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Apr 8, 2025

Why the U.S. LOSES a War with Iran: Mohammad Marandi on Scott Ritter & Trump's Nuclear Threats

115,354 views Apr 7, 2025 #iran#trump#israelDonald Trump has made a strategic mistake in escalating war with Iran says Prof. Mohammad Marandi. In this must-watch video, Prof. Marandi breaks down what US provocations will lead to and busts the myths about Iran's nuclear program being used to justify the US & Israel's path toward self-destruction. FOLLOW ME ON X: https://x.com/SpiritofHo FOLLOW ME ON RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/c/DannyHaiphong FOLLOW ME ON TELEGRAM: https://t.me/dannyhaiphong

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0:00iran right now is standing very defiant to Trump's war escalation amid all of

0:05this liberation day hype and it's not cowtowing to the presence of war plananes and ships that are heading its

0:11way and it's promising reciprocal blows and even the rapid buildup of nuclear

0:17weapons development should it be necessary is the US and Israel right now

0:23professor Rody sewing the seeds for their demise or is this catastrophic war that's to come that is building up going

0:29to lead to Iran's ultimate defeat you know I have fought in war since I was 16

0:36i was a volunteer and u I went and fought on and off few months every year

0:43as a volunteer until the war ended six years later it was an eight-year long

0:49war but the first two years I was too young to be able to volunteer when I was 16 I volunteered and since I was still

0:55young I had to give a sort of exam or I was interviewed and and I was allowed to

1:01go and fight um so you know if I could go to Gaza I would go to Gaza if I could

1:07go to Lebanon I'd go to Lebanon if I could go to Syria I'd go to Syria because if it's something I believe in

1:14I'd fight for and of course Yemen the same but war is horrible i mean that is there's no doubt

1:21about it uh I I hate war if I have to fight a war I'll fight a war but if but

1:27I hate war uh I don't want war but I

1:32believe that the United States would lose a war with Iran everyone would lose i mean the

1:38world would lose war is horrible as I said the war in Ukraine is a loss for Russia and it's a loss for Ukraine it's

1:45a loss for the West but the loss for Russia is less than the West and that's why Russia's winning relatively speaking

1:52Russia comes out on top uh we predicted that from the very beginning many of us

1:57you yourself me and some of our friends but war is still horrible and

2:03it's a loss for everyone so um I don't want war to happen but uh it's not

2:10something that the Islamic Republic of Iran is going to be fearful of it will it does not

2:18want war but if it has to confront the United States it will confront the United States and I think we've already

2:26seen that um Trump sent a letter which

2:31had an implicit threat the Iranians said "No we're not going to negotiate we're not going to have direct talks."

2:37And the Iranian said "As usual just as in the past we are prepared to have

2:42indirect talks which we've always have had with Trump and with previous

2:49administrations." Trump uh we we've heard over the last couple of days in

2:55the media that uh the the Trump team or Trump they're thinking about the Iranian

3:01proposal for indirect negotiations uh that's not a proposal the Iranians never proposed that iran

3:07has said it's willing to continue in direct negotiations we've already been doing that so there's nothing new there

3:14but the very fact that they put it this way and they've said it in the media or they've said it through the media I

3:21think indicates that it is possible that the that Trump wants an offramp he he he

3:27he wants the opportunity to deescalate at least for now that may not be true or

3:33may be true until tonight when he tweets something new because that's how Trump works he says one thing that the next

3:39day it's something else this whole uh tariff saga

3:47uh you know we've we've heard different things it's been you know with Canada the United States Mexico the United

3:53States it it keeps changing and then suddenly and then finally today we got uh a list that that's different or the

4:01percentages are different from what they were it was going to be earlier and it may evolve again tomorrow so there's no

4:08Trump is not a very stable person he's not stable at all so if we say that he's

4:14seeking for an off-ramp that means that he may be seeking for an offramp today but not necessarily

4:21tomorrow but that of course is the one of the one of the reasons why Iran can't negotiate with Trump because we can we

4:30can't trust anything that he says if he says he'll agree to something today he

4:35may change his mind tomorrow look at what happened in Gaza the day before he

4:40came to power he his he negotiated or his people

4:46negotiated the ceasefire and we were told that his representative went and

4:52told Netanyahu to sit down and shut up and do as we say remember it was on a

4:59Saturday and Netanyahu's office uh supposedly said uh that he you know

5:05cannot he cannot meet anyone today and and so on and he was forced to do so but

5:10then what happened we were told he's a man of peace he wants to end the this holocaust

