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Joel Rosenberg: Iran's New Supreme Leader | The Rosenberg Report

March 12, 2026 | 27:21

Joel Rosenberg: Iran's New Supreme Leader | The Rosenberg Report
On this episode of The Rosenberg Report, Joel Rosenberg talks about Iran's new supreme leader as the conflict in the Middle East continues.
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The Rosenberg Report | Joel Rosenberg: Iran's New Supreme Leader | The Rosenberg Report | March 12, 2026
  • Tonight on the rosenberg report
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  • Who is mojtaba khamenei?
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  • Is he really the new supreme leader of iran?
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  • And is it true
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  • That he's an apocalyptic, genocidal, shia muslim and time
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  • Fanatic who wants to bring about the destruction of the u.s.
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  • And israel?
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  • I sat down with the israeli ambassador in washington
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  • To get the inside story
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  • On the biggest successes and the biggest challenges
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  • So far in the military campaign against the iranian regime.
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  • And to understand how israeli intelligence views
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  • Mojtaba khamenei.
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  • It's an exclusive interview
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  • With bibi netanyahu's point man to president trump.
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  • And it all begins right here, right now on the rosenberg
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  • Report.
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  • Who is mojtaba khamenei?
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  • He's the 56 year old son of the late,
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  • Now assassinated supreme leader, so-called supreme
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  • Leader of iran, ali khamenei.
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  • Mojtaba khamenei, 56 years old, as i say, is the son.
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  • He has apparently been reportedly been,
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  • Voted by the top leaders
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  • That are left of the iranian regime, all the top clerics
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  • To be the new supreme leader of iran,
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  • But he has not been seen.
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  • It is reported that he has been wounded in u.s.
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  • And israeli airstrikes.
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  • And the big question is, is he going to emerge
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  • As the new leader for real?
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  • And what do we know about him?
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  • One thing that we know
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  • Is that he is obsessed with the end of the world. he's
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  • Obsessed with shia eschatology or end times theology.
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  • Good evening.
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  • This is joel rosenberg, and welcome to the rosenberg report.
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  • We're in washington and we are assessing,
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  • The first
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  • Week and a half, almost two weeks now, of the u.s.
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  • And israeli operation against the iranian regime
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  • Aimed at not only shattering the regime, if at all possible,
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  • But certainly of destroying and neutralizing all of iran's
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  • Ballistic missile capabilities and their nuclear weapons
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  • Capabilities.
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  • And, in fact, we've learned in recent days that, as
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  • We reported last week on the rosenberg
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  • Report that, iran bragged, the iranian negotiators bragged
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  • To steve wycoff and jared kushner,
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  • The u.s., trump negotiators, that they had enough
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  • Highly enriched uranium to build 11 nuclear bombs.
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  • And they were not going to give it away.
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  • Well, tonight
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  • We sit down with the israeli ambassador to the united states,
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  • A friend of mine, i've known him for 23 years.
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  • Young fighter was chosen by israeli prime minister netanyahu
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  • Because they've known each other for decades.
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  • Netanyahu trust you see a lighter.
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  • And he's sent him
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  • At the beginning of the new trump administration
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  • To be netanyahu's eyes and ears and his point man
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  • Here in washington with the white house,
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  • With the state department, with the pentagon,
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  • Knowing as netanyahu did, that very likely,
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  • Then yahoo and trump
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  • Would be embarking on the most historic moment
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  • In the relationship
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  • Over eight decades between our two countries
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  • To destroy, to decimate the iranian threat to the u.s.,
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  • Israel and our arab allies and others in the region.
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  • And hopefully to shatter and topple the iranian regime.
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  • I want to take you now to my interview
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  • In the israeli embassy right here in washington,
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  • With all the security that that required.
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  • And i want you to hear this interview as we talk about,
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  • The this possible new successor to harmony,
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  • Mujtaba harmony, possibly the new supreme leader.
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  • I want to talk about the successes that the u.s.
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  • And israel have already had, but also the challenges ahead.
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  • Let's take a look.
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  • Ambassador, thank you so much for spending
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  • Time with me on the rosenberg report.
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  • You gave your first interview
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  • To us back in jerusalem, but, wow, the world has changed.
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  • Talk to us at this stage of the war on the successes
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  • That the united states and israel has accomplished
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  • Just in the first 12 days or so of this, operation.
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  • Well, thank you, joel. good to be with you.
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  • Better to be with you in jerusalem. i would like that.
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  • The next best thing is the israel embassy in washington.
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  • Amen.
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  • Look, the the first 40s set
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  • The pace of the entire operation.
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  • We took out 40 of the top leaders all at once
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  • In the first 40s.
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  • So when you don't have command, clear
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  • Command from the top, cracks develop throughout the system.
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  • And there's a problem in the chain of command,
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  • Which helps us understand why some of the operational
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  • Aspects of the irgc are firing indiscriminately
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  • Across the entire region.
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  • Now, 12 countries have been hit by these ballistic missiles.
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  • By the way, if anybody had a doubt
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  • That these lunatics in tehran would shoot at their neighbors,
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  • And if they had nuclear
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  • Warheads, they'd put them on top of these ballistic missiles
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  • Where they got the answer this week. okay.
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  • The emirates have been hit so hard.
