Democrats utterly humiliate themselves ‘complaining’ about history changing operation

This is Power Hour with Gabriella Power.

>> Hello and welcome to Power Hour. I'm

Gabriella Power. Thank you for joining

us. As we speak, America and Israel are

carrying out this history changing

mission in Iran. And God bless the brave

service men and women risking their

lives doing the heavy lifting for the

free world in a strategic, brilliantly

planned and executed operation, ensuring

that radicals can no longer threaten the

world. Yet so-called friends of America.

Well, some have made it clear that

they're in no rush to help. UK Prime

Minister Kia Starmmer, he had a choice

to back the US and say yes to their

request to use uh their air bases. But

Stala is so spineless. He said, "No,

I'll get back to you." So he could wait,

get some legal advice, make himself a

cup of tea, hold a very boring press

conference. While Americans and Israelis

have been risking their lives, taking

out the head of the world's largest

sponsor of terror. It was only after

days and days that Karmama actually came

round to the idea of helping that oh

actually actually America you can use

the UK's bases while carrying out this

worldchanging operation in the Middle

East. President Donald Trump he has

rightly unleashed on Kristama.

>> By the way I'm not happy with the UK

either u that island that you read about

the lease. Okay. He made it for whatever

reason he made a lease of the island.

Somebody came and took it away from him

and it's taken 3 4 days for us to work

out where we can land there. It would

have been much more convenient landing

there as opposed to flying many extra

hours. So we are very surprised. This is

not Winston Churchill that we're dealing

with.

>> Wow. Just on Star for a minute. His days

in the top job are of course numbered

and those days they cannot come soon

enough. When you look at the damage that

he's doing to Britain. I mean the

migrant crisis is beyond a joke. The

crime is out of control in London. The

top tax bracket income earners. They're

fleeing in record numbers. And all

Starmer is doing is sitting back in no

rush, damaging Britain's most important

relationships and making the UK

irrelevant. And all the people in

Britain, well, they know this. There's a

reason they're leaving. There's a reason

that Nigel Faraj's Reform UK party is

well ahead in the polls, and it has been

for some time. Just today, the latest

Yuggov poll found that Star's Labour

party is on a record low of 16%. I mean,

last year it had dropped to 17%, but

congratulations to Kama, he's managed to

drop it even lower. Just looking at some

of Karma's messaging, he posted this on

X. I know the situation in the Middle

East is worrying for British people and

in the region and at home, and it's my

duty as prime minister to keep British

people safe, and I'll be answering

questions on the steps we took over the

weekend in Parliament. No one wants to

hear from him. Just looking at some of

the responses, some of the comments that

he's been attracting, he's getting

ripped apart. Here's one comment from

Alex Armstrong from GB News. He wrote,

"Why are you allowing the Islamist

regime to bomb our bases and do

absolutely nothing about it? Never has

there been such cowardly inaction in the

face of threats by a terrorist regime."

Another journalist, Lee Harris, wrote,

"You're weak. You're pathetic. You're a

coward. You betrayed the Americans.

You're a global embarrassment and you

should be arrested for treason. Just

resign, you vile man." And there are

thousands and thousands of comments and

I'm yet to find just on my very quick

look this morning any that are positive.

I mean mostly what I could see a post

just calling him what we just heard a

coward very weak. Now while Operation

Epic Fury is underway, Spain's far-left

government, well doesn't want to help

the US out either, saying no to

America's request to use its military

bases. So, President Trump, he's

announced that he'll be cutting off all

trade with Spain. I

>> mean, like Spain has been terrible. In

fact, I told uh Scott to cut off all

dealings with Spain. Spain first of all,

it started when every every European

nation at my request paid 5% which they

should be doing and everybody was

enthusiastic about it, Germany,

everybody. And Spain didn't do it. And

now Spain uh actually said that we can't

use their bases. And that's all right.

We don't we could use their base if we

want. We could just fly in and use it.

Nobody's going to tell us not to use it,

but we don't have to. But they were

unfriendly.

And so I told him, "We don't want to.

Spain has absolutely nothing that we

need other than great people. They have

great people, but they don't have great

leadership." And as you know, they were

the only country that in NATO would not

agree to go up to 5%. I don't think they

wanted agreed to go up to anything. They

wanted to keep it at 2% and they don't

pay the 2%. So we we're going to cut off

all trade with Spain. We don't want

anything to do with Spain.

>> Isn't it great to have a real leader in

the White House again? I mean, imagine

Joe Biden and Kamla Harris. I think I'm

traumatized from the years of listening

to those two. But President Trump, the

real leader of the free world, as we've

been reporting over the last couple of

days, while this operation, Operation

Epic Fury, has been in full swing, the

Democrats have been making fools of

themselves, shouting, screaming, all

against this, essentially rooting for

this opposite, uh, this operation

rather, to fail. Here's House Minority

Leader Hakee Jeff. The American people

want us to focus on making their life

better, making their life more

affordable, not getting involved in

another endless war in the Middle East

that is going to end in failure.

