HELLFIRE | U.S.–Israel Escalation, and Iran’s Leadership Crisis

0:00It was a day of infamy. Operation Jeffrey Epstein is not going well. A sneak attack in Ramadan, muddled in cold blood, the 86 year old leader of Shia Islam, igniting religious fervor and she had right across the world. The fact that his son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandson and granddaughter were also slain hasn't even been mentioned in the mainstream Western media, quickly followed by the massacre of more than 160 schoolgirls in an elementary school. That's scarcely been mentioned either, followed by 40 female volleyball players being slaughtered in a single air strike by Israeli and American forces. To date no Hollywood celebrity has been pictured cutting her hair in anguish

1:07and in solidarity. If you want the war news, if you want it straight, if you want to know what's happening and what's going to happen next, you've come to the right place. It's the mother of all talk shows. Stay tuned. You are listening to the Mother of All Talk shows podcast with George Galloway. It is the biggest single American atrocity since the Vietnam War, the massacre of 167 girls aged between 7 and 12 in their classrooms, in an elementary school close to the straits of hormones, in an obscure and far off part of Iran. For no reason that anyone can possibly father, all these children were massacred. All of them, every single child in five of the classrooms

2:16was massacred. Sixty others are wounded in hospital, many of them critical. Later in the first day of the war, 40 volleyball players, three squads of volleyball players, all female were massacred in a single air strike. I'm probably telling you that piece of news for the first time, but it's quite possible that you don't even know about the slaughter of the school girls. It is the biggest single slaughter of girls in the recorded history of the world, yet no one is talking about it. I don't want to labor this point, but just ponder for a second if Russia had killed 167 Ukrainian schoolgirls. If Palestinians had killed 167 Israeli schoolgirls,

3:20if Iran had killed 167 schoolgirls, this would be the biggest journalistic story in the world and four years to come. It has died just as surely as the schoolgirls and the volleyball players have died. It was a sneak attack. It was in the middle of negotiations when a date had been set for tomorrow in Vienna when the Iranian foreign minister was to travel to meet with Trump's son-in-law and his estate agent friend, Steve Wickoff, to Elginus, who know nothing whatsoever about the Muslim world, nothing whatsoever about diplomacy, nothing whatsoever about military matters, yet have inexplicably been made the chief negotiators of Donald J. Trump. The negotiations were set to continue on Monday, but on Saturday what will forever be known as the Epstein war

4:28was launched. I don't know what's in the dump that's coming out tomorrow from the Department of Justice in Washington, but it must be pretty horrific. Trump will claim that the Israelis jump the gun and force him into the war, but that's a lie like every other lie he tells. It now turns out according to Israeli media that this date was set two months ago, and it was set to coincide with the religious festival of Purim and it was all about dealing a death blow to the Amalex. It is an infamy that a head of state was assassinated in cold blood in his own house. It is flatly illegal under American law, never mind international law. Trump could and should be prosecuted

5:29for it. The missile, by the way, that killed all these schoolgirls was fired from the deck, a cruise missile fired from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, which may or may not be limping somewhere in the Persian Gulf. The Iranians say they hit it with four ballistic missiles, which would be a just reward for the massacre of the schoolgirls. The Americans say that the missile never hit the ship at all, but plenty of other things have been hit. Hundreds of Iranians have been killed. Tens of Israelis have been killed. Maybe more, but strict censorship in Israel makes it impossible to know the extent of the damage and definitely the extent of the casualties. One thing is clear, the head of the Israeli Air Force has been assassinated by an Iranian rocket, which devastated

6:32meeting of military officers, Air Force officers, principally. The head of the Israeli Air Force was the man who massacred tens, scores of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza over the last two years. I don't know where he's destined for. God decides that, but I'll be surprised if he's not already burning in the Hellfires. The other American targets that have been hit, you only know about if you're following me on social media as many hundreds of thousands are doing, millions, in fact, many millions of people have followed my coverage of the war on all platforms on social media. But if you're watching the BBC Line Machine, if you're watching the hysterical Zionist and American propaganda on CBS or on CNN, you probably don't know about the American

7:34officers who were killed in a hotel in Dubai. You probably don't know about the American casualties in Bahrain as base after base after base of the American war machine was obliterated. And usually the officers, at least if not the enlisted men, had decamped to nearby quarters renting out entire hotels, thinking that the Iranians did not know that they were there. The hell that is Tel Aviv this evening and it's only going to get more hellish yet is invisible to most mainstream media viewers. Israel makes a punishable offense by five years in prison for publishing video or stills of damage done by Iranian missiles. That's what you do when you're a democracy. The social media, however, has ample footage of ballistic missiles,

8:40hypersonic missiles, and drones smashing into Haifa, Tel Aviv, and many other parts of occupied Palestine. The truth is, in the fog of war, it's difficult to discern who's telling the truth and who's telling lies. There's no doubt that falsehoods have been told by both sides in this conflict. It was denied that the Ayatollah Hamani had been killed when in fact he was the first man to be killed. You can understand the operational need to put their plan B into operation, but it was a falsehood nonetheless. It was a falsehood that the Americans did not sustain any other than three dead service personnel and six severely wounded. The Iranians say it's five or six hundred more than that. Who did and did not kill, who and destroy what will become

9:51clear in due course. But a measure of how badly the war is going is that by Saturday evening, that is to say, on the first day of the war, Trump reached out to the Italian government to ask them to mediate a ceasefire. It took 12 days last time, last year, for the Americans to persuade the Israelis that the game was up. It didn't even take 12 hours this time. It is clear that the Americans want an off ramp. Trump has said repeatedly to the Atlantic and other publications that the Iranians want to talk. I'm ready to talk to them. We need to talk. We will be talking. This after a war that he launched, he said to change the Iranian regime. A regime change operation. Again, illegal under both domestic and international law. Well, they sure haven't

10:58changed the regime. They may have changed the 86 year old man who was martyred, who was the supreme leader of Iran. But guess what? They're quite likely to get his son as the new grand Ayatollah, the new supreme leader of Iran. Even if it isn't his son, it's his brothers religiously speaking. It's his comrades in arms, in military parlance. The regime has not changed in Iran. They said they wanted the Iranian people to rise up and come onto the streets. Well, they did come onto the streets in their millions, in support of the Iranian government, in support of the new Iranian government and in condolence for the slain leader Ayatollah Hamani. It isn't going well. It isn't going well for the Israelis. Their prime minister fled the

12:02country. He circled the Aegean. He circled the Mediterranean for four hours in his private jet and then took refuge. Where else in Germany? The irony of that will not be lost for people of my age and class. The people, the Germans, who tried their best to extorpate every living Jew on the planet until the Soviet Red Army liberated them from their camps. The German people who were their allies in Ukraine, in Hungary, in Romania and other places killed six million Jews. Where did Netanyahu sit out the first days of the war? Where else but Germany? Well, the Ayatollah Hamani did not run away. He didn't even go into a bunker. He sat there and accepted

13:05his fate, which martyrdom has set the Muslim world on fire in India, in Pakistan, and many other parts of the globe. Millions of Muslims are protesting in outrage at this crime, crime against Islam, crime against humanity, war crime, and a crime which is not yet finished. It was a crime, but as Tallerong said on the murder of a political opponent of his, it's worse than a crime. It's a blunder. We'll be talking to a side professor Muhammad Marandi in just one minute to find out from the front line how things lie on the first evening of the Epstein War. Stay tuned. You are listening to the Mother of All Talk shows podcast with George Galloway.

