Iran War Is BACK ON

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]To be clear, this operation is separate and distinct from Operation Epic Fury.

[00:00:07]Project Freedom is defensive in nature, focused in scope, and temporary in duration with one mission, protecting innocent commercial shipping from Iranian aggression. Fox News alert, the president says based on the request of Pakistan and other countries, we have mutually agreed that while the blockade will remain in full force and effect, Project Freedom will be paused for a short period of time to see whether or not the agreement can be finalized and signed.

[00:00:37]We suspect the president is letting the Iranians save face.

[00:00:43]Jesse Waters is a total clown. Okay, turns out it wasn't even Pakistan who persuaded Trump to end Project Freedom after 2 days. It was the Saudis and the Kuwaitis who refused to allow the United States to use its military bases and airspace in order to carry out the operation.

[00:01:04]And now we're learning that they changed their mind and will allow the Trump administration and the Pentagon to use their airspace, use their military air bases in order to carry out the project again if Trump chooses to do so. And by the way, the kinetic hot war has uh reignited between the United States and Iran. That is subject to change because this war seems to be changing directions at any given hour. But Jenk, before I give you the details as we have them at the moment, your two cents.

[00:01:36]Yeah, so we just bombed Iran.

[00:01:39]>> [laughter] >> And then right before [clears throat] the show and they say, "Yes, but it doesn't count." Uh that's not how bombings work.

[00:01:47]>> Right.

[00:01:48]>> So, the people who will decide whether it counts or not are the Iranians. And then they will either strike back or they won't. But us saying, "Yes, we just bombed your ports, but it's okay. It doesn't violate the ceasefire. It's the most meaningless thing that anyone's ever heard. So, we're going to tell you all about that.

[00:02:04]And then, the real question is you know, do we have any chance of getting out of this war or is this latest bombing and all project freedom and the Gulf countries, they're very relevant here.

[00:02:20]They're trying to pull us out of the war. Everyone on planet Earth is trying to pull us out of this war except Israel that's pushing us in. So, who's going to win that match? Go ahead, Anna. So, let me just start with the latest news and then we'll work back to the older details and how we got here in the first place. So, let's go to graphic nine.

[00:02:39]Jennifer Griffin reports that a senior US official tells me that it was a US military strike on Iran's Keshm port and Bandar Abbas moments ago, but added that this is not restarting the war or end to the ceasefire. Okay.

[00:02:59]I'm going to pull my hair out of my head live on this show. Okay?

[00:03:04]When you fire at the country you're at war with, that means ceasefire end.

[00:03:11]Not ceasefire start, not ceasefire still in place. It means ceasefire end because ceasefire means you have ceased fire.

[00:03:19]Yeah. Okay, are these people idiots?

[00:03:21]Like, they're total or they think we're idiots. We're not idiots. We're not idiots. I know what a ceasefire means.

[00:03:27]The war is on.

[00:03:29]You guys are bombing each other.

[00:03:31]Yeah.

[00:03:31]>> Cenk. So, look, on the one hand I think are you insulting our intelligence in the same way that Anna is thinking. On the other hand, I think, well, I don't want the war to restart. So, if they've already done the bombing, which they have, I would prefer that they're pretending we're still in the ceasefire so that there's a chance that we stay in in ceasefire. Now, hold on.

[00:03:51]>> Because it normalizes this BS, Okay? Ceasefire means ceasefire. If we normal- If we allow this to keep happening and we allow the administration to redefine what a ceasefire means, then like would an actual ceasefire ever exist again? So, that goes to the point number two that I was going to make, which is here we go again with the Israelification of our policy.

[00:04:12]>> Yes. So, when Israel does a ceasefire, they don't mean that they ceasefire.

[00:04:16]They mean you ceasefire. So, the perfect example, although literally every single instance has these example, >> [snorts] >> but is in Hasb- with Hezbollah in Lebanon. So, Hezbollah and and Israel over a year ago make a ceasefire.

