Bannon guest on Trump Iran threats: “You're going to blow up civilian infrastructure, which might be a war crime. You're going to kill civilians, otherwise innocent, who probably — definitely a war crime.”
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From the April 7, 2026, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room
STEVE BANNON (HOST): President Trump has tweeted out: it's one of the most important days in the history of the world. The Iranians have come back and said, hey, all this talk about taking our civilization down, we're cutting off any discussion. In fact, we're going to raise it up and we're going to take down the Red Sea. You're our master strategist here. Where are we in this thing?
JIM RICKARDS (GUEST): We're in a very, very bad place, Steve.
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There's not going to be an uprising. There's not going to be regime change. We're past that. We've proven that that's not going to happen. A good estimate would have been it was not going to happen before the war started, but it's clearly not going to happen now. But you know, you know as well as I do that war tends to unify the population, whatever internal divisions they may have. Now, can you blow up a lot of infrastructure? Yes.
Now here's where it gets interesting, to your point, Steve, about the internal enemies. I'll take this, I believe Senator Kelly from Arizona. He was one of five or six, you know, basically veterans who said, who warned the U.S. military, do not obey illegal orders, and then there may be repercussions from that.
But what are we hearing now? That taking out civilian infrastructure, power plants, desalinization, railroads, etc. — these are war crimes. Now we don't, maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but the fact that we're hearing about war crimes — Iran's saying we're going to circle them with civilians, so if you blow up the plant you're going to kill all these civilians.
Now they don't mind being martyrs. That's one of the things the White House does not understand about political — about Islam in general. They think it's the will of Allah. They don't — they go straight to heaven — they don't mind — or paradise. They don't mind being martyrs.
So now you're going to blow up civilian infrastructure, which might be a war crime. You're going to kill civilians, otherwise innocent, who probably — definitely a war crime, and you've got United States senators warning the military not to follow illegal orders.
This is a setup. Trump's walking right into it, and it's one of many problems with this where I think we're using a fairly conventional military doctrine and we don't understand we're up against a theological enemy.