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  • Yeah. now, why have the emirates been hit so hard?
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  • Because they're the paragon
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  • Of moderation in the muslim world.
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  • They have shown that you can really do
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  • Radicalize and create a society which is so tolerant of
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  • Christians and jews at the same time.
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  • And iran hates that
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  • Because they represent
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  • The extremists that reject accommodation in moderation.
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  • But back to the successes. so there are a number of things.
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  • They've had huge successes.
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  • In fact, they've shot down like 14 or 1500.
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  • The emirates missiles. yeah. oh, yeah.
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  • And and i can share and i can share with you
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  • That our partnership with the emirates is very close.
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  • We're doing whatever we can do to assist our friends
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  • Who have asked for assistance in the emirates and bahrain.
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  • And we're there.
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  • We're there for them. we know who our friends are.
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  • But the success here.
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  • I mean, there are a number of vectors
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  • That you have to take into account.
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  • You know, first you have
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  • The production of ballistic missiles,
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  • The production of drones,
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  • These one way killer drones that they were giving
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  • To the russians against ukraine, for example.
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  • They're using them in all of these countries in the region.
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  • So you have to get to the production sites, right?
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  • And then you have to get to the storage sites,
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  • And then
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  • You have to get to the operational sites
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  • Without actually setting them off the launchers, for example.
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  • So we've been going through all those steps.
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  • Okay.
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  • First we had to get to the launchers
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  • So we can immediately,
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  • Limit the number of ballistic missiles and drones
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  • That they're firing.
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  • Then we go after the operational centers,
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  • Then we go after the production sites.
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  • And we have seen
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  • The number of ballistic missile launches dropped by about 90%.
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  • Yeah, well, let's see at the close.
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  • Yeah, it's a little over 80%. 80%.
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  • Okay. 80%.
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  • Drones as well, but they're much more difficult to locate.
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  • Okay.
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  • And, we're certainly pursuing them all the time.
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  • We've moved out of tehran after really pummeling tehran.
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  • The command centers in tehran, many of them underground.
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  • I mean, what these people do is they they
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  • Build them into mountainside.
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  • So even b-2, it's very difficult for the b2
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  • To get to them as well, because they're kind of on the
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  • On the sides of mountains and they're very, very deep.
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  • By the way,
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  • This is something that, you know,
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  • The world really has to thank president trump for this.
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  • When he said this was imminent,
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  • That in a few months they would have nuclear weapons.
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  • He knew what he was talking about,
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  • What they were doing after midnight hammer and, rising
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  • Lion, instead of listening to president trump and saying,
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  • We are not going to go back to enriching uranium.
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  • They not only went back to rich and uranium,
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  • They went to producing a facility, building a facility
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  • That would be so deep underground
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  • That the b20â–ˆs couldn't get to it. wow. okay.
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  • That's what they were pursuing.
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  • Now, when people ask this question about, you know,
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  • Were they really close to a nuclear weapon?
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  • Special envoy steve wyckoff gave the answer.
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  • He said, i went into negotiations.
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  • This is months after june, the june war,
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  • When they were supposed to stop everything and they came in,
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  • You know, with the grin,
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  • The smug, neatly trimmed beard grin and said,
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  • We have enough enriched uranium for 11 bombs, 462kg
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  • To be brought to weapons grade inside of 3 to 4 weeks.
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  • And let me say this, because i forgot this
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  • Small little detail in that first meeting.
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  • The both the iranian negotiators said to us directly with,
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  • You know, no, no shame that they controlled
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  • 460kg of 60%.
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  • And they're aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs.
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  • And that was the beginning of the end negotiating, stance.
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  • So that's that's they were they were proud of it.
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  • They were proud that they had evaded all.
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  • So people have to understand that the move from 60% to 90%
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  • Is no time. it's a week or two.
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  • It's not like going from 0 to 3%.
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  • 0 to 3% could take years.
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  • But once you have that beyond 3%,
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  • You go up to 20%, you go up to 40%, 60%,
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  • Which they're at now another week or 90%.
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  • Was it known to israeli intelligence,
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  • To american intelligence, that they had enough
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  • Highly enriched 60% uranium,
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  • To build 11 nuclear weapons because, as
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  • Steve wyckoff said to steve, to sean hannity and others,
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  • It struck me watching him, that he was surprised by this.
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  • Maybe you weren't.
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  • Maybe we weren't. we weren't surprised.
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  • We were warning about 9 to 12 bombs for a while.
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  • But what he maybe he was surprised that they said
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  • Exactly. okay. exactly.
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  • They bragged, i mean, well, they came.
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  • And not only the bragged about it,
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  • They said this is the starting point for negotiations.
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  • I mean, haven't
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  • You been listening to president trump now?
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  • You know,
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  • For for years and particularly since he got reelected, says
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  • You're not going to have a nuclear bomb in here.
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  • They're coming in and saying,
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  • This is the starting point for negotiations.
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  • So they made a mockery, really, of the president.
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  • United states, and for steve and jared to walk out of there,
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  • Who i think
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  • Were sent by the president to genuinely see if a deal
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  • Could really get made, which made me a little nervous.
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  • Both as an american
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  • And as a israeli and certainly as an evangelical.
