Special Report: Iran Under Attack | Stakelbeck Tonight

March 1, 2026 | 28:29

Erick Stakelbeck reports on the US.-Israeli strike on Iran.

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| Special Report: Iran Under Attack | Stakelbeck Tonight | March 1, 2026

The operation, the joint operation between the us and
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Israel against iran's regime continues. i'm eric stakelbeck.
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This is a tbn special report. operation epic fury. that's
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What president trump is calling it. israel is calling it
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Operation roaring lion. we're wrapping up day two of this
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Historic effort to, number one, depose iran's regime. that's
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Hopefully the end game here. but number two, decimate iran's
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Nuclear weapons program. and more importantly, even perhaps
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At this juncture, its ballistic missile program. over the next
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30 minutes, we will bring you top experts, middle east from
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D.c. and beyond, and unpacking what's happening in the world's
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Most chaotic and strategic region right now, and why it
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Impacts you no matter where you live. let's get up to speed
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Right now. it's 7 p.m. here in washington, d.c. and what we
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Have today, some pretty major developments. number one, we
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Learned that three us soldiers have been killed so far in this
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Engagement. and president trump spoke just a short while ago.
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And he said, look, there may be more casualties. that's the
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Price that we have to pay here to once and for all, eliminate
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The world's number one state sponsor of terrorism, the
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Iranian regime. so we have three u.s. deaths, sadly.
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Number two. earlier today, an iranian ballistic missile
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Struck just outside of jerusalem in israel. nine
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People were killed in that iranian missile strike. and
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Just a short while ago, another iranian missile fell just
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Outside of jerusalem. several people were wounded in that
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Attack. in the meantime, iran also continues to launch
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Missiles and drones at the surrounding arab and muslim
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Nations like qatar, bahrain, and in particular the united
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Arab emirates. so things are heating up on that front. but
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Here's the good news. the united states and israel have
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Had smashing success over the past 48 hours in decimating
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Iran's military capabilities. and of course, yesterday, the
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Big one, the supreme leader ayatollah khamenei, he was
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Killed in this joint us israel operation. so khamenei is no
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More. and also, you may remember a name, mahmoud
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Ahmadinejad, not too long ago, about a decade ago, he was the
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President of iran, a notorious israel hater, anti-semite. he
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Also was killed. we're hearing reports in these engagements
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Over the last 48 hours. so the question is, now, how long does
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This all last? president trump said, look, when he addressed
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The nation a short while ago. this could last for weeks,
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We're not quite sure. but he also added, and folks, key
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Point here that iranian military officials, leaders,
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Remaining leaders that haven't been eliminated, remember, some
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40 of them were killed in the opening juncture of this
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Offensive, but they are apparently behind the scenes,
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These iranian leaders reaching out to the us, the
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Administration, they want to talk. perhaps they want a deal
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To end the barrage against them. but it is unfolding right now
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As we speak, and we're joined right now by national security
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Expert victoria coates. victoria, always great to see
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You. hey, you work for president trump advised him
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During his first term. and i think a big takeaway here.
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Peace through strength. we're seeing it right now victoria,
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In real time. can you tell us a bit more about the total game
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Changer, geopolitical and really historic game changer
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That donald trump has been in particular in the second term?
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This is lasted this iranian crisis through seven
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Presidencies dating back to 1979. donald trump is the first
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Commander in chief to finally take the bold action needed to
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Resolve it.
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>> no. absolutely right, eric, and great to be with you. thank
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You for having me on this. this is something everyone said you
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Couldn't possibly do. you couldn't attack iran. they're
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Going to they were going to take all of these actions that
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Were going to be so detrimental. and as the president pointed
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Out tonight, and i would just add on that front, i mean, the
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President has addressed the american people twice in two
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Days about what he's doing and why. we never heard from joe
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Biden about the ukraine war and what he was doing and why. and
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So what we have is the president reaching out, telling
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Us, you know, this is what's going to happen. he's not
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Trying to sugarcoat anything. he both on his first statement
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And then again tonight talked about the possibility of
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Casualties. today we had three casualties in kuwait. we all
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Mourn those those heroes, the other you know, our prayers go
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Out to the families of the wounded. but, you know, this is
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A president who's bringing the american people along. and what
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He's saying is, this is about your future. this is how we are
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Going to make a better future for the people of the united
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States, where this threat isn't, you know, hanging over your
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Head 24 over seven for another 47 years. so amazing job by our
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Military over the last 36 hours. but there's a lot more work to
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Be done.
