The Young Turks - Fighting Israel's War - June 23, 2025

Episode Date: June 24, 2025

Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month Shopify trial and start selling today at ⁠shopify.com/tyt Iran retaliates against the United States with telegraphed strikes against a US military base in Qatar, as U.S. officials admit they’re unsure what’s happened to Iran’s uranium stockpile. U.S. airstrikes on Iran send oil prices climbing. Trump announces an alleged ceasefire between and Iran and Israel, but will it hold? Hosts: Ana Kasparian & Cenk Uygur SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE ☞  https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungTurks FOLLOW US ON: FACEBOOK  ☞   https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER  ☞       https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM  ☞  https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK  ☞          https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕MERCH  ☞      https:/www.shoptyt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Has just been, you know, not good. I'm so upset. Oh my God. Well, hello. We're going to be able to be. All right, welcome to the Young Turks,

Janky, Graanna, Kisperian with you guys. We are in the middle of a war, although if you listen to the right, it's not a war. When you attack another country, that's just a small military excursion. I think they're right. I think that if the United States got bombed several times with 30,000 pound bomb We wouldn't consider that a war. No, if our nuclear facilities for energy were bombed, we'd think like, oh, small military excursion, no big deal at all, right?

Yeah, and so a lot of misconceptions to clarify, and mainstream media, look guys, we tell you things and then it happens, you can see it with your own eyes. We told you they're good cop, bad cop, I've sent it a thousand times, I just did a jubilee about it, right? And so whenever they trump does something that the donors like, Boom, they'll all rally around them. And you're gonna see it spectacularly today. MSNBC, CNN, along with Fox News.

What on boy, Donald Trump! Way to please the donors! The donors are very, very happy today. They've got another thing that they paid for a giant war. Now, of course, they paid the politicians a nickel and a dime. We're gonna have to pay the bills of the whole war. But we're gonna give you all the details, tell you what's happening, and how it could affect our economy,

economy and so many other things, and obviously Operation Hope, okay? Come on, Hank, come on. Even in the midst of this, I never lose hope. Okay, all right, Casper. I'm as black-pilled as can be. So look, out of all the people in the world, something that Tucker Carlson said recently is just seared in my mind and I can't stop thinking about it, which is do we really live in a democracy when you have

agreement on both sides of the political aisle among the electorate? in not wanting to engage in a regime change war, and you still hear Trump flirting about the idea of doing it anyway. It doesn't, this is not a democracy. The people don't matter. This is not a partisan issue. Doesn't matter for talking about Republicans or Democrats. They don't care about us.

They don't. Yeah, so what I would disagree with there is, it's not that it's not a democracy. It's not, hold on, hold on. It's that the powerful exert every, every ounce of power they have to trick people into voting for usually two fake options who are going to do the same exact thing no matter what. For example, if Kamala Harris had won, she would be advised by Liz Cheney and Bill Crystal telling her you got a bomb

Iran, you got a bomb Iran. Trump wins, he's advised by the Adelson's and Marco Rubio and everyone else, you got a bomb Iran, you got a bomb Iran. So, and then all of cable news, all of mainstream media, watch the Portland New York Times, go, Bravo, Bravo, Bomberon, Bobaron, right? So they, and then the two sides are manipulated. When Joe Biden does it or Donald Trump does it, oh my guy did it. So it must be great. Okay. And so it's super easy to manipulate people into war. And what do you say? You see the same thing they said before Iraq. Oh my God. We're all going to get nuked. We're all gonna get new.

All right, so we're gonna give you a lot more of that here. And so, and this is a propaganda free show, so we're gonna give you the actual news. And so by the way, the actual news sometimes hurts your feelings. Like, oh no, I don't want those to be the facts, I want something else to be the facts. Well, we do the news here. So let's do it and show you what's really happening. All right, well, let's talk about the latest, which is retaliation on US bases. but the way Iran carried out this retaliation is telling.

So let's get to the details. What now? Well, this is just sad on every level. This is the telegraph. Look, I don't know if this is true or not. Explosions have been heard over Doha, Qatar after Iran launched a missile attack on the U.S. base there. Western officials told Axios that Iran had fired six missiles toward at least one U.S. base in that Gulf country. That base exists to protect Israel, by the way.

I know we're constantly, Barry Weiss is constantly attacking Qatar. Qatar has done more to defend Israel. But anyway, well, as you just heard from Tucker Carlson there, Iran has begun its retaliation against the United States following President Donald Trump's decision to fight Israel's war by bombing Iran's nuclear sites over the weekend. However, the way in which Iran carried out this retaliation is important because it appears that they're attempting to deescalate and hopefully things do deescalate. Now, how does that make any sense at all? Well, let me give you the details on what they targeted, which U.S. bases they targeted,

and how they did it. So war has entered a new stage, writes Ken Clippenstein over at Substack. With Iran in the United States now shooting at each other directly, Iran has announced that it has fired missiles at the Central Command headquarters at the Al-Al-Al-Hud, I'm sorry, Al-Adid Air Base in Qatar. But this could be a way of giving, you know, parties to this war, a potential exit plan or exit strategy. Iran coordinated, let me repeat, Iran coordinated the attacks on the American air base in Qatar with Qatari officials and gave advance notice that attacks were coming to minimize casualties, according to three Iranian officials familiar with the plan. Now, that ended up being true because of the air bases that were targeted by Iran.

