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Uranium Under Rubble plus Iran Lands Human Rights Role While Executing Women · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Well, We've got a lot of news coming out of Iran,
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  Speaker 1: and it is very interesting to see what is happening
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  Speaker 1: in Iran. As the US ambassador is now saying that
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  Speaker 1: the US Navy has blown a hole in an Iranian
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  Speaker 1: cargo ship, violating the blockade. This comes as the UN
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  Speaker 1: ambassador is now touting Trump's strategy is Iran's military has
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  Speaker 1: defied its own diplomats. I want to start with that
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  Speaker 1: aspect of what we now want you to understand. US
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  Speaker 1: Ambassador the United Nation, Michael Waltz said on Saturday on
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  Speaker 1: Laura Trump's TV show on Fox News Channel that the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration has created the best chance in our lifetime
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  Speaker 1: to break Hesbela's grip on Lebanon, arguing Iran and its
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  Speaker 1: proxies as well are on the defensive after a series
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  Speaker 1: of US aggressive moves. Waltz also pointed out recently and
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  Speaker 1: the developments including the political alignement of Lebanon under the president.
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  Speaker 1: There he said he's trying to do the right thing
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  Speaker 1: and saying Israel's military crackdown Hesblah, and the first ever
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  Speaker 1: direct talks between Lebanon Israel. He now says, the expressing
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  Speaker 1: real hope for the real possibility of peace. All right,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to hear part of what he had
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  Speaker 1: to say on Laura's show. Again, this is the daughter
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  Speaker 1: in law the president of United It's America, and first
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna hear President Trump in a sound bite.
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  Speaker 2: They have no maybe they have no air force. They
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  Speaker 2: have the leaders, they have known nothing. Actually that leaders are.
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  Speaker 2: It is regime change. You call that enforced regime change.
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  Speaker 3: But there's also a larger global picture in play. A
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  Speaker 3: ten day temporary ceasefire in Lebanon appears to be holding.
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  Speaker 3: The President says Israel is prohibited from furthering their bombing
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  Speaker 3: campaign against Hesbola, while reports claim China is providing material
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  Speaker 3: support to Iran, just weeks before the President is scheduled
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  Speaker 3: to visit Beijing, and the United Nations seems far too
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  Speaker 3: comfortable with letting Iran's brutal regime call the shots, and
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  Speaker 3: our ambassador to the UN, Mike Walsh, joins me now
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  Speaker 3: to talk about it all. Ambassador, welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 3: This conflict fortunately sounds like it is getting near the end.
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  Speaker 3: The president and it says Ron is starting to agree
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  Speaker 3: to things that maybe they weren't open to even two
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  Speaker 3: months ago. So what needs to happen now in order
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  Speaker 3: to finally bring a resolution.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Hi, Laura, let's just take a moment and reflect
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  Speaker 4: on just the past week. We had the president brilliantly
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  Speaker 4: flip the script and turn the tables on the Iranians
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  Speaker 4: with the blockade. Then you have the highest level talks
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  Speaker 4: ever since the Iranian regime led its revolution in seventy
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  Speaker 4: nine with the Vice President Steve.
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  Speaker 5: Witkoff Kushner in Islamabad.
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  Speaker 4: And on top of that, just in the past week,
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  Speaker 4: the first ever direct talks between the Israelis and the
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  Speaker 4: Lebanese that led now.
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  Speaker 5: To this ceasefire.
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  Speaker 4: The president is playing is playing chess when the rest
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  Speaker 4: of the world is playing checkers. I was just on
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  Speaker 4: the Senate this week, and you know, critics were hand
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  Speaker 4: ringing over some mean tweets and maybe an f bomb
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  Speaker 4: from the President.
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  Speaker 5: But you know what, what do you say.
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  Speaker 4: To a regime that is yelling death to America at
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  Speaker 4: every turn?
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  Speaker 5: And you know what, it worked. It got them back
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  Speaker 5: to It got them back to the table.
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  Speaker 4: So look, going forward, the conversations and the negotiations are ongoing.
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  Speaker 5: The President has made his red lines very clear.
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  Speaker 4: He's also made it very clear that he'll back our diplomacy.