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  • Like, i don't trust these guys at all,
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  • But i think the president genuinely wanted a deal.
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  • I think steven gerrard genuinely wanted.
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  • If it could be had, but for them to walk out and go,
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  • There's not a deal to be had, mr. president.
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  • These guys are not listening at all.
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  • Yeah,
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  • We were less concerned
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  • Because we didn't think they would actually go into a deal
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  • That was
  • 00:10:13.369 --> 00:10:14.837
  • That was fool proof.
  • 00:10:15.304 --> 00:10:16.272
  • And if they would, it would be foolproof.
  • 00:10:16.272 --> 00:10:17.973
  • You know,
  • 00:10:17.973 --> 00:10:18.774
  • This wasn't the jcpoa under obama,
  • 00:10:18.774 --> 00:10:20.576
  • Which would have given them the bomb in ten years.
  • 00:10:20.576 --> 00:10:22.845
  • This was president trump conducting these negotiations.
  • 00:10:22.845 --> 00:10:25.981
  • He knows how to negotiate.
  • 00:10:25.981 --> 00:10:27.316
  • And he was very clear.
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  • We're not going into the same type of deal that,
  • 00:10:28.784 --> 00:10:32.021
  • That obama went into.
  • 00:10:32.021 --> 00:10:34.557
  • Coming up next on the rosenberg report.
  • 00:10:34.557 --> 00:10:37.026
  • How does israeli intelligence view mojtaba khamenei?
  • 00:10:37.026 --> 00:10:42.064
  • The new supreme leader of iran?
  • 00:10:42.064 --> 00:10:44.200
  • Is he really an apocalyptic end times fanatic?
  • 00:10:44.200 --> 00:10:47.536
  • And is he even alive?
  • 00:10:47.536 --> 00:10:49.505
  • Watch yechiel leiter, you can answer those questions
  • 00:10:49.505 --> 00:10:52.608
  • And more when the rosenberg report continues on tbn
  • 00:10:52.608 --> 00:10:56.445
  • Right after the break.
  • 00:10:56.445 --> 00:10:59.003
  • Right after the break.
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  • Let's talk a little bit about the challenges.
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  • Right.
  • 00:11:05.453 --> 00:11:06.554
  • One of them is that there's somewhere there's 11,
  • 00:11:06.554 --> 00:11:09.557
  • Was a nuclear bomb's worth of uranium.
  • 00:11:10.358 --> 00:11:13.161
  • Uranium? yeah. well, that's going to have to be taken out.
  • 00:11:13.161 --> 00:11:15.363
  • It's not immediate, but we have to deal with that.
  • 00:11:15.363 --> 00:11:17.999
  • The first thing is we have to accomplish is to.
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  • This is really the goal of the war, okay?
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  • It's to collapse this regime.
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  • You know, people talk about regime change.
  • 00:11:26.508 --> 00:11:28.643
  • Regime change has to come about by the people of iran.
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  • But regime collapse
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  • Has to come through this
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  • Joint operation duties on america.
  • 00:11:37.418 --> 00:11:39.788
  • And what that means
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  • By regime collapse is that there is not an entity in tehran
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  • Which is producing ballistic missiles,
  • 00:11:44.692 --> 00:11:47.996
  • Which is enriching uranium to nuclear grade,
  • 00:11:47.996 --> 00:11:50.799
  • And which is sponsoring terror proxies around the region
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  • And around the world.
  • 00:11:54.068 --> 00:11:55.370
  • So that could be something along
  • 00:11:55.370 --> 00:11:57.772
  • The lines of the existing regime,
  • 00:11:57.772 --> 00:12:00.208
  • As long as they change their behavior,
  • 00:12:00.208 --> 00:12:01.843
  • Highly unlikely, or this regime collapses entirely.
  • 00:12:01.843 --> 00:12:05.747
  • Now it's happened in the past, regimes have collapsed.
  • 00:12:05.747 --> 00:12:08.183
  • I mean, who could have imagined that
  • 00:12:08.183 --> 00:12:09.684
  • The soviet union would collapse as it did, or that in romania,
  • 00:12:09.684 --> 00:12:13.721
  • The people of romania would
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  • Suddenly, in one fell swoop, turn their guns around
  • 00:12:14.823 --> 00:12:17.392
  • Against ceausescu?
  • 00:12:17.392 --> 00:12:18.827
  • So regimes do collapse.
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  • And remember that
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  • In iran we're not talking about
  • 00:12:21.129 --> 00:12:22.564
  • A country like iraq or afghanistan, okay?
  • 00:12:22.564 --> 00:12:25.233
  • Which was very, very divided and didn't have a large segment
  • 00:12:25.233 --> 00:12:28.770
  • Of the population that was pro-west.
  • 00:12:28.770 --> 00:12:30.872
  • In iran, you have 80% of the population,
  • 00:12:30.872 --> 00:12:33.174
  • Which is very pro-west.
  • 00:12:33.174 --> 00:12:34.309
  • As a matter of fact, after israel,
  • 00:12:34.309 --> 00:12:35.810
  • The second most pro-western country in the middle east,
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  • And 80% of the country opposes this regime.
  • 00:12:38.479 --> 00:12:42.283
  • 80% of 92 million people is a lot of people.
  • 00:12:42.283 --> 00:12:45.720
  • Okay.
