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Terms apply. I'm Brian Kilmead. This is One Nation coming up tonight in the show. It's going to be a big one. We're going to go two hours long.
Coming up with the first hour, the former Defense Minister of Israel standing by, Yov Galant, on what the series, the situation was that brought us to this point. And that's what he oversaw. And that was the destruction of two, maybe three, proxy groups. I'm talking about Hezbollah and Hamas. General Jack Keynes in the studio is going to be with us twice over the next two hours.
And Ambassador Michael Orrin will bring us inside the politics of it all as the U.S. has joined with Israel with one mission, to take out Iran's nuclear abilities. But first, we begin with promises made, promises kept. You got President Trump taking the necessary steps to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands with Operation Midnight Hammer. Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.
Iran, the bully of the Middle East. Must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier. Yep, the United States and Israel now bracing for retaliation from Iran following last night's successful strike of those three Iranian nuclear facilities that they did not see this coming, by the way. B-2 stealth bombers coming all the way from Montana, wiping out Fort Odens, Isfahan nuclear sites, dropping bunker buster bombs, tomahawks, on not one, but two facilities in what many are calling the most successful air missions we have seen since World War II.
So let's go right to Lucas Tomlinson. He's at the Pentagon doing a fantastic job keeping this up to date, not only on the attack, the aftermath, but maybe the reprisals. Lucas, take it away.
Well, good evening, Brian. The first shots fired in Operation Midnight Hammer didn't come from the B two s. It came from American fighter jets, who were the first to arrive on scene and launched over thirty missiles. That's out of the seventy five total bombs and missiles dropped. Here's the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Dan Raisincane, this morning at the Pentagon.
The U.S. employed several deception tactics, including decoys, as the fourth and fifth generation aircraft pushed out in front of the strike package at high altitude and high speed, sweeping in front of the package for enemy fighters and surface-to-air missile threats.
Now, the mission began with deception, something your next guest would probably appreciate, Brian. Fox has learned it was nine B-2 stealth bombers that launched from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri just after midnight early Saturday. Two flew west over the Pacific to act as decoys, but seven peeled off and quietly flew east not long after liftoff, not squawking and with minimal communication. Their destination, Iran's underground nuclear facilities. The B-2s entered Iranian airspace at 6 p.m.
Eastern, just after 2 a.m. local. 40 minutes later, those B-2s dropped their 14 massive bunker-busting bombs. 12:50 underground nuclear site in Ford, two hit Natans. And at the same time, those bombs hit the nuke sites.
30 Tom Hall cruise missiles launched from a guided missile submarine slammed into the nuclear site in Isfahan, the third target.
Now, this afternoon, Brian, the B-2s landed safely at their base in Missouri after completing their 36-hour round-trip mission. They were refueled at least three times in the air each way. Defense Secretary Pete Hagseth says this operation against Iran is not open-ended. This mission was not and has not been about regime change. The President authorized a precision operation.
to neutralize the threats to our national interests.
Now, Hagseth also said the U.S. does not plan any more strikes if Iran seeks peace. But if Iran chooses to retaliate, the U.S. will strike again, Brian. All right, Lucas, thanks for the rundown and thanks for the new information.
Have a great night. We all brace for retaliation. Where and when Iran might hit us. Maybe they can't hit us. How worried should we be about the proxies?
Let's ask former Israeli Defense Minister Yov Golant. And as Defense Minister, General Golant, it's great to see you. You are directly responsible by the fact that Hezbollah has been emacciated and almost destroyed, and Hamas is ready to maybe call it a day. What are you most worried about today after this strike, the U.S. successful strike in Iran?
Let me start, Brian, by saying that. the President have shown And leadership. Uh leadership means Clarity, not comfort, and the bold and courageous decisions by the President, together with the excellent performances. of the American forces. have shown once again Uh what is uh uh a real uh operation and the combination of what Israel have done during the last week together.
with the excellent performances of the American forces brought us to a very important point. And Iran lost ninety percent and more From its nuclear Abilities. We have done part of it, you accomplish it, and together. The Middle East, Israel and the world is safer today thanks to the decision made by the American President.
Well, you wrote a column before the attack that says Israel has done most of the job, now Trump can finish it. Do you believe that's all we need to do and you can take it from here? I uh I believe. Uh the longer it will take the Iranians to surrender the better will be the achievements of the United States and Israel. In any day we degradate their abilities To possess nuclear weapons by a month or a year.
