08:26.820 You know, women get sexually assaulted there, and they are imprisoned because they probably believe they must have done something. 0.90
00:08:36.960 Don't go out wearing that. 1.00
00:08:38.780 You look like a hooah. 1.00
00:08:40.920 That's their attitude over there.
00:08:43.940 and um you know there's a few schools of thought there hey it's none of our business you know i
00:08:50.480 get that i i can't disagree with you know the united states we're not the world police we're
00:08:58.080 not here to make sure every country adheres to our ethics and morality um but then when you see
00:09:04.560 people on the left talking about world um events and affairs and geopolitics and they're saying 0.98
00:09:11.640 that this country or that country or even the United States is treating its people like crap and 1.00
00:09:17.960 women are treated like garbage. And then you look at a country like Iran and you see it is beyond 1.00
00:09:28.600 all reason. I mean, anything that happens that people feel is some kind of oppression of women
00:09:36.080 here in the United States, it doesn't even come close to what's going on over there.
00:09:41.640 You haven't seen a good oppression of women until you see a stoning for, you know, showing an ankle. 1.00
00:09:50.380 So that's going on. 0.76
00:09:51.800 So I can't really see why people are all busted up about it unless, you know, it turns into a protracted Afghani-style war where it's a quagmire. 0.99
00:10:05.520 We don't know what we're there for. 0.74
00:10:08.340 And this happens.
00:10:09.580 Look, I'm not saying it can't happen.
00:10:11.640 even with Trump president having promised that there won't be any of these protracted new wars.
00:10:21.140 So a strike like this, cutting off the head of the regime, 0.97
00:10:25.920 and then they try to replace the head, and then that guy gets killed. 0.96
00:10:30.480 We do have to spend a little time tonight. 0.91
00:10:32.880 I don't care how you feel about Israel. 0.86
00:10:35.400 Their intelligence and logistics is insane. 0.80
00:10:40.000 Insane. We saw what they did with those beepers. And now I'm reading stories that they had Mossad dentists doing dental work on some of these bigwigs in Iran and planting tracking devices in their teeth. 1.00
00:10:56.660 Now, that sounds a little outlandish. It could be the fog of war and nonsense. But, you know, after the pager thing, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe they are that good.
00:11:10.260 And to get all of the upper echelon of Iran into one place like that, where they could just bomb, like they're hanging out like the cast of friends. 0.99
00:11:20.740 They're all together in a flat, just having a good time, and then the bombs start dropping. 1.00
00:11:28.680 Break it up a little bit, guys.
00:11:30.220 What are you doing?
00:11:31.420 Why are you all hanging out together?
00:11:34.180 Not a good move. 0.98
00:11:35.420 Not a healthy move on the part of the Iranian brass. 0.74
00:11:40.260 But from the looks of some of the reconnaissance and some of the videos that they put out, just devastating, a devastating attack on the command and control and upper echelon.
00:11:57.220 Trump is talking that they've taken out some of their Navy.
00:12:01.000 Now, I don't even know what that entails.
00:12:03.160 I've seen some of the speed boats they have.
00:12:05.540 You know, I don't know about any big cruisers or gunships, but apparently they've been taking that out.
00:12:14.680 Operations are still ongoing.
00:12:17.240 And, you know, we'll see what happens.
00:12:20.240 I start bitching about it when I see signs of a protracted long-term conflict in Iran, boots on the ground type stuff that we know is going to go on for quite some time, and seeing the logistics put in place by politician-owned food distributors and water and toilets like we saw in Iraq.
00:12:48.700 I don't want to see that. And I will say something here. Don't test me, Trump.
00:12:55.820 I'll say something about it. But right now, like I said, not too busted up about it.
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