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Oh yeah. Donald Trump was stunned and panicking at the sheer size of the funeral for the late Ayatola Co-mani tens of millions of Iranians showed up at this funeral procession. The stadium in Tairan was packed and they kept on cycling in new groups of hundreds of thousands of people. And as I looked at just the sheer volume of the amount of people in Tairan
and neighboring cities who came out to honor Ayatola Co-mani. The amount of people who were there, you know, one of the things that I thought to myself is, you know, really you were thinking about doing a ground invasion Trump regime. You were thinking about going into that country with American troops and turning our military essentially into a meat grinder out there.
“That's what I was thinking as I saw those sides.”
I was also amazed actually, not just at the size, but who attended these funeral processions of the Ayatola. Dozens and dozens of countries attended top dignitaries from these countries attended. And it seems that as the Trump regime and Netanyahu invaded to try to isolate Iran from the rest of the world, it's just completely backfired in their face.
And it seems more and more countries are actually there showing support with Iran. And I know not a lot of Western media is showing this. I know there's some reporters on the BBC who have had tip to them. Hat tip to others who are showing this and sharing this. And I just think it is important to see these images to be aware of what the heck is actually going
on there because I give you my own perspective, which is I do think that the Iranian regime is not the most popular thing in Iran. And I'm not being an apologist for the Iranian regime by any means at all. I do want to reflect on the situation here where there does seem to be at least an international level support.
I mean, you had the top Chinese dignitaries. Saudi Arabia sent dignitaries there. I mean, you had a lot of people showing up, but even Donald Trump was saying, wow, I'm surprised that there were people who were millions of people who were crying for the Ayatola, for the Shi'a community, you know, it was like their Pope, it's like you killed their Pope,
you killed their spiritual leader and the leader of Iran, who was very old to begin with, who was losing popularity within the population. He's now replaced by his son, the Ayatola Monjaba Khomeini. And you now made the Ayatola Khomeini a martyr and you actually unified the people of Iran.
“And even in the metropolitan areas where I think there is far less support for this Iranian”
regime right now, they don't want the United States and Netanyahu to take over. In my opinion, they see what's happened in Gaza and the genocide there. They see what's going on in Lebanon, in the name of security zones. They see the consequence of that. And if you look at what's going on and you study it, what I'm saying is reflective.
Of the data that I believe are intelligence community new and they were trying to communicate with Donald Trump, but Netanyahu was saying no, that's not true. Iran's going to fall right away immediately, it's just going to be 24 hours. They're going to welcome Netanyahu and Trump as conquering heroes.
Yeah, we said that was never going to happen at all.
And then, you know, Donald Trump chose to believe headset and Rubio, we're like, this is just going to be easy. This is going to be easy. Now, I showed you some b-roll there at the top of what this, you know, funeral looked like for the ayatollah. Let me just show you at a granular level sum of the data. By the way, here is a list of the countries that sent official delegations, Turkey, India,
Pakistan, China, Russia, Turkmekistan, Tajikistan, Iraq, Georgia, Armenia, Afghanistan, Oman Qatar, Azerbaijan, Krizikistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Uzbekistan, Tunisia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Cuba, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Gambia, Thailand, Nicaragua, Ghana, I mean, I can go on and on.
Millions of Iranians were outside to attend the first day of the farewell cer...
35 degrees Celsius heat. They prepared for that. They had mistations right there.
They're also giving out free food. I saw free watermelon. I saw a bunch of free drinks. Show you over here as the ulogist at the Tehran prayer hall says, "We have not come to bury our leader. We have come to avenge him. O avengers of the martyr leader. Here, let's play this clip right here." Donald Trump told Axios that he was surprised about how big the crowd was. How people were crying for the ayatollah that shocked and surprised him.
Take a look right here. Some of the scenes below of the morning taking place and you could be like, they're paying the people to show up there. They're paying millions of people to show up there. You all told me that they don't have any money. You said that they're broke. They're about to go bankrupt that they have zero support that nobody supports this regime. By the way, let me be clear again.
