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Welcome to today's Issues offering a Christian response to the issues of the day. Here's your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association. Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Today days, Monday, March 9, 2026. And we, thank you for listening to AFR. Joining me in studio for the show today is Tony Bagliano. Good morning, Tony.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Good morning.
>> Tim Wildmon: And Fred Jackson.
>> Fred Jackson: Good morning, Tim.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is just us three.
>> Fred Jackson: Just us three.
>> Tim Wildmon: Nobody is Frank Turk on Today or anybody. Just. So it's up to the, us three to carry the show.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Just the three of us.
>> Tim Wildmon: Just the three of us. yeah, it was a song. Said it was just the two of us.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Catch on to that.
>> Tim Wildmon: I think that was George Benson, but I'm not sure exactly who that was.
>> Fred Jackson: But he didn't say the Carpenters.
>> Tim Wildmon: No. Krish Woodward would be here to everything. Every time we have a 70s song and Krish has no idea who sing it, he jumps out there with the Carpenters hoping to impress. Yeah. And I'm going, no, that's Led Zeppelin.
>> Tony Vitagliano: well, that's, that's like my wife, My wife's a country music fan and so she, my m. Wife's a country music. You know, it was all old songs, new songs. So, she'll ask me, you know, who's. Do you know who this is singing when we hear. And of course, I have no clue. So, it's always Randy, Jack, Randy Travis. It's always my answer and sometimes I get it right.
>> Tim Wildmon: 10% chance getting it right.
Your dad tells the story Ed does about his dad growing up in Boston
All right, well, your dad told. Your dad tells the story Ed does about his dad, your grandfather growing up in Boston. And so they're NewSong Englanders. And your, your, your granddad would, he, he liked him some Hank Williams.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: I just thought that. It just sounds funny. It is a Boston guys tuning into, your Cheating Heart. Hank Williams. back in the, back in the day, when they called it country and western. That's like when they call it country and western. All right, thanks for listening everybody to the program. Fred, we got a lot happening in the news, right?
A seventh US Soldier has been killed in the Persian Gulf war against Iran
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, let's talk about first those who have given their lives from. In this battle so far. A seventh US Soldier now has been identified having been killed. this young man, Sergeant Benjamin Pennington, 26 years old, of Glendale, Kentucky, died from wounds over the weekend, after he was injured in the initial days of the attack. He was part of a contingent of our soldiers in Saudi Arabia. And of course, during the weekend, there was a return of the bodies of the six soldiers who died in Kuwait. So, this is something that we need to be mindful of, that we do have soldiers. and all seven of these died in the very initial hours, in the first 48 hours of this battle when Iran started firing missiles into those countries that are on the western side of the Persian Gulf. And that's going to be one of the big stories I think, coming out of this war is that Iran is isolating itself by attacking other countries in the Persian Gulf. something that you would not have heard of. But, let's remember the families of these, these, loved ones that have, have been paid the ultimate price. this young man, Sergeant Benjamin Pennington, was injured in the attack. But, just yesterday, these were
>> Tim Wildmon: the drone attacks by Iran or these missile attacks on a radio station.
>> Fred Jackson: Some of them have. Yeah, it's a combination of drone attacks and missile attacks. It just goes. And even this morning, just before we came on the air, the sirens were going off in Tel Aviv again, you know, over the weekend, Secretary of War Hegseth said at least 3,000 targets have been hit in the first week of this battle. But the Iranians still have a stockpile of missiles.
>> Fred Jackson: And they are still a factor to be dealt with. 3,000 sounds impressive. But it just goes to, Many people may think of Iran as somewhat unsophisticated, militarily speaking. Don't think that.
>> Tony Vitagliano: No.
>> Fred Jackson: It's a country of 90 million people. They have very smart people in their military.
>> Tim Wildmon: Except in their navy.
>> Fred Jackson: Except. Well, their navy isn't.
>> Tim Wildmon: Navy's at the bottom of the ocean.
>> Fred Jackson: It is. And also with regards to Israel, they are still facing missiles from Hezbollah in Lebanon, which has forced the Israeli army now to put boots on the ground, at least in southern Lebanon. so this is not over yet. Far from it. But you know, when I say we, the Trump administration is optimistic, they say they are doing well and whatever it takes, they will continue the battle until there is surrender.
>> Tim Wildmon: Let me ask you a question. if you guys know the Answer to this, is the United States flying sorties off our carriers or we only, firing from these, ships in the ocean and the Israelis are doing all the sorties.
>> Tony Vitagliano: I think it's a combination.
>> Fred Jackson: It's a combination. We use the carriers to launch our fighter jets.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: We have destroyers that are sending missiles in.
