Every Single Time: Regime Media Finds Another Austere Religious Scholar | Triggered Ep.321
Triggered Ep.321 dissects Operation Epic Fury, a U.S.-Israel strike killing Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei, 49 IRGC leaders, and crippling 1,000+ targets—retaliating for Beirut’s 1983 bombing (241 U.S. dead) and Houthi/Hamas attacks. Iranian exiles in L.A./N.Y.C. cheered, demanding democracy over regime rule, while Western allies like France stayed silent. Media framed Khamenei as a "poetry-loving cleric," ignoring his 47-year tyranny; CNN struggled to find dissent at celebrations. The episode ties this to Biden’s alleged DOJ corruption—$2M grants to prosecutor Fannie Willis—and contrasts Trump’s bold action with past presidents’ failures, warning Iran’s collapse risks nuclear chaos and regional war. [Automatically generated summary]
Hey guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
It's truly never a dull moment, never a flat news cycle.
So we've got a lot to get into tonight.
We're going to break down Operation Epic Fury, the strike on Iran, the death of the Aita'ullah, and what it means for America and the rest of the world.
We've got some incredible videos of Iranians in cities across the world celebrating.
So we'll break that all down and what comes next.
And of course, just like clockwork, we have our latest austere religious scholars from the regime media because Democrats and the media are already scrambling to defend the Iranian mullahs.
The Washington Post writing a love letter obituary for Khomeini, the Ayatollah, like the world's, the leader of the world's leading state sponsor of terror.
The Washington Post loves the guy.
Okay, I mean, you can't even make it up.
The New York Times calling him a hardline cleric who made Iran a regional power.
I mean, you just can't make this stuff up, guys.
It's hard to tell if you're reading the Washington Post or Tehran state media.
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The War's Big Picture00:14:34
And now, guys, let's get into the top headlines.
You're all obviously aware of the big news over the weekend.
In the early morning hours of Saturday morning, the United States and Israel launched a joint military operation against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
U.S. B-2 stealth bombers armed with 2,000-pound bombs hit Iran's ballistic missile facilities.
Over 1,000 targets have been struck in just two days.
1,000?
It's pretty crazy.
Ships, submarines, missile sites, communication links, and the command and control centers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
And then the big one.
Iran's supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khomeini, is dead.
Iran's defense minister, the commander of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Secretary of Iran's Security Council, all taken out.
I believe 49 members in the top positions in Iran gone.
And remember, it was back in 1979 that the Islamic Republic of Iran overthrew the Shah.
On your screen, you can see the difference in pre and post-1979.
It's quite a contrast, to say the least.
Now, 47 years later, the leaders of Iranian regime were taken out by the 47th president.
Now, look, I understand there's a lot to unpack here.
I get we don't want to get sucked into one of these other conflicts.
It's a complicated thing.
What this does to China is also a really big deal between Venezuela and Iran.
The damage to China and their ability to get oil and gas reserves.
I wish it was as simple as many online are trying to make it.
But what happens next will be critical.
You guys have heard me talk about the dangers of the endless wars, and I still am fully aware of those dangers.
Here's Secretary of War Pete Hegseth laying out the road ahead.
But we're not going to go into the exercise of what we will or will not do.
I think it's one of those fallacies for a long time that this department or presidents or others should tell the American people, and our enemies, by the way, here's exactly what we'll do.
Here's exactly how long we'll go.
Here's exactly how far we'll go.
Here's what we're willing to do and not do.
It's foolishness.
And so President Trump ensures that our enemies understand we'll go as far as we need to go to advance American interests.
But we're not dumb about it.
You don't have to roll 200,000 people in there and stay for 20 years.
We've proven that you can achieve objectives that advance American interests without being foolish about it.
Now, will we be bold about it?
Are we willing to be decisive about it?
Do we put months and months of planning into what kind of effects we want to achieve?
Absolutely.
But going forward, why in the world would we tell you, you, the enemy, anybody what we will or will not do in pursuit of an objective?
We fight to win.
We fight to achieve the objectives the president of the United States has laid out, and we will do so unapologetically.