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>> yeah. president trump, no doubt, is an historic figure. i
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Think there's no doubt about it, victoria, at this point, and
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Every time it seems that he uses the military and he
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Doesn't want to use it, he wants to use it sparingly, of
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Course, the full might of the us military. but victoria, it
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Seems like he does it wisely, shrewdly, quickly. what sets
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Apart the objectives here in iran and what we've seen so far
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In this operation from previous us operations in the middle
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East in particular.
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>> well, he doesn't use our military as a messaging device.
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This isn't a pinprick strike, something secretary kerry said
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Ten years ago. you know, just a little something. no. if he has
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An objective, he's going to go and he's going to get it. and
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He learned. i mean, it wasn't his wars in afghanistan and
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Iraq, but he's learned the lesson of those wars that in in
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Terms of our ability to impose democracy on other nations, we
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Are very limited in that. and that's why his message to the
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Iranian people has been this, this is going to be your
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Mission. we are going to do this because to end the threat
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Of a nuclear iran is in the interests of the american
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People. great. that's our mission. that's our errand. but
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If you want to take advantage of what we've done in terms of
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Weakening the regime, in terms of giving you more latitude to
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Act, great, then this is your moment, but you're going to
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Have to take it. so rather than our coming in with hundreds of
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Thousands of boots on the ground to turn iran into, you
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Know, virginia, where it rather going to let the iranian people
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Do that once we have removed the threat to the american
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People?
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>> yeah, the iranian people have this golden opportunity.
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Now we're praying they seize it. hey, how about china and russia?
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Victoria, i think of that modern day axis of evil iran,
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North korea, china, russia, the toppling of iran's regime. god
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Willing, what message does that send to china and russia? and
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In a broader sense, how does it affect them? i'm thinking china
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With cheap oil and gas are getting from iran, russia and
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Iran. obviously a close alliance. vladimir putin
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Mourned the death of ayatollah khamenei yesterday. what kind
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Of impact does it have on our chief geopolitical adversaries,
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China and russia?
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>> well, it hasn't been a great couple of days, eric, to be a
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Member of the so-called axis of evil. we could even take this
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Back to january. and we they've lost venezuela as well. and
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Cuba is on the brink. and so president trump, instead of
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Just accepting the axis of evil as something that we have to
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Deal with, he's like, no, i'm going to change this. i'm not
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Going to leave these threats to the american people hanging
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Over our heads. and so what, in doing what he has just done, as
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You mentioned, he's cut off venezuelan cheap gas to china.
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We might be cutting off iranian cheap gas to china. this is
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Going to really impact sherman xi where he lives. and bear in
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Mind, we have this very high stakes summit coming up between
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President trump and sherman xi next month. theoretically, in
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China, if that holds, president trump is setting himself up to
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Go in in a position of enormous strength. and what has she been
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Up to for the last two months? i haven't seen a lot of chinese
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Activity on the world stage.
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>> yeah. victoria. well said. hey, about 30s left again. you
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Advise president trump during his first term. you know the
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Man well. you know the administration well how they
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Operate. how would you describe in about 30s the trump doctrine
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And what we're seeing unfold right now in iran?
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>> no, i mean, this is this is, as you said, america first.
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This is peace through strength. this is the president flexing a
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Lot of us muscle in order to make a dramatic change. and so
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I think what we are going to see here is a new middle east.
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He promised peace in the middle east. he's about to deliver on
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It. and the key thing here, eric, is iran is isolated.
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Everyone told us israel was going to be isolated if if they
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If we went in, that's not the case. it's iran that's isolated.
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The region is rallying behind, particularly the united states
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And president trump.