>> Tony Vitagliano: And we're also at this point probably flying, from our airfields in the surrounding allied nations, from our bases.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's why they're firing at them in Iran. Okay, so Iran fires that Saudi Arabia. This is where this young man was killed, right? That is, you mentioned earlier.
>> Fred Jackson: That is correct.
>> Tim Wildmon: So Saudi, Aran, at least initially was firing at our basis stationed in the Gulf, in that surrounding area of Iran, the Arab, mostly Arab country, states Dubai, Saudi Arabia, the uae. and so I'm assuming Iran would say, okay, well you're allowing the US to bomb us from your country. You're fair game.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Don't you think that's what the.
>> Tony Vitagliano: I think that's what they're, Yeah, I think that's their mentality is just to lash out as a final gasp, lash out at whoever they can to try and inflict whatever damage they can. you know, from the reports I've heard, just from comments from the Trump administration and military officials, we've, we've pretty much fred. Established aerial control, over a good chunk of Iran at least I don't know about the entire country. So right now the, the, it's just a matter of playing whack a mock a mole, so to speak. Anytime one of these launchers pops up, you know, and starts shooting, ballistic missiles or, starts, you know, launching drones for incursions, it's just a matter of getting air, air support over there to, to kind of bomb them and take them out. But like you said, they've. They had such a stockpile, just preparing for this moment for decades, that it's gonna, it is gonna take some time to clear.
>> Tim Wildmon: How long does the, how long does they keep going though? Because yes, they might have a stockpile, but their country's been absolutely devastated. I mentioned the Navy, Iranian navy is, been wiped out. I don't know how many ships, ah, dozens and dozens of ships have been just. And they just seem to be offering no real strategic response to the United States, Navy over there. I mean, nobody's, nobody's hit our battleships or our carriers. they just seem to, they seen it. They seem, unable or ill equipped or inept. I'M not sure what the right to respond to the U.S. I know that the U.S. brought overwhelming military, but you're, you're on their home turf. Yeah, the Iranians. But the Israelis came over with 200 jets, I read, and just swarmed them.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: And just And now an oil refinery has been hit over there. Did you guys see this? M. Now this brings up a very interesting question because you have to say, well, what's your now what is your end goal? Okay, what's the end game?
Tony Ahmadinejad: Iranian regime signals it's gearing up for more repression
You mentioned whack. A mole, Tony.
>> Tim Wildmon: now we have the newest mole is the Atolla. His son. What's. What's his name?
>> Fred Jackson: Most hump and most Tomba Khomeini.
>> Tim Wildmon: And he's been elected the new leader.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, I don't know if that's a good thing these days.
>> Tim Wildmon: I wouldn't want to be. I would just listen. I was talking to somebody yesterday and we were texting back and forth. My brother, we can be rather cynical. And he, I said, you know, if I'm this new fella, the son of the Ayatollah, I m would have just said listen guys, I am young and inexperienced.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: I am ill qualified for this job, but I appreciate your confidence in me, but I'm just going to have to decline. And I got out. I got a bad back at this. I'm not good. I want to have to refuse. It's not that I'm worried about being targeted in the next 55 minutes by the US or the Israelis. Yeah, my lifespan is about you know, an hour and a half from now. Go ahead, Tony.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Yeah, no, no, I know at this point it probably is like being in a room and everybody draws straws and I think this guy probably drew the short straw. And yeah, I mean it. You know, with the air defenses pretty much wiped out for Iran, I, you know, Israel, and the Mossad and their special forces in the idf, they were capable of infiltrating before.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tony Vitagliano: When Iran was intact. They're going to have even more infrastructure, infiltration, ability now that their defenses have been degraded so much. So I don't think they'll have any problem tracking this guy down, locating him, if he's even worried at this point.
>> Fred Jackson: You know, we heard this morning on our newscast from Dr. Ramesh Shepard of the Organization of Iranian American Communities and says, he says this new guy will be no more popular than the last one. Cut number three.
>> Speaker E: I think we've made a full circle back to the 1979, where the struggle hasn't finished. Because right now, what we saw and what we see with Mostabahe is now the Ayatollah King of Iran. And this is why the Iranian people are in the streets and have been in the streets shouting, down with the dictators, be it the king or the Ayatollah. So, and last night, even people took to the streets saying, down with Mujtaba. So I think the message here is that the regime has signaled the world that it's going to gear up for more repression. IRGC is going to gear up for more terrorism. And this is a full message of, delegitimized regime that has been weakened at home and has been rejected in its entirety by the people of Iran. Nothing comes out of this regime that will be in favor of the Iranian people. And that's why we have to shift our focus to their call for regime change.
