The DeVory Darkins Show - Investigative Journalist Lara Logan drops CHILLING Update regarding the fate of Iran

Episode Date: March 2, 2026

Award-winning investigative journalist Lara Logan drops CHILLING update regarding the fate of Iran. This comes after 48 Iranian commanders eliminated as US, Israel drop THOUSANDS of bombs. Lara provides critical insight into what the fate of Iran might look like based on President Trump's decision making, to include his cabinet, who all share different opinions on his foreign policy.JOIN ME AD-FREE HERE:https://darkinsplus.comFOLLOW ME:⁠https://www.x.com/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://www.rumble.com/c/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://devory.wtf.tv⁠BUY ME A COFFEE:⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/devorydarkins⁠SHOP OUR MERCH STORE:⁠https://store.devorydarkins.com⁠BUSINESS INQUIRIES:⁠[e-mail]⁠

All right, so here's a part of an interview that I did with Laura Logan to answer the question about Iran. What is it that the American people may not understand about it? Is there similarities between Iran and Iraq? And what will the president end up doing moving forward, given the people in his cabinet? So why don't we start off with the very first question, is there similarities between Iraq and Iran? Here's what Laura Logan had to say. Take a listen. Well, the honest answer to your question is that you and I don't know. And all those people online who are giving predictions and answers, they don't know either.

None of us know because you know why we're not in the meetings. We're not sitting there. I mean, I read things online. You know, there's various things, you know, OSINT and intelligence or this and that and whatever, right? There's all these sites that track the movement of ships and the movement of aircraft and the movement of personnel and the movement of military assets. And there is something to be said for that. that has value. But what do we need to truly understand and to answer your question fully?

What do we actually need? We don't need pieces of the truth. We need the whole truth and that we do not have. So I don't know is the real answer. That's exactly the real answer. And I would argue that's a high IQ answer that we should demand from more commentators, podcasters, journalists, and anchors on the news. Instead of just dishing out repeated opinions that actually are not backed up with facts,

we don't know what the president's going to do at this moment in time. And here's the other thing. The question was very simple. Do we believe America is going to go to war with Iran, just like Iraq and Afghanistan? Targeted strikes, according to the Department of Defense, is not war. Invading a country boots on ground what a declaration from Congress for war is. So there's a big difference there. All right.

I think the bigger problem, besides trying to answer that question, is how the media has handled this entire situation. And that's exactly what Laura got into. Take a listen. However, I will say this to you. What frustrates me about the situation in Iran is that we have a complete and utter failure of the media. And many people celebrate this failure. And I understand why. And sometimes I celebrate it too, because I would rather see these people fall than their propaganda.

to prevail. And they've hurt so many people. However, every time you lose something, what did the laws of the world, right? The things that are timeless that never change. My mother used to say everything has a price. That is true. Everything has a price. You have a baby. You give up your freedom. You know what I mean? You become a mom. You give up your your gorgeous 18 year old body. Like whatever it happens to be. I don't know, you know, there's a price for everything. That's always been true. It is true now, and it will always be true. So it's the same kind of thing here, right? We're in a situation now where we are torn apart by political forces and information warfare. And we no longer think clearly, and we no longer put things in the appropriate context, because there's so much noise. There's all this noise on social

media. So on the one hand, do you have, you know, people who are libertarians or, you know, conservatives or even maybe Democrats who really don't want to be involved in interfering in other people's affairs? But then you say to them on the other side, but wait a minute, tens of thousands of people have been murdered. So where do, that is where the failure of the media comes in. Yeah. See, she's spot on about it. And it's all self-evident, by the way. How many people out there actually know where Iran is on a map? how many people know the history of Iran? Most people don't even know it used to be Persia, just so we're all clear. Most people don't even know that that area used to be one of the sought out areas as far as travel was concerned, very prosperous at one point in time. Not anymore.

