Piers Morgan Uncensored - “Trump Has UNLEASHED” US And Israel ATTACK Iran | With Mike Pence & Naftali Bennett
Episode Date: March 2, 2026Following the US-Israeli attack on Iran, the Ayatollah is dead - and nobody should mourn a murderous dictator who presided for decades over state-sponsored terrorism across the world. But we don’t ...know if his replacement will be as bad - or worse. Donald Trump says Iranian dissidents should take this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sweep into power. But how? The President says the war should last four weeks. But as Iranian bombs rain down on Gulf states who did not want a war, we don’t know if it can be contained. Trump’s legacy will now be defined by what happens next, just as Tony Blair and George W Bush are defined by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A free and democratic Iran, allied with the West, would be an outcome that eclipses any of Trump’s domestic failures or successes. But the same thing applies with equal menace to a regime change that goes the way of US-led regime changes in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq and elsewhere. Piers Morgan speaks to former Vice President Mike Pence about the conflict in the Middle East as well as former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett. He’s also joined by his panel; The Young Turks Ana Kasparian, System Update host Glenn Greenwald, retired lieutenant colonel and IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus, former general and US assistant secretary of state Mark Kimmitt and former Canadian lawmaker and Iranian activist Goldie Ghamari. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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We didn't start this war, but under President Trump, we are finishing it.
Trump has unleashed the armed forces of the United States.
Israel's unleashed its armed forces to take the fight really to the heart of terrorism,
the mullahs in Tehran.
It is astounding to me that somebody like Mike Pence or so many other people who led our country into disastrous wars,
one after the next, are now just speaking as though none of it ever happened.
How is it a trope? How is it a trope to see American soldiers die on behalf?
of Israel's wars.
I'm not going to dignify that with a response.
How many times have you gone to Arlington
and paid your respect to American heroes?
I'm not talking to you, Cornelrique,
you terrorist piece of crap.
Whatever your view of the US-Israeli attack on Iran
is a moment of history which will forever reshape
the Middle East.
Whether the new world is a better, safer place,
we don't know.
That's the reality of war.
There's a lot we don't know,
and it sets off deadly chain reactions
which cannot be controlled.
The Ayatollah is dead,
and nobody should mourn a murdering
dictator who presided for decades over state-sponsored terrorism across the world.
But we don't know if his replacement will be as bad or perhaps even worse.
President Trump says Iranian dissidents should take this once in a lifetime opportunity
to sweep into power.
But we don't know how they're supposed to do that.
The civilian protesters don't have the guns.
President Trump says the war should last up to four weeks.
As Iranian bombs rained down on Gulf states who did not want a war, we don't know if it can
be contained.
U.S. allies in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere may well tell the U.S. that it just can't wash its hands of a regional war it started.
And above all, we don't know what the U.S. justification for the war really is.
Donald Trump's conversations with individual journalists over the weekend have echoed his shifting position in the weeks leading up to the attack.
On the one hand, it's about Iran's nuclear capabilities, which Trump had said were obliterated and set back decades only last year.
On the other, it's about freedom for Iranians and protection for protesters,
which many in his base feel is simply not America's business.
It's precisely because we don't know so much.
This is an enormous gamble by the American president.
By far the biggest across either of his presidencies.
Trump's legacy will surely now be defined by what happens next,
just as Tony Blair and George W. Bush are defined by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A free and democratic Iran allied with the West would be an outcome that eclipses any of Trump.
domestic failures or successes.
But the same thing applies with equal menace to a regime change
that goes the way of US-led regime changes
in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq and elsewhere.
We don't yet know which it will be,
and it may not be in America's control.
Well, before we debate with my panel,
I'm pleased to say I'm joined for the first time on Unsensit
by Mike Pence, the 48th Vice President of the United States,
who of course served in the first Trump administration.
Vice President Pence, welcome to Unsensit.
Thank you, Pierce.
Thanks for having me on.
Very good to have you, particularly at such an obviously historic moment for the world.
First of all, let's just cut to the quick here about this attack on Iran.
What do you think is the justification, the legal justification in particular,
but also the moral justification for Operation Epic Fury?
Well, first, peers, if I may, let me just say how proud and impressed I am
with the armed forces of the United States, with our joint chiefs with masterful planning
that our armed forces have executed flawlessly in the first several days of Operation
Epic Fury has truly been inspiring. And I also want to give all the credit in the world to
President Donald Trump for his bold and decisive action in moving against.
against the Iranian regime, unleashing our forces in partnership with our cherished ally,
Israel and their courageous IDF forces.
I think it has been a promising and encouraging first few days.
But the real work lies ahead, as you suggest.
And I believe in answer to your question, the real objective here is to confront a war that
started 47 years ago.
I mean, the truth is that from the time American hostages were taken in 1979 to the time that
220 Marines fell, 20 more American service members were cut down in a terrorist attack in
Beirut, sponsored by Iran.
Iran has been waging war on the United States, on Israel, on the West for 47 years.
response has been all along the way. It seems to me to slice away at the tentacles, whether they be
Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, or the insurgents in Iraq. But now by authorizing this action,
President Trump has unleashed the armed forces of the United States, Israel's unleashed its armed
forces, to take the fight really to the heart of terrorism, which is the mullahs in Tehran.
many of whom have been eliminated, but now comes the time where I think we have to see this through
and create the conditions where the people of Iran who have longed for freedom and democracy
and human rights can reclaim their country.
In terms of the legal justification, that's the kind of moral argument that you've laid out.
There are many people that agree with it.
But there are many people that agree perhaps that there was a moral justification.
moral argument for taking out the Iotala, for example, and for trying to dismantle this regime,
but who remained very concerned about the legality of this. We saw that with my country of the
UK, who refused to sanction any involvement in this first wave of the attack, and have only
belatedly, a day later, sanctioned use of bases because they want to protect British citizens
in the Middle East. And many people think that's a pretty weak and pathetic sort of no position
position, if you like. But in terms of the legality, how would you justify this legally to people
that are concerned about that aspect of this? Well, yeah, I never thought I'd miss Tony Blair,
going back to your first point. I mean, look, we've had a special relationship between the United
Kingdom and the United States since the end of World War II. I always said it could be defined
during my years in Congress and through the White House by a simple truth that when we go,
the UK goes.
And to see Kier Starrmer and to see the hemming and hawing and the hesitation, which I'm glad to see now giving way to a recognition with the attack on your base in Akrateri in Cyprus,
it seems that now the Starrmer government is waking up to the real widening threat.
that Iran presents in this moment.
But it's been disappointing to see that,
but better late than never, right?
