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Chapter 1: What happened after the death of Ayatollah Khomeini?
Formerly Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini is dead. This wretched and vile man had the blood of hundreds and even thousands of Americans on his hands and was responsible for the slaughter of countless thousands of innocent people all across many countries.
Last night, all over Iran, the voices of the Iranian people could be heard cheering and celebrating in the streets when his death was announced. The entire military command is gone as well, and many of them want to surrender into saving their lives. They want immunity. They're calling by the thousands. You know, will the real reason for this operation please stand up?
Because it is changing by the hour, right? It's regime change one moment. It's some undefined imminent threat, which, by the way, is a lie, right? There is no imminent threat. I sit on the Intelligence Committee, the Armed Services Committee. I pay very close attention to this. And there is no imminent threat. I can tell you that, right? So what is really going on here?
Turns out the regime who chanted death to America and death to Israel was gifted death from America and death from Israel. This is not a so-called regime change war, but the regime sure did change, and the world is better off for it. Brothers butchered by Iranian-backed roadside bombs and well-armed militias, thousands of our own.
We didn't start this war, but under President Trump, we are finishing it. Their war on Americans has become our retribution against their Ayatollah and his death cult. To the media outlets and political left screaming endless wars, stop. This is not Iraq. This is not endless. I was there for both. Our generation knows better and so does this president.
He called the last 20 years of nation building wars dumb and he's right. This is the opposite. This operation is a clear, devastating, decisive mission. Destroy the missile threat, destroy the Navy, no nukes. Israel has clear missions as well for which we are grateful. Capable partners, as we've said since the beginning, capable partners are good partners.
I just spoke to President Trump for several minutes about Iran. I asked him about who is going to take over now that the Ayatollah, the Supreme Leader, is gone.
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Chapter 2: How is the Iranian military responding to the current situation?
And his answer was interesting. He said the attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates. He told me it's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. I talked to him about the fact that the Iranians had tried to kill him. There was a plot in 2024, an Iranian plot to try to kill Trump. And he said of the Ayatollah, I got him before he got me.
They tried twice. Well, I got him first. As for how long the war will go on, the president told me he always thought it was gonna be a four or five week deal. That's what he told me, a four or five week operation. He said it could be shorter and he was prepared to go longer. And about the three Americans who were killed, the president said, it's war and you have casualties in war.
He marveled at the fact that with all the operations he has conducted as president in Venezuela, the one last summer in Iran, and this one, that the total casualty count, American casualties, is three. That's a quick summary of a rather lengthy conversation with President Trump tonight.
Combat operations continue at this time in full force, and they will continue until all of our objectives are achieved. We have very strong objectives. They could have done something two weeks ago, but they just couldn't get there. Earlier today, CENTCOM shared the news that three US military service members have been killed in action.
As one nation, we grieve for the true American patriots who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. Even as we continue the righteous mission for which they gave their lives, we pray for the full recovery of the wounded and send our immense love and eternal gratitude to the families of the fallen. And sadly, there will likely be more. Before it ends, that's the way it is.
Likely be more, but we'll do everything possible where that won't be the case. But America will avenge their deaths and deliver the most punishing blow to the terrorists who have waged war against basically civilization. They have waged war against civilization itself. Iran is a place that could be wonderful without Hezbollah. Hezbollah has American blood on its hands.
It killed those Marines, 220, 18 sailors in 1983. And Ronald Reagan, the great Ronald Reagan, left and never did a damn thing. Mr. President. Unleash the American military with Israel on Hezbollah tonight. Finish these bastards off. They have American blood on their hands. And it shows you how desperate Iran is to have to rely upon Hezbollah.
We have a chance here not only to take the mothership of terrorism down, Iran, we also have a chance to eliminate one of the most lethal proxies in the Mideast, Hezbollah.
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Chapter 3: What are the real reasons behind the U.S. operations in Iran?
Mr. President, do it and do it now. They're weak. We can take them out, and we should take them out. Between the United States and Israel, we got these bastards on the ropes. Finish them off. Has President Trump finished the job that President Reagan failed to do?
