- 6/13/2025
Geopolitical heavyweights Mohammed Marandi & Larry Johnson drop URGENT WARNING after Israel's reckless strike on Iran:
☢️ "Iran WILL hit back – and it'll be GAME CHANGER!"
🔥 No more "controlled escalation" – Tehran ready to UNLEASH HELL
🇺🇸 Biden admin PANICKING as proxy war spirals out of control
RED ALERT:
• Israel crossed IRAN'S RED LINES
• Expect MAJOR regional earthquake within 48H
• US bases on HIGHEST alert 🚨
#IranStrikesBack #WW3Warning #IsraelMessedUp #MarandiAlert #LarryJohnsonTruth #MiddleEastTinderbox #BidenDisaster #ProxyWarFail #USinCrosshairs #RegionalWar #OilPriceSpike #FalseFlagComing #DeepStatePanic #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #ShareBeforeCensored
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☢️ "Iran WILL hit back – and it'll be GAME CHANGER!"
🔥 No more "controlled escalation" – Tehran ready to UNLEASH HELL
🇺🇸 Biden admin PANICKING as proxy war spirals out of control
RED ALERT:
• Israel crossed IRAN'S RED LINES
• Expect MAJOR regional earthquake within 48H
• US bases on HIGHEST alert 🚨
#IranStrikesBack #WW3Warning #IsraelMessedUp #MarandiAlert #LarryJohnsonTruth #MiddleEastTinderbox #BidenDisaster #ProxyWarFail #USinCrosshairs #RegionalWar #OilPriceSpike #FalseFlagComing #DeepStatePanic #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #ShareBeforeCensored
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00:00:00hi everybody today's friday june 13 2025 and our friend larry johnson is back with us welcome back
00:00:12larry hi i wish i would say i was happy to be here this is not a happy time at all yeah larry
00:00:20what has happened here is what donald trump tweeted yesterday and he said that he wants
00:00:28to negotiate he we remain committed to a diplomatic resolution to the iranian nuclear issue
00:00:36it seems that the israeli as israeli reported that the united states help israel to make some sort of
00:00:42comfort in iran that they they're trying to do something diplomatically with iran while behind
00:00:47the scene they were trying to do everything to facilitate the attack israeli attack on iran
00:00:52yeah trump's lying donald trump is a liar um he admitted today that he knew the date and time of
00:01:05the israeli attack he knew everything and he said oh yeah you know those they've killed a bunch of
00:01:12people that we were talking to they but the iranians better learn their lesson you know what iran uh
00:01:19and israel has been just as bad and that the odds of his government they're bragging yeah you know we
00:01:24we met we negotiated with some iranian air force leaders boy we tricked them we got information out
00:01:31of them that they didn't realize we were getting we used that to target and kill uh key leaders
00:01:38okay so you know this this is like a hollywood script for israel
00:01:46they the this whole decapitation nonsense if we just kill the upper leadership oh the problem's going
00:01:52to go away uh that would be true if it was just a one person organization
00:02:03you know actually come to think about it the decapitation strategy
00:02:09jews have been using that now for over 2 000 years there was this other jew by the name of jesus
00:02:16he got decapitated they took out the leader there that killed christianity off didn't it
00:02:24no it didn't and that's sort of the foolishness of this strategy you know look at all they killed
00:02:33go back to the early days of hamas sheikh yassin an old man in a wheelchair they killed him boy that
00:02:39was going to stop him off new leaders keep rising up because it's not a one man charismatic organization
00:02:50um it is something organic you know look at all the the assassinated nasrallah again using using the
00:02:59same ploy that apparently they used here or they used here the same ploy they used against nasrallah
00:03:05nasrallah was meeting at a specific site in beirut in order to discuss an upcoming ceasefire
00:03:14to work out a ceasefire a peace agreement with israel and israel used that as a ploy to kill him
00:03:23has hezbollah gone away has hezbollah been defeated you know israel launched all the pager attacks again
00:03:31they killed a bunch of uh people linked the hezbollah that has not destroyed that organization
00:03:40it continues to exist so this this attack on iran uh i i think it is uh it's troublesome on so many
00:03:54different levels uh first it is an over act of war this is no different than the japanese attacking
00:04:02pearl harbor on december 7th and i'm not going to go into all the back and forth about how roosevelt
00:04:08knew that was happening and they have allowed it in order to create a december 7th event to get the us
00:04:14into war but um this uh i think if president poseshkin wants to stay in power he has no alternative but
00:04:25to declare war on uh israel under in accordance with article 51 of the un charter and you know what
00:04:34what's interesting is that agreement go back and look at the security agreement that russia and iran
00:04:39signed on january 17th while it was not an explicit defense pact at all the language in the first uh
00:04:49you know first two or three articles i don't recall which one specifically but uh the precise number
00:04:58but i do recall that it talks about basically any attack against iran that was in violation of article 51
00:05:08of the un charter would be dealt with you know they basically enlisted a response not necessarily
00:05:15militarily but definitely a response from russia and see here we get into we get into this broader issue
00:05:22that you know two weeks ago trump was bragging about oh yeah you know i talked to putin and putin
00:05:29we talked a lot about how russia is going to help us with iran really you know what uh putin made offers
00:05:38to assist and trump said oh yeah we'll take your yeah we'll do that we'll work on that together
00:05:43and then this morning trump's bragging i knew all along where this attack was going to take place
00:05:49we're all in favor of it in fact uh you know iran better come to the table and surrender now or else
00:05:55there's gonna be more likely the united states is facilitating this enabling now i fully expect that
00:06:01the russia's counsel to iran at this point is do not even though the u.s is complicit even though
00:06:09they're responsible you could you can exact revenge from them later confine your attacks to israel
00:06:19israel is the one that has overtly violated article 51 don't give the united states an excuse
00:06:26and so if iran confines his attacks to the targets in israel um we're gonna you know i think uh you
00:06:37know this is gonna escalate there there's no way that this cannot estimate or yeah there is one way
00:06:44that's if iran completely collapses uh the civilian and uh and uh islamic leadership collapses and they
00:06:52surrender i i don't see that happening yeah but you know ron suffered the zeros he suffered a very
00:06:59serious blow and uh it's now we're going to see who's calling the shots uh whether it's the ayatollah
00:07:09khamenei or the irgc i know they've had several of the top leaders killed but again it's a military
00:07:16organization they've got uh other generals and other colonels that have stepped up and fill those
00:07:21positions and they go what may be happening is you'll get somebody who's far more radical
00:07:28and much more oriented towards action than the the previous guys as we talk they've been replaced the
00:07:37commanders of iranian army irgc but larry when you look at the united states even we assume that donald
00:07:49trump said to israel go ahead go attack iran with decapitation with the level because he said the
