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Massive Allied Offensive Decapitates Iran’s Leadership-Military Command Wiped Out in Minutes · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Finally, to the great proud people of Iran, I say
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  Speaker 1: tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand.
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  Speaker 1: When we are finished take over your government, it will
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  Speaker 1: be yours to take. This will be probably your only
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  Speaker 1: chance for generations. For many years you have asked for
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  Speaker 1: America's help, but you never got it. No president was
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  Speaker 1: willing to do what I am willing to do.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight, you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with
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  Speaker 2: Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Monday morning. Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Outdated, and we've got two major
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  Speaker 3: stories for you coming out of the White House. First up,
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump orders the US and works with Israel to
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  Speaker 3: pummel Iran. The man in charge the Iatola, well, he's
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  Speaker 3: gone off the face of the earth and many of
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  Speaker 3: the top officials around him have been killed as well.
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  Speaker 3: And Trumpet urging the Iranian people to overthrow the Ayahtolah. Also,
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  Speaker 3: you may be wondering why was it important that we
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  Speaker 3: attacked Iran. Right now, I'm going to give you a
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  Speaker 3: timeline of what Iran has been doing since nineteen seventy nine.
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  Speaker 3: a forty seven morning update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one, Big.
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  Speaker 3: Developments in the Middle East. The United States and Israel
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  Speaker 3: have launched a major military strike against Iran and what's
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  Speaker 3: being called Operation Epic Fury. Strikes have reportedly killed irand
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  Speaker 3: Supreme leader and dozens of senior military figures. This all
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  Speaker 3: has provoked retaliatory attacks across the region and sadly has
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  Speaker 3: left American service members dead and wounded as well. World
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  Speaker 3: powers are obviously reacting to all of this, the oil
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  Speaker 3: markets are nervous, and the situation obviously remains extremely volatile.
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  Speaker 3: Now I want you to listen to what President Trump
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  Speaker 3: had to say. This is a second address to the nation,
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  Speaker 3: after first explaining that the attacks were going to happen
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  Speaker 3: over the weekend, and then on Sunday he released a
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  Speaker 3: new video referring to what we've accomplished and also the
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  Speaker 3: loss of American military men and women in service. Here's
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  Speaker 3: the President in his own words.
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  Speaker 1: Over the past thirty six hours, the United States and
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  Speaker 1: its partners have launched Operation Epic Fury, one of the largest,
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  Speaker 1: most complex, most overwhelming military offensives the world has ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's seen anything like it. We have hit hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: targets in Iran, including Revolutionary Guard facilities, Iranian air defense systems.
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  Speaker 1: Just now was announced that we knocked out nine ships
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  Speaker 1: plus their naval building, all in a matter of literally minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Iran's formerly supreme leader, Ayatola Hamene is dead. This wretched
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  Speaker 1: and vile man had the blood of hundreds and even
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  Speaker 1: thousands of Americans on his hands and was responsible for
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  Speaker 1: the slaughter of countless thousands of innocent people all across
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  Speaker 1: many countries. Last night, all over Iran, the voices of
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  Speaker 1: the Iranian people could be heard cheering and celebrating in
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  Speaker 1: the streets when his death was announced. The entire military
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  Speaker 1: command is gone as well, and many of them want
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  Speaker 1: to surrender into saving their lives. They want immunity. They're
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  Speaker 1: calling by the thousands. Combat operations continue at this time
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  Speaker 1: in full force, and they will continue until all of
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  Speaker 1: our objectives are achieved. We have very strong objectives. They
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  Speaker 1: could have done something two weeks ago, but they just
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  Speaker 1: couldn't get there. Earlier today, Sentcam shared the news that
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  Speaker 1: three US military service members have been killed in action.
