Chapter 1: What are the current protests in Iran about?
The Iranian government is shooting protesters in the streets by the thousands. Why is the hue and cry among our college protesting class? Where is it? Why have they gone so silent? And what is President Trump going to do? Plus, a case hits the Supreme Court about whether boys should be able to compete against girls in sports and controversy over ICE first. The wait is almost over.
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Chapter 2: How many protesters have reportedly been killed in Iran?
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leading them down a primrose path to both economic and security hell for the past 47 years. Hundreds of thousands of people apparently overnight were still in the streets in Iran, braving actual bullets.
For all the people who pat themselves on the back for their bravery online, what actual bravery looks like is walking into the streets, arm in arm, stand up against people with machine guns or firing live ammunition at you in order to achieve freedom for your people.
According to Mediaite, a bombshell new report from CBS News suggests the Iranian government has murdered somewhere between 12 and 20,000 protesters since the ongoing national revolt began. That's an astonishing number, obviously. There are apparently zero protests on college campuses in favor of the protesters.
I have yet to see a major movement of congressional Democrats getting together in solidarity with the Iranian people. The media coverage until the last couple of days has been pretty scant, actually, of what is now a weeks-long ongoing protest revolt against the regime. And again, the reason that all of this is happening is because the Iranian regime is, in economic terms, absolutely weak.
The rial is now trading at a fraction of a penny. The Iranian economy is running at low ebb. That is because of the maximum sanctions replaced on the regime by the Trump administration, placed on the regime by the Trump administration, number one.
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Chapter 3: What is President Trump's stance on the Iranian protests?
It is because of the overwhelming military successes that Israel has experienced since October 7th in cutting off the arms, the terror arms of the Iranian regime and of the IRGC in places ranging from Iran to Syria to Yemen.
To Iran itself, it obviously includes the 12-day war that happened last year in which Iran was proved to be a military paper tiger, unable to prevent Israelis from flying sorties in broad daylight over Tehran and culminating in the American single strike against Fordow, the nuclear facility in Iran. There's a lack of water. There's a lack of power in Iran.
It turns out that the mullahs who promised an Islamic utopia simply failed. delivered in Islamist hell. And the people of Iran are sick of it. They are tired of it. This is not the first protest movement in Iran, obviously. It's not even the first protest movement in the last 15 years.
There was a major protest movement in 2009 that Barack Obama decided that he was going to not only ignore but undercut by negotiating with the Iranian regime, calling them moderates, and then trying to bring them into the fold of nations, which it turns out was a horrifyingly bad idea that allowed them to strengthen themselves at the expense of America's actual allies in the region.
And of course, he signed the JCPOA, which was designed to allow Iran and the Mullahs a pathway to a nuclear bomb that was signed in 2015. The Trump administration came in. reverse the polarity, put the pressure on the Iranian regime.
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Then Joe Biden came in and let his foot off the pedal, clearly let his foot off the pedal, started talking again about a revived JCPOA. And by October of 2023, the Iranians were helping to spur The October 7th terror attacks and seven front terror war against Israel that ended, ironically, with Iran's forces being absolutely devastated.
So now people are out in the streets by the millions, literally by the millions at this point. And Iran is doing what Iran does best. They've turned off the Internet for the last several days. No information getting in, no information getting out. And they are just shooting people apparently willy-nilly in the streets.
According to the CBS story, information trickling out of Iran on Tuesday suggests that a crackdown by authorities to end more than two weeks of widespread anti-government protests has likely been far more deadly than activists outside the country have reported.
With phone lines opening back up for calls from inside the Islamic Republic, two sources, including one inside Iran, told CBS News on Tuesday at least 12,000, possibly as many as 20,000 people have been killed. Now, again, there are varying sorts of representations of how many people have been killed at this point. Human rights groups are being more meticulous about the numbers.
They're slower to report the numbers. Those numbers are still in the thousands. We are talking about a minimum at this point of at least 3000 people who have been murdered on the streets of Iran. The number is probably significantly, significantly higher. We have seen pictures emerging, stacks of body bags.
We've seen videos emerging of Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces, members of Iranian militias mowing people down. President Trump is taking a strong position. Quote, Iranian patriots keep protesting. Take over your institutions. Save the names of the killers and abusers. They'll pay a big price. I've canceled all meetings with Iranian officials until the senseless killing of protesters stops.
Help is on its way. M.I.G.A. And that'd be make Iran great again. Again, that last line there when he says that he has canceled all meetings. That is a very loud rebuke of reports. from inside the administration that there were members of the administration.
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Chapter 5: Why are college campuses silent on the Iranian protests?
Again, there was a Wall Street Journal report that the vice president, J.D. Vance, was urging the president of the United States to negotiate with the Iranians over their nuclear facilities, which is just the Obama foreign policy. The vice president's office has attempted to deny that. The president of the United States yesterday said,
said clearly the same thing, that the protests should continue and that help is on its way. That help will have to come in a form other, presumably, than simply upping tariffs. He had announced on Truth Social that he was going to increase tariffs on countries that were doing business with Iran to 25%, which is an incremental increase on some places.
