IRAN’S ATTACKS ON U.S. BASES UNPRECEDENTED, IRGC VOWS ‘DECISIVE DEFEAT’ | Laith Marouf

0:00It is February 28th, 2026, and we are continuing to follow breaking news coming out of the Middle East as you not only had the US and Israel carrying out an attack against Iran, but you now have a Iran retaliating with an unprecedented attack targeting US military bases across the region. We're seeing all of these videos and reports on social media, but we are also seeing the IRGC vowing that they will achieve a decisive defeat. So what does that mean? What should we be keeping an eye on is the fallout from the initial attacks by the US and Israel have included more than 50 school girls targeted and killed in attacks that they said were supposed to be targeting Iran's ballistic missile facilities or their top leaders. Well, we got into all of the latest and more with a special guest earlier. So let's take a listen to that conversation now. Joining me now to discuss is Lathem Arruf, a Palestinian Syrian journalist and executive

1:02director of Free Palestine TV based in Lebanon. Lath, thanks so much for taking the time to join me. Thank you for having me Rachel. Yeah, I really appreciate you making the time at such short notice. I know we are following a lot of breaking news right now and that's exactly what I want to talk to about as the US and Israel began bombing Iran on Saturday with a series of strikes that reports say specifically targeted Iranian leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Masood Pezash Keon. Now, there have been reports that both leaders were moved out of Tehran. I know we've heard a lot from the Iranian government saying that their leaders are safe, but we in terms of the confirmation, how do you see the latest updates? And will you give me your reaction to the fact that they carried out these attacks when they did? Well, clearly the Iranian government learned from the last time it was negotiating with the United States that that would be used as a cover to

2:04launch an attack. That's what happened in the 12-day war last year. So I think the Iranian government was ready. They have definitely moved all this leadership. There's been multiple statements by the Iranian state clarifying that both the Ayatollah, the president and the cabinet of the Iranian government are all safe and at the head of their ministries and doing their work. Similarly, there was statements from the Iranian armed forces detailing that all the leadership of the armed forces and its branches are safe and conducting their duties. And we've seen multiple Zionist news sources from the colony confirming that and saying that clearly the first strike was a failure for the United States and the Zionist colony. And looking at this war and how we

3:10feel about it here in this region, I think it was coming. The fact that the genocide in Gaza was not stopped and the Zionist colony was expanding into occupying the rest of the region and speaking about creating a greater Israel. The Zionists both in control in their states and in the colony lost their mind and they are living a reality which they see themselves as representative of some god on this planet that allows them to genocide and loot and destroy nations and erase history. So this was coming and clearly the response of Iran has been measured up until now and calculated in amazing ways. We can discuss of course the retaliation of Iran as we thought during this Yeah and I know exactly as you were saying there right we were kind of watching this build up

4:14knowing that something was going to happen as soon as the US started rushing refueling tankers to Israel. I kind of was going okay that that speeds the clock up a bit on their time for an attack and you hadn't President Trump released this prepared statement where he's saying a lot of things including that oh god is with us and so the fact that they're that they're going in like that I think they're going to be taught a bit of a lesson and having that approach but we'll see if Trump or Netanyahu learn anything from it but speaking of Iran's retaliation they did not waste any time they didn't wait two weeks they didn't wait two days they immediately retaliated against not only Israel but also US military bases across the region with explosions reported in Saudi Arabia the UAE Kuwait, Iran and Qatar how do you view Iran's retaliation so far I mean they they've had these warnings for weeks now but

5:15them following through on it and making it clear that they are not going to back down. Yeah I think this must have shocked both the vassals of the United States and the region and the US forces and the design is because it was less than half an hour from the initial attacks by the United States and the Zionist colony that we started seeing the retaliation of Iran and it began by targeting all the first wave bases around Iran in the Gulf region people were expecting maybe that first attacks will target the Zionist colony we saw those attacks on Bahrain on Qatar on Kuwait and then we saw a second wave of attacks on the American presence in Jordan this is the major air base that is outside a man that is hosting probably two thirds of the

6:16land-based American air power in the region before the beginning of this war and then the attacks on the Zionist colony permits so up until now by the way it's now you know at least 10 waves of missiles and drones that the Iranians have fired since the beginning of this war and up until now they haven't used any of their hypersonic missiles and or their advanced drones so the damage that we see the total destruction of the American base in Bahrain the command of the fleet in the region and the destruction of the major radar installations in Qatar people can watch that video of that Iranian drone all of this is being done by the oldest weapons that Iran has in its arsenal and this total collapse of American air defenses