“I think that there are people there. We saw the protest in January. I think there are people there”
are critical. I think there are tens of millions of people who are deeply critical and don't want
this Iranian regime. I also think it around there are millions of people who support the regime. I just think that's the fact and it's a 90 million person country. It's far bigger than Iraq. And the stronghold of the regime is there. It's not a regime that can easily be toppled. I just think that's the whole band. I don't like which I'm just telling you what I think the reality is right here. Let's just play that clip right here so you can see some more scenes.
They're a lot of people who were holding up kill Trump flags that were raised during the farewell ceremony. Lots of writing on the walls. We will kill hashtag at the comany funeral ceremony. U.S. official to Axio says, "Yeah, many of Trump's closest advisors now think that Netanyahu was wrong about everything." Yeah, you think? You think he was wrong about everything. Of course he was. But Trump was wrong about everything. I don't view it just as, oh Netanyahu convinced her.
This is the president of the United States. Netanyahu tried to do the same thing with Obama and Biden and Hillary Clinton. And everybody and they didn't fall for it. They stood up. They pushed back against it. Take a look right here. Trump said that he was surprised to see Iranians crying at comany's funeral saying he thought the people hated the former supreme leader and suggesting the displays of grief might not be genuine. I was surprised to see some Iranians crying Trump said.
I thought the people hated comany. Maybe it's fate tears. Trump said if we wanted to, the U.S. could strike Iran's leadership gathered for the funeral. But we won't because we want to preserve nuclear negotiations. One shot we can take them all out. You're fantasizing about
“what nuclear bombing a funeral like that's what you're fantasizing about. But we're not going to”
do that because we would have nobody to negotiate with. What a, what a sick thing to say. By the way, here are more images right over here. I mean, you can hear, I mean, the people in Iran are pissed. They're chanting death to America at the Tehran Mosala during the ceremony of Ayatollah Comany as Brett Erickson says just to clarify. So people are trying to simultaneously make the claim that the Iranian economy is on the verge of collapse and yet the regime is paying for millions
of millions of people to attend the funeral. Does that make sense to you? No, it doesn't make sense
at all here play this clip. Because here's what the Israeli Persian account, the Masad Persian
account put up there. They write the following. Many arrived, not too mourn, but just to make sure
“the Ayatollah is dead. Now, do I think that there are lots of people in Iran who would like”
to see a regime change? Yes, I do. I do think there are. They were out protesting. Trump said he was going to save them and make their lives better in January. And he did anything through the month of the bus. He said, "I'm helping on the way." And then they didn't. By the way, the same thing
That Lindsey Graham says about Lebanon, "Help us on the way.
I mean, this Western propaganda is really propaganda. It's just stop. We have to, the people didn't rise up after the bombing began after you blew up Manabela Mentri School in Kild 168
“Little Girls. And you know what I also reflect upon right now as well because it's important”
that we learn our history about Iran Air Flight 655. Now, but I'm recording this video on July 5. I want everybody just to do a little bit of research on Iran Flight 655, which was an Iranian commercial flight that in 1988 on July 3rd was shot down by a US battleship right there. The USS been sends shot this commercial airplane, this commercial flight down. It was an airbus that was flying over the straight of Hormuz during the Iran and Iraq War. 290 people aboard Iran Air Flight 655
were killed. The United States never apologized for it. Happen on July 3rd, 1988. And the US
was like, oh, the Iranian commercial flight, by the way, the pilots were like very experienced pilots who trained in the US. We brought our battleships in there because of the Iran and the Iraq War. A few weeks before the Iraqis attacked a US ship in Kild 37, US soldiers mistaking it for Iranians that put the US military on high alert. But you were in the straight of Hormuz with your battleships. You were in the Persian Gulf, you know, to begin with. And then the US saw this commercial
airplane, a commercial airplane that was flying, that was adding these Iranian passengers on it. And then they claimed, this is what the US claimed, that they were saying, I identify yourself, I identify yourself. Then there was no response. They blew up the commercial airplane, the Iranian airplane, Iran Flight 655. And then they said, well, why didn't the captain respond because they didn't have the military signals? You were beaming on a military frequency. And
they were a commercial flight. They never saw the missiles that you shot at it coming. So I just
want you to reflect on, did you even know that went down? Did you go Google after this video Iran Flight 655? It's helpful that we learn our history. Then George H. Dolby buss it. I'm never apologizing to them. In like 1996, the US ended up paying a settlement for over $100 million. That's it. $100 million. But didn't take responsibility for the action. And you wonder why the people there are living. And then we did manab and then we continued to bomb them and kill lots of innocent
Iranians as well. Mark Lavain, one of Donald Trump's chief propagandists, one of Netanyahu's chief propagandists as well. He showed the video of the funeral procession for Ayatola for the Ayatola and Leven said yesterday, the enemy gathered and mass all in one place. Opportunity lost. Opportunity lost. What would you want to do? You want to nuclear bomb them? That's the goal. You want to kill millions of Iranians and kill children and women and innocent people as well.
