If you want perpetually high gas prices and a world in chaos, let Iran get back in the game, let them survive with their nuclear ambitions intact. That's unacceptable. To my Democratic colleagues, I've pretty much had it with the idea that Iran is not a threat to the world. Uh that is Lindsey Graham, but you know that. And he's talking about after the hearings yesterday with Armed Services, when they went after Pete and said we're losing the war, every Democrat and every Republican was pretty much on board.
Farley Weiss joins us now, President of the Israel Justice Organization, author of the 2023 book, Because It's Just and Right, The Untold Backstory of the U.S. Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel. I'm moving the U.S. Embassy.
So moving the U.S. Embassy there. Farley, welcome. Great to be here, Brian.
So I feel like all systems are. We're seeing a ton of armaments go into Israel. You guys are getting armed up again. We are getting armed up again. It's never really stopped.
We had another aircraft carrier group, and now we put our first ever hypersonic missile into theater. All indications are We're ready to go back. Yeah, like a President Trump who wrote the book The Art of the Deal. knows that when you're dealing with fanatics With the Iranian regime, and you have to only deal with them with the, not just the threat of force, but with force. And that's the only way that you're going to get a good deal, if you're going to be able to get a deal at all with them, is only if they are put in a position where that their choice is either sign a deal or lose the regime.
And that's what he's trying to do. And likely he's going to have to do more military force in order to get to that point. Yeah, I want you to hear what Matt Continenti said, because we're looking at the straight-up removes is key to this, COVID-14. We're in the battle of the blockades. President Trump has a very effective blockade on Iranian ports.
It has sent the Iranian economy into a death spiral. But Iran maintains its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, and that's leading to a spike in global energy prices, which are showing up on our shores at the pump. And so President Trump is in a position where he has to do something to break this battle of the blockades. And I think it's necessary for President Trump to find a way to open the Strait of Hormuz and deny the Iranian regime its final card. Once that's done, once we have safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, the Iranians have no more cards to play and this war will be over.
And the other card would be just taking out carg, the whole island, make it zero prob ability to produce any type of oil. Which plan do you want? I think that you do the first one with the Strait of Harmuz, you open it up, that reduces all the economic pressure on the war. And every all the gas prices, everything starts going down. And if that still doesn't do it, you can always take out Carg Island afterwards.
So, yeah, so my sense is Israel cats. Who is the defense minister of Israel? said yesterday he suggested that the talks aren't working, the current ceasefire is not effective, and he thinks it's time to confront Iran again.
Now, would they do that without us? No. I think that it's clear with the U. S. supplying Israel with more munitions that there's complete coordination, extraordinary coordination, unprecedented coordination between the United States and Israel.
President Trump Is Decided to see what would happen, see how things would work, and has used the time to reload and has strengthened the sanctions against Iran, going after ships, Iranian ships all over the world, not just stopping them from the Strait of Hormuz. It's still not working, so now he's going to up it up with military force that will happen, I think, within the week. Look at really, okay, I agree with you. I think, look at Israel right now. They're with Hezbollah.
They're making, you know, they're digging in in Lebanon. But l looks like Hezbollah has has engineered or some bought A new drone that's not detectable by traditional defenses of Israel. That's very similar to what the Ukrainians are doing in Russia. They keep on With very cheap technology, they try to refine it. What could you tell us about that?
Well, the thing is, is that the whole purpose of Hezbollah You know, is to destroy Israel and doing anything they can to kill, murder as many people as they possibly can by any means possible, any technology, whatever they can do. Doesn't matter that their leadership was destroyed, doesn't matter they've been crushed militarily, that Israel's gone right through them. You know, Israel thought three years ago that if Hezbollah attacked, Israel would lose 100, 200 people a day. They've lost less than one hundred and going all the way through Hezbollah, all the way to the Latani River.
So the Hezbollah still has some fighting skills, but Israel said they killed two hundred Hezbollah people in the last two weeks. They're crushing Hezbollah.
So everyone you hear about the Israeli casualties, you don't hear about how decimated Hezbollah is becoming. How about the Uh the war weary. country. Are they a little war weary at this point? No.