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>> victoria coates great breakdown. as always. be sure
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To follow victoria on x across social media. victoria we'll
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See you again soon. keep it up god bless. and folks one of the
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Big developments we're seeing here okay. number one president
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Trump's action in iran is weakening that axis. we're
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Talking china, russia, iran, north korea. that's a good
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Thing. but also by extension, we're seeing a new alliance
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Form, perhaps in the middle east, israel and the us, of
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Course, but joined in a more forceful way by arab muslim
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Nations like saudi arabia, like the united arab emirates, like
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Bahrain, that are under fire right now. courtesy of courtesy
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Of iran. the iranian regime over the past 48 hours has
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Fired hundreds of missiles, rockets and drones at these
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Arab muslim nations. joining us now to break that down and the
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Broader implications is our good friend. you know him very
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Well, folks. host of the rosenberg report every thursday
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Night right here on tbn. editor in chief of all israel news.
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Joel, you have spent so much time not only in israel, of
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Course, where you're based, but in the arab and muslim world
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Meeting with the leaders of these nations saudi arabia, the
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Uae, bahrain, the list goes on. what are the ramifications here?
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Short term but long term, now that they are under siege, the
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Iranian regime again has fired hundreds of missiles and drones
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At arab muslim nations surrounding iran in the past 48
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Hours. major regional shifts, you think may be in the offing
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Here.
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>> these are tectonic shifts in the region, eric. absolutely. i
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Think the iranian regime has made several major strategic
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Errors. first of all, of course, that they didn't listen to
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President trump. they didn't believe that president trump
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Was going to keep his word and destroy their offensive
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Military capabilities and take them down if they didn't make a
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Serious, strong, verifiable deal. so that was catastrophic.
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And and for ali khamenei, he lost his life over it. the top
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40 most powerful, most wicked regime leaders are all dead.
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And there's more to come. so that's the first mistake they
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Make. the second mistake they made was by not just
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Retaliating against israel. if they had just retaliated
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Against israel, then they would be sending the message
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Throughout the region, region that really this is an iran
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Israel fight. but what they've done, the iranian regime has
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Attacked 16 nations throughout the entire middle east. they've
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Attacked almost every neighbor that they have mostly moderate
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Sunni arab states who had signaled in recent weeks that
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They were going to be neutral. right. and the us couldn't fly
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Over their territory and they weren't going to be involved.
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But the united arab emirates alone has taken more than 700
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Missile and drone attacks just in the last 48 hours. and and
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All of them are now unified with president trump and with
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Israel against the iranian regime. this is a big deal. and
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I think the sunni arabs should actually militarily get
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Involved in destroying the iranian regime with us.
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>> wow. perhaps we see even an arab version of nato shaping up
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Here, joel. and, you know, the uae under fire. you and i were
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There together on the ground in abu dhabi just a few years ago,
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And we loved it there. and we're so impressed by everyone
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In the uae, their great relationship with israel. so
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Let's see if they can kind of galvanize, together with their
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Fellow sunni muslim nations in the region that may be coming
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In the days to come. as you said, by the way, you and i
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Were talking off camera before we kicked things off here. it
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Has not escaped my attention or yours that purim is upon us now.
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This is obviously the jewish holiday commemorating the
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Freedom of the jewish people, the death of a previous persian
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Tyrant by the name of haman. it's outlined in the book of
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Esther. now we see khomeini, a modern day persian tyrant. on
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The eve of purim, he meets his demise. joel, do you see god's
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Hand at work here?
