January 12, 2026 • 16 mins
🔥 "When the world goes silent, who will speak for the voices lost in the streets of Iran?" On today’s episode of The Rant Network, we dive deep into the global silence surrounding Iran’s brutal crackdown on protesters, exposing the hypocrisy of media and world leaders who turn a blind eye to human rights abuses. From the manipulation of international organizations to the shifting priorities of activists, this uncensored dialogue challenges us to confront uncomfortable truths and demand real leadership. Join the conversation and stand with those fighting for freedom—because silence is complicity.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:01):
Oh boy, here we go again.
It is Monday morning, Mondaynoon somewhere.
Monday afternoon.
It's just Monday.
So uh let me tell you something.
(00:22):
I'm doing it.
You know, but I'm not feeling itas much as these Iranian
protesters that are being shotand murdered in the street.
And um, like you said in thegreen room, where's Greta?
Where are the protesters?
They traded their their theirPalestinian flags in for what
(00:43):
kind of flag, David?
And now they haven't tradedtheir flags in to save Iran,
save Iranians, you know.
When when communist governmentsget a hold of democratist uh
organizations, it seems thateverything that should be upside
down isn't.
(01:05):
And I just don't, for the lifeof me, understand the left-wing
media in the United States oranywhere in the world any
longer.
They're literally murderingpeople in the street, David.
Literally, literally, literally.
They're shooting and killingthem, disappearing them, yet the
(01:26):
media remains utterly silent.
They're talking about Powell andTrump and Greenland, and you
know, they're not even talkingabout the white girl that got
murdered that, you know, wasengaging with ice.
It's silence, silence of thelambs in uh media today.
You know, but at the end of theday, David, I gotta tell you,
(01:51):
it's gonna be an interestingrant, I think.
Welcome everybody to the rantnetwork, a platform with
forthright uncensored dialogue,hosted by myself, Stuart, with
David Solomon today.
This and every day for the lastalmost six years, this program
explores a broad spectrum ofissues from current events to
(02:14):
political discourse, culturaltrends to the evolutions of the
fabric of my.
SPEAKER_01 (04:32):
No, right after he got sworn into office, he got
the the hostages were released,and yet you see, since Reagan to
tell Trump, almost nothing wasdone.
Trump was the first president togo out and literally attack
alongside Israel the Iraniannuclear sites.
First time a president hasactually retallied against Iran.
(04:53):
And all we do is shake in ourboots because oh no, what's Iran
gonna do?
What's Iran gonna do?
What's Iran gonna do?
And so far, nothing but wait,there's more.
There is an incredible movementgoing on in Iran, and right
before they cut the internet andthe electricity, you saw scores,
hundreds, thousands of people indifferent parts of Iran
(05:17):
protesting against the Mulas.
All they're asking for is thefreedom that the left in the
United States has been shittingon.
All they're asking for is theability to be able to walk the
streets of Iran without thethreat of being beaten to death
by the religious police.
All they're asking for is theability to dress as they wait a
minute, wait a minute, David.
(05:38):
You're telling me there's nofreedom of religion in the
freedom of religion, no freedomof speech, no freedom of
anything.
SPEAKER_00 (05:46):
How about freedom of sexual orientation?
No, sir.
I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_01 (05:50):
How about freedom of political choice?
Nothing, there's no freedomunless it's dictated by the
mullahs.
SPEAKER_00 (05:57):
And they use the head mullah is who the ayatollah
Khomeini?
SPEAKER_01 (06:01):
There you go.
Oh wow.
And you know, I'll tell yousomething.
If you wanted to crap on DonaldTrump in the United States,
you're allowed.
It's part of democracy.
But if you were to crap on theAyatollah Khameni, you could be
beaten to death.
And yet, and yet, here, Stuart,you started off with the Greta
(06:22):
Thunberg, the flotilla.
There's no flotilla going toTehran or to Iran or to
anything.
There are no entertainers.
Last night, the Golden Globes.
