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Thanks so much for your help in keeping this independent show going.

We can make this program with you,

but not without you. I do hope that everyone gets a chance to listen to Muhammad, the interview

with Mohamed Mirandi yesterday. I thought that was an extremely important interview. He's basically

saying that the Rubicon has been crossed, that the era of strategic patients whereby Iran decided not to hit Israel directly when Israel kills Iranians, Iranian scientists, Iranian military figures, when it attacks Iranian military forces in other places like in Iraq or Syria.

He said that era has ended. This means that from now on, when the Israelis kill Iranians,

the Iranians are going to strike back directly. So that's a big change in the relationship of

forces in the region. Everyone's sort of on pause right now

waiting to see whether or not Netanyahu and his right-wing apartheid cabinet are going to retaliate

for Iran's retaliation, in which case we may very well be on the brink of a larger regional war.

Biden does not want a regional war because the United States will lose.

Israel will lose.

But Netanyahu is like trapped.

He's in a corner.

He's not succeeding in the military operation in Gaza. More and more people in

Israel are demanding that the war ends so that the remaining hostages who are alive can be returned

because obviously the military method to, quote, free the hostages, has not succeeded.

Netanyahu's in a corner.

So he wants regional war.

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