Israel strikes Iran in the middle of the night, causing casualties and damage. What does this mean for the Iranian people in the wake of the strike? What will happen next? What is the impact on Iran and what is the possible fallout?
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00:03:09.000Now, of course, Iran knows this as well.
00:03:10.000This is why most of their nuclear facilities and certainly the research facilities are placed underground.
00:03:16.000And so very hard to be able to conduct any analysis directly of any underground structures, of course, just given the nature of what we have.
00:03:24.000Plus the fact that it's the middle of the night in Iran, though I'm sure a lot of reports will be coming out as we go.
00:03:33.000And of course, we're going to be continuing to look at coverage of a potential fallout or retaliatory strikes from Iran against Israel or perhaps U.S. targets within the region.
00:03:43.000This, of course, is why the State Department was putting out that information regarding military personnel and evacuations, non-essentials being sent home, things like this over the past 24 to 48 hours, because the indications certainly were there.
00:03:58.000President Trump, of course, posted and said a number of things today about how the U.S. would not be involved directly, that he was directing all of his administration to focus on diplomacy.
00:04:09.000And we know, of course, that Whitcoff is still, as we know, at least as of before this took place, that there would be there would be meetings held this weekend.
00:05:12.000So Iran's not as big as the United States, but it is a fairly large country.
00:05:16.000I think if you overlaid it, I think it'd be about the size of maybe one quarter of the United States, maybe even one third of the continental United States.
00:05:24.000So it's a large country, and it doesn't border Israel.
00:05:27.000In fact, you have to fly over at least two additional countries to get there.
00:05:31.000They probably flew over Jordan and Iraq.
00:05:37.000If you look at that map, you can see little kind of red cylinders, red pillars.
00:05:42.000Those are their uranium enrichment plants.
00:05:45.000So that's where they're taking uranium and they're running it through centrifuges to make it enriched uranium, which is what you would use for a nuclear weapon.
00:05:55.000And so those are almost certainly the primary targets.
00:05:58.000There are already reports of explosions there.
00:06:03.000Maybe we'll actually get video of it eventually.
00:06:06.000But those will be the places that you want to hit if your desire is to take out a nuclear program.
00:06:11.000But they're in the mountains, I believe.
00:06:14.000At least one or both facilities, they're built underground, so they're difficult to get to.
00:06:18.000So there's been a lot of talk about how this would unfold because the U.S. has some very heavy, we call them bunker-busting munitions.
00:06:26.000They're designed to pulverize very deep underground facilities.
00:06:31.000Israel doesn't have access to those weapons, and we've been hesitant to supply them or give them any access to them.
00:06:38.000And so if we're not involved in this, there's been talk that Israel may have to modify its plans and may have to strike it several times so they could strike it, see if there's any damage, do follow-up hits, and so on.
00:06:50.000But these are difficult places to reach.
00:06:52.000They would be flying several, probably about They're deep inside Iranian airspace.
00:07:01.000They are presumably well defended, so we may learn maybe whether any planes were shot down or whether there's any attempt to shoot them down.
00:07:11.000We're going to be seeing this all unfold very quickly.
00:07:15.000This is breaking news all within the last 20 minutes.
00:07:18.000And so, Jack, help everyone in the audience understand kind of the timeline here.
00:07:22.000I mean, on Sunday there were supposed to be more talks.
00:07:26.000Why did Israel strike even though there were more talks between the United States and Iran and kind of short-circuit that?
00:07:34.000This is a little confusing to our audience.
00:07:36.000Well, Charlie, as we've seen from President Trump, President Trump was very explicit on this.
00:07:42.000And even back in April, when Prime Minister Netanyahu came to the White House and was really pushing for strikes on Iran to be conducted jointly between the United States and Israel, those strikes, of course, were rejected by President Trump.
00:08:01.000That plan was rejected, and it was reported there were some other elements.
00:08:05.000Of the administration, or at least the U.S. government writ large, that we're also working on planning those potential strikes.
00:08:13.000This has been something that Israel has wanted for a long time, strikes on the nuclear program.
00:08:17.000Obviously, they've been targeting their nuclear programs for a decade plus at this point, ever since they embarked on it in the first place.
00:08:25.000Of course, this is all about uranium enrichment, and this has become sort of a jump ball between what you're seeing as the neocons and the I would say the anti-war crowd out there, one crowd pointing to saying, well, wait, there is no nuclear weapons program in Iran.
00:08:42.000the neocons pointing to, well, there's this continued uranium enrichment, which could potentially be used for nuclear weapons, even if there isn't a nuclear weapons program.
00:08:52.000And so this being the impetus for wanting to have a And of course, the political situation in Israel, obviously quite chaotic, given everything that's going on since the end of the ceasefire back in March between Israel and Gaza, the situation with the Hamas terrorists going on, the ongoing war there.
00:09:11.000So a lot of chaos in their internal politics, as well, even a vote on potential early elections that took place just last night in the Knesset in Israel, which Netanyahu survived, but I believe by less than 10. So here's what I don't understand.
00:09:51.000Yeah, I don't want to presume It could be that there are military facilities there they want to hit, so that could be elements of their military command structure.
00:10:01.000Maybe that's where some of their like fighters are based or they're like air defenses.
00:10:06.000So there's any number of reasons they could hit it because presumably they're banking on even if they want to strike the nuclear targets.
00:10:28.000And so I don't know what they would be aiming at, but there's any number of possible reasons they would go for it.
00:10:34.000Okay, so this is happening live right now.
00:10:37.000For those of you that are just tuning in, Israel has launched preemptive military strikes on the interior of Iran against nuclear reactors.
00:10:45.000So, Jack, I want to throw this to you from an intel standpoint.
00:10:59.000The skeptics would say that, well, we've been hearing that for the last 30 years, that Iran is close to a nuclear weapon, close to a nuclear weapon.
00:11:06.000So, Jack, as from an intel standpoint, was Iran close to a nuclear weapon?
00:11:10.000Now, the question of is doesn't really mean anything.
00:11:14.000So tell us, you know, what is really going on here, and can we trust the intel agencies?
00:11:21.000Well, Charlie, this, of course, has been one of the most fractured debates that's gone on from the intel community and members of the U.S. political community, as well as the Israeli political community, as I mentioned before.
00:11:35.000Prime Minister Netanyahu really pushing for these strikes, of course, for quite some time, years in many cases, and has directly targeted these facilities with a variety of cyber attacks and other attacks over the years.