00:07:56outcome is excellent he wanted just decapitation let me stop you there you didn't give permission
00:08:04the united states was engaged in planning with israel to carry out this strike okay it's not permission
00:08:13it's planning uh military assets were allocated intelligence was being shared weapons were being
00:08:21supplied so the united states was not some passive sitting by on the sidelines that oh look at that
00:08:29no no no no no no u.s was directly involved
00:08:32do you think that with the outcome with what we've seen so far in videos early attack did they achieve
00:08:44what they wanted to achieve no that's the story that's being put out right now we'll see you know
00:08:50it's always with these kinds of strikes remember the early days in the first 24 hours 48 hours when we
00:08:58bombed iraq back in 2003 oh great victory celebration hey a month later george bush mission accomplished
00:09:08how did that turn out
00:09:12so israel can inflict and has inflicted quite a bit of damage but the extent of which we really we don't
00:09:19know you know they've targeted airfields they've targeted military sites i mean it's impressive
00:09:25the number of attacks have been able to pull off on this compared to the one on october 27th
00:09:30you know the one on october 27th was easily defeated and maybe it was that defeat that led israel
00:09:36to step up its planning to figure out how to counter that and i don't know if iran was sitting back on
00:09:41its haunches and saying oh boy we got this under control or what but you know it's certainly uh in
00:09:48the last you know 24 hours got it that iran got its ass handed to it and you know if it if it does
00:09:56not do act with force uh we're in trouble and i see our great friend professor mirandy has showed up
00:10:04alive and well and i'm thankful for that hi larry thank you very much welcome thank you niva
00:10:12professor mani tell us what's going on in iran what has happened and why did the united states
00:10:19decided to go with the plan of israelis to attack on iran maybe the the u.s plan
00:10:27well first of all i'd like to apologize but the internet they've slowed down the internet connection
00:10:32for military purposes uh so my connection may not be great uh if there's a problem let me know
00:10:40i wish i could hear what larry has to say because he always has words of wisdom but the iranians were
00:10:50expecting an attack i don't think this is my personal assessment that they expected israelis to
00:10:59cross all red lines and to attack senior officials i think the expectation was that they would strike
00:11:06military targets and perhaps the the nuclear program or begin with uh
00:11:14anti-aircraft systems and radar systems and so on and that i think was an important miscalculation on
00:11:21behalf of the iranians and it's they are regrouping as we speak the new commanders have been put in place
00:11:28and they have to begin work and so my expectation is that the iranians will respond and they will
00:11:36respond severely but there's no doubt that the israeli regime hurt iran and but there's a lot of
00:11:45there's a lot of misinformation and disinformation a lot of the things that you see online are not true
00:11:52for example i read in some of these well-known telegram channels that a city was bombed and i
00:12:00actually had a very close friend who lived in that city a very it's a small city and i called him and
00:12:06i said ask him if he's okay and he said nothing happened here or for example some of the footage of
00:12:13that's online about some of these strikes they're they're ai they're not real some of them are real
00:12:18but the point is that there's a heavy amount of psychological warfare now being engaged uh carried
00:12:24out against iran both through the persian media uh channels but also of course through western media
00:12:31social media they own the media they they're they're they have the upper hand so there's a lot of rumors
00:12:38but from people who i know who i trust when i get information they debunk some of those rumors and
00:12:51they turned out to be correct and so for example i knew about
00:12:56uh uh uh general balkari's march for them from these people before it was announced but the very same
00:13:07people or uh general hajizade i heard from them before it was announced but the same people said that
00:13:17certain airstrikes certain targets the the news that was coming out was not correct
00:13:26so these are people i do trust but it's been a very difficult day just 15 20 minutes ago there
00:13:31was a there's a sound of explosion uh and i don't know if um the iranian air defenses
00:13:41hit something or if there was a strike it's unclear from here but uh it's war and but you have to keep in
00:13:49mind nema and larry that iran is very much alone uh this is nato supporting this genocidal regime uh
00:13:58we you've seen the french and the the germans and others all siding with israeli saying they have the
00:14:04right to defend themselves this was unprovoked the german statement that i just someone read to me um
00:14:10um ali nema read to me i said that iran was violating uh the uh and um its um regulations in
00:14:21the iaa uh which is not true iran is well within its rights according to international law to do what
00:14:29it is with its nuclear program as we speak uh the body uh the the board of governors is very much
00:14:36politicized is dominated by the west like other international institutions created post second
00:14:40world war and they said that uh the iranians are fired drones iran has not yet fired any drones
00:14:47there may have been some drones fired from the resistance in iraq a handful maybe but iran has
00:14:53not fired anything but the the germans are trying to blame iran whereas the israelis have killed
00:14:58iranian civilians when i woke up when well i was awake when they i i when they started striking tehran
00:15:06but um early in the morning the footage began to come out um on social media children lying dead on
00:15:15the streets just like in gaza and in lebanon they'd be uh they'd be thrown out of their buildings their
00:15:23you know their homes uh women were massacred neighbors the targets massacred families of
00:15:30targets massacred that's basically so so one of the targets was very close to our home and they've
00:15:37been targeting areas they were targeting areas across tehran all of these are war crimes but uh the west
00:15:45supports it and which is not a surprise because they support the holocaust in gaza but iran is very
00:15:52much alone regional countries are not going to help uh turkey its uh air bases it's a u.s bases in
00:16:00turkey are being used to help israel both offensively and defensively the same is true in qatar and the
00:16:05emirates and kuwait and bahrain so just like in in when they were bombing yemen uh these uh radar
00:16:18installations these air bases these military bases were being used by the united states against yemen
00:16:24from the from these countries so these countries are no are are assisting israel erdogan is assisting
00:16:31israel every they're all assisting israel forget the rhetoric they're all you know bound to the west
00:16:38so it's it's not easy for iran but um but iran's key assets are deep underground
00:16:46and they are untouched and these new commanders are preparing themselves and they say that they
00:16:54are going to hit the israeli regime hard and i'm quite i'm confident that that's going to happen
00:16:59very professor mirandi mentioned the way that the european leaders were reacting to what's what has
00:17:09happened here is what macron said that france has repeatedly condemned iran's ongoing nuclear program
