January 14, 2026 • 21 mins
“When the world chooses silence, the truth becomes deafening.” Today’s episode pulls back the curtain on the brutal reality unfolding in Iran—where citizens fighting for basic human rights are met with violence, censorship, and international indifference. While global media obsesses over political narratives, protesters are being silenced, jailed, and killed. This rant isn’t about partisanship—it’s about humanity, accountability, and refusing to let fear or convenience dictate whose lives matter. If we claim to stand for freedom, then our voices can’t go quiet when it’s inconvenient.
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SPEAKER_01 (00:12):
Let me tell you, there are tens of thousands,
hundreds of thousands ofIranians right now panicking
because the Iranian governmenthas decided human rights don't
matter.
Only the lives of the mulas,only what they believe is right.
And if you don't count out tothe government and to their to
the ayatolas, you're dead.
Stuart, today they're gonna hangsomeone in public on TV just to
(00:37):
show you that the ayatollahsrule, and if you don't follow
our rule, you pay the price.
But you know what's interesting,Stuart?
And we talked about this onMonday in our rant.
It's fascinating to see thereaction this world has.
You know, the Golden Globes, wetalked about that.
Not one, not one stood up andsaid, I stand with Iran.
(01:00):
Not one feminist, where are thefeminist movements to stand up
with the women of Iran who arebeing beaten because they're
wearing, if they don't wear thehijab properly, they'll get
beaten to death.
To death.
(01:25):
Oh, they must be brown,therefore, they're on our the
left side.
Oh, we can't look what's goingon.
They're cutting off electricity,they're cutting off phones,
they're allegedly blockingaccess to hospitals to help
injure people.
And yet, what are we doing?
(01:47):
I strongly condemn what's goingon in Iran.
Because these texts on X reallyfreaking matter to the people of
the streets of Iran.
Welcome back, everybody.
I'm David Salmany, StuartBrisgal.
We are the Rant Network.
What we do here every Monday,Wednesday, Friday at noon
Eastern is we rant about thestuff that you guys keep talking
about, hearing about, but youknow what?
(02:08):
Can't say it in public becauseGod forbid someone's gonna yell
at you.
And today we don't care who'syelling at us because what
matters is what's going on.
We will undercut go undercoverand do and find the stuff that
you know what could be a littlebit controversial, and this is
one of those topics.
So sit back today as we rantabout what's going on thousands
(02:29):
of miles away, but have animpact here in North America.
And I'll tell you why I saythat, Story, and I'm gonna leave
this to you in just a secondbecause I see you're ready to
jump on this.
Here's the problem (02:38):
why do I say it impacts us here?
Because as humans, for the lastfive years, we had the Ukraine
war, and we all stood up and weall we we we we boycotted
Russia, we've we've cut offRussia, which we said we were
gonna be on the Ukrainian side.
The Israel Hamas thing, theworld just the the the
(03:04):
shredding, the tearing apart,the overblown, the lies, all
this kind of stuff.
It went from one extreme toanother.
And here we have Iranians whoare for the again on the streets
of Tehran and other parts ofIran protesting.
And Stuart's famous cricketskeep sounding.
(03:24):
Because why wouldn't anybodystand up for the people of
Terror of Iran?
Stuart, I'm sickened because atevery any moment we something
disastrous is gonna happen.
SPEAKER_02 (03:37):
Well, right now, I mean, literally, right now, the
American news media or theWestern news media is absolutely
losing their mind over Iran.
And I don't mean reporting, Idon't mean journalism, I mean
spinning.
Like they're flailing.
(03:58):
I mean they're hyperventilatinginto a microphone while
pretending they're delivering asober analysis of what's going
on in Iran.
You know, here's a key point youneed to understand before I go
any further.
This isn't happening becausesuddenly there's some brand new
(04:19):
intelligence out of bomb, right?
It's not because Iran crossedsome historical irreversible red
line overnight.
It's not because the world wokeup this morning on the brink of
something fundamentallydifferent that hasn't been going
on since the 70s.