00:11:47.000The question comes down to, and the intel community's official assessment, everyone I've talked to in the intel community has always, and even from my time there, has said that Iran did not have an active.
00:11:59.000Weapons of mass destruction program in the sense of having an actual nuclear weapons program.
00:12:08.000But what they were doing was this uranium enrichment.
00:12:12.000And then the question, of course, and even, by the way, even D&I Gabbard, who many people pointed to and say that obviously she's no hawk, even she pointed out that their uranium enrichment was much higher, at a much higher yield than anyone would need for only a fuel program.
00:12:30.000and so a lot of the war hawks have been pointing to that saying look it's clear that they're going to do this in order to uh in order to try to ratchet up their their ability for um their ability for escalation and so one of the things though that people pointed to is say well iran Trump, of course, ended Obama's Iran deal, which was a total handoff to them back in 2018.
00:12:58.000He ends this thing after the pallets of cash, and he had run on it, of course.
00:13:06.000And so after ending that deal, that's really when Iran pushed towards this enrichment to say, we are going to essentially kind of have a middle ground of saying, well, we're not restarting the program, but we are enriching this uranium, which of course puts them in a situation to say, well, they would potentially be able, if they chose, to use that in a weapon at any time.
00:13:28.000That being said, though, You know, that's my distillation of the intel on both sides there.
00:13:34.000That being said, we do know that Iran had been, it seems in good faith, conducting these negotiations with Steve Whitcoff, having meetings with him as appointed by President Trump.
00:13:45.000We saw President Trump earlier today saying that he had directed all members of his administration to pursue negotiations and diplomatic measures.
00:14:03.000And something where you've also seen in reports, I believe The Guardian had actually put out at one point that there was a potential for Russia to come in and be the guarantor of this program.
00:14:13.000Russia, of course, being the country that finished the building of the Bushir nuclear power plant, which we had on the map a minute ago, that's there on the coast.
00:14:20.000That is their completed nuclear power plant, the only one function.
00:14:24.000And so this had been a potential triangulation, if you will, of the negotiations between Ukraine, Russia, Israel.
00:14:38.000And Iran to say if the Russians were able to come in, this would be something that Obama's Iran deal had never considered, although it is kind of similar to one of the Syria deals prior to the Red Line back in 2013, where Russia came in and was the guarantor of Syria's chemical weapons.
00:14:56.000China also played a small role in that.
00:14:57.000And so there was really a lot of potential for talk regarding this.
00:15:02.000Now, of course, it remains to be seen what will happen because we don't know what the fallout will be.
00:15:08.000Both locally from, again, whether or not these facilities were destroyed.
00:15:12.000I think there are a lot of questions as to whether or not Israel had the capability of actually being able to really take out the program, given the fact that they are underground.
00:15:20.000Blake was mentioning that Israel doesn't have the bunker buster bombs that the U.S. has to be able to go after those underground facilities.
00:15:27.000And then, of course, whether or not Iran decides to blame the United States or claim this as some kind of proxy attack and cancel the negotiation.
00:15:35.000So a lot of that is going to be up in the air, just as the Israeli jets are up in the air right now over Iran.
00:15:46.000Blake, on the ground, what is going on in Israel?
00:15:49.000And do we know the breadth or the depth or the scale of these military strikes?
00:15:55.000And walk our audience through exactly the technical side of what just happened, probably what's happening right now.
00:16:01.000There are probably jets still right now, we know this certainly, in the air that are coming back from Israel.
00:16:07.000And we kind of saw this happening real time in our group chats.
00:16:09.000We're like, oh, there are sources that hear jets over Iraq.
00:16:13.000I mean, we kind of had a little bit more of a heads up than that.
00:16:16.000Blake, before you do that, everybody watching, I want to hear from you, freedomatcharliekirk.com.
00:16:20.000Do you support Israel striking Iran preemptively?
00:16:24.000I want to hear from you, freedomatcharliekirk.com.
00:16:27.000We're very interested, freedomatcharliekirk.com.
00:16:32.000So first of all, if you want the absolute breaking stuff, I'm monitoring...
00:16:36.000israeli news sites uh the jerusalem post hearts those are going to be where you get any info from the israeli government the idf as quickly as possible also of course on x it was very funny how you know we were seeing on xo reports of planes flying reports of explosions and then i'm looking at the new york times i'm looking at cnn it takes them Are you kidding me?
00:17:00.000And, you know, yeah, I think we were live before CNN even had a little, you know, thing up top.
00:17:04.000But I want to read what's, Jerusalem Post has kind of a breaking, steadily updated thing where they're getting the info from the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces.
00:17:14.000And so what they say is, first of all, there are warning sirens have been set off to get the public ready for a potential Iranian counterattack.
00:17:21.000No ballistic missiles have been fired yet, but there are thousands of them.
00:17:25.000According to the IDF, so this is their justification for action, they said that Iran had enough uranium to weaponize it to nuclear levels to make 15 nuclear weapons within days.
00:17:38.000In recent days, they say, Iran developed a plan with Hezbollah and Hamas and other proxies to destroy the state of Israel, potentially including attempts to attack via all borders including Egypt and Jordan.
00:17:53.000The IDF says this was, quote, a point of no return.
00:17:58.000Benjamin Netanyahu has entered the security cabinet.
00:18:01.000They're having some high-stakes meeting of the cabinet.
00:18:04.000This might be answering your question about why they would hit Tehran.
00:18:08.000IDF targets include commanders, bases, as well as nuclear sites, though the main goal is the nuclear sites.
00:18:16.000The IDF claims they believe Iran was taken by surprise and was attacked in places they did not expect.
00:18:23.000That would potentially answer the question of why they would do it now, rather than waiting through the weekend.
00:18:28.000There might be an element that they had already given up on the process, but they didn't want to tip their hand that they had given up by waiting for negotiations over the weekend to fail.
00:18:43.000Israel has had strong coordination with the U.S., but Israeli military officials refuse to say whether America was pre-updated or fully coordinated into the current attack.
00:18:56.000And that's all the relevant info we have now, and they're constantly adding to this.
00:19:01.000So I think this is statements that are coming from an IDF person as we speak, and it's middle of the night there.
00:20:58.000So whether that's true or not, I think we're certainly going to see the U.S. government claim that we were not involved in this because obviously once this has happened, our biggest concern is our American troops in Iraq, in Kuwait, in Saudi Arabia, in whatever bases we have in the Middle East, are they going to be in danger of being hit?
