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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: New Alliance Forming? | Stakelbeck Tonight | February 24, 2026
- Welcome to
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- Stakelbeck tonight i'm erick stakelbeck and america
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- May be approaching a decision point with iran.
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- U.s. warships are assembling a third
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- Round of talks as scheduled and pressure is mounting.
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- President trump faces
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- One of the most consequential choices of his presidency.
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- Strike now, negotiate longer or risk a nuclear
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- Iran armed to the teeth with ballistic missiles.
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- The arab gulf states are watching
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- All of this very closely,
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- And reports of tension
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- Between saudi arabia and the uae could complicate an already
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- Fragile regional alignment against the iranian regime.
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- So what is the strategy?
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- What does he was gained by waiting to strike iran?
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- Will israel join in an attack?
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- And how could iran retaliate across the region,
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- From lebanon to the red sea and beyond?
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- Tonight we separate speculation from strategy with former
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- Foreign policy advisor to president trump
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- And foreign policy analyst at newsmax tv.
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- Our good friend, doctor walid phares.
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- He's also author of a great book called iran an imperialist
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- Republic and u.s. policy.
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- Doctor walid phares, always great to see you.
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- You and i were talking off camera.
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- Could we be approaching the moment of reckoning?
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- It's about six weeks, i guess.
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- Now since president trump tweeted out
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- To the iranian people, that help is on the way.
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- But it takes a while to get assets in place.
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- We have another a second u.s.
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- Aircraft carrier now in the region.
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- Do you get a sense here
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- That we are approaching endgame with the ayatollahs?
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- Thank you erick.
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- Yes, we are approaching this endgame
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- Because, number one, all this gathering, build up of task
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- Forces, we haven't seen this since the iraq war.
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- So that all indicates that if there is an action,
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- That action is going to be serious.
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- And that action is going to be targeting the,
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- The basic force of the islamic regime in iran.
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- It is not just a symbolic action on the one.
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- On the other hand,
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- We've heard the president talking about we will give them
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- All the opportunities, but it has to come.
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- At one point, he is sending his delegates, his envoys.
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- There are negotiations.
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- I surmise that as a real estate strategist from the beginning,
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- He has a good the art of the deal, art of negotiations,
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- Which means he would know if there is a chance,
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- But he would also know if the other side
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- Is maneuvering, lying or camouflaging.
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- So at that level, i know that the president know
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- If it is time or not.
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- The issue is, and i remind you and your audience
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- That the preparation
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- May take longer time or has been taken a long time.
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- I remind everybody, in the summer of 1990,
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- Saddam invaded kuwait.
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- Maybe in one week.
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- The preparation to remove
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- Saddam forces from kuwait took five, months.
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- Because you're going
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- To make sure when you enter the fray of such a fight,
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- You want to know what comes d-day plus one.
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- You want to know
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- Who is going to be part of this attack,
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- And you want to know who are your friends
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- And who are going to be neutral.
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- All of this is in the making right now, erick.
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- Yeah, well, i'll leave great points.
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- Look, this is it's
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- This is not no, it's not a mere petty kind of foe.
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- It's still a serious player.
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- Is the iranian regime still with a large
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- Ballistic missile stockpile?
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- They've been entrenched for nearly half a century.
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- So it's a major operation. it's needed.
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- What do you expect as we look ahead
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- With the ayatollah khomeini himself?
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- Be a target, the islamic revolutionary guards,
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- What would be the ideal targets for the united states
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- To, hopefully, god willing, also precipitate regime change
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- And to have the iranian people rise up and take control
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- Of their own destiny?
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- That's a great question, erick.
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- There are some different views in washington based on the past,
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- Based on what happened in venezuela,
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- Based on what happened decades and decades ago.
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- The conclusion now is just eliminating the head
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- Of the islamic regime called islamic republic is not enough.
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- That's not venezuela.
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- So what you need to focus on, from what i understand,
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- Is the weakening and dismantling and the shock and awe
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- Against the two forces that control
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- The islamic regime in iran, two forces. one is
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- The irgc told us they're on that is the actual army.
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- It's like the red army during the soviet union.
