You've been doing this for the whole time, and then you've been in the mood.
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welcome to the show from the Relief Factor Studios. This is Red Eye Radio. And I'm Gary McNamara, along with Eric Hurley. All right. One of the problems that Democrats are going to have for you. All right. Let's first go.
I want to play this before we play this, but we want to play it.
It's just I push the button so I always say, I, we.
You want to push the button for me? I mean, you couldn't that way. I'm not coming over there. It means I have to stand up. See, I have to do. People don't understand. I have to do the manual labor here. You print things off and put buttons.
I print things all the way. I push the production staff is laughing pretty hard on that one. I printed, but most of the time, they walk the 500 feet to get it from the printer. It's just like 500 feet away from us. It's a down-in-terrant calendar. It's a thousand foot walk if I, we print something.
Yeah. I did get a few emails because when we mentioned that the other day, we need from people saying that's like, look, you guys are old. They need to, they need to make a, get a printer closer to your studio. Right? Exactly. Wait, what? We have the young ones going fetch it for us, right?
Oh, producer Ron is birthday today. Have a birthday, Ron. Have a birthday, Ron. Yeah, it's right. He's getting older. He's the young one in the group. Right now. Yeah. The kid is a punk kid.
“I remember when I was that young. Yeah. When I was his age?”
Uh... Uh... I was just giving up basketball and I was still playing a little bit of high. I don't remember when I was his age, and it was only last year. That's horrible. I just don't remember.
But the reason Democrats are going to have a problem. Yeah. Is because this guy, then I'm going to play audio of a prayer that he put out a couple of weeks ago, was basically when the Obama administration first came into power was the mum Donny of the Biden administration.
Yeah. Right. This is Van Jones. He was viewed as... For one radical.
The full on radical socialist. Yeah. He was considered the socialist of the Republican Party. Yeah. He is that, and has been that far left.
He was your mom's mom, Donny. Yes. He wrote here, "Reposting my prayer for a free Iran that I shared a few weeks ago, now that the war has begun, I don't know how this will play out or how it will end. Even though even so, I still pray for a free Iran,
and for the Persian people to retake their rightful place under the sun. Here we go. Listen, now there's some music behind it. Okay, as you put it as a production, but okay, Van Jones. Here we go. If you like peace, and if you like democracy, and if you like women being free,
and if you like innovation, unleash these Persians.
“Well, I mean, I think what's happening in Iran may be the most important thing happening in the world.”
You're going to unleash 90 million people who come from one of the most creative,
imaginative and regal cultures in the history of the world, which could help all humanity tomorrow instantly. It's worth the fight. Do I have to go any further? No, I mean, if you would have told me 10 years ago, Hey, here's a video from Van Jones.
I would, I would have told you, well, that must be that AI thing they're talking about, because that can't be real. I'll play the rest of it. Okay, here we go. But I had to stop it there. It's worth the fight from Van Jones.
No, it's that's incredible. Obama didn't believe it was worth the fight. No, here we go. To get them free. A lot of stuff you would deal with today, they invented.
And so they just had a lid on their head for happen in the century.
“And so I think a freed up Persian culture,”
you can be incredible for technology, you can be incredible for humanity.
You can be incredible for the arts.
It could be the end of a lot of BS in the region.
You need a free Iranian people.
“You need the Persians back on the map for the century to work out well.”
People don't even know how good it's going to feel to have a world
where the Iranian people are allowed to actually do what they've always done,
which is to contribute to world culture. Like we all know we're missing. When we get that back, we're going to be mad that we'll let it take as long. Sara comes.
I'm not Sara. Sara comes and talks about what's on the scene. About the fact that we bring things to school and have a decent class. Over the Meinungsfreiheit, the monouns name and will.
Over the work, the values and the whole thing. I'm Sara.
I'm a member of my business in Irastat.
I live Sara live.
“I'm a second mother of 18 years in their leader Halistotkaat.”
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In fact, you and I both have over the years. I met someone who is in business very smart guy. And he talked about going home. He says, I'm making a trip to go home. I'm going to be gone for a few weeks.
And he works with a family member of mine. And I said, where's home? And he looks at me and he says, I'm from Persia. And I think to myself, you know, in that moment. Here's a guy who by all indications is proud of his heritage.
But also remembers a time when a ran like Van Jones points out. Essentially made a contribution globally.
“You and I are old enough to remember that time.”
