January 19th, 2026

On Monday’s Mark Levin Show, the situation in Iran is dire for the Iranian people. There’s a holocaust taking place in Iran where the regime is brutally suppressing protests. The victims are primarily young people who simply want basic freedoms. Thousands are imprisoned, tortured, raped, summarily executed, or already dead with communications cut off. America needs to act decisively against this seventh century barbarian regime. Meanwhile, Turkey’s Erdogan is trying to wipe out the Kurds. Also, Qatar, Turkey, and Pakistan have been invited as Board of Peace members without Israel’s prior knowledge. Benjamin Netanyahu firmly rejects allowing any of Qatar or Turkey’s soldiers into Gaza. We ought to listen to the only democracy in the Middle East, Israel, which has repeatedly warned against trusting figures like Ambassador Tom Barrack and Erdogan. Rather than pressuring Netanyahu, the U.S. should heed Israel’s cautions based on its long regional experience. Later, the unrest in cities like Minneapolis is not driven by ordinary Americans with grievances, but by Marxists, Islamists, illegal aliens, shadowy billionaires funding and organizing it, and foreign entities such as Qatar, Iran, and Communist China providing financial support while using bots and propagandists on social media. This is the enemy within already present in the country. Afterward, Richard Goldberg, Senior Adviser Foundation for Defense of Democracies, calls in and describes the ongoing brutal repression in Iran, including nightly protests clashing with regime forces, mass arrests, secret nighttime executions, torture, forced televised confessions, and families left searching for disappeared loved ones, while the members of uprising remain alive. He is convinced President Trump will act decisively against the regime, viewing him as the first U.S. president since 1979 to fully grasp and confront Iran’s decades-long war on America. Finally, Mark Goldfeder, CEO of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, criticizes New York Mayor Mamdani’s early decision to reverse an executive order adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which recognizes that certain forms of anti-Zionism can cross into antisemitism. This rollback is disturbing and signals a deliberate reduction in protections for Jewish people and reflecting Mamdani’s worldview.

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Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. I hope you had a good weekend. Man, I’ll tell you what, there is a lot of hell breaking loose all over the world. We’re going to talk about Iran now and Syria. You know that guy that was part of. What was it, ISIS, I guess he was, or Al Qaeda. And everybody told us he’s reformed. Told our government he’s reformed. And so all these sanctions that were placed on Syria were dropped. You got an envoy there, Thomas Barrack, who is a disgrace and a disaster. I’ve called him out many times on this program and on social media. He’s been an apologist for a lot of these terror organizations. I feel he’s deceived the American people on many occasions. Again, it’s not a secret, you know, that I feel this way and even more. But what’s happening right now is Erdogan, who is the fascist Islamist genocidal maniac who’s destroyed Turkey in their government, is behind this effort, working with this phony reformer, this terrorist who runs Syria. To ethnically cleanse the Kurds. And about 2 hours ago, the main prison in which about 5000 ISIS prisoners are held. Did you see that, Mr.. Is. They’re gone now. They’ve been released. That’s right. Gone and been released now. To make matters even worse. Saudi Arabia and Qatar, you should know, have opposed the United States taking military action to help stop the Iranian holocaust. That’s taking place. And it’s still taking place. And Kantar. And Saudi Arabia. Have. Persuaded our administration. To drop all the sanctions against Syria. And so you could say they have blood on their hands to. Meanwhile, we’ve set up this Board of Peace to deal with Hamas in Gaza. And among the countries invited are Qatar and Turkey to serve on the board. And Netanyahu obviously is going to protect his people and his country. And he said no. They didn’t even tell us, the administration, that they were appointing these to. And there will be no Turkish troops or Qatar troops of any kind in Gaza. Now, remember, Gaza used to be part of Israel, even ancient Israel, 4000 years ago. And the Israelis carved it out for the Palestinians, who then, of course, used it to kill Israelis. And Israel says we’re not going to allow Turkey and Qatar, the two biggest supporters of Hamas. Stop protecting their their billionaire bosses. To put an army on our border. If we lost a thousand troops, which is equivalent to us losing 35,000 troops, that’s a country of 910 million people. So that’s a mess as far as I’m concerned. But I want to circle back. First things first, and that is the