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  Speaker 4: He'll back our diplomats with force with the great US
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  Speaker 4: military that he rebuilt in.
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  Speaker 5: His first term.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, I salute Secretary Hegseth, General Kin and
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  Speaker 4: our great soldiers and sailors that are out there getting
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  Speaker 4: it done.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I love that you say that the president is playing chess.
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  Speaker 3: It is absolutely the truth. And he's also making life
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  Speaker 3: very uncomfortable for the Iranians and that is going to
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  Speaker 3: hopefully propel us towards a solution here. And I will
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  Speaker 3: say this though, despite that apparent progress, you have this
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  Speaker 3: barbaric regime which is planning to execute a woman her
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  Speaker 3: name is Beatamadi, who they accuse of operational action for
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  Speaker 3: the hostile government of the United States after anti regime
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  Speaker 3: demonstrations that we all saw back in January. She is
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  Speaker 3: one ambassador of sixteen hundred people sentenced to death in Iran,
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  Speaker 3: and yet this week Iran was nominated to be on
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  Speaker 3: a UN committee that helps shape policy on human rights,
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  Speaker 3: women's rights, encounter terrorism. So what the heck is going
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  Speaker 3: on here?
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  Speaker 5: Well, this is the absurdity of the UN.
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  Speaker 4: And in addition to the Europeans dithering from a military standpoint,
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  Speaker 4: a number of countries back to this nomination, or at
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  Speaker 4: least didn't oppose it. The United States stood and opposed
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  Speaker 4: it defeated Iran in a number of other elections, and
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  Speaker 4: unfortunately this one, this one got through.
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  Speaker 5: But it's just it's absolutely ridiculous. And this again take
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  Speaker 5: a step back.
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  Speaker 4: We have to appreciate who we're dealing with here, which
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  Speaker 4: I know President Trump does. This is a regime that
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  Speaker 4: will lie, that will cheat, that has promised things over
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  Speaker 4: and over again, including after they executed and machine gunned
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  Speaker 4: in the streets just a few months ago forty thousand
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  Speaker 4: of their own people.
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  Speaker 5: They promised no executions. What have they done.
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  Speaker 4: They've executed some of these protesters to the tune of
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  Speaker 4: a person per day just in the last few months.
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  Speaker 5: This is a brutal, genocidal regime.
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  Speaker 4: And this is why President Trump is doing the world
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  Speaker 4: and doing future generations a true service, a historic service,
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  Speaker 4: by preventing them from ever ever having a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 1: You listen to what he said there, and I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to play that extended cup for you because I think
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  Speaker 1: it's important for you to hear what the UNI master
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  Speaker 1: is saying here and what Mike Waltz is saying is, Look,
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  Speaker 1: not only is the President playing chess while everyone else
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  Speaker 1: is playing checkers, but we're doing it and we're showing
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  Speaker 1: that we're not messing around. Like if the President says
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  Speaker 1: there's a red line, then there is actually a red lune.
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  Speaker 1: Now Trump is called Iran's waterway blockade blackmail, as shipping
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  Speaker 1: giants are now pleading for relief. We also have footage
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  Speaker 1: that has showed the US Navy blowing a hole in
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  Speaker 1: an Iranian cargo ship, violating the blockade, the UN ambassador
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  Speaker 1: touting Trump's strategies, Iran's military defies its own diplomats, and
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  Speaker 1: we now know that there are more than two hundred
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  Speaker 1: kilograms of enriched uranium that is sitting under rubble. As
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  Speaker 1: Tronto is basically shrugging its shoulders saying well, we don't
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  Speaker 1: know what we're gonna do about that. We will see now.
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  Speaker 1: The latest that we have on this tanker, so you
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  Speaker 1: understand is distress. Calls have been captured, have been captured
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  Speaker 1: of this tanker under fire. Iran shuts the Hormuz, trapping
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  Speaker 1: thousands of sailors is what we've also been told at
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  Speaker 1: this hour. That means hundreds of commercial tankers are stranded
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  Speaker 1: on both sides of the Straight of Hormuz after Iran
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  Speaker 1: s shut down that checkpoint, halting traffic and leaving crews
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  Speaker 1: trapped amid reports of gunfire and traumatic experiences on board.
