Dennis Prager Show - Jonathan Schanzer on the Baghdad Embassy attack
Aired: 2020-01-03
Duration: 02:57


=== Iranians Voting for Trump? (02:17) ===

[00:00:00]  I'm sure you have never been asked the following question.
[00:00:04]  You've been asked many, but I know you haven't been asked this one.
[00:00:09]  Nevertheless, let me pose it.
[00:00:10]  This is obviously utterly hypothetical.
[00:00:14]  It's not even hypothetical because it can't happen.
[00:00:16]  But if the Iranian people, all, I don't know, is it 60 million?
[00:00:21]  How many people live in Iran?
[00:00:22]  Is that about the number?
[00:00:23]  I think it's 80 million.
[00:00:24]  80 million, okay.
[00:00:27]  If all of those over the age of 18 could vote for the American president, who would they vote for?
[00:00:38]  Yeah, that's very hypothetical.
[00:00:41]  Look, what I would say is they might actually vote for Trump right now, given that the Trump administration is pushing back on Iran regionally.
[00:00:50]  Well, that's why I asked it.
[00:00:53]  Yeah.
[00:00:54]  I'm not sure how much they love the man himself, but I think they're very pleased with this foreign policy versus the foreign policy that we saw for the previous eight years.
[00:01:04]  Right.
[00:01:04]  In other words, what you're saying to me and my listeners is that between Donald Trump and Barack Obama, more Iranians would favor the current president.
[00:01:18]  I think that's absolutely correct.
[00:01:20]  And again, I don't think it has as much to do with this president's personality.
[00:01:24]  It's irrelevant.
[00:01:26]  Clearly irrelevant.
[00:01:27]  Yeah, go on.
[00:01:29]  Yeah, they are very happy with the fact that this regime is under siege.
[00:01:33]  They're not happy about the economic situation, but they also understand that under sanctions, the Iranian regime is deferring the pain to the people while enriching themselves.
[00:01:43]  And this administration here in Washington continues to expose the human rights violations.
[00:01:49]  They continue to expose the corruption, and they continue to expose the way that Iran is spending its money on foreign adventurism, and that is not resonating with the people.
[00:02:00]  And it's for that reason that they very much appreciate this administration's Iran policy.

=== Amazing Meeting Picture (00:53) ===

[00:02:05]  You know, you'll find this of interest, so my listeners, but I know you will.
[00:02:13]  I flew El Al Airlines from Tehran to Tel Aviv.
[00:02:20]  That is not surprising.
[00:02:23]  For your listeners, there's a fascinating picture out there, if they want to Google it, Ezra Weitzman, who was former president of Israel.
[00:02:34]  It was an American-made jet.
[00:02:36]  I forget what model it was.
[00:02:38]  He flew directly to Iran and was met there by the Shah.
[00:02:43]  And there is this amazing picture of that meeting on the tarmac.
[00:02:48]  There are all these wonderful stories about how the relationship was just thriving up until 1979 when everything just fell apart.
[00:02:56]  Exactly.