But in terms of the legal justification,
I must tell you, when it comes to international law,
it seems like international law for literally generations
has been that terrorist organizations
and the leading state sponsor of terrorism
in the world can strike without being hit back directly,
but that nations of the West, notably the United States of America, is constrained from striking back directly at them.
And I think this is a moment where President Trump learning that Iran was reconstituting its nuclear program when it's long advocated for not only death to America, but for wiping Israel off the map when Iran is developing and maintaining an art.
of ballistic missiles that threaten Israel and our other allies across the Arab world,
including Americans, tens of thousands of Americans stationed at U.S. bases there.
It seems to me more than justified the action in this instance.
But again, there's a lot of talk I saw in one major newspaper over here today that,
that, you know, that President Trump had pledged not to start a war.
Well, I hold the view that Iran started this war 47 years ago.
And President Trump, with the greatest military force on earth,
allied with Israel and now a growing number of our allies across the Arab world
and in the West is purposing to finish it.
And I believe that he'll do a great service to history if we see it all the way through
and eliminate the ability of this regime to continue to tyrannize
of the people of Iran.
You referenced Tony Blair there,
and it's interesting because I think
Tony Blair has been the kind of elephant
in the room in the thinking of the current UK government
about how to respond here,
because, as I'm sure you're aware,
in the start of this century,
in the buildup to the war in Iraq,
Tony Blair went against public opinion in the UK,
went without a second UN resolution,
believed he,
had the legal authority, used the argument that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction
in Iraq and therefore had to be stopped. And then, of course, we know what happened is we went in
collectively, US, UK, other allies. There was a ferocious war. There was a ground war. And these
weapons simply didn't turn up. So the pretext for the war turned out to not exist. And as a
result, people have condemned Tony Blair and George Bush since then, but also the forefell.
out from that because there was no prior planning that people could really perceive properly,
was that you saw the rise of ISIS, you saw huge unrest in the region, and so on.
And what I think people are concerned about here is that we could be, if we're not careful,
stumbling into a similar situation where now the Tinderbox has been well and truly let off.
No one's quite sure what happens.
And that if you don't have any boots on the ground, can you actually?
affect regime change in the way that Donald Trump would like to.
And if you can't affect regime change, what are you left with?
Well, I think you raise a very good point, and it's a cautionary tale.
But, you know, where my mind goes, the comparison to the overwhelming force
that the United States is bringing to bear against Iran now in concert with our allies in
Israel, and as I said, a growing number of Arab countries and Western allies, is more analogous
to the Persian Gulf War than to the Iraq War. I mean, President George Herbert Walker Bush
marshaled an enormous amount of military resources, including allies across the region and across
the West. He drove Saddam Hussein's military out, and I think in a very real sense restored
deterrence for the better part of a decade to that region of the world until, of course, our nation
was struck on 9-11, and with UK at our side, we took the fight to our terrorist enemies
in Afghanistan.
But I think the objective here, in addition to confronting the bases for this invasion, the administration
has described also, we have an opportunity here to restore the deterrence.
that was squandered during the Biden administration,
during that disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
I mean, I must tell you, Pierce,
that I think it's no coincidence
that we have this reckless withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The Taliban overruns the country,
reversing all the gains that we'd made
for the people in that nation.
And then within a year, Russia invades Ukraine.
Within a year after that, with Iran supporting them,
Hamas launches the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust on October the 7th.
Add to that the 12-day war, the use of ballistic missiles by Iran for the first time against Israel.
I mean, the region has since that disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan under President Joe Biden,
the evil has been emboldened across the world.
And today, thanks to the courage of our armed forces, the decision of our commander-in-chief, President Donald Trump, the strength and efforts of Israel and our other allies in the region.
I think we have an opportunity.
If we see it through to really restore deterrence to the region and set the table, not just for a free and democratic future for the people of Iran, but for the opportunity for a more peaceful future in the wider world.
We talked briefly about Kyr Stama and his reluctance to get involved at the first stage as it all went off.
It was interesting to me that you had Prime Minister Carney in Canada and also Albanese in Australia,
immediately offering full support to the United States and Israel,
neither particularly known as hard-right conservative leaders,
and yet were very quick to offer their unequivocal support.
which made Keir Starrma, the Prime Minister of UK's reluctance to do that all the more notable.
What is your message to the British Prime Minister about this and the potential precedent that he may have set?
Well, my message to Prime Minister Starmor is that the people of the United States
and the people of the United Kingdom truly do have an unbreakable bond.
Our nation will always be grateful.
to the people of Great Britain for standing with us and taking the fight to our enemies after 9-11.
I visited those bases downrange in Afghanistan, of course, also in Iraq.
And there's never a time that I saw the American flag flying without the flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain right next to it.
And so there's a tremendous bond there.
And this is a moment, I think, where Prime Minister Starmers should.
yield to our shared history and not wait for Iran to strike any further at UK interests across
the region.
Lean in and set aside whatever concerns and differences there have been in recent months
and focus on the task at hand, which to me, I want to emphasize this point, peers,
I think we have to see this through.
I think one of the lessons of the Persian Gulf War was that while it did reestablish deterrence for a decade, the truth is that we had to go back. We had to fight again.
And Saddam Hussein, because we had not destroyed his ability to tyrannize his own people with his military, his own people were not able to rise up and change the truth.
trajectory of Iraq. This is a moment where I think we need to see this fight through. We need all of
our allies in the West with us, including the U.K. and Germany and France, and of course with Israel
at our side. And I think what's most remarkable is that in their desperation, Iran is really
strengthening the ties between the United States and Israel and other Arab nations.
across the region by their military strikes in UAE and in Qatar.
I mean, this is a community of nations that has long understood that Iran is the greatest
threat to peace and security in the region.
But now with yesterday's joint statement and the like, I think we're entering into a whole new season,
which if we see it through may actually mean the Abraham Accords were, in fact, just a down payment.
on a whole new set of relationships
and a more peaceful future across the wider Arab world.
Yeah, it definitely seems a massive strategic error, I think, by Iran
to go after the Gulf states and the way that they have
pretty indiscriminately with dropping bombs into hotels and Dubai and so on.
I think that is having the opposite effect of what they might have hoped,
which would be to try and separate the Gulf states
from Israel and the United States.
What do you say to Trump,
voters in particular, who voted for him in 2024 because one of his big repeated pledges
was he wouldn't take America into foreign wars that we were done with doing that.
America first meant America looking after America's interests in America.
Axios is reporting today.
No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different
countries as Donald Trump.
How do those two positions sit comfortably together?
