Transcript [00:00] Hey everybody. So, this is the Iran [00:03] update for Wednesday, February 25th. And [00:07] the focus here is going to be on [00:09] psychological warfare because that's the [00:12] period that we are in right now with [00:14] this whole situation. We've talked about [00:16] Trump's unpredictability. [00:18] It's driving the Iranians crazy. I'm [00:20] going to show you some examples of that, [00:22] but let's just start with some more [00:23] basic updates about what we are seeing. [00:27] So uh here is uh there's new [00:33] jets these fight these American fighter [00:35] jets have uh taken have been brought [00:39] into the region [00:41] in Israel for the first time in history. [00:44] The US has has deployed these F-22 [00:47] Raptor jets 11 of them landing in [00:50] Israel. These are jets that are uh uh [00:54] that have stealth capability. [00:57] uh they are invisible to radar, they [01:00] cruise at supersonic speeds and they [01:01] have landed in Israel. Now, let me make [01:04] it very clear. Whenever you see a news [01:06] story like this, you have to ask [01:08] yourself, in addition to just knowing [01:10] the fact that these jets landed in [01:13] Israel, why do we know this? Why was [01:15] this leaked? Uh the United States [01:18] already has a tremendous amount of [01:19] military assets in the region. They keep [01:21] bringing more and more in. And [01:23] considering what we've seen the last few [01:25] days, uh, especially as I talked about [01:27] in my previous update where we saw Steve [01:30] Witkoff tell Lara Trump in an interview [01:32] on Fox News that President Trump is [01:34] frustrated or a little bit surprised [01:36] that the Iranians haven't capitulated [01:38] yet considering the amount of military [01:41] assets the that the US has brought into [01:43] the region. I think that there's an [01:45] element of psychological warfare here [01:47] where the United States is trying is [01:49] believing that it's ramping up and [01:50] ramping up the pressure on the Iranians [01:53] by bringing more and more assets into [01:54] the region even though uh the Americans [01:57] don't really want to do a widespread [01:59] strike. Uh President Trump has been [02:01] talking about a limited strike and that [02:03] really kind of gives away what the real [02:05] motivations are. So here's a little clip [02:07] from Trump's uh State of the Union [02:09] address about the Iranian situation. [02:12] They've already developed missiles that [02:13] can threaten Europe and our bases [02:16] overseas, and they're working to build [02:18] missiles that will soon reach the United [02:21] States of America. After Midnight [02:24] Hammer, [02:25] they were warned to make no future [02:28] attempts to rebuild their weapons [02:30] program in a particular nuclear weapons. [02:33] Yet, they continue [02:35] starting it all over. We wiped it out [02:37] and they want to start all over again. [02:40] and are at this moment again pursuing [02:42] their sinister ambitions. We are in [02:45] negotiations with them. They want to [02:47] make a deal, but we haven't heard those [02:49] secret words, we will never have a [02:53] nuclear weapon. [02:55] >> Okay. So, what's significant about this [02:57] clip? It's not more of the same. What's [03:00] significant about it is that Trump [03:02] talked about specifically about the [03:03] ballistic missile threat as a threat to [03:06] the United States of America, that [03:08] they're that they're developing [03:09] intercontinental ballistic missiles that [03:11] could reach the United States. [03:14] And uh and that's a way of signaling [03:15] that for Americans the threat is not [03:17] only the nuclear but also the ballistic [03:19] missile threat. And that is important. [03:22] We saw u if you go back about a week ago [03:25] and more where it sounded like Trump was [03:27] only negotiating on the nuclear issue [03:29] but now we see that the ballistic [03:31] missile issue is coming to the four [03:33] again. Now uh we also see that in the [03:36] streets of Iran the protests have not [03:39] only resumed but have gotten pretty [03:40] intense mostly focused on the students. [03:48] These are [03:54] students on the university campus who [03:55] are clashing with the besiege. The [03:57] besiege is the is the you know the [04:00] really brutal riot police uh or secret [04:03] service as a not secret service but like [04:06] um it's kind of like the gestapo of the [04:09] Iranian regime that are there to [04:11] suppress protests. A lot of them are [04:13] hired hands from other countries and you [04:15] see them clashing with the students. So, [04:17] there are street protests resuming in [04:19] Iran, but the regime has to be very [04:21] careful about killing people considering [04:23] how under under the microscope they are. [04:25] Now, I