(04:40):
Nope.
It's happening because panicsells, narrative sells.
The undermining Republicanforeign policy sells in almost
all the newsrooms.
It's like a media incentive.
The modern American mediadoesn't report foreign policy
(05:03):
anymore, it produces emotion,fear, urgency, moral panic, and
Iran is the perfect vehicletoday for that because it's not
Jews and it's not Donald J.
Trump.
Iran is a distant enough placefrom the Americas to know any
details.
(05:24):
It's complicated enough,nuisance, that's been buried and
blurred.
The scary thought is that a slapin the world crisis on every
headline never changes and nevergets challenged.
You know, we could write thatthey're burning women in the
(05:46):
street, but yet in Israel, we'regiving out pamphlets saying
don't go there, and someone getsa black eye, and the Israelis
are put out to pass.
They're about to hang someone ina square in Iran.
You know, we don't know ifthey've murdered 25,000 people
or 250,000 people.
(06:07):
Why though?
Why don't we know?
Because there's no freedom ofthe press and no visibility.
And like we had said early inthe green room, that Elon Musk
is uh opened up Starlink andthey're going door to door,
breaking them, taking them, andkilling people to have them.
So what do they do?
They create a constant sense ofimpeding catastrophe caused by
(06:32):
Donald J.
Trump.
They frame every development asan escalation because of Donald
J.
Trump.
They speak in breathlesshypotheticals instead of giving
facts, saying how Donald J.
Trump is the cause of all ofthis.
Not because it's true, becauseit's useful to their narrative.
(06:54):
What is their narrative?
You know, and what actually ishappening in Iran?
Their narrative is todestabilize the United States
and the Western world.
That's it.
The truth of the matter is thishas been going on for decades,
and it's just come to a head.
Now, let's talk about what'sactually happening in Iran.
(07:17):
Because where the mediapriorities become painfully
clear, Iran is experiencingmassive protests, right?
Making these little ice riotslook like romporoom.
Okay.
And has been collapsing sincethe 1970s.
(07:39):
It's corruption, sanctions,mismanagement, regime
incompetence, right?
And the government response hasbeen brutal.
What's brutal?
Not giving pamphlets out thatthis is going to be a bad area
to be in in Gaza.
They're going in the streets andshooting people without cause,
(08:00):
without reason, withoutanything, nonviolent, standing
in the street and just murderingTiananmen Square on steroids.
But we forget Tiananmen Square.
The Islamic Republic has cut offthe internet.
They've shut down thecommunications.
They've deployed security forcesagainst all civilians.
(08:22):
They're rounding up protesters.
Tens of thousands may be dead orimprisoned.
This is not speculation.
This is not my opinion.
This is actually happening.
Where are the Democrats rallyingin the street?
Why haven't we traded out theGaza flag for the Iranian flag?
(08:46):
Where's the support?
SPEAKER_00 (08:49):
So while we just lost Stuart there.
Oh well.
Stuart, we lost you there,buddy.
SPEAKER_02 (08:54):
Uh I'm gonna say.
SPEAKER_00 (08:57):
We lost you there, sir.
What can you try that one moretime?
SPEAKER_02 (09:01):
Here is the most important sentence I'm gonna
say.
It isn't the United States thatopened fire on protesters.
It isn't Israel that shut downthe internet and communication
and arrest people that protestin the street.
It isn't the Republican Partyterrorizing Iranian civilians.
(09:22):
It's the Iranian regime, theAyatollah, the fringe right that
took power in the 70s.
And you know, you know, we havea lot of friends that are
Persian.
Some are Christian, some areMuslim, that are not political
activists, that are postingpictures of their families in
(09:45):
the 70s.
The women were beautiful, themen were beautiful, the streets
were like one of the mostincredible villas in the world.
But notice how the story getsblurred.
You don't see the wall-to-wallcoverage of the regime and the
crimes from what it was to whatit is.