Not a single casualty was reported. This was coordinated to prevent casualties from occurring. But this was a way of the Iranian regime to essentially save face with the people of Iran and at least show that they responded or retaliated in some way following the U.S. attack on their soil over the weekend. Now, there was a response from Trump over this. In just a second, I'll read to you what he had to say, but Cenk, what do you think? Okay, so this is potentially really good news and the only way out of a potential significant war here, okay? Because Iran did this with Israel the first time Israel attacked. And so unfortunately that was not, that attempt to de-escalate was not returned, right, in kind. So we're going to get to what could

trigger a larger war. But what Iran is doing is, they're saying, hey, we're sending missiles your way. You can easily knock them down. We're gonna tell our domestic audience we were tough against America, and we bombed their base in Qatar, knowing that the missiles have no chance of landing, right? But you guys, we're telling you ahead of time, we're not actually trying to hurt you, okay? So now. Okay, yeah. That also kind of needs to be discussed, Jake. Okay, because this isn't the first time that Iran has responded in a way that was obviously meant to safe face with their people while preventing, you know, mass casualties or any casualties at all. It's just, it's amazing to me. Look, I am not in any way providing cover for Iran,

the Mullahs. I obviously I'm not religious at all, right? And I don't agree with religious fundamentalism at all. I don't agree with, you know, the Shia leadership in Iran at all. However, I don't want to get dragged into a war, much like we were with Iraq. At the same time, if you're comparing the conduct that's been carried out by two different parties here, Israel, especially when it comes to their conduct in the West Bank and Gaza, and then Iran and how they're responding to these attacks, I mean, the gas lighting is driving me crazy because we're acting as if, you know, who we're allied with Israel, oh, well, they're angels. They're totally angels.

And they follow international laws, they're not doing anything wrong. Iran's the one that gets bombed. Their embassy in Syria gets bombed by the Israelis. How did they respond to that? They waited a few days, and then their retaliatory attack was very similar to this. In 72 hours, we're going to start doing drone strikes. We just start doing missile strikes. Here's where we're going to do it.

So you guys can shoot them down. America, you can shoot them down. Jordan, you can shoot them down. We don't want any casualties. Why are we acting like, you know, one party is like, you know, One party is like just polite little angels who have done everything right and followed every rule. And Iran is like the dangerous regime that they're gonna do suicide bombings. Like it's just yeah, it's so frustrating.

It's frustrating. That's not providing cover for Iran by the way, the way that they treat their people. The people of Iran absolutely want regime change. They don't want Israel to do regime change on their behalf though. Yeah, so look, obviously I'm agreeing. And by the way, to your point, Anna, I now listen to a bunch of mainstream media reports today. And it's amazing, just straight reporters.

Every fourth line is some sort of filler propaganda for Israel. So like, they'll tell you a fact, and Noam Chomsky told me about this in one of my interviews. He's like, just listen for the facts. Everything else is just framing in an attempt to manipulate you. So they'll say like, oh, Iran fired some missiles, but they gave earlier warning, but it is so that nobody will get hurt basically. They don't say so nobody will get hurt. They'll say, I've fired some missiles, but we did have some warning. But remember there are a terrorist state that are very violent and it's a good thing that Israel took

out their capabilities that were threatening the entire region, etc. Like wait, why is this in a straight news report? I don't understand. Why are you just pulling it, putting in propaganda in the middle of your so-called news? Anyways, so now guys, the next question is how do we respond? So is Iran is, basically saying we want to deescalate even though you mess this up and we you know we don't know how bad those facilities are damaged yeah we'll get to that story in a little bit but even now we're saying okay very light response so if our response back to that is okay good let's get the hell out of here I can't

believe that didn't start a giant war thank God that you know they didn't do much of a response great we said we destroy their nuclear facilities we did we're By the way, if Trump did that, then all of MAGA would be like, told you, told you, told you, it was just a bombing, it was no big deal, et cetera. But Israel's never satisfied. That's what I was going to say. Yeah, they're not going to, they're not going to say, oh, it's okay. We, you helped us do our fake reason for going in.

Exactly. No, we want regime change. Exactly. So I don't care that their response was light, provoke a bigger response and provoke something larger and larger and larger until we do regime change. 100% okay now you have your look guys the beauty of this is that we tell you what's going to happen before it happens we told you that this wasn't about the nukes they don't even have nukes we told you that they were to try regime change and guess what

Trump over the weekend instantly changes the goalposts to regime change so we're all going to see with our own eyes are we going to get out or are we going to go further in because we haven't finished the job for Israel yet So let's talk a little bit about what happened after the announcement that Iran was going to do these strikes on U.S. air bases in Qatar. So American air defenses in Qatar were able to intercept 13 Iranian missiles that President Trump said were knocked down in Monday's attack because obviously Iran gave them prior warning. The intention was to have them struck down. One other missile was allowed to land harmlessly. And again, there have been no casualties. I'm very, very happy to hear that there are no casualties. The fact that we have over tens of thousands actually, 40,000 U.S. troops in the region. who are essentially under threat now because of this escalation really does upset and infuriate me, but luckily so far no casualties as a result of Iran's retaliation. Now Trump has responded to this already writing on truth social that Iran has officially responded

to our obliteration of their, obliteration of their nuclear facilities with a very weak response, which we expected and have very effectively countered. There have been 14 missiles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But the important part is that he says at the end, perhaps Iran can now proceed to peace and harmony in the region. And I will enthusiastically encourage Israel to do the same. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Now, will he be able to encourage Israel to do the same? I doubt it.