want to get into more of the [04:26] psychological warfare that's going on [04:28] from the Iranian side. I want to show [04:29] you two things. Number one, here's a [04:31] clip that uh aired on Iranian TV three [04:36] days ago that was uh posted by Memory. [04:40] Memory is the Middle East Media Research [04:41] Institute. I've used their material [04:43] before. Very important website to [04:45] follow. they uh publish and translate [04:48] and study what is being said in Arabic [04:52] or in this or in Persian, what is being [04:55] said in Middle Eastern media. And this [04:59] is a report that was on Iranian TV a few [05:01] days ago of a unit of an intelligence [05:04] unit uh in run by the Iranian government [05:08] called the Kaibar unit. Now, Kaibar is [05:11] the name of [05:14] uh of a community of Jews that was [05:16] massacred by Muhammad's forces back in [05:19] the 7th century. And it's a it's a word [05:23] that is often chanted Kaibar Kyber al [05:25] Yehood calling for the you know the [05:28] death of all Jews. Um and it it [05:31] references [05:33] u you know ethnic cleansing of Jews as [05:36] it were. And this is talking about a [05:37] unit, this new intelligence unit whose [05:40] goal is to convince Israelis, to [05:44] convince Jews to immigrate from Israel [05:47] to leave Israel. and and you know this [05:49] is some kind of psychological warfare [05:51] that they're putting on their on their [05:53] news channel as though you know saying [05:56] that they're working on developing [05:58] relationships with Israelis online and [06:01] and scaring them into believing that [06:04] Israel is not a safe place to live to [06:06] get them to leave. So this is a very [06:08] interesting news item. Take a look at [06:09] this. [06:35] forchech. [07:04] foreign. [07:28] After taking care [07:59] Okay. So, that was a I I find this to be [08:03] a bit strange, but it it you know, it's [08:06] making it seem like they've got this [08:07] secret intelligence unit that is they're [08:10] learning to speak Hebrew with these very [08:11] strange accents and talking to Israelis [08:14] and convincing them that Israel is not a [08:16] safe place to live, that this is going [08:17] to cause some sort of mass exodus of [08:20] Israelis from the land of Israel. It's [08:22] very interesting piece of psychological [08:25] warfare and I want to put it together [08:26] with this with what is on the front page [08:30] of WANA Iran. WANA is the Iranian regime [08:33] media and they run an English language [08:35] website as well. I've used them in in [08:38] previous updates. And in today's WANA, [08:41] the front page story is a story that [08:44] says, "How does Trump conduct [08:46] psychological operations?" And it says [08:49] it's a must readad. It's the top story. [08:51] If you go back to the front page, you [08:52] see it's the top story or top news. And [08:55] it's not really a news item. How does [08:57] Trump conduct psychological operations? [08:59] I've mentioned this before. Regime media [09:01] in totalitarian states often the top [09:04] story or the front page story is not [09:06] really news, but it's just a piece of [09:08] psychological warfare or messaging. And [09:11] here, so what we read here is it quotes [09:13] Lef Figaro, which published a report [09:16] that resembled a series of loaded [09:18] assertions more than conventional news. [09:20] And what it does is it goes through the [09:21] various things that the Americans have [09:24] been saying about what's going on in [09:26] Iran and says that it's just [09:28] psychological warfare. Meaning when [09:30] Trump speaks about how there's [09:33] dissension within Iran, like there was a [09:36] there was news circulating that Muhammad [09:38] Katami, Iran's president from 1997 to [09:41] 2005 had fled and they're and they're [09:44] saying that was false. And then uh [09:47] they're saying that uh in the report in [09:49] La Figaro it said that presidential [09:51] authority in Iran had been transferred [09:54] to Ali Larishani away from Masoud [09:57] Pesakan who's actually the president and [10:00] they're saying this is all this is all [10:01] psychological warfare. This is all [10:03] psychological warfare. um you know Trump [10:06] saying that there's internal disscent [10:08] and they go and they mention the art of [10:10] the deal uh that you know Trump is [10:12] always looking for the biggest deal and [10:15] uh and and looking to undermine the [10:17] Iranian regime from within by saying in [10:21] the media that there is dissension is [10:24] there to you know just to try to [10:26] encourage more dissent [10:29] and and that uh you know that that [10:32] that's what that's what Trump is Another [10:35] layer of the psychological operation is [10:36] the internalization of the crisis [10:38] emphasizing a quote power struggle