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- And then the second one, which i call the lower ss,
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- Assuming that the irgc is
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- The upper ss that controls the third right,
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- And we have the lower ones, who are the basij,
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- Who controls the streets.
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- These are the people who are oppressing,
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- Killing, assassinating, irgc, kidnaping and,
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- You know, and intervening in other countries
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- As well within also the, the quds force.
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- So once those two forces and according to what we know,
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- About 70 to 80 positions, they have those headquarters
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- Across the country.
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- And of course, in iran, once those are targeted, in addition
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- To the ministry of intelligence, which won't take a long time
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- To to address, then what you're going to see
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- Based on the events from january,
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- A sea of iranians advancing, i mean, the iranian people.
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- And that's a big difference with the past,
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- Have lost somewhere around 50,000.
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- Some say left, some say all the way up to 100,000.
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- That's your army. that's your infantry.
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- They don't have a lot of weapons.
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- They will get them
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- When those, militias are disbanded from the air,
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- Then you're going to have a force on the ground.
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- The question mark, i think in the
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- In the discussions, preparations,
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- You know, you have the pentagon, cia,
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- You know, all the other agencies is who will take over
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- And how should there be chaos or not?
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- That is what has been built at this point in time.
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- Yeah. walid, great breakdown.
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- Which brings me to my next question.
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- How does the iranian regime respond to a potential assault?
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- Israel, who knows, may come alongside the u.s.
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- In this.
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- Does iran respond by attacking u.s.
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- Bases in the region?
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- Does it respond by attacking israel,
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- Perhaps even the gulf states?
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- Does the regime,
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- If it fears it's about
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- To topple, go out in its view, in a blaze of glory?
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- Yeah.
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- Well, i
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- Accept what you his statement you made at the end,
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- That would be the case
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- Psychologically, emotionally, politically, ideologically,
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- The regime still is a large one.
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- It has been funded by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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- Remember the obama iran deal?
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- $150 billion.
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- They have funded large militias, but also large networks,
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- Spy networks, terror networks.
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- And let me break it down to two things.
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- Number one, in the region,
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- What would be the plan of the regime in the region
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- If attacked by the united states and the coalition?
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- And let me open a parenthesis that you have mentioned,
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- Which is will israel be part of it?
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- In my view, in my modest view, israel is part of it.
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- It depends what the size, depends what time.
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- It depends where the targets are.
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- These are fascinating questions.
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- Maybe israel will be task with hezbollah in lebanon with the
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- With these with others.
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- Maybe israel will be the second strike.
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- All of these are scenarios.
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- We don't know these scenarios, but the possibility that
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- Israel is in. absolutely.
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- And second, with regard the us, once they would target the two,
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- The two militias, basically, we're going to pay attention
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- To what the regime can do first in the region.
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- And you just mentioned meaning, of course,
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- They're going to target our bases.
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- That's why we've been spending all that time to remove
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- A lot of staffers, a lot of units, non
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- Fighting units from bases such as in iraq.
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- Obviously we've seen that even
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- In syria and qatar and elsewhere.
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- But what i'm concerned about is not just in the region.
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- It's the long arm
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- That the regime has within the west in general,
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- Hezbollah, hamas and others, and within america
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- In particular, you and i have studied this
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- And discussed that for years and years.
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- What can they do inside our own borders
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- Is the biggest question of the day, in my view.
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- While that is a key and very troubling point,
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- We'll break it down with you more after the break, folks.
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- He is one of the world's top middle
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- East and foreign policy experts.
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- Follow doctor walid phares on x and across social media.
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- Pick up all of his great books at amazon.com.
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- Coming up, we're talking about the iranian ring of fire.
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- God willing, collapsing.
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- It's on the brink,
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- But a new axis may be emerging in the middle east.
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- We're talking syria, turkey
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- And qatar moving together in dangerous alignment.
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- When we come back, doctor walid phares connects the dots
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- And explains what this new alliance means for the future
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- Of the middle east and for the west.
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- That's next. donâ–ˆt move.
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- That's next. donâ–ˆt move.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight
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- We're talking to our good friend, doctor walid phares,
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- One of the world's
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- Leading voices on middle east strategy and counterterrorism.