He'll be reminded about who his funders are. He'll be reminded about his mommy, okay? And the Edelson's giving him hundreds of millions of dollars to essentially. allow Israel to do what it wants, carte blanche when it comes to annexing the West Bank. We're just gonna have to wait and see. And the other thing is, guys, obviously the way that the strikes against Iran were carried out over the weekend leaves much to be desired when it comes to trusting Trump. How are you gonna trust Trump, right? I mean, he just flat out lied and made it appear as though he was pursuing a diplomatic negotiation to get a new nuclear deal signed.

In the meantime, he had already decided that he was gonna do these strikes. He had no intention of getting them to sign a new deal. Yeah, I can't believe it, but even Alex Jones said that. He said, well, if you're in the middle of negotiating peace and then you betray that, that's saying to the world leaders that you don't mean anything you say. I mean, that is super ironic coming from Alex Jones. But yeah, we keep saying, oh, come to the peace table. The Iranians over the weekend said, what peace table?

You blew up the peace table and you murdered our lead negotiator. So where would we go and with whom? And that is a super fair point. And by the way, as Israel loves, they're saying it all over television now. And every liar, cable news host, funded, a reporter is repeating it. Israel has a right to defend itself. Israel wasn't attacked. Iran was attacked.

Right? And have you heard a single person in American media even asked the question? Wait, does Iran have a right to defend itself? Or is this just propaganda? Like it has nothing to do with principles, it has nothing new with international law. It's just them bad guys. We hate them. They can't do anything.

We can defend ourselves by attacking them first. Like words don't matter anymore. Logic doesn't matter. Nothing matters. All you have is wall to wall propaganda. Okay, now let's talk about some next scenarios. So there's a very light weak response. I'm thrilled with it for the same reason, Anna, as I don't want any of our troops hurt.

I hope that this wraps it up. But very likely it will not. Why? Because Israel will be greatly encouraged by this, what they perceive to be weakness. So they're like, oh, you let us know ahead of time that you were gonna bomb us. We think you're weak, then we'll murder more of your officials until we get regime change. And so it is possible though. So there's one other possibility, what we're gonna say?

I just wanna comment on that real quick. If they think Iran is so weak, and I'm seeing the same thing, right? They're bragging about it. Okay, then you really have no justification to drag the United States into a full blown war with Iran, correct? Exactly, yeah, 100%. So if this is all Iran has, then we have no excuse, none, none, none to go further, but Israel will demand that we go further and we will go further. So that you could write down in stone, okay?

So now, what might Iran be up to otherwise? It is also possible. It's a lower percentage chance, but possible that they're using this as a decor. Oh look, a light response and then they go and actually do a surprise attack on another base or in the Strait of Hormuz. Now the Strait of Hormuz we're gonna talk more about later because it affects oil prices. But for now, I do want to say we do have destroyers and an aircraft carrier in the region. If they attack the, if they close off the Strait of Hormuz, not only will oil prices skyrocket, But then any ships left on the side of the Persian Gulf are sitting ducks and can't leave.

So because they'll be mining the Strait of Hormuz if they do that. And that could be a disaster. We'll come back to that as well. So this just broke, and I want to mention it because it's relevant to this conversation. But again, I go back to the same issue of can I trust Trump considering what just happened? Well, he claims and he just announced that there is a complete ceasefire between the United States and Iran. Interesting. Right, so let me just read you verbatim what he posted.

Here's the complete post. So congratulations to everyone. It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a complete and total ceasefire in approximately six hours from now when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in progress final munitions, or missions I should say, for 12 hours, At which point the war will be considered ended, officially Iran will start the ceasefire and upon the 12th hour, Israel will start the ceasefire and upon the 24th hour,

an official end to the 12 day war will be saluted by the world. During each ceasefire, the other side will remain peaceful and respectful. This sounds like a lot of cope and wishful thinking, I'm gonna be honest with you, but I hope it's true, I really do. Let me read the rest on the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both countries, Israel and Iran, on having the stamina, courage, and intelligence to end what should be called the 12-day war. This is a war that could have gone on for years and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn't and never

will. God bless Israel, God bless Iran, God bless the Middle East, God bless the United States of America, and God bless the world. That's the full post. Again, it's hard to trust him given the fact that he lied to our faces about pursuing diplomacy when he was actually planning for the opposite. But I really, really hope this is true. I just don't know. Yeah, so look, we're live on the air and you heard what I just said a minute ago. So I said if he can manage to get out of this, Mago will be ecstatic and say see what he told you it wasn't a war, although by the way, he just said it's a war. A 12 day war, even if that holds is a war. He's calling it a war, okay? So all right.

