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Bringing you news from around the 🌍, we ask the questions mainstream media avoid. Hosted by Afshin Rattansi, broadcast globally. Our Channel: https://rumble.com/c/GoingUnderground
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‘I have no doubts that one of the goals of the US-Israel war on Iran was to divide the countries of the Persian Gulf and to divide Iran and its Arab neighbours.’ -Russia’s🇷🇺 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov A West Asia working together for economic development…
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Lindsey Graham on US-Israel war on Iran:

‘This is a religious war’

Republicans have gone from ‘no forever wars’ to waging religious wars, but Secretary Rubio accuses Iran of being the country run by ‘religious fanatic lunatics’.

Iran is being bombed into an apocalypse with schools, hospitals, and civilians being destroyed by US-Israel axis warplanes.

The GCC, a region focused squarely on economic development, modernisation, diversification, and becoming a powerful pole of the multipolar world, has to bear the harsh weight of an economic crisis if the war persists, because of a US foreign policy waged by messianic extremists and incompetent neocons.
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Reporter: 'Are you afraid of US invasion of your country?'

Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi: 'No, we are waiting for them. We are confident we can confront them, and that would be a big disaster for them.'

Iran knows a US invasion would be an instant years-long disaster which will cause Trump to face domestic discontent even worse than the final years of the Bush Administration.

A US invasion of Iran will be the US’ new Vietnam…or Afghanistan, or Iraq.
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Donald Trump DEMANDS involvement in selecting Iran’s new Supreme Leader:

‘They are wasting their time. Khamenei's son is a lightweight. I have to be involved in the appointment, like with Delcy Rodriguez in Venezuela.’

From ‘limited military operation with clear goals’ to trampling over all elements of Iranian sovereignty by demanding to select Iran’s next leader.

Trump claims to not be as stupid as past leaders, but he can’t point to a single time where the US attacked a country and was able to impose a new leader without mass bloodshed, repression, and fierce resistance.

How this can this be presented as anything but a severe betrayal to the MAGA movement?
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History you aren’t taught: The coup against Iran’s Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh by the CIA and MI6 in 1953

Mosaddegh had pursued nationalist policies and was widely-popular, having nationalised Iran’s oil to stop British exploitation of Iran’s natural resources. Winston Churchill considered Iranian oil to be Britain’s.

Contrary to the US’ and UK’s claims to promote democracy and freedom around the world, the US and UK backed The Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to overthrow Mossadegh and return Iran to authoritarianism, while being a compliant leader that followed Washington’s and London’s orders.

After the coup, Iran’s oil was once again privatised and divided up among the UK, US, and some European countries through a new oil consortium in 1954. 40% of the shares went to the British oil company BP. 5 American oil companies had significant stakes in the consortium.

The dictatorship of Pahlavi, enforced by the ruthless SAVAK, for Western oil companies to steal Iran’s oil, triggered such anger among the Iranian population that it led to the revolution in 1979, which gave birth to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The roots of the war on Iran today are the MI6’s and CIA’s attack on Iranian democracy in 1953…but the US and Israel claim to be perpetrating this destabilising and disastrous war to advance democracy and ‘freedom’.

History shows they are lying.
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War Secretary🇺🇸 Pete Hegseth:

‘US-Israel warplanes will bomb Iran and fly over Iran’s leaders, every minute of every day.’

The rest of the world, even including the US’ allies, view this as neocon insanity, and a bizarre celebration of death and destruction.

BRICS nations, and the wider global south must understand that US-Israel axis bombs could also fall on them every minute of every day if their leaders don’t submit to being obedient, loyal vassals of Washington.

Multipolarity cannot be realised if multipolarity isn’t defended from attacks by the declining hegemon.
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Reporter: 'Are you afraid of US invasion of your country?'

Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi: 'No, we are waiting for them. We are confident we can confront them, and that would be a big disaster for them.'

Iran knows a US invasion would be an instant years-long disaster which will cause Trump to face domestic discontent even worse than the final years of the Bush Administration.

