Iran: Its Not Over Yet Insider Warns What Comes Next

➡ The article discusses how certain regimes, like the one in Iran, have taken control of private companies and the economy, similar to what the Nazis did in Germany. This control allows them to produce military equipment at a lower cost, posing a threat to other nations. The author suggests that without intervention, these regimes could quickly regain power if ever toppled. The article also mentions a plea for more followers on a channel, and a discussion about the current conflict in Iran and its global impact.
➡ The administration used a strategy similar to what was done with Venezuela, crippling their economy and labeling their key military organization as a terrorist group. This allowed for stronger sanctions and limited their economic outreach. The administration also targeted Iran and Venezuela because China was buying cheap oil from these countries. The administration aimed to limit China’s power and slow down their progress. Additionally, the administration was concerned about the advancement of rocket technology, which could potentially reach the United States. The cost-effective production of these rockets and drones posed a significant threat. The administration’s actions were also influenced by the economic instability in Iran, with high inflation and control of the economy by the military organization. The administration’s goal was not necessarily regime change, but to dismantle their military and prevent them from obtaining nuclear weapons.
➡ The speaker discusses the complex political situation involving Iran, the United States, and other countries. They believe Iran’s strategy is to cause economic pain by disrupting oil supplies, which could lead to a global recession. The speaker also suggests that Iran might have hidden military technologies and that they are hoping for support from other countries. They express concern that unless the current regime in Iran is replaced, the situation will not improve.
➡ The text discusses the current political situation in Iran, where people are protesting against the regime and calling for Reza Pahlavi, the Shah’s son, to lead. Pahlavi has a plan and a cabinet ready, and he’s seen as a better choice since most opposition inside Iran has been suppressed. The text also mentions the possibility of support from the U.S. and Israel, and the potential for groups like the Kurds and Baluchi groups to help. The regime’s corruption and misuse of the country’s wealth are also highlighted, and the text ends with the idea that if the operation to change the regime succeeds, it could greatly benefit President Trump’s reputation.
➡ The speaker discusses their perspective on the Muslim community, particularly in Dubai and Iran. They argue against generalizations about Muslims, highlighting their positive experiences in Dubai and the tolerance for all faiths. They express concern for the people of Iran, who they believe have been oppressed for over 40 years, and support the idea of intervention to help them. They also discuss the history of Iran, including its tolerance for different religions and the significant role women used to play in society before the current regime. They believe that if the current regime were to change, Iran could become a prosperous and open-minded nation again.
➡ The speaker discusses the influence of lobbying groups in the U.S. government and the potential for international conflict involving China, Iran, and the U.S. They suggest that China might support Iran to protect its interests and that there could be deals between the U.S. and China involving Taiwan and Ukraine. The speaker also discusses the possibility of a regime change in Iran leading to peace in the Middle East, and criticizes the current Iranian regime’s focus on theology over cooperation with other nations.
➡ The speaker discusses the political situation in Iran and the United States, expressing hope for positive change. They appreciate the joy and hopefulness of Iranian people following a political move by Trump, despite not always agreeing with his policies. The speaker also criticizes the divisive rhetoric in the U.S. and emphasizes the importance of open discussion and understanding. They conclude by expressing disappointment in Trump’s communication style and hope for better leadership in both countries.
➡ The speaker discusses the intense criticism against Trump, emphasizing that disagreements should be based on policies, not personal dislike. They express support for Trump’s actions, arguing that they are necessary to address long-standing issues, such as the lack of a manufacturing base and the need for a long-term plan like other countries have. The speaker also advocates for intervention in Iran to free people from oppression, arguing that the U.S., as a powerful nation, has a responsibility to help. They conclude by praying for a positive outcome for the Iranian people and for America.

Foreign. They took the playbook out of the Nazi and the ss. One of the reasons why Hitler and Nazis were so effective in Germany is because they took over a lot of private companies like Porsche, like vw, and they basically take them out of private hands and put them into state hands. And this is what these guys have been doing for years. They control all the economy from anywhere from your eggs being produced to import of anything that comes into the countries. They control the fabric, everyday life. They can produce drones and rockets for a fraction of the cost.

The Western world care. It’s a game of attrition. They know how much money it will take to produce, protect with these iron domes and all these different ways of trying to protect the population. They know what it costs for every rocket that goes up million to $2 million. They can overwhelm it with literally 200 drones that are $20,000 a piece if you let this regime stays in power because they have the knowledge now they can come back pretty quickly. It won’t take them 20 years. It would take them five years, six years. They know that unless we put boots on the ground of some limited source or arm the opposition within Iran, they know that they have the upper hand, that they will never be eradicated.

And my opinion is. Hey everyone, welcome to another sit down with Michael Francis. Hope everybody is doing well. All is very good, very blessed on this end, my friends. And as always, I give all the praise, honor, glory and thanksgiving to our God. For that. Before I go on and get into today’s subject, I want to thank everybody that subbed on in the last couple of days. My birthday is coming up on May 27th and my team has asked me to ask all of you, if you don’t already follow us and you’re not a sub, please jump on because we’re trying to hit 2 million by May 27, my birthday.

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It affects the entire world, especially us here in the United States, those in the Middle east, and really everyone in the world is affected by this. There’s so much misinformation out there. I can tell you this. You know, depending upon what side you’re on here in the United States, you’re either knocking Trump or, or you’re applauding Trump. I know this. Iranian people all over the world are celebrating the fact that possibly this regime could topple, even though that wasn’t Trump’s stated intent. He said he just wants to take away the military capabilities of Iran to go against the United States and Israel and be the biggest sponsor of terror, terrorism worldwide.

That’s what his stated intent was. Could there be other factors in play here? Of course. So I’m bringing on an expert, an expert on what’s going on in Iran right now. He is an Iranian. He has tremendous insight because of the position that he is in and the position that his father has held. And I’m going to get into it. He knows, he has intel, he has inside information. It’s going to be a very valuable conversation. I only like to put people on that, tell us like it is. They’re not. You don’t. They don’t have any political bias in this.

So please pay attention. Let’s walk away, all of us, with some good understanding what’s going on in the Middle east and with Iran. With no further delay, my very special guest, his name is Ashkan, and here he is. There is, you know, so much controversy over what’s going on in Iran now, and I understand that you have some really expert or inside intel on that. So I would love to get right into it. You know, want to clear things up for people, because so much has put. Put out there already. And I’d love to hear it from you.

You know, what is this all about? Where are we headed? Do you think it’s a good thing? Just things like that, so please just fire away. Well, I’ve been. I’ve been here in US for over 40 years, and I left beyond when I was 12. And. And basically Iran was taken over. It was hijacked. And the reason it was hijacked because the original government that was formed after Shah of Iran left Iran was with the Prime Minister, Zeriz Bakhtiari. And basically within probably a year, this Islamist basically moved in. They killed all the regime that was established and was voted in by the people.