7:22and radars and air strips in the region from the Emirates through the whole Arabic Peninsula to Jordan to the Zionist colony is you know dramatic it's unprecedented right now American jets in the region have withdrawn back and the kid don't have a landing strips to land in the region and they're having to use the two aircraft carriers the base in Cyprus and the base in Soda the NATO base in Soda in Crete in Greece and the base in Turkey so this means that the flight paths of these aircrafts to attack Iran is now longer there's going to be more use of airfuelers to you know support these and that these bases in this third line not even the second line the third line

8:23behind the Zionist colony are going to come into attack very soon by Iran with its more advanced weapons this is the logical thing that Iran can do is now to target the American aircraft carriers and the bases in Cyprus Turkey and Greece to paralyze the American air presence in the region and I look at the Trump administration I go do you guys not realize what you're dealing with here I mean yes Iran agreed to negotiations they wanted to make a deal with the US but at the same time they were preparing for what would happen if they were attacked and now we're seeing that play out exactly as you're describing it I did think it was interesting and maybe this is just for the media here in the West but the initial reports really highlighted this is a joint US Israeli attack and then you had Axios come out and say oh well well it's Israel that's targeting the Iranian top leaders it's the US that's targeting their ballistic missile program which

9:28apparently includes an entire school of young school girls of which over 50 were just killed by the US and Israel how do you view the way that the US and Israel chose to carry out this attack chose to target Iran and do you think that they fully took into account the retaliation that they were going to seek yeah you know for our viewers to understand the work week in Iran starts on Saturday because Thursday and Friday are the weekend thus there was a lot of students in schools early in the morning in Iran when they attacked again and the you know in the United States seems to retaliate against its failures to defend this troops in the region in space is by killing children this is the you know Jewish supremacist Epstein class in the world that loves killing children it's hobby and of course Iran is you know news right now that we have is

10:36from Israeli media by the way just a few hours ago that the NATO base in Bahrain which was totally destroyed there's at least 10 Italian soldiers dead in that attack and that the other members of NATO that have officers on the ground there have casualties what are refusing to release their numbers of dead and we can calculate of course on a wider scale in the American bases around the region also in Iraq the bases in Arabia have been attacked and you know clearly the Zionists and the NATO alliance behind them have lost tens of soldiers just in this first wave of Iranian retaliations we'll see how the West will respond but it's clear that from the statements of Canada Australia and other countries that they're willing to burn their own countries and start a World War III for the eyes of Netanyahu and the Epstein class

11:44you know this war is not gonna end soon the statements from the Iranian government have said that you know through their calls with all the foreign affairs ministers in the region that they will be targeting every base that is providing any support to the attacks on Iran it doesn't mean only places that aircraft care are taking off from to attack Iran or missiles no but anything that is providing support for this war meaning radar installations, air strips, air defenses will be targeted and that this war will not end except with the defeat of the Zionist colony the Iranians are calling their operation and this is very indicative they're calling it the finale of al-Atsafloud the finale of the flood so they're saying they're going to end what

12:47began on September 7th 2023 with this war the other statement that people should notice is that Iranian foreign affairs said every American interest they see right now the United States and Israel as one entity okay so it doesn't matter if the US or Israel are claiming which attacked first Iran or who started it they see them as one and that they will be attacking American interest in the region on land see air and space and put two lines under the war space we may see the American satellites over the region targeted by new weapons by Iran. I could get definitely interesting and I'm glad that you bring that up because I saw that statement and I'm going space okay that's I mean obviously they are saying that for a reason and a very notable name there as the US the US on its end is referring to its operation as

13:52epic fury and I look at that and I go that just sounds like you're going to create a lot of death and destruction which seems to be exactly what they're doing but like there's not much more backing it than that and I did think it was notable going back to this video that we had from Trump he declared that this was war he declared that American soldiers are likely to die and he called on the Iranian military to surrender for the Iranian people to take over their institutions I'm not sure how much of that Trump really is gung ho on and believes how much is in his ear not that any of it really matters but what do you make of the fact that we have a US president saying to the world that he is doing what no other president has done before and pursuing a war like this when yes the US establishment has wanted war with Iran for decades but no one has been dumb enough to fully go all in yeah there's an Arabic proverb that says if you've got no shame do