(10:06):
You don't see the nightlybreakdowns, who's ordering the
crackdowns and the murders?
You don't see the sustainedoutage over political prisoners.
Instead, you see speculativeop-ed.
Could American rhetoric beescalating this tension?
Are Republican lawmakersprovoking this conflict?
(10:28):
Is standing too firm, dangerous?
Funny how the blame is alwaystraveling west and to the West
Wing with a Republican inoffice.
There is a reflex in Americanmedia.
It's a muscle memory response.
No matter what happens in theworld, the first instinct is how
(10:51):
it isn't America's fault, how isit Donald J.
Trump's fault?
How is it a Republican's fault?
Not why is the regime killingits own people?
Not why is the government fearof free speech and shuts down
the internet for all.
No, this is a question of whatis Washington doing wrong, but
(11:12):
what is Washington doing right?
Let's be honest.
Republicans involved arereflexing into an overdrive.
This president doesn't talkabout fake red lines.
Go ask Maduro.
They picked them up inhandcuffs.
(11:33):
Was that the smartest thing todo in the world stage?
Probably not.
But it sets a conservativestandpoint.
What I say is what I'm going todo, sanctions, deterrence, and
pressures are the same.
They're ignored by the Iranians.
The Ayatollah goes like this toyou death to America, death to
(11:57):
little Satan, death to all thatare infidels.
And you're an infidel.
Even if you're a Muslimlistening to this audience,
you're an infidelity by theirstandards.
Look at the streets from 1971and look at them in 2021.
(12:18):
Look at them at 2026.
Suddenly, the experts are onescalation.
Suddenly, they're deeplyconcerned about rhetoric.
Suddenly they're warning abouthawkish extremism.
David, I can frame the rest ofthis rant.
Like I said, President Trump andwhat narratives snap things into
(12:39):
place.
If Trump stands tough, it'sreckless.
If Republic says deterrencematters, it's dangerous.
If conservatives say appeasementdoesn't work, they're
warmongering.
I don't know.
Do you remember Obama blowingthe fuck out of people?
Come on.
But when democraticadministrations pursue
(12:59):
engagement that fail, when itdeals in empowerment, the regime
pressures and blames the right.
And that's not diplomacy.
That's the outcome with adifferent label.
SPEAKER_01 (13:14):
Let me remind everybody about Syria.
Where Obama said, here's the redline with Syria.
And when Assad and when Assadsaid, No, I don't listen, here's
the red line.
No, here's the red line.
No, here's the red line.
You cross that red line, orelse.
Hundreds of thousands, hundredsof thousands of Syrians were
(13:36):
killed.
Using gas, military.
And what was the world'sresponse to it?
Poor Syrians will take them inas immigrants because we failed
them.
That didn't bring back theirdead, that didn't bring back
their families.
It took an overhaul of theregime in Syria to start some
(13:58):
sort of change.
And it'll take more years, a fewmore years to see what ends up
happening in Syria in light ofwhat the latest, you know,
latest change in there.
But Stuart, here's the funnypart of what you just said, and
I and I'll give you a little bitof irony.
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatarare begging the United States to
back off.
(14:20):
They're begging them.
Why?
Not to save the people of Iran,but but to save the oil prices.
Oh, oil matters more.
Their richess matters more.
Because if you have a war, thePersian Gulf could get cut off.
And now it becomes a problem.
(14:42):
It's not about people and humanrights, it's about their
pockets.
But why should we say anythingabout that?
The United States and Israel arepreparing right now for
retaliation by Iran.
When Iran fired unprovokedrockets into civilian homes in
(15:03):
Israel, the world stayed quiet.
So why are we surprised why arewe surprised that they're
staying quiet now for hittingfor killing their own people?
Duh.
It's the same attitude.
The United States, you said ityourself, you know, it's just
amazing to see that the thatthat the the the American and
(15:24):
Western media has more likethey're they're paralyzed.
They don't even know what to do.
