- THIS WEEK ON A
WATCHMAN EXCLUSIVE,
WELCOME TO THE IRAQ-IRAN BORDER.
THIS IS IRAN,
AND SURROUNDING ME IN
THESE MOUNTAINS RIGHT NOW
ARE THE FORCES OF THE WORLD'S
NUMBER ONE STATE SPONSOR
OF TERRORISM, THE
IRANIAN REGIME.
RIGHT NOW, YOU ARE
WATCHING ME BEING WATCHED
BY THE FORCES OF THE IRANIAN
REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS CORPS,
A DESIGNATED TERRORIST
ORGANIZATION.
THANKFULLY, WE ARE HERE
WITH THE BRAVE FORCES
OF THE KURDISH PESHMERGA, IN
A PLACE WHERE FEW AMERICANS
WILL EVER SET FOOT,
BUT WE CAME HERE TO BRING
YOU THE INSIDE STORY
OF THE IRANIAN REGIMES THREAT,
NOT ONLY TO KURDISTAN, BUT
TO THE BROADER MIDDLE EAST,
TO AMERICA, TO THE WORLD,
AND TO YOU NO MATTER
WHERE YOU LIVE.
WE ARE BRINGING YOU
THE EXCLUSIVE FROM
THE SHADOW OF IRAN,
THIS WEEK, ONLY RIGHT
HERE ON THE WATCHMAN.
[CLIMACTIC MUSIC]
WELL, DALTON, WE ARE TRAVELING
RIGHT NOW ALONG THE ROAD
THAT NOT MANY AMERICANS TRAVEL,
AND THERE'S A REASON FOR THAT.
TELL US WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW,
WHY IT'S SUCH A SENSITIVE AREA,
AND A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS AREA
PARTICULARLY, FOR TWO AMERICANS.
- RIGHT NOW, WE ARE
IN THE TRI-STATE AREA
OF IRAQ, TURKEY, AND IRAN.
RIGHT NOW, WE'RE ABOUT FIVE
MILES FROM THE IRANIAN BORDER.
YOU CAN BEGIN TO SEE
THE MOUNTAINS HERE NOW.
THIS IS ONE OF THE
MOST SIGNIFICANT PLACES
IN THE MIDDLE EAST RIGHT NOW
AT THIS MOMENT IN HISTORY.
SO, THE IRGC, THE IRANIANS
ARE INDISCRIMINATELY SHELLING
THIS AREA ON A CONSISTENT
BASIS SO ANY ABERRATION,
ANY ABNORMAL THING,
THEY'LL SHELL IT.
THEY KIDNAP SHEPHERDS, THEY'LL
JUST BOMB PASTURES OF SHEEP
AND GOATS AND COWS.
IN THOSE MOUNTAINS,
THOSE BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAINS
ARE IRANIAN ARTILLERY POSITIONS
AND IF YOU FOLLOW THE BORDER
JUST UP TO OUR LEFT,
IT'S GONNA INTERSECT WITH
THE TURKISH BORDER AND THAT'S
WHERE ALL THE AIRSTRIKES
AND ALL THE COMBAT
IS RAGING RIGHT NOW.
- THERE'S SHELLING GOING ON
RIGHT WHERE WE'RE DRIVING
RIGHT NOW FREQUENTLY, SO NUMBER
ONE, WE'RE GONNA DRIVE FAST,
BUT NUMBER TWO, I THINK
OF THE IRAQI KURDS WHO
ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THIS,
AND WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT
THAT MORE WHEN WE GET
TO THE IRAN BORDER,
BUT I IMAGINE DALTON
THE CLOSER WE GET TO THE
IRAN BORDER, THE MORE
PRECARIOUS OUR POSITION BECOMES?
- THE PESHMERGA ARE IN CHARGE
OF SECURING THE BORDERS
OF KURDISTAN AND SO WE'RE
GONNA GO TO A POSITION
THAT'S BASICALLY FACING
OFF WITH THE IRGC
AND IT'S A VERY TENSE
THING BECAUSE ANY DAY
THIS COULD KICK OFF AND
IF THERE WAS TO BE IRANIAN
AND KURSIAN INSIDE KURDISTAN,
THIS IS WHERE IT WOULD HAPPEN,
THROUGH THIS CROSSING
AND SO IN MANY WAYS,
YOU COULD SAY THIS, THAT
THIS SPOT IS THE MOST
SIGNIFICANT SPOT ON THE
IRAQ-IRAN BORDER BECAUSE OF WHAT
MAY HAPPEN HERE IN THE FUTURE.
- THIS LITERALLY
SAYS IRAN TRAILER.
RIGHT IN FRONT OF US, WE
HAVE AN IRANIAN VEHICLE.
THAT'S HOW CLOSE WE ARE.
WE ARE ON THE BORDER.
THE MOUNTAINS OF IRAN
ARE IN FRONT OF US.
IRAN HAS THE HIGH GROUND HERE.