5:17and then he said Palestinians must leave the the deal that he negotiated

5:25uh the deal that he is the guarantor he is saying the Palestinians must leave

5:30that that's that's totally against the deal and then later on he gives the green

5:36light to Netanyahu to restart the the mass slaughter of women and

5:41children so how can we negotiate with Trump so whether you know the there are

5:49two there are two issues here one is can Trump defeat Iran or will Iran defeat

5:55the United States will the war will the world lose what will happen that's one question the second is okay war is

6:02tragic but how can we negotiate with this guy how can we sit down and talk with him

6:10when he changes his mind every day the United States does that it's not just

6:17him you saw for example uh the not just the Minsk accords but

6:23the Estanbul negotiations that could have ended the war three years ago the war in Ukraine who who pushed Zaninski to quit

6:34the talks it was the previous British prime

6:40minister but who was he speaking on behalf of it was the United States so

6:45negotiations Minsk Accords the JCPOA the United States never fulfilled

6:51their side of the bargain when they signed in the JCPOA under Obama it wasn't just Trump who

6:58tore up the deal obama was violating the deal from day one even though Iran was fully committed but Trump is even worse

7:06so the question is can we even negotiate i think the question is the

7:12answer to that is at least for now no there's no one to

7:18you know there's there's no one in Washington who you can speak with and to be and you could be sure that what he

7:24says matters or what he says will be carried

7:30out but if there's war and this is where my friends Scott Ritter and I have a

7:37disagreement because we had a a Twitter exchange a few days ago some I think

7:43some of our friends probably read them like we had 20 10 15 20 tweets that went

7:48back and forth on two three different occasions scott was saying basically

7:53that Iran should give up its sovereignty a sovereign right to a nuclear program

7:58because uh Trump will destroy Iran and my response was that

8:07uh first of all if you accept that logic then even

8:13if Iran gives up its nuclear program its missile defense capabilities its allies

8:18across the region why shouldn't Trump go further he has a nuclear weapon he can

8:24threaten Iran based on Trump's logic on uh Scott's logic and he can have the

8:32keys to Tehran he can go as far as he wants and then that's what the neocons want

8:38so I don't see it that as acceptable first of all the Iranians would

8:44never allow their sovereignty to be taken away from them it's part of their religious culture it's part of their

8:51identity anyone who knows about Imam Hussein and Kabala the grandson of the

8:57prophet anyone who knows how when the the the despot of his time of his era

9:04wanted him to submit he said meaning never to humiliation that

9:12is that is a key part of our Muslim Iranian

9:18uh Shia identity every year for those who know you know when they commemorate Ashur and

9:27the march with them of the grandson of the prophet it's it's a slogan that people are chant they regularly chant in

9:35the religious ceremonies and so on so it's ideologically uh humiliation is not

9:43something that they can accept but as I said even if they were to say okay for the sake of humanity we

9:50will let's say relinquish a part of our sovereignty let's say hypothetically with who who are you

9:57going to trust here you give up your sovereignty which is not just your sovereignty but it's your uh it's your

10:04it's your insurance policy and you're going to put your faith in

10:10Trump you're going to put your faith faith in the United States which is busy carrying out a holocaust in Gaza which

10:17is bombing Yemen and since it cannot bomb their and destroy their military targets they're destroying the public

10:25water reservoirs in Yemen you want to trust the United

10:31States what fool would do that obama did not abide by his own

10:38commitments why would Trump of all people abide by his commitments so there's no one to

10:44negotiate with in Washington so ideologically speaking

10:51character-wise it doesn't make sense to us practically speaking it doesn't make

10:57sense and it's our it's our insurance policy what it's our defense capability

11:03if we don't have the ability to defend themselves the neocons would come in

11:09tomorrow but I don't think the Americans can win that war a conventional war i

11:14you know Scott Ritter has spoken about nuclear annihilation by basically saying

11:20that the United States is so sinister and so evil which I agree it is utterly sinister and evil it it has the same

11:27murderous uh culture uh but much more hypocrisy

11:33much more hypocrisy the west kills and then it they expect you to res to they

11:39expect you to thank them and to acknowledge their moral

11:44superiority at least Saddam Hussein didn't do that at least uh these

11:49Zionists and these these Nazis and these uh you know despots across the world and

11:57the past weren't so you know weren't so

12:02arrogant they just killed but anyway

12:08um if if the United States was to use a nuclear weapon first of all they cannot

12:13they cannot prevent Iran from firing hundreds hundreds of thousands of missiles and drones uh from their many

