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the the latest developments with What's going on. You know,
with Iran, there's an eight pm deadline tonight for them
to agree to reopen the Street of Hormuz. Iranians have
so far refused to do so. Trump has said that
this will be Bridge and power Plant Day if they
don't hit the eight pm deadline and reopen the street.
Speaker 2: Now over.
Speaker 1: In the United Nations today there was a measure resolution
that ran through the UN Security Council. This was sponsored
by several countries, UAE being one of them.
Speaker 2: It failed.
Speaker 1: This resolution failed today to endorse a clear framework for
international cooperation in ending Iran's illegal attacks and threats to
the global economy by adopting a draft resolution demanding the
immediate cessation of all attacks on vessels and attempts to
impede freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. The
Strait of Hormuz, they say, must be must remain open
to all, and the freedom of navigation must be preserved.
No country should have the power to shut down the
arteries of global commerce and drive the world to the
brink of economic calamity. The Security Council's failure to act
does not diminish the urgency of this crisis or the
UAES resolve. We thank Bahrain for its leadership on the
Security Council and for its diplomatic efforts. We will continue
to push for international efforts to restore the straight OFFOEMUS
and work with partners to advance coordinated action to secure
navigation and restore the flow of global commerce. So do
you want to take a guess who voted against the resolution?
Which countries? There were two? There were two countries that
voted against it. I guess China and Russia. Correct. Yes,
blocking any kind of international resolution demanding that Iran stop
attacking vessels. Iran did come up with a proposal. I
believe This was late yesterday. They sent a ten point
proposal through the Pakistani intermediaries, and the New York Times
published some of their demands. And so under their proposal,
they would allow the straight to reopen if they got
to charge two million dollars per ship going through the strait,
and then they would split the proceeds half seats half
and half with Oman, which is on the other side
of the waterway from Iran. Tehran would use its share
of the funds to rebuild infrastructure that was damaged in
US and Disraeli strikes rather than what they initially demanded
was direct compensation. Right, so they're like, okay, fine, let
us charge all the ships going through the strait and
we'll use that money to kill more Jews and Americans.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I mean rebuild the infrastructure.
Speaker 1: And by infrastructure, I assume they mean they're ballistic and
drone manufacturing facilities. They also want a binding guarantee I
don't know what that means against any future attack or
a renewal of war. And they want all the sanctions
lifted against them, and they want recognition of Iranian sovereignty
over the Strait of Hormuz, and they want a broader
regional ceasefire, including halting Israeli strikes on Hezbollah and all
of its allied groups. So they're trying to protect the
arms of the octopus here, right. Like for people who
haven't been paying attention to Iran's history and the rise
of these proxy Jihatis groups over the last thirty years
or so forty years, like, it's difficult to understand how
different today is versus what it was like twenty years ago.
These proxy armies, they I mean, they they like a cancer.
They infected all of these other areas. You got the
Hooties in Yemen, and you've got Hesbala in Lebanon, destabilizing
that country. That's been since the eighties, right, you got Hamas, right,
and so these proxy armies have been waging the war.
So Iran can say, oh, that's not us, but it
is and it always has been. And everybody's just kind
of put up with this. Is like, well, that's the
price I guess of you know, having Israel be a
state or something, or that's the price of you know,
America existing or something. Right, But now you've gotten this
reaction and from these other Arab countries, and they've been
getting bullied and threatened by Iran too, and they're sick
of it. Also now they're getting attacked. They got all
sorts of their facilities that have been hit, and so
now they're trying to get the UN Security Council involved.
I don't know if that's gonna make a difference or not,
but you know, they can take steps, and some have.
I'm trying to remember which country it was that started
dismantling the money changers the uh SO. Iran has all
of these sort of black market banks and stuff, these
money exchangers and stuff that that's how they they wash
their trade to get around sanctions, and so a bunch
of them got shut down over the last month. I
think it was in It may have been Oman, but
I forget. Maybe it was Bahrain. And then there's this
from Iran International out of London. A deepening rift at
the top of the Islamic Republic has spilled into an
unusually sharp confrontation with the President, sud Pezeshkian, accusing senior
Guards commander so the IRGC commanders of unilateral actions that
have wrecked ceasefire prospects and pushed Iran toward disaster. So
you have so when Trump says that we've got regime change,
and people like Alexander are like, well that means you lie,
Like yeah, they say, like he says he's dealing with
different people now who are less radical and they're more
logical and rational or whatever.