Therefore, I think that. Uh Fodo is gone, Natanz is gone. all their uh facilities in uh Kashan, Isfahan and other places are gone. Basically, the The Iranian facility is destroyed, the knowledge that was kept under the supervisions. of many scientists is gone because we eliminate them.
There is no Iranian military leadership that is effective because we Uh hit and eliminate them uh all. The the uh chief of staff, uh Bakari, the head of uh of uh revolutionary guards, Salami, and all the others.
So At this moment, I don't believe that you guys, the IDF is stopping. But it does seem like the number of rocket attacks, missile attacks into Israel has really leveled off. Can you confirm that? How many times have you been asked? to go to the uh to the basement, to a bomb shelter over the last 24 hours.
Well, I confirm it, Brian, and I'll tell you what is the reason. Uh the preconditions to start this war were to eliminate Hezbollah. what we did last September. And later on, we act on October against the Iranians after they were shooting two hundred ballistic missiles on october first. And we achieved two major goals.
One, we degrade the amount of ballistic missiles that they can manufacture. every year from seven hundred to dozens, maybe fifty. And the other issue was to start to create the corridor against the air defense by eliminating all the radars around Tehran. And uh we gained air superiority over Iran when we started this operation. And uh this was very helpful uh to avoid.
Any kind of uh ballistic uh uh Attempts against Israel, and I believe that this is the key. Component that degrade the amount of missiles that are shooted every day. Right now, instead of being dozens in the first days, it's singles. And you're wiping out a lot of the launchers too. If Hezbollah wanted to attack right now, Do they still have enough personnel?
And enough rockets to attack? Do they understand that the repercussions of that? Is that why they're not attacking you now? Or are they not capable of attacking you now over in the north? Hezbollah is not capable because.
we eliminate the leadership Nasawala, Muhsen, Nakir, and all the others, we eliminated the missiles. We were using the beepers to hit the uh activists and we uh bombed them uh in their uh uh uh command and control systems. Let me remind you that Iran was the force behind Hamas and behind Hezbollah, they were using them as proxies because they had three different vectors they were using. One, armies of terror, Yamas, Khilasbalah, and others. Second, all the Missiles around us, Lebanon, Syria, Hamas, the Houthis and Iran.
And all of this is gone. And now, after the last strike. of America On their nuclear facilities, I believe that most of our mission was accomplished. All right, just real quick, you took out Nasarella. And they said that you should never do that, you did that, nothing happened except for you killed this replacement and this replacement after that.
Do you believe that you should be that Ayatollah should be taken out too? I think that all the options are on the table. And I wouldn't speak about Future operations, but I say and reiterate: all the options are on the table, and the combination. between America and Israel. can do anything needed in order To destroy anything in Iran, if they will continue.
If this campaign is going to continue to be successful, it has so much to do with what you were able to do with the Walkie-Talkies, the Pagers, what you were able to do to Hamas, and then taking out their missile defense. And of course, you've done that your entire career. General, thanks so much for your time. Best of luck, and I hope to talk to you again soon. Thank you very much.
God bless you. God bless Israel and God bless America. Thank you, sir.
Meanwhile, we continue our range of coverage right now. And with me in studio, who's going to be here for the two hours, is General Jack Keene. Who was kind enough to be with us on Friday, General? And you kind of outlined the fact and you kind of indicated that we thought you were going to be here eventually, that we were going to take this shot at Iran. What do you think, now that it's done, now that we hit him in three multiple spots, successful?
Yeah, a remarkable operation. And certainly the fact that no one fired a shot at us, credit the Israelis for that. I mean, There were 70 air defense batteries that Iran built and recovered from the attack that Israel conducted against Iran's air defense system in October against the S-300 and S-400s. For our audience, those were advanced air defense systems from Russia. But Iran always had some of their own, and they rebuilt as fast as they possibly could.
They took out all of them. That is why no hits were made against our aircrafts.
So obviously, the Israelis had major impact on this. Plus, Israeli intelligence, they've got people on the ground, and they obviously are in joint communication with the United States and sharing intelligence. I think in terms of where are we, the focus right now is on intelligence, in addition to what Israel is doing by the hour in terms of striking Iran's capabilities. But that intelligence, and it's what we call in a military, all-source intelligence. What does that mean?