Iranian people. And they’re being slaughtered. They’re being slaughtered by the thousands. I wouldn’t be surprised if we had 35,000 by now. Hundreds of thousands of casualties. The manner in which these Islamists treat women in particular and young people is just so subhuman. They’ve been shooting them in the face, in the eyes, wood pellets to blind them. They’ve been infiltrating, telling them to go down an alley, and then they go down an alley and they murder them. They’re burning the buildings that they’re in their dragging them out of homes. They brought in now thousands of militia, terrorist militia out of Iraq and Hezbollah. So they have their storm troopers and then they have the assets that they’re bringing in. And these people are unarmed. It is a horrendous thing that’s going on. Horrendous. I want you to listen to something. Friday night, I’m going to be spending many Friday nights on Hannity’s program. Not every Friday night, but many. This went viral. I don’t do things to go viral. I just do things that I think are right. Let’s play this one. Go. I feel very passionate about this. We’ve lost 20 to 30000 students there in line to execute many, many more. And when Donald Trump says help is on the way, that is, they’re their only lifeline, sadly. You know, Sean, I want to thank you for this. I want to talk to my fellow Americans for a minute. The vast majority of these people who protested are being murdered and held in prisons. Being tortured and raped. Are young people the age of your children and grandchildren? You go online and you look at these photos, you see 19 year olds, 18 year olds dead, their eyes wide open, looking into the sky. They had to wonder, my God, what’s happening to me? Their prisons are filled with thousands and thousands of these young people who want what our kids want on a Friday night in America to go to a movie, not to be forced to cover their hair in their face to dance, maybe have a drink if they’re if they’re old enough to go out on a date. This is what they want. This is Persia. The Persian people are Western people. That’s what they are. You know what? Iran today is a concentration camp. The lights are off. The electricity’s off. It’s dark. There’s no communication except for Qatar’s communication system. Al Jazeera People are being dragged out of their homes tonight as I speak. They’re hiding in their homes. They’re being executed summarily. The prisoners who are the age of your children and grandchildren are being tortured and raped. It’s not 3000 dead. I just read it. 23,000 dead. And the number is going up. You can’t see there. You can’t hear there. Maybe they’re not hanging people, but they have bullets. They’re killing people and they are abusing these people. Now people say, what is it, our business? Now, sometimes there are things we cannot do. The Weavers in China and so forth and so on. You just said that this guy Khomeini has ordered the assassination of our president. They’ve tried to assassinate our president. He should be taken out. When you try to take out the president of the United States. Since when do we tolerate that from any seventh century? Barbarian, primitive. Not today. Not yesterday. And we shouldn’t take it tomorrow. And we shouldn’t be here wondering what America should do. This is a regime that said, Yeah, you took out our nukes, but you can’t take out our knowledge about nukes and we’re going to keep building them and we’re going to attack the United States. They’ve killed a thousand Americans over the years through Hezbollah and Hamas. Now, I ask my fellow Americans, how much more of this crap are we going to take from these terrorists? How much more they are slaughtering these young people? They’re unarmed. They’re brutalizing them. We said protest. We’re coming to the rescue. Well, that’s what we Americans do when we can. And the president, I believe, and all my heart is going to keep his word, because that’s what he does. And when you see these young people in body bags all over the damn place, and when you see these young people staring into the sky dead, and when these young people are in these prisons and saying, oh my God, where’s my mother and my father? Can somebody help me? You hear them, America? You hear them? I hear them screaming. We need to do something about this. And Sean agreed. It’s good, man. As time goes on, you know? Less and less attention paid to this. But in in Iran. It goes on. There’s a Holocaust taking place in Iran. A holocaust. And the full extent of it won’t be known until that government falls. God willing. Now, the President. Told the protesters to keep protesting, that help would be on the way. And I believe with all my heart, he’s a man of his word. And there’s every indication that help is on the way. Unfortunately, it takes time to bring. Armies, not one but multiple navies into the region because they had left for the most part. And you had to be prepared for a break out of war in case that takes place. But