THESE IRANIAN
MOUNTAINS ARE MASSIVE
AND THEY ARE LOOKING DOWN
UPON IRAQI KURDISTAN,
LOOKING DOWN UPON THIS JEEP
RIGHT NOW THAT WE'RE IN
AND THAT'S NOT A GOOD
THING BECAUSE WHEN YOU HAVE
THE HIGH GROUND, YOU
OBVIOUSLY HAVE A MASSIVE
MILITARY ADVANTAGE AND WE
SEE IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY
GUARDS CORP BASES ON
TOP OF THESE MOUNTAINS.
- THIS IS THE AREA
THAT'S BEING SHELLED
ON A FAIRLY REGULAR BASIS
RATHER INDISCRIMINATELY
BY THE IRANIAN REGIME
ON THE OTHER SIDE
SO THE CLOSER WE GET,
THE MORE SENSITIVE IT IS.
- FOLKS, I CAN ASSURE YOU,
BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT,
100% THAT THE VEHICLES WE
ARE DRIVING IN RIGHT NOW
ARE BEING WATCHED AND MONITORED
BY IRANIAN INTELLIGENCE
AND THE IRANIAN
REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS CORPS.
HOW DO I KNOW?
BECAUSE WE ARE IN KIND
OF A FISH BOWL HERE
SURROUNDED BY THE
MOUNTAINS OF IRAN,
AND ON TOP OF THOSE MOUNTAINS
ARE IRANIAN INTELLIGENCE
AND LISTENING AND
MONITORING POSITIONS
AND THEY ARE SURELY MONITORING
THIS VEHICLE RIGHT NOW
AS WE DRIVE TOWARDS A
KURDISH PESHMERGA BASE
FOR A CLOSER LOOK INSIDE IRAN.
YOU WON'T GET THIS ANYWHERE
ELSE, I CAN TELL YOU THAT MUCH.
[CLIMACTIC MUSIC]
-[ERICK] DALTON THIS IS AMAZING,
THIS KURDISH PESHMERGA
POST IS LITERALLY
A CASTLE ON THE IRANIAN BORDER.
WHO KNOWS HOW OLD THIS PLACE IS
BUT HERE WE ARE
ASCENDING TO THE TOP
WITH THE PESHMERGA ON
THE IRANIAN BORDER.
WOW.
SO THIS IS IRAN RIGHT HERE.
THESE ARE IRGC POSITIONS.
QUDS FORCE, REVOLUTIONARY
GUARDS CORPS,
VERY DANGEROUS AND I'M
SURE WATCHING US RIGHT NOW.
- YEAH, OF COURSE.
- AS WE SPEAK THE IRANIAN
REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS CORPS,
WHICH BY THE WAY
HAS BEEN DESIGNATED
BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
AS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.
OFFICIALLY DESIGNATED
BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT
AND RIGHTFULLY SO.
THE PESHMERGA SOLDIERS
ARE HERE AT THIS POST.
I WOULD SAY THIS IS THE
EDGE OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD
ON THE IRAN BORDER WHERE
WE HAVE THE WORLD'S LEADING
SPONSOR OF TERROR ON THE
OTHER SIDE WE'RE STARING AT
RIGHT NOW, AGAIN, THESE IRGC
POSITIONS ALL AROUND US HERE
ON THE MOUNTAINS OF IRAN,
BUT THE PESHMERGA BRAVELY
ARE ON THE FRONT LINES HERE,
AGAIN, ALL THAT'S HOLDING BACK
THE WOLVES OF THE IRANIAN
REGIME FROM COMING
TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
THE KURDS ARE HERE ON
THE FRONT LINE OF DEFENSE
FOR THE BROADER MIDDLE EAST.
[CLIMACTIC MUSIC]
THESE IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY
GUARDS CORPS POSITION
AS DALTON SAID ARE
RINGING AROUND US.
THEY HAVE THE HIGH GROUND AND
THEY'RE LOOKING DOWN AT US
AND THE BRAVE SOLDIERS OF
THE KURDISH PESHMERGA HERE.
THEY'RE WATCHING FOR SURE BUT
WE HAVE THIS RARE OPPORTUNITY
TO BE HERE AND TO BRING
THIS TO YOU FOLKS,
IN YOUR LIVING
ROOMS, THIS IS IRAN.
- ONE OF THE REASONS WHY
WE WANTED TO BRING YOU HERE
AND SO THAT THE VIEWERS
COULD SEE IT IS TO UNDERSTAND
THE THREAT THAT THE
KURDS ARE FACING BECAUSE
APART FROM ISRAEL, THE
KURDS ARE OUR GREATEST ALLY
AND ISRAEL'S GREATEST
ALLY IN THE REGION
AND WHAT THEY'RE
ASKING FOR RIGHT NOW IS
A FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE IN
POLICY SO THAT THE KURDS
WOULD BE SUPPORTED DIRECTLY,
NOT THROUGH BAGHDAD, WHY?
