The Middle East Just Shifted: Why Critics Are Being Called Out

“If you’re calling this ‘unthinkable,’ ask yourself why you’ve normalized 47 years of terror.” In today’s episode of The Rant Network, we argue that the U.S. and Israel’s reported strikes on Iran represent long-overdue “peace through power,” claiming diplomacy has repeatedly failed and that the Iranian regime’s leadership and proxy network have fueled decades of threats and violence. We frame the moment as a potential turning point for regional security and for Iranians who have lived under repression—while sharply criticizing Western leaders and commentators who condemn the action, and warning that retaliation and broader instability could follow.

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Transcript

Rewinding To 1979 And The Hostage Crisis

The Rise Of Iran’s Terror Network

Failed Deals And Western Naivety

Justifying Regime Change And Legality

Regional Barrage: Missiles And Drones

Global Reactions And Political Fault Lines

Security Risks And Sleeper Cells

A Vision For A Free, Modern Iran

Closing Reflections And Hopes For Peace

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Talk about a time for Stuart not to be here. Wow, like what a weekend. In case you were missing it, I don't know if you caught it. If you were not awake, aware of what had transpired over the weekend. But wow, wow, wow, Israel and the United States punched a hole into the Iranian regime, eliminating the Ayatollah, Khamenei, and a whole bunch of leaders, dozens of leaders, including also Mahmoud Aminjad, that hateful former president of Iran. And here we are today on a Monday at around noon Eastern, and the attacks continue. Try to get rid of Iran's ability to foil, to go after the world terrorism and what have you. And of course, in typical Western fashion and other fashion, the hate on Donald Trump, and by extension on Benjamin Netanyahu and the state of Israel, it continues to amaze me how people will say that how bad this is. This is terrible. But let's take a step back, ladies and gentlemen, and let's be clear about something. This move in Iran is 47 years in the making. And to sit here today and to say, ill, inlegal, how dare they, and so on, put a pin in your statement for just a second, and let's start from why today we should be celebrating the fall of the Ayatollah in Iran and his legion of doom. So in 1979, there wasn't a rebellion, a revolution, quote unquote, in Iran. The Shah of Iran who ran the country was the was basically thrown out. I mean, he had left and they were thrown out. And the Aitollah Khomeni at the time flew in from Paris, a country that loves to harbor terrorists, as we've come to discover over generations. And here we are, he comes off the plane, a hero, and they proceed to take dozens of American embassy workers as hostages for hundreds and hundreds of days at the end of the Jimmy Carter presidency, released the day that Ronald Reagan was installed in office in January of 1980, and a symbol of an opportunity of just attacking the United States. What's incredible about what transpires for the next 47 years is years and years of chance of death to America. Years and years of terrorism sponsored by Iran to attack Americans, Israelis, Jews, and others on a global scale. Now you have to understand that before 1979, the United States and Iran had a fantastic relationship. Iran was a more modern Middle Eastern country, highly educated, thriving economy, a real beacon to the in the in the Middle East, and a real soar into these Muslim fanatics who believed that modernization is terrible, that returning to seventh-century values is more important than modernization, education, and so on and so forth. The ideology that they brought in was about hate and destruction, but also putting in place greater controls, viciously beating people, killing people who ran afoul of the government, who spoke against the government, free speech, not even non-existent. And what the West chose to ignore was that the Iranian, the Iranian regime treated women like crap. They were second or third class citizens, gays were hanged, and people who came from other countries, whether it was India or Africa or whatever, were treated as slaves. But who cares? Because over generations that it would proceed would proceed, the Iran would just position itself as the nemesis to Israel, thereby attracting so many of those haters of Israel to cozy up to Iran. And even after the Iran-Iraq war, and even after everything that occurred, what was incredible is that Iran positioned itself as trying to rebuild the new caliphate in the Middle East and around the world. It cozyed up to North Korea, it cozyed up to China and Russia to get nuclear weapons, to become a powerful, powerful player, not just in the Middle East, but in the world, threatening day in and day out to attack New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Boston, you name it. That's all they did and all they cried for. And they went out around the world and set up their proxies, whether it's Hamas, whether it's the Houthis, whether it's Hezbollah, whether it's others, they had