Tony Frum: President Trump and Secretary of War have been asked about ground invasion
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, and that's, you know, we're getting to the point fairly quickly, I might add, to, okay, what is the end game? President Trump, our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, have been asked about this. What is the end game? President Trump in particular is coming around as saying, well, there's got to be a change in leadership. although initially on the front end of this talk was to make sure Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons, but now it is coming down to there's got to be a change in leadership in this. So, last evening, the Secretary War, Pete Hegseth, was on cbs. he was asked by reporter Major Garrett about the talk about boots on the ground. Here's what he had to say. Cut number six.
>> Steve Hilton: People ask boots on the ground. No boots on the ground. Four weeks, two weeks, six weeks. Go in. Go in. President Trump knows. I know. You don't tell the enemy, you don't tell the press. You don't tell anybody what, what your limits would be on an operation. We're willing to go as far as we need to in order to be successful. Do we have any overt or covert forces inside Iran now? I wouldn't tell you that if we did. Only reason I ask is earlier this week, you said no. Is that still the answer? Yeah, that's still the answer, but we reserve the right. We would be completely unwise if we did not reserve the right to take any particular option, whether it included boots on the ground or no boots on the ground.
>> Fred Jackson: President Trump was asked the same question on Air Force One last night. Initially said no, but then. So there's they're hedging their bets. They don't want to be tied, their hands tied. But this would be a different message than what we heard at the beginning of this. No boots on the ground.
>> Tim Wildmon: I, don't see that happening. I can understand the answer by Pete Axith and President Trump because he's right. You don't want to tip off the Iranian regime, with what you're going to do or what you're taking off the table. Because if they go sit in the room and they go, well, the Americans said they're not bringing in troops, so we can. We don't have to plan for that. See what I'm saying? But at the same time, I think it would be a disaster, except for maybe some special ops situation where you're in and out in an hour or two for a particular, particular, you know, mission, but not. Not bringing in waves like, you know, Normandy or something like that to, storm the shores of Iran. Tony?
>> Tony Vitagliano: Yeah, I agree. I will say this, though. I think, in my opinion, the longer that this continues and the longer the Iranian regime stays in power and maintains its control over the country, it seems to me that that would increase the odds of there needing to be some type of, ground incursion. and I think that's why the Trump administration, Pete Hegseth himself, are kind of hedging. They were kind of hedging themselves because it just, it. There's only so much you can do if no one, if there isn't a coup in the irgc, if the people aren't able to push, you know, this, oppressive regime out without weapons right now, that's how they're protesting. then there would be no way to topple it completely. and the time frame, I don't know if we would wait for the time frame for it to collapse in on itself. That, to me, the longer it goes on, I'll just. Longer goes on. It seems more likely that we are involved on the ground at some level, whether it's Special Forces, like you said, or, you know, hopefully never some type of full ground invasion. But.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're listening to the radio program Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for joining us.
Tim Ferriss: Some in the Trump administration are resisting the word war
I'm Tim with Tony and Fred. About this situation with our. I call it a war. I call it a war with a small W. Because it's not an officially declared war that we have here. Some would call it a conflict. I don't know, what do we call Vietnam anyway? I don't know what we call that. You know. You know, I'm saying some, some. Some in the Trump administration are resisting the word.
>> Tony Vitagliano: The military operation.
>> Tim Wildmon: Military operation. Yeah. But war is what's going on with the capital. I m mean, with a small W, at least. So, here's a situation. I'll try to put it so the average person out there can understand it, because I'm an average person, and I understand it. I think what you got going on here, you have a stalemate. The regime, the ayatollah and the mullahs, the religious Islamic leaders who control the country of Iran and have since the Shah was overthrown in 79, they still have control of the people who carry guns. Okay. The people who carry guns are in the streets monitoring, and suppressing any kind of, an uprising. How do they do that? Well, they shoot people dead.
>> Fred Jackson: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: They come out of their house, they say, hey, I'm against the regime. Okay, you're dead. Yeah. Maybe your family. This is how totalitarian, governments, dictatorships operate. And this is no different. And have throughout history, you know, you just use physical intimidation. It's like a mob runs a neighborhood. You know? You know, you're gonna. You're gonna oppose the mob. You're gonna be sleeping with the fishes. Right? That's what they say. So you got the same situation. So, the people that went out and protested, they got so angry and so mad at the people at. At the. I told the regime that many of them lost their lives because they were some. Report 30,000 people were killed in the last six months trying to resist. So they don't have guns? No, they don't have organization. Now. The Internet's been turned off over there by the regime, so they're in the dark unless they have, you know, some kind of special way to get around that. I know that Elon Musk offered his. Our link Starlink to help some of them out, the people in Iran. So they can't. It's hard for them to organize is what I'm going to say. And when they do organize, they better not be found out by the regime. So while the regime, the Islamic Ayatollah, the regime is, Yes, they are. They've been decapitated, so to speak, by the United States and the Israelis in terms of so many of their leaders. but their military, as I say, they still have guns, and they're still answering to, excuse me. They're still taking orders from the mullahs. The ayatollah. So it's a situation where maybe, it'll reach critical mass between the people and the regime, and then you'll have a bloody civil war out on the streets in Tehran. Right now, I was reading about. The people there basically are. They're. They're. They're, They're glad that the regime is gone. The masses are. But they still in fear because they were saying we. Basically, I read a firsthand account of this from an Iranian living there. They said, we're glad the Americans and Israelis did what they did. but it's still a situation where we go to the store, we get our groceries, and we come home and we stay inside. Because it's kind of like Covid, except in this situation, there are men roaming the streets with guns. And if there's any sign of an uprising or if they. You have a hint of you being in support of overthrowing the regime, you're a target by the military, slash secret police or open police. And, so that's the situation. And again, I don't know where that. That's a tension that exists that's gonna have to, express itself, you know, and solve itself in some way soon, seems to me.
