The US Has No Idea What's Coming — Mohammad Marandi Exposes Iran’s Next Move

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[00:00:00]Welcome everyone. Welcome back to the show. As you can see, I am joined by Professor Mohammad Marandi joining from Tehran. Professor Marandi, thanks for coming back on the show.

[00:00:14]Hi Danny. Thank you very much for inviting me. If it's still your birthday, we can ask everyone to to like the program because it's your birthday. It was It was a couple of weeks ago it was your birthday. So if it's still your birthday, we can do it again. No, there's a funny joke actually from a college friend college friends my my ID at the time when I turned 21 said May 17th, which is today. And they would laugh and say it was wrong the the the license uh the driver's license DMV didn't do it right. But anyway, long story short, a lot of friends from college claim that my birthday is May 17th today. So it kind of works.

[00:00:56]You want [laughter] to use your driver's license as now to get people to like your the show. Okay, well people if they can if they'll accept your driver's license on the show then >> [laughter] >> if the viewers no problem with that, they'll like it.

[00:01:11]>> Well, the least everyone can do is hit the like button. It's for free totally free. Well, um let's get started. How about this Professor Marandi? We are in what could be called the most dangerous phase of this war because we see deteriorating conditions globally in terms of the economic situation, negatives across the board for the Gulf countries in terms of oil output. The US is burning through their reserves.

[00:01:37]Yet the United States is contemplating with Israel supposedly Trump and Netanyahu are going to talk at any moment now to brief on what US advisers and of course the Israelis have been cooking up for a renewed round of strikes. Iran has consistently said their finger is on the trigger when it comes to any any restarting of this war. First of all, Ronnie, what's your assessment of where things are right now given that it seems like the United States after this visit from China to China by Donald Trump is seeking some kind of resumption.

[00:02:24]Yes. I I I risk being the boy who cried wolf, uh although I'm not a boy, I'm an old man now, but uh I've been saying I think now for maybe 3 weeks, I don't know. I don't know how long it's been that we're very close to war.

[00:02:43]And I think that it was pushed back a bit probably because of China.

[00:02:49]Uh even though we were never sure here, but uh because it would have been foolish for Trump to attack Iran right before the trip to China.

[00:03:01]Uh but then again, since it's Trump, we were always waiting for an attack.

[00:03:07]But now that the China trip is over, and it ended more or less as expected, uh without any success, uh and in I in my opinion, on the whole, a failure for Trump. Yeah. Uh because uh all this all we saw in this trip was uh President Xi being the uh world leader and and Trump looking like the number two.

[00:03:34]So, um the only positive thing for Trump in on this trip, as I said somewhere else, uh is that he uh did not make a fool of himself or did not insult the Chinese uh during the 2 days. He was able to control himself for for for the period when he was in Beijing.

[00:03:54]But uh other than that, he gained nothing. So, and that was that was to be expected. I mean, if anyone had been following the Iranian foreign minister's trip to China a week before his, uh a week or so before the trip, maybe a bit more, um they would have seen that uh through the body language, through the statements made by the two sides, through the uh social media reaction, the semi-official, the official uh Chinese media reaction, it was clear that the Chinese were not going to uh side with the United States. And the the fact that Trump seemed to think that he may be able to get something, I think shows how clueless his State Department and State Department and his National Security apparatus is about China.

[00:04:44]Uh we've heard in the past that he's removed all the Iran experts, the China experts, the Russia experts, which I'm pretty sure they were mostly pretty awful people and very hostile towards all three of these countries. But but it at least they had some sense of, you know, what was going on even if it was in a warped way.

[00:05:06]Uh they could have, for example, told him that, you know, right now going to Beijing, you're not going to get any concessions on uh Iran or you're not going, you know, they could have told him that at least.

[00:05:18]Uh they would have said evil, you know, China is evil and they're horrible people, but you know, this this won't work or that won't work.

[00:05:26]So, he went in uh blind and he came out he came back with nothing.

[00:05:34]So, now we're back to where we were and that is, as I said, the I'm crying wolf. Uh we're on the verge of war.

[00:05:46]And I think that it could happen um tonight. It could happen over the next few days. It could happen uh next week. But I think it's uh it's I can't say it's for certain, but here they're they're working uh based on this assumption.

[00:06:06]Uh now it could it could manifest itself in different ways.