14:31Why am they in the non-proliferation treaty? Why is the IEEE not inspecting Israel's nuclear weapons? Why does nobody ever talk about nuclear weapons? Does it not strike anyone as utterly extraordinary? The war is being waged by two nuclear weapon powers against a country that has no nuclear weapons has declared it will never build a nuclear weapon. Is religiously obligated not to build a nuclear weapon? Does that not surprise anyone? Well, Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons and according to the Washington Post threatened to use them against Iran if Donald Trump did not join them in the war. They're currently waging on Iran. Nuclear blackmail, I think we can call that.

15:32But back to the poll, should Israel open its nuclear weapons to international inspections? Yes or no. You can vote on my telegram channel, T.me, fall slash George Galloway, on my ex, on the YouTube community poll, on the YouTube stream, don't forget to subscribe to my channel and give a thumbs up to the show. Please do that before the night is done. And if you are one of the avant-garde who support the show through patreon.com, four slash George Galloway, there's a ballot box there. It's the biggest poll we have ever had. 46,254 people have voted and I'm only just announcing it. Well, the results are, well, shall I say overwhelming, although I'd be interested to know who the six percent on the YouTube community poll who don't think Israel should open its nuclear weapons

16:38to international inspectors actually are. Are they in the negative? Are they these Hasbara Israeli warriors? I mean, first of all, you're conceding that Israel does have nuclear weapons by your no vote. And yet you're saying Iran, presumably you're saying Iran should be bombarded because it doesn't have nuclear weapons. Well, if you want to call the show, it's toll free in the U.S. and Canada, plus one, eight, four, four, nine, four, four, double three, double four. It's free of charge in Britain and Ireland, 0808196, double five, double two, and the international number is 0,044203, nine, double six, two, six, two, five. Melvin, our good friend from New York. Welcome, Melvin. Always nice to talk to you, George, even on a day like today. So nice to hear from you again. I got three main things here.

17:44The first one is I think that this will become a very long war. And one of the reasons is, and I believe that Iran should actually be able to do this, is that in 2005, they split their leadership up into 12 different areas that were independent to protect themselves. The second thing of this is, and I will actually go with this, is what is Russia and what is China going to do about this? Because no one really has anything other than they say they support them. And this is, are they going to take a financial hit? Because they are financially surrounded, or connected to Iran. The third thing, and the third thing that I'm going to make as a suggestion for, as my point with this is, because I do support Iran, and I always have, is that a lot of this has dealt with meddling all the way back to the 20th century, or the early days with the Shah. And it is literally just because we don't have

18:48puppets in that we particularly would like, because we used to be friends with Iran all the way back in the day. And it wasn't until the people revolted because of what they wanted. And it should be what the people wanted. That's all I have to say. Well, you say it's all you have to say, but it is the whole case. First of all, I'd like to mention that there are a million Christians with hundreds of churches in the Islamic Republic of Iran. I've been in many of them. There are a hundred synagogues in the Islamic Republic of Iran. I've been to them. The Muslim population of Iran is entirely accepting of the presence of these faiths and of their places of worship. And they are cherished and protected by the population and by the state. Secondly, the point you make is

19:52the bow point. They say that they are doing this for democracy, but Iran had a democracy. In 1953, the year before I was born, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran was overthrown by the United States and the United Kingdom. Dr. Mossadek had committed the cardinal sin of telling British petroleum that he was going to take Iran's oil and gas resources into the ownership of the Iranian people. He was going to nationalize Iran's oil. It would no longer be British petroleum in somebody else's country. It would be Iranian petroleum. And so they mounted a coup and overthrew him. They murdered, they executed his foreign minister whose widow became a close friend of mine

20:56in London in her later years. We used to meet for tea in Harats. Her husband was executed by the restored so-called Shah of Persia that the British and Americans installed so that they could rape Iran of its natural resources, leaving a bit for him to build a golden peacock throne and employ the biggest army in the region and the biggest gang of torturers in the region called Savak and they literally muddled and tortured their way through any and all opposition. So there would never would have been an Islamic Republic of Iran. There might well have been a pro-American democratic government in Iran. But democracy was muddled by us, not by the Ayatollahs, the Mullahs

22:00or the Islamic revolution. It was muddled by us. Your question about Russia and China? I can't answer. I don't know. I know that prior to the hostilities, both Russia and China were doing their very best to beef up Iran's defenses, its military capability. I know that both Russia and China, unlike any western country, any one, not one has denounced this illegal act, this criminal act, this insane act, not one western leader has denounced the murder of a head of state. I mean they captured the president of Venezuela only a few weeks ago and now they've muddled the head of state of Iran. Talk about rogue states. They have the goal to call other people rogue states. They have the

23:05goal to say that there's a rules based international order. Seriously, are you kidding? They're not. Now look, I know that you, Melvin, and everybody else is waiting for the master. Side Professor Mohammed Marandi from an undisclosed location, of course, but on the front line here to tell us how it looks now from the Iranian point of view. Professor, thanks for joining us. I won't waste time with pleasantries except to say how happy we all are to see you alive and well and we ask God to protect you in the days, weeks, and maybe months to come. I described yesterday as a day of infamy. I evaluated that it is not going well

24:07for the criminal regimes in Tel Aviv and Washington. What would you like to say to both those points? They're absolutely correct George. It is absolutely disgusting to see that the entire western camp is supporting aggression, but this isn't new. When the first time round, the Israeli regime in the United States conspired to attack Iran eight, nine months ago, the West, the entire Western camp supported them back then as well. In fact, the German Chancellor said that the Israelis do their dirty work for them, and now the German Chancellor says that Iran does not have a legitimate government. So this is the sort of behavior you get from the West. They murder Iranians, they slaughter Iranians. Today, two hospitals were struck, one in the city of Ahbas and one in Tehran. They got the

25:11hospital, which is somewhat ironic, taking into account the position that the Indian government has taken with regards to Israeli regime. So today we've had two hospitals struck. Yesterday morning, as I'm sure you know, in the small city of Minab, 165 people were massacred. Mostly children, the rest of their teachers, girls at an elementary school. So 165 elementary school girls were massacred along with a few of their teachers. And yet, there is nothing in the Western media about this and the condemnation of the regime in Washington or the regime in Tel Aviv. Yes, we also had a bombing of a gymnasium. And there we had a large number of girls who were playing volleyball, who were also massacred.

26:16Apparently, the Epstein regimes, which rape and murder girls, bombed them too, when it comes to Iran. Yet the West fully supports them. So women's rights, human rights, all of that is just nonsense. As you were saying earlier, it's the law of the jungle. And what is even perhaps more disgusting is that the regimes in our region who just heard a few days ago, the US ambassador to the Israeli regime say that if the Israelis took the entire Middle East, he'd be fine with it. And that is definitely an unofficial US foreign policy and European foreign policy. Despite that, for a kid, under the law, is allowing AWACS jets to fly over Turkey together information about Iran. It's allowing US bases in Turkey to use the radar systems to help the Israelis

27:20both offensively and defensively. And the countries in the Persian Gulf region are all hosting US bases that are actively and have actively been used against Iran. So these regimes, which are more threatened by the Israelis than the Iranians, they are directing their antagonism towards Iran in support of the Israeli regime and Trump. This is the region that we live in. This is the world that we live in. It's ironic in more ways than one because Mr. Gandhi famously said when asked by an American journalist what he thought of Western civilization, he paused and then replied, yes, I think that's a very good idea. And it's of course powerful. The course, Israel was bombing hospitals in Gaza, virtually every day for more than two years and killing children in huge numbers, in thousands,

28:29maybe tens of thousands of children. In fact, certainly tens of thousands of children. So what's 165 little school girls whose feet couldn't even touch the floor when they were sitting on their school chairs at their desks, now annihilated, eviscerated, incinerated by a high powered weapon. I want to ask you whose weapon was it? It makes no material difference because these two criminals are acting jointly and are therefore jointly responsible for what each of them does. But I hear a story that these little girls were murdered by a cruise missile fired from the deck of the Abraham Lincoln. What's your take on that? These girls were most probably for my understanding murdered by the Americans. And of course, Western media says nothing about it. There's no condemnation.

