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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 2384 - 4 Lies About The Iran War

10 Mar 2026

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They're being lied to over and over and over again because liars, you mean the Democrats, the horseshoe right, obviously terrorists, are working together to make the United States lose. Well, today I'm going to take you through each of the three big lies that you are currently hearing.

Chapter 2: What are the four major lies about the Iran War?

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Death, fire, and fury is great. But I hope and pray, says the president, that it does not happen. This is a gift from the United States of America to China and all of those nations that heavily use the Hormuz Strait. You notice the veiled threat right there? It's pretty wonderful.

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It's basically Trump saying, hey, China, I know you're working with Iran, but we are going to keep the oil flowing to you for now, if you're nice. He says, hopefully it is a gesture that will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Trump. Well, good. Why should we let Iran run the Strait of Hormuz?

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They can't even get Moshtaba's penis up, let alone oil production. President Trump is feeling it. Here he was yesterday. Together with our Israeli partners, we're crushing the enemy in an overwhelming display of technical skill and military force. Iran's drone and missile capability is being utterly demolished. The Navy is gone. It's all lying at the bottom of the ocean. Forty-six ships.

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Can you believe it? In fact, I got a little upset with our people. I said, what quality of ship? Excellent, sir. Top of the line. I said, why did we just capture the ship? We could have used it. Why did we sink them? They said, it's more fun to sink them. They like sinking them better. I'm sorry. He's the best. He's just the best. I'm sorry.

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If you cannot laugh along with the president about the United States sinking Iranian Navy ships, I mean, you need to have a better time in life. Seriously. The president also spelled out a timeline. It will be short and it will be over soon. Here was the president yesterday at the Congressional Institute. We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some evil.

Chapter 3: How does the first lie about the Iran War misrepresent the conflict?

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And I think you'll see it's going to be a short-term excursion. How good is our military, right? of this short-term excursion. You know, like a pleasure cruise, basically. So then he was asked by a reporter about when it will be over, and he said, you know, soon. On Iran, you called it an excursion. You said it would be over soon. Are you thinking this week it will be over? No, but soon.

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Are you talking about days? I think soon. Okay, and with respect to... Very soon. Look, everything they have is gone, including their leadership. In fact, there are two levels of leadership, and even actually, as it turns out, more than that. But two levels of leadership are gone. Most people have never even heard about the leaders that they're talking about.

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So it's obviously been very, very powerful, very effective. As far as President Trump talks about this war to reporters, the same way I talk to my kids about a trip to the doctors. It will be over soon. Maybe that's because Trump's opponents here are acting like, you know, children. And let's be real about the way this war is being fought.

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It is completely different from the way that we even fought wars 20 years ago. As Secretary of War Pete Hexeth says, this is not 2003. Our tech is not 2003. We are not fighting wars like it's 2003. You see, this is not 2003. This is not endless nation building under those types of quagmires we saw under Bush or Obama. It's not even close.

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Our generation of soldier will not let that happen again, and nor will this president, who very clearly ran against those kinds of never-ending, nebulously-scoped missions. Those days are dead. Instead, we're winning decisively with brutal efficiency, total air dominance, and an unbreakable will to accomplish the president's objectives. Is anyone surprised that this is going to be a short war?

Chapter 4: What is the truth behind the second lie regarding Iran's strength?

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If so, why? When we entered into this action in Iran, President Trump said the entire thing, the entire thing would last three to four weeks, which is, by the way, two weeks shorter than the first Gulf War, the high watermark of successful short wars when he kicked Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. Now, this doesn't mean that President Trump is going to stop short of his goals.

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He already made that clear. Yes, President Trump said, we've already won a lot. We've destroyed Iran's missile launchers, heavily damaged their nuclear facilities, wrecked hundreds of IRGC bases, hit oil supplies that funneled directly to the IRGC.

