Jun 12, 2025
Israel Plans To Strike Iran, Forcing U.S. To Prepare For A DISASTROUS War
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fully ready strike Iran.
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The U.S.
And Iran are set to have
more nuclear talks on Sunday.
President Trump confirms the U.S.
Is removing some diplomats and their
families from parts of the Middle East
because of escalating tensions
between Israel and Iran.
Imminent Israeli strike on Iran.
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Well, I don't want to say imminent,
but it looks like it's something
that could very well happen.
Just as the United States was set to hold
yet another round of diplomatic talks
with Iran in the hope of signing
a new nuclear deal, considering Trump
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ripped up the one from 2018.
Israel is now threatening to strike Iran
and drag the United States in yet another
regime change war in the Middle East.
Here's more.
Reports say Israel is prepared
to launch an attack on Iran,
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with or without US support, though.
We're trying to,
we're trying to make a deal
so that there's no destruction and death.
And we've told them that,
and I've told them that.
And I hope that's the way it works out,
but it might not work out that way.
Trump previously warned
Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu
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against any military action while
negotiations with Iran are still ongoing.
Now, obviously, the president
of the United States would warn Israel
against conducting strikes against Iran
as the U.S.
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Is engaged in diplomatic talks with Iran.
But see, that's the problem.
Israel doesn't want the United States
to engage in diplomatic talks.
Israel doesn't want the United States
to secure a nuclear deal, because
a nuclear deal would kind of eliminate
the justification for Israel to drag the
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United States into a hot war with Iran.
And, of course, the real objective here
for Israel is to get the United States
to engage in a regime change war.
So at the end of the day,
the most powerful country.
Well, the most powerful country
in that region is Israel.
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But Israel is constantly worried
that there might be some retaliation
for their bad behavior by Iran.
So they want to ensure that Iran
does not obtain a nuclear weapon.
But don't make the mistake of thinking
they're going to stop there.
They do want regime change in Iran,
but more importantly, they want
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to essentially drag the United States
to fight that war on their behalf.
You want to know why?
Because they literally would not be able
to win that war without the assistance,
without the aid of the United States.
Now, before I move on any further,
just minutes before we went live today,
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President Donald Trump posted something
on social media in regard to this issue,
arguing that he will remain committed
to a diplomatic resolution
to the Iran nuclear issue.
My entire administration
has been directed to negotiate with Iran.
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They could be a great country,
but they first must completely give up
hopes of obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Thank you for your attention
to this matter.
He didn't write that, but nonetheless,
if he actually agrees with that sentiment,
then I'm all for it.
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And Iran is in the negotiations.
This the diplomatic talks are
not about whether Iran gets
to develop a nuclear weapon or not.
Iran has already agreed that they are
willing to not develop a nuclear weapon
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to avoid developing a nuclear weapon.
The real sticking point here
is whether Iran will be allowed to enrich
civilian levels of uranium mining,
uranium that will be used
to provide energy power to their people
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because they export their oil.
That is what props up their economy.
And so in order to provide energy
to their people, they like to use
nuclear power, which, by the way,
something we should consider leaning into
a little more here in the United States
if we really give a damn
about the climate emergency.
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But that's a different story.
So, look, the Trump administration
ordered military and diplomatic personnel
to basically Leave the region,
leave Middle East countries
that we have bases in in order to prevent
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a retaliatory strike against them by Iran
following Israel's offensive actions.
So Israel claims that it would be
justified in striking Iran
due to Iran's enrichment of uranium,
which theoretically can be used to build
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a nuclear weapon and get a load of this.
On Thursday,
the International Atomic Energy Agency
declared that Iran was not complying with
its nuclear nonproliferation obligations,
the first such censure in two decades.
Iran condemned the vote,
saying it completely called into question
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the credibility and prestige
of the nuclear watchdog.
Now, you should know that Mossad,
the Israeli intelligence agency,
you know what they were up to,
where they were traversing recently and
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who they were having conversations with.
In fact, why don't we hear from, reporter.
Murtaza Hussain.
He works for drop site news and he
explains exactly what I'm talking about.
The Omani foreign minister confirmed that
talks will happen between Steve Witkoff
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and between Iran's foreign minister.
However, at the same time,
we do know that Israel's head of Mossad
and their minister, Ron Dermer,
will be meeting with Steve Witkoff,
apparently ahead of said meeting again,
potentially for some coordination
of what exactly we don't know.
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Iran just got rebuked,
rebuked this morning by the IAEA
over nuclear materials.