29:34There's no sympathy. So when it comes to fabricating numbers about dead, riot people who died and riots at the hands of the rioters, in order to demonize Iran, when there is no internet in the country back, there was no internet back then, but they were inflating numbers by the day. All of the Western media is all in. But when it comes to children, little kids that we can see reporters were taken there, they witnessed, they saw their bodies. When it comes to that, they're completely indifferent. That is because the Western, the entire Western media is captured by dept scene class. It is the oligarchs who own them. It doesn't matter if they're liberal or if they're conservative. We saw during the state of the union in the United States, the only time that the Democrats and the Republicans applauded

30:37together and apparently, since I didn't watch it, gave a standing ovation, was when Trump was talking about Iran. So on everything else, they have nothing to agree with, agree upon. But when it comes to antagonizing Iran and when it comes to murdering Iranian leaders and murdering Iranian people, as we speak, they're all in. They're all on the same page. Is there a single class? Now, I mentioned the Abraham Lincoln. The Iranian side say they struck it with four ballistic missiles. The American side says the missiles didn't get anywhere near the aircraft carrier. This is a matter of some importance. Do you have any further and better particulars on that? I don't have any details about this particular case, but every time a drone or a missile is shot

31:38at by the American aircraft carrier or the accompanying ships, they spend literally 10 to 15 times more than the Iranians do. Because the drone and missile are cheap and inexpensive for Iran, but for the Americans, it's extraordinarily expensive. So even if it doesn't hit, the taxpayers in the United States, their wallets, do take a hit. But the Iranians, George, have been pretty impressive, despite the murder of itola Hamine, who is a man of culture. He was an expert in Persian literature. Very well acquainted with Arabic literature. A fluent Azzari speaker, Hamine is a Syrian in the Azzari parts of Iran, and very knowledgeable about Azzari literature. He also spoke English. He was fluent in English, and he would read Western journals. He was an

32:43extraordinarily high religious authority, but he was also an intellectual. He was in jail six times under the Shah, if I remember correctly. And he went and fought the war that the West imposed and encouraged the Dhamma to invade Iran. He went and fought as a volunteer without training, because at the beginning of the war, the Iranian side was not prepared. So this was, he was a war hero. He was a political prisoner. And he devised the Iranian defense capabilities in such a extraordinary way that after they murdered him, Iran, without having him as leader, has been hitting back at the Israeli regime hour after hour after hour for day and a half now. And they've been targeting Americans and their assets in the Persian Gulf since yesterday.

33:48So in the 12th day war, it was only the Israeli regime. In this war, you have the real power behind the Zionist regime, the United States. Alongside the Zionist regime, they murdered the Iranian leader, along with his child, his son-in-law, and one of his grandchildren. And of course, many other people. He murdered them, but his supporters, his followers have been able to hold back the superpower. And the U.S. is taking extraordinarily bad hits in Iraq, in the Persian Gulf, and in Jordan. And of course, the Israeli regime is taking hits by the hour. And we still do not have, and we will have soon, another leader in accordance with the

34:50Constitution. But I think that just shows that this extraordinary man was not just an intellectual and a thinker and a man of literature, but he was also a strategic thinker, a person who designed a military force that has been able to hold back the evil forces of the Trump regime and the Netanyahu regime. So hopefully, although we are going to have bloody days ahead, and we just had an explosion nearby about half an hour before the show, it's going to be hard, it's going to be painful, but I'm optimistic that the Islamic Republic of Iran is going to deal the Trump regime and the Netanyahu regime's strategic defeat. Well, what they did to Ayatollah Hamini was obviously a crime, but I quoted Tally wrong

35:53earlier, who when told of the murder of a political opponent of his said, it is a crime, but it's worse than a crime, it's a blunder. I think the earliest indications are that the martyring of Hamini was a crime, but more importantly, a blunder. It has achieved the opposite of what must have been claimed for it by those who saw authorization for it. First of all, it has united millions of Iranians in morning and in demand for revenge, but it's also lit a fire amongst Muslims all across the world. I have a feeling that they'll come to regret that act of political assassination, even on their own terms.

36:56You know, George, they murdered him during the month of Ramadan as he was fasting and as he was in his office working. He was not hiding in a bunker. He was fasting and working an 86-year-old man, and they murdered him and all sorts of people around him, including his own family. The fact that he would not leave, the reason why he did not leave his residence in his office, was that he said that ordinary people, many of them, have no place to go. And since they have no place to go, I'm not budging. I'm not moving from here. And that's what causes martyrdom. People in Iran are outraged. We already saw, and we discussed this before, that the support of ordinary people for the Islamic Republic and its institutions and the Constitution on January 12th and February 11th on the 47th anniversary of the revolution.

38:04Millions of people came to the streets in Tehran, especially on the anniversary of the revolution, because the West was trying to say that the crowds in January were AI, people came in larger numbers to prove that the West is lying. Yet, after his martyrdom, the anger has grown, and tonight, across Tehran, they've had ceremonies, not in one place, across the city. In fact, I don't have a very big telegram channel. If anyone is interested, they can go there or they can go to my Twitter account and go to my telegram channel. I showed, I put footage of the ceremonies in different neighborhoods in Tehran. It's astounding, the crowds. And under-air strikes, the crowds wouldn't budge, and you can see it in the footage. They're being attacked, yet people are chanting on the

39:05streets that we're willing to die. They wouldn't run away. They wouldn't hike. They wouldn't go into the metro station. They stood there ground in different neighborhoods. So you're exactly correct. It's not just Iran, either, as you were pointing out. It goes beyond Iran's borders. It goes beyond Muslim countries. I've been having people have been contacting me from Latin American elsewhere, very upset about what happened to him. In Iraq, you have the Iraqi resistance. Now, they two are more motivated than before. So the Epstein regime in Washington miscalculated in a big way. Because today, Iranians are much more steadfast than yesterday. They've made Ayatollah Hamin a more powerful after his barter than when he was alive. And I think we're going to see the results of that in the days and weeks ahead.

40:08Now, there are reports. They haven't been convincingly denied. And they are now repeated on multiple Israeli television channels that Trump wants out already. And that he, in fact, wanted out last night on the first day of the war. And he himself, from his own mouth, has said multiple times today that he wants to talk with the Iranians. Laffably, he says it's the Iranians that want to talk with him. But having said yesterday, he was going to wipe out the Iranian regime. He now wants to talk to the Iranian regime, which is a very powerful indicator that the war is not going well for him. What confidence do you have in that? And what would

41:14Iran's likely reaction be to that? Given the massacres, given the martyrdom of your leader, would you be prepared to talk now with Trump? Or is this war going on? Well, you know better than I, George. These Western regimes, they were the guarantors for the ceasefire between Lebanon and the Israeli regime. Every day, the Israelis are bombing Lebanon and murdering the many citizens. Trump himself was behind the fake ceasefire in Gaza and drag all sorts of world leaders to Egypt for a monkey show. And they all went there and whitewash his crimes. Every day, multiple Palestinians are being murdered in Gaza, as we speak. And the West looks away. And the media looks away. The Western media, they've seen media. In the case of Iran,

42:16twice already, in less than a year, we were negotiating. And as we were negotiating, they conspired to attack our country. So how can anyone in Iran trust Trump? Today, tomorrow, next year, at any time, we cannot trust the United States, let alone Trump. No one in the United States is talking about Trump's deception. No one is talking. In fact, if you look at Western media, George, you think Iran started the war. You would think Iran is carrying out atrocities. You think it was the Iranians who killed 165 little girls in their elementary school somewhere in occupied Palestine. The Iranians are presented or described as some sort of aggressor. So there's really no way that the Iranians can trust Trump or the United

