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The WallBuilders Show

Iran’s Theocracy And The Ballot Box

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Wallbuilders Show, Education, Constitutional, Church, Christianity, History, Conservative, America, Family, Christian, Biblical, Religion & Spirituality, Wallbuilders.show, Government, News, Politics

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Headlines about Iran can feel like a blur of missiles, ministers, and moving targets—until you connect the dots between what leaders believe and what nations do. We dive into how Shiite end-times theology influences Iran’s pursuit of power, why “the great Satan” rhetoric matters for strategy, and how surgical strikes against military and clerical leadership could open a narrow window for change. When ideology prizes escalation, containment looks different—and so do the choices free nations fa...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. Thanks for joining us today on The Wall Builders

0:10.4

Show, taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional

0:14.4

perspective. Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton. Lots to get to today, of course, day after

0:19.7

primary elections in Texas, Arkansas, and North Carolina.

0:23.9

And then, of course, lots of news out of the Middle East as well.

0:26.7

So we'll try to get to all of it, guys.

0:28.9

First and foremost, of course, update on Iran.

0:32.7

Could continue to take out a lot of their military infrastructure.

0:37.0

Apparently a lot of the, I don't

0:39.3

know if you call them political leadership or clerical leadership that was going to choose the next

0:44.0

leader. That's a big deal. Rick, you don't have to repeat yourself. You said political or clerical.

0:50.0

For them. It's Iran. They do have a theocracy. Don't repeat yourself. And that seems like a rejection

0:55.5

of the whole package, right? Like it's basically saying it would be like saying in America,

1:00.8

there's no Democrats left or there's no Republicans left. Like they're going to wipe out that

1:04.7

whole Islamic regime so that they don't end up with that theocracy that you just mentioned.

1:10.1

Well, it's interesting.

1:11.3

I think what Trump is doing is we're allowing you, you people, to choose a complete reset

1:17.7

if you want to.

1:18.9

You can go back to pre-1979 when Iran was a Democratic country by and large, when they

1:24.2

were part of the Western allies.

1:26.3

And so what we're going to do is you have an institution that has been framed against you to never let you have power. We're going to give you a chance to see if you want to keep that institution or if you want to do something different. I think that's the big choice they have. Well, guys, one of the things, too, that's worth pointing out. I had a conversation with Bill Fedder. Actually, he's in the podcast, the American Story podcast, released today. And he was explaining, part of why this is significant

1:50.2

is because part of the Islamic belief system, certainly they believe in the caliphate, but part of what

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