Hey there, folks. Welcome to the Eric Metaxis show. I'm going to be playing the role of Eric

Pataxis. I apologize in advance. A lot of big news. Big, big, big news. In a moment, I'm going to be

speaking with Dr. Hormoz Shariat. He is the head of Iran Alive Ministries.

He has been ministering, bringing Jesus to the people of Iran.

He is himself, Iranian Persian, for many, many years, very, very effectively.

We're going to be talking to him about what is going on in Iran in just a moment.

And of course, that's the headline news.

But the problem on a daily today is there's another headline.

As you know, we're're having it looks to me like a civil war it looks to me like blue state governors uh blue state mayors whatever have fired on fort sumter

they have challenged the federal government openly brazenly uh people always talk about, it's going to be a constitutional

crisis. This is a constitutional crisis when you have people that don't understand how things work

and they're seeing if they can get away with it. Yesterday, in a particularly ugly but very telling development,

Don Lemon, who used to have a show on CNN,

and I think is grasping for cultural relevance,

did something really despicable.

He led an invasion of a church during a church service in Minneapolis yesterday. So with a BLM group, with a pro-Hamas, leftist,

anti-ice, you name it name it group they stormed into a church during a service

um and started chanting about rene good and whatever you know whatever named du jour whatever caused

uh that they could think they

could draw attention to. So a couple of things. First of all, Don Lemon is pathetic. He's absolutely

pathetic. A gay black man who pretends that, you know, he should be Johnny Carson or he should be Walter Cronkite. I don't

know what he's looking for, but, you know, he's a marginalized person, you know, and he can't

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