It's satellite imagery. It's aerial reconnaissance, likely done by Israelis. This is physical planes flying over the sites, taking pictures, etc. It signals intelligence. And what that means is we eavesdrop on our adversaries.
See how panicked they are. See what they're saying to each other. And listen to what they're talking. And we have various ways to do it. It's the most sophisticated.
Intelligence, we actually do, and it's very, very reliable. The Israelis have capability as well. And then the last thing is human intelligence. And that human intelligence is Israelis. They are on the ground.
And it's likely to massade, and they will be able to take a look at these sites physically. What I think we know in terms of preliminary analysis to get into some of the details that the general said about 90% restructure in the Ford complex, the preliminary analysis is saying that the whole complexes where many things were stored, it's likely that those walls collapsed and likely to be inaccessible.
So significant damage. And why wouldn't we expect that if 12 of these MOPS bombs were dropped on it? When it comes to Natanz, there was significant damage to Natans. Two MOPs were dropped on it to get to the underground facilities. Preliminary analysis believes that they are destroyed, that capability.
And then Ishvahan, the issue with Ishvahan, was where all the tomahawks went in. They believed they destroyed the tunnel complexes and what was there as well. Over there, too, right? That's correct. And likely inaccessible.
So, I think we're somewhere between significant damage and completely destroyed, and we need to get. Verifiable information. The second thing is, we know full well from Israeli reporting. and United States intelligence as well, that sixteen trucks moved out of Fordo on Wednesday and other trucks moved out of. You've seen the satellite, right?
Right. Other trucks moved out of Ishfahan. They were likely carrying enriched uranium, but we don't know for sure. We don't know what's in the trucks, but that was a likely thing. Centrifuges, much more challenging.
And centrifuges helped. take the enriched uranium and spin it to increase the enrichment. But The Israelis are claiming they're very much aware of all of this, and they have a very specific idea where all that is. If that's the case, that's very good news, and obviously they're going to be about taking that down as well.
So we want to know what's next. And we know the Foreign Minister of Iran, who seems to be acting like he's got a strong hand and he doesn't, is going to go to Russia. And we know Medvedev has come out and he says something to the effect of we're going to get, we could get nuclear material. Multiple countries want to get nuclear material to Iran. And the New York Times is reporting tonight that U.S.
officials told them that six Americans told them that there's some movement around our troops in Iraq, who everyone thinks that might be the ripest target for the Iranians. Have you heard the same thing?
Well, just to comment on a couple of things you said here, one of the amazing things I think we have to admit to ourselves is that Iran is so isolated. Even among the alliance of the Axis, China and Russia are providing them no tangible assistance despite they're in a desperate situation. This thing with Putin and nuclear weapons, he's been pulling this since the war started in Ukraine. It has always been a bluff and it continues to be, in my view. The other stunning thing is the proxies have not come to their assistance at all, particularly Hezbollah.
It was organized principally, 150,000 rockets, 60,000, 70,000 troops, for one reason, the defense of Iran. They have not fired a shot. My Israeli counterparts have told me. I asked him a question: do they still have missiles? Yes, General, they have thousands of missiles, nothing compared to what they had.
I said, why no response? He said, they have lost the will. To fight the Israelis. They are decapitated, as you indicated in the introduction, and they're looking at Iran, Ron. What are they seeing, Brian?
They're seeing the end in sight. They're going to go out there and die for this when the end is obvious in terms of what's going to happen to Iran. Same with Houthis, right? Right. That's why it's stunning the isolation they have.
Just real quick, the story to Hormuz, the Iranian parliament voted to close it down. that to shut it. We don't know how oil price is going to be affected. And number two, it's that the Ayatollah has got to sign off on this. If they in fact do that, wouldn't we reopen it?
We wouldn't just stand by and let them do that, would we? No. A couple of things. One, It's never been shut down. There's been attempts to do it.
And yes, the United States Navy and the United States Air Force is not going to stand around and watch them shut down the Straits of Amuz. They're threatening this because they want international pressure put on the United States and Israel. Whoa, whoa, you got to bring this to an end. Kind of like when Israel went into Gaza, international community saying, oh, come on, you've got to stop. You've accomplished enough.
That's what they want. But one, it's doubtful whether they can achieve it given our presence. And if they even did it, For a period of time, it would be a short period of time. General Keenan will talk to you in a little while. Thanks so much for staying up with us.