Well, you know, I wasn't on the ticket the last time around Pierce, but I was elected with
the president in 16 and on the ticket again in 2020.
And I can tell you, I like to tell people, I think I know President Trump better than his most
ardent defenders.
And the president I serve with is no isolationist.
You look at the record of our administration after Syria crossed that red line using chemical
weapons on their own people. We hit them with cruise missiles not once, but twice when President
Obama had refused to do so. We took down not only the ISIS Caliphate, but their leader,
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. And I was there when the president made the decision to take out
the head of the Iran Revolutionary Guard, Qasem Soleimani, back in January of 2020.
This is a president who doesn't lead from behind.
He leads from the front.
And I frankly think most of the supporters of the president,
people that I came to know from coast to coast in this country,
understand that.
And they also understand that this is a president
who is going to prosecute America's interest and take action
that he believes is necessary to protect our nation,
whether that be in Venezuela,
where the head of a dangerous failed narco state, Nicholas Maduro, was captured and removed,
and now that nation is on a trajectory toward normal relations with the United States of America
or whether it be the present action in Operation Epic Fury. Iran has been a threat to the security
of the people of this country, our armed forces in the region, our cherished ally, Israel,
generations. And thanks to President Trump's decision and that of Prime Minister Netanyahu
and the support of our allies across the region and the world. We have an opportunity to finish it.
Vice President Mike Pence, I really appreciate you coming on Unsensitive at such a busy time in the news.
Thank you very much. Thank you, Piers. Well, I'm joined now by my panel, which includes Anna Kasperrin,
executive producer and host of the Young Turks.
Greenwald, the host of System Update, Jonathan Conrickers, retired Lieutenant Colonel,
an IDS spokesman, and Mark Kemet, a former general and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State,
and Goldie Gamarri, the former Canadian lawmaker and Iranian activists.
Well, welcome to all of you.
Anna Gisperrin, your response to Mike Pence there, laying out a moral and legal justification
for these attacks on Iran.
First, I would like to ask Goldie whether she apologizes for laughing as Jank Yugar
on the last episode he was on
was talking about dead American soldiers
as a result of wars that the U.S.
gets dragged into on behalf
of Israel. Goldie, do you apologize
for laughing at the thought of
dead American soldiers?
And I know one's buying your
jihadi propaganda lies. Everyone knows
that Eilika and I were laughing at Chang.
Oh, it's jihadi propaganda to be concerned about
dead American soldiers who are forced
to fight on behalf of Israel. Interesting.
Okay. To answer your question,
Can I answer the question?
175 little girls have been slaughtered in an Iranian school.
That was the first Israeli striped into place.
Hang on one second. Anna, Anna, Anna, Anna, Anna, Anna, Hannah, hang on one second.
You asked her a question, so I will let Goldie respond.
Then you can respond to my question.
Well, she responded by claiming I'm sharing jihadi propaganda.
I'm talking about dead American soldiers.
So do you apologize or not?
Okay.
May I respond?
Goldie, quick response.
Thank you.
So we were laughing at Chang's Bazaar.
anti-Semitic tropes about how Israel is responsible for every single incident that happens in the war.
We were not laughing at American soldiers.
And you actually edited the video.
You edited the video.
So there you go.
Everyone knows that you're lying.
You're a laughing stock.
You're a joke.
Everyone can go back and watch the episode full episode for Pierce's show.
Right.
The only ones who were respecting General Wesley Clark were myself and...
Okay.
You know what?
Look, Anna, you said your piece about Goldie.
She's responded, let's get back to the bigger picture,
which I'm sure the other panelists would prefer us to do.
Your response to Mike Pence,
but both on the moral argument,
because I do think that there are lots of people I know,
including many on the left,
who can understand a moral argument
for getting rid of what has been a ruthless, bloodthirsty,
vile regime that has caused terror
not just to its own people, but to the wider world.
But hesitate.
about whether this is the legal thing to do.
So I don't think it's just people on the right saying, go, go, go.
People on the left saying, well, I'm glad he's gone.
I'm glad the Ayatollah's gone.
I'm glad a lot of the top leadership have gone.
But I'm not sure that this is legal, and the precedent being set is very dangerous.
My view of this current war against Iran is that Iran did not pose a threat to the United States.
Their ballistic missiles did not have the capability to reach the United States.
and the notion that this was all about Iran's weapons was alive from the very beginning.
This is about a regime-changed war on behalf of Israel.
Israel would like to be the hegemon in the Middle East,
and the United States is spilling blood and basically using its treasure to help Israel build an empire
that I guarantee you will turn around and, well, we'll suffer the consequences of that at some point.
But we're suffering the consequences of it right now.
I mean, the first thing Israel did is strike an Iranian girl school killing 175 people.
That's according to the New York Times, which typically likes to bury the wrongdoings of the Israeli government and military.
I don't see this as a just war.
I don't think that President Donald Trump has a plan for what happens following the slaughter of the Ayatollah or the destruction of the Iranian regime.
In fact, he has said as much.
She said it is not the U.S.'s job to figure out who leads Iran next,
which means that there will be a power vacuum,
and we know how that plays out in other countries where we've done similar things.
And in regard to Syria, let's not mistake what actually happened in Syria.
Okay, the Obama administration began arming al-Qaeda terrorists,
al-Qaeda terrorists who actually fought our soldiers in Iraq,
and now we have a supposedly former al-Qaeda terrorist as a leader of Syria,
We didn't do good things in the Middle East, including in Syria.
So Mike Pence is a complete, and utter joke in what he said during that interview.
Okay, Jonathan Comrickers, just first off, the attack on the school or the explosion at the school that caused so many deaths,
particularly of young girl students, there does seem to be, at the moment, ongoing confusion about exactly what has happened there.
The school was next to one of the Revolutionary Guard bases.
It used to be part of the base until recently, apparently several years ago,
it was sort of separated from the base.
And depending on which report you see,
but none of them appear to be definitive.
This was either an Israeli-stroke-American missile
that caused this to happen,
or it could have been an interception by the Revolutionary Guard,
or it could have been indeed a missile,
as some have claimed fired by the Revolutionary Guard
that hit the school by mistake.
We don't seem to know for sure yet.
Do you have any intelligence that can 100% verify what's happened there?
No, I've been asked in various fringe networks,
and I've done a lot of interviews over the last two days and two and a half days.
And, you know, that topic comes up when someone is grasping to try to undermine
the American and Israeli operation against the regime,
because it is a relatively convenient tool to use.