Speaker 2: Is that true? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Is this guy, is this president more rational and logical?
I don't know, but they he definitely has a different
opinion about how the war is progressing than the IRGC jihadists.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Two sources close to the presidential office said that there
was a tense exchange that took place Saturday, April fourth. Okay,
so this past weekend between Pozeskian and a guy named
Hossain Tayeb, a powerful figure close to the NEPO Ayatola
the Supreme leader Machaba come Any. Those present described the
conversation as unusually difficult and highly charged. During the meeting,
Pizzeskian accused IRGC Chief Commander Akhmad Vahidi along with Ali
abdu Lahi, who is the commander of Central Headquarters katam
al Anbia Central Headquarters. So the president accuses these two
IRGC top officials. The country's Armed Forces Unified Command accuses
them of acting unilaterally and driving escalation through attacks on
regional countries, especially against their infrastructure. The president of Iran
is like, what are you guys doing shooting these rockets
and stuff at gas facilities, oil facilities, you know, airports
and stuff of these other Arab countries. Like you're turning
everybody against us. What are you doing this for? According
to the sources, Pozeskian said those policies had destroyed any
remaining chance of a ceasefire and were steering the Islamic
Republic directly toward quote a huge catastrophe. He also warned that,
based on what he described as precise assessments, that Iran's
economy would not be able to withstand a prolonged war
for much longer, and that full economic collapse was inevitable
under current conditions. See this started a while ago. It
started when Trump put the sanctions back on them. Their
currency collapsed. The people then poured into the streets protesting,
right they are on. Their economy is on life support.
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saw this come down on the Twitter machine. New York
Post's chief DC correspondent Stephen Nelson with a scoop. The
CIA used a secret tool called ghost Murmur to find
the airmen in Iran. Ghost Murmur pairs long range quantum
magnetary magnetitometry sensors magnetometry sensors, so it pairs that long
range quantum magnetometry sensors with AI to find human heartbeats.
Speaker 2: That is wild and kind of terrifying. Smokes.
Speaker 1: No one's hidden, no more hiding. That's what that tells me. Like,
depending on how well this thing works, I mean, it
doesn't only work outside.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but.
Speaker 1: All right, So Iran International reporting on this confrontation between
the President of Iran and the IRGC leadership amid these
concerns that the president is saying, like you guys, you
know you're flinging all these rockets and missiles into our
neighboring countries, and you're escalating this and you're going to
make it impossible for us to be able to recover.
The confrontation comes amid mounting evidence of a broader power
shift inside the Islamic Republic, with military and intelligence networks
increasingly displacing both the elected government and the traditional clerical order.
So the IRGC is elevating itself over these others of
the governance model. A regional source familiar with internal developments
told Iran International in February, so months ago that the
model of what they what they call guardianship of the jurist,
that model has defined the Islamic Republic for more than
four decades. They said, it's now undergoing a fundamental transformation
and even an ideological collapse. The appointment of the Nepo
Ayatola Mojaba KAMENI that that process, and I talked about
this a couple of weeks ago when they named him, right,
that process was corrupted by the IRGC. They strong armed
Mullah's or the Council of Experts into naming the Sun,
even though they weren't supposed to name the son of
an existing Iyahtola because they don't believe in hereditary monarchies
and so this was a complete violation, but they were
forced to do so. On March twenty eighth, the President
Posesskian criticized the IRGC's approach to escalating tensions and continuing
attacks on neighboring countries and warned that without a ceasefire,
the economy could collapse within three weeks to a month.
So that was March twenty eighth, so we are a
week into this three to four week timetable that the
President of Iran told the IRGC again hard to know
what to trust coming out of Iran, but there are
a lot of people inside Iran that are feeding a
lot of information out of Iran as they can. The
IRGC resisted the President's various appointments and some of his decisions.
