Jun 16, 2025
Israel Inflicts MASS CASUALTIES In Iran
As Israel continues to attack Iran, President Trump refuses to commit to the U.S. staying out of the conflict.
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Not far from Tel Aviv,
in the city of Petah Tikva.
At least four Israelis were killed after
a missile slammed into this building,
bringing the number of deaths
since last week to at least 24.
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But the toll Israel has inflicted
on Iran is far higher. 224 killed,
including women and children, as well as
the ongoing assassination of top military
commanders and nuclear scientists.
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So there you have it.
Four days after Israel launched
an offensive war against Iran,
the violence continues.
And now Donald Trump is hinting
at the United States getting more involved
in the war that Israel started here.
So before we get to more details weigh in.
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Yeah.
So I said, as Israel was starting
this war,
that they would pretend to be the victims,
even though they clearly struck first.
Clearly, it's a Supreme
so-called preemptive war.
But as Netanyahu admitted
over the weekend.
Actually not preemptive.
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It turns out they were a long way away
from having any kind of nuclear weapon,
as we suspected.
But Netanyahu even admitted it.
So we're going to give that those details
to you guys in a little bit.
And so what's happening now is amazing
because we've got a war
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both between Israel and Iran,
but we've got a war at home in America for
who's going to be able to affect Donald
Trump's decision on whether to go further?
Because is America involved in this war?
Absolutely.
In ways that we're about to explain now.
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All right.
So let's go there to catch you up
on what's happened over the past few days.
Here it is.
Israel attacked Iran's state television
station in the middle of a broadcast.
Pretty explosive to watch.
Tehran residents attempting
to flee the capital in search of safety.
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The centrifuges housed underground
at a key Iranian nuclear facility
remain intact at this hour.
It's likely that only the U.S.
Has the weapons required
to damage that site.
So watching that closely.
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Meantime, Iran struck an
Israeli oil refinery overnight
and damaged part of the power grid.
Residential buildings were hit
in and around Tel Aviv,
killing at least 24 so far.
So things are escalating since Israel
launched its attack early Friday morning.
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The U.S.
Has provided defensive support to Israel,
intercepting Iranian strikes.
So far, we've stopped short
of joining the offensive campaigns.
But on Sunday, here's
what President Donald Trump told ABC news.
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We're not involved in it.
It's possible we could get involved,
but we are not at this moment involved.
Sources familiar with the matter
say Israel has spoken with the U.S.
About possibly increasing
the A level of involvement.
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United States level of involvement.
Though one Israeli official cautioned,
those conversations have not yet included
practical discussions
of the finer details.
CNN with that reporting, and while Trump
hopes to avoid a prolonged conflict that
could further destabilize the Middle East,
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some in the administration recognize
that American military assistance
may have may help Israel
conclude its objectives more quickly.
According to the sources.
So all of that seems to signal
that it's incredibly likely we will get
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more involved in this offensive campaign.
Plus, Donald Trump is doubling down
on his claim that Israel attacking Iran
will actually help move
nuclear negotiations forward.
Asked if there's a deadline for Iran
to come to the table, Trump told ABC this.
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No, there's no deadline.
But they are talking.
They'd like to make a deal.
They're talking.
They continue to talk.
Something like this had to happen
because I think even from both sides.
But something like this had to happen.
They want to talk.
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They want they will be rather talking
may have forced a deal to go quicker.
Actually, that's the president
talking to ABC.
Now, the only sign that Trump's trying to
keep Netanyahu in check is that, according
to two sources, he opposed an Israeli plan
to kill Iran's supreme leader.
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But during an ABC news interview this
morning, Netanyahu suggested that is still
on the table, variously claiming that his
attack on Iran is actually preventing war.
Listen to this.
U.S.
Officials tell us that the president
flatly rejected a plan, an opportunity
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that that that that you that the Israelis
had to take out the supreme leader.
Do you understand his concern?
My understanding is his concern is
that that this would escalate the conflict
beyond where it is already.
It's not going to escalate the conflict.
It's going to end the conflict.
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We've had half a century of conflict
spread by this regime that is terrorizing.
Everyone in the Middle East,
has bombed the Aramco oil fields
in Saudi Arabia, is spreading terrorism
and subversion and sabotage everywhere.
That's the forever war is what Iran wants.
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And they're bringing us
to the brink of nuclear war.
In fact, what Israel is doing
is preventing this,
bringing an end to this, this aggression.
And we can only do so
by standing up to the forces of evil.
So are you going to target
the Supreme leader?
Look, we're doing what we need to do.
I'm not going to get into the details.
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All right, so there's Netanyahu.
I want to know.
I mean, it's unfair to ask, but where do
you think this thing is going?
Our involvement,
the United States getting in deeper.
Will the supreme leader of Iran
be targeted?
