Erick Erickson HR 3 03-02-26

Conversationalists, welcome. It is Eric Erickson here across the United States. The phone number is 87797937425. Should you wish to be on the program, I would be very, very happy to have you. Don't forget to text Eric, E-R-I-C-K to 33-777. Get the live stream, the show notes, the podcast, everything you need. Obviously a lot going on to the world right now. I do my very best between the show, the social media posts. I put up extra to it and all the writing to keep you as engaged as I possibly can. I actually feel like I need to educate you guys on some important history because a lot of people have believed a Soviet-era piece of propaganda. My wife yesterday was asking me about this 1953 coup in Iran. I see it trending right now. In fact, there are a lot of social media influencers who have been indoctrinated by the left who are seating this mythology out there online. And a lot of it is coming up because there's an accusation that the Americans and Israelis bombed. an Iranian school over the weekend. And I've seen some Christian influencers question our involvement in Iran and the deaths of these school kids. What you need to know is even the Iranian regime at this point confirms it was a misfired Iranian rocket that blew up the school. More important than that, where was the school located? It was on an Iranian military base. The kids who were killed or their parents worked for the regime. A lot of people bring up this 1953 coup, the British-American coup that restored the Shah of Iran. I need to explain the actual history to you here. Muhammad Masada was the Iranian prime minister. He was picked by the parliament. The parliament was not democratically elected in Iran. It was picked by the Shah of Iran. There was no popular vote there. It was as if the president of the United States picks the leadership of the Congress, and then the leadership of the Congress nominate some sort of prime minister. This is not what it was. There was no democracy in Iran in 1953. In fact, there were 20 prime ministers of Iran before Masada, who were also elected in the same way, picked by the Shah of Iran after the Shah of Iran picked the Parliament. Nobody claimed that they were democratically elected, but the Soviets pushed this idea that this was a democratic issue. The final Shah of Iran and Reza Pahlavi took the throne in 1941. His father died. He took the throne. He was not installed as a puppet, contrary to what so many people said. But there was a 2,500-year-old monarchy. His father took the throne in the 1920s. Now, his father had disrupted the line of Shaw's at the time and took over. The Shaw had a right to remove the prime minister. He had picked the prime minister, and he removed the prime minister. Why?

And this is what everyone likes to dance around when they talk about the 1953 coup. The prime minister, Masada, aligned with the Soviet Union. After World War II and the rise of the Soviet Union, Iran and the Shah of Iran got into bed with the British and the Americans. Why? Because Iran had largely been a British territory, and British and American oil interests were there. The Soviets trying to realign parts of the Middle East towards the Soviet Union had induced the Egyptians and the Syrians and the Iranians to come their way after they failed to get the Israelis. Remember, the Israelis were the country that the Soviets wanted. And the Soviets came close to getting Israel on their side. It ultimately failed, and so they went after Egypt and Syria and Iran. The Iranian Shah was actually a fan of the United States and sided with the United States. The Soviets bribed and persuaded the Prime Minister of Iran when the Shah of Iran was out of the country to stage essentially a coup. And the Shah had to come back from exile. Now, you should know the Soviets were backing a man who was also addicted to opium. but promised to give the Islamic world Iran's share of oil while also cutting deals with the Soviets to provide oil to the Soviet allies. So in 1953, with the army on his side, and even the Islamic mullahs on the side of the Shah. He removed Masada, who was backed by the Soviets, and this is what they call a coup. The British and Americans helped provide intelligence to the Iranian military. to push Masada and his allies out. They called it Operation Ajax. Operation Ajax was not a coup. It was actually the Shah of Iran coming back into the country, having been outside the country, and the Prime Minister of Iran saying, hey, we're now going to stop the Shah from coming back. This is from a writer in Tehran. Quote, the Shaw in 1953 would have removed Masada with or without foreign help. His army was on his side, as were the bizari. The Mullahs were on his side. The CIA was not essential in making this happen. The Shah was in exile for weeks before all of Iranian society brought him back. And that's what you call being installed. There was no installation. He was already the Shah of Iran. Operation Ajax was not essential. It was only there to speed up what was already happening. The British and American forces helped the Iranian forces. What happened in 1953 is also not why 1979 came about. Masada was barely even mentioned as a real grievance by the communist.