So things do seem to be trending,
you know, in a in a very bad direction.
Unless things go well during these talks.
This is a problem that, Mossad officials
and Ron Dermer have been hovering
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around the talks from the beginning.
They've been in Rome.
They've been wherever the talks are
happening, they're either briefing Witkoff
beforehand or just being in the area
to let them know that their position
is very, very important in these talks.
So, you know, to be honest,
I'm not particularly optimistic,
unfortunately, about the Sunday talks.
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The talks this weekend.
It also doesn't help that legacy media
also seems complicit at best,
or pounding the war drums at worst.
Just as they did in the lead up
to our invasion of Iraq.
So I'm going to give you a quick excerpt
from The New York Times.
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There's a bit of information here
that's actually accurate and really,
really important, especially as it
pertains to what the IAEA is claiming.
But just notice the vague citation here.
It's very reminiscent of what I would read
in the lead up to our invasion of Iraq.
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Iran's nuclear program
has advanced considerably
over the past decade, analysts say.
It is now on the brink of being able
to manufacture enough nuclear material
to fuel ten nuclear weapons,
although producing a usable bomb
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would likely take many more months.
Who exactly are these analysts?
Who are these analysts?
Are these analysts, I don't know,
tied to defense contractors,
weapons manufacturers, the Israel lobby.
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I don't know who are these analysts.
But more importantly,
let's not forget the most important part
of that entire statement or excerpt from
The New York Times that I just read,
because producing a usable bomb
would likely take many more months.
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And honestly,
I'm suspicious of even that claim.
I don't think that Iran is
about to develop a nuclear weapon
and wipe out the United States.
I think that Israel sees Iran as a threat.
Israel wants Iran's regime changed.
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They know that they can't fight that war
and win on their own,
and they're going to drag us into it.
And the fact that there's currently
an effort to manufacture consent for this
drives me absolutely insane.
So let's get to the rest of this.
Israel wants war.
Netanyahu, in particular,
has been beating the war drums for years,
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for decades as it pertains to Iran.
I can show you evidence
dating back to the 1990s.
In fact, why don't I do that right now?
The most dangerous
of these regimes is Iran.
That has led a cruel despotism
to a fanatic militancy.
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If this regime or its despotic neighbor,
Iraq, were to acquire nuclear weapons,
this could presage
catastrophic consequences,
not only for my country and not only for
the Middle East, but for all of mankind.
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The two nations that are vying, competing
with each other, who will be the first to
achieve nuclear weapons is Iraq and Iran.
And Iran, by the way, is also outpacing
Iraq in the development of ballistic
missile systems that they hope will reach
the eastern seaboard of the United States.
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They have to enrich enough
high enriched uranium for the first bomb.
Where's Iran?
Iran's completed the first stage took
them many years, but they completed it
and they're 70% of the way there.
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Now they're well into the second stage.
And by next spring, at most,
by next summer, at current enrichment
rates, they will have finished the medium
enrichment and move on to the final stage.
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From there.
It's only a few months,
possibly a few weeks.
That last clip in the compilation
you just watched was from 2012.
Back in 2012, Benjamin Netanyahu
was claiming that Iran was months away,
maybe weeks away, maybe weeks away
of having a nuclear weapon.
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Now, currently Israel has nuclear weapons,
which they refuse to acknowledge,
but the entire international community
knows they have nuclear weapons.
They began their nuclear program
in the 1960s.
And, there's only one country
in the Middle East right now
that's carrying out a genocide.
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And that country is the country of Israel.
So if we're concerned about a questionable
government in the Middle East obtaining
nuclear weapons or having nuclear weapons,
maybe we should have a discussion
about the genocidal regime that's
carrying out genocide in Gaza right now.
You know, the regime that just called
for the complete annexation
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of the West Bank and the construction
of 22 additional illegal settlements.
Maybe we should have a conversation about
the country that has a military force,
the IDF, that literally shot at European
and international diplomats
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as they were visiting Janine last month.
Can we have a conversation about that?
And if Netanyahu was so concerned with
Iran's, you know, enrichment of uranium,
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why did he lobby so hard to get Donald
Trump to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal
that was signed, you know,
by Iran, our allies, and of course
the United States back in 2015.
But of course, Trump pulled out of it
in 2018 on behalf of Israel.
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Why?
I mean, let's take a look at this graph,
because it shows you
Iran's uranium enrichment program.
And if you notice,
as soon as the nuclear deal is signed,
that activity comes to a stop.
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They enrich just enough uranium
specifically to provide energy
to their own people.
