S8 Ep313: Guest: General Blaine Holt (retired). Holt discusses potential U.S. intervention to support Iranian protesters, emphasizing strikes on command nodes rather than ground troops. While the U.S. maintains air superiority, putting special operators on the grou
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
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Guest: General Blaine Holt (retired). Holt discusses potential U.S. intervention to support Iranian protesters, emphasizing strikes on command nodes rather than ground troops. While the U.S. maintains air superiority, putting special operators on the ground carries high risk. The Iranian people face a critical window of days to succeed before facing stunning reprisals.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel. I'm joined by my good colleague, General Blaine Holt, United States Air Force, |
| 0:22.2 | retired to help me interpret remarks by the President of the United States. Help is on the way. |
| 0:28.0 | By the credible conduct of the United States Air Force, the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, |
| 0:35.2 | United States Army, his last days with regard to the bad |
| 0:39.0 | actors in Venezuela and the bad actors in the Middle East, chiefly the Islamic Republic of Iran. |
| 0:45.7 | I read from the Islamic Republic of Iran's top security official. This is in the Financial Times. |
| 0:53.7 | In an ex post referencing Trump's comments on |
| 0:56.3 | true social, Iran's top security official, Ali Lerajani, said, quote, we declare the names of the |
| 1:04.6 | main killers of the people of Iran. Number one, Trump, Number two, National Yahoo. |
| 1:12.7 | Blaine, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:15.2 | The president's remarks help was on the way. |
| 1:17.6 | We're told there was a National Security Council gathering. |
| 1:20.9 | We're told that it was chaired by the vice president with Mr. Heggseth in attendance, along with other security officials and the Secretary of State. |
| 1:26.4 | What is to be done about that level of |
| 1:28.9 | deception by Larajani, accusing the U.S. and Israel of shooting unarmed civilians in the streets |
| 1:36.4 | of Tehran. We see the body bags and the videos that we do have. We have a video clip from Jerusalem |
| 1:43.4 | that shows the besie charging around on motorcycles, jumping off the back, and shooting boys running away in the back with pistols. |
| 1:51.6 | We know that the claims now are anywhere between hundreds and thousands killed by the authorities, the IRGC, the besiege, the Hezbollah brigades from Iraq, the Hezbollah from Iran, |
| 2:04.2 | and other bad actors. What is to be done? The idea here is that there is an intervention possible. |
| 2:11.5 | How do you measure this, General? Good evening to you. Good evening. I think it's so important. |
| 2:16.9 | The president, when he made a social media |
| 2:19.9 | post to the Iranian people saying not only is the United States in support of you, but we |
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