Iran HITS CIA Base & THAAD – Has Trump LOST the War? | Mohammad Marandi & Pepe Escobar

Welcome everyone. Welcome to the show. It's your host Danny Hi Fong and I am joined by two very dear friends of the show. We have Professor Mouhamad Mirandi from uh Tran and we have Pepe Escobar. Both here to talk about the latest developments in the war. Thank you so much gentlemen for joining me today. >> Thank you. >> Our pleasure. >> Well, let's let's get right to it gentlemen. Uh there are major updates in this conflict. Uh Iran is getting uh very strategic, incredibly strategic with its retaliation, hitting a CIA base station, hitting multiple THAD uh air defense systems in the UAE, especially one in the UAE uh as of the last 24 hours. I think there are only 11 of these in the world. But I wanted to ask you, Professor Morandi, uh, if you could put this retaliation in the context of what also is happening in Iran and how you think this is going at the moment given that the situation, I know, is quite dangerous in the country, but also Iran's retaliation has uh been uh quite furious and and many have been taking note of it. Well, ironically, the war has uh strengthened Iran despite the bombings and the slaughter and the bombings of schools and hospitals and the bombing of IIB, the Iranian national radio and television. I went there the night before last, I think. I usually don't go on Iranian TV, but u because of the war, I I said I'll I'll I'll go. And then um I mean I have nothing against it but I just don't want to be like a public figure in Iran. I'm already doing enough abroad. But I went the night before last and when I got to the studio because I'd been there a couple of years before it was destroyed and they said no you have to go to another building. So I went to another building and uh I did I did this interview till midnight and then I left and 1 hour later they bombed III again. So there you know they bomb Iranian radio and television. You don't hear about this in the western media. They bomb uh they bomb apartment blocks. They flatten homes and it's it's quite stunning. But aside from that and the criminality of the uh the Epstein regime, we see people very united. And I'm sure you've seen footage of this, but and I put this in my Twitter in my sorry in my Telegram account. Every night we have gatherings across the country in different cities and in Tehran they don't have a a single gathering. Sorry. They gather in different parts of the city like in 20 different squares and each of them are like in the I don't know hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands depending huge and uh people on the so there millions on the streets of Tehran even though a lot of people have left because the government shut down schools after they slaughtered the the little girls in the elementary school. They close all schools and universities and ask people to leave if they don't have work to do in Tehran. But the people on the streets and and you can see them in some of the clips that I put on my u um Telegram channel. people on the streets are chanting and then you can see anti-aircraft uh defenses working because they're under missile attacks and people don't budge. They won't move. They won't run. Men and women, huge crowds in different parts of the city. I've I've never, you know, I've never I never thought I'd see that sort of thing in my life. And so the mood in Thran is is very defiant. People are united. And um and actually I totaled an example, an anecdotal example uh to to the judge on his program that uh three of my own students, well they're not there's [snorts] students of my faculty. Uh a couple of them I never had class with before, but um they were apparently from what they were saying uh involved in these riots that we had in January. Not like with knives and you know not or weapons and guns just like the some of the young people who are with these who are foolish enough to believe uh the propaganda coming from the western Persian language media outlets funded by western intelligence agencies and uh they all these three people contacted me and both of them were very two of them were very emotional and they were asking me how can we help? How can we make up for what we did? It was quite moving actually speaking to a couple of them. And uh it just shows that you know what what what the the Trump and Netanyahu and these uh barbaric regimes have done is they've taught the younger generation in Iran. What we could not teach them because they did not witness the revolution. They did not experience the sha, the sabak, his secret police, the brutality, the the slaughter on the streets of Thran during the revolution. They didn't experience the US backed war by of Saddam Hussein. They didn't experience chemical weapons. They didn't see these things. So now they're experiencing firsthand what the United States really is, what the regime in Washington, what the empire, what this evil empire, what this epsen regime really is. And so it's it's united people in a way in which not even the 12- day war did. This is just something this is just something different. And as I told you the scenes on that are on the streets of Tehran, people under you've seen some of the footage of the vicious air strikes. These these people are sick barbarians. These Americans and these Zionists just destroying neighborhoods. But you see the people on the streets and when they see the the the surfaceto-air defenses, they don't move. They say, "We're ready for martyrdom." They chant against the United States. Now, I find it, you know, I think if anyone wonders why people chant death to America in these ceremonies in Iran, do they still wonder why? So the Islamic Republic of Iran today is stronger than what it was much stronger than what it was a week ago and who was always popular and Pepe has been to Iran is a popular figure administration some of them become popular then they become unpopular then they may become popular again but he's always been popular. Yes, he has his opponents. Some people despise him. Some people are indifferent to him. But he's popular. But when he was martyed, a lot his image went even became even greater in eyes of all different sectors of society. He refused to leave his house in office because he said that a lot of people are struggling and they have nowhere to go. And since they have nowhere to go, I'm not going anywhere. >> He was super clean. None of his children have businesses, even a small shop. Not because he's against business, but he says that since you're linked to me, you should you should not be in business. So they all are educated. They either teach at university. His son-in-law who was martyed taught at Tabian Mudes University which is near the University of Tehran near where I teach. Um his um his children are all highly educated. They either teach at seminaries or universities. And so he and also he was a person who was imprisoned many multiple times during the sha's reign tortured and then after the revolution he was the youngest of the leadership and when the war started he immediately went to the war fronts even though he had never held a gun before even though he had never been trained before he learned how to fight in war fronts later he became president he survived an assassination attack. That's why his right arm is disabled. He became president and then during the last months of the war when the United States entered the battle