Now, is it going to hold? I'd be shocked, but I'd love to be shocked. So our job is to deliver facts to you guys. So if it holds, we'll come back and say it held, I didn't like the bombing, it risked a giant war, but hey, they got out of it and they didn't do regime change, and it was, it wasn't good on any count, but I'm thrilled that it ended, right? Can I ask you something? But my guess is, Nan Yahoo's gonna go in there and poke the hornet's nest and poke it and poke it and poke it and poke it and pull it. poke it until he gets what he wants. Right, because again, just to reiterate, regime change is what Netanyahu has been wanting

for literally decades. That's the real purpose for this war. Now this is the question I have, and I'm gonna just admit that I'm ignorant on this because I don't know if this makes any sense or if this is how ceasefires are usually done. So as Trump put it, the ceasefire would begin with Iran stopping. And then after that, Israel would stop. Wouldn't it make sense for them to both stop bombing each other? No, no, it's an acidine comment, of course.

Like I don't want your right not to breeze past it. What he's saying is, Iran, you'll stop now. We'll keep bombing you for another 12 to 24 hours. And you'll just have to sit there and take it like a schmuck. But at the end of that 24 hours, we promise that we'll stop bombing you, wink, except we've lied every single time. The Israelis lied when they said they weren't going to do it. Then the Americans lied when we said we weren't going to do it.

And we already murdered your lead negotiator. But yeah, if you want to believe us, sure, we're going to bomb you for another 24 hours. We'll probably bomb the living crap out of you, and you better not do anything. And at the end, we'll be done. Even if that's true, that's already monstrous and terrible, et cetera, but I would take it, right? But if in 24 hours, they murder the Ayatollah and go for regime change, that's not a ceasefire. Okay, so let's see what happens. We're now, the whole world is watching for these 24 hours.

Yeah, and guys, look, I want the people. of Iran to have the leadership that they deserve. And I know the majority of Iranians are not happy with the leadership. They don't like the Mullahs, they don't like the religious fundamentalism in Iran. However, right now, if you're paying close attention, it's very clear that the United States and Israel are trying to install the Shah who's exiled for torturing his own people. Like he was exiled for a reason. The idea that Iranians would like to replace, you know, one regime that they don't like with another regime that they wouldn't like is crazy, allow them to choose their own leaders.

They should have a democratic process to choose who they want to lead them. Yeah, so guys, last two things on this, number one on that, look, I don't even want to talk about regime change and what the Iranian people want in this context. Because once you start talking about it in this context, it feeds into the Israeli propaganda about how we should do a regime change through war. So if the Iranian people have an uprising couple of years later, six months later, whenever they want against that repressive regime, fantastic. But it shouldn't be at the point of a spear, at the point of a gun, and it shouldn't

be orchestrated by Israel, because even if it was, then it would lose all credibility. Preach. Right, and then nobody in Iran would support it, because they'd be like, oh, that's the Israelis trying to voice some loser pathetic leader on us so they could boss them around after they They've gotten their regime change, right? So okay, and then the last thing is, do not root for to be right, root for the right result, okay? So we think that they're much bigger war is more likely to happen, but I hope to God

we're wrong, and I'm rooting for me to be wrong, and I'm rooting for it to be over in 24 hours. Yes, we have 40,000 troops in the Middle East in bases, they're obviously a little protected as we saw in Qatar, but they're nowhere near as protected as Israel is because they don't have Iron Dome, I don't want any of them getting hurt, and I hate war, and I want to get out of it as quickly as possible, even if it was the wrong thing to do, and we'll never be able to convince people again that it was the wrong thing to do, or some people that it was the wrong thing to do, I would still rather have it be over. Let's root for it to be over in 24 hours,

even though we think it's probably less likely. Yep, I'm right there with you. All right, we got to take a break. When we come back, we have a lot more to get to, including whether or not the nuclear sites were actually obliterated as Trump claims. Come right back. gifted on YouTube. We appreciate all you guys. You guys can hit the join button below to become a young tourist member support bold, independent broadcasting and truth telling and giving you the actual news. And you could also support the show for free, ring the bell and subscribe as well. All right, Anna, what's next? Well, I wanted to kind of just show you guys a video that I came across because I thought it was telling. What was also telling about it is that this comment or these

comments were made publicly. They're available on YouTube, you could look up the video yourself, But you've never seen this video, Jank. And I want you to react to it live because, I don't know, maybe I was hearing something, imagining things, but unlikely. So let me just set this up for a second. So back in September of 2012, a pro-Israel lobbyist, I mean, he's part of this think tank that tends to push narratives that are favorable to Israel and Israel's foreign policy. His name's Patrick Claussen was speaking at an event.

