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We got to start, with updates on iran.
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The biggest controversy over the weekend
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That i could see was whether or not
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We're going to be sending ground troops or not,
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And it still remains up in the air.
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It remains up in the air. let's go ahead and play.
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Sot six reports indicate the united states is preparing
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For a possible weeks long ground operation in iran.
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That would include thousands of u.s.
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Service members
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Over the weekend, the uss tripoli, manned
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With 3500 troops, including 2500
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Marines, arrived in the centcom area of operation.
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This comes as the united states and israel launched
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A series of strikes against iranian military
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Infrastructure over the weekend,
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Including hitting iran's nuclear development facilities.
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We're obviously getting a lot of folks ready over there.
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Thousands of u.s.
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Troops are getting stationed and ready to go.
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And i just want to be very clear
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Where i stand, where i believe blake stands, where i think
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Turning point stance,
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Frankly, is we give president trump a lot of,
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Trust, a lot of patience when it comes this.
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He's proven
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That he doesn't do quagmires, he doesn't do forever wars.
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And we've been willing to sort
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Of, you know, be a part of this watch.
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Wait.
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I understand that waiting, is part of this game.
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And to see how this plays out
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And we hope for the best, we pray for our troops.
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But really, boots on the ground is a line
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We don't want to cross.
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And we are not supportive of boots on the ground, full stop.
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And as we've warned, whatever you make
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Of the merits of the conflict itself, it is likely
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To be politically disastrous if it continues long term.
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Yes, and we want to make that
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Clear, especially because i think there's a lot of people
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Who will just be determined to sell anything
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The president does and say, oh, it's really popular.
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Everyone loves it.
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And that's not a responsible position to take.
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If you look at the numbers,
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This is probably the most skeptical the public
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Has been about any conflict
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The united states has ever entered.
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And we've been honest.
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We've never we've not been frothing at the mouth.
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Some of you got mad at us in the emails
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That we haven't been more,
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I guess, you know, enthusiastic in our support.
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What we're what we're saying is we don't like war.
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We hate.
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It actually doesn't mean that this wasn't the best
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National security decision
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That the president could have made.
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I i'm not in the room.
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I don't know the intel,
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But we do not want boots on the ground.
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We do not want a quagmire.
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We do not want this thing to get out of control.
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And it does seem like president trump is signaling
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That things are getting better.
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He put out a truth this morning.
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I don't know if this was to encourage the markets.
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It's you know, a lot of people, are skeptical
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Sometimes about these truths.
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But the
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He says the united states of america
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Is in a serious discussion
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With a new and more reasonable regime
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To end our military operations in iran.
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He, there was another quote where he basically said,
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Regime change is already done, essentially,
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To end our military operations in iran.
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Great progress has been made.
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But if for any reason
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A deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be,
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And if the hormuz strait is not immediately
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Open for business, we will conclude our lovely
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Stay in iran by blowing up and completely obliterating
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All of their electric generating plants, oil wells
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And kharg island, and possibly all desalination plants
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Which we have purposely not yet touch.
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This will be in retribution for our many soldiers
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And others
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That iran has butchered and killed over
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The old regime's 47 year reign of terror.
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Thank you for your attention
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To this matter, president donald j. trump.
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And part of what's complicated here is
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We want this to end quickly.
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We want this to end without escalation,
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And we are aware that the president's negotiating
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Style does include lots of, say, very aggressive
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Threats and saber rattling in order to then back off.
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And so everything we say has to be couched
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In those terms, like if the president playing
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Super hardball does help him get out faster,
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We have to support that because we want us to get out faster.
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Yes, exactly.
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And, we'll just play.
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Last week we covered the 15 point plan.
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He was asked about this 15 point peace plan by a reporter.
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Here's his answer.
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Sot nine
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He did offer that 15 point plan for what they ever cut back.
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Yeah, they came back on the 15 point plan.
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They gave us most of the points.
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Why wouldn't they
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Make it sound like they made some concessions.
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Can you identify the
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Why they're agreeing with us on the plan?
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I mean, we asked for 15 things, and for the most part,
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We're going to be asking for a couple of other things.