And you say Persia to someone, you know, I guess under the age of 40. And they may not understand right away what you're talking about. And you think about potentially where this goes for the Iranian people. Because really, the regime, while not the only hardliners in the Middle East, was the last stronghold in terms of power.
And the power went outside the Iranian borders through their proxies. If you think about the impact, the negative impact, the destructive, the deadly impact that the regime has had. It's mind-boggling. And if you look at the potential now of what it could be, and we all hope and pray it is,
including Van Jones, including Van Jones. Then it paints a very good picture for the future of that region. And I believe the rest of the world, but also sets a new tone for terrorism.
Because the question has always been, you know, on the war on terror.
Well, it's never going to end. What changes? What changes in the war on terror? Well, Iran being the largest state sponsor of terrorism globally. Over and over and over again, not that there won't be terrorism.
But not only do you cut off the head of the snake, you cut off the legs of the animal that runs with the snake. And that becomes something that is forever. I mean, a pivotal moment, global. Well, when you think of number one, the Abraham Accords,
when you think about the possibility of Saudi Arabia now, because it's clear with what we know about Saudi Arabia. Publicly, a lot of these countries were saying, "Well, we don't know that now that they see that Iran could be gone, they're all aboard."
Yeah. And so, if this ends, and a transition government just starts to begin, not that there probably won't be violence and remnants of the old government and acts of terrorism, but if you get them on the right path,
Where they aren't a threat to any other nation,
right?
“There may be the growing pains as there is with any society that changes”
as they're attempting to change from a theocratic dictatorship
to a republic, and we'll get to your moment. We'll bottom of the after the bottom of the hour. We'll get to some of the opposition groups and what they actually want. Both of them outside the country, but want to come back in. They've left, and then they want to come back.
And they want wish to change to a secular democracy. You just start the process, everything changes. Not only the possibility of peace in the Middle East, peace agreements between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. You're not Arab Emirates, possibly Egypt.
Maybe Syria. Yeah. Hopefully with Israel, mind-boggling things. Berlin wall. I was thinking about this over the weekend.
Berlin wall kind of shock for me on Saturday. And even right now, as to what's going on, I wish I could speak to my old friend of me or I don't even know if he's alive anymore. He came across with the Shah. And then my young friend, and I had I've lost contact with her.
Perissa, who came across when she was 18. Yeah. And I've talked about those stories many times before. I wish I could have talked them over the weekend just to see how they're thinking. But this is a woman by the name of Moj Madara,
who was entrepreneur and co-founder of the Iranian collective. Again, an Iranian-American she is.
But here's what she had to say to CNN over the weekend.
Oh, and also just very quickly. I wanted to throw this in here with what's happening. Venezuela. What's going on in the Middle East. Yes.
What the president is doing with the embargo on Cuba. We are. You look at the influence people forget about this. She brings it up here. We talked about it last week.
Yeah. The influence. Lessening the influence of China and Russia worldwide. Yes. In a big way.
Right. It's always has to be the goal of the United States until they become actually some day. Hopefully functioning democracy. Right. But here it is.
Here's this on CNN. And she's a Democrat. This woman's speaking. Here we go.
I think that it is imperative the Democratic Party wake up and get past their dislike of Donald Trump.
The President Trump and their feelings of international conflicts going on. This is about national security. This is about what is possible in the Middle East. This is about being a good name. Good partner to work with the Gulf States and what their aspirations are.
This is about supporting the people of Venezuela. This is about dismembering our relationship with or not dismembering, but resetting our relationship with China right now. Fifty five percent of the oil production that Iran produces goes to China despite sanctions. You want to support the people of Ukraine.
You want to end that war. You have to. There is no getting around dismembering this Islamic Republic. It is not negotiable. It is not a want to have it.
Does I have to have it? It's not just for the Iranian people.
“I think you have to trust the Iranian people.”
We know this government better than anyone else. When you dismember and decapitate this regime. You were going to see a change in the Middle East in Venezuela and China. In Ukraine. And I think quite frankly their ideology has really.
It's caused a lot of problems for us worldwide. We need to take it seriously. And I can get this point. We have a tremendous opportunity. This will be like ending the Soviet Union.
The Berlin wall. This is a transformational moment for human kind for security and as an American. As an American. This isn't. This is in our interest.
It completed. So I am a Democrat. I have been a huge Democrat. I am incredibly disappointed with my party. I do not see myself in them in this moment.
Wow. It's a big deal. And but she points out so many things as you have pointed out here in the segment. And the the massive change.
“Again, I think there was something a very key moment.”