BECAUSE BAGHDAD IS UNDER
THE INFLUENCE OF IRAN
SO WE CAN'T DESIGNATE THE IRGC
AS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION
ON THIS SIDE OF THE
COUNTRY AND BE FUNDING THEM
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF
THE COUNTRY WHICH IS
WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
- YEAH.
BAGHDAD, SINAI,
DAMASCUS, BEIRUT,
ALL UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF
IRAN AS THEY MARCH ACROSS
THE REGION AND LITERALLY
DALTON, ALL THAT'S STANDING
BETWEEN THE IRANIAN REGIME
AND IT'S GREATER AMBITION
OF REGIONAL DOMINATION AND
THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL,
IS IRAQI KURDISTAN.
- LOOK, I THINK PRESIDENT
TRUMP MADE A BRILLIANT DECISION
IN WITHDRAWING FROM THE
IRANIAN NUCLEAR DEAL
BECAUSE THE DEAL THAT WAS
PENNED IN 2015 DID NOT ADDRESS
AT ALL, STRATEGIC WEAPONS IN
THE FORM OF BALLISTIC MISSILES.
SO, THE IRANIAN REGIME
IS MOVING THEM ALL ACROSS
THE MIDDLE EAST THROUGH WHERE?
THROUGH BAGHDAD, THROUGH IRAQ.
THIS IS WHY IT'S OF STRATEGIC,
IMPERATIVE URGENT IMPORTANCE
RIGHT NOW THAT WE STAND
WITH THE KURDS DIRECTLY.
NOT THROUGH INDIRECTLY
THROUGH BAGHDAD
BECAUSE BAGHDAD HAS BECOME
THE CENTER OF THE LAND BRIDGE
AND MOVING STRATEGIC WEAPONS,
MOVING THEM ALL THE WAY
TO THE MEDITERRANEAN
AND POSING A THREAT TO
THE STATE OF ISRAEL TODAY.
- TO SAY WE HAVE
EXCLUSIVE ACCESS HERE
IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT
WE ARE RIGHT NOW ON THE
IRAQI KURDISTAN IRAN BORDER.
YOU ARE LOOKING INTO IRAN,
THE WORLD'S NUMBER ONE
STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM,
THE IRANIAN REGIME LURKS
JUST OVER THE HILLS HERE.
ITS RIGHT THERE,
THE BORDER CROSSING.
WE ARE SURROUNDED BY
IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY
GUARDS CORPS POSITIONS...
- AND HERE'S THE CRAZY THING
THAT PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND.
THESE SHIA MILITIAS, IT'S
CALLED HASHTASHABI OR THE PMU'S,
PARA MILITARY FORCES,
THESE FORCES WERE ROGUE,
DISCONNECTED FROM THE
CENTRAL MINISTRY OF DEFENSE.
NOW, THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT
FEDERALIZED THEM.
INCORPORATED THEM
INTO THE FEDERAL ARMY
WHICH MEANS THAT IRANIAN
TRAINED, IRANIAN SPONSORED,
IRANIAN BACKED, IRANIAN
INFLUENCED MILITIAS
NOW CONSTITUTE SOMEWHERE
BETWEEN 70 AND 90%
OF THE FEDERAL IRAQI ARMY
THAT THE UNITED STATES
HAS SPENT TRILLIONS OF
DOLLARS, AND A LOT OF BLOOD,
AND A LOT OF
TREASURE TO BUILD UP.
SO, IN MANY WAYS IT'S A
HARD REALITY FOR AMERICANS
TO ACCEPT, BUT THIS
IS THE REALITY.
WE HAVE EMPOWERED
IRAQ BECOMING IRAN.
- AN IRANIAN SATELLITE, WE HAVE.
ALL THAT BLOOD AND TREASURE
EXPENDED BY THE UNITED STATES
SINCE 2003 AND
THAT'S THE OUTCOME?
AND EVEN DALTON, AFTER
THE DEFEAT OF ISIS,
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CALIFATE
WHICH THE KURDISH PESHMERGA
BRAVELY LED ON THE GROUND WITH
COALITION IN U.S. AIR SUPPORT,
PRESIDENT TRUMP KEPT HIS
PROMISE, CRUSHED THE CALIFATE.
ISIS CRUSHED BUT IRAN,
AN EVEN GREATER THREAT
FILLING THAT VACUUM.
IT'S VERY FRUSTRATING.
- AND OUR FRIENDS
HERE AT THE PESHMERGA,
THEY'VE BEEN SAYING
THIS FOR YEARS.
I REMEMBER ASKING THEM
BEFORE THE CAMPAIGN
TO LIBERATE MOSUL BEGAN,
SO HOW DO YOU FEEL?
DO YOU FEEL EXCITED
ABOUT THE PROSPECT OF
TO SEE THE DEFEAT
OF THE ISLAMIC STATE
AND THEY SAID TO BE
HONEST, NO WE DON'T,
WE FEEL FEAR AND
I SAID WELL, WHY?
THEY SAID BECAUSE
OF WHAT COMES NEXT.