alongside Saddam during the last few months and the US began to bomb they shot down an Iranian airliner killing 100 290 people. They destroyed a number of Iranian naval ships. They destroyed Iranian oil facilities and and murdered a lot of Iranians. So the warfront Saddam Hussein was was had become unstable. He went to the warfront as president and I saw him there and he was a target obviously but he he he had no fear. This is an intellectual who spoke four languages who was fluent in four languages Persian. He is like a literature scholar. His knowledge of Persian literature is enormous. When he speaks Persian, it's perfect. He speaks eloquently. His Arabic and his knowledge of Arabic culture and literature enormous. His his father is Ozari. He is very fluent in Ozi. His is a Iranian Azari city. He is very fluent. He was he is he was a close friend of the most famous Azeri poet of the last few centuries Shahiad and he knew English and he wrote he read novels in English including I I think his favorite novel that he read in English was Leisarab Hugo which also I think reflects his personality to a degree. because he was always a person who just like when he refused to leave his house and said I'm staying put because even though everyone knew he would be the first target so he's always stressing on different administrations whether leftist or to the right whether liberal or whatever we had diff we've had different administrations with very different world views during these years but he would always stress that we have to take take care of the marginalized, the underclass, the oppressed, those who've been left behind. And that's one major reason why he was so insistent that we have to support the Palestinians, the southern Africans during the resistance against apartheid. He traveled to southern Africa as president. Nelson Mandela very soon after he was released traveled to Tehran to meet him and called him his leader and he supported Nicaragua, Cuba and uh Venezuela because he saw them as the oppressed. And um he was he was a unique person. I I've never met I've never known a person like him uh in my life. No one near him. He's just he was an amazing person. But he is with regards to the military, he he he's he's organized the the state in a way that despite his demise, the armed forces is working 24 hours a day. Iran is firing missiles and drones at the American assets in the Persian Gulf and at the Israeli regime day and night. And since the Americans are unable to destroy any of these underground bases, which is itself was an active genius, this whole notion of setting up a defense system, creating your own drone industry and your own drone technology at a time when the world was still into airplanes and that sort of thing. Remember the Russians needed Iran's help. So this was his policy and then missiles and then having them underground, deep underground. And so since the American regime and the Israeli regime can't destroy any of these underground bases, they take it out on people. They bomb schools. They bomb hospitals. They bomb local police stations. They bomb cultural centers. They carry out double ta double tap attacks across the city of Tehan and in other cities. A friend of mine was in Ferosi Square, a place I think um Pepe has visited um Ferosi Square. >> They bombed Ferosi Square. A friend of mine was witness. He didn't hear of it. And then when people rushed to help and first responders were trying to find people under the rubble, they struck again. And they've done this in different areas in Tehran. A journalist who I think works for Drop Site News told me himself that he went to one of these squares where square you know public square and saw the devastation there and the people were saying they did the same thing there too. So the Americans and the Israelis are trying to take revenge on people because they can't access these underground bases. >> So this, you know, their viciousness aside, their their medieval character aside, the brilliance of this uh military uh structure I think is is extraordinary. And the fact that despite all the difficulties and maximum pressure sanctions right now in Iran, you don't see people in these long queues and lines for bread or whatever. >> Yeah. >> They've long before they've gathered stocks for this day. >> Wow. >> So for the next few months there won't be any real crisis unless the Americans start targeting other things which is is not impossible. But they'll I'm sure they have answers for that too. So the point is that Iran is stronger today. True. They're murdering people. They're destroying um public facilities. They're murdering children. They're murdering men and women. And the Western media completely indifferent. They're like cheerleaders for war. And it shows that there's no real difference between any of the Western media outlets. Although we all know this from Gaza and from Lebanon and from Yemen. There's no [laughter] difference between CNN and Fox News or the Guardian and the New York Times or and Breitbart. They're all the same. One is more bombastic, one maybe a bit more sophisticated or nuanced or not nuanced, but more subtle, but they're all the same. So, they start the war. Uh, you know, we were negotiating like last time and they start the war. That too in Iran was a an element which strengthened national unity because even those who were naive and and thought that maybe we could do a deal with Americans saw once again like eight n months ago that the Americans are liars, that the Americans are deceitful, that they have the worst qualities possible. these elites and so this strengthens national each of these elements. The fact that Western media is indifferent. The fact that Iran was negotiating and the other side tried to deceive Iran. Of course, this time around, no one was deceived. We all were expecting an attack. In fact, the night before the attack, me and a number of friends, we were talking together and we were all saying the chances that it'll be tonight are very high. So, but this all of these the march of the mubai to the fact that they began with the slaughter of children just just like when they shot down the airliner which in my opinion was intentional and the bombing of this school was definitely intentional without a doubt. Without a doubt you could find this school on Google Google map. How could they not know where they're bombing? So, in any case, national unity today is much stronger. It was always strong, but it was stronger. Some of those people, at least from my own anecdotal experience and from things that a couple of my colleagues have said, some of those young people who got caught up cut uh cut caught up in caught up in this um you know those riots, many of them have shifted. Their views have evolved. They've woken up. We couldn't have with hundreds of hundred years of textbooks and u philosophy professors and political prof professors we couldn't have convinced them to change their views. But Trump and Netanyahu within 24 hours they taught these kids what we learned when we were young, what we experienced when I survived chemical attacks. I'll never forget it. These kids are witnessing the true America. They are witnessing the true what the true the essence of Western Empire, the essence of Zionism, the essence of the Epstein class. They're feeling it. When you see all these dead kids or families screaming from under the rubble, just like in Gaza and in