Thank you.
Now, the big picture here is important.
Iran has been the single greatest state sponsor of terrorism on the planet for over three decades.
The man who funded Hezbollah, who funded Hamas, who armed the Houthis, who has blood, the blood of thousands of American soldiers on his hands from IEDs in Iraq and elsewhere, that man is gone.
And he's gone because your favorite president had the strength to do what no one else would do for over 45 years.
Now, look, I have something to address, something that shows the real costs of military action.
We lost six American service members in this operation, with a couple more critically injured.
And that is absolutely devastating.
But our so-called allies in France and UK, they can barely bring themselves to even offer words of support while they spend every other day lecturing about what we have to do in Ukraine and what we must be doing there and obviously climate change.
But in the matters that matter most, they don't seem to be anywhere and found.
It's interesting.
You look at all the Muslim countries in the world and they all seem to be, other than Iran, of course, pretty supportive of this action.
They're all taking up arms.
They're all joining the fight.
They've all become targets themselves.
The only two Muslim nations in the world that aren't in the game seem to be the UK and France.
And guys, I do want you to see something because the fake news is going to work overtime to spin it.
Right now, in cities across America and across the world, Iranians and Iranian Americans are in the streets chanting USA.
And that's a lot better than the usual chant coming out of the Ayatollahs in Iran, which is death to America.
Think about that for a second.
Iranians in Los Angeles chanting USA, honoring American soldiers.
It's powerful to see.
And it's not just LA.
In New York City, a massive crowd.
And a man in a Persians for Trump shirt is telling everyone that Iranians will never forget this moment.
Check it out.
The people of Iran will forever be grateful.
We're so happy to taste freedom after 47 years.
Dad, you dropped Javi Shaw.
Next, the people are going to take over the country and reclaim their land.
We're going to add it.
Bring this shot back.
Long live the King.
and Giraffe.
Get another huge crowd.
And funny enough, the same Astroturf protesters we see every time, you know, change the flag, change the t-shirt, don't know what they're talking about, they're also showing up.
Just, again, with a different flag, different jersey.
But the good news is they are being totally exposed.
Because Masih Alinajad, an incredibly brave Iranian journalist who Iran literally tried to assassinate several times, well, she had some sharp and powerful words to sum up this historic moment.
I want to hug my family.
It has been 15 years.
That's why I get really upset when I see some anti-war Americans taking to the streets.
My fellow citizens take to the street to celebrate the killing of a terrorist.
Because this is not about politics.
This is all about normal life, having dignity for Iranians.
We share the same values.
You want these terrorists?
Don't feel sorry for terrorists.
Feel sorry for my people inside Iran.
The new generation, they deserve to have democracy.
It breaks my heart when I see Americans in the streets.
They shout, I am Hamas.
Hamas is killing Iranians, killing people in Gaza.
If you care about free Palestine, help us to free Palestine from Islamic Republic.
Notice how the actual people, the ones who lived under these monsters, who were terrorized by them, they're thanking America.
They're thanking my father.
It's sort of like the people who used to live in the former communist nations of Eastern Europe and otherwise.
You notice how none of them ever came to America trying to peddle communism because they actually lived under the systems?
Kind of the same thing.
But meanwhile, the left is out there apologizing for America.
Iran has been killing Americans for decades.
Hundreds of our soldiers killed by Iranian-backed IEDs in Iraq.
The bombing of the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut in 1983.
241 dead Americans.
Proxies attacking our bases across the Middle East, creating turmoil, both militarily and economically.
So whatever your views are on this larger strategy, the larger mission, there's no doubt that Iran has been waging war against Americans for decades.
And by the way, the fact that Iran is shooting at Saudi Arabia, at the UAE, that tells you everything you need to know about this regime.
They don't care about Muslim lives.
They don't care about their neighbors.
They care about power.
And now that power is gone.
And right on queue, you know, right on schedule, guys, the Democrats are doing exactly what you'd expect.
They're claiming it's unconstitutional.
They're claiming my father isn't listening to the experts.
What experts?
Exactly, guys.