And then you fast forward to what's happening today. People don't know how many people has been killed in Iran because the state media is not allowed to report on it. The internet was not allowed at a certain point of time. Outside journalists are not allowed. So that is a big issue. And because the American people are missing that context, I think it's unreasonable to expect them to understand what the president is doing here. We don't know the number. We don't know the actual number. We don't know if it's 2000 or 90,000. Now, I get that we don't know if it's 33,297. I'm not talking about having precise numbers. I'm talking about just having. some sense of what is the ballpark figure here? Well, part of the reason we don't know is because the

media no longer does journalism. We do propaganda, we do talk shows, we do opinion. Some of that is valid. Some of it is worthless. Some of it is actually damaging. But what we have now is a situation where we don't have any eyes on the ground in Iran. Now, some things are making it out that show you that there's at least a great deal of credibility to the reality that countless Iraqi protesters unarmed civilians have been murdered in cold blood by the regime. The other thing that gives that credibility is the context. What is the historical context? So beat reporters were so important because what was your beat?

Maybe my beat was City Hall. Maybe my beat was crime. Maybe my beat was foreign news or sports or whatever. it happened to be. We don't have a lot of beat reporters anymore. We have a lot of generalists. Well, look at the medical world, right? Why do you knock? If you need brain surgery, do you go to a pediatrician? Do you go to a GP? No, you go to a brain surgeon because that's their beat. In information terms, that's their beat. So we don't have too many beat reporters anymore. All right. Now, I asked her later in the interview, how could people actually get access to the truth today? Because on one hand,

Podcasts are not always telling the truth. Okay. I mean, they in some cases are doing exactly what mainstream media is doing. They're focused more on narratives. So how can a person actually pursue the truth? Well, one easy way is to focus on what your local affiliate channels are saying. Why? Because they usually have beat reporters, people who specialize in a particular niche, especially if the event is happening in your city. All right. Let's go to this next clip. This is, her explaining more about her experience because she was a war correspondent in Iraq and how that helped her to understand Iran. Take a listen. Now, the Iranian regime may have kicked out foreign media anyway. They might have said, get out of this country. We don't want you here. We don't care what

anyone says about us being totalitarian. And we're just going to murder our way out of this problem like we've done every time before. And in our lifetimes, we've seen the Iranian regime do this over and over and over. Now, I lived in Iraq for five years. Iraq borders Iran. I knew many Iranians. Many Shiites who are not Iranian by blood or by birth, but share the same theology and ideology as Iranians. And so I, and I met many people in the Iranian opposition, and I followed these things for years. So it's part of my beat. I'm not an expert because any journalist who tells you they're an expert in anything is full of, you know what. We're not experts. We're students. If you haven't been a nuclear scientist and lived the life of a nuclear scientist and really

immerse yourself in that. That's who the expert is. I might be smart and learn about it and learn from good scientists, but I'll never be an expert. I'll always be a student. So I'm a partial, you know, a student of Iran. And I know enough to know this is not the first time their regime has murdered their way out of a problem like this. And so that's what I said on day one on my ex-feats.

You know, on social media, I said, oh, well, let's watch the regime murder their way. out of this one. Now, partly that's based on historical context. Partly it's meant to be a wake-up call to people saying, are you paying attention to people? Like, this is not right. It's also partly based on the context, the historical context. What is the regime done? They've murdered their way out of this problem yet again. Yet again. So what is that done? It's proved me right, not because I'm so smart, but just because it's like anybody, if you study something for a while, there is a pattern that's been established. There's no reason, no indication that the Iranian regime, which is the same regime, is going to do anything different. And the world has never done anything

to stop them. So what are the chances the world is going to do that now? I don't have a lot of hope. And that sentiment from her last point about not having a lot of hope that the world will stop Iran, actually, in my opinion, relates to the sentiment a lot of people have about America's role in the Middle East. time we attempt to remove a government or do a regime change, it actually doesn't end up working in the end. And a lot of our sons and daughters go to those particular countries and they're killed in the process of doing so. So I understand the pushback on the president if that's how you feel about things. But I think it's too early to say definitively that this is exactly the same thing. We don't know that yet. Because as I continue to point out, what if this goes on for the entirety