  • 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:46.921
  • So the problem that they've had is they haven't been able
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  • To unite, to coalesce into a unified opposition.
  • 00:12:49.224 --> 00:12:53.161
  • Now that they're seeing these cracks develop,
  • 00:12:53.161 --> 00:12:55.096
  • We're hopeful that they're going to be able to coalesce.
  • 00:12:55.096 --> 00:12:57.131
  • We're certainly doing whatever
  • 00:12:57.131 --> 00:12:58.166
  • We can to advise them to to do so.
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  • You have
  • 00:13:00.535 --> 00:13:01.502
  • You have minorities,
  • 00:13:01.502 --> 00:13:02.437
  • Very strong minorities, the kurds.
  • 00:13:02.437 --> 00:13:05.740
  • And the azeris are very, very strong minority.
  • 00:13:05.740 --> 00:13:09.210
  • They've had the boot of this regime on their necks
  • 00:13:09.210 --> 00:13:11.946
  • Now for 47 years. they're terribly suppressed.
  • 00:13:11.946 --> 00:13:14.782
  • And of course, the the general population,
  • 00:13:14.782 --> 00:13:17.252
  • The persian population.
  • 00:13:17.252 --> 00:13:18.753
  • And there's actually several million,
  • 00:13:18.753 --> 00:13:21.189
  • Shia muslims who have left islam over the years.
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  • Some have become atheists, some have become a
  • 00:13:24.058 --> 00:13:26.327
  • So some have actually become followers of jesus christ.
  • 00:13:26.327 --> 00:13:28.463
  • They become born-again evangelical christians.
  • 00:13:28.463 --> 00:13:30.832
  • And all of them, while they're not political per
  • 00:13:30.832 --> 00:13:33.334
  • Se, they hate the regime
  • 00:13:33.334 --> 00:13:35.103
  • And they want to be free just like everybody else.
  • 00:13:35.103 --> 00:13:37.238
  • They want freedom, and they've been persecuted,
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  • Under this regime.
  • 00:13:40.408 --> 00:13:41.776
  • So if they're able to coalesce,
  • 00:13:41.776 --> 00:13:43.711
  • All these groups
  • 00:13:43.711 --> 00:13:44.846
  • Are able to coalesce, or the majority of them are able
  • 00:13:44.846 --> 00:13:46.814
  • To come together in unity,
  • 00:13:46.814 --> 00:13:48.316
  • They're going to be able to bring this regime down.
  • 00:13:48.316 --> 00:13:51.352
  • Because we've set the stage
  • 00:13:51.352 --> 00:13:52.887
  • Because the united states and israel set the stage.
  • 00:13:52.887 --> 00:13:55.156
  • We're the junior partner here, okay?
  • 00:13:55.156 --> 00:13:57.058
  • The united states is a senior partner.
  • 00:13:57.058 --> 00:13:59.460
  • You know, people talk about,
  • 00:14:00.061 --> 00:14:02.163
  • You know, you can say anything digitally today.
  • 00:14:02.163 --> 00:14:04.666
  • You know, you can set yourself up as a podcaster
  • 00:14:04.666 --> 00:14:07.502
  • And proclaim that you know everything about everything.
  • 00:14:07.502 --> 00:14:11.472
  • When you really know very little.
  • 00:14:11.472 --> 00:14:13.207
  • We have a few people like that,
  • 00:14:13.207 --> 00:14:14.742
  • You know, for example, we have a couple people
  • 00:14:14.742 --> 00:14:16.811
  • Saying that, benjamin netanyahu schlepped
  • 00:14:16.811 --> 00:14:20.581
  • Is schlep the schlep a word that i not think we address
  • 00:14:20.581 --> 00:14:25.053
  • Right of the nose and pulled the right, right, right.
  • 00:14:25.053 --> 00:14:28.623
  • There's there's, i mean, dragged president trump
  • 00:14:28.623 --> 00:14:31.125
  • Into a war he didn't want brought spew.
  • 00:14:31.125 --> 00:14:33.294
  • I mean, it's
  • 00:14:33.294 --> 00:14:34.262
  • So it's so insulting to the united states,
  • 00:14:34.262 --> 00:14:37.265
  • Particularly to a president like donald trump.
  • 00:14:37.265 --> 00:14:39.033
  • Anybody who's met him knows this is not a man.
  • 00:14:39.033 --> 00:14:41.602
  • I mean, i, i ran into anything he doesn't want to do.
  • 00:14:41.602 --> 00:14:44.439
  • I've been in the oval with him so many times
  • 00:14:44.439 --> 00:14:46.341
  • And deep discussions with the prime minister, and
  • 00:14:46.341 --> 00:14:49.444
  • That's just simply not the tone of the discussion.
  • 00:14:49.444 --> 00:14:51.913
  • I mean, people just don't understand
  • 00:14:51.913 --> 00:14:53.114
  • What they're talking about.
  • 00:14:53.114 --> 00:14:54.182
  • First of all, the president is not somebody who,
  • 00:14:54.182 --> 00:14:55.950
  • You know, has a sign on his forehead.
  • 00:14:55.950 --> 00:14:57.251
  • I'm here for the dragging, right?
