00:08:22.640They took to their streets in their neighborhoods.
00:08:26.140They were singing, dancing, chanting against the supreme leader, against the new supremester, Mini Mushtaba,
00:08:33.840and the whole regime against the IRGC in support of the crown prince, all of that.
00:08:39.200There is a video that came out the same night. A woman is addressing Prime Minister Netanyahu saying, Bibi June, dear Bibi, we know that you won't let them touch us.
00:08:51.260And this trust, this trust that people took to the streets celebrating was not in vain.
00:08:58.060The regime actually had issued threats telling people that we are going to kill you if you come to the streets to celebrate.
00:09:04.780And they dispatched forces. Basij militia was dispatched. And each of them, each convoy of these militiamen that tried to approach the celebrations, they were taken out by Israeli drones.
00:09:19.100The United States and Israel have finally stepped in, providing the Iranian people with a fighting chance against this Islamist occupation of Iran that has lasted for almost five decades.
00:09:32.580we have been fighting this regime non-stop since its inception we have been on the streets
00:09:39.820march 1979 women took to the streets in iran opposing the imposition of the sharia law we
00:09:46.820have been out every year every day fighting this regime so many people have died in iran
00:10:20.220the IRGC is still, you know, somewhat in control?
00:10:25.340Let me give the answer to you in three parts.
00:10:28.300First part, when in January, Crown Prince Jezopalabi issued a call on people and people
00:10:35.060took to the streets in millions, they brought with themselves to the protests the actual
00:10:41.900flag of Iran with the lion and the sun.
00:10:44.920Hundreds of flags flooded the streets of Iran.
00:10:48.240Those flags don't grow on trees. People have been preparing and those flags are the lowest hanging fruit on that preparation tree. Much more has been done. I cannot go into very much the details, but a lot of technologies have been deployed and drones and all that we are seeing. These are just the start of it. A lot more is ready to go.
00:11:14.220the Iranian people are the boots on the ground. But the next two parts of my answer, one,
00:11:21.000what the United States and Israel have achieved during this military campaign. A lot of naysayers
00:11:26.660in the West, after three weeks, we are not even at four-week milestone. The United States and
00:11:33.960Israel have dismantled the Islamic Republic leadership to great extent. A lot of targets
00:11:39.460are still there. Ahmed Wahidi, Qalibaf, the parliament speaker, Ejaei, the judiciary chief.
00:11:46.500These are the actors that are holding the regime together. Targeted killing of these individuals
00:11:52.800will lead to the collapse of the leadership of the Islamic Republic, which already is happening.
00:11:59.620A lot of military bases, the commanders have deserted their posts. That's one side. But more
00:12:06.280importantly, the arms of oppression of the Islamic Republic has been targeted repeatedly by Israel
00:12:12.720and the United States. So far, hundreds of besieged militiamen have been taken out in targeted drone
00:12:20.980strikes. Many more have been injured and many, many more are not showing up for service. They
00:12:28.800are scared and the regime cannot even pay them. The situation that the regime is facing is dire
00:12:35.080and they cannot hold it together for long.
00:13:25.800One of the things I have heard to try to discourage those who want Iran to be free is that the people are turning on the United States and Israel because of the bombing, that they're saying, now you're killing us, and now they're turning on us.
00:13:48.480In every society, you have outliers. Before this whole military operation started, the Islamic Republic and a bunch of lunatic leftists organized a pro-Pali rally outside Tehran University.
00:14:06.140They were able to get 20, 30 people outside Tehran University to chant in support of Hamas and Hezbollah and other terrorist groups.
00:14:16.260And more importantly, we are dealing with a situation that internet has been caught. Yes, some dissidents have received satellite internet and technological tools that is enabling them to circumvent the blockade.
00:14:31.420But a lot of the noise that is coming out of the Islamic Republic is generated by the Islamic Republic.
00:14:40.300Remember a couple of months ago, there was a story all over the news about white SIM cards, SIM cards that the regime removes all online limits for and give it to influencers to push its line.
00:14:54.120There is also another piece of evidence of them doing the same thing.
00:14:58.200When the regime's foreign minister was on air giving an interview using Internet, he was questioned, why do you have Internet while the whole nation is offline?
00:15:09.220He responded, I'm the voice of the nation.
00:15:12.240They are providing Internet to these type of influencers to push an anti-U.S., anti-Israel narrative.
00:15:20.820But what we hear from people in Iran is that with every missile hitting this regime, people are rejoicing.
00:15:29.180When Nowruz was happening, traditionally people visit the graves of their loved ones.
00:15:34.640When you kill tens of thousands of protesters in cold blood, hundreds of thousands are going to visit their graves, and they did.
