Iran War Update: IRGC attacks more Arab neighbors; Trump & Bibi's 'tense' chat | Hour 3

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The Iranian criminal aggression resulted in the targeting of civilian and vital facilities, including Kuwait International Airport, leading to the death of an Indian expatriate and injuries to several individuals. In addition to significant material damage, according to the Ministry spokesman, Colonel Saoud Abdulaziz al Otaibi. The Ministry extended condolences to the family of the deceased and wished the injured a speedy recovery. In total, sixty three injured one dead in Iran's attack on Kuwait's airport. The Gulf Cooperation Council the GCC condemned what it called Iran's ongoing aggression against member states Kuwait and Bahrain, saying attacks on civilian objects amounted to a dangerous and unprecedented escalation. Jum Mohammed albu du Lai Wewi, the GCC Secretary General, said the attacks quote reflect the Iranian regime's insistence on pursuing rejected hostile policies targeting the security, stability and sovereignty of GCC member states. The UAES Presidential Advisor Anwar Gargash called for a quote firm, unified and cohesive stance by countries astride the Persian Gulf after what he described as repeated Iranian aggression against Kuwait and Bahrain, saying no state should be left to face such attacks alone. Now if any of this sounds familiar, it's because the GCC has been saying this stuff for a while, and meanwhile they just keep getting nailed, right. They they keep putting out these statements like how dare you? You know? And we will not. Let this go unanswered, and then they didn't. They never answer and you don't never do anything. And I don't know why. Maybe the administration, the Trump administration, is saying, don't do anything, guys. Maybe we maybe we go and run a couple more sorties or something and we blow up some I think they took down like a telecommunications tower yesterday. We did, we blew up like a cell tower or something. It's like, is that really I mean, is that really sending a message there or what like? Because I'm I'm kind of getting the feeling here that the I RGC is getting more and more emboldened to do more and more things. And that is a that is a contrast to where they were about three weeks weeks ago. I mean, we've been sitting in this non really CC ceasefire for what like over a month at this point, yet we still are trading shots little love taps. I think Trump called them right here and there with Iran and Iran has keep sending, They keep sending missiles in various places and such, and still debating and discussing all of the memorandum of understanding and the negotiations and who's you know, what would it cover. And I'm not really sure what's going on here now because I don't know what's going on. I don't feel confident or comfortable to assert that I do know what's going on. That would not be honest. There could be any number of things going on. And I know people who you know are opposed to this, or if they just hate Donald Trump, they're going to make all sorts of assertions that they know what's going on on here, and it's that you know, Trump is chickening out, he's lost interest, he doesn't know what he's doing, or whatever. They will project onto Trump everything that they already believe about Trump. They will project all sorts of motives and explanations. I'm not going to do. That because like, like, I'm not ruling any of that out, but I don't know that to be true. You could also conjure up a number of different scenarios where like say, maybe we are trying to buide time. For some reason. I don't know, what that reason would be, but I could I could speculate on some of those reasons. For example, maybe we are just wanting to slowly drain them of all of their resources and money. Because that's what's happening. I do know that. I mean, there's they're losing like half a billion dollars a day. They're not able to keep the lights on, keep the water going, They're not able to pay their troops. Right, their economy is in free fall, so you know, at some point economic collapse, and then do you have people that rise up against the regime. Do you have the military? Then this has always been one. Of the possibilities from the very beginning. You have people in the military, the army, not the IRGC, but the military turns on the IRGC. Right, Maybe the people are being the people of Iran. Maybe they are getting arms. Maybe we are successful in getting arms to them and training them and whatever. I don't know, So I'm like, this is all speculation as to why this is continuing on this track that it is continuing on. The IRGC. According to Open Source Intel, the IRGC says that the enemy is forced to exit the new rules that the Iranian nation and the armed forces have imposed on the field, especially regarding its management and control of the Strait of Hormuz. So again, this is the IRGC saying this, And remember there is a rift between the quote civilian leadership and the IRGC, which works for the Iyatola or the baby Nepatola. The resistance will continue powerfully, they say until the complete destruction of arrogant conspiracies, the expulsion of foreigners from the Middle East, and the liberation of Jerusalem, with the destruction of the Zionist regime. We will never surrender. Again, doesn't sound like they're very interested in any sort of negotiation. Sounds like they do just really want to keep trying to kill all of the Jews. And that's why they can't obviously have a nuclear weapon, because they have not stopped talking like this. The IRGC linked Tasnim New Service claims that Tehran has frozen all back channel communication with Washington over Lebanon. So the Iranian the IRGC is saying we're not talking anymore to Washington for any of these