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Former Department of Defense Communications Director Gives Her Views on Iran
March 16, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min
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Dr. Jim Garlow is a lifelong pastor who most recently served in San Diego, California, and now leads Well Versed, a ministry dedicated to bringing biblical
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Welcome to World Prayer and Iran's Deadly Legacy 0:28 Well, we welcome you to World Prayer Network call. My name is Jim Garlow.0:32 And I'm Rosemary Garlow.0:33 And we're so happy you're on with us. I wanna remind you of our purpose. It's very simple. We pray for holiness, for our righteousness, for biblical justice, as opposed to social justice and truth to prevail throughout0:45 the land and the nations of the earth. If you're part of the media, part of the press, we ask you to step off the call. Nothing can ever be shared here should be reported in the media. And we're way beyond the issue of0:54 partisanship, way beyond the issue of Republican versus Democrat, or even right versus left. Where we are squarely planted, it's right versus wrong, good versus evil, light versus darkness, biblical truth as opposed to1:06 anti scriptural constructs, the things of God as opposed to the things of the evil 1. That being said, the official beginning of the world prayer network calls always the sounding of the shofar, generally from Israel.1:42 Robert, I've got I've got to see this before. Is there any way else to say 2 tumbler quest quiz so far apart? And and and on the on the notes. Do you know of of Well,1:54 I've been doing this for 18 years. I've been walking in this 18 years. And in the 18 years, I've probably, been the Johnny Appleseed of Shofar and the double Shofar. So I've raised up many,2:06 followers that are doing the double Shofar like me. Yes. Amazing. Thank you, brother. Blessings on. He's on. We're gonna go right to right to I am so glad to have our guest with2:18 us today. Barbara Ladin. I'm gonna read this. I don't generally read this, but I'm reading this because I wanna include and honor her late husband who just passed away so recently. Honor2:29 Barbara LeDens, former director of communications, the Department of Defense under the Reagan administration and the director of coalitions of the for the Senate Republican Conference. In 16 years, she served on the2:40 Senate Judiciary Committee. Barbara is a founder and director of the Independent Women's Forum. And this is where I wanna honor her late husband who passed away, May of this last year. President Michael2:51 LaDine was a historian who wrote over 35 books studying the evolution and development of mass movements from fascism to communism to Islam. 1 of the few3:03 western writers who analyzed the 19 79 Iranian revolution, arguing that the Ayatollah Khomeini was a theocratic fascist and the regime was entirely hostile to the United3:15 States from its inception. So this man was seeing things way before a number of other people were seeing them. I read that because Barbara's gonna be talking on this topic. She stands in her own right. Her own3:26 credentials are incredible. But she also has been married to this man for many, many years who has been 1 of such a renowned scholar in this area. And the point that even BB Netanyahu called him several3:38 times during his last few years to check how he was doing. To introduce Barbara, I'm gonna show you a chart and and give you a picture of a senator. Senator Mark Warner, watched him this morning being interviewed3:50 on I see it was Newsmax, I believe, and and he repeatedly said Senator Mark Warner, Democrat from Virginia, it was on Fox. Okay. That's right. It was Shannon Brieve that interviewed him. Shannon4:02 Brieve, and he repeatedly said, I don't know why we're doing this war. Iran is no imminent threat. A little bit later, he says, Iran is no imminent threat to us. And again, he said, is4:14 there no imminent threat to us? 3 times he used the phrase no imminent threat. I want you to bring up a chart if you would, Tristan, right now. And this is not a complete chart. This starts back in 194:25 79. But this chart only goes to 20 24. I wish it was, all the way to the present tense. It's pretty small and hard to read, but that's a listing4:38 of Iran killing or wounding Americans and American soldiers. The list is more extensive than this, but this is a partial list of what Iran's been doing to4:49 Americans all of these years, a threat. If somebody moves in next door to you or maybe they're 10 blocks from you, but they said I'm gonna kill you. I'm gonna kill you. I'm gonna kill you. I'm gonna kill you. And they5:00 get a submachine gun and buy a tank and nuclear warhead, you better believe they're going to eventually kill you. So we're turning to an expert today to offset the damage that Senator Warner does in,5:12 complete ignorance of reality, a woman who knows the topic. Let's go to Barbara Levine. Barbara, a joy to have you on. She's an Orthodox Jew. Lives kind of in Texas and Washington DC back and forth.5:24 She hangs out in Texas because the kids and grandkids, I find out. But, I've heard her talk on this topic. She's