"GROUND WAR BEGINS"... Regime Leaders 'DIG IN' as U.S. Backed Forces STORM TEHRAN

This war could last anywhere between four to five weeks.

Yeah, that's right, Michael, at least four to five weeks. And he says the U.S. is prepared to go even longer. Iran's new leadership says they will not negotiate with the U.S. as President Trump is still weighing putting boots on the ground.

So as the skies and waters around Iran collapse under relentless military pressure, the world braces itself for phase two, which experts suggest could include a land-based offensive led by the US as it takes back regime oil infrastructure with or without a simultaneous thrust from the Kurds who have an old score to settle with the Ayatollah and are ready to move. And why is this happening now you ask?

Well the president's been pretty clear that

this regime has already been wiped out. Today more explosions and smoke could be heard and seen across Tehran as the Trump administration promising the next phase of attacks will be even more punishing. We didn't start this war but under President Trump we are finishing it. Their war on Americans has become our retribution against their Ayatollah.

It is the centerpiece of Iran's oil industry. Karg Island is a small but vital strip of land for the Iranian regime. Around 90% of its crude oil exports pass through here. The loaded ships then return south through the Strait of Hormuz. Karg Island is Tehran's gateway to the world economy.

You hear about the Kurds, it's easy to sort of dismiss them. Is this something they could do? There is no way that you should be dismissing them. This is a population group of 40 million people. They are fierce fighters. They are well equipped and they love the United States and Israel and they hate the IRGC and the Ayatollah.

If they do anything to stop the flow of oil or goods within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the world's most powerful military 20

times harder than they have been hit thus far.

So all eyes are watching this tiny little island off the coast of Iran where their oil empire connects to the rest of the world. And while there's talk of an invasion, what nobody's talking about is that to control this money-making machine that has kept this regime alive for decades, you don't actually need US troops on the ground. And while the world spins in circles trying to figure out if forces from the Kurds or Israel may push into Iran independently.

While trying to contemplate President Trump's next move, it's becoming increasingly clear that the wealth of this country is precariously situated on a tiny little rock floating in the water which, if occupied, determines the outcome of this entire campaign and could drastically change the world because 90% of Iran's illegal sanctioned oil passes through this on its way to countries like China, who've acted as a life support system

for the despots running Iran. And while this lifeline could be bombed into oblivion by the US in about 30 seconds, doing that eliminates any chance the Iranian people generate their own wealth in the near future and rebuild their country as a free society

that benefits those who inhabit it. Which brings us to the real reason people are talking about an invasion. If you've got all this expensive oil infrastructure and you want to protect it, how do you gain control of it without putting someone there to run everything?

Well, as you're about to see, the US has plans and options in place to peacefully take back this island as well as everything else the country relies on. And there are plans in place to do this that don't involve US soldiers flying the Stars and Stripes.

And those plans begin with one little island that everybody is now focused on.

It is the centerpiece of Iran's oil industry. Located some 25 kilometers or 15 miles off the shore of mainland Iran, Karg Island is a small but vital strip of land for the Iranian regime. Around 90% of its crude oil exports pass through here. Arriving by pipeline, the oil is then loaded onto tankers, docked on the island, which thanks to its deeper waters, serves as an accessible port.

The loaded ships then return south through the Strait of Hormuz, which is less than 500 kilometers away. Karg Island is Tehran's gateway to the world economy. Currently some 7 million barrels of black gold or crude oil pass through here every day.

Much of it.

So this little island, think of it as the spout on the edge of your home that lets you water your entire lawn. All the oil passes through there to get everywhere else. And most of it goes to China. And some of it was going to Cuba.

Iran was watering the regimes of the world, keeping them all afloat, but now that's not gonna happen anymore. But here's the thing, if the US were to surround this little island and cut the regime off from it,

nobody really knows what would happen next. At least that's what the naysayers like to tell us because while Iran's drone and missile capability has been virtually obliterated, there is still the remote chance that the regime could launch some sort of desperation strike, going scorched earth on their own infrastructure just to make sure it doesn't make anybody else happy in the near future. And this regime has shown

that indiscriminate retaliation is all they're really capable of now as they fire missiles into population centers, not just in Israel, but also in neighboring countries like Saudi Arabia. So what are we going to do about this

little island? That it is within striking distance of one of Iran's most efficient weapons of war. Shahad drones, depending on the model, have a theoretical max range of up to 2,500 kilometers. That's long enough to strike the strait from literally any part of the country, which is devastating when you consider the impact of a 100-pound warhead costing in the tens of thousands of dollars to manufacture, slamming into these hulking, lumbering targets worth potentially hundreds of millions.

So this is the fear here. The fear here is that if anybody wants to occupy this little island, if anybody wants to try and bring things through the Strait of Hormuz in any manner, that Iran could just send drones out there and put all that to rest. However, the US and Israel have been dismantling the military capability of Iran. They can no longer project force.