43:20States. And there's no doubt that it is not the Iranians who are seeking to speak to Trump. It is Trump who wants to talk. But it's not going to end so easily. The Iranians are going to make sure that the United States and Israeli regime suffer a strategic defeat. It is going to be bloody. It is going to be painful. But the Iranians have to make sure that this does not happen again. When the United States is forced to back down, ultimately, it may not look like a victory, because in war, you know, as well as I, war is a defeat for everyone. But when the Americans back down and they're forced to leave, returning is not an option. It will not happen again. So Iranians are adamant that they teach the Americans a lesson. It will come at a big price. It's not a price that I want to see paid, but there's no other option. So Iran is going to continue

44:23to hammer the Israeli regime with missiles. It's going to hammer U.S. bases in northern Iraq and in the Persian Gulf. And those assets that are outside of the bases, but they're affiliated to the regime in Washington, Iran is going to continue to do that. And the United States is not going to be able to say that we achieved a victory. So what Trump is saying already indicates that things are not going well. He thought that he would be able to murder Aitullah Hamini, a great figure, an extraordinary man George. The greatest person I have seen in my life. He thought that by murdering him, that he could end this, like in Venezuela. But the exact opposite has happened. And if anyone who was saying in the United States, if there are any sane people in Washington, if they had spoken to you before the attack,

45:24or me, or many other people that you and I know, they would have told them, they would have told the White House that this will not work, that this will not end well for you. It was clear as gay to us. But they have this orientalist view of Iran, this narrative of Iran, that Iran is unpopular, that it's despised, that is falling apart, that is collapsing. Of course, paradoxically, at the same time, they're saying it's a rising menace, it's a menace to the world. On the one hand, it's a menace to the world. On the other hand, it's about to collapse. But they, based on that assessment, they carried out the 12-day war and failed. They should have understood that this is not going to work. But that narrative is not, they're not capable of changing it. Seeing reality does not change that narrative. So they're going to do it again and again. And the only way to end this really is to impose a strategic defeat on the United States. Now, how would that look?

46:28I really don't know. But I think that this war is going to last more than a couple more days. It's going to last a while. I don't know if it's going to last two, a week, two weeks, three weeks a month. Hopefully, it will not last too long. But I'm convinced that the Iranians are going to punish Trump and the Netanyahu regime. Let me turn finally, though it's a big one. Just about the only thing that I have ever disagreed with you about is this fatwa against nuclear weapons. As I understand it, this was a fatwa of the late Ayatollah Khomini. It was reiterated by Ayatollah Hamini. Now, there's shortly to be a new Supreme Leader. To what extent is that post-facto,

47:33still the prevailing religious decision of Iran? Isn't there a likelihood or a case for the new power in Tehran to reexamine this question? Because as Akhola from Nigeria just pointed out, just a couple of minutes before you came on, there's no prospect of North Korea being invaded or bombed. There will be no Abraham Lincoln off the coast of North Korea. There will be no invasion or attempt to regime change North Korea precisely because they have nuclear weapons. In other words, is there any possibility that this fatwa will be null and void because of the entirely changed

48:33circumstances after this sneak attack by Trump and Netanyahu? When I saw the poll, George, I knew you were going to ask this question. It's complicated. You're absolutely correct. This is basically an extension of a similar fatwa of Imam Khomini about chemical weapons. It's really interesting, George. I was listening to some of these Western analysts and they don't even know that there's a Khomini and there's a Khomini. They think it's the same person. That's how ignorant these senators are. They don't know this is a different person than these people want to rule the world. His fatwa is based upon this principle, this moral principle. But there's also a strategic reason as well and that is that and we discussed this before I know you know it. Then if Iran develops a nuclear weapon for whatever

49:38reason, then there will be an incentive for these des spots in the Emirates and in Bahrain and in Kuwait and others to go and purchase their own nuclear weapons. These regimes are not inherently stable and that could have its own major complications. That is that is a reason too. But as I said before, I think primarily again, you know this. I'm just saying it for the audience. Actually the current chair of the Supreme National Security Council before he was the chair and he was the advisor to the leader. But now he's moved up. He said back then when he was just an advisor to the leader that if Iran faces and exits this existential threat, then its nuclear posture would change. Another advisor to the leader, Dr. Harazi, who was Mr.

50:43Hatham is foreign minister for eight years. He too said that if there's an existential threat made against Iran, then Iran would change its nuclear posture. Now the interpretation of that is I think pretty clear, but what constitutes an existential threat that's open to debate. But one final point and that is that it's interesting that Trump himself has pushed Iran to advance its nuclear technology because under the nuclear deal in 2015, Iran was restricted in developing its nuclear program. And when after Trump tore up the deal, the Iranians went back and began within the framework of international law and under the supervision of the International Islamic Energy Agency, they began to expand their program both technologically but also the infrastructure as well. But in addition to that, not only due to Trump did Iran advances

51:51peaceful nuclear program, but also because of the wars carried out by Trump, the threats carried out by Trump, stated by Trump. Before this recent war, there was a poll which indicated that unlike before Trump where a majority of Iranians said we do not want a nuclear weapon and that was to a large degree influenced by official policy, most Iranians after the 12-day war said we should have nuclear weapon. Despite the fact that the state says the opposite. So I, to LaHamini, may his, may he be sitting alongside Jesus and Moses and Prophet Muhammad, he was of the minority view, thanks to Trump. So this monster, this Epstein regime representative,

52:51he pushed Iran to develop its fiscal nuclear program, he pushed Iranian public opinion to take a stance that was more close with which is in alignment with what you believe than what the leader believed. What price will our audience be paying for their petrol on Monday, Professor? That's a good question, George. You know that the Iranians have advised ships not to pass through the straight-up hormones. And within the next few hours, I think, will be seeing oil prices rise. Although I'm sure that Western media and Western analysts and people of influence will try to keep the price down, say that they're going to open up the reserves, but the reality is that we're heading for a crisis. And if the, and if the straight-up

53:54hormones remains closed for every day that remains closed, it's going to get worse. But there's something even more dangerous, George. If this war expands, the straight-up hormones would be the smallest of the problems. Because if let's say there's a ceasefire in a week or two weeks, or a halt in hostilities, these ships can pass through, and they will reach their destination just with the days, and it will cause a lot of trouble economically. That's already happening, and each day makes it worse. But if there is an escalation, those tankers will be destroyed. Already three have been hit today, three that try to go through without permission. Those tankers will be destroyed. The oil and gas installations will be destroyed. If that happens, and then there is a ceasefire, and the straight-up hormones is open, where is the oil? Where is the gas? And where are the tankers? To take this non-existent oil

54:58to the markets. So Trump and Netanyahu are playing with fire. Netanyahu is more than willing to sacrifice the world, and Trump is more than willing to sacrifice the interest of the American people for Netanyahu. That's the reality that we're living with. The Iranians don't want a crisis. They didn't want this war. And as we speak, the Iranians are managing the war. They're slowly increasing the pressure on the U.S. and the Israeli regime. Gradually, you see the strikes that are being carried out every day. The Iranians can go far, faster, and far further than this. Most of the Iranian underground bases during have not been touched. Most of the missiles and drones that have been used so far are first-generation missiles and drones. They were made well over a decade ago, a decade and a half ago. So Iran is limiting, of course, Iran also wants to empty their defenses. But

