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System Update with Glenn Greenwald

The U.S. Does Not Want "Liberation" For Iran

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

Rumble

Politics, News

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Glenn discusses the U.S. reactions to protests in Iran and what they reveal about U.S. foreign policy. 

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0:00.0

All right, we need to talk about Iran and particularly the threats of the United States government under President Trump to become militarily involved in what are unfolding protests by the citizenry.

0:22.2

Specifically, Trump has threatened to bomb Iran, has threatened to otherwise intervene.

0:27.8

We know for certain, because the Israeli media is talking about it, that the Mossad and other

0:31.7

Israeli agencies are fully on the ground and fueling these protests, which doesn't mean that

0:36.6

there are no real protests in Iran.

0:38.5

I'm sure Iranians, like most people, have a lot of grievances and hostility toward their

0:43.8

government.

0:44.2

I'm sure that there are a lot of organic protests there, but clearly none of this is going to

0:48.2

work, meaning the downfall of the Iranian government, which has been the long time dream of

0:51.6

neocons in the United States as well as Israel and general

0:55.2

without the direct involvement of Israel and United States.

0:58.6

And Donald Trump is now threatening to directly involve the U.S. military.

1:03.3

Of course, Donald Trump bombed Iran in June of last year.

1:07.8

And the excuse was, well, there were nuclear facilities there.

1:11.7

They were headed toward nuclear weapons, even though his own director of national intelligence,

1:15.4

Tulsi Gabbard said that intelligence showed they had not restarted their nuclear program.

1:18.9

But it was a one-night bombing program with Israel, and the argument was,

1:22.4

as opposed a direct threat to the United States.

1:25.3

In this case, there is no such pretense.

1:27.4

There is no such argument.

1:29.3

These protests obviously pose no threat. Whatever the Iranian government is doing to these

1:33.4

protesters, that is something that is a type of repression inside countries. There are dozens of

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