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Best of the Program | Guests: Dr. Zuhdi Jasser & Khosro Isfahani | 3/26/26

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Isfahani says Iranians are “the boots on the ground” and a decentralized “Immortal Guard” is already trained.

1. The Glenn Beck Program uses this episode to connect Iran, political Islam, and wartime psychology across two interviews and one historical segment. 2. Hulsro Isfahani, the research director for the National Union for Democracy in Iran, speaks as a Tehran-raised journalist and human-rights defender with sources inside Iran. 3. The episode asks what is happening on the ground in Iran, what people are ready to do, and how Glenn Beck and Dr. Zutty Jasser define Islamism versus Islam. 4. Isfahani says people in Iran are already out celebrating Noorooz, the Persian new year, after a call from Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. 5. He describes fire festivals, bonfires, singing, dancing, and chants against the Supreme Leader, the IRGC, and “Mini Mujtaba.” 6. He says a woman in one video addressed Prime Minister Netanyahu as “Bibi June” and said, “we know that you won’t let them touch us.” 7. Isfahani says the regime threatened to kill people who came out to celebrate and dispatched siege militia to the area. 8. He says Israeli drones took out each convoy of militiamen that approached the celebrations. 9. He argues that the United States and Israel have given the Iranian people “a fighting chance” against an Islamist occupation that has lasted almost five decades. 10. He says the Iranian people are the “boots on the ground,” while U.S. and Israeli strikes have already targeted hundreds of besieged militiamen. 11. He says many regime commanders have deserted their posts and that the regime cannot even pay its forces. 12. He says Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi publicly announced the Immortal Guard, also called Guard the Javidon, as a decentralized self-organized network trained and ready to go. 13. Glenn asks who trained the group, and Isfahani refuses to give details because “too much is at stake” in a war zone. 14. The interview shifts to the claim that some people inside Iran are turning against the United States and Israel because of the bombing. 15. Isfahani counters with examples of regime-controlled messaging, including “white SIM cards” and influencers given unrestricted internet access. 16. He says many people inside Iran are rejoicing when missiles hit the regime and that one mother at a grave told the United States and Israel, “God bless you.” 17. Glenn and Isfahani then discuss whether a public signal from Donald Trump or Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi is still needed before a larger uprising. 18. Isfahani says the tone of the conversation is war-focused and that the military campaign is “far from over,” with many targets still in place. 19. Dr. Zutty Jasser’s segment is conversational, argumentative, and personal, with Glenn pushing back and Jasser answering with a reformist frame about religious liberty, theocracy, and Muslim identity. 20. The final historical section is reflective and didactic, using the unused British poster to argue that modern conflict is a battle over fear, attention, and mental discipline.

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A brisk episode that folds Iran, Islamism, and history into a pointed argument.

The episode moves from Iran into Islamism, radicalization, and the hardening of assumptions. It leans on a guest with direct ties inside Iran, a sense of what is happening on the ground, and the claim that someone is training citizens there for an uprising.

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