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Talking About Iran 00:02:06
matt tardio ▲ ● ▼
And welcome back to American Journal.
I am your host for this morning, Matt Tardio.
And we're going to be talking about Iran.
We're going to be talking about Russia and we're going to be talking about China and how all of that ties in and why we might be going to war with Iran in the very near future.
And it's not going to look anything like the 12-day war.
The U.S. military is stockpiling themselves over inside of the Middle East.
We've got three squadrons of F-15s, three over inside of Jordan.
We've got, you know, what do you want to call them? aircraft carriers that are moving in over outside of Iran as we speak.
Earlier this month, Donald Trump said, hey, the United States, we're locked and loaded and ready to go if you continue to kill your civilians.
Now, our government would like you to believe that this is about Iran killing their people.
That's what the government wants you to think.
Donald Trump, he came out earlier this month and stated that if they carry through with some of these executions that were going to take place during the uprisings over there, that, well, the United States is going to be forced to respond.
We're going to have to do something about it.
He also came out and he said that he spoke with Iran and he's very pleased because they're not going to be killing any more of their people.
Meanwhile, what actually happened is Iran ends up shutting off the internet and the entire country goes dark.
Elon Musk tried to fix it by throwing in Starlink and having Starlink work well.
Then they went and they cut off Starlink and the people couldn't even get Starlink connection.
As a matter of fact, anybody over inside of Iran that ended up getting caught with Starlink was being tried as spies.
The IRGC has taken over hospitals and the new death toll that I'm being told is upwards of 50,000 dead.
Over inside the media, we're talking about maybe 10 to 20,000 that the IRGC has killed.
You've got Shia militias that are flowing in from Iraq that are going in and working side by side with the IRGC.
Yesterday, Joe Kent was over inside of Iraq.
One of the things that Joe Kent spoke with the Iraqis about was peaceful transfers of ISIS detainees going into Iraq from the Syrian control.
We won't even talk about why the administration decided it'd be a good idea to work side by side with Al-Jalani, a former al-Qaeda terrorist.
Iran's Regime and Enriched Uranium 00:14:33
matt tardio ▲ ● ▼
Used to be great friends with this guy.
He would go by the name of al-Baghdadi.
Trump talked famously about killing him.
He was the former leader of ISIS.
Yeah, him and Jalani, the leader of Syria, they used to be good, good friends.
Well, now they're allegedly turning over ISIS fighters to U.S. forces or Iraqi forces, not sure which one.
And Joe was busy over inside of Iraq, making sure that the Shia militias were being disbanded because they're going into Iran and killing everybody.
But what does this have to do with the United States?
Very good question.
When we start taking a look at Venezuela, we have huge questions.
Why did the United States decide to go after Venezuela?
Well, Venezuela and their drug running, right?
That's what we were told.
We have Maduro.
We have cocaine flowing between Colombia and we have cocaine flowing out of Colombia and into Venezuela.
But Venezuela is even in the top five countries that ship drugs into the United States of America.
Not even the top five.
So what were we doing over there?
Well, we started to figure it out when we noticed that the boats that the U.S. started interdicting, which by the way, we decided to say that we're going after them due to oil sanctions because of some deal gone bad decades ago.
And the U.S. is going to recoup its oil, right?
Because we don't have enough oil.
We've got record low oil prices and everything else, which is insane to me.
Well, one of those boats that the U.S. tried to interdict, known as the Bella One, actually took off running before the U.S. could get to it.
And the U.S. Coast Guard chased it all across the ocean until it got pretty much north of the UK.
And then Russia decided it'd be a good idea to dispatch a nuclear sub after it.
Ends up not hitting the mainstream media.
Nobody really cared about it.
We interdicted the vessel.
But why did Russia send a nuclear sub after the Bella One in order to protect it?
Why did the Bella One reflag itself to a Russian vessel after it flicked its transponder off and popped off the radar?
Nobody knew where it was at, minus the Coast Guard that was trailing it.