you need to bring in, obviously, very powerful offensive capabilities, give the president options and you need to have defensive capabilities. And in the case of Israel, for instance, they need to make sure they have enough missiles to take missiles out of the sky. And so all these things are going on, I believe. This regime needs to go. There was a third threat today from the regime to assassinate our president. You can’t you just cannot allow countries to do that. This can’t go on like this. It’s not going to go on. I hope. I pray. The Iranian people are Western people. They’re not Arabs. The Persians. And the Shah was toppled. Not because as bloated Ben and that buffoon says the Iranians allowed it, it’s because Carter allowed it. That’s what happened. I get so sick of these buffoons who spew their stupidity to endorse their their lunatic agendas. And you’ll notice when the going gets tough, there’s a lot less other noise that people want to hear. Because wherever you have an enemy and the enemy from wind joins with them. I haven’t heard these people really complain very much about Khomeini, have you? But Qatar is in on it. Saudi Arabia is in on it. Turkey’s in on it. They’re all in on it. In which we hear from Reza Pahlavi, who is the exiled crown prince. We’re going to address this continue for a bit. And I want to talk about what’s happening to the Kurds now. Who have fought by our side against ISIS. Many of them died. These are warriors. Erdogan’s trying to wipe them out. Now Syria’s trying to wipe them out because they’re in Syria and Turkey. We have a lot of friends in the Middle East. In addition, Israel. The Persian people are our friends. The Kurds are our friends. The Jews are our friends. The Christians there. As well as the Jews. A lot of these minorities, they’re they’re our friends. They’re our allies. It’s amazing, isn’t it? The first religion of the Big three Judaism, then Christianity. And a long way off. Mazda Islam. And yet they want to wipe out the remaining Jews in the area. They’ve been wiping out the Christians and they claim all the land is theirs. Now, isn’t that absurd? Mr. Producer? They’re the last in. And yet they claim all the holy sites, the Jews and the Christians. Well, they’re not. They’re holy. They don’t belong to them and they don’t get to have them. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
We’re setting up this Board of Peace to not name for many reasons, under phase two of the plan and the phase two of the plan. Hamas was supposed to surrender and be disarmed. Well, now Face two has been changed. The Israelis have followed it to the letter that Hamas won’t surrender, be disarmed. So now the thinking is, well, let’s start rebuilding it. Let’s have a board of peace. And then they’ll disarm. That way. Israelis are watching. And then we announce without telling the Israelis, that Qatar and Turkey and now Pakistan are going to be part of the Board of Peace. These are obviously heavy Muslim countries, but more than that, in the case of Qatar and Turkey, they are run by genocidal maniacs who have funded Hamas fund terrorism and the Muslim Brotherhood who have rejected even being seen in the same room as Benjamin Netanyahu. And so Netanyahu is supposed to bow, say, okay, whatever you want, they’ll be on the board of peace. You can bring their soldiers and their military into Gaza shore right on our border. The problem is, he said, No, we’re not doing that. Not one of their soldiers is going to be in Gaza. And every single political party in Israel killing a hard leftists except the Arab parties, of course, are united in this all the way from the right, all the way to the left. They said, No way. Now, you know, it might help if we would actually listen to the only democracy in the region from time to time. They warned us about the phony al Qaeda ISIS terrorist as a reformer. They said he’s not a reformer. He’s killing Christians, he’s killing Druze, He’s killing other people. They Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We’ve an envoy there by the name of Thomas. What the hell is his name? Barack. As you know, I’m probably the only host on any platform has been talking about. This guy despises him. He’s been a mouthpiece for that regime in Syria. He’s been a mouthpiece really pro, as far as I’m concerned, Hezbollah. And he’s been a mouthpiece for Erdogan. And he trashes Netanyahu all the time. I don’t know what that real estate guy has over Netanyahu, but Netanyahu has been in that neighborhood a long time. And he said, you can’t trust them over there. And the IDF went after the protect the Christians. And we we verbally attacked them for doing it. And Erdogan. They’ve been warning us about him. The guy wants F-35. I sure as hell hope he’s not using any of our jets, any of our jets against against the Kurds, for God sakes. The Kurds are our allies. So rather than constantly pushing Netanyahu, why don’t we listen to him every now and then? I’ll be right back.