12:22underground missile and drone drone bases across the country as targets

12:27across the region and especially Iran's drone capabilities remember the Iranian

12:32missiles that were fired at Israel the Israeli regime the Israelis couldn't stop them nor could the Americans when the

12:39Iranians fired at the them at the al-Assad base but Iranian

12:45drones I mean they could take out everything in the Persian Gulf

12:50region and they're hundreds of thousands and it's not they're not you know the these these potential targets

12:57are not far away they're not hundreds of kilometers away they're very

13:02close so the Americans they won't be able to stop them that would a war in the Persian Gulf would mean the end of

13:09the global economy and again this goes back to something that Scott said in one of his Twitter tweets that uh well

13:17America is self-sufficient no America the American consumer is completely

13:23dependent on energy cheap energy if the price of oil goes to $500 a

13:33barrel sure some people are going to get c super rich but the consumer is going

13:39to be crushed

13:44electricity gasoline anything that has to do with energy it will shut

13:50down businesses factories it will people won't be able

13:56to sustain themselves anymore it would it would be ruinous for the world and then you'd have tens if not hundreds of

14:04millions of people on the move if Trump is and his supporters are unhappy about

14:10the number of as they say illegals or refugees pouring into the United States

14:15from the southern border imagine what it's going to look like when the global economy collapses and the same is true

14:20with Europe so it's not a situation that the Americans can

14:26win and uh the isolation that would come about through a nuclear attack i mean

14:32just look right now with the tariffs the world is outraged you see the Chinese and the Japanese and the

14:40Koreans how they are talking and trying to coordinate with one another these

14:47three countries have very poor relations with each other but Trump has succeeded to bring them together just like Trump

14:54has brought Russia and Iran and China together it's bringing it's he's isolating the the the global majority or

15:02he's isolating the United States from the global majority so a nuclear weapon would totally destroy anything any

15:09credibility that the United States has uh I mean it would be the world would

15:15turn against it uh utterly but um but

15:20still they would not win so I don't think this is a winnable

15:25war so and based on logic I don't think there will be a war based on

15:30logic but uh the United States is not a logical regime the United States is a

15:36very arrogant emotional angry regime and this is not new it's always been like that it

15:44sees itself as exceptional and superior to the rest of the world so we can't expect logic and

15:51reason so that's there's that element too and the Zionists and the United

15:56States at the Zionist lobby they are pushing for war they need war it's not

16:02good for the Israeli regime war none of these wars have been

16:07but Netanyahu and his fanatical Zionist supporters all Zionists are fanatical

16:13but anyway those very fanatical right-wingers with him they they need

16:19this war so they will push for the war but I think I'm sure that there are many people in the military in the United

16:24States who know that the United States will not win a war against Iran and they don't want war and that's where things

16:30stand so at the moment I think the calculation in Tehran is that there won't be war but they are preparing for

16:37they're preparing themselves as if war is inevitable there's B2 bombers on Diego Garcia 30% of the US bomber fleet

16:45uh these have a heavy payload and the understanding here is that United States

16:50at least is threatening to essentially bomb Iran into the stone age however

16:57Iran has its own capabilities that you just outlined which then leads to the scenario of the nuclear question would

17:03the United States be able to endure this kind of uh military quagmire leading it

17:08to maybe press this nuclear button then leading to nuclear proliferation and the like is Iran capable of withstanding and

17:17defending itself from what the US is already sending uh Iran's way i think it

17:23would be far more than just US influence in the region i think it would really change the world in a in a way which

17:29would uh be unim in a way in which we really can't imagine and the United

17:34States uh would never recover from it uh I think it's just a the final red line

17:41that would be crossed and uh the the madness of Christian Zionists

17:49who who believe that Christ supports genocide uh the madness of the people in

17:55this cult will no longer be able to carry the United States on the fan

18:00fanatics in power um I the world will turn against the United States in a way

18:05in which I think is just incomparable to what we have today but uh but in addition to that the

18:13United States you know you actually mentioned a couple of things a couple good footnotes actually come out of this one is the USS Vincent do you know

18:20anything about the ship i I'm sure you do just a little but I'll leave it to you

18:26it was the ship that it was the ship that downed an Iranian airline and murdering 291 people in the Persian Gulf

18:34in 1988 and the United States refuses refused until today to apologize for it

18:40so they they murdered 291 I think people uh I think that's the exact number uh

18:47and they lied about it in the UN security council uh back then Bush the

18:54father was the vice president he said I will never apologize and I think he went

19:00in the UN security council and said the the the airline the it was an Iran air

19:06plane it was moving towards the Vincent the pilot was saying we're going to do kill you it was not in the international

