Scott Ritter: IRAN JUST CHANGED THE GAME - Front America

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[00:00:00]is irrelevant at this point. We just have to deal with the the um, you know, the ramifications of this uh, you know, but this shouldn't take anybody by surprise. Even during the campaign, we saw the degree to which Donald Trump slavishly subordinated um, himself to the pro-Israel camp. Um, you know, taking all that money from Miriam Adelson should have been a red flag to everybody. Then appointing just flagrant Zionists throughout his cabinet and positions of power, people There's you know, we saw when Tulsi Gabbard uh, an attempted to install as her deputy somebody who questioned um, you know, the the aspects of uh, Israel's dominance that they were removed. They weren't allowed to achieve You're not allowed to question Israel. You're not allowed to hint that there's a problem with Israel.

[00:00:50]Uh, you have to be completely subordinated to Israel. And that's the problem. Again, I just say this as an American, the number one threat to American national security is the state of Israel. Straight up. Um, and we we need to eliminate it. You know, Marjorie Taylor Greene needs to start calling a spade a spade. It's uh, it's not anti-Semitic to call out threats.

[00:01:11]We're We're not condemning the Jewish faith.

[00:01:14]We're condemning this this perverse Zionist entity uh, that has assumed a biblical um, you know, title um, >> [snorts] >> in order to corrupt America, corrupt democracy, and corrupt the region, and corrupt the world. Um, Israel brings nothing to the stage. Israel's a parasite on the global community. It exists to suck the lifeblood out of the world solely for its benefit.

[00:01:38]>> [clears throat] >> Um, and until we call it that, and if we continue to pretend that Israel has legitimacy in the world today, we just allow this uh, this activity to continue. Because the moment you legitimize the state of Israel, you legitimize their government, you legitimize these programs. If If the Israel is If Israel is legitimate and the government's legitimate, then therefore, you know, there's a limit to the umbrage and anger and angst that we can have about the recruitment of Jonathan Pollard.

[00:02:08]An American naval analyst who sold out his country in the worst possible way. He gave away, you know, the uh the the the the the the the volumes on um you know, American SIGINT collection. Um It cost us billions of dollars to gather that information. Much of that information was related to very sensitive things to include America's nuclear war plans.

[00:02:33]Um and uh how we collect that information.

[00:02:36]Some of that was done through, you know, covert means that could put not just uh capabilities at risk, but people at risk. Um you know, putting brave people's lives on the line who were doing things for their nation. Um Jonathan Pollard sold that out to Israel. Then Israel went ahead and sold that out to get uh Jews out of the former Soviet Union. So, you know, the idea that he was doing this for Israel is just absurd. He was doing this as, you know, the uh as part of a a global um you know, Zionistic uh endeavor uh that is detrimental to not just American security, but global peace and security. You got to call it out. If you don't call it out today, then shame on you because we know what's happening.

[00:03:19]We're just not allowed to say it.

[00:03:21]But it it's time that we call it out straight up and it that includes calling out the Gulf Arab states.

[00:03:26]I mean, when are when are the population of the Gulf Arab states going to realize that their monarchies have sold them out to the state of Israel, have become completely subordinated to the will of Israel?

[00:03:36]I mean, my god, um you know, the Palestinian people have a genocide committed against them and the Gulf Arab states are silent. Now we know why because they're actively complicit with the Israeli government in the conduct of this genocide. And now they're transferring that genocidal behavior onto other Arab populations in Lebanon and now the population of Iran.

[00:03:57]>> [sighs and gasps] >> You got to you we we just got to call it out and um and if they can't call it out then they need to be removed. And so yes, I'm actively encouraging the populations of the Gulf Arab monarchies to rise up and remove their their corrupt regimes from power because they're not doing they're not serving you.

[00:04:16]They've abandoned you just like the United States has abandoned them. Maybe the light's gone off and they realize as they sit there and beg for more interceptors that we're not giving them because we're giving those [clears throat] interceptors to either our forces protecting Israel or to Israel directly. That all the promises we made over the course of the past several decades that we are the security shield dating back to the Carter doctrine of 1979. We are the shield that will protect you.