and Islamists who took over. They only decided to make him a glorified hero to score points with inbred third worlders and communists. That again, the writing of someone from Iran. When you hear people talk about the 1953 restoration of the Shah, what actually happened is that the Soviets convinced the Prime Minister of Iran to side with them and keep the Shah from coming home from a trip abroad. The British and Americans rallied with the Shah of the military and the Mullahs of Iran to throw out Masada, the Prime Minister, and restore the Shah. The coup is actually what the Soviets engaged in, not what the Americans engaged in, but people today peddle this idea that in 1953 the Americans overthrew the government of Iran. That's not true at all. The Iranian military and the mullahs of Iran sided with the Shah and threw out a Soviet-backed prime minister who had taken over, nationalized the oil fields, thrown out the British and Americans, and also began to impose an Islamic state on Iran at the time, all at the backing of the Soviet Union. You've got to know the real history here. It is Soviet history to claim that the CIA installed the Shah of Iran. But progressives believe it is so. And the progressive thinking has trickled down into a lot of mainstream thinking that just it isn't so. The Shah had been around for 2,500 years. The Shah in 1953 had been on the throne since 1941. Now, when the Soviets were not successful, what the Soviets did is they saw that the Mullahs were a power center in Iran. And when the Shah came back, he became increasingly repressive. There was an economic downturn, and the Soviets used the economic downturn to their advantage, and they convinced the Mullahs who had sided with the Shah in 1953 to side with them. One of the clerics was a man named Khomeini. who was living in exile in France. And the Soviets and the Islamists together rallied in 1979 to depose the Shah. The Shah and his family had to flee Iran in 1979. And the Soviets backed the Ayatollah Khomeini. Komeni's assistant... was a man named Ali Khamenei who became the second Ayatollah after Khomeini. Similar names, different men. You know who brought Khomeini into Tehran? The French. He lived in exile and the French brought in Khomeini, thinking that the French would be able to take over the British oil company. The French essentially stabbed the British in the back, working with the Soviets. It was not to be. The Khomeini government sided with the Soviets, nationalized again the oil companies throughout all the companies, and denied the French access. With the backing of the Soviets and with the funding of the Soviets, Khomeini took over and then began murdering all of the people who were on the Soviet side.

The Iranian mullahs now fully radicalized with the Ayatollah Khomeini began to murder all of the liberals and the progressives who sided with him against what they considered a conservative repressive regime by the Shah. There's a very famous photo of two Iranian women driving down the road. Yes, the women driving. They have... Peace signs, they're holding their hands out with the V shape for the peace sign. They're holding pictures of the Ayatollah Khomeini. Joy on their faces, the Shah has fled. The Ayatollah Khomeini has returned. Within six months, the girl who was driving the car and her whole family were murdered. and the family of the girl in the backseat had been murdered, and she now lives in Sweden, and is one of the loud voices of regret of the Iranian regime, who occasionally does television appearances to talk about how wrong they were to depose the Shah of Iran and what led to the rise of the Ayatollah. The Ayatollah Khomeini died, and his loyal lieutenant Ali Khamenei became the Ayatola. Ali Khamenei, above all things else, hates the Jews. The former president or the former prime minister, rather, of Spain went several years ago to Iran and wrote a story about it. And he said that he interviewed the, or met with the Ayatollah. He went into a banquet room, a beautiful banquet room. with two chairs for him to meet with the Ayatollah. And the Ayatollah Kamani was actually at the window making himself tea. And the prime minister of Spain wrote that he walked over to the Ayatollah standing in the window making his tea and at first didn't want to distract him. And the Ayatollah said nothing. So the Spanish prime minister decided to speak first and asked him what he was interested in. And the Ayatollah said nothing. And the Prime Minister of Spain writes, he then asked, Ayatollah, what do you think about when you wake up in the morning? The Ayatollah Kamani stopped stirring his tea. The prime minister writes. And he turned and he looked the Spanish Prime Minister in the eyes. And he said, What is the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning? As if the question was incredulous and obvious. The prime minister writes, he says, yes, what is the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning? And the Ayatollah looked him in the eye and said, the death of the Jews and the destruction of Israel. Israel has killed that Ayatollah. Follow Eric on X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Rumble. Search EW. Erickson. Want to be on the show? Come on, be on the show. Call Eric now at 877-973-725.