negotiations because of what Israel is engaged in in Lebanon. That directly contradicts Trump's assertion that messages are arriving. Daily from Iran. Who to believe? Don't know. I don't know, right, But if I have to pick a side, I'm gonna I'm gonna pick America. I just that's kind of my default. I'm an American, so I'm gonna I'm gonna pick America. But I don't know if Trump is actually getting daily messages. Maybe he is, and maybe they're coming from the civilian people, because the civilian people have seemed more willing to negotiate, but they don't have the backing of the baby Nepatola. So maybe he is getting messages. Maybe he isn't. Maybe this is deflection. He's, you know, playing sort of a three card MONTI I don't know, but generally speaking, I don't trust the IRGC. You know, that's just my default. You could chalk it up to I don't know, literally the experiences of my entire life since the Iranian revolution. So Tesnim News also says Trump's claim that Iran is confirming the issue is completely different from reality. And Trump also gave an interview where he was asked, among other things, if Nina Yahuo tricked him into the Iran war spoiler alert, He says no, Candice Owen's hardest head. You know. Stories powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video started in nineteen ninety seven and Minhill, North Carolina. It was the first company to provide this valuable service, converting images, photos and videos into high quality produced slide shows, videos and albums. The trusted, talented and dedicated team at Creative Video will go over all of the details with you to create a perfect project. Satisfaction guaranteed. Drop them off in person or mail them. They'll be ready in a week or two. 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But Trump went on to say that Iran's baby Tola is involved in negotiations, which is weird because we've got no proof of life from the guy. He said, Iran has agreed that it will not develop a nuclear weapon. He also noted that the Ayatola is not doing great. He's quote missing a lot of parts. Okay, but then he goes on to say, I'd like to meet him. I will probably meet him. At some point. Okay, I'm not really sure how that would go, but okay. Meanwhile, Iron's advisor to the Supreme Leader said quote, we will not allow American overreach in negotiations or in the ceasefire process. The answer to every shot fired and every act of aggression is a barrage of missiles and drones. History does not go backward, and the aggressor will be swiftly punished. Meanwhile, the Iranian regime is begging its citizens to drive less because of the gasoline shortage. They have a daily deficit. They are running on gasoline. On peak days, consumption surpasses one hundred and thirty million liters, but domestic refinery capacity, even when you push it to its max, it tops out at one hundred ten million leaders So they're running about a twenty million lider deficit. And those are pre war numbers. Okay, they've already so they've lost a lot of their capacity to refine and to pump and stuff and so, and to store the oil. So these numbers are way lower. So they're running at a deficit, a massive gasoline deficit. So they're telling Iranians stop driving. Hassan Kaimi Sunjerry of the Ministry of Industry said, quote, we are now gasoline importers. In forty five years, the Islamic Republic pumped over five hundred billion dollars in oil revenue out of the ground and has neither technology nor welfare to show for it just a country that cannot fuel itself. This is from Miad Maliki, who's a US Air Force veteran and a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He says, the import lifeline keeping gas stations open. Who's responsible for the importation of gasoline? The UAE, the. Same neighbor that Tehran routinely threatens and sends missiles and drones into. The operational irony is hard to overstate. The regime's survival at the pump depends on Gulf Arab re export channels that it has no leverage to secure. Okay, So, like, what are you doing, you AE? What? Like seriously, what the hell are you doing? Why are you giving them gasoline? A member of Iran's parliament National Security Committee said that attacks against the US should intensify as Male cal Sorry said US moves were rooted in what he called satanic thinking, accusing Washington of declaring a ceasefire while taking actions that violated kind of like Iran has been doing, yeah, Brian Cox, Adjunct Professor, Cornell Law. He points out that the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran insisted that the ceasefire between Iran and the US is unequivocally a ceasefire on all fronts, including Lebanon. That is a direct quote. Okay, it is a ceasefire on all fronts. What does that mean when Iran says a ceasefire on all fronts? What are they acknowledging there? What exactly are they admitting when they then say including Lebanon. Well, if I connect those dots, it means Iran considers Lebanon to be a front of their war, which should come as no surprise to anybody with half a brain, because Iran has been funding has Belaw in Lebanon for decades. Has Belah prior to nine to eleven, will as they were responsible for more American deaths than any other terrorist organization. See so when people say, oh, this war started, you know, February twenty eighth, it did not start February twenty eight. This war has been going on since the Islamic Republic was founded in nineteen seventy nine. Okay, that's how long the war's been going on. They have been fighting it, and we've been pretending that we're not fighting it. We've been pretending that like they don't really mean this, I guess or whatever. But this admission is a massive one and it should not go unnoticed because it confirms that widespread popular rhetoric claiming that the US and