They don't have as many drones as they used to have. They don't have any ballistic missiles like they used to, that's for sure. Do they have some resources left? Absolutely, but their ability to project force and to be accurate with it has been severely deteriorated if not completely wiped out. They can't aim something with precision anymore. All the Chinese made radars they had at the start of this conflict

those were all wiped out on day one. And if they do take military action against ships out on the

water well the US has a message for the regime. If they do anything to stop the flow of oil or goods within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the world's most powerful military 20 times harder than they have been hit thus far.

20 times harder. Basically, the regime is looking at mutually assured destruction. If they attack ships, whatever they send out is going to come back 20 times harder than what's already been hitting them. And I don't think anybody wants

to be on the receiving end of that. To China and India. And such transactions are a vital financial revenue for the regime. Yes they are. Including for its revolutionary guard and the army which control much of this cornerstone of the overall Iranian economy. Yet as in previous conflicts the US and Israel have largely left the 25 square kilometer island untouched in its strikes on the regime. But there are calls to hit the island.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Israel must destroy all the oil fields and energy industry on it, mounting that this would crush Iran's economy and bring down the regime.

It would, but there are two schools of thought on this. One school of thought which you're hearing here is that we need to go total scorched earth, destroy everything, that collapses the regime. This island helps them make money, it sustains them. Some people are thinking that this conflict could go on for a long time therefore you need to take out this infrastructure right now. But the other school of thought is, hey, this thing is already over. The president has come out and essentially said, look, this war, if you even want to call it that, it's already been won.

And if that's true, it reveals why the US and Israel are not going after any of this infrastructure right now. It's going to be needed so the people of Iran can rebuild their country. You can't take a country like this and bring it back to the Stone Age and expect it to be prosperous and support all of its people, absolutely not. But speaking of bombs.

Now it's wheels up for America's deadliest weapon, the B-52 Doomsday bombers, capable of carrying 70,000 pounds of ordnance, including cruise missiles, 30,000 pound bunker busters, and even nuclear weapons. It's the first time the doomsday has been deployed since the start of the war. This is what the president means when he says, you ain't seen nothing yet. Iran's missile launches have collapsed by 92%.

They went from launching 420 missiles a day last week to averaging just 45. We're knocking them down and blowing up the launch pads.

And you got to remember these are not precision strikes. They are not aiming these things anywhere other than a large geographic area where they are bound to collide with something. At the same time these bombers, these B-52s, now that the U.S. has air supremacy over Iran, these things, they're going to dismantle whatever military hardware is left on the ground here. So the idea that the waterways off Iran are this dangerous place that no one will be able to use because of the constant threat from drones and

ballistic missiles, I mean 92% of these missiles are gone. They are not firing things into this area like they were. And once all the military hardware on the ground is gone, that brings us to the next thing people are talking about, which is the idea of some sort of ground invasion. But who's that going to be? Is that going to be the US? Is that going to be the Marines? Or is it going to be a funded force coming in from northern Iran? The Kurds control large swaths of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran.

So this is the map right here. Big part of eastern Turkey. The Turks do not like the Kurds, to say the least. Then they have Iraq here, part of Syria. Erbil, which there's a huge US military base just because of the Kurds. That's in Iraq.

And then a large indigenous Kurdish population here in western Iran on the road to Tehran. They hate the IRGC and the Ayatollah, maybe even more than they hated Saddam.

Wow.

So if Trump truly wants to keep American boots off the ground in Iran, this is the way to

do it.

They're already in the country. I mean, look at this map right here. They got all this territory. They're in several parts of Iran. They can get to the capital. But the problem is if Kurdish forces and tanks roll through the streets of Tehran, will they be seen as occupiers, liberators, a hostile foreign force? How's that going to be received? This is a major wild card right here. But one thing that

nobody's disputing is the ability of these folks to go into Tehran and mop up whatever's left of their military if given the go ahead with actual support from the United States. There is no way

that you should be dismissing them. This is a population group of 40 million people. They are fierce fighters. They are well-equipped, and they love the United States and Israel, and they hate the IRGC and the Ayatollah, and they are ready, no doubt, and poised with American help and Israeli help

to start doing something that is our boots on the ground, but not us, but them. Okay, so you think about how this looks from a map perspective. You have the Israelis who can provide close air support. They're now going after the Iranian internal security services.

You have the U.S. base in Erbil. What does that mean for a Kurdish force going into Iran? Leland, I would call this the Syrian analog, where you have an opposition force in a position of a sanctuary that's well equipped, that's well trained, and they start to radiate out towards the capital. The benefit that they will have is they've got air cover by the Israelis and the United States.

So now you get the benefits of air and the benefits of the ground combined, and that makes it a potent force.

It sounds like this coalition force that they're discussing here between three nations, the US, Israel, and then the Kurds, it sounds like people believe this will play some role in the conflict as it wraps up because they don't like the regime in Iran. Nobody likes the regime in Iran. The whole goal of this operation is to get rid of this regime, this regime that has attacked Israel,

it's attacked its neighbors, it was planning on attacking the United States. And while the regime realigns itself behind a new leader who has not exactly been the most visible, you've got to wonder what this resistance movement is gonna look like if the Kurds, under the cover of Israeli and US air power,

start pushing towards the capital. What are the military assets in Iran going to do? What are their boots on the ground going to do when they're faced with a force they can't compete with? Are they finally going to go about obeying the unconditional surrender mandate the president has given them, which will give them amnesty?