And the president's trip to the Middle East and sitting down with those nations. Then remember on that trip. He did not visit Israel. But it's by design because it was about what the future of those nations is going to be. Right.
Here's one path. And look at this glorious path. Look what it means for your country. You don't have to become the United States. But there has to be change.
And there has to be. And all out. Refusal. To embrace or facilitate. Terrace.
It all starts with Iran and remember after the bombing of the nuclear sites i...
The global reaction.
“Quickly became and it was a consensus essentially that this is on Iran.”
And you look at the nations, the handful of nations that were hit with Iran strikes over the weekend.
And they were basically saying, listen, we, we reserve the right to defend ourselves.
Iran tried to cover up and say, well, we were just hitting American interests. Nope. You're allowing missiles at us. And we reserve the right to defend ourselves. That is further indication that these other Arab nations know that Iran is the last stand.
It's the last hill in to conquer in this war.
To eliminate those hardliners.
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You know, interesting, you know, you and I have said with Trump and his foreign policy that the part of MAGA, you know, whether it was, you know, Tucker Carlson or Bannon or Stone or all the ones that were in favor of having him because they believed he was an isolationist.
You and I always said he's not an isolationist.
No, he doesn't know want forever wars and boots on the ground, which is why he stated yesterday. Because when I think the Wall Street Journal said, we hope Trump doesn't take it off ramp now because I think they were referring to when he said, "Oh, yeah, I'm willing to talk." And he said, "Well, yeah, I'm willing to talk, but we're going to complete this complete and total mission that we have planned and we'll continue talking and we'll talk to you." And then the Iranian Foreign Minister, he bounces, "We don't see any need to talk to you," because he was saying, "No, stop the attacks and we'll talk to you in Trump."
Like, "No, no, no, we're going to continue and finish what we're going to do here and if you wish to talk to us, fine."
“Well, it's the president I believe in building this whole diplomacy thing out, right?”
And as we mentioned earlier, part of it was, you know, "Oh, if you want nuclear power, you know, then we'll supply you with nuclear fuel." And we're free, forever. And they were like, "Oh, no, yeah, well, then it's not nuclear power." It's nuclear weapons that you're in, and that's proof. But we talked about this with Kim Jong-il. You know, "Well, I see sitting down with Kim Jong-il. You're vetting the diplomacy process to the end degree." So in the event that there is a need for a preemptive strike, then you can say, "Look, and even still during the process."
Well, we're willing to talk, but we're not going to stop the mission. Those are the things, and whether the left buys it or not, it is about the president. I think being, as a public servant, being accountable to the American people and saying, "Look, hey, guys, we're, you know, we'll include diplomacy."
That isn't working, and we know what the mission is here, and I think most pe...
There is, and eventually, when you look at this again, if all is accomplished, even with the ups and downs and the hiccups along the way,
history will look back on this quite potentially, again, if all is accomplished, as the major turning point in history in the Middle East, in modern times, certainly. Well, when I saw yesterday, well, he's lost maga. Whatever maga is in 2026, which I don't know what maga is in 2026.
“But the fact is, he was never an isolationist to begin with.”
Right. He just said, "I don't want forever wars."
Right. And I don't, I really don't like boots on the ground.
Right. Exactly. What he has shown himself. [Music] [Music] You're listening to Red Eye Radio, from the Red Leaf Factory Studio.
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You know, I was just, well, by the way, download our Red Eye Radio app, and you can listen when you choose,
I was thinking of Mark Kelly and his response, which was just idiotic. But he said, you know, Trump has to explain. He did in the speech.
“He did. Now, you have to reiterate over and over again.”
I believe, communicate effectively. Right. But the fact is, you didn't need, I thought, and I parse that. When I listened to the speech, I'm listening for anything that I believe he was going to say wrong on it. Yeah. Right. And when he was done, I'm sitting in my hotel room in Buffalo, New York, and went, wow. Yeah. He covered everything, and everything he said was exactly right.
And was exactly the right messaging, you know, here, because he talked about the fact that, you know, we're liberating them. We want them to be free. We want them to have self-determination. We don't want that threat of ballistic missiles for other countries. We want Middle East peace is what we want. And this is the closest that I have ever seen to Middle Eastern peace.