00:17:15and has taken all appropriate diplomatic measures in response in this context france reaffirms israel's
00:17:23right to defend itself and ensure its security and when you look at the mainstream media they're somehow
00:17:30picturing the situation as it as it was a preemptive attack on your heart why did they try to do that
00:17:39when i went through uh training at a secret cia base back in 19 january of 1986
00:17:45the slogan on the base was admit nothing deny everything make counter accusations if you look at
00:17:56what macron's saying if you look at what the germans are saying this is an organized intelligence
00:18:04information campaign to portray iran as the demon as the villain when it's a when it's a it's a damn
00:18:14lie is what it is but the lies don't matter in the west unfortunately and yeah now you've got donald trump
00:18:23caught openly lying on the one hand said oh yeah we want to do diplomacy and then yeah i knew when this
00:18:30was going to happen i know everything he knew all about it because as i said you know before professor
00:18:35mirandi came on the united states was actively involved in planning this attack this this is uh the
00:18:44size and scope of this attack i'm frankly sort of astounded by but it also gets to the broader point
00:18:51of israel can't sustain it just as the united states could not sustain operations in the red sea against
00:18:57the houthis uh this is designed to try to win a quick propaganda uh victory i and uh i i share professor
00:19:10mirandi's view that significant iranian assets are very deeply underground are quite secure and will
00:19:19be employed against israel uh but this is not going to be a quick war uh you know if i'm russia
00:19:26counseling iran i would say you know don't attack the united states at least not yet don't make this a
00:19:34iran u.s war keep this as iran israel and let the united states if if if united states decides to get
00:19:43involved which i think it actually it may at some point but which will be ultimately i think uh to
00:19:51the severe detriment of the united states uh at least it will be clear to members of the global south
00:19:58who the villain is in this uh i find it hard to believe that vladimir putin is feeling better
00:20:08about his relationship with donald trump and the united states because in effort you know trump lied
00:20:15and it's it's not just this the attack that took place on the russian strategic bombers on june 1st
00:20:21against trump oh i didn't know anything about that i think that's a lie in my judgment so the other
00:20:32thing that we're seeing here is israel's uh and professor morandi didn't hear my initial comment
00:20:40about you know the jewish decapitation strategy started with jesus over 2 000 years ago and how
00:20:46was that turned out uh didn't didn't lead to the elimination of christianity uh the assassination
00:20:53of naswallah didn't lead to the elimination of hezbollah and now this assassination of senior
00:20:59iranian officials in the west they keep believing that if they just kill kill off some key people
00:21:06the government will collapse the moles will be thrown out into the streets and a u.s-backed
00:21:11democracy will rise up that they really believe this and i don't know if the iranian officials
00:21:18understand that that that is a genuine deep-seated belief in the west but that is one of the dangerous
00:21:26uh factors that's driving this whole madness yeah professor morandi as larry said it seems that in
00:21:34the west they're assuming that this attack was some sort of regime change attack and this
00:21:41go and hit the regime that they're going to be dissolved they're going to be gone you're taking
00:21:46that yes there's no doubt that this is a so-called regime change operation and the united states and
00:21:53the west has been attempting to overthrow iran uh for well over 40 years that when they supported saddam
00:22:00hussein in his invasion of iran alongside the soviet union uh that was intention to undermine iran and
00:22:08they've been working against iran ever since and i think that now it's no different and uh i agree
00:22:15with larry in in the united states they do believe that if they just then they've been saying this for
00:22:20decades now that if they just give a a little push that iran will fall apart and everything will be
00:22:26fine and iran will become a democracy like saudi arabia and the emirates and and syria and all of
00:22:35these wonderful democratic countries or like the united states where they're now uh we see what's going
00:22:42on there so of course the objective was is never democracy they they are deterring democracy across
00:22:48the board uh when it doesn't serve their purposes but in any case they do that have that firm belief
00:22:55and uh that's because they believe their own propaganda they hire these iran experts or these
00:23:01iranians who go to the united states who know what needs to be said they will say what needs to be said
00:23:07and they will fund them and then these people will fund the politicians and the uh people in power to
00:23:15come to give speeches and to participate in their programs and then then they get more funding and they
00:23:21have this you know this narrative is very very deep and strong and entrenched in the united states and
00:23:28it fits with the american exceptionalism notion that is the that you know iran obviously the uh the
00:23:36people of iran don't want to be something different than us they want to be like us so all of these
00:23:42reinforce one another but i think it's clear that the opposite is happening people in iran are outraged
00:23:48they see the statements made by the french the germans the west they see that to the iaea uh chief he is
00:23:59unwilling to condemn the israeli regime for striking iran's nuclear program and they see the dead children
00:24:07and the dead women on this on the the footage of them on the streets of tehran and in their own
00:24:15neighborhoods or in neighborhoods nearby and uh that is going to have the opposite effect now as i said
00:24:24this is the first day it was a a surprise attack the iranians were expecting an attack but they didn't
00:24:32know exactly when and how and in what way but uh so it still constitutes a surprise attack
00:24:40um it is a very dark day today people are very upset and the images coming out of course as i said a lot
00:24:47of it is not necessarily true but uh it doesn't it's not a pretty picture at all uh but um iranians
00:24:57are very angry and they're not angry at the government because the government didn't didn't do any wrong the
00:25:02government didn't bomb anyone the government didn't assassinate anyone the government just supported the
00:25:08people of palestine and uh is opposed to the genocide and iran being the only country alongside
00:25:13yemen that is actively opposing the genocide in palestine this is the price that it's paying so
00:25:22you know the americans can wish all they want and they'll continue to think this way and they'll
00:25:26continue to say so because it serves their purpose but i i i think that ultimately uh what we're going to
00:25:34see in the coming hours i suppose or i don't know exactly when but in the days ahead will be a heavy
00:25:42iranian response i think that iran's uh that striking the united states will probably depend on
00:25:50u.s actions and if um but if there is a conflict with the united states which is quite possible with
00:25:57with trump in power then i think it's very clear that uh the countries in the persian cult will be swept
