Transcript [00:00] Hey everyone. So, uh, all the headlines [00:02] out of Iran are about how America is [00:04] striking these oil tankers. But what I [00:06] want to do in this video is turn the [00:08] camera towards what is going on [00:10] internally in Iran and, you know, the [00:14] the potential for unrest, the potential [00:15] for regime collapse. We're going to take [00:17] a look at a whole bunch of news stories. [00:18] I'm going to try to run through them [00:20] quickly [00:22] uh so that this video doesn't run too [00:24] long, but there's a lot going on here [00:25] and I want to get it all in. So, let's [00:28] hit the headlines right away. Former [00:30] president's push for public say on [00:33] ending Iran war. Public say. Former [00:36] presidents of Iran want the public to [00:38] have a say. Absolutely. Look at this. [00:40] Calls by former presidents Hassan Rouani [00:42] and Muhammad Katami to end Iran's war [00:45] with the United States have triggered a [00:47] fiercer political confrontation after [00:49] they invoked public opinion in support [00:52] of diplomacy rather than continued [00:54] fighting. Both men have called for an [00:57] honorable end to the war. But Rouani has [01:00] gone further, arguing that public [01:02] opinion should be taken into account in [01:04] deciding whether Iran continues down the [01:06] path of confrontation. Tell them that [01:09] our plan is to fight the great powers of [01:11] the world for another 20 years. Rouani [01:13] said at a recent meeting with former [01:14] officials, if the people say they accept [01:16] this, very well. Let us continue. But if [01:19] the people do not accept it and show us [01:20] another way, do we not want to accept [01:23] it? [01:24] And then he got attacked by the hardline [01:26] Kayion newspaper. That's like a really [01:27] hardline IRGC newspaper. They said that [01:30] he was distorting reality. And this [01:32] amounts to surrender. [01:35] And and then it brings up the fact that [01:36] Masoud Peshan, the current president, [01:39] has also said that Iran should end the [01:41] war with dignity, with power and [01:43] dignity, pointing to inflation, [01:45] sanctions, and a sharp decline in [01:46] foreign trade as reasons to reach a [01:49] diplomatic understanding rather than [01:51] prolong the confrontation. [01:54] Okay, so this has become a a an issue of [01:57] public debate. But look at this. This is [01:59] something I did not know. Rouani did not [02:02] explicitly call for a referendum, but [02:04] his remarks revived one of the most [02:05] sensitive arguments in Iranian politics. [02:08] Whether major questions of national [02:10] policy should be put directly to voters. [02:13] Article 59 of Iran's constitution allows [02:16] the exercise of legislative power on [02:19] major economic, political, social, and [02:22] cultural issues through a referendum and [02:25] direct consultation at of voters. So the [02:28] Iranian constitution actually calls for [02:30] referendums on major issues. No [02:33] referendum other under the provision, [02:35] however, has ever been held. [02:37] Former Supreme Leader Ali Kamay rejected [02:39] calls for referendums to resolve major [02:41] national disputes in 2023, arguing that [02:44] ordinary people were not equipped to [02:46] analyze complex political, economic, and [02:48] international questions. So Kami said, [02:50] "Well, I'm the supreme leader and [02:51] regular people, they don't have the [02:53] capacity, they're not equipped to [02:55] analyze these complex issues. So you [02:56] can't have a referendum regardless of [02:58] the fact that our constitution says so." [03:02] And then uh you know there was uh that [03:04] there were attacks on Rouani for [03:06] suggesting this. I'm not going to get [03:08] into all the all the fine print here, [03:11] but you get the picture here. Now this [03:13] is so significant. I cannot stress [03:15] enough. Uh and I said this in an earlier [03:17] video just a couple days ago that this [03:20] type of disscent, open dissent, is not [03:23] something the Iranian regime has usually [03:25] ever tolerated. And now we're seeing uh [03:28] last week Masud Peshan's son and chief [03:31] adviser openly said that you know we [03:34] should stop with this whole nuclear [03:36] enrichment stuff. What do we really need [03:37] it for? And you know it's not worth it. [03:40] And and that message was amplified by [03:43] Pesh Kanan's office criticized of course [03:45] by the hardliners. And