Yeah. And after you saw when we went in and then Iran, you know, sent ballistic missiles, you know, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, and others. And their response to it. I went, wow, Trump's got them all on his side. You know, and then we was clear. Yeah. And then we find out that even though publicly Saudi Arabia was saying, no,
they were the ones actually pressuring the administration in the final days saying, look, you've got to do this. You've got to do this now. And so I, that, when you, you know, so when you ask, well, we have an explained it. I didn't need an explanation. I've been paying attention for, you know, I knew with the president. Sure. But we also know that it's required in a moment like that, you know, that's the president.
“And, and I'm with you. I was, I was watching it. I think one minute. I got the two social alert and notification.”
And watched it about a minute after reposted it. And I'm, I'm thinking to myself, I don't see any fat on in, in what he said. There was no over the top rhetoric. There was nothing. No, that was as clean of us, that was as clean of a statement as the president has ever made. In either term. Yep. And, you know, it's interesting because he was here in Texas campaigning. He was in Corpus on Friday, then then flies to Florida. He was, you know, then in some of the media that witnessed him. Well, he looks tired. It's been traveling a lot. There's been a lot going on.
But you look at his resolve, but it really was about not so much a president's resolve. But what the mission is, lining the mission out very clearly. That's why I was actually fairly pleased with Lindsey Graham's appearance on Meet the Press.
It's because he, he was able to debate Christopher Walker a couple of times.
And she couldn't. And she couldn't undermine Lindsey Graham in that moment. And I think he did a good job as a surrogate in lining it out. And in the fact that it's up to the Iranian people. We're not going to occupy. We're not going to control what's going on here. We're not going to be in charge of the future of Iran. That's up to the people of Iran. The influence is very clear of what we have in terms of offering incentives for a better and freer Iran. That that part of it. Yeah, we're in control of boots on the ground and occupying Iran is is not the point and doesn't need to be the point.
“And I think that's the difference you get with this president. Also the technology you get because this president has has demonstrated in its first term and second term.”
You look at the killing of some money, the father of in his first term, the father of the roadside bonds of IEDs.
You know, it didn't stop the use of IEDs, but it sent a message that the person directly responsible for killing so many Americans. We're going to take him out boom, one swift action we take him out. You look at that before that, the taking out of ISIS and eastern Afghanistan with the Moat. You know, again, one mission that takes out a great infrastructure for at that moment for ISIS because they had that cover or thought they had that cover and eastern Afghanistan. Even though the government then didn't want them there and there were problems with the Taliban.
It was almost like a three-way conflict, if you will, at that time. But ISIS we knew what the threat was there. All of these things that the president has done.
And then taking out, in a second term, taking out the nuclear facility, Iran's nuclear facility.
Well, such a big deal for those of us who live through it, if you understand the entire history and the importance of that. In the days and months after that, there were questions because you and I were asking the question, even recently. Wait a minute, you say you've taken out there, you know, that you completely obliterated their ability. And clearly, there is a concern now that no, they have ability to build that system back if it hasn't happened.
You know, at this point, it's not relevant.
The fact that they're still on the road to rebuilding that and having missile capability that could reach far from their borders is a big and, and I believe, poses an immediate threat. Now, immediate is a word that I, you know, it's not, it doesn't mean it will happen tomorrow. It doesn't mean that they were going to attack next week. But if they have that ability, at any time, they could attack and that's the difference. And I think the president vetted that in that eight minutes.
“So then another speech, a shorter speech during the afternoon on Sunday, those, this is what you need to hear because.”
There is a mission, you know, this is, you know, the, the left is going back to the, oh, well, what's your exit strategy thing here. Well, we haven't entered, we don't have troops on the ground. You know, yes, we have weaponry and certainly a sizable presence in the region. But in terms of boots on the ground, it appears that is not going to happen. And they have the technology to, to precisely go after specific targets in Toronto, which, by the way, was very impressive because that would be the great concern.
Now, to run being this huge population, you want to make sure that you're getting those targets specifically without any collateral damage.
“And, and they have done that to a large extent, and that's what you aim for.”
Well, and so you, as you said, and then, you know, we don't have, they're, you know, what's the exit plan. We're not creating their next government. Now, we may be, you know, we may attempt to get a international coalition of peacekeeping force in there. Yeah, that might, nobody's talked about it, but that might happen in the interim and the new transition government or a cooperation of the, because there's a number of exile transition opposition, which wants to form the government.
First off is the, the son of the last Shah.
The rest of Palavi and the monarchists who, uh, he's based in the US, they advocate a secular democratic Iran and indicated a willingness to lead in a political transition.
