The StoneZONE - Roger Stone - The Stone Zone | 06-13-25
Aired: 2025-06-13
Duration: 40:50


=== Israel Strikes Iran's Nuclear Program (07:36) ===

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[00:01:06]  Welcome.
[00:01:07]  You are entering the Stone Zone.
[00:01:10]  Well, on Friday, Israel launched a large-scale attacks in an attempt to destroy the nuclear program and kill the military leaders of Iran.
[00:01:20]  President Donald Trump told them that he would give them 60 days to come to an agreement that would allow them to continue to develop the nuclear capability for the production of electricity, but it was unacceptable if they continued to insist on their ability to develop a nuclear weapon by enriching uranium.
[00:01:38]  By now, they should realize that Donald Trump is a man who says what he means and means what he says.
[00:01:43]  At the same time, the Trump administration said Israel's decision to strike Iran was unilateral action, action in which he was certainly informed about not action taken at the direction of the United States.
[00:01:55]  The president specifically said, we are not involved in strikes against Iran, and our top priority is protecting America's forces in the region.
[00:02:02]  Actually, pardon me, it was Secretary of State Marco Rubio who said that.
[00:02:06]  Rubio stated that Israeli officials had communicated to Washington and that Israel's action was necessary for self-defense.
[00:02:13]  I met myself with members of the Iranian resistance.
[00:02:17]  These are hearty souls because that's a very dangerous thing to be, many of their leaders having been assassinated, tortured, and assassinated.
[00:02:24]  But they told me weeks ago that Iran was merely playing for time, that they were never serious in negotiations about ending their nuclear weapons development program, and that sooner or later that would become apparent.
[00:02:38]  Obviously, Trump gave him a 60-day deadline, and it was passed.
[00:02:42]  It's interesting that Rubio also said President Trump and the administration have taken all necessary steps to protect our foreign forces and remain in close contact with all of our regional partners.
[00:02:53]  Let me be clear.
[00:02:54]  Iran should not target U.S. interests or personnel.
[00:02:58]  That is a warning from our Secretary of State.
[00:03:01]  The Iranians would be wise to heed it.
[00:03:04]  The Israel Defense Forces stated that it had launched a preemptive, precise attack combining offensive strikes to Iran's nuclear program, adding that dozens of Air Force jets were used.
[00:03:17]  The Israel Defense Forces stated that it had launched a preemptive, precise attack combining offensive strikes to Iran's nuclear program, adding that dozens of Air Force jets were used in stage one, which includes strikes on military targets, including nuclear targets in different regions of Iran.
[00:03:39]  President Trump responded to Israel's military action against targets on Iran through social, saying, I gave Iran a chance after a chance to make a deal.
[00:03:48]  I told them in the strongest words just to do it.
[00:03:51]  No matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, we just couldn't get it done.
[00:03:56]  I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told, and that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the world by far, and that Israel has a lot of it with much more to come.
[00:04:13]  And they know how to use it.
[00:04:15]  Certain Iranian hardliners spoke bravely, but they didn't know what was about to happen.
[00:04:20]  Those same people are all dead now, and it will only get worse.
[00:04:25]  There has already been a great number of deaths and destruction, but there is still time to end this slaughter.
[00:04:31]  Would the next planned attacks be even more brutal?
[00:04:35]  We would like to bring this to an end.
[00:04:37]  Iran can still make a deal before there is nothing left and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire.
[00:04:44]  No more death, no more destruction.
[00:04:46]  Just do it.
[00:04:47]  Do it before it is too late.
[00:04:49]  God bless you all, said the president.
[00:04:52]  Clearly, the Iranian hardliners in control now, not ever willing to make this deal.
[00:05:01]  Those in the Iranian regime warned me about this, and the result is this operation codenamed Rising Leiden.
[00:05:11]  Israel's overnight strikes on Iran not only one of the most extensive aerial campaigns in modern history.
[00:05:17]  It was also the results of years of covert planned surveillance and infiltration of Iran by intelligence assets of Israel.