56:01Iran is managing this because it does not want to bring down the global economy. But the Trump regime, the absin regime, and Netanyahu may actually bring us to that point. Professor, please accept our condolences upon the death of Iran's leader and his family and his colleagues who murdered with them. Please accept our sincere condolences to all the innocent civilian people who have perished as a result of this savage attack by the so-called civilized West and perhaps I speak for everyone and not just the viewers of this show when I express my hope and prayer, actually, that you personally remain safe and still able to talk to us on the regular

57:04basis. I'm sure we'll be talking again, God willing, soon. Professor Miranda, thanks for joining us on the mother of old talk shows. Professor Said Marandi, Professor of English literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran. Now, let me tell you, there's a record audience tonight, as you might have expected, from the scale of the poll, which is now 55,000 people have voted. It's a record audience, and that's on top of several record audiences. If I tell you that on Facebook alone, this week alone, I have 25 million views. You'll get some kind of understanding of the scale of the mother of old talk shows now. The scale that is of the audience,

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1:01:29former marine intelligence officer and the arms inspector who became a legend for opposing the war in Iraq. He's helped us through and to understand so many conflicts since I can scarcely count them. The one and only Scott Ritter joins me now. Scott, thanks for doing this. I know you're in very great demand, so I'll just ask the obvious question. It looks to me like the war isn't going well for the invaders. How does it look to you? Well, being able to look at this conflict now as it's entering soon to enter its third day, I can make the following assessment. This is a regime change conflict that the United States and Israel lost when they fired the first six missiles into Tehran, striking the residents of Ali Hamaneh in killing the supreme leader of Iran, the second most

1:02:34important man in the Shia faith in the entire world after Grand Ayatollah Sastani and Najaf Iraq. Donald Trump, when he announced this operation to the American people, said that basically our pummeling of Iran was designed to terminate the regime, decapitate the regime, suppress the regime and create the opportunity for the Iranian people to rise up and take matters into their own hands. Today, the Iranian people are rising up and taking matters into their own hands. The streets are filled, not with crowds shouting death to Khamenei, but crowds extoling the newest martyr, a man who gave his life in the service of his country and service of his faith. We have lost this war, the we being the United States. We being the United States and its controlling masters in Tel Aviv, Israel, the war is lost. The regime will not be toppled, the regime will not be changed and the Iranians will resist long after the United States and Israel have depleted

1:03:40and spent their forces run out of ammunition and will be compelled to sue for peace. So is Donald Trump a fool or a naiv? I prefer to use the term developed by the American punk rock group Green Day. He's an idiot. He's an American idiot. One of the dumbest people that have walked the face of the earth, a man who makes no effort to learn anything about what he's about to do. A man who's intellect is shallow as the dust on my desktop. He is a man who postures as an American patriot, but he's an Israeli stooge. This is a man who has been briefed by his intelligence services that there is no nuclear weapons program in Iran. This is a man who is briefed by his generals and admirals that we lack the ability to finish the mission he wants us to accomplish. And this is a man who listened to Benjamin Netanyahu and launched this war of aggression,

1:04:45this illegal war of aggression that has as an enhancement, if we ever bring him to trial, the fact it was done under perfidy. Meaning once again, the United States lied to Iran in the world, leading people to believe that there was a potential of a negotiated settlement, one where Iran actually has negotiated a deal which had it been manifested, would have been the deal Donald Trump claimed he was looking for the best deal in the world, a deal that removed sunset clauses, removed any possibility of Iran ever expanding this program, a deal that forever ended any speculation about Iran's intent regarding nuclear weapons. This was the deal of a lifetime, but Donald Trump wasn't interested in a deal. He and Benjamin Netanyahu had already picked the timing of this attack prior to the negotiations even beginning, perfidy. That is what Donald Trump has committed in addition to carrying out this war of choice, this illegal war of aggression that will forever cement him and tragically, and I say that with

1:05:46anger in my voice, my country, as a nation that will go down in the pages of history alongside Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan as criminal nations that have carried out horrific wars of aggression. You and I would be expected to oppose this war, but it doesn't seem to have many friends outside of the viewpoint of people like you and I. Every, I mean, even the financial times has denounced it. Trust me, that's going some. The British government didn't allow the US to use their bases. They were forced to say, slightly mitigated now by Keir Starmer telling us that our aircraft were in the air, it was a singular aircraft and it was in defense of Qatar and it returned safely to base. So we're just bit players, but we are bit players that refuse to

1:06:47endorse this illegal act. I'm struggling to find any but the most base serfs of US power, like the Japanese Prime Minister, for example, who believe this was a good idea. Even the people that are backing it can't imagine it was a good idea. Well, soon the chicken shell come home to roost as the, say, you know, right now the St. Orr moves is shut. When we finish with this program, I'm taking my car to the gas pump and I'm going to enjoy the last gas pump to $3.28 a gallon that I will see for some time now. Starting tomorrow, we're going to see the price of gasoline go through the roof and it will continue to rise as this conflict drags on. You know, Donald Trump, after telling the world how this was going to be a conflict that America was going to sustain for weeks, if necessary, is already

1:07:54talking about negotiations to bring this to. And in typical Trump fashion, he lies, saying that the Iranians have reached out to him. Ali Lejardini is not going to reach out to Donald Trump. Donald Trump attempted to reach out to the Iranians through an Italian proxy and was told to pound sand. Iran is in this for the duration. This is an existential struggle of survival for the Islamic Republic, for the people of Iran. They will not allow this conflict to end in any way that allows Israel and the United States to maintain forces sufficient to re-attack Iran down the road. They are seeking the strategic defeat of Israel, the strategic defeat of the United States. You see this with the posture that they have made with the Gulf Arab nations who have been pounded mercilessly and will continue to be pounded as long as they provide safe haven for the cancer that is infected in the Middle East. And that cancer is the presence of the United States. Iran is now the chief oncologist and they are laying out some very, very harsh chemotherapy to destroy the American cancer. And we're starting to see nations respond. The United Arab

1:08:58Emirates in response to the Iranian attacks has called for the removal of forces from the region that are destabilizing. Now you can't remove Iran because it is the region. So they're talking about now the United States leaving the Middle East. And when this war is done, the United States will have no choice but to leave the Middle East with our tail tucked firmly between our dog legs. Now I was only a boy soldier. You were an important military officer. Nobody in the world knows more about war and military matters than you. So give us a reading on how well the Iranian response is going. It looks to me, although I may be an Anzhanu, that they are actually doing extremely well. Again, lacking specific data on the exact targets hit and on the number of missiles launched.

1:10:06I don't have access to the Iranian battle plan. But what we can see suggests exactly that what you have said that the Iranians are doing extraordinarily well. We have to be careful about evaluating missile launches and missile intercepts. We see data coming out of Qatar that suggests they've been very successful. But once again, we don't understand the Iranian way of war because most of the missiles Iran has launched are designed to be intercepted. Most of the missiles Iran's launched are designed to absorb interceptors. Most of the missiles Iran launches are designed to confuse the radar systems of the integrated anti-ballistic missile defense systems. And then Iran comes in with the killer touch at the end and hits the targets they want to hit. So if we evaluate Iran on the totality of the missiles launched, we would say they have about a 33% success rate. If we evaluate them on the missiles that need to hit the targets Iran wants them to hit, the success rate is close to 100%. And these targets are devastating in terms of what

1:11:08they're hitting. They're destroying American radar systems worth hundreds of millions of dollars. In one case, 1.1 billion dollars. By the time they're finished with the United States, the price tag on infrastructure loss will be over 100 billion dollars, 100 billion dollars of American infrastructure that will be destroyed in the Middle East. And the price tag for the Gulf Air of States can go up as equally high if they want to continue this nonsense and pretend that the United States has some sort of legitimate function in the Middle East today. The United States does not. Israel is also paying a very heavy price. You know, one has to be careful about reading what one reads on the on the internet because the quality control filter isn't necessarily there. But it appears that the Iranian struck a building and that building contained Israeli officers who were carrying out a conference about this war. The location of that building had been selected by the Israelis in the morning, meaning that by striking this building and killing