[00:04:41]We're not going to protect you. We're abandoning you.

[00:04:44]Um and when it's all said and done we're going to want you to keep your doors open so we can come back and reassert ourselves. Um that can't be allowed to happen. But you know hopefully the people rise up. We see in Bahrain um hints of um regime change. Uh is the majority Shia population not only begins to confront the corrupt Khalifa family but um also violently confront the Saudi led Gulf the GCC security forces that are that are coming in to keep Khalifa in power.

[00:05:18]Topple Khalifa um Bahrain becomes a revolutionary state and then watch what happens in Eastern Saudi Arabia where the majority Shia populations.

[00:05:28]And then the Saudi shifts forces to deal with that watch what Ansarullah does because you know Ansarullah's been kicking Saudi butt for a number of years now. And uh they've been kicking UAE butt for a number of years now. And if you take the shackles off and you let uh the Ansarullah go wild uh they will destroy the energy infrastructure of both nations and they will physically reoccupy territory that currently uh is considered to be Saudi territory, but historically is Yemeni territory.

[00:05:54]And they'll reconquer that, and hopefully we could see Ansarullah marching through the streets of Riyadh to take the Al Saud family down, and and drag them behind them the same way the Hashemite family was dragged through the streets of Baghdad when the Ba'athists rose up and removed them from power.

[00:06:10]We need this kind of cleansing in the Middle East. These corrupt monarchies have been ruling for too long. They're simply a you know a a residue of former British colonialism. And then the United States took over guiding their neo-colonial continuation.

[00:06:27]And they've sold their people out. These people don't stand for anything. They're not very religious because you know the moment they leave their countries and get on an airplane, when they leave the airspace, the alcohol comes out, the women dress in Western standards. They go to Paris, they go to London, and they behave ostentatiously, which is fine if you're somebody in the West who's incorporated that lifestyle, but if you're pretending that you're somehow a pious um you know God-fearing person, um and you and you and you make that the cornerstone of your image projection in your homeland, only to find out that when you fly away, you behave differently, you're just a hypocrite. And this is the reality of the Gulf Arab states. It's 100% hypocrisy 100% of the time, and that hypocrisy has come back to haunt them.

[00:07:11]How powerful are they militarily if they decide to go to join the United States?

[00:07:16]Because many people in the Persian Gulf they're talking about we are getting angry, we are going to get we are we are going to get I I I I hope they get really angry. I hope they stamp their feet and turn purple in the face. Um Saudi Arabia has been trying to defeat Ansarullah since 2014, and they haven't done it.

[00:07:34]Ansarullah.

[00:07:35]The United Arab Emirates joined in with Saudi Arabia to try and defeat Ansarullah since 2000 15 perhaps.

[00:07:42]Haven't done it. Can't do it. Um United Arab Emirates, uh their military is 85% mercenaries.

[00:07:51]So, I mean, what you're going to tell me a UAE is going to stand up to >> Pakistan or Pakistan, primarily. They come from uh Pakistan, India, other Bangladesh.

[00:08:02]But the point is they're not Emirati uh you know, citizens.

[00:08:09]Emirati citizens are fat, pale, soft hands, soft skin, um effeminate, because they don't know how to fight.

[00:08:18]Because they don't want to fight.

[00:08:20]They let other people do their fighting for them. I mean, you'll find a couple spoiled princes because they have the lifestyle, they go to the gym, and they run, and they have chiseled features. Um but put them in a ring against the kid from the Bronx, and he'll stomp him into the dirt, because a kid from the Bronx can take a punch, been taking a punch his entire life. But these soft Emiratis, they can't take a punch, because anytime anybody threatens them, they snap their fingers, and their Pakistani bodyguards come over and beat the people into a pulp. This is reality of the totality of Gulf Arabs. There's not a single one of them that measures in any degree of manhood. They hide behind money, money, money. They buy their way out of everything. I said this to Major General Matt Caulfield in uh said in August, I think, just of uh 1990, I was called in. I was being pulled out of the amphibious warfare school to be sent to a a special planning cell that the Commandant of the Marine Corps was putting together to plan amphibious warfare operations.