Segment 3
We’re moving fast tonight. Hang with me. Hang with me, as you always do. And we’re very appreciative of that. The Kurds are a minority in every country they’re in. They’re in Turkey, about 25 million of them there in Syria. That’s. And Erdogan, who is an Islamist, He started out. As sort of a backbencher, the head of a party that wasn’t taken very seriously. National Socialist, by the way, the National Socialist Islamic Party. Something to that effect. And you know what that sounds like and is every bit of that. He was talking about wiping the Jews out of the Middle East. This guy’s in Naito because Turkey used to be a wonderful, mostly secular society. Don’t get me wrong, there are Muslims are practicing their faith. But you didn’t have political Islam and Ataturk was the great hero, their great war hero, great leader, who in many ways moved Turkey into in the direction towards the west. But long story short, Erdogan comes in and he pretends that there was an assassination attempt and he blows out all the generals, he blows out all the chiefs of police. I mean, tens of thousands of the military and police disappears them, as the Democrats like to say, slaughters them, puts them in prisons. And he uses terrorists to fight his wars as well as his military, but mostly terrorists. He’s responsible in part for taking a Sadat. He backed Oasis and he backed the current the current terrorist thug who is now in charge of Syria, who we’ve been pretending is some kind of reformer. Oh, yes. Yes. He went to reform school. He went from al Qaeda and ISIS ran into reform school. Now he’s a Westerner. And that’s what this clown, Thomas Barrack, has been pushing. Everywhere he goes. And when Netanyahu would say, wait a minute, we got it. No, no, now’s your opportunity. Now is your opportunity to make a deal. What’s wrong with you? NETANYAHU All you want is war all the time. You warmongers, you know. And what’s he doing? First of all, they were slaughtering Christians and Druze and other minorities not that long ago. And again, Netanyahu sent in the IDF to try and protect as many as he could and brought as many of them into the Israel as possible. And he came under attack from this guy, from our envoy, among others. Axios in the media got a guy, Ravid, what was his name? Mr. Producer Barak is everybody called Barak over there? I don’t know Barack that Barak that Barack you know Barack Obama anyway. And he’s a mouthpiece for the enemy. Our enemy, Israel’s enemy, the enemy of freedom. Used to write in a paper called Haaretz, which is really left wing kook stuff, almost Marxist. And then they took him at Axios, where he’s basically the the lapdog for the leakers as long as they’re leaking against Israel. And Netanyahu, he’s happy to put it in there and he’s wrong 98% of the time. But sometimes inkling information from. But he’s not a journalist. He’s a fraud, a phony and a fool. The three FS anyway, I know phony. He’s not an F, That’s a joke. Anyway. So this guy’s a joke to. So some senior official anonymously, quote unquote. According to Barak, Rabin at Axios said they look too bad for Israel. It’s our game now. It’s our game now. Why did we fight in Gaza? I’m trying to figure this out. What do you mean? It’s our game now. And so, you know, that’s the kind of stuff that’s going on here. And so Qatar would be on the Board of Peace. Isn’t that an oxymoron? Turkey, which is now sliding, our allies, the Kurds slaughtering them. There’s a prison with 5000 ISIS prisoners in there. Excuse me? There were 5000 ISIS prisoners. And there you know what happened? They released them. The new reform head of the government of Syria, working with the NATO’s member who wants F-35s. Erosion. They released them. Coming to a neighborhood near you like. Like all the other Islamists. The people in Iran. Do you know who they call out for? Mr. Producer. Netanyahu. You know, the Kurds are going on for right now. Netanyahu. The problem is Israel is strong, but they’re not big enough to take on every one of these countries. They just can’t. And in Syria, they’re getting protection from our envoy. I guess. Congress should immediately put the sanctions back on Syria. I mean, that’s not even good enough. But do it. Do it. What are you waiting for? You know, in three weeks. Forget it. Do it now. And we need to hit. We need to hit Khomeini with one of those bombers with a couple of those bombs. And send them off. To hell with that man belongs 86 years old. Slaughtering all those people, those women. There’s girls