[00:06:11]But uh again, the working assumption here is that it will be a um uh a massive attack where the Israelis and the American uh regime, they bomb Iranian critical infrastructure targeting ordinary people, electrical power plants, and um they try to take territory in the Persian Gulf region, islands, the mainland, areas there, and that they use their uh uh Wahhabi uh um Salafi Takfiri terrorists in alongside the border of Pakistan to uh carry out assassinations and infiltration from there.

[00:06:52]Uh and uh they use their terrorists in northern Iraq in the Kurdish areas.

[00:06:57]Uh there are about 5,000 or 6,000 of them there uh to attack Iran from the northern Iraqi border. That is the working assumption right now in Iran that the response will be uh and and also uh operations inside Iran like the failed operation near Isfahan, yeah.

[00:07:22]Which was about It was not about any pilots or anything like that. It was about uh extracting Iran's uranium.

[00:07:32]So, these are the This is the working assumption that there will be a massive attack and an attempt to take out uh uh uh Iran's uranium to occupy parts of Iran to uh And I should add that the assumption is also that those um the armed insurrectionists that on January the 8th and 9th were killing police officers, hundreds of police officers on the streets and and a couple of thousands uh of um Iranian citizens uh you know, the one that the Trump keeps keeps alluding to uh that they their remnants and uh perhaps new people who who've been recruited online that they will uh or or others who infiltrate from uh Iran's borders that they will attempt to some sort of arm in armed insurrection in different uh Iranian cities. And you have to keep By the way, just um so that just remind your viewers, if you we've gone over this multiple times, but uh the whole 30, 40, 50,000 people being murdered, peaceful protesters on the streets, of course, was was all always a lie.

[00:08:49]But the 3,117 people who were murdered, it is clear now uh that Western intelligence agencies were behind it, the Israelis, the Americans uh MI6, and they were responsible for those deaths.

[00:09:07]And it was uh every time uh Trump speaks, he says, "Nuclear weapon, they killed 40,000 people. Nuclear weapon, they killed 40,000 people."

[00:09:22]This was this uh assault on the Iranian people back then, which the Western media ran with. It This was the agenda from the beginning. It was to It was to prepare the ground uh for an assault on the country. And this is something that people should keep in mind because now we're hearing that I don't know that Iran gave or who gave Cuba hundreds of drones so they >> did. I didn't know that because the the the all of the headlines in the early reports were just that Cuba had acquired these drones. I didn't see any source, but you're saying that that the report is that Iran >> Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm but you know, it's always us.

[00:10:02]Especially when it comes to drones because Iran you you guys are you Iranians are the drone kings, I guess, but continue.

[00:10:07]>> Yeah, so so Cuba is going to destroy the United States with a few hundred drones and it's going to wipe out Florida and so all of the you know, these are all just uh you know, just like the drugs and the drug boats and these are all uh tools.

[00:10:26]These are all uh fabrications. These are all means through which the empire uh can uh fool its own people and people across the West long enough for them to do what it is that they want to do. And then afterwards, a few years later, you get documentaries, you get leaks. Yes, it wasn't exactly like that. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

[00:10:52]You know, and and all that well, after it's too late. Uh that was a mistake or whatever, but uh so right now people should be, you know, have their eyes open about Cuba. Yeah.

[00:11:04]And then tomorrow some there may be some protests in Cuba and a couple of me people might may get killed and then or a couple tens of people will get killed and then they'll have to save the Cuban people and they have drones and they're going to invade the United States and you you're going to hear all sorts of nonsense. Quite possibly if they have the energy to to go to Cuba to take Cuba, but hopefully hopefully the axis of resistance in this war will deal Trump such a blow, God willing, that uh the people of Cuba will be spared.

[00:11:37]Yeah, and it's and it seems so I just looked at the Axios report or should I say the CIA's report on this.

[00:11:44]But Axios was reporting that indeed they are blaming both Iran and Russia. So there's still some Russia hawks in Washington.

[00:11:54]Trying to focus on some Russia.

[00:11:57]You know, their brains aren't all on Iran or Cuba. But they they said they blame Russia and Iran for giving these what some 100 drones. And it seems to me that especially in the Cuba situation that might be in response to the fact that there actually prominent Republicans in the Senate and the House that don't want to see an escalation right now with Cuba for the simple fact that they want to see their polling numbers improve before the November elections because it's their when we're talking about the House and the Senate it's their careers. So so they want they want their seats. It's nothing about Cuba. No benevolence toward Cuba. But nonetheless when it comes to Iran Professor Randi one of the major reports Just like just like the Democrats who are now against the war on Iran.