  • 00:14:57.251 --> 00:14:58.886
  • And not not not donald trump.
  • 00:14:58.886 --> 00:15:01.356
  • And and
  • 00:15:01.589 --> 00:15:02.690
  • Really, in the in the first minute of the operation,
  • 00:15:02.690 --> 00:15:05.326
  • When he went to truth social with that eight minute speech,
  • 00:15:05.326 --> 00:15:08.629
  • He never mentioned israel.
  • 00:15:08.629 --> 00:15:09.797
  • He said, i'm leaving this, this is an american operation.
  • 00:15:09.797 --> 00:15:13.167
  • We're the junior partner. we're doing a lot of work.
  • 00:15:13.167 --> 00:15:15.136
  • We're doing a lot of work.
  • 00:15:15.136 --> 00:15:15.970
  • Alongside our pilots are flying wing
  • 00:15:15.970 --> 00:15:17.739
  • To wing with american pilots.
  • 00:15:17.739 --> 00:15:19.540
  • We're doing,
  • 00:15:19.540 --> 00:15:20.675
  • You know, taking a tremendous part of this operation.
  • 00:15:20.675 --> 00:15:22.543
  • But we know that we're junior
  • 00:15:22.543 --> 00:15:23.845
  • Junior partners here, but we're in this together.
  • 00:15:23.845 --> 00:15:26.314
  • Israel was ready
  • 00:15:26.314 --> 00:15:27.849
  • Under prime minister netanyahu going back to 2012.
  • 00:15:27.849 --> 00:15:31.786
  • To do this alone, if he felt that he had to go.
  • 00:15:31.786 --> 00:15:34.756
  • This is this is always wanted to do this
  • 00:15:34.756 --> 00:15:36.457
  • With the united states at the moment
  • 00:15:36.457 --> 00:15:38.359
  • That it had to be done and there was no other choice.
  • 00:15:38.359 --> 00:15:40.595
  • Look for this.
  • 00:15:40.595 --> 00:15:41.662
  • This is historic,
  • 00:15:41.662 --> 00:15:42.830
  • The game changing moment, both of us israel relations,
  • 00:15:42.830 --> 00:15:45.500
  • But also the transformation of the middle east.
  • 00:15:45.500 --> 00:15:48.269
  • For us, this is an existential issue, okay?
  • 00:15:48.269 --> 00:15:51.806
  • And what we do is we come to washington,
  • 00:15:51.806 --> 00:15:54.342
  • Lay our position on the coffee table there in the oval,
  • 00:15:54.342 --> 00:15:57.779
  • Say this, these are our options.
  • 00:15:57.779 --> 00:16:00.314
  • You'll tell us where you're coming
  • 00:16:01.049 --> 00:16:02.283
  • In, if you're coming in and what role we should play.
  • 00:16:02.283 --> 00:16:05.286
  • That's the way the discussions take place.
  • 00:16:05.286 --> 00:16:07.455
  • And indeed the the understanding in washington is that
  • 00:16:07.455 --> 00:16:11.793
  • This is a battle for civilization.
  • 00:16:11.793 --> 00:16:15.363
  • When these people say death to america, they mean it.
  • 00:16:15.363 --> 00:16:18.633
  • That's what they've been chanting for 47 years.
  • 00:16:18.633 --> 00:16:21.102
  • They began their government
  • 00:16:21.102 --> 00:16:24.305
  • In in tehran in 1979
  • 00:16:24.305 --> 00:16:27.275
  • By taking american hostages for holding them for 444 days.
  • 00:16:27.275 --> 00:16:31.479
  • They've been exporting terrorism.
  • 00:16:31.479 --> 00:16:33.514
  • They've been exporting the death of america, not only chanting
  • 00:16:33.514 --> 00:16:36.784
  • In the streets of tehran.
  • 00:16:36.784 --> 00:16:38.052
  • So it's shouldn't be surprising to anyone
  • 00:16:38.052 --> 00:16:40.121
  • That the american administration says,
  • 00:16:40.121 --> 00:16:42.723
  • We want to take this regime out because they simply are moving
  • 00:16:42.723 --> 00:16:46.427
  • Towards nuclear weapons.
  • 00:16:46.427 --> 00:16:47.762
  • They have all of these ballistic missiles
  • 00:16:47.762 --> 00:16:49.730
  • Which they're producing at a at a frenzied rate.
  • 00:16:49.730 --> 00:16:53.000
  • They can have hundreds of missiles a month.
  • 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:55.136
  • That was the plan, 300 to 400 missiles a month,
  • 00:16:55.136 --> 00:16:58.673
  • Which could ultimately be,
  • 00:16:58.673 --> 00:17:00.842
  • Advanced to intercontinental ballistic missiles.
  • 00:17:01.843 --> 00:17:04.912
  • And even if they would just weren't
  • 00:17:04.912 --> 00:17:06.614
  • And but even if they were, they would be well-armed.
  • 00:17:06.614 --> 00:17:09.484
  • And emirati, saudi, bahrain would overwhelm.
  • 00:17:09.484 --> 00:17:12.553
  • And systems right there already can reach germany.
  • 00:17:12.553 --> 00:17:14.789
  • So they can overwhelm the entire region,
  • 00:17:14.789 --> 00:17:16.757
  • Including israel and the emirates.