I've heard a lot about experts over the last years, and these are the same people who've basically gotten nothing done for the last 40 years.
Where were these people when Obama was bombing Libya without congressional approval?
Where was this energy when Biden was droning people in Syria?
Where was the war power's urgency then?
Where was it, guys?
Nowhere.
It didn't exist.
This isn't about the Constitution for them.
This is about undermining everything this administration does, both at home and abroad.
This thing didn't start in the last couple of years, despite them, I guess, trying to kill my father a couple of times.
I guess he got him first, as he said the other day, very eloquently.
This has been going on for decades.
No one's ever had the guts to act.
And thankfully, we have at least one sane Democrat, John Fetterman, who's saying it right to their faces.
Check it out.
Destroying the Iranian leadership.
And there wasn't any kind of outcry from parts of the left after Iran executed about 30,000 of their young people that were just simply just protesting for democracy.
Why?
Why can't we just objectively say what Israel has been able to accomplish, you know, since they were calling for a ceasefire back in 2024?
Hamas would be still there.
Sinwar would be alive.
Hezbollah would be allowed to fire thousands of rockets into Israel now, too.
And then Houthis, too.
And Iran would be able to be perceived as a strong military presence in the region.
Turns out it really wasn't effective.
So here we are.
We're in a much better place now.
If anyone wants those things that they claim that they do, like peace and they can never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear bomb when someone actually did that, that could actually make sure that's possible.
And I'm open to a better opportunity for more, more peace and prosperity for the Iranian people for more security that Israel deserves that.
So that's a point.
And, you know, this was not an illegal war based on terms of what the war powers act is.
Senator.
And some of the media coverage this weekend has been, I mean, it's been something else.
Not that I'm really surprised anymore.
I mean, I don't think any of us are, but it truly is just insane.
Let's start with the Washington Post.
Within hours of the strikes, here's what their news section looked like.
And guys, I am not making this up.
It feels like an episode out of South Park, but the Washington Post didn't just criticize the operation.
They actually gave a glowing eulogy to the Ayatollah, a glowing obituary for a terrorist, someone who's, by any reasonable measure, a really bad guy with a lot of blood on his hands.
From the Washington Post, and I quote, with his bushy white beard and easy smile, Ayatollah Khomeini cut a more vuncular figure in public.
And he was known to be fond of Persian poetry and classic Western novels, especially Victor Hugo's Les Miserables.
I mean, you remember austere religious scholars, the guy that we had to kill in a cave that was like the leader of ISIS or one of the other terror groups out there.
I mean, this is the Washington Post.
This is what they say about a mass murderer, a true piece of shit.
And this is why the Washington Post has lost over $300 million since 2023.
300 million.
Because normal, common sense Americans look at that and say, what is wrong with these people?
Dancing in Excitement00:04:31
They're absolutely crazy.
If anyone wants to know who the left is and where it's going, use the Washington Post as a barometer.
Whatever they try to glorify or glamorize, run the other way.
Just short it.
It's like inverse Kramer.
Just do the opposite.
And then the New York Times, not to be outdone, guys, ran a headline calling Khomeini a hardline cleric who made Iran a regional power.
And that's nicer than they talk about almost all Republicans.
So New York Times glorifying him.
The Washington Post basically saying he's like Santa Claus, you know, a regional power?
That's what they went with in the New York Times?
Not a state sponsor of terrorism, not a brutal dictator who murdered his own people, not the man who funded the killing of American soldiers?
No.
A hardline cleric who made Iran a regional power.
Like he's some sort of great statesman.
Let me ask you something.
If Obama had taken out Khomeini, what would those headlines look like right now?
Obama's bold stroke reshapes the Middle East.
A new era dawns in Iran.
You know that's what they write.
You know it.
I know it.
Everyone watching knows it.
And over at CNN, they sent some reporters into these demonstrations in Los Angeles, clearly looking for someone to attack Trump.
The only problem, they couldn't really find anyone.
Check this out.
The largest Iranian populations outside of the Middle East.
You see the gathering there behind her.
Julia, how is the Iranian community responding?