Lebanon or in Yemen, you you you comprehend it in a very different way. And so the United States for the at least for years to come have have have shown has shown to younger Iranians what it really means the United States. >> Yeah. >> And hopefully by the time the next generation grows up the empire will be gone. >> Yeah. Well, uh, Pepe, I wanted to get your reaction to Iran's retaliation as you have seen it to this aggression, uh, given all these great points by, uh, person. >> Hey, can I do my oldest profession in the world a little bit with Muhammad? I want to be the interviewer for 10 minutes if that's okay. >> Go right ahead. Go right ahead. >> Okay. And then and then you can ask me something. But I think we need to get from Muhammad because he is in the battlefield in the theater a few precisions. Muhammad uh I have two sets of questions three or four let's say each. First thing is the run being carpet bombed day and night. Is it out of revenge, spite, impotence, pure perversion? Because they know that the only weapon that they may have now is to intimidate the civilian population. Considering that they are being hammered all across the spectrum from Israel to all across the Gulf. Uh and related to that are air the air defense uh network in Thran as you see it is it working properly is it uh so so or it has been disabled this is the first set uh what's really happening in Thran on the ground now please >> no air defenses are not disabled but the um United States Air Force, which is much larger than that of the Israeli regime, combined with the Israeli regime, is a a ve is a is very large. And so a lot of the um the the air defenses have been working very hard to protect the country, but they do get through. Much of the strikes come are with missiles. They fire either uh from the jets from over airspace or Kuwaiti airspace or Saudi airspace or other areas in the Persian Gulf. And uh they or and and Iraqi airspace. Of course, the Iraqi government is opposed to this, but they can't do anything about it. Uh but sometimes they from my understanding, they do enter Iranian airspace. they are met with air defense uh and with Iranian jets but u you know it's a very complicated battlefield and the and the American have lots of jets so Iranian air defenses I would say their major improvement has been against drones and also Iranian intelligence has been much better. We don't have the sabotage at all that we had eight, nine months ago, which is a big deal. We u the drones that the the Americans and the Israelis use to to find targets, they they are being shot down very regularly. And of course, we know that three American jets were shot down over Kuwait. The Iranians say they shot it down. The Americans say it was friendly fire, which I think is even worse in a way because if you're going to shoot down your own jets, that doesn't say much about your your technology. But um no, I it's not as if the air defenses have collapsed. That's that's not the case. But they are heavily bombing terror. Sometimes they do strike particular targets, but often they're just striking neighborhoods. Like for example, the um Gandhi hospital They they struck this hospital and it's been evacu it's a private hospital. So it has nothing to do with [cough] the government and they struck the the um the IVF u um clinic. So a lot of women who wanted to have babies will probably not be able to have babies now. and the uh infant ward was particularly badly damaged. They've struck many hospitals across the country and um police stations. So what they're trying to do but when they bomb like the the police they bomb the neighborhood like the police it's you you've been to Teran. It's not as if like there are these separate buildings and it's there's just a part of the city. you strike and and the buildings around uh are damaged or collapsed or you they miss. But what they're trying to do is they're trying to destroy the uh social fabric of Iran. >> They want to demolish the social fab fab fabric to create chaos. And um and in the process they you know they they carry out mass air massive air strikes and when you go see these neighborhoods uh it's it's like it's like hell but um so I would say it's a combination but it's mostly it's mostly to intimidate and I I think the real reason behind these air strikes on civilians and civilian targets and and and all that is basically out of frustration that they they've not been able to uh weaken Iran Iran's missile capabilities or drone capabilities and they also underestimated their capabilities and the reason is because Iran has many underground missile cities that they don't know about. They the Iranians are not using most of the cities at all. They and they were not they're using the same missile uh cities that they used in in the previous war and the others remain untouched and Iran's factories to build missiles and drones are all underground. >> So Iran continues to make new drones and to make new missiles of different types and the Americans can't do anything about it. So that angers them. Um, Iran has now been able to, as both of you know, uh, weaken the air defenses of both Israeli regime and in the Persian Gulf. They've been using older missiles for the most part almost exclusively. These missiles were made 20 years ago. So the Iranians are firing them off and emptying the air defenses both in the Persian Gulf, but mostly in Israel. In the Persian Gulf, they've been using older drones for the most part and again destroying air defenses and emptying air defenses. But in the Persian Gulf, they're destroying their defenses very effectively. So as time goes by, Iran can use less missiles to do more and they haven't even really touched their newer technology and they can use less drones to do more and they haven't really been using their newer technology. And one reason that that shows Iran's strength is the fact that the Americans can do nothing about the straight of hormones. So Trump said that he's going to >> uh send in the Navy to escort the ships. Let's see him do it. He can't. Those ships will all be they'll sink. In fact, one reason why the air strikes in Iran have been less effective across the country is because the Americans and the uh the Americans there they have to uh take their jets and their naval ships, keep them far away. And so when the planes come, they have to uh um they have to refuel in the air, then strike, then go back and refuel, and then land wherever it is they land. Apparently, a lot of them go to Cyprus. Uh, from what I or from what I've heard, a lot of the jets um have left Saudi Arabia and uh Jordan because Iranian missiles have been striking them and they've gone to Cyprus and that's where they take off and and uh murder women and children. >> Thank you, Muhammad. Now the short uh second set which is about Mustava Hame. He has not been confirmed yet officially as the new supreme leader in case he is and the best information that I had in the beginning of the week is that he was the front runner and today there are some indirect confirmations that he has already been chosen. If that's the case, give us your personal analysis of uh Mustaba, which seems to be extremely competent, tough as nails, excellent relationship with the leadership of the IRGC. What can uh Iran and the Gulf and the global south expect of him if he's really the new u supreme leader and and just complementing what you just told us about the situation