President Trump said there will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender
>> Fred Jackson: Well, Pete Hexseth, in that interview last night, with cbs, basically said nothing less than unconditional surrender. Cut number five.
>> Steve Hilton: President said recently there will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender. What does that look like, unconditional surrender? How will you know it's real? It means we're fighting to win. It means we set the terms. We'll know when they're not capable of fighting. There'll be a point where they'll have no choice but to do that. Whether they know it or not, they will be combat ineffective. They will surrender. Typically, the understanding of a surrender is person to person. Is that what would be required in a matter like this? Well, there's a lot of different ways. Whether they want to admit it or not, whether their pride lets them say it out loud or not. it's. President Trump will set the terms of that.
Your assessment of the, the stalemate right now is probably close to reality
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, one other thing, then I promise you guys can talk on m. This show. You could. This, Ayatollah. Ayatollah is really a word that means supreme leader, right? Yeah. The new one is the son of the one that, the Israelis killed, a week or so ago on day one.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so this fellow's name is Kamini, too?
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is that a title or is that a last name? Do you know? I think that's a title, to add. Do you know, do you guys know. Okay, so Ayatollah, and he, how old is he? Like, he looks like it was 50.
>> Fred Jackson: He's in his 50s. And.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, if he doesn't surrender and he's going to be killed because, there's nobody acceptable to President Trump except somebody who is going to reject, reject the molos and the teachings of the.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: that he expresses. And so I don't know how this is going to work. you know how we seem, as I mentioned, we seem to be at a, at a, impasse.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Yeah. For, for informational purpose. Camine is a last name. It is the last, it is the last name. So that, that family, the Kamine family is. Okay, I guess, who's maintained that, that position of authority.
>> Tim Wildmon: He holds the same views as his dad did.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And, and, and, and we just, we just killed him and a lot of his leadership. So. Go ahead.
>> Tony Vitagliano: It's. To me, you're right. Your, your assessment of the, the stalemate right now, is, is probably close to reality. the reality of the situation, it's, to me, it would take to break that stalemate. It's going to take some form of military coup. It's going to take somebody a. The majority of the irgc, the lower ranking officers.
>> Tim Wildmon: The military turns on Khomeini.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Yes. And says, enough, we're not doing this.
>> Tim Wildmon: Then you deal with the military down.
>> Tony Vitagliano: We're not cracking down on civilian protests anymore. And that's when you get that, that kind of springing of democracy. Until that happens, the reality on the ground is people aren't going to come out and protest like they did in mass, earlier because number one, you got people walking the streets shooting people on sight. Number two, it is dangerous. I mean, there are airstrikes coming into Tehran still. You know, you don't want mass casualty events. you don't want to put yourself in danger economically.
>> Tim Wildmon: The price of oils, we're going to talk about that. Yep. The price of oil is up to 100 over $100 a barrel. And what does that mean for the gas prices at the pump for Americans?
>> Fred Jackson: I can tell you.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, we'll be back. We'll be back and talk about that because I know the stock market is,
>> Tony Vitagliano: that's not a positive teaser, friend.
>> Tim Wildmon: The stock market's kind of nervous right now too as well, so.
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>> Tim Wildmon: So I went and bought me a couple barrels of oil
>> Tony Vitagliano: before or after
>> Tim Wildmon: I went down to the oil store. They're like three, they're like $100 for a barrel. So I'm going to go home and refine it and start save on gasoline.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Refine, Tony, it sounds like right now
>> Tim Wildmon: you'll come over and help me refine it.
>> Tony Vitagliano: anyway, got YouTube videos. Show me how to refine.