00:21:21.000And so what does the retaliation then look like?
00:21:25.000We got Tyler Boyer in the chair, which I actually want to ask the political question to Tyler next, because I'm also, this is going to schism MAGA terribly online.
00:21:33.000I mean, you are going to see, I don't want to say a MAGA civil war, but it's going to be a MAGA online food fight, the likes of which is going to be very, very hard to navigate.
00:21:43.000We saw this coming, but apparently that was not...
00:21:52.000And what do you have to say, Jack, to this idea that there might be Iranian sleeper cells in America that Joe Biden allowed in the country?
00:22:01.000We had 10 million people come into the country.
00:22:03.000Are there Iranian sleeper cells right now in America that then could be activated by the mullahs?
00:22:09.000Well, Charlie, of course, the answer is yes, that could Iran have gotten sleeper cells in the United States?
00:22:14.000I think that's increasingly likely and and almost certainly they have operatives within the United States.
00:22:39.000Look, we just saw the Ukrainians launch this huge kamikaze-style drone attack deep within Russian territory.
00:22:47.000It would be very easy for Iran to do something like that or to have smuggled such types of things across the U.S. border in the Biden years where there was no operational control of vast swaths of the U.S. border other than by the cartels.
00:23:00.000So it would be it would be very simple for them to just pay the cartels to allow them to do such a thing.
00:23:05.000When it comes to direct retaliation, though, I think more than likely at this point, unless unless more information comes in at this point, it seems as though their retaliation will be.
00:23:28.000They have a robust ballistic missile program.
00:23:31.000They have two, by the way, two militaries in Iran, the nominal Iranian forces, the regulars, as well as the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
00:23:41.000Those are the forces that are directly Subordinated to the Ayatollah.
00:23:47.000So there's the Ayatollah's forces and the country's forces.
00:23:50.000It's a little bit different than we do in the United States, as it would be.
00:23:55.000But certainly they have ballistic missile capability, and I would expect that that is what they use, again, in strikes on Israel.
00:24:02.000Obviously, we'll see, you know, I think Israeli Air Force bases, potentially whatever bases were used to conduct this strike, would probably be the most likely attacks.
00:24:29.000So, you guys can watch all the chattering people on TV, but we have good sources here.
00:24:33.000This seems to be like an all-out attack and possibly the start of another regional war.
00:24:39.000That is what I am—that's what—again, you guys can say that's not true, but this is from very, very good intel.
00:24:47.000I mean, I'm seeing here that Jerusalem Post just continues to update, and they say there are mixed reports of a possibility that Israel has targeted Iran's chief of staff.
00:24:57.000That would be presumably—I think I've got his name here—General Mohammed Bagheri.
00:25:04.000General Mohammed Bagheri, chief of staff, that would be the— Basically the top general, you know, like Milley was chief of staff under Biden.
00:25:11.000I can't remember who our chief of staff is right now.
00:25:16.000So if you're trying to decapitate the top of their military, you've moved beyond just a limited strike on their nuclear sites, and you are attempting to hobble their entire military apparatus.
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00:27:44.000I mean, I think the debate's already started.
00:27:46.000It's pretty much a wildfire on X, which is, you know, if there's one thing, if you could probably sum up President Trump's campaign from 2024, it was that electing me is going to prevent World War III.
00:28:00.000Is that fair to say with the conversation with Kamala?
00:28:05.000And so this was one of the biggest promises, if not the biggest promise of the campaign, is with me, you get less war.
00:28:24.000And, you know, right now we kind of went into this week going, well, if President Trump isn't strong enough with the rioters in L.A. That's going to be problematic.
00:28:35.000If President Trump is not strong enough on the border, we've known this all throughout and provides any kind of amnesty to illegals and to the anti-American protesters that we've seen in California, that's going to be a problem.
00:28:49.000But war with Iran, I would argue, is going to spin out into something here that's much bigger than what I think we even are realizing right now.
00:29:02.000But they're going to try to blame Trump for war, regardless of how hard he fights against it.
00:29:14.000So this is multi-regional is what it looks like.
00:29:18.000Speaker Johnson yesterday announced he's actually going to be addressing the Israeli Knesset on June 22nd.
00:29:31.000If it's true, if it's true, and if it's true that Israel is striking Iran more than just nuclear facilities and they're going after chief of staff, according to Amir Safardi, who's very, very well respected and is very well sourced, he says, quote, high probability that Iran's chief of staff was eliminated.
00:29:52.000Iran began this attack with the direct elimination of many IRGC commanders.
00:29:58.000So if it is more than just targeting Iranian nuclear facilities, does that change your level of support?
00:30:34.000I hope they're holding it via Zoom, because I feel like I always read about these meetings getting blown up.
00:30:40.000But, yeah, yeah, so second-in-command under, and, like, they're saying second-in-command under the Supreme Leader, who is a religious cleric.
00:32:28.000by the way, all of Israel, and the entire stability of the region, not to mention what it would do to the fallout of oil prices?
00:32:36.000Here we are at the beginning of summer, folks, beginning of summer, and we've got a war kicking off.
00:32:41.000In the Middle East, which has, and if these indications are true, has all the hallmarks of something that could incite a wider regional war.
00:32:51.000What do you think that's going to do to gas prices, to supplies, to everything else as we look at the very beginning of the summer?
00:32:58.000Certainly, this is not what, and yeah, Israeli media is, now again, Israeli media.
00:33:07.000Is saying that this was coordinated with the United States.
00:33:10.000I'm going to wait to hear from our own presidents of the United States when it comes to something like that.
00:33:17.000But of course, that is what they're putting out right now.
00:33:20.000Again, we just saw President Trump a few hours ago say negotiations.
00:33:25.000And of course, there was a lot of reporting.
00:33:29.000They're just getting this as but it could be a translation thing.
00:33:34.000So this is Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who says the following.
00:33:37.000Tonight, Israel took unilateral action against Iran.
00:33:40.000We are not involved in the strikes against Iran, and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region.
00:33:46.000Israel advised us that they believed this was necessary for its self-defense.
00:33:49.000President Trump and the administration taken all necessary steps to protect our forces and remain in close contact All being said, that is a very, very neutral statement from Marco Rubio.
00:34:04.000That was not a supportive statement at all, by the way.