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And just to prove that they're
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Serious, they gave us all these words.
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What i talked about four days to go, president.
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They said they gave me a present,
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But i didn't think i was at liberty to say what it was.
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What it was was eight plus two.
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It's ten massive boatloads of oil.
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And today they gave us another present.
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They gave us 20 boatloads of one.
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That sucks being shipped tomorrow.
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We're having very good meetings,
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Both directly and indirectly, and i think we're getting a lot
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Of very important research.
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I'm very pro signaling that this thing can get done,
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That there can be a route forward, that we can,
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Have peace quicker, sooner, without boots on the ground.
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Now, if president
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Trump is moving those assets into the region in order
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As to blake's point
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To saber rattle, to strengthen his negotiations, that's okay.
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I understand
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He's got to do what he's got to do, but we do not want
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Boots on the ground.
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We do not want this thing, becoming a quagmire.
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Because in war, this tends to happen
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When you get into a situation.
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You escalate a little bit.
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Well, then something else goes wrong.
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Then you escalate a little bit more,
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And then you think, well, we're not committed.
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We better take car ireland. we better take this field.
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We better blow this up, and we better hold it
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For the protection of the local citizenry.
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Whatever the rationale will be,
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There will be endless rationales.
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And that's the point.
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There will always be a reason to go farther and deeper
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And get more committed.
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This is how you end up in afghanistan for 20 years.
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So hopefully, prayerfully,
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This will not be the decision that is made.
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Prayerfully we will get out prayerfully
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This there will be moderate actors on the other side
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Of this negotiation.
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Prayerfully, there will be an opportunity
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For us to declare victory and exit stage left.
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That's what we want to do.
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And hopefully and prayerfully,
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The strait of hormuz will be opened.
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And that really, i think, is the crux of the matter.
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Can we get that thing open?
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Scott besson is basically saying it will happen.
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Marco rubio saying it will happen.
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Hopefully we get that done.
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Prayerfully we get that done
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Because boots on the ground is is a line
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I certainly do not want to cross.
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I do not think the american people
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Want to cross into blake's point.
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It's politically extraordinarily fraught.
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It's politically extraordinarily fraught.
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I'm excited about our next guest here.
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This is ridvan eid amir.
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He is, also known as the apostate prophet.
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You can check him out on youtube on x under that handle.
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Apostate prophet.
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Welcome back to the show, my friend.
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Thank you for having me.
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Yeah, i'm very happy to be here.
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Yeah, well, we're happy to have you.
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So for those of you
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In the audience who are maybe not aware of redman's story,
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He was, born and raised a muslim,
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And then, sort of broke away from the faith.
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And now he's a christian, which is excellent.
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But he gives incredible insights about the muslim,
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Mindset, the frame of mind, the their ideology.
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And so, ridvan, i tasked you with, with a specific
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Task to go figure out what the vibe is in iran right now.
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The people on the ground.
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I know you have a lot of iranian friends.
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Persian friends.
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So what is the vibe in iran?
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And ultimately that leads to the next question.
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Are they going to rise up?
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Okay,
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Well, it's very complicated.
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I know it's very complicated.
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I talked to many iranians.
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Over the last few days,
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I have been
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Following the whole situation, very closely
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Talked to iranians.
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I speak to iranians, who live outside of iran.
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Some that are inside iran, some that are outside
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And communicate with families inside iran.
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The situation is very complicated.
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What people need to understand is that,
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The people of iran haven't had access
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To the internet for, i think 31 days now.
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So it's been more than a month.
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The internet has been entirely and completely
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Shut down by the, islamic republic, the islamic regime,
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With the excuse that, you know, they have to, tackle
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Misinformation and,
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And, international a global foreign interference
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And all that.
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But, shutting down your own people's
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Access to the internet is, of course,
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A very miserable way to treat your own people.
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And it's clear why this is being done.
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It's, to
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To prevent, organizing, to prevent mobilization,
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To prevent, you know, people communicating with each other.