Did you hear any of the speechessaying I stand with the people
of Iran?
No.
No pins, no political slogans.
There are no university pubprotests today.
(06:45):
Stuart, you know, there's aninteresting thing.
There is a in tied into MLK Day.
There's a we're going to teachabout Palestine in schools.
That is okay.
This is what we want to payattention to.
But the people of Tehran, thepeople of the rest of Iran,
we're going to ignore.
The problem is we don't know howmany people have been killed so
(07:07):
far.
We've heard hundreds, we'veheard thousands.
We can't get any media.
Why not?
Because Iran won't let the mediain.
But once again, the criticismson Israel for not allowing media
into Gaza.
But Iran won't let you in thedoor.
We're relying upon people in thestreets, the jerk, the human
(07:28):
journalists, to try to conveywhatever is going on there.
Illegal or underground socialnetworks through signal and
through other channels.
That's the only way we knowwhat's going on in Iran.
Yep.
And again, and wait, wait,Stuart, Stuart, please permit
me.
I don't hear Keir Starmer.
I don't hear Emmanuel Macron.
(07:48):
I don't hear the president, theprime minister of Spain.
I don't hear the bitch new newleader in Venezuela who blames
Zionists for the overthrow ofVenezuela.
I don't hear anybody.
And it's incredible.
Why are there such crickets?
No Jews, no news, apparently.
Muslims killing Muslims justdoesn't sell like ice going in
(08:15):
and taking away, you know, youknow, taking away criminals and
gangs.
That's gonna take the newsideline.
A woman ramming through icepiece and getting murdered, you
know, call it whatever you want.
That is the most important thingin the media news.
This getting rid of illegals isimmoral, and Minneapolis and
(08:36):
Minnesota is gonna burn down,and the world is gonna burn
down, and that's okay becausethat matters more.
But the hypocrisy is incredible.
The AOCs and the squad, quiet,Bernie Sanders, quiet, the
Republican Party for the mostpart, quiet.
Stand up, people.
Where's your intestinalfortitude?
(08:56):
Is it only against Israel?
Only against the Jews thatmatter, or do you are you really
showing your true colors thatyou're not hip that you're not
humane?
You're racist.
And yes, I'm labeling you like alefty.
SPEAKER_00 (09:10):
You know, a U-Haul truck drives into protesters in
Los Angeles.
Yeah, Los Angeles.
You know it is mind-boggling howthe media just doesn't give a
shit.
Nor does little DebbieWasherstrom, because you
(09:33):
mentioned some other people.
The left has been infiltrated byterrorist organizations and
people that just hate America,and the Democratic Party no
longer has its own identity.
That is where lies this problem.
SPEAKER_01 (09:53):
I'm sorry, the Republicans in this case are
much better.
And I'm gonna crap on theRepublicans because you guys
think that you're high andfucking mighty.
I don't see anything.
Only Trump standing in a planesays he's gonna beat up on Iran.
I don't see what's going on.
And as of this morning, Iransays, Oh, we're gonna negotiate,
let's negotiate the nucleardeal.
What now we're gonna this iswhat's gonna turn this is what's
(10:16):
gonna turn the crank.
Where where's where are therepublicans?
Or do you want to be the JDVance isolationists people?
Come on, stop being hypocrites,be leaders.
Come on.
SPEAKER_00 (10:33):
What is leading in a place where it's a dictatorship?
SPEAKER_01 (10:36):
No, Stuart, I'm talking about the United States,
where people could stand up inCongress, can stand up on the
steps of Capitol Hill and screamand yell whatever they want.
The media is gonna give them amicrophone, but where are they?
Where are the leaders?
Where is this?
When it when it came down to1200 murdered innocent people in
their beds, children, whatever.
(10:58):
Okay, don't retaliate, don't dothis, don't do that.
Israel, don't do this.
But Iran murdering its ownpeople, we're not talking about
another country, we're talkingabout their own people, and
you're sitting there quiet,silent.