14:54as you wish and I think right now the you know pedophile cannibalistic elite in the last exemplified by Trump have no more shame and they are really committing genocide for the last two years openly and dancing on top of the graves of the children of the world so this is the level I think of propaganda that is coming out of the elite in the West this is the the generation of it and Trump or Netanyahu for instance currently only speak to the most degenerate class in in their societies and brag about their crime to instigate those who believe they have also that right to rape, pillage and kill willingly to stand behind them so we see them

15:54you know you know they examine telling their own populace that you follow me and you will have the same rights often so I don't think it's surprising after watching two years of genocide and it's justifications by the Western elite and this is why this war will only end with total defeat of either side I think the United States is going to have its biggest beating since the Vietnam War look this is the widest attack on American bases in history okay who attacked this many American bases even the Japanese didn't attack this many American bases this is like let's put it in the context of what Iran is doing right now is something unprecedented one thing that we

16:54of course all have to keep in our mind is the possibilities of nuclear war this war deteriorating into nuclear stage up until now we have no news about attacks on Iran's nuclear sites the only thing that I've seen through thousands of thousands of media posts that have been reading since the morning anyway hinting to something about this was the Kuwaiti government issuing a statement that there is no radioactive material either in the air or waters around the Kuwait maybe they were responding to some questioning from media because of how Kuwait is close to one of the Iranian nuclear sites that are on the Persian Gulf so up until now we have no news about that but imagine if there is actually even without somebody using nuclear if there is actually a nuclear leak

17:57through an attack on an Iranian nuclear site and there is mass casualties and mass pollution because of just this nuclear fallout I think Iran will then target is the Zionist colonies nuclear sites and once that has happened who knows what will be the responses of the West and if once somebody fires a nuclear weapon what China and Russia will do yeah this this is world war three right this is what we've been warning about for so long and kind of building up to to get to this point where you're having these conversations and it very well could get there the last thing I wanted to bring up just kind of comes to what we're keeping an eye on especially when it comes to the axis of resistance because of course if we're talking about this being the finale of the flood that's not just about Iran that is about the resistance as a whole and their overall

18:58fight back against Zionism against the US and kind of the West as a whole so what are you going to be keeping an eye on in the hours and days to come yeah like we already have seen statements by Hezbollah Iraq saying that they are commencing their attacks on American presence in the region and that follows an attack by either Israeli or American aircraft on a base of the popular mobilization units in Iraq so that's that's going to happen Yemen issued statements that they are also going to be joining and already they have closed the Red Sea and Babel Mandeb no straight and Hezbollah had in Lebanon had a scheduled speech for the Secretary General Sheikh Naim al-Kasim that was so close to air right now but was cancelled and the statement also

19:59said all further public events of Hezbollah will be suspended until further notice the Lebanese government is I think soiling its pants right now they've held their first emergency meeting since the end of the direct war on Lebanon and the quote-unquote ceasefire and in this statement they were scared saying that nobody should be using weapons from Lebanese territory without their approval there was a statement by the foreign affairs minister of Lebanon who belongs to the Christian supremacist phalanche attack party condemning Iran for attacking American races without condemning the attack on Iran so I think and you know some analysts were talking about the aircraft carrier the Gerald Ford that is parked right across from Haifa in the Mediterranean

21:06talking about that fighter group as a defense line for Israel with all its ages and you know anti-aircraft missiles but the reality is I think the presence of the Gerald Ford and his fighting group is there to attack Hezbollah in Lebanon if Hezbollah retaliates against the Zionist colony but this is all coming this is clearly coming and it may be that the Iran doesn't have to sink Gerald Ford that actually Hezbollah would sink it does it doesn't need to fire a hypersonic missile or it can fire an undersea drone it can fire a short range drone and hit the American you know aircraft carrier and his group there easily so at this moment it's clear that even the whole region is going to be engulfed in this war and stages of this war is the only thing that we can calculate what the different players will do but for sure every player in the

22:14region will be involved in this war in some shape or form in the next few hours and days. Yeah a lot of those Gulf monarchies probably looking at things and maybe questioning a few things twice as they get further involved whether they like it or not but hey that's the the ally that they chose or the country that they chose to be a vassal state for I know that there is certainly a lot at stake here all around a lot of breaking news to continue to parse through and I really appreciate you taking the time to join me today to break down all of the latest here lathe marupe a Palestinian Syrian journalist and executive director of free Palestine TV thank you so much for your time and insight thank you Rachel if anything in this video resonated with you we sure to like it share it with your friends leave a comment and as always don't forget to subscribe and if you want to keep up with all of my work make sure that you're subscribed my page on substack that's Rachel blubbins.substack.com that's where you'll find add free videos and

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