now you have two [03:47] former presidents of the regime saying, [03:50] you know, that this should be put to a [03:51] vote of the people and that we should [03:53] end this thing and we should come to a [03:54] resolution being attacked also for [03:57] wanting to surrender. So you see that [03:59] there's more and more boldness uh on [04:02] behalf uh you know boldness by voices [04:05] that are that are dissenting [04:08] against the uh that are disagreeing with [04:11] the current path taken by the regime. [04:13] Let's take a look at some more Iran. [04:15] This is, and by the way, that story was [04:17] from today. This one that we just looked [04:19] at, and this one is also from today. [04:21] Iran's moderates question the price of [04:23] prolonged war. Moderate and reformist [04:26] figures in Tehran are increasingly [04:28] warning that the country cannot sustain [04:30] a prolonged war, challenging hardline [04:32] calls for Iranians to accept further [04:34] economic hardship as the price of [04:36] resistance. Conservative lawmaker [04:39] Golamza Taj Gardun on Tuesday urged [04:42] Iranians to be prepared to pay a price [04:44] for their resistance. But several [04:46] moderate and reformist figures have [04:48] argued that years of sanctions, [04:50] inflation, and now war have left [04:52] ordinary people with little capacity to [04:54] absorb further economic pressure. [04:57] Reformist polit politician Mahmud Amir [04:59] Lohei focused on the physical and [05:01] economic risks of a drawnout conflict, [05:03] warning that critical infrastructure, [05:05] including power and prochemical [05:07] facilities could become targets. [05:09] Prolonged war and harsh sanctions have [05:11] pushed Iranian society to its limits, he [05:13] said, arguing that Iranians needed a [05:16] chance to breathe. The increasingly [05:18] public warnings, the increasingly public [05:21] warnings, that's what I'm talking about, [05:23] reflect a broader argument within Iran [05:25] over not only how the war should end, [05:27] but how much more economic and social [05:29] pressure the population can be expected [05:32] to bear. [05:34] And then we see this Iran's besiege. So [05:36] the besiege is of course the, you know, [05:38] they're the stormtroopers whose job is [05:41] uh they're the part of the IRGC whose [05:43] job it is to suppress internal protests. [05:46] Okay, that's who they are. So, look what [05:47] it says here. I Iran's besieged tightens [05:50] grip as domestic pressures grow. The new [05:53] commander of Iran's besieged [05:54] paramilitary security force is [05:56] overhauling the organization to root out [05:59] opponents of Supreme Leader Moshabaki [06:03] within the regime. Woohoo. Isn't that [06:06] interesting? [06:08] This story is very recent. It is from [06:11] yesterday or two days ago, sorry. So the [06:14] new commander of the besiege, they just [06:16] uh the new commander of the besiege was [06:17] just appointed by u by Mosha Bakam a [06:22] couple weeks ago and he's he wants to [06:24] root out informants [06:28] I'm sorry he wants to root out uh [06:30] Iranian opposition within the regime [06:34] within the regime opposition to [06:37] so that what does that tell you? That [06:39] tells you that there's cracks within the [06:41] system. Going back already like two [06:44] months ago, Dr. David Worms said to me [06:45] in a number of these conversations I've [06:47] had with him about what it'll look like [06:49] when we if we start to see the Iranian [06:51] regime cracking and falling. He said it [06:52] also on a webinar we did for Israel 365 [06:56] about what is what does the fall of the [06:57] regime look like? And he said the first [06:59] real sign of it is going to be when we [07:01] see the internal disagreements [07:04] come out into the mainstream, come out [07:06] into the media. when we start to see [07:08] those internal disagreements because at [07:10] the top of the regime it's really [07:11] factions. It's like mafia families and [07:14] they could turn on each other. So that's [07:15] what we're starting to see. The besiege [07:17] is a paramilitary force with a broad [07:19] popular base that operates under Iran's [07:21] IRGC which the US has designated a [07:24] terrorist organization. Its mission is [07:25] to suppress protests and protect the [07:27] regime. [07:29] Salah Abu Sharif Awazi, Secretary [07:31] General of the Londonbased Awazi [07:33] Democratic Popular Front said Taib's [07:35] return. Taib is the new head