Israel that they somehow violated international law, that that has been erroneous all along. Over on the text line, Timoteos says, as long as the IRGC has the political support of the American left, Trump will never be free to finish the job. Right, And by the way, I've been saying this since the beginning of the hostilities here, that the Islamic regime in Iran their only strategy now is to wait Donald Trump out. And in fact, an IRGC official went on Irani and TV yesterday I think, and said, we will wait out Trump. Basically, he'll be gone in twenty twenty nine, maybe in the mid terms, right they get enough Democrat turnover where Democrats then take control of the House end or Senate or whatever. And that's the lifeline that the Islamic Republic is counting on. That's what Iran is banking on. Now. Can they last that long? Can they last through November or December when they get sworn in? Can they last that long? Losing five hundred million dollars a day. Will they collapse before that? That's the timeline that they're looking at, and so everything that they're doing is just to buy time. Let me see here, This is again Brian doctor Brian Cox, Adjunct Professor at Cornell Law School. He points out that this admission from the Foreign Minister of Iran that there will be no cease fire unless it's on all fronts, including Lebanon, that is an acknowledgment and admission that Iran is fighting Israel from Lebanon, that that is a front in their war, which we all know. But there's this idea out there for people that hate Trump or hate Israel or whatever, like they're like, well, this is international law violation and all this No, both Trump and Netanyahu have consistently said operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion were because of Iran's direct support for regional proxies like Hamas Hesbelah and the Hoodies no blowfish right, like they've always this has been from the very beginning. They've said that, and Iran's admission yesterday that they're not doing any deal for a ceasefire if it does not include Lebanon because they consider that to be a front in the war as well. They've just acknowledged what we've been saying. Why would Iran insist that a ceasefire between Iran and the US has to be on all fronts, including Lebanon. Well, because Iran directly controls, supplies and supports Hesbelah. That's how Iran regards the relationship, right and now it is confirmed, and that's also how HESBLA sees it as well. Then there was this story from the other days. It's a couple of days old, but I have not gotten to it, but pretty remarkable. Iranian President Masud pezeshkin has submitted an official letter of resignation to the office of the Supreme Leader the Baby Nepatola. That's according to Iran International, citing a source familiar with the matter. In the letter sent on Sunday, Pezeshkian stressed that the president and the government have effectively been excluded from major and vital decision making processes in the country, and that the vacuum created by the situation has enabled hardline factions within the IRGC two you'll never guess to take control of affairs. I am shocked, shocked. Here are your winnings. Thank you. Pizeskiin added that under such circumstances he is unable to run the government and carry out his legal responsibilities, and for that reason he has requested to step down immediately. See that's one of the. Things in like that that society is that when you don't want to do the job, you can't just quit. You don't just get to quit. You got to get permission to quit from the baby in Nepatola. So I don't know if he's going to be able to secure that, Like he's going to tender his resignation, does the does the Nepatola give it to him? I don't know. Is the Nepatola still alive? I don't think so, could be, but I'm like, my assumption is that he is not. My assumption at this point is that without any kind of proof of life for the last now, what's it been, the March April three months, For three months we have had no proof of life. The closest we got was a cardboard cutout, literally a cardboard cutout like a cardboard body with his picture pasted to the top of it. That's the closest we have come to a proof of life. I don't so what. I think that the IRGC leadership, this guy Valise or whatever his name is. I think he's playing weekend at Bernie's with the baby and Nepatola. They may be keeping the guy alive in some bunkers someplace, hooked up to machines or something, or he's just dead and they've got his body stashed away someplace and they're just running the show. I don't know, but that's what it seems like, because nobody has seen the guy and the President can't talk to him, and so the IRGC has been muscling out the civilian leadership, and now it's gotten to the point where the president over there is like, I can't do this anymore. It's not yet clear. Whether the the Ayatola Mochaba come any will accept that he sounds like he sounds like the the the jahwas from Uh from Star Wars. Remember those little guys from the very first Star Wars movie. They're out in the desert, you know, on Tattuni Jaba come any anyway, It will accept the president. It's not clear whether the baby and Nepatola will accept the President's resignation, but the contents of the letter point to a deep and unprecedented rift at the highest levels of power. This comes after months of tensions between the government and the Islamic Republic's military security institutions. Iran International previously reported that the IRGC had gradually restricted many presidential powers and effectively taken control of key parts of the government. According to informed sources, the situation has left Possesschian's administration trapped in a political and executive deadlock, preventing diplomatic negotiations from moving forward and the completion