Over the weekend, the United States and Israel launched joint military strikes on Iran, targeting its leadership, nuclear facilities, ballistic missile sites, and military infrastructure, and ignited an ongoing war, sparking Iranian retaliatory attacks across the region.
On this episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn Beck and his chief researcher, Jason Buttrill, break down the most important events, the intelligence behind the operation, the scale of military buildup leading up to the strike, and what could come next.
Turning to the standout moment of the strikes, Glenn emphasizes the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: “We knew exactly where this guy was … and we gave the information to Israel and said, ‘You want to go get that guy? Go get that guy,’ and they bombed precision, and it was remarkable what happened,” he says.
Although celebrations of Khamenei’s death as a potential step toward liberation are widespread among some Iranians and Iranian-Americans, they are deeply tempered by the devastating strike on a girls’ elementary school in southern Iran that killed over 150 people, predominantly young female students and staff.
The Iranian regime state media has framed the incident as a deliberate, blatant crime by the U.S. and Israel, but Glenn isn’t buying that narrative.
“Our military does not have evil in their hearts. We are not targeting schools. This is war,” he says, noting that sadly, “accidents do happen.”
President Trump, he says, “knows how to carry a very big stick,” and these military strikes on Iran are not only about toppling the regime and preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons; they’re also about sending a clear message to the world: “Don’t ever mess with them.”
“That’s how you keep the peace,” says Glenn.
Jason then displays a chart illustrating the massive scale of military firepower deployed in this operation.
“It is significant — more than we’ve seen in a very, very long time,” he says, calling the air and naval power involved “absolutely insane.”
Even though there have been no reports of special forces on the ground in Iran, Glenn speculates that it’s highly likely U.S. teams are operating there covertly.
“Anybody says we won’t have anybody on the ground … I find that highly unlikely because if there is nuclear material, we are going to have to get it out … to secure the nuclear facilities,” he explains.
“We saw this the last time when Israel and the United States struck the nuclear targets a few months ago. They had Israeli special forces on the ground picking targets out. I would assume there’s something similar to that,” adds Jason.
“There’s also the idea of what happens to a lot of these radicals as they try to flee out of the area. My guess is they’re probably gonna go to Iraq,” he continues.
Glenn acknowledges that “Iraq could become the next Iran” but emphasizes that we need time to observe the fallout from this military operation.
“Anybody who was definitively saying, ‘this is the greatest thing ever,’ or definitively saying, ‘this is the worst thing ever’ — they’re fools. Do not listen to them,” he urges. “This could be really, really good. This could be really, really bad.”
“What you have to ask is: Do you trust the person who is in command of this?”
To hear more of Glenn and Jason’s analysis, watch the video above.
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