The Raw Deal (2 March 2026) with Joe Olson: GAME ON!
Joe Olson dissects the U.S.-led war with Iran as a proxy for Israel’s "Greater Israel Project," exposing 500+ American deaths and $100M/year Israel lobby influence over Congress. Operation Ethnic Fury’s failed decapitation strike on Khamenei backfired, triggering Iran’s retaliatory wave—27 U.S. bases hit, Strait of Hormuz closed, oil prices surging to $83/barrel—while Trump’s regime-change calls and biblical justifications (Purim, 1 Samuel 15:3) mask a strategic quagmire. Experts like Scott Ritter warn of cascading failures, from depleted uranium fallout in Iraq to Iran’s hypersonic Shahaab-2 missiles overwhelming U.S. defenses, while Russia condemns the aggression and Europe’s silence enables it. With oil nearing $10/gallon and Trump’s approval collapsing, the war risks spiraling into unwinnable chaos, exposing deep-seated geopolitical betrayals. [Automatically generated summary]
This is Jim Fetzer, your host on The Rock Deal, right here on Revolution Radio Studio B the second day of March, 2026.
The President of the United States, right now, as I speak, is seeking to justify a war for Israel.
By my calculation, there are already 500 American dead.
He's talking about four.
He's claiming Iran is the great terrorist state when Iran hasn't launched a war of aggression against any other state since 1775.
Remember, our Declaration of Independence was 1776.
There's no threat to America from Iran.
He's making it up.
He's talking about impromised explosive devices.
He's claiming credit for taking out Sulaiman, one of the greatest acts of perfidy of American history, where this great American, this great Iranian general and statesman was lured to Iraq by the Department of State on a peacekeeping mission and then taken out by a drone attack as he left the airport there.
This was disgusting.
He's acting like it was heroic when it was cowardly.
And Iran is able defending itself.
Yes, yes, yes.
It was an initial decapitation strike.
They did take out the Supreme Leader and his top four military commanders all love him.
But Iran had already anticipated this would happen.
They'd already worked out the lines of secession.
They've got their military so distributed, it's operating virtually autonomously distributed across Iran.
It's not going to stop.
You may recall Trump was talking about this maybe lasting a day or two.
Now he's up to four weeks or five.
And Secretary of Defense, they call him Secretary of War Hegseth is saying he's not ruling out American troops on the ground in Iran.
Yeah, well, if you want to go to your slaughter, try to put American troops on the ground in Iran.
Again, I reiterate, this is a war for Israel because Israel wants to expand a greater Israel project and regards Iran as its regional rival because enthusiasm, support for Israel is dropping like a rock and it will fall further.
Bibi the Butcher regards this as his last best opportunity while Trump's still in office.
Given waning support over the cumulative effects of the ongoing slaughter of Palestinians, the genocide, the shooting of Charlie Kirk, which although I'm convinced was staged is widely believed to have been Israel's assassination, attacks being made on Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens for speaking out for America first.
The war now going on, and even the war in Ukraine, it's all taken a toll on the American people.
Now, prior to the fireworks, Colonel McGregor was explaining, no more negotiations, the countdown has begun.
So we'll listen to a bit of the Colonel and then we'll catch up on the latest news.
The American people overwhelmingly, at least based on the polling data, are opposed to a war with Iran.
Depending upon which poll you want to look at, it is 70%, 75%, almost 80% have said no.
No more wars in the Middle East, no war anywhere as far as most Americans are concerned.
But Americans do not control Congress.
The Israel lobby does.
And so when we talk about democracy, I think we ought to take a step back and look at the reality.
It's not just the Israel lobby on this particular issue.
Obviously, it's decisive.
But many of the lobbies in Washington, D.C. spend a lot of money to sway votes in their favor.
In the case of the Israel lobby, they say, well, we only spent $3 plus million on lobbying.
Well, that's true, but that doesn't include, you know, basically over $100 million that is spent by the Zionist billionaires directly to get control of candidates.
How do you do that?
Well, you know, you put money into their campaigns, into their political action committees, and you make it clear that if they don't vote the way you want them to, they'll support their opponents.
Doesn't matter who the opponent is or what party he belongs to.
In other words, do business as we tell you and we'll get along just fine.
And you'll get lots of money out of this and we'll throw other good news in your direction.
Because remember, these billionaires own most of the media.
They're leaders in the financial community.
They own Hollywood.
That's not it.
You know, they probably control most of the legal profession.
But the bottom line is they're in a position with the banks and the various corporations to put even more money in your pocket if you go along with them.
So I'm afraid, you know, at this point, it doesn't matter what the American people think or what.
Their government is on a path to war with Iran.
Well, how do you think this war will be fought?
Because you mentioned that a lot of these bombers have to fly a lot longer than what they usually would.
But there's some reports of up to more than 100 aerial refuelers to essentially assist in this, what appears to be a massive buildup of both naval power and air power.
So how do you think this can be fought?
Because this won't be a limited war.
And I think the Iranians ruled out the possibility of just a limited strike as well.
So how do you see this war?
Well, I know you're not part of the war planning on this one, but how do you think the war planning is being played out?
I don't know the various options that are being presented to President Trump.
Politicians, as you know, historically always want to be a little bit pregnant.
Most politicians don't want to bring the child to term.
And by that, I mean they're looking for something short of what they fear most, which is all-out war.
And so I'm sure he's being presented with a couple of limited options because politicians like to signal as opposed to do anything.
You know, when we were moving towards the Kosovo air campaign back in 1998, the politicians in Brussels were floating ideas along the lines of, well, let's have a demonstration strike to show the Serbs that we're serious.
And of course, this was ridiculous.
You know, you're going to fire cruise missiles at a target where there are no people, there's no installation to speak of, and tell everybody to look at the target and then watch it explosion.
And they believed that this might avoid a bombing campaign against the Serbs.
Of course, that eventually was thrown out.
But they continue to try and tinker.
And ultimately, we miscalculated.
I say we, I'm talking about Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe, on the numbers of aircraft and munitions that would be required.
And so the air campaign, instead of being over within two weeks, lasted 78 days.
I think you have a similar phenomenon here.
You're talking now not about 8 million people in Kosovo and Serbia.
You're talking about 90 to 93 million people inside Iran, which is the size of Western Europe.
And the population centers are now actively covered by various air defense systems.
Now, will all these air defense systems work very well?
I don't know.
I would assume that they will do better than they did the last time.
But the challenge for us, as I mentioned earlier, is twofold.
First of all, you have to sustain yourself in a region where right now almost everyone is telling us to get out of their country.
Let me stop and consider this for a minute.
Jordan is allowing us to occupy bases in the western part of the country, two of them.
And there are large numbers of aircraft sitting on the ground there.
Otherwise, we are largely dependent upon air bases outside of the region.
That's a huge problem because instead of just flying back and forth within relatively close proximity to Iran, which is what we did last time, this time, as you pointed out, we're going hundreds of miles.
Well, to do that, you have to have almost an inexhaustible supply of air refuelers, and these have to rotate.
You've got to have air refuelers on station, then you have to have air refuelers on their way and air refuelers on their way back so that they could be replenished and so forth.
Right now, it looks like we're planning to operate in Iraqi airspace.
Now, the Iraqis are not supporting us, and they're violently opposed to any war with Iran.
I don't know what that means.
Does that mean that we could face hostility from Iraq in that airspace?
Are we constrained by it?
I mean, people have been talking about, well, you could have attacks from the north and Iran attacks from the south.
Well, if you get out of the south, you're flying almost a thousand miles to reach the targets that you're trying to hit.
That's enormous, enormously difficult.
Just recently, within the last 24 hours, a friend who's on the ground over there said, you know, we're being forced to fall back on India as a place from which we could stage, refuel, rearm, and then fly back into action.
Or you're forced into Africa, but even the African states like Egypt and Sudan are not supporting us in our war with Iran.
Now, part of that is they never wanted to to begin with, but I think also we have to point out that the comments made by Ambassador Huckabee in his interview with Tucker Carlson have had a very negative impact.
People that live in the region are looking at the Greater Israel Project as an existential threat to them.
So you put all of this together.
You look at the fact that you've got a navy which is overstretched, overextended and and frankly, worn out and exhausted.
The Ford battle group was down in the Caribbean for more than six months.
I think they're looking at month nine, maybe ten, at sea.
That's outrageous, that's just unacceptable.
Now they've pulled into Ceuta Bay, which is in Crete, right off the coast of Greece, to deal with a lot of problems.
