Transcript [00:00] Hey everyone, it is Thursday, January [00:02] 29th, 2026, and I want to do this Iran [00:05] update about what's going on inside Iran [00:09] now that the protests have kind of died [00:11] down. And there's a a I guess a worry or [00:13] a fear or a suspicion that a lot of [00:15] people have that maybe the regime has [00:17] regained control and they're [00:19] consolidating their power and like past [00:22] rounds of protests over the over the [00:24] past decade or two that this is just [00:27] going to go away and it's going to be [00:29] businesses as usual with this evil [00:31] regime. Now, of course, we've talked [00:32] about the military assets that the [00:35] United States is moving into the region, [00:37] but I wanted to focus in this video on [00:39] what is going on inside Iran. So, let's [00:42] start with a very informative clip from [00:45] [snorts] Secretary of State Marco Rubio [00:47] in congressional testimony about the [00:50] Iran situation just the other day. So, [00:52] let's take a look at that. is going to [00:54] be used [00:55] >> and the president has spoken strongly, [00:56] you have as well on the the deaths in [00:58] Iran uh and the horrible atrocities are [01:00] being committed. Can you give us some [01:02] sense of we see reports of thousands, [01:05] tens of thousands. What's the State [01:06] Department's best estimate of what's [01:08] happened on the ground? [01:09] >> Well, I don't in the thousands for [01:11] certain. Um and and look, I think [01:14] regimes, including that one in Iran, [01:16] have learned that when you start [01:18] shooting people in the head with [01:20] snipers, it's effective. I mean, it [01:22] works and they've done it and it's [01:23] horrifying and that's what we've seen. [01:25] That regime is probably weaker than it [01:27] has ever been. And and the core problem [01:29] they face, unlike the protests you saw [01:31] in the past on some other topics, is [01:33] that they don't have a way to address [01:35] the core complaints of the protesters, [01:37] which is that their economy is in [01:38] collapse. And the reason why there's [01:39] economies in collapse is because they [01:41] spend all their money and all their [01:43] resources building weapons and [01:45] sponsoring terrorist groups around the [01:47] world instead of reinvesting it back [01:48] into their society. and as a result of [01:50] taking on massive global sanctions which [01:52] has isolated their economy and their [01:54] country. And so that's what the Iranian [01:56] people are demanding is that they stop [01:58] doing that and start caring about them [01:59] and get these sanctions off them. And [02:01] this regime is unwilling to do it. So [02:03] the core challenges the the the protests [02:05] may have ebbed but they will spark up [02:07] again in the future because this regime [02:09] unless they are willing to change and or [02:11] leave no way of addressing the [02:13] legitimate and consistent complaints of [02:15] the people of Iran who deserve better. [02:17] >> Okay, let's unpack that. So this is [02:20] really gets to the heart of uh of a big [02:23] part of this a big part of what's going [02:25] on which is as I said the basis for [02:28] these protests is not a cultural issue. [02:31] It's not fundamentally the Islamic uh [02:35] you know rules in the regime and the [02:37] hijabs. Now that stuff has also come out [02:40] in these protests. We talked about this [02:42] uh a little while ago. We talked about [02:44] the fact that they were burning mosques [02:46] as part of this as part of these [02:47] protests and there has been push back on [02:49] the regime for all the other reasons and [02:51] all the other grievances people have. [02:53] But the point that Secretary of State [02:54] Rubio is making is that because the root [02:57] of these protests, what sparked them is [02:59] economic issues that have not been [03:01] solved whatsoever. And believe it or [03:03] not, even with all of this going on, [03:05] even with these these the regime on the [03:07] verge of attack and collapse because of [03:11] economic issues, people don't have [03:12] water. They don't have electricity. [03:15] Even so, in the midst of all of this, [03:17] the regime has still been buying more [03:20] military assets, more weapons, more [03:22] drones from Russia, from China. They've [03:26] still been spending money on their [03:28] ballistic missile program. This is who [03:31] they are. So again, the