Well, this gathering has only grown, Jessica, over the past few hours, excuse me, since we've gotten here.
It has amassed a large number of people and the celebration is striking.
We got here just moments after initial reports, initial rumors of the death of Ayatollah Khamenei had just started to trickle from Iran to this diaspora community and people were jumping in excitement, hugging each other, crying, saying that basically they've been waiting 47 years for this very day, Jessica.
It is the reason so many of them have come out here today.
I want you to hear from one of them specifically his thoughts right after learning that the Supreme Leader of Iran was dead.
When is the last time you saw people in Israel and Iran dancing on the streets in excitement?
And when is the last time you've ever heard of a country coming out and dancing because they're excited that foreign powers are attacking them?
Now, the name of Reza Pahlavi has been at the tip of people's tongues here, Jessica.
So these are very much people who are pro-Shah.
They want to see a leadership emerge from Reza Pahlavi.
They're calling for him to take over the reins.
And their hope, they've told me, is that he would then lead a temporary government and hold elections in Iran, hold a referendum in Iran so that the people could decide what would come next for their nation.
Yeah, and so many Iranian people hoping for regime change and that they can take back their government.
A lot of questions about how that will happen, if it can happen.
Julia Vargas-Jones, thank you so much.
We really appreciate it.
Thanks for that.
And like I said earlier, I get that there is real skepticism here.
I understand it, especially amongst younger people who live through the swamps-failed nation-building exercises across the Middle East for their entire lives.
But there is a massive difference between launching a 20-year nation-building occupation and conducting a precision military operation to eliminate a terrorist regime's leadership and military infrastructure.
And the next days and weeks will be critical.
And my father has been consistent on Iran for literally decades.
He gave Iran every off-ramp possible.
They refused.
And that's what everyone misses, right?
How many times over the last few months have they gone back and forth?
Let's get back to the deal.
Even after they took out the nuclear sites, let's get back to the table.
They would not do it.
He gave them every chance, every opportunity to negotiate.
They weren't going to give up the nukes and the things that they frankly can't have.
Consistent Pressure On Iran00:09:29
And here's what none of these outlets, not CNN, not the Washington Post, not the New York Times, not MS Now, are talking about.
They're not talking about the fact that for 47 years, every single American president looked at the Iranian regime and talked tough but did nothing.
Or, in the case of Obama and Biden, giving them literal pallets of cash.
For 47 years, this regime built proxies, funded terrorism, killed Americans, developed nuclear weapons, and the world just accepted it.
And now, that equation looks very different.
And we will continue to bring you all of the latest updates.
But speaking of people who have completely lost their minds, we're seeing new levels of delusion all across the left.
And you can't even parry it at this point because it's just so ridiculous.
Because a former Vogue editor and stylist to Jill Biden actually downgraded herself from a first-class flight because everyone else in first class was white.
Let me say that again.
She gave up her first-class seat because the other passengers were white.
And she alleged the flight attendant was engaging in, quote, persistent microaggressions.
Of course they were.
Like saying hello or something.
You know, that's probably the microaggressions.
You can't make it up.
The story gets even better, though, because it turns out she didn't downgrade herself to coach.
She still took a seat in business class, where there's apparently fewer white people and less white supremacy.
So she's still sipping champagne in business class.
She's still got the extra legroom, still reclining, maybe even a lying flat seat, but now she can do it with a clear conscience because she's six rows further back in the plane.
Very brave.
Stunning and brave.
Truly stunning and brave.
And by the way, what was her plan if business class was too white?
Just keep moving back, work her way back into the cargo hold?
At what point do you just admit you need mental help and maybe not a different boarding group?
Now, for the heck of it, let's just have a little fun.
Just imagine if a white person said, I downgraded because everyone in first class was black.
What would happen?
Their career would be over in seconds.
They'd be on every front page.
They'd be vilified.
They'd be banned from every airline.
There would be congressional hearings by Democrats.
But in the left's world, racism only goes one direction.
And that, in and of itself, is insanely racist.
And speaking of the left's insane bigotry, they are still trying to claim that voter ID is racist.