And then the big question, why did the U.S. send our tier one tactical units to go and take over that boat?
And that's not a mistake.
And no, I'm not randomly stating that.
Yeah, we sent our top tier military personnel to go and raid that vessel and take over an oil tanker that was being guarded by a Russian nuclear submarine.
Well, we ended up getting the answer maybe a week ago.
We had over three tons of gold that were found on that boat.
Three tons of gold aboard that.
And who is the oil tanker being operated by?
The IRGC, the Iranian, a foreign terror organization designated by the United States of America and Canada.
And now others over in the EU are also looking at it, wondering whether or not they're going to designate them as an FTO.
Well, what's the IRGC got to do with all this?
Well, the IRGC has been funneling oil from Venezuela up to China.
And we want to know, why does China play into this?
Well, again, I referenced the silver spot price yesterday that reached $118 an ounce before it went down to, I think, the low 100s.
And then the last I checked before I went live on air, it ended up jumping up to 112 an ounce.
I mean, it's huge.
It just continues to climb.
Over in Shanghai, the silver price is trading at $130 plus dollars an ounce.
Comex is rumored to be ridiculously low.
And within the next month, it could be reaching critical levels.
And that's a problem.
We have failure on deliveries.
All of a sudden, we have a failure in the U.S. dollar.
Everybody loses faith in it.
Back in November, India tried to corner the market for the LBMA.
They ended up demanding delivery from the LBMA and drained the entire default for the LBMA of silver.
Now, India is a bricks nation.
China has been working very closely with Russia, obviously, with their war in Ukraine.
Russia has a big, big problem when it comes to getting their monetary value out of their oil because of the amount of sanctions that the U.S. ended up leveraging on it.
In order to get money, which by the way, their oil exports account for 30% of their GDP.
30% of their GDP goes from Russia's oil exports and the U.S. slaps sanctions all over it.
You guys remember the first signal gate?
Not the signal gate that we're talking about right now, but the very, very first signal gate that came out during the first couple of months of the Trump admin when the U.S. had multiple aircraft carriers over in the Red Sea and we're bombing the crap out of Yemen.
I want to say it was Vice President Vance, which I can't wait for Nate to get it here.
I want to say it was Vice President Vance that actually made the statement that I hope the EU knows that we're bailing them out again.
Now, why would he say that?
Well, because the Houthis are controlled by the IRGC.
The Houthis are the ones that currently run Yemen.
They are a foreign terror organization designated by the United States of America, and they've been attacking merchant vessels over in the Red Sea for quite some time.
Because of that, the U.S. decided to be a good idea to go and bomb the crap out of them.
Everyone wanted to point their fingers and go, oh, but Israel, but Israel.
Well, Israel can handle a couple of drones and a ballistic missile or two shot by the Houthis.
But what the EU and what the entire world can't stand is our trade being disrupted by the Houthis, which is what Iran was doing.
By using the Houthis over in the Red Sea, the U.S. went over and we started bombing them so that we could reopen it.
If we reopen the Red Sea, we reestablish international trade.
Now, what I'm talking about here is nothing but a war that's been raging behind the scenes between the United States, Russia, China, and the big intermediary in this entire deal has been Iran.
And right now, the United States has a very convenient excuse to go in and bomb Iran.
They're killing their own people.
Well, Iran's been washing money for China, it would seem, and they're certainly doing business with Russia, seeing how they felt like sending over a nuclear sub to guard three tons worth of gold.
I mean, that's insane to me, the amount of gold that was on that vessel.
And the United States sends our tip of the spear after.
So everybody in America is looking saying, why are we getting involved in another war over in the Middle East?
Well, because for the last decade plus, well, I'd actually say the better part of two decades, underneath all of this democratic rule here in the United States of America with the Democrats running wild.
We've got assumptions of Joe Biden and his son doing business with China and Russia.
Can't forget all of that.
It would certainly seem like the U.S. has been played a fool.