It was the policy forum in Washington, D.C. And he was talking about what could be done to go to war with Iran. I'm not even kidding. So this is 2012 under Obama. Remember, three years later in 2015, Obama did one of the best things in his presidency, which was get Iran to sign a nuclear deal. They stopped in reaching their uranium. Unfortunately, Trump ripped up that deal in 2018, which led to Iran in

in uranium. But nonetheless, three years prior to the Iran nuclear deal, here's what Patrick Claussen had to say. Take a look. I frankly think that crisis initiation is really tough. And it's very hard for me to see how the United States president can get us to war with Iran. Which leads me to conclude that if, in fact, compromise is not coming, that the traditional way of America gets to war, is what would be best for U.S. interests. Some people might think that Mr. Roosevelt wanted to get us into World War II, as David mentioned. You may recall we had to wait for Pearl Harbor.

Some people might think Mr. Wilson wanted to get us into World War I. You may recall he had to wait for the Lusitania episode. Some people might think that Mr. Johnson wanted to send troops to Vietnam. You may recall we had to wait for the Gulf of Tonkin episode. We didn't go to war with Spain until the U.S. until the Maine exploded. And may I point out that Mr. Mr. Lincoln did not feel he could call out the federal army until Fort Sumter was attacked,

which is why he ordered the commander at Fort Sumter to do exactly that thing, which the South Carolinians had said would cause an attack. So if in fact the Iranians aren't going to compromise, it would be best if somebody else started the war. What did you mean by that? If somebody else started the war? So I assume that he means because we know that there's no justification for this war, we need Israel, Israel will attack Iran, start the war, and then drag America into it.

Or something needs to happen, some sort of event, some sort of terrible thing needs to happen that impacts Americans. Yeah. That would drum up support to go to war with Iran. Well, okay, that's what's happening today. that was in 2012, it's interestingly right between now and September 11th and September 11th, obviously was a cataclysmic event here in America, and we did go to war with Iraq afterwards, and Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11. But to be fair, they had weapons, oh, no, they also had no weapons of mass destruction. And do you want to know where we got the fake

intelligence on the weapons of mass destruction? Our beloved ally, Israel, gave us that fake intelligence. So, and remember, whenever Ted Cruz or anybody else has asked about it, what does Israel do for us? They give us intelligence, fake intelligence to drive us into war after war after war. And at the time, Israeli leaders said Iraq is our number one enemy, Israel's number one enemy. And right now, before we, this war began, they said Iran is their number one enemy. And look at that. We're in a war with both of them. And interestingly enough, know, Israel started one here, the one you guys just saw with your own eyes, and the other one was after a cataclysmic event here in America.

Yeah, it's just, I thought the whole framing of what he was saying there was a little sick, right? Because it's like, oh man, I would really want to go to war with Iran. But you know, historically speaking, when the US finally did decide to go to war in other contexts, obviously, they had to wait for something devastating to happen to Americans or to our soldiers, you know, in the case of Pearl Harbor, for instance. I mean, luckily, you had a president at the time, Obama, who was pursuing, legitimately pursuing diplomacy to get a nuclear deal signed with Iran. Yeah, one more thing about that.

Look, so right now, I don't know that they've even gotten enough support for us to do regime change. That's maybe why Trump announced the so-called ceasefire today. and there's been pushed back from some portions of his base and his voters, et cetera. But if they were able to get Iran to counterattack and hit U.S. troops, boom, you'd have all you would need for regime change. So start the war, agitate, agitate, drag America into it, wait for Americans to get killed, and then step aside as America fights your war for you. But I'm sorry, we can't say these things that are super obvious that we're all seeing with our own eyes as it happens.

right now. And by the way, fun little fact, people like Bill Crystal, who are part of the neocons, who are ready to start this war if Kamala Harris had won, are now beginning to go, oh, Trump not so bad. 100%. I mean, that's, Bill Crystal has always been a snake. And for all the Democrats who are fooled by him and all of the other Bush administration, neocons who were like, you know, MSNBC was littered with them and continues to be littered with them. Just dig a little bit deeper, Just because you share an enemy, Donald Trump, doesn't mean that these are good people. These are people who dragged us into the forever wars, drain this country of its resources, just complete and utter disastrous people.

All right, let's get to the next story because, Jenk, honestly, I can see this being used as the rallying cry by the Israeli government to drag the United States into a regime change war. And that's the question of whether or not the U.S. did manage to fully obliterate the nuclear sites in Iran, while also doing away with their nuclear stockpile, their enriched uranium. So let's talk about that. Is the United States now at war with Iran? No, Kristen, we're not at war with Iran.