of the of [07:38] the besiege. His return reflects the [07:41] regime's need for a figure who has [07:43] demonstrated a high capacity for [07:45] repression and security control during [07:48] the crisis. Tybee commanded the besiege [07:50] during the suppression of the 2009 green [07:52] movement protests against the results of [07:55] the presidential election that year. And [07:58] you know and he's so he's a he's a [08:00] killer. He's known as he was brought in [08:02] to kind you know to be more hardline. [08:06] The activist said the besiege has begun [08:10] using humanitarian food aid to attract [08:12] larger numbers of volunteers because the [08:14] besiege can't really pay people. They [08:15] don't have money. So what they're doing [08:16] is they're seizing humanitarian food aid [08:18] that's coming into the country. They're [08:20] doing what kamas does in Gaza. They're [08:22] using the aid as a recruiting mechanism [08:24] exploiting deteriorating living [08:26] conditions and hunger among Iranians. [08:28] Iranians are getting desperate. So now [08:30] they're recruiting them into the [08:31] besiege. The sources said Taib's [08:33] instructions also included expanding [08:35] surveillance and monitoring of Iranians, [08:37] particularly their social media accounts [08:39] to carry out preemptive operations aimed [08:41] at suppressing any popular attempts to [08:44] stage protests or launch uprisings in [08:46] cities against the regime. You see, [08:48] they're panicking. That's the point of [08:50] this. It's not that, oh gosh, they're [08:51] cracking down. It's the fact that [08:53] they're that they're taking more and [08:54] more crackdown measures means that they [08:56] are they're they're panicking. The [08:58] pressure is building. His return comes [09:00] at a stage when the regime feels an [09:02] escalating internal threat from [09:04] non-Persian peoples and is trying to [09:06] fortify itself with its harshest [09:08] security tools. That's what Akwazi said. [09:13] And look at this. Look at this from [09:16] today [09:18] or sorry, yesterday. Iran says besiege [09:21] force commander killed in terrorist [09:24] attack in the country's southeast. A [09:25] besiege commander was killed. A local [09:28] commander in Iran's besiege force was [09:30] killed in a terrorist attack in the [09:32] country's restive southeast. Local media [09:34] reports Abdul Ralph Ashagi, a commander [09:38] of the Peru district of the Sistan [09:39] Baluchistan province, had been martyed, [09:42] the Tusnim news agency said without [09:44] providing details. It is not immediately [09:46] clear who was behind the attack. And [09:50] smallcale protests break out in Iran [09:52] over the cost of living. So it's [09:54] starting small scale. Retired educators, [09:56] telecommunications workers, and job [09:58] seekers also reportedly demonstrated on [10:00] Sunday in Tehran, Abbas, Shush, Kmana, [10:03] Desul, and Rasht, outlying areas. [10:06] Small-scale protests by retired [10:08] telecommunications workers, retired [10:10] teachers, and job seekers have been [10:12] taking place in Thran and several other [10:13] cities as Iran faces worsening a [10:17] worsening economic crisis. The human [10:19] rights activist news agency reported in [10:21] Isvahan and Sanandage on Sunday. [10:24] Retirees reportedly gathered to demand [10:26] action over the cost of living and [10:28] pension payments. [10:30] Retired educators, telecommunications [10:32] workers, and job seekers also [10:33] demonstrated on Sunday in a bunch of [10:35] cities. And the protest, this is [10:38] interesting. Check this out. The [10:41] protests come after DW Persian reported [10:44] that many Iranians, including cancer [10:46] patients, were foregoing or delaying [10:49] critical treatment as health care costs [10:51] become increasingly unaffordable. The [10:54] prices of some medications had risen by [10:56] 120%. [10:58] Some medications had increased in price [11:00] by as much as 543%. [11:03] Deutschevela reported [11:06] there were no reports of violent [11:08] suppression at these protests. [11:10] Last week, security forces opened fire [11:13] and beat demonstrators outside the Dubai [11:16] the Dal Kazayi sugarcane aggro industry [11:19] company and near the Licha refinery. I [11:21] talked about that sugarcane aggro aggro [11:23] interesting company aggro industry [11:25] company protest in an earlier video but [11:28] I did not know that they had opened fire [11:29] on them u and at the