And you're right, the blame ison Trump, not on the ITOLA, not
on their track record ofhorrific human rights
violations, which by the way,we're not allowed to bring to
the United Nations because itgets shot down.
(15:45):
This move right now by DonaldTrump of strength, deterrence
through strength.
You know, there are people hateit, Stuart of one thing.
The media, the media, becausethey're such experts, warned
everybody that if the UnitedStates attacks Iran, there'll be
(16:06):
a third world war.
How do we do it on the thirdworld war there, Stuart?
There.
And people say, Oh, we're gonnaget a third world war.
We're not there.
We're not there.
United States cut off part ofthe head with respect to Iran by
going into Venezuela.
I don't know what's gonnahappen.
(16:27):
We have no idea, but that hurtIran with its terrorism support,
with oil, with all kinds ofthings.
The United States has to be theworld's police because when you
don't have police, you haveanarchy.
And unfortunately, the West islike so as no intestinal
(16:48):
fortitude story.
Where is England?
Where is France?
They're kowtowning, they'repetrified, they don't want to do
anything.
Unbelievable how there could beincredible world order, but
everybody is saying, no, not Iwill not get involved because
I'm afraid of the Iranianretaliation.
(17:10):
So you'd rather that theycontinue to kill an unlimited
number of their own people, justso you what can get elected?
So you don't you worry about oilprices?
Like it's it's just thisincredible mindset, and the
media wants you said it's justtrying to sell it, they're just
(17:31):
trying to sell newspapers andads and whatever, all because
anarchy sells, and because youcan't, you know, here's the
dichotomy, right?
In Gaza, journalists couldn't goin without the Israeli army,
media went ballistic.
Israel has no right to in to toto prevent us from going into
(17:53):
Gaza.
Why aren't you shouting thatabout Iran?
Iran's not letting you in.
Israel doesn't have a right todefend herself.
The Iranian people don't have aright to defend themselves.
SPEAKER_02 (18:10):
And David, uh, you're back.
SPEAKER_01 (18:14):
Look, to me, sorry guys, internet.
I think the Iranian regime iscoming in and cutting us off.
The bottom line, folks, and withthis, we're gonna have to wrap
it up.
At the end of the day, everybodywho stood there and said, We
stand with Gaza, you're full ofshit.
Stand with stand with theIranian people, stand with the
(18:37):
people that you claim to protectand defend.
Or is it just the hate onAmerica, the hate on Jews, the
hate on Israel?
Be honest with yourself.
Be honest with everybody.
You know, the Roger Waters andthe and of this world, to to the
to the entertainers and to allthe politicians, the Tuck, where
are you, Tucker Carlson?
(18:57):
Oh, wait a second, Qatar won'tlet you do this.
I forgot.
Where are you, Candace Owens?
Oh no, you also won't do itbecause you can't blame the
Jews.
Iran's gonna fall apart, people,if we don't get involved.
And the United States has todeter the Iranian regime from
continuing the slaughter.
(19:17):
Otherwise, how could you go tobed at night knowing that you
let that go?
Stuart, last word to you, myfriend.
SPEAKER_02 (19:24):
We should hold Tehran accountable for killing
its own citizens, jailing itsdissidents, silencing speech,
crushing protest movements, notspinning every headline into the
same abstract geopolitical scaredesigned to scare suburban moms.
Viewers and discreditconservative leadership.
(19:47):
This isn't about rushing to war.
It's not about recklessintervention, it's about telling
the truth.
The media, the media doesn't.
Want clarity, they want chaos,they want panic, they want the
Republicans on defensive.
(20:08):
But Americans are smarter thanthat.
They see the protesters in thestreets that all have the same
signs printed, right?
They have the same tents fromthe same company, right?
It is amazing what they have puttogether, right?
(20:29):
We can recognize real brutalitywithout manufacturing hysteria.
We can support freedom withoutmedia-engineered fake news.
Let's not get ABC, you know, uhmakeup crew out there.