>> Going to end in failure.

I mean, I don't know if I've ever seen

the Democrats this pathetic. So many of

them, Hakee Jeff, AOC, Kla Harris, all

complaining while America is changing

the world. Except of course for John

Fedman.

>> And it's more just now because of that

what this happens. You don't have to

agree on everything. But it's like yes,

I'm the only Democrat cuz I'm not afraid

of my base to just say, you know what,

this wasn't overall a good thing. You

don't have to agree on everything. So

I'm going to be honest. So like, why

can't you just acknowledge that one of

the most evil people on the face of the

earth was was erased? That's that's a

good thing.

That's a good thing. I mean, some common

sense right there. If only it wasn't so

rare. Now, while the Democrats say

they've been embarrassing themselves, so

is the leftist media. I mean, we've seen

so many meltdowns. We played a few of

them on the show yesterday. But what has

also been insane to see is this fake

news narrative around why the US and

Israel launched this operation. Now, all

these questions as if this hadn't been

coming. I mean, we have been covering

this for months, guys. Donald Trump said

back in January to the people of Iran

that help is on its way. It has arrived.

We've seen warships. They've been making

their way to the Middle East. Steve Whit

last week on television said that

essentially Iran was getting straight

back to work to restore its nuclear

capabilities and it's getting dangerous.

We've been told and we know the US has

been working so closely with Israel and

their intelligence to know exactly when

to know that when exactly to strike I

should say to take out the Iranian

leadership in a daylight operation. It

was incredible and now the media are

pretending to be surprised by the

timing. I mean the question has been

really since the start of the year is

when is the US going to strike? We we

know that it's been so close and now

these close rather now these journalists

are shouting these gotcha questions to

the Trump administration as if America

carrying out one of the most high-risk

and consequential operations ever was

somehow not their call.

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lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.

They have an ambition to have nuclear

weapons. They intend to develop those

nuclear weapons behind a program of

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the weakest they've ever been. Now is

the time to go after them. The president

made the decision to go after them. Take

away their missiles. Take away their

navy. Take away their drones. Take away

their ability to make those things so

that they can never have a nuclear

weapon. That's why the president made

this decision. It was the right

decision. And the world will be a safer

place when these radical clerics no

longer have access to these weapons. You

see how they're using them now? Imagine

how they would use them a year from now

if they had more of these.

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Joining us now is political analyst,

Professor Joe Sakraza. Joe Srausa, thank

you so much for your time. Well,

President Donald Trump has hit out at

his British counterpart, Saki Starmer.

And let's listen to this again.

>> By the way, I'm not happy with the UK

either. U that island that you read

about the lease, okay? He made for

whatever reason, he made a lease of the

island. Somebody came and took it away

from him and it's taken

three four days for us to work out where

we can land there. It would have been

much more convenient landing there as

opposed to flying many extra hours. So,

we are very surprised. This is not

Winston Churchill that we're dealing

with.

>> Joe Syracus, what do you make of that? I

mean, is Trump right and and how

damaging is this for the UK?

>> Uh, good good morning, Gabriella. Well,

yeah, it is fairly damaging. Look,

President Trump counts on his his

allies, his NATO allies especially, to

come to the party. He expects them to uh

make their facilities available to uh

American forces, particularly at a time

that he deems very important. It's quite

clear that Stammer and his government is

not not exactly behind the president on

this. They're trying to wiggle a little

bit saying that u you know they will

defend Cyprus and things like that but

uh the president is holding his allies

to to a high standard here. If the

United States is going into combat he

expects them to step in behind them. Now

Lyndon Johnson expected the same thing

when he went into Vietnam. He didn't get

a single NATO ally who volunteered. In

fact they stayed clear of him. So, you

know, I've seen this story before and um

you know, NATO, these European nations,

they have a very strong tradition of

socialist governments and um centrist

government, center left and all the rest

of it. And they're they're not buying um

President Trump's story about the u the

imminent danger to the United States. Uh

it's, you know, it's it's a hard sell

for some of these people and they just

um they're starting to think that there

may be a future without the United

States, so why get involved in this one?

And of course um the the reach of Iran

and the uh the ability to gather or to

initiate sleeper cells all over the

world would have these people worried

too. I mean you know it doesn't take

much to blow up a building in downtown

London or Dubai or Abuab Dhabi or

Houston or any place else. So they're

just being very very cautious but the

president is holding them to a very high

accountability

>> and he's in my opinion right to do so. I

mean look what Karma has done to the UK.