00:26:03away very swiftly remember iran has tens of thousands of missiles and probably tens of thousands of
00:26:11drones if not more that are long range and that are targeting israel iran has hundreds of thousands
00:26:19of drones and missiles that that can destroy everything in the persian gulf and on the other
00:26:23side of the persian and the persian gulf is is very uh narrow it's pretty narrow and iran controls one
00:26:31side of it and it's full of oil oil and gas installations tankers if there's war in the
00:26:37persian gulf that's the end of the global economy as we know it that would be a catastrophe that it's
00:26:42difficult for me to contemplate what the world would look like under those circumstances so um
00:26:49we'll have to see where that so we have to hope that trump is sane enough not to just to stay out of
00:26:57this but uh he looks very much like he wants to be a part of it from his statement but in any case i'm
00:27:04expecting an iranian uh strike i don't know when but um this will take some time this war
00:27:16larry donald trump what does he want to do do you think that he wants to escalate
00:27:20because as israel was attacking iran he said that it's right now is the best time to negotiate to
00:27:27talk with iranian because he feels that iran is any would be in a weaker position to talk with that's why
00:27:35he arguing that that was the main strategy in in my opinion they wanted to put iran in a weaker position
00:27:42but that doesn't change the mindset of iranian he knows that iranians know what would be the red line
00:27:48you're taking that well you know the iranian government has not chosen to consult with me and
00:27:55ask my opinion um if um if there are any iranian officials making the case that the talks with the
00:28:05united states should continue i think those officials should be immediately removed from office
00:28:11there is no negotiation with the united states negotiations rest on a premise that if i tell
00:28:24you something or i put my name on a piece of paper or i sign a commitment on a piece of paper that i'm
00:28:30going to do what i claim i'm going to do and i'm trusting you that you're going to honor that agreement
00:28:39and do the same the united states has not abided by held up any any agreement you know jcpoa
00:28:48donald trump used it like toilet paper threw it away and you know the french and then the brits
00:28:58do they honor that agreement absolutely not and you know again it's not to be too critical of the
00:29:08russians and the chinese but you know they got played for fools they literally they literally
00:29:14thought oh we can sign on to this we'll play with the west we'll we'll go along with the with this
00:29:18international rules-based order we'll all get along sorry it's bullshit it's a lie
00:29:28this is all about europe in the united states wanting to take over and control iran it goes
00:29:34back to when they overthrew mossadeh in 1953 they want control of the oil the resources
00:29:43they don't give a damn about the iranian people they can all die for all the west cares
00:29:49it's the resources it's the money it's the oil
00:29:54and it's sorry to be so cynical and angry about this
00:29:57but it is this has been going on for too long it's got to stop and the the the countries that
00:30:06are capable of stopping it aren't doing anything to do it you know i i think russia up to this point
00:30:13it's been again it's still being played for a fool now they do understand that they're fighting nato
00:30:20and they're trying to be cautious to keep from escalating this
00:30:23but the west is showing no such compunction at all pulling out all stops and this this particular
00:30:32attack on iran which was it was prepped this previous week with the release of you know that
00:30:39i'll call it the fabricated iaea report claiming iran was in violation it was all all this was to lay a
00:30:46public predicate to justify military action in the same way that the law that saddam hussein has
00:30:55weapons of mass destruction we gotta stop him this is just another iteration of that strategy
00:31:05professor mirandi larry mentioned the way that iran sees the talks how do you feel about that
00:31:12he's absolutely correct uh the europeans uh they pretend as if iran is violating international law
00:31:22iran is well within its rights within the regulations and rules of the international atomic energy agency
00:31:30with regards to the nuclear deal that we had with the p5 p5 plus one uh the iranians were
00:31:40abiding by their commitments completely yet the united states was violating the deal the europeans
00:31:48were violating the deal then the united states under trump tore up the deal and the in the europeans
00:31:54disregarded all of their commitments completely so even after that when the europeans and americans
00:32:02completely put aside their commitments the iranians were abiding by the year the the the deal for full
00:32:08year afterwards and then during the second year they gradually decreased their commitments so who is
00:32:15to blame western journalists who've been following these issues know this but those journalists who
00:32:25i know who i've met who i've discussed the nuclear program in detail they they they lie in the media in
00:32:35the western media they repeat what the talking for the talking points that their government wants them to
00:32:40wants them to repeat so what you you'll be hearing in the western media is that the israeli regime is
00:32:46carrying out uh targets on iran's nuclear program that they are accusing iran of making nuclear weapons
00:32:53they won't tell you that they've been saying this for 30 that netanyahu has been saying this for for
00:32:5830 years now that iran is on the verge of making nuclear weapons they won't tell you
00:33:03that international atomic energy agency inspectors are in those nuclear facilities they go to those
00:33:11nuclear facilities regularly to inspect actually professor let me correct you on one point
00:33:2041 years netanyahu made the first claim in 1984 that iran's just a year or two from getting the news
00:33:2841 years you were just a child yeah exactly so it goes back even further than i thought this is the the
00:33:37utter hypocrisy so they justify murder they justify death and destruction through misinformation and
00:33:44disinformation and uh through through sheer lives but again this is not new we've been witnessing
00:33:54this in gaza for over 20 months remember when the israelis first began bombing hospitals and the
00:33:59west tried to say that it was hamas or the resistance that did it by mistake or on purpose and
00:34:07then they kept bombing more and more hospitals and they started killing kids and their incubators
00:34:12and then the west just just just moved on the western media only recently in the last few weeks have
00:34:18they've been have there been criticisms of israel and now you're seeing the western media trying to
00:34:24distract attention away from that and suddenly make iran the bogeyman in order to justify and legitimize
00:34:32the actions of this barbaric monster and his monstrous allies in government and the opposition in israel
00:34:40because overwhelmingly israel's population support genocide
00:34:47lary who was in who was the guy the the main planner of what has happened in iran
00:34:56it was israel that donald trump get decided to get along with them
00:35:01or it was donald trump to make a better position for him to negotiate with their own
00:35:06No, no. I guess I sort of reject the premise of your question, that Trump's got zero interest in negotiating a legitimate deal with Iran. Zero.