on the ground in Thran and the apparently indiscriminate attack on civilians which is the new strategy especially the past 48 hours or so. We can read the initial attack on day one on the elementary girl school by the abstense syndicate as a ritualistic murder. It totally ties with their mindset. It was uh an intimidation right on day one is exactly to throw society into total convers convulsion and act horrific beyond belief which of course as we all know didn't merit a single comma of condemnation by the whole of NATO the whole collective west so maybe they are trying to apply the same methodology let's put it this way to the civilian population in Thran and in some other major cities. Thanks Muhammad. >> You know, you know, on the first day I I did a I think I did a tweet and I said that uh these Epstein class murderers and rapists now, you know, murder and rape girls are now bombing girls. And it's that's to be expected of these people. And uh I just just as I do not believe that the downing of the Iran Airflight was an accident. We had eight years of war with Saddam Hussein and we never accidentally you know shot down a plane. The only time where we did was the Ukrainian plane which was tragic. But this was very different. We the Americans were not under duress. The Iranian airplane was flying from Bandara bus to Dubai. a very short fly flight and it was flying in its corridor [clears throat] and it was very clear as day what was happening and the Americans wanted the war to end. They were bombing Iranian facilities and Iran did not have the naval and um the capabilities to to really fight back uh effectively because they're busy with Iraq. So I I'm I'm I'm I believe that they that downing of that plane was intentional, especially since the United States never apologized. And uh the US vice president at the time Bush the senior said, "I'll I'll never apologize for anything that the Americans have done." And um but with regards to the leader so far no announcement has been made and I don't I can't really comment on individuals because I'm people abroad and some people in Iran uh for some reason no matter the more I the more I say this is not true the more some people are convinced that it is true but I don't you know I'm not in government I'm not a part of the And uh so if I comment on any of these issues, it could have it could it could I lead people push people in the wrong direction. What I can say is that there will be continuity. The council of um experts which is an elected body that chooses and removes the leader according to the constitution. they will vote for someone like with the same world view. And what I would add here is that a lot of things have changed in Iranian politics. A lot of things have changed. A lot of differences that exist until existed until recently no longer exists. views on the United States, views on the West are much more similar among the political class and and those who are involved in politics than they were a few years ago. Even I don't want to mention websites but some of the you know some of the media outlets in Iran that I really dislike and who have been very pro-American in recent days they have been very critical of of the West. So I see a a new awakening in Iran. Sort of like those anecdotal examples that I gave earlier. I think that's it's not just the youth and it's not just ordinary people but it's also the political elites. So whoever becomes leader I think that that person will be pursuing similar policies that we've been experiencing in the past and that mean and that is not good news for the United States especially since as I said those in the in the in the um let's say um in the more let's I don't know if I can put it this way anymore but the more liberal camp in Iran Many of them have shifted their views. You know, when you actually see the slaughter, when you actually see them targeting women and children, when you see them bomb, the first hospital that they struck in Tehran was the Gandhi hospital. ironically >> you know >> these people I mean the Indian government which is so much in love with Israel uh the Gandhi hospital and a private hospital and so um this is this has changed the way people see things some of some of these I mean these Iran these so-called Iranians who live abroad many of them by the way are on the payroll tens of thousands of Iranians abroad are on the payroll in one way or another you have 4,000 th000 Iranians just in Albania in a troll farm and then you have thousands in other troll farms. You have hundreds of Persian language media outlets, television stations. All of these are funded by Western governments. They're not making money uh from from you know expensive in their expensive studios or you know using satellite that costs money. the western governments pay for it and they have staff and they have, you know, they have people, they have websites, they have Telegram channels, they have Twitter accounts and then you have all these elites and cooperating with think tanks. They're they're probably 20, 10, 20,000 so-called Iranians on the payroll. And >> these people outside of Iran, they portray of an Iran that you've been here. So it's no, I'm not I'm not saying this to you. I'm talking I'm speaking that I'm saying this to the audience. These people are portraying an Iran that is only in their imagination. It's a completely different Iran. Doesn't exist on planet Earth. no matter how much they try. You can find people in Iran who think like them, although increasingly smaller in number. But that's not Iran. That's a small segment of Iran. Just as we saw during the anniversary of the revolution, the millions who came to the streets in Tehran, tens of millions across the country, but during the last few nights, it's it's stunning. millions of people under threat of death and destruction, they won't budge. So whoever comes to power has a very strong mandate and has the the the the Iranian population behind them and Iranians want punishment and Iran and they're they are going to punish the United States and what they're doing in the Persian Gulf. Whatever harm they do to Iranian women and children, what Iran can do to them in the Persian Gulf is enormous. Right now, the Iranians are only beginning to show what they can do. They've shut the straight of Hormos, but they're not destroying the ships. They've they've they've >> badly damaged 10 or 15 I think roughly 15 tankers who are disobeying and tried to cross the straight of Hormos and they badly struck them and some of them have sunk but most of the ships are are staying put and the Iranians are waiting. Some of these installations in the Persian Gulf are being destroyed those that are linked to US interests. However that's divi defined hotels which host US forces their targets US bases that are linked to ports those ports uh that may be civil right now a lot of US forces are in civilian ports those civilian ports are targets none of these Arab dictatorships are in a position to complain these family dictatorships have allowed the Americans to set a base and conspire against Iran and launch a war. They're all complicit. They can't have their cake and eat it too. They are murdering Iranian women and children. So, which is a an American proxy has no right to complain about you or the uh the Qatari foreign minister or apparently I I heard from someone that he said we will not stay indifferent. Ifar tries anything against