ONCE YOU REMOVE THAT LINCHPIN,
WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN IS
IT SET IN MOTION A
MUCH GREATER CONFLICT
THAT'S GONNA MAKE THE ISLAMIC
STATE LOOK LIKE A SPEED BUMP
AND THAT'S REALLY WHERE
WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW,
IS THE BEGINNING STAGES
OF THAT CONFLICT.
- AMERICA WOULD NOT
BE HERE WITHOUT ISRAEL
AND THE IMPORTANT
LESSONS OF JERUSALEM.
WE OWE IN LARGE PART
WHO WE ARE AS AMERICANS
TO THAT LONG
STANDING CONNECTION.
- WE STAND WITH ISRAEL
BECAUSE WE BELIEVE
IN RIGHT OVER WRONG,
IN GOOD OVER EVIL,
IN LIBERTY OVER TYRANNY.
- MODERN ISRAEL IS THE
ONLY TRULY FREE NATION
THROUGHOUT THE
ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST.
IT HAS AN ENORMOUS RESPECT
FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM,
A SUBJECT OF MANY OF
OUR HEARTS THESE DAYS.
- CUFI HAS AN ENORMOUS, ENORMOUS
IMPACT HERE IN WASHINGTON,
ACROSS THE COUNTRY,
AND ACROSS THE WORLD.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR
WILLINGNESS TO STAND UP
AND ENGAGE, AND FIGHT.
FIGHT FOR AMERICA,
FIGHT FOR ISRAEL,
AND FIGHT FOR
DOING WHAT'S RIGHT.
- WE MUST SAY NOT HERE,
NOT NOW, NOT EVER.
OUR NATION STANDS TOE TO TOE,
BACK TO BACK,
WITH THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL
BECAUSE IT'S GOD'S WILL!
[MUSIC]
- IF YOU'RE JUST JOINING
US, MAYBE YOU JUST TURNED
THE CHANNEL AND YOU CAME TO
US HERE AND YOU'RE WONDERING
WHERE ARE THESE GUYS.
WE ARE ON THE IRAQ-IRAN BORDER.
THIS IS IRAQI KURDISTAN.
THAT IS IRAN.
YOU'RE LOOKING INTO
IRAN RIGHT NOW.
YOU HAVE A VIEW, RIGHT
NOW, THAT FEW AMERICANS
HAVE EVER HAD QUITE FRANKLY,
AT LEAST IN THE PAST 40 YEARS.
WE'RE RINGED I GUESS YOU
COULD SAY AND SURROUNDED
BY IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY
GUARDS POSITIONS.
I CAN SEE THEM.
THEY'RE RIGHT HERE.
THEY'RE WHITE STRUCTURES HERE
AND THEY'RE ALL AROUND US
AND THEY'RE WATCHING RIGHT NOW,
BUT WE'RE IN THE GOOD HANDS
OF THE KURDISH PESHMERGA.
DALTON, TELL OUR VIEWERS,
WE KEEP SAYING THE IRGC,
THAT STANDS FOR IRANIAN
REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS CORPS,
TELL US WHO THEY ARE AND
WHY THEY'RE SO DANGEROUS
AND WHY WE'RE A LITTLE NERVOUS
AS THEY'RE STARING AT US
RIGHT NOW OVER YONDER.
- IRANIAN PEOPLE ARE AMAZING.
IRAN AND THE IRANIAN REGIME
ARE TWO SEPARATE THINGS.
IN 1979, A REVOLUTION
HAPPENED IN IRAN
AND THERE THEN BECAME, IT WAS
BORN THE IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY
GUARD CORPS, SO THEIR JOB IS
TO, THEY'RE THE CUSTODIANS,
THE GUARDIANS, THE
PROTECTORS OF THE REVOLUTION
THAT'S BEEN HOLDING THE
80, 90% OF THE COUNTRY
THAT'S AMAZING AS
PRISONERS AND AS HOSTAGE.
2003, SADDAM HUSSEIN WAS
DEPOSED AND TAKEN OUT OF POWER
AND THERE WAS A UNITY
GOVERNMENT FORMED IN IRAQ
WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO
HAVE EQUAL REPRESENTATION
BETWEEN SUNNI, SHIA, AND KURD.
WHAT HAPPENED WAS THE IRGC,
PUT ITS FOOT IN THE DOOR
AND BEGAN INFLUENCING
THINGS BETWEEN 2003 AND NOW.
AN INTELLIGENCE REPORT WAS
RELEASED THAT SAID THAT
THE IRANIAN
REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS
NOW HAS MORE INFLUENCE IN
IRAQ AND IN THE GREATER LEVANT
NOW, 17 YEARS AFTER
THE INVASION OF 2003
THAN ANY TIME IN HISTORY
BETWEEN THEN AND NOW
WHICH IS A TERRIFYING REALITY
AND HERE'S WHY THIS
IS SIGNIFICANT,
BECAUSE THE GREATER
THAT THREAT GROWS,
THE MORE SILENT THE KURDS
ARE GONNA BECOME, WHY?