and implementation of desired changes to the cabinet structure. So maybe this is what Trump is waiting on. Maybe he's waiting for this rift to grow so wide that you have massed affections out of the government. Don't know, We'll see. Let's chat about out the well. Two phone calls between Bibby and Donald Trump. There were two phone calls, apparently first reported by Exios's Barack Ravid, who apparently has a direct line to probably the Vice President Jade Vance, but definitely people in the White House and well as well as Mark Capito, who broke the news that Trump had exploded at Benjamin Nintanyahu over his plans to attack Hesbelah in Beirut. According to the summary of the conversation from a US official, Trump accused Ninton Yahoo of being bleeping crazy and ungrateful for Trump's efforts to keep Bibby out of jail. Now, when I first read this, I was like, yeah, okay, I could see I could see Trump to do it, totally see him doing that. And then there were there were denials, but those denials came from Israel. They were like, no, no, that didn't happen. And then Trump gave that sit down interview to I forget whom may have been Axios, and uh, he said, yeah, I said all that. So Israel was trying to play nice with Trump and say no, no, no, it was tense. There were some tense moments, but no, it wasn't like that. Then Trump's like, oh, yeay, I totally said all that, So okay. The US official told Axios that Trump told Ninton Yahoo, you're bleeping crazy. You would be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your But everyone hates you. Now everybody hates Israel because of this. A second source briefed on the call said Trump was mad and at one point yelled at Ninton, Yahoo, what the bleep are you doing? This was over Lebanon because Hesbala operating in the southern portion of Lebanon. While Lebanon is trying to have negotiations broken by US with Israel to root out Hesbala. Hesbala keeps flinging missiles in there, and so the Israelis keeps shelling them, and they're they're trying to create sort of a no go zone for Hesbelah. They're trying to clear out this southern area of Lebanon. So they're not because they're right on the border and they're launching missiles into Israeli cities. After the initial phone call, while Trump wrote on truth Social that the IDF would not attack Bay Route and that Israel and Hesbelah would refrain from attacking each other, Netsan Yahoo warned that he would carry out his previous plans to strike Bea Route if Hesbelah did not halt its attacks on northern Israel, and that Israel's expanded offensive in southern Lebanon would actually continue. Okay, so they're in southern Lebanon, but they said we're going to start hitting bay Rout, your capital, where a bunch of you. Hezbala terrorists are holed up. We know where you are. We're going to start taking you out. And this prompted Iran to say no, no, no cease fire. Cease fire, that's that's part of the front in this war. So they have to be included in the ceasefire. You can't do that. That's what Trump and nat who were apparently talking about that. Trump is like, I'm trying to get a deal. It's going to be the best deal ever, it's gonna be huge, you know whatever. And you know you're messing it up now. Naton Yahoo is like, well, good luck with your deal with Iran. But we have our own national security interests here, and these guys are flinging missiles and drones into our country and so we're going to go in and take them out. And so if you need a cease fire for us in bay Root, if you need us not to hit bay Root, we'll back off on that. But we're not stopping the operations in southern Lebanon. So apparently then they both go on to the social media, they both say what they thought the first call was about, and that prompted the second call, and that's what got them that that's what they were arguing over. The second call focused on mutual complaints by Trump and Nnton Yaho regarding what they took away from the first phone call. Okay. Trump was upset that Bibbi had implied that, aside from postponing strikes in Beirut, the war was continuing at full intensity. Netanyahu was frustrated that Trump's post on truth social implied that Israel had ceased fire on all fronts. Okay, so they obviously walked away with different understandings of the first conversation. The Israeli source denied that Trump cursed at or personally attacked Ninton Yahoo, but of course Trump then said, oh yeah. I did. It's pretty clear the source is talking to Axios believe that the US controls Israel. Say that part again, the US controls Israel, which is not what a lot of people on the woke right and the woke left. That's not what they've been telling us. They believe it's the Israelis that controlled Trump and control us. This would seem to indicate the exact opposite. Ed Morrison correctly points this out, but this does pose a problem because well, Hesbela continues to target Israeli troops in Lebanon. There were new IDF strikes. I mean the ceasefire didn't even last like a day, and it was like a couple hours, not long. This is the Hesbelah version of the hokey poke, he says, this is the same dance perfected by Hamas and by Iran. They do not negotiate in good faith, They do not adhere to agreements. They use splits between allies with the effectiveness of narcissistic teenagers who find cracks in parental fronts on discipline. Right, So, like that's the thing. Neither the US nor Israel can afford to let Iran split the coalition, especially at this stage, and they're going to try to do that, and so will people in podcast to stand just a heads up, all right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, So if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to dpetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening. And don't break anything while I'm gone.