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>> perhaps i absolutely do. and this is not coincidence. and
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It's not a strategy by president trump or prime
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Minister netanyahu to launch this offensive, to end the war
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And win the war that iran declared on the united states
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And israel 47 years ago and has been waging without the united
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States and israel doing much in response, certainly without the
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United states doing it. but the fact that this is purim, that
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The death of of haman, and now we have the death of gemini,
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This is like i think it's prophetic. i think it's
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Biblical. i think president trump is going going to go down
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As not only a historic figure, but an historic american leader
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Of biblical proportions. and you have to understand that,
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You know, eight years ago, i was a never trumper, and i
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Changed my mind because i saw president trump keeping his
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Word. he told the iranian regime back in the first term,
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Hey, make a deal with me and i'll, you know, and you can,
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You know, you you can go on with your lives. but if you
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Don't make deals with me to get rid of your terror campaign and
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Your terror infrastructure, then we will impose the worst
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Possible economic sanctions, diplomatic sanctions. and then
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Eventually, he said, i might have to go military. and they
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Still didn't listen. i believe god hardened the heart of
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Harmony, the ayatollah, just as god hardened the heart of
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Pharaoh that moses gave the leaders of egypt an opportunity
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To let my people go. stop terrorizing the nation of
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Israel. and pharaoh wouldn't do it, couldn't do it. and god
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Finally hardened his heart. i think that's what god has done
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Here. the key for president trump is he's not doing it for
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Israel. president trump is doing this for the united
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States to protect american lives, american interests, but
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Also american allies, which israel is the most important
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American ally in the middle east. but he's president trump
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Is also doing this to protect american interests in the
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Middle east and our arab allies. and that's right. that is good.
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The president is not listening clearly to the tucker, candace
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Owens, nick fuentes, neo-nazi nick fuentes wing, or what they
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Think is a wing of the republican party. president
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Trump has not listened to them at all, and god bless him for
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It.
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>> yeah, and thank god for that. and joel and hopefully that
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Tucker carlson wing, which is viciously i don't use that word
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Lightly, viciously anti-israel. hopefully they will be
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Marginalized in the wake of what is so far a very
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Successful operation. you know, we talk about the biblical
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Historic links between persia, which is modern day iran and
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Israel. there in the bible, think of king cyrus, the
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Persian king, who released the jewish people from captivity,
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Allowed them to return to jerusalem and rebuild the
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Temple. now we kind of have the script being flipped a bit in
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That now the people of israel are, in a sense, helping to
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Free the people of iran from captivity. can you talk about
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The potential, joel, for the iranian people and the iranian
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Church in particular? look, people may not realize, yes,
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It's the world's number one state sponsor of terrorism, but
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Iran is also home to the world's fastest growing church,
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Mostly underground, of course, because of persecution. but
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It's there and it's growing, and there seems to be unlimited
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Potential for iran if it can shake the yoke of this wicked
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Regime.
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>> absolutely. we are seeing a spiritual awakening because the
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Wicked tyrants and terrorists of tehran have created an
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Environment where iranians have realized that if if the leaders
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Of iran are the are the most special and perfect muslim
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Leaders on the world, in the world, then they don't want to
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Be muslims anymore. they're abandoning islam. now. some are
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Going to atheism, some to agnosticism, but millions are
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Turning to faith in jesus christ. it is the single
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Greatest spiritual awakening going on in the muslim world,
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Certainly in the middle east. so that's very encouraging. i
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Would also say that on the rosenberg report several years
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Ago, i had the honor of giving of having an interview with the
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Exiled crown prince of iran, reza pahlavi, right, who was
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The son of the exiled and late shah of iran, who was
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Pro-american and pro-israel and pro-western in his day, though
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He was also quite cruel in the latter years of of the shah's,
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You know, government. but i had the opportunity to interview
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The crown prince, the exiled crown prince, the son of the
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Shah reza pahlavi in israel when he made his first ever
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Historic visit there. we should rerun that interview on the
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Rosenberg report. you should run clips of it as well,
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Because one of the questions now that the supreme leader is,
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Is, is rotting in hell is who will lead iran going forward.
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And it's too early to say that reza pahlavi will be the guy.
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Right? there's a lot more that would have to happen, but we
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Need to start understanding who are these people? and he said
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He wanted to make a cyrus accords deal with israel making
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Peace. and the israeli people for
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Liberating them just the way israeli jews think. king cyrus
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The great persian leader for liberating us so many years ago.
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>> yeah, joel, great way to close it out. wow. exciting
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Times. thank you for sharing that. the cyrus accords, folks.
