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“I'll say yet still the Ayatollahs and IRGC who rule Iran”
“they're going to obviously, you know, be a threat to the region and to Americans as soon as they are able to recover and restore themselves.”
“If the United States were able to open the straight, which is the only leverage that Iran has right now, there's a high likelihood that over the course of the next 2 years, the regime will fall into a state of complete collapse, unable to even pay its hoodlams to murder people in the streets.”
“Well, I won’t speculate as to how far away they are, but they are certainly trying to achieve – and this is not new. They are trying to achieve intercontinental ballistic missiles.”
“But the regime showed it would use extreme force to suppress disscent. It killed at least 7,000, probably far more in the past wave. Many leaders were killed. Many others were arrested.”
“But the regime showed it would use extreme force to suppress disscent. It killed at least 7,000, probably far more in the past wave. Many leaders were killed. Many others were arrested.”
“It has always been the policy of the United States in particular my administration that this terrorist regime can never have a nuclear weapon. I'll say it again. They can never have a nuclear weapon.”
“It has always been the policy of the United States in particular my administration that this terrorist regime can never have a nuclear weapon. I'll say it again. They can never have a nuclear weapon.”
“And the Islamic Republic of Iran is in the business of destruction. And so those neighboring countries are rightfully worried that, you know, they could primarily suffer the blowback.”
“I think from the Israeli vantage point so far we've always been addressing the symptoms of Iran's malign behavior, its proxies, its missiles, its nuclear program, but the the underlying cause is the nature of the regime.”
“And the Islamic Republic of Iran is in the business of destruction. And so those neighboring countries are rightfully worried that, you know, they could primarily suffer the blowback.”
“They with proxies can and could shut down the straits of Hormuz for a period of time. They can engage in mining uh of the straits and the Houthis can engage in strikes... They could potentially engage in strikes against uh critical energy infrastructure um in the region.”
“The other thing about the Islamic Republic of Iran is that it is probably one of the most strategically lonely countries by themselves right now.”
“President Trump's State of the Union speech indicated Iran harbored sinister ambitions, developing missiles that could threaten the United States, and that they were rebuilding their nuclear program even though they had been told not to.”
“But people that are in there in Iran, it's a different story. They hate this regime. 80 plus% of Iranians hate this regime. They want it to be gone.”
“But people that are in there in Iran, it's a different story. They hate this regime. 80 plus% of Iranians hate this regime. They want it to be gone.”
“Even so, and I do not make this statement lightly, the Iranian regime seeks to kill. The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost and we may have casualties.”
“I'm just very curious. Are we supposed to just sit back, let a nation that says death to America, build their nukes and do whatever they want? It's not as if they're hiding. No. No. death to all of you and your country and we're supposed to let them do it.”
“Iran has all the rockets they need if all they want to do is attack Israel. They proved that a few months ago.”
“But people that are in there in Iran, it's a different story. They hate this regime. 80 plus% of Iranians hate this regime. They want it to be gone. They want to be free.”
“Has Iran said death to America over and over? And I want people to understand this. Death to America. Meaning, I hope every single one of you dies and including your country. I hope it gets wiped off the planet.”
“So meaning if they take him out, everybody in the regime has one of two choices. It's either last minute desperation. Light everything up. Shoot all the missiles out that you can, right? Everything you got going on. Last minute miracle. It's almost like kamicazi. If I'm going down, I'm killing everybody.”
“Even so, and I do not make this statement lightly, the Iranian regime seeks to kill. The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost and we may have casualties.”
“We have completely eradicated the two top layers of the Iranian leadership.”
“as this representative sits here in this body representing a regime that has killed tens of thousands of its own people and imprisoned many more simply for wanting freedom from your tyranny.”
“2003 to 2019 Iranianbacked militias in Iraq provided training EFPs and IEDs responsible for at least 603 US troop death. 2023 Iranbacked militias have engaged in over 216 attacks in US bases.”
“Iraq provided training EFPs and IEDs responsible for at least 603 US troop death died and many more injured accounting for more than 17% of total US fatalities in Iraq.”
“The Ayatollahs are the worst possible regime at this point barring some sort of cataclysmic and unforeseeable failure. If you have somebody who's worse with more resources speeding toward an even worse thing, that that's it.”
“Iranian officials that I've been speaking to are saying that Iran is a society that has built horizontal institutions over the course of decades since the 1979 revolution and that particularly after the June strikes that Ali was just speaking of. They created an updated infrastructure to handle leadership strikes, to handle higher level assassinations.”
“Everybody thinks now that Iran has something like 2,000 ballistic missiles that can hit Israel. as far as Israel and they haven't used those all those missiles yet.”