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- There are growing signs that syria, turkey
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- And qatar are moving closer together strategically
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- To form a new axis of evil in the middle east.
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- If that's true,
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- What does this mean for israel, for the arab world and for u.s.
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- National security?
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- Doctor phares,
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- Before we get to that new axis between turkey, qatar and syria,
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- We're talking u.s. national security as well.
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- Before the break, you mentioned potential blowback.
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- Iran, hezbollah assets, assets right here
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- In the western hemisphere.
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- What would that look like?
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- They do have agents
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- On the ground in our hemisphere, including, i presume,
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- Here in the united states.
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- Many, many layers.
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- That would allow us to understand
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- What the islamic regime in iran is doing.
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- Number one, on the highest level,
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- That is a de facto coalition or axis between the islamic
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- Regime in iran and the muslim brotherhood.
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- So not just spoken about the assets
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- Of tehran inside our borders and inside the hemisphere,
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- But they're going to have the support of the brotherhood.
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- Brotherhood with all the,
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- You know, branches that they have in the region.
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- They have them here.
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- But let me focus on first
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- The communist regime, meaning the islamic regime in iran.
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- They have multiple, influences and penetration of the country.
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- First, those who were legal and came through,
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- A variety of ways, grants, cooperation.
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- So on have gotten influence inside many of the agencies.
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- And let's be very clear on that one.
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- And of the departments in the united states,
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- Especially under the eight years of president obama
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- And four years of president biden. yeah.
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- The other part is very concerning,
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- Which is how many operatives are there inside the united states
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- Who would take action on behalf of the regime?
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- You just mentioned
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- That they are very expanded inside the, the, the hemisphere.
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- Where do we start? venezuela.
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- Venezuela had opened its doors and, you know, windows.
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- To hezbollah, to the irgc across the continent, all the way
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- Down to the tri border between brazil, argentina and uruguay.
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- So they had that presence,
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- And their presence had been channeled
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- Through a route to come through the united states, which won
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- The mexican american border.
- 00:11:26.374 --> 00:11:28.276
- Yeah.
- 00:11:28.276 --> 00:11:29.344
- That border for many, many years has been open.
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- So i don't know how to calculate how many.
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- I wouldn't say 100
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- Thousands of operatives have crossed that border.
- 00:11:34.849 --> 00:11:37.218
- Thank god
- 00:11:37.218 --> 00:11:38.453
- We have president trump who shut down the border last year.
- 00:11:38.453 --> 00:11:41.823
- So if i can add one more on this issue that would clarify
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- For the pete for the public,
- 00:11:45.426 --> 00:11:47.095
- What we see right now on the streets of mexico,
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- Mexico city and the other cities is enormous
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- Evidence that the cartels who are the allies of hezbollah
- 00:11:53.368 --> 00:11:57.605
- And the other militias have a firepower, huge firepower.
- 00:11:57.605 --> 00:12:01.676
- They are challenging the entire army of mexico.
- 00:12:01.676 --> 00:12:04.078
- And we are helping the mexicans.
- 00:12:04.078 --> 00:12:06.114
- Just think of the possibility that for many, many years,
- 00:12:06.114 --> 00:12:09.651
- Those who are now fighting and we see them on
- 00:12:09.651 --> 00:12:11.486
- Video have penetrated the united states.
- 00:12:11.486 --> 00:12:13.688
- We have a direct urban terrorist threat against us
- 00:12:13.688 --> 00:12:18.159
- From the build
- 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:19.160
- Up of the regime, the islamic regime through
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- Mexico, through venezuela, into our borders. yeah.
- 00:12:20.962 --> 00:12:23.731
- While this is a key point, for four years before president
- 00:12:23.731 --> 00:12:26.434
- Trump returned to office, the biden administration
- 00:12:26.434 --> 00:12:28.603
- Literally threw open our southern border.
- 00:12:28.603 --> 00:12:30.505
- And you made a great point.
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- These cartels have no allegiance
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- To anything other than the almighty dollar.
- 00:12:33.541 --> 00:12:35.844
- They will gladly cooperate with islamist
- 00:12:35.844 --> 00:12:38.479
- And jihadist if it lines their pockets.