And they basically have taken over the regime in a theocracy which basically it doesn’t. It doesn’t work for the benefit of the people. They’re. They’re working for the benefit of a religion which as you Know most religions were. And when you’re trying to protect the religion you basically have. You don’t care about how many people die, you don’t care about what happens. And this is what these, this current regime is doing. And a lot of the heads of these mullahs that are in, in Iran, they come from other Arab nations like Iraq. But they, because Iran is such an old country, there’s lineages that go back.

So they speak Farsi just like you know, if you would have a Hispanic person come from a na. From. From Mexico and they’ve been here for a long time, they will speak a very fluent English, just like me. So. So they have hijacked this population of 90 million. Now originally it was. And after the Iraq war they basically, they have been working on the drone system, believe it or not, since the Iraq war. And because satellite. So they basically were using this man made airplanes to go over and find information from the military fields and come back with video so they can actually see what’s under the side.

And they have been on this quest and they realized a long time ago that they could not compete with the west in the form of the military operations that they need to do, which is airplanes, Navy. Because these type of structure, naval or military structure, it requires expertise and constant maintenance and training. And a lot of these. They inherited a pretty significant army from the Shah of Iran. Because Shah of Iran was probably had one of the most advanced military the region at the time. And just to give you perspective, they and Israel. Iran and Israel at that time of Shah were the only two countries that had the F16s and the F14s and all the top military equipment that the US would give to Israel or they had it too.

So they were way ahead of the time. And, and then basically since these guys have taken over the and that’s what made them survive during the Iraq war, they were able to use that military stockpile that shot that left them and was able to do so. Now let’s fast forward 30, 40 years. All right everyone, quick thing before we continue. You know what everyone tells me at events they come up and they say, Michael, I bought your wine just to support you. And then they say, but I kept buying it because it’s so darn good. And that’s the best compliment I ever get.

So enjoy it. Here it is. Let’s get back to it. There’s been multiple times where people of Iran have tried to rise up and eradicate this or vote them out or try to get them out of the. Out of the out of the government. But they have brutally, you know, in a brutal way, which we saw the most recent one, they have cracked it down every time. And this recent crackdown we’re talking about upwards of 30,000 people were killed in two days. And just. Is that an accurate number that’s gone that they’ve killed that many people? Because I watch a lot of Iranian, you know, takes from social media as well as videos and people talking.

They’re, you know, individuals that are in Iran. And one of the things they did in order to do that, they obviously they shut down the Internet for 72 hours or more longer and they have a shutdown now because that’s the way of keeping outside. There’s no, there is no presence of media from outside inside. So they can actually, by crap, by shutting down the Internet, they can actually do what they need to do. And they also imported people from, from Iraq and militias from Afghanistan because what are those militias are doing? They’re not doing anything. They’re, they’re, you know, as long as you’re doing money, they’ll come in.

And this regime right now because of, you know, the Trump administration, they basically took the playbook out of what they did with Venezuela, which was first they went ahead and economically shuttered their currency and their economy. Then they basically identified IRGC which is the, which is the main key reason why the regime has lasted this long. They made them into a terrorist organization that gives the ability for other foreign nations to be able to sanction them harder and cause them their economic outreach to some of the European countries or some other countries. And the main reason they did this also this was part of a plan the, the TR laid out after they realized dealing with Russia, I mean, sorry, with China especially when it comes to rare earths and a lot of other things.

But when they, China and you know, during the whole time with their tariffs, the Chinese retaliated and by just they came out and just basically, you know, told the USFB we can limit your rare earth, you know, purchases and so on so forth. And U. S just really didn’t have a way to come back from that. They realized the threat that the, the Chinese presented to us and the only way, I think and the reason they went after Venezuela and actually Iran, because China was buying their oil from those two countries for less than 30 bucks a barrel.

I mean, in Iran we’re talking about, I heard numbers of 15 to 20 bucks a barrel. So they were just robbing these countries black. And if they’re under sanctions, why is it that China gets to buy their oil and nobody else. So that was what the administration realized, that if we can limit their power and ability to purchase cheap power or energy, then we can actually, then we can actually go ahead and sort of cut the head of a snake and slow them down a little bit as far as what they’re doing. So that was, that was I think, the backdrop of what, why this happened.

But the other problem is that the two previous administrations have been sleeping on these guys and allowing them to advance their rocket technology. I mean, we’re talking some of these rockets that I’m seeing now, they’re hypersonic and maneuverable and they have cluster heads which basically they, they can explode and basically go in five different directions. Now that’s a very advanced technology even in, in the world, in a military says. And in a way they actually changed the way the military assaults are conducted. And that’s why they start selling their drones to Russia. And the reason is that they can produce drones and rockets for a fraction of the cost the Western world can.

We’re talking about $20,000 for drone. The average drone in US for US costs somewhere between 2 to 3 million dollars. So it’s a game of attrition. So basically they’re able to, basically, they know how much money it will take to protect with these iron domes and all these different ways of trying to protect the population. They know what it costs for every rocket that goes up million million to $2 million. They can overwhelm it with literally 200 drones that are $20,000 a piece. And they can. And that’s the one reason why Israel had stopped the war back in the 12 Day War, because they could not, they could not basically respond to all the drones and things that were coming at them.

So is it a question? So some of my understanding is that they were able to develop these or they were on the road to developing these missiles and drones that quite possibly could have reached the United States. Is there any truth to that? They’re close to that. So here’s the thing with rockets. The hypersonic versus intercontinental rockets are just a matter of bigger fuel to get them over longer period of time. So now that the hypersonic rockets, they can go over the atmosphere and they go all the way up to the edge of the atmosphere, they come back down.

Now the intercontinental missiles can do the same thing, but they stay in that area for a longer period of time. And the technology that is just going to only progress. And the bigger problem was when they went ahead and we in the 12 Day War when we went after the uranium production and bombed the hell out of it, supposedly they had already moved what about 400 kilos, which is about 800 pounds of 60% enriched uranium. And based on my knowledge to go from 60 to 90, which is what you need for a warhead, is much faster than the 60 to go from 0 to 60.

So it took them a very long 10, 20 years to get up to that 20 or 60%. But I think now they could easily go from 60 to 90. And there’s actually, there’s a lot of information out there that says that they might actually have that. But and the thing is they already have the capability of delivery right with these rockets. They, we know they, they’re very good. I mean look at what they did to their Arab nations. Look at the, the accuracy of their, their, the rockets that are coming in. So I personally believe if the, the US would not have done this, would Israel have? You know, obviously Israel is definitely pushing for it too, that they would have definitely by end of this year would have something if not earlier.

You know, I think, I think they, they remember weeks away and that was the biggest threat why they went in and also because they were at the weakest point because the economy was in shambles. I mean we’re talking about 70, 80, inflation in the food cost and mind you, IRS, IRGC, they, they took the playbook out of the Nazi and the SS. Basically they’re not doing World War II. One of the reasons why Hitler and Nazis were so for so sort of effective in Germany is because they took over and, and a lot of private companies like Porsche, like Wells, VW and they basically take them out of private hands and put them into the state hands and they retool them.