And during a live town hall discussion on Fox News, a white liberal decided to tell a black female conservative it was too difficult for her to get an ID.
And let's just say, didn't work out so great for them.
Check this out.
We all agree on that point.
I just think that the reality is that an act like the SAVE Act is very likely more aimed at voter suppression and at keeping key demographics that the Republican Party does not want voting to not show out.
I think very often minority demographics.
That's not true.
No.
So this is the thing where my suggestion is it's going to keep the black vote down.
I've got two black panelists here.
Ajua?
That's not true.
Do you have ID and proof of citizenship?
Yeah, and if I need a copy of my birth certificate, it's just a matter of going online or going up to the department and asking for it and showing my information to get it.
I mean, to say that it would negatively affect a minority group because they're somehow not educated enough to get these documents is completely outrageous.
Annie?
In my opinion, this should not be a controversial issue.
The look on his face when she fired back, you could see his whole worldview crumbling in real time.
I mean, it's like panic.
And to be clear, Democrats get crushed on this issue in every poll.
It's like an 84% issue across the board, Republican and Democrat.
People get it.
It makes sense.
Every country around the world does the same thing, except for us and except for American Democrats, because, of course, they want people who should not be voting to vote.
And that's how they stay in power.
They have nothing other than rhinos in the U.S. Senate giving them an out.
Let's pass the SAVE Act.
Let's pass the Save America Act.
It's a 90-10 issue, practically.
Probably even more than that if people are being honest with themselves.
The American people want it.
The only ones who don't, the ones who benefit from not verifying who's voting, think about, I don't know, who that could be.
Think about why that is.
And speaking of which, we've also got some new explosive revelations that dropped about Fannie Willis down in Georgia.
Because new documents obtained via Georgia's open records law reveal what appears to be straight-up quid pro quo corruption.
The files show the most detailed evidence of collusion.
And yes, I'm using that word on purpose, collusion, between the Fulton County prosecutors run by Fannie Willis and Biden White House and DOJ officials to try to force the prosecution of my father.
The Biden Justice Department invited Willis to apply for a $2 million, $2 million sole source grant in 2022 while her sham investigation was accelerating.
This was part of a more than 18 million in federal funding her office received during her tenure.
They invited her to apply for a very vague grant project just as she was getting her witch hunt ready down in Fulton County.
Huh?
Why would they do that?
It's not even clear what the grant was for, but in all fairness, we know what it was for.
But in total, $18 million of taxpayer money was funneled into a political prosecution, really a persecution, all done with coordination from Biden federal officials.
If this happened under any other country, we'd call, we'd call it what it is, a weaponized justice system going after a political enemy.
And that's exactly what it was.
Banana Republic stuff.
And by the way, this is the same Fannie Willis who was running around with her boyfriend Nathan Wade, billing taxpayers for their vacations, lying to the court about their relationship.
Remember all that?
These people are shameless, and the jokes really do write themselves.
But it's yet another reason why we've got to keep our foot on the gas pedal and stay on the offense.
Look, I know this was a heavy show.
A lot happened this weekend.
There's a lot still to process.
I know a lot of people that are fans don't love this idea.
And honestly, based on history, I understand why.
I was very much in that boat myself.
I just think Trump is different.
A lot will keep happening and we have to stay engaged.
One thing we can say for certain, my father is a man of action.
One thing we can say for certain is also that he's not like the others.
And that's why they hate him.
So I know not everyone's going to be a fan of this.
I get it.
I understand it.
Just understand, he's not like the others.
But what is the Washington Post doing?
You got to ask, right?
Writing glowing obituaries for a dead terrorist.
I mean, it's on brand.
I mean, at least they're consistent.
They're insane, but at least they're consistent.
What's the New York Times doing calling him a regional power?
And this sort of sums up the last 10 years.
We have a president who acts while the left-wing regime's puppets whine and complain, an administration that delivers results while the fake news writes eulogies for terrorists.
A commander-in-chief who eliminates the world's top terrorist leader while the left melts down over white people in first class and tries to tell minorities they can't get an ID.
As my father said in his State of the Union, these people are crazy.
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