You're both parties are guiltyof murder, then complicitly to
(11:20):
murder.
SPEAKER_00 (11:21):
There's nothing there's nothing been in the
media and the news since thesummer of 25 in regards to Iran
and either political party.
The only thing that's beingcovered now is let's be honest,
uh, the BVC, uh, Iran warns itwill retaliate if the US
attacks.
(11:41):
I mean, this is what's in themedia.
538 people, uh, activists dead.
You know, the the death toll isby the uh devils in the details
from the organization that iskilling them is saying how many
have been killed or tortured,but we really don't know how
many people have been torturedand killed because on the dark
(12:04):
web it goes to 10,000.
SPEAKER_01 (12:07):
But but hold on, hold on, forget the numbers.
Stuart, we're talking here aboutreality, right?
Qatar gets up on its on its highhorse and criticizes Israel for
everything.
Qatar is you've got a wholebunch of other Arab and Muslim
countries criticizing the livingdaylights out of out of Israel.
Um, did you hear anybodycriticize Iran?
SPEAKER_00 (12:29):
No, you know, the scary thing is that those
countries don't want thesepolitical Islamists in their
country.
SPEAKER_01 (12:38):
Well, actually, the can't right.
But here, but here's the crazything, right?
If you get rid of Iran, themulahs in Iran, and you put back
the former Shah Iran's son or aa more democratic um government
in there, which is really hardin the Middle East, but let's go
with that.
Tomorrow morning, you don't haveterrorism in most of the Middle
(13:01):
East being funded by Iran.
No, you'll have the dismantlingof a nuclear program without
having to negotiate it.
You're gonna have a trade routesopening up amongst other
nations, you're gonna haveprosperity.
SPEAKER_00 (13:17):
So are you telling me you tell me the Saudis, the
UAE, and Qatar is gonna have topay for that out of their own
pocket now?
SPEAKER_01 (13:26):
Wow, no, well, listen, UAE doesn't support
terrorism, Stuart, so let's notdo that, you know.
And listen, you listen, listen,you could say what you want
about Saudi and Qatar.
I'm not gonna give it to you forUAE from what I've seen and what
I've experienced with them.
But in terms of, I mean, thinkabout it.
United States took out Maduro.
(13:48):
That was important for the oil.
That broke Iran, that brokeChina and Russia.
Now he's talking aboutGreenland.
Breaking Iran is in the bestinterest of the United States.
Breaking Iran is in the bestinterest of the world.
Breaking Iran is in the bestinterest of the Iranian people.
So, what am I missing in thisformula, Stewart?
(14:10):
Who's gonna do it?
Yeah, JD Vance doesn't want tois an isolationist.
He doesn't want to do it.
He's the Tucker Carlsondisciple, he doesn't want to get
into other countries.
But if you don't do something,guess where they're going?
Into your country.
And right now, the United Statesis filled with criminals,
terrorists that have walked inthe door thanks to Mr.
Biden, amongst other open door,you know, open border policy.
(14:33):
And these are terrorists fundedby Iran.
Now, if you could get rid ofthat, if you cut the head at the
snake, the head of the snake andyou get rid of these moolas and
you get rid of these people,life could be good.
But I know what they're gonnasay.
We have no right to go intoanother country and topple
another government.
So then let the people do it.
(14:53):
How do you empower the people todo it?
Because the people want it.
But when you're being shot bythe IRGC in cold blood and no
reaction, no pushback.
I'm sorry, I see no leadershipin the United States or in the
West for that matter.
(15:13):
And those crickets are alsocoming.
Oh, by the way, beautiful wordsfrom different world leaders.
We condemn the actions.
I love those words.
We condemn.
Wonderful.
What's it doing?
SPEAKER_00 (15:29):
Well, David, it's that time.
All right, everybody.
I'm cutting David off.
It's that quarter hour, it'shistory.
And I'll, you know what else I'mgonna tell you?
This podcast has come to an end.
This concludes another episodeof the Rat Network still.