All of our exports are being sent, you know, overseas.
And if we need stuff, we're going to end up getting it back from somewhere.
Well, China decided that they were going to have massive export restrictions on silver starting on January 1st.
Last year, the United States government decided to list silver as a critical mineral.
A month after that, a month after November, December, China decided to make the announcement that it was going to be sanctioning 27 U.S. defense industry companies, companies like Lockheed Martin.
You think they're going to get any silver?
You know what silver is really important to?
It's really important to things like data centers.
It's really important to our infrastructure here in the United States, but it's also extremely, extremely critical to the defense industry.
The defense industry.
You need it for fighter jets.
You need it for guidance systems.
You need it for all of those little microprocessors, all sorts of things that we use.
There's no substitute for silver right now.
And China is hoarding it while the U.S. is dwindling in its supply.
And China right now is paying over $20 an ounce in the United States.
Who do you think they're going to sell that to?
And do you think the banks that are holding on to the hordes of it here in the United States, you think any of these banks are going to give it up at the current price?
No, they're going to hold on to it.
They're going to hold on to it so that they can drive the price higher, unless the United States government steps in and forces them to do it.
But that can only last so long.
We've been a supply deficit for the last five years, and China knows this and they've been playing the game.
They've been playing the game hard.
And they've been able to wash the money.
They've been able to do all sorts of dirty things to the United States simply by using Iran.
And Russia, well, Russia has benefited vastly from Iran.
Russia has been able to, how do I want to say this, supply 30% of the aerial munitions that were flying across the Russian border into Ukraine were drones being supplied by Iran for the first couple of years of the war.
In return, Russia decided it would be a good idea to give them nuclear scientists to work on their uranium enrichment projects.
You guys remember the 12-day war in June of last year?
All the way back then, and we're wondering why aren't we just going in and bombing them?
We had the United States screaming, screaming, these guys have enriched uranium.
Up to 87%, according to the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Up to 87%.
That is an insane number.
You don't need it for that.
Anything over 20, I mean, medical, maybe you can get 20 out of.
60% is the widely cited number, but no, the IEA actually cited and said that they found two undisclosed locations that Iran did not, did not disclose to them outside of Tehran, where they found trace elements of up to 87% enriched uranium.
That's nuts.
And then the U.S. held off forever.
Why did we hold off forever?
Well, we needed some help from Russia, most likely.
If Iran was going to give up their enriched uranium, then we would need somebody to go in and remove it.
The IRGC is not going to let the United States of America do it.
Why would they?
No, they need somebody that they've been working with that's also qualified to do these things.
And who better than Russia?
Because they have scientists on the ground already and they've been working with them and Iran and Russia trust each other for the most part.
Well, we held off on striking for the longest time.
Why would we hold off on striking?
Well, because Russia had over 100 scientists on the ground over inside of Iran.
That's absolutely troubling.
We had to get them.
We had to allow them to have time to move their scientists off those nuclear sites because if we would have bombed Russian scientists over inside of Iran, we would have potentially started World War III and pissed Russia off even more, which then brings up Greenland.
United States decided it would be a great idea.
The Trump admin has been scrambling to get a hold of Greenland.
Why?
Well, we now have the answer, the Golden Dome.
According to the Trump administration, we need it.
And they're not wrong.
Greenland sits right in between the United States and Russia, like North America and Russia.
If you were to draw a line on a globe going between Russia and the United States, Greenland would fall pretty much right in the middle of it.
So we're worried about their ICBM threat.
We had a wide open back door to Russia this entire time underneath the Biden administration where Russia could have came and attacked the United States and we would have been extremely vulnerable, extremely vulnerable to the Russian ICBM threat.
In order to counter that, in order to fix it, well, we got to put some assets over inside of Greenland.
Why?
Why is Russia so pissed off of the United States?
And I think the answer is Russia is looking at doing everything they can in order to cripple the U.S. dollar and China is playing them.
