@LauraLoomer Look at their celebration’s 🖕and you’ll be disgusted 🤮 chanting anti American slogans and we giving them advance technology jet fighters! What is wrong with them
The legitimacy of the case against the Islamic republic is first and foremost rooted in the demands of the Iranian people inside Iran, who have repeatedly risen up, most recently in the millions, to demand an end to this regime. In this movement, there has been only one name they have called for, and only one transitional leadership the Iranian people have fought for: @PahlaviReza.
Now that doesn’t mean every Iranian is a monarchist, and it doesn’t mean “restoring monarchy” either. If fact, Pahlavi himself has called for a transition to democracy and has only ever called for a transition leadership. Many people are calling for Pahlavi today who did not support the Shah in the past. The world is still talking over them.
Instead of listening to the Iranian people, the international media and multiple governments around the world have consistently proposed plan after plan, actively ignoring the will of the Iranian people. They have minimized and in some cases even mocked the Crown Prince, when he and he alone has the ear of the people on the ground. There have been well funded and coordinated efforts against the Crown Prince attempting to cast doubt on his popularity with the Iranian public and to spread rumors that anyone who supports him as a traditional leader is “restoring monarchy”. He has been accused of all sorts of absurdities from being an “Israeli agent” to being asked to answer for political decisions of his father that have nothing to do with him and still he has maintained the respect and support of the Iranian people.
This is a cataclysmic mistake on the part of the West. Iran is not Afghanistan or Venezuela. You will never have a successful foreign imposed leader like the terrorist Ghalibaf when the people are calling for something else entirely.
How many times must the west repeat the same mistakes over and over against expecting different results?
The Art of the Deal vs. The Reality of the Law: How the Public is Being Misled on Iran
Take a close look at the public statement from the POTUS, and then read the actual legal text coming out of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). The contradiction is staggering.
In public, the narrative being pushed to voters is one of absolute control and strict containment:
❌ "No money has been given to Iran, or released from their money to them..."
❌ Claims that any funds are "totally controlled by us" and will only be used to buy American corn, wheat, and soybeans.
It sounds tough. It sounds like a total lockdown. But it is completely misleading.
While the public is told that Iran is only getting barter-system food aid, the actual U.S. Treasury department (OFAC) quietly issued GENERAL LICENSE X.
Look at what the actual law says through August 2026:
1️⃣ Paragraph (a): It explicitly authorizes all transactions necessary for the "production, sale, delivery, or offloading of crude oil, petrochemical products, or petroleum products of Iranian origin."
2️⃣ Paragraph (b): It explicitly states that any payment owed to Iran or the Government of Iran for this oil "may be made in U.S. dollar-denominated funds."
Let’s translate the political theater into plain reality:
The administration is publicly claiming they aren't giving Iran a dime and are only letting them have food. Meanwhile, their own Treasury Department has signed a legal green light allowing the Islamic Republic to sell its most lucrative asset, oil on the global market and collect cold, hard U.S. dollars in return.
They are bypassing their own highly publicized executive orders (E.O. 13846, 13876, 13902) to let the regime cash out on oil money until August 2026.
Stop listening to the tough-talking social media posts. Follow the money, read the licenses, and look at the actual policy. The fire sale of Iranian resources continues, and the regime is getting paid in cash while the public gets a fairy tale about corn and soybeans.
“They are killing enormous numbers of civilians…they are targeting one, two, three enemy combatants and in the process killing huge numbers of civilians. @piersmorgan Piers a few minutes later – “If you can’t say exactly how many civilians have been killed in Gaza, what you say about numbers is bull.”
Dear @piersmorgan I tried to explain to you where numbers in the Gaza war (or any war) are going to come from "simply.” But let me type it out so you have a record of it instead of the interruptions and the tactic of just asking the same question over and over while I explain how the numbers work. The same numbers by the way that you used minutes before to criticize Israel and constantly repeat or have guests on that repeat, or more often state not even Hamas numbers but false numbers about xx civilians, xx women, xx children, xx percentages that go beyond Hamas's actual list of casualties.