BECAUSE THE MORE FEARFUL
THEY'RE GOING TO BE
OF THE REPERCUSSIONS OF
SPEAKING OUT AGAINST THIS BEAST
THAT CAN OVERPOWER
THEM IN A MOMENT.
WHICH IS WHY WE NEED TO LIFT
OUR VOICES ON THEIR BEHALF
BECAUSE THEY'RE GONNA BE
INCREASINGLY MARGINALIZED
AND SILENCED BECAUSE OF
THOSE FORCES THAT ARE ON
THE HILLS SURROUNDING
US RIGHT NOW.
AND I THINK IT'S URGENT
THAT WE SEE OUT OF THE BOX,
CREATIVE THINKING, IN TERMS
OF POLICY TO STAVE THIS OFF
BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE
IT'S A 1935 MOMENT.
WE'RE APPROACHING THE
POINT OF NO RETURN
WHERE IT IS TOO LATE
AND I DON'T LIKE HYPE,
AND HYPERBOLE, AND
SENSATIONALISM.
THIS IS NOT THAT.
THIS IS SOMETHING, A VERY
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
AND I DON'T THINK THE
WESTERN WORLDS PREPARED
FOR WHAT'S AROUND THE CORNER.
- NO, EUROPE IS LOOKING TO
APPEASE THE IRANIAN REGIME
QUITE FRANKLY WHICH
IS SAD TO SAY.
WE COULD USE A MAN
LIKE WINSTON CHURCHILL
TODAY IN EUROPE.
I THINK HE'S
TURNING IN HIS GRAVE
AS HE SEES THE APPEASEMENT
OF EUROPEAN NATIONS
SADLY TOWARDS THE
IRANIAN REGIME.
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
HAS MADE SOME STRONG MOVES
AS YOU SAID, AND SOME RIGHT
MOVES, KILLING THAT IRAN DEAL,
SANCTIONING THE IRANIAN
REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS CORPS,
DESIGNATING THEM AS
A TERRORIST GROUP
WHICH THEY MOST SURELY
ARE THE FOREMOST,
THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE WHEN
IT COMES TO GLOBAL TERROR
IS THE IRANIAN REGIME AND
SPECIFICALLY THE SURROUNDING
REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS CORPS
THAT'S STARTING AT US RIGHT NOW
HERE ON THE IRANIAN BORDER. I
COMPARE THEM DALTON TO THE,
JUST SO PEOPLE AT HOME HAVE
KIND OF AN IMAGE OF WHO
THE IRGC, THE IRANIAN
REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS CORPS ARE
YOU MENTIONED 1935 RIGHTLY
WHEN HITLER AND THE NAZI REGIME
WERE RISING IN GERMANY, IRAN
IS HAVING A SIMILAR RISE
RIGHT NOW, THINK OF THE SS
WHICH SURROUNDED HITLER,
HIS ELITE VAN GUARD, THE SS.
THAT'S THE IRGC, THEY ANSWER
DIRECTLY TO THE SUPREME LEADER
OF IRAN AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI.
WELL DALTON, WE ARE HERE
ON THE IRAQ-IRAN BORDER.
A PLACE WHERE FEW
AMERICANS TREAD.
WE'RE STARING INTO IRAN.
WHAT DO WE SEE HERE RIGHT NOW.
WE HAVE A BORDER
CROSSING OBVIOUSLY.
THE TOPOGRAPHY, SET THE SCENE
FOR US A LITTLE BIT MORE.
- YEAH, RIGHT HERE IS KURDISTAN.
OVER HERE IS IRAN,
AND THEN IRAN WRAPS
ALL THE WAY AROUND.
THE TURKISH BORDER IS NOT
FAR FROM HERE AS WELL.
IN FACT, IF WE COULD
GET OVER THIS RIDGE,
YOU COULD SEE THE TURKISH
BORDER INTERSECTING.
IN MANY WAYS, THIS IS THE
CROSSROADS OF THE MIDDLE EAST.
EVERYTHING INTERSECTS HERE.
THIS IS THE VORTEX THAT
EVERYTHING'S BEING PULLED INTO
AND IT'S ONE OF THE MOST
STRATEGICALLY, SIGNIFICANT,
TUMULTUOUS, CONSEQUENTIAL
PLACES ON THE EARTH
IN OUR GENERATION RIGHT NOW.
- YEAH, THAT'S NO
UNDERSTATEMENT.
LOOK, AND IRAN IS A STONE,
WE COULD LITERALLY WALK
INTO IRAN RIGHT NOW, FROM
WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW.
THIS KURDISH PESHMERGA POSITION,
WE COULD WALK INTO IRAN.
WE'RE SEEING IRANIAN TRUCKS
COME AND GO, IMPORTS, EXPORTS,
AND WE NEED TO BE QUICK HERE
BECAUSE WE'RE BEING WATCHED.