Lisha refinery [11:32] project according to footage shared by [11:34] both HRA and Karun human rights [11:36] organizations. So you see that it's [11:39] starting. There are protests popping up [11:41] here and there. It's starting, of [11:42] course, with economic issues. That's [11:43] what we'd expect. That's part of the [11:45] results of the economic blockade. And on [11:48] that issue of the medical uh of the of [11:51] the prices of medicines, check this out. [11:54] 77 trillion tooman debt. There's it's 10 [11:58] real to a toman or 100 realals to auto [12:00] atoman. Um I'm sorry. Uh 77 trillion [12:04] tooman debt. 77 trillion tommans is I [12:08] mean look there's two exchange rates in [12:09] Iran. There's the official one which is [12:11] way different than what it's actually [12:12] worth in the street. If we go with the [12:14] actual street price 77 trillion Tommans [12:17] is about $350 [12:20] million. Okay maybe 352 to two half a [12:23] bill to $500 million somewhere in there. [12:25] I mean it's moving fast. The [12:27] spokesperson for the Iranian pharmacist [12:29] association announced that debts owed by [12:32] insurance organizations and the targeted [12:34] subsidies organization to the country's [12:36] pharmacies [12:37] money the money owned by insurance [12:39] companies to the pharmacies had reached [12:40] approximately 77 trillion Tommans by the [12:43] end of August with an additional 12 [12:45] trillion Tommans accumulating each [12:48] month. [12:49] 12 trillion tommans is about [12:52] uh [12:54] 5560 [12:56] million dollars every month. He noted [12:58] that many current drug shortages do not [12:59] stem from production or distribution [13:01] deficits. Rather pharmacies lack [13:03] sufficient capital to buy available [13:05] stock. Consequently, patients are [13:07] frequently forced to visit [13:09] multiplearmacies to fulfill a single [13:11] prescription. Sed Muhammad Jamalian, a [13:14] member of the Iranian Parliament's [13:15] Health and Medical Commission, observed [13:17] that somearmacies can no longer afford [13:19] to stock all items on prescription, [13:22] threatening treatment continuity, [13:24] especially for patients requiring [13:25] ongoing medication. This is turning into [13:27] a massive humanitarian issue. According [13:29] to Jimalon, health insurance has been [13:31] unable to fully settle claims from [13:32] public and private se centers since [13:35] 2025. [13:36] Meanwhile, the Social Security [13:38] organization is roughly seven months [13:40] behind on pharmacy payments and 8 to [13:43] nine months behind on certain medical [13:44] service reimbursements. Wow. So, they're [13:47] their medical system is absolutely [13:49] collapsing. Now, before we go on, I just [13:51] want to uh remind everyone about an [13:54] important event we're having this coming [13:55] Monday. 25 years since 911. And we're [13:58] going to be a webinar, an Israel 365 [14:01] webinar Monday, September 14th. this [14:03] coming Monday at 2 p.m. Eastern time, [14:05] 900 pm in Israel. But even if you can't [14:08] make it, you still want to register [14:09] because when you register, besides being [14:12] able to attend live, you will also [14:14] receive an email immediately after it [14:17] airs. Uh that uh that will give you an a [14:20] link that you could watch the entire [14:21] webinar. So it you don't have to be able [14:23] to make the time to register for the [14:25] webinar. Registration is free. Make sure [14:27] you want make sure to be there. We have [14:29] Frank Gaffne, Dan Baui, and uh and uh [14:34] and Jeffrey Morgan Stern. Jeffrey Morgan [14:36] Stern's sister was killed on 911. Dan [14:37] Baui is a former Muslim who on 911 was [14:40] still a devout Muslim living in Jordan. [14:42] Today, he's a Christian and he's a very [14:44] outspoken uh uh you know, public [14:46] intellectual talking about the the [14:48] issues relating to Islam. We've had him [14:51] before. He's fantastic. And Frank [14:52] Gaffne, of course, is a veteran of the [14:55] national security space and has uh has [14:57] led various organizations. He's [14:59] currently the president of the of the uh [15:02] Institute for the American Future and [15:04] he's also the host of Securing America u [15:08] on um on uh Real America's Voice, a [15:12] great friend of mine and a a great [15:16] and uh he's he's going to be he's going [15:19] to be speaking also. So, we have the [15:20] three of them speaking. Great webinar. [15:22] You can sign up by