'END THIS REGIME ONCE AND FOR ALL': Gen. Keane signals NO MERCY for Iranian regime

Iran has named Khomeini's son, Moshtaba, as new supreme leader. He is considered a hardliner, close to the revolutionary guards. President Trump says, quote, he won't last long if the Iranians don't get his, Trump's, approval first. Retired four-star General Jaqeen joins me now. General Moshtaba, is he a target?

Oh, likely. I think he probably already was to be frank about it you know because of the position he held before. He's a long-term member of the IRGC, Ayatollah's son, etc. I don't think we're surprised by this choice at all or even if they picked another another person what what we knew they were going to do is likely has happened and that is pick a hardliner who is absolutely committed to what the Ayatollah has had in place for 37 years and that is

develop a nuclear weapon, fuel the proxies so they can bring down the state of Israel and develop a huge amount of ballistic missiles as an offensive weapon and that is The means in which to deter others from attacking them so nothing is going to change about this regime. They are diabolical tyrannical ideologues They're only objective at this point the singular thing that is driving them is to stay in power to preserve the regime And a lot of that has to do frankly with personal survival. Even though they know they're going to be under attack by Israel,

they know that if there is likely a transition that the people would likely

kill them. But the president wants unconditional surrender. He's not going to back off from it, he's not going to negotiate some nuclear treaty, he's just going to say

surrender now. Yeah, he knows for a fact that there's no dealing with this regime. They are who they are. And they may lie to us in negotiations like they have done in the past. They may fool other presidents like they've done with President Obama and President Biden. He's not fooled. He knows who they are.

And the only way to change this is they have to voluntarily give up power or we're gonna force it and that's the path that we're on and it's a very comprehensive plan it's gonna take some patience on our part because I think we still have a few weeks to go here to be able to take away all of their weapons Stuart their offensive weapons and you've been naming them missiles rockets obviously drones,

recovering their nuclear program, their Navy is about been destroyed, but it's also what the Israelis are focusing on and that is the organizations that are sustaining the regime and that operation is taking place right now and it'll take 10 days to two weeks at a minimum to deal with that. That's the IRGC. Strip it down as an effective organization. Not just in Tehran, the capital.

It's in 32 other places. And that's what helped to repress all of the protesters when they came out on the streets. They were in 30 to 40 different cities protesting by the tens of thousands. The same thing for the Bazi militia. They're an arm of the Interior Ministry just to repress protest

movements, police infrastructure, the civilian government itself, the legislature, the agencies that support the regime, step by step stripping down the ability for the regime to sustain itself. And that's going to take a little bit of time. So it's not just the weapons they have now, it's also the weapons they're going to manufacture in the future.

We're going to take down their entire manufacturing capability of weapons in addition to these organizations. So that's why this is so comprehensive and also why it requires a little bit of patience.

Who's going to wave the white flag? If you take out Khomeini's son and you take out any other leader, who comes out and says okay, we do, surrender.

Well there will be something left for sure that wants to live and that's why they'll

raise the flag.

That's what it comes down to. You want to live, why flag but this is this has got its comprehensive and it's very deliberate and As I said a couple times it we have some time to go. Yeah, this is condition based. There's no time clock here

It's based on achieving the objectives. Okay, last one if I may the Huth is I don't believe they've yet entered the war I'm not sure of my information on them But I don't think they have if they did in, would that be a serious threat to us?

It's something we can handle. It's frankly something we expected. But you know what's going on here, the Hezbollah entered with minimal offensive capability. They have missiles that can rain all of Israel's major cities. They're not firing on them. The Houthis haven't entered. And I think what's in the back of their mind when they look at this, is it really going to be an Iranian regime? Is it worth fighting for if it looks like it's going to be destroyed? And what does that mean for them and their future if they

become a part of this? One last one if I may, we've got this report saying that Russia has provided, I believe it's targeting information to the Iranians, where are our bases and where are our assets. That's, President Hicks-Hexeth promised anything that shouldn't be happening will be confronted strongly. What do you think of these? The Russians are actually helping

the Iranians like that? Shouldn't be surprised. The Iranians built a manufacturing factory to build the Shiite drones that are being delivered in the Ukrainian population, 500, 600 a night. Those are the drones that Iranians use in here. They also gave them missiles.

They're tied together. And listen, the help they're giving them, the Iranians know where all of our bases are what's on those bases they have that information we move assets around we're moving those ships

around and that that kind of coverage the Russians can give them just from their own satellite coverage and they may be doing some eavesdropping and we have that capability in terms of signals intelligence and pick certain things up that the Iranians may not have the

Capability, but it's not going to interfere. It's not what we're doing. No, we're gonna win. It's gonna be unconditional surrender Yeah about four or six. We're on a course here to achieve a positive outcome

And it's gonna take some time to get us there. If we get there, we have really changed history. The history of the Mideast has just been reversed if we can achieve that unconditional surrender.

I mean, just think, these guys have been almost in power for 50 years, 47 years. And we're going to take this lifeline away from them. Very quickly, we're going to see normalization with Israel. and that'll be a paradigm change in the Middle East. And certainly this is what's so positive, and people misunderstand about President Trump. He's willing to use force if it's clearly going to have a positive income.

Stop somebody from doing something bad like develop a nuclear weapon, cost them some money, killing Americans over a history of 40 years, Maduro thugging a killer and a narco-trafficker, get him out of what he's doing. And in this case, let's end this regime once and for all. And an enduring, stable Middle East,

something we haven't seen in our lifetime, is on the horizon. And we still have to get there. There's a lot of work to get there, there's a lot of work just to transition governments in Iran. But the potential and the possibilities are significant, you're absolutely right. Strategic implications with China and Russia, the leverage we have as a result of this, that this president has

achieved, quite significant. Wonderful stuff. General, always a pleasure. Yeah, it's great achieved, quite significant. Wonderful stuff. General, always a pleasure. Yeah, it's great talking to you. Yes sir, thanks a lot.