We can reject the idea ofstanding firm equals extremism.
(20:54):
Iran isn't the stories the mediawant it to be.
unknown (20:59):
It's the people.
SPEAKER_01 (21:03):
If Doctors Without Borders doesn't wake up and
start screaming here, cheers,guys.
We'll catch you on Friday.
Let me tell you, there are tens of thousands,
hundreds of thousands ofIranians right now panicking
because the Iranian governmenthas decided human rights don't
matter.
Only the lives of the mulas,only what they believe is right.
And if you don't count out tothe government and to their to
the ayatolas, you're dead.
Stuart, today they're gonna hangsomeone in public on TV just to
(00:37):
show you that the ayatollahsrule, and if you don't follow
our rule, you pay the price.
But you know what's interesting,Stuart?
And we talked about this onMonday in our rant.
It's fascinating to see thereaction this world has.
You know, the Golden Globes, wetalked about that.
Not one, not one stood up andsaid, I stand with Iran.
(01:00):
Not one feminist, where are thefeminist movements to stand up
with the women of Iran who arebeing beaten because they're
wearing, if they don't wear thehijab properly, they'll get
beaten to death.
To death.
(01:25):
Oh, they must be brown,therefore, they're on our the
left side.
Oh, we can't look what's goingon.
They're cutting off electricity,they're cutting off phones,
they're allegedly blockingaccess to hospitals to help
injure people.
And yet, what are we doing?
(01:47):
I strongly condemn what's goingon in Iran.
Because these texts on X reallyfreaking matter to the people of
the streets of Iran.
Welcome back, everybody.
I'm David Salmany, StuartBrisgal.
We are the Rant Network.
What we do here every Monday,Wednesday, Friday at noon
Eastern is we rant about thestuff that you guys keep talking
about, hearing about, but youknow what?
(02:08):
Can't say it in public becauseGod forbid someone's gonna yell
at you.
And today we don't care who'syelling at us because what
matters is what's going on.
We will undercut go undercoverand do and find the stuff that
you know what could be a littlebit controversial, and this is
one of those topics.
So sit back today as we rantabout what's going on thousands
(02:29):
of miles away, but have animpact here in North America.
And I'll tell you why I saythat, Story, and I'm gonna leave
this to you in just a secondbecause I see you're ready to
jump on this.
Here's the problem (02:38):
why do I say it impacts us here?
Because as humans, for the lastfive years, we had the Ukraine
war, and we all stood up and weall we we we we boycotted
Russia, we've we've cut offRussia, which we said we were
gonna be on the Ukrainian side.
The Israel Hamas thing, theworld just the the the
(03:04):
shredding, the tearing apart,the overblown, the lies, all
this kind of stuff.
It went from one extreme toanother.
And here we have Iranians whoare for the again on the streets
of Tehran and other parts ofIran protesting.
And Stuart's famous cricketskeep sounding.
(03:24):
Because why wouldn't anybodystand up for the people of
Terror of Iran?
Stuart, I'm sickened because atevery any moment we something
disastrous is gonna happen.
SPEAKER_02 (03:37):
Well, right now, I mean, literally, right now, the
American news media or theWestern news media is absolutely
losing their mind over Iran.
And I don't mean reporting, Idon't mean journalism, I mean
spinning.
Like they're flailing.
(03:58):
I mean they're hyperventilatinginto a microphone while
pretending they're delivering asober analysis of what's going
on in Iran.
You know, here's a key point youneed to understand before I go
any further.
This isn't happening becausesuddenly there's some brand new
(04:19):
intelligence out of bomb, right?
It's not because Iran crossedsome historical irreversible red
line overnight.
It's not because the world wokeup this morning on the brink of
something fundamentallydifferent that hasn't been going
on since the 70s.
(04:40):
Nope.
It's happening because panicsells, narrative sells.
The undermining Republicanforeign policy sells in almost
all the newsrooms.
It's like a media incentive.