And also why, it seems the more
the president talks, the less we learn.
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- It's just a lot of double speak.
- Yeah.
So I want to start with Netanyahu
and break down what he just said
because it was amazing.
And then I want to get back into,
their plan all along
because it turns out they couldn't.
They never had a chance
of taking out the nuclear facilities.
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They can't do it without us.
They're now admitting that.
So we'll come back to that in a second.
So Netanyahu in this clip says,
oh, we're just trying to stop
the aggressive wars as he literally
just launched an aggressive war.
Everything he says is projection.
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He says, Iran terrorizes everyone else
in the Middle East.
No, that's literally what Israel does.
They've attacked Iran, Syria, Lebanon.
They've also attacked Yemen.
They've certainly destroyed leveled Gaza.
They're driving people out of their homes
and killing them in the West Bank.
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They've attacked
almost all of their neighbors,
and they terrorize all of their neighbors.
So Iran didn't do any of that.
Israel did that.
Okay.
Then he talks about, oh, they constantly
doing sabotage in the Middle East.
Oh, you mean like blowing up?
I mean sabotage? Are you kidding me?
I mean, he's almost trying
to rub it in your face like, ha ha.
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I'm telling you all the things we do
and pretending it's Iran.
Now watch.
Look at the American media to play along.
It'll be hilarious.
And the American media does play along.
I'll get back to that, too.
So. But the most important part
connects these two things
to two major issues I brought up.
Because Trump says
don't take out Ayatollah.
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Now, they already took out
the top negotiator for Iran.
They're like, get back to the negotiating
negotiating table with who you murdered.
Their negotiator.
Okay.
They took out one of the top politicians.
They took out the three top military
commanders, but they left Ayatollah.
So. And I'm now the thing
that really got me guys was.
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Like the war starts.
24, 48 hours later, Israeli officials
keep popping up all over.
Yoav Galant,
their former defense minister, etc.,
saying, oh, well, obviously we can't,
destroy their nuclear facilities.
America has to do that for us.
And they have a, quote unquote,
obligation to do it.
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No. We don't.
So you start this war knowing that you
can't achieve your stated objective
because you think, well, America is
my dog, so I'll have him come fetch.
I'll start a war that I know I can't win
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based on my own defined victory,
which is, ending their nuclear program,
destroying all their nuclear facilities.
I know only America can.
But my plan is to drag in the sucker
Americans to pay for this war, to, carry
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out this war, to have your soldiers die.
Your airmen die.
No, no, you die for Israel.
That was their plan all along.
Because they're admitting it now.
We can't take out
their nuclear facilities.
Then what did you start it for?
There is a second option
that brings us back to the Ayatollah.
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Why did Trump veto it?
But Netanyahu's obviously
jonesing to do it.
And you could tell in that interview
because this is about regime change,
just like Iraq.
Why do they want the regime changed?
Just like in Iraq,
where, by the way, we are.
But to be fair, we had all this evidence
of weapons of mass destruction.
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Oh, it turned out to be fake.
Hey, do you know
where we got that evidence?
Israel.
Oh, isn't that funny?
And whenever you ask.
Hey, how's Israel, our special ally?
You know, we've given them $311 million.
What have they given us?
They go, oh,
we give you great intelligence.
Do you, do you?
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So now they want to do regime change
because in before the Iraq war,
Israeli Prime Minister said
Iraq is our number one enemy.
Now they say Iran's our number one enemy,
not ours as in America.
Not even close.
They mean ours as in Israel.
So our apparently America
has an obligation to constantly take out
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their top enemy in the Middle East so they
can continue terrorizing the Middle East.
Apparently, we have that obligation.
We spent several trillion dollars
doing that in Iraq on behalf of Israel.
What did America get out of it?
Now everybody agrees.
The right wing agrees.
The left wing agrees. Zero.
We got nothing.
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We got a bunch of dead soldiers
coming home in coffins.
But don't worry.
The IDF didn't have to fight that war.
So now they tell us.
Now we're going to do
regime change in Iran.
Why?
Because then if we do that,
we're going to be greeted as liberators.
I mean, seriously, seriously,
after the Iraq War,
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you're going back to this sack of crap.
You saw him in that interview.
He said, well,
once the ayatollah is taken out,
you know everything's going to be solved.
Yeah.
Because the Iranian people
and they say this with a straight face.
I was on Piers Morgan this morning
debating a bunch of these clowns.
Okay.
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They got no.
Then the Iranian people will welcome us.
Of course, when you drop a bomb on
somebody's family, they say, come on in.
Please run our country too.
We would love it. No, us fight you.
No way.
No. We'll just surrender right away.
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So all of this is obvious propaganda.
So, Sharon, what's happening now is
amazing because as we're going to talk
about a little bit later in the show
magazine Open Revolt, the libertarians
have already left the building.