Donald Trump has also lashed out at

Obama, posting this on Truth Social. If

I didn't terminate Obama's horrendous

Iran nuclear deal, GCPOA,

Iran would have had a nuclear weapon 3

years ago. That was the most dangerous

transaction we have ever entered into.

And had it been allowed to stand, the

world would be an entirely different

place right now. You can blame Barack

Hussein Obama and sleepy Joe Biden.

Thank you, President Trump. Joe, is is

that a fair post from the president?

What do you make of that?

>> I think it is too because I I didn't

like that deal for a number of reasons.

That is because at the end of the day,

it allowed the uh Iranian government to

uh acquire enough file material to make

a bomb. But but you know, mind you,

Gabriela, you know, at the end of the

day, you don't have to make a bomb. You

could buy it. These people could buy

something off the shelf if they get

completely frustrated. Look, the Obama

deal was a bad deal. was very desperate

to uh sort of settle that score and a

lot of people put stuck their necks out

there and it was one of those things

that uh didn't make sense to a lot of

Republicans and a lot of uh political

analysts and pundits in the United

States. It was it was a very hard cell.

But Obama wanted to be known as a a man

who was winding down uh nuclear weapons

and things like that. He thought it was

uh on the road. He he wasn't a genius

about foreign policy. He made some major

mistakes as a matter of fact. And uh I

think it's right for the president to uh

criticize this uh but to to go back and

say look uh it would have all been

different if I was around then uh that's

not exactly very useful because I'm very

interested in what President Trump is

going to do today and tomorrow.

>> Trump is hitting Iran, but he's really

got China in his crosshairs as US energy

production ramps up. China is right now

deprived of cheap oil from Venezuela and

Iran. So, it's being argued that Trump's

goal here is to transform this global

order to America's advantage, which

means reducing the influence of

communist China. Would you agree with

that?

>> Well, that would be a byproduct. I doubt

that that was top of mind when he he

went in on this. Uh yeah, the uh the

Chinese take a lot of uh petrol or and

natural gas from uh from that part of

the world. And of course u you know what

you don't see mentioned much in the news

today is uh the uh what's the impact of

closing the straight of Hormuz. I mean

20% of the world's oil and gas goes

through there. Uh we've already had

spiking prices. uh the Chinese are going

to have to pay more for it somewhere

else as well as Europeans and sooner or

later it you know it means uh higher

prices for everybody inflation and uh

pretty soon you got everyone's federal

bank federal reserve running around

raising interest rates and then ordinary

Australians, Americans and others have

to pay more for their houses, their cars

and their credit cards. So this isn't a

war that's uh sort of separated from

everyday life. It's going to affect the

Chinese in in many many ways. But I

don't think the president set out to uh

uh go into Iran to to settle scores with

with China. If that happens, uh that's a

bonus.

>> I want to ask you about Kamla Harris. Of

course, she came out against what is

happening in Iran, but she's making time

to gush over anti-ICE protesters. Look

at this.

>> In Minneapolis, just look at what we've

been seeing. It's so fantastic. People

coming out with their whistles, their

and videotaping and you know with with

perfect strangers and in in aiding

perfect strangers.

>> It's been so beautiful to see and and

again this is what I mean about we have

the light inside of us like let's let's

we got to focus on on this.

>> Droy, can I get your reaction to Kamla

Harris there?

Uh well she either has very bad minders

or she u has no minders at all. I mean

that kind of conversation is not very

helpful. Uh Gabrielle I mean to suggest

that um getting rid of America's uh

illegal aliens is a matter of finding um

or fighting this is finding the light

within us. I mean that's a a bit of a

stretch. Look, the Democratic party

doesn't want to see her face in 2028. I

don't know who's telling her to to keep

running. I mean, I suppose she has some

friends within the organization, but she

took the party down to historic defeats.

They don't want to see her again. And

frankly, if she wants to go and and talk

about u you know, law and order issues,

there are other things to talk about.

And uh I think she should just u sort of

enjoy her u her retirement or find

another job or something like that. But

uh this idea of leading the prot leading

the protests against ICE, you know,

there there may be legitimate causes

there, but this idea that uh we're

finding the light, that's just a little

too flaky for a lot of people.

>> She's very flaky, isn't she? I know you

suggest she goes and gets a new job. I

can't see that happening. I think we're

going to be seeing more of Kamla Harris

over the next few years. Former

President Bill Clinton, he has been

grilled over the photographs of himself

in a hot tub that was discovered in the

newly released Epstein files. Let's just

take a look. And Joe, I'm really keen to

get your reaction to all of it. We've

got a few clips to get through, but this

is the very start of Bill Clinton

explaining who was there, what on earth

was going on.

>> So, do you recall the details of this

photo? Recall the photo being taken?

>> No, I don't think I ever knew the photo

was taken.

>> And let's just look at the next one.