Usually it's not by people who have compassion for civilians,
for Iranian schoolgirls, or for Iranians in general,
but it's usually for people who have something either against President Trump
in his policies or, very often, against the state of Israel.
So I've looked into it, and so far,
kind of a messy situation where I can't really make sense of what happened,
whether it's Israel or the US who struck, or whether it's some type of a false flag operation by the IRGC.
I wouldn't be surprised in any of the options.
It could be an American or an Israeli strike at a proper military target that happened to be too close
or co-located within or next to a school.
And it could be something that was cooked up by the IRGC, specifically for the purposes of having something to close.
at and having something to feed international media to show allegedly wrongdoing.
I put that into stark contrast with, you know, very deliberate actions of the Iranian regime when they
are firing at seven or eight sovereign countries in the region, and they're firing at almost exclusively
civilian targets. They're firing at cities in Israel. They're firing, of course, cities, and we already
have 11 civilian casualties, confirmed, all of them civilian, none of them military, most of them
women and children, one elderly man. They've been killed in various incidents where Iranian missiles
have exploded in Israeli cities. We have confirmed deaths in the UAE in Saudi Arabia, in Kuwait,
and a lot of incoming missiles on Cyprus, Jordan, and other locations. And of course, we could
speak about this incident, and I'm sure that many people who are
who have issues with Israel would want this to be the story.
They would want one errant attack or one unexplained situation to be the headline,
because it supports the agenda.
These are, by the way, the same people who, when Iranians were marching in the streets
and being gunned down by the Iranian regime, we didn't hear a lot of them speak about what was going on,
and we didn't hear a lot of those people who now allegedly care about the Iranian schoolgirls
speak about the atrocities of the regime. And it is the typical hypocritical position of so many people.
It only depends on who has allegedly done the killing. Doesn't matter who was killed and how this can be
cynically and politically used.
We all know that there's one country that seems to have an affinity for slaughtering children,
and that country is Israel. But anyway, that's actually Iran, dear Anna. That's actually the Democratic
of Iran. Right. Right. Okay.
We also know, I think, from what's happened in Gaza,
it is prudent to get to actual facts
before we pass two censorious judgment.
And I prefer to do that,
because I think if we don't, that way madness lies.
As we're talking, General Kim,
President Trump has told the New York Post
that he's not ruling out sending US crown troops into Iran
if they were necessary.
He said Operation Epic Fury was way ahead of schedule
by taking out dozens of Tehran's top officials.
He said, quote,
I don't have the yips with respect to boots on the ground.
Like every president says, there will be no boots on the ground.
I don't say that.
I say probably don't need them or if they were necessary.
He also told CNN earlier today that the big wave in the conflict
is yet to materialize,
indicating the US has not yet begun to strike Iran forcefully
and suggesting more significant action is imminent.
Where do you feel we are with this, General Kim?
And how precarious would it be for the U.S. to commit boots on the ground?
You know, I talked earlier to Vice President Pence about the parallels here with Iraq back in 2002-3,
where committing boots on the ground turned out really, historically, to be a disaster.
Could we be sleep walking our way into another disaster here?
Well, first of all, I hope there's a little civility,
while I'm answering the questions.
First of all, as one of those boots that walked on that ground in Iraq in 2003,
I think that nobody wants to see us repeat the mistakes of that operation.
And for that matter, as we look forward to whatever emerges from this situation in terms of the government,
I certainly hope we don't count on the expatriates to come in and solve the problem for us.
But look, I think it's important to understand we didn't do regime.
change, it's highly unlikely we're going to do regime change. We've done a reason. What the president
has said in so many words is we are doing a leadership decapitation as Israel did with Hezbollah.
And he said to the Iranian people, I'm opening the door for you. You've got to figure out what to do
after that. So where we are on the operation now, we've hit about 10,000 targets. We've got a lot of work to do.
but at the end of the day, we can't get mission creep in this operation.
Seen it, been there, done it.
We ought to stick to our end state that we're seeking,
which is no nukes, no ballistic missile program of any size,
and no proxies, because that was our end state at the negotiating table,
and the negotiations failed.
We shouldn't be changing our ability.
just because we're using military force.
The purpose of this military force is to get back to the negotiating table
and finally get what three presidents ever since we've discovered the nuclear program has tried to get.
Now, the fact remains is it's highly unlikely that we're going to see that any time soon,
and the only way we're going to get the Iranians back to the negotiating table for those points,
purposes is through strong use of force. And look, you ask why now. And the very simple answer is,
and legally a preemptive strike meets our conditions, do you want to be facing across from that
negotiating table a nuclear-armed Iran with long-range ballistic missiles? Better to do this now.
And just before I go to Glenn Greenwald, when I spoke to Vice President Pence,
We talked about the parallels with Iraq, and he was quite scathing about Prime Minister Stama's
reluctance to get involved at the first stage of this operation, refusing to allow Americans to use
the bases, the UK bases and so on. What is your view of that? Because it did seem a marked
departure in the normal practice of the UK to allow American forces to do that. Did you think that
a mistake by the UK Prime Minister?
I just,
peers, you and I have been around a long time.
We went through Iraq together.
The fact is, I think that Starmer just did not want to be referred as Tony was, as the
British poodle.
So I think what he wanted to do is give it a little bit of time, make it look like this
is an independent decision of his, rather than being, we do have a special relationship,
but we're not tied at the hips.
and Britain is not a proxy for the United States.
We knew, particularly if the Iranians started firing back,
that Britain would come in the way that the Saudis and the Emirates have come in.
And one last comment.
Please quit using the tropes on American soldiers.
I've had to bury seven American soldiers.
They went into the battlefield.
How was it a trope?
How is it a trope?
How is it a trope to see American soldiers die on behalf of Israel's wars?
How is that a trope?
Explain that to me.
He's dying on behalf of Israel.
I'm not going to dignify that with a response.
Let me read you what Israeli media has been saying.
So American soldiers came under friendly fire in Kuwait.
I don't know if any of them have died.
Hopefully none of them have died.
But on Channel 12, Niv Raskin said this.
We need to emphasize this is an incident involving American forces.
and not, heaven forbid, an incident involving Israeli forces.
And why is he representative of anything, Anna?
Who makes him representative of anything?
Why is a huge figure in Israeli media?
No, he's not a huge figure.
He's a talking head on a morning show.
Sacrificing American soldiers is totally okay, I guess.
Well, okay, I want to bring in, I want to bring in, I would like, hang on, hang on.
I would like to answer my question.
Why is that considered a trope?
Why is it considered a trope to be concerned about American soldiers?
during these endless nonsensical wars.
Why is that considered a trope?