[00:05:29]  While dozens of fighter jets bombed nuclear and military targets across Iran early on Friday, the groundwork had long been laid by Mossad agents working closely in lockstep with the Israeli military.
[00:05:43]  For years, they worked shoulder to shoulder with other intelligence assets within the country to gather intelligence files needed to eliminate Iran's most sensitive military and nuclear assets.
[00:05:58]  The strikes eliminated vast areas of Iran's surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missile infrastructure and a massive number of senior scientists and large portions of their air defense systems.
[00:06:12]  Israel even established a drone base inside Iran and at zero hour, Mossad operatives retrieved them from hiding spots and placed precision missiles on vehicles and embedded additional missiles throughout the country.
[00:06:27]  Israel's jets launched simultaneous strikes on dozens of sites, including Iran's primary uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, located 1,500 kilometers from Israeli territory.
[00:06:41]  Natas has long been a critical part of Iran's nuclear program.
[00:06:45]  The facility was an underground compound containing multi-level centrifuge halls and electrical infrastructure.
[00:06:53]  Israel's massive airstrike attack left Iran's military leadership in crisis as the Israelis killed several senior Iranian commanders, including the head of its legendary Revolutionary Guard.
[00:07:07]  At least 20 senior Iranian commanders were killed in Israel strikes on this earlier today, including General Hossein Salami, the leader of Elite's elite Revolutionary Guard, who has been confirmed dead by American state by Iranian state television.
[00:07:27]  This is a major blow to Iranian leadership.
[00:07:30]  Six nuclear scientists have also been confirmed killed in the strikes.

=== Six Scientists Killed (15:58) ===

[00:07:37]  Later on, General Michael Flynn, who served as the national security advisor, joins us to discuss the immediate implications.
[00:07:46]  In the meantime, Democrat Senator Alex Padia Had to be forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security press briefing in Los Angeles on Thursday after crashing this press conference, which featured comments by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam.
[00:08:06]  I'm Senator Alex Padilla, he said, adding he had questions for the Secretary as he was shoving to get past security personnel in the briefing room before he was removed.
[00:08:18]  The Department of Homeland Security said of the incident, Senator Padilla chose a disrespectful political theater and interrupted a live press conference without identifying himself or having his Senate security pin on as he lunged towards Secretary Noam.
[00:08:32]  Senator Padilla was told repeatedly to back away, and he did not comply with officers' repeated commands.
[00:08:39]  Secret Service thought he was an attacker and officers acted appropriately.
[00:08:44]  Even the great Stephen A. Smith, who I view as kind of non-political and an honest broker, saw that this was a political stunt.
[00:08:53]  The purpose of this act was so that other senators could say, oh my God, they have handcuffed and arrested a U.S. senator who's next.
[00:09:04]  Well, if the senator had not acted in this disrespectful and over-the-top way, if Senator Padilla has questions for the Secretary, he can get a meeting with her anytime he wants.
[00:09:16]  This was really about the optics.
[00:09:19]  When Secretary Noam was asked by reporters immediately following this incident, she said, I didn't even know he was a senator.
[00:09:26]  He did not request your meeting or speak to me.
[00:09:29]  So when I leave here, I will have a conversation with him and visit and find out really what his concerns are.
[00:09:35]  I think everyone in America would agree that what he did was inappropriate, that if you wanted to have a civil discussion, especially as a leader, as a public official, you would simply reach out and try to have a real conversation.
[00:09:47]  This was a stunning act of political theater and nothing more.
[00:09:52]  In the meantime, Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Denise Casper issued a preliminary injunction blocking key provisions of President Trump's executive order aimed at securing federal elections by requiring proof of U.S. citizenship.
[00:10:11]  Here yet again is an act of judicial tyranny.
[00:10:16]  When the Democrats cannot win at the ballot box, they resort to jurisdiction shopping and finding an ultra-liberal activist judge who will seek to thwart the will of the American people in the last election.
[00:10:32]  The executive order in question here, entitled Executive Order 14248, was intended to plug the gasping holes, gaping holes, pardon me, in America's voter registration system, which currently allows individuals to vote in federal elections with nothing more than a signed statement affirming their citizenship.