I am a big admirer of Ronald Reagan, but I'm here to tell you that Donald Trump, in my opinion, is the gold standard for Republicans, maybe any president when it comes to foreign policy. Maduro, everybody talked about him. Well, Donald Trump's got him in jail. Cuba's next. They're going to follow this communist dictatorship in Cuba. Their days are numbered.
The Iranian regime, the mothership of international terrorism, is about to collapse. The captain of the ship, the Ayatollah, is stone cold dead. This is the duty and the burden of a free people. These actions are right, and they are necessary to ensure that Americans will never have to face a radical, bloodthirsty terrorist regime armed with nuclear weapons and lots of threats.
For almost 50 years, these wicked extremists have been attacking the United States while chanting the slogan, death to America or death to Israel or both. They are the world's number one state sponsor of terror. We are the world's greatest and most powerful nation, so we can do something about what they do. These intolerable threats will not continue any longer.
I once again urge the Revolutionary Guard, the Iranian military, police to lay down your arms and receive full immunity or face certain death. It will be certain death. Won't be pretty. I call upon all Iranian patriots who yearn for freedom to seize this moment, to be brave, be bold, be heroic, and take back your country. America is with you.
I made a promise to you, and I fulfilled that promise. The rest will be up to you, but we'll be there to help. Thank you. God bless you, too, our incredible warriors. And God bless the United States of America. I admired you. I never admired you more than I do right now. When it comes to Hezbollah, seize the moment here. They picked this fight. They joined the fight. Make sure they pay a price.
I heard the question about four weeks. It's the typical NBC gotcha type question. President Trump has all the latitude in the world to talk about how long it may or may not take, four weeks, two weeks, six weeks. It could move up, it could move back. We're gonna execute at his command the objectives we've set out to achieve.
And what he has shown an ability to do that other presidents can't quite seem to have the aperture to do, well, I mean, Joe Biden didn't even know what he was doing, is to look for opportunities and off-ramps and escalations for the United States that creates new opportunities to execute what we need, on our own timeline. So you can play games about four weeks, five weeks.
He has all the latitude, and I'm glad he does, because there's no better communicator than our president expressing those things. I've been in meetings with the president for the last two and a half days. We know exactly where his headspace is, and he will communicate, as he should, exactly what he would like, and we will follow those orders. And I think everything he said on that is...
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Chapter 4: What are the objectives of the U.S. military in this conflict?
None of this is done on a whim. Having been in their boots, having been in their shoes, having been in their flight suits, I think we, I mean, I know we think about them with every decision that we make and every recommendation that we make to the President of the United States. Those recommendations are made prayerfully.
And when I pray every day for them and for this mission, I pray simply for the biblical wisdom to see what is right and the courage to do it. It's going to take courage to follow through on this. There's going to be a lot of noise. And we pray for that. And we hope all of you do as well. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Secretary Hexseth, I have two questions for you.
First, are there currently any American boots on the ground in Iran? No, but we're not going to go into the exercise of what we will or will not do. I think it's one of those fallacies for a long time that this department or presidents or others should tell the American people, and our enemies, by the way, here's exactly what we'll do. Here's exactly how long we'll go.
Here's exactly how far we'll go. Here's what we're willing to do and not do. It's foolishness. And so President Trump ensures that our enemies understand we'll go as far as we need to go to advance American interests. But we're not dumb about it. You don't have to roll 200,000 people in there and stay for 20 years.
We've proven that you can achieve objectives that advance American interests without being foolish about it. Now, will we be bold about it? Are we willing to be decisive about it? Do we put months and months of planning into what kind of effects we want to achieve? Absolutely.
But going forward, why in the world would we tell you, you, the enemy, anybody, what we will or will not do in pursuit of an objective? We fight to win. We fight to achieve the objectives the President of the United States has laid out. And we will do so unapologetically. Thank you. To every American, you are safer tonight because the Ayatollah is dead.
You're safer tonight because the largest state sponsor of terrorism is on the run. It's just not about a nuclear weapon. They have been killing Americans through their proxies, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis for decades. It's about not just not just nuclear weapons. It's about being the largest state sponsor of terrorism. What do we need to know?