>> Tim Wildmon: Do it yourself or refinery. Oh my goodness. Well, I tell you what is no joke and that is this price of oil, which I don't follow or quite frankly understand except that I do know when they say oil goes over $100 a barrel, that means eventually in the next week or two or three. Here comes the, price increases for people at the pump. Fred, is that what you said?
>> Tony Vitagliano: I wish, I wish it would take
>> Fred Jackson: where I get my gas. Ok. A little store called Sam's. Yeah, it's, it's up about 50
>> Tim Wildmon: cents since last, since the war started.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, about 50 cents.
>> Tim Wildmon: Conflict. Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. And I passed by another gas station in the mornings now on the way to work and it's about, yeah, 50, 60 cents there. So that's what. And where we live here in Mississippi, it's still pretty low. Have you seen some of the prices like in California, what they're paying? I haven't and other, other states are up around $6 a gallon now already.
>> Tim Wildmon: What?
>> Fred Jackson: Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: $6 a gallon for gas. Where is that?
>> Fred Jackson: There's, I'm just watching it, on our TV monitors here. Some of them are 5, 5:50, that we're looking at. But here's we, we listened this morning to an interview with our Energy Secretary Krish Wright. Here, here's. It's not that there is a shortage, he says, of oil and gas. It is just the industry is nervous. It's like the stock market, it hates instability and so the industry is nervous about things. So have a listen to the Energy Secretary. Krish Wright says there's plenty of oil in the pipeline cut.
>> Speaker C: Eight energy markets are massively well supplied right now.
>> Fred Jackson: In fact the run up in prices has nothing to do with any shortage
>> Speaker C: of barrels of oil or natural gas. It's just fear and perception, the unknown that this could be some long, you know, drawn out crisis. But it won't be. This is a disruption on the way to a much better place to end a 47 year war against America.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, I think what is a 20% of the world's oil supply comes out of the Persian Gulf.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: But you know, we can take a quick look back in recent history. Venezuela pipelines are now opened up. Yeah, you know that's, that's amazing. the sequence of events and I've often been wondering, you know, was there in some room at the White House, the president sits down, you know, early on in this second administration, says at this date we're going to do this. At this date we're going to do this. Venezuela had to come before this.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: You know, and so on and so on. The people that are really hurting from this, you're talking about China in particular. Yeah, China is hurting because of this.
>> Tim Wildmon: I haven't heard anything out of them. Are they complaining?
>> Tony Vitagliano: I think they've made, they made statements before.
>> Tim Wildmon: Usually they're against whatever the US is doing militarily.
>> Tony Vitagliano: I'm sure they made a statement against the operation. But you know, the other thing people have to realize too is the point about this being just solely based off of headlines. I tend to agree with that is, is most of the oil that Iran was producing and sending out was trying to get around was to their allies, you know, like China. and it was done via ah, shadow, shadow fleets because they were so heavily sanctioned before. It's not like we were getting Iranian oil, you know, here in the United States or other countries were getting, you know, who were our allies were getting Iranian oil. They've been sanctioned for years at this point.
The accusation is being made that Russia's helping Iran militarily
>> Tim Wildmon: All, right, let me ask you guys this question. Russia. The accusation is being made that Russia's helping Iran. Yes, militarily. And, you know, the question about that is, well, is that true and if so, what we plan to do about it, if anything. United States of America. And secondly, I, don't understand the connection between Russia and Iran because Iran is an Islamic, Shia, a Shia Islamic religious, state. And that's what they promote. That's why the pagans, in their. In their views, or the religious, the, heretics in their view, would be the Great Satan and the little Satan that is Israel and the United States. I'm talking about from the Iranian perspective. M. And Russia would. Russia's no friend of Iran in the sense that they have anything politically, ideologically, compatible, except I guess they're. They're both, at war against the. The west, so to speak. Is that. Is that you guys? M. Why would. Why would Russia. What would Russia benefit from helping Iran? They got their own problems with the Ukraine war. Tony, figure out that geopolitical problem right there.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Well, I think it's a matter of it simply being the enemy of my enemy is my friend. So Russia has been isolated, from the west, you know, for. For so long that they have had to look for allies elsewhere. And they've cozied up to Iran and China as their primary allies. And yeah, though they're not aligned ideologically, the relationship they have was won out of probably, in their view, necessity. So we also have allies. I mean, we can't deny we have allies who aren't ideologically aligned with us. I mean, we're allies with the Saudis, for instance. I mean, so some of that is out of, a necessity. But what this looks like going forward, what the relationship between Russia and Iran looks like going forward, I don't know. You know, once this regime collapses, you know, we're going to collapse, you'd think. I don't see. I don't see Russia having a whole lot more to do with Iran. yeah, going beyond this, our ambassador
>> Fred Jackson: to the un, Micah Walsh, talked about this issue of Russia being now involved with this conflict. Cut number seven.