They basically stripped the government of executive control and directed
a security barrier around the core of power, which is
the IRGC, and they are insisted that all wartime positions
must for now be chosen and managed directly by the IRGC.
Then there is the worsening human and logistical crisis inside
the IRGC, as well as their militia thugs the besiege.
Over the past seventy two hours, operational forces have faced
acute shortages of basic supplies, including edible food, hygiene facilities,
and places to sleep. Recent strikes on infrastructure and bases
have left a lot of guards and besiege personnel sleeping
in the streets and sometimes only with access to a
single meal per day. I mentioned the economy. The sanctions
that Trump put in place on Iran decimated their currency.
Their currency was devalued. It's like it's a crazy amount
of like what they're I think it's the real it's
like a billion reals to a dollar or something, and
so they're hemorrhaging this money.
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 1: There was a widespread disruption a day or two ago
in the computer network of Bank Sepah, a major Iranian
owned government owned bank that is tied to the IRGC.
Sources told Iran International. The disruption on Sunday left the
bank unable to pay the salaries of the IRGC personnel
along with military officials. How long do you think folks
like that are going to stand around waiting on a
drone strike to take them out right if they're not
getting paid. Iran went on, as they're they're executing more
people they're prisoners. They executed five men over the past week.
These were protesters that took to the street for liberty
and they were all hanged. The jurist, the Mullah jurists
are saying we need to streamline our process. There was
a video that was sent out that they're like, we
need to be doing more executions faster, faster, which is
one of the signs by the way of a collapsing regime.
Then there is this statement from doctor Enat Wilf. She
is the chair and founder of the OZ Party in Israel.
She says the US is forcing Iran to confront the
central question that Kissinger once framed. Is Iran a state
or is it a cause? Is it more committed to
its sovereignty or to exporting the Islamic Revolution?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: The US proposal is for Iran to be a state.
The IRGC well, no, they are committed to the Islamic Revolution.
That's the core confrontation playing out right now, and that's
going to be settled by the Iranian leadership, those people
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problems feeding and supplying their troops. They've got severe shortages
of ammunition, water, and food, according to Iran International, growing
numbers of desertions in the regular army and in some
of these missile units, the IRGC missile units as well.
Trey yinst from Fox News reports that the US conducted
B two bomber strike on an underground IRGC headquarters in
Tehran during the rescue of the downed airmen. So they
dropped bunker buster bombs. Multiple B two s flew thirty
six hours round trip from Whiteman Air Force Base, ordered
by Sentcom Commander Admiral Brad Cooper. The facility was destroyed
a bunch of senior IRGC commanders presumed to be dead.
Israel took out the heads of all three major intelligence
agencies of the Islamic Republic within a month. Major sorry
Majid Kademi, head of the IRGC Intelligence Organization, was killed yesterday.
Over the past month, they also took out Ismael Katib,
the Minister of Intelligence, and Golam Reza REZAIAII on because
how he pronounces that or did, head of the Greater
Tehran Police intelligence Organization. Al Jazeera reported yesterday that the
US pilot rescue operation may have been covered to steal
enriched uranium, according to the Iran Foreign Ministry, so that's
what they are telling their people. Iran's Revolutionary Guard warned
on Tuesday their response to the US could extend beyond
the region and target energy infrastructure, saying previous restraint had ended.
From now on, all these considerations have been lifted, the
IRGC said in a statement. It said it would act
against US and partner infrastructure in a way that would
deprive them of the region's oil and gas resources for years.
Regional partners of the US should know that Iran has
exercised restraint due to good neighborly relations.
Speaker 2: That was what restraint looked like.
Speaker 1: Send sending cluster munitions into neighborhoods in Gulf Arab states,
that's restraint for them. Trump outside of the White House
yesterday he was asked about arming the Iranian people, and
he said guns were supposed to go to the protesters,
but a certain group of people kept them. I am
very upset. They are going to pay a big price
for that.