Appreciate you joining in, yourcontinued support, your
passionate comments that we'vebeen seeing lately.
(15:50):
We appreciate it.
Every Monday, Wednesday, Fridaynoon Easter.
Dave and I will take downanother topic.
Who knows what Wednesday isgonna be?
David, say goodbye.
Oh boy, here we go again.
It is Monday morning, Mondaynoon somewhere.
Monday afternoon.
It's just Monday.
So uh let me tell you something.
(00:22):
I'm doing it.
You know, but I'm not feeling itas much as these Iranian
protesters that are being shotand murdered in the street.
And um, like you said in thegreen room, where's Greta?
Where are the protesters?
They traded their their theirPalestinian flags in for what
(00:43):
kind of flag, David?
And now they haven't tradedtheir flags in to save Iran,
save Iranians, you know.
When when communist governmentsget a hold of democratist uh
organizations, it seems thateverything that should be upside
down isn't.
(01:05):
And I just don't, for the lifeof me, understand the left-wing
media in the United States oranywhere in the world any
longer.
They're literally murderingpeople in the street, David.
Literally, literally, literally.
They're shooting and killingthem, disappearing them, yet the
(01:26):
media remains utterly silent.
They're talking about Powell andTrump and Greenland, and you
know, they're not even talkingabout the white girl that got
murdered that, you know, wasengaging with ice.
It's silence, silence of thelambs in uh media today.
You know, but at the end of theday, David, I gotta tell you,
(01:51):
it's gonna be an interestingrant, I think.
Welcome everybody to the rantnetwork, a platform with
forthright uncensored dialogue,hosted by myself, Stuart, with
David Solomon today.
This and every day for the lastalmost six years, this program
explores a broad spectrum ofissues from current events to
(02:14):
political discourse, culturaltrends to the evolutions of the
fabric of my.
SPEAKER_01 (04:32):
No, right after he got sworn into office, he got
the the hostages were released,and yet you see, since Reagan to
tell Trump, almost nothing wasdone.
Trump was the first president togo out and literally attack
alongside Israel the Iraniannuclear sites.
First time a president hasactually retallied against Iran.
(04:53):
And all we do is shake in ourboots because oh no, what's Iran
gonna do?
What's Iran gonna do?
What's Iran gonna do?
And so far, nothing but wait,there's more.
There is an incredible movementgoing on in Iran, and right
before they cut the internet andthe electricity, you saw scores,
hundreds, thousands of people indifferent parts of Iran
(05:17):
protesting against the Mulas.
All they're asking for is thefreedom that the left in the
United States has been shittingon.
All they're asking for is theability to be able to walk the
streets of Iran without thethreat of being beaten to death
by the religious police.
All they're asking for is theability to dress as they wait a
minute, wait a minute, David.
(05:38):
You're telling me there's nofreedom of religion in the
freedom of religion, no freedomof speech, no freedom of
anything.
SPEAKER_00 (05:46):
How about freedom of sexual orientation?
No, sir.
I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_01 (05:50):
How about freedom of political choice?
Nothing, there's no freedomunless it's dictated by the
mullahs.
SPEAKER_00 (05:57):
And they use the head mullah is who the ayatollah
Khomeini?
SPEAKER_01 (06:01):
There you go.
Oh wow.
And you know, I'll tell yousomething.
If you wanted to crap on DonaldTrump in the United States,
you're allowed.
It's part of democracy.
But if you were to crap on theAyatollah Khameni, you could be
beaten to death.
And yet, and yet, here, Stuart,you started off with the Greta
(06:22):
Thunberg, the flotilla.
There's no flotilla going toTehran or to Iran or to
anything.
There are no entertainers.
Last night, the Golden Globes.
Did you hear any of the speechessaying I stand with the people
of Iran?
No.
No pins, no political slogans.
There are no university pubprotests today.
(06:45):
Stuart, you know, there's aninteresting thing.
There is a in tied into MLK Day.
There's a we're going to teachabout Palestine in schools.
That is okay.