- 00:12:38.479 --> 00:12:40.748
- Key point they're speaking of which islamist we have turkey.
- 00:12:40.748 --> 00:12:46.020
- I guess you can say turkey provides the military muscle,
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- Qatar provides the money.
- 00:12:49.023 --> 00:12:50.859
- Then you have a wildcard.
- 00:12:50.859 --> 00:12:52.193
- This new regime,
- 00:12:52.193 --> 00:12:53.528
- Relatively new in syria, led by a former al-qaeda commander.
- 00:12:53.528 --> 00:12:57.465
- While a do you see a sort of new axis
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- Shaping up with turkey, qatar and syria?
- 00:12:59.834 --> 00:13:02.837
- That could really pose a big problem
- 00:13:02.837 --> 00:13:05.840
- After, god willing, the iranian regime is in the ash
- 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:08.610
- Heap of history?
- 00:13:08.610 --> 00:13:10.445
- Absolutely.
- 00:13:10.778 --> 00:13:11.846
- Erick, you you defined it very well, very clearly.
- 00:13:11.846 --> 00:13:14.849
- There is what we call an iran brotherhood or islamists
- 00:13:14.849 --> 00:13:18.720
- Or even a coded salafist, axis in the region.
- 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:22.390
- And yes, there are two major players
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- That are on the ideological level since 1997
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- And mostly on the financial level.
- 00:13:27.996 --> 00:13:30.298
- I don't need to repeat all the reports
- 00:13:30.298 --> 00:13:32.033
- That were made available
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- About the influence that, qatar through the muslim brotherhood.
- 00:13:33.301 --> 00:13:37.038
- I've had in the united states, including mostly.
- 00:13:37.038 --> 00:13:39.474
- And that's very serious, hundreds of millions of dollars,
- 00:13:39.474 --> 00:13:43.811
- I would say
- 00:13:43.811 --> 00:13:44.946
- Even billions of dollars have been spent by that regime
- 00:13:44.946 --> 00:13:48.116
- In our educational system on our campus.
- 00:13:48.116 --> 00:13:51.619
- So first reaction is, so can we assume that,
- 00:13:51.619 --> 00:13:55.957
- Those hundreds of thousands who demonstrated on our streets,
- 00:13:55.957 --> 00:13:59.060
- On our campuses for the last 2 to 3 years after october 7th,
- 00:13:59.060 --> 00:14:03.131
- Where part of that influence that the muslim brotherhood via
- 00:14:03.131 --> 00:14:06.467
- Qatar have been obtaining here.
- 00:14:06.467 --> 00:14:08.102
- And the answer is yes and all and whole urban army
- 00:14:08.102 --> 00:14:11.572
- That had been radicalized and jihadist for for a few years.
- 00:14:11.572 --> 00:14:15.510
- Second, turkey,
- 00:14:15.510 --> 00:14:16.611
- Turkey is a member of nato and all turkey or
- 00:14:16.611 --> 00:14:19.280
- The previous turkey was a direct ally against terrorism.
- 00:14:19.280 --> 00:14:22.517
- But the ak party, akp party, which is an islamist party
- 00:14:22.517 --> 00:14:25.720
- Parallel to the muslim brotherhood
- 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:27.288
- And of course, their
- 00:14:27.288 --> 00:14:28.690
- Their dependents in the region
- 00:14:28.690 --> 00:14:30.959
- Have been playing a military role.
- 00:14:30.959 --> 00:14:32.627
- And that's perturbing because turkey has our trust.
- 00:14:32.627 --> 00:14:36.531
- Our military trust is a member of nato,
- 00:14:36.531 --> 00:14:38.633
- But it supports
- 00:14:38.633 --> 00:14:39.968
- Two of the most important jihadi militias in northern syria,
- 00:14:39.968 --> 00:14:43.638
- Two of them, and has been also supporting the, the the rise of
- 00:14:43.638 --> 00:14:48.743
- The sham and the takeover of damascus.
- 00:14:49.577 --> 00:14:51.913
- One word about damascus, about that regime.
- 00:14:51.913 --> 00:14:55.016
- I am not in the belief that they have reformed. why?
