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So a lot of people upset about this. Okay, now here, here's the thing. The idea is not that we're just going to go in, grab literally all the oil for ourselves and leave nothing for the Iranian people. First of all, let's be clear. Every barrel of oil that is getting shipped right now goes not to the benefit of the Iranian people. It goes to the Iranian government, which uses that oil to suppress their own people and shoot them. Also, if we were to help manage their oil supply, if, for example, the government were to change its orientation and be reintegrated into the world economy and we are allowed to bring American companies in to actually help pump that oil, we would probably double the amount of oil they are currently producing. At its height, Iran is producing 3.2 million barrels of oil per day. Somewhere in that neighborhood. If we fixed their position in the world and their industry, that number would probably double and the revenue would flow back to the Iranian people. Unlike now, when it all flows to the Iranian government, the IRGC and the Basiji. That is literally the model we are using. In Venezuela. We are currently holding money in escrow so it doesn't go to shore up the communist regime to suppress the people. In a second, we'll get to what comes next. What is the next thing on the table for the United States, for Israel in this joint operation? First, did you know the average employer sorts through 250 resumes for a single job opening? That's really, really inefficient. It's an outright productivity nightmare. Wasting hours scanning redundant cookie cutter applications is not just bad business. It's a symptom of a deeper problem in how we match talent with opportunity. We here at the Daily Wire care about hiring the best people, and you should do, because it makes all the difference in running a successful business if you're hiring. Here's the good news. You can now review all these resumes and applications faster thanks to ZipRecruiter. 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Okay, so all of this raises the question of what comes next, because of course, 8pm tonight is supposed to be the deadline for negotiations. Well, the answer from the Wall Street Journal, and I've heard this from sources both American and Israeli, because it's a joint operation, is that Iran's economy is next on the table. Which makes perfect sense that to take out the final pillars of the Iranian government, you have to permanently damage their economic status because if they don't have money to pay their people, it makes it very difficult for them to survive and, and also to spread their terrorism forward. According to the Wall Street Journal, quoting Avner Golov, a former Israeli national security official, the US and Israel are signaling we're serious. And if you continue not to agree to end the war, the price you'll pay to your economy is going to be higher and higher. And of course, Iran has been firing at a wide variety of energy facilities in the region. Already, Israel knocked out sites responsible for 85% of Iran's petrochemical exports. According to Israeli Defense Minister Katz, that represents something like 30 to 35% of their export revenue. So is that likely to get worse for them? Yes, there are already preliminary strikes that are taking place. So this morning, footage of Kharg island being hit started to cross the Internet. That footage is apparently of particular sites on Car Island. So this is not bombing the actual oil facilities or storage facilities or refineries on Harg island yet. And it's not even bombing the landing docks, which would allow for the shipping to and fro of the oil. Instead, according to Jen Griffin of Fox News, the targets the United States hit included bunkers, radar stations and ammo storage. So it's quite possible that what we are doing right now, and these are US Strikes, it is possible what we are doing right now is taking out their defensive installations in preparation for either a taking of Hog island, which again, I think has been the longest telegraphed punch in modern history, or just blowing it up. If we were to blow it up, they would be permanently damaged. It would take out 90% of their economy. They just would have no money. Meanwhile, Iranian railways are being hit as well. And so the sites continue to be hit. Iran has responded by basically saying that they don't want to negotiate. Now, again, one of the things I think that Americans need to understand, and this has been true throughout American history, sometimes you run up against an enemy that is so intransigent that against their own interests, they refuse to surrender. The reason that the United States had to use nuclear weapons at the end of World War II is because the Japanese government knew they were going to lose and felt that they could somehow reach a negotiated settlement with the United States more advantageous to them if millions of their own citizens were killed in a long battle for the home islands of Japan. In fact, there was a segment of the Japanese government that was so extreme at the end of World War II that after both Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been hit, afterward, the emperor recorded a message surrendering. This faction attempted to overthrow the emperor and take the recording before it could air to prevent surrender. After both sites had been hit, the Iranian regime, meaning the mullahs and particularly the irgc, are of that sort. Now, maybe the president is talking to other people in the country. Maybe the president of the country, Pezeshkian, who's widely perceived, as I've said before, as a very weak character, perhaps he's negotiating okay, but it is absolutely unclear at this point whether such people even have power. The IRGC may basically just be gambling Taliban like that they'll ride this bomb all the way into the dirt. That may be what's happening. And we don't understand that because that is not how we think. But that is certainly how they think Iran is, is. Honestly, anyone who's telling you that Iran is winning right now, I don't even understand how you could come to that