Iran, that will be the end of it. It'll be finished. >> Mhm. >> In a day. If Iran want they can destroy all these oil and gas facilities and it will take years to rebuild them. And if Iran wants everyone, all the Americans to leave, all they have to do is destroy the desalination plants and it'll be over. And they they can destroy the the tankers. If that happens, there will be no oil to take out of the straight of hormones, and there'll be no tankers to take that non-existent oil or gas out of the straight of hormones. So, right now, the Iranians are telling the Americans, "This is up to you. We did not want this war. We want to live and allow people to thrive. We want this genocide in Gaza to come to an end. this holocaust, but we don't want to create a third world war and we don't want to bring down the global economy. But there's not a thing in the world that the Americans can do to stop Iran if he wants to do that. Trump just said that he'll open up the straight of hormones. Let's see him do it. Let's see him do it. >> Can't. >> So, this is where things are. And I think that as you know as things stand we are heading towards uh and we're heading towards a a much more dangerous situation but uh but again both of you know we've discussed this before in person online. These are things that we've been saying for years. I mean, when Trump says he was surprised that Iran struck at the Persian Gulf, well, he's he's an idiot and his advisers are idiots, it was obvious it was going to happen. I've said it on Danny's show, I'm sure, multiple times. Right now, they're bombing Tan. I don't know if you can hear it. >> No, I can't. >> The air defenses are working, so obviously the bombs are going to explode any moment. So, >> can you hear her? Anyway, >> so it was it's clear as day. I mean, if they were if they had been watching Danny's show, they would have known that the Iranians are not going to sit back and allow the Americans to to destroy Iran's civil society and from bases in the Persian Gulf and let the Gatari dictatorship or the Emirati dictatorship just sit there and have their cake and watch it on CNN. It's not going to happen. That's not how it's going to happen. And I've been warning these some of these have complained to the Iranian government about me last year when I when the Wall Street Journal said that when Trump comes back to power he's thinking about bombing Iran. And I wrote a tweet saying that well if he does that'll be bad because Sankam is in Qatar near Dha and uh it'll be destroyed and then the Kataris were very upset and I'm not even in government. So some people I mean the foreign ministry asked me called me and said can you delete the tweet? The only time in my life that I've ever deleted a tweet or the the sub I mean I may have mis uh my grammar or something was was wrong back then in the day when you couldn't edit. I may have deleted many tweets or multiple tweets but this the only time in my life that I deleted a tweet was when they asked the foreign ministry asked me to do so because the spokesman for the foreign ministry is a friend. I did it because he's a friend and that's it basically. But but I was I was telling facts. It's obvious what's going what would happen. And then when the Americans bombed Iran last time around, Iran struck Doha. Exactly as I said. And this time around when the Americans are waging war against the Iranian people with all those bases and the Persian Gulf, what do they expect from Iran? And why should the Saudis or the Emiratis or the Jordanians complain? And the the most disgusting thing of all, and this does not reflect on people in this region, but to see Turkey, the regime, allow US bases and Turkey to be used against us, allow Awax jets to fly over Turkish airspace to gather data for the United States to bomb us while they are transporting the alif regime's in af regime's oil to Netanyahu. Discounted oil is despicable. And it just shows the AKA party is fake. They should go and start thinking about football and uh the economy and television and movies and stop talking about Palestine because it's all fake. It's it was all just to build up their own image. when they allowed the Hamas to go there, it was because the Americans asked them to do it and the Israelis just like Doha and the same is true with Doha. These are all the Doha is a proxy, the Emirates, all so but none of all of these countries are helping the United States. Some more and some less in the Persian Gulf all they're all in. Jordan, it's all in. They're all in. Turkey more subtle, but they're helping and they're cooperating with it. >> So, it's basically Iran against the whole West. these proxy regimes. And what does Iran sin? Two things. Iran wants to be independent. And two, Iran can't accept genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine. That's why we're so horrible. That's why we're the evil regime. That's why for 47 years they've been demonizing us. And one final note, poor Danny, it's his show and we're not even he's not even talking. [laughter] >> I love it. Keep going. Keep going. >> One final note. I've been doing this program on Almyadin every week and for a few weeks. It's not my thing, but sort of I I was pushed into it and uh I'm not good at these things. But last week, I'm I'm not doing it now from this week because because of the situation, things have changed. There's but um until the war ends, I guess. But last Friday I did a I did a program. It's a monologue and it was about the forever collapsing Islamic Republic that how in the west the Islamic Republic of Iran is always collapsing. And I did some research well thanks thanks to uh Deepseek mostly but I did some research and well I didn't really do any research. Deepseek really gave me a lot of information. I just put it together. and um the the headlines in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los the Los Angeles Times and so on. If you remove those headlines and the key phrases and sentences and the articles and put them in today's New York Times and Washington Post and so on, you wouldn't know the difference. And anyone can go after this show and take a look at my program. >> They can look at my program. I quote them. The revolution is failing. The youth like in the 1990s, in the late 1990s, I think the youth are who don't have memories of the revolution don't want it anymore. The 1990s, the a second revolution is brewing. This was back then and nothing has changed. So every time they'll say people are protesting, of course it's an evil regime. It's unpopular. They gun down peaceful protesters on the streets and all that all that nonsense and all those lies. And many in the West believe it because they're brought up in with this fake narrative. But when they act against Iran, their head hits a brick wall. Why? Because the reality is one thing and their fake narratives are something else. It's an alternative Iran. It's a fake Iran. It's their imaginary Iran that these Iranians on the exile who are on their payroll and some of the Iranians who are not but they left Iran with the sha or they left with the mek or or you know I know Iranians I mean I know quite a few Iranians in the west. If you speak in favor of Iran, it's not going to do you any good in getting a job and getting employed. Uh I mean, if someone like me went to the United States, they wouldn't allow me to teach in a kindergarten class for my because of my political views. So