- 00:14:55.016 --> 00:14:58.619
- Because if they have reformed like any other party
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- In the middle east,
- 00:15:01.689 --> 00:15:02.523
- Or it's not a spot in the middle east,
- 00:15:02.523 --> 00:15:03.591
- The first thing they would do, they would come in
- 00:15:03.591 --> 00:15:05.626
- Public and say, we were jihadists.
- 00:15:05.626 --> 00:15:08.029
- We're not anymore jihadists.
- 00:15:08.029 --> 00:15:09.697
- We were and we're not.
- 00:15:09.697 --> 00:15:11.299
- No speech
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- By the leadership of that
- 00:15:12.500 --> 00:15:13.668
- Regime ever told us that they have changed.
- 00:15:13.668 --> 00:15:16.871
- On top of it,
- 00:15:16.871 --> 00:15:18.006
- We observe
- 00:15:18.006 --> 00:15:19.073
- And we monitor everything they say in their media
- 00:15:19.073 --> 00:15:22.410
- And more importantly, on the social media,
- 00:15:22.410 --> 00:15:24.379
- Where the actual supporters
- 00:15:24.379 --> 00:15:25.480
- Of the regime, the soldiers of the regime,
- 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:27.815
- Increase their jihadism.
- 00:15:27.815 --> 00:15:29.384
- They say we're going to go against
- 00:15:29.384 --> 00:15:30.618
- The infidels, against the druze, the kurds, the christians.
- 00:15:30.618 --> 00:15:33.855
- And then we don't want peace.
- 00:15:34.489 --> 00:15:36.057
- So you would know
- 00:15:36.057 --> 00:15:37.558
- What the regime is thinking from what
- 00:15:37.558 --> 00:15:39.560
- The social media of the regime is actually saying.
- 00:15:39.560 --> 00:15:42.330
- No recognition of a change, no behavior on the ground
- 00:15:42.330 --> 00:15:45.800
- That would convince us that this is a change.
- 00:15:45.800 --> 00:15:47.769
- But put this on the slide, erick, and let me conclude
- 00:15:47.769 --> 00:15:50.671
- That regime has shown us already
- 00:15:50.671 --> 00:15:53.541
- That they want to destroy
- 00:15:53.541 --> 00:15:56.010
- The minorities, the christian minority, persecution.
- 00:15:56.010 --> 00:15:59.013
- Every week there is an incident.
- 00:15:59.013 --> 00:16:00.748
- The alawi minority, which in march of last year
- 00:16:00.748 --> 00:16:04.018
- Have been butchered,
- 00:16:04.018 --> 00:16:05.620
- Thousands and thousands of people were killed.
- 00:16:05.620 --> 00:16:07.789
- Not the fighters, but the actual people.
- 00:16:07.789 --> 00:16:10.058
- The druze. we all saw what happened to the truth.
- 00:16:10.058 --> 00:16:12.360
- I did not mean for israel to come and help them.
- 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:14.929
- There would have been refugees today.
- 00:16:14.929 --> 00:16:16.597
- And the kurds,
- 00:16:16.597 --> 00:16:17.799
- What we see right now happening in the northeast of syria.
- 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:20.802
- So, yes, in my view, this regime is jihadis.
- 00:16:20.802 --> 00:16:23.171
- And hopefully congress,
- 00:16:23.171 --> 00:16:24.572
- In cooperation
- 00:16:24.572 --> 00:16:25.807
- With the administration, will find out what the plans are.
- 00:16:25.807 --> 00:16:29.610
- But the plans are very clear.
- 00:16:29.610 --> 00:16:31.412
- They want to eliminate the minorities in syria,
- 00:16:31.412 --> 00:16:34.148
- Maybe enter lebanon and confront israel.
- 00:16:34.148 --> 00:16:36.951
- Walid will said.
- 00:16:36.951 --> 00:16:38.119
- The middle east never sleeps.
- 00:16:38.119 --> 00:16:40.054
- That's why we're so glad we have you watching.
- 00:16:40.054 --> 00:16:41.989
- Hey, we've been talking middle east.