Everybody's heard about their uh, waste disposal problem, let's put it that way.
But then you have the problem of, once your ships have fired their missiles, where are they going to go to load new missiles?
Do you steam all the way down to Diego Garcia?
You can't use the Gulf and historically that's where we've reloaded.
Do we go back to Italy, to Sicily, all the way to Naples?
Do we go north, into Greece?
Probably into Greece, I suspect, to some extent, all of these issues I don't think were anticipated and they're now being aired and people are discussing how to deal with them.
So, while we have enough rockets and bombs and missiles on hand to destroy much of Iran there's no question about that how do you get them on to target?
How do you get there?
How do you get close enough to drop your munitions, to launch your missiles without putting yourself at risk, and we were drawing arcs.
Looked at the Shahaab-2, which is a theater ballistic missile.
That is, a medium-range ballistic missile that the Iranians have developed.
It's hypersonic.
They have large numbers of these, and even the airstrips or air bases in western Jordan are within range.
So of course is Israel, and so of course are ships in the Mediterranean.
So we've, you know, we've got.
We've got the advantage, I would argue, in air-to-air technology and surface-to-air technology in many ways, but we're dealing with the tyranny of distance, and the only people that can fly in and fly out and deliver their munitions easily, you know, provided they're not shot down, but we don't think they can be targeted effectively are the B-2 bombers and the B-52s eventually, but they fly at what?
40 000 feet?
Now we're not sure.
We don't think the Iranians can shoot them down, but we may discover we're wrong, because we do see a lot of evidence that they can track them.
If you can track something, as the Serbs demonstrated, you can, you can shoot it down.
So the bottom line is that we we have a lot of questions for which there aren't good answers.
The navy and the air force are working hard to deal with these issues and come up with solutions, but I think that's why you're beginning to hear rumblings in Washington from the military about its uncertainty as to the outcome of the air and missile campaign.
And, let me add, the situation is actually far worse.
Here's Russ Winter put together absolutely brilliant compilation of how events are actually developing on the ground.
Operation Eblik Fup.
The zenith of the hubris, Big Brain Trump and his Zog whispers learn one of life's lessons.
The Zog Whitmore crew in Big Brain wrongly calculated that the devotation strike that martyred Ali Khamenei and top Iranian leadership would cause Iran to fold its tent.
Instead, its embracers and hardline resistance has gathered against Zog.
It's also glaringly obvious going into day three that Iran has been woefully underrated.
America Israel is being revealed as the emperor without clothes.
Operation Eblik Fup.
Here's a policy tensor tweet.
Do they really not see this coming?
It's astonishing just how much racialized contempt for the enemy routinely leads to crappy intelligence and strategic decision making.
U.S. Military's Crumbling Infrastructure00:09:35
Still, overnight, military officials in U.S. Operations Center track dozens and dozens of missiles and attack drones launched by Iran throughout the night, said another familiar with the situation.
Iran is in full retaliation.
The vast number of retaliatory attacks and the array of sites being targeted, including non-military sites in Arab nations across the Middle East, is concerning.
After so much of the regime talk leadership was killed, this person continued.
Officials are worried about the command and control of those weapons, he added.
Laura Rosen, inside the Pentagon and among some members of Trump admin, there was deepening concern Sunday that the Iran conflict could spin out of control.
Said people familiar with the situation, the mood there is intense and paranoid.
Pentagon throw Big Brain under the bus or Sreuters.
Cherry right everything.
Pentagon just threw Trump under the bus, telling Congress no sign that RAN was going to attack America first.
Pentagon tells Congress no sign Iran was going to attack U.S. First Trump admin official acknowledged at Glow Door briefing with congressional staff that there was no intelligence suggesting that would happen.
Trump returns to the White House, refuses questions, but gives Caligula-like tour of statues in the garden.
Call to activism tweets outreaches.
Trump ignores questions about the Iran war and dead American soldiers.
It talks about the garden instead.
Unbelievable statues.
You'll see, come and look at them.
The man is a complete sociopath.
The aircraft carriers have been withdrawn to distances that render them only useful for tomahawk attacks.
The inventory of those is estimated at 500, which will be depleted soon enough.
Iran's new swarm shielded missiles seem to be massively overperforming.
U.S. allies wasted six or seven interceptors per missile.
Drones are unstoppable.
These can get the job done even without hypersonics.
Hypersonics, the newly arrived SU-35s, can be secured and used as deterrence to keep the carrier groups at bay or against special high-value targets.
And here's a wonderful breakdown: Iran's war strategy: blind, deplete, overwhelm.
Phase one, blind.
Target radar and C2 communication nodes using cheap swarm drones and missiles.
U.S. integrated sensor, radar, and command networks being taken out.
Phase two, deplete 20,000 each, the inexpensive numerous weapons.
There's a cost-asymmetrical trap, whereas the interceptors are finite and expensive at 1 to 10 mil apiece.
Then, phase 3, overwhelm.
Held back systems, hypersonic follow-on strikes, weakened defenses, breach against carriers, and all the other shorter-range missiles are launched from platinum trucks.
Good luck reducing these.
For all the big brains in the reply, this is what a Shaheed launcher looks like.
Republican Gartel can fit in somewhat larger box drop.
We don't have the ability to drop a JDAM on every box drop in all of Iran, Yemen, Iraq, and Syria.
This has not been thought through.
Joe, there's a lot more here, but I want your thoughts on these preliminary reports, especially the brilliant summation of Ross Minter.
Your thoughts.
Well, first of all, I want to do a little historical context.
Today is March 2nd, 1836.
Texas signed its independence from Mexico at a little chapel near Brenham.
And the Alamo was surrounded on February 23rd, and it fell on March 6th.
So that's a little bit of history that I just don't want to leave unforgotten.
But I'd also like to mention something about how moral the United States Army is.
We developed armor-piercing shells that use a really high-density core, and you fire these things, and then the core goes through whatever metal there is in armored vehicles.
You had two usable types: you had uranium, which has a specific gravity of 19, or you had tungsten, which has specific gravity of 19.2.
So roughly equivalent.
But if you have a 30-millimeter shell, which is what the A-10s use and they fire like 3,000 rounds a minute, that's 0.66 pounds per shell.
And if you use 120-millimeter tank shells, that's 1.7 pounds per shell.
When we invaded Iraq in 1991, we dumped 300 tons of depleted uranium, which poisons the ground forever.
When those things go through a tank, it vaporizes the uranium, and then the whole place is covered with uranium dust.
When we did the 19, the 2003 war, we dumped 1,700 tons.
We've completely poisoned Iraq.
The birth defects are out of the roof, the infertility, the crop failures, everything else related to our dismal DOD production.
And the trick is, tungsten costs $10 per pound, and uranium, they get paid by the nuclear power plants to recycle the waste material.
That's how immoral our army is from the very core.
Everything about it is immoral.
Well, Joe, I want your comments on how the war is developing right now in the Middle East.
Yeah, yeah.
The United, the Iranians have hit 27 U.S. bases in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Israel.
They just hit the British base.
Let's see, the British base.
Yeah, Akatori in Cyprus.
And they also hit the Aramco refinery in Saudi Arabia because apparently Saudi Arabia is oscillating back and forth.
And what people don't seem to realize is every one of those Arab monarchies was set up by the British and French monarchies at various times in the last 100 years.
And every one of them is completely fake.
And in the case of Bahrain, the population is 65% Shia, who are really an oppressed minority, and 35% Sunni.
And Bahrain is fixing to have a revolt of their own.
And who knows, they may end up getting legitimate democracy in all of these monarchies that were set up as piracy operations.
Much appreciated.
Meanwhile, more from Ross.
Matt Parlmer, I don't think anybody planned for this sort of rocket exchange going on for more than a few days.
We do not have the air defense depth to block these strikes, which means we're going to have to go after the launchers, which means this thing has no off-ramp.
Every airport in the region is closed.
All U.S. bases have been successfully hit.
Thousands of tourists are stranded in Dubai, and the economy suffers incalculable setbacks.
We will check world markets later in the day.
Zog publics in the region are asking where was a protection, as instead they've been drawn in as targets.
Iran has warned of this for years, so it's no surprise what the ineptness of the air defense is.
Haider Ali, Saudi officials to Al Jazeera.
America has abandoned us and focused its offensive system on protecting Israel, leaving the Gulf state that hosts its military base at the mercy of Iranian missiles and drones.
Meanwhile, the big base in Bahrain has been smoked.
Overnight blazes throughout the base have been confirmed by giant plumes of burning smoke at daybreak.