obviously people are conditioned to think in a certain way as well. But in any case that that those segments of the diaspora, if we can call them the diaspora that advocate war, death and destruction, they're they have nothing to do with the reality in Iran and public opinion in Iran. But nothing is going to change in Western media because it's it's Epstein class control. Just like just like Trump is Epstein class control, the media is Epstein class control. So that is the narrative. But anyone who thinks otherwise is fool just like I mean Gaza I think was evidence enough. And then in addition to the western media, it's this Arabic media and regional media, they're the same because these oil and gas rich despots which are proxies of the west, their media, whether it's Katana, they have an empire. Each and every one of them, it's not just Al Jazzer or Al Arabia or Sky News Arabia. They have all sorts of funding for websites and TV channels and these Wahhabi and Salafi clerics and their centers and so on. They've been doing the same thing, demonizing Iran, telling how everyone how evil the Iranians are, how evil the Shia are. They've been always telling the [laughter] Palestinians how evil the Shia are. And then the Persian media empire that the west created whenever someone would say whenever they say these things they translate it into Persian and then broadcast it. So Iranians would see, wow, they hate us. They hate the Shia. They want us dead. And then if a Palestinian says something about Iran, which some have, then they would focus on that. So that Iranians would say, well, why are we helping the Palestinians when they they want us dead? You know because some of these people are techi you know Salafi Wahabi I know some of these people they have TV I know people have TV stations in London they're techi but he didn't care he wouldn't allow this sort of thing to change the view of him or his supporters about the Palestinian people he said he say they are oppressed, they are being ethnically cleansed and we have to support them. And that says a lot, by the way, about the Iranians in general, those who support the Palestinian cause, because they are being told day and night that the Palestinians hate you, that the Arabs hate you, and so on and so forth. But yet, and and and a lot of this is not true. It's a lot of this is exaggeration and that's the objective. It's a divide and rule and it's not as if I mean right now you've seen it after the march of how much support he has across the region and and what people are saying about him scholars Sunni Shia Christians Jews what you know so but the point is that these regimes and those on the payroll like the western media they have been trying their best to create division But despite that, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran has been steadfast in its support for the Palestinian people. And I think that's that's a very big thing. If you're still there, Danny, you can join the conversation. >> Yeah. No, I'm still here. It's a incredible analysis. Press Marty and Pepe. Incredible questions. Thanks so much for for bringing those in. You know, my only question if Pepe wants to join, >> maybe maybe we should just take over the show and call it >> the Muhamad Pepe show, the Pepe Muhammad show and just remove you from the from the you YouTube channel >> and it and it would work because your names are all in the title. So, it would be totally everyone it would be convincing. Um, no, but Pepe, >> but Pepe, if you wanted to chime in here, your reaction to, you know, I named just some of the developments in the beginning of the show with the Iran hitting the CIA station in Riyad. They've hit this absolutely critical radar in Qatar. Qatar is shutting down their uh gas trade. Now, uh there's been so many developments rolling in on Iran's retaliation. And I wanted to ask you what have you made of it and and maybe you can help the audience understand just how big in scope it is because now we also have Hezbollah back in. I don't think we've mentioned that. Maybe professor Marty you did earlier in the program but uh there's so many elements to this but I wanted Pepe if you could help the audience understand it. Uh yes, I I was putting together a very long column before our conversation. So be in the middle of the night here in Southeast Asia. uh trying to put all these uh all these interlocking elements together to give an overall view of how this uh decentralized mosaic strategy which is the official Iranian denomination to what they're doing how it is evolving and how sophistic is immensely sophisticated uh it is uh from the beginning and starting uh with the fact that the counter punch to the decapitation strike started half an hour after the decapitation strike and it was relentless and it was multifactor simultaneous all over the spectrum Israel and um Israeli and US interests uh across the Gulf and that continues maybe in the past okay less than 24 hours. Uh the Iranians are launching less missiles. It doesn't matter. And as Muhammad was saying, uh super correctly, these are the old ones. So they still have a lot of [laughter] old missiles to launch because they haven't even started with the new ones and with the ones that we don't even know that they have. This is going to be for the next stage when we're gonna have the interceptor crisis especially after four or five days time from like in the beginning of next week then we're going to h we're going to be in interceptor crisis hell for Israel and for the US. So the the the timing of the escalation the way has been planned. This was obviously months in planning. Of course obviously started before the 12- day war but they learned from their mistakes during the 12- day war. They are not repeating their mistakes after the 12- day war. And of course now they have that extra uh I would say pigment in the in the whole picture which is direct intel satellite and first class information in real time from Russia and from China. This doesn't have to be advertised by anyone of this strategic triad. It's there and it's working. And obviously everybody knows considering all like Muhammad has been to Moscow many times. We even met in Moscow several times and we know how the the interaction at the highest level of the Russian Ministry of Defense and the Iranian Ministry of Defense, how it works and how they help each other. And for instance, there are some elements of even poetic justice they discovered in some of the drones used in um in the current battlefield uh which theoretically are shahids, but they were sort of uh uh upgrades of the shahids that Russians bought and then manufacturing Russia as geraniums. and using the jamming devices in the jeranians but now in the shahits in Iran. This is absolutely fascinating. It's a back and forth of technology which imply implies that the strategic relationship in terms of exchanging state-of-the-art technology is up there and stuff that people discover only late after the fact. in fact the the the comet jamming device in the Iranian chahed uh drones. So uh now uh I I see we are progressing through across two parallel tracks and it's very very dangerous because they won't intersect. They were two parallel tracks and they are running towards the uh you know the the the finishing line which is not going to be a finishing line. It's going to be a finishing line for the next few weeks. Can Iran resist for the next few