‘Iran is on its last legs’ | Former Trump official Fred Fleitz

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Fred Fleitz – vice-chair of the America First Policy Institute’s American Security department and former executive secretary and chief of staff to Trump’s US National Security Council – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Fred and Brendan discuss America and Israel’s degradation of Iran, how the blockade of Hormuz could cripple the regime and how Trump is remaking the Middle East. Join us for the spiked summit, our biggest ever live event, on Saturday 27 June in Westminster featuring Konstantin Kisin, Lionel Shriver, Katharine Birbalsingh, Toby Young, Allison Pearson, Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and more speakers to be announced. Get tickets here: https://www.spiked-online.com/event/spiked-summit/ Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and get unlimited, ad-free reading and other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s Vibe Shift now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vibe-Shift-Wokeness-Greenism-Technocracy/dp/106871932X/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Vibe-Shift-Wokeness-Greenism-Technocracy/dp/106871932X/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters:https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	How am I going to figure this out of this month?
0:02.0	So many bills.
0:03.0	Kids.
0:04.0	Lunch is at school.
0:05.0	They need any new car.
0:06.0	Rens and gas and electric.
0:08.0	25 pounds.
0:09.0	20,000, $25,000.
0:11.0	$255.
0:13.0	New government policies are making every day easier,
0:17.0	like offering 30 hours funded childcare to help working families save on average £8,000 per year.
0:23.4	This is just one of the ways the UK government is tackling the cost of living.
0:27.4	See more at gov.uk.uk slash cost of living help.
0:30.1	The regime has been devastated. Its ability to project power abroad has been really wiped out.
0:35.8	It can't make nuclear weapons any longer. It can't make more missiles.
0:39.3	If this blockade proceeds, if Iran is not able to sell any oil on the world market,
0:45.3	the internal pressures from the economic collapse, I think will really be severe.
0:49.3	I think we're looking at mass demonstration.
0:52.3	The levels of moral defeatism that we've seen in the establishment media in relation to this conflict have horrified me.
1:00.0	Is it similar in the United States?
1:02.0	There are some loud people who are disagreeing with this policy, they really are at the margins.
1:07.0	The vast majority of Republicans and Amaga supporters support what Trump is doing.
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