A US invasion of Iran will be the US’ new Vietnam…or Afghanistan, or Iraq.
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The state of the ‘no more wars’, ‘anti-deep state’, ‘world peace’ Presidency:

-Trump became the first President to bomb 7 countries in just one year

-Venezuela bombed, President and First Lady kidnapped

-Disastrous and destabilising war begun with Iran, with no end in sight

-Requested Congress to approve a $1.5 trillion 2027 budget for the Department of War, approximately a 50% increase, and a major gift to the military-industrial complex

All of Trump’s many criticisms of regime change wars were lies to get votes.
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The state of the ‘no more wars’, ‘anti-deep state’, ‘world peace’ Presidency: -Trump became the first President to bomb 7 countries in just one year -Venezuela bombed, President and First Lady kidnapped -Disastrous and destabilising war begun with Iran…
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Vladimir Putin🇷🇺: MEN IN DARK SUITS RULE THE US🇺🇸

‘When a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, wearing dark suits. These people start explaining how things are done and instantly everything changes.’

The men in dark suits spoke to Trump, and told him war on Iran has been the plan since the Bush Administration, and that he better stick to the script.
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Vladimir Putin🇷🇺: MEN IN DARK SUITS RULE THE US🇺🇸 ‘When a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, wearing dark suits. These people start explaining how things are done and instantly everything changes.’ The men in…
New York Times analysis suggests that the Minab girls school massacre, which killed 165, was perpetrated by the US.

Your tax dollars and paying for the Epstein Class to bomb girls attending school. This same Epstein Class lectures the world on ‘human rights’.
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🚨The Washington Post reports that US officials say Russia🇷🇺 is helping Iran target US forces

Any surprise if true? When the US provided Ukraine missiles and selected the targets for Zelensky to strike inside Russia, Vladimir Putin warned that two could play at the proxy war game and that Russia could supply long-range missiles to the US’ adversaries in response.

Russia does not want to recklessly cause a World War, so isn’t supplying Iran with long-range missiles (yet), but is reportedly making the US pay a reciprocal price for the Ukraine proxy war by providing Iran targeting intelligence for its own long-range missiles.
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🚨Iran REJECTED mutual-defence pact with Russia🇷🇺. A FATAL mistake?

‘Russia and Iran do have a treaty on strategic partnership that was signed at the beginning of the year.

However, the treaty does not contain a clause that would have obligated the parties to come to the defence of each other in case either of them is attacked.

I believe that the Russians were proposing this clause when the treaty was being negotiated. But Iran at that time demurred.

I think they still put some weight on the potential outreach to the United States, to resume the nuclear talks with the US and get some agreement with the US, and maybe they thought that too close connection with Russia would not help them very much.’

-Dr. Dmitri Trenin, Member of Russia's Foreign & Defence Policy Council on Going Underground
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🇺🇸Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “The Indians🇮🇳 have been very good actors, we had asked them to stop buying Russian oil & they did…now we have given them PERMISSION to accept Russian oil.”

Who is the US to give ‘permission’ to India to buy oil from Russia? This statement alone will anger tens, if not hundreds of millions of Indians.

The US’ imperial arrogance, expressed either in bombs or words, increases anti-American sentiment around the world every more and more with every day that passes.
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🇺🇸Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “The Indians🇮🇳 have been very good actors, we had asked them to stop buying Russian oil & they did…now we have given them PERMISSION to accept Russian oil.” Who is the US to give ‘permission’ to India to buy oil from Russia?…
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Donald Trump: 'My father would tell me the most powerful lobby in this country is the Jewish lobby, it's the Israeli lobby. It's not that way anymore...you have a lot of people in Congress that don't like Israel.'

Will the ADL label Trump and his father as anti-Semites for talking about the power of the Israel lobby?
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🚨WAR ON IRAN: Afshin Rattansi vs Captain James Fanell on justifications for the US-Israeli crime of aggression

Capt. Fanell: ‘This is not new. Iran declared death to America in 1979 when they took our embassy, we lost 241 Americans in 1983.’

Afshin Rattansi: ‘That doesn’t really have anything to do with now. Surely you can detect that the Trump Administration mentioning that seems to be a belated attempt to justify the supreme crime of aggression?