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Is that the doorstep? joel? great job, my friend. we'll see
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You again soon. god bless. and joining us now, senior advisor
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For the foundation for defense of democracies right here in
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Washington, dc. richard goldberg is with us. richard,
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Always great to see you. hey, can you give us a sense right
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Now we're talking about the state of play right now for
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This operation. how much damage has been inflicted, number one,
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Upon iran's leadership, but number two upon its military
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Infrastructure. and richard, in particular, those underground
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Ballistic missile facilities. earlier today, we had some b-2
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Bombers, pretty much do a round trip from missouri to iran and
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Carry out some major airstrikes against those ballistic missile
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Facilities buried deep underground in iran. give us a
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Little bit more information on the damage that has been
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Inflicted upon the regime and its military assets.
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>> yeah, absolutely. first of all, if you felt a little bit
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Of an awakening in the force, so to speak, when you woke up
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This morning, that's absolutely because the amount of evil that
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Has left the world since ali khamenei and his top advisors
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Were taken out in his offices, that already is a major blow to
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The regime from a human capital perspective. they've lost
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Kassam, soleimani. president trump took him out in 2020.
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They lost the person who was supposed to be the president of
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Iran. raisi went down in an accidental helicopter crash.
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They've had a number of instances when they've gone to
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This b team around the supreme leader. now the supreme leader
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Himself is gone. anybody who was sort of a senior strategist
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Almost at all taken out. others are probably being hunted down
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Right now. so from a human capital perspective, they are
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Lagging. now also, we see the israelis going after the
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Central command and control nodes of the regime. you're
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Seeing them take down the revolutionary guard corps
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Facilities, the internal apparatus, the repression
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Apparatus, the ministry of intelligence and security all
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Being just blown away with a lot of people inside as well.
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So from a command and control and communication perspective
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At the top levels, i think they're having a lot of
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Difficulty. and then your question on the capabilities,
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What's happening there? well, the americans, in coordination
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With the israelis, by the way, unprecedented coordination that
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We are seeing in the skies is just going round after round,
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Sortie after sortie at all of the external threats that we've
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Faced from the regime grinding it down, that's the air
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Defenses, their missile capabilities, ballistic
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Missiles and cruise missiles and their drone factories and
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Facilities and storage facilities and their navy that,
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Of course, they use to threaten the gulf and maritime traffic.
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As you saw, you said the b-2 bombers apparently overnight
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Going in striking underground facilities. this is what the
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Iranians have called their missile cities. a lot of
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Storage down there, missile launchers, missiles themselves.
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And so over time, even though we continue to see the launches
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And they clearly have mobile systems that are able to get
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Off missiles fired at israel, fired at our bases, fired at
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Our allies in the gulf. we are finding those in real time,
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Every single moment they fire a missile, we track the point of
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Origin and we destroy the launcher. and so they're going
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To be running low on these mobile systems for the solid
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Fuel missiles very soon. and as far as the liquid fuel rockets
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That they have in greater numbers, that takes more time
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For them to to actually sit there and fuel 2 to 3 hours. if
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You can detect that in real time, you can destroy it
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Preemptively. and we've seen some of those videos released
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As well. so from a military capability perspective, this
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Regime is being grinded down. the leadership is being grinded
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Away. and then we understand from some of the press reports
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The israelis have a plan in mind to start going after more
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And more of that repression, law enforcement apparatus,
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Which might finally enable people to come back into the
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Streets without fear of being gunned down and start taking
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The country back.
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>> yeah, that is the ultimate goal. god willing, that does
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Happen. and president trump said earlier today that the
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Operation is actually ahead of schedule. incredible
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Accomplishments by the us and israel. historic richard, as
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You said, working in tandem and perhaps the arab gulf nations
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Will get involved as well as they continue to be barraged by
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Iran. but i've been disappointed personally by
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Britain, france, germany, the reaction from western europe.
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They're suddenly saying they'll get involved in a defensive
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Capability, apparently. what have you seen from our nato
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Allies so far in this operation? have you expected more?
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>> well, i'll say the positives first. obviously, after we had
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Seen the brits claim that they wouldn't allow certain bases to
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Be used by the united states for offensive military
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Operations in the lead up to this, to these set of strikes,
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We have seen the brits, the australians, the canadians, our
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Closest intelligence allies, what we call the five eyes
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Coming out right out of the gate saturday saying we support
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This operation fully. this is justified. it's legitimate.