I appreciate it, and the country appreciates it.
Meanwhile, still to come on our show, U.S. City is on high alert as protesters flood the streets with an embarrassment. And we just found out hundreds of Iranians crossed our border illegally under Biden. Can I add this? It's over 1,000.
Where are they now? And how do we protect the homeland? Senator Dave McCormick on that next. Toe fungus is tough to kill. As we await the retaliation from Iran, maybe it happens, maybe it doesn't, we can't help but ignore possible terror threats here at home.
Why? We got brand new data given to Fox's Bill Malusion showing that 1,504 Iranian nationals were caught by border patrol during the four years of the Biden administration. And almost half of those were released back into the United States. Joining us right now for that and more is a guy that went to West Point. He's chairman of the Middle East Subcommittee for Foreign Relations, and he's the senator from Pennsylvania, Dave McCormick.
Senator, your reaction to that number, to that number of Iranians who have crossed our border over the last four years, does that make you concerned today?
Well, you know, one of the things that became apparent over the last couple of years was that we had hundreds of people. That came into the United States under Biden's open borders that were on the terrorist watch list from all over the Middle East and all over the world. And so I'm not surprised, sadly. And that's why it was so important that President Trump closed the border on day one. Remarkable progress there.
And now we've got to very systematically. Make sure that uh this threat Which is in our borders is removed. And those folks on the terrorist watch list, the cartels, which have been designated a terrorist organization. All of them need to go back and be repatriated back to the places they came from. And we're at a moment of high alert.
Because Iran is the the leader Of terrorism across the world. It's been the supporter of all these terrorist proxies. And so we have now, with Israel's incredible military operations and yesterday's incredible and masterful act by President Trump, we now have the Iranians on the ropes. They're at a point of historical weakness, and we need to watch out because this is where whatever they have left, they're going to throw it our way, and we need to be very careful. You fought in the First Persian Gulf War.
You just got back from Israel. The Middle East is one of your focuses. Today, the New York Times reported that American intelligence has picked up signs that militias or armed groups backed by Iran are preparing for attacks on U.S. targets in Iraq and Syria. You've got 400 in Syria.
They say about 2,500 in Iraq. If you're in either one of those bases, what are you thinking today? And what do you think? Is the Pentagon ready to defend those places? Yeah, we have to start with what this was all about.
This was about. Eliminating the possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran. That would have been disastrous for Israel, disaster for the United States. Iran called us the great Satan. It also would have kicked off an arms race, a nuclear arms race, nuclear proliferation in the Middle East.
What's happened in the last couple of months is the terrorist proxies, the last year, the terrorist proxies of Iran have been deeply degraded. But they still have capability. It's like the guy in a bar fight who's deeply hurt. That's the guy you have to watch out for because he'll throw everything that he has left to try to damage and hurt you. And so they should be on high alert.
But listen, I have enormous confidence in the quality and the capability of our military and the leadership. And Iran's facing a very, very. Tough-minded opponent, and the president's made clear: you attack American soldiers, the response will be rapid. and severe.
So, I want you to hear Tom Massey, a Libertarian Republican, came out. He says he speaks for a lot of Republicans when he says they didn't want to see the president do this. Listen. It was a good week for the neocons in the military-industrial complex who want war all the time. I wouldn't call my side of the MAGA base isolationists.
We are exhausted. We are tired from all of these wars, and we're non-interventionists. I mean, this was one of the promises. I mean, are you going to call President Trump's campaign an isolationist campaign? What he promised us, which we.
Well, listen, I'd say the following things. I was boots on the ground in the First Gulf War. I mean, I was someone who supported. Going into the Middle East after 9-11. And 20 years later, I think many of us look back on that and think it was a mistake and think that the terrible burden on the lives of Americans, on treasure, was too much.
And we need to be very, very careful. About using our military abroad. In this particular circumstance, the mandate could not have been more clear. President Trump went out of his way to find a peaceful resolution. He went out of his way to ensure that we were selectively attacking the nuclear capability of Iran.
Not the Iranian people, not the nation of Iran. He went out of his way to say this was not about regime change. This is incredibly strong, courageous, targeted action. It's very much. Different than what Thomas Massey is talking about.
