Feb. 9, 2025 - Judging Freedom - Judge Andrew Napolitano
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| And the other country has been the United States. | |
| And Israel. | |
| And Israel. | |
| But we assassinated Soleimani under Trump's orders. | |
| But before that, you had, as I recall, it was at least four nuclear scientists that were assassinated on their way to work in Iran. | |
| So this legacy of the United States supporting terrorist groups like the Mujahideen al-Kalb. | |
| Who carry out terrorist attacks in Iran. | |
| And yet, despite that, Iran has not retaliated by carrying out terrorist attacks in the United States. | |
| And what's really remarkable is some of these so-called experts. | |
| I saw this one clown on television the other day. | |
| And he was talking about the Sunnis and the Shia. | |
| And the reality is, yes, Iran is a Shia. | |
| It comes out of a Shia theology. | |
| They're not the ones backing ISIS, backing the terrorist groups that attacked the United States on 9-11. | |
| In fact, it was the Iranians with Hezbollah that went into Syria to fight ISIS. | |
| And ISIS had a pretty big body count around the world of carrying out extremist attacks to achieve their Sunni vision. | |
| We lambaste the Iranians. | |
| We make them the villains and coddle and enable the very ideological terrorists on the Sunni side that attacked us. | |
| It's insane. | |
| Here's what Trump said. | |
| Iran and their proxies who have threatened to retaliate against you and your team by killing you guys for taking out Soleimani. | |
| Well, they haven't done that, and that would be a terrible thing for them to do. | |
| Not because of me. | |
| If they did that, they would be obliterated. | |
| That would be the end. | |
| I've left instructions. | |
| If they do it, they get obliterated. | |
| There won't be anything left. | |
| There you go. | |
| Yeah. That was tough talk. | |
| The reality behind the scenes is Trump is trying through Witkoff to get negotiations underway with Iran. | |
| And we have also learned in the last 48 hours that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, not interested, not interested in talking to the United States at least, because they already feel that they've been betrayed by Trump, | |
| that Trump can't be trusted. | |
| Well, there is a basis for that from the last time around. | |
| Oh yeah, no, absolutely. | |
| But that doesn't mean there won't be negotiations. | |
| That means Trump may have to go through Russia to get to Iran. | |
| And that any deal cut with Iran will be part of a broader deal with Russia. | |
| And maybe it's even spilled over into China. | |
| This is, you know, Trump is, you know, he does... | |
| To his credit, he goes for the big idea. | |
| And he doesn't always explain that in public in a way that would be comprehensible to people. | |
| But he recognizes that if he can pull off a grand deal that secures Iran recognizing Israel's right to exist, that secures actually a state for the Palestinians in accordance with what the Saudis and others have demanded, | |
| Larry, great conversation, my dear friend. | |
| Terrific conversation. | |
| I realize we covered the gamut from Gaza to Kiev, but thank you very much for letting me pick your brain and thanks for all of your analysis. | |
| I look forward to seeing you with the youngster McGovern. | |
| At the end of the day on Friday. | |
| I'll be there, Gamut Incorporated. | |
| Thank you, Larry. | |
| All the best, my dear friend. | |
| Sure. Coming up later today at 4.30 Eastern this afternoon, the always worth waiting for on all of these topics, Scott Ritter, Judge Napolitano for Judging Freedom. |
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