Valuetainment - January 01, 2026


＂Total WAR With America＂ - Iran COLLAPSES Into CHAOS As President Threatens War Against The West

Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
Dylan Adam Massoud Pazeshkian Houthis Jack Smith Fatameh Hariadju Lumpson Showman Saddam Hussein Khaled Mashal Jesus Christ Ayatollah Whistler Hebrews Ashark Tuman
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Length

12 minutes

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161.7

Word count

1,986

Sentence count

159

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9

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19

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Summary

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Is this the beginning of the end of the Islamic Republic of Iran? Iran's President Masoud Pezashkian makes a bold statement in an interview published in state media. Iran declares total war against the US, Israel, and Europe as Iran seeks to expand nuclear facilities.

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00:00:00.000 Iran is upset, and they came out flat out, no longer holding back. 1.00
00:00:08.380 I mean, it's not like they've been holding back for 46 years.
00:00:11.160 But Iran declares total war against U.S., Israel, and Europe as Islamic Republic seeks to expand nuclear facilities. 0.97
00:00:23.280 Meaning, we don't give a shit if you want to do it, because the sanctions right now are so bad in Iran. 0.98
00:00:28.680 Let me read this to you. 0.98
00:00:30.000 Iran's president declared war against U.S., Israel, and Europe.
00:00:34.540 Just as Tehran looks to rebuild its nuclear capabilities, Masoud Pezashkian made the bold statement in an interview published in state media Saturday.
00:00:43.540 Barron's reported, in my opinion, we are at total war with U.S., Israel, and Europe.
00:00:47.440 They want to bring our country to its knees, Pezashkian said.
00:00:51.360 This war, listen to what he says, this war is worse than the one launched against the U.S. by Iraq. 0.59
00:00:57.560 This is in the 80s, when Saddam Hussein was there.
00:01:01.280 On closer inspection, it is far more complex and difficult.
00:01:05.720 He said in a reference to the 1980-88 war with Iran's Western neighbor, which when I lived in Iran, in Tehran during those eight years as well,
00:01:14.320 the claims come amid UN sanctions on Iran orchestrated by France, Britain, and Germany due to the regime's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons.
00:01:24.600 It also followed the 12-day war with Israel in June, when the Jewish state obliterated much of the Islamic Republic's nuclear capabilities with the assistance of devastating U.S. strikes.
00:01:35.580 As tensions between Middle East rivals ramps up, a Tehran-backed candidate is also likely to win a major election to a leading role with Hamas.
00:01:43.580 Khaliyah El-Hayah, a Palestinian politician, is expected to beat out Hamas's chief Khalid Mishal in an election for head of the group's political bureau,
00:01:54.500 which could be decided in the coming days, sources told Saudi Arabian outlet, Ashark reported.
00:02:02.180 Let me give you some numbers, folks, before Adam I come to you.
00:02:04.620 Real. Real. Real is like a dollar. Real. You know, their currency is Tuman and real. Like, we have the dollar. That's what Iran has. 0.98
00:02:16.100 In 1979, when the revolution happened and a lot of Iranians escaped and they brought their dollar, their money from Iran to here,
00:02:25.540 they had, for every dollar, it would cost you 70 reals to have a dollar.
00:02:30.760 So if you had 7 million reals, you're probably coming here with $100,000, just to kind of give you some numbers of what it looks like.
00:02:40.960 Today, each dollar today in Iran is 1.437,500 reals.
00:02:52.240 You want one dollar? You need that amount of reals to buy a dollar.
00:02:57.320 It dropped 7% this week. They're saying it's going to be going to 2 million reals.
00:03:02.900 There's protesting in the bazaars. Rob, I'll send you a couple of the clips here.
00:03:06.680 But first, Adam, I'll come to you and I will show some of the clips of what's going on in Iran.
00:03:10.200 Adam, go ahead.
00:03:10.580 So is this the beginning of the end of the Islamic Republic regime?
00:03:15.420 That's a legitimate question.
00:03:17.440 So, you know, I'll pretend I'm a politician for a second.
00:03:20.380 You know how politicians ask,
00:03:21.580 Is your life better than it was four years ago? Yes or no?
00:03:25.960 Vote for me to change.
00:03:27.560 I'll ask the people of Iran. I'll ask the people of the Middle East who have suffered through this Islamic terrorism regime. 0.66