So villages with Kurdish population, Tehran is here, there's a big Kurdish population out here, they're cut off. This area is predominantly Kurdish. Does that mean it's a safe haven for them to begin pushing in? It's not completely safe. There's probably about 10 million Kurds in that region of Iran, but that is a friendly

force and that means that sanctuary is real. And I think either as they start marching towards Tehran, it could either be the nucleus

that others rally around or a catalyst to see other opposition groups rise up.

So I guess.

Ah, other opposition groups. Did you hear that right there? That's a very important statement. Who are these other opposition groups? I mean, that would be the people of Iran who have been protesting to take back their country for the last two months and have not had the support they need to actually stand up to the despots running their

country who have control of the military. This could be a total game changer for that situation and it could accomplish the goal that many people have come out and said that the United States should try to do by arming the protesters somehow but you can't really do that while the country is fully occupied. However, if another force starts pushing in, they don't like the regime, they ally with other opposition groups within the regime, who are trying to take it down, this is how that could end up happening. The IRGC and the Bajie militia, it allows for uprisings in other parts of Iran.

This brings up the important point that you've got Persians, you've got Kurds in Iran, do they all rally around one group? So I doubt that the Kurds end up being the nucleus, but they certainly, the Iranians, have to honor the threat, which means they've got to send forces to stop them. They're already hitting evidently.

The regime they mean. Absolutely. which means they've got to send forces. They're already hitting evidently. The regime they mean. Absolutely, and you know, the benefit by having ground and air forces is, in order to fight a ground force, you need to consolidate, which makes it an easy target for an air force.

Ah, very important statement right here. Let's say there's an army marching towards Tehran. Well, how do you block that army? You got to put your own army in its way and then air power can come in and get that army out of the way. Which means that if this happens it's going to draw out the remaining forces of the regime. This means there will be no insurgency because the regime cannot allow their country

to be occupied. Remember how do they stay alive? They need money from China which comes from their illegal sanctioned oil that they ship to China. 90% of it ends up in China. So if they can't make money because they don't control their country, the whole thing implodes and it's over. The perfect thing for a pilot to take out from the air. Which if the Israelis and the Americans have air superiority over Iran, makes that quite easy. No, that's exactly right. And I have no doubt that we have been training in this mission with them.

That the Starlinks... Big CIA base interview.

Absolutely, yes.

And likely the Mossads involved here too. And so they have been working through how do we coordinate air support to their ground forces. And I think we're going to see it executed very soon. Yeah, the Kurds are the only ones we understand inside Iran who still have weapons because the Iranians, for obvious reasons, don't exactly believe. In the Second Amendment, this was the rat line for the Starlinks to get in through Erbil. They came in through the US. Oh, interesting. So Starlink got into the country through that US base that they're saying is on the map right here in Iraq.

And you know something, the fascinating aspect to what is being discussed here is that this represents everything the naysayers have been telling us that Trump wants. The people that are against this say that Trump wants a foreign war forever, that he's a warmonger, that he wants to invade Iran and be there forever and destroy the country and doesn't really care about people and he has no plan. That's what we're being told. But if this happens, it will literally be people who live in Iran right now, Kurds and people from

Iran itself, taking back territory that has been stolen from them by a regime that is isolated, cut off from, and hated by all of its neighbors because it just attacked them.

We have a great relationship with the Kurds. The president loves the Kurds. And look, our attitude is we want those people to be able to live in peace and harmony and prosperity with their neighbors. We pursued a foreign policy of peace in part because we want the Kurdish people, but also the Arab people who live there, the Jewish people who live there, the Christians. We want everybody to be able to live in peace.

Right. That's what the regime doesn't want.

All right. Video of the Kurds, interesting enough, a big part of the Kurdish fighting force is

women.

What are they able to do that in the past when the U.S. has armed locals, for lack of a better term, and it hasn't worked out very well. Well, these guys have training. They are fundamentally Western in their mindset and the way they fight. I was in Iraq recently for 14 months. I spent a lot of time with the leaders up in the Kurdish region and the Peshmerga. And I was surprised every time I left Baghdad for Erbil at how Western it felt. And when I was working with the Kurdish forces, that they understood a Western way of war,

that they understood- Western way of war. That they understand. It means decentralizing control and trusting the fielded forces in the field to do what the commander expects them to do as a.

And they'll understand the concept of air power. So they'll be able to coordinate with an air-based offensive in a manner that a random guerrilla army somewhere or an armed populace that has no training will not be able to do. So they almost represent, dare I say, the only invasion force that stands any chance of accomplishing anything here because they're already in the country, this is already their territory, they have a dog in this fight,

and they are already occupying territory in Iran because they live there. So they're not even occupiers. They just want peace with all the other groups that the vice president mentioned, all of whom have no peace because it has been stolen from them by despots who are aligned against the entire world.

What do you think about that? What do you think about that? I will see you in the next video.