＂Hitler Of The Middle East＂ - MBS SLAMS Iran’s Khamenei Over Threat To Israel & The West
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Summary
In this episode, Tom and Ron talk about the Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his vision for his country. They also discuss MBS and his plans for the future of Saudi Arabia and the Middle East.
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It's bad to the point where MBS, you think about what MBS is trying to do, right?
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Its army is not among the top five armies in the Muslim world.
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The Saudi economy is larger than the Iranian economy.
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But I've seen that you called the Ayatollah Khamenei the new Hitler of the Middle East.
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He wants to create his own project in the Middle East, very much like Hitler, who wanted to expand at the time.
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Many countries around the world and in Europe did not realize how dangerous Hitler was until what happened happened.
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I don't want to see the same events happening in the Middle East.
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Does Saudi Arabia need nuclear weapons to counter Iran?
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Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb.
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But without a doubt, if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible.
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But here's a question I want you to think about.
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To make Saudi Arabia one of the biggest, most powerful tourism...
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So seven, six years ago, you were in Saudi Arabia.
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If you got a comedy skit right now to go to Iran to do a show, would you go?
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But do you feel safer going to Saudi versus going to Iran?
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So when you think about Iran, what do you think Khamenei's vision is for Iran?
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To be like, you know, nice place to go, you know, events, sport, all this kind of stuff.
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Say, for instance, if somebody wants a good economy, say you're saying you want them to have a good economy.
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If that's your number one, what would you do for your country to have a great economy?
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What would you need to do to have a great economy?
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Tom, if let's just say Khamenei or the leaders of Iran want to have a great economy for their country,
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what are some five things I can do to make my country better for my people?
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You would try to get invited as a guest to things like G7 and get diplomats together.
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You would try to play nice with the world stage to get people to recognize you and to step it back.
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Look what Saudi's doing with sports, with F1, with soccer, with live golf.
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They're trying to engage the rest of the West and be an active, good participant in all that and get trade with, you know,
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they've got a lot of Petro, of course, and get trade and things set up with the rest.
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So, Tom, your impression of Iran is that's not what they're trying to do.
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The current leaders of Iran, what do you think their number one is?
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I believe they're on a Islam-driven mission to destroy what they feel is their enemies.
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What do you think they're – and when it comes down to having relations with other countries to open up the economy
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and allow other companies to go there, what do you think that ranks for Iran?
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You don't have to follow it to see motives, right?
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You don't have to follow it to see motives, you know, to – because when we're commenting on things like this,
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if last night I had a meeting with all my insurance executives, top players.
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Meeting started at noon and it finished at midnight.
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We're at the lounge until 12 o'clock last night.
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It was a room of a bunch of people that some get along, some don't get along.
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Some wanted to be there, some really didn't want to be there.
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But you know what was the equal, what brings everybody together?
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Some of the people are like, Pride, hey, I built this company, I want to take it to the next level.
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It gets everybody to know, okay, you're going to make money?
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Rob, can you pull up the map of the Middle East?
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He has to be thinking about what do I need to do to make this entire region safer so a guy like you that's coming in is not even worried about it, right?
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You see where Iran is right across from the water?
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Saudi doesn't get up and MBS doesn't get up and say, death upon America.
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So, again, I'm not sitting here saying, let's go to war.
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What I'm saying to you is, the Middle East would probably be a better place if a different regime was running Iran.
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And if that was the case, we would be more at peace.
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It doesn't mean Israel's not going to change being, what's the word, ambitious.
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It doesn't mean Israel's going to change being less ambitious and wanting to get their Mossad to lower all this.
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But the common denominator here is everybody on the right was happy when Hassan Soleimani, oh, my God, that's my leader.
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So, how does this play out to help Iranian people?
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They're telling everybody to get out of Tehran, where my mom and dad are from, where your whole family is, where you're from.
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I want to know what is the, what's the, so kill, they're already taking out the leadership, which is a great thing.
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By the way, I'm not sitting here advocating for Iran or their leadership at all.
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And again, not pro-Iran or what's happening over there.
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I am just anti-United States as a veteran going to war.
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Because I think as an American, we look at what we've done over the last couple decades,
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getting involved in foreign wars, and there's a lot of Americans who are just like, I'm so over this.
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Afghanistan, Iraq, what we're going on out there.
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But just because you're over that, it's almost like we're playing scared now.
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To let our machinery and defense capabilities rust?
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In my opinion, a lot of you guys are playing scared and don't recognize what's actually happening in front of your eyes.
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By the way, the Ayatollah Khomeini is 86 years old, going on to meet his martyr pretty soon.
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And Israel, this little country that could, has eliminated every terror threat around them.
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And they're probably looking at Iran and being like, we've taken out their air missile defense capabilities.
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We've just taken down their nuclear facilities, despite people thinking they don't have nuclear capabilities.
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And in Israel, to the point where Iran is now calling Qatar, Saudi, countries around the Middle East, basically saying, please help me.
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This is the same regime that's talking tough, chanting kill, death to Israel, death to America, death to England, death to the infidels.
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So, in my opinion, I totally understand why you're frustrated.
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But if I could go and recreate everything we've done over the last 20 years, I wouldn't be in Afghanistan.
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I would stay laser focused on the massive problem in the Middle East.
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And that is the Islamic Republic of Iran, period.
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If Netanyahu had a blank check to do whatever he wanted to do in the Middle East, with nobody stopping him, what do you think he would do?
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I firmly believe that every leader that we're talking about is their country first.
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My question is, it's not just his people first.
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If he had the opportunity to do anything unstopped and unchecked, with no balances, do you think he would want to further the Israeli border?
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Do you think he would want to dominate other countries?
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What do you think, if we just let him do whatever the hell he wanted to do, what do you think he would do?
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Okay, and I'll put this back to you because I want to know what you think he would do.
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I believe, in a weird way, that the Ayatollah is kind of Iran first, but more Islamic revolution first.
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So, the argument that Israel wants to expand its borders and, what, govern a billion Muslim Arabs as if that's what they want to do,
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is, to me, so far-fetched and nonsensical that it actually doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
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Okay, are we saying, because I've heard this argument, that the Israeli aggression and the Israeli expansionism is trying to take over the Middle East?
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Are you trying to tell me that Israel, the size of New Jersey, is trying to...
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Are we trying to say that Israel, which is trying to defend itself, is trying to govern all of that?
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To me, they can barely govern the people of Gaza and Palestine, much less Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Saudi, Qatar.
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I think they just want to have their own borders and stay in peace and chill.
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But to assume that a small country can't do damage, did we forget what Japan did to China?
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Well, brother, we're throwing up babies and landing them on the knees of their rifles.
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I mean, to think that just because of the country...
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And again, I am not, just so you know, I am not an anti-Israel person.
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I am not any of that, because I have a lot of friends.
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But when I listen to Netanyahu, it just seems like he's always wanting to instigate some shit.
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It's always like, for example, when they ask them, oh, you have credible threats that Trump...
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