Seyed Mohammad Marandi is a professor at Tehran University and a former advisor to Iran's Nuclear Negotiation Team. Prof. Marandi argues that even a small token attack on Iran will trigger total war.
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Ben Norton joins the show to discuss Iran's powerful response to Trump's threats, China & Russia's critical support which has ramped up in recent days, and why the US is on the back foot on all fronts against Iran and the multipolar world.
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Pepe Escobar joins the show to discuss reports of US Navy in retreat as Iran's war maneuvers send Trump scrambling for a face saving move. Meanwhile, Russia & BRICS are engaging in naval drills themselves as the risk of global confrontation enters a new phase. What is the impact of Trump's Iran Nightmare on the world?
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The discussion examines a potential U.S.–Israel military campaign against Iran, emphasizing that this scenario is fundamentally different from past limited strikes. From the Iranian perspective, previous attacks were framed as narrow and restrained; this time, signals suggest a broader campaign aimed at regime collapse or even state disintegration. That shift would dramatically change Iran’s calculations and response.
The speaker argues that air campaigns alone rarely achieve decisive political outcomes. Historical examples—World War II bombing, Kosovo in 1999, and Serbia’s resilient air defenses—show that even prolonged, intensive air operations struggle to neutralize defenses or force capitulation without political or diplomatic leverage. Applied to Iran, this raises serious doubts about expectations of a short or clean operation.
Iran’s defensive capabilities are now significantly stronger than in the past. In addition to Russian systems like the S-300, Iran has integrated advanced Chinese HQ-9B long-range air defense systems, reportedly capable of engaging stealth aircraft and resisting electronic countermeasures. Even if these systems are only 70–80% effective, they could impose meaningful losses on attacking forces.
More importantly, Iran now has substantial offensive capabilities. Unlike Serbia in 1999, Iran can strike back with a large ballistic missile arsenal. If attacked, Iranian leaders have clearly stated they would respond without restraint—targeting U.S. bases, radar sites, command-and-control hubs, ships at sea, and Israel. Aircraft carriers and naval assets do not need to be sunk to be neutralized; even limited damage could render them ineffective and politically shocking.
The discussion stresses that what some planners assume would be a brief 10–14 day operation could stretch much longer, while the U.S. and its allies may face serious constraints on missile inventories and resupply. Precision missiles are complex and slow to produce, and current stockpiles may be closer to depletion than publicly acknowledged.
Although some military and political figures publicly advocate the military option as the “best” path to regime collapse, the speaker argues that this view understates the risks. A sustained campaign would likely involve massive strikes in the first 24 hours, followed by prolonged escalation in which Iran may outlast Western missile supplies.
The conclusion is stark: this would be a high-risk operation with unpredictable consequences, likely involving widespread regional damage, heavy retaliation, and escalation across all conventional means short of nuclear weapons. Historical caution—such as Eisenhower’s rejection of escalation in Korea—is offered as a reminder that wars intended to be decisive and controlled often become long, costly, and uncontrollable.
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Rejoice! The Great Reset is yesterday's news, and the great reject is upon us! What does it mean that the US is withdrawing from the IPCC? That the UN is on the ropes? That Davos was as big of a flop as last year's COP? Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.com joins us to discuss these issues and the sea change that has taken place in public opinion on global warming and globalism in the past year.
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Just over a week ago, the U.S. Department of Justice released three and a half million of the six million pages of documents in the Epstein files. So, what do the Epstein files really reveal? Let's find out.
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David Icke is a British writer and public speaker who rose to prominence in the early 1990s after a dramatic personal transformation and went on to become one of the world’s most controversial alternative thinkers, challenging mainstream narratives on power, consciousness, and global control structures.
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Trump is cornered as the Iran reveals a devastating secret about its missile capabilities and the lengths the US is going to prevent feeling their wrath. Meanwhile, Israel is begging the US to go to war with Netanyahu rushing to Washington on his hands and knees. Geopolitical and military analyst Justin Podur joins the show for the first time to SITREP the coming US-Iran war and discuss what's next.
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