He wanted when he knew I was coming and

he said he wanted to help me with the my

AIDS initiative and he invited me to

stay there and he said I want you to

stay at this hotel and I hope you'll use

the the pool.

So I did and then I got out and went to

bed exhausted.

>> He chuckles lol exhausted. Uh, and then

of course he was asked, "Were there

other people in the pool or the hot

tub?"

>> Were there other people in that pool or

hot tub with you as well?

>> I don't think there was anybody in the

hot tub. I don't even I had forgotten

that there was anybody in the hot tub,

but it was me, but it was about

>> Well, there's asking in the pool area.

>> Appears there's a this photo there's a

girl over here. There's someone.

>> Yeah, I don't know who that is.

>> He's also asking in the pool area with

her other individual.

>> I don't know who that is.

Bill Clinton claims that he was in the

hot tub for 5 minutes before going, of

course, straight to bed.

>> We went out, I swam around, I sat in the

hot tub for 5 minutes, or whatever it

was, and I got up and went to bed.

>> And then asked us, did you engage any

sexual activities with this person?

>> End of story. Joy accuser. Um, look,

what did you make of that?

Well, he did not acquire the sober K

slick Willie for nothing. I I remember

him wagging his finger at the American

public saying that he did not have

sexual relations with that woman. I

mean, uh, Bill's got a little problem.

He had a problem then, he has a problem

now. He looks a little silly. He um he,

you know, he could have had some better

answers. And he's very angry that he's

there. Hillary was very angry that she

was there. He could barely conceal that,

as a matter of fact. But this uh this

idea of floating in a tub with strange

women and not being able to explain

anything. Uh you know, the the American

people uh aren't as silly as they look

sometimes on television. I mean, they

they know uh one thing from the other.

And you know, I I always I I credit to

to uh Bill Clinton something that um um

a lot of people probably don't credit,

and that is uh he he began the decline

of the imperial presidency. You know,

when I was a kid, we had some pretty

class X like uh General Eisenhower in

the White House and then John Kennedy.

We had professional politicians. He

comes along, governor from Arkansas, and

he he obviously has some problems,

personal problems. His own campaign

manager said after all the Monica

Lewinsky business, that he's just not

that kind of dog that stays on the porch

when the lights go off, you know, and

and and you know, he he's just the wrong

guy. And he so he u he he brought the

presidency into disrepute. Uh he he was

he should have been impeached. He he

could have easily been impeached. And so

he he sort of uh degraded the uh the

presidency a little bit. People were

always in awe of the office and I think

he inspired a lot of people to go for it

after that because you know you had to

have real credentials to become

president of the United States. uh Bill

didn't have any and when he got in, you

know, he started to do a pretty good job

and then he the the economy became

fairly prosperous and so um but when he

started to get caught out lying whether

it was real estate deals, one thing or

the other and he just he just lied to

the camera and he obviously lied under

oath and u the American people just sort

of lowered the threshold for the white

white house after that and keep in mind

that while he had a good economy while a

lot of presidents have a good economy.

Keep in mind that Wall Street is since I

think Bill Clinton's time have been able

to separate the White House, the uh the

soap opera in the White House from the

fundamentals of the American economy.

That's why sometimes Wall Street doesn't

care who's in the White House as long as

the economy works. And and Bill um uh he

he did not do a very good job there. You

know, the world wants to wake up or go

to bed at night and wake up thinking

that the the United States is in good

hands. And with Clinton towards the end

of it, uh, I wasn't sure and frankly I

was a little embarrassed about him.

>> And you mentioned that Hillary Clinton

was angry that she was getting asked

questions about this, too. Let's just

look at her meltdown after testifying on

Epstein.

>> Photos that are being released

of the secretary as she is testifying

from inside this room. Can you please

advise me as to whether or not that's

permissible and consistent with the

rules, particularly given that we have

asked for a public hearing, if there are

photos that are being released of the

secretary as she is testifying, can you

please explain how that

>> I'm done with this. If you guys are

doing that, I am done. You can hold me

in contempt from now until the cows come

home. This is just typical behavior.

>> Oh, for heaven.

>> So, I would like to understand how that

permissible hearing.

>> It doesn't matter. We all are abiding by

the same rules.

>> I I will take that down.

>> Yeah. Well,

>> I would like to take a break at this

moment. I'd like to haveation for now.

>> Oh, no.

>> Jo, your accuser. You know, you've lost

control when you're waving your finger,

you're pointing, you're slamming your

hand on the desk. What is she? She's

having a meltdown.