How many times have you gone to Arlington
and paid your respect to American heroes?
I'm not talking to you, Cornelrigus, you terrorist piece of crap.
I'm talking to the general.
Tell me why that's true.
How many times have you honored the memory of American soldiers?
Can we go back to the answer to the question?
Can I bring some order to this, please?
Judge Jonathan, let me conduct the panel, please,
because Glenn's been waiting very patiently.
Before I come to you, Glenn,
and I will give you plenty of time to speak.
I can promise you that.
General, just explain why you consider that to be a trope.
And secondly, I was really struck by this friendly fire incident
because I can't remember, I'm sure you will be able to correct me here.
But has it ever happened before that three American fighter jets
have all been downed in a friendly fire incident,
apparently here by Q80 forces by mistake as they went over Q80 airspace?
Can you remember three American fighter jets going down in friendly fire in one incident?
No.
And I'm sure those Kuwaiti soldiers that fired those shots will remember that for the rest of their lives.
Luckily, none of the soldiers, none of the airmen were killed.
They got other aircraft alive and relatively unhurt.
We call it the fog of war.
Yeah.
And in relation to the fact you think it's a...
Yeah, I think, be fair to Anna Gisperrin, just answer her question,
why you view that as a trope that what she said.
I'm not going to dignify it with a response.
You just want to smear me with nonsensical claims,
but you can't even answer why you even believe in the smear.
What is the trope?
You can't answer it, right?
I'll tell you why.
Being concerned about Americans dying on behalf of the case.
You're a hypocrite.
Everything that affects is a real trope.
Okay, the general, listen, the general, the general,
the generals chosen not to respond.
That's his right.
I want to go to Glenn.
Glenn, you've been very patiently.
Thank you.
Look, this is a story
that's a lot of passions
are going to run very high here.
You know, I don't have all the answers
to what I think is going to happen here.
It does, to me,
bring back a lot of bad memories
from the Iraq war,
you know, which was started
in many people's eyes
who perpetrated it for the best of intention.
Saddam was a bad guy,
doing bad things to his people,
killing many of them.
running a ruthless regime, possessing weapons of mass destruction, and he had to be stopped.
You know, I've been on this rodeo of rhetoric before, and it feels to me like we're on a very
similar path now, but Iran is an altogether bigger and more difficult scenario than even Iraq was.
You know, you've got 220,000 or thousand revolutionary guard.
You have nearly a million regular army.
You have many other paramilitaries, you know, hundreds of thousands more.
This idea that America has or Donald Trump has that by doing these strikes, you're going to start a big revolution amongst the people on the ground.
You know, they've got to get past one and a half million very heavily armed people that will try and stop them.
And we saw recently they stopped 30,000 of them by killing them.
So do you think that the mission here is even achievable?
And do you think what has happened is legal?
I am glad, Pierce, that we started the segment with Mike Pence because he is an American elected official who voted for the Iraq War in 2002, 2003, continue to defend it for many years.
And unlike many American politicians who did that, who ended up saying they regretted it or it was a mistake, Mike Pence to this very day believes that going into Iraq was the right thing to do.
And everything that he said in justification and defense of this new war was exactly the things that he and all the other American leaders who wanted this,
war in 2002 and 2003, we're saying then.
But it's not just the Iraq war.
It's also exactly what happened in Libya.
President Obama said, oh, don't worry, this isn't a regime change war.
It's just to protect the people of Benghazi and that it ended up being a regime change
war that destroyed Libya.
It's what we did in Afghanistan, where we were told, oh, we're just going in to get
Osama bin Laden.
And then 20 years later, our troops leave trillions of dollars spent huge numbers of dead
and the Taliban marched right back into power.
And you could even go back to Vietnam, where we relied into that war, lied.
through that war by many of the same people who telling us now that we have to do this.
It is astounding to me that somebody like Mike Pence or so many other people who lied to the
public continuously led our country into disastrous wars, one after the next, are now just speaking
as though none of it ever happened.
It would be like as if a journalist, I publish eight or nine different fraudulent stories
with fake quotes and fake sources.
And then the next day I woke up and said, oh, I know I did those things in the past,
but I think I should still have credibility for you to listen to my role.
reporting today, even though I did all of that. The other point I want to make is I want to ask
Jonathan, because I mean, honestly, it is very, very difficult. I have to confess, not just for me,
but for the world as the poll show, to listen to an Israeli official in an Israeli accent,
give lectures on the need to have compassion for civilians after everything we just watched Israel do,
vaporizing tens of thousands of people in Gaza, all throughout the Middle East attacking countries.
But since he is here, I do want to ask him. Jonathan, there's a lot of reports.
in mainstream Western press
about how the IDF has built its primary military
and intelligence structures,
not just within key residential areas in Tel Aviv,
but also underneath.
Is it true that the IDF has built
key military and intelligence targets
within residential areas of Tel Aviv
and beneath residential targets in Tel Aviv
the way that the Western media has continuously reported?
Is that actually true?
Yeah, I can give it relatively short
plain answer to it. Surprising question. I've read some of your reporting and you seem like an
informed guy. But yes, the IDF headquarters referred to as the Kiria is indeed located in Tel Aviv.
It is surrounded by civilian buildings and inside the headquarters, not underneath
civilians, but underneath the headquarter itself is a bunker, which is not a revolutionary concept
of militaries. And that bunker is a few stories below ground. Its name is indeed the Zion Citadel.
And that is where some of the Israeli officers, generals conduct military operations from, I suppose,
some of the strikes, if not all of the strikes that are ongoing in Iran today are managed from there.
When Iran targeted that location, they've targeted it now.
They have targeted it in the past, and Chisbalah has targeted it in the past, and so have
many others.
You actually never heard anybody in Israel, definitely not anybody officials say, you know,
that isn't okay, and it's not a military target.
It is a military target.
We cannot move Tel Aviv out of the way, and the base is.
is probably too big to move out of the way.
And if it is hit, then it is on Israel, because it is a military target.
But there is a very big difference here between doing that, having a properly marked and
disclosed location, which is the IDF base.
Everybody knows that it's there.
And doing what our enemies do, which is hide underneath and between the civilian population,
disguised as civilians and using civilians as human shields.
There are no civilians above the base used as human shields.
And there are no civilians that are told to be in a certain location
so that our enemies won't strike.
A, because that's a cowardly thing to do.
Yeah.
Here, Pierre, can I just make one quick point?
Can I just make one quick point about the moral aspect that we raised?
You know, you said none of us should be mourning a vicious dictator.
And the one thing, the two quick things I will say about that is, you know,
We were told that about Saddam Hussein.