[00:12:41]It's not that they are humane or that they're decent people. No, they're if they were in power they they would have started the war. Yeah, and they yeah, they too can read some TV.

[00:12:52]>> going downhill Yep. Yep.

[00:12:57]You froze a little bit.

[00:12:59]But you're saying Professor Randi sorry, you froze a little bit but you're saying it's going downhill.

[00:13:04]>> so fast. They're they're the first to jump off the ship. Of course. And it's always easier Professor Randi when you don't have the power to stop it which the Democrats have shown that they don't have it both for their unwillingness to and also just for the structural reasons that they can't seem to win any elections. So yeah, but when it comes to Iran one of the major reports that has come out Professor Randi is the UAE. Seems like the UAE is being it's like the it's it's like the bait on the fish line, you know, it's like on the fisher fisherman's line. Like the US just keeps throwing it out there and saying, you know, this is the this is this is our our piece to restart aggression with Iran. Now there's reports, did you see it? That they want to that the UAE is being told by the Trump administration to go seize a disputed island between the UAE and Iran. What do you make of this? And is the UAE really going to be the launching pad for this renewed war of aggression?

[00:14:00]Well, the US has brought in, as you know, lots of troops.

[00:14:06]And most of those planes that we saw coming going constantly coming to the region for for weeks after the ceasefire began bringing equipment.

[00:14:19]Apparently most of those planes were bringing in equipment for a ground assault. A lot of them were, of course, ammunition and spare parts for the planes so that they could slaughter more kids in schools and things like that.

[00:14:34]But most of them were for ground assault. A lot of those troops, from my understanding, I a lot of those troops are in the Emirates.

[00:14:45]A lot of them are in Bahrain and a lot of them are in Kuwait. If I'm not mistaken. I I should have checked on this before uh uh coming on your show, but and then a lot of the planes are in Qatar uh Saudi Arabia and um and the Emirates, too.

[00:15:13]So, if there is an assault, yes, the Emirates will be um a a foothold or it will be from where the not a foothold, but it will be from where one of the places from where the assault begins. The Emirates doesn't have uh a strong force. It's a country of 1.2 million people.

[00:15:34]And uh it's it's it doesn't have a real armed forces. It has lots of weaponry, weapons, and jets, and so on. But, those are basically uh for corruption. If they buy the weapons that buy the United States, the kickbacks or the commissions go to American senators, they go to the princes, they go to the royal family.

[00:15:58]And and then they go buy palaces and mansions and apartment you know apartment buildings in Manhattan and that sort of thing.

[00:16:07]But, they they're not capable on their own of carrying out any war. We we recall that um during the seven years of genocide in Yemen, when the whole Arabian Peninsula, all these countries, Qatar, the Saudis, the Emirates, uh Turkey, unfortunately, all of them were helping Saudi Arabia and the Emirates and supporting them. Uh but, so was NATO and to to massacre children in in in Yemen and to starve them. The Americans were part of the siege in the Red Sea. I know a a an American uh former American official who who told me himself that he was on one of the naval ships, and he he saw himself that that they stopped a a boat, and they checked the boat, and they saw it was full of medicine. The boat was taking medicine to Yemen, and they dumped it all in the sea.

[00:17:00]Uh so, that's the sort of siege that they were imposing on Yemen. And of course, Qatar and and Erdogan, they moved away from this not because they cared about the people of Yemen, but because of the siege that then they imposed on Qatar that caused a split.

[00:17:14]But, the point is that the Saudis and the Emirates with all the global support and all the US and British advisers and bombing Yemen day and night and imposing a siege, they failed to win the war in Yemen.

[00:17:28]So, like what is the Emirates going to do against Iran? Iran can destroy uh the Emirates uh very swiftly, all of its critical infrastructure within a a day or two. So, they can't do anything on their own, but uh they are uh they are worse than the other countries in the Persian Gulf region Right. in in their uh obedience to the United States and their and their pushing for violence and and war. And of course, their alliance with the Israeli regime has been exposed by the Israelis in a way in which even they are now embarrassed because they've been trying to deny it.

[00:18:07]When Netanyahu and the head of the Mossad and the head of the military and everyone came to the Emirates during the war, and now the Emirates