- WE HAVE TO GO DOWN NOW
ACTUALLY BECAUSE WE'RE EXPOSED
IN THE OPEN AND THE
SOLDIERS ARE UNCOMFORTABLE
SO WE'RE GONNA MAKE
OUR WAY DOWNSTAIRS
AND CONTINUE OUR
CONVERSATION DOWN THERE,
BUT IT'S ON EDGE HERE.
THIS IS NOT A SAFE PLACE
TO BE FOR VERY LONG.
- ESPECIALLY FOR TWO AMERICANS.
THIS IS TENSE, LET'S GO.
 - ANNOUNCER: FROM TERRORISTS
 WHO WOULD ANNIHILATE HER
 WITH BOMBS AND BULLETS
 TO SO CALLED ACTIVISTS THAT
 WOULD ELIMINATE HER
 WITH BOYCOTTS AND SANCTIONS.
 ISRAEL'S ENEMIES
 ARE ON THE MARCH.
 IN "WHY ISRAEL", YOU
 WILL LEARN HOW TO BE
 AN ACTIVE DEFENDER
 OF THE JEWISH STATE,
 KNOWLEDGEABLE AND POWERFUL
 AS YOU STAND UP FOR TRUTH.
 YOU'LL RECEIVE BIBLICAL
 EVIDENCE PROVING ISRAEL'S
 SPECIAL PLACE IN GOD'S PLAN.
 LEARN HOW HIS STEADFAST
 COMMITMENT TO HIS PEOPLE
 IS A MATTER OF
 FACT, NOT OPINION.
 FROM ITS MIRACULOUS
 REBIRTH AS A MODERN STATE
 TO THE DANGEROUS THREAT
 IT PRESENTLY FACES,
 ISRAEL'S INSPIRING JOURNEY
 IS LAID OUT IN
 THIS SHORT BOOKLET.
SUPPORTING ISRAEL IS A BIBLICAL
 MANDATE FOR ALL CHRISTIANS.
 IN WHY ISRAEL, YOU WILL
 DISCOVER WHY YOU SHOULD CARE
 ABOUT THE JEWISH STATE
 AND WHAT YOU CAN DO TO
STAND WITH GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE.
[CLIMACTIC MUSIC]
- AND WELCOME BACK
TO THE WATCHMAN.
YOU ARE JOINING US RIGHT
NOW FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT
EPISODE WE HAVE EVER DONE
OF THE WATCHMAN SHOW.
I DO NOT SAY THAT LIGHTLY.
RIGHT NOW, YOU'RE
LOOKING AT A PLACE,
AND WE ARE STANDING AT A
PLACE, DALTON THOMAS AND I,
THAT FEW AMERICANS EVER TREAD.
THIS IS THE IRAQ-IRAN BORDER.
DALTON, WELCOME BACK AND
SET THE SCENE FOR US.
MAYBE SOMEONES JUST TUNING IN.
SET THE SCENE, RESET
THE SCENE REAL QUICK
ON WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW
AND WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT.
- MANY PEOPLE MAY NOT
KNOW WHAT KURDISTAN IS.
THE BEST WAY THAT I
KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN IT
IS TO SAY THAT IT'S A PRE-STATE
INSIDE OF A FAILED STATE
THAT IS NOW BEING INCORPORATED
INTO THE IRANIAN STATE.
THAT'S WHAT KURDISTAN IS AND
WE ARE THE KURDISH PESHMERGA
BASE RIGHT NOW THAT IS
LITERALLY THE END OF THE ROAD
IN THE FINAL FRONTIERS
BEFORE THE IRGC FORCES,
THE IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY
GUARD FORCES THAT ARE
SURROUNDING US RIGHT NOW.
- YEAH, AND THEY ARE LITERALLY
SURROUNDING US DALTON.
THE IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY
GUARDS CORPS POSITIONS
ARE ALL AROUND US AND
THEY HAVE THE HIGH GROUND
ON THESE MOUNTAINS.
JUST SO PEOPLE KNOW, TO SET
THE SCENERY A LITTLE BIT,
YOU PROBABLY HEAR THE
WIND, WE'RE WAY UP HIGH
ON TOP OF A MOUNTAIN.
IT'S WINDY UP HERE.
WE'RE WITH THE KURDISH
PESHMERGA AT THEIR BASE.
IT LOOKS LIKE A CASTLE,
AN ANCIENT CASTLE,
PRETTY AMAZING PLACE
BUT ABSOLUTELY,
THE IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY
GUARDS ARE WATCHING US
RIGHT NOW, SO YOU'RE
WATCHING US BE WATCHED
BY THE IRANIAN REGIME RIGHT NOW.
NOT A VERY COMFORTING
THOUGHT, BUT THIS IS A STORY
WE NEEDED TO BRING YOU TODAY
FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS.
DALTON, IF IRAQI KURDISTAN,
GOD FORBID, WERE TO FALL,
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
JUST SO PEOPLE AT HOME KNOW
WHY THIS IS SO IMPORTANT
FOR AMERICANS, FOR EVERYONE
IN THE WESTERN WORLD,
AROUND THE WORLD.