More, more, more.
U.S. destroyers that used to refitted Bahrain now have to travel to Daigo Garcia.
The CI's intel hub and Dubai is destroyed.
The billion-dollar radar and cutter is wrecked.
The infrastructure U.S. spent decades will be across the Middle East is crumbling in real time.
You can't fight a war in the region when your logistic chain stretches halfway across the Indian Ocean.
U.S. has been slow to report casualties and damage assassins.
It may be more than slow walking, as they probably don't know at this hour.
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U.N. Decries Unprovoked Attacks00:15:08
How's this for absurdity after hitting Iran, taking out their top four military and their supreme leader?
The U.S. calls Iranian retaliatory strikes against U.S. basis unprovoked.
This is at the United Nations Security Council.
Listen up.
U.S. calls Iranian retaliatory strikes unprovoked.
And other notes: The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran rages on.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed.
Iran has been hammering U.S. military bases in the region with missiles and drones, and oil prices are already beginning to rise as the IRGC cuts off the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for the attacks.
U.S. soldiers have already begun to die.
U.S. Central Command reports that three American service members were killed in combat with five seriously wounded.
And it should here be noted that seriously wounded can mean permanently brain damaged, comatose, or otherwise rendered severely handicapped for the rest of their lives.
Trump said during an interview with the Daily Mail that he now expects the war to last four weeks or so and that he expects U.S. casualties to continue.
I have said it before and I will say it again.
Every single American soldier who dies in this war was killed by Trump and Netanyahu.
The U.S. and Israeli governments bear sole responsibility for their deaths.
At least 153 people were reportedly killed in a strike on an Iranian girls' school in the opening wave of attacks.
Most of the fatalities were girls between the ages of 7 and 12.
Turns out freeing Iranian women from the hijab just meant killing girls before they're old enough to start wearing one.
There have been viral claims on social media that it was a misfired Iranian missile which struck the school, and that the Iranian government has admitted to this, both of which were swiftly debunked.
We've seen this play before.
In October 2023, hospitalists ecosystem with claims that Gaza's Al-Ali Baptist hospital was hit by a misfired Palestinian rocket rather than by Israel.
Israel has now bombed that very same hospital eight separate times, which tells you all you need to know.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz used the word unprovoked to describe Iran's retaliatory strikes on U.S. military bases in the region, which is just plain hilarious.
Waltz told the UN, Indiscriminate and unprovoked attacks by the Iranian regime today against our regional partners, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, and others, reinforce exactly why such actions are necessary.
Only the United States could bomb a country, kill its leader, massacre its children, declare the intention to destroy its military and topple its government, and then call that country's retaliation against U.S. military bases unprovoked.
Iran has reportedly rejected Trump administration offers to make a deal after the initial round of attacks.
Quincy Institute's treat of Parsi assesses that Iran believes it needs to impose severe costs on the United States before returning to the negotiating table, because they know if they make a deal now, they'll just be attacked again in a few months unless they establish clear deterrence.
Parsi writes, Iran understands that many in the American security establishment had been convinced that Iran's past restraint reflected weakness and an inability or unwillingness to face the U.S. in a direct war.
Tehran is now doing everything it can to demonstrate the opposite, despite the massive cost it itself will pay.
End quote.
Iran's foreign minister Abbas Arabchi went on NBC News to discuss the war and was actually asked by co-anchor Laura Jarrett how Iran can justify striking U.S. military bases in the region.
Why is attacking U.S. military bases abroad justified? Jarrett asked after Arabchi said that Iran will not seek long-range missiles capable of striking the United States.
Arabchi replied with a chuckle, because they are attacking us.
They are U.S. military installations, facilities, bases who are attacking us.
We are under attack.
Why don't you recognize this fact?
This is obvious.
This is a very simple fact, and I'm sure that people would understand that.
It must be such a surreal experience to be a serious diplomat appearing on a foreign news show to speak to professional newscasters and suddenly find yourself having to explain to fully grown adults that your nation is fighting the U.S. military because the U.S. military attacked your nation.
The Western press are a fucking joke.
I think it's true.
A joke.
Indeed.
Meanwhile, here we have some discussion of what was then the fifth wave.
The Iranians are, I don't know.
By now, maybe on the eighth wave of attacks.
Iran entered a new and dangerous phase, intensifying attacks on U.S. military installations in the Middle Eastern region.
A fresh wave of strikes under what Tehran calls Operation True Promise 4 is now targeting American-linked assets across land and sea.
Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, claimed major strikes in the fifth wave of Operation True Promise 4, hitting multiple American-linked targets across the region.
According to Iranian sources, four drones struck an ammunition-carrying vessel near the Jabel Ali anchorage in the Indian Ocean.
The attack quickly resulted in explosions, leaving the ship disabled, they claimed, without sharing any proof.
Iran also claimed it hit a U.S. military installation in the Abdullah Mubarak area in Kuwait with four ballistic missiles and 12 drones.
The IRGC said the American forces sustained extensive damage and casualties.
Iranian Qatar 380 missiles hit a fuel-carrying combat support vessel supplying U.S. naval forces in the Indian Ocean, according to the IRGC.
There is no independent confirmation of this alleged attack.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has issued its starkest warning yet, declaring that Iranian forces will keep the gates of hell open.
This signals that Tehran is preparing for a prolonged confrontation from the Gulf to the Indian Ocean.
Following Iranian state television's confirmation of Supreme Leader Ali Khomeini's death, the IRGC unleashed a chilling warning for Israel and the U.S.
It says the most ferocious offensive operation in history is coming.
Iran appears determined to widen the battle as it faces an existential war.
Let me just add that taking out Khomeini is a violation of U.S. law.
Three presidents, Reagan, Carter, and Ford signed executive orders against the assassination of foreign leaders.
In fact, that's why when Saddam Hussein was taken out just three weeks into the Iraq invasion at a restaurant in the outskirts of Baghdad, where the mother of the pilot reached out to me for us to explore it on the air and in print, it took out Saddam, his two sons, and 50 or 60 members of his general staff.
Even Dick Cheney was quoted in the New York Times saying, yeah, we got Saddam.
His lifeless body was dragged out of the rubble.
Well, it was all going to be celebrated as mission accomplished about the Abraham Lincoln off the coast of San Diego when somebody, we suspect it was Donald Rumsfeld, realized those executive orders were bad, doing what they'd done in killing the leader of a foreign nation, which is why the whole event turned out to be such a scramble, such a mess, so chaotic.
They found a body double and put him on trial, but as Joe Viles, an Australian voter journalist, observed, Saddam had excellent teeth and overbite.
The body double had bad teeth and an underbite, which I confirmed in spades.
He got it right.
Meanwhile, Trump is urging Iranians to take over your government.
After the U.S. and Israel launch Operation Epic Fury strikes on Iran, President Donald Trump encouraged the Iranian people to seize control of their government after U.S. and Israeli forces finish major combat operations in Iran, telling them in a true social video to stay sheltered because bombs will be dropping everywhere before urging them to act.
When we are finished, take over your government.
It will be yours to take.
This will be probably your only chance for generations.
By the way, it turns out this address was broadcast into our brand.
A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran.
Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime, a vicious group of very hard, terrible people.
Its menacing activities directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas, and our allies throughout the world.
For 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted death to America and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder, targeting the United States, our troops, and the innocent people in many, many countries.
Among the regime's very first acts was to back a violent takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, holding dozens of American hostages for 444 days.
In 1983, Iran's proxies carried out the Marine Barracks bombing in Beirut that killed 241 American military personnel.
In 2000, they knew and were probably involved with the attack on the USS Cole.
Many died.
Iranian forces killed and maimed hundreds of American service members in Iraq.
The regime's proxies have continued to launch countless attacks against American forces stationed in the Middle East in recent years, as well as U.S. naval and commercial vessels and international shipping lands.
He's reiterating this kind of tribe today on the air when we first came on.
It will be everywhere when we finish a show.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu is declaring, we are fighting together.
Your news, Max.
Israeli Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday, Israel and the United States have begun a joint military campaign targeting Iran's leadership, describing the effort as a bid to eliminate what he called an existential threat.
I reiterate, Iran has not launched a war of aggression against any other state since 1775.
What kind of an existential threat is that?
They've also denied wanting nuclear weapons.
They willingly entered into the joint comprehensive plan of action.
Allowed you an inspector's end and they were conforming to every demand and expectation.
When Trump, under the influence of Net Yao, pulled out of that nuclear agreement why?
