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[00:01:30] Iran had warned if war begins, this time it will not remain within Iran's
[00:01:35] of borders, but Washington did not take Tiran's warning seriously, but
[00:01:38] of followed a was a widening battlefield, Israel and US bases in
[00:01:42] Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and
[00:01:45] Kuwait came under attack, the war began in the skies, but soon reached the
[00:01:49] veins
[00:01:49] of the economy, then Tehran issued its next warning, if Iran's
[00:01:53] infrastructure is targeted, your infrastructure will be targeted as
[00:01:56] well, and the world quickly understood that even silence and neutrality. and this war
[00:02:00] could carry heavy
[00:02:01] of price, but Iran's next warning is even more
[00:02:04] consequential. The war could become extra
[00:02:07] regional. No official evidence says that all recent incidents
[00:02:11] are connected, but this is where the central question begins. When Iran
[00:02:15] speaks of an extra regional war, does it only mean an
[00:02:19] expansion of geography, or does it refer to a chain of energy
[00:02:22] routes, supports, military bases, markets and the global
[00:02:26] economy? The United States once ignored Iran's warning about the regional.
[00:02:30] information of war and it is still dealing with the costs. now the
[00:02:33] question is, if Washington ignores the warning of an extra regional
[00:02:37] war this time as well, will it be able to pay the
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[00:04:18] مامانم میگه اسمش همیشه خلیج فارس
[00:04:21] بوده ما بچه های خلیج
[00:04:23] فارسیم اینجا برای ما فقط یه دریا
[00:04:27] نیست هویتمونه.
[00:04:31] جایی که کنارش بازی می
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[00:04:37] روزیمونو ازش می
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[00:04:42] کنیم و با صداش آروم
[00:04:44] میشیم. جاییه که
[00:04:47] اجازه نزدیک شدن دشمنامونو بهش
[00:04:51] نمیدیم. و تا همیشه ازش
[00:04:54] of محافظت می کنیم. خلیج
[00:04:57] a فارس ما انگار یه کتاب تاریخه. هر کدوم
[00:05:00] از موجاش قصه های قدیمی
[00:05:04] of سرزمینمونو تو دلش
[00:05:05] داره. خلیج
[00:05:08] فارس برای همه ما ایرانیاست.
[00:05:33] the Islama about ceasefire unraveled almost as quickly as it had
[00:05:37] been signed, giving its way
[00:05:39] to new round of conflict between Tehran and Washington.
[00:05:48] the embattled president the US has left no stone unturned and
[00:05:52] yet he seems desperately looking for a way out of this part the
[00:05:56] world, will he succeed, time will
[00:05:59] tell?
[00:06:29] hello everyone and welcome to Press TV's news review program, we get in-depth in one
[00:06:33] the days top stories. now American media reports say chairman the US joint
[00:06:37] chiefs of staff is uh looking or us joint chief pardon is looking for an
[00:06:41] off-ramp from the... in Iran. According to reports, general Dan
[00:06:45] Kane is a privately made clear to top advisors the US president Donald
[00:06:48] Trump that Washington needs to find an exit from the war and uh during
[00:06:52] our program we're going
[00:06:53] to get deep into it. Let's get on it uh here
[00:06:55] we go, we have we're joined by Mr. John Stepling author and commentator joining us out
[00:06:59] of Inderoy Norway as well as uh zain Adam zakaria our Prest TV colleague
[00:07:03] here joining us in Tehran. I guess we get uh started with you a John out there
[00:07:07] in Norway um now we know the the war has been
[00:07:11] largely unpopulated. from its very onset, John, and it's continuing to get even
[00:07:15] more and more unpopular, and lot of people feel that this second round of
[00:07:19] aggression wasn't even far from warranted. Your initial thoughts on
[00:07:22] this? Well, it is
[00:07:26] extraordinarily unpopular domestically,
[00:07:30] uh, but it's also viewed as as
[00:07:34] incompetently prosecuted war uh,
[00:07:38] and and there the the
[00:07:41] administration. uh is searching
[00:07:45] for fall guides for for people
[00:07:47] to uh get the blame catch the blame Pete
[00:07:51] Hegseth is probably first in line for
[00:07:54] that uh Trump doesn't like to admit his
[00:07:58] own failures ever uh but but yeah
[00:08:01] Dan Kain who has the reputation uh of being
[00:08:05] a realist and and kind of a you know a hard
[00:08:09] ass about these things uh is such.
