Israel and Iran uh are in the midst of a conflict that may draw America in. And when I say Israel and Iran are in a conflict, that’s the way Western media has reported it. What really happened was Israel launched a sneak attack against Iran in the middle of the night and now Iran is trying to defend themselves. Now, if you listen to Western media, you would think that Iran had attacked Israel when it’s actually the other way around. So, how is it that America might get pulled into this mess going on in that region?
Well, the truth is we’re already in that mess. We’ve been in that mess for the better part of 75 years. Iran was ruled by a dynasty from 1789 till about the 19 uh 1920s. Then mysteriously uh during World War II, the British and the Russians decided to invade Iran, overthrowing the uh the dynasty that ruled there and then imp placing a democratically elected government.
When that democratically elected government decided to nationalize the oil industry there, the UK and the US through the CIA overthrew the democratically elected government and installed the sha of Iran and developed close diplomatic ties.
If you’re over 50, you remember the shave of Iran coming to Washington DC and visiting and all the uh the pageantry around that. But guess what? During that same period of time, he was a awful and brutal tyrant subjugating his own people, which led to the student revolution in the late ‘7s and then the uh Islamic revolution that took over thereafter of the Ayatollah Kmeni. This is a 75 years of history we’re condensing down into a couple of seconds. With that, we decided that they were then the enemies.
The reason Iran still flies F-14s and F4s and uses technology from the America in the 1970s was that’s when we cut off relations with them and we’ve been pushing to overthrow that regime and reinstall an Americanfriendly regime since that day and time.
Fast forward to October 7th when uh when the Hamas attacked Israel that started Netanyahu on this cast to in the name of security launch a two-year war killing and committing what is the equivalent of a genocide in Palestine. He then used that same power to go after Hezbollah in uh Lebanon and in Syria. He then used that same power to go after the Houthies in uh Yemen. As a result, since we’re the big brother in the situation, America this year has spent over a billion dollars striking the Houthi rebels in support of this campaign that we’re currently seeing.
You take out the proxies first and then that paves the way for Israel to have unfettered access to destruction of Iran. The issue is the Iran nuclear program which is the current opaces under which we are uh preparing to go to war with Iran is located between 300 and 500 ft underground and the only bombs that have even the technical ability to hit it are GBU57 bombs dropped by B2 stealth bombers from the United States which are stationed at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean right now.
So unless America comes into this war, Israel can bomb Iran as much as they feel like it. They have no ability to actually stop their nuclear program from taking place. So, a couple nights ago, Senator Ted Cruz, who is a proponent of the invasion of Iran, went on Tucker Carlson’s show, who is an opponent of the invasion of Iran, and they had a nice conversation.
Let’s throw to the clip of Tucker Carlson interviewing Ted Cruz. If Israel decides we’re going to decapitate the government and try to ferment an uprising against it, should the United States participate in that operation? in any way. Look, I I have not called for killing the Ayatollah and and there is nations in war generally refrain from attacking and killing heads of state. Now, the Ayatollah doesn’t.
He’s trying to kill Trump. We talked about that. But we shouldn’t punish him for it. Look, there has been a longstanding nations in war have refrained from from killing heads of state.
I have not publicly called for killing the Ayatollah.
What I’ve called for is doing whatever is necessary to stop him from getting nuclear weapons. In the first Trump term, what that meant was maximum pressure. So in the first Trump term, I spent a lot of time urging the president to withdraw from the disastrous Iranian nuclear deal that Obama had. President Trump agreed with me. He did that.
And then I urged him to end the oil waiverss and to sanction the hell out of the country. And it ended up crippling their economy. So So Iran at the time was selling 2 million barrels of oil a day. 1 million barrels, I’m sorry, 1 million barrels of oil a day. When President Trump ended the oil waiverss, it cut their sales to 300,000 barrels a day.
At the end of the Trump term, the Iranian economy was in shambles. They had massive inflation. I think the regime was teetering. I think it might have fallen. I would use economic sanctions and I would use moral persuasion to try to effectuate.
If you topple Okay, so you topple the regime and by whatever means, what happens then? How many people living in Iran, by the way? I I don’t know the population at all.