scanning the QR code [15:24] here or by clicking the link in the [15:27] description of this video. Uh or you can [15:29] go to and the the website is I think [15:31] Israel 365/911 [15:34] 911 and make sure that you are [15:36] registered for the webinar. Okay, let's [15:37] get back to the news from Iran so we can [15:41] uh we can make some progress here and [15:44] we're going to we're going to continue [15:45] talking about the Iranian what's going [15:46] on with the Iranian economy. It's just [15:48] it's it's just unbelievable. Iran, where [15:51] eggs are better than cash. Where eggs [15:54] are better than cash. Basically, what [15:56] this article is saying is that, and this [15:59] kind of makes sense, that eggs are [16:00] holding their value more than cash is. [16:03] When eggs can hold their value better [16:04] than cash, an economy has entered [16:06] dangerous territory. But that's exactly [16:07] where Iran is. Rapidly rising prices are [16:10] forcing families to think less about [16:12] what they can afford next year or next [16:13] month and more about what they what they [16:16] should buy today before their money [16:18] loses more value tomorrow. And talking [16:20] about eggs, eggs don't keep for that [16:22] long. They're a perishable product, but [16:23] they're worth more than money. If you're [16:25] an average Iranian, you know what you [16:26] can buy today, you might not buy [16:28] tomorrow. And by tomorrow, I mean 24 [16:30] hours later, says economist Ali Dad. Uh, [16:35] this is an economy that right now saving [16:37] in eggs makes more sense than saving in [16:40] tomans. [16:41] average monthly income is below $200 [16:46] by his estimate. While housing consumes [16:48] an increasingly large share of household [16:50] earnings, folks, Iran used to be a [16:53] cosmopolitan middle class society. It's [16:55] still a very educated society. This is [16:58] what evil brings upon a society. Meat [17:00] and other proteins are disappearing from [17:02] some famil family's diets. Even damaged [17:04] fruit once bought by the poorest or [17:06] given to the homeless is increasingly [17:08] becoming an option for ordinary [17:10] households trying to stretch their [17:11] money. We are not approaching an [17:13] economic disaster. Dad said we are in [17:15] the middle of an economic disaster. The [17:18] political question is what happens when [17:20] years of impoverishment collide with [17:22] shortages, unemployment, and declining [17:24] public services. Iranian authorities [17:26] appear increasingly concerned about that [17:29] possibility. officials have identified [17:31] gasoline, unemployment, and livelihoods [17:33] as potential triggers for unrest. [17:37] Now, goes further, though. Thrron can [17:39] continue paying its forces, at least in [17:41] nominal terms. And here's the sobering [17:43] part of the article. On the one hand, [17:44] we're looking at it going, "Oh, wow. [17:45] This is actually this is terrible, but [17:47] it's actually good because this is [17:48] leading the people to rise up more, and [17:50] the end is near, but not so fast." Iran [17:53] is a large economy of roughly 90 million [17:56] people with extensive borders and black [17:58] market networks capable of keeping some [18:00] goods moving. The government can [18:02] prioritize spending and print more [18:04] money. What it cannot print is food, [18:06] medicine, fuel, and other goods that [18:08] money is supposed to buy. When there are [18:10] not enough products in the society, when [18:11] there's not enough bread and butter for [18:13] people, then money is not going to solve [18:15] the problem. That creates a problem for [18:17] the government relying heavily on [18:19] material benefits to maintain loyalty. A [18:22] higher salary offers diminishing [18:24] protection against discontent if [18:26] inflation rapidly destroys its [18:27] purchasing power or short shortages mean [18:30] there's there's less available to buy. [18:32] In other words, they can pay people they [18:34] can pay people more money, but what is [18:35] it even worth if the money is is is is [18:38] losing its value so fast and there's [18:39] nothing to buy with it. [18:42] Um, [18:46] basically we have, it says here at the [18:48] end, economic deterioration can persist [18:50] for years and the Islamic Republic has [18:52] repeatedly demonstrated its willingness [18:54] to use force to contain unrest. In other [18:56] words, yes, we it is being pushed to the [18:59] brink and the