This is when you got to use American power to support. Um, protecting American citizens, the idea of Iran with a nuclear weapon would have been an unthinkable threat to America. And, Senator. If he was listening to the president's campaign and he was going for Ron DeSantis and he never got on board with the president. Uh He was for the Iranians will never have nukes, and he made it clear you're not going to be able to enrich in your country.
It's going to be outside your country. That is a campaign promise. And to say that neocons are rejoicing because they decided to take out the nuclear threat on a country that's been attacking us for 46 years, beginning with taking 52 hostages, is somebody to me as bright as he is. It shows he is really clueless and doesn't want to think about the big picture. Senator, thanks so much for your time.
You broke away from a very important event in your life to do this because you know what's going on in the country, and we appreciate it. Thank you, Brian. Good to be with you. You got it. Up next.
Why securing the Middle East is America's fight as much as it's Israel's? Former Ambassador to the United States, Michael Warren, joins One Nation next. It is amazing. Eastern. All right, welcome back, everyone.
It's been a historic weekend. We want to keep you up to date. It's a lot of moving parts. We need to give you an idea of what we've been through since the bombing took place in and out before Iran even knew it. We had three sites we were going for, and it was Fordeau, Isfahan, and Natans.
It looks like very successfully, and it looks like we've accomplished our goals. We don't know for sure, but as we fan out through the area, you know, the experts are going to be looking at these shots to find out what it looked like before, what it looked like after. And then, as you look at the whole region, you see the size of Iran. It's Texas twice. In all these areas, we had about 40,000 military men and women there that could very well be targets.
If you want to know what their nuclear program is like, you know, that civilian nuclear program, they had no business and no interest in making a weapon. Look at the size of it. And the IDF has done a great job of taking every single site down. This is the area. This is our worry.
And we wonder what kind of reprisals. Iran would actually go after to show that they still are a functioning country, which after the taking out of 12, 11 senior military officers and 14 nuclear scientists, you have to wonder what they have left as a brain trust.
So, why is securing the Middle East so important to the United States? Let's ask a guy who knows, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren. And Michael, great to see you. Appreciate you joining us today. What is it like in Tel Aviv right now?
According to reports, this is the least amount of rockets and missiles that have come into your country since the altercation began nine days ago. Great to be with you, Brian. Yeah, about an hour and a half ago, we were running into our shelters again, but Iran fired one missile, one missile that was taken down by our interceptors. That is an immense reduction from what had been firing at us. In 2024, twice, Iran fired 300 ballistic missiles at us.
At the beginning of this round of fighting, 200, then down to 100, 60, 40, 10, and now tonight, one. The IDF has said that it has destroyed over half of Iran's launchers, much of the missile arsenals, and we're seeing the effects of that literally tonight. And Iran's proxies throughout the region, Hamas, certainly Hezbollah, and the Houdis, they're not firing at us either.
So, in pure military terms, this is an extraordinary, extraordinary achievement.
So, this is what some people are saying.
Well, President Trump got himself into this mess by walking away and tearing up the JCPOA. What's the reality of the deal? you viewed it, and what do you think the President accomplished by ripping it up and walking away from it? This war broke out not because President Trump withdrew from the JCPOA, the Iran nuclear deal 2015, but because the JCPOA was signed to begin with. The JCPOA didn't dismantle a millimeter of Iran's nuclear facilities.
None of those facilities that you mentioned on your map earlier, Brian, were taken apart by the JCPOA.
So it meant that Iran, whatever it wanted to, Even if it had shipped out. a lot of its nuclear material, it would always replenish them very, very fast. And the JCPA didn't prevent Iran from developing centrifuges that could enrich uranium six times the rate of twenty fifteen. The JCPWA did not in any way inhibit Iran's development of intercontinental ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads. It didn't inhibit the development of warheads themselves.
And simply, all it did was give a tremendous amount of money to Iran, billions and billions of dollars that Iran spent on terror. And the world's largest state sponsor of terror. Iran was the financer and the trainer of the terrorists who conducted that horrific attack on Israel on October 7th, 2023, triggering this war. This war was triggered, was ignited by the JCPOA, not by President Trump's decision to withdraw from that terrible agreement. I just talked to Secretary of State Rubio before the show, and he said one thing that's been very important to point out.
