00:00In the early hours of June 13, Israel launched one of the largest military operations in its history,
00:10striking dozens of Iranian nuclear facilities, missile sites, and high-ranking commanders.
00:16The Israeli government called it a preemptive strike aimed at stopping what it claimed was Iran's imminent path to nuclear weapons.
00:22The Israelis undertook a unilateral act of aggression and military attack on Iranian sovereign territory in violation of the UN Charter.
00:31And it's actually Iran which has been condemned in various European capitals for destabilizing the Middle East.
00:36Israel has the right to defend itself. Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.
00:42Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb.
00:44They can't have a nuclear weapon.
00:45So back in 2015, Iran had actually signed a nuclear deal with the P5 plus one known as the JCPOA or the Iran deal.
00:54Iran was abiding by that agreement.
00:57It ensured that Iran did not have a significant stockpile of highly enriched uranium.
01:02So this was very much working. And of course, during his first term, President Trump withdrew from that diplomatic accord and then imposed what he called this maximum pressure campaign,
01:14which really was tantamount to an all-out kind of economic war against Iran's sort of economy.
01:21We will be instituting the highest level of economic sanction.
01:29Obviously, we'd like to see a regime change, at least I would, in Iran, just as I would like to see in Iran.
01:34Obviously, this has been something which Benjamin Netanyahu has been advocating for for really two and a half decades.
01:41I mean, really, since the mid-90s, I mean, he's been espousing this.
01:45The Israelis and their allies in Washington do have this strategy of basically attacking those states which challenge Israeli hegemony and complete dominance, weakening them.
01:59And if they can, ultimately breaking them.
02:01And we've seen that sort of trail of destruction across the region.
02:05I do think that there is a shared sort of objective of really just weakening, defanging and potentially breaking the back of the government in Iran.
02:16Europe's leaders are so craven to the US and US power that they're not willing to actually buck this.
02:29I mean, after the Iraq war, obviously, France and Germany disagreed there.
02:33And especially, I think, given, you know, the Ukraine war, given the kind of the real concern that Trump might actually continue to defund and undermine NATO.
02:44Their priority, obviously, is Russia.
02:47It is NATO.
02:48And without the Americans, I mean, it's, you know, it's a paper tiger.
02:52So really, this is a fair complet.
02:53They're going to go along with it.
02:55It's the German Chancellor has literally said that this is sort of, we're glad the Israelis are sort of doing the dirty work for us.
03:01Das ist die Drecksarbeit, die Israel macht für uns alle.
03:04So, yeah, they were prepared to do it for themselves.
03:06But if obviously, if it comes about and in a sense it's been imposed upon them, it's a fair complet.
03:10And they will happily go along with it.
03:13I don't think they're really considering, again, the fallout of this, given that, you know, Iran is a country of 90 million people.
03:18And if you really destroy the state and destabilise it to an immense degree, that's going to obviously spark a massive outflux of people and refugees and so on.
03:28And that's going to obviously be on Europe's doorstep.
03:31Analysts have long pronounced that the Israelis cannot destroy Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities by themselves.
03:39But there's also significant doubts that the United States even can.
03:41If the United States was sincere and genuine in wanting to basically constrain Iran's civilian nuclear enrichment program, they would have done this through diplomacy, as was previously done in 2015.
03:57And the fact that they have pursued the strategy of actually just simply bombing Iran and trying to impose total capitulation shows this is about a much bigger and grander,
04:06a more grandiose and hubristic kind of vision, which is very much to remake the Middle East and one which is completely and utterly subordinate to the United States,
04:16but also its its junior partner in this, Israel.