[00:08:12] ly sounding like like he
[00:08:15] desperately wants to find a
[00:08:18] way uh to to withdraw
[00:08:22] with anything that resembles
[00:08:24] feasible justification uh
[00:08:28] they're going to kind the the US will declare victory no
[00:08:32] matter what that's always what they do but they have been
[00:08:35] humiliated and and the public knows this in mid-term
[00:08:39] elections uh Republicans will will
[00:08:43] suffer hugely, that's the general consensus, and
[00:08:47] I i think that's right, so top
[00:08:51] of this, the economy is terrible, there
[00:08:55] are more and more problems with
[00:08:58] infrastructure, and there is
[00:09:01] huge backlash now against the ice
[00:09:05] agents, and their raids and deportations
[00:09:09] domestically, and there is backlash against... lock
[00:09:12] cameras and surveillance and the building of data centers, all
[00:09:16] of this, um, the public is is hugely
[00:09:20] against, so we're reaching some kind of
[00:09:24] crochendo here uh, right before these mid-term
[00:09:28] elections, and and Trump has no idea what to do, I mean he
[00:09:32] keeps you know engaging in vanity projects
[00:09:35] and putting gold leaf on on,
[00:09:39] half century old statues and so forth. he doesn't
[00:09:43] know what to do and he has stocked his
[00:09:46] administration with people that don't know what to do
[00:09:50] uh, this is least competent, least
[00:09:53] educated, least statesman-like administration
[00:09:57] in US history, this is the the just
[00:10:01] wildly um untrained for
[00:10:05] for their positions, none them have
[00:10:08] a reputation as great thinkers,
[00:10:12] have great experience uh and and we're seeing kind
[00:10:16] the result of this is that that the US is
[00:10:20] alienating more and more countries every week and
[00:10:24] and "the the US in general is
[00:10:28] not used to this and it's part of part of Trump's
[00:10:31] unpopularity is the US, the casual
[00:10:34] American voter wants a winner, they want to be seen
[00:10:38] as a winner, and then the maga people of course will
[00:10:42] insist that US is the greatest country in the world, the greatest thing
[00:10:46] since sliced bread and you know they can do no
[00:10:50] wrong, but people are angry and and the ice
[00:10:54] raid..." "I think are an unprecedented assault
[00:10:58] on civil liberties and the bill of rights, I've never seen anything
[00:11:02] like it, and the backlash is is growing, we're
[00:11:05] seeing enormous resistance to this now and enormous
[00:11:09] anger, so top of it, the US has been
[00:11:13] humiliated with with this aggression against
[00:11:17] Iran, they've thoroughly been beaten, this once
[00:11:20] great, supposedly great military
[00:11:24] that..." Hollywood has spent 40 years making movies
[00:11:28] about uh, this military has been reduced to
[00:11:32] lathing stock, they can't, they can't carry
[00:11:36] out any kind of um assault on
[00:11:40] Iran, certainly no ground invasion, they don't know how to
[00:11:43] mount um an offensive that makes
[00:11:46] any sense or or would not
[00:11:50] lead to even further
[00:11:52] you know destruction of bases in the... region further destruction
[00:11:56] of um ships and drones and
[00:12:00] fighter jets, the US has lost all
[00:12:03] them, and so that what are they going to
[00:12:07] do, they don't know what to do, so we're looking at people like Dan
[00:12:10] kane, very,
[00:12:13] you know, realistic guy with lot of experience,
[00:12:16] even if he's even if he's a sort of full-blown
[00:12:19] fascist, um, and even he is looking for a way
[00:12:23] out, a justification. to withdraw and and
[00:12:27] get out because the US has has
[00:12:30] exhausted its options at this point. thank
[00:12:34] you, john, z, welcome to the conversation, thanks
[00:12:37] for your patience. z and then donald trump also on the other hand
[00:12:40] orders a probe into um see what the leak
[00:12:44] came out, that that people, so it's not only bad that the war is highly
[00:12:48] unpopular both with lawmers in Trump's cabinet with the American people, but if you talk