“They believe that a premature ceasefire, one in which after the US has scored a major victory, if they were to accept it, all it would do, it would allow the US and Israel to regroup, remobilize, and then 6 months later relaunch a war. If there's to be a ceasefire, it has to be a prolonged and durable one.”
“Okay you got a 50% shot that the regime survives as a military dictatorship. This is actually not great because it just means that just because you killed the head off, all these other heads kind of spawn back in like what is that called? Hydra or whatever.”
“From Thyrron's perspective, the country possesses the capacity and preparedness to sustain highintensity conflict for a period of approximately 60 to 90 days within the strategic calculus.”
“to sustain highintensity conflict for a period of approximately 60 to 90 days within the strategic calculus. They're going to say, "Let's take as many casualties as we can to sustain for 60 to 90 days, inflict maximum damage on all of these people."”
“He said listen I was an informal adviser to the nuclear talks back under the Obama administration and there is no doubt that what the Iranians were offering here went way beyond what Obama was able to achieve. They offered significantly more concessions.”
“They are responsible for hundreds of deaths in the war in Iraq. It was EFP if I recall which is a very specific deadly type of IED that was dramatically more lethal than anything else that was seen on the battlefield.”
“Um, the reality is that right now it's a war of attrition between the United States and Iran. And Iranians have preparing 20 years for this conflict. And now they have a pretty good strategy of how to weaken and ultimately destroy the American empire.”
“But the regime's grip on power looks unusually tenuous now, and it's facing the gravest threat yet to its survival.”
“One possible end point for this round of hostilities would be that the Iranian uh regime simply runs out of missiles and is incapable after a few days of keeping up uh its volleys of missiles at the Gulf and at Israel.”
“that chants death to America and is lying to the United States and the world about their secret ambitions to possess a nuclear bomb.”
“Iran has been very cautious about the US homeland. And there is a debate about how much capability Iran has here. But I've always said that Iran would be very cautious because it would want to save this capability for a really dire situation.”
“We're speaking about one of the most oppressive regimes in the world that only recently killed its own people who were protesting in a peaceful way.”
“Since 1979, the terrorist Iranian regime has actively and intentionally facilitated the killings of Americans. They chant death to America and fund other radical terrorists who attack our country.”
“Since 1979, the terrorist Iranian regime has actively and intentionally facilitated the killings of Americans. They chant death to America and fund other radical terrorists who attack our country.”
“In asymmetric warfare, survival is victory, and it is clear in this existential moment, the main goal the Iranians are trying to achieve is to survive in some form or fashion. So simply not to lose.”
“Since 1979, the terrorist Iranian regime has actively and intentionally facilitated the killings of Americans. They chant death to America and fund other radical terrorists who attack our country.”
“Since 1979, the terrorist Iranian regime has actively and intentionally facilitated the killings of Americans. They chant death to America and fund other radical terrorists who attack our country.”
“That's obviously an unacceptable decision for the second choice there is unacceptable to the president, which is why he made this decision. This is a rogue terrorist regime that has been threatening the United States, our allies, and our people for 47 years.”
“IT'S THEIR WHOLE PHILOSOPHY WHERE THEY COME FROM. IT'S TERRIBLE WHERE THEY KILL 35,000. ... IT'S A VERY EVIL IDEOLOGY. AND NOBODY'S REALLY SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT.”
“Third, we're ensuring that the world's number one sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon. Never going to have a nuclear weapon.”
“An Iranian regime armed with long range missiles and nuclear weapons would be a dire threat to every American. We cannot allow a nation that raises terrorist armies to possess such weapons.”
“It's its navy um is uh mostly gone at this point. um and its air defense systems are mostly gone... there is command and control, but it's local senior commanders that are leading uh the response right now and and calling on the strikes.”
“It has always been the policy of the United States in particular my administration that this terrorist regime can never have a nuclear weapon. I'll say it again. They can never have a nuclear weapon.”
“It has always been the policy of the United States in particular my administration that this terrorist regime can never have a nuclear weapon. I'll say it again. They can never have a nuclear weapon.”
“There's obviously considerable dissatisfaction and unrest within Iran at the regime. They do not have popular support. They are not really they they lack legitimacy.”
“There's obviously considerable dissatisfaction and unrest within Iran at the regime. They do not have popular support. They are not really they they lack legitimacy.”
“The regime has not lost its capacity for domestic repression. Even if it cannot fire missiles abroad, it can definitely kill protesters at home.”
“I mean, this is not a friendly government. Um, but was it an existential threat to the US? Absolutely not.”