The modern American mediadoesn't report foreign policy
(05:03):
anymore, it produces emotion,fear, urgency, moral panic, and
Iran is the perfect vehicletoday for that because it's not
Jews and it's not Donald J.
Trump.
Iran is a distant enough placefrom the Americas to know any
details.
(05:24):
It's complicated enough,nuisance, that's been buried and
blurred.
The scary thought is that a slapin the world crisis on every
headline never changes and nevergets challenged.
You know, we could write thatthey're burning women in the
(05:46):
street, but yet in Israel, we'regiving out pamphlets saying
don't go there, and someone getsa black eye, and the Israelis
are put out to pass.
They're about to hang someone ina square in Iran.
You know, we don't know ifthey've murdered 25,000 people
or 250,000 people.
(06:07):
Why though?
Why don't we know?
Because there's no freedom ofthe press and no visibility.
And like we had said early inthe green room, that Elon Musk
is uh opened up Starlink andthey're going door to door,
breaking them, taking them, andkilling people to have them.
So what do they do?
They create a constant sense ofimpeding catastrophe caused by
(06:32):
Donald J.
Trump.
They frame every development asan escalation because of Donald
J.
Trump.
They speak in breathlesshypotheticals instead of giving
facts, saying how Donald J.
Trump is the cause of all ofthis.
Not because it's true, becauseit's useful to their narrative.
(06:54):
What is their narrative?
You know, and what actually ishappening in Iran?
Their narrative is todestabilize the United States
and the Western world.
That's it.
The truth of the matter is thishas been going on for decades,
and it's just come to a head.
Now, let's talk about what'sactually happening in Iran.
(07:17):
Because where the mediapriorities become painfully
clear, Iran is experiencingmassive protests, right?
Making these little ice riotslook like romporoom.
Okay.
And has been collapsing sincethe 1970s.
(07:39):
It's corruption, sanctions,mismanagement, regime
incompetence, right?
And the government response hasbeen brutal.
What's brutal?
Not giving pamphlets out thatthis is going to be a bad area
to be in in Gaza.
They're going in the streets andshooting people without cause,
(08:00):
without reason, withoutanything, nonviolent, standing
in the street and just murderingTiananmen Square on steroids.
But we forget Tiananmen Square.
The Islamic Republic has cut offthe internet.
They've shut down thecommunications.
They've deployed security forcesagainst all civilians.
(08:22):
They're rounding up protesters.
Tens of thousands may be dead orimprisoned.
This is not speculation.
This is not my opinion.
This is actually happening.
Where are the Democrats rallyingin the street?
Why haven't we traded out theGaza flag for the Iranian flag?
(08:46):
Where's the support?
SPEAKER_00 (08:49):
So while we just lost Stuart there.
Oh well.
Stuart, we lost you there,buddy.
SPEAKER_02 (08:54):
Uh I'm gonna say.
SPEAKER_00 (08:57):
We lost you there, sir.
What can you try that one moretime?
SPEAKER_02 (09:01):
Here is the most important sentence I'm gonna
say.
It isn't the United States thatopened fire on protesters.
It isn't Israel that shut downthe internet and communication
and arrest people that protestin the street.
It isn't the Republican Partyterrorizing Iranian civilians.
(09:22):
It's the Iranian regime, theAyatollah, the fringe right that
took power in the 70s.
And you know, you know, we havea lot of friends that are
Persian.
Some are Christian, some areMuslim, that are not political
activists, that are postingpictures of their families in
(09:45):
the 70s.
The women were beautiful, themen were beautiful, the streets
were like one of the mostincredible villas in the world.
But notice how the story getsblurred.
You don't see the wall-to-wallcoverage of the regime and the
crimes from what it was to whatit is.
(10:06):
You don't see the nightlybreakdowns, who's ordering the
crackdowns and the murders?
You don't see the sustainedoutage over political prisoners.
Instead, you see speculativeop-ed.
Could American rhetoric beescalating this tension?
Are Republican lawmakersprovoking this conflict?
