IHIP News

Gruesome Details of Trump's Iranian Apocalypse Come Out and It's Worse Than You Think

21 min
Mar 5, 2026about 1 month ago
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Summary

IHIP News hosts discuss escalating U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran, characterizing the campaign as war crimes targeting civilian infrastructure including hospitals and schools in Tehran. They argue the conflict reflects a dangerous alliance between Christian nationalist ideology and Israeli expansionism, driven by apocalyptic religious beliefs rather than strategic necessity.

Insights
  • U.S. public support for Iran military action (23-27%) is lower than Vietnam War support (29%), indicating significant domestic opposition to the conflict
  • Republican base support for Iran strikes (87%) remains lockstep with Trump despite campaign promises of peace, suggesting tribal loyalty overrides policy consistency
  • Christian nationalist theology directly influences foreign policy decisions, with evangelical leaders viewing Israeli territorial expansion as prerequisite for religious prophecy fulfillment
  • Military-industrial complex profiteering perpetuates indefinite Middle East conflicts while domestic infrastructure and healthcare needs remain unfunded
  • Centralized U.S. military command structure faces asymmetric threat from Iran's decentralized, 20+ year prepared defense network with significantly lower operational costs
Trends
Erosion of congressional oversight on military interventions, with senators prioritizing executive loyalty over constitutional checksIntegration of apocalyptic religious ideology into mainstream foreign policy decision-making at executive and legislative levelsDeclining public trust in military justifications for Middle East conflicts despite bipartisan political support among elected officialsNormalization of civilian casualty acceptance in allied military operations without accountability mechanismsWeaponization of anti-Semitism accusations to suppress legitimate criticism of Israeli government military practicesExpansion of Israeli settlement policy in West Bank concurrent with U.S. military support escalationBillionaire oligarch enrichment through military-industrial complex contracts during prolonged regional conflictsPerformative military capability demonstrations prioritized over strategic outcome planning in conflict execution
Topics
U.S.-Israel Military Alliance and Strategic CoordinationCivilian Casualties in Iran Military StrikesChristian Nationalist Influence on Foreign PolicyCongressional War Powers and Oversight FailuresIsraeli Settlement Expansion in West BankMilitary-Industrial Complex ProfiteeringPublic Opinion vs. Political Support for Iran ConflictWar Crimes Allegations and International LawAsymmetric Warfare and Iran's Defense CapabilitiesGaza Conflict Parallels to Iran Bombing CampaignEvangelical Theology and Middle East PolicyTrump Administration Foreign Policy ContradictionsMedia Coverage of Middle East ConflictsEpstein Files and Political Leverage TheoriesAmerican Infrastructure Neglect vs. Military Spending
People
Donald Trump
Primary focus as president directing Iran military strikes; criticized for dementia, criminal behavior, and breaking ...
Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister characterized as driving 40-year agenda for Iran military action; accused of war crimes in Gaz...
Pete Hegseth
Defense Secretary advocating for boots-on-ground escalation in Iran; criticized for disregarding international law an...
Marco Rubio
Secretary of State mentioned in infighting with Hegseth over Iran military strategy and escalation approach
Lindsey Graham
Senator characterized as Christian nationalist using religious rhetoric to justify Iran military action and Israeli e...
Mike Pence
Former VP mentioned as Trump supporter who was threatened by Trump during January 6 insurrection
Caroline Levitt
Press Secretary who refused to rule out boots-on-ground deployment in Iran during briefing
Ted Cruz
Senator identified as Christian nationalist supporting Israeli expansionism based on apocalyptic religious ideology
Mike Huckabee
Political figure described as believing all West Bank land should belong to Israel based on biblical interpretation
Sean Hannity
Fox News host who provided platform for Netanyahu to pitch Iran military campaign to Trump's Christian nationalist base
Quotes
"MAGA is a death cult, period. I've been saying it for a year now, and every single policy they have or every single policy they undo leads to casualties."
HostEarly segment
"You cannot liberate people by killing them. It is yet another MAGA lie."
HostEarly segment
"I could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and my supporters would still support me. That has proven to be true time and time and time again."
Host (quoting Trump)Mid-episode
"The religious fanatics are Israel and the united states and here is how shallow the foundation between the christian nationalists like alleged heterosexual lady graham and the zionist here's how fragile this alliance is."
HostLate segment
"Bombing the people you're telling you're going to liberate is a special kind of diabolical evil done in our names with our taxpayer money."