people are being pushed to [19:01] the edge where they where they're going [19:02] to have to at some point rise up. That's [19:05] all true, but don't underestimate the [19:07] regime's ability to crack down, to open [19:10] fire on people, to slaughter them. And [19:12] remember, the people at the top, they [19:14] have food. They they've prepared for [19:16] this. So things are getting very, very [19:20] tense in Iran. Bottom line. And here's [19:22] what the regime is doing on the [19:23] propaganda front. They posted this [19:25] today, a strange little news item, [19:28] Anana. Look at this. Tehran daily life [19:31] on September 9th, 2026. And it's a [19:33] collage of photos. Look at this collage [19:36] of photos. So, we see what do we have [19:38] here? We have a whole bunch of meat at [19:40] the market. And we have uh, you know, [19:44] baskets of of fruit at the market. And [19:48] here we have, [19:51] look at that. Look at the abundance of [19:53] food. I don't know when these pictures [19:55] were even taken. More abundance of food. [19:58] They're putting out these pictures here [20:01] to project that everything is just fine. [20:04] Look, people carrying bags of groceries, [20:07] lots of food, everything's just fine. [20:10] You know, people are going about their [20:12] daily business in Tehran. Everyone's [20:15] happy. Everyone's doing well. Look at [20:16] all the food. Look at all the piles of [20:18] produce. They're trying to project that [20:20] everything is totally fine in Tehran. [20:24] Um, meanwhile, war conditions curb [20:27] mandatory hijab crackdown, Iranian [20:29] officials say. This is a news item from [20:31] today. Iranian authorities are holding [20:34] back from enforcing mandatory hijab as [20:36] as extensively as they would like [20:38] because of war conditions, a senior [20:40] Iranian official said on Wednesday, even [20:43] as pressure grows for tougher [20:45] enforcement. Look, quote, "Look how the [20:47] enemy has managed to promote that [20:49] decadent Western lifestyle in our [20:51] society. Look at the hijab issue itself. [20:53] Because of the war conditions, for now, [20:55] we cannot enter this front the way we [20:57] should. Meaning, because of the war, we [21:00] can't enforce the hijab. A shucks. His [21:03] comments came a day after an official [21:05] representing Supreme Leader in Iran [21:07] universities announced that mandatory [21:09] hijab instructions for universities had [21:12] been drafted and would soon be issued by [21:13] the Ministries of Science and Health. [21:16] And this this is uh this article is [21:18] filled with pictures of women violating [21:20] the the uh modesty laws in uh you know [21:24] rebelling against it. Lawmaker Muhammad [21:27] Tagi Naga Nagdali also criticized the [21:30] government Tuesday for what he called a [21:31] retreat on hijab and for failing to [21:33] promulgate legislation no known as the [21:35] chastity and hijab law. In some [21:38] government offices hijab is not observed [21:41] and in some pharmacies things have gone [21:42] beyond not wearing hijab. Abdul Hussein [21:46] Kos Rapraana said at a meeting of [21:48] university faculty members at Ramadan [21:50] even in government offices they're not [21:52] people aren't following the rules [21:54] government agencies and public service [21:55] institutions including offices and [21:58] facilities such as pharmacies overseen [22:00] by ministries were required to monitor [22:02] compliance with regulations he added but [22:05] they're not. [22:08] Lawmaker Mustafa Moeni Arani has called [22:10] for action against women deemed [22:12] improperly veiled and urged parliament [22:14] speaker Galibah to promulgate the hijab [22:17] law. Kion, a newspaper overseen by a [22:20] representative of Kamayi, has also urged [22:22] the government to address what it [22:23] described as a failure to enforce hijab [22:26] requirements. Here's a bunch of Iranian [22:27] kids at a party. Women have continued to [22:30] appear without the hijab in public [22:32] despite pressure from authorities [22:34] that extending from a extending a form [22:37] of civil disobedience that expanded [22:39] after the 2022 woman life freedom [22:42] protests. [22:44] CNN reported in August that authorities [22:47] had increased pressure on women over [22:49] mandatory hijab but were avoiding [22:52] widespread direct street enforcement [22:54] because of concern that it could trigger [22:56] another wave of protests. We will see [22:58] how this