00:35:24It's just, you know, it's a lie. It's a negotiating tactic on his part, because the true objective, destroy the current leadership, do a regime change in Iran, get a government in place in Iran that's going to be compliant, that will be a good vassal of the United States, that will do what the United States wants it to do, and will be a way to help block and weaken Russia.
00:35:54That's, you know, that's the longer term strategy here, because this is ultimately, this is about defeating Russia and China, ultimately. Iran, again, is just another, let's call it, it's not a mere pawn.
00:36:08Let's put it as a knight on the chessboard. But nonetheless, it's not the king or queen of this move. And, you know, the issue to negotiate, again, if this was simply about getting a deal to make sure that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon, the deal is very easy to have.
00:36:31Russia was willing to certify, Russia was willing to certify, and Iran was willing to certify, and Iran was willing to let inspectors come in and say, hey, we're not building a nuke.
00:36:42And on top of what has been the position of Ayatollah Khamenei, going back, what, 22 years? So the deal was there to be had. They didn't want the deal.
00:36:58This is all about regime change. The nuclear weapon thing is, in fact, it's just an excuse. This is a replay of Saddam, the Saddam Hussein strategy.
00:37:11That, let's accuse them of doing something that they're not doing, so that we can go in and justify ourselves for taking over and destroying the country.
00:37:22That's what's going on, Nina.
00:37:27Professor Miranda, many people were arguing, let's go, let's find some sort of political solution with the United States in Iran and outside Iran.
00:37:38Do you think that these people right now, with the attacks, are convinced that the United States doesn't have any sort of will, any sort of commitment to make some sort of deal with Iran?
00:37:59I think he temporarily froze there, Dino.
00:38:03It seems that...
00:38:04There he's back.
00:38:05Can you hear me, Professor Miranda?
00:38:07It seems that there is a problem with the connection.
00:38:18Can you hear me, Professor Miranda?
00:38:24Yeah.
00:38:26Larry, let's go ahead with you.
00:38:28And since Professor Miranda is not, it seems that the connection has some sort of problem.
00:38:32Yeah, he can jump back in and interrupt me at any point.
00:38:36Yeah.
00:38:36Rather here with me.
00:38:37Go ahead with the question.
00:38:39Those people who were arguing that there is a solution with the United States.
00:38:43There is...
00:38:44We can negotiate with the United States.
00:38:46We can find many people in Iran with the current president of Iran, the current government that we are on.
00:38:52They were in favor of negotiating with the United States.
00:38:55Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:38:56How do you find their position right now?
00:38:58I think it's been destroyed.
00:39:01It's been...
00:39:02If they're standing by that now, they're fools.
00:39:06And look, I understand why they took that position initially.
00:39:09They were, you know, they really wanted to believe that the United States could be their friend.
00:39:21That the United States was willing to accept Iran as a legitimate negotiating partner.
00:39:29And I guess they really didn't appreciate the degree to which the United States is a hostage to the Zionist movement.
00:39:42Here, he's back.
00:39:43So, you know, those who in Iran who were pressing for negotiations, I think I'd be shocked if any of them now still believe that that's a viable path forward.
00:39:58Maybe Professor Morandi can weigh in on that.
00:40:02Go ahead, Professor.
00:40:02I agree.
00:40:03Yeah, I've always been a critic of the nuclear deal.
00:40:08And although I'm not hostile towards the negotiators, but I always thought from 2015, I was with them in Vienna.
00:40:16And I said to them, Dr. Zaddy, personally, that I don't think the United States is going to abide by its commitments.
00:40:24And I think I was proven correct.
00:40:26But now I think it's even, it's much more, it's impossible really to do a deal with the United States under Trump.
00:40:35Trump is constantly changing his position.
00:40:38He, even after deals are signed, as in like in the ceasefire for Gaza, he changes his position and undermines the deal.
00:40:49He could ultimately, he shifts his position with regards to the negotiations with Iran.
00:40:58And the West will follow him wherever he goes.
00:41:02And so will a number of other countries across the world that are weak and need or want some concession from the West or some sort of aid from the West.
00:41:11So he'll get his little coalition.
00:41:14So we support him.
00:41:15But even if there is a deal signed, he could undermine it the next day and nothing will happen.
00:41:22He can post something on Truth Social and say, no, I don't want this deal.
00:41:25It's, the Iranians are cheating or the Iranians are doing this or they're doing that.
00:41:28And he'll just undermine it.
00:41:30And the Germans and the French and the British and Europeans, they'll all say, yes, that's exactly true.
00:41:35And the Iranians are evil and Israel has the right to defend itself to the last Palestinian and to the last Amalek and to the last Iranian and to the last Arab.