00:03:33.840 Is your life better now than it was five years ago, 10 years ago, 46 years ago when the Ayatollahs took over Iran? 0.84
00:03:41.760 No. They're one of the top 10 countries in the misery index.
00:03:46.100 Inflation, unemployment, misery.
00:03:49.920 They've been funding terrorism all around the world.
00:03:52.420 We're talking about waste, fraud, and abuse that's going on in Minnesota, Somalia, California.
00:03:58.200 How much waste, fraud, and abuse has happened in Iran? 0.91
00:04:02.120 Funding terror networks all over the Middle East, all over the world.
00:04:05.940 For what?
00:04:07.260 So you have no money?
00:04:08.220 And most importantly, and here's the kicker, have no water?
00:04:12.800 This is a desert, barren land.
00:04:15.600 And Iran is struggling with food, their economy, and drinking water.
00:04:21.060 Walk me through.
00:04:21.800 Tehran faces intensifying water crisis as reservoirs declined.
00:04:25.600 So they've been pouring all this money into Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, trying to tear down Israel.
00:04:33.720 And look where they are now.
00:04:35.380 Their people are desperate.
00:04:36.980 They're revolting.
00:04:37.620 Women are refusing to wear a hijab. 0.99
00:04:40.180 They've killed more people in the last year than ever before in terms of their own people, hang their own people.
00:04:47.020 And how have your people been served by this?
00:04:49.680 So you're going to lose people when they don't have water.
00:04:53.920 You're funding terrorism, but nobody has water.
00:04:56.580 And now are they changing?
00:04:58.880 Are they shifting ideology? 1.00
00:05:00.500 They're doubling down on dumb now. 0.98
00:05:02.600 Now they're saying, we're going to full-on war against America, Israel, and Europe? 1.00
00:05:08.460 You just got your ass kicked, Islamic Republic of Iran, and now you want to double down and try to reduplicate your nuclear strategy? 0.99
00:05:16.600 The Ayatollah, who's how old now? 1.00
00:05:19.260 80-something years old?
00:05:20.340 My opinion, as soon as this guy is dead, and it might come soon, that's the wrong guy, this whole regime is going to crumble.
00:05:30.160 And everyone is waiting on the day for that to happen.
00:05:32.320 Here's a question, though, while you're saying that.
00:05:35.140 Let's say it crumbles.
00:05:36.460 Fine.
00:05:37.100 It crumbles.
00:05:38.640 Who's replacing them?
00:05:40.540 Who?
00:05:41.780 Who's going to be the replacement?
00:05:43.980 What kind of a person?
00:05:45.640 So the challenge isn't what's about to happen.
00:05:49.080 The challenge is who is replacing this regime.
00:05:52.100 A Wall Street Journal story just came out a couple days ago, day after Christmas, talking about how Iran is easing its social rules amid crisis, but crushes this end.
00:06:04.200 Light music is blaring on the streets of Tehran.
00:06:06.980 Rob, you can show that one video.
00:06:08.660 Women are ditching their mandatory hijabs, and young people are dancing in cafes as authorities allow a degree of social freedom not seen since the Islamic Revolution of 1970.
00:06:18.600 At the same time, a widespread crackdown on dissidents and have executed more people this year than in nearly four decades.
00:06:29.420 That's what Adam was talking about.
00:06:30.900 More people executed this year than nearly in four decades.
00:06:34.200 Both moves have the same objective.
00:06:36.400 Preserving a system still shaken by last summer's 12-day war with Israel and by sanctions that have sent the economy spiraling.
00:06:42.740 The regime has one goal, and that is to make sure there is no collective action, no uprising, said Fatameh Hariadju, a former member of the Iranian parliament who is now living in exile in the U.S.
00:06:54.880 They feared that if they enforce the hijab, there will be another uprising.
00:06:59.300 They decided they can't fight people on every corner.
00:07:02.020 So what does this really mean, though?
00:07:03.980 What does this really mean?
00:07:04.980 I mean, do you think a person is going to come in and not see all the opportunities of stealing money from the Iranian people? 1.00
00:07:13.680 I don't know.
00:07:14.600 Do you think there's going to be a monarchy in Iran?
00:07:18.020 Like, they're going to want a monarchy back in Iran with somebody out here? 0.79
00:07:20.840 You need a very, very strong personality for somebody to come in to address this.
00:07:25.300 And quite frankly, I haven't seen that person yet.
00:07:28.080 There aren't too many people in the world that want to see a strong personality come out that's fearless,
00:07:32.020 that can stand against these guys and talk to them and sell the dream of what the future of Iran could look like.