Israel is It has completely turned around what happened on october seventh, twenty twenty three, and destroying all these proxies of Iran. And Iran itself has been crushed. And Hezbollah is being Devastated, and even all the opposition people in Israel, the governments, everyone's aligned on this issue. The support for the fight against Hezbollah is like 90 percent. Israelis can't live in the north of the country because of the missiles from Hezbollah.
As General Keene has talked about, they have had 50 violations of missiles fired at Israel since the last ceasefire, and they violated the previous ceasefire from fighting from attacking again from the November 20, 2024 ceasefire. And they violated the previous ceasefire on October 8, 2023. Hezbollah violates all agreements and everything they do, and all of the goal is to destroy and kill as many Jews as possible. But yet, I guess Israel and Russia are speaking. They have some type of relations?
Because I guess they got grain delivered from Russia. That's causing somewhat controversy with the Gulf states? I think at the end of the day, they didn't accept the grain. I think that they're my understanding that I just saw it in the last day or so.
So I think when the whole controversy erupted. But Israel is not close to Russia. Russia is supporting Iran as it came out in the war against Iran's war against Israel and the United States. What is your uh how disappointed are you in in Europe's reaction? That's not unexpected.
You know, with the the the problem is is that even What's considered even what's considered conservative governments, even in Italy. Or Germany, they're weak on all these issues. I think it's become obvious from this whole situation with Iran that Israel is the United States' best ally in the world. And Israel is the strongest military ally in the world, the best air force of any military ally the United States has in the world, the one that stands with the United States, not just economically or says they support it diplomatically, but militarily is there fighting, and Israeli people are the ones suffering from the attacks. With American Home Shield, you can now video chat with live repair experts for help with home fixes over the phone.
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So I'm looking at tens, maybe 10, maybe 15,000 different strikes, airstrikes. I'm looking at the elimination of as many as 80 high-ranking government officials and scientists, as well as. IRGC officials, military, military officers. But yet the Democrats are so worried about the President being successful. Listened to him yesterday pretending to question Secretary of War Pete Hagseth.
Cut five. We did not have any evidence that Iran intended to imminently attack this country in any way, shape, or form. Do you not believe them when they say death to America? What you're seeing is success.
Now is winning. I would hate to see what losing looks like. We are two months into a historic military success in Iran, and you want to call it a defeat. And it's defeatist Democrats like you that cloud the mind of the American people. Did you, through your broker at Morgan Stanley or otherwise, seek to invest in any defense-related funds right before Trump started the Iran War?
I'll give it to you as a big fat Negative. 100% right. Um and would they say that he's in the betting markets? You got to be kidding me. But the line of questioning, and there are so many legitimate questions.
You know what? I looked. Um Farley, I looked at The President Pete's face when he was being questioned by Senator Gillibrand. And he was astounded because behind closed doors She was asking good questions, she was getting substantive answers, and she put on a performance for the cameras. But it does damage.
Doesn't that resonate through the Middle East and m people think that the President is losing ground with the American people because they see this and don't understand our system? No question. Look, this is the most extraordinarily successful war probably in history. The Iranian regime military was considered a top twenty military in the world. And they have destroyed them at a hundred to one ratio of casualties.
It's unprecedented doing it all from the air without having to use ground troops and to have the success that they've had. And people say, oh, you took out some people in the regime and the other people are just as bad. The fact of the matter is they said that the Iranian regime response was 60% less than what was expected because the leaders were taken out and they didn't have the same type of leadership in place. And everyone knows that if Hitler was taken out, Nazi Germany would never have been the same. Right.
But they were a little bit more diffuse with their leadership after what they saw, the mosaic, I guess, the mosaic defense. When they saw Saddam Hussein get cut down and how the disarray and the dissolving of the Sunni government, I guess the Iranians went to town and said, if something happens to the central government, I want all the provinces to be able to function on their own. And we are seeing that now.