19:13corridor all of these were lies it was just an ordinary plane flying within

19:18that corridor going to Dubai carrying ordinary Iranians and they

19:24massacred so the USS Vincson has you know it Iranians have memories of that

19:32ship i think probably if there's war one of the first ships to be uh found at the bottom of the Persian Gulf or the Indian

19:40Ocean or the Red Sea will be the Vincent but um and we have to keep in mind that

19:48uh Iranian anti-ship missiles I know that they have a range of at least 2,200

19:55km 2,2,200 km i don't know if there if it goes more than that but uh the the

20:02United States would be vulnerable in the Red Sea they would be vulnerable in the Indian Ocean in the Eastern

20:09Mediterranean uh I mean look they can't defeat the They cannot defeat Ansar they

20:15cannot defeat Yemen they're bombing their water uh reserv uh you know their

20:22water assets they're they're they're bombing they're trying to deprive people of water why because they can't defeat

20:28them militarily they're striking civilian targets we all know that that's how inhumane they are but it shows that

20:34they can't beat them and is still firing missiles and drones and that's why the

20:40US aircraft carrier is in the north of the Persian Gulf and that's why they need a second carrier group now because

20:46they're running out of missiles to to to to bring down the drones and

20:52missiles very expensive drones and miss uh missiles uh anti- missile missiles very expensive

21:01so Anar is fighting firing high techch but cheap weapons and Americans are

21:08spending billions of dollars keeping those ships there and firing missiles to bring down these cheap

21:14drones it's not a success and Iran is infinitely more powerful than

21:21Yemen iran has been preparing itself for 20 years now and all of these regimes in

21:27the Persian Gulf they're a bunch of um glass palacists i mean

21:34if if the Americans really want to fight against Iran if I was in the Emirates or

21:41Bahrain or Kuwait or Gata or Saudi I'd lead

21:47now because they won't survive these are just tiny they're not even

21:55countries so and then imagine what would happen to the global

22:01economy so I don't I don't I I don't see how the Americans and if the Americans

22:07want to bomb Iran they're probably going to have to do it from Diego

22:14Garcia and that would be 5,000 km if I'm not mistaken it's not easy and Iran has

22:22a very powerful um air defense

22:27system now the Israelis can pretend that they destroyed it but if they had destroyed it they'd be bombing us every

22:32day i mean it's not as if the Israelis are shy about bombing countries go ask the

22:38Syrians go ask the Gazins the Palestinians if they could they

22:44would so and B-52s and B2s are you know if if if one of them are

22:51down then they are big targets and I don't think it'll be easy to have

22:58um uh escorts for them because the distance is so far it's going to be very

23:04difficult for the United States to carry out air strikes against Iran in other words and Iran has good air defense

23:11systems as I said but more importantly Iran's offensive capabilities are

23:16enormous and the region as I said before is full of glass

23:22palaces that's not going to end well for the United States it's not going to end well for anyone so again I I think that

23:29Iran has established a balance of terror but that means which means that

23:35basically in war everyone loses iran does not want war but Iran has prepared itself in a

23:42way in which it would ensure that the Americans would not win one final point and that is what Dr

23:50jani said a couple of days ago which is important and that is that he said on television that if the United States

23:55attacks Iran's nuclear facilities we will develop a nuclear weapon that was implied earlier by Dr

24:03kari who is another adviser to the leader but he didn't say it that way he

24:08said that Iran would uh what was it um I keep forgetting it would change its

24:14nuclear posture that's not what Dr he said he said we'll make a we'll make a we'll be forced to make a nuclear

24:19weapon we will make a nuclear weapon he says we don't want

24:26to and there are reasons for that but we will if that's if the United States attacks

24:32two other one one other thing that he said that didn't get noticed that much was that he said we have prepared

24:40ourselves for such a scenario and therefore if the United States attack

24:46peaceful nuclear program we won't be set back implying that we will be able to

24:53make a make nuclear weapons very swiftly with or without

24:59uh an attack now how is that how is that the case that's not for me to say but he's

25:07saying that rest assured we will have nuclear weapons and Iran of course has a very

25:13formidable missile defense and offensive capabilities so Iran and you know in

25:19today's world with AI and with a new technology you don't have to blow

25:25explode a nuclear weapon or nuclear device to test it simil with simulations

25:31simulations today can be done very easily so for Iran it's it's very simple

25:38but Iran doesn't want a nuclear weapon for two reasons what is ideological iran

25:43is against nuclear weapons during the Iran Iraq war when Saddam Hussein with Western support was