We're at war with Iran's nuclear program. Here is the Isfahan site before the bombing, and this is what it looks like now. So far, the International Atomic Energy Agency says it's seen no radiation leaking from the sites. And one possibility is that that's because the nuclear material might not have been there. There's a report this morning in the New York Times that fordo, that deep underground enrichment facility, was severely damaged, but not fully destroyed. Severely damaged versus obliterated. I'm not exactly sure what the difference is. What we know is that our nuclear program back substantially. While the Trump administration is claiming that the U.S. strikes on the U.S. strikes on,

on Iran's nuclear sites completely obliterated their nuclear program, there is some evidence that Iran may have moved the enriched uranium prior to the attack. Now if that is proven to be the case, Trump kind of hinting at the fact that they were going to bomb the nuclear sites might have had something to do with it. But nonetheless, some of this intel is coming from Israeli officials who shouldn't be trusted since they want a regime change war in Iran. They do not want the United States to agree to a ceasefire. Trump today announced on truth social that he managed to get a ceasefire agreement between

Iran and Israel. We're gonna have to wait and see if that actually comes to fruition. But nonetheless, there is some other evidence that Iran may have moved there in rich uranium. So the 60% enriched fuel had been stored deep inside the Ishfahan nuclear facility or nuclear complex. Now, Raphael Mariano Grossi, the director general of the IAEA, that's the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in an interview with CNN on Sunday that Iran has made no secret that they have protected this material. Asked later in the day whether he meant that the fuel stockpile, which is stored in special

casks, small enough to fit in the trunks of about 10 cars, had been moved, he replied, I do. And there's some additional evidence as well that I want to share with you. So for instance, satellite images released by Maxar Technologies at the tunnels leading into the Fordo Mountain, taken in the days before the American strike, show 16 cargo trucks positioned near an entrance. An analyst or analysis by the open source center in London suggested that Iran may have been preparing the site for a strike. Now, Vice President J.D. Vance weighed in on this when asked about it over the weekend. Let's take a quick look at what he had to say. The UN's atomic energy watchdog said that Iran had 900 pounds of highly enriched uranium. Do we know what has become of that? Was it destroyed in this attack? Do we know?

That's a big stockpile. Yeah, John, we're going to work in the coming weeks to ensure that we do something with that fuel. And that's one of the things that we're going to have conversations with the Iranians about. But what we know, John, is they no longer have the capacity to turn that stockpile of highly enriched uranium to weapons-grade uranium. And that was really the goal here. Uranium is not that difficult to come by, John, but enriching uranium up to the point of a nuclear weapon. That is what the president put a stop to last night. Why just survive back to school when you can thrive by creating a space that does it all for you, no matter the size. Whether you're taking over your parents' basement or moving to campus,

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Yeah, so they want to have it both ways. So on the one hand, they want to say, we obliterated them. We're awesome and strong. On the other hand, they want to say, well, they're not obliterated because we want to keep fighting. So if Israel doesn't use the excuse of, well, they moved some of them, so not good enough, we have to keep going to war, I would be shocked. What does that remind you of exactly what they did in Gaza, where they said, we've killed all of Hamas's leaders, so we're awesome and strong. But not everyone in Hamas is dead, so we have to keep going, okay? The Israeli war machine always has to keep going to do self-defense, right?

So they always have a new reason to bomb, a new reason to kill, a new reason to take new land, a new reason to topple a nearby country's government, okay? All for self-defense, okay? So no, they're just going to use it as an, by the way, I don't believe a word coming out of American or Israeli intelligence going forward about whatever uranium they might or might not have left, because I guarantee you it'll be propaganda depending on what they want. In the rare case that this Donald Trump ceasefire holds, and the U.S. intelligence and the Trump administration wants you to believe

that it's totally obliterated, whether they are or not, they will insist we got rid of all of it, right? That is much less likely. What is much more likely is Israel and then hence, of course, by definition, America will then come back around and go, nope, we didn't get it all. Nope, there's 10 vials over there and 20 vials over there, and we can't get it all until we keep bombing and bombing and regime change and more war for self-defense. Yep.

So let's talk about diplomacy because that was really the only way to ensure. that Iran was not enriching uranium or racing toward basically being able to build a nuclear weapon. So again, diplomacy has been the most successful way of ensuring that we don't have proliferation of nuclear weapons. The Iran nuclear deal of 2015 obviously is a good example of that. In fact, more than 15 years ago, the joint US-Israeli attack on Natanz using a sophisticated cyber weapon caused about a fifth of the country's 5,000 or so centrifuges to blow up. And that didn't work, did it? That didn't work.

It wasn't until you had the nuclear deal where you have inspectors going into Iran to ensure that they're not enriching uranium to the point where they can build the nuclear weapons. You have checks baked into that system to ensure that people are safe, they're not having weapons that are gonna cause mass destruction, but Trump ripped that up. And if he hadn't ripped that up, we wouldn't find ourselves in the position that this country is in at this current moment. Yeah, so that's so important. And you know, he could have gotten back into the deal and just called it the Trump deal,

and he could have changed one or two lines, and it wouldn't have mattered. And if he wanted to brag about it, that would infuriate me, but I'd say, hey, a lot better than war, okay, yeah, get back into the deal, right? So, but why that's so important, guys, is because in American media, they, constantly lie to you on purpose and frame it so that it only appears that there are two choices. Either Iran gets a nuclear weapon and my God, they would obviously immediately use it because they're so irrational, dirty, savage Muslims. So the minute they have a new, they press the button right away, just like Pakistan.

All right, they didn't do it in Pakistan, but it doesn't matter, dirty Muslims, dirty, dirty, dirty Muslims. They will definitely get a nuke and they will definitely nuke us. Except they don't have a nuke, you're goddamn lying, and there's a third choice. So they say, either we're going to get nuked or we're going to go to war. Or you get into a peace treaty that they were already in where they gave away all their uranium. Right. And they never tell you that option because they want you to go to war, because it's a propaganda machine.

