The Ben Shapiro Show - September 28, 2026


Iran Is on the Brink of Collapse. Trump Is About to Win.

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00:00:00.000 So, a lot of people are caterwauling about the war in Iran.
00:00:02.000 They say the president just needs to end it.
00:00:04.000 Here is the thing if the president were to just end the war in Iran and hand victory to Iran, your gas prices would be permanently high because then they would have control over that choke point from now until the end of time.
00:00:14.000 The president has basically brought the Iranians to their knees.
00:00:17.000 That doesn't mean they're finished because, again, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is a radical regime that is willing to kill hundreds of thousands of its own people to remain in power.
00:00:25.000 But he has brought them to the brink of collapse.
00:00:27.000 So, Iran has been trying to suggest that they are willing to make a deal once again.
00:00:31.000 Now, the reason that they keep saying they want to make a deal is because they're Economy is completely choked off.
00:00:36.000 The Trump administration has, in fact, accomplished the goal of opening some elements of the Strait of Hormuz to the extent that apparently some 20 million reported barrels of oil went out of the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend.
00:00:48.000 And Iran is actually internally divided, apparently.
00:00:51.000 You have the IRGC, led by Vahidi, which wants to continue the conflict until everybody's dead, essentially.
00:00:59.000 And then you have Abbasaraki and Pazeshkian, and they have been trying to negotiate some sort of quasi surrender without negotiating their own surrender.
00:01:07.000 Well, again, I highly doubt that they're going to be able to achieve that since the people with the guns in the end are the IRGC, not Abbasarachi or Pzeszkian.
00:01:15.000 And what they want to do is immediately open the Hormuz Strait.
00:01:18.000 You know why?
00:01:19.000 Because they're dying.
00:01:21.000 You know why they're dying?
00:01:22.000 Because they have no money coming in.
00:01:24.000 Because they get their money from the Hormuz Strait.
00:01:26.000 So they outsmarted themselves.
00:01:28.000 They said, let's close it and cause a problem for the world.
00:01:32.000 And then I came along and we put up the greatest blockade ever in military history.
00:01:36.000 It's a wall of steel.
00:01:38.000 I would put it up.
00:01:41.000 And guess what?
00:01:42.000 They don't have any money now because they wanted to close the straight.
00:01:46.000 And I said, that's fine.
00:01:47.000 We're going to close it on you.
00:01:48.000 But everybody else is able to use it.
00:01:50.000 Okay.
00:01:52.000 The president is right about all of this.
00:01:55.000 As I said on Mark Levin's show over the weekend on Fox News, the president is on the precipice of a historic victory in Iran.
00:02:00.000 Okay.
00:02:01.000 That is a reality.
00:02:02.000 The Iranian economy is completely choked off and it's getting worse for them.
00:02:07.000 They apparently keep coming forward with the same proposal, which is, what if you guys just stop?
00:02:11.000 And the United States is like, well, why would we do that?
00:02:13.000 What precisely is the offer?
00:02:15.000 You know, Ambassador Mike Waltz says that Trump has rejected Iran's proposal because basically Iran's proposal was what if you just leave us alone and stop at the blockade and also tell the Israelis that they can never attack us again?
00:02:24.000 And also, we commit that we'll do a bunch of stuff that we will never do.
00:02:28.000 And Waltz's like, well, we're not doing any of that.
00:02:30.000 They were asking for everything up front.
00:02:35.000 They were asking for relief from billions and billions of sanctions that are going into place as Operation Economic Fury, but also, Jake, importantly, snapback sanctions.
00:02:48.000 From the United Nations that have been in place for many years because Iran has violated over and over again a number of issues related to its nuclear program.
00:02:59.000 They were also asking for access to billions in frozen assets that have also been frozen because of those violations.
00:03:06.000 So the bottom line is they were asking for everything up front with a promise that they would then talk.
00:03:12.000 And I'll remind everyone once we got to the MOU from just a few months ago, the Iranians immediately violated it.
00:03:20.000 By attacking international shipping in violation of international law.
00:03:25.000 And 146 nations have joined us in condemning Iran for those attacks.
00:03:31.000 Now, again, credit to the Trump administration because when we say 146 nations have condemned Iran, how many of them are willing to do anything about it?