Speaker 2: The Kurds. Yeah, that's the Kurds.
Speaker 1: So apparently we did try to give weapons to the
people of Iran, and we apparently tried to send it
through the Kurds, and the Kurds kept the weapons. Meanwhile,
in Turkey, sorry Turquia, as they want it pronounced now.
Istanbul specifically, the governor of Istanbul said there was an
attack on our police officers. As a result of the attack,
two of our officers were slightly injured, one of the
terrorists was killed, to others neutralized. This attack occurred at
the Israeli consulate in Istanbul, but.
Speaker 2: The consulate was not staffed. It wasn't anybody there.
Speaker 1: Reports indicate the Al Jubail industrial city in Saudi Arabia
on fire after Iranian strikes. Israel and the US carried
out strikes on Karg Island, targeting military installations including a
radar station, a base, and docking facilities there. I think
the last count I saw was fifty hits on Krg Island.
A bridge on the Tabriz Zanjan Highway in northwest Iran
was hit in an attack by US and Israeli forces.
A strike hit the Yayabad railway bridge near Kashan in
central Iran. Additionally, Iranians report strikes against Tabriz railway lines,
the Miane railway lines, a bunch of other railway Okay,
there's like six of them there. Iran had canceled all
trains from running after Israel gave them the warning, which
I'm sure Iran would totally do to all of their neighbors.
Fires burned at petrochemical facilities in Assaluja after airstrikes. Reports
said the Zagros, Mobin and Dama Vaned petrochemical complex were
among the sites hit. Those were Iranian petrochemical facilities. The
IDF struck another complex petrochemical complex in Shiraz, one of
the few facilities that produces materials for explosives and ballistic missiles. Separately,
the air force the Israeli Air Force hit a northwestern
missile site used to launch dozens of missiles at Israel.
The IRGC military site near Kaamalak, western Tabriz was hit
by airstrikes on Monday as well, the IDF set it
carried out a large scale strike on Tehran airports, targeting
dozens of Air Force and IRGC aircraft planes, helicopters, military infrastructure.
IDF also blew up the regime's Air Force munitions facility
in Boucher, Iran, and also reportedly bombed Iran's Aerospace Research
Institute headquarters, also in Tehran. They also struck the Sharif
University of Technology, which by the way, that school is
under EU sanction. It lists it as a central repository
for nuclear research in the field of ballistic missile research
and production. It cooperates with the sanctioned Aerospace Industries Organization,
which oversees Iran's ballistic missile program on behalf of the
Ministry of Defense. It cooperates with the IRGC supports other activities.
So that's why they hit this University of Technology. Semaphore
reporting that Saudi Arabia advised companies to keep staff out
of Riyad's main financial district over concerns it could be targeted.
The IDF says several drones were launched from Yemen towards
southern Israel. Some of them were intercepted, lost contact and
may have crashed for the others, no injuries or damage reported.
Six officers from the IRGC were killed in the Speedan
district in an attack carried out by a US helicopter.
This may have been during the rescue operation. Okay, so
there is a rundown of how all of this indicates
we are losing, right, I mean, that's obvious. Iran is
totally winning this thing. Guys, all right, if you're listening
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here on the text line, Oh, I mean hang on,
let me write that Mike okay, uh, I think I
already read Mike's though and answered that I did yes,
uh from rob liars are gonna lie indeed indeed?
Speaker 2: Mm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the Iranians are telling people and children come
out and be the human shield. It sounds like Country
Joe and the Fish, be the first one on your
block to have your kid come home in a box. Yeah,
and that's I mean, but that is what the you know,
apocalyptic death cult, that's what they're about. And by the way,
think of this also what happens if you don't If
the IRGC knows that you live in the area and
you did not come out to act as a human
shield as a sacrifice, then do they just come and
kill you? After regarding Alexander Pete, when you said he
gets a couple of views, you weren't lying literally too. Yeah,
Shua says, rules for thee but not for me, cry
the wicked who presupposed the self restraint and goodness of
others who have had enough of the evil end of
the cruel to This is from Kevin Pete. I was
surprised how many foundries, metal processing plants, and metal mining
there is in Iran. Destroying these and every piece of
mining equipment will further destroy their ability to produce weapons
without hurting the general public. Yeah, and so people keep
asking like, well, what comes next, you know, what's after
this and all that?