Welcome back. It's Eric Erickson here across the United States. So I've got some news for you. That's actually pretty interesting historic news. You know, it was the Battle of Marathon was where we get marathons from the Greek. who ran to Athens from Marathon, the distance of what we do modern Marathons, as announced that the Persians had been defeated before dropping dead, Xerxes invasion of Greece had failed. Well, it's been since the Battle of Marathon that the Greeks have, well, not engaged the Persians until now. The Greeks are announcing that they are going to enter the fight against Iran in a defensive posture deploying their Navy to the Middle East, particularly to the eastern Mediterranean around Israel to help shoot down Iranian drones and rockets and also protect against further incursions into Cyprus. Meanwhile, there's an amazing account at the Financial Times. of how the attack initiated to take out the Ayatollah and the top leaders of Iran, which, by the way, Israel is now saying at least 1,500 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps have been destroyed, killed. Turns out that Israel has been hacking the Tehran street camera system for the last number of years. One Mossad agent says that the Israelis know the streets of Tehran as well as they know the streets of Jerusalem, and they have set it up to be able to monitor every movement of every Iranian leader. And they could tell they were all going to a meeting by monitoring the street cameras as to where they went and when they went. So they knew the timing of who would be there, and that's when the Americans and Iranians launched upwards of 30 Tomahawk missiles. to blow up the Iranian regime. They also then the Israelis flew planes once the Tomahawks had softened the targets to drop bunker busters to get further down into the bunkers to blow up the regime. Just amazing level of coordination and technology and hacking. The U.S. now using Iranian-developed drones on Iran. We reversed engineered them. So we're blowing up Iran with cheaper drones than our Tomahawk missiles. The drones are much cheaper to develop. than the Tomahawk missiles, but also we are rapidly rebuilding our supply of missiles. The UAE announcing and Bahrain announcing, they will be out of defensive Patriot missile batteries in the next two weeks asking for reinforcements from the United States, which are coming. If you work, by the way, for our missile development capabilities, our missile providers, time for you to get to work, work over time, build up.

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The Hamas paragliders, who were tentacles of Iran, began today's war on October 7, 2023, igniting one of history's most spectacular backfires. Iran's regime and its terrorism multipliers, Hamas and Hezbollah, have unintentionally magnified Israel's security. And Iran's regime, whose mantra since its inception in 1979 has been death to America, is near death by the clasped hands of Israel and America. The wielders of Iran's regime, which is founded on fear, surely experienced a sudden, terrifying epiphany when the aerial attacks, unlike previous ones, began in daylight. The attackers knew when and where the regime senior officials would be meeting Tehran that day. Precision munitions directed by spectacular intelligence enabled the decapitation strategy. The at least 30,000 protesters who perished in Iran's streets in early January did not die in vain. The 1956 Hungarian Revolution failed to topple a tyranny, but refuted the then common pessimism that tyrants can assure their permanence by controlling the consciousness of the public. George Orwell in 1984, quote, if you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. Iran's protesters dramatically underscored the regent's barbarism. So those who today regret the regime's demise reveal their barbarism. Some say the U.S. involvement in Iran constitutes a war of choice. That too casually bandied phrase rarely fits untidy reality. America's Civil War was a choice. Lincoln chose not to heed those, they were not few, who agreed with the prominent publisher Horace Greeley. He said of the seceding southern states, quote, let the airing sisters go in peace. Lincoln chose against such national suicide. Donald Trump's administration has chosen not to wager U.S. safety on Iran abandoning its multi-decade pursuit of nuclear weapons or on Iran's acquiring them, but not really meaning death to America. For Israel, the death of Iran's self-proclaimed genocidal regime was a choice only in the sense that Israel chose to believe the regime when it called Israel a one bomb country. Tyrants lie promiscuously, but occasionally are candid. In 1939, Adolf Hitler said a world war would mean the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe. Israel exists because Hitler meant that. Israel's survival depends on forever thinking that nothing is unthinkable. The U.S. action for regime change in Iran is not sufficient to produce regional tranquility. It is, however, a necessity for beginning to reestablish a precondition for a more peaceable world, the credibility of U.S. deterrence. A nadir of post-1945 U.S. power and its preconditioned

