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S8 Ep384: General Blaine Holt, USAF (Ret.), outlines the mission to rescue Iran from the brutes, detailing strategic options for liberating the Iranian people from the oppressive regime ruling in Tehran.

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🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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General Blaine Holt, USAF (Ret.), outlines the mission to rescue Iran from the brutes, detailing strategic options for liberating the Iranian people from the oppressive regime ruling in Tehran.
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0:00.0

I'm John Bachelor. I welcome General Blaine Holt, the United States Air Force, retired, to update us on the

0:21.8

Armada, that's the president of the United States' word, that is around and surrounding the Islamic

0:28.5

Republic of Iran's intransigent to stop the aggression against its neighborhood and the building of

0:34.8

nuclear weapons or intention to build nuclear weapons.

0:42.4

Blaine, a very good evening to you. Thank you. We spoke last week of the Air Fleet Armada,

0:48.6

the Naval Fleet Armada. The president says that it's either in theater or en route. It's a sizable force involving aircraft and missiles and submarines and aircraft carriers. we can only guess at the scale of it.

0:57.7

Right now, what we know is that the President is asking for negotiations.

1:02.5

Those negotiations will include deliverables that are very unlucky for the Islamic Republic

1:08.3

to agree. Therefore, we're looking at at least 50% of the possibility

1:13.7

of kinetic action sometime in these next days. An old rule out west where you live, Blaine,

1:20.2

don't show your pistol in your hand unless you intend to use it in the next minute.

1:27.0

Okay, we've shown the pistol. What is the intention?

1:30.6

What are the targets? What are the possibilities? Good evening to you. Good evening. I think we're at the

1:35.9

last chance for this regime. One of the things that the president also said when he said on his

1:41.8

social media that he wanted to negotiate with Iran was if they won't

1:46.3

negotiate in good faith, that the military response they'll face is going to be far worse than

1:52.4

the attack by the B-2s last June. And I think also, John, that, you know, you see these very

1:58.6

interesting statements out of Saudi Arabia from MBS that suddenly now this country that was near to being at war with Iran is starting to back Iran and is on their side.

2:10.0

I think this is meant to assuage the Arabs of any notion that were just hell bent on going after a military response with Iran. I think he's

2:18.9

showing in good faith that we're giving them every available option to get off the table. And that's

2:24.5

going to be very important for Middle Eastern politics, Arab politics, Muslim politics. And so I think

2:30.5

they're taking these final steps. They have been because the last four days, I know that behind the scenes, we've been really working hard with the Arab states to make

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