Well, Trace, what's amazing here is that the president has showed that for the first time, someone who comes in as a businessman, someone who didn't have a background in government, is able to achieve his objectives in the Middle East without boots on the ground. This isn't going to be a forever war. We're not seeing the gender studies programs in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
We're not seeing the pallets of cash to the mullahs. We're seeing President Trump
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Chapter 5: How does President Trump view the timeline of the conflict?
Looks like Israel was the one that led the strike on Ayatollah Khomeini. And so, of course, the question remains, what is the level of intelligence sharing between Israeli special forces, between Mossad intelligence and the United States? Are their operations being conducted directly with us or are they doing things and then telling us afterwards?
By the way, isn't the hit on their senior regime, wasn't that predicated principally by CIA intelligence? That's what I'm hearing. Are you hearing that it's more Shera Mossad or Shin Bet or was it CIA intelligence that actually maybe even did the targeting? The Israelis actually dropped a hammer. From what I'm hearing, it's that the intelligence was American, but the operation was Israeli.
Yes, yes. And that being said, it remains to be seen what level of operations Israel is still conducting. And look, if they're still conducting these operations, they may not want to put that information out because of the fact that the Iranians have lost the C2. They want to keep for strategic ambiguity. They want to keep the leadership guessing as to who exactly is alive, who is not.
You saw the Iranian foreign minister even sort of mentioned this himself yesterday when he said IRGC units are isolated and operating independently. That means that a lot of these attacks you're seeing on the Gulf partners, this is part of a contingency plan that was put in place should leadership communications be severed. This was the plan, attack U.S. and U.S. allies across the Gulf.
Eric Prince, on Saturday, you had some concerns about this. Are you more comfortable that it looks like they're going through, as Captain Fennell walked us through over the weekend, that they're going through a pretty systematic degradation, particularly of command and control and security?
and the Iranians and the Persians' ability to have even organized strikes back, because it looks like what they're hitting us back with is a little haphazard. I do understand, and probably for operations security reasons, maybe they're not talking about in depth, but my understanding is they've gone pretty deep in the command structure.
People are saying the battalion or brigade level have even taken out some of these bad IRGC folks. Your thoughts on Monday, sir? Well, the thing about taking out the top of their command structure means that the bottom is still very much intact. And they also...
The Iranian foreign minister said that they had delegated authority and responsibility to the lowest level units to maximize their fight. And the Straits of Hormuz are closed. The Rashtanur facility in Saudi Arabia, which flows six, it's a loading terminal for six million barrels a day of crude.
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Chapter 6: What impact do American casualties have on the war narrative?
It was hit. Fire was put out, fortunately. The Qataris just took off 20% of the world's gas production from their facility, which has also been attacked. So even if there's a lot of command and control at the senior levels that have been damaged, if they can still launch the hundreds, if not thousands of drones they still have, there can be significant economic damage.
I think it's a great opportunity for the president to declare a win. They did. They took out the leadership of Iran, the people that killed those protesters over the last months. And if they negotiate with the mullahs or whatever for some kind of transition, give them the city of Mashhad, almost like a Vatican, where the mullahs can go and be
super Islamic and strict and let the rest of Iran breathe free if they want to. But ultimately, it's the Iranian people's opportunity to do this. It is not our It's not up to our air power, our troops, and our blood to fix it.
Look, America owes a debt of gratitude to France, remember, because it's the French Navy that showed up at Yorktown, which assisted us to trap Cornwallis' army, giving us the victory at Yorktown. The United States has done a great gift to the Iranian people by removing their leadership and degrading some of their capabilities.
But ultimately, this has to be decided by the Iranian people on the ground. If I were the president, I would not encourage him to go deeper and deeper on this. Treat this almost like the way the Romans used to do a punitive raid at the edge of empire. When they had a misbehaving state, they would send a Roman general like Scipio Africanus, who punished Carthage.
after Carthage had been rotting up and down Italy and Spain. I remember Hannibal was the one that took the elephants all the way to Rome. But use this as a punitive raid, pound them for a few days, and then leave. Don't get caught in the details of reconstructing Iran. If I remember my history, I think Scipio Africanus took it apart brick by brick and salted the earth.