proxies around the world and they put in sleeper cells in all Western countries, all in the name of taking down the West. Little Satan in Israel, big Satan in the United States, but essentially taking down the West. And for years, this ideology, the idea that we can negotiate with terrorists, is fun is just unmind-boggling. And when Obama and his dumbass, you know, Kerry decided, oh, let's, we're gonna do this GCOPA, we're gonna have this agreement with Iran, and it's gonna work out great. What a load of shit. It was such a disaster. And the Europeans and many in the West saying, how dare you say that, David? Because we had an agreement. Neville Chamberlain had an agreement with Hitler in 1938. This is the same thing. The Iranians didn't want to respect the deal. They never do. In every opportunity that they can, they will speak one way to you and another way to their people. They will tell you one thing so that the West will hear it, knowing damn well the media won't go far enough to expose their fallacy. And in the other hand, they would stab you in the back. That is this regime. They are guilty of thousands of deaths around the world. They are guilty of tens of thousands of deaths in their own country. And yet, here's what happens. Donald Trump has no right to interfere. That's interesting. It's interesting to note how people position themselves when it comes up to human rights. We could sit in our own homes and scream and yell here in the West that we're we're we don't care about human rights, we don't care about other people, but when action is taken, how dare you? Let me tell you about the Iranian regime and how what they were doing. They were building up a nuclear arsenal to go out and attack. And what you should do, sit back and do nothing. I heard diplomacy, diplomacy, diplomacy. Diplomacy didn't work, it does not work with terrorists. We see this time and time again. The only thing is peace through power. They don't understand that, they don't want it, and the West can't get their heads wrapped around this. So here's what happens: the United States and Israel collaborate on attacking is Iran to cut off the knees so that they can no longer threaten the Middle East and the West. That the Ayatollah is taken out and all of his leaders to force, yes, a regime change. And some would say that that is illegal. But what should those what in Syria? You saw what happened. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians killed, and we stood by and did nothing. So we should have a revolution occur where a terrorist organization takes over? Because that's what's gonna happen in Iran. It doesn't work that way. Countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Turkey begged the United States not to attack. In fact, Saudi Arabia said you can't even use our airspace if you're gonna attack Iran. And what was Iran's response? Let me ask you, ladies and gentlemen. What was Iran's response? In the first 24 hours, this is what they did. They fired over 200 missiles and drone, 12 drones into Israel. Okay, I get that. But then they proceeded to attack at the UAE 137 missiles and 209 drones. To Bahrain, 49 missiles and nine drones. To Iraq, seven missiles and dozens of drones. To Jordan, 13 missiles and 36 drones. To Kuwait, multiple missiles and two drones. To Qatar, 66 missiles, to Oban, three drones, to Cyprus, two missiles. To Saudi Arabia, two missiles and drones. And finally to Syria, a missile. That was in the first 24 hours. Muslim collaboration. This is our brothers that we fight for? Not even close. As a result, Saudi Arabia has now said that they will defend themselves. Qatar, UAE have have announced that they will defend themselves, that they will retaliate in kind. That Iran has initiated a war in the Middle East that has never been seen before. And yet, let's blame. Let's blame. Let's play the blame game. And of course, who starts this? The Donald Trump haters. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Donald Trump haters are after him. How dare he do this? How dare he liberate Iranians, Persians, who've been begging for years to be liberated from the clasps of this regime. And time and time again, presidents have said, naughty naughty, you can't do that, but never put their might behind their words. And here we are, it is now March in 2026. It is incredible to hear still people like Kamala Harris, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Graham News, uh Galvin Newsom, and others on the Democratic Party supporting terrorism. That's right, supporting terrorism. That Donald Trump had no right to go in and do anything, had no right to attack Iran. They would have preferred that Khamenei stay in power and slaughter his people. That is their stance. That has been now the party stance of the Democratic Party. Not all Democrats gotta give John Fetterman credit where he goes and he plauds Donald Trump. He goes, I don't agree with him all the time. I don't even agree with my party on this all the time. But in this case, I have to agree with Donald Trump. This was the right move. Iran had to be liberated, Middle East had to be cleared off of these terrorists. We saw what's