>> Steve Hilton: Russia has now lost its largest manufacturer and supplier of drones, the, ah, Shahid drones that have been so devastating. Oh, by the way, so have the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas and everyone else. Russia's also lost, a supplier of ballistic missiles, so that symbiotic relationship has to break. special envoy Witkoff has delivered a very tough message. and at the, at the end of the day, this, you know, kind of axis of evil is going to be broken. Iran is no longer going to be a threat and no longer going to be a supplier to China and Russia.
>> Tim Wildmon: You mean Iran sells weaponry to Russia?
>> Tony Vitagliano: Oh, yeah, they've been doing that since the beginning.
>> Tim Wildmon: I thought it was the other way around.
>> Fred Jackson: No, real cheap, real cheap.
>> Tony Vitagliano: The Shahid drones, these drones compared to
>> Fred Jackson: a missile are dirt cheap.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: And so Russia's been running out of weapons. So they're. Iran has been supplying them.
>> Tim Wildmon: And we just, sank their big battleship out there that was loaded down with these drones.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tony Vitagliano: You're looking at the Shahid drones. I've seen different.
>> Tim Wildmon: What are they called?
>> Tony Vitagliano: Shahid drones, you know, 20 to 30,000 to produce one versus trying to shoot it down with a missile that cost, you know, $3 million. So the math there was obvious for someone like Iran, to mass produce these drones. And, you know, Russia, I'll say this too, one last thing. Russia, that's the reason why I think they'll kind of drift away from Iran as this conflict drags on is because now Russia benefits as being one of China's primary sources of oil. with, you know, the straight of Hormuz in conflict and Iran, being weakened. So Russia, you know, I could see them drifting away from Iran as this drags on just because they're benefiting from it.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, you're listening to today's issues. What you got next, Fred? Well, anything else?
Tim Ferriss: President Trump and British Prime Minister disagree on Iran issue
>> Fred Jackson: Just one more thing on this front. the, Krish, Starmer, who is the Prime Minister of uk he is off President Trump's Christmas list.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Doesn't, take much.
>> Fred Jackson: President Trump is not happy, with Starmer. You remember first going off. Starmer, denied, the United States use of their base, in the Indian Ocean. I remember that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I remember that. Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Back a couple weeks ago now. And, so President Trump was not happy with that. Now, recently, recently, the Prime Minister Starmer there in the UK said, okay, he's getting some pressure there, some international pressure. Here's what we'll do. We'll send, we'll send you a couple of our aircraft carriers into the area. And basically President Trump said, no, thank you. if you're going to help us, you got to do it right from the beginning. Coming in after we've done most of the dirty work, is not acceptable. So they had apparently a very terse conversation over the weekend. It did not go well.
>> Tony Vitagliano: I can only imagine.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, Trump told him, we already won. We don't need your help.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, that's right.
>> Tony Vitagliano: So, you know, do you think, Tim, do you think that this has anything to do. Because the first thing that came to my mind was why Keir Starmer would kind of flip flop on this is because you think I'd have anything to do with the fact that there is a large percentage of Muslims, within the UK who often are, you know, go out on the streets and, start burning things down. think that factors in at all.
>> Tim Wildmon: Good. Factor in. Yeah. Okay. So I. Okay. I'm gonna offer a, alternative, observation. but I don't necessarily believe what I say that makes sense. I'm going to play the devil's advocate. Can I play devil's act? I've often said I don't think that's appropriate on Christian radio, but I'm going to do it anyway. So we're going to play the adversarial, role here. Yeah, there we go. If you're the, if you're the Prime Minister of the UK as a sovereign country, yes, it's our chief ally in the world other than Israel. But if they say, listen, United States, you can do what you got to do, but don't drag us into this thing because we don't agree with going to war with Iran, okay, if that's the case, then why would you say. But here, use our, use our bases to launch your war against Iran that we don't want any part of. And now they're going to say, Iran is going to say, well, wait a minute. You said you're not a part of this, but here you are letting the Americans attack us from your military bases so they can reach our, our targets, the targets that they have for us. So I can see if the Prime Minister of the UK doesn't. He's not saying, I'm just not a puppet of the United States. We have our own, Our people have their own desires. And I'm not, I'm not. They're saying that they don't want us to go to war. So you see what I'm saying. I could understand that. but you, but then, then you got to consider, well, we're going to have to play the political price for that because you know who we're dealing with. Know who we're dealing with. We're dealing With Trump. President, Trump. And he has, a tendency, his personality type is to hold grudges. And and when he does hold a grudge, he holds it for a long time, usually until you tell him that you're. You're the greatest president in the history of the world. Right. And then we'll get back in with his good graces. But I mean, do you see the perspective. I do see the perspective of the UK Prime Minister. If he's only responding to the, to, to his people's wishes and desires, does that make sense?
