00:00Breaking news coming in, Iran's revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened the United States of America.
00:05A statement has just been issued by the IRGC.
00:09They are saying that they will target U.S. business interests, U.S. companies across GCC countries starting the 1st
00:18of April.
00:19That's tomorrow morning.
00:20This is retaliation for the attacks on Ishfahan late last night.
00:26So the IRGC is upping the ante.
00:28This is truly, truly going up the escalation ladder and we'll talk about this in greater detail.
00:34I quickly want to bring in my colleague Ashraf Vani into this conversation.
00:38And Ashraf Vani has just come back from Lebanon after spending close to a month in the war-thorn territory.
00:45Ashraf, if America or Israel thought that Iran, after the decapitation or the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will fold,
00:54will collapse, that clearly hasn't happened, Ashraf.
00:57Iran is now threatening to hit U.S. business interests in the region.
01:01Not only that, Gaurav, actually, what is the difference between the American narrative and Iran narrative?
01:08Iran, so far, in this more than months war, whatever has said, they have delivered it.
01:13But since day one, the Americans have changed the goalpost.
01:17The war started from the change of regime, then to the nuclear capabilities, then finally, now it has shrunk to
01:24the state of hormones.
01:26And also, they have not only fulfilled what they wanted, they have also shown that what kind of strategic targets
01:35they are going to make.
01:36Particularly the target in Saudi Arabia.
01:38There are only six such aircrafts with the U.S. of so much cost and so much technology.
01:45The flying rodder, one of them has been so specifically hit and damaged, that gives the sense, what Sandeep was
01:53saying, that how they are prepared for this war and how they are committed towards what they are saying.
02:02The sentry, AVAX is what you're talking about.
02:05Hit at the Prince Sultan airbase.
02:07AVAX struck right at the center, causing maximum damage, Gita, but this would mark major escalation.
02:14Iran is very clearly saying, starting April 1, which is under 12 hours from now, they will hit U.S.
02:21business interests across the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, across GCC countries.
02:27And that will be a huge loss for the United States of America, for the GCC countries.
02:32Well, that's right. There has been an escalation ladder when it comes to retaliation.
02:37Sandeep has been doing the escalation ladder from day one, Gaurav.
02:40But the areas where we're looking at escalation also has to do with what Iran is saying.
02:45Iran had warned of attacks much earlier.
02:49They had said that we'll go beyond the U.S. bases.
02:51Anything that's American is kosher.
02:54Ironically, I'm using that word.
02:56But anything that's American will be fair game, is what Iran had said.
03:01And then they said that they're looking at U.S. bases.
03:04Then the power plant versus power plant, which includes desalination plants.
03:09Then they said that because American bases were being emptied out, any hotel that houses or hosts American soldiers are
03:18also fair game.
03:19And they listed some of them outside of Abbas Arauchi actually put out a tweet saying that hotels are now
03:24looking at the history of a guest and canceling the reservations if they know that they're from a U.S.
03:33base or they're working with American companies, so on and so forth.
03:37Then they went ahead and threatened Google offices in West Asia, again, American company.
03:43And now they're saying any American company or companies affiliated to American companies are fair game.
03:51You know, when you talk about the escalation ladder, Sandeep, Iran clearly is not letting America get on top of
03:58that escalation ladder.
03:59If America hit Isfahan and hit it with those GBU-57, those massive bunker busters, Iran says, stand by, tomorrow
04:07we'll hit your business interests.
04:09And each time they've said we'll hit, they've hit, and with precision strikes.
04:12You know, Gaurav, that is the biggest takeaway from this conflict that an inferior side, that is Iran, which has
04:18been under every manner of global sanctions, bombing by two of the most powerful air forces in the world, the
04:24U.S. Air Force and the Israeli Air Force, for over a month, nonstop, round the clock, 200 targets, 15
04:32,000 targets is what we've seen so far.
04:35It's command and control, its C2 is intact. It has that capability to retaliate and keep up on the escalation
04:42ladder.
04:43That's a very big takeaway. That clearly shows that the U.S. has, despite hitting all of these thousands of
04:49targets, has not been able to sever the command and control line that Iran has built up, these networks that
04:55they've built up, these underground cities that they've, you know, established.
04:58Even a month later, Iran is still in the fight. And that is what worries me, Gaurav, is that what
05:04after the MOP, because the U.S. explosive yield thing, conventional explosives, ends with a massive ordnance penetrator, the GBU
05:13-57.
05:14After that, you're looking at a very, very dangerous escalation ladder when you're looking at tactical nukes and then even
05:22strategic nuclear weapons.
05:24Will things come to such a pass? Will things come to such a pass? God forbid. Remember, we've seen this
05:30only once in our history, again, by the United States of America, to bring the Second World War to an
05:37end, to bring Japan to its knees.
05:38Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed in 1945. Are things escalating? Is the U.S. getting desperate?
05:45We'll show you those GBU-57, and we'll explain what these massive bunker busters are.
05:51But even as the U.S. demonstrates its complete military might, or conventional military might, Iran is fighting back.
06:00But it's a very different kind of a battle, very different response.
06:04So, one, the U.S. is using massive force. So, they're bringing their fighter jets, their tactical bombers, their strategic
06:12bombers, their ships, their submarines, their aircraft carriers, using their tomahawk missiles, everything that they have.
06:19How is Iran hitting back? It's using those Shahid drones.
06:22They go slow, they evade the radars, but with pinpoint accuracy, they go and destroy the target.
06:29Low cost, high impact, designed to stretch Washington, D.C.'s billion dollars military infrastructure, destroying it.
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