WATCH: Charlie Daniels Tells Iran, “You Haven’t Met America”

The NRA has released a new ad starring Charlie Daniels that warns Iran not to mess with America’s heartland.

by Joey Clark

As part of a series of new campaign videos, the National Rifle Association has chosen to call out Iran.

The video stars country music legend Charlie Daniels who delivers a folksy yet threaten message to the “ayatollahs of Iran and every terrorist you enable” that though they may have met President Obama, they “haven’t met America.”

Here’s the video transcript:

To the ayatollahs of Iran and every terrorists you enable: listen up! You might have met our fresh faced flower child President and his weak kneed Ivy-league friends, but you haven’t met America.

You haven’t met the heartland, or the people who will defend this nation with their bloody, calloused, bare hands, if that’s what it takes. You haven’t met the steelworkers and the hard-rock miners, or the swamp folks in Cajun country who can wrestle a full-grown gator out of the water.

You haven’t met the farmers, the cowboys, the loggers and the truck drivers. You don’t know the mountain men who live off the land, or the brave cops who fight the good fight in the urban war zones.

No, you never met America, and you ought to pray you never do.

The whole video reminds me of a quote often misattributed to the Commander and Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy in WWII, Isoroku Yamamoto, “You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.”