In this episode of Editorial, Mr. Sujit Nair discusses the escalating conflict involving the US, Iran, and Israel. Tensions in West Asia have risen sharply after the US carried out strikes on Iran, targeting three sites — Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. In response, Iran has issued a strong warning of a harsh and decisive retaliation against both Israel and the US. Mr. Nair also examines how Donald Trump — who once promised peace — is playing a key role in sparking new war.
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[00:00:00] Namaskar, welcome to another episode of editorial. As expected United States struck Iran. They struck three locations supposedly to be nuclear locations and now the president says let's talk peace.
[00:00:23] Let's talk about the Iranian attack by United States. Let's talk about United States, their administration and what's going in their mind. And finally, let's also talk about the Israeli role in all of this. Let's get right into the show.
[00:00:43] So yesterday, Sunday as it was expected, the United States attacked three alleged nuclear sites of Iran. One is Natanz, second is Isfahan and third is Fartou. Three different places where they believe Iran was enriching their uranium.
[00:01:10] So this is what happened yesterday. And the president of United States of America gloated when he wrote down and he said that we have completed our very successful attack on the three nuclear sites in Iran including like I told you Fardou, Natanz and Isfahan.
[00:01:30] All planes are now outside of Iran. All planes are now outside of Iran space which means that their planes were safe, everybody is safe out. A full payload of bombs were dropped on the primary site Fardou. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American warriors. There is not another military in the world that could have done this. Now is the time for peace. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
[00:02:00] To me, this tweet or whatever this is, this note from Donald Trump looked as if he was mocking the world. I slap you and after I slap you tight. Now let us talk peace.
[00:02:16] I don't see this. I don't see this action as any different to that of a roadside goon. And I say this very responsibly. A roadside goon, a roadside bully. This is how a roadside bully would operate. He talks about peace after bombing three cities and killing close to a thousand people in Iran. Would this be fair?
[00:02:44] The second thing what I am very, very, very confused about is what does the American president think? That he would go bomb and then Iran will say, okay, thank you for bombing and everything goes back to normal. He talks peace. This was the same man who said, you know, this war wouldn't have happened if I was the president. That war wouldn't have happened if I was the president.
[00:03:10] I am going to stop all wars in the world and he has not stopped it but he has increased. He has added one more war to the roster of war that was already happening. He has just added one more war because I don't think Iran is going to keep quiet. Let's spend three minutes to kind of try and understand what Iran could do.
[00:03:35] First and foremost is I believe and which already has started, Iran will start their attacks on Israel. Iran will also attack American bases.
[00:03:49] This is something that I think will definitely happen because Iran is in no mood to keep quiet, is in no mood to surrender, is in no mood to fold their hands in front of Trump and say, okay, whatever you say, sir. I don't think Iranians are in that mood. So Iran is going to retaliate. They have already said that they are going to block the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:04:19] Hormuz is a very, very important trade route. You can see on your screen. It's a very important trade route and this is definitely cause a lot of problem for the rest of the world. Oil prices, for instance, may definitely be affected because if there's such blockets. It is also said that they will, with the help of Houthi, which they have a lot of control over, will block the Red Sea.
[00:04:50] Because the area that you see on your screen is the area which is to some extent controlled and operated by Houthi. So, somewhere down the line, they could also cause a blockade in this area. Overall, the oil prices may go up. Trade may have a major setback. Global trade may face a major setback.
[00:05:19] This is what the American President, Mr. Donald Trump, has achieved for the world. The same Donald Trump, like I told you, who said that, I am going to stop all the wars. Had I been the President, possibly there wouldn't have been any war anyways. This was the man who said that and this is what he brought on to the world.
[00:05:44] That said, let me go to the next part of my editorial. You see, America is the world's oldest democracy, like I have said to you before. America invited a field marshal. The elected American President invited a field marshal for lunch to possibly discuss this Iran attack.
[00:06:13] A couple of days back, to possibly discuss this Iran attack and to get a tacit support from that particular field marshal who belonged to a country called Pakistan. Pakistan and the country called Pakistan, which is technically supposed to be a democracy and technically has an elected prime minister. The elected president of the world's oldest democracy didn't choose to speak to the elected prime minister,
[00:06:42] but chose to speak to the field marshal of Pakistan, took him into confidence before they bombed Iran on Sunday. First of all, look at the reverence that Mr. Donald Trump gives democracy and its tenants. Look at that reverence. Number two is the same is continued with Iran.
[00:07:12] Why is Iran being bombed? Iran is being bombed is because they want a change in regime. A change in regime, in democracies are not bought about by bombing the country, number one. Number two, a change in regime, please understand, is bought about by the citizens of that particular democracy. It's a sovereign country.
[00:07:41] It is the job, the citizens of that democracy to bring about change, either through ballot or through protest on the streets. But within that country, their citizens should be bringing about that change, not United States of America. And that is something that one needs to understand very emphatically. If a country starts believing that we can bring about regime change anywhere in the world,
[00:08:07] then that country believes that every other country is under the control of this country called United States. At least Trump believes that every country on planet Earth is controlled by United States. That is why he speaks about regime change and regime change so easily. He speaks about, I have successfully bombed.
[00:08:39] And now, let us talk peace. Mocks at peace. Mocks at the world so easily. Now, a lot of you may say that, what are we talking about? Aree bhai, Iran is having a nuclear program. Iran is enriching their uranium. So, well, America doesn't want another nuclear country in this world. Especially Iran who is supporting Houthi, who is supporting Hezbollah, who is supporting Hamas.