We were told that about Omar Gaddafi.
Certainly in Libya, we were told, oh,
Momar Gaddafi said that's certainly a good thing.
What came after in Libya was some of the worst, most nightmarish dystopia
that the world has seen in the past 50 years,
certainly far worse than what it had under Gaddafi.
And I think a lot of this depends on what succeeds in Iran.
Is it going to be this incredibly destroyed state,
Balkanized with anarchy where ISIS and al-Qaeda can fill the power vacuum
as they did with the invasion of Iraq?
Is it going to be an even worse tyrant like the Shah of Iran was or some other worse militias and factions?
And then the other point is it's a little bit hard to hear the United States and Great Britain and other countries say,
oh, we're doing this for the moral reason that we want to cleanse Iran of tyranny.
When our closest allies and partners in that region that we prop up and give military technology and spying technology
are at least as savage and brutal dictatorships as Iran is, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the Amarades,
going throughout the rest of the world, to Uganda, Rwanda.
We love dictatorships.
We prop up tyrannies all the time.
I think it's very hard to make a moral case,
especially as you're bombing civilian places all throughout Iran,
that we somehow are doing this
because we want to bring freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people,
the Iranian people.
The last time we did change the government in Iran,
we imposed a horrific dictator on them for 20, 30 years,
called the Shah of Iran.
And now we want to do it with his son.
So these moral questions are much more complex
than is the Ayatollah good or a bad guy?
Okay, Golden-Gamara, you're rolling the rise.
We should have no moral reasons at all. Again, there was no morality in our negotiations last Thursday for no nukes, no missiles, and no proxies.
And I don't think if we start getting into the moral regime change, everything you're describing, Glenn, if we're trying to get into another Iraq, that's the mission creep we don't want to see.
We are now using the military force to achieve the ensign.
state that our negotiations weren't able to do. And candidly, I also agree with you that we shouldn't
completely wipe out the leadership of the country. LBJ, Linda Baines Johnson once said he's an
SOB, but he's our SOB. We now have Darcy Rodriguez as one of our SOBs. We have Ahmed Alshara as one of
our SOBs.
Manuel Noriega
and Panama was one of our
SOBs. The fact remains
is we ought to have a very
limited mission, which is simply
to use military force to
compel Iran
back to the negotiating table
for them to give up their
missiles, their nukes, and their
proxies. We can do it now.
We won't be able to do it
when they have a nuclear weapon.
I wish everybody wears candid as the general
about the absence of a moral case here.
Yeah, I agree with you.
I thought it was quite refreshing.
Let me go to Goldie Gamari.
You've been waiting patiently.
You were rolling your eyes at Glenn Greenwald there.
Why?
You know, just this whole communist revisionist propaganda
about the 1953 coup d'etat.
Mossadegh was a communist trait.
He was funded by the Soviets.
The Shah of Iran was actually installed in 1941.
That's when he ascended the throne.
And, you know, everyone loves to talk about 1953,
but no one ever talks about 1906 when we had the constitutional monarchy,
sorry, the constitutional revolution, which led to the first democratically elected parliament of Iran.
So as of 1906, up until 1979, Iran was a constitutional monarchy, very similar to England.
In fact, Pierce, the queen of England,
visited Iran in the early 1960s for a 10-day state visit because that's how much the Shah of Iran
and Queen Elizabeth were close friends. With respect to what's happening today, first of all,
I just want to say, you know, thank you to the United States. Thank you to Israel for everything
that they're doing. We Iranians were so grateful. And I can tell you that this has been
one of the most amazing weekends, not just for me, but for Iranians in occupied Iran and around
the world, you know, hearing the news of the death of Khomeini, that's like the equivalent of
hearing the news of the death of Hitler. It's just something that we have been waiting for for so
long. And all I can say is, thank you so much. God bless America. I'm Israel-Hai. We cannot wait
until Iran is free. And we can welcome Americans and Israelis back to Iran with open arms and
be the allies that we were prior to 1979. Okay. And I'm not going to Sperry.
you know,
everyone would love that to be the case.
I think it's extremely difficult to get there,
as we will probably see.
Your colleague,
Cheng Yuga,
who you referenced at the top of the show,
you know, he did a tweet which even,
I recall it,
I like Cheng a lot,
but, you know,
he called the Ayatollah courageous
because he hadn't gone on his knees to Israel.
Did you agree?
I mean, do you think the Ayatollah,
Khomeini, was a courageous man?
Well, he never capitulated to the Israelis, and we live under a government where, regardless of which party is in power, is on its knees on behalf of Israel.
So I understand what he's talking about. He's talking about government leaders, a country's leader in the case of Iran, as much as I did not agree with the Ayatollah. I'm not a religious person, and I certainly don't like extremism or supremacy of any kind.
The fact of the matter is he didn't embarrass his people by getting down on his knees to pleasure Israel, as our leaders here in the United States do.
So I understand the point that he was trying to make.
And I think if you talk to a lot of Americans, they are embarrassed by the fact that our leadership rarely represents our best interests and seems to prioritize the best interests of Israel in every instance.
And I think that what we're experiencing right now is a good example of that.
But this is an Ayatollah who only a few weeks ago slaughtered 30,000 of his people to repress them from protesting.
That number is not confirmed.
So you regurgitating it is very questionable, Pierce.
Where did you get that number from?
Well, how many do you think were killed?
We don't know the exact number.
But to say that 30,000 people were slaughtered during those short weeks is ridiculous to me.
Iran has put out specific dangers individuals who have been killed, and it's around 3,000.
we don't know what the exact number is,
but you really think 30,000 people were killed?
You're not going to question that at all.
30,000?
Well, I'm curious, if you don't think it's 30,000,
how many do you think it was?
I don't know the exact number.
No one knows the exact number.
You know, but my point is,
but hang on, hang on, hang on.
You don't have to agree with the regime in Iraq.
Hang on a second.
I've said multiple times.
Hang on for a second.
I've said multiple times.
I don't agree or like the regime in Iran.
That doesn't mean that it's untrue that they never capitulated
to what Israel demanded of them.
Whereas here in the United States,
we literally spill blood and use our treasure on behalf of Israel.
That's the point that Jenk was trying to make.
And I think it's a pretty accurate point.
Okay, you can make that point.
Hang on one second, please.
I'm questioning the use of the word courageous
about a ruthless despotic monster.
And I'm curious why you are so confident
it's not 30,000 people who were killed,
but you have no idea how many people were killed.
How can you be sure it wasn't 30,000 there?
I don't know how many people were killed.
You don't know how many people were killed.