[00:12:52] about it and if you're close to Donald Trump, you might... get targeted
[00:12:56] uh tell us how unpopular this war is back in the states with law makers and
[00:13:00] even now is we're hearing increasingly Trump's
[00:13:02] intercircle? well the thing Danny is that Trump
[00:13:06] has not just
[00:13:07] you know alienated lot of people within his
[00:13:10] administration he has also make it um very easy for
[00:13:14] people within the US administration itself to hate him and I'm
[00:13:18] talking about the fact that he has invested heavily in
[00:13:21] reducing the federal um you know um
[00:13:25] uh grants that goes into various um you know
[00:13:29] um us whether it's the US senate whether it's the it's
[00:13:33] the pentagon um you know we've seen a
[00:13:36] lot of money being pulled out of this very very important um
[00:13:40] operation and that's why you see that within the administration itself
[00:13:44] within um the US um government itself
[00:13:48] there is lot of um anger towards what the US president is
[00:13:52] doing not just with the war in Iran just like our guest even
[00:13:55] internally with ice and everything, so I think it it's multif
[00:13:59] it, so the first part is internally within the United State,
[00:14:03] people generally don't have problem with wars, we've seen that the
[00:14:06] US population have gone through multiple wars and the
[00:14:10] media has been able to sell it to them as a way of exacted pressure and the
[00:14:14] power the United States, so people don't have problem with war, the wars
[00:14:18] they have problem with is the war that they begin to feel internally
[00:14:22] within the United States, so when we saw that the... when the Vietnam war
[00:14:26] began to be very, very costly for United States, it
[00:14:30] became very unpopular internally, the Iraq war lasted for almost
[00:14:34] 20 years uh, and yeah, there were protests here and there, but it it it
[00:14:38] was still a very popular war, so the United State and the population
[00:14:42] in the US generally don't have problem with wars, the wars they have
[00:14:46] problem with, it's wars that are very, very costly for the United State, and we've
[00:14:49] seen from the very beginning, whether it's in the 12-day war or the
[00:14:53] 40-day war, the... said of of lost especially when it comes
[00:14:57] to um the media, the US media very very
[00:15:00] powerfully
[00:15:01] has been able to convince many people that you know war is beneficial, but when it comes
[00:15:05] to Iran,
[00:15:06] it was almost very quickly that that narrative changed,
[00:15:10] especially because we're coming off the Gaza genocide where people saw
[00:15:13] how um the United State assisted Israel in carrying out that
[00:15:17] genocide, so we we have a preparation already on the ground
[00:15:21] where not just um you know um in the US but also in
[00:15:25] global atmosphere, people are against any war, especially war, the
[00:15:29] benefit Israel or is supported by the United States and so when he came
[00:15:33] to Iran and the Iranians were
[00:15:35] you know we saw how ' the
[00:15:38] Iranian um um embassies around the world were
[00:15:42] when he went on x and the way that they were able to make this
[00:15:45] war very very clear that is expensive for the United States so that is the
[00:15:49] first aspect when it comes to generation. second aspect is that when the
[00:15:53] straight up almost closed immediately the prices of brend and
[00:15:57] oil prices and other associated um you know product
[00:16:00] went up so americans saw the effect of that war almost
[00:16:04] immediately coming out their pocket and this is coming up. the economic crisis
[00:16:08] that is already happening in the United States and when it comes to how
[00:16:12] Iran has
[00:16:13] been able to systematically target the the
[00:16:16] foundation the US military bases around the region and
[00:16:20] also the impact that is having on American soldiers
[00:16:23] so when you put all of this um you know issues together it makes this
[00:16:27] war very very expensive and very very visibly
[00:16:30] expensive for the American um people and that has make it