  • 00:17:16.757 --> 00:17:18.159
  • But the entire region, saudi arabia, right.
  • 00:17:18.159 --> 00:17:20.561
  • And take over the holy places, saudi arabia.
  • 00:17:20.561 --> 00:17:22.230
  • Well, how would that go over in the muslim world?
  • 00:17:22.230 --> 00:17:23.764
  • Okay, so you're talking about tripwire
  • 00:17:23.764 --> 00:17:26.634
  • The entire region into a real difficult conflict
  • 00:17:26.634 --> 00:17:30.471
  • That would spread
  • 00:17:30.471 --> 00:17:31.506
  • Around the world if the united states didn't show
  • 00:17:31.506 --> 00:17:34.275
  • Authority, responsibility and leadership here.
  • 00:17:34.275 --> 00:17:37.078
  • So we come in as the junior partner.
  • 00:17:37.078 --> 00:17:39.814
  • We take responsibility.
  • 00:17:39.814 --> 00:17:41.482
  • We have been called the model ally.
  • 00:17:41.482 --> 00:17:44.085
  • And i think that objective observer would say that we
  • 00:17:44.085 --> 00:17:47.355
  • We don't ask for american boots on the ground.
  • 00:17:47.355 --> 00:17:49.423
  • We fight our wars.
  • 00:17:49.423 --> 00:17:51.092
  • And, you know, we're flying these f-35s quite well.
  • 00:17:51.092 --> 00:17:55.396
  • You know, i was in lockheed martin a few weeks ago,
  • 00:17:55.396 --> 00:17:58.966
  • And the ceo there told me, he said, you know what we get from
  • 00:17:58.966 --> 00:18:02.703
  • You in return
  • 00:18:02.703 --> 00:18:04.505
  • Is worth its weight in gold
  • 00:18:04.505 --> 00:18:06.340
  • Because you have more flying hours in the cockpit of the f-35
  • 00:18:06.340 --> 00:18:09.710
  • Than all of the countries involved.
  • 00:18:09.710 --> 00:18:11.245
  • The project you're bringing back
  • 00:18:11.245 --> 00:18:13.114
  • Billions of dollars
  • 00:18:13.114 --> 00:18:14.248
  • Of, or, you know, and of operational missions
  • 00:18:14.248 --> 00:18:17.485
  • And how can things be tweaked and the avionics be improved
  • 00:18:17.485 --> 00:18:20.555
  • And billions of dollars worth of experience. wow.
  • 00:18:20.555 --> 00:18:23.991
  • Let's talk a little bit about
  • 00:18:24.625 --> 00:18:26.327
  • The possibility that that the ayatollah ali
  • 00:18:26.327 --> 00:18:29.630
  • Khamenei is going to be replaced by his son.
  • 00:18:29.630 --> 00:18:33.868
  • Most about khamenei.
  • 00:18:33.868 --> 00:18:36.003
  • Some say he's more wicked and apocalyptic in his
  • 00:18:36.003 --> 00:18:39.407
  • Eschatology, his end times
  • 00:18:39.407 --> 00:18:40.775
  • Theology, and his hatred of israel
  • 00:18:40.775 --> 00:18:42.310
  • And the united states than even his father.
  • 00:18:42.310 --> 00:18:44.712
  • What do you know?
  • 00:18:44.712 --> 00:18:45.913
  • What does israeli intelligence
  • 00:18:45.913 --> 00:18:47.181
  • And the prime minister know about him?
  • 00:18:47.181 --> 00:18:49.717
  • And what's his condition right now?
  • 00:18:49.717 --> 00:18:51.385
  • Is he the leader and is he even alive?
  • 00:18:51.385 --> 00:18:55.289
  • Well, as you and i sit here and record
  • 00:18:56.090 --> 00:18:58.159
  • This so well, first of all, it's,
  • 00:18:58.159 --> 00:19:01.295
  • It's all the above.
  • 00:19:01.295 --> 00:19:02.597
  • I mean, he's a he's an evil human being,
  • 00:19:02.597 --> 00:19:05.566
  • And he will not hesitate for a moment
  • 00:19:05.566 --> 00:19:08.703
  • To advance his nuclear program.
  • 00:19:08.703 --> 00:19:11.872
  • He's an enemy of the west.
  • 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:14.575
  • He was involved in the decision to slaughter
  • 00:19:15.476 --> 00:19:18.212
  • Iranians two months ago when they rose up. really?
  • 00:19:18.212 --> 00:19:21.048
  • He has.
  • 00:19:21.048 --> 00:19:21.882
  • He was very involved in the decision
  • 00:19:21.882 --> 00:19:24.285
  • Making process of the irgc to open fire.
  • 00:19:24.285 --> 00:19:27.989
  • Many people were shot in the back, shot in the head.
  • 00:19:27.989 --> 00:19:30.091
  • I mean, they were young people were demonstrating
  • 00:19:30.091 --> 00:19:31.792
  • In the streets for free.
  • 00:19:31.792 --> 00:19:32.760
  • And trump says maybe 30 or 40,000 or more.
  • 00:19:32.760 --> 00:19:35.396
  • We estimate that somewhere between 30 and 40,000 people.
  • 00:19:35.396 --> 00:19:38.432
  • So he was very involved in that.