I think China is actually behind this entire deal, personally.
I believe it's China.
And so, in my opinion, we have a huge problem here.
We have two other world superpowers.
We have Russia and we have China that are working with a country that's a foreign terror organization.
Like the entire IRGC is labeled as a foreign terror organization.
What's worse is they're led by the Ayatollah.
The IRGC answers directly to the Ayatollah.
And if we want to fix the situation over in Iran, and by the way, the actual Iranian people, they're claiming that less than 30% of the country is actually even Muslim.
They've been burning mosques over inside of the country.
Over the last weekend, rumors came out that Iran was gassing its own people, gassing, like Saddam Hussein did with the Kurds.
I don't even want to know what those numbers are.
And still, the U.S. hasn't intervened yet.
Why?
The Ayatollah said that he ended up moving a bunch of the enriched uranium because we had to let the Russian scientists move.
Leadership of Iran said that they moved a bunch of the enriched uranium and we didn't bury crap when we dropped our 30,000-pound bombs on Ford.
You know, the bombs that the U.S. was working on for like 20 plus years to make sure that we actually were capable of destroying that target.
A lot of people don't even know that.
Those 30,000 pound bombs that we dropped on Iran, they were specifically designed for that target.
We conducted over 100 test strikes using those bombs just to narrow it in.
That's how much the U.S. hated Fordote.
And we bombed the crap out of it.
And then Iran says, well, you guys took too long and we moved a bunch of our enriched uranium.
Kind of a problem.
Well, in order to solve this, we would have to get rid of the IRGC.
We would have to cripple the regime.
And right now, there's a massive uprising.
And it seems like a good time for the United States to go in and strike the regime.
But there's one problem, one big problem.
And the problem is the Ayatollah is also one of two religious leaders for the Shia or the Shiite Muslims, if you will.
They don't account for the vast majority of Muslims.
Sunnis do.
They believe it's somewhere around 80% of all Muslims are Sunni, but still 20%, Shia.
And their leader, the Ayatollah, Khamedi.
And if we end up killing him, we kill a religious figure, a huge religious figure, massive religious figure.
You want to see radical Islam come together?
Check out the Ayatollah.
So what are we going to do?
I think the United States is in kind of a little bit of a pickle here.
And I think the Ayatollah's religious status is protecting him from U.S. strikes.
Before you say that the United States isn't under direct threat from Russia, I'd refer you guys over to a DHS report from last year.
In this DHS report from last year, the United States said that it had thwarted several potential lethal terrorist attacks on U.S. soil that were going to be originating from Iran, of all places.
And then we look at things like Donald Trump's assassination attempts.
The gentleman down in Florida that showed up at Mar-a-Lago and hid in the bushes several hours before Trump was supposed to be there.
How did he know?
How did he know to be in that, in that very specific location?
I got told that they were sitting over dinner and discussing it over dinner the night before.
And that's when they decided to go and play golf the next day around 9 p.m. at night, somewhere around there.
And then four hours later, this guy decides to sneak his butt into the woods outside Mar-a-Lago?
I don't think so.
To me, that sounds like foreign intelligence actually was controlling somebody and helping them out, whether it be Russia, whether it be Iran, whether it be China.
That's pretty freaking wild to me.
Inside Nigeria's Complex Crises 00:05:46
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And yes, we do have issues with Iran over here in the United States.
Holding before me a summary of issues.
You know, we were talking about going into Nigeria and bombing Nigeria earlier this year.
And we did, allegedly, ended up taking out some bad terrorists over there.
But all of the footage that ended up coming out of that didn't really look like we hit anything but some open fields and maybe some weapons cachets.
And then I seen this report.
And again, from the Four Malign Influence Center, Russia influence contributed to Nigeria's decision to force withdrawal of U.S. troops.
In 2024, Nigeria compelled the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Central African country.
How are they doing it?
Well, they're doing it through online influence and things of that nature, basically forcing the United States government to pull its troops out of there, which is really sad.