HostLate segment
Full Transcript
What is the city of Israel? Tehran is a city of 10 million people and American and Israeli forces are carpetbagging it. Densely, densely populated areas. And it seems to me like when it pertains to Israel and bombing, bombing highly populated areas where there are hospitals, schools, apartments, seems to be a feature and not a bug. And what we're seeing right now is the gauzification of Tehran put up this stunning, devastating, apocalyptic video. That is a densely populated city of 10 million people. And this is the fool's errand that so many people fall into with Donald Trump. The Latinos for Trump, the gays for Trump, the blacks for Trump, the women for Trump, Mike Pence, white Christian male for Trump, Iranians seeking liberation, which I have so much empathy for because the Iranian regime is horrible. MAGA is a death cult, period. I've been saying it for a year now, and every single policy they have or every single policy they undo leads to casualties. MAGA, the MAGA party in the United States of America is a death cult. Their policies support death, promote death, and cause death. And just yesterday, after this video was circulating everywhere, the Senate agreed to continue this war. So we have no guardrails around a man who clearly has dementia, whose brain is 100% cooked. And now they are killing civilians in Iran. And I'm not one of these people that only counts American lives. My mother taught me when I was younger during the Iraq war that those 1 million Iraqi lives were of value as well. This is a travesty. You cannot liberate people by killing them. It is yet another MAGA lie. So many lies and so many lives lost. And here's the thing. I don't think anyone in this regime cares. I think you're exactly right. It's a death cult. I think Pete Hegseth, when he stands up there and he goes on and on like a lunatic, I think he has a thirst for it and he likes it and disregards any type of international law, any type of policy that would protect civilians. It's just a thirst for death. And when the United States foreign policy under Biden, with the continuation under Trump, allowed to continue funding Israel when they were doing this to Gaza, war crimes, killing civilians, killing children, bombing hospital, bombing schools. This has now become the normalization of war crimes with these alleged democracies. Hey, we're your liberators. But FYI, when we liberate you, we're also going to kill everybody and then raise the property for our own taking. That seems to be what Israeli foreign policy and American foreign policy is. And this is horrific. And the fact that any criticism of the country of Israel, that people will tell you that you are anti-Semitic, is the most dangerous, intellectually lazy, manipulative, emotional blackmail comment imaginable. As an American, I can stand here and say the United States of America, the government, the foreign policy is worthy of a shit ton of criticism, whether it's Obama's foreign policy provocations, George W. Bush foreign policy provocations, Donald Trump's, Joe Biden's. All of it deserves criticism because I'm not in a cult. And criticism, critical thinking is an integral part of democratic societies. The same goes for Israel and their foreign policy practices. It should be worthy of criticism. And if you are so democratic and you are such free thinkers, then you should welcome said critiques and criticism. But this for the Iranians, you guys, this is going from bad to worse. Pop this up. The Telegraph is reporting that bombs have struck hospitals, schools, and residential buildings, and some of the heaviest strikes on Tehran since the war began. Witnesses describe apocalyptic scenes under the relentless barrage on Tuesday as food and medical supplies dwindled and the death toll rose. And then you can see this image of this is a really heavy populated urban area. And this is exactly what Israel did with Gaza. And we funded it. And now we're doing this in her in Tehran. Nobody in the United States government can tell us why other than they got some crazy apocalyptic spiritual war that they fighting But I think the reason why we doing this and I think the evidence supports this is Benjamin Netanyahu has had a dream of doing this for four decades No American president was as stupid and as compromised as Donald Trump. I think Donald Trump knew the Epstein files were rearing their ugly head. I think the Israeli government has a copy of everything in those files. I think these two things are intricately linked and people are going to die. And the next thing we're going to be reporting here are American boots on the ground because all Republican policies equal death cult. This is not a political movement that ever supports life. They say that, they scream they're so pro-life, they're so pro-family. They're not. They can talk the talk as much as they want to, but it's our job to call out the lies. This is a political movement for decades that has been wrapped up in Christianity, white Christian evangelicalism, and every policy they have is anti-family and pro-death. To your point about boots on the ground, yesterday, Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, she would not rule out boots on the ground. You're still reporting that infighting between Rubio and Hegseth. Hegseth wants to go boots on the ground. This is a stunning development for an administration that was, you know, he's going to be the peace president. And here's the deal. There's no plan. There is no plan on how we got here, how we're going to get out. And it is terrifying. And I look at the death and the destruction to