Levin's warning: The dangerous reality of the Iran talks

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]You know, I've done my best today to gather as much information I can about what we are doing and the Iranians are doing, but I'm getting a mixed bag.

[00:00:10]And sometimes I'm thinking we want to deal more desperately than the enemy.

[00:00:16]Which is never good situation.

[00:00:20]And that the enemy thinks we want to deal more than they want to deal.

[00:00:26]You know, I remember when we never used to negotiate with terrorists. Here we negotiate with terrorists repeatedly, constantly. I understand the reason for it. Trust me, I do.

[00:00:38]But they are terrorists.

[00:00:41]And why would terrorists keep their word?

[00:00:44]They're called terrorists for a reason, right? They're not civil.

[00:00:50]They believe Allah has told them to do what they do.

[00:00:55]Allah has told them to kill, destroy, torture, rape, brutalize, in order to conquer, devour, and convert other people.

[00:01:09]Murder them if you must.

[00:01:11]It's okay.

[00:01:13]In the most horrific ways possible.

[00:01:17]They claim Allah directs them to do it. So, when they're at negotiation table, these terrorists, they don't have a Western mindset, okay?

[00:01:28]They exist to do what they're doing.

[00:01:32]Does everybody understand that? Because I think the West, our leaders in the West, whether it's Europe or here or where, they're having trouble getting their heads around this. That is, this regime exists not to run a country, not to run a country, but to expand the revolution to the entire globe, to all humanity.

[00:01:56]Which is what they've they've done in Europe, they've done it in parts of the United States, you see it in New York City, you see it in Dearborn and Patterson, New Jersey, you see what's going on.

[00:02:08]You see what's going on.

[00:02:12]So, when they're {quote} unquote negotiating, they have no intention of living up to any aspect of any deal with the devil, with the devil, with the people who they seek to destroy.

[00:02:28]They're not interested in it.

[00:02:31]On top of that, when you have this this mixture of of a religious fundamentalism with a political ideology, they view these as opportunities.

[00:02:47]And so, they're dragging it out, they're making it slow.

[00:02:52]And I I I just hope that the people who are negotiating for us, Wittcoff and others, understand this.

[00:03:03]But even if they do understand it, then I don't think we'd be going through all these steps. Do you, Mr. Pederson?

[00:03:12]This is not an enemy that you can have a detente with. It's not an enemy Well, let me put it this way, the president has said over and over again, they're nuts.

[00:03:26]They're lunatics, they're sick.

[00:03:28]Well, that's all correct.

[00:03:31]Now, do you think they slaughtered 50,000 of their own people in January?

[00:03:36]They're executing them left and right as I speak, nobody even talks about it anymore.

[00:03:41]Because they they want to make some deal?

[00:03:46]Their foreign minister said a week or two ago, he said, "We're not going to give you at the negotiating table what you can't get on the battlefield.

[00:03:59]So, I'm deeply concerned about this because the one thing nobody's talking about, and you won't find it in any newspaper, you won't find it in any on any website, you won't find it anywheres, enforcement.

[00:04:17]Enforcement.

[00:04:20]How do we enforce whatever we agreed to?

[00:04:24]How do we find out if they're violent?

[00:04:26]Well, we'll have satellites everywhere, we'll have the But, you can't find everything. It's a huge country if you look on the map.

[00:04:35]They already They already were able to do a number of things that we didn't know about, like the distance of their ballistic missiles. How's the satellite going to figure that out?

[00:04:45]How are we going to stop the communist Chinese, our new buddies? They're not our buddies, they're our enemy.

[00:04:51]How are we going to stop them from helping Iran?

[00:04:56]If we find them helping Iran, what are we going to do? Nothing.

[00:05:00]Not a damn thing. What are we going to do if we find Russia helping Iran? Nothing.

[00:05:07]NORTH KOREA, NOTHING.

[00:05:12]AND THAT includes when President Trump leaves office. Who's going to do anything?