First, let me correct you again (like I did to start the segment) by providing you my actual quotes:
1 - "Israel and the IDF have implemented more measures (sometimes quoted as precautions) to prevent civilian harm in urban warfare than any military in history,"
That is testable against urban warfare history of any similar situation (mostly attack of defended urban terrain). Israel civilian harm mitigation measure have included advance notification (flyers, phone calls, text messages, voicemails, drones with speakers, tv, radio, social media), safe corridors to include improving roads used for safe corridors in the middle of the war, roof knocking (notifying all residents of a building in advance for evacuations and then using non-penetrating low-yield munitions on top of the building before then waiting to strike), over daily multi-hour pauses in fighting (over 400 days of the 800 days of fighting) to allow civilian evacuations and aid movement, establishing a one-star commanded civilian harm mitigation cell that created a real time civilian presence (using cell phone presence, drones, satellite images, etc.) software reflected on all combat operating systems, handing out their own military maps to the entire population (to include the enemy) and then communicating the location of IDF operations, areas to avoid or further evacuate, using major call outs of buildings and neighborhoods, restrictive rules of engagement based on likely civilian presence, rigorous fires processes and legal reviews that often ended in calling mission off out of civilian harm estimates. Many of these measures have never been attempted, by any military.
2 - "Israel has a lower civilian to combatant ratio than any similar context (war or battle) in the history of urban warfare.” After acknowledging the lack of comparative cases (size of enemy forces (which I asked you about, you don't know), tunnels, density, strategy, tactics, prevention of civilian evacuations) but still doing the simple analysis, in order to provide the evidence for this statement I use the same numbers you and your frequent guests push to condemn Israel. But here:
Q: How do you estimate the number of civilians deaths?
A: Take the number the Hamas Gaza Health Ministry reports (despite that it includes any death in Gaza for any reason or cause (Israel/Hamas/Other terrorists) and has been well documented with inaccuracies (even having to be updated by Hamas of natural deaths, incomplete entries, false entries) and subtract the Israel stated combatant deaths.
The Hamas Gaza Health Ministry claims roughly 72,000 deaths in Gaza. The IDF says it has killed about 25,000-26,000 combatants, a number also reported by President Trump in October 2025. If you subtract 25,000 from 72,000, even using Hamas’s number at face value, you get roughly 47,000 non-combatant deaths, or a bit less than a 2:1 ratio. If you were modest to adjust for natural deaths and Hamas-caused deaths, is likely closer to 35,000–40,000 non-combatant deaths versus 25,000 combatants killed, which puts the ratio closer to 1.5:1.
If you compare 2:1 or 1.5:1 to any numbers we have (in many cases we don’t have) for wars, urban centric wars, contested urban battles they will be some of the lowest ratios (in some cases lowest by far) ever seen despite none of those wars or battles had the context of Gaza. For example:
World War II – 70 million civilians, 20 million combatants, 3.5:1
Korean War – 2.5 million civilians, 90,000 combatants, 27:1
Iraq War – 280-300,000 civilians, 150-200,000 combatants, 1.4:1 to 2:1
But wait, the Gaza numbers are usually aggregated numbers for the entire war, any death ever reported in Gaza.
But if you disaggregate the numbers to specific battles like Rafah, Khan Yunis, Gaza City 2025 for comparison you get different numbers. Based on modest numbers from the Battle of Rafah, the civilian to combatant ratio would be more like 1:100 due to multiple operational variables like the success of civilian evacuations.
Major urban battles (modest comparison of battles with any like variables).
Mosul – 10,000 civilians. Combatant unknown but total estimate in battle 5,000 – 2:1
Manila – 100,000 civilians. Combatants 17,000 – 6:1
Seoul – Unknown/no record of civilian but very likely high ratio based on histories
Mariupol – Unknown/mass graves, estimate 20-22,000 civilians, 3-8,000 combatants - 2.5:1 to 7.3:1
I actually use this discussion about numbers or quote about ratio sparingly despite how many times it has been attribute to me because I know the complexity of casualty counting especially in urban centric wars with combatants that violate the law of war and do not distinguish themselves (uniforms/marking) making determining a body found (if there is a body) or a name reported (such as methods in Gaza) and then classifying that person as was participating in the hostilities (combatant) or not (noncombatant) is beyond just difficult and should always be viewed as questionable. In Mosul, a year after the battle there was not only no agreed upon casualty number, but the Mayor of the city also said there were 40,000 civilian deaths. These numbers are always messy, political, susceptible to manipulation by the different organizations involved.