Because it had been signed under Obama was a good deal.
It was the right deal.
It was a fair deal if one had concern about a non-existent threat of Iran developing nuclear weapons, but Bbe was being denied his drumbeat of threats from Iran acquiring nukes, because the inspectors were there and could guarantee it wasn't happening.
So we had Trump pull out for propaganda purposes and you see where it has led today.
In a televised address delivered hours after U.S.-led strikes commenced under Operation Ethnic Fury, Net Yao said the Allies were acting to counter what he characterizes as the dangers posed by Iran's ruling regime.
You thank President Trump for what he described as historic leadership and accused Iran of decades of aggression.
Meanwhile, we have Larry Johnson addressing Trump's colossal mistake.
Here he is with Judge Napolitano.
Our commonplace.
Tragically, our or judging freedom today is Saturday, February 28th, 2026.
Welcome to the special edition of Judging Freedom with our dear friend and regular colleague, Larry Johnson.
Larry, of course, welcome here.
Thank you for disturbing your Saturday afternoon.
It's afternoon here in the east coast of the United States.
We have much to discuss.
Before we get granular, let's look at the big picture.
What happened today?
What did the United States and Israel attempt to do?
The United States and Israel started a fight that they can't win, that they're going to lose.
U.S. Strikes on Iranian Military Targets00:13:05
And they don't have an easy out.
They'd convinced themselves that all they had to do was launch this massive strike because, you know, Trump foolishly, foolishly believes his own nonsense about, you know, there's no better, bigger, more powerful military in the world than us.
Maybe Israel is a cult second, but we are the best and we can do anything.
And so they fully intended to try a repeat of what happened on June 13th of 2025 to do a decapitation strike, take out the upper political military leadership.
Well, you know, they've been gesturing for now more than two months that they were going to do this.
The Iranians had no doubt that they were going to do it.
And the Iranians were taking preparations that if it did happen, and like, you know, if Dayatoch Khameni died, he'd already designated successors.
If Pazeshkin died, he'd designated, they'd all, you know, they all said, hey, if I go, you're in charge.
You know, they were planning for this.
So here's Israel.
They top it off.
And, you know, we saw from a recent article from Seymour Hirsch that I don't know if his source was U.S. intelligence or Israeli intelligence, but regardless, this source told SAI that, oh, yeah, we decimated the Iranian ballistic missile program last year.
They don't have anything.
So within an hour and a half of this surprise attack yesterday morning, it was yesterday morning in Iran, Saturday morning there, Iran was firing back.
But this time, what's different from now compared to what happened in June of 2025?
At that time, Iran confined itself to attacking only Israeli targets.
They focused primarily on economic and military targets.
This time is different, way different.
They're going after U.S. bases and installations throughout the Persian Gulf into Iraq.
And the United States is suffering significant material losses.
I don't know about human loss at this point.
Here's one of the dopiest questions I ever heard asked.
And I think the Iranian foreign minister agreed when an NBC correspondent, I don't know what it is, asked him, Chris, the NBC dope.
Why is attacking U.S. military bases abroad justified?
Because they are attacking us.
They are U.S. military installations, facilities, bases who are attacking us.
We are under attack.
Why don't you recognize this fact?
We are under the attack by U.S. forces in the region.
So we have every right to defend ourselves.
And how to defend ourselves?
We attacked the U.S. bases.
This is obvious.
This is a very simple fact.
And I hope that I'm sure that people would understand that.
We are not the one who attacked Americans.
We are only defending ourselves.
What are American troops and installations in the Middle East to the long-range offensive capabilities of the Iranian military?
Well, what's happened right now, for example, they made a big point of attacking the Fifth Fleet facility in Bahrain.
It's a naval, it's a port.
That port is critical for providing service to, say, U.S. destroyers who remember these destroyers come equipped with 96 missile slots.
I think they got 50 up front and 40 and 46 astern.
And they're vertical launch systems.
So when they launch either Tomahawk cruise missiles or Aegis air defense missiles out of those tubes, the only way to replace them is to sail to a port.
Previously, they could sail into Bahrain and go there.
Not now.
Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz.
You've got several U.S. Navy ships that are now basically trapped inside the Persian Gulf, and Iran's got the airship anti-ship missiles to take those out.
I don't know if they have yet, but I think they will, number one.
So now this means the United States, when it's in a fight with the Abraham Lincoln carrier in the Arabian Sea, accompanied by, you know, last night I checked, it was like three destroyers and maybe up to four.
Once they're run out of missiles, they got the nearest port is three and a half days away at Diego Garcia.
Wow.
So what we have right now is a situation that we cannot sustain an attack, a naval attack from the south, which is the one aircraft carrier, because there's no nearby port they can sail to to get reloaded.
So three days out, three days back, that's a week.
How sustained is the American attack?
Is it regular, consistent, systematic without a break, or does it go for a couple of hours and they stop and then they come back?
Well, they've got they can't sustain it continuously because they're using the land-based is from planes that are flying out and dropping air-guided missiles, air-to-ground missiles.
And again, the same applies to the ships that are fought, those destroyers that are firing off Tomahawk cruise missiles.
Once they fire, they're done.
They'll have to wait until they can go reload.
I do understand that Iran has fired some missiles and drones at the ship, at the carrier strike force.
Don't know what the effect has been.
We do know that in Bahrain, they hit the facility that housed U.S. naval officers.
It's on fire.
So the possibility that they have killed some U.S. naval personnel.
You've got Bahrainis cheering as Iranian missiles are slamming in to this U.S. naval facility.
But at the same time, what you have is the other countries, you know, Saudi Arabia has now declared war on Iran.
I'm sure that Qatar and United Arab Emirates are going to follow suit.
And fine, up to this point, Iran has targeted only the military targets, the U.S. military targets in these countries.
But if those countries want to start getting into it with Iran, Iran will take out their oil.
And Iran very well can do that.
And that'll be especially true if the West tries to attack Iranian oil facilities and oil fields.
They will then, in turn, light up the entire Persian Gulf and say goodbye to 25% of the world's petroleum.
Put your economics hat on, in which I know you are well schooled.
What is going to happen to the price of oil slash gasoline once the Strait of Hormuz is closed for more than just a few hours?
Yeah, no, it's going to go up.
People have estimated it could go up as, you know, the price of oil could go up $100, $120 a barrel.
Right now, Brent, last I checked, the Brent price, you know, the oil selling forward was at around $70, $72.
So it's headed up, but it's going to go up dramatically.
Now, it appears that China had an inkling about this because they started loading up on oil big time over the last four weeks.
So they've increased their stock, their reservoirs.
Same can't be said, though, for Japan or Indonesia or Malaysia.
And Iran's playing, you know, I think they're playing a deliberate hardball game here.
They're not going to stop like they did last June.
Last June, there was a deal cut with the United States.
They said, look, let us bomb these nuclear sites and we'll let you hit Al-Udid and then you can continue sailing over China and we'll walk away and call it E.
And Iran went, all right.
And they received, you know, Pazeshkian and received some criticism for that.
Well, that's not going to happen this time.
There's no deal.
There is no deal the United States can offer them short of saying, yes, we'll remove all sanctions immediately.
I'll say, and Iran say, we're going to continue bombing until those sanctions are off.
So remove the sanctions and you are free to develop and enrich uranium however you want.
Iran is not going to be compelled to back down.
How will you fight?
How did it happen that the Americans or the Israelis, I don't know who did this, attacked a school for little girls, which killed 105 of them?
Yeah, it's, you know, they have more faith in the accuracy of their weapon systems that don't always work.
And this is, you know, killing children.
You know, you remember, Judge, the kind of reaction we had in the United States on 9-11, 2001, sure, and on 9-12, 2001.
The political differences that had existed in the country on September 10th disappeared, largely disappeared overnight.
All of a sudden, we were all Americans.
We weren't Republican or Democrat or Independent.
We were Americans.
We had been attacked.
And we were, by God, going to make those who attacked us pay.
Well, guess what?
That's exactly what's going on today in Iran.
And they've got the bodies of 105 little girls to stand there and look at.
And they were in the midst.
They had trusted us again.
They said we were having peace talks.
They were willing to make concessions.
On Thursday, they said, oh, hey, we made progress.
We look forward to Monday.
And that Trump is worse than Adolf Hitler.
He did exactly what Hitler did on September 1st, 1939, to tack a country that had not attacked us.com.