[00:05:18]LOOK AT HOW WE WE GO ON and on and on about a gallon of gasoline, and I'm going to get into that in a moment. Of course, it's much higher.

[00:05:27]>> [snorts] >> But again, I want to get into this with you.

[00:05:35]I'm not unsympathetic about it. It's significant, but context is everything.

[00:05:40]Context is everything.

[00:05:45]I went to the ATM machine today.

[00:05:49]They used to charge three bucks for its use. Now it's four bucks.

[00:05:54]What are you going to do, right Rich?

[00:05:58]What are you going to do?

[00:06:01]I don't hear a hue and cry over that. I didn't hear a hue and cry when the price of gasoline went up under Biden.

[00:06:06]Nothing.

[00:06:09]Inflation under Biden, nothing.

[00:06:13]But that's a side point. I don't want to get into that. I want to get into our sacrifice, the great sacrifice we're making in order to ensure this country or that regime, better said, doesn't get a nuclear weapon.

[00:06:31]But it's more than that.

[00:06:33]You know what else we're not discussing?

[00:06:35]An additional enforcement, ballistic missiles.

[00:06:39]Ballistic missiles.

[00:06:42]They're the size of a yellow school bus, a big school bus.

[00:06:48]And they do massive damage.

[00:06:53]And the Iranian regime had close to 10,000 of them.

[00:06:58]Now they may, according to what I've read, have a thousand or 1,100 of them.

[00:07:04]They've come to be able to make them rather easily in the big scheme of things, putting it in context, with the help of communist China, with the fuel that they need, a specialized fuel.

[00:07:19]I don't even hear that being discussed.

[00:07:22]NOT A WORD.

[00:07:25]WHAT ABOUT HEZBOLLAH?

[00:07:28]HEZBOLLAH SURVIVES when they're on their back?

[00:07:35]And what about the politics of all this?

[00:07:39]We want to win the midterm election.

[00:07:43]If there's a deal made, do you think the Democrats are going to sit back and applaud? It's Well, we got a great deal here.

[00:07:51]I'll tell you right now what they're going to say. It's Obama 2.0, that there was no need to go to war. Look what we got. We didn't get anything.

[00:07:58]More promises can't be enforced.

[00:08:03]These are potentially accurate statements. I don't know.

[00:08:12]The regime lives.

[00:08:15]Hezbollah lives. Continue It can continue to be supported by the mothership, Iran.

[00:08:22]You know Hamas has not been disarmed yet. Remember all that talk? Remember I told you that's not going to happen?

[00:08:27]Remember all the talk?

[00:08:30]Phase two of the deal has never really been implemented in any effective way.

[00:08:39]I think the American people are not going to tolerate a bad deal.

[00:08:44]All the talk, all the polls, all the nonsense aside.

[00:08:49]The American people are going to wonder what we did.

[00:08:54]I think the American people, you, would better understand if we did this, we followed through, we destroyed the regime, however it needs to be destroyed, then we left, and the price of gasoline goes down.

[00:09:13]It was very clear to me the other day when I took calls for really an hour and a half. The board was full every second.

[00:09:20]And I don't usually do that, throw a question out to the audience.

[00:09:24]It's been several years, but I thought this was important, very important enough, anyway.

[00:09:30]And every single one of you said, "Finish the job. Let's get it over with."

[00:09:36]They say people are tired. What are people are tiring about is if they don't do this, we're going to do that. And then it's okay, two more weeks. If they don't do this, we're going to do that. Okay, two more weeks.

[00:09:45]I think that's what's annoying you if I heard you correctly.

[00:09:50]If I heard you correctly.

[00:09:52]What's being bounced around out there, at least I'm hearing, is a letter of intent of what the parties intend to do in 30 days to negotiate.

[00:10:04]Again, you understand we're dealing with a terrorist regime that has never never honored a single damn thing it's ever signed, right?