conclusion. You could have questions about whether we are going to get Everything we could possibly seek in this war. Again, that's a normal question. You can ask whether we are going to have any sort of long lasting repercussions from the Strait of Hormuz situation. Again, a normal question. But Iran has been relegated to putting out AI videos of their current supreme leader Mojtab Al Khamenei entering a command center. This is AI video of him in a war room. You want to know why it's AI video? Because he's in a coma. Because he's half dead. He's been dead for weeks. Here, here's that AI video. This is insane. And of course he's standing in front of a map of the Timona nuclear reactors that are going to hit Dimona, which is Israel's nuclear site. He's in a coma. He is not alive. He is not fully alive. He put out a tweet yesterday. And when I say he put out a tweet, I mean his prone body somehow reached out from beyond the quasi grave to put out a tweet in which he lauded the armed forces jihadi ideals. He said, quote, the unbroken ranks of the combatants and fighters on the path of truth in Islamic Iran, along with the self sacrificing armed forces form such a towering, deeply rooted front that terrorism and crime cannot even crack their resolve for Jihadi ideals. Yeah, this sounds like a moderate, this sounds like somebody we should allow to pursue nuclear weapons. Well, the good news is that he didn't tweet that at all because he is in a coma, according to the Times of London. You know you're not doing great when you're, when you're basically doing the movie, Dave, but Iranian Ayatollah version got the actual Ayatollah in the back in a coma. So you go and you find like an impersonator via AI and put him out there to tweet. According to the Times of London, he is incapacitated and receiving medical treatment in the holy city of com, according to an intelligence assessment which suggests he is not capable of running the country. Apparently he is unconscious and being treated for a severe medical condition. It is possible that the condition is being dead. The memo also says that the intelligence agencies identified the preparation of laying the groundworks needed to build a large mausoleum in Qom for more than one grave, suggesting that other family members and possibly Mojtaba himself could be buried alongside his dad. And meanwhile, President Possesskian is putting out statements about how 14 million Iranians are enlisted. Sure, sure. He says more than 14 million proud Iranians have so far registered to sacrifice their lives to defend Iran. I too have been, am, and will remain devoted to giving my life for Iran. While he may get his wish, depending on how the rest of the week goes, how do you know things are going poorly for the Iranians? Aside from the fact they're putting out AI videos of their leader who is in a coma? Iranian state TV is now telling young people, like students, like children, to go form human shields around power plants ahead of President Trump's deadline for the bridges and the power plants. Okay, so this says a couple things. One, this is not something strong countries do. If you are in a good military position, you're not calling out the youth to go. This is something that the Nazi regime does in the final days in Berlin where they call out the 12 year olds and they're like, okay, guys, here's a pistol, go at it. That is where Iran is. They are now asking or telling or forcing civilian 12 year olds to stand around power plants ahead of President Trump's deadline. So again, number one, it shows they're incredibly weak. Number two, you know what else it shows? It shows that they know that the United States actually cares about human rights. I know this is the dirty secret. The dirty secret is the reason that terrorists use human shields is because they believe it will deter Western powers from hitting the targets. This is why when people suggested that Israel was committing atrocities in Gaza, they were doing a genocide in Gaza. And then those same people will say that Israel is killing human shields. The question is, why is the human shield in the first place? You know what I would never do? You know what I would never do? I would never take my own kids and put them in front of me in the face of a terrorist. You know why? Because I know the terrorist will kill me and my kid. The reason to use a human shield is because you believe that it will deter humane people from doing the thing you don't want them to do. That is literally the purpose of doing this. So the same people claiming then America is deli. If you're Ryan Grim and you're claiming that America deliberately targets school children at a school, explain to riddle me this. Why then would the Iranians put school children around power plants? It would make no sense. Because the United States would be, hey, cool, look, school children, let's kill them. That would be logic. But of course, that's not the logic. They're all lying. The United States is an incredibly humane power, the most humane great power in the history of all humane powers. We are not, in fact, the World's greatest terror apparatus, as Dave Smith has suggested, that is not correct. And the way you know that is by the way that our enemies are treating us. According to Alireza Rahimi, identified by Iranian State TV as the secretary of the Supreme Council of Youth and Adolescents, he said, quote, I invite all young people, athletes, artist, students and university students and their professors to gather at 2pm Tuesday around the power plants that are our national assets and capital, regardless of any taste or political viewpoint, belong to the future of Iran and to the Iranian youth. So what an invitation. Would you go? Sounds like an invitation. Okay, so if we're going to talk, by the way, about like actual war crimes, we should note that that is a war crime. Using human shields is the war crime. That's the war crime. 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You have Ro Khanna doing the same routine, the California congressman, he says, oh, he's threatening war crimes and war crimes won't end the war. Tell us more about ending wars. Ro Khanna,