[00:16:34] um to where we are now where many senates many senate. does
[00:16:37] even um you know from the republican um you know asking
[00:16:41] Trump what is the point and our view our guest also said something
[00:16:45] very interesting which is that Trump is surrounded by
[00:16:49] idiots and those who are not idiotic have been fired we
[00:16:53] saw how he he
[00:16:55] he he purged uh you know in essence the the the um the
[00:16:59] military command center in the United State and replace them with yes
[00:17:03] man because we know Trump is always looking for people who say yes to
[00:17:06] him so... "this war did not come from a place where
[00:17:10] everything was pre-planned, it came from reaction to
[00:17:14] whatever happened um,
[00:17:16] you know, on the battlefield where Trump I this want,
[00:17:18] says
[00:17:18] what is bring me something that is related that can give me exactly
[00:17:22] what I want, and when th those failed and he comes back and say, I want something else
[00:17:25] again, when the um, during the war when the Trump administration said
[00:17:29] that they were going to start escorting ships through the straight of
[00:17:32] Ormus, many generals told him that this was impossible, it's
[00:17:36] it's not f'. able and we saw that many them were fired and then
[00:17:40] just 24 hours later Trump came and said
[00:17:43] that has been canceled and that we consistently see that and continue to
[00:17:47] see it um the war and and until now it seems though Trump is
[00:17:51] just reacting um you know to whatever situation happened then he
[00:17:55] react and bring new plan um into front but I think as the
[00:17:58] war progresses we're going to start seeing new emergence
[00:18:02] of new coalition in the region recently we saw the Saudi
[00:18:06] Turkey and Pakistan. act and that is as a direct reaction to
[00:18:10] the war happening um you know in the region, everyone is beginning to understand
[00:18:14] the dependence on the Americans is not going to take you anywhere
[00:18:17] okay
[00:18:18] and that the Iranians have demonstrated that when
[00:18:19] you stand on your own and you try and form you know multilateral um
[00:18:23] relation it's far better than depending on the Americans because you get nothing um you
[00:18:27] know for that thank you uh zab and John uh you you kind of touch
[00:18:31] on this I wonder if you could elaborate on the on the unpopular on
[00:18:35] the unpopularity the war what do you think it soly goes back to or
[00:18:39] primarily goes back to the uh impact it has in the fuel
[00:18:43] stations on energy uh cost, the failures to actually
[00:18:46] achieve any the objectives on the ground that are tangible,
[00:18:50] possibly lack of a pretext that satisfies the
[00:18:53] American uh people uh where do you see the the
[00:18:57] issue with the American people with those in congress, with those around or within
[00:19:01] Donald Trump's cabinet
[00:19:03] uh where is that opposition, what fuels it uh and what do
[00:19:06] you see the primary fuel that?
[00:19:37] context of this discussion, because this
[00:19:41] is huge part of
[00:19:43] the the geography, not
[00:19:46] geography, but the physics of the
[00:19:50] global movements of capital and so forth,
[00:19:54] always kind of follow the US and Israel, and
[00:19:58] and the zionists are scrambling, they are trying to colonize
[00:20:02] Argentina and the Philippines, Cyprus, they're always looking
[00:20:06] to buy land and somewhere the Greek islands and they're
[00:20:10] being rejected, everybody in the world hates them. one the
[00:20:14] huge issues in the coming elections in the US
[00:20:18] is who is backed by Abac and who is not
[00:20:21] backed by Abac, people are, I people that
[00:20:25] that used to support Israel no longer support
[00:20:28] them, a live stream genocide will
[00:20:32] do that, Israel is hugely unpopular, and
[00:20:36] so uh... people people want
[00:20:39] uh to believe in something again the
[00:20:42] way they they once did and they're having a hard time doing
[00:20:46] that the U.S. public education
[00:20:50] crashed after Reagan, they pulled the plug on public education. This