My point has always been that numbers of casualty reporting in Gaza doesn’t paint the story people routinely push. Actually, the opposite.
Urban warfare is inherently and historically costly against civilians and the infrastructure. All wars involve noncombatant death. The moral, legal requirement is to do proportionality assessments and take feasible steps to prevent excessive civilian harm.
So, using your logic Piers, if you can’t state how many combatants were killed (by Israel, Hamas, terrorist rockets, other terrorists in power struggles) … you can’t say (or allow your guests to say) Israel has killed a “large number of civilians” or “killed a disproportionate number of civilians” like you did in this very interveiw.
You can't spend years saying Israel is killing enormous numbers of civilians and then tell me nobody can estimate civilian deaths so ratios aren't valid. Those two positions can't both be true.
If casualty estimates are reliable enough to accuse Israel, then they're also reliable enough to examine civilian-to-combatant ratios. If they aren't, then they shouldn't be used selectively only when they support one conclusion.
Before U.S. politicians approve selling F-35 stealth fighters to Turkey in the name of regional stability, they need a harsh history lesson.
Erdogan constantly glorifies the Ottoman Empire and actively pursues a Neo-Ottoman agenda. But what is the actual legacy of that empire?
It is a legacy written entirely in blood, occupation, and ethnic cleansing.
If you want to know what a revived Ottoman Empire looks like, ask the nations that barely survived the original one:
The Balkans: Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, and Romania endured centuries of brutal occupation. Look up the Skull Tower of Nis in Serbia, a monument built by Ottomans using the severed heads of 952 rebels just to instill terror.
The Blood Tax (Devshirme): For centuries, they systematically kidnapped Christian boys from their mothers in Eastern Europe, forced them to convert, and turned them into child soldiers (Janissaries) to slaughter their own people.
The Genocides: Ask the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks. Over 1.5 million innocent people were systematically eradicated in death marches. The Great Fire of Smyrna in 1922 is a haunting reminder of how this ideology turns minorities into ashes.
This is not ancient history. This exact expansionist mindset is alive today.
Fueled by the radical ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, this regime continues to claim victims. It is the driving force behind the illegal occupation of Cyprus, the slaughter of Kurds, the devastation of Syrians, the abandonment of Yazidis, and the relentless, radical hatred directed at Israelis.
The U.S. administration thinks it can play pragmatic politics by appeasing Ankara to counter Russia. This is a catastrophic miscalculation.
You cannot claim to fight terrorism while arming the ideological godfather of the Muslim Brotherhood. Giving the world’s most advanced stealth fighters to a regime that openly dreams of rebuilding a bloodthirsty empire is not a diplomatic victory. It is geopolitical suicide. You don't bring peace to the Middle East by arming a terror-sponsor. You are just laying the bricks for the next World War.
PERSPECTIVE
Not only haven’t we armed the Iranian people, we’re actually strengthening the regime internally with hundreds of billions of dollars and other huge concessions making it virtually impossible to be overthrown from within or collapse from our previous crushing military offensive and economic blockade. We don’t even mention the Iranian people anymore.
We’re also legitimizing the Iranian regime not just in the region but internationally through diplomacy generally, as well as direct diplomacy with the regime, and now direct military-to-military contacts with the IRGC, the equivalent of the Nazi SS, which we treat as a breakthrough.
At the same time, we’re isolating our ally Israel, who valiantly fought by our side when we launched this war just a few months ago, undermining its defenses including via protections for Hezbollah, F-35s planned for Turkey, and hundreds of billions for Iran, as well as publicly ridiculing its Churchillian prime minister in the lead up to its election, which is intended to defeat him, while praising the genocidal Iranian regime and surrounding Islamist regimes, in one of the most shocking flips in military and diplomatic history.
They spent $5.5M of your tax dollars on this. For 100 beds. That's $55K per bed. If you were to simply give somebody $55K, they could rent out a room in Van Nuys for 5 years. But then no contractor or NGO is getting their beak wet on the transaction. See the scam yet?
Why is Trita Parsi having conversations with administration officials?
Multiple GOP senators have called for him to be investigated for being a mouthpiece for the IRGC and Iranian regime. He is an Iranian and Swedish dual citizen.
He’s basically admitting here to communicating with @JDVance by saying he’s speaking with people at the table.
This confirms what I reported about how Trita Parsi has been running around telling people he is “advising JD Vance on Iran” with @SohrabAhmari.