>> Yes, she is. You know, her um she she

gave it all away there when she said,

"You can find me in contempt until the

clouds come home." uh she um she she

knows that um they know things that she

can't really talk about. And look uh she

exhibited the same characteristics. It

was the same act after uh Bill got

caught, you know, and you know, a lot of

Americans came to the conclusion and I

was one of them that u she either knew

what was going on and was complicit or

she was as dumb as a doornob. And and so

either way, they didn't want her in the

White House. And so now she's playing

stupid again like you know Epstein was

just a little playmate of her her

husbands and she knew Gelain Maxwell

pretty well I suppose but keep in mind

you know to be fair to Hillary and the

others Epstein was giving money away to

all kinds of people. He was throwing all

kinds of luxuries out there and you know

he's got his own airplane, his own magic

island. Uh you know it would have been

just too much for some of these people

to resist. But Hillary didn't need

Epstein. Bill did. Bill liked the idea

that this guy was stroking his ego and

giving money to his uh his philanthropy

and helping him out and all the rest of

it. Uh I I just think u in recent years

presidents I think make some very bad

choices. Once again, you know, they they

had better minders. They would have

stayed away from guys like this. And

look, Epstein was um uh before he got

caught in 2008 and then later on, he was

sort of a creepy guy anyway. I mean uh

he used to uh hang around with all the

wrong people. Uh Gabriel, there is a a

Harvey Weinstein uh documentary I saw on

Air China coming back from Berlin once a

couple years ago and it had a picture of

of Weinstein Epstein and dare I say

President Trump all sitting at the same

table at Club 54, one of those renowned

night spots. And you know if you had

money and you you passed through New

York, that's where you hung out. And so,

you know, you you would know these

people whether you wanted to or not,

whether you knew about their private

lives or their secret sins or their

crimes. Who wouldn't know? I mean, you

have absolutely no idea. You know, when

people say on on profiling, you know, no

one knew this guy was a serial killer,

it's quite possible to be sitting next

to somebody and know nothing. On the

other hand, it's impossible to imagine

everyone around you is as thick as you

are, too. I mean, somebody must see

what's going on. And Hillary got caught

out. Didn't want to be there. Bill got

caught out and didn't want to be there.

It's very embarrassing for their end of

their careers, you know. Uh and um they

um you know, they're they're going out

on a very s sour note because Americans

can see one thing that they're squirming

like hell

at deposition. They're not even in

Washington. They're in some little hokey

town near Albany, New York, uh which

used to be the circuit for speakers in

the 19th century. So, you know, they um

they they stayed away as much as

possible. A number of their supporters

said that they would run circles around

the committee, but as you can see from

the two uh clips you showed in your

packages, they they they didn't run uh

rings around the the committee. The

committee was asking all the right

questions. Hillary and and Bill just

spit the dummy. And I I I bet they

couldn't wait to get out of the room.

And keep in mind,

>> one one was there for six hours and the

other one was there for seven hours.

Could you imagine grilling somebody for

7 hours and and and and seeing that kind

of behavior? I mean, it's uh it's not

only difficult work, but it's it's

embarrassing to watch.

>> Professor Joakuza, political analyst.

Thank you so much for joining us on

Power Hour. Always great to speak with

you.

>> Thank you.

>> Joining us now is Ali Raza Jaffa Zade,

deputy of the National Council of

Resistance of Iran. Thank you so much

for your time. Look, as we speak, the

United States and Israel, they're

pummeling Iran for a fourth day as

Donald Trump declares just about

everything has been knocked out. And

Iran, of course, is continuing to

retaliate, striking across the Gulf,

striking the US consulate in Dubai.

Can I get your assessment of the

retaliation we are seeing from Iran?

Uh great to be on your show Gabriela. Uh

absolutely. Uh you know what we have

seen over the past uh few days um

certainly there's

the tension on the part of international

community on the threat coming from the

Iran regime. Uh but one thing is very

clear to end the threat from Thran uh

there is only one way to do it and

that's ending the rule of the clerics in

Iran ending the regime and of course

that's the responsibility of the people

of Iran. uh you only see the

international aspect of things, but when

it comes domestically to the people of

Iran, there are like decades and decades

of uh fighting uh by the people of Iran

against the Iran regime. Uh the regime

has killed tens of thousands of the

members of the Iranian resistance over

the past decades. Um hoping that this

will end uh to resistance and opposition

to the regime. None of that has worked.

Just this past uh December, there was

major uprisings in over 400 cities in

all 31 provinces of Iran and the regime

killed thousands of people.

>> Uh but none of that worked and you saw

again the people, the students got

involved and protested and the momentum

is just basically building up against

the regime.

>> How likely is it that we will see regime

change that it will be successful?

Well, as I said, you know, it's all a

matter of how you build up the momentum.

A week before these attacks started last

Monday, uh the main Iranian opposition

movement, uh the Mojay or the MEK, which

is the same movement that exposed all

the major nuclear sites of Iran, the

same movement that has been the main

target of the killings inside Iran and

the target of terrorism by the regime.

They launched a major strike on the

headquarters of the supreme leader Kam

inflicting heavy casualty on the IRGC.