00:41:45That's, that's, that's the, that's the position that they'll take that leads.
00:41:49That's what they'll do.
00:41:50And so for Iran, it's impossible under these circumstances to, to negotiate.
00:41:56And then of course, there's the issue of sovereignty.
00:42:00What Trump is demanding of Iran is a violation of Iranian sovereignty.
00:42:03It's like taking a piece of territory from Iran.
00:42:06It's just not going to happen.
00:42:09So we are in a dead end right now.
00:42:12I don't think there's any hope for negotiations.
00:42:17And the only way forward is for the Americans and the Israelis to face a situation like in Yemen where they fail.
00:42:27But I think people will die.
00:42:29And I think a lot of harm will be done.
00:42:32And war is, war is something that is almost impossible to contain.
00:42:38This could spiral out of control.
00:42:40And if it does, then all the oil and gas assets in the region, they could disappear.
00:42:46They could be destroyed.
00:42:49And that would, as I said earlier, that would be the end of the global economy.
00:42:52So the Israelis, Netanyahu, his people, they are willing to sacrifice the United States, the world, the global economy for their own selfish interests.
00:43:03But what Trump is doing, this immorality aside, the immorality of the Europeans and the West aside,
00:43:10and the fact that they are supporting crimes against humanity and war and genocide.
00:43:17But all that aside, they are putting the world economy at great risk.
00:43:23And it is quite plausible for, in my opinion, to see such a situation where there is no more oil and energy from the Persian Gulf region.
00:43:32And have no doubt, if that happens, these family dictatorships will be gone in days, if not hours.
00:43:39And it will be a catastrophe across the globe.
00:43:45But Iran is put in, but at.
00:43:51Yeah, it seems that the connection.
00:43:55The West one.
00:43:56He's back, he's back.
00:43:57This is all about the West wanting to support Netanyahu, a genocidal mania.
00:44:06And demonizing Iran because it is supporting the Palestinian people.
00:44:12It is extraordinary.
00:44:18Larry, to what extent the Trump administration is able to defend Israel?
00:44:24Well, we have some sort of idea, some sort of understanding what would be the reaction, the attack on the part of Iranians.
00:44:32Do you feel that the Trump administration would do something beyond what the Biden administration was capable of doing in those days?
00:44:40Or they're going to do the same?
00:44:41Because that wasn't sufficient to somehow intercept the missiles coming from Iran, the drones coming from Iran.
00:44:51But how capable is the United States today to defend Israel if Iran decides to go harder than Israel?
00:44:58Well, the United States and Israel are capable of shooting down drones.
00:45:05If that's the first wave of an Iranian attack.
00:45:10Because they're not traveling with hypersonic speeds.
00:45:13They, you know, travel at a much slower speed.
00:45:17But you then get to an issue of basically how much ammunition do you have?
00:45:25You know, can Iran fire enough drones that they will end up draining the supply of anti-aircraft or, you know, air defense ammunition that's being fired at the drones?
00:45:42Then when you introduce the hypersonic missiles and, you know, what we saw, you know, the true promise won by Iran was initially just a demonstration to say, hey, we can we can attack you.
00:46:01We can we can we can use a combination of drones and missiles to attack you.
00:46:07Hoping that that would have dissuaded Israel from its aggressive posture towards Iran.
00:46:17But it didn't, which then led to the true promise to attack, I believe, is like the first of October of last year.
00:46:29So, and again, that that was more forceful.
00:46:36It was actually it was, again, a demonstration saying, OK, we can we can evade your missile defense system and hit targets.
00:46:47But they didn't do it in such a way as to really cause significant casualties on the side of Israel.
00:46:55I think recognizing that they had that it would have escalated this into a war.
00:46:59But again, trying to send Israel a message.
00:47:01Well, Israel didn't get the message or Iran was very naive and believing that it could by doing this, it would say, OK, you know, you've got to take it seriously.
00:47:12They don't take Iran seriously.
00:47:16And I think as Professor Morandi was pointing out in his initial comments once he came on air, the there is a lot of artificial intelligence generated disinformation being put out to portray Israel's attacks on Iran as being far more devastating than they actually have been.
00:47:36I just recall that remember what we saw out of Ukraine in the early hours after the attacks on June 1st at the strategic airbases, reportedly five airbases later turned down only two.
00:47:51They claimed 41 aircraft destroyed.
00:47:53They showed you videos of it, planes burning again, artificially generated wasn't true.
00:47:59And I think the total number of planes, I've heard between three to five, three to seven, and not all of those were, you know, modern active aircraft.
00:48:11A lot of them were mothballed or were there being used for parts.
00:48:15So I think part of what we're seeing now with a lot of the information being put out on Telegram and other social media platforms is portraying that this is a devastating attack and that there's no way Iran can respond to it.
00:48:32And I think part of that is designed as well to try to discourage the Iranian people from being willing to retaliate.
00:48:41Now, I don't think it's going to work.
00:48:44And in fact, it may have just the opposite effect.
00:48:47It will redouble Iran's desire to fight back.
00:48:55So this is, you know, we're less than 24 hours since this thing started.
00:49:02And, you know, I made the comment earlier that the Japanese on December 8th, man, they were celebrating.
00:49:15They had a great victory in Pearl Harbor.
00:49:18How did that turn out?
00:49:20It turned out very badly for the Japanese.
00:49:24So, like I said, an early Pyrrhic victory does not translate into a strategic victory.
00:49:30And I think that from a standpoint of logistics, manpower, that Israel and political isolation, that apart from some of the support that it's getting from Europe, apart from the support that it's still getting from the United States,
00:49:54that it's standing around the world has eroded dramatically.
00:50:01And this is only going to accelerate that.
00:50:04And, you know, we're going to, you know, it's also, I guess, sort of exposing the United Nations as a completely inept, feckless, useless institution.
00:50:16Because despite condemnation and, you know, criticism, no action of any consequence would be taken towards Israel, just as they've been allowed to carry on genocide with no consequences.