00:34:07.000That was, in fact, what he's attempting to do here is put distance.
00:34:11.000So what he's trying to do is put distance between the United States.
00:34:14.000Look, the United States has 40,000 to 50,000 troops in the Middle East writ large.
00:34:20.000So yes, of course, we have combat troops and a variety of troops on the ground in Iraq and Syria.
00:34:27.000But of course, we have troops all over.
00:34:31.000Of course, DOD calls it the Arabian Gulf, but I'm not in uniform right now, so I'm going to say Persian Gulf, because that's what most people know.
00:34:37.000And a variety, a variety of targets right across the Gulf.
00:34:42.000When you're talking about Qatar, when you're talking about our troops in Bahrain, our troops in Jordan, our troops in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, just all over the place, all over the place, not to mention, I believe the Carl Vinson aircraft carrier, the carrier battle group is there, and the Truman is there.
00:35:00.000Plus, we know that back in April during these, the Houthi strikes, when all that was going on, there were B2 bombers that were flown to Diego Garcia.
00:35:28.000I was just going to say that response from Marco Rubio.
00:35:31.000I mean, Marco Rubio historically has not been a person to shy away from, you know, over the course of his long career from Neo Connie type, you know, excitement.
00:36:22.000The U.S. is then pressured to send more aid to Israel.
00:36:26.000MAGA will likely resist sending more aid to Israel based on the emails that I'm getting right now.
00:36:32.000And I want to hear from you guys, freedomatcharliekirk.com.
00:36:35.000By the way, there are initial reports, it's fog of war, that a high-rise apartment, a Initial reports of missiles launched by Iran towards Israel.
00:36:49.000So the question is, do you guys support sending U.S. money and military aid to Israel?
00:37:38.000Why not trust the work that Steve Witkoff is doing and try to find a way where certainly we know that President Trump has been committed to peace?
00:37:48.000This obviously is not the path towards peace.
00:37:51.000This is the path towards a wider regional war.
00:37:55.000And of course, hearing whether or not it's true that there were strikes in some of these other regions, whether it be Yemen on the Houthis who are Iran's proxy force there or other areas.
00:38:09.000The goal, of course, would be to incite a wider regional war or perhaps provoke a unified response from the Arab countries against the non-
00:38:30.000And so the question is, of course, I think on everyone's mind, how large will Iran's retaliations be?
00:38:40.000And quite frankly, how far are these strikes going to go?
00:38:44.000Is this the first round, or is this the opening salvo of strikes?
00:38:48.000And if it's simply this and we can all go to bed, perhaps that's one thing.
00:38:54.000But I don't think that's how it's going to be.
00:38:58.000Also, Tyler, I think, Tyler, there's going to be some major protests and riots in the country coming up in the next couple of days.
00:39:09.000And one interesting comment that just came through from a person I really trust just said, hey, please don't forget, we just saw the statement from Marco Rubio.
00:39:29.000Or does this happen much faster, much earlier, which I think it probably would have.
00:39:34.000Something of this nature is probably, they're probably a little bit bummed actually that Trump got elected because they were wanting to strike much more quickly.
00:39:43.000And again, depending upon where you're at on the spectrum with that, but I'm just so grateful that Kamala Harris is a president right now.
00:39:50.000Can you imagine the amount of instability?
00:41:09.000So the politics of this are quite interesting.
00:41:12.000I'm trying to understand the situation on the ground.
00:41:16.000So Iran has declared a nationwide state of emergency.
00:41:19.000Netanyahu says, quote, this operation will continue for as many days as it takes.
00:41:24.000There are multiple reports of residential buildings that are being collapsed, multiple residential buildings in Tehran on fire or collapsing after Israeli airstrikes on Iran's capital.
00:41:44.000But help me understand, Jack, if this is just going after nuclear reactors or nuclear weapons, are they striking the apartment buildings because maybe there were generals there?
00:41:54.000This seems a lot broader than just a targeted strike against Iranian nuclear reactors.
00:42:02.000Also, another possibility could be, and I think you see this quite a bit in Ukraine, where they may have been conducting attacks and potentially targeting command structures, command and control structures within Tehran.
00:42:19.000Of course, that's where Iranian leadership is.
00:42:21.000And the reason that you're seeing these hits on Apartment buildings and residential buildings rather than on command and control centers of the higher leadership.
00:42:31.000This is what happens potentially when you see missiles that are shot down, when you see interceptors, when you see debris, when you see these various types of munitions, you get blowback.
00:42:43.000And so that blowback ends up hitting the, you know, might hit the tower, but not take it out, conduct debris.
00:42:50.000That's where you're hitting civilians on and getting that collateral damage.
00:42:55.000Unfortunately, as the parlance is, the civilians do become that damage if it is one of those situations where there's a missile shoot down from Iranian air defense missiles or potentially if a missile malfunctioned.
00:43:15.000But of course, as you say, if there were a general or some high-level official, some cleric inside, then that was being targeted if they were the second-in-command.
00:43:25.000Potentially, although the question is, would they really be living in a civilian high-rise like that?
00:43:30.000And so a lot of this is going to shake out.
00:43:33.000We're still in the fog of war, but this is war.
00:44:17.000Will American forces in the region face retaliatory measures?
00:44:22.000Again, all of this really coming into question here as we determine the initial battle damage assessments from what we're being told, at least, is the opening salvo of strikes.
00:44:37.000This is the official statement from the IDF 519.
00:44:40.000For years, the Iranian regime has called for the destruction of the state of Israel.
00:44:45.000Planning and advancing concrete military plans to do so.
00:44:49.000Over the past few months, intelligence has shown that Iran is closer than ever to obtaining a nuclear weapon.
00:44:56.000This morning, the IDF began preemptive and precise strikes targeting the Iranian nuclear program in order to prevent the Iranian regime's ability to build a nuclear bomb in the immediate time frame.
00:47:00.000I think in 1992 or 1993 is the first time Netanyahu, I think he was just a member of the Knesset then, he said Iran was three to five years away from getting a nuclear weapon.
00:47:10.000And then about three years later, he said they're one to two years away from a nuclear weapon.
00:47:15.000And then he said, you know, they're six months to a year.
00:47:17.000He was saying that around the time of the Iraq war.
00:47:20.000He was saying that during Obama's administration.
00:47:21.000He was saying that during Trump's first administration.