days until the interceptor help is definitive on the Israeli side and on the American side and then they can go to the next stage which is totally obliterate all these uh bases CIA cells and American installations all across the Gulf. those that are not obliterated yet and of course go against Israel no holds barred with their latest generation hypersonic missiles. This is one thing and the other parallel track is if the Americans see that they are entering interceptor or hell and this is going to be a the next stage of the war, they can do what they are already doing as Muhammad explained to us only a few minutes ago which is bombing civilian targets in Thran and in other major cities of Thran and then go for the Gaza syndrome level a great deal of Iran out of impotence, revenge, total perversion, and because they think they can get away with it, which is even worse. So that's very very dangerous and this is where we are in the next crucial I would say five days, one week from now. Uh is this going to change the uh everything that is behind this centralized mosaic strategy and uh the Iranian strategy which is essentially death by a thousand cuts against the US and against Israel at the same time. No, it's not going to change. So uh if we if we follow the logical conclusion of these two parallel tracks advancing like crazy on both sides and never meeting it is really an existential war. It's a do or die war especially for Iran. And of course Iran now is representing the whole global south. That's my personal thesis. This is a war not only against Iran but against the three top bricks Iran, Russia and China against bricks as a whole and a against bricks partners and against the global south as a whole. This means against 88 89% of the global population. So that's why this is the the word that is going to define geopolitically the rest of the century. And this is not hyperbolic at all. These are the facts now. And Iran is in the front line. And what what I found particularly touching and it's not a stretch at all is that we owe this to three Shiite martyrs. In fact, we owe this to General Salmani. We owe this to Sed Nazallah. And we owe this to this is the triad that was martyed and that was killed by the empire of chaos and that death cult in West Asia. And now Shiite Islam with their lead the leader of 300 million plus Shiites all over the world killed by this genocidal empire and of course their aircraft carrier in West Asia. They are defending the whole of the global south in fact which is something that a lot of beyond stupidified and brainwashed so-cal leftists all across the west from France and Germany to Brazil for that matter they still don't get it they can't because they have been completely brainwashed so uh that that's why we are in the middle of the defining moment of the 21st century geopolitically. It's as clear as I it cannot be more clear than that. And we all hope Iran is not going to be destroyed which is something that they would not even think twice the empire of chaos and the death cult in West Asia to do. If Iran is destroyed, the rest of the century in terms of real freedom for the global south as a whole is destroyed. At the moment, these people have already managed to blow bricks from the inside. Blow the SEO from the inside. The SEO launched an absolutely ridiculous communicate a day or two ago. They are two crippled uh uh crypto walking dead organizations at the moment. Uh the great deal of the global south is too apopleic to organize any sort of reaction. Uh the United States well it was six feet under now it's 12 feet under. >> Yeah. >> And is not going to resurrect anytime soon. There's not going to be a return of the living UN dead. So, uh, it's it's terrible. The only thing we see, I would say the only glimpse of possible light at the end of this very dark tunnel is that series of phone call of Vladimir Putin early this week with everybody that matters in the Persian Gulf. In fact, they called him. They asked him, "Do something. Can you can you be the mediator? So, in Moscow, I was in Moscow last week before the war. Unfortunately, I left Moscow. Uh, wow. Three days before the war and I and I went through, of all places, I went through Oman. I was in Oman two days before the the war. Of course, there was all sorts of rumors all around the world, but we will never expect that. Muhammad was saying that on Friday in Thran they were expecting that it could happen between Friday and Saturday in Oman on Thursday people were saying no we're gonna have a the next uh meeting the indirect meeting on Monday so you know and they are still discussing there's a possibility of a deal and all that poor Omanis very gracious of course but poor Omanis of course so uh at least a lot stuff is now absolutely clear. Death of international law, death of the UN, death of any possibility of mediation or negotiation or diplomacy with the empire of chaos, plunder and permanent strikes or if you you if we don't like you, we kill you. That's what it is now. uh the mafiization the total mafiization of uh the American presidency led by a megalom called mafio taught by an advisor of makartist a senator Joe Joseph McCarti that tells you everything about Trump who taught Trump to be the thing that he is now he learned it from a martyr that's it that's the that's a very simple answer so he has to to act like a a boss or or an an aspirant to Tony Soprano the way he is now. That's why he really is. Uh we should not be astonished by all that. What we should be astonished at is that the sovereignty of the United States is also six feet under after the start of this war. This is a war by a mafio presidency uh basically following orders of a genocidal war criminal. And when we have historians in the 21st century, independent historians from the global south who will be writing the history of the 21st century. this is what is going to be uh written you know and this was the final moral not to mention geopolitical geoconomic etc collapse of so-called western civilization which by the way uh at the mun security conference via the little pathetic Kusano Marco Rubio was described as yes we are the heirs of western civilization the heirs of you European ans and now we're going to recolonize the global south and you Europeans you have to be with us and you're going to recover all the previous bling historical bling bling that you have thanks to us Americans. So at least now everything is clear. The enormous tragedy of all that is that this is clear via another completely absurd, murderous, incredibly pervert war that started with the decapitation strike of a leader of a sovereign nation and the killing of 160 or 70 girls in elementary school in a ritualistic murder by a bunch of perverts who adore their piece of God with that piece of that nobody can stand. At least it's clear to all of us, you know. And what we're leaving these days at least is okay, let's see if Iran with their decentralized mosaic strategy, if they are capable to put up enough resistance to turn the game around and to teach a lesson to this bunch of perverts. >> Yeah. Yeah. Powerful stuff. Are you guys are you guys good for another 10 minutes? Uh do you have that Pepe and Muhammad Professor Mi? >> Yeah, I have. >> Yeah, I want to hear I want to hear I'm here to hear Muhammad. >> Absolutely. >> I I I have to leave in 10 10 minutes because I have to go on u I I regret to say I have to go on uh Pierce