And this is what these guys been doing for years. They control all the economy from anywhere from your eggs being produced to import of anything that comes into the country. Say they control the fabric of their people everyday life. So they cannot, people cannot function if they don’t bring in and, and take care of the people population that they have. And that is the biggest, I think the, that’s the biggest problem with eradicating this regime from Iran is, is not as like recapitating bunch of leaders because there’s so much financial interest. And the IRGC has like literally 150 to 200,000 head people that are running everything that they can just go ahead.

They don’t want to let go of that economic advantage they have over the population. Well, let me ask you this because obviously there’s theories out there as to why this war really started or this attack really started. And a couple of people are saying, depending upon what side they want to be on. Number one, it was Israel that dragged Trump into this war because Israel’s best interest is to eradicate the regime in Iran. The other side is that Trump realized, like you said, that they were going to have these, these warheads, these missiles that could, you know, reach the United States.

And since they’ve been threatening for over 40 years to eradicate the United States, that he thought this was the time to act because other presidents have talked about it but never really acted. He’s also said this isn’t about a regime change, even though he would like it to be a regime change that would benefit the people of Iran. But this was more about dismantling their military, their weaponry and their ability to ever have a nuclear weapon. You’ve already stated what you believe, but do you think there’s any truth to Israel dragging us into this? What is your actual feeling as to why this really happened? What was on Trump’s mind? So I’ve been following this for over 30 years, believe it or not, with Israelis.

I’m not a big fan of Israeli government. I’m nothing against the Jewish people whatsoever. I also believe the Jewish. The Israeli government is. It’s a bureaucracy, just like Islamic State, because they’re basically going after the ideology. They’re not thinking about their people on the ground because if they did, they’re a little tiny country and they know these guys got rockets. They’re going to kill a lot of people. Right? So if you don’t, if you’re not really taking the focus of the people that you’re governing and that’s not your biggest beneficiary of your policies and so on, and you don’t really care about how many people die, then that makes also that government dangerous.

So Bibi Netanyahu has been on this run. The first person that I know, I heard about going to Iraq, going to Afghanistan, going to Iran. It was after 9, 11. And it happens to be that Bibi Netanyahu happens to be in New York. At that time. At that time, he wasn’t prime minister. It was actually only time he was in prime minister. And he basically spelled out these five people on a Night night show that I was watching David Letterman. I was like, this guy just came on just eight hours and somebody who follows the, you know, Palestinian struggles and Iran or all that stuff.

I was kind of like taking my, especially Iraq, because Iraq was Never a big part of terrorism. He actually hated the, some of the militias and things that they had his own country. So that as far as being that Bibi’s mission to and Iran was the big sort of the big ticket on the whole list of the countries that he named. And I know that he was, he’s been, you know, and I know Iran has been very much verbal about, hey, we don’t want to annihilate Israel and because of the Palestinian struggle. So I do believe that, you know, he had definitely had a instrumental part for getting Trump to get into Iran and going after it to the sort of the final capitation of his mission.

But at the same time, I think this because this regime had shown signs of brutality with his own people. And also the way that most of the Gulf states were scared of them because of all their military armaments and what they were doing, I think they had to be checked at one point much sooner than now, because I think now they’re way more dangerous. And there’s going to be a lot more. I think there’s going to be a lot more that they might be pulling out of their hats and the next weeks or months that might surprise people.

And I, I don’t think it’s going to be as easy to eradicate them because of what I just told you with IRGC and the way they control the whole population. But yes, I do believe that Bibi had an instrument part in dragging the US in it because they couldn’t have done this without them. And I think ultimately the Israeli people are going to be the ones who are going to bear the burden of this decisions because except Israel, just such a tiny country, is 7,000% smaller than Iran. Iran, just a huge country. There you could, they can hide these missiles under many rocks over there.

So you’re not going to be able to just go and say, oh, I’m just going to go here and bomb them. And that’s the problem that they’re having. That’s why they can’t stop these rockets from coming in. Let me ask you this. What seems to be behind Iran’s strategy? I think they have to know that if Trump really has the resolve to eradicate their weaponry, if that’s what he’s going for, that the United States has the ability to do that. And yet, you know, they seem to be fighting back and fighting what ultimately is going to be a loss.

Is it just their ideology that they say, no matter what, America is the great Satan and we can never give in. So we have to fight till the death. Is that the ideology? Because it doesn’t seem very smart in the long run. Again, unless something deters Trump, he’s going to go all the way with this. He said he was. He normally does what he says he’s going to do. So they’re fighting a losing battle. But what do you think’s behind that strategy? And now they’re getting, you know, some of the other Middle Eastern states to turn against them.

You know, Saudi Arabia, I understand that they’re committed now to, you know, supporting the United States. France has just gotten into it. I think other European countries are coming behind. So they’re, they’re really turning everybody against them. What do you think their, their end game is in all of this? Well, the whole Shiite fanatic religion is based on martyrs. Okay? They, they believe that they become the martyr. You go to heaven and you’re going to have 70 virgins waiting for you on the other side. So that’s basically when you have a theology that’s based on that.

That’s what they’re selling their core base. Now, the rest of the people are, like I said, they were hijacked. Now, I think their game right now is economic pain, okay? They know that by shutting down those Gulf states, that, that’s going to cut off about 20 of the, or 30 of the oil into the world. It’s going to cause a global recession. And they’re already in recession. They’ve been in recession. They’ve been, you know, they’ve been sanctions on, on them for 30, 40 years. So for them is, it’s a normal thing. But they know a lot of those Arab countries, especially places like Dubai, I mean, they run on tourism.

On tourism. There’s the number one, that’s the number one income source for those countries, especially Dubai. And if they create instability, they’re gonna, they’re gonna, people are not gonna just go there and they’re not gonna spend their money there. And then also the fact that they can cause a lot of economic paying for these because a lot of those countries, that’s their only source is oil sales. So if you shut their oil sales down, these countries are gonna be in shambles. So that’s, that’s the, that’s their strategy at this point. Obviously, every their corner, they’re, they’re, I think they’re going to have some things in their pocket, in the back pocket as far as missiles or some type of technologies that they might pull out as a way of sort of Hail Mary and the last ditch efforts which we should be kind of watching out for.

But at this point, they’re hoping that these countries, the small golf, Persian Gulf countries, they’re going to come out and pressure Trump and then now to stop. And also they’re going to, they, you know, the same thing is going to happen with even Israel because if Israel feels like if they pull out these hypersonic missiles and they just barrage the tiny little country at one point, that’s what happened. In, in my opinion, that’s what happened to all day war. And I think it’s going to happen again where they’re going to say, hey, you know what, enough of this.