00:03:38.000 That's always the big question.
00:03:40.000 Meanwhile, the Iranians continue to say that they are not going to move one iota because, of course, they're not.
00:03:45.000 They don't think like the West.
00:03:46.000 Stop making the mistake of thinking that this is even a country like Venezuela.
00:03:51.000 It is not.
00:03:53.000 This is a doomsday cult running a country.
00:03:55.000 Okay, that is what the Iranian revolutionary regime always has been.
00:04:00.000 It always has been this, going all the way back to when V.S. Naipaul, the Nobel Prize winner for literature, wrote a book called Among the Believers, in which he visited Iran in 1981.
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00:05:14.000 This is a doomsday cult that runs a country seeking a nuclear weapon and willing to use all the money that it has in order to sponsor terrorism abroad.
00:05:25.000 And when the West pretends that they're a normal country, they are making a large scale category error in the same way that Britain is making a large scale category error by importing members of Hamas and then claiming.
00:05:33.000 That if they just get a job, everything will be all better.
00:05:36.000 Here's Abbas Araki, the foreign minister, saying that they're going to stand firm.
00:05:41.000 We are ready to negotiate as much as we are ready to face any challenge.
00:05:45.000 We stand firm in the face of any challenge, any aggression, sorry.
00:05:50.000 We stand firm in the face of any aggression against us, even if it comes to a doomsday war.
00:05:56.000 At the same time, we are ready for diplomacy.
00:05:59.000 But, and now there is a very reasonable plan on the table.
00:06:04.000 If they reject it with no reason, this is their fault.
00:06:10.000 It is not a reasonable plan on the table.
00:06:11.000 He was asked, by the way, why Iran would even need 60% enriched uranium.
00:06:15.000 And he's like, oh, well, you know, they don't need enriched uranium for any purpose.
00:06:19.000 They're one of the most oil rich regions on planet Earth.
00:06:22.000 It is a question that we have answered this during the negotiations we had with the U.S. First of all, enriching up to 60% is not illegal.
00:06:32.000 Peaceful program.
00:06:36.000 We have done it for certain purposes, medical purposes, other purposes, but we have offered a deal on our 60% material in 2025, in 2026, and still it is something that could be considered if they prove their goodwill and their real determination for a peace.
00:07:00.000 We decided to put everything nuclear for later stages.
00:07:06.000 And go for confidence building in this stage.
00:07:09.000 This is why we have offered this seven day plan based on the understanding that we had with the US interlocutors in the past.
00:07:18.000 It's just, it's amazing.
00:07:19.000 These people are not people who are reasonable and rational, and people who agree with their general philosophy of the world should not be imported.
00:07:27.000 Why is any of this controversial?
00:07:29.000 It's insane this is controversial.
00:07:30.000 Don't import millions of people who agree with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard into your civilization.
00:07:35.000 Don't bring in people who agree with the Muslim Brotherhood into your civilization.
00:07:39.000 You'd have to be a moron.
00:07:40.000 To disagree with this general proposition, and yet our entire society has apparently been taken over full scale by morons.
00:07:46.000 By the way, Abbas Araki is still claiming that Moshtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen since March, is still alive.
00:07:51.000 I do not think this is the case.
00:07:53.000 I think that they are pretending that he is alive.
00:07:55.000 His body is likely moldering at this point.
00:07:57.000 And the IRGC is taking his dead hand and manipulating it around to sign things.
00:08:01.000 Here's Abbas Araki saying they haven't put out a video of Mushtaba for security reasons, by the way.
00:08:06.000 Even if that were true, it shows you how penetrated the Iranian regime are.
00:08:10.000 They are so afraid that if they put out one photo of Mushtaba in a closed room with a black backdrop, that somehow the Israelis will find him and kill him.
00:08:17.000 Why has there been no proof of life of the supreme leader since he took power in March?
00:08:28.000 Well, there are security concerns, and you are well aware of that.
00:08:35.000 You know, our supreme leader was illegally assassinated during the last war, and I think it is very logic that we protect our leader.
00:08:48.000 Why not put out a video?
00:08:50.000 Why not put out a video?
00:08:52.000 No, no, for security reasons.
00:08:56.000 Again, just stellar stuff there from the Iranians.
00:08:59.000 What an amazing video you just watched.
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