Then you have the National Council of Resistance of Iran, uh, Maryam, or Javi leads that one. This is again a well structured organization. They say, again, I don't know which one I've seen on more number of stories, you know, Palavi's getting a lot of publicity he did on on on 60 minutes. But I've heard a lot of talking about the amount of video on Saturday. Right. So, and I've heard a lot from the National Council of Resistance of Iran that this is, you know, that they're extremely well structured operating exile,
also advocating for a secular Democrat Iran, gender equality and everything we took, when the funny thing is when you read what they want. It's the Constitution of the United States. You know, they're looking at the Constitution of the United States.
“And that's why Democrats are so upset about it because they hate the Constitution of the United States.”
And if Iran is moving towards something that mirrors the Constitution of the United States,
then it's just a fascist regime again. Well, think about how the, the left in America has attacked women's rights, you know, through the, through the liberal transgender movement.
Right. And, and how in Iran, the idea would be to bring about greater rights for women. That, that goes against where the left is currently in the US. And then you have a recent coalition now. This is the coalition for political forces in Iran Kurdistan, the Kurds that, you know, on, they want this regime overthrown. They just, they just created themselves, we could go or do. Uh, overthrow the regime and secure self-determination. Does that mean self-determination for the country?
Or do they want special status? We will see. Uh, the solidarity for a secular Democratic Republic of Iran, a 2023 coalition advocating for separation of religion and state. So when you look at all the major groups in there, everybody in any opposition government wants a separation of Kurds and state, right there is huge.
Yeah.
“Yeah, it is. I mean, that's, and again, the, the region, other Arab nations looking at this.”
It is not a small thing for the Iranians who are here in the US to be dancing in the street and celebrating. You know, by the way, they, they use separation of church and, and, and state.
Uh, when I would say is what they want are first amendment rights that we have.
Yes. Yes. Not that the culture of the, the culture of, whether it's the, the Kurds, Islam, whatever. We'll disappear completely from society as a whole. Well, you're still, you would still have the plenty of rank and file.
Hardliners, you know, that, that would be there. And, and that debate will go on like it does in the United States. Yes, fundamentalists that adhere to the principles of the, uh, now former regime. Um, and, and that's, you know, that's, that's going to be, that's, that, that is, like we're going to be the case for a long, long time.
“But if you look at other nations, uh, you look at Turkey, for example, who is predominantly”
at Sunni Muslim, um, but there is, you know, and I guess, I'm not the expert here, but you are free to practice whatever religion. Um, again, the majority is Sunni Muslim. Uh, you look at the other nations where, again, it's, it's not about that. It becomes the US, right?
But it becomes, uh, all right, we may not agree with it. We're not going to do anything about it. There isn't going to be this hard line approaching certainly isn't going to be, uh, a massive funding of proxies to go out and kill individuals globally. That can no longer stand.
And we'll no longer stand as, as long as this administration is in power. And I'm grateful, uh, for so far how this thing has turned out. I pray. And it continues to go. And for when I know the three major groups that I mentioned, because the, the Kurds are more
regional. Yes. Not nuclear Iran. Yes. Right.
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60 minutes last night, uh, interviewed the son of the shot, who leads one of the, uh,
Uh, rainy and opposition groups here in the United States.
Here's what he had to say.
“What is your message to President Trump?”
My message to President Trump is that I'm here to echo and join millions of my compatriots inside and outside of Iran to thank him for having done and having the courage to do what is not easy. But intervene. And he will go down in the annals of Iran in history as the most celebrated foreign leader that changed the bold game and changed the world as a result.
In January, President Trump said this about you. Quote, he seems very nice. But I don't know how he'd play within his own country. I don't know whether or not his country would accept his leadership. And certainly if they would, that would be fine with me.
“You don't seem to have President Trump's whole heart and support.”
Well, first of all, I don't think that somebody in my position will ever expect to have an official endorsement of a foreign
government or a foreign leader. What I do know now is that millions of Iranians inside Iran and outside of Iran are calling my name. That recognized me the person uniquely placed to play a role of transitional leadership. And now as he said transitional leadership. Right.
And he has had that opinion for the longest time that he wishes to build and his group wishes to build a democracy as to all the major groups that wish to be involved in a transition government. Right.
And Trump may have his doubts, but it's impossible to know how it would go.
I do. Yeah. Because he's a son of the shot. Right. It's not, again, there's a little bit of baggage that comes from it.
“And the question would be, you know, what do the people of Iran want?”
And we have got to have that answer. We certainly seem to want the regime gone. Well, they're almost gone. [Music] This is Ridi Radio.
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