00:15:44.180There is a video of a mother, a mother at the grave of his son killed, and she's shouting, addressing the United States and Israel and telling them, God bless you, you made our hearts happy after this darkness.
00:16:01.940This is the mood that we are seeing coming out of the country.
00:16:06.040Is there something that the people are waiting for?
00:16:11.960Is there a signal they're waiting for?
00:16:14.180Is it is it Donald Trump just coming out and saying now?
00:16:50.820And two, two weeks of targeted campaign, taking out the Islamic Republic's arms of oppression, would turn the tide, give the Iranians an actual chance in this uphill battle.
00:17:04.440We have been fighting this for the past five decades.
00:17:07.520I have been involved with it for 17 years.
00:26:17.420The problem is the entire establishment, the leadership, the people that are making money from Islam,
00:26:22.780the petro-Islamists of Saudi Arabia, of Iran, of Pakistan, the establishment that has dug their heels in the sand for the last thousand years.
00:26:33.080But let's also not have an ahistorical approach to Islam, like any other faith, and say, listen, if the recipe was wrong,
00:26:41.340the first three, four hundred years would not have been an era of enlightenment on the planet in which the Greek philosophers
00:26:47.900and so many philosophers are translated into Arabic and other languages
00:26:52.080while the West was still grappling with the Dark Ages if the recipe was wrong.
00:26:57.080But it went from 4,000 schools of Sharia to essentially four,
00:27:01.720and you had basically now for 1,000 years.
00:27:04.720This is why what's happening in Iran is so amazing.
00:27:07.160If you don't separate Islamism from Muslims and a possibility of reform,
00:27:56.480It must be a faith that has some type of moral compass.
00:28:00.900And if we say that's not a faith and we don't even want to call it Islam, we recognize that we're a minority report within that faith.
00:28:07.980But we also have to, we can't leave, you know, I recognize that the seats at the table are empty, that the most majority of Muslims are silent, and we have given them a pass. No, don't give them a pass. Put fire under their feet. Tell them that they're like the silent Nazis in Germany, you know, silent Germans under Nazi Germany. Yes, tell them that. Get them awakened. But don't deprive them and disenfranchise them of their relationship with God and the faith of Islam.
00:28:36.120on you know that was something that we did in world war ii you know i said i was someplace
00:28:41.020speaking and it just kind of came out of my mouth and i thought well that's going to cause some
00:28:44.720problems um but let me repeat it now to a bigger audience um uh you know when we went into germany
00:28:52.880you know we knew who the we knew who the enemy was um and we knew who the the germans were that
00:29:00.600were good because not all germans were nazis but the ones that were good were the ones that were
00:29:05.060like the Nazis are over there. Get those guys, help us, help us. We knew because the, the good
00:29:11.840guys would self-identify and help. Um, the bad guys didn't. Um, and you know, you, you get to
00:29:20.760a point to where this is going to get so bad. If we can't have logical conversations, if we can't
00:29:28.280just be shouted down every time we try to have this conversation, it's going to get to the point
00:29:32.900Zutty, where everybody's just going to assume that every Muslim is bad. And in the special
00:29:41.160that I saw, one of the things that really convinced me or helped convince me was the
00:29:47.340number of Muslims that when the Muslim Brotherhood and others were taking over and buying all of the
00:29:53.280American mosques, most people don't even know this happened, buying all of these mosques and
00:29:58.460taking them over it was the american muslim that were standing up reaching out to our government
00:30:03.660and everybody else going help help help help we're being taken over by really bad people
00:30:08.780and they were and we didn't do anything and now what do you what do you do if you're in that
00:30:13.880community now how do you speak out exactly and that we have to recognize that uh america really
00:30:22.400has the answer and that europe you can almost put a fork in it because their version of democracy
00:30:28.440is a racial version in which, for example, one of the founding scholars of the concept of Islamism
00:30:34.840that understands it was Bassam Tibi, a German scholar. He retired in America because he said,
00:30:40.260you know, I lived in Germany for 40 years and I never felt German because they didn't have
00:30:45.300a culture of absorbing folks of all different, you know, origins, ethnic origins that could then
00:30:52.180become American or become German. So he retired in America. He said, Americanism as that
00:30:57.680anti-theocratic religious liberty is the only way to create a strategy against political Islam,
00:31:04.800against these viral movements. So let's look at the threat. 1.8 billion Muslims globally,
00:31:10.98030 to 40 percent are dyed-in-the-wool Islamists, which is five to 600 million people. So that's a
00:31:17.580massive movement. So yes, people who say that Islam is a problem are right. There's not that
00:31:22.800much daylight between them and me. But the issue is, what is our strategy? As a West, to save the
00:31:29.260West, we have to have a strategy of an offense. And the head of the spear of that offense,
00:31:34.400I'm not alone. The people of Iran are more on the offense than me, because I've been protected by a
00:31:40.080country that has gone through this revolution. And by the way, the woke, the bigotry of low
00:31:46.040expectations, all of that needs to go away, because it's giving Muslims a pass in America,
00:31:51.080So they do become more passive and sort of let, you know, the Iranians fight the battle against Islamism when, in fact, it's coming here to our shore.
