S8 Ep832: 11/16: Gregory Copley reports that Iran is effectively under a military government led by General Vahidi, as Ayatollah Khamenei remains incapacitated. Simultaneously, China's Xi Jinping faces internal strife and energy shortages, while India maintains a s
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11/16: Gregory Copley reports that Iran is effectively under a military government led by General Vahidi, as Ayatollah Khamenei remains incapacitated. Simultaneously, China's Xi Jinping faces internal strife and energy shortages, while India maintains a strategic, non-aligned posture between the United States, Russia, and the People's Republic of China.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Bachelor. Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs. We're headed to the Straits of Armuz, and then Tehran. Question at hand is, the U.S. gains as its adversaries lose. There's a long |
| 0:29.1 | list of them, beginning with Iran, adding the PRC, as Cuba. They're other players, but we're |
| 0:35.8 | concentrating on the Tehran. The IRGC is a state within a state. |
| 0:40.8 | It has generals and former generals in charge, but there's no one person right now described as |
| 0:48.1 | the decision maker. The Ayatollah, much to buy Comenei, may or may not be not be with us, may or may not be strong enough to make decisions. |
| 0:58.2 | And so therefore, all lies on General Fahiti. |
| 1:00.8 | Who is he? |
| 1:02.0 | He is a man old enough so that he was there at the Marine bombing under Ronald Reagan. |
| 1:07.7 | The same at the destruction of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut under Ronald Reagan. |
| 1:12.8 | Same in the torture and murder of the CIA officer Buckley. He was also there in the 1994 |
| 1:20.7 | bombing in Argentina of Jews at their humanitarian club. He was also there at the murder of Nieceman, the Alberto |
| 1:31.5 | Nieceman, the prosecutor investigating the 94 mass murder, who was found dead in his apartment, |
| 1:39.6 | and at the time the corrupt government in Buenos Aires said he was a suicide. That has never been accurate. |
| 1:47.0 | And Vahidi's got a hand in all of this. He is a man also as a minister of the interior under the |
| 1:53.6 | Ayatollah before the Ayatollah's death, who gave the shoot to kill order and more in the upset of December 25, January 26. |
| 2:05.8 | I think I've made my case that these are bad dude. Okay. But what is to be done? |
| 2:11.8 | Gregory, the question here is the way you see the PRC responding to the pressure it's under, at the same time, there is no one person. |
| 2:21.3 | I've named Vahidi just because he's such a bad actor. |
| 2:24.3 | There are other people at the table equally bad. |
| 2:27.3 | So because they have no one person who is the overall boss, is that an advantage to them that these decisions are collective or disadvantage? |
| 2:37.4 | Well, we don't know that they're collected decisions, and I think it's, I mean, I don't deal |
| 2:41.5 | in the good and bad stuff. It's, you know, I just deal in the what is, you know, who's in charge, |
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