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So the average iranian, has great difficulties
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Accessing information, but understanding
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What's actually going on, those iranians that we see,
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We usually see video recordings, we see,
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We receive some limited information,
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The majority of iranians, according to the latest,
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Research of all different sources,
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Say that over 85 to 90% of the, of iranians
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Despise the islamic republic that is in charge
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And want it gone.
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So they have no good feelings about this, this government,
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Many of them, look, with hope at the current war.
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I know for some people, it seems like,
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It's a little bit puzzling and confusing
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That they would, cheer on the bombing of their own country,
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But that's not really what it's happening.
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The current, us and israeli,
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Strikes are vastly carried out on military sides and,
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You know,
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Government facilities, vastly, not exclusively, but vastly,
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The iranians generally
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Seem to, be happy about it and celebrate it.
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You can see them sharing videos of themselves,
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Singing about it and smiling and enjoying it
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And hoping for the downfall of the islamic regime.
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The problem is that
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The islamic regime is a, is a strongly
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And firmly embedded regime, an authoritarian government
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That also has its own, militia and its own forces.
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So iran has
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Two separate militaries, the regular national military,
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And then the one that is purely loyal to the islamic regime,
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That is an islamic, military.
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And that military is very vicious and very loyal
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To the islamic regime.
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They have their own, special forces, the basij,
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They have their, the irgc,
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Which is the islamic revolutionary guard corps,
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Which is all about protecting islam
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In the ambitions of the islamic republic.
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Those people are the problem because, as much as the people
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Of iran are, willing to get rid of this regime,
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They are dealing with a very, very barbaric, very ruthless,
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Very vicious force that is loyal to the islamic regime.
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They might come
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They might they might make up only less than 10%.
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Those who are loyal to the regime
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Might only make up less than 10% of the population.
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But they have very strong, organized,
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Military and police forces that protect them
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And that have no issues shooting down civilians
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In masses in the thousands if they mobilize,
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Which is why we have not seen much of an uprising.
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And i'm sure you're going to ask that as a follow up. but,
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But so that's that's the situation right now.
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People are people are hopeful that this will, that america
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And israel will together do something to weaken
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And destroy this islamic regime.
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But they are also a little bit uncertain and, frightened
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Also because donald trump has kind of sent,
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Mixed messages to the people of iran such as,
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The latest is stay inside while bombs are falling,
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But also at the same time, seize the moment.
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And, you know, be ambitious, make the change and all that.
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So there is uncertainty.
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There is hope, there is some fear.
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But i would say the most dominant, feeling that i,
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That i perceive from iran is that there is hope
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At the moment.
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Certainly before
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The strikes were launched, i think i perceived on x,
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I perceived on media a lot of efforts to sell.
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Like all it's really on the tipping point.
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It's clearly
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Just about to fall and it looks really convincing.
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And then strikes happen.
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And it's not even that the government
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Doesn't collapse, it's that there's not obvious
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Signs that it would be, you know, on the ropes.
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And i guess
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Inevitably, is it the case that when we're seeing videos
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Come out of countries like iran,
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We are going to see the people
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Who are most likely to have access to the internet,
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Have access to smartphones, have access to stuff
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Even when there's the middle of a war going on.
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And that's just not going to be a representative group
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For a country like iran, where there are rural people, poorer
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People who are more likely
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To be backing a fundamentalist regime like this one.
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So, first, again, i would like to establish
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I mean, these are these are legitimate
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Concerns and questions.
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But, so according to all the research, even by,
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Iranian organizations, come on.
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And, certain others, when the iranian people
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Themselves are polled, this is this is prior to the war
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When they are polled and asked about their opinions
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On, on the, on the government and, you know, who or what
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Should be in charge.
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Over 85% of them say that the islamic regime
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Should not be in charge.
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The, the most popular option for people to pick.
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As for, you know, the the who should be in charge is,
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Half or
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Up to a half of the population says that the
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That the crown prince, reza pahlavi should be a
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Should take over and should, lead the country
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Towards some kind of democracy or something like that.
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So the sentiments there are generally
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That the people have hope.
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Now, there is one misunderstanding, which is,
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You you mentioned, tipping points.