No, I don’t know the population. You don’t know the population of the country you seek to topple?
I How many people living around? 92 million. Okay. Yeah. I I How could you not know that?
I I don’t sit around memorizing population tables. Well, it’s kind of relevant because you’re calling for the overthrow of the government. Why is it relevant whether it’s 90 million or 80 million or 100 million? Why is that? Because if you don’t know anything about the country, I didn’t say I don’t know anything about the country.
Okay. What’s the ethnic mix of Iran? They are Persians and predominantly Shia. Okay, this is not even you don’t know anything about Iran. So, I’m not the the Tucker Carlson expert on Iran.
You’re a senator who’s calling the government. You’re the one who know anything about the country. No, you don’t know anything about the country. You’re the one who claims they’re not trying to murder Donald Trump. You’re the one who who can’t figure out if it was a good idea to kill General Solommani.
And you said it was bad. You believe they’re trying to murder Trump? Yes, I do. You’re not calling for military strikes against them in retaliation. And if you really believe they’re carrying out military strikes today, you said Israel was right with our help.
I said we Israel is leading them, but we’re supporting them. Well, this you’re breaking news here because the US government last night denied the National Security Council spokesman Alex Feifer denied on behalf of Trump that we were acting on Israel’s behalf in any offensive capacity.
We’re not bombing them. Israel’s bombing them. You just said we were.
We are supporting Israel. Mistakes. You’re a senator. If you’re saying the United States government is now we’re with Iran right now, people are listening. Hey, we are not bombing them.
Oh, okay. Israel is bombing them. And hey, why do you do to the snide? Oh, okay.
What do you mean?
Because it’s this is super high stakes stuff. It’s this is a huge country that borders a lot of other important countries. A lot of world’s energy comes from there. Let me You don’t want another disaster. You don’t want the Ayatollah refers to Israel as the little Satan and America as the great Satan.
Do you believe him when he says it’s the great Satan? believe. Of course I believe. Do you think if the Ayatollah could murder both of us right now that he would? I do.
I believe him. Okay. I I assume no good faith on the part of the Ayatollah. And if your implication is like I’m pro Ayatollah or something.
No, no, no.
It’s not good faith. It’s that I’m just saying if you’re a lawmaker, you’re a powerful person in Washington. This is the most powerful country in the world. If you’re calling for toppling in government, it’s incumbent on you to know something about the country and to think through the consequences of that. And you haven’t and you don’t.
You know, for once I feel bad for Ted Cruz cuz Tucker Carlson, I’ve been on his show plenty in times. He’s nice guy actually in person. But let’s throw up this map of the Middle East real quick just so people can understand.
So right there in the middle, that’s Iran. The big thing in the middle, look to the left of that.
That is Iraq. Remember that time we tried to invade Iraq? How well that went? See how much bigger Iran is than Iraq? Guess what?
We’d have that much more of a problem if we decide to have a military intervention. Look on the other side of Iran. That’s Afghanistan. Remember that time we tried to invade Afghanistan? Remember how well that went?
Well, we’re going to have all those problems plus some if we’re trying to do a military intervention in Iran. Add into that when Ted Cruz talks about regime change toppling the regime. To the northwest corner of Iran. So top left of your screen, that area is Kurdistan. in a semi-autonomous region of a Kurdish people that stretches between the Iranian, the Iraqi and the Turkish borders.
Look all the way down to the southeast corner where where Iran intersects with Afghanistan and um Pakistan. That area is called Baloistan.
That is a semi-autonomous region which is spread out between Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. If you look at the border between Iran and Iraq, that is the Sawad Al-Arab waterway where they have been going to war for the past 40 years for water rights to that. Look all the way on the Afghan border.
There’s a river there. Iran and Afghanistan have been fighting for the last 5 years over water rights to that river. So if the regime falls, all those people immediately invade and declare independence. You have a civil war going on in Kurdistan. You have a civil war going on in Baloistan.
You’re invaded by Iraq. You’re invaded by Afghanistan. to the top top east corner they have tur semi-autonomous Turkish uh area by Turk Menistan that also becomes immediately immediately independent. Hello, I’m Isaac Hayes III, founder and CEO of Fanbase.
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