>> Fred Jackson: Well, I think Tony hit the nail on the head too. There are over 4 million Muslims now.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: there are six living in the UK at night.
>> Fred Jackson: You've got, six or seven of the major British, cities now have Muslim mayors. so they are a force to be dealt with.
>> Tim Wildmon: Are we going to have any Brits left in 25 years, 50 years?
>> Tony Vitagliano: We got to find anybody still do something about it.
>> Fred Jackson: That's right.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Yeah. There's, there's also, to me, I think, our perspective. I mean our, I mean the, the United States foreign policy. The reason why we've frowned on this is because of the inconsistency from Keir Starmer on. Okay, you, you have. There's been no shortage of desire to keep fighting this Ukraine war. I mean, you've been sending armaments, you've been sending whatever logistics, whatever you can to help Ukraine fight Russia, who is an ally of Iran. Why now do you have some form of hesitancy in supporting us when we're going after one of Russia's, primary allies? There's just not. And I think, and aside from the, 4 million Muslims in your own country, aspect. I think also, I think they were. Just wanted to see how it went. I don't think they thought we would be able to do what we did as quickly as we did to, Iran. So now that, you know, now that the corn has been planted and the ground tilled, you know, and it's coming up, they, you know, the UK wants to step in and, and eat something. There's your pig. Will and pig won't.
The native Europeans in Western Europe are being taken over by Muslim immigrants
>> Tim Wildmon: They also had, Was it Cyprus or was it, one of those islands in the Mediterranean that Brits had?
>> Tony Vitagliano: It's Cyprus.
>> Fred Jackson: Cyprus, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: They were attacked.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Was that confirmed that they.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, because they're attacked by Iran.
>> Fred Jackson: Believe it or not. Macron, I think, is heading to Cyprus today. The French leader just, now there's
>> Tim Wildmon: a rock right there. I don't mean Iraq I mean, a rock of. Talk about a man with a spine of steel.
>> Fred Jackson: That's
>> Tim Wildmon: France.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: In the finest tradition of the French.
>> Tony Vitagliano: I wasn't gonna make the joke.
>> Fred Jackson: Living up to the reputation. You know, at one point, I think on the weekend, President Trump referred to Starmer as he ain't no Winston Churchill. I think, in President Trump's mind, he's more of a Neville Chamberlain.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. But you know, it is a real problem in Europe and, it's sad to say, and I don't know what's going to be the long term result, politically of, But, most Americans don't realize because they don't travel to Europe, but the Europeans, the native Europeans, they're not having children. The birth rate all over. At least Western Europe. Maybe it's different in Eastern Europe. At least in Western Europe. And I'm talking about Greece and Italy and Switzerland and Germany and France and UK and the Scandinavian countries. that's what, that's the, that's the Western.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Europe, Spain. They're not having babies. Okay. Over there, those people. Well, the Muslims have moved in from North Africa and from the Middle east and guess what? They are having babies. A lot of them. And so you do that math from a few decades out and you're not going to have any native. The native, Europeans are going to be taken over by the Muslims who
>> Tony Vitagliano: have immigrated and those, and those babies consequently are raised to hate the country that they're living in. And I mean that's, that's just the fact. Or ideologically, which is ironic because they move there.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know you guys are going to disagree with me on this. Probably. I think the motives for people moving to Europe from the Middle east and Northern Africa are not to take over the continent. that's why people don't get on a boat and go, you know, I can't wait for my fourth generation.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: To take over Europe.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, most of them are getting on the boats or crossing, the Mediterranean or getting to Europe from the Arab, world over there, the Muslim world, because they want a better life.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: They don't want to live under the suppression. And they see that people are making money and there being a lot of social welfare programs in, in wealthy Western Europe countries. what, this is what they would view it. So it's better to go there. And so now some of them, yeah, they're coming to, you know, try to establish a caliphate. That is a Muslim domination. But I don't think that's the case for most of them, but still the net effect is over time is you become a mall. You become a Muslim culture with the. Because that's when you get, France is already like 10 or 11%. Right, well, percent Muslim, you mentioned how many. And I don't know what. The UK is probably 5% or more. So you're talking about, the end of. Seriously, 100 years from now. I don't even know if we'll have Irish or British or Spaniards. If they do, they're going to be a little, Little enclaves.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Well, then an important note on that is they are. Yeah, a lot of them are fleeing bad situations, you know, terrible economies, terrible, terrible run countries. And they are coming for a better life, to these Western European countries, but they're not coming to embrace the ideas that caused, these Western. That, that was responsible for these Western countries being prosperous. So they want the prosperity and the wealth that comes from it, but they reject the ideas of Western civilization completely. And in matter of fact, their own ideology dictates that over time, we must make these Western countries submit, to the Quran and the will of Allah, their God. So that is.