civilians. And I believe this is just going to spur more hate in these countries for America as well it should, because they're going to do nothing to sponsor the rebuilding of this. It just continues to be zero plan, zero anything other than let's do what Israel wants. But pumps, they do sponsor the rebuilding of it. They do. This is why we're in such national debt. debt. They do regime change building. And we neglect our infrastructure and we neglect our citizens that need healthcare. And we get stuck in these quote unquote forever wars. Even Trump yesterday was talking about, you know, this war could go on forever. And there are just gruesome details coming out about the attack on the school, which was a double strike, by the way. Pop this up. By the time we arrived, the school had collapsed on top of the children. The mother told NBC News people were pulling out children's arms and legs. People were pulling out severed heads. We have to be a people that cares about humanity. We cannot say, oh, they were Iranian. It doesn't matter. they're Palestinian, BFD. It matters. It completely matters. And the problem that the United States is going to find with this war with Iran is simple. We have a performative military. We have this military where we can show, look at our bombs and look at how high tech they are. And then we have a bunch of billionaire oligarchs that have gotten incredibly wealthy off of the military industrial complex because it was done and built in the Cold War era. Iran has these $50,000 suicide drones that they produced, and their military is not centralized. They can go to Tehran and attack Tehran and kill little kids and bomb hospitals and kill civilians and diminish this so-called democracy that Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu claim to support, which is the biggest lie. They can do that all they want to. Tehran and Iran have been preparing for this war for 20 plus years, and their command is not centralized. You can take out Tehran, and they have heads all over. This is a multi-headed snake. They are prepared. They are ready. It's cost us a billion dollars a day. It doesn't cost Iran anywhere near that. these casualties are like chum in the water for Benjamin Netanyahu. We saw this with Gaza. We see this, that the Israeli public supports this war. I've seen anywhere from 85 to 90 percent. They support this war in Tehran. American public, I've seen anywhere from 23 to 27 percent support. For historical reference, Americans supported the Vietnam War 29%. This is a wildly unpopular war with Americans. We are partnering with a war criminal, but that shouldn't surprise you because our president is also a criminal. So for us to have any expectation that Pete Hegseth or Marco Rubio or anybody who willingly went to work for this man, Donald Trump, who incited an insurrection wherein even a white Christian Republican male wasn safe They wanted to hang Mike Pence Donald Trump didn give a shit about that He thought if Mike Pence isn loyal to me off with his head. To partner, to go to work for this man, the moral collapse you've already capitulated to. So these war crimes, this illegal war that we are seeing, as an American, I oppose it. I oppose Israel. I oppose the United States. This is so horrific, the lies of MAGA and how many people MAGA ropes in that are desperate, that have been looked over, that need help. And Donald Trump sits and lies into the camera. We're going to help you. And now it's the Iranians. We're going to come liberate you from your regime. Oh, just kidding. We're going to bomb the shit out of a city of 10 million people, hospital schools, residential areas. These are war crimes. Now, our president and Benjamin Netanyahu are two active war criminals with the support of the United States Congress. And it's so insane that Trump can barely even address the country about it. He has Benjamin Netanyahu go on Sean Hannity, which is not a serious person, which is not a serious news organization, to pitch this to who? To the Christian nationalist, the base of Trump and get this, all this talk about, oh, MAGA isn't supportive of this. Maybe there's a MAGA podcaster here. Maybe there's a MAGA podcaster there. Republicans that voted for Trump, 87% support this war. His base is always with him lockstep. We think, we always think, oh, surely they're going to turn their eyes on him now. They're never going to. He told us accurately when he campaigned in Trump 1.0. I could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and my supporters would still support me. That has proven to be true time and time and time again. These people believe in nothing, nothing. They don't care. First, we care about the Epstein files. We don't want any more wars in the Middle East. Donald Trump, Epstein files don't matter. We need to go bomb Iran. They're like, giddy up, cowboy, let's go. It's not surprising that you have different reasons and justifications for this war. And then you have senators who have been briefed in classified briefings and they come out saying, we are more worried now than we were before because the intelligence and everything they're telling us is more concerning than what we already thought. And that people will go along with it. That facts don't matter. And again, it's not surprising that's how it's been this whole time. But when you look at all the policies that Trump ran on, like you said, Epstein, regime change wars, the president of peace, all of those things, they don't give a shit. They will support him. I am heartened that the approval ratings are so low in terms of support for this war. But I wonder how long can the