[00:10:52]  No picture ID, no birth certificate, no passport.
[00:10:57]  But Judge Casper, siding with liberal attorney generals from 14 Democrat-led states, ruled that Trump's common sense order was likely unlawful and unconstitutional.
[00:11:08]  This makes very little sense to me.
[00:11:10]  One needs a photo ID to get on an airplane.
[00:11:14]  One needs a photo ID to buy a pack of cigarettes.
[00:11:17]  One needs a photo ID to apply for welfare.
[00:11:22]  But they're telling us one does not require a photo ID for the most sacred of Democratic acts, the vote.
[00:11:28]  So this injunction now bars enforcement of the orders by President Trump's five most important provisions.
[00:11:35]  Those include proof of citizenship for voter federal voter registration.
[00:11:40]  The court specifically blocks section 2A of the order, which requires the Election Assistance Commission to mandate documentary proof of citizenship on a federal voter registration form and for states to record such proof.
[00:11:54]  It also blocks Section 3D, which directed the Secretary of Defense to update the federal postcard application for those in the military used traditionally by service members and those overseas to require proof of citizenship and state voting eligibility.
[00:12:12]  It also blocked Section 2D that required federal departments from providing voter registration services through public assistance programs to certify citizenship before distributing registration forms.
[00:12:27]  And it also barred civil or criminal enforcement of Section 7A in 13 Democrat-controlled states, including California, Massachusetts, New York, and Illinois.
[00:12:40]  That would allow ballots to arrive after Election Day.
[00:12:43]  Election Day deadline incentives 7B, which tied federal election funding to states in compliance with having this ballot receipt deadline end on Election Day.
[00:12:55]  The court also blocked that.
[00:12:58]  In essence, this activist judge just gave the green light, once again, to non-citizens to continue exploiting America's poorest voters' registration laws.
[00:13:08]  All the while they're handcuffing states and agencies from trying to enforce basic accountability.
[00:13:14]  The plaintiffs in this case, of course, include the usual suspects: California, Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, and other liberal strongholds, the very states that have fought tooth and nail to block election reform and have extended voting privileges to non-citizens in local elections.
[00:13:31]  We saw the local courts block non-citizen voting in D.C. only days ago.
[00:13:36]  Now, with the federal judiciary's backing, they're trying to apply those same disastrous policies at the national level.
[00:13:44]  The Trump administration has already announced, of course, that they will yet again appeal this ruling.
[00:13:50]  This is a pattern we keep seeing, folks.
[00:13:52]  At first, they tell Donald Trump, the federal court in D.C., that he does not have the authority to deport dangerous illegal criminals, many of them gang members, to their country of origin.
[00:14:04]  Of course, he does.
[00:14:05]  He has that constitutional authority, as the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled.
[00:14:10]  Then we had the incredibly obscure Court of International Trade say that he didn't have the authority to negotiate tariff agreements with our trading partners.
[00:14:21]  A federal court overturned that as well.
[00:14:25]  So, and he won another important victory just yesterday when the appeals court denied Governor Gavin Newsom control of the National Guard in California, the president having sent in the National Guard to quell the riots in LA.
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[00:15:29]  Welcome back to the Stone Zone.
[00:15:31]  I'm your host, Roger Stone, right here on the Red Apple Audio Networks.
[00:15:37]  As I said, the 9th U.S. District Court of Appeals on Thursday blocked a failed order that directed President Donald Trump to return control of the National Guard troops that he deployed in California to quell the riots surrounding the ICE arrests in Los Angeles.
[00:15:58]  In a nutshell, Governor Gavin Newsom's argument was that he, as governor, had not requested that the National Guard be deployed.
[00:16:08]  He obviously is not a student of history.
[00:16:11]  If he had been, he would have known that when Eisenhower sent the National Guard to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce desegregation, it certainly was not at the request of segregationist Governor Orville Faubus when President John F. Kennedy sent the National Guard to Alabama to enforce the desegregation of the schools there.
[00:16:36]  It was certainly not at the request of segregationist Governor George Wallace, who many of you will famously remember stood in the schoolhouse doorway to try to block the admission of black students.