happened since October 7, 2023, what they're capable of, and we should stand by and do nothing or attack. I can't make this up. But this is probably one of the best. Here in Canada, NDP member of Parliament, Heather McPherson, a staunch anti-Semite, a bitch who walked into the Canadian Parliament wearing a kafia, which is not parliamentary procedure, has stood with terrorists time and time again against Jews. She's very clear about her stance. She's called for a moment of silence to honor, quote, beloved and inspiring Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In an emotional appeal on the next House of Commons sitting, she describes the leader as a wise, compassionate father to his people and truly radiant soul whom I hold in the deepest affection and admiration. And this bitch is a member of parliament from Edmonton. And this is who you have representing yourself in government. Terrorists who want terrorism to call Ali Khamei that wise, compassionate is lunatic. I dare her to go to Iran under the Khomeini government and see what she would be treated like. Beaten, raped. That's what they do. That's what that government was leading to do. But no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. How about the United Nations Secretary General Gutierrez, who has simply said, hey, guess what? You were bad. You had no right. You are disrupting the Middle East. US and Israel are disrupting the Middle East. I think this is comical. Yes, they're disrupting it because they're making it better. No, Gutierrez doesn't want you to do that. He loves his buddies at the Iranians when it comes up to all of these UN committees. They've sat at the Human Rights Committee. They've sat in other committees. Iran is beautiful. You can't do that. The Pope went out, who stayed fucking silent for God knows how long when Christians were being slaughtered in Africa and in the Middle East and by the Iranian regime, and he denounced what happened in Iran. Not praising the freedom that the people are finally gonna have a chance at for almost 50 years. No, no, the Pope would rather have the Ayatollah in power, nuts, psycho, western countries, same thing, all over Western Europe, all just really do you get what's going on? Mark Kearney, Prime Minister of Canada, Prime Minister Albanese from from from Australia, even they, despite their hate for Trump, had to say, yeah, finally, we got rid of the bad snake. Wake up, people. We have a problem. The shooting in Texas, in Austin, Texas, could and is likely to may maybe call, I shouldn't say likely, it it may be leading, you know, to others to get up anti sleeper cells to try to attack. Radical Shia clerics are are are are preaching to the showdown, to preach hate, to continue to preach on America and Western soil to go after the West. You have scores of people online denouncing this and hoping for a global intifada on US and Israel. Have you, if you didn't pay attention since October the 7th, on this channel, where Stuart and I have been saying for the longest time, first they come for the Jews, then they come for you. Guess what? They've turned it on. They're coming after now, everybody. And to sit here and to say, oh, we have to blame Trump and Israel and what happened is false. The bullies have been taken out. And it's time to finish the job. It's time to give the Iranian people an opportunity to thrive in their own country and not be under the thumbs of these Muslim radicals who want nothing to do but to turn back the clock to the seventh century. The day when Iran is fully free and is able to join the rest of the world, you will see a thriving, thriving country. Partnerships, economic growth, opportunities abound. This is a proud and incredibly wonderful and educated people. This is a proud people who want to be part of the global world, not the radical Islam world. Yes, there are those who will protest against this. Yes, there will continue to be people who want the IRGC in power and to continue to put their foot on the throats of the people. But if you believe the statistics, we're talking four out of five Iranians want this change and are thanking the United States, thanking Israel and her out and all of the allies who are helping to liberate Iran. To the haters, I say history will record who you stood with yet again. The wrong team. You're on the wrong side. And you will realize one day the gravity of the error that you've committed. I can only imagine how this world can change if and when this job is done. If Iran can finally be defanged and the people of Iran could rise up as we've hoped for close to 50 years and join the rest of the world, join the Middle East to be a beacon of hope and peace and not of hate and terrorism. The world will be a better place, and a thank you will have to be issued to both Israel and the United States. Thank you, everybody. Have yourself a great day. Let's hope for peace in the Middle East. And our prayers are with those fallen in Israel, in around around the world, U.S. servicemen. We hope and pray that the that the that the casualties are minimal. And as we proceed forward, we really are on a path of peace. Have a good day.