Capt. Fanell: ‘I don’t forget these things, and the American people and military don’t forget these things.’

Afshin Rattansi: ‘Iran won’t forget the US supporting Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons attacks against Iranians, the US shooting down Iran Air Flight 655, or the Gaza genocide.

The Americans have negotiated with Iran while secretly thinking ‘we hate you’, what does that say about the progress of the war if the US’ motives are clouded by emotional history?’

Watch the full interview: https://rumble.com/v76ps68-war-on-iran-the-american-people-dont-want-this-war-afshin-rattansi-challeng.html?e9s=src_v1_cbl%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a
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🚨WAR ON IRAN: Afshin Rattansi vs Captain James Fanell on justifications for the US-Israeli crime of aggression Capt. Fanell: ‘This is not new. Iran declared death to America in 1979 when they took our embassy, we lost 241 Americans in 1983.’ Afshin Rattansi:…
US-Iran history they don’t teach you:

During the Iran-Iraq War, the US provided Saddam Hussein with battlefield intelligence while knowing Saddam was using chemical weapons against Iranians.

Two-thirds of all chemical weapons used by Iraq were used in the last 18 months of the war, when CIA-Iraq cooperation was strongest.

German companies were at the core of Saddam’s chemical weapons program. German firms helped construct facilities used in Iraq’s chemical weapons program under the guise of pesticide plants.

Germany supplied large quantities of precursor chemicals used to make mustard gas and nerve agents, and were one of the largest sources of technology and materials for the chemical weapons program.
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🚨Why did Iran DENY attacks on Gulf States’ oil facilities?

‘That’s a classic deception move to cause division inside your alliance…it shows, again, there’s some degradation to their understanding of what’s going on outside of their own borders.

They have been severely struck at the national leadership levels, the IRGC levels, and their understanding in command and control communications.

So we talk about the kinetic side of this, but really we also need to comment about cyber and space and what information is actually getting inside Iran.’

-Captain James Fanell, former Director of Intelligence and Informations Operations of the US Pacific Fleet

Watch the full interview: https://rumble.com/v76ps68-war-on-iran-the-american-people-dont-want-this-war-afshin-rattansi-challeng.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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🚨Why did Iran DENY attacks on Gulf States’ oil facilities? ‘That’s a classic deception move to cause division inside your alliance…it shows, again, there’s some degradation to their understanding of what’s going on outside of their own borders. They have…
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Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian APOLOGISES to Gulf States for attacks:

‘I would like to apologise to the neighbouring countries who have been attacked by Iran. We have no intention of transgressing into neighbouring countries, they are our brothers.

We made the decision yesterday in our temporary leadership council not to fire on neighbouring countries unless those countries want to attack us. This has been relayed to the armed forces.’
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WAR ON IRAN: Afshin Rattansi and Capt. James Fanell CLASH on US targeting civilians

Captain James Fanell: ‘The thousands of people that are being killed in Iran are not being killed by the American bombs. They’re being killed by the Iranian regime. We don’t target civilians.’

Afshin Rattansi: ‘We know that’s not true…that sounds a bit like it’s from the follies in Vietnam.’

Captain James Fanell: ‘No, we do not target civilians. I know that.’

Afshin: ‘Why did Pete Hegseth say repeatedly “we are investigating” when it came to the mass carnage at the elementary school in southern Iran?…there are hospitals and schools all across Iran that are being reportedly hit.

Why didn’t Hegseth admit it was a ‘mistake’? Why avoid the subject?’

Capt. Fanell: ‘He doesn’t know the facts, and he’s waiting for the facts to come in. It could be an errant weapon…we don’t know the details. What I said, and I’ll stand by it, because I did this as a target intelligence officer, we abide by the law of armed conflict. And we do not target civilian populations in any way, shape, or form.’

Afshin: ‘Seymour Hersh is a friend of the show. And I think we’ve seen the United States’ history on civilians targeting as anyone who’s read his books will know.’

Watch the full interview: https://rumble.com/v76ps68-war-on-iran-the-american-people-dont-want-this-war-afshin-rattansi-challeng.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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