[00:16:52]  So this decision by the court is really not shocking.
[00:16:57]  It has to be seen within the context of politics.
[00:17:03]  Gavin Newsom is running for president.
[00:17:06]  He is trying to do so on the basis of a heightened profile based on the fact that President Donald Trump did not make what perhaps was an error in the 2020 BLM and Tifa riots, and he moved with great speed in order to quell the rioting in Los Angeles.
[00:17:32]  This weekend, we have the so-called No Kings demonstrations across the country, paid for by a cross-section of radical organizations.
[00:17:45]  I am praying that these will not also erupt into violence.
[00:17:51]  But if what we saw in 2020 is any measure, and when we look at the usual suspects, I think it becomes abundantly clear that that is a very real possibility.
[00:18:06]  Coming up to help analyze the latest actions in which Israel has launched an attack on Iran, General Michael Flynn, he, of course, served as the national security advisor to President Donald Trump.
[00:18:23]  He spent 33 years in uniform serving this country with great distinction.
[00:18:29]  He also, in my opinion, one of the great geopolitical analysts in the country today.
[00:18:35]  You're going to want to hear his take on what comes next in the struggle between Israel and Iran.
[00:18:45]  And we have him just coming up on the other side.
[00:18:48]  So please, whatever you do, don't touch that dial because you don't want to miss this incredible interview with General Michael Flynn.
[00:18:55]  We'll be right back.
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[00:19:12]  You are entering the Stone Zone and joining me now is General Michael Flynn.
[00:19:18]  He, of course, served as National Security Advisor to the 45th president, Donald Trump.
[00:19:26]  He is not only one of the country's leading geopolitical thinkers, he's also one of the finest Christian gentlemen and leaders.
[00:19:35]  It's ever been my privilege to know.
[00:19:38]  General Flynn, welcome to the Stone Zone.
[00:19:41]  I want to get your take on these stunning developments in Iran.
[00:19:48]  Yeah, Roger, thank you very much for having me and for just your light of incredible service to this country.
[00:19:56]  And I know that you're continuing to do that.
[00:19:59]  So for your audience, this is stunning developments, particularly what's happening right now.
[00:20:06]  The time zone, so everybody understands, you know, the Eastern Standard Time, Iran is about eight hours ahead.
[00:20:16]  Israel is about seven, six hours ahead, give or take.
[00:20:20]  And so it's in the early, late evening or early morning hours right now.
[00:20:26]  And Israel, as I speak to you at this moment, Israel has had somewhere as upwards of about 150 to 200 ballistic missiles fired at it in the last several hours, probably in the last six to eight hours, 150 to 200.
[00:20:46]  Some of them are being engaged by the Iron Dome system that protects Israel.
[00:20:51]  Some of them are being engaged by aircraft.
[00:20:55]  And I have to believe, because we, the United States, have positioned a very sophisticated missile frigate, counter-missile frigate in the Eastern Mediterranean, we may even be providing some intelligence or maybe even some certainly or some defensive capability.
[00:21:12]  So that's the current here and now last six to eight hours.
[00:21:18]  On the last 48 hours, the initial attack by Israel against nuclear targets in Iran because it was clear that Iran has in fact developed the capability and they were days away from matching or matching up the capabilities for a nuclear device,
[00:21:46]  a nuclear weapon, and weaponizing the uranium that they have been enriching for the better part of 10 years and trying to get away with it and lying the entire time.
[00:21:56]  The Iranians have been lying the entire time they've been negotiating the Iranian JCPOA deal for the last 10 years, right?
[00:22:05]  They've been lying through their teeth.
[00:22:08]  So Israel made a very sophisticated decision, very conscious decision, and very strategic decision to basically eliminate Iran's nuclear capability.
[00:22:20]  In order to do that, Israel has to have endeavored to take on what I believe is a multi-layered campaign, a very offensive campaign, and a multi-day campaign.