develops, but it's another sign [23:01] that their whole system is cracking. [23:03] Look what we have in this video. We have [23:05] former presidents calling into question [23:08] the decisions being made currently by [23:10] the leader uh pushing for an end to the [23:12] war. We have [23:15] u other political leaders saying the [23:17] same thing. We have the besiege getting [23:21] more panicky and cracking down even more [23:23] trying to tighten their grip. Meanwhile, [23:24] a besiege a senior besieged commander [23:26] gets gets assassinated. We have some we [23:30] have protests starting. [23:33] We have the health system collapsing. [23:37] We have the economic system collapsing. [23:41] Ridiculous propaganda trying to show [23:43] that everything's fine. The hijab not [23:46] working. And finally, our last headline [23:49] of the day from today. Netanyahu on [23:51] Syria visit says, "We're very close to [23:54] toppling the Iranian regime." Israeli [23:56] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said [23:58] during a visit to Israeli troops in [24:00] southern Syria on Wednesday that Iran's [24:02] regime was on the verge of collapse as [24:05] fighting in the six-month Middle East [24:06] war intensifies. Quote, "This is there [24:09] is still work to be done. The main task [24:11] is to bring down the terror regime in [24:14] Iran. We are very close to that. We know [24:17] that the entire axis will ultimately [24:18] collapse, he said on the Syrian side of [24:20] Mount Hermon on the Israel Syria border [24:22] during a visit with defense minister [24:24] Israel Katz. Now I have to just stress [24:26] it. It's always been an Israeli [24:28] objective to bring down the regime, but [24:30] the Israelis weren't talking about it [24:32] all that much for most of the months of [24:35] this war when the Americans were also u [24:38] avoiding saying that they wanted to [24:40] bring down the regime. So the Israelis [24:41] didn't want to put the Americans in an [24:43] uncomfortable position. American media [24:45] was constantly asking Rubio and Trump, [24:46] "Is the goal to bring down the regime?" [24:48] They say, "No, no, no, no, no. That's [24:49] not our goal." And the Americans were [24:50] negotiating with with the regime, and [24:53] the Israelis would occasionally mention [24:55] it, but they weren't that vocal about [24:56] the fact that the goal is to bring down [24:58] the regime. But ever since this economic [25:00] warfare ramped up a few weeks back, last [25:03] month, and Bessant, uh, Treasury [25:06] Secretary Scott Bessant and Trump [25:07] himself started talking more openly [25:09] about bringing down the regime and [25:10] ending it. The Israelis have been [25:13] emboldened and have started talking [25:14] about it more as well. And one thing I [25:17] could say about Prime Minister [25:18] Netanyahu, he makes good on his threats. [25:21] So [25:22] things are the bottom line on all this [25:24] is that things are moving, things are [25:26] progressing. I still believe I still [25:29] believe that the regime can survive [25:32] unless either the people are armed or or [25:35] it is public it is made known publicly [25:38] that they have air support and that the [25:41] and that the Americans or the Israelis [25:43] will be in the air with drones [25:45] preventing the IRGC and the barie from [25:48] murdering them that somehow some support [25:49] will be given to them. Without that, [25:51] it's still kind of iffy that they'll [25:53] even come out into the streets because [25:55] with all of the hardship and all of the [25:57] unrest, the besiege and the IRGC still [25:59] have the guns. Could it be that the [26:01] people come out and they're afraid to [26:02] use them and they don't fire on the [26:04] people? That's a I mean, would you go [26:06] out into the street on that hope? It's [26:09] unclear. Anyway, that's my update on [26:11] what's going on in Iran. I hope it [26:13] wasn't too much. Uh, but uh there's [26:15] there's a lot happening. I'll keep [26:16] bringing you updates as relevant. Make [26:19] sure you sign up for that webinar. And [26:21] uh also we have the trip with Dr. [26:22] Wormser. You want to check that out in [26:24] the link in the description of the [26:25] video. And if you haven't given yet to [26:27] the Russia Shana campaign to help poor [26:28] families, it's not too late to do so. [26:31] God bless you. Thanks for watching. [26:32] Please like, share, subscribe, all that [26:34] great stuff. God bless.