They're not doing news. They're doing marketing for the powerful. All right, now somebody wrote in here, and I got to read it. It's one of our members, and it's a great point. member on t yt.com, wandering Puerto Rican road in, wait, they moved to uranium. Doesn't that sound just like that they moved to WMD from where we thought they were at? Jesus Christ, the media is spinning the same crap from the Iraq days. Bingo.

You remember when Rumsfeld said, oh no, we know where the weapons of mass destruction are. They're to the north and south and east and west of Tikrit. Oops, they weren't none of those places. And Rumsfeld didn't know he was lying on behalf of Israel. We had nothing to do with Iraq. They did not attack us. In fact, they were opposed to Al-Qaeda. They were opposed to the people who attacked us.

But Israel wanted Iraq toppled. And now they want Iran toppled. Same exact thing. Weapons of mass destruction. Oh, we couldn't find them. Oh, they were moved. Now we're doing regime change. And off you go to die and pay for all of our wars.

But okay, Trump claims there's a ceasefire, and this is all going to be that Israel gets to bomb them for 24 more hours, kill as many civilians as they like, do any bombing they like because they're above the law. No international law applies to the great beloved moral Israel. They can violate every law, every convention, they can murder as many civilians as they like, but they're the most moral army doing self-defense, right? So, okay, let's see what happens after the 24 hours. But I would be shocked if Netanyahu didn't grab Trump like this and just yank him right back into the war. And Trump being an idiot and a sucker will be like, oh, I'm going to be strong, Netanyahu. You know why we went, he did the bombing? He saw on Fox News that they were bragging about what a brilliant and strong mission Israel had done in bombing Iran.

And that moron was like, oh, I could be more brilliant and stronger. I could bomb Iran too. And they had wall-to-wall propaganda on Fox News because they know the more. The moron only watches Fox News. Yeah. So he's gonna be so easy to hoodwink that orange buffoon into a further war. But maybe I'm wrong. I hope you are.

I hope I'm wrong. I hope what he announced today is actually true and that both parties actually follow through with the alleged ceasefire. I want to be proven wrong so badly. But honestly, so far, I haven't been proven wrong. Everything I predicted ended up coming true. Adam Sosnik, the guy who threw the tampon at me as we were debating, the reason why he did it is because I predicted accurately that the United States would get dragged into this war, that we would pay for the bombs, by the way, you think Israel paid for those bunker buster bombs? I think we spent 60 billion total for those bombs? That's a good question. I'll have to look that up.

No one's asking how much those bombs cost. No, no, no, for Israel. Israel first, okay? So that's what all America said, right? Israel first. We'll wait to see. America 28th. We gotta take a break when we come back. I want to talk a little bit about the economic impact of a war with Iran because it is a major oil producing country and we're already seeing some changes in the global oil market.

So we'll give you that story and more when we come back. All right, back on T.Y.T. Jank, Anna and Preston the Dragon and Antonio Walker, who the care guy. I like that. Not only John, but upgraded premium. Thank you, brother. We appreciate all you guys. You make this show possible, honest reporting possible. Not everybody wants to show around, okay? And by the way, get attacked on every single side there is. Because, hey, if you've got a large left wing network, you know what you should do is try to tear it down. So there'll be no defense against the right wing. So, but we withstand all of that because of our members. And you guys are amazing and we love you for it. And we're here to give you the news that you asked for

honestly. All right, Anna. All right, let's talk about the economic impact of a potential war with Iran. Iran's parliament voting in favor of closing a major shipping route, putting as much as one fifth of the world's oil supply at risk. It could cost suppliers big time as Forbes finds that roughly one billion dollars worth of oil flows through the strait of Hormuz daily. As of this moment, President Donald Trump has announced that Israel and Iran have agreed to a ceasefire. We're going to have to wait and see if that's actually true and if both parties abide by said ceasefire. But in the meantime, war with Iran has already had an impact on the price of oil. And as you heard in that video from Fox News, the Iranian parliament has already

voted in favor of shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, where there's quite a bit of oil being transported because Iran, of course, is an oil-producing country. In fact, around a fifth of the world's oil and related products flow through the Strait of Hormuz, Each day, according to the US Energy Information Administration, a similar share of liquefied natural gas that has been cooled for shipment also makes the journey. Now more than 80% of those fuels go to Asia, China is a huge buyer of Iranian fuel. And so closing the Strait of Hormuz could mean that 17 billion barrels of oil could be removed from the global markets, these Asian countries, China being one of them.

