The Quad

Israeli intelligence says Washington has its “smoking gun”: Iran didn’t de-escalate, it escalated, with executions surging and reports putting the death toll in the tens of thousands. In this episode you’ll learn how the regime’s crackdown may be even worse than the headlines (including shocking claims about body bags and possible chemical weapons), why the world’s outrage seems selectively switched on and how Davos optimism about a “new Gaza” collides with the uncomfortable reality that Hamas could still be standing. The conversation rips into the incentives-vs-ideology trap, the Qatar/Saudi pressure politics and the dangerous fantasy that you can “economic-plan” your way out of jihadist warfare. It then ends with a blunt moral gut-check: if we can see a massacre in real time, what does it say that we still look away?

Was Trump about to strike Iran, then blinked at the last second? Today, we dig into the whiplash: the U.S. reportedly stood down just as Israelis were bracing for retaliation, while Washington claims executions were “shut down” even as leaked footage and regime messaging suggest the slaughter continued off-camera. You’ll learn how the panel reads the gap between diplomatic talking points and on-the-ground realities (blackouts, propaganda access, “white SIM cards”), why negotiations that ignore the regime’s ideology may be structurally doomed and how Qatar/Turkey and oil politics could be shaping decisions that leave 90 million Iranians trapped...plus a hard-hitting “Scumbag of the Week” segment exposing Western media mouthpieces and a “Heroes” segment highlighting voices pushing for moral clarity.

Iran’s Islamic regime is trying to bury evidence of atrocities the same way it’s done before: by choking off the internet, tightening a blackout and daring the world to look away. "The Quad" panel pulls apart the media double standard (why some atrocities get treated as “claims” while other narratives get reported as fact), exposes the moral collapse of celebrity activism and campus protest culture and tackles the question hanging over everything: if the death toll is truly climbing into the thousands, what would U.S. involvement actually look like and what signals should you watch for next? You’ll come away with a sharper eye for propaganda patterns, a clearer map of the geopolitical chessboard (Iran–Syria–Jordan–U.S.) and a bracing sense of how quickly history can pivot when the cameras go dark.

The Iranian regime is wobbling and for the first time in decades, it feels different. As protests erupt across more than 100 cities, Iranians are no longer chanting vague slogans, they’re openly calling for the return of the Shah. This week, the panel breaks down why this uprising may be the real deal: cracks inside the IRGC, open defections and the sudden re-emergence of Reza Pahlavi as a unifying figure. Add Trump’s ominous warnings, regime brutality caught on camera and Iran’s global terror web, and you get a moment that could redraw the Middle East. Is this the beginning of the end for the Islamic Republic… or its most dangerous phase yet?

2025 was the year masks fell and some faces underneath were downright terrifying. In this year-end special of The Quad, the panel count down the “Top 10 Scumbags of the Year,” ripping into cowards, antisemites, grifters, Islamist apologists, woke celebrities, UN enablers and terror funders. From Greta’s arrest and her ties to Hamas-linked figures, to Miss Rachel’s anti-Israel turn, and all the way to Hamas’s luxury-loving leadership hiding in Qatari hotels, this isn’t just a takedown it’s a full-blown reckoning.