- 00:16:41.989 --> 00:16:43.458
- About a minute left, though, i wanted to ask you
- 00:16:43.458 --> 00:16:45.259
- About a very important incident that happened at mar-a-lago.
- 00:16:45.259 --> 00:16:48.796
- A 21 year old armed man entered mar-a-lago,
- 00:16:48.796 --> 00:16:52.100
- President trump's private residence.
- 00:16:52.100 --> 00:16:53.868
- He was shot and killed.
- 00:16:53.868 --> 00:16:54.902
- But you were tweeting about this.
- 00:16:54.902 --> 00:16:56.137
- How alarmed should we be by this?
- 00:16:56.137 --> 00:16:58.539
- I am alarmed, we should be alarmed.
- 00:16:58.539 --> 00:17:00.141
- This is not a joke.
- 00:17:00.141 --> 00:17:02.076
- And i would recommend not to just watch the skin color
- 00:17:02.076 --> 00:17:06.881
- Accent of the of the person who perpetrated to conclude
- 00:17:06.881 --> 00:17:10.084
- That this is some crazy man.
- 00:17:10.084 --> 00:17:12.320
- You know what the terrorists use, crazy man.
- 00:17:12.320 --> 00:17:14.555
- Manipulate them
- 00:17:14.555 --> 00:17:15.890
- Because there's enough money in the international arena.
- 00:17:15.890 --> 00:17:18.993
- I just mentioned $150 billion of the iran deal,
- 00:17:18.993 --> 00:17:22.563
- And there were threats launched against our president.
- 00:17:22.563 --> 00:17:26.567
- By whom?
- 00:17:26.567 --> 00:17:27.135
- It's public information
- 00:17:27.135 --> 00:17:28.803
- By the regime, but it's not a regime.
- 00:17:28.803 --> 00:17:30.271
- So we need to have a better intelligence.
- 00:17:30.271 --> 00:17:32.507
- I'm sure the agencies
- 00:17:32.507 --> 00:17:33.741
- Are working on it to determine if there is a link that goes up
- 00:17:33.741 --> 00:17:37.545
- And then to the right or to the left of a foreign, perpetrator.
- 00:17:37.545 --> 00:17:42.216
- I have a sentiment that the threats, thrown
- 00:17:42.216 --> 00:17:45.920
- By the regime are showing up in the united states.
- 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:49.490
- Yeah. molly.
- 00:17:49.490 --> 00:17:50.391
- Great breakdown as always, my friend.
- 00:17:50.391 --> 00:17:52.393
- Folks, be sure to follow doctor walid
- 00:17:52.393 --> 00:17:53.794
- Ferriss on x across social media.
- 00:17:53.794 --> 00:17:55.830
- Go to amazon.com right now.
- 00:17:55.830 --> 00:17:57.331
- Pick up his great book, several best sellers.
- 00:17:57.331 --> 00:17:59.901
- Walid. always great to have your insights.
- 00:17:59.901 --> 00:18:01.936
- My friend. god bless. we will see you again soon.
- 00:18:01.936 --> 00:18:04.172
- And coming up after the break,
- 00:18:04.172 --> 00:18:05.373
- We're going to break this down a bit further.
- 00:18:05.373 --> 00:18:07.475
- Iran's war.
- 00:18:07.475 --> 00:18:09.243
- Yes, war against america, folks.
- 00:18:09.243 --> 00:18:11.846
- It dates back some 47 years.
- 00:18:11.846 --> 00:18:14.115
- Could it be about to come to an end?
- 00:18:14.115 --> 00:18:16.651
- We'll break it down next.
- 00:18:16.651 --> 00:18:23.007
- We'll break it down next.
- 00:18:23.007 --> 00:18:26.230
- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
- 00:18:27.131 --> 00:18:28.933
- We've been talking about a potential war
- 00:18:28.933 --> 00:18:31.035
- Between the united states and iran.
- 00:18:31.035 --> 00:18:33.170
- My belief is that when you have a chance
- 00:18:33.170 --> 00:18:35.439
- To deal a knockout blow to a committed, long time
- 00:18:35.439 --> 00:18:39.143
- Adversary, you have to take that chance
- 00:18:39.143 --> 00:18:41.879
- And seize that golden opportunity.