So simply, regardless of the highest number you've heard,
is questionable to say the least.
Especially when you know that Mossad was on the ground.
There were armed terrorists on the ground.
You know security forces were killed during those shootings.
Look, the hyena's laughing again.
Anyway, but to just regurgitate the number that is being perpetuated by the Israelis
is ridiculous to me.
We don't know the exact number.
So rather than regurgitate it, we can say that there was a high casualty count.
We don't know the exact number.
It's that simple.
But you used to regurgitate the numbers.
Hang on one second.
Hang on.
Let me, please, let me finish.
You did regurgitate, Anna, with respect, all the numbers given to you by the Hamasran
health authority of, of, of.
of Palestinian casualties without any hesitation.
Which is confirmed by the Israelis, Pierce.
Confirmation.
No, it isn't.
No, it is.
They were.
They were.
They were.
They were broadly confirmed eventually.
But my point is, my point is, you seem very, very keen.
They were not.
Because the Hamas wrong health ministry is very, very careful.
Here's my point.
Here's my point.
Anna, here's my point.
I don't understand your apparent keenness to downplay the ruthlessness.
of the Ayatollah or Cheng's enthusiasm
for calling this guy courageous.
I'm just not going to regurgitate
Israeli propaganda as you're doing right now, Pierce.
Pierce, can I have a word?
Jonathan Conrickers.
Yeah, Jonathan, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, since my country has been mentioned
so many times by people of questionable moral backgrounds
and motivations, I'd like to say a few things about my perspective.
Oh, that's rich coming from a guy who defends the slaughter,
the mass slaughter of innocence.
you. I didn't interrupt you. I didn't use bad language like a little girl like you did. So please,
stay in your lane. I didn't interrupt you. And stay out of mind. Hurry up. No, I don't have to hurry up and
I don't take orders from you, Anna. And I would speak because you've spoken a lot and you've said a lot of
nonsense and I want to give my perspective on what's going on. Right. And it's ridiculous to frame this.
It is ridiculous to frame this as something that is whereby Israel is in the driving seat. This
is an American-led operation.
It is.
Where there are clearly defined goals by the U.S.
that serve U.S. strategic interest.
That's one set of issues that is separate from the ones that is relevant to Israel.
There's a lot of overlap.
But here's the Israeli perspective.
We live in our national homeland, which we have about 3,000 years of documented and
archaeological history that connects us to it.
Yet we are surrounded by about three thousand.
five or six different terrorist organizations that are funded by Iran, by the Islamic regime,
who all operate against Israel, killing our civilians, harassing our people, infringing on our sovereignty,
and all conniving and trying to bring about the destruction of the state of Israel.
These organizations, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Chisbalah, former Iranian proxies in Syria,
the Qutis in Yemen, Iranian proxies in Iraq.
are all funded by, orchestrated by, and armed by Iran,
and the overarching idea is to annihilate the state of Israel.
The Islamic Republic has an outspoken goal,
which they have been pursuing for the better part of 30 years,
to destroy the state of Israel.
They're not just saying it.
They are doing it, and they have been enacting.
They have been squandering the resources of the Iranian people.
They have been mismanaging the funds of Iran,
neglecting Iranian people, and they have been prioritizing militants and terrorists in Gaza,
in Lebanon, in Judean, Samaria, in Syria, in Iraq, in Yemen, and other places around the world.
Why? Because they have this feverish focus, this Sikh focus on Israel, trying to destroy and annihilate the Jewish state.
When Iranians say we want to destroy Israel, we listen to it, and we take it with real value,
because we understand that they're serious.
And I'll finish with this, it appears.
The motivation from Israel is we want to live in our homeland
without Iranian terror organizations,
without Iranian ballistic missiles,
and without Iranian nuclear weapons that are aimed at us.
Did your homeland include the West Bank?
Okay, let me.
Yes, most definitely, our homeland includes today and Samaria.
Yes, if you're asking about Judean and Samaria,
if you ask about Judea and Samaria,
yes, that is part of the Jewish homeland.
Which the whole world thinks is not yours,
which the whole world believes is not your.
You're the expansionist aid.
You're the aggressor state.
No, we're not expansionist.
You're the terrorist state and you're financed by the United States.
We are a people that came back to our homeland.
That's right.
Okay.
Okay.
And we came back to our homeland.
And I don't think we need to pay excuses for it.
Jonathan, I gave you, I gave you good time, Jonathan.
I want to let Glenn finish with the response to what you just said.
Glenn.
I mean, this is the victim.
mentality. The whole world is against us. We just want to be a peaceful country. The reality is it's not
the position of the Iranian government that their borders should be expanded. It's the position of the
Israeli government that their borders should be radically expanded, including into places and in ways that
the United States government for decades under both Democratic and Republican leadership has said
as a direct threat to American interests, settlements in the West Bank, annexing the West Bank,
moving into Gaza, bombing Lebanon, expanding into Lebanon. This is the fanatical expansionist
nuclear armed, dangerous power in the Middle East that the United States pays for that American
soldiers die for. And this narrative used to be dominant in the West. But people have seen the
true face of Israel and U.S. support for Israel over the past couple of years. And you see it in
polling not just the United States, but around the world, that people see Israel and increasingly
United States as the rogue countries that are the true danger to the world. As an American,
I wish that weren't true. I'm doing everything possible in my power to change it. A lot of other
people are as well, but that is the reality for now.
Okay, Goldie, just very quickly, because we've run out of time, but
Pollymarket are predicting, uh, in relation to the question, will the Iranian regime
fall by June the 30th?
They've currently had a 41% chance, uh, with over $5 million in that market.
That's a lot of money going down on this Iranian regime falling by the end of June.
Do you share that optimism?
I mean, I don't really pay attention to Polly market, but,
But I'm going to tell you, Peters, that I have a feeling that the Islamic regime is going to fall by the Persian New Year's spring at Kwinox. That's my prediction, March 20th.
And General Kim, it was always be your quick response to that?
I don't think it's going to fall. Larajani has already said he's going to crack down. They brought back Wahidi, who founded the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Force in 1988. At this point, there seems no fracturing in the IRGC.
in the besiege.
And but it could happen.
Things degrades.
General, may I buy you a beer in Iran when it's free?
When Iran is free, you have to owe me a trip to Iran
so I can buy you a beer and tell you, I told you.
I look forward to it.
And look, nothing would make me happier
than for Iran to be a civil society,
democratic society that abides by human rights.
This is a strong dictatorship.
And it's well,
and it's got a pretty strong.
I would ask you, Goalie, I wish it was the case.