We cannot handle, we cannot protect our people. And that’s going to be the, the, the hard thing. And the second thing is they know that unless we put boots on the ground of some limited source or arm the opposition within Iran, they know that they have the upper hand, that they will never be eradicated. And my opinion is if you going to go in like this, and I think Trump understands that, that if you let this regime stays in power, it’s going to be because they have the knowledge now they can come back pretty quickly. It won’t take them 20 years.

It would take them five years, six years. And I think that is the biggest thing. And I think there’s a lot of outside sort of governments like England and Russia that are sort of, and Iran has always been like this because you’re on, if you look at it on the map, we’re middle of everybody, right? And we’ve been invaded and manipulated by governments and especially Western governments for years. So, so it, that tells me that the same thing is happening right now. Larry, Johnny, which is the successor to the ayatollah, he, he has a lot of ties with the British government and there’s other factions that have a lot of ties with the Russian government, which Ayatollah Common Khamenei is one of them.

So, so they are hoping that there will be a lifeline thrown at them by one of these outside regimes or outside Western countries or even China. There will be some types of lifeline that will keep their IRGC in, in for, in place. And just say, okay, we’re gonna, now I’m gonna bring in new leaders that are going to be more Western prone and we’re going to do better from here on out. But my fear is that since they have the technology, since they know they have the know how, it’s going to be much harder unless you change the regime.

And, and whoever takes over is going to Be have to be brutal and really go and crack those people out of the out of office and out of control. Do you think that I know they’re talking about maybe Khomeini’s son taking over which would probably be more of the same if he had his, his father’s same ideology. Do you see that as a strong possibility? I think that you people of Iran have gotten past this regime. They don’t want this. They don’t want Iranians were not we’re not Islamists, we’re we. Our culture and our religion is not based on Islam whatsoever.

We actually have one of the first religions which is the actors religion as our and actually that’s you know is it actually a lifestyle religion where it talks about doing just the same messaging as any modern western religion like Christianity or, or Islam or Jewish religion. They all basically are the same thing. Do to others as you want done too. But that the big that ideology came from the Zakdash religion which predates all these other religions. So so the Iranian people are past religion period. They don’t want any modern religion. They don’t want to be bound by they want to separate the religion from the state.

And I think that’s the biggest thing that and what’s going to be attractive now the biggest push right now which I know a lot of people on the Western side and even Trump they don’t want to acknowledge is the Shah. The Shah son Reza Paladi who who has been the people inside the in the protests have been calling his name and he was actually instrumental at putting out calls for people to come out and protest against the regime on January 8th and 9th that got brutally, you know, cracked down on. So so I if and, and he already has a cabinet formed.

He has a first 180 day plan. He has up to two so I mean this guy’s been, they’ve been working on this and actually my stepdad is one of the people that was instrumental in putting all these plans together. They have a game plan to go in actually and they want to and the reason he’s actually to me is a better choice than anybody else. Anybody’s like well somebody has to come from inside. No they don’t because all the opposition inside has been killed or they’ve been in jail. So there’s nobody really that has a different ideology that’s out, you know talking about it.

No they can’t. They won’t allow it. So and the, the Riza Pahlavi, he, he has, he really didn’t have the ambition to become a leader or. But he, he, when once he realized it and realized there’s nobody really else is going to pick up the flag and actually go fight for the first Persian people, he finally said, hey, look, I’m going to do it. And I think those are the type of people you want in power, people who really don’t want it. They just want to go in because if they’re being called to do as their duty to do something.

And he’s an intelligent guy, he’s well spoken, and I think that’s what Iran needs, somebody completely different that can actually communicate with the west properly and actually put a case for the Iranian people moving forward rather than having the same uneducated and, you know, religious bureaucracy that basically does not match any, any other parts of the country world. So. Well, let me ask you this. In order for that to happen, I know Trump’s been urging and encouraging the Iranian people to really revolt and take back their country. Now do you think, number one, do you think that would be required for this person to take over? Number two, do you think the Iranian people have the resolve and the wherewithal to be able to, you know, revolt in such a way that they can overthrow this regime along with the help of the United States and Israel as it’s going now? I think that was the whole strategy that Israel had was, you know, by weakening the economy and basically giving the people a chance to operate because once again, at this point, the regime doesn’t have an answer to the people for what’s happening.

They’ve been spending their all the money in the wealth of the country towards supporting proxies, wars and proxy groups around the, around the Middle east and they’ve been shipping the money out to these people. They’ve also, there’s a lot of, you know, there’s a lot of corruption and theft within the government. I mean, there’s tons of videos I watch on that. So, so the people don’t, they don’t trust and they don’t want this government anymore. And as far as him coming in, he’s already said that he would and, and I think there has to be a foundation put in place for him to be at least do be able to get in and have a group of people that will support and protect him during the transition because there’s going to be a lot of, you know, threats against him.

And I think there’s two different groups that the CIA right now as well as U. S. Government is looking at to help because these groups of traditionally, traditionally been freedom fighters and they’ve been part of. And one was the Kurds up north towards where Iraq and Iran and Turkey are. Another group is Baluchi groups, which are in southern Iran right by Pakistan. And these groups are technically, over the years have been armed and they, they will be the, they would be the force when they’ve been suppressed by this regime very hardcore to the points to where they’re not allowing them to have any resources any.

They, they restrict their, their, their food supplies and things like that to just keep these groups under their control. And I think, I think they, those are the two groups that they’re thinking by doing, arming them or giving them support that they could actually form, you know, come in from two different sides and help the, the normal citizens or be able to actually bring in, like I said, putting some limited boots on the ground where they can go into all the major street, the Esfahan, Tehran, Shiraz, and, and actually help the, the general population either arm them a little bit or give them enough support so they can actually stand up for themselves.

So I, I think the people have the, the resolve. I mean, when you, again, if this, if you, any regime, you know, kills over 30, 40,000 of your youth or young people that are coming out, you’re definitely going to think twice by going out. But these people are still, I mean, I’m seeing still videos where they are coming out. And obviously after they killed Khomeini right at the very beginning, excuse me, Khamenei, at the very beginning, they basically came out of the streets and people were like dancing and they’re very happy and there’s a lot of videos of that.

And, and the one question I always put to people is like, in which modern war. Have you ever seen the population cheering and wanting somebody else to come invite them? I mean, that to me is the sounds of desperation. That’s the sound of we can’t do anything else. We’ve tried everything, we can’t get out of this. And there’s no open elections, there’s no, you know, there’s no opposition. You can’t, and you can’t go and tell, you know, tell the government official, hey, we’re not happy because inflation is 70%, we can’t put food on the table, the middle class is wiped out.

And we sit on one of the biggest oil reserves, gas reserve and minerals in the world. So that is the problem that I think the government has no answers to anymore. Well, yeah, I understand and certainly agree, I believe that Trump has taken a calculated risk here. I Think if he fails, he’s put his entire presidency on the line here. And I’m feeling that he really needs to go all the way with this, and it needs to happen fast. If this is a protracted war or attack, they don’t want to call it a war yet. The enemies of Trump, and there are several here within this country, they’re going to use this to basically destroy his presidency.