00:50:04.000And so, I guess the question is, Jack, the escalatory response here, what could Iran do if they go all out to try to respond to Israel?
00:50:15.000and will they loop the United States or Saudi Arabia into that?
00:50:18.000Well, yeah, Charlie, like I said, in any...
00:50:23.000military scenario, your assessment, you want to usually create two most likely and most dangerous.
00:50:27.000So I said earlier that the most likely course of action will be strikes on Israel's military strikes on their We'll see if Israel is able to counter that.
00:50:45.000And now, as we're learning more about these strikes on Iranian leadership, well, I'm sure that Iran's generals and the leaders of the IRGC, as well as Somalas, they're probably going to be calling for strikes on Israeli leadership as well, I would say, including the Knesset building itself, where Speaker Johnson is supposed to be speaking himself in just 10 days.
00:51:08.000That, again, depends on the level of this opening salvo and whether or not there are more waves of strikes planned.
00:51:17.000Fighters traveling Mach 2 would take about two hours, excuse me, 45 minutes to reach Tehran from Tel Aviv.
00:51:27.00045 minutes to an hour between salvo so we'll know pretty soon here since the first round of strikes is about one hour ago if there's another round of strikes taking place tonight we'll know that pretty soon it should be occurring and so If if they want to go further than that, of course, hitting Israeli energy infrastructure, hitting Israeli civilian targets, as well as potentially even threatening holy sites, of course, all could be on the table.
00:51:55.000Most dangerous scenario, of course, could be the the shutdown.
00:52:03.000I know people say it all the time, but just to explain it, that's a critical choke point.
00:52:10.000It is a very narrow strip of water through which 20% of the entire world's oil supply flows through on a daily basis.
00:52:21.000And so putting mines in the Strait of Hormuz or putting out these picket ships from the fast attack boats, from the IRGC and the IRGC Navy.
00:52:32.000Could all be potential threats to that civilian merchant shipping and to those supertankers traveling through this trade of Hormuz.
00:52:39.000This would, of course, roil energy markets and be used to be able to essentially hold hostage the entire world's economy.
00:53:11.000I think in the context of the situation, unless like incredibly strong proof is offered that they that as the IDF claims they were about to assemble nuclear weapons and launch an attack, which.
00:53:25.000I it sounds it's a very strong sounding claim to me that you could see in the Jerusalem Post.
00:53:31.000They were claiming that they were planning to build about a dozen nuclear weapons.
00:53:35.000They would be able to assemble them quickly.
00:53:36.000And they were planning an attack on Israel, including via the Egyptian and Jordanian border.
00:53:42.000They were essentially claiming a like pan Middle Eastern plot to attack Israel, like a six day war type scenario when, you know, the overall situation is, you know, They've basically stayed out of this one.
00:53:58.000I'm really interested in what the basis of that claim is.
00:54:02.000And so what you have is they were in negotiations with the United States.
00:54:07.000We've had some missile exchanges back and forth.
00:54:11.000There's certainly room to claim this was already a very low-level war, especially when you take into account that Hamas is to some extent a proxy.
00:54:20.000Hezbollah is definitely a proxy of Iran.
00:54:22.000There's already a lot of conflict between the two.
00:54:25.000They'll certainly be able to claim we did not take this radical step and we were still in negotiations with the United States.
00:54:32.000And combined with the fact that their population already doesn't like Israel that much, the wider Middle East doesn't like Israel that much, I think this is going to not be great for their reputation.
00:54:44.000I imagine Israel's calculation was this is dangerous enough.
00:54:47.000We don't really care about our reputation on this one.
00:54:50.000That is going to be their attitude on it.
00:54:52.000Now, how this unfolds from here, I get scared by the fact that our ability to control what happens here is very limited.
00:55:02.000Essentially, Iran has the chance to decide how they want to respond and how much they want us involved.
00:55:10.000Right now, I think our attitude here, you know, you, Charlie, Tyler, Jack, our attitude is we don't want war.
00:55:17.000And I think most of MAGA is saying the same thing.
00:55:25.000But Iran has thousands of ballistic missiles.
00:55:27.000Now, maybe they shoot all of them at Israel, but maybe they lob them at a bunch of bases and in two days there are 200 dead U.S. troops who got blown to smithereens by an Iranian response.
00:56:27.000It has spent way more time preparing for a war against the United States.
00:56:32.000By which I mean, Iraq was this sort of play army.
00:56:37.000like they were trying to pretend to be America.
00:56:38.000So they had tanks and they had dudes with machine guns and they had fighter jets, Iran actually, like, is more self-aware that they are outmatched by the United States.
00:56:55.000So, for example, they have a navy, but it's like all little motorboats that you can put little suicide bombers on, and you try to sail them up to a boat and blow it up.
00:57:04.000They have a ton of stuff that is designed for a weak country fighting against a strong country.
00:57:12.000And yeah, We can drop a ton of bombs on Tehran.
00:57:15.000We can drop a ton of bombs on any other place.
00:57:18.000Not as many because we gave a bunch of them to Ukraine.
00:57:21.000But I don't know that we actually have the ability to just take 100,000 U.S. troops, 200,000 U.S. troops and try to occupy Iran in some regime change war.
00:57:32.000And I think Iran might realize that and think, make my day.
00:57:36.000America, we're going to try to get you sucked into this because we hate you and we're going to And if they decide to do that, I don't know if we at this point have the power to stop them.
00:57:49.000If they kill hundreds of U.S. troops, I don't know that there will be the political will to say we have to stay out of this one.
00:59:30.000We don't know some because of what came in during the Biden years.
00:59:32.000There will be a full alert for all counterterrorism outfits in the country to be looking for any suspicious activity that would suggest that Iran has given some signal to its sleeper cells here to attack on U.S. things.
00:59:47.000All military personnel have been on alert for two days already in the Middle East, but they'll be watching for all signs that Iran tries to drag, as you said, drag U.S. into this attack by attacking our troops.
00:59:59.000All of that is ongoing as we speak right now.
01:00:03.000But it is true that Trump didn't want this attack tonight.
01:00:06.000He told Netanyahu, if you got to do it because you feel like you have an imminent threat, you do it, but you do it on your own and you have to deal with it, what the consequences are.
01:00:15.000So we're watching things really closely.
01:00:17.000I think, Mark, the Rubio statement is very important.
01:00:26.000Well, so, John, how does that then manifest from military aid missiles?