1:12:12the people inside, Iran not only proved that they had the capability to penetrate Israeli air defense at any time this building was selected because it was supposed to be ringed by sufficient air defense systems. But Iran also showed that they have the ability to collect intelligence information, highly accurate intelligence information about the most sensitive topics in Israel and respond in a timely fashion killing the Israelis involved. This more than anything scares the Israelis because they now know they are all literally dead men walking. We might as well get Tom Hanks to go into Tel Aviv and walk down the street and shout it out. Dead man walking because that is Israel today. The Iranians will not let up. The Iranians had the capacity to sustain this fight. Benjamin Netanyahu warned Donald Trump that if you're going to pull the trigger on Iran, you have to kill Iran, terminate the conflict before 700 missiles impact on Israeli soil. Too bad so sad, baby, baby because you're going to get burned. The Iranians are coming in with everything they have and there's not a damn thing you can do to stop it. Sometimes our children ask the

1:13:19the most blindingly obvious but most profound question. So let me pass my eldest son's question on to you. Once I told him how I thought the war was going, he asked the pretty obvious question, why then did they do it? Why did the United States and Israel launch a war which you say they were bound to lose and looking at the pictures so far, it seems you were right. They are losing it. The reason why we launch this war is because of the ignorance of the people who plan this war. Ignorance about war itself. Understand there's outside of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. There's very few people surrounding Donald Trump who actually have firsthand experience in war or the art of war. These are politicized dilatants. The closest one you get is Pete Hagseth who is nothing more than a glorified battalion operations officer and a reformed alcoholic who is probably best left

1:14:22sitting behind a Fox studio camera than actually trying to lead people but hey, he convinced three hundred and fifteen pounds of God bless him. But these are the people advising the president. They're simplistic people. They are foolish people. They're stupid people, fundamentally stupid people and they are ignorant beyond belief. They have fallen victims of their own ignorance. These are people, Scott Besent, setting off demonstrations by collapsing the value of the reall back in December 28th and then bragging about it at Davos, how he is the one responsible for creating demonstrations. Then the demonstrations get magnified by Mossad, by the CIA, by selective videotaping of violence and then projecting it out here to the echo chamber that is the American social media environment. And we started believing that there's actually a critical mass of Iranian people. Any Iran ready to rise up and remove the theocracy from power because we created a situation where a handful of people unveiled the flag of the monarchy, shouted death the Khamanay

1:15:25and then with broadcasted here we said they're ready. They're ready and Trump believes this nonsense. So he was told if you decapitate the regime, you bring down Khamanay that people will rise up. I mean, he actually believed this and then he bragged about it. I mean, openly bragged about how I am tracking Khamanay. He should leave the country because I'm going to kill him. Does he not understand that Ali Khamanay volunteered to die on the first day of the war? Ali Khamanay was at home in his residence knowing he was being hunted down by the United States, knowing he was being targeted by death. He was surrounded by fellow Shaheeds who also knew that they were going to die, but they also understood that there was a purpose in their death because by dying they entered into martyrdom and the Iranian people are in the streets but they're not shouting death the Khamanay, they're shouting long live the martyr Khamanay. That's why we lost the war on day one. This was a trap set by the Iranians on day one by a people of faith. Donald Trump wouldn't

1:16:34even know what a Shia is or what a 12hr is. He doesn't know who who sane is. He doesn't know who Ali is. He has no clue what the battle of Karbala is and yet he fell into a trap where all of this is relevant. He assassinated or facilitated the murder of the second most important man in the Shia faith, Ali Khamanay. This is the equivalent of killing the Pope if you're Catholic, killing the Archbishop of Canterbury, if you're British, killing the head of the Orthodox Church, Kirill, if you are Russian, and Donald Trump doesn't understand this. If the purpose of this operation was to get the Iranian people in the street, Donald Trump succeeded, but he got the wrong people in the street for the wrong cause. The people of Iran today are rallying in support of the Islamic Republic. The Islamic Republic is invincible at this moment because you can't kill people who are ready to die for their cause. And the Shia of Iran who are defending the Islamic Republic are

1:17:34prepared to a man, to a woman, to become martyrs in the cause of their faith. And it is the Islamic Republic of Iran that they are defending, not just their land, not just their culture, not just their history, but their faith. Donald Trump lost his war, the first missiles that impacted the ground in Tehran. It is funny because American politicians in particular are forever telling us how religious they are. But your friend and mine, Professor Morandi, said to me just a few minutes ago that he prays that Ali Hamini is right now sitting with Jesus and Moses and the Prophet Muhammad. That's what they believe. And how would it be an inhibiting thing? How would it be a frightening thing to threaten people with a martyrdom which they believe will take them to the holy families

1:18:43that will take them to paradise? I just wonder, do American politicians who are, as I say, wearing their so-called Christianity on their sleeve, do they not understand the concept of heaven? Well, American politicians who proclaim themselves as Christians, I mean, I'm sure there's some out there who are truly Christian. But to be a Christian means you study Christ, which means you study the teachings of Jesus, the study of the life of Jesus. And I can't find anything in the life of Jesus that could possibly be used to promote the ongoing conflict with Iran. I often ask myself as somebody who struggles with the concept of Christianity because I like Jesus. I read the Bible, I think Jesus was a cool dude. I think he stood for some really neat stuff. Peace, love, love,

1:19:43thy neighbor, etc. I struggle with Christ because I'm not a big fan of Paul having a vision in the desert. But other than that, I'm working on it. But I often ask myself, okay, forget Christ because Christ is, to me, a manufacturer of man, what would Jesus do? And Jesus wouldn't tolerate this war on Iran at all. Jesus would be seeking to live in peace and harmony with people. And so if you're a Christian, understand that if you're a Christian out there promoting this conflict, you're not a Christian at all. You're somebody who's perverted your own religion. But then again, you're probably somebody who buys into the concept of Christian Zionism, which is in itself a self-contradictory concept because you're making alliance with the very people who not only killed your Lord and Savior, but today, view you as goym. View you as secondary citizens. You are selling yourself out to people who don't view you as friends and allies, but people who spit on you, literally spit on you as an inferior race. And worse of all, because again, I am not a man of faith. And so I don't

1:20:46put religion above all else. Worst of all, you've betrayed that, which I do put above all else. The Constitution of the United States, the rule of law, what it means to be an American. Your behavior is an embarrassment to real Americans who embrace values that don't call for illegal wars to aggression against nations that have done nothing to harm you. In fact, nations that have been over backwards to give you the best deal possible to achieve the results you deemed essential, preventing Iran from having a nuclear weapon. Yes, okay, that's a noble goal. I don't think Iran was ever seeking to have a nuclear weapon, but here we are. We could have achieved that goal. And yet these Christian Americans have thrown that away in the cause of death and destruction. The moment a Christian starts embracing death and destruction is the moment the four horsemen of the apocalypse need to be unleashed on the earth and carry them straight to hell. With your air audition, you'll no doubt agree with me that catch 22 was one of the greatest

1:21:48novels of the 20th century. In Catch 22, Milo Minderbender rents out his own air force to the enemy, in that case to the Germans. Hasn't something like that happened? The American air force has been rented out to Miriam Edelsen and if she got that for 250 million, that's the bargain of the century, isn't it? The American Armed Forces have essentially been rented out to Edelsen and her boss Netanyahu. No, you're 100% correct and this may be the the downfall of Donald Trump and I pray it is the downfall of Donald Trump. I may actually become a religious man if it let the result. You know, regime change cuts two ways. It's a double-edged sword. Donald Trump has achieved the regime change sword. It sought to weld it against Iran.