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Perhaps they had some of the intelligence that the president
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Saw shared with them as well. and so that was important
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Politically to get their support for the operations. we
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Are not isolated despite what some of the opponents of the
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President would have you believe. our closest allies are
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Standing with us. and then you're right. as far as the
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Brits, they had originally committed just to defensive
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Operations, which, by the way, is important. it's important to
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Have more fighter jets in the sky, taking out the drones, the
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Cruise missiles. anything else you can do that's coming
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Towards israel, that's coming towards our own bases.
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Hezbollah might be thinking about getting into the fight.
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Additional air power will be helpful. and then we've just
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Heard in the last few hours that the brits will, in fact,
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Open their bases to the united states for offensive military
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Operations. what the french do next i don't have high hopes
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For, let's say, but important signals from the brits that
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They are closing ranks with us at this important moment.
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>> richard goldberg great stuff as always, my friend. folks, be
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Sure to follow him. org and on x across social media. richard.
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Keep up the great work. we know you're watching very closely.
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We'll see you again soon. and wow, i think richard really
00:25:12.901 --> 00:25:15.670
Gave a great breakdown. folks of the unbreakable alliance
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Between israel and the united states. you're seeing it play
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Out in real time right now. i've said many times here on
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Tbn that israel, this tiny nation the size of the state of
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New jersey, imagine that it's in the belly of the beast, in a
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Sea of tyranny. it is the first line of defense for
00:25:32.487 --> 00:25:38.026
Judeo-christian western civilization. and the united
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States right now is the last line of defense for
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Judeo-christian western civilization. this is a
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Civilizational struggle against radical jihadist islam that is
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Personified by iran's regime. folks, think about it. nearly
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Half a century of murder, mayhem, butchery. this regime
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Came to power in 1979. what was its first act? seizing the us
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Embassy in tehran, holding hostages, american hostages, 52
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Americans for 444 days. that's how this regime introduced
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Itself to the world. and since then, they've practically
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Copyrighted the phrase death to america. and it's not just
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Words, not just words. key point it has also been in
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Action. and president trump has made the case over the past few
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Days. he's laid out the stakes. iran is responsible for the
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Deaths of thousands, yes, thousands of americans over the
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Years, in particular during the iraq war between 2003 and 2011,
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The iranian regime, through its proxies on the ground in iraq,
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They were planting roadside bombs, ieds, you know, the term
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Improvised explosive devices that killed thousands of
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Americans. our fellow us citizens are brave soldiers.
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Iran. their blood is on the iranian regime's hands. and
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What about the assassination plots against president trump?
00:27:02.944 --> 00:27:06.548
Two assassination plots to take the president's life in 2024
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Alone? this is a wicked. i use that word advisedly, and i mean
00:27:11.486 --> 00:27:15.423
It a wicked regime. and they just slaughtered. did the
00:27:15.423 --> 00:27:20.528
Ayatollahs at least 32,000 of their own people in the streets?
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They go down in the annals, the dubious annals alongside mao,
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Stalin, hitler and history's worst butchers. but guess what?
00:27:30.338 --> 00:27:33.908
They may be almost gone. they may end up very soon where they
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Belong in the ash heap of history. so pray for the
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Iranian people. pray for the us soldiers in the region. our
00:27:40.615 --> 00:27:44.252
Forces. pray for israel. pray for freedom for iran, wisdom
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And discernment for president trump, for prime minister
00:27:48.189 --> 00:27:51.493
Netanyahu. pray for the peace of jerusalem. folks, we live in
00:27:51.493 --> 00:27:55.730
Momentous historic times. there's no doubt about it.
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We're giving you a front row seat here on tbn. check us out
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All week we'll have breaking updates on everything unfolding
00:28:02.370 --> 00:28:04.539
In the middle east from an unapologetically biblical
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Perspective, and why it affects you no matter where you live.
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Check me out tomorrow night on stackelbeck tonight, 7:30 p.m.
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Eastern time for breaking updates. a lot happening and
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We'll have a front row seat for you. until then, have a great
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Night and god bless. we'll see you soon.
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