01:00:30.000Because if Israel is going to get into a regional or a kinetic war, then at what, I mean, Because I can tell you right now, our audience is so against what Israel is doing right now, just looking at the emails.
01:00:44.000Does this mean that the U.S. aid to Israel is over?
01:00:50.000Listen, Donald Trump has still been a strong supporter of Israel.
01:00:53.000Donald Trump has fresh in his mind atrocities that Iran allowed and funded and caused to happen on October 7th, which was their 9/11.
01:01:01.000I think the president will I think we will continue to support them in the short term.
01:01:08.000That's the guidance I got earlier today.
01:01:11.000The Trump White House knew this was going for two days, so there's been no surprise about it.
01:01:15.000It really comes down to how does Iran react in the next several days?
01:01:21.000Does it try to drag another Western or American ally into this, attack Saudi Arabia, attack Iraq, attack our troops and some of our forward-leaning bases in the Middle East?
01:02:01.000And then America will go back to the bargaining table and say, "Let's not have another one of these.
01:02:06.000Let's get this done." Now, if Israel hits successfully a major nuclear site and Iran is really upset and they actually caused damage and set the program back, Iran might want to prolong it.
01:02:31.000About two hours ago, the UN Atomic Weapons Agency said that Iran is more out of compliance than it's been in a long time on its nuclear obligations.
01:02:41.000That is something that comes from a body that's more generally sympathetic to Iran.
01:02:47.000It is a warning sign that Iran might be moving ahead with a nuclear weapon.
01:02:51.000But I think the US is going to let Israel fight this on its own.
01:04:52.000Moments ago, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, a targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel's very survival.
01:05:03.000This operation will continue for as many days as it takes to remove this threat.
01:05:09.000For decades, the tyrants of Tehran have brazenly, openly called for Israel's destruction.
01:05:16.000They've backed up their genocidal rhetoric with a program to develop nuclear weapons.
01:05:21.000In recent years, Iran has produced enough highly enriched uranium for nine atom bombs.
01:06:11.000I've always taken the grain of salt that Iran's getting really close to a nuclear weapon.
01:06:15.000But in the last eight months, both people who are very liberal and have been very supportive and tolerant of Iran have told me they have really accelerated.
01:06:26.000We're seeing a level of behavior we haven't seen.
01:06:29.000That was really the message today in the UN.
01:06:32.000Atomic weapons statement that came out, which I think surprised Iran.
01:07:40.000Going back to John's question regarding the sleeper cells, I would like to hear more about what we know about potential sleeper cells that came in under Biden.
01:08:21.000There is grave concern that there are far more than we know of.
01:08:25.000The FBI, since the moment Kash Patel got in, has put a big press in to get all the identities of anyone they think could be Even remotely associated with radicals.
01:08:35.000But three months isn't enough to undo the damage of four years of Joe Biden.
01:09:03.000And if you poke this bear, you're going to regret it.
01:09:06.000According to CNN, the entire Iranian general staff, including the head of all military, several senior Iranian nuclear scientists, all eliminated tonight, Intel suggests.
01:09:50.000First, Caitlin, something I just heard from a senior Israeli official who says that according to Israeli assessments, There are very high chances that the entire Iranian general staff, including the head of the Iranian general staff of the Iranian military and several senior Iranian nuclear scientists, were all eliminated in the Israeli strikes tonight.
01:10:15.000So here's where our audience is a little confused, John.
01:10:31.000As I said, these early statements that Israel give often has a little bit of propaganda.
01:10:36.000It often has a little bit of misdirection.
01:10:39.000Listen, I'm not unconvinced that when the president said he had sent Whitcoff back as an ambassador that it wasn't a head fake to make the Iranians think they had more time because the Iranians were, even though Donald Trump signaled for two days.
01:10:53.000I can tell you from what I've heard on the ground and from our own intel before I got on air here, the Iranians were caught a little flat-footed, even though they were being told.
01:11:01.000So it's possible that Wyckoff and the idea that he was coming back to the region might have lulled them into some complacency.
01:11:08.000They were caught a little bit flat-footed.
01:11:10.000They could have all been at a meeting preparing, thinking they had another day before Israel.
01:11:22.000I know for certain from talking to my Israeli sources that beyond the nuclear reactor targeting, there was the decapitation strategy to get some of the Iranian National Guard and those generals that were most capable in the nuclear warfare to be knocked out tonight if they could get.
01:11:40.000John, please tell the audience how people can support Just the News, some of your reporting, and what are you keeping your eye on most closely in the coming hours and days?
01:11:49.000FBI response is going to be number one.
01:13:33.000You may already own a firearm, but before you face the financial and emotional weight of pulling the trigger, consider Berna.
01:13:39.000Berna's less lethal launchers fire tear gas and kinetic rounds designed to incapacitate attackers for up to 40 minutes, giving you time to escape and call for help without deadly consequences.
01:15:18.000You're not going to be seeing a lot of footage of those getting hit because they're not where a bunch of people are.
01:15:22.000But when you see them hitting buildings in Tehran, that's them going after Iranian officials, Iranian generals, Iranian military command and control.
01:15:35.000You know, if they're preparing for a normal war, that they're worried about the conventional response of the Iranian forces.
01:15:41.000So this is not merely a strike on their nuclear program.
01:15:45.000It's the opening volley of what could be an extended air war, and I shudder to say it's potentially some sort of ground war.
01:15:53.000Like, they don't have a land border with Israel, but they have a land border with Iraq.
01:15:57.000That's a country where we have soldiers.
01:15:59.000There's a lot of room for this to escalate.
01:16:02.000And a big thing to know about wars is once they begin, they evolve in directions that nobody can predict and you can't necessarily expect and you definitely can't control.
01:16:15.000To put this into perspective, Charlie and Blake, the Democrats right now are more concerned about Senator Padilla right now than they are anything having to do with...
01:16:26.000Yeah, Hakeem Jeffries did a post about...
01:16:29.000Yeah, like after this had begun, just, oh yeah, I'm talking about this other thing.
01:16:36.000They're completely trying to obfuscate any kind of responsibility on either side of this major, major world changing, like to your point, world changing issue.
01:16:47.000I mean, this is going to be a historical moment probably for how.
01:16:53.000We talked a little bit in the chat about Russia, what Russia's response is going to look like in the midst of war with Ukraine.
01:17:00.000It's going to be a very interesting moment that happens now where things have to move.