And there's now memes around libertarians
and progressives clasping hands
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in the anti-war movement.
We're done with this, right?
And of course, what is the answer
that Israel supporters have for all of us,
all of the American voters
who don't want this anti-Semites,
all of America's anti-Semites.
And if we don't want
to be called anti-Semites,
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we better give them another $300 billion.
We better spend another couple
of trillion dollars on another war.
We better take out all of their enemies.
We better do all of their bidding.
Otherwise.
Congratulations, right wing libertarians.
You're now also anti-Semites.
So, man, they keep messing around.
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To put it politely
and politically here in America.
Sharon,
I believe they're about to find out.
Yeah, I think you're right.
We'll move on,
but I just another quick follow up here.
With Israel seemingly puppeting,
the Trump administration is there.
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And you have the president, of course,
who is the ultimate back and forth guy.
Is there enough talent, though,
to to keep us out of this escalation here,
or do you see it as inevitable?
Well, the problem is that,
over 300 members of Congress, that is
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the overwhelming majority of the House
of Representatives, are funded by AIPAC.
So now mainstream media,
there's two hilarious things.
One is they're like, no, I don't see it.
Even though AIPAC was the number
one donor in this election cycle,
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they're like, no, I don't see it.
Not only do I not see it.
And number two, politicians are angels.
They're so moral.
They would never be affected by
the millions of dollars AIPAC giving them.
I mean, These are reporters saying this.
It's hilarious.
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I mean, it's if it wasn't so tragic,
it would be absolutely riotously funny.
Right. Okay.
And number three, if you mention the fact
that AIPAC is the number one donor
and that politicians might be affected
by millions of dollars.
Anti-semite.
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Okay. So congratulations, America.
Everyone outside of the politicians
that AIPAC bought in Congress,
which is the great majority of them,
and Joe Biden and Donald Trump,
the rest of us are all anti-Semites.
So we better hurry up and bow our heads
to that foreign government.
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Otherwise, we're all bigots and racists.
I mean, I mean, that's
what the people in media tell me.
That's what the politicians tell me.
Okay, so one more thing about the media.
I wrote on social media, you know,
at GQ on on X, I said, look, I'll
predict it ahead of time for you guys.
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What they're going to do is
and this was like as soon
as the war started, I said this.
They will ignore
the civilians killed in Iraq.
And it took me a couple of days to find
an article that finally said, oh, right.
By the way, 90% of the people killed
in the Israeli attack were civilians.
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Over 200 dead civilians,
women and children.
Right?
But for the first like 48 hours, no talk
of civilian deaths among the Iranians.
Do you see cable news covering
a lot of civilian deaths in Iran?
Nothing. Zero.
Zero. Right.
We had to go abroad
to find that clip for you.
Okay. And there's a couple of places.
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Right? But American media.
No, but the minute
an Israeli house got hit.
Oh. Oh, Israel is the victims.
Let's put a camera
in front of this person's face.
And now, mind you,
that person is a victim of war.
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And I don't want that.
I don't want any civilians getting hurt.
I don't want any houses
getting knocked down.
At the same time, if you're an
Israeli reporter, first of all, you're
never going to acknowledge anything.
But if you're a rational human being,
you would have to say like, wait,
that person is complaining
about their house being knocked down.
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Can I get one reporter to ask,
have you seen Gaza?
Have you seen Gaza?
All of the houses are knocked out.
And you did that and you didn't seem
to have any problem with that.
But one house or two couple houses
in Tel Aviv are knocked down.
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Oh. We're victims.
I mean, we just started a war,
and now two of their missiles got through.
How dare they? How dare they fight back?
And people should know
when they're conquered.
Plus, let's murder their leader,
take over their government.
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I mean, we're not going to do it.
America, you do it and you pay for it.
No, no, this is wearing super thin.
Mainstream media
has no credibility anymore,
as they tell us that the guys who started
the war are doing it for self-defense.
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I mean, and look,
I'm not saying this as an analogy.
You take it for whatever you like,
but literally every aggressor
in the history of the world has said
that they were doing it for self-defense.
Even the Germans said that they had to
defend fellow Germans in the Sudetenland.
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It was for self-defense.
Otherwise they were going to get attacked.
They said the same thing about Poland.
They said the same thing
about every country they attacked.
They said it was a preemptive war.
We had to do it for self-defense.
And so here we are with Israel
saying the same thing.
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Now, you could choose to believe them if
you're a sucker or you're blinded by bias,
but the rest of us have had enough.
And as usual, if you want to know
the actual facts, yes, Israel has killed
ten times the number of civilians in Iran
as Iran has killed Israelis.
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You'll probably never hear that
in mainstream media, but that's a fact.
And you can go look it up
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