[00:20:54] is hugely underereducated populaus
[00:20:58] now, compared to China or Iran or even
[00:21:02] Russia, the US is is lagging behind
[00:21:06] by every metric you can find, and they're not
[00:21:09] producing scientists, they're not producing innovations in
[00:21:13] industry or or infrastructure, it's a it's a
[00:21:17] it's a huge,
[00:21:19] you know... one one factor affects
[00:21:23] the next factor and we're seeing cascading
[00:21:26] effect of failure in this culture
[00:21:29] now, and and you're seeing the oligarchs, the people
[00:21:33] that call lot of policy decisions, Peter teal
[00:21:36] and and people like that, Sam altman and
[00:21:40] Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, all these people are
[00:21:43] hated figures now, but they have enormous power
[00:21:47] and the their their policies are being... push through things
[00:21:51] like data centers uh, so it it
[00:21:55] feeds kind of collective paranoia in the
[00:21:58] US, my reading of it, the
[00:22:02] from distance and talking to people is that there is a
[00:22:06] growing paranoia, more and more people are leaving the country
[00:22:10] in fact, and part of this equation though
[00:22:14] is Israel and and how they are perceived now,
[00:22:18] they are not popular. "there are constant,
[00:22:21] you know, disturbances and fist fights and
[00:22:25] public brawls about Israel, involving
[00:22:29] zionis in the United States, even, so this
[00:22:32] is unusual, we only have a couple minutes left, I really want to give this last a
[00:22:36] question to you, John, what do you think continues to fuel and
[00:22:40] drive uh Donald Trump and his ambition, this belief that he has that
[00:22:44] this aggression against Iran will yield in the intended
[00:22:48] results that he's looking for." um,
[00:22:52] i the Trump is not going to get
[00:22:56] anything that that he wants, i don't think. we also have to
[00:23:00] remember he's in, he's a very old guy, and he's in
[00:23:04] decline, he's in physical decline,
[00:23:07] uh, it's pretty obvious he's in some kind of cognitive
[00:23:11] mental decline, um, how how
[00:23:15] extensive is,
[00:23:17] you know, is unclear, but it's, but it's... marked
[00:23:21] and he is constantly making speeches that make
[00:23:25] no sense and and are and embarrassment,
[00:23:29] so his staff are trying to manage him more than
[00:23:32] ever, it's hard to know what what he wants, what he thinks he
[00:23:36] wants anymore, i don't really know, but the the
[00:23:40] things that have to be remembered are the effect of Israel, netan
[00:23:44] yahoos influence, the epsteen files and
[00:23:48] his apparent. inspiration to keep those from coming
[00:23:52] to light, he
[00:23:53] is essentially selling pardons to criminals, mostly
[00:23:57] zionist white color criminals, but if you
[00:24:01] if you have the money you can buy a a prison pardon
[00:24:05] from Donald Trump, there's naked insider
[00:24:08] training and corruption, people are aware of
[00:24:12] this, and then you have the ice raids that are
[00:24:16] illegal and their human rights activists,
[00:24:20] screaming, legal aid lawyers are screaming, ACLU
[00:24:24] is screaming, everybody is outraged, there are
[00:24:27] families with people living in the US legally who have had
[00:24:31] family members deported and they don't even know where they have been
[00:24:34] deported, so um it's a it's a
[00:24:38] strange kind of time of of uh that will
[00:24:42] be looked back on, I think in in
[00:24:45] bewilderment by future historians, how did we get to
[00:24:49] this? place because uh certainly in our
[00:24:52] lifetimes we've never seen anything like this. all
[00:24:56] right, good stuff. thank you, Mr. uh, John Stepling, their author and commentator
[00:25:00] joining us out of Inderoy, Norway and our inhouse colleague here,
[00:25:04] our steam colleague, I should say zane Adam,
[00:25:06] thank you both dearly and sincerely and stay safe to both
[00:25:09] of you and viewers, and that's a wrap for this uh issue of your press
[00:25:12] tv news review program. thanks for joining us and bye-bye for
[00:25:15] now.