This is what we want to payattention to.
But the people of Tehran, thepeople of the rest of Iran,
we're going to ignore.
The problem is we don't know howmany people have been killed so
(07:07):
far.
We've heard hundreds, we'veheard thousands.
We can't get any media.
Why not?
Because Iran won't let the mediain.
But once again, the criticismson Israel for not allowing media
into Gaza.
But Iran won't let you in thedoor.
We're relying upon people in thestreets, the jerk, the human
(07:28):
journalists, to try to conveywhatever is going on there.
Illegal or underground socialnetworks through signal and
through other channels.
That's the only way we knowwhat's going on in Iran.
Yep.
And again, and wait, wait,Stuart, Stuart, please permit
me.
I don't hear Keir Starmer.
I don't hear Emmanuel Macron.
(07:48):
I don't hear the president, theprime minister of Spain.
I don't hear the bitch new newleader in Venezuela who blames
Zionists for the overthrow ofVenezuela.
I don't hear anybody.
And it's incredible.
Why are there such crickets?
No Jews, no news, apparently.
Muslims killing Muslims justdoesn't sell like ice going in
(08:15):
and taking away, you know, youknow, taking away criminals and
gangs.
That's gonna take the newsideline.
A woman ramming through icepiece and getting murdered, you
know, call it whatever you want.
That is the most important thingin the media news.
This getting rid of illegals isimmoral, and Minneapolis and
(08:36):
Minnesota is gonna burn down,and the world is gonna burn
down, and that's okay becausethat matters more.
But the hypocrisy is incredible.
The AOCs and the squad, quiet,Bernie Sanders, quiet, the
Republican Party for the mostpart, quiet.
Stand up, people.
Where's your intestinalfortitude?
(08:56):
Is it only against Israel?
Only against the Jews thatmatter, or do you are you really
showing your true colors thatyou're not hip that you're not
humane?
You're racist.
And yes, I'm labeling you like alefty.
SPEAKER_00 (09:10):
You know, a U-Haul truck drives into protesters in
Los Angeles.
Yeah, Los Angeles.
You know it is mind-boggling howthe media just doesn't give a
shit.
Nor does little DebbieWasherstrom, because you
(09:33):
mentioned some other people.
The left has been infiltrated byterrorist organizations and
people that just hate America,and the Democratic Party no
longer has its own identity.
That is where lies this problem.
SPEAKER_01 (09:53):
I'm sorry, the Republicans in this case are
much better.
And I'm gonna crap on theRepublicans because you guys
think that you're high andfucking mighty.
I don't see anything.
Only Trump standing in a planesays he's gonna beat up on Iran.
I don't see what's going on.
And as of this morning, Iransays, Oh, we're gonna negotiate,
let's negotiate the nucleardeal.
What now we're gonna this iswhat's gonna turn this is what's
(10:16):
gonna turn the crank.
Where where's where are therepublicans?
Or do you want to be the JDVance isolationists people?
Come on, stop being hypocrites,be leaders.
Come on.
SPEAKER_00 (10:33):
What is leading in a place where it's a dictatorship?
SPEAKER_01 (10:36):
No, Stuart, I'm talking about the United States,
where people could stand up inCongress, can stand up on the
steps of Capitol Hill and screamand yell whatever they want.
The media is gonna give them amicrophone, but where are they?
Where are the leaders?
Where is this?
When it when it came down to1200 murdered innocent people in
their beds, children, whatever.
(10:58):
Okay, don't retaliate, don't dothis, don't do that.
Israel, don't do this.
But Iran murdering its ownpeople, we're not talking about
another country, we're talkingabout their own people, and
you're sitting there quiet,silent.
You're both parties are guiltyof murder, then complicitly to
(11:20):
murder.
SPEAKER_00 (11:21):
There's nothing there's nothing been in the
media and the news since thesummer of 25 in regards to Iran
and either political party.
The only thing that's beingcovered now is let's be honest,
uh, the BVC, uh, Iran warns itwill retaliate if the US
attacks.