in [10:41] Thran or executive incompetence can [10:43] marginalize the role of sanctions and [10:46] the maximum pressure policy. Reframing [10:49] economic hardship as merely the product [10:51] of domestic discord. In this reframing [10:54] the roles of accuser and accused can [10:57] effectively switch places in public [10:58] perception. In other words, here's what [11:00] Iran is saying. They're messaging to [11:02] their people, to whoever might still [11:04] believe them, that the reason that [11:07] there's hardship in Iran is because of [11:09] the American sanctions. Meaning, it's [11:11] not because of economic collapse [11:13] internally, uh, because of incompetence [11:16] of the leadership. No, no, no, no, no. [11:18] It's because the Americans are have put [11:21] crippling sanctions to create an [11:23] economic crisis and now are saying that [11:25] the economic crisis is due to the [11:27] Iranian regime's internal problems, but [11:29] it's all psychological warfare because [11:31] we don't actually have internal [11:32] problems. It's the way of the Americans [11:34] masking their own crimes. So there you [11:38] see that the Iranians and this is the [11:39] front page of WANA. the Iranians are [11:41] hard at work um you know projecting that [11:45] they have all sorts of hidden plans to [11:47] win this thing. They have you know [11:50] they're they're involved in a [11:51] psychological uh and a scop on Israelis [11:55] and the Israelis are now and they're [11:56] instilling fear in the Israelis and [11:59] they're on to Trump's SCOP on them. So [12:03] there's a lot of psychological warfare [12:04] going on now. That seems to me to be a [12:07] good sign. I uh it could be that the [12:09] regime is panicking and worried that all [12:12] of the uh all of the external media [12:17] which is talking about the unrest and [12:19] and the instability in the leadership in [12:21] Iran which is true there is instability. [12:24] We see that Masud Pesakan the president [12:26] is basically not making public [12:28] appearances anymore. Alila Rejani has [12:31] taken over. he is much more out in front [12:33] and the fact that the western media is [12:35] reporting on that and reporting it as [12:37] what appears to be a marginalization of [12:40] Masud Peshan who see who's more moderate [12:43] and and Western media talking about [12:46] internal discord in the Iranian regime. [12:50] If Iranians get a sense that there's [12:52] internal discord in the regime that [12:54] makes the regime look weaker and it [12:55] empowers the protesters. It empowers the [12:59] people who are opposed to the regime [13:01] because they see an opening. They see [13:03] the regime is weak is and unstable and [13:06] that encourages them to protest more. So [13:08] what the regime is doing is they're [13:11] refraraming [13:12] um the news of internal discord and and [13:17] and some uh uh and some chaos in the [13:21] leadership. They're reframing those news [13:23] items coming from the West about that as [13:26] a SCOP from the West so that internally [13:30] they can say, "No, no, no, no, no. We're [13:32] still in charge. Everything's fine. [13:34] There is no chaos." And that and [13:35] hopefully that would discourage [13:38] protesters from acting on what they're [13:41] hearing from Western media. So, this is [13:44] the game that the Iranians are playing. [13:46] I think it's a good sign. And I think it [13:48] shows that there is that they're [13:49] legitimately afraid uh of um uh of of [13:54] the of their own weakening from within. [13:57] I'm going to I'm going to repeat [13:58] something I've said many times. The [14:00] number one fear the Iranians have is not [14:02] an American attack. It's their own [14:05] people recognizing that their regime is [14:07] weak and unstable and therefore feeling [14:09] empowered to try to take it down. Uh [14:12] because regime change can only happen if [14:15] the people of Iran actually rise up and [14:18] make it happen. And everything that the [14:20] Americans are doing, anything that the [14:22] Israelis might do, all of that can only [14:25] create conditions that that give greater [14:28] confidence and empower the people to [14:30] bring down the regime. The regime cannot [14:31] be brought down by bombing. So it's an [14:34] interesting turn of events where we see [14:36] the focus on uh psychological warfare. [14:39] All right, that's the update for today. [14:41] Please like and subscribe. Please keep [14:42] watching the channel. Thank you for [14:44] helping it grow. And tell everyone about [14:46] what we're doing here. I think these [14:47] updates uh I'm I'm trying to make them [14:49] useful. Let me know in the in the [14:51] comments what you think and and what [14:52] you'd like me to focus on. 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