I can’t stand looking at those pictures. In the videos. And the horror that’s going on in America. We. We don’t just stand by and watch stuff like this. Sometimes we can’t do anything about it. I said the other night, like the Weavers in China, what can we possibly do? But here we certainly can do something about it. And those of you who want to turn your head and you’re not you don’t feel upset about it. Not bothered by it. Certainly not enough to think that we should do something that’s on your conscience, not mine. You know, I did a show Saturday and I’ve done it here behind this mic on Fox. About the French, but for the French and to some extent the Spanish, there would be no America. There would be no United States for sure, You know, Constitution. There’d be nothing. None of this. But for the French navy and 6 to 7000 of their soldiers, they didn’t have to do any of that. Revolutions require outsiders. They just do. Mao had help. Lenin had help. Castro had helped The New York Times, among others. We had help. People with their bare hands can’t fight. Tanks. AK 47. And so forth and so on. And these are young people. The Iranian people are not only Western. The population is younger. Younger. And they didn’t do anything wrong. I can’t talk people into feeling. Their souls and their spirits and their heart. Feeling like something needs to be done. If. If people don’t have that feeling. I’m not talking about you. I’m talking about other people. We’re not even talking about sending in four or 500,000 troops. We’re not even talking about sending in one soldier. And apparently that’s too much for some people. But we shouldn’t be promoting. Terrorists and former terrorists and pretending that there’s something that they’re not when they are what they are. You know, if you dress up a terrorist and. They get a haircut, maybe shower every three or four months and put a suit on them and a tie and a white shirt, and they’re meeting with high officials. All that is, is a terrorist who got to who got a haircut and is wearing a suit. Still a terrorist. And the guy’s a terrorist. And he’s been working with Erdogan, a terrorist. And Erdogan. He has alliance with Khamenei now. He’s a guy. He’s. He’s an non-NATO. For God’s sakes, he’s got our equipment. They’re standing and watching and keeping a very close eye on what happens to their brother, Khamenei. And his people. The regime. Reza Pahlavi. The exiled crown prince of Iran on Fox the day cut to go. The decisive factor would be the instrument of repression that has been unleashed against our people is what is the ultimate obstacle to overcome? What changes the odds in favor of the people that can finally take over the system and push to a complete collapse depends on calculated strategic strikes against this. To be American strikes. It will be it could be an American strike, it could be Israeli strike, it could be whatever. The Iranian people now are looking as the cavalry coming, because we can only hold the fort up to a point. The cavalry can help us overcome the US. Look, this is a regime so desperate that it has to import elements from Lebanon, from Afghanistan, from Iraq as an instrument of repression, because they are running out of elements of their own doing the dirty job against. And this is what’s at stake. So the regime right now is on its last leg. It’s on the verge of collapse. It’s going to attempt every other means to yet again survive. That’s why a definitive strike is going to completely reverse the odds in favor of the nation and defenseless people. That’s what we need in terms of actual support. I don’t think it’s that simple. I think it’s going to require more than some strategic strikes, but I think it needs to be done. And I do think one of those strikes has to be to take out Khamenei. He’s got to go. He’s got to be eliminated. Is threats on our president. Enough is enough. His threats on our country. Enough is enough is threats. Four more nuclear weapons, you know, he says. You destroyed our weapons, but you haven’t destroyed our knowledge about the technology, have you? Meaning he’s going to keep at it. So you got you got a you got a lance this this this cancerous tumor. It’s time. It’s been half a century. He’s killed directly and indirectly through surrogates. A thousand of our people. They’ve tried to assassinate a president. I mean, since when do we put up with such stuff? And he’s on his back. The economy’s dead. The people are rising up. And these poor people are getting gunned down again, machine gunned