(11:41):
I mean, this is what's in themedia.
538 people, uh, activists dead.
You know, the the death toll isby the uh devils in the details
from the organization that iskilling them is saying how many
have been killed or tortured,but we really don't know how
many people have been torturedand killed because on the dark
(12:04):
web it goes to 10,000.
SPEAKER_01 (12:07):
But but hold on, hold on, forget the numbers.
Stuart, we're talking here aboutreality, right?
Qatar gets up on its on its highhorse and criticizes Israel for
everything.
Qatar is you've got a wholebunch of other Arab and Muslim
countries criticizing the livingdaylights out of out of Israel.
Um, did you hear anybodycriticize Iran?
SPEAKER_00 (12:29):
No, you know, the scary thing is that those
countries don't want thesepolitical Islamists in their
country.
SPEAKER_01 (12:38):
Well, actually, the can't right.
But here, but here's the crazything, right?
If you get rid of Iran, themulahs in Iran, and you put back
the former Shah Iran's son or aa more democratic um government
in there, which is really hardin the Middle East, but let's go
with that.
Tomorrow morning, you don't haveterrorism in most of the Middle
(13:01):
East being funded by Iran.
No, you'll have the dismantlingof a nuclear program without
having to negotiate it.
You're gonna have a trade routesopening up amongst other
nations, you're gonna haveprosperity.
SPEAKER_00 (13:17):
So are you telling me you tell me the Saudis, the
UAE, and Qatar is gonna have topay for that out of their own
pocket now?
SPEAKER_01 (13:26):
Wow, no, well, listen, UAE doesn't support
terrorism, Stuart, so let's notdo that, you know.
And listen, you listen, listen,you could say what you want
about Saudi and Qatar.
I'm not gonna give it to you forUAE from what I've seen and what
I've experienced with them.
But in terms of, I mean, thinkabout it.
United States took out Maduro.
(13:48):
That was important for the oil.
That broke Iran, that brokeChina and Russia.
Now he's talking aboutGreenland.
Breaking Iran is in the bestinterest of the United States.
Breaking Iran is in the bestinterest of the world.
Breaking Iran is in the bestinterest of the Iranian people.
So, what am I missing in thisformula, Stewart?
(14:10):
Who's gonna do it?
Yeah, JD Vance doesn't want tois an isolationist.
He doesn't want to do it.
He's the Tucker Carlsondisciple, he doesn't want to get
into other countries.
But if you don't do something,guess where they're going?
Into your country.
And right now, the United Statesis filled with criminals,
terrorists that have walked inthe door thanks to Mr.
Biden, amongst other open door,you know, open border policy.
(14:33):
And these are terrorists fundedby Iran.
Now, if you could get rid ofthat, if you cut the head at the
snake, the head of the snake andyou get rid of these moolas and
you get rid of these people,life could be good.
But I know what they're gonnasay.
We have no right to go intoanother country and topple
another government.
So then let the people do it.
(14:53):
How do you empower the people todo it?
Because the people want it.
But when you're being shot bythe IRGC in cold blood and no
reaction, no pushback.
I'm sorry, I see no leadershipin the United States or in the
West for that matter.
(15:13):
And those crickets are alsocoming.
Oh, by the way, beautiful wordsfrom different world leaders.
We condemn the actions.
I love those words.
We condemn.
Wonderful.
What's it doing?
SPEAKER_00 (15:29):
Well, David, it's that time.
All right, everybody.
I'm cutting David off.
It's that quarter hour, it'shistory.
And I'll, you know what else I'mgonna tell you?
This podcast has come to an end.
This concludes another episodeof the Rat Network still.
Appreciate you joining in, yourcontinued support, your
passionate comments that we'vebeen seeing lately.
(15:50):
We appreciate it.
Every Monday, Wednesday, Fridaynoon Easter.
Dave and I will take downanother topic.
Who knows what Wednesday isgonna be?
David, say goodbye.
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