Um the MK announced that some 100

members uh were killed or arrested and

but another 150 managed to leave the

scene uh safely showing the uh how the

resistance against the regime the

organized resistance is expanding and

how vulnerable the regime is getting.

Also this movement um has is very well

structured is headed by a woman Mrs.

Miam Rajiv. Uh she announced earlier

this week the uh uh the provisional

government to transfer sovereignty uh

from the rep repressive rulers of Iran

to the elected representatives of the

people of Iran based on her 10point

platform for the future of Iran that

calls for ballot box to be as a sole

criteria for legitimacy uh separation of

religion and state equal rights for men

and women freedom of religion freedom of

political parties free market economy

recognizing the rights of the

nationalities and minorities in Iran and

a non-nuclear republic form of of a

government. She called on the regular

armed forces to side with the people,

but she also told the IRGC, which is the

repressive force, to lay down their arms

and surrender to the people of Iran. So

the momentum is building up um over the

past few years but particularly in the

past few weeks and that's where things

are um culminating eventually hopefully

will lead um uh to the uh overthrow of

the Iran regime. You need to fight the

IRGC. There's no other way by the people

on the ground.

>> While that momentum has been building,

Iran has selected a new supreme leader,

the second son and chosen heir of the

Ayatollah Kmeni. uh reports that this

was uh this was done after pressure from

the revolutionary guards. What more can

you tell us about this?

>> Well, honestly speaking, there is really

no replacement for supreme leader Kam.

you know out of the 47 years of the rule

of clerics in Iran, 37 years of that um

you know Kam was the supreme leader and

uh I think his death is basically the

end of the theocracy is end of this

regime. Now they may last you know a

little longer but no one can replace

Kami plus even if Kame was alive the

circumstances have significantly

changed. So the whole issue of

succession is really increasingly become

moot. Uh the real issue regarding Iran

is how long more can the regime hold on

to uh to power facing uh the public

outrage. Uh it's only the revolutionary

guards who are actually keeping uh the

regime in power. But there are widely

hated by the people. People see them as

the biggest thieves, as repressors, and

they're distancing themselves, preparing

themselves to fight the revolutionary

guards until you bring down the mullers.

The same way that the people fought the

sha in 1979 because he was so

repressive. He had the secret police

sabach that put intellectuals in jail

and build a notorious a prison. He

dissolved all political parties and had

a only single rule. and he was so

arrogant and corrupt and people just

revolted um and overthrew that and now

is the time uh for the clerics. Uh this

is the time not to go backwards but to

go forward to see freedom, democracy,

political purism in in Iran. And just

imagine Gabriella if when Iran is free,

what an impact it will have uh not just

for the people of Iran but for the whole

region around the world. That is

absolutely what we all want to see.

We're hearing a lot of noise from some

Democrats, some in the media really

against this operation even though

there's already been so much success. I

mean, one Democrat said that this

operation is bound to fail. What do you

make of that? I mean, do you expect that

this will be a completely successful

operation? And what are your thoughts

around how long this is going to take?

>> Well, you know, this is not a partisan

issue. a fight between Republicans or

Democrats or you know in in some other

countries or debates going on. Uh this

is a genuine desire by the people of

Iran uh dating back to you know four

five decades. A lot of people have lost

their lives paying the price to bring

about change. Uh of course uh change is

not going to you know come very easily.

We have paid a very high price. Um, I

have before me um a book that um is so

thick. Let me just show you. Uh I don't

know how you can see how thick it is.

>> It contains names and pictures of over

20,000

members of this movement who have been

killed by the regime page by page all

the details of them. A lot of them very

young people. Um and lots of pictures

here of people um who have been executed

by this regime. This is the price that

has been paid. So the desire for change

is so genuine. It's comes you know from

the people. Um the this culture that you

see in the streets of Iran that the

young people you know dare to confront

the revolutionary guards. The women

especially young women dare to confront

the revolutionary guards. Where did that

culture from come from? Because as far

as the mullers are concerned they're so

misogynist. Well, there was generations

before who paid the price. Women who

took the lead in fighting this regime.

You know, this movement is led by women.

The entire leadership of the main

opposition, the MEK, uh they are women

and they set the pace. They they made an

example for the you know the new

generation that women should be in the

leadership. women uh can you know play

the biggest roles of leadership in

political change and uh they have the

ability to confront the most repressive

regime the revolutionary guards who are

misogynist to the core this is the new

reality of Iran that didn't just happen

overnight years of resistance and

opposition um by the people especially

the young generation and the older

generations have got us to this point

and I'm very very hopeful about the

future.

>> They have shown so much bravery, so much

courage. I'm in awe of them and I don't

think there was enough attention on on

that on their bravery, especially at the

start of the year when we saw so many

people being killed as they were

protesting and and taking to the

streets. Just finally before I let you

go, I know the momentum has been

building for some time, but it seems

that there is this window of opportunity

that things can change, there can be

regime change. Do you ever did you ever

expect that you would say this in your

lifetime?

