Larry Johnson, Zulfiqar Ali: EXCLUSIVE- Iran Just Received Underwater Drones Built To Kill Carriers From North Korea

by Transition Protocol [9-8-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio(opens in new tab)).

Iran's leadership has concluded that this war cannot be settled at a negotiating table. In this episode, recorded 8 September 2026, Larry Johnson and Zulfiqar Ali lay out how every diplomatic off-ramp brokered by Pakistan collapsed, why Tehran has shifted from a defensive to an offensive posture, and what that means for the US naval blockade, the Strait of Hormuz and the wider Iran war.

Zulfiqar Ali reports, from sources inside Iran's power structures, that North Korea has delivered a cache of stealth underwater attack drones to Iran through a corridor involving China and Pakistan — and that the decision to go on the offensive was cleared by Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, President Pezeshkian, Speaker Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Araghchi. This is source-based reporting and is not independently verified; it is presented and labelled as such throughout. larry assesses what the American counter-response could look like, why Russia and China are now backing Iran with more than diplomacy, and what a strategic defeat in West Asia and Ukraine at the same time would mean for American power.