[00:09:09] They don't want another nuclear country. So, they are struck. Big deal. It is what is going on. Now, let me take you through how confused America is about Iran's nuclear program. You see, on March 26th, 2025, Tulsi Gabrad, United States Director of National Intelligence,
[00:09:39] she said that the IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapon program he suspended in 2003. This is what their National Intelligence Director says. And Trump says, what she is saying is all lies. Nay, there is a program.
[00:10:07] There is nuclear program going on. They are not from two different countries. She is the National Director of Intelligence of United States. And the President of United States, who she reports to, say that no, no, no, no, no. She is wrong. There is nuclear program. Of course, she went on to say, let me also say that. She went on to say in her social media post that, you know, that mass testimony was taken out of context by dishonest media.
[00:10:37] She says it was taken out of context. Now, you can decide whether it was that was taken out of context or what she said. Now, it's taken out of context or whatever. But the American President believed, possibly, after a lot of intelligence input from Israel, that Iran has to be bombed because nuclear enrichment and nuclear program is active in Iran.
[00:11:07] Now, mind you, this same America, under a Republican President called George Bush Jr., had bombed Iraq. You know why he had bombed Iraq? Because he said the same that Iraq is enriching uranium and they have a nuclear program. They bombed Iraq. They almost destroyed Iraq.
[00:11:33] They changed the face of Middle East and possibly a lot of current issues in Middle East, including the ISIS, happened after that regime change. And then they realized that, oops, there was no uranium, no chemical weapons, no nuclear weapons found in that country. This happened before. Is history repeating itself? Is history repeating itself?
[00:12:03] You see, Donald Trump made a statement that monumental damages has been done on all nuclear sites in Iran. As shown by satellite image, obliteration is an accurate term. The white structure shown is deeply embedded into the rock with even its roof well below ground level and completely shielded from flame.
[00:12:30] The biggest damage took place far below ground level. Bullseye. This is what the American President said. Most of his statements doesn't look very President-like, but all the same. You know, June 23rd, his own Vice President had a different thing to say.
[00:12:54] The US Vice President, J.D. Vance, was unable to confirm the status of Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium. In an ABC interview, after US President Donald Trump ordered airstrikes on nuclear facility in the country. In a Sunday interview, Vance said that he thought that Iranian nuclear sites were severely damaged or obliterated.
[00:13:19] I am not exactly sure of what the difference is, he said. Now, let me share with you something that a lot of media must have not told you. Let me share what Donald Trump believed before and what Donald Trump is doing now. Let me share some tweets of Donald Trump right from 2011.
[00:13:45] 2011, he writes, in order to get elected, Barack Obama will start a war with Iran. Who writes this? Donald Trump. October 10, 2012, he says, now that Obama's poll numbers are in a tailspin, watch for him to launch a strike on Libya or Iran. He is desperate. Who writes this? Donald Trump. Donald Trump, September 17, 2013.
[00:14:13] I predict that President Obama will at some point attack Iran in order to save face. This is Donald Trump again. Remember what I previously said. Obama will attack Iran in order to show how tough he is. This is September 25, 2013. Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly. Not skilled.
[00:14:43] 11, 10, 2013. This is what Donald Trump said. This very clearly indicates that he had no idea or he doesn't believe that there was any nuclear facility or nuclear, whatever, uranium enrichment and all happening. In fact, he thought having a war or he thought a war with Iran was purely for political purposes. Now what has changed? Now how are things different?
[00:15:09] It's a complete unplanned, non-verified information. At least it looks that way to the world. It looks that way to the world. Completely non-verified information that the entire administration of the United States of America is functioning on. Some experts say that the uranium were transferred even before they bombed that particular area.
[00:15:37] This too is information floating. The point that I am trying to make, on what basis is America bombing countries left, right and center? What gives the right to America to bomb countries left, right and center? Secondly, is America purely going by what Israel wants it to do? Israel wants it. Israel was bombed by Iran. Israel bombed Iran first. Israel was bombed back.
[00:16:05] Israel realized that Iran was a far difficult customer and Iran cannot be contained that easily as they did to the poor people of Gaza. Israel realized that they may not be able to tackle Iran and if they don't have help from America, possibly Iran will road roller them. They got in America. They created this entire concept of uranium enrichment and nuclear facility and all of that. Got America and got them to attack Iran.
[00:16:35] This is exactly the way it looks like. Now, while I say this, I also want to condemn the Hamas action on Israel that happened. I don't subscribe to that either.
[00:16:53] But the fact remains that after that, what Israel did to Palestine, to Gaza, to the women and children of Gaza is, I think, beyond extreme.
[00:17:09] And now, the United States of America and the person who wants to be nominated for a Nobel Prize, Mr. Donald Trump, is with them trying to take down anybody who raises a little finger on Israel. This is what is worrying.
[00:17:57] Much beyond what we could imagine. That's the first point. The second point is, mind you, there is another impending action that is expected from Russia on Ukraine. After the Ukraine latest attack on Russian base, there is another impending action that is expected from Russia.
[00:18:22] All of this together is not looking good for the world at the moment. This is what we have been saying to you in the past and we continue to say this. This is what I wanted to communicate to you. Thank you so much for watching us. And till we meet again, that's tomorrow at 10. Namaskar. We'll see you soon. To be continued... Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.