Members Preview | 838: The Prince of Persia Is Rising
The Confessionals
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Tony is joined by Ali Siadatan, a world-renowned UFO researcher, to recount his 1999 UFO encounter in Iran, which occurred days after he felt led to warn his father about Ezekiel’s prophecy of a future war between Iran and Israel. The sighting of a massive green, pulsating craft descending into the desert became a catalyst for his deeper study of Scripture and the Prince of Persia described in Daniel 10, which he believes connects to territorial spiritual powers over nations. The conversation then turns to present-day Iran, where Ali outlines the growing revolution against the Islamic theocracy and the brutal crackdown that followed. He explains how economic collapse, generational rejection of radical Islam, and the rise of the exiled crown prince have shifted the national atmosphere. With tensions escalating between Iran and Israel, Ali suggests the coming months could determine the nation’s future.
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| 0:17.0 | This was all circulating around the base that a giant had to kill but no one was supposed to talk about it. |
| 0:22.6 | I saw three long, bony fingers, reach up underneath the door, curl up to grab it, and then disappear. |
| 0:33.6 | When he came over to me, dude, he slithered over to me. |
| 0:40.3 | And this giant comes out of the cave and they're all frozen. |
| 0:47.3 | And he starts running and firing up this giant. |
| 0:50.3 | With a giant move, he's got a spear in one hand and he's running really fast and spears |
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| 1:00.0 | Somebody else, shoot him in the face, shoot him in the face, they basically decapitated. |
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| 1:26.6 | I reached my hand into this bush, |
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| 2:31.7 | Listen, we got Ali Seadotin on the show today. He is somebody who has a lot to say about a lot of different topics. And I wanted to spend some time talking to him about his upbringing and what got him into these topics. And he shares his UFO encounter that he had in Iran when he was visiting his family shortly after his conversion |
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