of the month of March, and then for the rest of his term, it's over. We don't hear anything else. There's no more strikes. So it still, again, would have been a short-term thing. So really, the answer is we don't know on that. But here's something that we do know. We know that the president is not an ideologue. He's more pragmatic in his decision-making, even though Democrats want us to believe differently. And that is what makes this entire situation essentially a conundrum for the president. That's exactly what Laura Logan pointed to. Take a listen. So now that's just my instinct. What have we seen with Donald Trump? Well, Donald Trump has a problem in that he has cost himself as the president of peace. Many of his supporters, be they conservatives or mega or libertarians or whatever,

people who voted for him, don't want him to go to war. You know what I don't want? I don't want the president the United States or anyone from his administration, sitting down with people who just murdered 30,000, 40,000, 50,000, 60,000, 90,000, I don't know, because we have no media. We have no independent witnesses, and we have a media blackout coming out of Iran anyway. Regardless, I have seen footage that is not faked, that shows bodies in black body bag, stretching as far as the eye can see. I don't need to count the bodies to know it's too.

many. Yeah. See, it's easy when I hear her say that online for someone to get behind a keyboard and just spew the language. Oh, you know what? He's a traitor. He turned his back on his voters. We should never have gone to war or we should never be involved in Iran. And we shouldn't do this and we shouldn't do that. And what's fascinating is these people are speaking from a position of ignorance. What information do they have access to that has led them to that definitive conclusion. Life is not always black and white every single time. Okay. Not every situation is the same. I get the reservations from Iraq and Afghanistan. I deploy to Afghanistan. I get it. Okay. That still doesn't mean what's happening with Iran is the same thing. Why jump to that conclusion so

early on? That's the part I don't understand from people. And again, the president is surrounded by a difference of opinion with his cabinet. They all have different ideas about what should happen, what shouldn't happen. But I do know this. They had to have plan this out in so many different ways already. Now, there are certain military maneuvers that are taking place that would indicate that President Trump is at least at a minimum considering action in Iran. Well, we have contingency plans for action in almost every conflict zone in the world. That's what military planners do. And they don't do it today, they don't do it tomorrow, they do it 10 years out, five years out, two years out, you know, because you're looking at it, what's the plan that gets you this result? What is the

plan you can sell to the people, right, to the public? What's the plan that's going to do the least, you know, the most damage control, the least political damage is going to get this result, it's going to end up in this, it's going to do that. He's looking at all those scenarios and we don't know where he sits. I will say that the most discouraging part of this for me personally, is understanding that, and I'm someone who's in touch every day with Iranians. And I've never been to Iran, but I have been all around Iran. And the reason I've never been to Iran is that my family got death threats, my very close family, even my extended family in Africa.

So it's too dangerous for me. But nevertheless, I understand something of the region. And this is what I will tell you. When Nicholas Maduro was removed from Venezuela under that indictment from the Department of Justice, the Iranian people would not have been misplaced in believing that this was the beginning of the collapse of the Iranian regime because Iran has military bases inside of Venezuela. Iran works very closely with Venezuela. The IRGC runs Iran.

the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps that was headed up by Qasem Soleimani who was assassinated by Donald Trump in his first administration. They are the real power in Iran. We look at things in a very one-dimensional sense. We say, okay, who's in charge of Iran? Oh, it's the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Oh, it's the Mullahs. Okay, that's what everyone talks about in the media. Well, really, the people who run Iran are the IRGC. Why? Because they're the biggest criminals. They're the most ruthless. They're the ones who actually do the killing. Ayatollah Khomeini says, okay, yes, okay, kill them. But who actually does the killing, the IRGC? And there's a power in that.