And he has to take this all the way. He has to support the Iranian people whatever way he can. I don’t know that he can win this conflict without having boots on the ground. What is your fear feeling of that? I agree with you. And the reason I told you is because of how this. This regime has embedded themselves within the fabric of the society and fabric of daily life. That’s why. Because they. They are controlling the food supply. They control everything to the point where if they cut it off and unless they’re forced out, they don’t want to give up that interest, they don’t want to give up that money.

And I think on the opposite side of this, if this operation actually succeeds, it will basically put Trump in a. In a different light. I think he will. It will make his presidency. I think it will surpass what he wanted from getting the Nobel Peace Prize. I think he will get that finally, and also you’ll be getting a lot more than that. So I think it was a calculated risk, but I think it was one of those risks that if it was not taken now, we were. We would have dealt with another North Korea, and I think that would have been a lot more detrimental to the US and the Western society and what we stand for as a whole.

And I think that would have. I think that is a much bigger threat than, oh, this. We have to take a risk now, and at least nothing else. They’re gonna. They’re gonna diminish their abilities significantly. So hopefully they will set them back again for several years. You know, it was really encouraging what you said in the beginning, that really this regime has just used the Iranian people. They don’t care about them. And I think, you know, I just came back from Dubai. I was there for two weeks, was my first visit there. I think a lot of people have the wrong impression of Muslims to begin with because of the extremist and the radical Muslims, you know, that we.

We hear about all the time. We don’t hear about the. Just the Muslim people. I know many Muslims, and I have great relationships with them. And one of the things in Dubai people were telling me on my Platform. Oh, you went there. It’s Sharia law, and, you know, if you do something wrong, they’ll cut your hands off and all of that. And I said, you know what? You people are uninformed and you really don’t know what you’re talking about. Yes, there is Sharia law in Dubai, but it applies mainly to the Muslim people. And in Dubai, they want everybody to practice whatever faith they practice.

They leave people alone. I think that’s true of the true Muslim nations everywhere. They’re not looking to hurt people. They’re not radical extremists. And it really upsets me when I hear people throw a blanket over everybody. And I think I’m hoping people understand that the people of Iran really need some relief. I mean, it’s been 40 some odd years that they’ve been oppressed and murdered and just held down. And I, for one, and I might get beat up for this if there was nothing else. I see this as a great move by Trump to free those people.

Why should they be living like this? You know, these are good people, and if we have the power to free them and install a government there that would treat this, this country properly, why shouldn’t we do that? Now I’m going to get a lot of blowback on that. Well, you know, we can’t be the, you know, we can’t oversee the whole world, and we shouldn’t butt into another country’s business. I disagree with that. I think when we see oppression to that degree and we have a way to stop it and remedy it for the people, that we should step in.

That’s my feeling on it. You know what, what do you feel about that? I absolutely agree with you. Let’s close your eyes and think about in Iran, where we basically were under shock, the way we were friends with everybody, the way that they actually. Iran is a cradle of civilization. I mean, and if you go back to Cyrus, the reason, you know, the. The Jews and the, you know, Bibi and everybody is trying so hard to communicate. They communicate directly with the Iranian people because under Cyrus, he was the one who protected the Jews in Babylon.

He’s the one who actually sent them back to Jerusalem. Right. But so Iran has never been. They don’t care about religion. I mean, they were very tolerant. And even within Iran, outside of Israel, Iran has the largest, you know, Jewish population in the Middle east or in the world. So. So that’s what I think people need to think about and imagine and look at the amount of conflicts that has come up and the amount of you know, back and forth between Israel and Iran and Palestine. I think that, that if this regime gets out of the way and finally people Iran can actually express their true identity.

I think we will see a whole different in the Middle east and a much more prosperous Middle East. Now there are a lot of countries in Middle east too as Iran surrounded over these years of economic suppression and, and theocracy that have benefit from this. I mean Dubai is one of them. I mean if you go uae My dad was a U. S. Attache in Dubai. I went there right after 9 11. Okay. So, so I, I saw Dubai when it was being built and 100 it was built in such a magnificent and quick way is all the wealth that was leaving Iran.

There’s a lot of Iranians money there. The same thing with Turkey. Turkey was, you know, blown up by all the money that was leaving Iran. So a lot of these guitar same thing. So a lot of these countries had benefited from having Iran and that’s why they never spoke up. That’s why they never have any oppositions. Even though Saudi Arabia for years not talking or not had any serious relation with the Islamic religion or Islam with the aas and in Tehran. But you know, finally, you know, with China meddling into it, they actually, you know, bonded their relationship and, and they try to work together.

But I ideology I think is that in this area is that people that are surrounding Iran have not really helped them either. Nobody’s really helping. So if the, if somebody like Trump does not recognize that hey, I, we, we can, we got to change this once and for all or otherwise we’re gonna have to deal with this for many more years. And why not just try to nip it in the butt when we can instead of trying to, you know, you know, just do, you know, nothing? Which I think that that would have, that would be a disaster.

No, I agree. You know something else interesting I heard, I didn’t know this, but I heard this earlier today that prior to this regime’s takeover, we know how oppressed women have been in the last 40 some odd years under this regime. Prior to that, women actually held more positions in government and even in business than women in the United States held at that time. So they’ve actually changed that all around. I mean, women have been oppressed there to a large degree over the past 40 years. And that’s not how it was before the takeover. No, my mom, my mom went to work every day at the oil ministry and you know, I had a nanny the whole time I was there.

So As a kid and so was my brother. So bottom line was women were definitely given important positions and, and, and also colleges. I mean the reason Iranian people are so educated is because of Shahriman. I mean he basically built all the colleges. And even under this, you know, Islamic, they did it for themselves because they wanted to acquire all the knowledge that they need for nuclear and so on and so forth. But Shaviram was sending people to us for, for education as, you know, as far back as 1960s. So you know, that’s the thing that I think people need to remember about Iran.

And also the women of, you know, Iranian women. I’m married to one, so I know they’re very strong, they’re very strong willed, they’re very educated. And I know within my own family back in 1950s, my grandfather, they have their village that they have that they come from actually a Madrid descendant of, you know, over 2500 years of Iranian culture. And in 1950s when he opened his school, he made sure it was open for his daughters and his sons. He actually, in the 1950s, we weren’t even doing that as much here and definitely not nowhere in Middle East.

So, so Iran people are very open minded. I think there’s a very good, highly intelligent, Western Westernized population that if this thing opens up and if this regime goes away, you will see a whole different part side of Iran that you haven’t seen before. And I think a lot of people have forgotten the, the South. I remember my parents were wearing Bell ball in the 1970s. I have all the pictures to show it. They were wearing their hair just like they were here. I mean you have Sinatra that performed in Iran 1960s. So that tells you a lot.