in mass graves now. It’s just it’s just so horrendous what’s happening over there. And now the Kurds. It’s all part of the same element. And a lot of these people are now in our country. They’re in our country. The Democrats want to talk about affordability. I want to talk about survivability. The Democrats have brought these people into our country. They have. And they don’t want them to leave. They’ve aligned with them. They consider them part of their constituent group. Just another group, just another ethnic group. They’ve done this to us. They’ve done this to our country. The Kurds are now being wiped out. Slaughtered. Their women are being taken, raped, murdered, like the Yazidis. I mean, this is this is this is what’s going on, ladies and gentlemen, right now. In the Iranian people. It’s what’s happening to them is is stomach turning. I watched these mothers crying over the body bags of their sons and daughters. It is heart wrenching. There’s even some film you look at a once you wish you didn’t. Like three or four of these thugs on one. 20 year old girl throwing her on the ground and executing her. I mean, what if that were your daughter? I mean, can you think about it’s just unbelievable. And yes, there is something we can do about it. And yes, it is our business as fellow human beings. And another great show, Sunny with Peter Schweitzer will be on here tomorrow night. In his new book. We were both talking about it. How do you separate domestic policy from foreign policy when you have foreign countries that are injecting this into the bloodstream of the American system? They’re sending these people into our country. The communist Chinese are doing it, he said. There’s about 100,000. 100,000. Children born into our country. That from people sent to the United States, from communist China. And they’re automatic citizens and the birthright citizenship. And I curious how old the Supreme Court is the guts to actually follow the Constitution. There’s a citizen in the Constitution. And. A whole industry in his book explains all this stuff. Same with. These radical Islamists sending people over here. They have children, ten, 11, 12. They’re all going to be voters. They’re all going to change the demographics of the country. They’ll tell you that’s what they’re doing. Listen to the imams. That’s why they’re here. That’s why they say they’re here. Back one. One said. Why the hell would we be in the United States other than to conquer it? And you hear this stuff repeatedly from different voices, different imams from the Florida care director and other members that care, which is how Hamas front group. They’re right here now. I hear people saying, well, how is it that they move from one from one riot or protest to another? First it’s the Palestinians and that it is immigration. And then is it because they’re funded, They’re organized, and they have the same purpose, as I’ve told you many times. And in my book on Power, The Overthrow of the United States of America. They are fused together in their revolution, in internal revolution against our country. They’ll sort everything out after when they figure when they’ve conquered us and all the rest. But in the meantime, they have the same objective the destruction of the United States, the Judeo-Christian system. Are Republicans small our system. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
Ice. The heroes of ice. The heroes of law enforcement. What you’re seeing in these cities, Minneapolis and so forth, are not normal Americans. With a beef. You’re seeing Marxists, Islamists, illegal aliens. You’re seeing billionaires in the shadows who are organizing this and paying for it. You’re seeing foreign countries like Qatar, like Iran, like communist China. Funding it. Also. Getting involved in our social media with bots, with propagandists pushing it. The enemy is here. The enemy within. And it should be plural. The enemies within. That’s what you’re watching. And if they win the battle of immigration, it’s over. Birthright citizenship. People pouring over the border by the millions. Because when the Democrats come back in one day, they will they’re going to do it again. The Democrat Party hates you, Mr. and Mrs. America. They hate you. They can talk about affordability all they want, but they’re the least knowledgeable about affordability. They screw up everything. Food prices, gasoline prices, home prices. That’s what they do. We’ll be right back.

January 19th, 2026

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