How The Iran War Ends, Talking to Astronauts & Illegals Keep Committing Crimes
Verdict with Ted Cruz
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🗓️ 10 April 2026
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Summary
1. Iran Military Conflict
- The U.S. has conducted a 39–40 day military campaign against Iran that resulted in a decisive and generational defeat of Iran’s conventional military.
- Assertions include the destruction of Iran’s air defenses, missiles, drones, navy, air force, and military leadership, and thousands of U.S. strikes.
- President Trump announced a two‑week ceasefire, contingent on Iranian compliance.
- Three demands for Iran:
- Zero uranium enrichment
- Surrender of enriched uranium stockpiles
- Keep the Strait of Hormuz open
- Democrats are undermining the effort by labeling it a potential “quagmire” and accusing Trump of war crimes.
- Trump’s willingness to escalate further (e.g., bombing power plants or bridges) if Iran violates ceasefire terms.
2. U.S. Politics and Media Framing
- Democrats and media are prioritizing opposition to Trump over national security.
- Repeated theme that Democrats allegedly:
- Downplay Iranian terrorism
- Protect adversaries of the U.S.
- Undermine American military success
3. Artemis II Space Mission
- Highlights Artemis II as the first human mission to orbit the Moon since Apollo.
- Four astronauts are returning after a nine‑day mission in the Orion capsule.
- Emphasizes inspiration, technological achievement, and national pride.
- Artemis program goal:
- Return humans to the Moon by 2028
- Land the first woman on the Moon
- Establish sustained human presence and a future lunar base
- Frames the Moon mission as a strategic competition with China, especially over lunar south pole resources.
- Stresses bipartisan cooperation in space policy and Congressional funding protections.
4. Illegal Immigration and Crime
- Argues that Biden-era immigration policies allowed violent criminals into the U.S.
- Several high-profile murder cases are involving illegal immigrants.
- Illegal border crossings have dropped dramatically under Trump.
- Accuses Democrats are:
- Supporting sanctuary policies
- Opposing ICE enforcement
- Prioritizing illegal immigrants over U.S. citizens
- Raises terrorism concerns, citing arrests of foreign nationals entering the U.S. illegally.
- Frames immigration as a central midterm election issue and public safety crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:22.1 | Guaranteed Human. Welcome, it is Vertiquist, Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. Really nice to have you with us on the radio as well, wherever you are around the country. And a quick reminder, if you are listening to this radio show and you've never listened to our podcast, grab it for free. It's three days a week. You can download Verdict with Ted Cruz wherever you get your podcast. Senator, we've got a lot to talk about in the show, including an update on Iran, and there's |
| 0:27.0 | a lot happening there as well. Well, first and foremost, after 39 days of an active military |
| 0:32.3 | campaign against Iran, after bombing their military bombing their missiles, bombing their drones, bombing their |
| 0:39.9 | air force, bombing their Navy. |
| 0:42.9 | We have had incredible military success, and President Trump has announced a two-week ceasefire, |
| 0:48.7 | a two-week ceasefire that is happening as we speak. |
| 0:52.6 | We're going to break down exactly what has been accomplished so far in Iran, what the military success is happening as we speak. We're going to break down exactly what has been accomplished so far in |
| 0:56.3 | Iran, what the military successes have been. And what's next, what President Trump is demanding |
| 1:02.7 | of Iran, what Iran has to do to have the ceasefire continue, and what's going to happen with |
| 1:09.3 | the Strait of Hormuz. All of that, we're going to break down. |
| 1:11.5 | We're also going to tell you about a conversation I had this week with four astronauts on |
| 1:15.9 | Artemis II, coming back from the moon, orbiting the moon. |
| 1:18.7 | I'll bring you inside Mission Control at Johnson Space Center, where I was connected |
| 1:23.6 | directly to them, and we're going to talk about going back to the moon and beating China |
| 1:27.9 | to the moon. And finally, we're going to talk about the lasting consequences that America still |
| 1:32.9 | suffers from Joe Biden's open borders and the Democrat policies year after year of releasing |
| 1:39.3 | violent criminals. And day after day, we see Americans killed because of the violent criminal illegal |
| 1:48.1 | aliens, Joe Biden, the Democrats, released into America. Trump is turning that around, but we still |
| 1:54.2 | have a lot of criminals on the street that the Democrats decided belonged in your community |
| 1:58.8 | and my community. But first, I want to take a moment before we |
| 2:02.3 | get into all that, and I want to tell you about the international fellowship of Christians and Jews |
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