01:17:05.000And the Democrats, the best they can do, the best they can muster up, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi, all of their most recent posts within the last hour, last few hours, have been about Alex Padilla.
01:17:20.000And him, you know, rightfully getting thrown to the ground.
01:17:25.000So this is how unserious the Democrat Party is.
01:17:27.000And this is part of the reason why the Democrats are losing so much ground with the American people is that we're watching, you know, really serious things happen right now.
01:17:36.000And you have really serious players at the table like, you know.
01:17:39.000Former Senator Marco Rubio, who's now Secretary of State, who's been doing an incredible job.
01:17:45.000He's getting extremely high approval ratings.
01:17:47.000Some of the highest that we've seen out of administrative members for the last three presidents.
01:17:53.000And we can't even get the Democrats to come out of their hole to give their response.
01:18:02.000And that's bad for America because what the Democrats are doing is they're posturing the So, you know, the answer, John Solomon was just talking about what happens tomorrow.
01:18:14.000You were talking about what happens tomorrow when Americans die.
01:18:18.000And that's where the big boys actually have to make a decision on what do we do as an American people?
01:18:23.000What are the decisions that we have to make?
01:18:24.000What's the listening that we have to do to people?
01:18:26.000And you have half of Americans represented, effectively half of Americans, slightly less this last election, represented by Democrats.
01:18:38.000And they are torn ideologically within their own party in defending Jewish people and going after the Jewish people and their identity that revolves around Israel.
01:18:54.000So we're in a really interesting time right now where we are going to be...
01:19:18.000which is that a lot of people have had a lot of negative things to say about Congress because of their lack of ability to pass basic cuts.
01:19:27.000And now we have a real conflict on our hands.
01:19:30.000And the Trump administration being able to show up and handle this correctly and appropriately and be a true world leader, especially in the shadows of a really devolving Democrat Party, is, I think, a really great opportunity for Republicans.
01:19:45.000But this is an opportunity for us to unify.
01:19:53.000Figure out things before you go out and start spouting off stuff because the Democrats are positioning themselves to have a unified message.
01:20:00.000That's why they're not saying anything.
01:20:01.000That's why their last posts are about Padilla.
01:20:04.000That's going to be a very interesting thing, what they come out with.
01:20:35.000I know I said this earlier, but I'm going to say it again.
01:20:38.000There's going to be hell to pay between President Trump and B.B. Netanyahu.
01:20:43.000If Netanyahu did this in defiance of what Trump asked him to do.
01:20:49.000This, of course, as we know, has been a huge crux of their relationship.
01:20:54.000They've gotten into it before, going back to 2020, even going back to the Soleimani strike.
01:20:59.000And, of course, we know that a regional war is the very last It's the very last thing that he asked for.
01:21:11.000It's the very last thing that he wants right now.
01:21:13.000And so this idea that President Trump would be totally okay with this after spending all day saying negotiations only, the question is, what did he say to Netanyahu?
01:21:27.000And of course, what's he going to come back and, and respond?
01:21:31.000And of course, of course, if Israel does, and I'll And if Iran does retaliate by raining missiles down on Israel, then will the U.S. be drawn in?
01:21:49.000Will the U.S., again, the 40,000 to 50,000 U.S. military personnel, the carrier strike groups, the Red Sea, the Strait of Hormuz, the bombers down in Diego Garcia, all the rest of this, are they going to be sucked in?
01:22:02.000Is the United States about to be sucked into yet another war in the Middle East?
01:22:07.000Because that's exactly the opposite of what I campaigned for, what President Trump campaigned for back in Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin.
01:22:15.000And I was with him at all of those states.
01:22:17.000And I don't think the people of those rallies were campaigning for a wider regional war in the Middle East.
01:22:28.000According to Washington Post, U.S. defense official says Israel's attack is likely to provoke a strong Iranian response and then Israel will likely ask the United States to help counter Iran's response.
01:22:40.000And that is where this is going to become a real challenge.
01:22:45.000Frankly, is like, OK, it's easy to say we oppose war now, but this Iran really has a huge amount of control over where this goes.
01:24:05.000Again, we know this is what the Russians have been asking for.
01:24:08.000Lavrov has said so many times in all of these meetings and his head in his meeting with Secretary Rubio as well, that what they're looking for is a wider negotiation with the United States on all fronts, not just Europe, not just And this had been potentially an area where the Russians could be partners with the United States.
01:24:32.000Russia does not, has never said they wanted Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
01:24:37.000Iran having a nuclear weapon is an issue for Russia even more than it's an issue for the United States, because if there's regional instability in the Middle East, that's right in Russia's backyard.
01:24:48.000They have borders throughout that region.
01:24:54.000Again, Russia has a massive land empire, so they've got borders from Europe to Central Asia to the Middle East, all the way out to China and Mongolia in their Far East, and even, of course, touching Japan in a sense.
01:25:06.000And so this Strategic calculus between the United States and Russia could be absolutely critical right now between Trump and Putin.
01:25:16.000And if Trump and Putin, I'm sure President Trump, by the way, is talking to a variety of world leaders tonight.
01:25:22.000We know the White House has convened this cabinet meeting.
01:25:24.000We know that the Situation Room has been active all day at the White House.
01:25:29.000So I'm sure that President Trump has been in communication with many world leaders.
01:25:32.000And I would expect to be speaking with Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and many others this very night.
01:25:37.000I think it's going to be very interesting.
01:25:40.000Some people, there are some speculation that the Ukraine-Russia conflict that's going on right now, it plays at a huge...
01:26:07.000based off of this whole thing which also is a dynamic of the outcomes from these strikes that are happening which is Maybe there's some immediate positives that come from that because of the concern that I think so many of us had about that.
01:26:23.000Democrats will shout and scream and say, oh my gosh, now we are giving too much power again to Russia and everything else.
01:26:29.000It's going to be a very interesting outcome.
01:26:31.000But I do think a net positive of this is perhaps it does close that window.
01:26:35.000Perhaps it does bring Russia to the table.
01:26:38.000Perhaps it does bring some working together to ensure that there is peace in the Middle East.
01:26:45.000You know, guys, and I'll say this as well, you know, for for anyone who's sort of in that we've talked about this before, that's sort of like elder millennial band or just millennials in general, the Gen Y's out there.
01:27:00.000So speaking to them as opposed to the the the Gen Z's and I know Gen Alphas and others who are watching.