[00:04:32]Hezbollah fires no bombs into Israel during the ceasefire. Israel did a thousand bombs, over a thousand bombing campaigns in Lebanon during the ceasefire, okay? And then they go, "Well, it's a ceasefire. I'm just killing you. That's all. That doesn't count." Right?

[00:04:48]>> never ceasefire.

[00:04:49]>> Yeah. Never, ever, ever, okay? And they never And in this latest iteration, for sure, they never tell the truth, okay?

[00:04:57]>> they were bombing Beirut just yesterday, by the way. So, by the way, they're under a ceasefire. And Netanyahu bragged about how much he was bombing Beirut, and as usual, he said it was to help the Lebanese he's murdering.

[00:05:08]Okay, so now we're starting to do the same thing. Oh, we're bombing you, but it doesn't count, and you're not allowed to bomb us back. But, the problem is Iran is not someone you could just roll over, as we've seen over the last 2 months. Right. So, every time they say that to Iran, they go, "Yeah, we are waiting for you. Okay, so you bomb us?

[00:05:25]No, we're not schmucks. We're going to bomb you back."

[00:05:28]>> what they did today. Today, [clears throat] uh US uh warships were targeted by the Iranians after the US fired on Iran.

[00:05:37]So, the So, we're We are at war.

[00:05:39]Okay? A kinetic hot war. We are at war.

[00:05:42]Don't let anyone lie to you about it.

[00:05:43]Don't let the Trump administration manipulate you into believing something that's just patently false, untrue. We are at war. Anna, sorry, one more thing that's important in that regard. The other reason they do it is for propaganda. So, they could say, "Oh, no, our bombing didn't count when Iran counterattacks our warships. Oh my god, they broke the ceasefire. They're the aggressors."

[00:06:05]>> with them. That's right.

[00:06:07]Okay, so that is the latest update, but I want to talk a little bit about Project Freedom and why Trump abruptly out of nowhere and after 2 days decided he was going to announce that we're putting a stop to it. It's ending. Well, it turns out it had a lot to do with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait who were very salty over the fact that Trump announced this project without talking to them and it's important to talk to them since in order to carry out this project, you would need their military bases and you would need to use their airspace.

[00:06:40]And so, Saudi Arabia was allegedly angry.

[00:06:46]The kingdom informed the US it would not allow the US military to fly aircraft from Prince Sultan airbase southeast of Riyadh or fly through Saudi airspace to support the effort. This is actually Saudi Arabia apparently saw this as a substantial threat to them because they understand that Iran will target Gulf countries if the US is doing certain things that they're not able to retaliate against because they don't have the capacity to hit the United States. So, they hit countries in the Gulf region that have hosted US military bases. So, it would have been really helpful for the Saudis to know that Trump was going to carry out this project, right? Project Freedom, but he didn't even advise with them, consult with them, talk to them before he did so and they were upset about that. Don't forget Noble Mobile saving you a ton of money. So, a A of people are signing up now and beginning to realize what the hell, why am I paying so much to Verizon and AT&T? So, your bill's only $50 a month, but it can actually be less cuz they give you money back if you don't use your data. So, if you're paying more than $50, there's no reason to not switch. It's crazy not to switch because same phone, same number, same contacts, literally nothing changes.

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[00:08:03]All right, we'll be right back. Um so, because of geography, you need cooperation from regional partners to utilize their airspace along their borders, one US official said. In some cases, there is no other way around, the official explained. Military aircraft were critical to protect ships during Project Freedom, essentially providing a defensive umbrella. So, that's what Project Freedom is. I mean, we've talked about it before, but just in case you missed it, uh all it is is the United States helping to guide cargo vessels through the Strait of Hormuz by shooting down Iranian drones and missiles. Now, what's amazing about that is prior to this project being announced, uh the Wall Street Journal had reported that the United States had depleted 80% of its missile interceptors. So, I don't know how long the Trump administration believes they can, you know, carry out a project like this, but it's important to know what our military capacity is, what our capabilities are, what our arsenal looks like, uh before anyone gets their hopes up about the Strait of Hormuz being forced open by the Trump administration. That is not happening.