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By the way, we should mention that there have been a lot of bad reports about how the Israelis are going off the leash and hitting oil supplies and the Trump administration is mad. Literally, the oil refineries they are hitting are specific oil refineries that fund the IRGC directly. If you think that the Israelis are not coordinating with the Americans on that, you're out of your mind.

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The United States so far has been highly successful. Here is Secretary of State Marco Rubio doing a spectacular job describing our goals. The goals of this mission are clear, and it's important to continue to remind the American people of why it is that the greatest military in the history of the world is engaged in this operation.

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It is to destroy the ability of this regime to launch missiles, both by destroying their missiles and their launchers, destroy the factories that make these missiles, and destroy their Navy. So here's the thing. America has already achieved most of these goals alongside our Israeli allies. But, you know, there's always room for more winning. Here's the president.

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But everybody said the same thing. Make sure you win. We will. We've already won in many ways, but we haven't won enough. We need more winning. More winning is demanded. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth this morning said that today will be yet again the most intense day of bombing. Today will be, yet again, our most intense day of strikes inside Iran.

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The most fighters, the most bombers, the most strikes. Intelligence more refined and better than ever. So that's on one hand. On the other hand, the last 24 hours have seen Iran fire the lowest number of missiles they've been capable of firing yet. Well, as the president says, no one else can do that bleep. Well, here's the thing. When it comes to your company, only you can do the bleep.

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Chapter 5: How does the third lie about oil prices affect perceptions of the war?

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conventional explanation for some of this behavior. I mean, look at Ted Cruz, and I'm like, I think I know what's going on. Lindsey Graham, I think I know what's going on. But Mike Huckabee, I think he is under a spell. He is not thinking clearly at all. A spell. Like a spell. Okay. It's Mark Levin's witchcraft. That crazy witchcraft. My goodness.

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Megan, of course, you see nodding along over there. What, you thought you might have a pressing question or two on how Mark Levin's magic incantations work? You stop that censor. She's not the mother of the internet. By the way, somebody really needs to do a wellness check on Tucker. He's spinning out. ALP is a hell of a drug.

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Well, there's something else that Democrats and the horseshoe right have in common, it seems, aside from their deep desire to watch America lose a war to Iran, a wellspring of optimism with regard to Islamism, radical Islam. As we discussed yesterday on the show, on Saturday, two American-born ISIS-associated terrorists tried to throw IEDs at an anti-Islam rally.

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They weren't hiding their motives. Here was the NYPD announcing those motives. Kayumi said in recorded post-arrest statements that he had watched ISIS propaganda on his phone and that his actions that day were partly inspired by ISIS. The complaint also details statements made by Amir Balat after his arrest.

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En route to the NYPD precinct, Balot made spontaneous statements without being questioned by NYPD officers that were captured on body-worn camera footage. He said, this isn't a religion that just stands when people talk about the blessed name of the prophet. We take action. We take action. As well as, if I didn't do it, someone else will come and do it.

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And later, after waiving his rights, he requested paper and wrote a message declaring in part, I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic State. Die in your rage, you kuffar. Now, die in your rage is a commonly known ISIS slogan, and kuffar is an Arabic term that refers to non-believers.

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Well, in case you missed it, Amir Balad, who's one of these ISIS-associated attempted terrorists, actually flashed an ISIS salute to photographers. That's what that finger in the air is from a dude who shares, I assume, hair with Jim Morrison. According to Foreign Affairs Magazine, for followers of ISIS, a single raised index finger has become a sign of their cause.

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It is increasingly common in photographs of militants. Some have even gone so far as to call the symbol the jihadi equivalent of a gang sign. Well, you remember that the mayor of New York, Zarn Mamdani, he spent like 24 hours pretending that there was no radical Islam problem.

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And the big issue of the weekend was a white supremacist rally that drew 20 people, not the terrorists throwing ideas at people. Well, yesterday, finally, he made a statement in which he acknowledged that radical Islam did something bad. Well, there is a ringing rebuke of radical Islam from our Islamist supporting mayor of New York. You can feel safe now in your choices, New Yorkers.

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