00:31:59.520So we have to fight it here in this laboratory that we can do it better than anywhere on the planet against theocracy.
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00:32:12.780so let me take you back in the final days before world war ii began britain did something that most
00:32:21.340governments never ever do they planned for fear they had just lived through world war one they
00:32:27.500knew what they were headed into they planned for bombs and guns but they also knew they had to have
00:32:33.920a plan for what happens to a population when the ground beneath them is no longer stable
00:32:39.860when rumor outruns truth and anxiety is just spreading like a wildfire.
00:32:47.900The British Ministry of Information prepared for a different kind of war,
00:32:54.160and they produced different kinds of weapons.
00:32:57.460What they did is they prepared messages, in particular three messages.
00:33:03.980each one was designed for a different psychological moment in the war that they believed were going
00:33:11.820to come to london and to the streets okay and so the first message was put on a poster and it was
00:33:18.720pretty severe freedom is in peril defend it with all your might that's what it said freedom is in
00:33:27.340peril. Defend it with all your might. That's not a comfortable thing. That is a jolt. Wake up.
00:33:34.260It was designed. Wake people up. Take a population that might still be thinking in peacetime terms
00:33:40.920and force them to understand this is an existential fight. This is not about politics.
00:33:46.340This is about your very survival. Wake them up. And it aimed to create real clarity and urgency
00:33:54.920and cut through the denial that a lot of citizens were living in.
00:34:01.700They needed to feel the weight of the responsibility at a time where war perhaps was distant and not real.
00:34:10.960The second poster was for the next phase of the war, when the war became more obvious.
00:34:17.180The second poster out of the three softened the tone but really sharpened things.
00:34:21.960that poster read your courage your cheerfulness your resolution will bring us victory
00:34:30.180that poster was released once the war had begun the war now people were awake it had become real
00:34:38.600fathers and sons were dying on distant battlefields the storm clouds were visible
00:34:43.460growing darker every day and now the question was not do we act or not how do we endure
00:34:51.340and families were stressed out you know the story of what happened with the children over in england
00:34:58.560during the war is just amazing the children didn't understand what was happening the parents
00:35:03.140were struggling with the basics the british pound was not buying you know what it could
00:35:08.020everything cost more and more and the pound you know was worth less and less and the message was
00:35:14.620meant to shape the behavior under that kind of pressure. And it promoted something more
00:35:23.660difficult, courage under fire. Hey, be happy. Cheerfulness can be found in scarcity. And there
00:35:32.740will be a resolution over time. And it told people the emotional discipline is part of the
00:35:38.380war effort. We're counting on you. I mean, the message is so British, and also from such a
00:35:45.800different era, it's kind of hard to relate to. You know, hey, cheerfulness is, really? But it worked.
00:35:52.500The posters were up everywhere. Now, most people don't remember the posters, and certainly no one,
00:36:00.040even in England, remember the third poster being posted from the war. It was printed in the
00:36:06.920millions and it was kept in boxes same look same kind of message but this one this one they hope
00:36:14.180they never had to use it was it was held back for a very specific moment catastrophic failure
00:36:21.660you know a time when germany would use overwhelming force they would be landing on the shores they'd
00:36:28.560be destroying the streets of london maybe killing the king followed by god forbid german occupation
00:36:34.620that's what that poster was for it was for people that you know their confidence was shattered they
00:36:41.900stopped trusting that there would be a brighter tomorrow and everything about their society would
00:36:47.080begin to fray then and only then the final message that third poster was supposed to be released and
00:36:53.840put up everywhere okay it wasn't meant to rally it was meant to hold the line inside the human mind
00:37:01.240so they print it they have it ready and then comes the blitz night after night london burns
00:37:08.980people are sleeping in tunnels fires lit the sky entire neighborhoods disappeared and the children
00:37:16.120of london were set out on trains to the rural areas of great britain to people they didn't know
00:37:22.980the families didn't know they just put the kids on the train and then they'd pull up to a station
00:37:27.700out someplace in Great Britain and they'd say, hey, who will take these kids? So moms could stay
00:37:35.260in the city and work and fathers would go overseas to fight and the kids would be safe.