Speaker 2: And I don't know, Okay, I have no idea.
Speaker 1: However, if I had to guess, I would guess it
would be something like we leave it up to Israel
and the Arab countries to do this thing that they
call that the Israelis call mowing the lawn, which means
every so often they come in and they wiped out
a whole bunch of other IRGC leadership, and that just
becomes sort of a normal thing that they are doing,
because that is a that that's a tactic that the
Israelis have been doing with these other uh, with the
Iranian proxy jihadist groups like Hesbala. Jen says, uh, you
handled Alexander the terrible very well. Way to go, Thank you,
Jen Pete. When you say that was a caller in
the last hour, I believe when you say the Mullahs,
what do you mean? Those are the clerics, the guys
that you know, dress in the black robe and they
got the big thing on their heads, a turban looking thing,
you know, and so they all sit around, but they
like they're the ones because it's like this hybrid integrated
theocracy with the civilian government.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: But then there they got their hands in all of
these different companies and they set you know, they set
the rules like women have to wear the head coverings
and all that stuff. So like that's the mullahs a
mulla is the is the cleric. The Iatola that Trump
killed even said his son would never be a ruler, right,
he's just not cut not cut out for Yeah. That
was one of the reports early on was that the
Iatola Kamane who got taken out on the first day
that he had said his son is not to be
the iatola. You know, no hereditary monarchy kind of a
system and no, and he's just not cut out for
the gig. Brenda says that caller who keeps changing his name,
I think he was very disrespectful to you and Brett,
that makes me angry. It's okay to disagree, but be respectful. Yeah,
And that's the thing too. And I've got some of
these folks on the UH on the text line as well,
like if if you want to actually have a conversation
and try to persuade people to your view, like that's
not the way to go about doing it. I'm perfectly
willing and actually prefer to have a debate or a
discussion where we disagree, but it's on ideas, it's on philosophy,
it's on policies. But if you're just gonna come at
me with personal insults like well again, I can, I can,
I can argue with you in that regard to I
don't prefer it, but I am equipped to do so.
Jenny in Gastonia says Pete. Your second language is definitely Persian.
Hooked on phonics worked for you. I think I'm doing
a fantastic job with the pronunciations. What else, Oh, speaking
of the proxies, Israeli troops have now completed the capture
of an eight to ten kilometer deep strip of southern Lebanon.
So while Israel has been using all of this air
power over Iran and helping US rescue our airmen with
two commando units that they sent to help, they have
also been invading Lebanon. So Lebanon is on the northern
border of Israel, and Hezbala controls the southern part of
Lebanon along the Israeli border, which that's the area that
they have been launching all of these rockets and missiles
from so Israel is.
Speaker 2: Like, you know what, mow the lawn. And so they
went up into Lebanon.
Speaker 1: They've been up there for like two weeks, three weeks now,
and they have now secured an area eight to ten
kilometers wide, basically a buffer zone across their border with Lebanon.
I don't know how far up they're going to keep pushing,
because on you get far and up and there is
an actual government in the northern part of Lebanon. The
southern part is has Bala controlled, and that was sort
of their deal, you know, they're kind of like, okay,
you take that area and leave us alone, kind of
an idea. So Israel has been very successful there. They
deployed along a ridgeline running roughly parallel to their border.
The military also said that a fifth division, the elite
ninety eighth Paratroopers Division, had joined the fighting against Hisbala
in southern Lebanon as well. And then Amit Siegaal, who
is an Israeli journalist, citing one of his sources in
the government who told him the next twenty four hours
are the most decisive.
Speaker 2: In the war.
Speaker 1: If it were up to the political leadership in Iran,
there would have been a ceasefire long ago. There is
doubt about their control though, which is another piece of
evidence as I reported earlier that the Iranian leadership has
split and the IRGC is in control. All right, that'll
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