excellent. Barbara, we're so honored to have you on.5:33 Thank you very much for having me. Thank you. I wanna mention 1 thing about senator Warner. He sits on the intelligence committee in the in the senate. So he I hate5:45 to use the word lie, but he is misspeaking.5:49 He knows better than that. I I want you to just talk to us about, Iran. Walk us through what we we're obviously all listening on the news a great deal. It's a pretty sophisticated audience that's6:01 listening in terms of caring about our country, caring about Israel. We love Israel, and we love America. We stand with what god is doing. But to give us a bit of insight and just jump in and and go more in the6:12 deep end of the pool and talk to us about this this country6:15 of Iran. Jim, since this is a call, with, people like me who, are are more conscious of of religion than many others, I6:27 just would like to deviate for 1 second to say that, in the story of Esther, of Queen Esther, which we just read, last week, there was a letter, in, in in6:39 then Persia, which, was to kill the Jews. A letter was sent out from the king to the country to say that on the fourteenth of Adar, that's the month of Adar, the Jews will be6:51 killed. Well, when do you think the fourteenth of Adar was? It was last Saturday when they blew up Khamenei. Alright? That's number 1. Number 2, Haman7:03 is the man back then who was plotting against the Jews, h a m a n. Haman, otherwise known as Haman.7:15 Alright? I just wanna make these. And then the third point is when we heard that they had blown up, Haman and the leadership in Iran, this was part of the Torah7:27 portion for that Shabbat, which was read twice. It's the only time it's read twice. Once at the beginning of the service and once at the end to make sure that people who came in late were able to hear it.7:38 And, and and this is this is how it goes. Remember what Amalek was the evildoer. Remember what Amalek did to you when you came out of Egypt. When you were weary and worn out, they7:50 attacked all who were lagging behind. That means the women and children and the old people. When the lord gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you, you shall blot out the name8:02 of Amalek. Do not forget. This was going on. Now, at the same time, I said to my children, now how do you explain that? There's only 1 way8:14 to explain that. And that's why I wanted to begin this conversation with you on that note because it's larger than us. This what's going on now is much larger than than8:26 us.8:26 And, Barbara, you wouldn't know this, but because of my wife's influence, on the well versed community here, we have Torah readings. We are evangelical Christians, but we read the same Torah readings with Jews around the8:38 world. And so every Friday, we have Torah readings on the well versed network, and we're reading the exact same text.8:46 Well, we also try to learn and follow the biblical calendar. And and another amazing thing is that, you know, we have the Gregorian calendar we're on.8:56 Right. Right.8:57 But the Hebrew calendar is God's calendar, And the Muslims have a calendar. And the day that I mean, he died, it was 9 11 on the Muslim calendar.9:09 And So the whole cycle of the time and God, how much fun he must have had in, in synchronizing everything9:21 to show the world that he's in in charge to give God the glory, that he's the 1 maneuvering these details to vindicate his people and to glorify his name in the sight9:33 of all nations. I thank you for sharing this at the beginning. I think it's so important for every Bible believer, every person to understand what just happened and where we are9:45 in in history.9:47 Tristan, bring up the the slide I just sent you if you can. Did you get a slide from me, Tristan? Ties in with what Barbara just said.9:57 Let's see.9:58 Barbara, maybe you've seen have you seen this?10:00 Oh. Yes. Yeah. That's great. That's exactly.10:06 Yeah. I if I do, yeah, friends friends to the Israel Defense Forces.10:11 Yeah.10:11 Okay. Well, Barbara, I'm gonna turn it right back to you. Thank you for that great beginning, and and go ahead and take it from here.Prophetic Timing and Strategic Strikes 10:19 Well, what's happening now? Shall I start from now or or or where would you like me to start?10:27 I want you to start wherever you want to. Okay. We're people who wanna drink it all in. We wanna know the truth, and we're just honored to have you on. So however you wanna share the story, it's up to you.10:37 Okay. 1 of the things which I couldn't see if it was on that chart that you put up first, was when we sent our soldiers into Iraq,10:50 in my opinion, it was a deep mistake. My husband argued this for years and years and years, which is the strategic target was Iran. And if you send our kids into Iraq, you are11:02 sitting there you are sending them to be blown up because the IED manufacturing plants are in Iran. So the strategic target had to be Iran, not11:13 Iraq. Okay. So what the secretary of war said the other day as he was someone who was in Iraq and Afghanistan and he lived this.11:25 1 of the important things he said was, we are now making up for that mistake. We are warriors who are bitter about11:37 war, who believe that they