[00:22:36]  This campaign is probably going to last a couple of weeks because of the destruction that is going to be required so the Iranian military can no longer,
[00:22:49]  and political leadership can no longer have the command and control, the intelligence capability, the air defense capability, all of what we call battlefield operating systems that are necessary for a nation state to be able to have a functioning military and clearly to completely destroy the Iranian capability to have any type of nuclear weapons.
[00:23:16]  So that began almost 48 hours ago, and they have done at least two days of attacks against Iran.
[00:23:25]  This counterattack that's occurring now was clearly something that the Netanyahu government did plan for.

=== Iran's Dilemma (15:24) ===

[00:23:35]  I 100% sit here talking to your audience today.
[00:23:39]  I guarantee that they plan for this counterattack at probably a scale like this.
[00:23:45]  Now, we've also, I also understand that the Houthi rebels down in Yemen have also fired some missiles, but what is up in the air right now, so just to give people a picture, particularly those that are listening on radio, in the Middle East region, you have Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel.
[00:24:07]  You've got Iraq, Iran, the UAE, you've got all these different countries.
[00:24:12]  If you think about it as a map, Turkey, all of those nations right now have put up in the air massive amounts of their own aircraft to be able to provide protection and security along their borders because they knew and they were warned that the Iranians were going to launch a massive missile strike.
[00:24:37]  Those missiles, some of them are in fact having some success getting through the Iranian or the Israeli Iron Dome system, which is this protective system over Israel, much to what Donald Trump is trying to develop here in our country called the Golden Dome, something akin to it.
[00:24:56]  They have had some success breaking through that umbrella of air defense capability.
[00:25:03]  So they've targeted essentially like the Israeli version of our Pentagon.
[00:25:10]  So that's been struck.
[00:25:11]  There are now reports of at least one, if not two, of the nuclear sites, the known nuclear sites of Israel have been hit.
[00:25:22]  The level of devastation is much less than when you think about a ballistic missile coming in.
[00:25:30]  You know, it rains terror for sure, but the level of devastation is not as bad as you would imagine.
[00:25:40]  So the Israelis are very, very prepared for this.
[00:25:45]  Their ability to hunker down in very hardened bunker systems, and I'm talking about the entire population, is again, is a very sophisticated capability.
[00:25:58]  And the level of surprise wasn't there.
[00:26:00]  Bibi Netanyahu, two nights ago, put out a warning to all the citizens of Israel.
[00:26:05]  There have been some people that were, in fact, evacuated from Israel.
[00:26:10]  And so Israel has been preparing for this for a long time.
[00:26:16]  Their strategic patience to wait until this moment is incredible because they basically gave, along with President Trump, they gave Israel as much, or I'm sorry, they gave Iran as much a chance as they could possibly have to have a deal, not to have any kind of nuclear weapon system, and not to have this level of attack.
[00:26:41]  Right up until the, you know, that Trump put out here recently, you know, they gave him Trump's warning was, look, we're going to work this for 60 days.
[00:26:50]  And if you guys can't come to some sort of agreement in 60 days, then, you know, what will come is something that could easily get out of control.
[00:27:01]  And that's what I, that's my concern right now as I sit here talking to you, Roger, with your audience.
[00:27:07]  I am concerned because war is something that once it takes on a life of its own, it really can get out of control.
[00:27:15]  So, this ballistic missile attack by the Iranians, I feel and I believe, that the Iranians do not have the capacity to continue this level of attack for too many days.
[00:27:28]  My thinking is that they probably have a couple of days where they can fire some number of missiles, but they're going to run out at a certain point in time.
[00:27:39]  And what the Israelis are continuing to do is they're continuing to pound the living, you know what, out of multiple targets in Iran.
[00:27:53]  And they started with the most difficult, the most hardened first, which was smart.
[00:27:58]  They went after the surface to air.
[00:28:00]  They went after the headquarters.
[00:28:01]  They went after the intelligence.
[00:28:02]  They went after the command and control.
[00:28:04]  They went after the nuclear sites.
[00:28:06]  Now, Israel's plan will likely go after more tactical sites like these ballistic missile firing locations, more barracks locations where some of the Iranian Guards Kuzforce army elements will be stationed.