[00:09:18]And Matt Caulfield wanted to cuz I was a captain going into the company of colonels. And he I was recommended by some people, and he he was like, I got to find out why they recommended a captain.

[00:09:29]Um you know, what the hell does a captain know? Uh he started questioning me. And at the end, I said, "Sir, we're" He said, "What do you believe?" it?

[00:09:35]"We're fighting the wrong Arabs."

[00:09:37]I said, "The Iraqis are hard working.

[00:09:39]I mean, when you want to dig a ditch ditch in Iraq, the Iraqis dig the ditch. You know, when you want to get something done, the Iraqis are doing it. Um, you go to Kuwait and they they farm it out cuz they're just fat, obese, rich, perverted people.

[00:09:54]Um, we're fighting the wrong Arabs.

[00:09:55]We're We should be fighting the Kuwaitis. We're fighting the the Saudis." And he's like, "Why do I want you on this project?" I said, "Well, you You asked me a question. I gave you the answer.

[00:10:07]You know, but if you order me to plan a military operation, I'll plan that military operation. That's my job.

[00:10:11]That's my duty. But my duty isn't to blow smoke up your ass.

[00:10:14]My duty duty is to answer the question that you give me honestly and accurately."

[00:10:19]Take that answer. And so, I plotted a war against Iraq knowing the whole time we're fighting the wrong Arabs.

[00:10:24]Cuz the Iraqis are far more men than any Gulf Arab state will ever be.

[00:10:29]The Gulf Arab states can't fight, don't know how to fight, won't fight.

[00:10:33]They farm it out. I was in a hotel in Riyadh before the war started. We would take our meals there. We worked out in the in the bunker of the Ministry of Defense building. So, we go across the street and they had this I think it was a Sheraton hotel. Had a nice, uh, you know, buffet spread. And so, we would go there and the Saudis paid for it all because they got a lot of money.

[00:10:52]And so, we're sitting there and I had just spent the day, you know, prepared, you know, going through target lists and all this stuff about a conflict we're getting ready to fight to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation. And, uh, at the same buffet were a bunch of Kuwaiti princes who had fled Kuwait City were now taking refuge in Saudi Arabia.

[00:11:10]And, uh, we overheard them. They were sitting there talking to their Saudi hosts. And they said, uh, "You know, these Americans, uh, are our mercenaries. You know, we're paying them to come here and liberate and I And, uh, the lieutenant colonel I was with basically ordered me out of the room cuz he saw that I was going to get up. I was going to go over there and I was going to beat the living out of this Kuwaiti. Stamp him into the ground.

[00:11:31]I'm nobody's mercenary. I take the orders only for my legitimate chain of command.

[00:11:36]Uh it's deeply insulting, but the problem is that's their mindset and that's how they view everything.

[00:11:41]They don't view anybody as their equal.

[00:11:43]They don't view anybody as a partner. You are a paid servant. When they pull out their wallet and they start putting money on the table and you take that money, they believe they own you. And in fact they they do except now what they're finding out is they've been played the whole time. That we've Let them sit there and and treat us to free lunches and free hotel rooms and free this and they buy our goods, but at the end of the day all they're good for is facilitating the desire of their Israeli masters to promote greater Israel. What do you think the Abrams Accords is? It's not about, you know, collective empowerment through economic development. It's not about mutual beneficiary mutual beneficial relations. It's about the Arabs subordinating themselves to a greater Israel. 100% That's all it's about. And that's what they've done.

[00:12:34]That's what these perverse fat pale effeminate non-men rulers of these nations have done. And I'm And I'm going to say it I'm just tired. We have to start calling it out.

[00:12:47]You can't solve a problem unless you actually define a problem. And so if we continue to pre- pretend that Saudi Arabia is a military power when it's not.

[00:12:56]Ansarullah can defeat And I pray they will. If Ansarullah's listening to this, march on Riyadh. Do it. Do it. Get rid of this ridiculous Al Saud family that only came in because of once a bunch of Wahhabis ran around on camels and intimidated other Bedouin tribes in the 1920s and 30s.

[00:13:16]That's it. There's no legitimacy here.

