COMING UP.
WARNING FROM IRAN, THE HEAD OF
IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD
TELLING A CROWD IN TEHRAN
YESTERDAY IF THE UNITED STATES
AND MIDDLE EASTERN ALLIES CROSS
ITS, QUOTE, RED LINE, THEY WOULD
BE DESTROYED, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC
DEALING WITH NATIONWIDE
PROTESTS, IRAN BLAMING THE
UNITED STATES AND THE ALLIES OF
DEMONSTRATIONS DESPITE THE FACT
THEY RAISED FOOD PRICES AND THE
PRICE OF FOOD AND FUEL HAS BEEN
SOARING, JOINING US GENERAL JACK
KEANE, GENERAL, ALWAYS A
PLEASURE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH
FOR JOINING US, LET'S FIRST
START ON WHAT IRAN DID, IRAN
RAISED THE PRICE OF FUEL ON TOP
OF ALL OTHER COMMODITIES HAVING
SEEN PRICE INCREASE AND THAT
BROUGHT ON THE DEMONSTRATIONS,
CORRECT?
>> YEAH, ABSOLUTELY, I MEAN,
EXACERBATED ALREADY TENSE
SITUATION BECAUSE THE ECONOMY
ARE SQUEEZING THE LIFE OUT OF
THE PEOPLE AND THAT BROUGHT THE
PEOPLE OUT IN A DESPERATE WAY IN
STREETS OF IRAN, SOMETHING WE
HAVE NOT SEEN IN 40 YEARS OVER
100 CITIES SIMULTANEOUSLY HAVING
DEMONSTRATIONS AND THEY ARE FLAT
BLAMING THE REGIME, THEY ARE
BLAMING THE REGIME'S BEHAVIOR
FOR NOT PROVIDING EFFECTIVE
GOVERNANCE AND NOT PROVIDING AN
ECONOMY THAT'S WORKING PROPERLY
AND THEY KNOW FULL WELL THAT THE
REGIME IS TAKING THE MONEY THAT
THEY RECEIVED AS A RESULT OF
NUCLEAR DEAL WITH OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION AND PULLED INTO
MILITARY OPERATIONS IN LEBANON,
IN SYRIA, IN YEMEN AND ALSO IN
IRAQ, THAT'S WHAT THEY'VE BEEN
UP TO WITH THE MONEY AND NOW THE
PEOPLE ARE FED UP WITH IT.
MARIA: THE PEOPLE REALLY KNOW,
THE REGIME BLAMES THE UNITED
STATES AND THEY SAID THAT IF
THEY CONTINUE GETTING INVOLVED
IN IRAN, THAT THE U.S. AND
ALLIES BEEN DESTROYED.
WHAT SHOULD WE TAKE AWAY FROM
THAT?
WHAT IS THIS RETALIATION THAT WE
ARE EXPECTING AND WILL THE U.S.
PUT SANCTIONS ON SPECIFIC
LEADERS IN IRAN?
>> YEAH, WELL, A COUPLE OF
THINGS, THIS IS THE FIRST
SIGNIFICANCE THAT WE HAVE SEEN
IN THE IRANIAN MODEL OF
DOMINATION AND CONTROL OF THEIR
OWN PEOPLE, OF THE PEOPLE IN
LEBANON AND ALSO IRAQI SHIITE
BECAUSE MASSIVE DEMONSTRATIONS
IN TWO COUNTRIES SIMULTANEOUSLY
FOR THE SAME REASON, LACK OF
EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE, LACK OF
QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE PEOPLE
THAT THAT IRAN IS INFLUENCEING.
SANCTIONS ARE TAKING TOLL,
MARIA, IN TERMS OF PRESSURE THAT
IRAN FEELS, THE RHETORIC THAT
YOU'RE HEARING TODAY, DOESN'T
MEAN THAT IRAN WILL START A WAR
WITH THE UNITED STATES, THEY
KNOW THEY WILL LOSE THAT,
ADDITIONAL 14,000 TROOPS THAT WE
HAVE PUT INTO THE REGION LIKELY
DETERRED THEM FROM ATTACK US,
BUT I DO KNOW, MARIA, STILL
LIKELY IN THEIR PLAY BOOK THAT
THEY WILL USE MILITARY
OPERATIONS TO DISRUPT THE OIL
FLOW, AFFECT THE WORLD ECONOMY,
TRY TO CREATE A RECESSION IF
THEY CAN THAT WOULD PUT PRESSURE
IN THE UNITED STATES TO REMOVE
THE SANCTIONS, I STILL BELIEVE
THEY ARE GOING TO MOVE TOWARDS
THAT BEFORE THEY MOVE TO
NEGOTIATED COMPROMISE WITH THE
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, BUT DOWN
THE ROAD, THE ONLY EXIT THEY