[00:28:25]  So Iran is, I'm sorry, Israel started with very strategic, high-end targets, and they are now going to tick down the list, and they're going to go after less and less strategic targets and more and more tactical targets to completely destroy Iran's military-industrial complex capability.
[00:28:48]  The response or the reaction that Iran is demonstrating right now is something that is no surprise, was something that Israelis have planned for.
[00:29:04]  Some of this stuff is going to get through because you just can't stop it all.
[00:29:08]  There's just so much and so much terror raining down.
[00:29:12]  I did get reports of some casualties in Israel.
[00:29:17]  The numbers aren't extreme.
[00:29:22]  One Israeli killed too many.
[00:29:26]  Whereas on the other side, on the Iranian side, the numbers are actually minimal.
[00:29:32]  I mean, they're very minimal because of the precision that the Israelis are using.
[00:29:39]  So one of the things that is very clear, and I've seen some video, the Israelis have, I call it exquisite intelligence, bulletproof intelligence assets on the ground in military resources and other intelligence, human intelligence collection capabilities that are providing precision targeting to basically take out the leadership, right?
[00:30:05]  I mean, they are killing the general staff, like the chiefs of staff, the commander, you know, whereas like their command, their chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, as an example, they're on their second one already.
[00:30:20]  And more than likely, that individual is going to have to go into hiding and not be as effective.
[00:30:26]  Khomeini, the current leader of Iran, the Ayatollah, right?
[00:30:30]  I mean, this guy has got to be at the top of the list because he is part of the problem.
[00:30:39]  He is a wartime leader and he is a tyrant.
[00:30:43]  Sadly, the people of Iran do not, you know, they are feeling the heat of this where the people of Israel are 100% behind the state of Israel.
[00:30:56]  The people of Iran are not behind their regime.
[00:30:59]  And in fact, I'll finish on this.
[00:31:01]  I'll finish this part on this.
[00:31:03]  What I learned today was that the Iranian regime is targeting their own citizens, arresting them, shooting them.
[00:31:14]  If they catch any of them taking any kind of video or doing, you know, even on phones, they are conducting, this is Iran now, they are conducting cyber attacks against their own citizens to keep their citizens from being able to communicate on a global scale because the internet these days, the way that we can communicate, the way we can get communications out so that Iranian regime is actually targeting its own citizens.
[00:31:43]  And yet, even with that, brave Iranian people are getting the word out.
[00:31:50]  And it's become more and more difficult because the Iranian regime is targeting their own damn citizens.
[00:31:55]  That shows you the level of tyranny that these people are under.
[00:32:01]  So my prayer is that somebody in the Iranian population is ready to rise out of the ashes, so to speak.
[00:32:12]  And once this devastation, this devastating series of attacks continues, and it's going to continue by Israel, once it takes its toll on the leadership, what I am hoping for is that the people of Iran rise up.
[00:32:25]  It's going to require sacrifice.
[00:32:27]  It's going to take a sacrifice, and it's going to mean sacrifice.
[00:32:32]  Freedom is not free.
[00:32:34]  It is not fair.
[00:32:35]  It is not, you know, it's something that must be sacrificed for.
[00:32:39]  So that's my hope.
[00:32:41]  That's my prayer in the coming days and weeks here.
[00:32:45]  And I want the people of Iran to know that the Israelis are not going to give up.
[00:32:49]  The United States of America is not, we are not directly involved right now, but we will be the biggest champions for a free Iran, if in fact that's what the people of Iran want to do.
[00:33:03]  I met several days ago with leaders of the Iranian resistance.
[00:33:09]  They are more extensive than you would think.
[00:33:12]  They are brutally suppressed.
[00:33:14]  But there is unrest in Iran because the $190 billion that we froze and gave them under Joe Biden was not used to bring down food prices.
[00:33:28]  It was used for armaments and to continue their nuclear weapons development project.
[00:33:35]  Those who think there is no alternative to the regime in Iran are incorrect.
[00:33:40]  If you're just tuning in, folks, we're listening to General Michael Flynn, served as national security advisor to President Donald Trump, best-selling author, and one of the great geopolitical thinkers of our time.