01:27:07.000I hear my Gen Alpha son in the other room right now, by the way, that.
01:27:15.000And certainly it reminds me of the era of going into Iraq.
01:27:19.000And I just wanted to I wanted to ask you guys if that, you know, my memories of that are so clear.
01:27:25.000And I remember all of the things that we were told all that this is going to make the world safer.
01:27:37.000It's like I've seen this movie before, and I feel a lot of those same arguments and a lot of those same emotions of the time, but at the same time is that, you know, we've got social media now, we've got this immediate rapid response from X, and you sort of, you remember that even if you think that the war is a good idea going into it, it sort of gives you this overarching look where you have the ability to think.
01:28:06.000You know, secondary effects, tertiary effects, those could potentially be far worse and far wider reaching than anything that came before.
01:28:17.000Well, we have the history of the Iraq war and the history of the global war on terror, the recent history, even with the fall of Kabul that we can point to and say, yeah, this went really, really wrong, even though we thought these were great ideas going into it.
01:28:30.000I just for for Tyler and Blake, I didn't know if you guys had had any reflections or if it if it Yeah, well, my thought is, if I think about how it feels different from then, I mean, certainly the right is totally different.
01:28:47.000The right was in a very raw, raw mood.
01:28:49.000And we should acknowledge, I guess I should say not everyone was.
01:29:14.000Our blood was up over 9-11, and I think it's taken a long time for us to come around to this, but I think there's now a pretty widespread acknowledgement that Because of 9-11, because of the national tragedy we suffered, that we made a big mistake.
01:29:33.000We got ourselves involved in conflicts that had no clear objective, that had no clear end point, that were hugely expensive, and that produced no real long-term good for the United States.
01:29:45.000In fact, if you really want to go back, you could say a lot of the enduring problems America has right now that we're trying to solve with Trump Go back to that post-9-11 period and us making the wrong decisions.
01:32:16.000So the question is also, I think fundamentally at its core, how does the America First foreign policy doctrine and foreign policy agenda, let's just say, stay consistent with this?
01:32:35.000This right now is going to cause, I think, a major schism in the MAGA online community.
01:32:40.000We're not seeing that yet, though, right, Tyler?
01:32:42.000I mean, I'm seeing it a little bit in my XFeed, but Tyler, it seems, you know, I don't want to say over.
01:32:49.000It's somewhat unified, but what are we seeing so far in the right-wing community?
01:32:55.000I mean, it's still early, but so far, I mean, we were talking about this because things are happening very rapidly in real time.
01:33:02.000And we know war is such a hotly debated topic, particularly in kind of the new right, what we call it, like the MAGA movement.
01:33:10.000I like the new right we talk about all the time, which is very anti-war.
01:33:14.000So you have a lot of millennials who voted in record numbers for Donald Trump this last election, who were kind of raised under that anti-Bush.
01:33:24.000Remember Liz Cheney, the Bushes all endorsed against President Trump basically twice in a row.
01:33:39.000But yeah, I think right now you're seeing a lot of people really happy with the response from President Trump's team, from Marco Rubio, his statement they put out there.
01:33:48.000I think that was a brilliant thing to do to make sure that that statement is out there.
01:33:53.000But I think what's coming, like you said, Charlie, is that there's going to be...
01:34:11.000It's going to get hijacked by the well-funded groups that are out there on the left, by C4s, political action committees, big nonprofit groups, C3s, that are all so pro-Hamas, they're all so pro-anti-Israel, that they're all so pro-Israel.
01:34:34.000It's a lot of great intuition is that we're going to see a lot of that.
01:34:37.000And I don't think Americans are going to love that.
01:34:39.000And I think it's actually going to push people more to the side of Israel, because I think the scariest thing here is, is that we, you know, it starts this debate of being...
01:34:56.000People will start running with that narrative.
01:34:58.000And I think that that's probably really negative for the MAGA movement.
01:35:01.000I think the MAGA movement needs to focus on, hey, we have all these really crazy pro-Hamas actors that are on the streets that are burning stuff down.
01:36:16.000So there could very well have been potentially operatives on the ground, Mossad operatives on the ground in Tehran that knew about safe houses, that knew about these types of locations, that new sites that they would be taking into.
01:36:30.000There are some reports that Israel may have So it's possible that even if the generals were moved to a safe house or were in concert with moving, if their forces had been penetrated by Israeli intelligence, then they could have been able to find out exactly where they were to conduct these strikes.
01:36:48.000Again, I'm not saying that's exactly what happened, but it may not be that they were taken by surprise.
01:36:54.000It may be very well that Israel conducted a large scale intelligence or just even deception operation to make it seem as if they didn't know what the locations of these generals and leaders were.
01:37:04.000But in fact, they did know after all, there's there's lots of ways that this can be done.
01:37:09.000And again, this is why some of those indications were given when they were given.
01:37:14.000The question, of course, really, I think for a lot of people is what's the what's the scale of this?
01:37:39.000Well, what's so different about this one is Israel, I mean, they have a lot of wars, but their wars that are big ones are against their neighbors.
01:37:47.000So they have a very strong track record in wars they beat.
01:39:46.000It's, again, must be a credit to Israel here.
01:39:48.000How is it that these four lunatics that work, just as a side note, for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, who are now all dead and eliminated, when they woke up, did they really not take precautions to protect their military leaders?
01:40:37.000It must be that the idea was that Israel was able to get within their networks and inside their networks.
01:40:43.000Maybe Iran thought negotiations were coming Sunday, but even they could see the writing on the wall of what Israel was doing, and they could tell they had no intelligence network of when Israeli airplanes took off from Israel.
01:40:55.000Anyway, Blake, help me understand this.
01:41:00.000I mean, it's not an easy one to answer, to be honest.
01:41:03.000I guess the most boring take is they were able to hit them with this forewarning because perhaps Israel has the intelligence to say, we know that when there is a war that's going to break out, actually this is their safe house.
01:41:18.000This is where they're actually supposed to go when they worry that Israel is going to launch some sort of strike on them.
01:42:24.000This attack they were able to conduct just a few months ago was very significant in terms of their intel operations and shows a high degree of capability.
01:42:35.000Israel has attacked at least six military bases around Tehran, including Parshin, residential homes at two highly secure complexes for military commanders, and multiple residential buildings around Tehran, what appears to be target assassinations according to four senior Iranian officials.
01:42:51.000But again, I want to hear your thoughts.