Trump Haunted by Ayatollah's Funeral
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Why was Donald Trump shocked by the size of the Ayatollah's funeral?
Donald Trump was stunned and panicking at the sheer size of the funeral for the late Ayatollah Khomeini. Tens of millions of Iranians showed up at this funeral procession. The stadium in Tehran was packed. And they kept on cycling in new groups of hundreds of thousands of people. And as I looked at just the sheer volume of the amount of people in Tehran and neighboring cities who came out to honor Ayatollah Khomeini, the amount of people who were there. You know, one of the things that I thought to myself is, you know, really, you were thinking about doing a ground invasion Trump regime. You were thinking about going into that country with American troops and turning our military essentially into a meat grinder out there.
That's what I was thinking as I saw those sites. I was also amazed, actually, not just at the size, but who attended these funeral processions of the Ayatollah. Dozens and dozens of countries attended. Top dignitaries from these countries attended. And it seems that as the Trump regime and Netanyahu invaded to try to isolate Iran from the rest of the world, it just completely backfired in their face. And it seems more and more countries are actually there showing support with Iran. I know not a lot of Western media is showing this. I know there's some reporters on the BBC who have hat-tipped to them, hat-tipped to others who are showing this and sharing this. And I just think it is important to see these images to be aware of what the heck is actually going on there.
Because... I'll give you my own perspective, which is I do think that the Iranian regime is not the most popular thing in Iran, and I'm not being an apologist for the Iranian regime by any means at all. I do want to reflect on the situation here where there does seem to be at least in an international level support. I mean, you had the top Chinese dignitaries. Saudi Arabia sent dignitaries there. I mean, you had a lot of people showing up. And even Donald Trump, you know, was saying, wow, I'm surprised that there were people who were, millions of people who were crying for the Ayatollah. The Ayatollah for the Shiite community, you know, was like their pope. It's like you killed their pope, you killed their spiritual leader and the leader of Iran, who was very old to begin with, who was losing popularity within the population.
He's now replaced by his son, the Ayatollah Mojaveh Khomeini. And you now made the Ayatollah Khomeini a martyr and you actually unified the people of Iran. And even in the metropolitan areas where I think there is far less support for this Iranian regime right now. They don't want the United States and Netanyahu to take over, in my opinion. They see what's happened in Gaza and the genocide there. They see what's going on in Lebanon in the name of security zones. They see the consequence of that. And if you look at what's going on and you study it, what I'm saying is reflective of the data But I believe our intelligence community knew and they were trying to communicate with Donald Trump. But Netanyahu was saying, no, that's not true.
Iran's going to fall right away, immediately. It's just going to be 24 hours. They're going to welcome Netanyahu and Trump as conquering heroes. Yeah, we said that was never going to happen at all. And then, you know, Donald Trump chose to believe anything. Hegsith and Rubio were like, this is just gonna be easy. This is gonna be easy. And I showed you some B-roll there at the top of what this funeral looked like for the Ayatollah. Let me just show you at a granular level some of the data. By the way, here's a list of the countries that sent official delegations. Turkey, India, Pakistan, China, Russia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Iraq, Georgia, Armenia, Afghanistan, Oman, Qatar, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Uzbekistan, Tunisia, Lebanon,
Malaysia, Cuba, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Gambia, Thailand, Nicaragua, Ghana. I mean, I can go on and on. Millions of Iranians were outside to attend the first day of the farewell ceremony of the Ayatollah.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Why was Donald Trump shocked by the size of the Ayatollah's funeral?
0:00–5:27
2
What international response did the Ayatollah's funeral provoke?
5:27–9:19
3
How did the Iranian regime use the funeral to showcase support?
9:19–17:32
4
What was Trump's reaction to the crowd at the funeral?
17:32–23:00
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