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  Speaker 1: As one nation, we grieve for the true American patriots
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  Speaker 1: who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation, even
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  Speaker 1: as we continue the righteous mission for which they gave
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  Speaker 1: their lives. We pray for the full recovery of the
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  Speaker 1: wounded and send our immense love and eternal gratitude to
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  Speaker 1: the families of the fallen. And sadly, there will likely
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  Speaker 1: be more before it ends. That's the way. It is
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  Speaker 1: likely be more, but will do everything possible where that
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  Speaker 1: won't be the case. But America will avenge their deaths
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  Speaker 1: and deliver the most punishing blow to the terrorists who
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  Speaker 1: have waged war against basically civilization. They have waged war
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  Speaker 1: against civilization itself. Our resolve and likewise that of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: has never been stronger. America is now again the richest,
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  Speaker 1: most powerful nation in the world by far. But the
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  Speaker 1: only reason we enjoy the quality of life that we
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  Speaker 1: do and the freedom and security is we have done
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  Speaker 1: things that others are unable to do. But it's because
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  Speaker 1: of warriors who are willing to lay down their lives
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  Speaker 1: to do battle with our enemies, and they do battle
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  Speaker 1: better than anybody. An Iranian regime armed with long range
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  Speaker 1: missiles and nuclear weapons would be a dire threat to
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  Speaker 1: every American. We cannot allow a nation that raises terrorist
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  Speaker 1: armies to possess such weapons, would allow them to extort
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  Speaker 1: the world to their evil. Will not going to let
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  Speaker 1: it happen. We're not happening to us, and we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to let it happen to others. The United States
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  Speaker 1: says the strongest military the world has ever seen. I
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  Speaker 1: rebuilt our military in my first term. There's never been
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  Speaker 1: a military like we possess, and frankly, there's nobody even close.
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  Speaker 1: But we are now using that military for good We
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  Speaker 1: want to have it for good purpose. We're undertaking this
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  Speaker 1: massive operation not merely to ensure security for our own
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  Speaker 1: time and place, but for our children and their children,
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  Speaker 1: just as our ancestors have done for us many, many
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  Speaker 1: years ago. This is the duty and the burden of
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  Speaker 1: a free people. These actions are right, and they are
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  Speaker 1: necessary to ensure that Americans will never have to face
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  Speaker 1: a radical, bloodthirsty terrorist regime armed with nuclear weapons and
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  Speaker 1: lots of threats. For almost fifty years, these wicked extremists
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  Speaker 1: have been attacking the United States while chanting the slogan
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  Speaker 1: death to America or death to Israel or both. They
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  Speaker 1: are the world's number one state sponsor of terror. We
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  Speaker 1: are the world's greatest and most powerful nations, so we
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  Speaker 1: can do something about what they do. These intolerable threats
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  Speaker 1: will not continue any longer. I once again urge the
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  Speaker 1: Revolutionary Guard the Ranian military police to lay down your
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  Speaker 1: arms and receive full immunity or face certain death. It
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  Speaker 1: will be certain, death won't be pretty. I call upon
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  Speaker 1: all Iranian patriots who yearn for freedom to seize this
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  Speaker 1: moment to be brave, be bold, be heroic, and take
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  Speaker 1: back your country. America is with you. I made a
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  Speaker 1: promise to you, and I fulfilled that promise. The rest
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  Speaker 1: will be up to you, but we'll be there to help.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. God bless you to our incredible warriors, and
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  Speaker 1: God bless the United States of America. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: President Trump. Keeping it very clear and very simple about
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  Speaker 3: exactly what will be coming moving forward, he made it
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  Speaker 3: clear the US and Israel military campaign against Iran would
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  Speaker 3: continue quote until all objectives are achieved. President Trump emphasized
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  Speaker 3: the strikes are part of what he called a righteous
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  Speaker 3: mission against Iran's leadership and the threat that they posed
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  Speaker 3: to the US and the rest of the world. He
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  Speaker 3: also issued a stern warning to the Iranian regime to
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  Speaker 3: surrender or face certain death, framing the campaign as necessary
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  Speaker 3: to counter Iran's influence and prevent future threats through them
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  Speaker 3: and their terrorist proxies. Trump also highlighted the US forces
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  Speaker 3: have destroyed key Iranian military assets, including naval vessels, and
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  Speaker 3: he underscored the severity of the conflict, acknowledging that more
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  Speaker 3: US troop casualties are quote unquote likely as the operation
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  Speaker 3: persists the present, making it clear that we are not
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  Speaker 3: done yet. I do not expect this to be over
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  Speaker 3: in the next couple.
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  Speaker 2: Of days now story number two.
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  Speaker 3: There have been a lot of people that have also
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  Speaker 3: asked another question, why are we doing this now? Well,
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  Speaker 3: let me just give you a highlight of a timeline
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  Speaker 3: of well, the last forty seven years, the Iranian regime
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  Speaker 3: has been regularly targeting and killing Americans. It's important to
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  Speaker 3: give you some examples of Iran hurting America and also
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  Speaker 3: terrorizing the world. Let's start back in nineteen seventy nine,
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  Speaker 3: when the Ranian regime took over the US Embassy in Tehran,
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  Speaker 3: resulting in a four hundred and forty four day hostage crisis.