- 00:18:41.879 --> 00:18:43.847
- Right now,
- 00:18:43.847 --> 00:18:45.049
- The iranian regime is teetering on the brink of oblivion,
- 00:18:45.049 --> 00:18:48.319
- And we have a unique opportunity
- 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:50.020
- To push them over the edge into the ash heap of history
- 00:18:50.020 --> 00:18:53.357
- Where they belong.
- 00:18:53.357 --> 00:18:54.358
- Think about it.
- 00:18:54.358 --> 00:18:55.392
- This regime declared war on the united states.
- 00:18:55.392 --> 00:18:57.861
- I do not exaggerate.
- 00:18:57.861 --> 00:18:59.330
- 47 years ago,
- 00:18:59.330 --> 00:19:01.131
- Their first act on the world stage when they came to power
- 00:19:01.131 --> 00:19:04.368
- Under the ayatollah khomeini, was to seize the u.s.
- 00:19:04.368 --> 00:19:07.871
- Embassy in tehran and take dozens of americans hostage.
- 00:19:07.871 --> 00:19:11.508
- It only went downhill from there.
- 00:19:11.508 --> 00:19:13.177
- Think of the 1983 u.s.
- 00:19:13.177 --> 00:19:15.312
- Marine barracks bombing in beirut.
- 00:19:15.312 --> 00:19:17.181
- 243 brave u.s.
- 00:19:17.181 --> 00:19:19.450
- Soldiers killed by an iranian backed hezbollah terrorist.
- 00:19:19.450 --> 00:19:23.554
- You can move on to the iraq war between 2000 and 3 2011,
- 00:19:23.554 --> 00:19:28.525
- At least 500, perhaps many more than that
- 00:19:28.525 --> 00:19:31.762
- American soldiers killed in iraq, courtesy
- 00:19:31.762 --> 00:19:35.432
- Of iranian supplied and iranian built improvised explosive
- 00:19:35.432 --> 00:19:40.371
- Devices look, this regime is practically copyrighted.
- 00:19:40.371 --> 00:19:43.907
- The phrase death to america, it's israel.
- 00:19:43.907 --> 00:19:47.177
- It's only the little satan
- 00:19:47.177 --> 00:19:49.413
- In their ideology and in their eschatology.
- 00:19:49.413 --> 00:19:52.683
- It's america that is the great satan
- 00:19:52.683 --> 00:19:55.452
- And the ultimate prize in their view.
- 00:19:55.452 --> 00:19:57.955
- And that is why i've talked to a
- 00:19:57.955 --> 00:19:59.290
- Bunch and we talked about tonight
- 00:19:59.290 --> 00:20:00.824
- With doctor walid ferris, iran's ballistic missile program.
- 00:20:00.824 --> 00:20:04.728
- Okay, certainly mid
- 00:20:04.728 --> 00:20:06.730
- Range and short range missiles, which can reach israel.
- 00:20:06.730 --> 00:20:09.867
- All of the middle east and all of europe.
- 00:20:09.867 --> 00:20:12.469
- But why is iran also developing intercontinental
- 00:20:12.469 --> 00:20:16.640
- Ballistic missiles?
- 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:17.841
- I see bombs for short, folks.
- 00:20:17.841 --> 00:20:20.210
- They do exactly what their name says.
- 00:20:20.210 --> 00:20:22.179
- Those icbms are designed to travel
- 00:20:22.179 --> 00:20:25.449
- Across oceans, across continents.
- 00:20:25.449 --> 00:20:28.452
- Those icbms, which, by the way, you only build them
- 00:20:28.452 --> 00:20:31.522
- For one reason
- 00:20:31.522 --> 00:20:32.723
- And one reason only to mount them with a nuclear warhead.
- 00:20:32.723 --> 00:20:36.427
- Those icbms are not for israel.
- 00:20:36.427 --> 00:20:39.630
- They're not for saudi arabia.
- 00:20:39.630 --> 00:20:41.231
- They're not even for europe.
- 00:20:41.231 --> 00:20:43.133
- They are for, you guessed it, the great satan.
- 00:20:43.133 --> 00:20:46.470
- In iran's view, the united states.
