Heavy wave of strikes on Kharg and other infrastructure

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0:01 Hello. It is Friday, 22 Esfand 1404, March 13, 2026. First, I apologize that on Wednesday I was unable to present the program to you because I was traveling and was on a train. Today, Friday, the fourteenth day of the war has come to an end. Mr. Trump threatened today that the coming week will be a hard week for Iran, and today's American operations were carried out with B-2 aircraft, which

0:53 are America's heavy, large stealth bombers. The Pentagon has also announced that thousands of Marines and several warships are moving from Japan toward the Middle East and will reach the region in two weeks. It is not clear what targets the American attacks have hit, but today the power was out for a while in western Tehran. Israel also announced that yesterday it carried out 200 air operations in Iran, in the west and center of the country. In addition, drones are carrying out attacks on checkpoints where the Basij are stationed. These drones

1:54 apparently include a mother drone that even has facial recognition and identification capability, and then small so-called explosive drones, which are destroyed on impact, attack these small targets under the guidance of that mother drone. On the other side, the Basijis mostly gather in parks, schools and mosques, and they are told to turn off their phones as soon as they hear the sound of the mother drone, because it locates targets from the signals of mobile phones and so on, and guides the suicide drones that

2:54 attack. But in an interview quoted by the New York Times, Mr. Trump said that these armed people in the streets will kill the people, and so he asked the people not to go into the streets. This is contrary to what he said earlier, when he sometimes stated that the people would bring down the regime with their protests. It seems he has realized that there are several hundred thousand Basijis with weapons and orders to shoot to kill, and so the people should not go to the slaughterhouse.

3:46 Today, the last Friday of the month of Ramadan, which in Iran is called Quds Day, the government held marches in many parts of Iran. Of course, in most places they were lackluster and very thinly attended, but in Tehran the government tried to bring out people by any means possible. Of course, the figures the government gives are usually exaggerated. The country's officials, such as Mr. Pezeshkian, Mr. Larijani, Mr. Ejei and others, were also at the march. It seems they had all agreed to be present at this march together and, in effect, to show themselves.

4:42 But on this very day, Israel's attacks began at dawn, and at noon and in the afternoon air, missile and drone attacks were underway in dozens of cities and locations across the country. In Dezful, a garrison of the Army Ground Forces belonging to the 92nd Armored Division of Khuzestan was attacked. This is a proud division that during the Iran–Iraq War effectively protected Khuzestan, and one could say Iran, from Saddam and Iraq's attacks. In any case, the point is that the Islamic Republic is also

5:40 continuing its attacks on Israel with cluster missiles, and Israeli officials say that perhaps around 10 percent of the missiles Iran fires get through Israel's multi-layered missile defense system. These missiles are ballistic; they leave the atmosphere, and when they come down, sometimes up to 60 warheads scatter in different directions and can cause damage and kill people. Although Israel's passive defense has been greatly

6:31 strengthened, meaning they have built shelters everywhere and its building codes require every building and house to have a private shelter section, apart from the public shelters, and as soon as the sirens sound everyone goes to the shelters, so far at least 13 Israelis have been killed and hundreds wounded. The Islamic Republic's firing of missiles and drones at Kuwait, Iraq, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Oman also continues. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed by the Islamic Republic, and the attacks carried out so far with drones and sometimes missiles on

7:27 several commercial ships have caused ships and tankers to stop passing through the strait. Twenty-two percent of the world's exported crude oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz, and 20 percent of the world's gas passes through this strait. So, with the situation that has arisen in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, the energy issue has become the most serious issue in the world. Oil, which had come down to 80 dollars a barrel, again reached 100 dollars a barrel and more. And at the end of the American week, today, Friday, on the New York stock exchange, which has three different markets, according to the Wall Street Journal, all three markets

8:24 closed their week with stock values down more than 1.2 percent, mainly due to this rise in oil prices and the energy crisis. But Mr. Trump exempted Russia from sanctions for one month, which Russia of course welcomed, but the European Union is very upset and has protested to Mr. Trump, because Russia is in fact the adversary of the European Union and the European countries. Trump did this because Russia's entry into the oil market might help bring the price of oil down.

9:17 In fact, the Islamic Republic's strategy is precisely this pressure on the Strait of Hormuz and on the Arab countries, both so that they will pressure America and to pressure the oil market. They believe that if oil goes above 140 or 150 dollars, even up to 200 dollars, Mr. Trump will in effect be forced to stop the war. Of course, now, with the dispatch of new forces to the Middle East, perhaps one can say this strategy of the Islamic Republic will hit a dead end. Especially since the danger that looms is that in the new phase of the war, which apparently begins in the coming week, Iran's infrastructure

10:13 may become the target of attacks. Infrastructure such as power plants, refineries and the country's gas, the energy sectors, as well as factories and producers, in which case the country's situation will reach a serious crisis. For example, if only the gas, which mainly comes from South Pars and reaches the country from Bushehr Province through the stations there, if only the gas is attacked — 70 percent of the country's energy depends on gas. Factories, power plants, even bakeries, household consumption and other uses will all run into trouble.

11:07 Or if only the Persian Gulf Star Refinery is attacked, the country's gasoline will face serious problems. If any one of these pieces of the country's infrastructure is attacked, it will be a catastrophe that puts the people in hardship and distress, and given the problems the country has, rebuilding them may take years. Today America also announced a reward of up to 10 million dollars for information about Mojtaba Khamenei, Ali Larijani, Eskandar Momeni the Interior Minister, Esmail Khatib the Intelligence Minister, and Yahya Rahim Safavi, the Leader's military adviser and former IRGC commander. As for Mojtaba Khamenei, there is a great deal of

12:07 speculation and news, to the point that the US Secretary of Defense also spoke about him. Most of the news received indicates that Mojtaba Khamenei is wounded in the legs, abdomen and face, to the extent that he has had multiple surgeries, and the condition of his face is such that he cannot appear in front of a camera or on video. As the young people say, for now he has made it to the final against the Twelfth Imam of the Shias in the disappearing contest. In hope of victory for Iran and Iranians.