[00:13:17]There's no mandate from God. They just happen to be a a tribe Al Saud that that had better camel operators than everybody else. It's the same thing with us. The the the you know, the Emirates, the British put them in. The British put everybody in. It's colonial legacy.

[00:13:33]There's no legitimacy. They have no mandate of the people. There's no democracy.

[00:13:38]And then they got lucky because they happen to be sitting on a bunch of oil and gas that's now made them richer than they can possibly imagine.

[00:13:46]But the money doesn't bring legitimacy.

[00:13:49]The money just makes them rich.

[00:13:51]Legitimacy has to come from standing for something.

[00:13:55]Standing for something. They don't stand for democracy.

[00:13:58]They don't stand for liberty. They don't stand for justice.

[00:14:02]They're just rich.

[00:14:03]That's it.

[00:14:05]And they believe that they can sit there and leverage their control of the United States into controlling Iran.

[00:14:15]But it turned out that it was the United States controlling them, using them on behalf of Israel. And that truth is now come out.

[00:14:22]That truth has been played out in broad daylight by Iran. This is one of the greatest gifts Iran's given to the region and the world by bringing everything to a head.

[00:14:32]Everything to a head. The world will now get to see what kind of country Iran is.

[00:14:37]They'll get to see the support that the Iranian people provide to their country.

[00:14:41]And they'll also get to see the fact that the United States has been using the Gulf Arab states on behalf of Israel for decades.

[00:14:47]And they'll get to see what Israel's real plans are, that Israel is nothing more than a genocidal state wrapped into a tidy piece of territory with meaningless biblical reference.

[00:14:57]I mean, throw away the Bible and what do you have? Nothing.

[00:15:00]So the you know, the Bible is you know, what these Zionists are abusing to pretend that they have legitimacy, that they are God's chosen, that somehow Israel the Israel of today is part of a 3,000-year-old legacy. This is what of course the Christian Zionist belief, Mike Huckabee and the Ted Cruzes and others. And we're exposing the perversion of their thought, the illegitimacy of their thought. So, this war in many ways is a clarifying moment.

[00:15:26]It's a tragic moment. And I wish it hadn't come to this, but now that it's here, we might as well just embrace all ramifications and call it out as we see it. Uh it's not a time to hold back.

[00:15:37]It's not a time to continue to shield the truth. It's time to be brutally honest about everything. If you're out there and you want to be pro-Israel, say it. Acknowledge it. Be honest about it.

[00:15:49]Be honest because the people are tired of the lies.

[00:15:53]They're tired of the lies. It's time we have the truth. And if America truly wants to be a nation that has foregone its status as a constitutional republic, wants to operate as nothing more than a collective of sheep underneath the cult of personality serving the interests of greater Israel, fine.

[00:16:08]Fine. Just be honest about it.

[00:16:10]We have an election coming up. Tell the American people that's what they're voting for. When you vote for me, Donald Trump, or vote for my party, what you're voting for is greater Israel.

[00:16:20]We're not hiding it.

[00:16:21]It's there. We're voting for greater Israel, and we're not voting for the Constitution. You're voting to empower me, a cult of personality. I will continue to rename buildings in my name.

[00:16:30]I will continue to drop banners with my face. I will continue to make sure that everything centers around me, Donald Trump. If you can't see as an American what's happening, what other sitting president is operating with this degree of hubris and narcissistic uh arrogance?

[00:16:46]None.

[00:16:47]>> [gasps] >> America is infected with a sickness, a disease that's destroying what we are.

[00:16:54]And what we're doing in the world today is just facilitating the downward slide of our nation. We we do need to resize ourselves. We have to understand that we aren't the sole remaining superpower, that the world is not conditioned to continue American hegemony. That doesn't mean America goes away, though. We just have to resize ourselves to the appropriate size, the size we should be of a nation of 340 million people with the natural resources that we have.

[00:17:19]Uh but that means we have to learn how to live in, you know, as equals with Russia, with China, with India, with others. But we can't live as equals.

[00:17:27]We're the most arrogant people on the planet other than the Israelis.

[00:17:31]And we've subordinated ourselves to the Israelis. So, there we go.