Well, I think that Iran still has a water shortage. They still have tremendous devastation. Their economy, their currency is devastated. The people, 80% of the people, just want the regime gone. The people are good people.
The regime is bad. And so that is a much easier case to get rid of the regime. It's a similar situation in many ways, like with Venezuela, where the people hate the regime and the regime would lose overwhelmingly. But the difference is that Venezuela, you could just change one leader and make a lot of changes. Here, you have to change the entire regime in order to get changes.
What's it going to take for the people to rise up and not be slaughtered? Is there a plan in place? Do you hear about anything about arming them up, arming up the people?
Well, I think what we've seen is that Israel has been able to use these drones to even knock out people at checkpoints. And I think that with the drone technology, I think that you're able to knock out a lot of different there's a help that you can have. It's not just the population. You can help the population with putting drones inside the streets and all the areas to go after where the regime police forces are and get rid of them that way. Right.
So General Keen was on with me an hour ago on Fox and Friends, and he was just talking about what we're dealing with and how to deal with it. Here's about the bloviating coming from Israel. Cut six. They're always full of luster. I mean their rhetoric is considerably much stronger than what they're able to produce in reality in terms of military terms.
I mean that's what this is. It's for our own domestic population, you know, to show that they're still in charge here. They're standing up to the powers of Israel and the United States and also obviously for international consumption. I mean the administration sees right through that. Your thoughts?
Yeah, the Iranian regime, they talk a game, but they can't back it up anymore. And it's obvious if they could have done things that they say they could do, they would have done them already. Do you think that with the laser do you think things when we go back will be changed a little bit? For example, lasers were starting to be used. I think that's cost effective.
I think our bases, U.S. bases, are starting to get fortified with them. Do you think they're being going to be used more? There's no question that's the future because it's so much cheaper than the Iron Dome to use these lasers to knock out missiles. It's the wave of the future, and it's going to only get more and more advanced.
Are you worried about terror attacks here in New York City? Look, I have trust with the FBI and Cash Patel. I have trust with the Trump administration. I was much more worried about it under the Biden administration. Further, the Trump administration has kept all these students, these radical students, off of the campuses.
And so that's been a massive difference on college campuses because of that. And so they're getting rid of all these bad people in America that were let in. And so that's making the United States much safer. But of course we're concerned, especially in New York City with Mayor Mamdani, is a disaster. Yeah, you know, what's interesting is I think you run on that in the fall.
That's not really your thing. But just talk about what happened at colleges. You don't see those riots anymore. The president's moving on so many different fronts. Trying to get things done.
But right now, this is Project 1A and B. And we'll see. He's not panicking, I'll tell you that. He wants to get it done. He talks to them every day.
The problem is The speaker is And the Speaker and the Speaker of the House And the um and the president of the country Are on one side. The other side is the head of the IRGC and the foreign minister of the country. Who is talking to the new supreme leader?
So, if you're Trump, what are you saying? Like, of course, you don't want to deal with the IRGC guy, but what's this has to deal with anybody else? Go ahead. I'm not sure that even the other people are so much better. They might be more realistic, but more realistic.
You got to get rid of the RAGC guy. Vahidi has to be killed. The sooner you get rid of him, the better. He actually was responsible, was part of the responsibility for the 1994 terror bombing of the AMIA Center, Jewish Center in Argentina, in Buenos Aires. He has been indicted for it by Interpol.
He's an arrest warrant for him. These people have been evil people for a long time. Right. That's what we're dealing with. That's why it makes me think that unless we get a guarantee that we go get the uranium.
That we can put inspectors there on the sites. Our eyes are on the sites. I don't want cameras. And they can't have a ballistic missile program.
So that's something that these guys are never going to agree to. Yeah, I don't think they're agreeing to anything. You really have to get rid of the regime. That's what General Keen has said, and I think that's the only goal. And I think that President Trump believes in that goal and wants to do that.
These people have tried to assassinate President Trump a couple times already. He knows how evil they are. All right. Farley Weiss, thanks so much. Great to get your perspective.
President of the Israel Justice Organization. Thanks, Farley. Thank you, Brian.