>> Oh, absolutely. Um I've always been very

confident that uh it will come and uh

you know the dictators want to the first

thing they want to kill is the hope hope

in the minds of people. The reason that

they kill so many people and they do a

lot of it in public and they show it in

public uh is not just to eliminate those

people but but to kill the hope in the

minds of others saying you know it's

it's it's worthless you know it's not

going to happen but the reality is that

when you look at the price has been paid

you look at the commitment you look at

the perseverance you can't you look at

the leadership of this movement a woman

taking the helm and showing everybody

else that The mullas don't represent our

country. They don't represent our

religion. They don't represent our

culture. Um they, you know, in you can

be Muslims, but you can take the lead.

You can be in the leadership. Uh 98% of

the Iranian population are Muslims. Yet

the main victims of this regime are

those Muslims, moderate Muslims who are

standing up against the regime. You

know, Mrs. Rajiv herself saying the

mullas have no legitimacy whatsoever to

to even talk about our religion. Uh she

calls them anti-Islamic.

Uh you know these clerics who say they

represent God on the face of the earth

giving themselves the authority to kill

anyone at will. So there's a there's a

huge divide between the people on the

one side and the Iran regime. And the

momentum has shifted so significantly in

favor of the people and the organized

resistance that gives us this hope not

just for the people of Iran but for the

whole world.

>> Ali Raza Jaffa Zade National Council of

Resistance of Iran deputy. Thank you so

much for your time. We really appreciate

it.

>> Thank you so much. Always a pleasure.

>> Joining us now is Ariela Novak,

broadcast journalist. Ariela, thank you

so much for your time. And we have

plenty to cover, but I really want to

start with the leftist media's coverage

of this historic operation. Yesterday on

the program, we played Rachel Maddo just

crashing out on MS Now. We've heard from

some of the hosts on The View. I mean,

Whoopi Goldberg saying she's mad about

all of it, which is awkward for some of

those hosts on The View who hate Donald

Trump so much. And I would argue some

hate America. I mean, Whoopy Goldberg

thinks that black people have it worse

living in the United States than people

do in in Iran. So, this week, a

conservative co-host, Elizabeth

Hasselbeck, had to explain that women

have been oppressed by this regime.

Let's take a look.

>> War Pete Hugsatha said that this is now

the time for the Iranian people to to

stand and do what they need to do. And

when we have a when you look at what

women looked like and were treated like

we have a before and after um before

this regime and after um this is before

and here's after. And right now these

women have hope. 47 million women have

hope. Women people who are gay are not

being thrown off buildings. Women will

not be mutilated and murdered. And I

think there's such hope and there it

takes strength to find peace and America

should be first at that always.

>> You know I here's the thing though. I

remember and and I hope I hope you're

right. I hope for for the sake of the

Iranian people and for the sake of the

world, for America's sake, I hope you're

right.

>> Ariela, finally some common sense on the

view. Can I get your reaction to the

media's coverage?

>> Absolutely. And I just would like to say

as I listen in on that, I just think how

wild her voice thinking of her voice.

It's crazy to think that that's a wild

thought, right? And as this unfolds,

media framing becomes incredibly

important. Some reactions have moved

quickly to moral judgment without

consistently grounding the discussion in

the broader security context that led to

this operation. Now, scrutiny is

necessary in any democracy. But scrutiny

without history becomes distortion. And

when coverage isolates a single military

action from decades of documented

threats and regional aggression, the

public receives a fragmented

understanding of what reality really is.

Responsible journalism isn't about

defending policy. It's about presenting

context. So people can evaluate the

policy intellectually on their own. And

we can de debate taxes. We we can debate

scope, but we can't debate history out

of the conversation. And as this

unfolds, media seems to be framing it as

what they think versus what really is.

And as some reactions have moved

quickly, as you had said as well, to

moral judgment without consistently

grounding the discussion in the broader

security context, what led to this

operation? for example, when leaders

like t like Governor Tim Waltz, excuse

me, said no new wars that reflect

political frustration, but it doesn't

fully account for the decades long, as

we're saying, strategic buildup that

actually brought us here.

>> Yeah, you're absolutely right. I mean,

it it's so frustrating watching Tim

Waltz's Twitter feed posting no new

wars. We've heard from other Democrats

essentially rooting for America to fail

here. here. I mean, Hakee Jeff

apparently knows how it will end,

claiming that it's not going to be

ending. Well, just this final point on

the media narrative. They're now pushing

this um narrative that the timing of

this operation is weird. It's surprising

that the US was dragged into this war by

Israel, which is of course ridiculous.

Here is Donald Trump shutting that right

down.