IRAQI KURDISTAN'S IN
THE BELLY OF THE BEAST.
THEY ARE THE BUFFER.
THEY ARE THE FIRST
LINE OF DEFENSE.
- THIS IS ACTUALLY A
VERY LIKELY SCENARIO
THAT KURDISTAN COULD BE OVERRUN.
RIGHT HERE, YOU HAVE
IRANIAN FORCES, IRGC,
THREE HOURS FROM HERE,
YOU HAVE IRANIAN FORCES,
HASHTASHABI SHIA MILITIAS.
SOUTH OF HERE, YOU HAVE BAGHDAD
WHICH IS FULLY IN THE ORBIT
AND INFLUENCE OF IRAN
NOW, AND ON THE NORTH SIDE
YOU HAVE TURKEY, SO THE
KURDS LIVE IN A 24/7, 365
STATE OF THREAT AND
POTENTIAL GENOCIDE
AND BEAR IN MIND THE
KURDS HAVE ENDURED
GENOCIDE AFTER GENOCIDE,
POGROM AFTER POGROM,
SO THIS ISN'T NEW FOR THEM.
IN FACT, THIS IS A
HISTORICAL CONTINUUM
THAT I THINK THE INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY NEEDS TO MAKE
STRONG EFFORTS RIGHT NOW
TO BREAK THAT CONTINUUM
BECAUSE WE ARE ON THE
PRECIPICE OF ANOTHER WAVE
OF SUFFERING FOR
THE KURDISH PEOPLE
IF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
DOES NOT INTERVENE
AND STAVE OFF
IRANIAN EXPANSIONISM
BECAUSE RIGHT NOW,
IT'S OUT OF CONTROL.
- AND YOU'RE HERE IN
THE REGION FREQUENTLY
DOING YOUR GREAT WORK WITH
FRONTIER ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL.
TALK ABOUT EXCLUSIVE ACCESS
THAT YOU'VE GIVEN US HERE
WITH THE KURDISH
REGIONAL GOVERNMENT.
GIVE US SOME FINAL
THOUGHTS MY MAN
ON WHAT'S NEXT HERE AND
WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT.
- MY WIFE AND I HAD THE
PRIVILEGE OF RAISING OUR KIDS
HERE FOR A NUMBER OF
YEARS BEFORE WE MOVED
TO ISRAEL WHERE WE LIVE,
AND I SPLIT MY TIME
BETWEEN ISRAEL AND KURDISTAN
AND FOR ME IT'S AN INCREDIBLE
PRIVILEGE BECAUSE I SEE
THESE TWO PEOPLES AS BEING
DYNAMICALLY CONNECTED IN
THEIR PAST EXPERIENCES
OF PERSECUTION FROM
THEIR NEIGHBORS
AND ALSO, BOUND TOGETHER
IN A FUTURE STRUGGLE
BY THOSE SAME NEIGHBORS.
FOR THOSE OF US
WHO LOVE THE LORD,
FOR THOSE OF US WHO LOVE ISRAEL,
IT'S TIME THAT WE
OPEN UP OUR HEARTS
TO INCORPORATE THE
KURDISH PEOPLE INTO THAT
BECAUSE THIS IS
PART OF THE FAMILY
AND THE KURDS WANT TO BE
INCORPORATED INTO THAT
BUT HERE'S THE PROBLEM,
RIGHT NOW IF THEY EXPRESS
THAT LOVE FOR US AS AMERICANS
AND AS CHRISTIANS OR
TO THE STATE OF ISRAEL
AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
THEY WILL SUFFER FOR IT
BECAUSE NO ONE IS THERE
TO HAVE THEIR BACK
AND THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE
AND THAT'S WHAT
WE'RE PRAYING FOR.
- WE'RE AT PROBABLY FOLKS
THE MOST PIVOTAL CROSSROADS
IN THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST
AND THAT IS SAYING SOMETHING.
WE'RE ON IRAQ'S
BORDER WITH IRAN.
WE'RE STARING AT IRAN RIGHT NOW.
SOME FINAL THOUGHTS FROM
THIS PIVOTAL, PIVOTAL
REGION IN THE BELLY OF
THE BEAST AFTER THE BREAK
ON THE IRAN BORDER.
DO NOT MOVE.
 - ANNOUNCER: OVER THE
 PAST TWO YEARS,
 THIRTY NATIONS HAVE
 BEEN REPRESENTED
 AT THE ANNUAL CHRISTIANS
 UNITED FOR ISRAEL SUMMIT
 IN WASHINGTON D.C.
 ISRAEL SUPPORTERS
 FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE
 JOIN CUFI IN STANDING IN
 SOLIDARITY WITH THE STATE
OF ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
 THEY CELEBRATE AND REJOICE
 AT THE NIGHT TO HONOR ISRAEL,
 AND SOME HAVE REQUESTED
 THAT THEIR COUNTRIES
 FOLLOW AMERICA'S LEAD AND MOVE
 THEIR EMBASSIES TO JERUSALEM
 THE ETERNAL, UNDIVIDED
 CAPITAL OF ISRAEL.