00:37:42.820At that time, there was even talk about sending the royal family off the island, perhaps to America,
00:37:47.860just to preserve the crown to fight for another day because they thought the Germans were coming.
00:37:52.720the moment the government had planned for looked like it had arrived but something unexpected
00:38:00.300happened the people were already doing what that final poster was meant to instruct
00:38:07.320they were already steady they had already adapted they had already endured without being told
00:38:12.760and officials said wait wait wait wait if we put this message out we put these posters up
00:38:17.560it might feel like we're patronizing you know it might sound like the government is lecturing people
00:38:21.760who have already carried a heavy enough load they don't need our help so the order came quietly down
00:38:28.400do not distribute this poster destroy these posters most of them were all destroyed they
00:38:33.620were burned they were discarded or forgotten the message meant for the darkest hour never saw the
00:38:40.560light until decades later there was a small bookstore barter books it it had just bought a
00:38:50.780whole bunch of old books at some auction and in this box of books tucked away was a copy one copy
00:38:58.400of that poster nobody had ever seen before it was an original it was a survivor a rare survivor
00:39:03.880the store didn't really know the story they just thought the design was beautiful and the words
00:39:09.200were so simple it kind of stuck with you so they framed it and they put it up on a wall
00:39:12.540and customers stopped and they looked and they asked and a message designed for national collapse
00:39:20.300began spreading in a time that didn't look anything like war.
00:39:26.280I thought about this poster yesterday.
00:39:28.080I was sharing with you a list of things you could do in your own life
00:39:30.960to grow the muscle called courage in small ways
00:39:34.260so it would be in shape when you need it.
00:39:46.800But the worst case scenario that the British were worried about back in the day is happening today with us just in a different way. Their worst case was occupation. Enemy occupation. A breakdown of society, of courage, most importantly, loss of hope.
00:40:07.200i contend that's what we're living through right now and not not occupation from one enemy but
00:40:16.320dozens they're not marching in uniform they're entering through screens through noise through
00:40:22.720constant pressure even the enemy that whispers doubt and fear in your mind while you're laying
00:40:29.160in bed at night trying to get to sleep it is occupying you the reason why we're having a
00:40:35.260hard time fighting this war is because you can't see it there's no battlefield it's in your head
00:40:39.700there's no single front line there's no air raid sirens there's you know no bombs going off this
00:40:47.040is why it's so hard to fight this one when you're physically under attack your friends are dying
00:40:52.080the streets are on fire buildings are being destroyed every day day after day everyone knows
00:40:57.820it. And just like September 11th, it bonds people. It knits them together in a shared struggle.
00:41:06.660We don't even agree on the struggle. We're fighting a war that is easily deniable,
00:41:12.940a war where no leader has even clearly identified what we fight and who we fight.
00:41:18.780Our families are being destroyed from outside and inside as we fight our own loved ones for
00:41:25.700some strange reason. There are no bombs, but make no mistake, every day we are fighting information
00:41:35.580that is overwhelming, lies and technology that's so well-crafted now, you can literally no longer
00:41:42.420believe what you see or hear. Narratives that divide, economic pressure that's just grinding
00:41:50.860you every day, a generation growing up without any kind of clear foundation, a culture that
00:41:59.360has defined and redefined and then defined and redefined reality over and over again
00:42:04.280until you don't even know what to trust, you don't even know what's true or real.
00:42:11.700And perhaps the worst of all, more and more of us surrender to the enemy of despair and
00:42:18.120apathy. I make the case we are living in occupied territory right now, but instead of land, it's a
00:42:27.780tension of thought of inner life. The battlefield isn't out there. It's in each person every day
00:42:37.240deciding what do I believe? What do I fear? What do I focus on? What do I ignore? It is literally
00:42:43.580the battlefield of our minds, and that is the hardest kind of war to fight, because
00:43:09.660It was written for discipline, to remind people, you don't have to solve everything.
00:43:13.580You don't have to absorb everything. You don't have to react to everything,
00:43:17.640but you have to remain steady. You have to remain engaged in everyday life.
00:43:22.600Don't give in to despair or anger. Just live your life quietly. And that's not surrender. That's
00:43:28.660control. Remember, you choose every day. You choose deliberately show up for your responsibilities,
00:43:36.180protect what's yours to protect, speak the truth, refuse to let chaos dictate your state of mind.
00:43:43.580The bombs that were sent to destroy everything they knew and loved were real, obvious, and uniting, and the British lived it, which is why that message was never needed.