Confidence was the 1975 departure of the last hurricane or helicopter from the U.S. Embassy roof in Saigon. A second low point was reached when Barack Obama drew in 2012. and then ignored a red line concerning Syrian chemical weapons. A third was in 2021 when Joe Biden produced a chaotic exit from Afghanistan. Today, Vladimir Putin is watching Venezuela, Iran, a source of Vladimir Putin's drones, and soon perhaps Cuba, joins Syria as a vanished client. The swiftness of their downfall illustrates the hollowness of Russia's claim to be a formidable global actor. It's not a Trump. apologist writing this piece. It's not a Trump apologist cheering this on. This is George Will. George Will, a vocal critic of the Trump administration, applauding the Trump administration for doing what it is doing. This is significant. This is notable. in who is saying it. While George Will, who is a regular critic of the Trump administration and of Donald Trump personally, is praising the Trump administration for doing the right thing with Israel to stop Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions and Iran's terror agenda, Democrats in Washington, D.C. are refusing to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, a vital department within the United States government at times of national crisis. We've already had one domestic terror attack in Texas. over the weekend. The Biden administration allowed the United States to be flooded with illegal aliens, some of whom we don't know where they are or what their intentions are. And the Democrats don't wish to surveil them, don't wish to deport them, and don't wish to defund a Department of Homeland Security to keep us safe at a time like this. We are at war, whether the Democrats voted for it or not. And the reality is our homeland is under threat from sleeper cells led in here by the Democrats. And the Democrats don't want to fund the Department. of Homeland Security to go find the sleeper cells they and their administration let in. It's almost as if the Democrats would be okay with Americans getting killed in this country so they can then blame Donald Trump and claim that he's got blood on his hands when they're the ones who stop the Department of Homeland Security from protecting us. The Democrats will have the blood on their hands, but the Democrats rely on the media so heavily to be willing to blame the Trump administration. It is madness that the Democrats, at a time like this, knowing what we know, Barack Obama and Joe Biden's own CENTCOM commanders warned about the possibility of sleeper cells of the United States because of Joe Biden's poorest border, and the Democrats do not want the Department of Homeland Security reopened.

The TSA has wound down operations around the country. TSA agents are not showing up. TSA agents yet again not paid by the government. The Coast Guard not paid by the government. FEMA not paid by the government. Other security personnel within the Department of Homeland Security not paid right now. Some of them not on the job right now. And the Democrats, Chris Murphy of Connecticut, says he's under no obligation and has no desire. to reopen the Department of Homeland Security. How many Americans are going to have to die to terrorist sleeper cells in this country before the Democrats reopen the government? They won't do it. They'll blame Donald Trump. They'll say this was his war of choice. It's Donald Trump's fault that the sleeper cells reared their head as opposed to the Democrats who allowed them into the country. How many Americans are going to need to die before the Democrats decide, you know what? Maybe we do need a Department of Homeland Security. I don't like it. I don't like what they're doing. I don't like Kristi Noem, but maybe I should fund it. Y'all, I don't like Kristi Noem. I think Kristi Noem needs to be replaced as Secretary of Homeland Security, but I recognize the need for the professional agents inside the Department of Homeland Security to be paid to do their jobs while we're at war with Iran. Progressives are marching in the streets against the Department of Homeland Security and for the Ayatollah Khomeini. Progressives in the United States hate the United States. They seem very, very, very clear that they want an end, not just to the Trump administration, but to the United States as we know it. They want something else. They want something anti-American. They want something... that would destroy the free market of the United States. They want something that would destroy the fabric of the United States. It is the Democrats who believe we are systemically racist nation. It is the Democrats who believe we are not a force for good in the world. It is the Democrats whose President Obama went around the world apologizing for us. It is the Democrats. who are keeping the Department of Homeland Security shut down in a time of war. because the Democrats are opposed to deporting the very people who could be the sleeper cells of Iran inside this country. It almost seems like the Democrats would prefer Iran win to the United States so they could blame Donald Trump for what's happening. You're at the intersection of politics, news, culture, and current events. It's the Eric Erickson Show.