[00:09:07]So, quick thing about that. Uh so, when you try to escort ships through a blockade, that's called breaking the blockade. That's what you're trying to do. You can call it a humanitarian mission as Trump did in the middle of a war, sure.

[00:09:22]Uh and we're bringing our warships through, very humanitarian. Uh and you can call it freedom, but it doesn't matter what you call it. You're trying to break the blockade. So, Iran says, "I've got a blockade. You're trying to break it. What am I going to do? I'm going to hit you." And so, they did. And by the way, you will find out a couple weeks or a couple of from now that our ship got hit badly, okay? It had to turn around, our warship, and abandon the project. That's another reason why we stopped project freedom, cuz it didn't work. It turns out we couldn't break their blockade. So this was Trump's desperate attempt that China somehow save face by winning. And if he could open up the strait through sheer military force, then he doesn't need to do a peace deal, and he can go, "Haha, I opened up the Strait of Hormuz. I was kidding that it was a humanitarian mission. We won the war, right?" But since it didn't work, he had to tuck tail and turn around. Plus the Saudis and UAE are super pissed cuz when they try to break the blockade, Iran's like, "Okay, you violated the ceasefire. I'm now hitting UAE." I'm not even sure they hit UAE as we talked about it.

[00:10:25]>> today, yes. But today they hit Abu Dhabi. So then the Saudis and the UAE, and Jennifer Griffin's also reporting this, are super mad, and they're part part of the the reason why we hit Iran back is that they demanded it. They're like, "So now you're going to let them hit us without even protecting us or hitting back. When they hit Israel, you protect them to the maximum, and and and you do overwhelming force back. Now you're not going to protect us." So but then that's driving us further into the war.

[00:10:54]>> Okay, pause, pause.

[00:10:56]I don't know if any people in positions of power in these Gulf countries ever watches this show, but on the off chance that someone does, I need you to understand something.

[00:11:06]Our government doesn't even care about us.

[00:11:10]So the fact that you think that by hosting US military bases in your countries means that the US would care about you is laughable. Don't be stupid.

[00:11:21]That's it.

[00:11:22]>> Well, I I'll add to that. So look, guys, when we have messages from Pakistan, that's not Pakistan. That's us. Because Pakistan's trying to facilitate peace, and if we go to them and go, "Hey, we're going to do a conciliatory message where we're going to try to turn down the temperature." Pakistan goes, "Yeah, pretend we say that." Okay, so this there's reporting on that, right? So, Pakistan is not some neutral party that's getting us to change our position. Pakistan has no ability to do that, right? The Saudis in the old days and UAE especially were us and Israel.

[00:11:52]So, when they spoke, they were pretending to be independent, but they were not independent. They actually secretly totally agreed with Israel.

[00:11:59]They don't care about the their leadership doesn't care about the Palestinians at all. They're just like, "Let's make money, right? And let's all coalesce our power and crush our citizens, etc." Now, that has changed because UAE and Saudi Arabia thought, "Well, if we're cozy with Israel and America, we'll be protected." Now, they found out, "Oops, I can't You made the mistake of trusting the Israelis?"

[00:12:23]Okay, that's hilarious.

[00:12:24]>> Yeah, exactly. And by the way, this is just a side note, but it's really important. So, the Prime Minister of Armenia look at what happened, okay?

[00:12:31]Please learn from what the Gulf states are now suffering from. Yeah, and So, please do not make an alliance with the United States. The United States only cares about Israel.

[00:12:41]Okay, and to the good people of India, if you're going to let the Israelis in, be careful what you wish for. Okay? Now, the last thing on this, now but now things have changed. Since UAE and Saudi Arabia Arabia finally belatedly realized that, now they're not us and they are not Israel. They're disagreeing with us Good.