[00:17:37]Yeah. Scott, today Pete Buttigieg was asked if he going to put troops on the ground in Iran, and they didn't answer the question. They said they're not going to answer it and they This is one of the main question right now in the mind of our audience. They want to know what what is your understanding of that. The other point is that many rumors they're talking about they're bringing Syrian ISIS group and Kurds they're going to, you know, go on the ground.

[00:18:07]What is your understanding of these sort of rumors and some sort of ideologies that they think that they can put troops on the ground. It doesn't seem that the Trump administration is willing to do that.

[00:18:22]Well, you remember I told you I was um pulled out of amphibious warfare school to go on a planning staff for the commander of the Marine Corps to plan amphibious operations. This was in uh September of 1990.

[00:18:34]The United States was in the process of moving 700 plus thousand troops into the region to fight the a war with Iraq.

[00:18:41]Including hundreds of thousands of ground troops, ground combat troops, many divisions worth of troops. Um Back then we were geared to do this, you know, because we had uh First of all, we had a whole bunch of forces in Europe that we were able to take an entire core and transfer it to the Middle East.

[00:18:58]Um The Marine Corps had uh shipping on had equipment on ships.

[00:19:05]Brigades worth of equipment adding up to about a divisions worth plus, and we could take these ships and offload them at ports and then fly Marines in and they'd marry up with the equipment and we'd be able to move on. Um this was the Cold War where we were prepared to move hundreds of thousands of troops at a moment's notice. In fact, the entire reinforcement of Germany option was premised on the notion that we would have 300,000 troops in West Germany and within 10 days we could reinforce them with 250,000 troops.

[00:19:33]So, we were geared, we were prepared to move 250,000 troops in 10 days.

[00:19:38]Today, if we want to send a heavy brigade to Europe today as part of the rotational reinforcement of forces, um it takes 6 months advance notice to get that unit ready to move. So, they have to do all sorts of stuff to get themselves ready to to to deploy and then they have to actually, you know, load their stuff on trains, take it down to ships, load it on ships, uh sail the ships across the sea, offload it. Uh that's at a friendly port. They're offloading at the port of Hamburg. Um Now, imagine if we want to take that same brigade and um take it to Iran.

[00:20:10]Well, we got it's going to take 6 months to get them up. If they want to speed it up, good luck because they're not ready.

[00:20:17]Uh but now they get on their ships and they start moving, what port are they going to offload at?

[00:20:23]Cuz remember we got to go to Iran. With Iraq, we were able to offload in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and then move our forces up and concentrate them, array them along the line of contact and carry out a ground war.

[00:20:33]Um where how are we going to do this?

[00:20:36]Are we going to land in uh Saudi Arabia?

[00:20:39]Um are the Saudis ready to have hundreds of thousands of Americans land, um you know, on the on the on the western provinces uh near Mecca and Medina? And then uh how are we going to move them across, position them in Kuwait cuz we can't take them to Kuwait anymore, the Strait of Hormuz is closed. Uh the ships will be sunk as they move in. As we start to offload, Iranian missiles will start pounding the port, blowing up the ships, killing the troops, destroying the logistics. So, we can't do that. We can't fly them in because is the airfields under attack. And uh then once we get them off the plane, where do we put them? Uh In a giant camp that says blow me up? Um no, so we have two options.

[00:21:17]We can land in Western Saudi Arabia or land in Jordan through Israel.

[00:21:22]Um and then build up a force in you know in in Jordan and then move through Iraq.

[00:21:28]Logistically, this would be a nightmare, but we could do that. Move through to get to the Iraqi-Iranian border where we then would have to cross in. Have you looked at a map of Iran?

[00:21:38]Have you seen the mountain ranges that separate Iran and Iraq from say Tehran, the seat of power, or from anywhere?

[00:21:46]Um so there it's not a flat plane that we get to drive in through there like Germany and go straight. We'd be going through mountainous terrain where the Iranians have been preparing for decades to receive us and destroy us and annihilate us.

[00:21:59]Uh so we have that option. It would take us 9 months to more than a year and a half to build up the forces capable of carrying out such an operation.