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I just had a phone call from my dear friend and colleague Keith Rogers in Montana saying Trump may use his declaration that America has done its part by taking out the Ayatollah and the leaders.
and it's now up to the Iranian people to reclaim control of their government as an exit strategy.
But he added, Israel is threatening to attack Turkey, which is unbelievably fascinating because Turkey is a member of NATO.
So what would happen if Israel were to attack NATO, which would automatically invoke Article 5 of joint response?
An attack on one is an attack on all by Israel.
Joe, isn't that a fascinating possibility?
Your thoughts.
Yeah, I got a few other items I got to clean up before we get to that.
Four Days of Iranian Response00:15:42
Oil on Saturday morning was $70 a barrel.
This morning, it's $83 a barrel.
I filled up on Saturday and it's gone up 40 cents a gallon.
So that's a little bit of a pill right there.
And then you didn't accidentally hit a girls' school.
There were three girl grade schools where the girls, none of them were over 12 years old, that were all hit that same Saturday morning.
And the death count from all three of those is about 190.
So that was an intentional thing because they just don't like little girls because they end up breeding little terrorists.
So that's exactly what's going on there.
And then they also hit the Gandhi Hospital in Tehran, which is one of the largest medical facilities in Tehran.
You didn't accidentally hit that.
This is all intentional by the most evil tribe on the planet.
And I'll go back to Hosea 8, 7, sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
That's exactly what God told the Jews.
If you don't stop being bad, I'm going to cast you out.
And that's exactly where they've been cast for the last 2,000 years because they haven't learned how to behave.
And that's the problem.
Now, getting back to the Larry Johnson, he's not the most well-informed person, but he's better than some of the others.
On Saturday or Friday afternoon on Judge Napolitano's show, he was debating with Ray McGovern.
And Ray McGovern laid out 27 reasons why there's not going to be a war with Iran on Friday afternoon.
And Larry was going, dude, you don't put that enormous amount of force without using it.
And he goes, oh, no, no.
Here's all the reasons why we're still having peace talks.
Yeah, we did that exactly the same thing during the Friday the 13th, June of surprise attack.
It's just nothing but fake diplomacy, the same thing we're doing in Ukraine.
Two people I highly respect: Brian Berledic, who's a former U.S. Marine Corps officer, has a website called New Atlantis.
He has about a 40-minute long video.
I'll put the link to this: Diplomacy as a Pretext for War.
It's absolutely great.
He lays out the historical facts that go back 20 years that the United States has been planning this crap.
And another guy that I highly respect is Richard Medhurst.
I discovered him when the ISIS was fixing to overthrow Assad in Syria.
And he's a dual citizen.
He's a UK and a Syrian because his father was a UK UN peacekeeper, and his mother was a Syrian UN peacekeeper.
So we had two peacekeepers that raised him, and he was raised in war zones all over the world.
He speaks Arabic and he speaks French and English.
And he was attacked by Mossad and he was thrown in jail in England.
So when he got out of jail, he escaped to Switzerland and he thought he was safe in Switzerland.
And so then Mossad got MI6 and Interpol to arrest him and hold him in house detention for six months while they kept all of his materials so he couldn't finish doing his work and he and absolutely had nothing.
Well, he was released from UK charges about four months ago, and he put out a three-hour video yesterday, about two o'clock this morning, when it first posted on YouTube.
And he's got three hours of videos with tapes of damage being done to Tel Aviv that has been banned everywhere else.
And you can't get tapes out of Tel Aviv, so nobody's got any idea what's going on.
And the material he's got at least an hour of the material is just nothing but one after another missile hits going into Tel Aviv.
It's absolutely delightful if you want to see the end of this kind of demonic overlords for our planet.
Well, Rand cannot stop.
They've got to finish the job.
They got to take out all the American bases.
They got to destroy Israel from A to Z. Are they going to go through this happy horse shit all over again, Joe?
There's just no way around it.
They had a brilliant battle plan.
They're executing.
It seemed to me to perfection.
My estimate before the war was that the Iranians would take out five to ten ships, 10 to 20,000 troops, and destroy Israel.
I thought would happen in a shorter period of time.
But absent the timeline, I stand by my prediction.
And now Trump is talking about four weeks, four weeks, there's going to be nothing left of the American forces or of Israel sooner than that.
A lot sooner than that, Joe.
I mean, originally he was talking four days.
I thought four days, Israel is already going to be destroyed.
Now he's talking four weeks, not a chance.
Yeah, four days is more realistic.
They'll be completely destroyed.
China gave us, gave Iran the locations, geolocating data spy photos for all seven of the fad missile systems that are in the Middle East.
And already two of them have been completely wiped out.
And I'm sure the others are on their way to being wiped out.
So they're using their lower-grade old stock missiles in order to deplete Israel's supply.
And there are virtually, there are virtually no air defense missiles left in inventory.
And that's the end of Israel.
And so it couldn't happen to a more deserving group of people.
But Saturday morning, Nutty Yahoo jumped on his private jet, flew around the Mediterranean for four hours before he could get granted clearance to go someplace where he could be safe.
He's in a bunker in Germany, and his wife and son are sitting on the balcony drinking Mai Tai's in Miami.
He's got Richard Medhurst has pictures of both of those clowns.
So it's like, yeah, you're such a committed Zionist that you'll be around and make sure your heirs never have to shed a drop of blood while you shed blood all over the planet.
Absolutely disgusting behavior by a disgusting tribe of people that are really demonic.
And you want to know why Epstein was so popular?
Because that's how they control all of the governments worldwide.
Would it be ironic if Epstein were among the casualties of these attacks on Israel?
Because he's walking around there with a new beard and a slightly modified nose.
I mean, that's the extent to which they have altered his appearance.
We'll take a look at some more stories here.
Scott Ritter.
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2026.
Welcome to this special edition of Judging Freedom with Who Else?
Our foremost military expert, Scott Ritter.
Scott, thank you very much for joining us on this momentous day on what here in the United States is a Saturday morning.
So can you give us, before we get granular, can you give us a big picture of what the United States and Israel did in the past 12 hours and what they're trying to accomplish?
Well, the United States and Israel have kicked off a joint coordinated attack against Iran.
the goal of which is regime change.
There are subsets within this.
Donald Trump spelled them out in a presentation he made earlier this morning, destroying ballistic missiles, destroying nuclear sites, destroying X, Y, and Z.
But at the end of the day, this is a regime change operation.
This entire effort fails if the Iranian regime survives at the end of the day.
And it's a massive attack.
I think the initial aspects of it are supposed to go for four days.
So the United States has a four-day air campaign sustained.
I don't know what they expect at that point to take a pause and see if the Iranians surrender.
But the Iranians, I believe, aren't going to end at four days.
The Iranians will continue to turn on the heat.
This is an existential war for the very survival of the Iranian nation, which began with, and this is, your audience needs to listen very carefully to what I'm about to tell you.
Go ahead.
The United States and Israel tried to kill Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, Ayatollah.
He is the second most revered man in all of Shia Islam.
This is like trying to kill the Pope.
This is like trying to kill the Archbishop of Canterbury.
This is like trying to kill the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
And the United States and Israel tried to kill him and are still trying to kill him.
They tried to assassinate the president of Iran.
If you think for a second the Iranian people, the Iranian nation, are going to walk away from this and say, that's all right, you're very wrong.
The gates of hell have been opened.
And unless the United States has a competent battle plan to complete this mission, we're going to lose this war.
In fact, later on, we can get into it, but we've already lost this war because we failed to achieve our initial objectives.
And now we're going to have a cascading series of consequences that will result in us depleting our limited ammunition resources.
And we're going to run out of ammunition before we run out of targets.
And Iran isn't going to run out of ammunition.
You say that the Americans and the Israelis tried to assassinate the Ayatollah and President Pazashkin.
You mean in the past 12 hours they tried to assassinate him unsuccessfully?
Correct.
The initial, I think there were 50 cruise missiles fired out of Israel.
We don't know if they were all Israeli, if there was a mix of Israeli-American cruise missiles involved.
50 cruise missiles impacting 30 sites in Tehran.
That was the initial salvo.
They destroyed the presidential palace, that is the residence of the presidents, and they destroyed Ali Khomeini's personal residence where he not only sleeps and eats, but where he entertains companies.
He's a religious figure.
And so, you know, he entertains people.
When I say entertain, people come and visit him and talk to him.
And these were the first two targets hit.
So, yeah, it was a definite assassination attempt.
Do we know that the Ayatollah and President Pazashkin either weren't there or otherwise survived these assassination attempts?