00:07:37.600 I haven't seen that person, a person that's willing to go beginning to the end to make sure Iranians will be free again. 0.86
00:07:44.240 The good news is the Iranian people themselves are fed up. 1.00
00:07:48.920 They're sick of it.
00:07:50.060 I just hope they choose somebody.
00:07:52.500 They get behind somebody that believes Iran can be free again, a place that all of us can go for vacation. 0.71
00:07:59.660 We're on the mountains this weekend and doing amazing trick skiing, and everybody's making notes on the way we're skiing.
00:08:09.080 And Dylan says, hey, Dad, you know, does Iran have mountains?
00:08:13.700 I said, of course Iran got mountains and snowing. 0.87
00:08:15.980 Really?
00:08:16.620 Yes.
00:08:17.300 Rob, can you just go to Google and put Iran skiing mountain 70s?
00:08:22.520 Just type in Iran mountains skiing 1970s, and just look at these pictures and go to images, okay?
00:08:31.520 And look what Iran looked like. 0.97
00:08:34.220 This is Iran.
00:08:35.020 That's not Aspen.
00:08:36.960 That's not Whistler.
00:08:39.480 That's not Lake Tahoe.
00:08:41.540 That's not Big Bear.
00:08:44.040 That's not Montana.
00:08:47.000 That is Iran, folks. 0.99
00:08:49.080 Iran looked like that in the 70s.
00:08:50.620 You ain't got that today.
00:08:52.420 You ain't got that going on today.
00:08:53.760 You got to have a hijab while you're going down skiing. 1.00
00:08:56.020 It was a very different climate than today.
00:08:59.620 And because at the time, there's so many things I've been reading and studying lately with the Iranian revolution that happened.
00:09:09.140 It's a scary sight that these guys have had control over Iran for 46 flipping years. 1.00
00:09:14.080 Anyways, let's get to the next story.
00:09:15.160 And then just to put a ribbon on this, where's the crowd that was so against America striking Iran?
00:09:23.820 Where's that crowd now?
00:09:25.040 The Dave Smith, the Candace, the Tuckers.
00:09:27.160 Where are they?
00:09:28.060 Silent as hell.
00:09:29.200 Because look at what America, on behalf of Israel, has done to the Iranian regime.
00:09:35.820 They're about to crumble.
00:09:37.820 It turns out Trump knows what he's doing, is all I'm saying.
00:09:39.860 Yeah, well, listen, too early to jump to conclusion as if the victory's been done.
00:09:45.060 Never underestimate the power of Houthis, Hezbollah, and the IRGC to find a way to hold their people, a chokehold on their people, and not allow freedom to come their way.
00:09:57.860 Right now, with everything that's happening, I think the spiritual battle that the nation, that the world is going through right now, I think it's more obvious than I think it's ever been.
00:10:08.560 And I think letting people know, Pat, I was watching Gladiator, and they kept saying, hold the line.
00:10:13.820 I watched another movie.
00:10:14.980 I was watching Game of Thrones.
00:10:15.980 Hold the line.
00:10:16.780 When it comes to Christianity and your spirituality, I think having faith and not caring about anything. 0.99
00:10:22.620 Dylan, I actually, Pat, and you remember this on the plane coming here.
00:10:25.540 Guys, on the flight here, the turbulence was so bad.
00:10:30.100 I have a huge, my biggest fear, my biggest fear of all, is flying.
00:10:35.040 Ask Pat, I'm sitting next to Pat.
00:10:36.320 Pat, we're dropping, by the way, we're in Aspen.
00:10:39.360 The mountains are like this.
00:10:40.900 The altitude, it's horrible.
00:10:43.340 And we're coming in for landing, and we find us all nervous.
00:10:47.060 And then Pat's like, ask Dylan, like, Dylan, were you worried?
00:10:50.560 Were you worried?
00:10:51.140 Were you scared about anything?
00:10:52.520 And Dylan, Dylan, how old is Dylan, Pat?
00:10:55.800 Whoa.
00:10:57.540 Pat?
00:10:58.320 12.
00:10:58.760 He's 12 years old.
00:10:59.560 Okay, Lumpson Showman.
00:11:00.740 12 years old goes, Dad, no, I'm not afraid.
00:11:03.980 I have faith because I'm not scared about anything because if anything, God forbid, happens, I'm going to be with God and Jesus Christ in heaven.
00:11:11.540 So, again, wearing this shirt, guys, I can't tell you how many messages I get of people seeing the back of faith over fear and people like, hey, what does that mean?
00:11:20.080 What does Hebrews mean?
00:11:21.080 And then the conversation sparks.
00:11:22.440 And I learned from Dylan at 12 years old, in that moment, what do you have to be afraid of?
00:11:27.500 Nothing.
00:11:28.320 Nothing.
00:11:29.000 You have nothing to be afraid of if you have faith.
00:11:31.660 And, yeah, we have the faith over fear hat.
00:11:33.680 Boom.
00:11:34.360 Just like that.
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