The Ben Shapiro Show - July 07, 2026


Iran Threatened My Life. Here's My Response

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Ben Shapiro
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Donald Trump Ayatollah Khomeini Lindsey Graham Dmitry Medvedev Miriam Adelson Shabazz Sharif Salman Rushdie Mark Dubowitz Laura Loomer Peter Thiel
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This week, the Iranians are calling for Trump's head to roll, and a poster with his face on it says, "Your head will roll soon." Meanwhile, Iran is firing missiles at commercial tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.

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00:00:00.000 This weekend, mourners at Ayatollah Khomeini's funeral chanted death to America over in Tehran.
00:00:04.000 They threw stones at an image of President Trump.
00:00:07.000 And then they put up some other images, not just President Trump.
00:00:09.000 They also paraded through the streets with a poster of my face with a target over it and said, sooner or later, your head will roll.
00:00:15.000 Well, at the very same moment, this crowd was calling for my head to roll.
00:00:18.000 Iran was firing missiles at commercial tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. 1.00
00:00:21.000 So they seem reasonable. 1.00
00:00:22.000 They seem good.
00:00:23.000 Probably we should, we should, you know, just, you know, talk with them.
00:00:26.000 Probably that'll work.
00:00:27.000 We said this about a million times.
00:00:29.000 When people tell you who they are, it's smart to believe them. 0.97
00:00:32.000 So, there's a funeral for Ayatollah Khomeini, who was, of course, killed by combined American Israeli operation at the beginning of the current Iran conflict. 0.95
00:00:43.000 And I was a little surprised to find my face on a poster over there in Iran.
00:00:49.000 It is not, unfortunately, an ad for the Daily Wire.
00:00:52.000 I don't think we're going to get a lot of subscribers at this particular protest.
00:00:55.000 It is, in fact, a poster of my face with a gun sight on my forehead.
00:01:00.000 And it says on it sooner or later, your heads will roll.
00:01:03.000 Let's see what happens.
00:01:06.000 There it is.
00:01:06.000 Yeah.
00:01:07.000 And they could have found a better picture of me.
00:01:09.000 I'm a little bit unflattering, that particular picture. 0.85
00:01:11.000 This stuff was put out on all the Iranian Telegram channels, on all of their social media.
00:01:16.000 It was broadcast far and wide.
00:01:17.000 Obviously, ain't no posters being put up that do not meet with the approval of the regime.
00:01:24.000 Other people who are included in this sort of litany of people to be shot included the President of the United States, Donald Trump, Mark Dubowitz from the Foundation for Defense of Democracy.
00:01:33.000 They're getting very specific over there in Iran, Miriam Adelson, Lindsey Graham, and Laura Loomer.
00:01:39.000 Peter Thiel, as well, I believe. 0.87
00:01:40.000 So, a real list of luminaries that Iran would like to kill.
00:01:44.000 So, you know, I feel like they should maybe get busy in Iran, not being terrorized by one of the world's worst regimes, but they have other worries.
00:01:54.000 Now, thank God, I'll get a lot of notes.
00:01:56.000 I'm okay.
00:01:57.000 Thank God.
00:01:57.000 Guys have had 24 7 security, like heavy 24 7 security for the last 10 years of my life or so.
00:02:03.000 We've upped it even more now.
00:02:04.000 So, nothing is going to change on that for a long time to come. 0.94
00:02:08.000 Meanwhile, The Khomeini funeral crowd, which included, you know, thousands of people, was chanting death to America, which is great. 0.97
00:02:17.000 So a bunch of different countries sent representatives. 0.95
00:02:20.000 Naturally, China did because they're allied with Iran.
00:02:23.000 Naturally, Russia did.
00:02:24.000 Of course, Dmitry Medvedev showed up.
00:02:26.000 But a couple of countries in the region showed up as well. 0.56
00:02:28.000 Qatar, of course, sent somebody because Qatar is an Iranian cutout. 0.88
00:02:31.000 Again, guys, can we not use as our negotiators the people who pay tribute to the murderous leader of Iran? 0.89
00:02:37.000 Can we do that, please? 0.95
00:02:38.000 Like, truly, could we just do that?
00:02:39.000 That would be great.
00:02:41.000 I understand Qatar is just shoving money into the pockets of people who are immediately adjacent to policymakers in Washington. 0.88
00:02:47.000 I totally get it. 0.60
00:02:47.000 Can we not do that? 0.60
00:02:48.000 That would be awesome.
00:02:50.000 It's one of the reasons we should not be accepting $400 million jets from Qatar.
00:02:53.000 In any case, Qatar sent some folks to visit.
00:02:57.000 Also, Saudi sent their deputy foreign minister.
00:03:01.000 And meanwhile, Iran basically dunked on them.
00:03:04.000 So they played, they put up a video of Quranic verses they had them recited that were recalling the Prophet Muhammad's victory over a much larger army.
00:03:14.000 Which again was seen as Tehran sending a signal to Saudi like guys don't side with the other side.
00:03:20.000 And then there are softer passages that accompany the Qatari delegation.
00:03:24.000 Some other countries in the Middle East, the ones we actually should be allied with, like Bahrain, Kuwait and UAE did not attend. 0.78
00:03:30.000 Well, because it turns out they understand that the Iranians want to destroy them. 0.86
00:03:30.000 Why? 0.86
00:03:34.000 This is a really good acid test for who exactly is reliable in the Middle East. 0.87