[00:22:07]Or we could get the Marine Corps and say you need to do a seizure [clears throat] of a port. We used to train for that. 1985, I actually helped write the plan for the seizure of Chabahar and Bandar Abbas. Um I'm familiar intimately with the what the intelligence was at the time, what we would need to do, how we move forces in.

[00:22:25]But we had a Marine Corps geared to do that back then.

[00:22:28]Uh we're not geared to do that today.

[00:22:30]How do we get um you know it would take we have to use at least three brigades in the initial assault. Uh how do we get three brigades on the ships?

[00:22:40]I don't think we can anymore. Um but if we could, how do we get them close to the Iranian shore without getting sunk?

[00:22:45]This is a problem that General Berger saw when he came became the commandant a couple years ago. He said we can't fulfill our mission cuz we're linked to legacy style amphibious operations that put a thousand Marines on a big ship and in order to get those Marines off the ship, we have to bring it close to shore and not get sunk.

[00:22:59]Um so how do we do this? With all due respect to Pete Hoekstra, he just simply doesn't know what he's talking about.

[00:23:07]Um I mean, it's just crazy talk, insane talk.

[00:23:11]Uh so, now we get to, you know, plan B where CIA paramilitaries joint special operations and special forces start to work with uh you know, indigenous forces to create um you know, indigenous proxies, uh militias, resistance groups, etc. We know some exist. We have the Baluchi Liberation Army working out of Pakistan.

[00:23:30]CIA has a long history of working with them. We have the Kurds. We've been working with the Kurds forever. Um we got Azeris that could come in. A Lore. I think you're familiar with the Lore people sort of in the Kurdish area but separate from the Kurds.

[00:23:44]>> [laughter] >> We got the Ahvaz Arabs. We got MEK that's always out there.

[00:23:49]Although I don't think the Iranian people will rise up and uh and and rally around MEK, but they're very good at being used to disable, blow up, and destroy things.

[00:23:58]Um and we got the monarchists who can always raise a flag, shout death to Khomeini, and then uh run away. Um you know, so now we we right now the decision is apparently has been made to um arm the Kurds.

[00:24:10]I don't know, are you familiar with Kurdish history? It's never a good idea to arm the Kurds because two things always happen. The Kurds lose and then they get betrayed and abandoned. Um but the other thing is yes, we can go into northern Iraq and we can mobilize uh Kurds there. What is Turkey going to do?

[00:24:31]Sit there and go, "That's a good idea.

[00:24:34]Why don't you get the Kurds riled up believing there's going to be a free and independent Kurdistan cuz that never blows back to Turkey. It's not like we have a significant chunk of territory with that Kurds want as well." This is why Turkey has intervened so harshly in both northern Iraq and in Syria to stomp down any notion of a free and independent Kurdistan. So, Turkey's not going to let the United States come in and arm 10, 20,000 Kurds and say march into and take over. That's just not going to happen. Meanwhile, I think the Iranians are already on top of this and they're already launching preemptive strikes into Sulaymaniyah and other areas of, you know, breaking up these Kurdish groups as they build up. But, once again, the Kurds are just going to be given the short stick, short end of the stick. It's a I wouldn't want to be a Kurd um because they're just going to get used, abused, and slaughtered again.

[00:25:26]Basically, we have no options. None.

[00:25:29]Now, had the CIA and Hekmatyar everybody sat down with real experts and held a panel discussion, they would have known this up front.

[00:25:37]Had they sat down with real experts about Iran, you know, it's funny some of the uh the big advisers out there are guys who um served in Task Force 17. Ooh, JSOC, baby.

[00:25:50]Delta Force. These guys are good. They got big muscles. They got tattoos.

[00:25:54]They're really good at jumping out of helicopters and sprinting into buildings and killing people. Um you know, so be it. Hooray, Delta. Uh but, they were given they were supposed to carry out this covert war against the Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, um in in Iraq and uh all this stuff. And so, you have these uh thick-neck knuckle draggers, some of whom are, you know, smart enough to have learned Farsi. Um and they were involved in a campaign that they lost ultimately. Um but, now they're the ones posing themselves as regional experts and providing the advice. And these are the people saying that the Iranian people want to be overthrown, uh that they hate the regime, that they they do I mean, so we got Delta Force knuckle dragging losers, guys who haven't won a war yet, big L stapled on their heads. They probably got their ass kicked in Afghanistan.