- 00:20:46.470 --> 00:20:49.940
- Add to the fact that in just the past two years alone,
- 00:20:49.940 --> 00:20:53.444
- The ayatollahs plotted to assassinate
- 00:20:53.444 --> 00:20:56.547
- President trump, two verified legitimate,
- 00:20:56.547 --> 00:21:00.384
- Credible assassination plots against the president
- 00:21:00.384 --> 00:21:04.121
- Of the united states emanating from tehran.
- 00:21:04.121 --> 00:21:08.258
- So needless to say, with that track record, nearly
- 00:21:08.258 --> 00:21:11.662
- Half a century of murder, mayhem, misery and terror
- 00:21:11.662 --> 00:21:16.066
- Inflicted not only upon their own people
- 00:21:16.066 --> 00:21:18.068
- First and foremost, but upon the region and upon the world.
- 00:21:18.068 --> 00:21:21.972
- When you have a chance to push a regime like that
- 00:21:21.972 --> 00:21:26.343
- Out the door, you have to take that chance.
- 00:21:26.343 --> 00:21:29.113
- I think president trump is ultimately going to do
- 00:21:29.113 --> 00:21:32.015
- Just that.
- 00:21:32.015 --> 00:21:32.816
- Doctor phares, earlier in the show
- 00:21:32.816 --> 00:21:34.284
- Had a great breakdown about why it's taken a bit.
- 00:21:34.284 --> 00:21:36.854
- Look, a military buildup of this magnitude takes a while,
- 00:21:36.854 --> 00:21:40.591
- But i believe at the end of the day,
- 00:21:40.591 --> 00:21:42.159
- President trump has done the right thing
- 00:21:42.159 --> 00:21:44.027
- In the middle east in his first term and in his second.
- 00:21:44.027 --> 00:21:47.097
- And i think he'll do the right thing again.
- 00:21:47.097 --> 00:21:49.133
- And imagine a new day in the middle east
- 00:21:49.133 --> 00:21:51.935
- With the world's number one state sponsor of terrorism
- 00:21:51.935 --> 00:21:54.671
- Out the door.
- 00:21:54.671 --> 00:21:55.806
- Iran, ancient persia.
- 00:21:55.806 --> 00:21:57.841
- It's a bible land.
- 00:21:57.841 --> 00:21:59.042
- Let's pray for revival to spread there and to happen soon.
- 00:21:59.042 --> 00:22:03.947
- Coming up after the break, my final thoughts stick around.
- 00:22:03.947 --> 00:22:12.008
- Coming up after the break, my final thoughts stick around.
- 00:22:12.008 --> 00:22:15.459
- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
- 00:22:16.360 --> 00:22:18.195
- As we talk about the iranian regime, its potential exit.
- 00:22:18.195 --> 00:22:21.532
- God willing, from the world stage.
- 00:22:21.532 --> 00:22:23.700
- These are the stakes i think, of the book of esther,
- 00:22:23.700 --> 00:22:26.503
- Which unfolded in ancient iran, ancient persia, i should say
- 00:22:26.503 --> 00:22:30.674
- Modern day iran. esther 414.
- 00:22:30.674 --> 00:22:33.377
- For if you remain silent at this time, mordecai said to esther,
- 00:22:33.377 --> 00:22:37.548
- Relief and deliverance for the jews
- 00:22:37.548 --> 00:22:39.583
- Will arise from another place,
- 00:22:39.583 --> 00:22:41.185
- But you and your father's family will perish.
- 00:22:41.185 --> 00:22:44.221
- And who knows but that you have come
- 00:22:44.221 --> 00:22:46.757
- To this royal position for such a time as this?
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- I think president trump is in his position
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- As leader of the free world
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- For such a time as this,
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- And i think this is a prophetic moment.
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- If the iranian regime is again relegated to the ash
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- Heap of history.
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- So keep praying,
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- Folks, for wisdom, discernment, clarity for president trump.
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- Pray for the iranian people and pray for a new day in iran.
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- It's at the doorstep.
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- Hey, tomorrow night cliff may is with us.
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- Going to be good.
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- Until then, god bless you and we'll see you soon.
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