“And one thing that they have telegraphed this time, whether it's an empty threat or not, they've telegraphed that they're they're going to regionalize the war if they're attacked. I think what they've telegraphed is that they will use their missiles against um US bases in the region, against oil oil installations in the region.”
“here the goals are much broader and it's not in America's backyard and there's a lot more potential for instability as a consequence. So, uh there's a lot to say.”
“The regime has not lost its capacity for domestic repression. Even if it cannot fire missiles abroad, it can definitely kill protesters at home.”
“I think that regime will continue to be very vulnerable because it will not have the economic capacity to provide basic services. It may not be able to provide energy and electricity to households and firms simultaneously.”
“In fact, there are several precedents that show that Iran has mastered the tactics of state terrorism. Let me give you a couple of examples. In 1979, Iranian agents shot and killed the nephew of the sha of Persia in the middle of Paris, an attack attributed to the Iranian regime.”
“But that does not mean that the Islamic regime will emerge from this intact because every transition erodes and every change in this type of regime leaves cracks. They're facing a large generation of Iranians who don't share the revolutionary ideas of 1979.”
“than trying to manage a regime that was already at its weakest point since 1979. I mean I think this is a key point. It was not a regime that was stronger than it ever had been in the past and was sort of deeply sort of threatening.”
“If you look at a map of Iran and the range of its missile capabilities, you'll see that their missiles can easily reach Israel and wreak havoc into the territory of American allies. These black squares show US bases throughout the Middle East vulnerable to Iranian missiles.”
“Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating eminent threats from the Iranian regime, a vicious group of very hard, terrible people.”
“But people that are in there in Iran, it's a different story. They hate this regime. 80 plus% of Iranians hate this regime. They want it to be gone.”
“Every one from the supreme leader on down, insists that Iran is not seeking to build a nuclear weapon. Those words were in the preface to, the JCPoA, the 2015 nuclear deal.”
“Iran’s regime is not yet faltering as America and Israel had hoped it would. It's more complex than other Middle Eastern dictatorships.”
“We have completely eradicated the two top layers of the Iranian leadership. The Navy's at the bottom of the sea and their missiles were going from 80 a day to now 20 a day.”
“The case is clear. Number one sponsor of terror in the world.”
“Their missile capacity has been slashed by 90%. Their ballistic missile capacity has been reduced by upward of 90%.”
“We attacked Car Island and knocked it literally destroyed everything on the island except for the area where uh the oil is.”
“I think what they're more looking at is inflicting enough pain and damage so that that is the motivating factor to any political framework that they will want to also include long-term guarantees.”
“So what Iran really wants if they're going to go the nuclear route is not one bomb. They want five or six bombs because the very first use of that bomb is probably going to be quote a test.”
“Do you consider this an existential threat to the Islamic Republic? >> It is an existential threat to the Islamic Republic”
“I believe them when they say look we are locked in for a long war this is what we are planning”
“They want there to be a devastating economic price and a devastating political price for uh for this president and his party. So that's what they're committed to.”
“They're the ones who decide which ships go in and which ships don't. And just to see as the evidence of that is that India is negotiating itself with Iran for free passage.”
“A US intelligence report indicates that Iran's leadership is still largely intact and is not at risk of collapse anytime soon.”
“I I see no such upset from the same exact people over the fact that the Iranian government has been holding hostage tens of millions of Iranians for 50 years.”
“in the Iranian constitution, if you read it, because I've gone through it, they want to export their radicalism and they want to end Israel.”
“So they have this massive surveillance state and they've suppressed the people.”
“I know Iran's got a goodsized embassy in Mexico that they built in 1964 under the Shaw.”
“You're afraid of them going to the World Cup because on the international stage on camera, they may not repeat your national anthem and everyone's going to say, 'Holy, you're embarrassed of what they could do to you.'”
“What's the most evil thing a country can do? >> Kill its own people. >> KILL ITS OWN PEOPLE.”
“The left should realize that though they helped the Islamists gain power in Iran, what happened as soon as the Islamists took power, they rounded up all the leftist and killed them.”
“the fear becomes you know they'll come out if if you know their tactics what are some things that could happen they would target the family families first”
“Iran's military has issued a new threat today, warning that it's now given the green light to strike US and Israeli economic targets in the region.”
“There was a ton of pressure for them to hey the next time the cameras are on you you better be like singing along to the national anthem because if you don't we're going to hurt your family back here.”
“The attacks in the straight of four moves have picked up pace as Iran uh is making it clear they are not interested in a diplomatic end to this war.”
“President Trump will determine when Iran is in a place of unconditional surrender.”
“That's why they fund Hamas. It's why they fund Hezbollah. It's why they fund the Houthies.”
“My point is within every regime there is some range of opinion. There is some range of fanaticism.”