[00:13:01]vehemently so and they're super mad at us. And when they got hit again this time around, they're like, "That's it, we're closing off the air bases to America." And that's the second reason Trump was like, "Whoa, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I didn't mean Project Freedom. I'm sorry." Because if we don't have their airspace, we can't land anywhere, we can't do any of the operations, and we can't protect beloved Israel, right? So, that's why they flipped out and reversed course. So, uh now the latest update though is that Saudi Arabia and Kuwait let Trump know, "Okay, you can use our airspace. You can use the military uh bases to help guide vessels through the Strait of Hormuz."

[00:13:40]And that's what has led to Iran retaliating as the US uh attempts to uh get vessels through that strait and uh evade Iran's blockade. Now, here's the thing.

[00:13:52]The important elements of this war, right, remain the same. And what I mean by that is what are the military capabilities of the United States? What are the capabilities of Iran? What What do the weapon stockpiles look like? And get a load of this. We know that US military weaponry has been depleted. Not just because of this war, but because we've been providing so much military aid to both Ukraine and Israel um for for years, right? And so, we don't have the capacity to build the weapons as quickly as necessary to compete with Iran's incredibly easy to build and cheap drones, right? On top of that, get a load of this. This is from the Washington Post today. John Hudson reports that a confidential new CIA analysis delivered to policy makers this week concludes that Iran can survive the US naval blockade for at least three [snorts] to four months before facing more severe economic hardship. A finding that contradicts those hailing an imminent collapse. US intel also indicates that Iran retains about 75% of its pre-war inventories of mobile launchers and about 70% of its pre-war stockpiles of missiles per a US official. The regime has also been able to recover underground storage facilities and repair damaged missiles.

[00:15:18]Yeah. So, but guys, uh there's only a couple of uh groups of people who believe that Iran was nearly destroyed and defeated. And people who watch cable news in America, they believed it cuz that's the only information they got, right? And Wall Street believed it. Outside of that, no one believed it. And so why?

[00:15:42]So, Trump has been saying all this time, "Yeah, we destroyed their entire military, we destroyed their navy, their air force." And then we see dozens [clears throat] of our planes got shot down.

[00:15:53]That to me, that was the straw that broke the camel's back. I'm like, "Oh, the propaganda is not around the edges."

[00:15:59]Because I've covered a lot of wars now, unfortunately, in these last 30 years.

[00:16:04]And then during Iraq, before we gotten fully Israelified, we would largely tell the truth. Like, yeah, we might delay things 2 weeks. I don't mean in the start up to the war, everything there was a lie, right? But in updates on the war, right? And we would always hear the BS about, "Oh, we success is around the corner. Just give us another 6 months, right?" But hey, did a ship get hit? Did a plane get hit?

[00:16:27]Did we lose this many guys? We usually didn't lie too much about that. This is completely different. We're lying about everything, right? We lied about casualties, we lied about the number of things that have been hit. And so and Trump is a pathological liar, and only a would believe him, right? So, but the reason why mainstream media believed him is because it Israel first is mainstream media. So, they wanted everyone to think, "No, go deeper into the war. It's okay. They're almost wiped out. We've almost won. Success is around the corner, right?" And in this case, they're not saying 6 months, "Give us another 6 days, 6 weeks." You know, and we almost won. They're totally destroyed, right? So, first Israel first pundits like Mark Levin, Hugh Hewitt, business people, Bill Ackman, they said they all come out, Lindsey Graham, politicians, they come out and go, "Oh my god, Israel's totally I mean Iran is totally destroyed. All we have to do is just go further into the war and we'll win, right?" And then all of mainstream media comes in and backs them up. They go, "Well, here's Lindsey Graham." Mhm.

[00:17:27]And he said it on CNN and no anchor pushed back, no one clarified. So, they leave all of their audience with the impression that Iran is almost defeated and that's because they are all incentivized to do exactly what Israel has ordered, right?

[00:17:40]>> So, that's why there's been such in-mass lying, especially on a war that is not going well. If you want to get out of a war that's not going well, easy. If you want to go further into a war that's not going well and not polling well, you're going to have to lie to people and you're going to have to lie in a big, big way and that's exactly what's happening here. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. Totally not true, but it does keep you updated on our live shows.