Then what happens? It's just explained to me. What do these sickos happen? Then you want to have millions of Americans lose their lives fighting some war for Netanyahu, fighting some war that nobody want. You want to have millions of American soldiers die fighting those people in
“Iran. You see how many that's what you, that's the end game that Mark Lavain and all of these”
people, these neocon, these hawks, these Netanyahu agents in my opinion. This is what you, this is what you want, the outcome to be. I think by the way, Danny Citronix, who was an Israeli intelligence officer who studied Iran, I think he says it accurate. Let me just explain to you what he says. The large turnout at the funeral serves as a reminder that the assumption that all
Iranians opposed the Islamic Republic has never reflected the full picture. It is also consistent
with what we saw throughout the war. When large crowds gathered in cities across Iran to express support for the Ayatollah, for the state, for the Iranian regime, there is no doubt that many Iranians opposed the regime and would like to see fundamental political change true. But it is equally difficult to ignore that the Islamic Republic retains a significant and resilient base of support
“that continues to stand by it, even under extreme pressure. One of the key lessons from the war”
is that many assessments in both Israel and the United States underestimated the regime in Iran's social and political resilience. Understanding the size of Iran's missile arsenal is one thing, understanding how deeply embedded the Islamic Republic remains within important segments
Of Iranian society is another.
Pakistan society, in places where there are large Shiite populations, the Ayatollah is their pope. Is there a pope? They have massive, massive amounts of support there. Religious support, cultural support. And again, you've got Ben, why are you defending them? I'm not. I just we need to have realistic intelligence assessments about what's going on in the world. So we're not rushing
into never-ending wars where Americans are getting killed and we're having catastrophe hit our
“economy like we're seeing right now. That's why. And I fear that the escalation trap is still there”
and that Trump's going to keep falling right into it. The gap of information as Danny Citronix explains, help produce day strategy that rested on highly optimistic assumptions about the regime's ability and the likelihood of its rapid collapse. The fact that some observer still explain away every public display of support has simply paid crowds, risks overlooking a more complex and strategically important reality. That's the reality. You can get upset at me or not, but that's the reality
that's taking place right now. A few other things, scriptural diplomacy. So as these foreign leaders showed up to pay their respects to Ayatollah, Komeni, Iran paired foreign delegations at
“Ayatollah Komeni's funeral with politically targeted, coronacverses confronting rivals or now”
they're building more of a understanding with Saudi Arabia and rallying regional allies like Hezbollah and Hamas with tailored scriptural messages. Saudi Arabia received a verse about two armies meeting in battle, one believing in Islam and Quran, one not. Turkey got a verse elevating those who fight over those who sit the Lebanese government heard a verse about people refusing to sacrifice if asked. Hezbollah was told, "Do not weaken our grief. You are superior." Hamas received the
verse honoring men who have filled their covenant with God. Some have died. Others are waiting. Yemen's Houthis got a verse praising believers who fought without weakening. Could Taur received a verse about forgiveness and divine favor read as a nod to its mediating role. All of that right there was compacted into the symbolism that was taking place at these proceedings. And again, I want to share it with you just so you have a sense of what was actually going on and what was taking place here.