“It will continue to pose a threat to the US, it will continue to horrifically oppress its own people.”
“I personally do not doubt for a minute that Iran wants nuclear weapons and that's what's been going on.”
“The internet has also been shut down on the 19 million people living inside Iran. The regime has shut down the internet from the first day of the war.”
“what we are seeing right now is is the regime trying to, to fully control the narrative by shutting down the internet”
“If Iran IRGC survives, the Iranian people who protested against it... are going to experience hell... the level of suppression”
“In recent years, the regime and its terror proxies have launched attacks on hundreds of commercial vessels.”
“Iran is being absolutely decimated. That's all I can say.”
“Rather, it could opt to keep the straight of Hormuz closed, a nightmare for the global economy.”
“we can't bring regime change ourselves through the air. This will have to come from the Iranian people.”
“We want to continue to build nuclear weapons.”
“But in terms of can they outlast Trump, the answer to that as of today appears to be yes.”
“I don't think Iran wants to close the straight because they need to keep moving their oil. And obviously it's of supreme importance to Iran to move that oil.”
“from the Iranian point of view, they have decided that this war that they are experiencing with the US and Israel is one of survival.”
“Iran is now waging war on global economy.”
“it doesn't look like the Iranian regime will be toppled.”
“THEY'VE BEEN A THREAT FOR A LONG TIME, BUT THEY'VE REALLY BEEN A THREAT.”
“Iran is not going to be taken out of the regional security order but rather it's going to be a dominant factor in the regional security order.”
“As they contend with the communications blackout imposed by their own government.”
“No, we never asked for a ceasefire and we have never asked even for negotiation.”
“Reports indicate the Iranians once again shut down much of the internet across their country to prevent civilians from being able to organize.”
“The Iranian government not confirming as Iran's remaining leaders are trying to consolidate.”
“Joe Kent... said that Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation.”
“TAKING ON A GOVERNMENT, AN ILLEGITIMATE TERRORIST REGIME WHOSE ROOTS ARE IN THE SEVENTH CENTURY OF BARBARISM... THE ENEMY THAT IS FIRING BALLISTIC MISSILES AT ALL OF ITS NEIGHBORS.”
“The mosaic doctrine is basically decentralizing command and control to much lower levels.”
“It said any protester that goes onto the street will be immediately shot and killed.”
“They killed a minimum two weeks ago 32,000 people.”
“THE IRANIAN REGIME THREATENS ENERGY SECURITY BY BLOCKING STRAIT OF HORMUZ AND ONLY LETTING CERTAIN TRAFFIC GO THROUGH.”
“Iran is sending million to two million barrels per day and China is getting this discounted oil when other nations are not allowed to go through.”
“Reports suggest the Iranian regime in response to the US and Israeli strike since the 28th of February has deployed some mines in the Hormoo Strait already. Although we haven't been able to independently verify this”
“If you imagine, the Iranian regime attacked 14 nations in retaliation last week.”
“that we take out the nuclear threat from Iran. And we've done that very strongly.”
“Iran declared war on us in the West 47 years ago.”
“The existential threat to the United States is nuclear weapons. America first operation we have is to prevent the United States from being threatened by nuclear weapons.”
“Well, this is 90% of Iran's total oil crude oil exports. Exports come through this island.”
“They're violent, vicious people, the leadership, violent, vicious people. They kill 32,000 protesters over the last three weeks.”
“IRAN HAS THREATENED THE WORLD FOR DECADES. THEY HAVE TRIED -- FIRST THEY THREATENED WITH THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ.”
“Iran warns of false flag attacks, accusing the US and Israel of targeting oil refineries in the Gulf.”
“wir teilen das Ziel äh dieses iranische Regime ähm muss aufhören. Es muss äh ersetzt werden durch eine demokratisch legitimierte Regierung.”
“The reason President Trump launched this military attack on Iran is because for 47 years, Iran has been the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism.”
“IRAN HAS FIRED SEVERAL MISSILES AT CENTRAL ISRAEL SINCE MIDNIGHT LAST NIGHT.”
“And also the fact that they are saying that they will target financial centers as well as military ones.”
“This is still a regime um that is likely to be able to repress its people and a regime that is likely to be able to support limited strikes, opportunistic strikes on uh tanker traffic, on oil infrastructure, on civilians in the region, on and promoting terror internationally.”
“The entire basic concept of the way the Ayatollah is have ruled has to be removed.”
“Iran has been a very belligerent and aggressive state since 1979.”
“tens of thousands of Iranian civilians mostly overwhelmingly were unarmed and were brutally murdered uh by the Iranian regime, by their own illegitimate government.”