>> President, did Israel force your hand to

launch these strikes against Iran? Did

that pull the United States into this

war?

>> No. I might have forced their hand. Uh,

you see, we were having negotiations

with these lunatics and it was my

opinion that they were going to attack

first. They were going to attack. If we

didn't do it, they were going to attack

first. I felt strongly about that. And

we have great negotiators, great people,

people that do this very successfully

and have done it all their lives very

successfully.

based on the way the negotiation was

going, I think they were going to attack

first and I didn't want that to happen.

So, if anything, I might have forced

Israel's hand, but Israel was ready and

we were ready and we've we've had a a

very very powerful impact.

>> Ariela, it was a joint operation and

it's one that's changing the world.

>> Absolutely. Um, and something so

beautiful in this is you can see how one

of the most important takeaways in my

opinion from this moment is the visible

strength of the American Israeli

alliance. The partnership is not

transitional. It's strategic. It's built

on shared intelligence, shared domestic

uh democratic values and shared security

interest and decades of operational

coordination. When adversaries see that

the alignment is in action, it changes

their calculus. and when allies see it

reinforces stability in completion. The

global message here is not just about

Iran. It's about the re reliability of

alliances. It's about whether democratic

nations stand together when confronted

with long-term threats. Strong alliances

deter aggression. Weak or fractured

alliances invite it. And what the world

is witnessing right now is the

durability of a partnership that has

shaped the regional security for decades

to come.

>> And that's a beautiful thing.

The other thing that we keep hearing

from Democrats and some in the media is

that this is going to be a forever a

forever war. Here is Vice President JD

Vance shutting that right down on Fox

News.

>> And there's just no way. I said this

before the conflict started. I'll repeat

it again. There's just no way that

Donald Trump is going to allow this

country to get into a multi-year

conflict with no clear end in sight and

no clear objective. What is different

about President Trump, and it's it's

frankly different about both Republicans

and Democrats of the past, is that he's

not going to let his country go to war

unless there's a clearly defined

objective. He's defined that objective

as Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and

has to commit long-term to never trying

to rebuild their nuclear capability.

It's pretty clear. It's pretty simple.

And I think that means that we're not

going to get into the problems that

we've had with Iraq and Afghanistan. Do

you

>> Ariela, what's your assessment of

Vance's position there?

I also listened in on that and what

we're also seeing is how quickly foreign

policy seems to become domestic

political debate. For example, what we

just saw here, some Democrats are

raising constitutional concerns and

questioning executive authority while JD

Vance as we just saw here and the

administration voices are emphasizing

limited objectives and strategic

containment. In fact, as uh our vice

president Vans has stated clearly that

>> President Trump will not allow this to

become another Iraq or Afghanistan style

war, he's emphasized that there will be

no multi-year conflict with no clear end

in sight. The objective as defined by

the administration is straightforward

and Iran cannot have nuclear weapons

period. They also must not be able to

commit long-term never to rebuild that

capability. That tension is real and its

oversight matters. But beneath that

political messaging is larger strategic

questions like how America defines

deterrence in partnerships with its

closest ally in the region. The debate

isn't simply partisan. It's about

whether long-term security strategy

drives decisions or whether short-term

political positioning does. Foreign

policy requires predictability, clarity,

and credibility. And that's what allies

look for. And that's what adversaries

calculate. So when we look at this

picture, these objections are clear.

Absolutely they are. Right now we're

four days into this operation. We're

seeing Iran retaliating, launching a

wave of strikes across the region. We

know a drone has struck uh the American

consulate in Dubai and there are reports

um that strikes have targeted Tel A Viv.

I know that you're in the United States

right now, but what can you tell us

about the situation there?

>> Absolutely. First thing, I actually just

returned from Israel last week and it

was a waiting game for all of us of when

is the war or some conflict going to be

starting. So to say that we didn't know

it was coming, we all knew it was. And

the first thing we have to understand

though is the historical context. This

didn't just start on Saturday morning

when we woke up in America. It began

with the regime's rise in 1979. What

we're seeing now is the latest chapter

in a decad's long ideological conflict.

The current Iranian regime has embedded

hostility towards both Israel and the

United States and its governing ideology

for more than four decades. So, while

many of us woke up to these headlines

over the weekend, the strategic the

strategic tension has been building for

years through proxy warfare, missile

development, and regional

destabilization. We also have to

acknowledge something serious here. In

any military confrontation, there are

going to be casualties, which we have

had already on both sides. That reality

is tragic and it underscores just how

high the stakes are at this moment. And

at the same time, what we're seeing is

the strength of the USIsrael alliance in

action. Not symbolic alignment, but

operational coordination rooted in

shared security interests and

deterrence.

>> Ariel Novak, broadcast journalist. Thank

you so much for your time. We really

appreciate it.

>> My pleasure. Thanks for having me.

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