  • 00:19:39.066 --> 00:19:40.868
  • He has blood on his hands. and,
  • 00:19:40.868 --> 00:19:44.305
  • It's certainly no improvement over his father.
  • 00:19:44.305 --> 00:19:47.408
  • There's reports that he's wounded.
  • 00:19:47.408 --> 00:19:48.943
  • Well, there are some rumors. there's some record.
  • 00:19:48.943 --> 00:19:50.645
  • But what do we know so far?
  • 00:19:50.645 --> 00:19:52.079
  • Well, if they they apparently chose
  • 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:53.848
  • Him yesterday, so it's fair to assume he's not dead.
  • 00:19:53.848 --> 00:19:57.151
  • But, i'll tell you, if i was selling life insurance,
  • 00:19:57.151 --> 00:20:00.488
  • I'm not sure i'd give him a policy.
  • 00:20:00.488 --> 00:20:03.090
  • Coming up next on the rosenberg report,
  • 00:20:03.858 --> 00:20:06.227
  • They've met seven times in the past 12 months,
  • 00:20:06.227 --> 00:20:09.063
  • And now they're running
  • 00:20:09.063 --> 00:20:10.064
  • The most important
  • 00:20:10.064 --> 00:20:11.098
  • And complex military operation of the 21st century.
  • 00:20:11.098 --> 00:20:14.902
  • But what's the hugely consequential relationship
  • 00:20:14.902 --> 00:20:17.805
  • Between president trump
  • 00:20:17.805 --> 00:20:19.206
  • And prime minister netanyahu really like?
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  • Israeli ambassador. he
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  • Later takes us inside the room and inside the relationship.
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  • When the rosenberg report continues on tbn
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  • Right after the break.
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  • Right after the break.
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  • I want to close with,
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  • The relationship between president trump and prime
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  • Minister netanyahu.
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  • I'm almost 60.
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  • I and even reading before that, i have never seen i, i'm
  • 00:20:47.835 --> 00:20:52.006
  • Not sure if i've imagined, even in my novels, mr.
  • 00:20:52.006 --> 00:20:54.642
  • Ambassador, a relationship between,
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  • Two leaders as close as this.
  • 00:20:57.878 --> 00:20:59.814
  • You've been there for all of the relationship
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  • That from when you arrived, in president trump's, second term.
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  • What can you do?
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  • Can you take us in there and help us understand
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  • Some of what you're seeing and how this planning
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  • And that's not not, you know, things that are classified, but
  • 00:21:14.061 --> 00:21:17.064
  • How the planning, the strategy has unfolded
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  • Even to the week almost, that they spent at mar-a-lago
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  • In, just, you know, just before new, western new years.
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  • Well, first of all,
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  • I hope you appreciate the fact that we've provided
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  • More information for your next novel.
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  • Yes. right.
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  • Have you got material now that you can? really?
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  • I actually wrote a novel on all this, but without the u.s.
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  • Involvement called the tehran initiative about a decade ago.
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  • This is actually, going beyond what my expectations were.
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  • Well,
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  • Let me let me tell you,
  • 00:21:49.230 --> 00:21:50.364
  • On the personal level and on the macro level, okay.
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  • On the personal level, you're talking about two individuals
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  • Who go back some 40 years from the time that the prime minister
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  • Was ambassador to the un and spent time in new york, and
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  • They have a relationship since then,
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  • But they're also two men who have a particular vision
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  • For the world,
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  • A vision of a freedom, a vision of religious liberty,
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  • A conviction about tradition and,
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  • And about the relationship between israel
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  • And the united states.
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  • And i think president trump has seen israel as a loyal ally
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  • For many, many, many decades.
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  • Clearly, he's rejected the tucker carlson,
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  • You know, it mentioned,
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  • You know, i think we talk about these people a little bit
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  • Too much, give a little bit too much attention.
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  • But i mean, it's clear that he's rejected all the
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  • Rejected.
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  • He's rejected it because they're nonsense.
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  • I mean, they're just complete nonsense.
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  • I mean, the stupidity that has been broadcast recently, is.
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  • Yeah, let's stay on the relationship.
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  • I just think it's important that people realize
  • 00:22:48.722 --> 00:22:50.658
  • It's not being taken seriously at the highest levels.
  • 00:22:50.658 --> 00:22:53.427
  • Well, it shouldn't be taken seriously.
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  • It just nonsense. but,
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  • They have this this personal relationship,
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  • Which is one that is based on mutual respect
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  • And a common appreciation for for humankind and human destiny.
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  • And here we get to the issue of,
  • 00:23:08.509 --> 00:23:10.511
  • You know, the macro level, how these two individuals
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  • Represent something which is much bigger than themselves.
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  • And that's judeo christian civilization.
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  • The intention of the ayatollahs
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  • When they scream, death to america, death
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  • To israel, death to america, israel,
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  • The little satan, america the great satan,
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  • They're taking on western civilization.
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  • We have to understand this.
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  • You know,
  • 00:23:30.397 --> 00:23:31.465
  • It was difficult for people during the cold war
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  • To appreciate that could actually be an ism,
  • 00:23:32.633 --> 00:23:34.835
  • You know, communism.