fought a forever war for nothing, now get to have some closure on that. So I wanna make the point that, when we pray for11:48 our soldiers now and and, we need to the closure that they have to have. I don't and I don't mean closure in a in a in a banal kind of way, but12:00 there were so many who were killed and and terribly wounded by the Iran. And they have never had the comfort of knowing that we were punishing Iran for hurting12:12 our people. So that I just wanna emphasize that as a mother of 2 soldiers of marines, 1 of whom lost marines. And I12:24 I volunteered at Bethesda Naval Walter Reed during that whole period. And I was, I wanna say sentenced to the ICU, at 1 hospital and to the amputee ward in12:35 the12:35 other because my kids were coming home with all their parts. And there were people that were there who'd never been to Washington, were all alone with their with their sons or daughters so12:47 gravely wounded. And we knew where the where those bombs were coming from and we weren't doing anything about that. And to me, this was a moral sin, that12:59 I can't even think of anything. I can't it's just was a moral sin of America. So it is being removed now, and that's what's important to me. Now to go on to the strategic parts of this, this13:11 isn't only about Iran. You may remember that the president went ahead us go to Venezuela and remove Maduro, the dictator of Venezuela, before we went into Iran. This is13:23 because Maduro was, a drug trafficker, a a people trafficker, a gun runner, a criminal, money launderer13:35 both for China and Iran and deserved to be taken away. But besides besides that, it it also opened opened up the information about13:47 the shipping and the oil transportation, the sanctions busting between Iran, Venezuela, and China. It was a lifeblood of Iran. They were able to, sell13:59 their petroleum to, to China through Venezuela. And so this was the first move was get rid of Venezuela, open up Venezuela to us. That's the first move. The14:10 second move was, actually, before that, Panama, we took we kicked China out of the Panama Canal. We now run the Panama Canal like we did before. So the14:22 Panama Canal, which was a pass through for the ships, the Venezuela overthrowing Venezuela, now Cuba is gonna go. And we have Venezuela I mean, Iran on14:34 the hook now, big time. And we they just announced who their new supreme leader is going to be today, and I don't know what bets are, but I would give you a nickel for that guy.14:46 So it was Khomeini's son. Khomeini's son is now, gonna be the supreme leader. And, and what this does is it sets China back. China is the main target14:58 of all of this, not Iran. So once you get rid of Iran, you've opened up, the the problem for China, which is that it was getting its oil from the Gulf and from Venezuela. It will15:10 no longer have that, which is going to put a huge pressure on their economics. And secondly, we have seen that their weapon systems, the Russians and the Chinese weapon systems15:22 in Iran are total failures. And so the idea that they should go and take Taiwan has now been pushed, the Chinese have been pushed on their back foot. So this is this15:34 has many, many layers to it and, we should look at from the 30000 foot view down that it's not only Iran, but this is resetting the power15:46 tectonic plates of the world.15:50 That's I think it's extremely important what you're saying. It's this comment that people say all the time. Trump is playing chess, not checkers. He's way out ahead of the game. It's not really a16:02 original a a Venezuela way. That's not the core of the problem. He stopped the the the the the the Silicon Belt Road globally, which I didn't know how it could be stopped. Yeah. He's he's managed to pull this16:14 off. So so bring us up to speed on where we are, whether it's even war War Powers Act, or you wanna discuss that, or where we are actually in terms of breaking Iran's16:26 governmental I mean, they're still firing some a few missiles now it's dropped by 90 percent. It has. And there's still there's 100, you know, hundred and 50000 other republican republican guards that are still16:38 around somewhere. And so what walk us through how what this is going to look like in Iran?16:45 So, today well, let's talk about the military stuff. The only place that I can imagine that we would put boots on the ground is in Kharg Island, k h a r g.16:57 Kharg Island is the main, refining plant, in the gulf. That's where we would put boots on the ground to protect that from any, from the17:09 Iranian attempt to blow it up, which they might do. So that's 1 place we would put, boots on the ground. The other place we might put boots on the ground is in collecting the enriched uranium. We17:21 don't want anybody else to have that but us. No doubt. And so, I believe that we were the Israelis will because I think the Israelis I mean, I'm sure the Israelis intelligence is17:34 better than anybody else's, that we will go around and we will we will go to Forte or whoever wherever it is to collect the uranium, the enriched uranium. That said,17:49 the Kurds, the Iranian Kurds are armed. And the Iranian Kurds will be will be helping, the Iranian people who are not armed,18:01 by and large