But it wasn't until 2018, when Trump
ripped that deal up that Iran began
enriching uranium again at higher levels.
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Because that wasn't the bug.
That was the feature of pulling out
of the Iran nuclear deal for Netanyahu,
because he's been itching for this war.
He's been itching for those U.S.
Tax dollars, those American bombs.
Boots on the ground in Iran.
American boots on the ground in Iran.
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Why do you think Trump had to Evacuate
American military personnel
from our bases in the Middle East.
Why do you think it's because Israel's
actions, if they do carry out strikes in
Iran, put Americans at danger, Americans.
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And at the same time, you'll hear,
you know, the war hawk, Israelis
within the Israeli government argue,
no, no, we we're worried about
the national security of Americans.
No you're not.
They're not worried about
the national security of Americans at all.
After Netanyahu succeeded in convincing
Trump to do this, you see the nuclear,
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I'm sorry, the uranium enrichment.
Then Netanyahu is currently acknowledging
that Iran and its proxies have been
severely weakened due to Israel's ongoing
attacks over the last year and a half.
So he he will acknowledge that they're
weakened and they're less of a threat.
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But nonetheless, Iran has been weakened
since Hamas launched
the October 7th, 2023 attack on Israel
that ignited the war in Gaza.
Hamas and Hezbollah,
which are backed by Iran, have been
decimated in their wars with Israel.
And you would think that
that would convince Netanyahu
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to calm down a little bit.
But no war is the only answer for Bibi.
Netanyahu has privately, privately argued
that Iran's vulnerability will not last
long, meaning that Israel has a limited
window in which to launch an attack.
He just wants war.
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Doesn't matter if Trump is trying
to pursue diplomatic means.
This guy Netanyahu, his government,
they want war.
They want to drag us into it.
It's just so obvious and so clear.
And by the way, the New York Times decided
to keep citing the ominous analysts in
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their piece, writing that Israeli strikes
against Iran's air defenses last year
weakened their capabilities,
allowing Israeli fighter jets
to more safely launch a new mass attack,
according to officials and analysts.
If Israel waits too long,
Iran might restore them, analysts said.
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Who are the analysts?
Is there a possibility that the analysts
have a conflict of interest here
that we should know about?
But we can't look up
because they're not being named?
What a pathetic report.
But look, things do not look good
when you have Donald Trump downplaying
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the prospects of a deal with Iran.
Now, he said this on camera prior
to posting that, we still favor diplomacy.
Post on social media.
But nonetheless, this doesn't
really inspire much confidence
in the Trump administration.
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Take a look.
And what's the main impediment
to getting a deal?
Well, they're just asking for things
that you can't do.
They don't want to give up what?
They have to give up.
You know what that is?
They seek enrichment.
We can't have enrichment.
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We want just the opposite.
And so far, they're not there.
I hate to say that because the alternative
is a very, very dire one,
but they're not there.
They have given us
their thoughts on the deal.
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And I said, you know,
it's just not acceptable.
Do you think you're going to be able
to stop Iran from enriching its.
I don't know. I did think so.
And I'm getting more
and more less confident about it.
They seem to be delaying
and I think that's a shame.
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But they I'm less confident now than I
would have been a couple of months ago.
If they don't make a deal, they're
not going to have a nuclear weapon.
It would be nicer to do it
without warfare, without people dying.
So much nicer to do it.
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No, it would be more than just nice
to avoid a hot war with Iran.
Because if Trump decides that he is going
to be dog walked to the extent that Israel
pushes the United States into a conflict,
into a war with Iran,
a lot of people are going to die.
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We would need boots
on the ground to fight Iran.
I mean, just think of it, the United
States, with all of its funding,
all of its weaponry couldn't even beat
the Houthis in Yemen, who are Iran backed.
So obviously, if war breaks out with Iran,
we would need
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to have boots on the ground.
And Iran is nothing like Iraq.
We're talking about far bigger landmass,
far bigger landmass.
We're talking about 90
million people in Iran.
We're talking about superior weaponry
compared to what Iraq had.
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It would be a complete and utter disaster,
complete and utter carnage
of innocent civilians, American soldiers.
And for what?
Because the current Israeli government
doesn't seek diplomatic means
of ending Iran's nuclear program.
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It's ridiculous. But that's where we are.
We'll see what happens.
But for the love of God, please, someone
keep that pig Mark Levin, away from Trump.
Every time you ring the bell below,
an angel gets his wings.
Totally not true.
But it does keep you updated
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