key point though [03:33] that Secretary of State Rubio is making [03:35] is that even if we see the protest kind [03:38] of quieted down and it looks like the [03:40] regime is regaining control, that is all [03:44] just a calm before the next storm [03:46] because the fundamental problems that [03:48] led to this unrest have not been [03:51] addressed whatsoever and they don't have [03:52] the ability, as he said, they don't have [03:54] the ability to address them. Now, along [03:57] with things like burning down mosques, [03:59] which is a level of brazeness and open [04:02] rebellion that we never saw in earlier [04:03] protests, take a look at this incredible [04:07] clip. And this is from two days ago from [04:10] a government press conference. The woman [04:12] standing at the podium that you'll see [04:14] in this clip is the government [04:16] spokesperson. Okay? She's the one who [04:18] holds the press conferences on behalf of [04:20] the regime. And the voice you are [04:22] hearing is an Iranian journalist, a [04:25] woman who's a journalist. And just [04:27] listen to what this incredible [04:30] journalist has to say in this press [04:32] conference in Iran. And this is courtesy [04:34] of the Middle East Media Research [04:37] Institute. They do phenomenal, [04:39] phenomenal work. Have a look at this. [05:27] Fore! Foreign! Foreign! [05:48] Fore! Foreign! Foreign! [05:59] foreign. [06:48] masculine. [07:16] Mercy. [07:27] for [07:56] [snorts] mommy. [08:02] All right. So, that was pretty [08:04] astounding. I just want to recap what [08:06] you saw so you appreciate how wild this [08:09] is. This is the Islamic Republic of [08:13] Iran. Okay. And this is a journalist who [08:16] is calling out the regime. Calling out [08:18] the regime. Talking about how they [08:20] should have resigned in shame. She's [08:22] talking about all the death, all the [08:24] terrible suffering they've gone through. [08:26] and she's essentially calling them out [08:28] for blaming outside forces. It's really [08:31] brazen. This is the kind of thing that [08:33] could get you killed. But in the current [08:35] environment, this journalist is [08:37] emboldened to call them out. When she [08:38] finally gets to her question, it's [08:40] almost laughable after that whole [08:42] statement about the suffering and the [08:43] death and everyone who's, you know, all [08:45] the, you know, dead children. Her [08:48] question ends up being, "What do you uh [08:50] predict will be the inflation rate next [08:51] year?" It's which is it I mean it's sort [08:54] of laughable but it's not laughable. [08:55] It's tragic. What she's doing with her [08:58] question is brazenly pointing to the [09:00] regime and saying you are total [09:02] failures. You are causing the deaths of [09:04] your people and and and that the regime [09:08] should basically be resigning. It's an [09:10] incredibly brazen uh stance that this [09:13] journalist takes. Something that you [09:14] never would have seen in the past in a [09:17] totalitarian regime like Iran. So this [09:21] is just another indication of what I was [09:25] just talking about in response to what [09:26] Secretary of State Rubio said that [09:28] there's something different going on in [09:30] Iran. Even though the protests have died [09:32] down and even though you know oh when [09:34] and if the United States is going to [09:36] attack this regime is on its last legs. [09:39] The people have had it. If a journalist [09:40] is willing to speak out like this, if [09:42] people are willing to burn down mosques, [09:44] if they're willing to be so openly [09:46] anti-regime, [09:48] we know that the regime is going to [09:50] collapse. Now, what does regime collapse [09:52] look like? So, it's interesting. You [09:55] know, there's all been all this talk, [09:57] all these rumors that the Iranian regime [09:59] is trying to negotiate or wants to [10:01] negotiate. President Trump has said this [10:02] a few times. Oh, yeah. They want to [10:04] negotiate. They want to negotiate. And [10:06] to those who really want the regime to [10:08] fall, which is I think almost everybody, [10:11] uh, were kind of like, what are you [10:12] negotiating exactly? Well, Axios [10:15] published a story the other day that [10:18] basically said, what is under [10:21] negotiation? What are the demands the [10:23] United States is making on the regime if [10:25] they actually want to negotiate? Take a [10:27] look at this and you'll realize how it [10:29] it's not really much of a negotiation. [10:31] So, this is from the Axio story the [10:33] other day. [10:35] US officials say that any deal would [10:37] have to include the removal of all [10:40] enriched uranium from Iran, a cap on [10:43] Iran's stockpile of long range missiles, [10:46] a change in Iran's policy of supporting [10:48] proxies in the region, and a ban on [10:51] independent uranium enrichment in the [10:53] country. Now, let me put the let me [10:54] explain what that actually means. [10:59] See, what that actually means in [11:00] practice is that the regime is no longer [11:02] the regime. You see, the reason as as [11:05] Secretary of State Rubio said, the [11:07] reason the regime is so impoverished, [11:10] the reason they can't give water or [11:12] electricity to their people, remember [11:13] this is a this is an oil producing [11:15] nation. How can they have an energy [11:16] crisis? The reason that they are [11:19] collapsing is that they invest all of [11:21] their money. We're talking billions and [11:23] billions of dollars. They are an oil [11:25] producing nation. They sell oil to the [11:26] Chinese Communist Party. They are a [11:28] massive country. They spend all of their [11:31] money onah, on the drug trade, onbah in [11:34] Venezuela, on on the Houthis, on kamas, [11:38] on ballistic missiles, on a nuclear [11:39] weapons program, on buying fighter jets [11:42] from the Chinese, this is what they [11:44] spend the their money on while the [11:46] people are starving. And even if it [11:48] means that the people are rioting to [11:51] bring down the regime, this is simply [11:53] who they are. meaning death to Israel [11:57] and death to America is not like a like [12:00] a hobby or or a pol or or a slogan or [12:04] just one policy position. It's the very [12:06] DNA of what this regime is. It is jihad. [12:09] And we've talked about this in in in [12:11] other contexts. There's a a mistake that [12:13] many people make that they think that at [12:15] the bottom everyone really just wants [12:18] prosperity and everyone really just [12:19] wants peace. It's not true. These [12:21] jihadists are willing to sacrifice [12:23] everything for the cause of jihad and [12:26] they don't care how many of their own [12:27] people they have to kill and they don't [12:29] care how impoverished they are in the [12:31] end of the day that's all they really [12:33] care about and that's why the regime is [12:35] falling. So if if you know, President [12:37] Trump's demands that we just read there [12:39] in Axios, if they don't have a ballistic [12:41] missile program and they don't have a [12:43] nuclear weapons program and they're not [12:44] funding any of their proxies around the [12:46] world, no more, no more drug [12:48] trafficking, no more Houthis, no more, [12:51] you know, no more Shiite militias in in [12:53] in Africa who are massacring Christians. [12:56] If they're not funding any of that, then [12:58] they aren't the Iranian regime anymore. [13:01] And therefore, if you when you look at [13:03] the terms of this negotiation, it looks [13:05] like, oh, it's a negotiation about the [13:07] nuclear program or it's a negotiation [13:08] about uranium. No, it's a negotiation of [13:12] uh that is basically calling on the [13:14] regime to surrender to surrender and [13:18] submit and essentially stop being the [13:21] Iranian Islamic regime. That's so that's [13:23] uh that's what's going on on the ground. [13:25] So bottom line, when we see all this all [13:28] this relative quiet or what looks like [13:31] the regime consolidating itself and that [13:33] the protests have died down, regardless [13:35] of of the other issue, which is the [13:37] military side that the United States has [13:39] moved all those assets into the region, [13:41] even without that, understand that [13:43] internally [13:44] the Iran is still in an absolute state [13:48] of economic crisis and collapse. And [13:50] that's the heart of the problem. That's [13:52] the root of all of these protests. And [13:54] that has not gone away at all. In fact, [13:57] it's only gotten it's only gotten worse [13:59] since this started. And therefore, the [14:02] the root causes of the instability of [14:04] the regime are as powerful as ever. All [14:07] right, folks. Um, if you if you're [14:09] enjoying these videos, if you find them [14:10] useful, please like, subscribe, share, [14:13] all that great stuff. 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