Trita Parsi having communication with the Trump administration is an absurdity. It’s absolutely reckless and insane.
Why are @SohrabAhmari and @tparsi running around telling people they are advising @JDVance on Iran?
Trita is not a US citizen. He has Iranian and Swedish citizenship. Multiple GOP Senators have called for Trita to be investigated as an alleged lobbyist for the Iranian regime. Sohrab was born in Iran, he pretends to be a Catholic after spending his entire life as a Communist, but he used religion to wiggle his way into the right. Seems to be the trend these days among people trying to “advise” the post-Trump GOP.
Marco Rubio @SecRubio has internally called for Trita Parsi to be deported and assigned his case to State Department officials, and yet Trita is running around saying he is advising the Vice President on Iran while he set up a defense fund so people can help him pay his legal fees as he fights an alleged Trump administration deportation investigation that was reportedly prompted by his anti-American behavior.
@SohrabAhmari just wrote an article about how he traveled with the Vice President on Air Force 2 and in the article, he describes at length how he spoke with JD Vance about Iran.
Are these Iranian operatives really advising @VP on Iran?
If they are not, it should be said publicly so we can all move on knowing what we have always known:
Trita and Sohran are liars and foreign born enemies of America who are paving the way for an Islamic takeover of America.
Don’t fall for their “I converted” bullshit either. Islamists are allowed to lie for the sake of advancing Islam in America and that’s what these dirty pro-IRGC chaos agents are doing, which is why they want to be around JD Vance. They are a national security threat and shouldn’t be allowed to travel with the VP.
I Wouldn’t be surprised if they are spying on him, I mean *advising him*, and then giving everything they acquire to the IRGC…allegedly of course.
Anyone under investigation for possible deportation back to Iran shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the Vice President or President.
This isn’t even controversial. It’s common sense.
It’s also very alarming that they appear to be running their mouths publicly talking about this. Is there any discretion at all? What else are they going around saying about the administration that is supposed to be private information?
Why are you running around telling everyone you are “the Vice President’s close friend and top advisor on Iran”?
@SohrabAhmari
I notice you won’t answer my question. This is the 3rd time I have asked you.
Why is this pro-IRGC Trump hater allowed to travel around on Air Force 2?
@StevenCheung47@SusieWiles47
The new sales pitch is unbelievable.
“$300 BILLION for the Ayatollahs? Don’t worry—it’s for American corn.”
Iran doesn’t need corn.
Iran doesn’t need wheat.
Iran doesn’t have a produce problem.
Iran has a freedom problem.
Oh, abd as we told @BarackObama abd @JoeBiden, now we tell @JDVance:
MONEY. IS. FUNGIBLE.
That’s why we call this not a “peace deal” but the Ayatollah Bailout.
Watch what our @VP actually said. 👇
A track record of hostility, terrorism, and literally killing 🇺🇸 for the past 47 years has not taught you anything about this regime!
This is called idiocracy: 47 years of the same endless appeasement and not ending them!
Why? A regional boogeyman (Iran's ayatollahs) is needed for all the weapons to be sold to Persian Gulf states. Of Iran becomes a democracy and peace becomes possible …. Who wants that ?? Def not the military industrial complex
Mr @JDVance, let’s make this painfully simple.
Reham Saadati was not killed because he needed your corn, soybeans, or charity.
His father was a gold merchant.
He was not starving.
He was not begging.
He was not in the streets asking the world to feed him.
He went for his Shah.
He went for Iran.
He gave his life for freedom, dignity, and the future every human being is owed by birthright.
That is the part your analysis keeps missing.
The terrorist Islamic Regime occupying Iran is not facing a food riot.
It is facing a nation that wants its country back.
So stop shrinking our dead into an economic complaint.
They were not killed asking for crumbs.
They were killed demanding freedom.
رونالدینیو، جادوگر فوتبال، همیشه با لبخند و دریبلهات عشق میکردم
اما امروز که پرچم اسرائیل را با افتخار دور گردنت دیدم، چیزی عمیق در دلم لرزید.
برای این قلب بزرگ و این جسارت بینهایتت، از عمق وجودم برات دست میزنم. امروز تو قلبها را برای همیشه فتح کردی. ❤️🇮🇱
#جاویدشاه 👑