Hello, America. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. Too late to call on the program. I need to bring you up to speed on some events. Israeli forces are saying they are noticing a drop-off in launches of missiles from Iran. Americans are saying that both countries now have total air superiority. Qatari forces have now down to Iranian aircraft approaching Iranian or approaching Qatar airspace. Qatar had been the friendliest country in the Middle East to Iran. There's been an unconfirmed drone strike on a tanker in the Straits of Hormuzon. Most notably, the Chinese are now having their GPS signals jam for a while. Everyone on the planet except the Chinese ships going through the Straits of Hormuz were having their GPS jammed. And now it's the Chinese that are having their GPS jammed, and it doesn't appear that others are. U.S. B-1 bombers have successfully targeted Iranian ballistic missiles sites, deep inland under mountains. According to CINCOM, fresh air strikes are happening on Tehran, as I'm speaking to you right now. 100,000 Israeli Reserve. have been mobilized on the Lebanese border. The U.S. has now sank five or nine Iranian vessels, including their drone carrier in the Persian Gulf. There's chatter of major surface fleet losses from Iran, and there's been an unconfirmed strike on an army aviation headquarters in Kerman province in Iran that has destroyed Iranian helicopter fleet. We are watching the destruction of Iran in real time, and it is a remarkable technological feat. Tehran's leadership is now saying it's not at war with its regional Arab neighbors. Spain, interestingly enough, is ordering a U.S. tanker aircraft outside of Spain. The Spanish Prime Minister is essentially at war with his NATO allies in favor of the Iranians. It's remarkable to watch this. The Iranian foreign minister is now calling Ali Khamenei's death a religious crime for which there will be significant consequences. And by the way, it looks like there is a major, major incursion of Ukrainian drones. into Russian territory now that the Russians do not have access to Iranian drones to respond to the Ukrainians.

There's a lot happening around the world. Stick with me. Make sure you text Eric to 33777. As there is events warrant, I'll, of course, put stuff up on social media. You can follow me on Instagram. Likewise, my writing's the very first link. If you text Eric to 33777 is to my daily email and as events weren't push stuff out, the four things to know in the afternoon, there's going to be a lot to keep track of, a whole lot to keep track of. What I would tell you here at the end, though, is be very, very careful about listening to the voices who talk about a greater regional conflict in the Middle East. That is a talking point that the left is using, but we're already in this regional conflict. Iran has attacked 15 Arab neighbors. In the last 72 hours, those Arab neighbors are now aligned with the United States of America against Iran. The street cameras in Iran have now been turned off by the Iranian regime so that the Israelis can't survey them. This is becoming a just fascinating conflict to watch, and we're only 72 to 96 hours into it. The president now saying it could go on for five more weeks. Now, let me tell you about the Eden Pure Thunderstorm. Well, they may need that in Tehran to get rid of the stench of the Ayatollah. If you go to Edenpuredeals.com and you put in the discount code Eric 3, E-R-I-C-K-3, you can get three of them and save $200. They've got a money-back guarantee if they do not eliminate odors. You can get your money back. The details are at Edenpuredeals.com. Put in the discount code Eric 3 and get three of them, save $200. Their air purifier, so they get rid of dust, they get rid of pollen, they get rid of pet dander, they get rid of mold particles in the air. They also get rid of 99.9% of bacteria and viruses. They also eliminate odors. The Eden Pure Thunderstorm is an odor eliminator and it really does work to eliminate odors. All you do is go to Edenpuredeals.com and you put in the discount. code Eric 3. Get one for your bedroom, one for your basement, one for your kitchen, one for your RV. Get one for your travel bag. They're small, they're highly portable. I keep one of my travel bag. Edenpuredeals.com. The discount code is Eric 3, EARICK 3 at Edenpuredeals.com.