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I would have been
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I was also at the beginning of this war,
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Very careful to say that the islamic regime
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Is about to die or about to crumble.
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I was sure that, supreme leader
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Khamenei would, die and be killed.
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He was on the list
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Very high off people who were to be killed.
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But the islamic regime, as i said, is not necessarily,
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At a very terrible tipping point.
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They are weakened, but even when they are weak,
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They have a very firm ideology that they stand by.
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They are hard core, ideologues and loyalists.
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If they only had three people left in that government,
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They would still not give up
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And they would still, fire whatever they have
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At their surroundings in order to survive.
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This is not a government that actually, cares
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About the people. think about it this way.
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If in a western nation, the majority of the population
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Walked toward their their government buildings
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And demanded that the government steps down
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In a civilized western society,
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The government would most likely eventually give up.
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In iran.
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Iranians are also very, very much
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Unlike most of the middle eastern people.
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But, their government is a very barbaric islamist regime.
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And, they don't understand any of this.
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If the entire population
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Walked toward the government and demanded them to step down,
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They would have no problem
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Shooting down and mowing down the entire population
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In order to preserve their their ideology
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And their ideological, apocalyptic, government,
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Which has the ambitions of bringing about their,
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End time figure into, you know, expanding islam
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Or shia islam to the whole world.
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So, there is also one aspect which is,
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At the beginning of the
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War, israel itself was trying to explore,
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Whether they could, help the iranian people
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Overthrow the regime.
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The latest reports are that the israeli government
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Itself, is a little bit frustrated because they don't
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Seem to really, be able to mobilize the iranian people.
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It's because the iranian people are scared.
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The last time they stood up,
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The last few times they stood up, they were massacred.
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Just a few months ago,
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In january, over 30,000 of them were killed.
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Yeah. ridvan, hang right there.
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I we're going to play some of these clips from,
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Reza pahlavi, from cpec and get your reaction to it.
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And then we're going to talk about boots on the ground.
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And then we're going to talk about boots on the ground.
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More with ridvan amir,
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And he's also known as the apostate prophet.
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Check him out on youtube. and x a great follow.
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I'm going to play this cut here from prince.
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Raise up pallavi at cpec.
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Sop five.
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For the goodwill between our two people,
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Which you see on vibrant display here today.
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To continue, we must finish the job.
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This regime in its entirety must go.
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If we do not finish the job
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And leave a rank of the regime in place, the threat posed by
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This islamic republic will not be solved.
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It will only be made worse.
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Terrorists cannot be trusted to bring peace.
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There are thugs.
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They are not dealmakers.
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They are agents of chaos.
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Ridvan, we've got this juxtaposition here, right where
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You hear razia saying, we got to have regime change.
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Trump is like,
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Well, we've already had regime change
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Because the guys i'm working with right now are really nice.
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And then we just got a report from breitbart
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Saying israel will declined to join any ground operations
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Americans might launch in iran.
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There's all kinds of mixed signals.
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Are we going to do we need boots on the ground
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To get this done,
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To get this mission accomplished,
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To get the overthrow of the regime?
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And is that is that a we're against that?
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I'll just be really honest. we're against that on the show.
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And so does that needed because they're not armed.
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The irgc is armed.
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That's why they mow people down in the streets.
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Yeah.
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How do you overthrow this regime
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Without boots on the ground?
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Israel says they're not going to help.
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Reza says we got to get regime
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Change, make it all make sense.
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And that's also the one of the main issues
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Why the iranians are, not really rising up
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To overthrow the regime,
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Rising up to overthrow
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The regime is not something that's, that the
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That the iranian population which really, be,
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You know, which is what lovingly
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Do it would result in mass violence and killings.
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And it's not it's not a very good iranian, now
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Trait that are that they are really,
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Really into unlike most of the other,
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You know, middle eastern
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Or arab countries, for example, it is a very
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Difficult situation.
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It depends on what's really what the plan really is.
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The thing is that donald trump and, netanyahu,
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Both said that,
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That, that there is no future for this entire regime.
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So the regime must go.