00:50:29And what's different when I compare Israel to Iran, Larry, what comes to my mind?
00:50:36And in a war of attrition, if something goes to that direction, a war of attrition between Iran and Israel, Israel cannot sustain it.
00:50:45Iran produces everything they have, despite air defense system that they're getting from Russia.
00:50:51But they have their own air defense systems in Iran.
00:50:54They build everything.
00:50:56It's Israel that is receiving 90%, more than 90% from the United States.
00:51:03And they're not capable of producing ammunition in Israel the way that Iran is capable of.
00:51:09How is that going to be seen with the administration in the United States?
00:51:15Well, no, I mean, Trump is, he's wedded to Israel.
00:51:21The Zionists, the Zionists control the U.S. government.
00:51:25You know, anybody who dares speak out against Zionist genocidal policies is labeled an anti-Semite and, you know, in some cases arrested.
00:51:37You know, if you're not an American citizen, you're expelled.
00:51:39But even American citizens are facing, you know, possible, you know, prosecution for hate crime, simply for speaking out and describing what Israel is doing as accurately as a form of genocide.
00:51:55So, you know, Israel, right now, Israel doesn't have to worry about political support, at least in the short term.
00:52:05But the middle to long term is problematic because a growing number of people under the age of 50, they don't share this nonsensical view about Zionism.
00:52:16And, you know, you know, Jesus is coming back and we've got to preserve Israel at any cost.
00:52:21You know, they're not buying that.
00:52:24And they're recognizing that Israel is behaving in an inhuman manner and treating the Palestinian people as just human garbage.
00:52:38And, you know, at some point, Israel is going to find itself dramatically isolated.
00:52:43However, you know, that's not on the immediate horizon, I don't think.
00:52:49So it's just, you know, we're we're stumbling into war.
00:52:54There's no other way to put it.
00:52:55We're we're walking.
00:52:56We don't have a blindfold on.
00:52:59We see exactly what's happening.
00:53:01And we're going we're walking into war.
00:53:03And two days ago, there was an article in Haretz saying that the Israeli government is collapsing.
00:53:10Is that why Netanyahu is playing with the game of attacking on Iran?
00:53:15It seems that Netanyahu, he's getting everything he wants with the case of Iran.
00:53:21He wants the continuation of the conflict with Iran to go against Iran, maybe the United, bring in the United States.
00:53:29And how is the United States while having the situation in Ukraine?
00:53:36We know that ammunition, we know the problem with ammunition going to Ukraine.
00:53:40We talk about it a lot.
00:53:42How is that going to work with the United States if it turns to be a war between Iran and Israel?
00:53:49Okay, I'm not sure if if if this conflict turns into a war, a direct war between Iran and Israel in the case of ammunition,
00:54:00how capable is the United States to provide Israel with the ammunition that they need to fight Iran?
00:54:08Well, it's already it looks it may not be a formally declared war.
00:54:11It's already a war.
00:54:13So let's not talk about it something that could happen.
00:54:15That's happened.
00:54:16That's all this is a war by any definition.
00:54:21Israel's attacks on Iran while, you know, this is no different than Hitler saying,
00:54:28oh, my border posts were attacked by the Poles.
00:54:30We got to invade Poland for self-defense.
00:54:33That's all this is.
00:54:35This is a pretext.
00:54:38And, you know, it's been pretty sophisticated pretext put together, but a pretext nonetheless.
00:54:44And there's always that initial euphoria of victory.
00:54:50We've seen it over and over and over, you know, going back to the U.S. Civil War.
00:54:56You know, the first is all the Union forces were headed to the Battle of Manassas, the first bull run.
00:55:02People were going out.
00:55:03Members of Congress were riding out into the Virginia farmland and buggies to have picnics.
00:55:09They said, oh, I'll celebrate.
00:55:10They had bottles of wine.
00:55:11They were going to drink.
00:55:12Big party.
00:55:15Oh, you know, 1914, the war to end all wars.
00:55:19World War I.
00:55:20Give me over quick.
00:55:21You know, we're going to put those Huns in their place.
00:55:27World War II, same thing.
00:55:30You know, Korean War, Vietnam War.
00:55:34We, you know, we go after these wars and, you know, George W. Bush, hey, we're in Iraq.
00:55:38Mission accomplished.
00:55:41And it was only after that that the violence really started escalating and the fight continued.
00:55:46And, you know, I challenge anybody to argue that the United States has made Iraq a stronger, safer place to be right now.
00:55:54Are you kidding?
00:55:55Just the opposite.
00:55:57One that's a loyal ally of the United States?
00:56:00Absolutely not.
00:56:03So, I guess my broader point is that these kinds of conflicts spin out of control.
00:56:12While the, you know, people like Donald Trump and Netanyahu and maybe in Pazeshkin and Putin may think that they can contain, control.
00:56:22They can't contain or control this at all.
00:56:25You know, the genie is out of the bottle now.
00:56:30And Iran is, whether Iran formally declares war, it's a war.
00:56:38And they're going to retaliate.
00:56:40And then in response to their retaliation, Israel's going to retaliate.
00:56:44And then in response to that, Iran's going to retaliate some more.
00:56:49They're going to be fighting.
00:56:51And I think Professor Miranda is correct.
00:56:53At some point, this is going to involve the Gulf Arabs.
00:56:57They're going to have to make a choice.
00:56:58They're going to either be with Iran or they're not.
00:57:00And if they're going to side with the United States, they're going to wind up getting destroyed.
00:57:05Larry, we know that the Iranian officials, before this attack happened, they said if they will get attacked by Israel or the United States, we're going to build a nuclear bomb.
00:57:20We're going to go after nuclear weapons.
00:57:22Do you think that what has happened so far is that pushing the mindset of these officials in Iran to go after nuclear weapons because they see that the United States is not honest in the way that they're behaving?
00:57:38They wanted to put everything on the table to negotiate with the United States.
00:57:42That doesn't seem to be sufficient for the Trump administration.