(10:28):
Is standing too firm, dangerous?
Funny how the blame is alwaystraveling west and to the West
Wing with a Republican inoffice.
There is a reflex in Americanmedia.
It's a muscle memory response.
No matter what happens in theworld, the first instinct is how
(10:51):
it isn't America's fault, how isit Donald J.
Trump's fault?
How is it a Republican's fault?
Not why is the regime killingits own people?
Not why is the government fearof free speech and shuts down
the internet for all.
No, this is a question of whatis Washington doing wrong, but
(11:12):
what is Washington doing right?
Let's be honest.
Republicans involved arereflexing into an overdrive.
This president doesn't talkabout fake red lines.
Go ask Maduro.
They picked them up inhandcuffs.
(11:33):
Was that the smartest thing todo in the world stage?
Probably not.
But it sets a conservativestandpoint.
What I say is what I'm going todo, sanctions, deterrence, and
pressures are the same.
They're ignored by the Iranians.
The Ayatollah goes like this toyou death to America, death to
(11:57):
little Satan, death to all thatare infidels.
And you're an infidel.
Even if you're a Muslimlistening to this audience,
you're an infidelity by theirstandards.
Look at the streets from 1971and look at them in 2021.
(12:18):
Look at them at 2026.
Suddenly, the experts are onescalation.
Suddenly, they're deeplyconcerned about rhetoric.
Suddenly they're warning abouthawkish extremism.
David, I can frame the rest ofthis rant.
Like I said, President Trump andwhat narratives snap things into
(12:39):
place.
If Trump stands tough, it'sreckless.
If Republic says deterrencematters, it's dangerous.
If conservatives say appeasementdoesn't work, they're
warmongering.
I don't know.
Do you remember Obama blowingthe fuck out of people?
Come on.
But when democraticadministrations pursue
(12:59):
engagement that fail, when itdeals in empowerment, the regime
pressures and blames the right.
And that's not diplomacy.
That's the outcome with adifferent label.
SPEAKER_01 (13:14):
Let me remind everybody about Syria.
Where Obama said, here's the redline with Syria.
And when Assad and when Assadsaid, No, I don't listen, here's
the red line.
No, here's the red line.
No, here's the red line.
You cross that red line, orelse.
Hundreds of thousands, hundredsof thousands of Syrians were
(13:36):
killed.
Using gas, military.
And what was the world'sresponse to it?
Poor Syrians will take them inas immigrants because we failed
them.
That didn't bring back theirdead, that didn't bring back
their families.
It took an overhaul of theregime in Syria to start some
(13:58):
sort of change.
And it'll take more years, a fewmore years to see what ends up
happening in Syria in light ofwhat the latest, you know,
latest change in there.
But Stuart, here's the funnypart of what you just said, and
I and I'll give you a little bitof irony.
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatarare begging the United States to
back off.
(14:20):
They're begging them.
Why?
Not to save the people of Iran,but but to save the oil prices.
Oh, oil matters more.
Their richess matters more.
Because if you have a war, thePersian Gulf could get cut off.
And now it becomes a problem.
(14:42):
It's not about people and humanrights, it's about their
pockets.
But why should we say anythingabout that?
The United States and Israel arepreparing right now for
retaliation by Iran.
When Iran fired unprovokedrockets into civilian homes in
(15:03):
Israel, the world stayed quiet.
So why are we surprised why arewe surprised that they're
staying quiet now for hittingfor killing their own people?
Duh.
It's the same attitude.
The United States, you said ityourself, you know, it's just
amazing to see that the thatthat the the the American and
(15:24):
Western media has more likethey're they're paralyzed.
They don't even know what to do.
And you're right, the blame ison Trump, not on the ITOLA, not
on their track record ofhorrific human rights
violations, which by the way,we're not allowed to bring to
the United Nations because itgets shot down.
(15:45):
This move right now by DonaldTrump of strength, deterrence
through strength.
You know, there are people hateit, Stuart of one thing.