 NOW, WITH OVER 7
 MILLION ACTIVE MEMBERS,
 CUFI IS THE LARGEST,
 MOST ETHNICALLY DIVERSE
 PRO-ISRAEL ORGANIZATION
 IN THE U.S.
 AS WE, ALONG WITH CUFI
 UK, AND CUFI CANADA,
 EXPAND OUR REACH
 INTO OTHER REGIONS,
 INCLUDING BRAZIL, WE ARE
 EXCITED ABOUT THE FUTURE
 OF THIS MOVEMENT FOR
 SUCH A TIME AS THIS.
 FOR ZION'S SAKE, WE
 WILL NOT BE SILENT.
 FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD,
 FROM EVERY NATION,
 WE ARE CUFI.
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- AND WELCOME BACK TO A VERY
SPECIAL WATCHMAN EXCLUSIVE.
WE ARE WRAPPING UP HERE
WITH SOME FINAL THOUGHTS
FROM THE IRAQ-IRAN BORDER
RIGHT OVER MY SHOULDER HERE.
WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT IN
YOUR LIVING ROOM IS IRAN,
HOME TO THE WORLDS NUMBER ONE
STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM,
THE IRANIAN REGIME,
AS A MATTER OF FACT,
WE ARE SURROUNDED RIGHT NOW
BY THE MOUNTAINS OF IRAN
AND THE IRANIAN
REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS CORPS,
THE VANGUARD OF THAT
WICKED IRANIAN REGIME.
THANKFULLY, WE ARE WITH
THE KURDISH PESHMERGA
AT ONE OF THEIR BASES HERE,
RIGHT ALONG THAT IRAN BORDER
AND FOLKS, I HAVE TO
SAY, AS AN AMERICAN,
I NEVER THOUGHT I
WOULD SET FOOT HERE,
WHERE I'M SITTING RIGHT
NOW, BUT HERE WE ARE,
BRINGING IT TO YOU, THAT'S IRAN,
AND YOU NEED TO KNOW
THE INSIDE STORY.
THAT'S WHAT WE TRIED
TO BRING YOU THIS WEEK
WITH OUR GOOD FRIEND,
DALTON THOMAS.
THE INSIDE STORY OF
THAT IRAN THREAT.
LOOK, THE IRANIAN
REGIME IS ON THE MOVE
AND IF THEY'RE TWO STEPS
AHEAD AND WE'RE BEHIND,
THAT'S NOT A GOOD THING.
WE NEED TO NOT ONLY
KEEP UP BUT BE PROACTIVE
AND GET AHEAD. THERE'S A FEW
WAYS WE CAN DO THAT.
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S
DOING IT RIGHT NOW
BY APPLYING INCREASED PRESSURE
ON THE IRANIAN REGIME.
WE COULD ALSO SUPPORT
OUR GOOD FRIENDS HERE IN
IRAQI KURDISTAN WHO ARE
REALLY THE FRONTLINE OF THE
FRONTLINE WHEN IT COMES
TO THE IRANIAN REGIME
AND THEIR AMBITIONS TO
MARCH ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST
IN SYRIA, IRAQ, LEBANON,
YEMEN, AND BEYOND.
THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING,
SO WE HAVE TO BE PROACTIVE
AND CONTINUE TO TAKE ON THIS
REGIME IN ANY WAY WE CAN,
AND WHAT A PERSPECTIVE
TO BRING YOU THIS WEEK.
THIS AGAIN, THIS IS A
PLACE WHERE FEW AMERICANS
HAVE SET FOOT WHERE
WE ARE RIGHT NOW
SO IT'S BEEN A PRIVILEGE TO
BRING IT TO YOU THIS WEEK
WITH OUR GOOD FRIEND
DALTON THOMAS OF FRONTIER
ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL,
THE KURDISH PESHMERGA
HERE WHO HAVE GRACIOUSLY
HOSTED US HERE AT THEIR BASE
ALONG THE IRAN BORDER.
CONTINUE TO PRAY
FOR THIS REGION,
FOR THE KURDS OBVIOUSLY,
FOR THE PEOPLE OF IRAN.
THE REGIME IS THE PROBLEM.
WE MADE THAT POINT TODAY FOLKS.
NOT THE IRANIAN PEOPLE,
IT'S THAT IRANIAN REGIME
THAT IS THE PROBLEM.
NOT ONLY IN IRAN,
BUT ACROSS THE REGION
AND ACROSS THE WORLD NO
MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE.
THAT IS NOT AN EXAGGERATION,
SO UNTIL NEXT TIME
FROM THE IRAQ-IRAN BORDER,
A VERY SPECIAL
WATCHMAN EXCLUSIVE.
GOD BLESS YOU AND REMEMBER,
NEVER HOLD YOUR PEACE.
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