[00:33:54]  We're going to be right back with just a few more minutes with General Flynn to get all of his insights on these stunning developments in which Israel, going alone, but clearly in coordination with the United States, has kept to the idea that Iraq cannot, partly, Iran, cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.
[00:34:18]  We'll be right back.
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[00:34:42]  And we're back in the Stone Zone.
[00:34:45]  I'm talking to General Michael Flynn, who served this country for 33 years in the American military and served, of course, as National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump, a best-selling author and the most loyal friend that a man can have.
[00:35:03]  General Flynn, we're talking about the situation where Israel has decided to launch an attack on Iran.
[00:35:13]  Do you foresee this becoming more than a regional conflict?
[00:35:18]  In other words, do you think other countries will be drawn into this?
[00:35:24]  Well, first of all, other countries are already drawn in because we have air forces from all of the regional nations from Turkey all the way down to Saudi Arabia, you know, and all the Southwest Asian countries are right now have their militaries on high alert.
[00:35:42]  The wider scope of this war is going to be irregular.
[00:35:48]  And I think that what we could experience here in America, because Europe's got its own problems everywhere, got their own issues with Hamas and Hezbollah and these surrogate Iranian groups.
[00:36:01]  But here in the United States of America, we've had Hezbollah and Hamas operating for the better part of two decades.
[00:36:08]  And they're very strong.
[00:36:09]  And we see that on the various street protests that we've seen recently as out in LA, but over this past year with all these Palestinian protests, right?
[00:36:20]  These are real, these are surrogates of the Iranian regime.
[00:36:25]  That's who is behind them, along with elements that we now know that were financed by organizations like USAID.
[00:36:35]  So we could see some irregular type of operations here in the United States of America.
[00:36:41]  Things from derailing of trains, bombings, suicide bombings.
[00:36:47]  I mean, there's a lot of things, a lot of irregular attacks that could occur that are just disruptive and they terrorize the population.
[00:36:57]  You know, Iran is going to have to make a decision.
[00:37:00]  The Iranian regime is going to have to make a very difficult decision, you know, for the Ayatollah.
[00:37:06]  And I hope the Ayatollah listens to the Stone Zone, because if the Ayatollah is listening to the Stone Zone, his days are numbered.
[00:37:13]  And if he doesn't decide as a human being, never mind being the psychopath that they demonstrate themselves to be when they talk about annihilating entire nation states off the planet with nuclear capabilities like Israel or the United States of America, which those are things that he has said.
[00:37:35]  These are people now that are in a place where they're going to have to make some very serious decisions because otherwise their days are numbered.
[00:37:45]  So what I want the audience to understand is that what's happening on the streets of America, they are directly related to the subversive elements from the Iranian regime.
[00:37:58]  And the Iranian regime is in an alliance with China, with Venezuela, this Trendara Agua, which is out of Venezuela that we've heard so much about.
[00:38:10]  This group gets training.
[00:38:11]  They get training, folks, by the Iranian special forces.
[00:38:15]  They have come into Caracas, Venezuela over the last 10 years and trained this organization.
[00:38:22]  So these are the types of things that we could see that turn this from a regional conflict into a global conflict.
[00:38:29]  And this is where I'm grateful that President Trump is in the White House, because of all the noise that will circle around him over the, you know, over the last few days and over the coming days he he, will have a a learned experience, steady hand on the tiller here, so to, so to speak, and uh, and I'm I'm, I think we are, are all blessed to have him in that role.
[00:38:55]  Imagine, imagine if we were in a different place today in this country.

=== Grateful For Trump's Steady Hand (01:50) ===

[00:39:00]  Oh my god, I don't want to imagine and it's the unthinkable.
[00:39:03]  So we're lucky to have a strong leader in the White House who's making very smart decisions right now.
[00:39:12]  All right, I want to thank our guest, General Michael Flynn.
[00:39:14]  His new book, by the way, Pardon of Innocence, can be pre-ordered right now on Amazon.
[00:39:19]  General Flynn, thanks for joining us in the Stone Zone.
[00:39:22]  Thanks for listening to the Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
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