1:22:51But in doing so, he's created the foundation of his own demise. You see, he did run on a platform where he was the president of peace. There is posters out there that make this proclamation. He promised Americans that he would put America first, that he would make America great again. You know, Tucker Carlson had a very fascinating interview with Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, where Mike Huckabee openly on international TV said that greater Israel is a thing and that it's okay for the Israelis to aspire to take the territory of virtually all of their Arab neighbors. He truly believes this. Ted Cruz believes this. Donald Trump believes this. Others, but the American people don't believe this because the American people aren't willing to die for this. And when Tucker Carlson released this, the Israeli press, I was reading it, they got very worried. They said, we need to be we being Israel need to be very careful here because there is now a serious divide amongst those people we need in the United States to maintain

1:23:55this friendship, the Republican base, the MAGA base. And we're going to lose them, you know, with Mike Huckabee's words and others because they fear that Israel is being put ahead of America. Well, as you said, when Miriam Adelson buys the United States Air Force, the United States Navy, it allows it to be put in harm's way by attacking Iran who posed no threat whatsoever to the American people or the American nation. This proves that Donald Trump is an Israeli first president. Make Israel great again is his calling card. And when we lose this war and George, I'm here to tell you we have lost this war. This is going to be one of the most humiliating moments in American history. When we have to admit we have run out of ammunition, we cannot sustain this fight while Iran continues to pummel. Israel American bases and American regional allies. Donald Trump will now be compelled to once again lie to the American people about, you know, how he achieved something, but now he's going to withdraw. And he is going to be crushed at the polls at midterms. And when he gets crushed, it's not just that he will lose the house

1:25:00because he will lose the house. And by losing the house, it means he will be impeached. He will be impeached nonstop. There might be multiple impeachment trials going on. This is how much the Democrats despise this man. But he may lose the Senate and he may lose the Senate in sufficient numbers that could lead to conviction. This is the end of Donald Trump's political legacy. And he saw him. You saw his posture when he gave his speech announcing the beginning of this operation. You know, Donald Trump during the election. I mean, he was running around like like the the energizer bunny. I mean, that man could put in a 14-hour day travel to five different places, finish up with a rally at night. And he was as strong as the day is long. I mean, he's out there doing his stupid YMCA dance. His voice is strong, powerful. Here, he goes before the mayor, can people announcing this war, which should be the most testosterone-laden event in his life. And he sounded like a defeated man. He sounded like a guy who had just spent 50 bucks on a hooker

1:26:02and couldn't get it up. I apologize for that, but I just don't like Donald Trump. So I'm going to say that. He was a defeated man. He was, you know, he knows he lost. He knows it's over. He knows it's finished because we're not going to win. And it's gradually become an apparent that Israel lied to him. Israel deceived him. Benjamin Netanyahu used an abuse him and that Marian Adelson bought him. Donald Trump is the equivalent of a $50 whore who sold America out to a Pimp made Marian Adelson. Brilliantly eloquent, as always, Scott Ritter. Thanks for joining us on the mother of all talk shows. Well, how about that interview? I was blown away by it. I suspect many of you were a quick break. Then it's your calls right up to Gartu, who's back and joining me at the end of the show. Stay tuned.

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1:28:04Now, big news on the podcast. We are in the top 10 for politics in Kuwait, Senegal, Egypt and Serbia this week and in the top 20 for politics in Ghana, Lebanon and Malaysia. You can listen anytime, of course, to our podcast. Just scan the QR code. Now, Zinnab is in Canada. I want to talk about Iran and she's very welcome. Zinnab, what would you like to say? George, it hit very hard, you know, so many's marketed him, but you know, coming to terms with the fact that he was an old man and God wanted marketed him for him. So he was called that way, but it has hit emotionally very hard, although originally I'm from Pakistan. My question is when I look at these events, I wonder sometimes, is it more politically driven or is it more religiously driven

1:29:07where they are at war with the Islamic ideology which focuses more on the hair after versus material desires and that creates a certain threat in them? And if it is religious in nature or what are we up against? If you look at what's coming out of the Epstein files, they're certainly not about Christianity or Judaism or Judaism or Islam. They are going something above. Maybe their worshiping of force makes Satan devil, whatever you want to say, that is completely at odds with, basically at odds with the concept of God. It creates a really a lot of confusion in my mind if you can shed some light as to what do you think? Yes, I will. And you know, not everyone will agree with me, but I believe there's nothing religious about it at all. I don't believe that Donald Trump knows what she is. I don't know, I think he knows what a Sunni is. I don't think he

1:30:12knows anything about Islam. I don't think he knows anything about Christianity. From everything I've learned about his life, he led a life of extreme hedonism. There is no sin that he has not committed there is no commandment that he has not regularly broken. There is no wife that he hasn't cheated on indeed. There's a mystery about his previous wife. There's absolutely no reason to believe that Donald Trump believes in God at all. He has deployed, weaponized, the evangelical fools who support him who lay on hands upon his person who speak in tongues to him and in his presence. But I think he laughs out loud when he gets back indoors after such events. I don't believe that the, I mean the

1:31:16Shah Persia was a shea and they loved him. The Ayatollah Khamani was a shea and they hated him. It's not about the religion, it's about the refusal of Iran to abandon the Palestinians as so many other regimes in the region have done. That's their real beef with the Iranians, not their religion or their sect, but that they have never abandoned Palestine, that they continue to do what they can to come to the aid of the Palestinians in need. Now you could argue that they should have done more, should have done less. But what you can't argue is that they are the only Arab, sorry Muslim state that has meaningfully in any way assisted the Palestinians in their calvary, the other Arab

1:32:21Muslim countries and not just the Arab Muslim countries have effectively abandoned the Palestinian cause, but the Iranians never have. And that's the beef, not only that Israel has with them, that the U.S. has with them, but that the other Arab states who have done nothing and nothing but abandoned and sometimes positively harmed the Palestinian people by joining with Israel in their oppression and assisting Israel to oppress them. That's their beef with Iran also. Iran shows them up. Iran makes them feel ashamed and moreover, their people know it and their people may one day act upon it, zenub in Canada. Thank you very much. Now there's reports of greatly increased

1:33:23traffic to the mother of all talk shows tonight, the tv website moats.tv, but thanks if you've already donated a big shout out to this evening's leading supporters. Christian G Suklou, Roger Boniface, Tieri Lorong, MN Big and George Swan. If you want to stand with them, go to moats.tv now and click the donate now button. Let's go to London, where Isha also wants to talk about Iran. Isha, welcome. Hi, I'm just calling in regards to the world. So I just want to know what kind of impact will this have on Western countries like America and the UK, for example, with maybe the world crisis going up and the fuel prices. So people are going to fill up their cards with petrol and diesel and things like this and what other impacts it could have on these countries with maybe refugees

1:34:25coming from Iran and moving over to Europe and countries. Well, it's very funny. It's very funny, Asha, because the people who hate refugees the most, who complain about refugees, which they mean immigrants, which they mean people of color, which usually they mean Muslims, they're the biggest supporters of the war. Nigel Farage, for example, is the biggest supporter of the war. In the United States, the people who created ICE are busily creating a new wave of refugees coming from this Iranian conflict and from the other countries where the war is now impacting. I mean, in Pakistan today, the United States marines murdered 10 Pakistanis who were protesting outside the consulate in Karachi, I believe. So this is going to create a big backwash

1:35:30of refugee traffic created by the United States for all the far-right politicians then to complain about, even though they are supporting the war. But the economic impact will be great. Of course, it depends how long it goes on. If Donald Trump pulls stumps tomorrow and pretends that Iran has asked him for a ceasefire, then the impact will be less. But the impact already, there's 500 oil tankers backed up, unable to proceed through the Straits of Hormuz. The resistance in Yemen, Ansarullah, have closed the Red Sea so no Suez Canal traffic. So if nothing is going through the Red Sea, through the Suez Canal, nothing is going through the Straits of Hormuz. As the Americans say, do the math, the economic impact will be extreme. And if the conflict were to continue, and if Iran were