United States continue to do this when they have, I mean, we have all these senators that could have blocked it and they didn't. And the reason they didn't is because they are more loyal to Trump than the Constitution. How long can this last? I mean, forever. All right. And then we have here a video of Lindsey Graham talking about Iranians being religious fanatics. Play the clip. This is a religious war. Who wins it at the end of the day? Do the radical Islamic terrorists who want to kill all the Jews because God told them to? Who want to kill me because I'm an infidel? Who want to purify Islam to reject moderation and make everybody a jihadist, this is a big deal. I'll deal with Section 230. So what we're facing right now is a moment of decision that will set the course of the future of the Mid-East for a thousand years. Okay. I want to be crystal clear right now. The religious fanatics are Israel and the united states and here is how shallow the foundation between the christian nationalists like alleged heterosexual lady graham and the zionist here's how fragile this alliance is the christian nationalists want the jews to be in israel so that jesus will come and perform the rapture and when the jews are in israel and they say no we're still going to continue with our Jewish faith, we're not accepting you as our Lord and personal savior. To hell they go. This is an apocalyptic fantasy that the Zionists know is super important to the right evangelical rapture preppers Ted Cruz Lady Graham They know this is super important This is why Benjamin Netanyahu is now investing in right religious evangelical churches bringing the pastors over to Israel. There's always this seduction from the Israelis to seduce Congress members, to seduce senators. Now they're seducing religious leaders that, oh, we have Judeo-Christian values. and the United States and Israel is the strongest alliance in the world. And it is right now proving to be the most homicidal, fanatical, bullshit alliance in the world. It is a death cult. I don't know how else I can say it. What we saw in Gaza and what we're seeing in Iran and the fact that these white Christian nationalists have this idea that, oh, yeah, we're going to let all the Jews get ready before Jesus comes and sends them to Satan to be tortured forever. That's what they believe. This is guiding foreign policy. Iron Age texts are guiding foreign policy. It would be no further insanity if we were having Greek mythology defining foreign policy. This is bananas. For me personally, I'm not a huge fan of the faith of Islam. I'm not a huge fan of Christianity. I'm not a huge fan of Judaism. But if people want to practice that, it's not my business. It's simply not my business. And the Iranian people have their own plight. And I see where this thing is heading with these Christian nationalists in the United States. And I see that that's what happened to them. It's horrific. It's absolutely horrible. But going over and bombing the people you're telling you're going to liberate is a special kind of diabolical evil done in our names with our taxpayer money. And then it's further evil. They tell all these people they get to come out after they've already been radicalized in their megachurches. They get them to go out and vote for Donald Trump. You need health insurance? Tough titties, you lazy person. Go get a better job. It's not the government's problem. It's really, really sick, evil stuff. You know, I was raised in this type of church, evangelical Christian. I remember, I mean, the churches I grew up in, they have been planning for this since I was eight years old. The minute this all came out, they immediately were like, okay, here we go. I'm telling you, it sounds crazy, but it's true. They believe that Jesus is coming and it's happening. And they are willing to, in my opinion, they are willing to sacrifice lives of innocent people so that Jesus can come back and rescue them from all this rapture crap. It's unbelievable. It's been going on since I was eight years old. And the inherent it for me, anti-Semitism as the Jewish people being used as a prop for Lindsey Graham's apocalyptic fantasy, because it can't just come out of the closet and be a normal person or Ted Cruz. You know, that to me is about the most demeaning thing that you could think of somebody's faith and of their personhood. you're a prop for my religion so that then you can all be sent to hell. And we never even talk about that. But that is what drives the Republican support, that money, because they genuinely, Mike Huckabee, he is crazy. He is insane. He thinks all of that land should be Israel's because of the Bible, not because of human rights, not because of, you know, this is something that we can do to help the world. Israel is an expansionist country. They want to expand and take over more people's land and take over more people's land and take over more people's land. This never ends well. And the United States has thought, oh yeah, we'll partner with them. We'll partner with them on this insane idea. So of course these people are pissed. Of course, these people are angry because you have settlers going into the West Bank, taking their land. American citizens are getting killed in the West Bank. And nobody says a word about it. American citizens getting shot in some other country would be headlines everywhere. But Israel is able to do shit with impunity. And now they have the dumbest partner on the planet backed by a bunch of rabid anti-Semitic Christian nationalist. All right, that's all we have. Like, subscribe, comment. 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