[00:25:30] Very deep within the US house armed services committee's massive
[00:25:34] $1.15 trillion dollar fiscal year
[00:25:37] 2027 national defense authorization act
[00:25:40] draft lies a provision that signals more than routine
[00:25:44] military cooperation with Israel, it signals a
[00:25:48] structural intanglement. Section 2:24, as
[00:25:52] it is identified, has now spark debate. It reflects a
[00:25:56] deeper shift in the long standing US and Israel's so-called
[00:26:00] security relationship, and it is moving it from
[00:26:03] partnership into formalized institutional
[00:26:06] coordination at the military level, and hey, it
[00:26:10] also comes a moment when the American public burned by an
[00:26:14] unprovoked and illegal war against Iran wants less
[00:26:17] entanglement in Tel Aviv's wars, not more,
[00:26:21] yet section 224 delivers the exact opposite,
[00:26:25] report suggests the provision would require the designation of
[00:26:29] dedicated pentagon executive agent to court. coordinate
[00:26:32] expanded cooperation with the Israeli military
[00:26:36] establishment covering research, development,
[00:26:39] procurement, and advanced systems integration. the
[00:26:43] US and Israel may say this is just a joint innovation in
[00:26:47] artificial intelligence, cyber warfare, quantum
[00:26:50] computing and next generation war technologies, but
[00:26:54] beneath this technical language lies a far more
[00:26:57] consequential reality, one in which intelligence sharing,
[00:27:01] data systems and military infrastructure become
[00:27:04] increasingly interwaven, structurally
[00:27:07] insulated from public accountability. Classified
[00:27:11] intelligence gathered by US military assets paid for the
[00:27:15] American taxpayer dollars could now be directly
[00:27:19] funneled into Israeli military systems through data
[00:27:22] fusion or the so-called network integration. By the
[00:27:26] way, this is already happening, but a lower scale. Can you
[00:27:30] imagine what could happen a larger? scale, it would deepen
[00:27:34] real-time operational coordination between the two militaries
[00:27:38] raising questions about overside accountability and the
[00:27:42] traditional bandaries between foreign military
[00:27:45] assistance and joint development. the provision
[00:27:48] also appears to expand industrial cooperation,
[00:27:52] potentially increasing co-production of weapons
[00:27:55] systems within the United States itself, further
[00:27:59] embedding the relationship into domestic. weapons supply
[00:28:03] chains, the asymmetric deterrance doctrine of
[00:28:06] Tehran and the entire axis of resistance has
[00:28:10] always rested on the reality that the United States and
[00:28:13] Israel are in practice a single joint
[00:28:17] actor. Section 22:4 now gives legal and
[00:28:20] institutional form to an operational reality that already
[00:28:24] existed, but the world did not want to
[00:28:27] see.
[00:28:44] مامانم میگه اسمش همیشه خلیج فارس
[00:28:47] بوده. ما بچه های خلیج
[00:28:50] فارسیم. اینجا برای ما فقط یه دریا
[00:28:54] نیست. هویتمونه.
[00:28:58] جاییه که کنارش بازی می
[00:29:00] کنیم.
[00:29:04] روزیمونو ازش می گیریم.
[00:29:08] باهاش شادی می کنیم و با صداش آروم
[00:29:10] میشیم. جاییه که
[00:29:14] اجازه نزدیک شدن دشمنامونو بهش
[00:29:18] نمیدیم. و تا همیشه ازش محافظت می
[00:29:22] کنیم. خلیج فارس ما انگار یه کتاب
[00:29:25] تاریخه. هر کدوم از موجاش قصه های
[00:29:29] قدیمی سرزمینمونو تو دلش داره.
[00:29:35] خلیج فارس برای همه ما
[00:29:37] ایرانیاست.
[00:30:13] Islamic revolution and guard core says the imposed wars in iran to reveal
[00:30:17] strategic deadlock of US and
[00:30:18] Israel.
[00:30:24] Yemen's arm forces say they have carried out strikes on Saudi bag troops in
[00:30:28] Maadi province of
[00:30:29] Yemen.
[00:30:38] And Spain announces border controls against Italy a tit for tap
[00:30:41] move as ra oversit migrant influx
[00:30:45] intensifies.