25:51using chemical weapons against his against Iranians and his own people and as you know I survived two chemical

25:58attacks in uh 1988 mustard gas and in 1984 a u a nerve

26:06agent and others didn't survive and others there many who are still dying slowly it's a very it can be a very slow

26:13death very very painful death that goes can go on for decades

26:19but um um senior officials went to see the

26:24leader and said we we shouldn't make chemical weapons and we have the capability and he said no it's a horrible weapon we shouldn't use it and

26:31another interesting point is that while we were uh the these civilized Europeans

26:36and these civilized North Americans were giving Saddam Hussein their buddy their ally back then chemical weapons and the

26:43political cover to use them and the military intelligence to use them they were also preventing Iran from

26:49purchasing gas masks that's how the west that's you

26:54know that's how civilized there so but Iran did not produce chemical weapons

27:01so when there is a fatwa uh they have to take it seriously

27:07in in Shia Islam they have to take it very seriously it's a moral issue

27:13however under circumstances extreme circumstances that

27:18can be reversed if the national if the nation's existence is at

27:24risk then circumstances change the second reason why Iran does not wants a

27:30nuclear weapon is that a nuclear weapon destabilizes the region you have Central Asia you have the Caucuses you have West

27:36Asia you have the subcontinent you have all these countries in the region

27:43big and small some of them family dictatorships some of them

27:48unstable you don't want an incentive for other countries to start developing nuclear weapons but it's not in Iran's

27:54interest to have it but Iran has that capability it is a

28:01threshold state why because the Americans have already threatened Iran with nuclear

28:07weapons hillary Clinton once threatened Iran one that a threat that I remember

28:13uh a previous French I'm not sure if it was Shira or if it

28:20was anyway uh uh or it was Mitan one of them

28:28threatened Iran with a nuclear weapon indirectly or in a subtle way and

28:33of course the Israelis are constantly threatening just during this holocaust one a government minister early on

28:38threatened the gazins with a nuclear weapon and Netanyahu on numerous occasions would go to their nuclear site

28:45and make threats to Iran which basically was clear what he was saying so being a

28:50threshold state gives you that security and Dr says that Iran if there if there is an attack Iran

28:58can swiftly make a so that is I think another incentive for the Americans not

29:05to behave stupidly if they don't want Iran to make a nuclear weapon then don't fight don't

29:11do anything stupid because Iran doesn't have an interest in having a nuclear weapon itself now to those many and many

29:19people are now saying Iran should have a nuclear weapon many across the world you'd be I mean you I mean I know you

29:26know but Iran is very popular nowadays across the world despite decades of uh

29:32misinformation and disinformation coming from the west and the region these Arab dictatorships they've been promoting

29:39sectarianism and and racial hatred for for many years

29:47uh to Saudi all these different Saudi TV stations

29:52deeply sectarian really filthy stuff for for many years and u the the west of course um

30:02anti-Iranian uh but despite all that today Iran has become very popular and

30:07people across the world are pushing and saying or you know some attacking me and saying why don't you build a weapon as

30:13if like I'm uh you know as if I'm in charge or I I'm in I have not you know as if I'm the one who decides what to do

30:20with Iran's nuclear program or others attack me or criticize me or push me to

30:25you know carry out true promise three as if I'm the guy who presses the button but the point is that a lot of people

30:32are looking to Iran now across the world it's amazing it's

30:38extraordinary how all decades of anti-Iranian propaganda have just melted

30:45away and anti-resistance and anti- Hezbollah and anti- Ansar and anti

30:51uh Hamas and Islamic Jihad and Iraqi popular mobilization for all that has

30:57melted away of course they're still trying you see these uh sectarian fanatics who still support ISIS and

31:03al-Qaeda and these uh and these people who are getting money from these oil and

31:09gas rich regimes uh or from Erdogan or someone you know these sort of people or

31:14the west USA and NE or whatever's replaced them uh that they still do

31:22their best to demonize and to antagonize Iran but um there are lots of people who say Iran

31:29should have a nuclear weapon and I think probably now the majority of Iranians believe we should have a nuclear weapon

31:35i haven't seen any the latest polls uh but the you know before it used to be somewhat evenly split i still believe

31:43that where we stand I think that large the position that Dr lari announced is a

31:49good one because I think that nuclear weapons is not a good thing and if possible if

31:57we don't have them if we don't need to have them so much the better but Iran is

32:04can can is can do it at whenever it wants and uh I think that creates an

32:12incentive for the Americans to think twice before being stupid although they can although the mechans are still

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