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  Speaker 3: They were released after Ronald Reagan was sworn into office
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  Speaker 3: because Jimmy Carter showed weakness and they realized they could
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  Speaker 3: keep our hostages in essence as long as they wanted
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  Speaker 3: to you. Fast forward to nineteen eighty three, the Ranian
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  Speaker 3: regime provided material support to Hesbelah for the Beirut Marine
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  Speaker 3: Barracks bombing that killed two hundred and forty one US
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  Speaker 3: service members. One year later, in nineteen eighty four, the
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  Speaker 3: Ranian regime's proxy has Block kidnapped CIA Station Chief William
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  Speaker 3: Buckley in Beirut. Buckley then died in captivity. Also in
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  Speaker 3: nineteen eighty four, the Ranian regimes proxy Has Black carried
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  Speaker 3: out the truck bomb attack on the US Embassy annex
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  Speaker 3: in Beirute, killing another twenty four people. In nineteen eighty five,
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  Speaker 3: the Ranian regimes proxy has Blow hijacked TWA Flight eight
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  Speaker 3: forty seven, during which a US Navy diver was murdered.
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  Speaker 3: In nineteen eighty eight, the Ranian regime carried out mass
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  Speaker 3: executions of prisoners, and it is still a episode that
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  Speaker 3: is under international scrutiny for the size of that mass
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  Speaker 3: execution event. Nineteen eighty nine, the Supreme Leader issued a
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  Speaker 3: regime fadois calling for Salam's death, including murder abroad. In
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  Speaker 3: nineteen ninety two, Iranian regime operatives assassinated a Kurdish dissidant
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  Speaker 3: in Berlin, later by German authorities to senior Iranian decision makers, again,
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  Speaker 3: this is just an example of some of the things
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  Speaker 3: they've done. Nineteen ninety four, Argentina's top criminal court blamed
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  Speaker 3: Iran for directing HESBLA to Baum, the Jewish center in
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  Speaker 3: Buenos Airas that killed eighty five innocent people. In two
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  Speaker 3: thousand and seven, for example, US courts held a response
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  Speaker 3: responsible for providing material support to HESBLA for that nineteen
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  Speaker 3: eighty three by root attack, underscoring the long standing regime's
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  Speaker 3: obsession with killing innocent people. In twenty twelve, for example,
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  Speaker 3: the Iranian regime and HESBLA operatives carried out bomb attacks
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  Speaker 3: targeting the Israeli embassy staff in India and in Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: In twenty twelve, investigators also linked the Bangkok blast to
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  Speaker 3: the same wave of suspected Iranian regime operations that were
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  Speaker 3: targeting Israeli diplomats. Officials in in twenty twelve explicitly blame
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  Speaker 3: the regime's IRGC coued forces for masterminding that diplomatic targeting
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  Speaker 3: attack wave that went around the world. In twenty fifteen,
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  Speaker 3: Iranian forces fired on and boarded a tanker in the Gulf,
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  Speaker 3: seizing that vessel altogether. In twenty sixteen, the IRGC forces
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  Speaker 3: detained not one, not two, not three, not four, not five,
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  Speaker 3: not six, not seven, not eight, not nine, but ten
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  Speaker 3: US Navy sailors after their boats entered what they claimed
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  Speaker 3: was Iranian waters. What do they do? They used public
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  Speaker 3: humiliation as coercion, and of course, a guy by the
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  Speaker 3: name Barack Obama gave in no problem. Reuters in twenty
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  Speaker 3: seventeen reported a sharp rise in IRGC detentions of dual
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  Speaker 3: nationals hostage style leverage, a pattern in the regime used
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  Speaker 3: repeatedly because America was weak. In twenty eighteen, Denmark said
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  Speaker 3: an Iranian intelligence service planned an assassination of Danish soil.
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  Speaker 3: In twenty eighteen, as well, a Belgian court case centered
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  Speaker 3: on an Iranian diplomat convicted for planning another bomb attack
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  Speaker 3: near Paris. Twenty nineteen, the IGC shut down a US
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  Speaker 3: military drone. Twenty nineteen, again, the Iranian regime exceeded the
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  Speaker 3: nuclear deals enrichment uranium stockpile limit, of course, that Barack
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  Speaker 3: Obama said was working, accelerating the proliferation risks significantly. In
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  Speaker 3: twenty nineteen, the regime further breached nuclear deal constraints again.
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  Speaker 3: This is after Barack Obama had no problem bowing down
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  Speaker 3: to the Iranians. In twenty nineteen, the IRGC also seized
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  Speaker 3: a British flag tanker in the Strait of Hormus, yet
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  Speaker 3: again flexing their muscles. In twenty nineteen, the regime ordered
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  Speaker 3: a lethal crackdown on nationwide protests. It was reported that
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  Speaker 3: more than one thousand five under their own citizens were killed.