Tell me how we get the IRGC,
the besiege in the army to lay down their weapons.
Well, many of them are already laying down their weapons.
It's President Trump's Peace Through Strength Strategy.
A lot of videos have actually come out today, General,
showing a number of defections.
And for those that who do not want to lay down their weapons,
the only option is to exterminate them. And we Iranians are very grateful that United States and
Israel are getting rid of all of these Islamic terrorists that have occupied our country for the last
47 years, because ultimately you cannot negotiate with terrorists who chant death to America
and death to Israel. So I think the strategy is fantastic. Gole, I hope you're right. I pray you're
right. I would love to see that. I'm just pessimist. That's okay, General. I've got to leave it there.
You want me a beer in town. I'm going to leave it there.
I think we'd all like a beer at the end of this if there was peace and prosperity for everyone involved.
That would be a wonderful pipe dream.
Sadly, I think we're a long way off that.
But thank you all to my panel very much.
I'm joined now by Naftali Bennett, the former Israeli Prime Minister.
Nathali Bennett, welcome back to Unsensored.
A lot of people believe that what we're seeing here is the culmination of Benjamin Netanyahu's 40-year dream,
which is the dismantling of the Iranian regime,
and that it's more in Israel's interest than anybody else is,
and that America has been sucked into supporting this,
and that already what we're seeing is a slightly out-of-control situation,
which could, if we're not very careful here,
lead to a full-blown war in the Middle East.
What is your response to that?
Does Donald Trump seem to you as someone who will be dragged into something?
he doesn't want to do?
I would say knowing him, no,
but I also think that Benjamin Nehyei has clearly been very persuasive to Donald Trump
in the way that he has now gone after Iran.
He's taken the, not the nuclear option, that would be too ironic.
He's taken the maximum option he could take in terms of a full-blown attack on the Iranian regime.
He's dismantled many of the top people, but it does beg the question.
And what does victory look like here?
Well, Israel doesn't drag anyone and allies don't drag each other into anything.
Allies work together towards a shared goal.
And the goal is to remove Iran as a nuclear threat to the world.
Unfortunately, after the June 12-day war, Iran resumed with full thrust
moving their nuclear facilities under a huge mountain.
called Picksax Mountain, which is way deeper than Fordo, and it's immune, immune to any sort of bomb.
Not only that, they double down on production of ballistic missiles that can reach Israel, Europe,
and later on intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach the United States.
Listen, we listen to these people.
We listen to what they say.
They say that America is the big Satan, Israel's the small Satan.
we want to annihilate you.
And all that we're doing is not letting them achieve that.
That's the whole thing.
This is a matter of self-defense.
If we had not acted now, later on, we could not act.
And by then, Iran would have gone nuclear and had thousands of ballistic missiles.
Is your position in Israel that every country should be properly transparent about their nuclear capability?
Our position is to not allow nations that explicitly say they want to annihilate another nation, acquire a nuclear weapon.
Right, but countries should be transparent about their nuclear capability.
I think the world needs to prevent from countries that have genocidal intent acquiring any sort of meaningful weapons, certainly not nuclear weapons.
I think you're probably ahead of me here.
I think you know why I'm asking you this
is because Israel has never admitted
whether it has itself got nuclear weapons.
And I've always been quite baffled by this.
I've asked Benjamin Netanyahu multiple times,
has Israel got nuclear weapons?
And he just doesn't answer.
I mean, you're a former prime minister of the country.
So let me ask you, does Israel have nuclear weapons?
Israel has always been clear
that we're not going to be the first ones
to introduce nuclear weapons to the region.
But I want to be also very clear,
Israel never has, never had,
and never will have any intent on destroying other countries.
It's really simple.
If Iran, if Hezbollah, if Hamas decide to stop wanting to destroy our country,
there will be no wars.
We never want any war.
All we're doing is trying to prevent others from destroying us.
It's really that simple.
Right, but my question was very simple, too.
So does Israel have nuclear weapons?
I said, Israel's policy has always been
that we wouldn't be the first to introduce nuclear weapons.
But I also want to say, peers,
that creating this sort of equality
or equating us to Iran or to someone who has genocidal desires,
it's false equivalence.
Yeah, but I'm not, though.
I'm comparing you...
Remodely...
I'm comparing you...
Well, let me compare you to the United States or the UK
or countries like that that have nuclear weapons.
They all tell people, yes, we have them,
and here's how many we have.
The only country in the world,
which doesn't answer the question.
Although you do seem to be suggesting,
from your answer, that Israel doesn't have them
when most people believe you do.
And I'm just curious why it's a question
that causes such sort of weird ambiguity
on behalf of Israel? Why, if everyone else should be transparent about nuclear capability and
is transparent about it, why does Israel get a pass? Why can't you just say, yeah, we have
nuclear weapons and here's how many we've got? As I said, we're not going to be the first
ones to introduce. But I will say that no other country. So does that mean you don't have any?
I believe, peers, you're a very intelligent guy, and you can ask it in 20 different ways.
And all I can say is there's no other country on Earth that is so threatened by others.
And I also want to say something.
We're doing the work of the world, the hard, tough work of neutralizing genocidal regimes from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Look at Iran right now.
They've shot at the Saudis, at Bahrain, at the Emirates, at Kuwait, at Jordan, even at Cyprus, in Europe.
They're shooting everyone that didn't even shoot them.
So just imagine if now they had intercontinental ballistic missiles with a nuclear warhead.
So instead of thanking Israel for doing this tough, thankless job, everyone's condemning us.
So that's okay.
We're used to being condemned by the world, but I will not apologize for defending the world
and doing everyone else's hard job.
We should be thanked, not condemned.
What does victory look like for you in this war that has just been started?
Well, there's a bunch of options.
The most basic one is Iran totally dismantled from its nuclear program and its ballistic missile
program.
However, there is an opportunity, and it's not up to Israel or America to define this.
We are creating a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the wonderful people of Iran to
rise up against the horrible genocidal regime,
this religious regime that's been killing and terrorizing its own people.
And we're creating the conditions for them to do it.
Because right now, Israel and America,
we're not only targeting nuclear and ballistic missile targets.
We're also targeting the secret police,
those guys who beat up women who don't cover their heads,
and besiege and IRGC.
And we're heading them more and more in weakening
the regime. So, if you will, the chains of oppression that are on the Iranian people are
becoming weaker and weaker, but they'll have to sort of remove those chains and rise up.
This is something we cannot guarantee. It's up to them to decide.
That's Tony Bennett. Thank you for coming back on Sinsett. I really appreciate it.
Thank you, Pierce.
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