00:03:39.000 And the answer is UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait. 0.99
00:03:44.000 Not reliable, Qatar. 0.91
00:03:46.000 And yes, Saudi. 0.94
00:03:47.000 Saudi's going to have to make a choice here. 0.98
00:03:49.000 Listen, I get it. 0.99
00:03:49.000 Now, I get it. 0.99
00:03:50.000 The fact that the administration is stopping short and not sort of finishing the job by bombing Karg Island or bombing South Pars Gas Field or by attempting to even open the strait, you know, all of that is a reason for the country in the region to start trying to triangulate and make nice with the Iranians. 0.86
00:04:07.000 But you can see who exactly is willing to go the whole way.
00:04:11.000 And the fact that you have Saudi on one side and Qatar there, and then Pakistan showed up. 0.55
00:04:16.000 And Pakistan, of course, they're our intermediaries.
00:04:19.000 They're the people who are supposedly our best friends, they're the ones who are helping us get the peace done. 0.57
00:04:23.000 Well, Pakistan showed up too.
00:04:25.000 UAE didn't show up because UAE was like, nope, not doing that.
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00:05:34.000 Here's what it sounded like.
00:05:35.000 These are our reasonable negotiating partners, by the way.
00:05:37.000 These are the people that we are supposed to come to a rational agreement with.
00:05:40.000 They seem nice.
00:05:57.000 He looks like delightful people.
00:06:00.000 It's basically like Colombia.
00:06:01.000 What's the difference?
00:06:02.000 In any case, Khomeini funeral mourners then threw stones at images of President Trump, maybe because they don't understand how stones work, but also there's a picture of a bullet flying at Trump's head. 0.51
00:06:14.000 So President Trump might want to take note of the fact that, you know, the Iranian regime still wants to kill him.
00:06:29.000 So they're throwing stones at it.
00:06:30.000 Unfortunately for them, President Trump isn't actually there.
00:06:33.000 So I guess it's symbolic.
00:06:35.000 The Pakistani Prime Minister, Shabazz Sharif, showed up.
00:06:38.000 This is our negotiator.
00:06:39.000 This is our negotiator showing up to praise Ayatollah Khamenei.
00:06:43.000 Probably we should trust him.
00:06:45.000 Probably the Vice President should sit with him and talk about I love Pakistan.
00:06:48.000 How could it go wrong?
00:06:52.000 Ayatollah Khamenei was a great scholar, a great leader.
00:07:01.000 Who showed resilience, courage, patience, and vision and served Iran with his utmost dedication and unwavering commitment?
00:07:19.000 Pakistan and Iran are two brotherly countries.
00:07:25.000 Our hearts beat together and we will stand together.
00:07:33.000 We shall March together under all circumstances.
00:07:38.000 By the way, we should note here that Iran's top diplomat, Abbasaraki, remember, these are the reasonable ones.
00:07:42.000 They're so reasonable.
00:07:43.000 Things are going great.
00:07:44.000 We keep hearing this from the White House.
00:07:45.000 Well, he said on Tuesday that Tehran would not resume negotiations if U.S. threats continue after President Trump said that the United States would finish the job if a peace deal was not reached.
00:07:56.000 So that's great.
00:07:58.000 That's just awesome.
00:07:59.000 Again, being held up by one of the world's most nefarious powers that basically has essentially the capacity to hit some ships in the strait.
00:08:08.000 Enough is enough.
00:08:09.000 What a delightful, delightful ally we have in Pakistan.
00:08:13.000 They're going to march together in all circumstances.
00:08:15.000 They're close brothers.
00:08:16.000 Probably they should help us negotiate a completely objective deal here.
00:08:19.000 Probably.
00:08:20.000 Meanwhile, Iran, by the way, is striking tankers in the Strait of Hormuz again.
00:08:23.000 So remember that whole peace deal thing that isn't real?
00:08:26.000 Yeah, it turns out not to be real.
00:08:27.000 According to Al Jazeera, a tanker caught fire off the coast of Oman on Monday night after being struck by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz.
00:08:34.000 According to the UK Maritime Trade Operations, separately citing two unnamed U.S. officials, news outlet Axios reports.
00:08:40.000 Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired at least two missiles at commercial ships transiting through the strait on Monday night.
00:08:47.000 So things are going awesome.
00:08:50.000 I can't say it'll go right, guys.
00:08:51.000 It'll be totally fine. 0.99
00:08:53.000 By the way, this would presumably be the reason why Iran would like to kill me, as well as the president, Lindsey Graham, and some others. 0.96
00:08:59.000 I think the reason that they would like to kill us is because, you know, those of us who actually know what Iran is and call them out regularly, that pisses off Iran. 0.78
00:09:06.000 They don't like it very much. 0.95
00:09:08.000 And the thing about Islamic tyrannies is they have long memories. 0.99
00:09:11.000 Salman Rushdie was pursued for. 0.97
00:09:13.000 Literally decades before one of their agents stabbed him in the eye.
00:09:17.000 This is the kind of people that we are dealing with when it comes to an Iranian negotiation, which suggests perhaps we should not be giving them billions of dollars in unfrozen funds to quote unquote open the Strait of Hormuz that remains closed.
00:09:28.000 I don't know, just a thought.
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