>> Tim Wildmon: That is the history of Islam, if you look back through it. It's the religion of the sword. Right? Right. Okay. That's how. That's how you converted. You die. That's how basically they. Your dad knows all this history so well, he can articulate it, but he knows the history of Islam and how they have, you know. Have they. How they. How they convert.
>> Tony Vitagliano: They operate.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. How they operate.
Fred Cannon: Two men tossed improvised explosive devices during a New York protest
All right, you're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. Go ahead, Fred.
>> Fred Jackson: Well, you may not have heard because of so much going on in the news, but there was a terrorist attack in this country this weekend.
>> Tim Wildmon: Where?
>> Fred Jackson: In NewSong York City.
>> Tim Wildmon: NewSong York City.
>> Fred Jackson: NewSong York City.
>> Tim Wildmon: What happened there, Fred?
>> Fred Jackson: Well, there was, what's being called a Stop the Islamic takeover of NewSong York City protest. I was there, headed up by what's called, ah, an influencer, Jake Lang. he's a J. Sixer, but he was there. Some people say he was there to protest that in some parts of NewSong York City. Now they are doing the call of prayer over speakers. Anyway, the protest was peaceful up to the point where two young men who have now been arrested. Their names are Imar Ballet and Ibrahim Kayoumi. and they tossed IEDs. fortunately, nobody was hurt. That's improvised explosive devices. They have nails and other debris inside. These bombs could have caused a lot of injury fox's legal analyst Greg Jarrett was asked about this this morning, and he says there is no question what happened in NewSong York on the weekend was terrorism cut number 10.
>> Speaker C: Well, under law, Brian, this absolutely qualifies as an attempted act of terrorism, particularly since the suspects reportedly confessed to police they were inspired by isis, and their use of an ID is identical to what terrorists use. An incendiary liquid surrounded, as you point out, by nuts, bolts, and screws that would cause mass casualties. Apparently, the compound in the bombs has been identified as tatp that is typically used by jihadists. And of course, on video, somebody yelling Allah, Akbar again is signature of Islamic terrorists before a deadly attack. So the FBI has properly taken the lead here. They're looking into the suspects overseas travel. Both men spent time in Istanbul last year, one in Saudi Arabia. Perhaps they were elsewhere in the Middle East. And the question is, did they train there or connect with known terrorist groups?
>> Fred Jackson: But, yeah, they arrested these guys, at least one of them in Pennsylvania. Now, it was interesting how Mayor Mandani, reacted to all of this Greg Jarrett talked about.
>> Tim Wildmon: He's a Muslim himself.
>> Fred Jackson: He's a Muslim. he called the Jake, Lang a white supremacist, but didn't talk about terrorism cut number nine.
>> Speaker C: I agree. It's so striking that Mandani immediately calls out, by name the man who organized the protest over public Muslim prayer and denounced him as a white supremacist. Yet the mayor would not describe the suspect to bomb the protest and kill people. You know, there's a. There's a big difference between a peaceful protester and suspected jihadists who try to kill innocent people. And so that is selective outrage. And, of course, it comes on the heels of the discovery that Mondani's wife liked numerous Instagram posts celebrating the October 7 Hamas attack in Israel. She seemed to justify it, and then the mayor dismisses it, saying, well, she's a private person. Well, no, you're not. If you're publicly glorifying the slaughter of 1200 people, including 46 murdered Americans, and. And 12 who were taken hostile hostages. Let's not forget that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, listen, you don't want that. the fellow who was there leading the protest, he only had a handful of folks.
>> Tony Vitagliano: Right?
>> Tim Wildmon: Now, people are maybe getting confused about what the protest here. There was a guy. I forgot his name.
>> Fred Jackson: Jay Clone.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. He had a few people there, and he was protesting Islamic, public prayers over the loudspeakers, right?
>> Fred Jackson: Correct.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is he live in NewSong York?
>> Fred Jackson: I'm not sure if that's okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: But anyway, I'm with him on that because you don't want that. It's. It's. You hear that in Jerusalem? That's the. In Muslim countries, they have this five times a day, these loudspeakers with these wailing men's voices. and it's just. It's. It's not. You don't want that.
>> Fred Jackson: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: First of all, violates noise ordinances, but, it's there to promote Islam. And I, don't know this fellow who held this rally, but the people came to protest him are the ones who committed the acts of violence because they were the ones throwing. Using the IEDs. And the controversy is here. The mayor won't condemn the Muslims who were throwing IEDs, but he only singles out this fella, because he is, quote, white supremacist, which I don't. Where did that come from? He's opposing a Muslim public prayer, not advocating for white supremacy. We'll be back momentarily.
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