So you can see for yourself, I'll just share with you the heads, you know, how like the United States, like Iran is so divided, all of their branches of government, Haiti, each other and they don't know who their leaders are. Let me show you the photo, the heads of the three branches of government and senior officials attended Tehran's funeral. You can see right here the judicial,
the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the spiritual level, the political level, a Rajig al-Abhaf,
the kind of the spiritual leaders who elect the Ayatollah. Majaba was not there obviously because he felt that if he left his hiding place, he would be killed by Netanyahu. You know, one of the developments we've also seen take place is a deeper story right here of the Islamabad quartet as it's being described Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, even Saudi Arabia and Iran, the Islamabad quartet. And one of the things that we saw is when an Iranian civil aircraft landed in Sana in Yemen,
breaking Yemen's 11-year blockade, the reopening of the Sana Tehran root, does seem to be evidence of the Islamabad quartet and Iran strengthening its relations. I mean, we heard MB-Gal-Abhaf and also Iran's deputy foreign minister talk about the importance China will be playing right now.
Basically, moving out the US security umbrella and replacing it with a China security umbrella,
“but that's really led by the Islamabad quartet and the Arab nations. That's why if you look at”
the memorandum of understanding, it says that Iran controls the straightive or moves along with the Arab nations decide on the future transit that it is an Arab nation decision, not a United States, but the Trump regime will continue to violate the MOU, try to open up that route in Oman. And by the way, it's why I also tell you about Iran Air Flight 655 because we've got to know our
History.
airplanes out in 1988 and then not taking accountability for it. And so you you wondered the
“route causes also over or some of the lingering feelings would be an understatement of what's going”
down there as well. You had MB-Gal-Abhaf also putting out statements regarding the Trump regime.
Imagine having a 40 something million of your own citizens regarding the U.S. on food stamps
and calling another nation hungry. This is not a proclamation, this is projection. Keep your snap advice. Our assets, our choices, mind your own malnutrition rates, United States, mind your own malnutrition rates. You see here the delegation from China arriving
“some of their top diplomats over there, Pakistan. These are the main mediators, by the way. Also,”
Pakistan gave Donald Trump $500 million or so for crypto. They created a crypto fund and
that really kind of elevated their role. And their connections with Donald Trump, but take at least are the mediators. A high-level Pakistani delegation comprising the Prime Minister, the chief of army staff, Munir, the Foreign Minister, attended the farewells ceremony of Ayatollah Komeni, Prime Minister of Pakistan also signed the memorial book in honor of the Iranian leader right there, Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress of China, Medveded,
Putin's envoy and delegation arriving right there. I'll show you more photos over here. Al Jazeera's footage from the first day of the farewell ceremony of Komeni. You see women here. You see people right there. I'm just giving you a snapshot into the reality. If I know this, our intelligence community knows this, okay? This is the reality of the situation. So we need to approach it as adults with levels of intelligence and see what's happening here and what's going on
and as Trump's like, whoa, my God, the crowds are so big. The crowds are so big. What am I going to do? Yeah, they are. And that is a population that has been more unified as a result of your Netanyahu's actions, not just there, but the genocide and Gaza, the genocide and Lebanon, and the general imperialistic behavior over decades and decades and decades. You may not want
“to hear that, but that's what the people feel there. And so how we approach this, and when you constantly”
violate the memorandum of understanding and every time you're in a negotiation, you then invade and now under the MOU, you're acting like, ah, they still want to negotiate with us. They're dying to make a deal. They're doubting me. You made the deal. It's the MOU. There's no more negotiating. Those terms get implemented in the long form. That's the deal. There you have it.
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