Another one, Chinese social media adopted fake American personas to promote protests against rare earth processing facilities in Texas and Oklahoma.
Remember how I told you that the United States is kind of in a bit of a pickle when it comes to silver?
It's in a bit of a pickle when it comes to these critical minerals?
Well, guess what's over inside of Nigeria?
I hope I'm not the only one that knows this.
Over inside of Nigeria, you end up having the largest lithium deposit in Africa.
Largest lithium deposit in Africa.
And wouldn't you know it, the United States, a United States-based company, tried to run a bid on that in order to get all of the lithium out of there because we need control over these critical minerals.
You need lithium for several different things.
Guess what company it was?
Elon Musk.
Elon Musk put a bid in on it and they turned him down.
But do you know whose offer they actually accepted?
Well, they happened to accept China's offer.
So China now controls it.
And by the way, you know, the Trump administration says that we had great communication with them and we were working with them the entire time for those terrorist strikes over there.
That's what they said.
I'm pretty sure they failed to mention that the United States is pretty much cut off from them from now on.
No U.S. citizens are allowed to travel over there.
The last I checked.
That's a bit of a problem.
If we had such great communication and we were helping them out and taking out all these terrorists, well, why?
And by the way, when we're talking about people being massacred and murdered over there, I believe, you know, we were complaining about Christians being massacred.
Well, why just there?
Why not over inside of Syria where we had Alawites being massacred by the Jolani regime?
Doesn't make much sense.
But when you start looking at the critical minerals over inside of Nigeria, all of a sudden we have a very eye-opening subject.
Did I tell you that the Department of War ended up investing almost $3 billion the other week into a brand new smelter in the United States?
Yeah, they teamed up with a very large bank.
Department of War is going to maintain 40% of that smelter.
It's the first one to open up in the United States in decades.
The best of my research, I've been able to find.
So behind the scenes on everything, we have Trump going in and removing Maduro because Maduro, you know, he's a narco-terrorist.
I'm sure it had nothing to do with his affiliations with Russia and moving gold and moving oil.
I'm sure it had nothing to do with the IRGC.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with cutting any of that out.
I'm sure the massive critical mineral deposits that are inside of that country, and it's got nothing to do with that.
Do you guys know that China ended up lending Maduro a metric buttload of money while Maduro was in office?
They ended up lending him all this money.
Maduro was paying it back with oil exports.
And who's moving the oil?
Iran.
So we want to hurt China because China's hurting us economically.
What do we do?
We cut China out of the Western Hemisphere and we end up making sure that they can't get paid back for all of that money that they ended up sending to Maduro.
How do we do that?
We end up sanctioning the oil by some decades-old deal gone bad.
That's what we do.
And then we start getting a hold of all these ships.
Oh, by the way, I totally forgot to tell you this.
That same ship that had tons of Russian gold on it, allegedly Russian gold on it, that same ship, guess what else it had?
It had new guidance packages and weapons components, or so I'm being told, that were being moved into Venezuela.
Months ago, China was circling around Taiwan.
Ready to take it?
They wanted to take it bad.
They had massive military drills, almost cut it off.
Well, allegedly, the IRGC was moving weapons into Venezuela so that they could attack the lower half of the United States of America.
That also was reported to me to be on that ship.
That's insane.
Why do we not have anybody coming out?
We all hear about Russia Gate, but how come nobody talks about Iran gate?
Listen to this other one.
Again, report coming out from the FMIC formaligned influence center.
Iran hacked and leaked sensitive data from the Trump campaign in 2024.
Imagine that.
So Iran's also behind that as well.
It almost seems to me like we've got some very big issues going on over here in the United States of America, and nobody wants to even bring it up.
How in the world is it that we have all of these things going on and the United States government is trying to sell the strike on Iran to you off as helping out the Iranian people who are being massacred and gassed, by the way?
We don't care about them.
I think Iran could massacre whoever they want.
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