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When that happened, you and I on this podcast said in the wake of that, we predicted this regime is going to fall.

And I said they are so weak now.

The Iranian people rose up, rose up in massive numbers, over a million Iranians in protest.

And by the way, the response of the Ayatollah was to order his soldiers just to fire machine guns at them, killing anywhere between 10,000 and 40,000 protesters.

We don't have, I haven't seen really firm estimates.

I think it is at least 10,000.

It could be as high as 40,000.

But that shows the level of tyranny when you say just unload and fire into the crowd and kill as many as you can.

That's what they were doing.

President Trump's actions this weekend levels the playing field and has taken out, by the way, it's also an illustration of exquisite intelligence, the early bombing strike that occurred that killed Ayatollah Khamenei.

The reporting we're getting, and this is open source, I don't have any classified information on this, but the public reporting is that there was a meeting of the Ayatollah along with basically his National Security Council, his top military advisors, and that's the meeting that Israel struck and took him out.

And so they knew exactly where he was.

They knew where his senior leaders were.

um that is and so so when when i was riding in the beast with the president i was urging him this is the moment and he's like well what do you think of of the negotiations and i said mr president they're just dragging it out it's just a delay tactic they think they can delay and and and that you'll let the moment pass and and listen is there risk of course there's risk

Well, that's right, and that's one of the real risks of escalation in the coming days is those proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis, engaging in acts of violence, engaging in acts of terrorism, and targeting Americans.

We have three American servicemen who have already been killed, and listen, military conflict, tragically.

casualties can be part of military conflict.

We also have the shooting that occurred in Austin, Texas.

And it is still early.

Our reports are preliminary.