According to Foreign Minister Arakshib, both Ali Khomeini, who will be speaking shortly to address the Iranian people, and the President of Iran have survived.
They also said that almost all the senior leadership survived.
They said they lost a couple commanders, but these commanders will be replaced.
But that if this was a decapitation strike, it failed miserably.
Do we know how effective Iran's defenses are, air defenses, military air defenses to intercept American and Israeli missiles and drones?
Our air defenses are modern, but they're insufficient to the task.
The Patriot 3 system, or the Patriot missile, is a snake-bit system.
I've talked about this before, derived from 1970s technology.
Raytheon, rather than starting from scratch when meeting a U.S. Army requirement, took this technology and updated it and modified it to fast track a system that could be sold to the Army.
The Patriot has never worked as designed.
It's a very inferior system.
It has significant flaws, and the Iranians have identified all of these flaws.
And the missiles that Iran has are capable of defeating the Patriot III system.
The same with the FAD.
The FAD is a more capable system, but the Iranians, again, we're talking about older technology.
We're building missile defenses that are designed to intercept missiles that are about 10 years old.
The Iranians have the most modern missiles, and they haven't even started firing them.
That's the other thing, is that we can't stop the attacks that are being done by lesser quality missiles.
What the Iranians are doing is mapping out, again, thanks to the Chinese, mapping out our response.
As they fire, they're getting real-time intelligence on where missiles are being launched, where air defense systems are, which ones are active, what radars are active.
And then they're going to launch a second wave to take out the air defense.
And then, when everything's laying there naked, they're just going to destroy everything, including American military bases, including Israel, including the cities of the Middle East.
I'm sorry, the Gulf Arab states, your complicity in the attack on Iran was noted by the Iranian government, and you too shall pay a price.
How effective is the Iranian military defense system against American missiles and drone and Israeli missiles and drones?
They said nothing could fix it, but wait till you see this.
We don't know.
I don't know.
We don't know how many of the missiles were shot down, what percentage hit targets.
What I can say is this: that we don't have a good track record.
You know, the Gulf War was over 35 years ago, the desert storm, and the effectiveness rate of the Tomahawk cruise missile is still classified.
We're not allowed to say what percentage of the Tomahawks reached their target.
And there's a reason because that percentage isn't very high.
And the Tomahawk has never recovered from that.
So even if the Iranians don't defend themselves, the Tomahawk has a tendency not to work.
We'll see.
I don't know what's turned on, what's turned off.
What we do know, though, what we can see is that the Iranians were ready for this attack because immediately they began responding.
After when the 12-day war started last June, there was a sort of a time gap between the Israeli attacks and the Iranian responses.
Here we see the Iranians responding broad spectrum, hitting all the target sets necessary, and now continuing the strike.
The Iranians were prepared.
Purim's Persian Amalek00:08:35
Whatever we thought we were going to do against their ballistic missile launch capabilities, and President Trump admitted that this is one of our primary goals, we're not doing it.
At least we haven't done it yet.
And we're starting to pay the price.
I mean, you know, you have to be careful what you read, but it appears that there are casualties and those casualties could climb even higher.
The Americans and Israelis have attempted to murder, as you said, assassinate President Pazashkin and the Ayatollah.
Is Benjamin Netanyahu personally a legitimate target?
Yes, I think some of the indications are that his residence was struck by the Iranians.
And I think the Iranians now have the death of Netanyahu and Israeli leadership is now a legitimate target.
There's no reason to hold back.
There's no reason to say, well, let's not attack them because we don't want them to attack us.
They started by trying to kill everybody.
And so they are legitimate targets.
And I would caution the Gulf Arab leaders too, be careful what you say.
You're part of a process that tried to assassinate Ali Khamenei and tried to assassinate the Iranian president.
And of course, they actually succeeded in taking out the supreme leader.
Meanwhile, here we have an interesting report.
CNN, timing of Iran attack bears symbolic meaning in Judaism, Israel information liberation.
The timing of the U.S.-Israel attack on Iran bears symbolic meaning in Judaism as Jews preparing for Purim are reciting commandments to wipe out Omanak.
CNN reports from CNN, Talshali.
Timing of U.S.-Israel attack on Iran bears symbolic meeting in Judaism.
The timing of the U.S. and Israel bears symbolic meeting in Judaism.
Ahaba, the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim.
worshipers read the read the specific portions of the old testament known as zachowar
Here's a passage of the book of Deuteronomy commands the ancient Israelites to remember an unprovoked attack by the nation of Amalek and to eradicate the memory of Amalek once the Israelites are settled in their land.
A passage is read publicly before Purim to fulfill the mitzvah of remembering Amalek as Israel's archetypal enemy.
A passage from the book commands Israeli prime minister Net Yahoo launched Israel's war in Gaza by telling Jews, you must remember what Amalek has done to you.
And now the war with Iran is being launched ahead of Purim to wipe out the Persian Amalek.
Netyah declared, declaring invasion.
You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our holy Bible.
1 Samuel 15, 3.
Now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all they have and spare them not, but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Think about that.
You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our holy Bible.
And we do remember and we are fighting our troops and combatants who are now in Gaza or around Gaza and in all other regions in Israel are joining this chain of Jewish heroes, a chain that has started 3,000 years ago from Joshua Ben-Un until the heroes of 1948, the Six-Day War, the 73 Occurrence War, and all other wars in this country.
Hero troops have one supreme main goal to completely defeat the murderous enemy and to guarantee our existence in this country.
We've always said never again.
Never again is now.
Never again is now.
Meanwhile, Ran just hit 27 U.S. bases.
The sixth wave has begun.
Every White House strategist, every Netanyahu advisor, and every American general who planned Operation Epic Fury needed to be true.
And that image does not match what the cameras in Tehran and Isfahan and Shiraz are showing right now.
The image they needed was this.
A leaderless Iran, a stunned population, security forces standing down, crowds pouring into streets to celebrate the death of the man who repressed them, and a political vacuum that Reza Pahlavi could fill with an American-backed transition government before the IRGC could consolidate around a successor.
What the cameras are showing is this.
Large crowds filled streets in Tehran and other major cities, with mourners waving flags, holding portraits, and chanting.
Large crowds of protesters have flooded Isfahan and other cities across Iran following the U.S.-Israeli assassination of Supreme Leader Khamenei.
Demonstrators are calling for revenge against the United States and Israel, chanting and marching across the country.
Revenge, not celebration, not regime change, not Reza Pahlavi's name in the streets.
The word being chanted in Tehran and Isfahan and Shiraz this Sunday morning.
The word filling the squares and the boulevards and the residential neighborhoods of a country that lost its supreme leader, its IRGC commander, its defense minister, and four senior military commanders in a single Saturday is revenge.
The crowds that American planners needed to be celebrating are mourning.
The security forces that Trump told to lay down their weapons are not laying down their weapons.
And the IRGC, whose chain of command was described yesterday as in disarray, has just announced its sixth wave of retaliatory attacks.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said 27 U.S. military locations in the Middle East were targeted in Iran's latest retaliatory wave of counterattacks.
Iran's forces also targeted Israel's Telnov Air Base, its military headquarters, and a large defense industry complex in Tel Aviv.
The IRGC said missiles and drones were used in the sixth wave of retaliatory attacks, and it vowed to continue its warfare.
The armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran will not allow the air raid sirens in the occupied territories and American bases to stop and will continue to deliver repeated and regret-making strikes as a different and very hard step of revenge.
27 locations, sixth wave.
The math of this operation is now visible.
America and Israel killed the supreme leader in the first hours, eliminated four senior commanders alongside him, destroyed Iran's early warning radar, hit five Gulf countries, and declared the operation a success.
And Iran's answer, 36 hours after the first bomb fell, is its sixth wave of attacks against 27 American military locations simultaneously.
Not one wave, not two, six.
Each successive wave representing the pre-delegated launch authority that Iran built into its military doctrine specifically, so that killing its leadership would not stop the retaliation, it would intensify it.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard say they launched extensive missile and drone attacks targeting U.S. military bases and Israeli sites across the region.
Tehran will take a different and harsh step of revenge with successive regrettable slaps, the statement warned.
Successive regrettable slaps?
That language, clinical, sequential, describing a campaign that has a plan and intends to execute it fully, is not the language of an organization in disarray.
It is the language of an organization that is executing exactly the doctrine it announced it would execute in exactly the sequence it planned, regardless of who was alive to give the orders.
Because they will be right back.
Iranian Strikes and Alliances00:15:16
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Joe, go right ahead if you have thoughts you'd like to add here.