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  Speaker 3: In twenty twenty, Iran launched ballistic missiles at bases housing
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  Speaker 3: US troops in Iraq, a direct regime strike, and twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty US officials also confirmed American church were treated for
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  Speaker 3: concussions after the Iranian missile attack, and it was a
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  Speaker 3: big one. In twenty twenty one, a drone attack on
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  Speaker 3: the tanker Mercer Street killed two crew. The incident was
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  Speaker 3: attributed to by US and UK and Israeli officials directly
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  Speaker 3: tied to Iran. In twenty twenty one, US prosecutors charge
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  Speaker 3: Iranian intelligence officials with plotting to kidnap A journalists from
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  Speaker 3: New York for retention to Iran. In twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 3: the DOJ charge Iranian nationals for a cyber enabled campaign
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  Speaker 3: to intimidate US voters and undermine confidence in the twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty election. In twenty twenty two, US authorities charged an
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  Speaker 3: IRGC member with plotting to assassinate John Bolton inside the
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  Speaker 3: United States of America. Twenty twenty two, again, Usha Amini
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  Speaker 3: died after detention by the regime's morality police, triggering a
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  Speaker 3: nationwide uprising against state violence. In twenty twenty two, Iran
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  Speaker 3: agreed to supply Russia with more drones and more missiles,
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  Speaker 3: enabling strikes that hit Ukrainian cities in infrastructure. In twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty three, routers It detailed a US Iran Detaine exchange
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  Speaker 3: that hinged on regimed detention of Americans, an example of
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  Speaker 3: Iran state hostage leverage. In twenty twenty three, the October
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  Speaker 3: seventh attacks where Ran backed Hamas terraces murdered more than
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  Speaker 3: one thousand, two hundred innocent men, women, and children, including
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  Speaker 3: forty six Americans. In twenty twenty three, Iranian backed HESBLO
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  Speaker 3: exchanged fire with Israel as regional violence expanded after October seventh.
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  Speaker 3: In twenty twenty three, again hes Bloil launched rockets from
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  Speaker 3: Lebanon and Israel struck, demonstrating Iran's proxy pressure on Israel's
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  Speaker 3: northern border. US forces in Iraq were also targeted by
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  Speaker 3: drones as Iran aligned groups resumed to sustained the attack
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  Speaker 3: pattern on US interests. US officials that they expected more
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  Speaker 3: Iran backed attacks on US troops, underscoring the regime's proxy warfare.
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  Speaker 3: The White House sat Iran was in some cases actively
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  Speaker 3: facilitating quote unquote rocket and drodan attacks by their terrorist
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  Speaker 3: proxies on US basis. Iran align Houthi's escalated attacks on
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  Speaker 3: commercial shipping, triggering widespread rerouting and supply chain disruption. Twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty four, persistent Iranian back to Hoothy strikes continued on shipping,
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  Speaker 3: trying to hurt the rest of the world. A drone
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  Speaker 3: strike by an Iranian back militia killed three US troops
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  Speaker 3: a tower twenty two and Jordan a major escalation against
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  Speaker 3: US forces directly Iraq's cout Forces commander visit back and
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  Speaker 3: helped modulate militia tax demonstrating regime command influence over even
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  Speaker 3: Iran's proxies. Iran provide Russia with ballistic missiles, deepening Tehran's
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  Speaker 3: role in the war, affecting European security. Iran launched hundreds
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  Speaker 3: of drones and missiles directly at Israel, an unprecedented overt
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  Speaker 3: regime attack. The IRGC seized other vessels, including boarding one
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  Speaker 3: that was connected to Israel by helicopter and diverting it
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  Speaker 3: to Iran. Another state policy and piracy style cohesion. Iran's
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  Speaker 3: overseas murder for higher style plots also continue to grow
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five, and then
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  Speaker 3: last year, the IRGC sees a foreign tanker in the
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  Speaker 3: of Rmuz, continuing regime maritime attacks affecting the global market.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's just.
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  Speaker 3: Some of what Iran has done. So if you're asking
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  Speaker 3: yourself the question why, now, I didn't even mention what
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  Speaker 3: they were doing with nuclear weapons, So don't forget that either.
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  Speaker 3: The nuclear weapons. Well, that's what Iran was ultimately all about,
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  Speaker 3: and that's exactly why Donald Trump had to act.
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