That tariff is actually higher than 25% in some places already, so it ain't just going to be tariffs. The president of the United States will have to do something more, and I believe that he knows that. Here he was yesterday.
To all Iranian patriots, keep protesting, take over your institutions if possible, and save the name of the killers and the abusers that are abusing you. You're being very badly abused. If the numbers are right now, I hear five different sets of numbers. I hear numbers. Look, one death is too much. But I hear much lower numbers, and then I hear much higher numbers.
But I say save their names because they'll pay a very big price. And I've canceled all meetings with the Iranian officials until the senseless killing of protesters stops. And all I say to them is help is on its way. You saw that I put tariffs on anybody doing business with Iran.
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Chapter 6: What economic factors are contributing to the protests in Iran?
The transformative effect on the region would be incredible. Obviously, the government of Qatar, which is just a cut out for the Iranian government, is protesting to the United States, complaining about all of this.
The government of Qatar, despite spreading literally billions of dollars in public relations around the globe, is meeting with little success with the Trump administration, who's watching all of this unfold, obviously. If the Iranian regime were to change, that would be a sea change in geopolitics. Iran is a large-scale supplier of oil to China.
Iran is a large-scale supplier of Shahid drones to Russia. Iran is, of course, the chief sponsor of global terrorism on planet Earth, having spread its terror tentacles not only throughout the Middle East, but also into Europe and into Latin America. If the Iranian regime were to change, that would weaken Hezbollah in Lebanon.
You might see an actual decent government there with the capacity to destroy Hezbollah. You might see the possibility of an actual broad Abraham Accord-like agreement between Iran and Israel. You might see the Islamist government of Turkey boxed in. I know there's been a lot of talk recently about the supposed moderation of the Turkish government, of which I see zero evidence.
Certainly, getting rid of the most cancerous regime in the Middle East would be helpful to the interests of the United States. Now, that doesn't mean the United States, again, I'm going to say it for the 100th time, this does not mean that the United States ought to put hundreds of thousands of troops, tens of thousands of troops on the ground in Iran to topple the regime.
No one is talking about that. What we are talking about is a risk-reward calculation whereby American action, targeted American action, could have disproportionate effect on the future, not only of the Middle East, but on geopolitics as a whole. Imagine if the Houthis weren't harassing shipping in the Red Sea anymore because their sponsor state, Iran, was gone.
Imagine if the Chinese had to be a little bit more careful about their playing around with anti-American forces in the Middle East because, again, the mullahs weren't there to help them out. Imagine if the Russians did not have a gigantic supply of weaponry coming in from Iran.
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Chapter 7: How does President Trump's foreign policy relate to Iran?
Things change radically when terrible regimes go. I've seen some talk about what replaces the Iranian regime. Well, I mean, there are a lot of possibilities as to what replaces the Iranian regime. The Iranian people will have to decide what replaces the Iranian regime. But any suggestion that what is likely to replace the Iranian regime is worse than the current Iranian regime.
I'm going to have to see a chart on what you think is worse than the current Iranian regime, which, again, the largest state sponsor of terror on the planet. A regime responsible for at least a thousand deaths in Iraq of American troops.
A regime that has threatened Saudi Arabia, that has threatened the UAE, that has threatened Israel, that has spread its terror tentacles through Syria into Lebanon, that has been involved with terror attacks in Europe. There are arguments against regime change. That is not a particularly good one. All right, coming up, President Trump speaks to CBS News about what's going on in Iran first.
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Have they crossed your red line or has the line moved? I haven't heard about the hanging. If they hang them, you're going to see some things that I don't know what your where you come from and what your thought process is. But you'll perhaps be very happy. What do you mean by that? We will take very strong action if they do such a thing. We will take very strong action.
We don't want to see what's happening in Iran happen. And, you know, if they want to have protests, that's one thing. When they start killing thousands of people and now you're telling me about hanging, we'll see how that works out for them. It's not going to work out good.
Again, the president is not fond of making threats that he does not fulfill. This is what makes him totally different, totally different. from every other president of my lifetime, particularly Barack Obama and Joe Biden, who made empty threats all the time. They drew red lines and then they violated those red lines. They violated those red lines repeatedly over and over and over again. Well,
Donald Trump is not fond of setting lines that he does not then enforce. There's been an argument made that any sort of American intervention will create a rally around the flag effect in Iran. Well, not while there are literally hundreds of thousands of people in the street protesting the regime and being shot to death.
I don't think that all those people in the streets protesting the regime and watching their family and friends get shot in the face or in the chest are going to be upset if an F-35 hits an IRGC base. Trey Yinkst reporting from the Middle East says, well, actually, President Trump's pretty popular in Iran.
He goes on to say I have to emphasize that among Iranian people, Trump is the most popular person right now. He has so much popularity because of the steps that he took toward preventing the growth of terrorism in the Middle East. They respect him.
That is exactly right. Meanwhile, what is Iran doing? Iran is not just mowing people down in the streets, apparently. Now they are preparing to hang dissidents. They have apparently arrested tens of thousands of people, and they have said they're going to execute anyone who has participated in this quote-unquote revolt.
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