1:36:36to begin to destroy the oil and gas installations in the neighboring countries, then the impact would be unimaginable. No oil, no gas, no transportation, through the Red Sea, through the Suez Canal, or through the Persian Gulf. Basically, our economies will grind to a halt, and the price of petrol will be the least of your worries. In fact, you won't need to fill up your car, because there will be nowhere to go, because nothing will be open, because everything, including your workplace, will have closed. So many comments tonight. Here are only a few from YouTube. Empire we are since ten U.S. dollars. Thank you very much. In the 90s, the U.S. provided 25 F-15s to Israel, built to carry and deploy U.S. B-61 nuclear weapons. Iran is crazy for not acquiring a nuclear

1:37:38deterrent decades ago. Tina ballerina 3 says, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what your country can do for Israel, Donald Trump, and Ant from Ohio, since 20 U.S. dollars. Thanks, Ant, says if we're lucky, then the meatheads at Fort News tell us that Trump saved the day. Aladdin is in Canada, on Iran. Aladdin, welcome. Yes, George, thank you for having me first and foremost. I'd like to thank you for consistently standing on one. Many believe to be the right side of history of the struggles against apathy, South Africa, and the ongoing Palestine cause. The voice has been for many a better fresh air and source of hope during deeply challenging times. Now, I also wish to emphasize George the importance of unity within our Ummah, now more than ever, standing together against oppression and resisting division is essential. Recent events have left

1:38:39many feeling that key leaders within the Muslim world have been systematically targeted and weakened for some these moments of historical parallels, including reflection on Karbala and the lesson that represents about sacrifice, justice, and steadfastness. Finally, George, I'd like to raise a sincere question regarding segments of the Iranian diaspora who have been seen publicly celebrating while waving the Israeli flag. This has caused confusion and concern among many observers, and it raises complex questions about identity, political perspective, and differing views within the diaspora communities. Also, one last thing, I don't understand how Donald Trump and Epstein Island guest list VIP is the moral standard of the world now. Thank you, George. Well, unfortunately, it is and not just in the United States, the tentacles of Epstein are everywhere. He was a very much more important guy than we previously thought. This is not just

1:39:42a sex scandal, though it would be a gigantic one. This is a matter of espionage and of state penetration and state capture. I mean, I saw a copy of Jeffrey Epstein's Saudi passport. He had a Saudi passport, and not in his own name, in a fake name. And of course, there are pictures of him with important Saudi personalities, and he was deeply involved with the owner of the port in Abu Dhabi. He was, he had in his house a cloth from the Kaaba itself sent to him from Saudi Arabia. And God knows what hideous sins he committed in the presence of, or even on that cloth. I didn't think about it. So the truth is that Donald Trump and Netanyahu are working on the satanic side of history and of

1:40:53contemporary events. There's no doubt about that. And many, many Muslim leaders have collaborated with them, were metaphorically or literally in bed with him. So the Epstein affairs, so I called it the Operation Jeffrey Epstein, so I called it the Epstein war, because I'm in no doubt whatsoever that Donald Trump is doing this to try to distract the American public from the avalanche of hideous revelations about his confederates, and indeed about himself, as we might well find in the next 24 hours, the net is closing in on Donald Trump. So there are many complex drivers of this ghastly sneak attack, but they are failing. I agree with you about unity. My

1:42:02feeling is that whatever certain national leaders do or don't do, the vast majority of the Muslim community, the Muslim Ummah, are completely opposed to Israel, and most are completely opposed to the United States of America. And it must never be thought that the leaders of certain Muslim countries are representative of the masses. They simply are not Aladdin and Canada. Big thanks, big news on the podcast. We are now top 10 for politics. I've already read that. Now at 9 p.m. on Thursday, call the doctor returns with episode 16. This is a great thing we're doing. You can't get through to your own doctor, and even if you get through, you've got no chance whatsoever of getting an appointment. So we've provided you with a doctor. Dr. Baal Gil,

1:43:06who is a legendary campaigner for the National Health Service. 9 p.m. This Tuesday, call the doctor returns with episode 16. You'll be streaming on YouTube and rumble at 9 p.m. Now she's just disappeared from my computer, but I'm hoping she hasn't disappeared from our screen. Let me reintroduce after a brief absence, much missed, my misses, years, Gayatri, what's rattling Gayatri? So as the Americans started their full on war against Iran, they launched an airstrike onto an elementary school in Iran, a girl school murdering 156 school girls. Girls, the ages and the sizes of our daughters, and 156 girls, their lives were cut short from becoming

1:44:14grown up women, women, the women that these Western forces claim to support. So where are these feminists? Where are these token dolls that shave their head for insolidarity with women in Iran? These women and girls are being murdered, barbarically murdered. So where are they now? Where is this women live freedom movement? Well ironically, I saw some of these lawmakers in the UK and in the US welcoming March as the National Women's History Month ahead of next week's Sunday, 8th of March, when it's International Women's Day. I mean seriously, I'm sick of these so-called feminists. I can't take it anymore. Well, they're always talking about women's rights in Iran, but they don't give a toss about the women slaughtered in Gaza. They say that they are always looking

1:45:18after and safeguarding the rights of children, but they didn't do anything to stop the mass slaughter of children in Gaza. So their silence doesn't surprise me, but their apparent lack of shame does surprise me. I mean, you'd think one of these celebrities that lined up to cut their hair off in solidarity with Iranian women would have had something to say about 40 Iranian women, volleyball players, being slaughtered in a gymnasium. You would think that one of them, just one of them would have said something about the massacre of the girls. As you say, the same age, the same size as our own daughters. It is so repugnant and it's difficult to muster the words

1:46:19to condemn it, but I'm afraid I've seen all this before. In the 1980s, in politics, in Britain, I was repeatedly told that we must socially engineer the parliament to get more women into the parliament, because there'll be less wars, there'll be more peace, there'll be more love and understanding. And then we got Margaret Thatcher, and then we got a whole series of female killers and serpents. It doesn't matter whether you're a man or a woman, it doesn't matter whether you're black or white. What matters is whether you pursue good or whether you pursue evil. And both men and women can be good and both men and women can be evil. What else have you got for us? Indeed, indeed. Well, we are over time, but I just want to remind you and congratulate you on your two-year

1:47:24anniversary of the Roadsdale by-election victory. I mean, it was a true victory, one that is still spoken of across the land, and also echoes. It haunts the political class in Britain, and it echoes in all the press rooms, all the newsrooms in Britain, obviously, especially on the back of labor losing in Manchester, the very constituency we're used to before, and our daughter, our middle daughter was born. Indeed, she was, in fact, she was almost called Gorton Galloway. I mean, I'm not joking, our now-editor, but then close colleague, Ron McKay. He seriously proposed to me that we call our middle daughter Gorton Galloway, so as to help me win the Gorton constituency when I stood there.

1:48:29But you're right, I still live rent-free in their heads. Kirstaama wrote a letter to his members of parliament in just a simple A4, one page letter in which he mentions me, not once, not twice, but three times, and I'm thousands of miles away. I'm a specter, haunting them. The BBC politics showed us this morning, although virtually nobody watched it. She was Laura Kunzberg, was laying into me over Iran of all things. You think they'd be embarrassed, but they are unembarrassed. By the way. Well, Luke, thanks, Gorton. They are in. See you tomorrow, God willing, or on Tuesday, rather, and we'll be back. The two of us, I hope,

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