Okay. And, and they, and Shah, and Shah Viran and his wife were supporting all their, you know, cultures and, and Western. They’re bringing a lot of restaurant, you know, ideology as well as products and things in Iran and was basically extension of the U.S. i mean that was what it was. And I think what changed was. And this I’m going to get probably burned on this one. But what changed was our U.S. policy in 1976 after Shaw’s criticism of the APAC and the control of the U.S. lobby, the, the control that APAC had over the U.S.

policy and administration. And he gave an interview in 1976 on 60 Minutes that you should definitely watch where he was talking about that and this the way he was almost. You could tell he’s very hesitant and scared to say that. And two years later, basically we had a, you know, State Department, head of our State Department was in Iran for two weeks prior to sit down with military heads and his prime minister and everybody else before they sat down with the Shah of Iran to tell him, basically, you’re going to be exiled. And at that point, he had cancer, so he was in a weak position.

And he basically decided to, instead of doing a heavy crackdown because he’s a big nationalist, he didn’t want to kill, you know, his own citizens. And that’s the difference that we’re seeing right now. He didn’t want to do that. So he basically decided to go in exile instead of doing that. And I saw another gave on 60 Minutes in Cairo in 19 is 1980, right before he died. I think it was 1980s where he actually talked about that. He said, and he, for the first time I heard him, he called himself a dictator. He’s like, in which dictatorship do you sit with the military and everybody, all the heads of state, before you sit down with a dictator? And he was basically following us.

And that, to me shows. And it goes back to what we were talking about earlier about the control of Israel over the president’s decision. But I think it goes far deeper than that. I think it’s the control of a lobbying group within our government that controls not only the right side, but also the left side as well. And they are using it with money to buy out the power and control that they need to have. Interesting. Let me ask two more questions at this moment. There might be another one after that. But do you believe that because China would be hurt by this regime toppling, you think they might get involved in any kind of conflict at any point to support Iran, to support this regime? I should say.

Yeah, well, they’re going to, yeah, they’re going to be the one that’s going to be hurt the most. And they know again, they, they realize what Trump was doing by going into taking out their biggest source of energy, the two governments that they were basically robbing to get where they’re at. I think China is a lot smarter than that. I think they might, they, they’re doing what they basically can do and what they, they’ve been doing all along, which is given the Iranian regime the technology to fight a more effective war. And I, I heard there’s actually even Chinese people within Iran right now because we can’t just give this modern technology to the military, especially satellite or, you know, or advanced technology that you, you know, you haven’t trained people on to really run it.

So you do have to have Some of your own people running these new, new things. And also I think they’re hoping that by not intervening in, in the meddlings of the US in this case, that they can eventually take over Taiwan or, or take control of the region that they’re from. And hopefully I get a backlash from us and that might have also taking place already behind closed door. So I think that’s the same reason why Russia is not stepping, because they said, hey, look, you know, bottom line, you know, what Trump is doing is trying to say, hey, look, we’ll do whatever you want with Ukraine.

We’ll give you whatever you want in Ukraine as long as you guys don’t mess with us and what we want in Middle East. So Interesting. Yeah. So you think, Let me, let me ask. So you think there could be a deal or an understanding in place in China. You don’t mess with us with Iran and we’ll give you what you want with Taiwan. I think that’s, that’s what’s already going on in Ukraine, isn’t it? I mean, what is Trump So, so, and I think, you know, before all this happening, I mean, they already brought in some of the chip makers here into U.

S so they’re trying to export that technology out of Taiwan somehow to maybe make that a part of the US Technology and, and make this our, our position stronger. So I think that might have definitely be something that, you know, taking place. But also, you know, it wouldn’t, you know, in a way, China is also sitting back and waiting because they feel like if this is embarrassment, if the US Cannot pull off what they need to, this will be a huge slap and it’s embarrassment to the US and given the track record of us invading and going into other countries, we haven’t been able to be success made any successes in any of the things that we’ve done.

And the reason is once you get into gorilla warfare, when you get in the ground, that changes everything. And I think you cannot, your position is never going to be as good as the people that are underground have been. They’re living there doing they, and they know the culture and doing everything else. So that’s why those things were pieces successful. And that’s why you need somebody like Reza Pahlavi or you need somebody that understands the culture that can talk to those people, that hopefully mobilize enough of them to be able to, you know, you know, effectively change a regime and change the dynamics of the population going toward a different direction.

So, yeah, I think, I think in a way China is Hoping that we’re going to just fall on our face and nothing’s going to, you know, they’re going to be laughing at us and say, hey, look, we told you guys we couldn’t do this. Yeah, I agree with that because like I said, this would seriously damage Trump’s presidency and the Republican Party. Let me, let me ask you this. If this regime really is toppled and we have a more democratic government installed or that takes over in Iran, do you think that Iran being probably the main detriment to having peace in the Middle east, do you think if that happens and we do have this democratic style government in Iran, that we could finally see real peace in the Middle East? Well, we had that, we already had that during the Shah’s years.

I mean, bottom line is, you know, and the reason is because Shah of Iran was, he went to boarding school in Switzerland and he basically, his dad, who was the visionary, he sent this guy out to do that on purpose. He was criticized for, it’s like, oh, you’re making him soft. He doesn’t understand the people, you know, he said. But he wanted to, for his, you know, successor to really understand how to exist with the rest of the world and how to really, you know, appeal to them. So in a way that was part of the detriment of the Shah because he tried too hard, but also because I think, you know, he might have lost a little bit of edge with his own people.

But I think in this case also, we have his son that’s been grown. You know, he’s been in US for 40 years. I mean, you know, I don’t know about you, but I, I wouldn’t be able to just pack up and go and try to say, I’m going to lead another country that I haven’t been in for 40 years and the culture has changed, everything’s changed. So it’s like I said, that’s why I think he’s the right guy, because he just wants to do, he wants to come in as a interim facilitator and give people an option.

Now, if people say, yeah, we want to, you know, you want a democratic government going forward and we want, or if you want a religious, maybe we want to what A religious government, go forward, then he will, basically, that’s all his role is going to be. That’s what he wants to do. But yes, I think we will see a much more peaceful region. Because anytime you have a theology that you have a government that’s running on theology and not based on, know, an ideology of working with others, you’re just thinking this is the only way it’s going to be and nothing else.

You’re going to have problems. You’re not going to be able to coist your ideology with everybody else. They think everybody else is, you know, against them. So that’s, that’s what, that’s what this regime has been doing. And they’ve been getting ready for a war with us for 20 years. That’s why they’re so good at it right now. You know, you know, let me, you know, other than Iran, the way I see it, anyway, there’s no other Middle Eastern nation, Arab nation, Muslim nation that, you know, has such real issues with, with Israel. It was really only Iran and whoever their proxies were that they, that they, you know, that they created.