Maybe it's more than what I do. But your point is one of these Roman punitive raids and or Viking raid where you go in and punch hard. You heard today discussion. The president told Jonathan Karl again in an interview, hey, it could be four or five weeks. I'm not going to put a timeline on it.
Your advice is that you think you could hit hard enough in the next couple of days because the new guy that's kind of their spokesman or leadership spokesman, he's not a religious cleric, he's saying we have no interest in talking right now. The president said, hey, I'm open to talk. He said it the other day. But they're not interested in talking.
So how do you get your off-ramp or your, hey, let's get this done in ā 24, 48, 72 hours instead of five or six weeks, that punch, you have to have somebody on the other side to actually talk to, let them do a transition, get back in a room and talk about their nuclear program. How do you do that? That's a good question, Steve.
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Chapter 7: How is the Iranian regime adapting to recent military actions?
But it's another important note. To my knowledge, there are not a lot of US aircraft going over Iranian territory getting after these targets. So again, the president should call a win. Like he said in his comments, I have paid my debt to the Iranian people. I removed this leadership which killed them. Now, leave it to the Iranian people.
The other thing that the administration should do is it's ripe for a change in Afghanistan. Even the Taliban are sick of their leaders, not to mention all the other ministers, all the other former generals, all normal Afghans. They very much want to shift back to the middle and be closer to America.
Make a couple of quick changes there and go to Bagram, and now you have a staging area that you can threaten Iran from if you need to. Hang on one second. I want to come back. I'm going to hold you for a minute.
I want to talk about that Cyprus because Matt Bull was in Greece last week and said how the Turks, the Greeks, everybody were concerned about this, and they hit Cyprus yesterday or tried to hit Cyprus. So hang on for a second. Jack Posobiec, as we go to break here, your thoughts on Eric's Roman punitive strike. or a Viking strike, hit them, hit them hard, and then say, hey, it's your deal.
You take it from there. What would that mean? And your definition as a Naval intelligence officer, a Roman punitive strike on Iran that would take a couple more days would look like what? Well, you remember, I mean, that this is what Rome would do. They would they would take out the leader and then they would see who comes up next, see if they wanted to cut a deal.
If that guy didn't want, they take him out and then they'd keep going down the line up until they found a leader that was willing to make a deal. Look, you know, we could see exactly how that's done. President Trump, I believe, in remarks to ABC last night, Jonathan Karl said,
said something along the lines of how the second and third runners up for who they thought would take the leadership of Iran were also killed in Israeli strikes. So they're actually now looking for either that leader or a potential group to be able to take the reins. We're also seeing, you know, I've been parsing the tea leaves here.
We're also seeing the administration say that this again, this isn't regime change. This isn't a forever war, that this isn't going to be nation building like we saw in Iraq and Afghanistan. But instead, it's taking out the current leadership and then working with who remains after. What does that look like? That looks like Maduro.
That looks like exactly the Venezuela model that we saw just last week. month, last early February. So, you know, I think that seems to be where the administration is settling in this. Look, you get to the point where you have stable leadership, where they're able to meet the president's objectives. I think the objectives clearly have been met.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of U.S. military actions on global stability?
How long do you stick around? Well, Steve, remember the secular president, the civil president of Iran is still in place. The foreign minister is still in place. So while the religious leadership has been removed, at least in terms of the Ayatollah, we know the Ayatollah has family members that survived, his son's still alive.
We know there's mullahs that are still there, as well as the civilian leadership that does remain in place. And again, these IRGC units that are operating under the standing orders from the previous Ayatollah, should the Ayatollah be killed, that's when they embark on what
the asymmetric warfare that we're now seeing, striking those economic implements, striking the OPLAT, striking pipelines, striking the ports. Again, this is the asymmetric war, that radar system, billion-dollar radar system out in Qatar. So the asymmetric warfare campaign has been continuing. But remember, a lot of the civilian leadership is still there in Iran. Okay, stick around.
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