to, to fight the, the, what I call the Islamic occupation. Because Iran is not an Islamic nation.18:13 It would never was an Islamic nation. It was a constitutional monarchy that was founded in 19 o 7. They're used to a constitution. They're used to a rule of law. And this was these were taken over they were taken over18:25 by, by Khomeini in a green red axis. That is to say a Muslim Muslimist communist coalition.18:37 The Russians were involved. The French were involved and the communist inside of Iran were involved. Now the communist inside of Iran are sure sorry that they ever did that. And, they are supporting,18:49 the Shah, for a constitutional monarchy. Today, the Shah put out a 27 page, I wanna call it a, like a little19:01 book, a pamphlet of the plan for what happens when the regime falls and when they take over and how they plan on having elections and who's doing it and all the the the branches of19:13 government that will be constituted.19:15 Are you speaking of the crown prince when you say that?19:17 Crown prince. Yes. He did that.19:18 He's in the DC area. I assume you probably know him.19:22 Yeah. He he he put that out today. I don't know that he's in the DC area now. He's been traveling a lot, to work with the dissidents in all the different countries that have been having these major demonstrations.19:34 And, and listening to them about how it is it what what it is they want because this this, quote, unquote, revolution belongs to the people of Iran,19:45 literally belongs to them, doesn't belong to the Shah. The Shah is not taking credit for it. He is just saying, I can be the organizing force. And in that light, I would like to set up a19:57 system by which we will have elections, and you all can choose and vote. What kind of constitutional government do you want? Do you want a republic? Do you want a monarchy? And he says that this will happen within 6 to 720:09 months of, of his return. So there there's they're setting up a system. The problem is, of course, that putting millions of people on the street like they've been doing20:21 does not change the regime. You actually have to use violence, and they are not armed by the, pretty much. They're not armed. The people have just been mowed down. Some20:32 people say, 10000 people have been killed. Some people say 30000. These are just normal normal Iranian citizens demonstrating for freedom. But my understanding is it's more than 90000 people,20:45 a huge number of people. And, the the they've gone into, hospitals and killed people in their beds. They've, they're starving the political20:57 prisoners in Evan prison right now. They're they're not being fed and watered. There's just a lot a lot of tragedy, that's going on. Now with regard to, the arms that are21:09 being used by Iran against their neighbors, that was really not a good idea because what it is today, Abu Dhabi became21:21 offensive against Iran. Right? It's a an Arabic emirate became they loaded up their planes and they went to Iran. They bombed the Iranians bombed the Saudis.21:33 Not a good idea. They bombed I think it was 12 12 different countries throughout the Middle East. They even bombed Turkey by mistake and quickly apologized for that 1. But,21:45 I don't know who's who's in charge anymore militarily, but I do know that there are no ships left in the Iranian navy and that there are no21:57 airplanes left in the Iranian air force. So I also know that all of the IRGC, military people today22:09 received messages on their cell phones, if they still had cell phones, telling them to put down their weapons and surrender. I also know that many IRGC22:21 people have, fled with their families to Afghanistan, and that's great. Let them stay there. But many others are in Iran, and they have made videos where22:33 they, are in uniform. They have masks over their faces, but they're in uniform, and they have lit Khomeini's portrait on fire or they have saluted the portrait of the22:45 Shah of Iran, the new the baby Shah of saluting him and pledging allegiance, to the new republic. So these people, when there is a new republic, will probably be called in22:56 because you have to have an infrastructure. You you do. And so, like, at the end of World War 2 or like there is now in Venezuela, the lower down people, the the23:09 the people who take orders, they will be, still still there and to to keep the peace once it once the peace is had. So it's a very,23:23 the other thing that that is shown is that, when they fire these missiles and drones from inside of Iran, many times these drones and missiles are being shot from schools23:35 or from, neighborhoods or from hospitals, which is the same thing that happened in Gaza. They use, civilians as their shields. And so when we bomb or23:47 Israel bombs a hospital, the press will then come out and say, oh, how terrible we bombed the hospital. But, no, we bombed because the missiles were coming from there. So, that's 1 of their really more23:59 discussed and tricks.Show more In this video 0:00 Welcome to World Prayer and Iran's Deadly Legacy10:19 Prophetic Timing and Strategic Strikes24:01 Iran's Fall, Kurds, and Scenarios45:58 Prayer, Restoration, and New Beginnings
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