The media, the media, becausethey're such experts, warned
everybody that if the UnitedStates attacks Iran, there'll be
(16:06):
a third world war.
How do we do it on the thirdworld war there, Stuart?
There.
And people say, Oh, we're gonnaget a third world war.
We're not there.
We're not there.
United States cut off part ofthe head with respect to Iran by
going into Venezuela.
I don't know what's gonnahappen.
(16:27):
We have no idea, but that hurtIran with its terrorism support,
with oil, with all kinds ofthings.
The United States has to be theworld's police because when you
don't have police, you haveanarchy.
And unfortunately, the West islike so as no intestinal
(16:48):
fortitude story.
Where is England?
Where is France?
They're kowtowning, they'repetrified, they don't want to do
anything.
Unbelievable how there could beincredible world order, but
everybody is saying, no, not Iwill not get involved because
I'm afraid of the Iranianretaliation.
(17:10):
So you'd rather that theycontinue to kill an unlimited
number of their own people, justso you what can get elected?
So you don't you worry about oilprices?
Like it's it's just thisincredible mindset, and the
media wants you said it's justtrying to sell it, they're just
(17:31):
trying to sell newspapers andads and whatever, all because
anarchy sells, and because youcan't, you know, here's the
dichotomy, right?
In Gaza, journalists couldn't goin without the Israeli army,
media went ballistic.
Israel has no right to in to toto prevent us from going into
(17:53):
Gaza.
Why aren't you shouting thatabout Iran?
Iran's not letting you in.
Israel doesn't have a right todefend herself.
The Iranian people don't have aright to defend themselves.
SPEAKER_02 (18:10):
And David, uh, you're back.
SPEAKER_01 (18:14):
Look, to me, sorry guys, internet.
I think the Iranian regime iscoming in and cutting us off.
The bottom line, folks, and withthis, we're gonna have to wrap
it up.
At the end of the day, everybodywho stood there and said, We
stand with Gaza, you're full ofshit.
Stand with stand with theIranian people, stand with the
(18:37):
people that you claim to protectand defend.
Or is it just the hate onAmerica, the hate on Jews, the
hate on Israel?
Be honest with yourself.
Be honest with everybody.
You know, the Roger Waters andthe and of this world, to to the
to the entertainers and to allthe politicians, the Tuck, where
are you, Tucker Carlson?
(18:57):
Oh, wait a second, Qatar won'tlet you do this.
I forgot.
Where are you, Candace Owens?
Oh no, you also won't do itbecause you can't blame the
Jews.
Iran's gonna fall apart, people,if we don't get involved.
And the United States has todeter the Iranian regime from
continuing the slaughter.
(19:17):
Otherwise, how could you go tobed at night knowing that you
let that go?
Stuart, last word to you, myfriend.
SPEAKER_02 (19:24):
We should hold Tehran accountable for killing
its own citizens, jailing itsdissidents, silencing speech,
crushing protest movements, notspinning every headline into the
same abstract geopolitical scaredesigned to scare suburban moms.
Viewers and discreditconservative leadership.
(19:47):
This isn't about rushing to war.
It's not about recklessintervention, it's about telling
the truth.
The media, the media doesn't.
Want clarity, they want chaos,they want panic, they want the
Republicans on defensive.
(20:08):
But Americans are smarter thanthat.
They see the protesters in thestreets that all have the same
signs printed, right?
They have the same tents fromthe same company, right?
It is amazing what they have puttogether, right?
(20:29):
We can recognize real brutalitywithout manufacturing hysteria.
We can support freedom withoutmedia-engineered fake news.
Let's not get ABC, you know, uhmakeup crew out there.
We can reject the idea ofstanding firm equals extremism.
(20:54):
Iran isn't the stories the mediawant it to be.
unknown (20:59):
It's the people.
SPEAKER_01 (21:03):
If Doctors Without Borders doesn't wake up and
start screaming here, cheers,guys.
We'll catch you on Friday.
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