Yeah, a few thoughts on Scott Ritter.
He's a U.S. Marine Corps captain.
His dad was U.S. Air Force for like 27 years.
He grew up in air bases in Germany and in Turkey, speaks a little bit of German, speaks a little bit of Turkish.
But then when they started doing the START treaty, they needed somebody to go over to Russia and inspect the missile plants in Russia.
So he spent several years in the Ural Mountains and he got to the point where he could speak Russian fairly well.
And he wrote a book called Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika.
And he had a book signing event in Elgin, Texas about three years ago.
It was about a three-hour long event.
I went, listened to his presentation.
He's a good public speaker.
He has great information.
And I bought a copy of his book, got a signed copy.
And I have a real high respect for him.
And he's pretty good as far as his analysis of stuff as well.
So, yeah, another good source.
Excellent.
Meanwhile, Craven Europeans give the U.S. and Israel a blank check for an illegal war.
Responsible statecraft reporting.
They frame the crisis not as an act of war against a UN member state, but as a natural consequence of Turan's failure to capitulate unconditionally.
In the aftermath of the new U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, the Transatlantic Alliance has offered a response that confirmed what many in the West and outside knew all along, that for London, Paris, Berlin, and Brussels, the rules-based international order has been reduced to a simple, brutal premise.
Might makes right, provided the might is Western.
The joint statement from the E3, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, is a master-class innovation.
We did not participate in these strikes, but are in close contact with our international partners, including the United States and Israel, they declared.
The text also lists all the references and rationalization used by Iran hawks.
nuclear program, ballistic missile program, regional destabilization and repression against its own people.
Not a single reference to the international law that explicitly prohibits aggression.
It is particularly Orwellian that the European leaders urged the Iranian leadership to seek a negotiated solution when Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Argouchi was literally doing exactly that a day earlier in Geneva.
By failing to condemn the strikes, E3 has given the Trump admin and the Net Yale government a blank check.
They frame the crisis not as an act of war against a UN member state, but as a natural consequence of Iran's failure to unconditionally accept its capitulation.
The logic is perverse.
The target is blamed for the attack, and the aggressors are seen as restoring order.
How awful is that?
Meanwhile, Russia says Trump and Israel are plunging the Middle East into an abyss.
Russia Saturday condemned the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran as we planned an unprovoked act of armed aggression against a sovereign and independent UN member state, demanding an immediate halt to the military campaign and a return to diplomacy.
In a statement posted to Telegram, the foreign minister accused Washington and Tel Aviv of hiding behind concerns about Iran's nuclear program while actually pursuing regime change.
It warmed the attack's risk, triggering an humanitarian, economic, and possibly radiological catastrophe in the region, accusing the U.S. and Israel of plunging the Middle East into an abyss of uncontrolled escalation.
The ministry also said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke by phone with the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arguchi.
Arguchi briefed Lavrov on Iran's attempt to repel the attacks and said Iran would seek to convene an urgent UN Security Council session.
Lavrov reiterated Russia's condemnation of the U.S.-Israeli strikes and Moscow's readiness to help broker peace.
Meanwhile, direct hit on an oil facility in Saudi Arabia.
They are extremely vulnerable.
It's going to happen.
Several explosions were reported in Dubai.
Last Ralphs are heard near Burj Khalafa, the tallest building in the world.
On February 28th, the U.S. and Israel launched a military operation against Iran.
Strikes at the capital, Tehran, and other major cities.
Shortly afterward, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced a large-scale retaliatory operation.
Reports indicate missile and drone launch by Iran targeting Israeli and U.S. military bases in Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia.
We also have reports of hits on U.S. bases and in Israel.
Welcome back to Legitimate Targets, everybody.
I hope you're all having a great day.
I've got the one, the only retired U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Aguilar joining us once more.
Everyone, be sure to go subscribe to his YouTube channel.
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Anthony, thank you so much for joining me.
I want to start off by talking about the strikes we're seeing right now.
Lots of Iranian Shahhead 139 drones headed to what seem like just average buildings, apartment complexes, hotels, and these Gulf states.
And we'll talk more about the broader war in a moment.
But what do you make of these?
Is it true what they're saying that, you know, like U.S. military personnel regularly stay at these locations and this could be precision strikes?
Yes, I think that what we're seeing right now is the Iranian response is measured.
We saw overnight the tempo and the cadence of missile bombardment into especially Tel Aviv, but Haifa as well.
Haifa is where the USS Abraham Lincoln is anchored off of.
And I'm sure that there's probably senior ranking U.S. personnel that protocoled there to work with the IDF senior leadership.
So that's obviously a strategic target.
And here's what I think is Iran's game plan because they're technologically advanced.
They have the Shahid one-way drone is advanced.
The administration didn't talk about something at all that happened on the 22nd of February that I think is very important.
And over the Strait of Khamus, an MQ-1941 or an MQ-41C Triton, the bigger brother to the MQ-9 Reaper, was compromised and lost over the Strait of Khamus by Iranian interference.
And I don't think Iran took control and crashed that.
I think they took control and landed it.
And they've since are working reverse engineering to see the GPS uplink download code to then modify their one-way Sahid and their ballistic missiles, which because all these operate off of GPS, off of cryptology, off of upload, download signal.
So I think that Iran is honing in that while they also use the opportunity for specific strikes.
We saw the strike in the facility where Fifth Fleet personnel are housed in headquarters in Bahrain.
We saw the strike in Qatar.
So, yeah, I think that to see the limited nature of Iran's response right now should not be considered a position of weakness.
They are operating from a position of realigning pieces on the chessboard.
The way it looks to me.
Yeah, because there is that argument that, well, Iran said that the moment something happens, all hell will break loose.
I mean, we have seen a lot of U.S. bases hit.
We saw one, you know, low-level Navy ship that I guess may have been hit.
I've seen no proof of it, but they claim to have hit it.
And Israel, of course, was hit, some intelligence posts and whatnot.
But there's been no widespread attacks on the, however you say it, the Mu'afiq air base in Jordan, which houses most of the U.S. air assets, or on the U.S. aircraft carriers, nothing like that.
Not yet.
I think if you look at the Moabah, I'm almost.
The composition disposition of U.S. forces.
We are not staged in the region for a combined arms ground fight, infantry, artillery, armor, combined arms maneuver.
This will very much in the initial phases, at least for the next few days to week, be Navy Air Force type of campaign.
So if you look at where we have our resources, you know, the USS Abraham Lincoln is in the Mediterranean off of Haifa.
The USS Gerald Ford is off of the Persian Gulf within the Persian Gulf having, you know, because a carrier strike group such as the Abraham Lincoln and the Gerald Ford, you know, don't travel just the just the aircraft carrier.
They have battleships and destroyers, tenders, reconnaissance ships that travel with them.
That's why it's a U.S. carrier strike group.
So in that grouping in the Persian Gulf, there are Navy, U.S. Navy vessels that are certainly within that immediate strike pattern where they can be struck by either Houthis proxy forces or Iran directly.
So that's a risk.
Tehran's Blockade Threat00:06:01
I really think that right now, you know, I don't think that Iran was necessarily caught off guard by this, but, you know, I was, I still have on my phone the, because I was in Israel during the 12-day war, the entire 12 days of that 12-day war.
I was in Israel.
So on my phone, I still have the, there's an app that if you're in it, for those that are in Israel, Tel Aviv, Bashdo, most likely, you know, certainly have the application on their phone for the missile defense warning system.
So I still have that on my phone.
So, you know, at around early hours this morning, my phone was going off, meaning that Israel was preparing for their defenses.
So I was having flashbacks to the 12-day war when we were getting missile bombardment in Beersheba, but I looked.
And then sure enough, we see Donald Trump posting on social media on Truth Social.
You know, this is not a president that's sitting behind the resolute desk and giving us an update as an American president.
He posted to his social media account.
It looked to me that they probably rolled him out of bed because he's down in Mar-a-Lago.
Let's take that into context here: that the president of the United States, well, he stood on stage and said that Americans might die and that's just the way it is, is down partying in Mar-a-Lago while he's ordering these strikes.
And I think they probably rolled him out of bed.
He probably didn't have the eyebuggers out of his eyes yet.
And they slapped a USA hat on him, pulled down real low to look menacing, but also to cover the bags under his eyes.
And I don't think the president of the United States probably knew either.
I think that what I suspect and what I have suspected before in the 12-day war as well is that Israel pushed this, Israel jumped the gun, Israel pushed for this.