In 2022, the IAEA said they had 95 pounds to Iran of highly enriched uranium. In May of 2025, it's at 900 pounds. Why would anyone not conclude that was worried about the welfare of the world, let alone Israel, that they were going to use this for a weapon? Let's go back even further, Brian, if you will. Fordow.
Fordow was built under a mountain secretly. I was in the room when it was exposed back in 2009. This is a country that has one of the greatest oil deposits in the world. It's a great exporter of oil. All of China operates on Iranian oil.
Why would it need a civilian nuclear program? And why with a civilian nuclear program would you build a secret facility under a mountain? And by the way, civilian power, nuclear power, costs forty times as much as oil does.
So you're not doing this to save money. And clearly, Iran had been enriching uranium illegally, secretly, in violation of all of its commitments in the world, developing a warhead. We know they were developing a warhead. Israeli agents in 2018 broke into the nuclear archive in Tehran and took out documents to show that they'd been working on a warhead. And of course, they had those missiles too.
And so putting this all together, you know, it walks like a duck and talks like a duck. It's going to be a duck. And clearly, that Iran was moving toward a military nuclear capability. And Israel's margin for error, this is an important point, Ryan. Israel's margin for error here was exactly zero.
We made a single mistake in our estimates of Iran's nuclear ambitions and capabilities, and that's the end of this country. It's the end of my family, intensely personal. And Israel and its government made a decision, which the vast, vast majority, I would claim close to 99% of Israelis support that decision. Ambassador, how many presidents had to deal with the Iranian problem? Five or six or seven?
And no one's ever dealt with it directly, ever before. Until this President Came around. How important is this move? You were quoted as saying to Joe Biden: you wanted him to have a dirty, Harry moment, a moment of decisive forceful retaliation. He never did it.
Do you think it was something unique about President Trump that said, I looked at this situation and I have no choice, and where other Presidents felt differently? You know, the Iranians have been, as I mentioned earlier, is the largest state sponsor of terror in the world. They're responsible for the murder of 243 Marines in Beirut in 1983. Even in the last two years, Iranian proxies have fired dozens and dozens and dozens of rockets at American bases in Iraq, Syria, and Jordan. They've killed American service people.
They've wounded hundreds of American service people, closed international shipping through a proxy through the coast of Yemen. It is one provocation after another. And nobody, no president, going back to Reagan, Reagan was the last president who actually fired at the Iranians, ever dared, ever fired a single bullet at the Iranians. Nothing. No, no.
Come uppin's for the Iranians. No response. And President Trump has finally changed the game. Let me be very specific about that. What can change here?
We're talking about the ability to not just end Iran's support for terror, but to open the way to peace throughout the Middle East. It's peace between Israel and Lebanon, peace between Israel and Syria, peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and maybe, maybe, with the change of regime in Tehran, peace between Israel and Iran as well. And that's a game changer. It's a message to the Chinese. I guarantee you, there are people in Beijing tonight thinking, maybe we should rethink our plan to take Taiwan.
Maybe I hope this guy is willing to stand up. Everything changes. You know our politics very well. And you know, saying regime change, we're not going to do regime change because as Colin Powell famously said, if you break it, you own it. We don't want to own this country.
But there's just no way who anyone like you who's been studying the region, who studied the Iranian government over the last forty years, Would ever think that they're going to come to the table and say, you know what, I don't need a nuclear program. How do we work this out? It's not going to be with these guys, I guarantee you.
Okay.
Well, they'd have to completely change their DNA. They are a jihadist regime. They are about conquering the Middle East and then using the Middle East as a springboard for conquering the world. You're asking them to completely alter it in their worldview. But I don't understand how that would actually be because it's like saying, and I hate comparisons with Nazi Germany in the 30s, but it's like saying the Nazi Germany in the 30s, well, you can't have airplanes, but you can have tanks and you can have rockets and you can have submarines and destroyers.
And by the way, you can stay Nazis. It's not going to work. Evil's evil. And eventually you're going to strike an agreement with them. They're just going to lie.
They're going to cheat. And you're going to find yourself back five, ten years from now, back on October seventh, twenty twenty three.
So this there has to be a fundamental change that will open the door to peace. And you analogies will be remembered as one of the great peacemakers of all time. Absolutely. You have to show strength to get to peace, and that's what this is an example of, it seems. Ambassador Mike Lawren, great job.
Thanks so much. Very valuable voice through all of this.