them would look to purchase oil from other oil producing countries in the global market. And that means limited supply, higher demand, that's going to increase oil prices. So the war is already increasing energy cost for consumers in the United States. The price of a gallon of regular gasoline climbed to nearly 3% last week to $3.22 and that's according to the AAA Motor Club. And according to the Wall Street Journal today, prices were below $70. a barrel before Israel struck Iran this month. Brent Crude, the international benchmark, spiked above $81 a barrel before falling back

to trade around 0.6% higher at about $77.50 recently. WTI, the US equivalent, rose a similar amount to slightly over $74 a barrel. So hopefully the ceasefire is real, hopefully we avoid getting dragged into a regime change war in Iran. I've learned to not be as optimistic and hopeful as I would like to be, but we're just going to have to wait and see. Jank, thoughts. Yeah. So they think they've got Iran cornered because their most effective attack would be against the Strait of Hormuz and blocking it off and causing the economic damage that Anna talked about. But it would affect a lot of their allies, which would then be angry with Iran. For example, China has been saying, hey,

this was a terrible and illegal attack by America on Iran, but if you cut off the oil to China, then they might be aggrieved by that, and then you're in a top spot. But most of all, that's where most of Iran's oil goes through. So that would cost themselves a ton of money. So we are assuming that they won't do that. I didn't think that is a wrong assumption for reasons that I'm going to explain to you in a second. So far, by the way, the oil price is 3% change is not that big a deal. And so far not that bad. And the more, the more, markets are reacting like they think that this is not going to be a big deal and it's not really a big war. The markets went up today, didn't even go down, okay? So I think they're

wrong. And so it'll be interesting again here to say, I think, I'm saying I think the entire market is wrong. So we'll see about that. That's a bold comment, right? But why do I say that? Because I've never seen Israel be satisfied with enough war. So Trump says it'll be all over in 24 hours, my guess is Israel will find a way to say, no, Iran violated the deal, so we have to go back. I mean, they're not going to say, oh, we violated the deal, when in reality, it's almost almost every single time Israel breaks a ceasefire, whether it's Gaza, whether it's Iran, whether it's anyone else. And by the way, now us, too. We say, oh, yeah, we're going to give you two weeks. Just kidding. We were giant liars, and we just bombed the living crap out of you.

So my guess is Israel agitated, agitate until they get a bigger war. And then the markets go, I can't believe that happened. And when you say regime changes, Trump did just yesterday, right? You give the Ayatollah no other out. He thinks, all right, then I guess I'm a dead man anyway, so I have no reason for restraint anymore. Right. So, and this ceasefire might be a ruse because they got word that Iran is planning to do something in the next 24 hours. And it's just to slow them down, or if Iran does do it, they go see they violated the ceasefire.

But I would be shocked if it held because, like I said, I've never seen Israel satisfied with peace. They always want more war. Yes, and just to give you guys the statement from Trump over the weekend that hinted at his, you know, consideration of engaging in a regime change war in Iran. He wrote that regime change has quickly become, oh, that's actually from Charlie Kirk. This is Trump's comment. He says, it's not politically correct to use the term regime change. But if the current Iranian regime is unable to make Iran great again, why wouldn't there be a regime change?

Listen, the people of Iran should pursue that regime change on their own. It is not the place of the United States and certainly not the place of Israel to go in there and do a regime change war on their behalf so they can install, or so Israel can install some sort of puppet for their government. Come on. And this reminds me of when they said about Iraq that we're going to be greeted as liberators. Yeah, exactly, exactly.

Were we greeted as liberators? So there's, guys, it's the same exact playbook. They're being lazy and the reason they're being lazy is they're like, we have American media 100% in our pocket, we have US Congress nearly 100% in our pocket, we had Biden in our pocket. We have Trump in our pocket. So we could just be just tell people the same exact lies we told them last time. WMD, oh, we're not done yet. Oh, they moved the WMD, we have to keep going. Now it's regime change. Oh, they were the aggressors. They're the violent terrorists. We're the ones that are doing defending ourselves. It's all the same

lies 24-7. So look, I think that if Iran gets to a situation where they think, okay, All hope is lost and we're not going to be able to prevent this war, they're going to switch to, okay, now let's have a real war. And I hope that never comes. But if it does, I'd be shocked if they didn't block the Strait of Hormuz. I mean, they'd be kind of nuts not to. That's their one go-to move. And by how much we're howling ahead of time, we're accidentally tipping off that that's the thing that we care most about.

Every press report's like, well, they better not take out the straight of Hormuz because that would hurt them more than anything else. And they better remember that, okay? And I'm like, oh, okay, so you're super panicked about the straight of Hormuz. So you're with that kind of, you know, obvious concern, it'd be nuts if Iran didn't bomb that if we're in the middle of a real war, et cetera. And by the way, I don't know, Iran might have terrible capabilities left. They might not have much capabilities at all, or they might have a lot more capabilities

then we realize that's the risk of war. You don't know what's going to happen next. Can their drones take out our ships? I don't know, nobody's ever attacked a ship with drones before, right? If they're sitting there as, you know, once the straight is blocked and they can't, especially if we have any in the Persian Gulf and they can't leave, you could just endlessly attack that ship. So we'll see, we'll see. I hope, I hope none of it happens and the ceasefire holds. I agree with you. But look, if a war with Iran does happen, if you, if you're If the US gets dragged into it, and it's a prolonged regime change war on behalf of Israel, I'm sure we'll all feel super relieved that Republicans are cutting nearly a trillion dollars

in funding for Medicaid so we can pay for this war. Anyway, we've got to take a break. We'll be right back.