Other than that, it seems that there could be peace again. It doesn’t seem there’s a, another deterrent to that. And it was funny is that, you know, Iran’s in a positioning on, that is, oh, we’re helping the resistance of Palestinian people. Well, we’re not even Arabs. We’re not Arabic. We don’t speak Arabic. So for us to be the sort of protector of Palestinians, none of the, even the Gulf states or any Arab countries have stood up for them. So why would you think that it’s okay for you to do it? You know, and that’s the problem I have with the whole theology that they were going after.

And it goes back to PLO days when Arafat came to Iran right after they saw a vacuum and they saw how they could take advantage of, you know, again, imagine a theology that takes over this massive economy, this massive country. And these guys basically came in salivating to sit down with Khomeini, which was uneducated. He wasn’t a, you know, he wasn’t a technocrat. He wasn’t a guy who basically never ran a government. And they came and influenced them to go ahead and put money towards the resistance with fighting the Palestinians. And that’s where it all started.

And it goes back to, you know, right around 1970s and 80s, right around in the revenue that took over in 1980 is when, you know, Arafat went in and tried to lobby the Khomeini to start doing this. So, so that’s the thing. It’s like we’re not, I don’t, I don’t understand why is it that we have to be the gatekeepers of Palestinians. We’re, we’re not even, we’re not even, you know, Arab. None of other countries have Done that. No, I get it. Yeah. Well, this has been very interesting, and I have to say this, you know, seeing at least what I’m seeing, what I’m witnessing, the joy and just the, you know, the appreciation that Iranian people all over the world are having over Trump’s move here, I just hope it works out, you know, just.

Just for the people. I mean, it’s. It’s a joy to see them so happy and celebrating and just, you know, feeling so hopeful that this is going to end this 40 years or 40 plus years of oppression. So for that alone, I mean, I want to see it happen. Yeah. And I thank you for using your platform to bring light to this, too. I mean, that’s really important to all Iranian people, and it’s definitely a pleasure for me, but I think that that’s. I mean, as humans, we do need to sometimes stand up for other people that don’t have the power or the means.

And I think this is what. I think this is what Trump is doing. For. For once, I feel like, you know, I don’t agree with all the foreign policies that we conduct around the world, but for once, I feel like this was the right thing to do because those people were literally crying for this, and I think this was. I think, hopefully it comes out positive for all of everybody. Goodbye. By being able to remove this regime from this part of the world. Well, we certainly hope so, and thank you for shedding some light on this and let people know the real story, what’s really going on, because there’s so much misinformation out there.

You know, you have one side. We know how it is. A lot of people that don’t like Trump are going to say things that are not true. They’re just not true, you know, just to really, to satisfy their own agenda, their own ideology. But, you know, it’s good to hear the truth, and people need to know it, and let’s just hope it all works out the way we would like to see it. And that’s. We see a free Iran and a peaceful Middle east, and that’s. That’s really what we want. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Thank you. And I said you actually, you.

You had a very. I saw one year, one of your episodes where you. You criticize some of the other people that are in the social media position like you are, and you. They’re not using their platform, they’re using towards creating hate rather than love and understanding. I think that’s what it comes down to is that because of the weakening of the, you know, mass media, you have to, you know, there’s a real responsibility for people that have the platforms that you have to be able to use this for spreading good rather than hate. And, you know, and understanding, too, because that’s what we have.

You don’t know what’s real and what’s not anymore. Unfortunately, it’s true. You know, and I’ve said this, you know, people say, well, whatever, whatever Trump does, you’re going to support. And that’s not true at all. No, Barack Obama or Joe Biden have taken the same action that Trump has taken. I’d be supportive of it because I believe it’s the right thing. It doesn’t matter. You know, there’s times when you’re not affiliated. It’s not the party that’s involved, it’s the action that’s involved. And, you know, I try to be as honest as I possibly can. I call it the way I see it.

You know, the problem that we have in this country right now is that when somebody disagrees with you, there’s so much devices and so much vitriol that, you know, we have. We. It’s just bad. You know what I’m saying? It’s just bad. You can’t even have a disagreement anymore. Disagree with me. I love to sit down, like just we were talking right now and disagree about it, but don’t call me racist, don’t call me an anti Semite, don’t call me this. Just let’s talk about it. And hey, let me hear your argument. And then if I, I feel, if I feel like you’re right, I’m probably going to tell you, just like you, I’m a very straight shooter.

I would tell you, yes, you’re right. You know, I’m not. Maybe I didn’t see it that way, but I think that’s the problem I see is that nobody wants to sit down and argue. I mean, when I’m gonna talk politics with my friends, the first thing, oh, well, we can’t talk politics right now. When can we talk politics? So that’s the problem, is that we have conditioned our people to avoid discussion. And that’s the problem that I think, hopefully it will be solved in these shows. And you know what I believe? I believe this, this starts at the top.

This harmful rhetoric and all this divisiveness. It starts at the top, it trickles down to people on the ground, and that’s what this is all about. And I even fault Trump at times. I say, listen, you’re the President of the United States. You have to bring people together. When people are knocking you and calling you names, you have to be above that. You know, you’re the president of all the people in this country, and your job is to bring people together. And I understand Trump, he’s a New Yorker. He fights back, and he’s been attacked so much, you know, and he has such.

Such hard feelings towards people. I kind of get it. But he has to rise above that. And I think if he would have done that, he would have never lost his second term. I think it would have still been present, but people just said, hey, we had enough, you know. Yeah. And then it went so bad for four years that they bring him back to try to straighten things out again. But. But, you know, this is. Anytime you see what’s going on in this country, it’s leadership, it’s poor leadership that’s setting the tone. I mean, that’s what’s going on in Iran.

You have poor leadership, you know, terrible leadership that set the tone in the country. And it’s the same thing that’s happening here. Obviously not as extreme, but pretty rough. Yeah. And I just. People, I just hope that they would, you know, realize that we have to come together and this is really the best thing for Iran, and they should be rooting for us here and rooting for the Iranian people and not putting politics above the right thing to do. Yeah, it’s funny, because that was the biggest thing that Iranian people that are expats here in the US Were really criticized of the West Wing, you know, type of media and how they covered Iran.

They didn’t want to cover the Iranian regime cracking down, as if those 30,000 people that died in Iran did. Did not. Didn’t equal what was happening in Gaza. And it’s the same thing. It’s the same ideology. We need to fight for both of those. Hey, that’s not. Neither one of those are okay. And I was actually one of those people that really was horrified with what was happening in Gaza. But. And I, you know, talk about it and, you know, I. I still do. You see, I. I’m not, like, completely for everything that Israel does, and I don’t believe in.

Know, I think what they’re doing here is definitely for. For their own survival. And, yes, they have dragged us into it. But at the same time, I think Trump sees this as a. As a way to really just clean the slate and get this, you know, get the world on a new order and new ideology and stop this breaking. I mean, by creating bricks, you’re trying to fight the doll US Patrol dollar. And eventually, you know, that’s, you know, you’re not going to win and you’re going to cause conflict within this other country. They use it.