Meanwhile, Israel versus Iran. The debate is raging online: how social media is being used to influence the public for one side or another. We'll explain to you: don't believe what you read on the internet. Who would ever thought? If you're like I was, you're tired.
We are now learning of a large Iranian network that has been impersonating Israelis on social media, making it seem like the Israelis are not behind the IDF and their country and are turning against their country. But what's the reality? And what could you do about it if you're an Israeli? Joining us now to talk about that is retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, now with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, with a cyber expertise.
First off, have you picked this up? And is it effective? It is happening. In fact, at the Foundation for Defense and Democracies, two of our researchers, Max Lesser and Maria Riofro, found this. And what it was is a telegram channel run that the Iranian intelligence uses to train thousands of Iranian pro-government people and how to create fake accounts using artificial intelligence.
And then those accounts impersonate Israeli citizens fearful of what's happening to them and spreads kind of chaos and fear, attempts to spread chaos and fear through the Israeli social media networks. It's not working because we can identify it. We can work with the social media companies and knock this down. But this is where information operations are headed, Brian, and this is how artificial intelligence can enhance those information operations in a very negative way. As we talk about possible retaliation, we talk about shutting off the Strait of Hormuz.
We worry about our 40,000 men and women who are serving. Over in the region, especially over in Iraq. But we also should worry about a cyber attack anywhere. Are you concerned about that? I am.
The United States is the most vulnerable country in the world. If you look at all our different sectors, transportation sectors, energy sector, water sectors, we are vulnerable. But the Iranians are not the Chinese. If the Chinese were coming at us, I would be very worried. With Iranians, a little less.
But we will see some attacks. We will see some denial of services.
So it's imperative for companies to raise their shields, to have a more defensive posture set for the next few weeks as we watch it, much as we did in February of 2022, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. What I find fascinating is what's going on in Iran. Immediately they shut down the Internet there. People are getting concerned because they're losing their lights. They're running out of gas.
And in some cases, they're running out of water. But they want to keep their people in the dark. I don't know about that strategy. Maybe because they don't trust their people to not turn on their government.
Well, that's right. Authoritarian regimes are not known for practicing transparency, rule of law, freedom of press, all the things you and I take for given.
So I'm not surprised they've cut it off. And the Israelis didn't need to go cut it off for them. They self-censor. Lastly, you point out a missile defense system, how well our Thad missile defense system has worked and how well we have done from the sea in helping Iran block these rockets and these missiles and the drones. That's right.
So we're doing three different things. We have ships in the eastern Mediterranean firing standard missiles that defend against the really hard medium-range ballistic missiles coming from Iran, supporting the Aero-3 system, which is kind of under some duress. It's had to fire so many. That's the Israeli Aero III system. Then we have THAD missiles.
That's U.S. Army personnel stationed in Israel right now, defending Israel with THAD systems. And the President took advantage of those few days' delay to push more missiles to Israel. And then finally, our Air Force planes in the Gulf Cooperation Council states are taking off and shooting down some of the drones inbound to Israel, supporting the Israeli Air Force, who then picks it up and shoots down the rest of them. Admiral, what does Iran have left?
We watched their antiquated Air Force be destroyed. We watched their missile defense be destroyed. We're not looking to there's not going to be any invasion of that country. But what's left?
So I think Jack Keene had it right. It's attacks by IRGC proxies against the U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria. I don't know that it will be successful, but they will attempt to attack them, much like they did after President Trump killed General Suleimani back in January of 2020. And then the other thing they could do is attempt to mine the Straits of Hormuz.
You know, we'd eventually clear that, but that would slow down the flow of fossil fuels from all the Gulf Cooperation Council states and Iran to the rest of the world, particularly China and India. Don't you think that we've told them, we only have 30 seconds left, we've told them, if you hit us back, we're going to wipe out all your oil and gas, you'll have no economy? That's exactly it.
So there is a large target list still available in Iran. It's economic targets, like you just mentioned. It's some military and national and security targets. And if you add our 200-strike aircraft into the Israeli strike aircraft, it will be a bad week for Iran if they strike U.S. forces.
Those foreign ministers in Russia and the Russian official Medvedev, the former President and Prime Minister, said, oh, we might give them nukes. I doubt it. Admiral, thanks so much. Thanks for staying up with us. Admiral Mark Montgomery, we appreciate it.
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