You see, what she's talking about at this point is what we learn from Venezuela. Just because you remove Maduro does not mean the problem has gone away. Maduro really doesn't run that country. The Supreme Leader of Iran, who's now dead, does not run that country. It's the IRGC. They run the country, which totally makes sense. Just like the cartels run the country of Venezuela. just like the cartels were in the country of Mexico. These are the people that we hope over the next couple of weeks are targeted by our military and taken out. So the same thing in Venezuela.

Who actually runs Venezuela? It's not the president. It's not Delci Rodriguez. She doesn't run it as an elected politician, the person who was vice president and a Maduro and now runs the country. The cartel, Cartel de los Solis, cartel of the sons runs Venezuela.

A cartel that, what are the sons? Well, in Venezuela, they don't have stars. The military officers don't have stars. They have sons. So when you say Cartel de la Solis cartel of the sons, what you mean is cartel of the military generals. And there are three military generals who make up this cartel that runs Venezuela. So the president of Venezuela Maduro worked for them.

Delci Rodriguez works for them. Now, she also happens to work for the CIA. But the point is Iran had a foothold in Venezuela. They were mining, according to, the former head of Venezuelan intelligence, who's actually in custody in the Southern District of New York, they were mining uranium in Venezuela.

And you have to wonder, right, if you shut everything down in Iran, if they're constantly under attack, how come their military nuclear program is still going? Well, it's still going because they're getting the uranium from somewhere else. Well, where they were getting it from is Venezuela. Now, they may have been getting it from other places.

I don't know about that, but I know for sure that Iran and the IRGC and Cartel Dolos, Solis were closely allied. Okay, let me get to the bottom line here of this entire video today because this part of the interview sums it all up. Number one, what the president did in Venezuela is so relevant because it tells you probably what he's going to end up doing in Iran because of the people he's surrounded with in his

own cabinet. There's a difference of opinion here. I think he was convinced, and I agree with Laura on this, that when it came to Venezuela, the best he could do is remove the president and strike drug vessels. He cannot actually eradicate the cartel themselves because it would take too long. And in an election year, that will be a distraction. So his cabinet has convinced them, hey, don't go any further here. It's a theory, obviously.

We're not in the White House. But it's a, I mean, how else do you conclude why they stopped where they stopped? Now, let's go to Iran. Yes, they killed the Supreme Leader. Yes, they killed a lot of people in the Iranian government. What they haven't killed is the majority of the IRGC. They're the ones actually run in the country. Now, it's too early to tell if they will be successful.

Maybe they've learned from Venezuela, and they will eradicate the IRGC. But I'm telling you guys right now, if they don't, the people of Iran will still be facing a problem. Now, they may not ultimately be on their own because I'm not a profit. I can't tell you what's going to happen next week, let alone next month. But I can tell you that too many Iranian people have paid with their lives and the Iranian regime is still executing hundreds of people. And any regime that does that has no regard for human rights, has no regard for humanity at all, and is purely about self-serving survival. And I don't think these, in my personal opinion is I don't think we should be sitting down at a table with

these people. We have the ability to bring them to their knees without ever setting a single boot on the ground. And I share the same perspective. I don't believe we need boots on ground in any country in today's world. I think we just proved it with what happened to Iran's supreme leader and 40 plus of their members of the Iranian government in collaboration with Israel, of course. But again, I think the bottom line so far, we need to find out over the next couple of weeks. Does this administration plan to eradicate the IRGC? because if not, I'm not too sure where this is going in the end. They are the ones who are actually running the country.

It's just like cartels and Mexico. We can take out Shine Bomb. We could take out some of their military personnel or whatever. We could target some of their logistics. But that's all the surface stuff. The heart that's beating. It's the cartels. So the question is, what will this president do about the IRGC?

and that's the answer we're going to be looking for throughout this week. Let me know if you guys enjoy part of this interview. We will be releasing the full interview shortly, but I had to at least show you a part of this, given the context of what's happening right now. So give me your thoughts in the comments section below about what you loved, hate, or enjoyed about this entire interview in the comment section below.