[00:26:40]They came over and got their ass kicked in southern Iraq. And then, they went home and started thinking about their relevance to the world. So, they started selling themselves as regional uh you know, a subject matter expert [clears throat] is a term they like to use. Um, and and and and they're they just are ignorant. Um, if they've been in Iran it's because they landed there one night uh to insert somebody or extract somebody or to plant a device or to do something. But they haven't wandered the streets of Tehran interacting with the uh with the Iranian people talking about to them. They haven't, you know, gone to Kashan. They haven't gone to any of the places they were blowing up. They didn't go to Minab. They certainly didn't meet with the families of the school children who were slaughtered by the bombs. Um, these people know nothing nothing about Iran.

[00:27:24]Nothing about Iran. And yet they're the ones saying, "No, all we have to do is kill Ali Khamenei and the system comes down." But had they talked to real experts they would have known that killing Ali Khamenei will only strengthen the system. That it will backfire fire. And that's exactly what happened.

[00:27:39]We did succeed in getting I mean, President Trump, congratulations.

[00:27:44]Good job, man. Cuz you did what you wanted to do. You wanted the Iranian people to rise up and take matters into their own hands. And they have. They've risen up. And they said, "We are behind the government. We are supporting the martyr Ali Khamenei.

[00:27:59]We are supporting the new supreme leader Ali Khamenei's son, Mojtaba I think his name is. Um, I could be mispronouncing that, but that's what I do for a living.

[00:28:08]So, um, apologies. But the point is we are so far removed from reality. We don't respect anything. Uh we treat the Iranians as if they're a bunch of uh camel jockey ragheads, sand whatever other derogatory term we can use and have used in the past to describe the people of the Middle East instead of one of the most cultured, uh refined, dignified people the world has ever seen with uh a history that goes back thousands of years. And the Iranian people, even if you're an Islamist supporting the Islamic Republic, you embrace that history. You respect your culture. And you want these people to sell out their this legacy that they have? It's just not going to happen.

[00:28:47]Um And but we're we're ignorant of this. And now not only are we blowing up you know, we're blowing up history.

[00:28:57]I I've heard stories. I just hope it's not true, but I've heard stories about blowing up um you know, in in Tehran we're blowing up some of the old Qajar. And again, I might be mispronouncing that. That might be called you pronounced differently, but you know what I'm talking >> It's good. It's good. Your pronunciation is good. Ah, I'm safe. You know, there was a time when I was trying to pronounce Bab el-Mandeb and I was just fumbling it left and right 20 times and somebody did this really cool meme because it showed me, you know, the Bab el-Mandeb and and they're like, "Oh."

[00:29:26]And then Bab el-Mandeb and finally I go the Bab el-Mandeb and there's a whole group go, "Yay! Yay!"

[00:29:31]You know, so I I try. I I really do. But the you know, Qajar dynasty um the the the art, the the the history, the culture there. When I went to Iran, you know, I was guided by a revolutionary guard um escort. But he took me to these places and he was in awe of the blue beauty. Um you know, they they just they revere their history and I think we've blown it up and I think we're blowing up places in Isfahan, we're blowing up places in Shiraz, we're blowing up places in Kashan.

[00:30:01]>> [clears throat] >> Um what we're doing to Iran is is cultural genocide, but we don't care because we we have no comprehension of who the Iranians are, an appreciation of what they are. We don't know what their history is. Um and all we're doing is aligning ourselves with the nation Israel, which is fully capable of committing genocide against a nation of 90 million as they were with committing genocide against a population of 3 million in Gaza.

[00:30:27]Yeah. Scott, when he talked that giving us a timeline you know, of the war and he's talking about four days then four weeks and right now I don't know how long does it take. It It reminds me, I don't know if you saw the video comparing Rumsfeld to Pete Hackett today. The same It seems that they're talking about the same sort of, you know, idea when it comes to war. It doesn't seem that Pete Hackett because he was part of the He said that he was in the Middle East. He He know how what was the war.