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But then trump also said that he's actually in good talks
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With the current, you know, iranian leadership,
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Whereas the iranian side said we are actually not.
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So, we are receiving lots of mixed signals.
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And there is,
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There is a complex situation on the ground.
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The iranian military says, there are no talks.
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We will not surrender to any of your demands.
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You will lose this war, publishing leg away videos
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And things like that.
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What the what the american government
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Currently demands from them is that they
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Completely rollback their, nuclear enrichment program
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Because iran made it very clear that they, plan to enrich
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Uranium to absurd levels of, you know, 60 or 80 or 90 and,
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Civilian, reasonable civilian use is capped at 5%.
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So they are clearly aiming for, for military use,
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To dismantle most of the nuclear facilities,
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To stop completely and, disband all their
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Proxy military units like the hezbollah, the houthis
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And all that.
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Iran is not going to do these things
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Any kind of peace deal that might be reached
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Will be a temporary one.
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And, if there is a peace deal that will be reached,
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We will be in no time back to fighting again after this.
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Maybe in months, maybe in a few years.
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So, the regime needs to go.
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It needs to change.
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It is also, i would say
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From my perspective, a, a a moral issue.
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This is a regime that brutally mistreats and,
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Kills its population over nothing, over,
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Women or girls refusing to cover themselves
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Properly and all that.
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For a power like america, it would be a,
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It would be a good
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And moral thing to help them take out this regime
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That said, yeah, go ahead.
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That said, i also would not like to see,
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Boots on the ground in the traditional way.
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It would be a very, difficult situation.
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It would spring suffering to america, to americans.
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And it could also escalate very quickly
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And result in massive bloodshed over there.
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What i do think, is reasonable is,
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If if america and israel take this seriously and,
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You know, gain complete
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Air superiority over iran, which is, by the way,
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One of the goals of the of the of the of the current,
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Proposed peace deal to have complete,
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You know, intrusive surveillance over iran
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If they gain proper air superiority.
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I think the only way
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That, boots on the ground could be done
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Would be to send in a special force
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To take out certain targets, and then to establish a,
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You know, a, a proper force for the people
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Inside that country.
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But that is, i am at this point, just,
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Speculating and, you know, wishing and hoping
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For something, but it's unclear what's
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What's going to come here.
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I just as an american, you're kind of going,
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Okay, if we can't get everything we want,
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But we can get the strait of hormuz open
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And we can get, you know, no, no,
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No nukes into their ballistic missiles, whatever
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It is that good enough, right?
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At some point,
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Iranians need to take this into their own hands.
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And maybe raise a can do it.
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Maybe he can spark this this revolution.
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Maybe.
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I mean, he try he tries to appeal
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To the loyal forces all the time.
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The the issue is, so know that there is
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One conversation that people have
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And that people raise, which is that,
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That that the islamic regime in
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Iran does not pose an imminent threat to the united states
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Of america.
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I agree that it doesn't pose an imminent threat
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To the united states of america.
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However, it does pose a threat overall.
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And you know, when you have
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When you have a very vicious, fierce enemy,
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You usually don't wait until they pose an imminent threat.
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So, even if it is simply for our own interests,
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If america just lets them be and, and comes out
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With a deal
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That prevents them from advancing
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Their nuclear enrichment program.
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First off, i'm not i do not believe for a second
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That the islamic regime will actually honor that.
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The second, secondly, the islamic regime
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Has it in their constitution
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And in their words, the entire time.
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Make no mistake,
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They are expanding their
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Ballistic missile capability capabilities, their slogan,
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Their most popular slogan has been for 40 years
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Now, death to america and death to israel.
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America is the great satan.
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Israel is the small sentence.
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Yeah, we got to wrap up.
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We're running out of time here. but your point is well made.
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Thank you for making the time. thank you.
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Okay.
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We're praying for success.
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And a quick
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And a quick rack up wrap up to this conflict in iran.
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Thank you, my friend. we'll talk to you again. thank you.
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We'll see you tomorrow.
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Ridvan Aydemir: March 31, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today

March 31, 2026 | 23:29

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