Morgan's show. Uh by the way, there you I don't know again if you can hear the exploding. >> Yeah. So, yes. Anyway, so but yeah, I can be I can be on for a few more minutes. >> Okay. All right. Well, I guess my final question are you gonna talk with that piece of What again, Muhammad? >> H anyway, I I didn't want to, but >> hey, I understand you your patience and your wisdom. [laughter] >> You're very kind. Well, uh I guess uh you know my final question to both of you uh the United States of course is not talking like this. Uh they're talking about you know Trump administration says it's wiped out everything. We've even seen Israel and the US post videos essentially of uh bombings of uh what look like decoys painted uh helicopters and jets on the ground and showing that as some kind of major feat. But of course, Iran is getting hit and now they're talking about uh Professor Mandi uh Kurdish possible a Kurdish insurgency and uprising that they want to bring into the country to help with the overall goal it seems of regime change. What do you make of this and the overall hubris of of the United States right now? Well, just first a reminder, uh, if we go back a few months to the 7-week war against Yemen, every day they were telling us how they're wiping out the Ansarah forces and or the Houthis as they call them, they like to call them, and that they're devastating them. And I think uh, Pepe knows a thing or two about that. He was there. So we were hearing how every you know it's finished and then suddenly after 7 weeks Trump came on television said they capitulated we won it's over and he walked away and it turns out that it was the exact opposite. Yemen won the despite the fact of course that the Trump regime slaughtered many innocent people. We recall those messages on I think signal where they said the this guy the their missile leader went into a building to see his girlfriend. I mean obviously they're clueless about what they're talking about. There was no missile leader killed. There was no girlfriend. They just brought down an entire apartment block slaughtering everyone based on fake intelligence. But they lost the war. So I wouldn't take anything that they say seriously. The Trump regime is always winning and they're winning on all fronts about everything in the world. So when they talk about winning against Iran, put it alongside all their other winnings and it has about the same amount of credibility. They won in the trade war. They won in u in Yemen. They're always winning. So okay, they can they can continue saying that. But the reality on the ground is that no oil is leaving the Persian Gulf until the Iranians say so. And Trump said he's going to open the Persian Gulf. He's going to open the state of foremost. Let's see him do it. That is where Iran has Trump by the throat. The entire Persian Gulf. Anyone who knows a thing or two about the Persian Gulf knows that it's the most sensitive place on this planet. It's not very wide and it's full of oil and gas facilities. If you land at any airport in the Persian Gulf, you fly over oil and gas installations and tankers. I don't know if you saw that clip two, three days ago when the Iranians hit a uh a a tanker with a missile and it the tank the missile was flying by all these other tankers. They they didn't because those tankers were obeying orders. The other one was listening to the Americans. They went and struck that tanker. So the Iranians, they can pull the plug and there's nothing that the Americans can do about it. If the Iranians hit the desolination plants, they have to leave immediately. Everyone has to go and go to Jordan or wherever. If they destroy the oil and gas installations, already nothing is [laughter] coming out of the Persian Gulf. But if they destroy the installations, then it's over. And they can do the same with Azarbaijan. So Trump should be very careful. I mean, he can boast all he wants. But the Iranians are steadfast. And the Iranian culture, Iranian religious ideology, and the march of has made them extremely steadfast. We are being bombed as we speak, but we're not afraid. We're not intimidated and we're not going to relinquish the Palestinian people, nor are we going to relinquish the Cubans. And here, just before I leave, I want to remind everyone that as this war is going on, they're starving the Cub Cuban people and they've taken the people of Venezuela hostage. So, these are dark days, as Pepe has said, very dark days, but they will not defeat the Islamic Republic of Iran. And as General Solommani said, as Pepe, since Pepe alluded to him, we are the nation of Im Hussein. So there's no such thing as surrender for us. Anyway, I hope uh I mean I'll later on I'll come back and listen to Pepe when because I have to leave now and and sign in for their their program which is recorded. But I'll listen to Pepe later on and to what you have to say. But uh I hope your audience uh remains active and prays for the Iranian people and for the resistance and for the Palestinians and for the Lebanese who are also being battered. They're slaughtering the Lebanese because Hezbollah is battling the Israeli regime. If people can boycott US goods or western goods, if people can raise awareness about what's going on in Cuba, in our region, in Palestine, in Gaza, and Lebanon, uh I am absolutely certain that there will be light at the end of the tunnel. Whether people like me are around to see it is completely irrelevant. So, bye for now. >> Goodbye, Professor Mirandi. Great to be with you. We'll be in touch. Definitely. Thanks so much. >> Thank you, Muhammad. Bless you. >> Thank you, Pepe. >> All right. Uh, yeah, Pepe, we we we don't have to stick around too much longer. I just want your maybe your closing comments and anything we haven't mentioned with regard to this. >> I need to go as well. So, sorry. >> Yeah, sure. No problem. No problem. Any final comments, Pepe, that you want to impart? No, I think I I what I wanted to say I said it a few minutes ago. >> Uh th this is the the lesson for all of us in the global south and all of you in the global north who have critical thinking and uh who think and act like real human beings. M >> so I assume the majority of the planet let's be auspicious you know >> uh our future is being decided now >> yeah it is >> and the geopolitical future of the and the geopolitical future of the whole planet it could not be more serious than what's going on now >> yeah I just want to thank everyone thanks so much Pepe we'll head out together I want to thank everyone for watching all those who gave super chats that I'm pulling up on the screen right now I want to also make sure you know that Pepe Pepe's work uh you can find it on X and on Telegram. The links are in the video description also there. All the places to support this channel as well. Without further ado, everyone hit the like button. That will keep the show going uh so to speak. And I'll be back tomorrow with friends actually of Pepes and I uh uh uh we will have Larry Johnson and Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson on to continue the daily updates. Pepe, great to be with you. We'll head out together and take care everyone. >> Thank you so much, Dave. And thanks to all of you, our audience. Thank you. And you know, don't forget the struggle continues. >> It does. All right, everybody. See you tomorrow, 12:00 noon Eastern time.

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