00:57:46Yeah, well, it certainly strengthened the case for those making that argument.
00:57:51But I can't discount Russia's influence in this process, at least potentially.
00:57:59Russia is pretty adamant about the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.
00:58:05Russia needs that North-South transport corridor in order to be able to help protect itself against the West.
00:58:25And I don't think it's in a position where it's just going to walk away or it's going to dictate to Iran, you're going to do this or else.
00:58:31And Iran is going to ask for some assurances and say, hey, you know, we've got this security arrangement with you.
00:58:38But what good is it if, you know, we're getting attacked and you're doing nothing to help?
00:58:41You're doing nothing to stop this?
00:58:43You're allowing this to go on?
00:58:48Russia still has some influence with Israel, albeit limited, but nonetheless, some significant influence.
00:58:54And, you know, I think the biggest fear is that as if Iran's retaliatory strikes are as potentially significant as I think that they can be,
00:59:11Israel is going to face enormous pressure to use a nuclear device in its next strikes against Iran.
00:59:17And if they decide to go nuclear, then at that point, it's going to put Russia in a position of maybe having to intervene
00:59:24and intervening in a very strong way with the United States.
00:59:29So you've got to stop this.
00:59:30This cannot be allowed.
00:59:31If this goes on, then you're signaling that it's OK to start using nukes.
00:59:36This can get out of hand in so many different ways.
00:59:45And it is terrifying to think about those possibilities.
00:59:51Larry, has Donald Trump destroyed everything, every aspect that we expected from him before coming to power?
00:59:59He was talking so differently than what he's talking about today.
01:00:04Yeah, no, he's, look, sadly, I voted for him over Kamala Harris.
01:00:14And if I could go back and make a decision, I wouldn't vote for either of them.
01:00:22But Donald Trump has betrayed the promises he made to be a president of peace.
01:00:30He is now aiding, he's aiding and abetting war in Ukraine and war in Israel and Iran.
01:00:41And he's allowing it to go on.
01:00:43He could have pulled the plug on all of this.
01:00:45He could have brought them all to a halt.
01:00:46He had that kind of power.
01:00:49Then he's refused to exercise it.
01:00:51And then, you know, his, good God, his comments over the last 24 hours are just crazy.
01:01:02Because, you know, in theory, you want, you know, he needs to recognize the Chinese and Russians are listening.
01:01:09They're paying attention.
01:01:10Now, they're watching him on the one hand.
01:01:13Oh, yeah, we had no idea.
01:01:14Oh, we tried to stop.
01:01:15Oh, yeah, we put the word.
01:01:16We told, we told Israel to stop.
01:01:19And then today, yeah, I knew it when they were going to hit.
01:01:22I knew all about it.
01:01:23I know everything.
01:01:26Okay, which is it?
01:01:28You're a dumbass kept in the dark or you know everything?
01:01:31He's not a dumbass kept in the dark.
01:01:37He knows and is playing a very, very dangerous game.
01:01:45And I think Trump has destroyed his credibility with Putin and with Xi in the last 24 hours.
01:01:55I don't see how Putin and Xi could trust anything that Trump says going forward.
01:02:01You know, given his, you know, provable lies regarding attacks on Iran.
01:02:12And then, you know, initially I thought maybe some of the, some of this was saber rattling in order just to be a negotiating ploy to get Iran to the table.
01:02:21No.
01:02:23It's clear.
01:02:23U.S. was actively involved with the military plans.
01:02:27In fact, they leaked that information.
01:02:28That General Carrilla, the head of CENTCOM, has been, you know, working closely with the Israelis on planning.
01:02:37So, you know, I think Trump has, credibility is the most important resource a president can have.
01:02:49You know, you know, that the word, that they mean what they say and you've got to take what they say seriously.
01:02:58With Trump, you've got to always assume the worst.
01:03:00You can't take anything he says seriously.
01:03:03Other than assuming that ultimately he's going to use violence and lie about what's going on.
01:03:11Yeah, I'm sorry to say that.
01:03:13But, you know, that we just, you know, it's not me.
01:03:17I'm not the one that said I know everything.
01:03:20I knew when this was going to happen.
01:03:22But if you knew when it was going to happen, why didn't you stop?
01:03:25Stop it.
01:03:26Why don't you tell him that?
01:03:27And he'll, no, you can't do this.
01:03:29And we're going, in fact, we're going to alert Iran that you're getting ready to attack.
01:03:35And we're going to tell Iran where you're going to attack.
01:03:37We're going to, we're going to give Iran every, every bit of information we have so that Iran can stop you.
01:03:42This cannot go forward.
01:03:44He didn't do that.
01:03:46Sat back and facilitated it.
01:03:48You know, we still don't have a good clue of what U.S. military assets were involved, intelligence assets.
01:03:56But I think, you know, one of these days we're going to find out that it's a significant U.S. role.
01:04:02I think there is no, there is no teeny tiny doubt in the mind of Vladimir Putin when Donald Trump said to him,
01:04:11he didn't know about the attack on Russia.
01:04:13He, right now, he says that a hundred percent he knew that.
01:04:17Yeah.
01:04:18In the case of Iran, with what has happened.
01:04:20He was going online and lying about everything and then coming back and just exposing your lies,
01:04:28not, not just trying to cover them.
01:04:30It's somehow unbelievable on the part of the president of the United States.
01:04:36Yeah.
01:04:37Yeah.
01:04:39You know, so this, you know, as a Trump has,
01:04:44he's been very careless with his credibility and he's going to pay a very severe price for that.
01:04:56Thank you so much, Larry, for being with us today.
01:04:59Great pleasure.
01:05:01Well, yeah, we're going to, I think we'll have a lot to talk about come Monday.
01:05:05Yeah, exactly.
01:05:06This is, this is not, this is not going to get better in terms of securing peace for the world.
01:05:14It's going to be, I think, very, very devastating.
01:05:19Yeah.
01:05:20Exactly.
01:05:21See you soon, Larry.
01:05:23All right, my friend.
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