This is something that they have told us that they wanted.
They have told us that they don't want to negotiate.
And to be clear, we had negotiations ongoing in Oman with the lower level negotiators, the Kushners and the Witcoffs.
But then in Geneva at the International Hotel de Genevieve, where they do a lot of these negotiations, we had representatives from the U.S. State Department and higher levels of the negotiations team from Iran.
And Iran brought to the table and said, we will destroy our stockpile and not stockpile enriched uranium.
It's a negotiation.
It's not a one-way here.
You capitulate.
It's a negotiation.
So I don't think that the United States administration really thought that those negotiations would succeed, but I think that they were trying to massage that a little bit more to be more on the side of justification of diplomacy.
And I think Israel jumped the gun.
I mean, we know that the first strikes into Iran last night were Iranian, or excuse me, were Israeli, not U.S.
So I think that that caught the U.S. off guard a little bit and Israel went in, kind of Leroy Jenkins and the U.S. followed suit to make it look like this was a coordinated effort.
But it doesn't seem very coordinated to me in terms of the U.S. strikes that we've seen thus far.
They seem what I would call probing, probing ballistic missile strikes.
Where is the Ayatollah?
Excellent.
Excellent, excellent report.
I think he's correct on all counts.
Of course, the Ayatollah is taken out.
Meanwhile, Rand says no ship is allowed to pass on the Straits of Hormuz.
Responsible states graphic again.
Tehran hasn't declared a full blockade, but the possibility of a major disruption in global oil trade is increasing.
Who thies?
Hours after the U.S. and Israel launch a campaign of airstrikes across Iran, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is warning vessels in the Persian Gulf via radio.
No ship was allowed to pass the Strait of Hormuz, according to a report from Reuters.
The news suggests Iran is right up all the stops in its response to the U.S.-Israeli barrage, which Wesley Trump says is aimed at toppling the Iranian regime.
A full shutdown at the Strait of Hormuz would cause an international crisis given 20% of the world's oil passes through that narrow channel.
Financial analysts estimate that even one day of a full blockade could cause the global oil parts to double from 66 a barrel to more than 120.
I believe within days we're going to see a dramatic spike in the price of gasoline at the pump.
And I believe before this is over, it could go as high as $10 a gallon.
It's not yet clear whether the radio transmissions are meant full blockade.
Iranian government, as long as it could block the strait in case of a crisis, but has previously avoided doing so, likely because of the major impact such a move would have on the Iranian economy, which relies on oil revenue.
Major oil companies have already responded to the latest escalation by suspending shipments of oil and natural gas through the narrow waterway, which is flanked by Iran and Oman.
U.S. Navy told companies, it cannot guarantee the safety of commercial vessels anywhere in the Persian Gulf.
And Joe, I understand Lloyds of London has suspended insurance for vessels in the war zone.
Your thoughts?
Yes.
Well, Tony Aguilar, Lieutenant Colonel, West Point graduate, University of Texas, MBA, 25 years as a Green Beret, has my highest respect.
He's running for Congress on the Green Party ticket in North Carolina, CD 13, which is down close to Fort Bragg.
Wiped Out at Midterms00:02:03
And he would be the one you want to elect because he would be under absolutely no pressure to conform to the DNC, RNC, AIPAC monopoly that runs Congress.
And what Thomas Massey needs is somebody else with a voice and some courage to stand up and take Congress away from these monsters.
The only standing ovation that Trump got from the whole House and Senate joint meeting on his State of the Union was when he said he was going to bomb Iran.
All of a sudden, all those puppets jump up and clap like seals.
Absolutely disgusting that this is what we have for representative government.
And we need a few more voices.
Hopefully, there'll be enough Epstein files released that we'll be able to flush all 535 of those rats that we've got in Congress right now.
But that's just wishful hoping at this point.
Well, Joe, I thought the State of the Union was very successful as political rhetoric boxing in the Democrats, who didn't stand over obvious issues like the role of the government is to protect the American people.
They sat on their fannies.
That was so bad, Joe, that I felt Trump had created a scenario where the Republicans could retain the House and the Senate in the midterms with this war strike on Iran, however, and the disaster I anticipate it will turn out to be.
I think he is going to be wiped out at the midterms.
Democrats are going to seize control of both houses and he's going to face an impeachment immediately.
Your thoughts.
Yeah, well, 80% of the people in America were opposed to this war before he started it.
And now that hundreds appear to be casualties of this event and the massive destruction of our quote ally in Israel, he's going to have a really hard time.
But I want to mention something else, and I forgot to in my earlier comments.
Peace Deal Threat00:05:10
There's a site that's called Truth Stream Media.
This is Aaron and Melissa Dykes, who used to work with Alex Jones, but they do great documentary stuff.
And she did one that's about 20 minutes long: Rex 84, Silence of Dissent.
And it's absolutely shocking how they have manipulated us into this little palantir cattle chute where we're not even allowed to think, you're not allowed to, and how they've basically boxed us into this mindset where we're completely mind-controlled.
It's an absolutely fascinating 25-minute long video.
I'm going to put a YouTube link to that in the show notes today.
Very good, very good, very good, Joe.
Meanwhile, a peace deal.
Ah, photos.
Central Tel Aviv in flames after a direct Israeli hit.
This is Haratz, which is a major Israeli publication.
Fear of damage, evacuation after direct Iranian missile hits.
A residential building in Tel Aviv Saturday, killing a woman, wounding dozens.
There's much, much more.
I'm only seeing one photograph.
Not at all what I was hoping for.
Meanwhile, U.S. and Israel are the greatest threat to humanity.
I don't think there's a lot of doubt about it.
This is Sam Usani.
Here's the article.
I just put this news release out.
See pieces from The Guardian.
Trump's unprovoked attack on Iran has no mandate or legal basis.
Iran launches retaliatory strikes across the Middle East after U.S. and Israel attack.
Middle East I reports.
U.S. and Israel attack on Iran.
At least 51 girls reported guilt on strike on school.
I think as Joe has observed, it's closer to 120.
Drump site news report: important hours before President Trump announced major combat operation to achieve regime change in Iran.
Uman's foreign minister, the chief mediator in the U.S.-Iranian nuclear talks, told us CBS a breakthrough deal could be reached tomorrow, or that military action would derail it.
No doubt the Israelis knew that it was so close to a deal.
I suspect that is what precipitated the attack because there was a threat there might actually be a peace deal.
Meanwhile, Net Yahoo's war analysts say, this from Al Jazeera, Trump's Iran strike benefits Israel, not the United States.
War with Iran contradicts the U.S. Western's own criticism of regime change policies in the Middle East.
President Donald Trump stood in front of regional leaders during a visit to the Middle East in May and declared a new era of U.S. foreign policy in the region, one that's not guided by trying to reshape it or change its governing systems.
In the end, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built.
And the interventionists were intervening to complex societies, in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves.
The president said in a rebuke of his hawkish predecessors, less than a year later, Trump ordered an all-out assault on Iran with the stated goal of bringing freedom to the country, borrowing language from the playbook of international internationalist neoconservatives like former President George W. Bush, whom he spent his political career criticizing.
Analysts say the war with Iran does not fit with Trump's stated political ideology, policy goals, or campaign promises.
Instead, several Iran experts told Al Jazeera Trump is waging a war together with Israel that only bets Israel and it Prime Minister Benjamin Nanyahu is this once again a war of choice launched by the U.S. with a push from Israel, said Negar Bordazov, he's a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C.
Is this another Israeli war that the U.S. is launching?
Israel has pushed the U.S. to attack Iran for two decades and they finally got it.
Israel's Persistent Push00:01:32
Joe, I think that's completely correct.
In a few minutes, we have remaining.
I'd like your assessment of how things stand and where they're going.
Your thoughts, Joe.
Well, it's changing so rapidly.
I don't see how Israel can absorb another day of this kind of torture.
This is 10 times worse than what happened in the 12-day war, and there's more to come.
So they're going to be begging for peace one way or the other.
Or they're going to use the Samsung option and go nuclear, at which point they will curse all of the Jewish heirs from here forward as being the only nation to use a nuclear weapon against another nation unprovoked, because this was certainly something that they provoked themselves.
So it doesn't even have the fig leaf of decency that we have for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Bottom line is the prevailing winds are from the west to the east.
So that's going to blow all of that radio activity across Pakistan and then ultimately across China.
And they're going to be unhappy for a really long period of time.
I foresee a point in the very near future where if you have an Israeli passport, you're going absolutely nowhere in this world.
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