  • 00:23:34.835 --> 00:23:36.237
  • I wanted to take over the world, but that was the agenda.
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  • And ronald reagan defeated the this evil empire.
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  • There is a new ism that's so new.
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  • It's been around for a while.
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  • And within islam, there's this debate
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  • As to whether or not there should be a reform
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  • And acceptance of jill. christian civilization.
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  • The ayatollahs represent the rejection of moderation.
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  • What our pilots are doing now in the air over the skies
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  • In the middle east is protecting judeo christian civilization.
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  • If america goes, judeo christian civilization goes,
  • 00:24:04.064 --> 00:24:08.035
  • And these two men understand that the same way
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  • That roosevelt and churchill in the second world war understood
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  • That war is very difficult, it's ugly,
  • 00:24:14.542 --> 00:24:18.045
  • But nazi ism had to be defeated.
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  • Now they're taking this decision together that islamism,
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  • Which is intent on destroying the west,
  • 00:24:23.751 --> 00:24:25.819
  • Has to be destroyed as well.
  • 00:24:25.819 --> 00:24:27.221
  • And that's why we're living through really historical days.
  • 00:24:27.221 --> 00:24:29.957
  • And we have to appreciate who we are, where we are,
  • 00:24:29.957 --> 00:24:33.227
  • Who are friends, are what we're doing together.
  • 00:24:33.227 --> 00:24:35.829
  • Well, as an evangelical israeli,
  • 00:24:35.829 --> 00:24:38.432
  • I see this, this convergence as so important
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  • More than ever, actually, jews and christians working together
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  • With people who don't believe, or believe in different ways
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  • To work together for this common vision.
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  • You israel
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  • Is doing something in the united states under this
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  • President is doing something
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  • That nobody has had the courage or even foresight to really do.
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  • And i want to say thank you.
  • 00:25:00.988 --> 00:25:02.523
  • Well, i want to say thank you to you
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  • And to the evangelical community.
  • 00:25:03.757 --> 00:25:05.059
  • I travel this country
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  • North to south, east to west.
  • 00:25:07.461 --> 00:25:10.864
  • I go to synagogues, i go to churches
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  • And going to liberty university,
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  • Going to the university in a few hours.
  • 00:25:14.234 --> 00:25:15.970
  • And i can tell you that the majority of the american people,
  • 00:25:15.970 --> 00:25:20.841
  • Understand what's at stake here.
  • 00:25:21.475 --> 00:25:24.545
  • And the support for israel, rock bottom
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  • And churches across this country is solid.
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  • And i wouldn't let any podcaster fool you.
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  • Okay. this relationship is for keeps.
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  • Thank you sir. that's great.
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  • Thank you very much.
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  • Well, i'm so grateful to my friend, israeli ambassador.
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  • Yechiel leiter.
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  • To sit down with the rosenberg report?
  • 00:25:43.330 --> 00:25:45.399
  • He gave us his first interview ever as the new ambassador.
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  • Even before he got here to washington
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  • And started meeting with the president
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  • And his team at the white house.
  • 00:25:51.872 --> 00:25:53.507
  • He gave us his first interview when he got the appointment,
  • 00:25:53.507 --> 00:25:56.910
  • In jerusalem at our tbn studios.
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  • But i'm so grateful,
  • 00:25:58.779 --> 00:26:00.314
  • To, to reconnect him now at this high stakes,
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  • Very tense moment.
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  • Right.
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  • Missiles and suicide drones from iran
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  • Have been crashing down in israel.
  • 00:26:09.523 --> 00:26:11.058
  • Israel is doing a good job at shooting down most of them,
  • 00:26:11.058 --> 00:26:13.594
  • But the but the stakes remain very, very high.
  • 00:26:13.594 --> 00:26:16.263
  • And the big question remains,
  • 00:26:16.263 --> 00:26:18.432
  • Will we not only destroy iran's military offensive capability?
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  • I'm absolutely convinced that we will, together,
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  • The united states and israel.
  • 00:26:25.572 --> 00:26:26.840
  • But can we shatter the iranian regime
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  • Enough to, not only take out mojtaba khamenei?
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  • This sort of, end time fanatic who wants to succeed his father
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  • And and the top
  • 00:26:38.218 --> 00:26:39.386
  • Clerics in the country want him to succeed his father.
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  • Can we take him out? can we take anyone else out?
  • 00:26:41.955 --> 00:26:44.391
  • Who's going to be a hostile actor
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  • Against the united states, israel
  • 00:26:46.493 --> 00:26:48.896
  • Against our arab allies and nato and anybody else?
  • 00:26:48.896 --> 00:26:51.832
  • Those are big questions.
  • 00:26:51.832 --> 00:26:52.933
  • And we need to keep praying
  • 00:26:52.933 --> 00:26:54.334
  • Because this war is not done, not yet.
  • 00:26:54.334 --> 00:26:57.371
  • So let's keep praying for the peace of jerusalem.
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  • Let's keep praying for u.s. and israeli forces.
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  • God would protect them and give them great success.
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  • Favor. victory.
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  • Let's pray for the liberation
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  • Of iran politically and spiritually.
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  • And lord willing, i'll see you next week.
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  • I hope you have a great week.
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  • But lord willing,
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  • I will see you next week right here on the rosenberg report.
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