China does a great job of using other countries as a way to fight their own war, and so does even Russia as well. So there. So that’s, we have to be just mindful of that. And I agree with you. I think the biggest problem I saw, which I was hoping he was a much well articulated person, because when you listen to him talk in the 1980s, it’s different or 90s before he was, until when he started taking position. I think the way he talked and the language and delivery was way different than it is now. And I feel like I don’t know what changed, but that’s the part that I was really disappointed with him on the first term is like, look, if you can just make your delivery better, I think a lot of people will listen and understand you better.

But I think that I agree, you know, I think that, you know, I can say this. You know, in my lifetime, I’ve never seen the amount of hatred, hatred and vitriol against any, any politician like Trump. I mean, it’s, it’s so out of control. People don’t even make sense anymore. And, you know, that’s, that’s the problem. They have to get that out of their head. And just look at what he’s doing. If you disagree with what he’s doing, okay, he’s not always right. You know, people have asked me, michael, what do you feel about the tariffs? And I said, listen, I don’t have that great of an understanding, you know, of the way the whole system works.

So I’m not going to say right now, I’m all for the tariffs, I’m all against them. What I will say is I’ll give Trump the chance. He’s a business guy. He believes in something. Let’s see if it works. And if it doesn’t work, I’ll, I’ll agree with it. Hey, it didn’t work. Yeah, but you know what I mean, it’s not a question of, of, you know, Trump right or wrong. No, no, it’s. And, and I’ve told people I, I agree with the policies. It’s not so much the person, it’s the policies that we care about, you know, and I mean, even people now that are spreading well, you know, Trump went to war to distract from the Epstein files.

People just say anything, you know, and it’s so ridiculous. Yeah, he’s in it. I mean, so is every other president, and so is every. So bottom line is, I mean, yes, we know what’s in Epstein’s file, but I think ultimately he, you know, like you said, the policy, and he saw that basically as a country, we’re not making anything anymore. We don’t make any. We have no manufacturing base. We can. And even our. Our military is privatized. We cannot mobilize a military mobilization of armaments and things like that like we did back around World War II.

We just can’t because everything is ran by other country, other companies like Hal Burton and, and, you know, lock your Martin. So bottom line is we need to change the mindset because these other countries, they’re based, you know, like Russia or like China that have dictatorships that have been sitting. They have a comprehensive plan that’s been laid out for 10 to 15, 20 years. Unfortunately, in our, in our government, we only go every four or five or eight years. And that’s a problem. That’s a problem in the future if you’re going to be, you know, a superpower or maintain our power.

I don’t care about superpower. So I think that’s why he’s gone on, and I hope he succeeds in some of the things he’s doing. Based on my knowledge and what I’ve been following all this time, I think he needed to do this, and it’s almost like behind the ball trying to make up time for all the things that were undone through his successors. Absolutely. You know, going back to what Ronald Reagan always said, it’s peace through strength. And people have to understand that, you know, the United States has the might and the military behind them to maintain peace in the right way.

We don’t want to use it. It’s the last resort. Nobody wants to use it, but they got to know that we’re capable. So, Ashkan, this has been very interesting and invaluable, and thank you so much for sharing this information. Thank you very much, Michael. Thank you. All right, my friends, very, very interesting conversation. And I think, you know, again, he’s got no ulterior motive here. He has knowledge. He has inside information because his father, a family member, was security for one of the princes in Iran. So they have some really good information. And I think he’s been studying this a long time.

He knows what’s going on there. His wife is Iranian. This. He’s got good information. I wouldn’t put him on if he didn’t. People. So listen to what he has to say, you know, Forget the political bias that’s going on in here in the United States. Half these people that are, that are commenting on it, they have no foreign policy experience whatsoever. They’re just talking negative against Trump, which is okay. They don’t have to agree with his policy. But at least if you’re disagreeable with the policy, do it for the right reasons. Not because you hate somebody, not because you disagree with anything that he says, disagree with him for the right reasons.

I said this and I’ll say it again. I believe that this is a just attack on Iran. I believe that if Joe Biden had done it, I’d still believe it. And I wasn’t a fan of Joe Biden’s. If Barack Obama would have done it, I would still believe in it because I think it’s the right thing to do. It doesn’t matter who’s doing it. If it’s the right thing to do, you support it, period. You don’t, you don’t go against it because you don’t like somebody. You have to think of what’s in the best interest. Yes.

For the people of the United States and also for people around the world. If the Iranian people are being free from oppression that they’ve been under for the past 40 plus years, why not intervene for them? These are people, a lot of people, millions of people, that have been oppressed for so many years. Well, we’re not the guardian of the world. We’re not. Well, why not? If we have the power, the power to free people, shouldn’t we try to do that? Shouldn’t we? We’re a Christian nation. Whether you like to believe that or not, we are.

And if we see something going down that’s wrong, that’s hurting people, why shouldn’t we jump in and try to help? Remember this, for all you Christians out there and for anybody, the sin of omission, which means not standing up for right when you should be, is just as serious and sometimes more serious than the sin of commission. Because if you have the ability to help people and you choose not to, for whatever reason, that’s sinful. So if the United States has the ability to fight against evil, a true and real evil, and not for political reasons, because it’s the right thing to do, then why shouldn’t they do it? That’s my feeling.

You can disagree with me. You may say, michael, you’re wrong. We’re not the guardian of the. Whatever you want to say, but we’re not hurting the American people. Okay? The gas prices might go up for a time. But shouldn’t we be willing to sacrifice a little bit if we’re freeing millions of people from oppression? Things may go haywire for a little bit, but shouldn’t we struggle a little bit for that? I know we’re struggling already, but not for good reasons. We’re struggling in this country because of irresponsibility from our leadership that have wasted our tax dollars.

I don’t want to get into all that. I want to get into the politics of it. But. But hopefully you’ve got some good information tonight and you understand that, you know, whatever side of the political side you’re on, you know, to me, this was very, very helpful. And let’s follow this and let’s pray that the right thing turns out here, because that’s what we want. That’s it. How do I always leave you? Same way. Be safe. Watch. Because we understand that we have terrorist cells in this country that came across the border during the Biden administration.

Biden’s own FBI director told us that. So this is not a Trump thing. Biden’s own FBI director said there are a lot of terrorist cells in this country. Okay? So watch for it now because we may see something. We had something in Austin, Texas. We may see some more. So please be safe, be healthy. Of course, I don’t have to preach that. You understand. Be safe, be healthy. And I mean this. God bless the Iranian people. God bless this conflict, that it turns out the right way in their favor and they can be free. And God bless all of you, your friends, your relatives, your loved ones, and yes, God bless America.

I am praying that this conflict works out the right way for everyone involved in. Except for those evil people that have caused this, and those evil people being the regime that hopefully gets toppled and that a new, peaceful and democratic regime comes in there and the people benefit. That’s it. I’ll see you next time. God bless. Sa.
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