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  Speaker 1: The Straight of Horn Moves is considered an international waterway
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  Speaker 1: under international law through which ships have the right to
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  Speaker 1: transit passage that According to the United Nations Convention of
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  Speaker 1: Laws of the Sea, roughly one fifth of the world's
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  Speaker 1: oil supply passes through the Strait of Hormves, making it
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  Speaker 1: a critical choke point for global energy markets, according to
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  Speaker 1: the US Energy Information Administration. Moments ago the UK Maritime
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  Speaker 1: Trade Operation sat Iranian gunboats open fire on tankers. The
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  Speaker 1: same day while projectile struck a container vessel and damaged
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  Speaker 1: the cargo. I want to also get for you real
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  Speaker 1: quick what President Donald Trump has said about what happened
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  Speaker 1: with his cargo ship that was shot up at today,
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  Speaker 1: The Pentagon has just released brand new footage showing the
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  Speaker 1: US Navy opening fire on the Iranian flag cargo ship
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  Speaker 1: after it ignored multiple warnings to turn around over a
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  Speaker 1: six hour period. The President putting this out on True
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  Speaker 1: Social today. An Iranian flag cargo ship name Tusca, nearly
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  Speaker 1: nine hundred feet long and weighing almost as much as
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  Speaker 1: an aircraft carrier, tried to get past our naval blockade,
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  Speaker 1: and it didn't go well for them. The US Navy
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  Speaker 1: guided missile destroyer intercepted the ship in the Gulf of
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  Speaker 1: Oman and gave them fair warning to stop. The Iranian
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  Speaker 1: crew refused to listen, so our navy ship stopped them
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  Speaker 1: right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the
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  Speaker 1: engine room. Right now, US Marines have custody of the vessel.
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  Speaker 1: The Tuska is under US Treasury sanctions because of their
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  Speaker 1: prior history of illegal activity. We have full custody of
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  Speaker 1: the ship and are seeing what's on board, signed President
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  Speaker 1: Donald J.
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  Speaker 2: Trump.
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  Speaker 1: So it's very clear that the President is not messing
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  Speaker 1: around when it comes to this blockade, and this was
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  Speaker 1: over a six hour period, which is also incredibly important
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  Speaker 1: that you understand that we gave ample warning for an
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  Speaker 1: extremely long time. Now, while all of this is happening,
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  Speaker 1: there's also something else that's been happening in the US.
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  Speaker 1: A high rolling Iranian businesswoman was nabbed at the Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles Airport accused of arms trafficking for the regime. The
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  Speaker 1: Iranian born immigrant, who became a lawful permanent resident alien
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  Speaker 1: under the Obama administration, has been arrested and charged with
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  Speaker 1: brokering arm sales on behalf of the Iranian government. According
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  Speaker 1: to the United States Attorney for the Central District of California,
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  Speaker 1: Federal authorities arrested the forty four year old woman at
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  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday evening. According to
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  Speaker 1: the affidavit of this woman of the Woodland Hills in
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  Speaker 1: california's accused of trafficking arms on half of the government
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  Speaker 1: of Iran. She's been charged with fifty USC. Section seventeen
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  Speaker 1: oh five for brokering the sale of drones, brokering the
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  Speaker 1: sale of bombs, brokering the sale of bomb fuses, and
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  Speaker 1: brokering the sale of millions of rounds of ammunition. The ammunition,
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  Speaker 1: I should say the munitions were reportedly manufactured by Iran
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  Speaker 1: and sold to Sudan.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: If convicted of these offenses, Mafi her name is her
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  Speaker 1: name could face a statutory maximum sentence of twenty years
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  Speaker 1: in federal prison in addition to fines. A conviction of
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  Speaker 1: this offense with an appropriate sentence could also render Mafi
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  Speaker 1: deportable from the United States of America as an aggravated
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  Speaker 1: felon as well. Mafi gained permanent residence status in twenty
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  Speaker 1: sixteen after leaving Iran just three years earlier that According
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  Speaker 1: to report by The New York Post, court documents revealed
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  Speaker 1: that Mafia allegedly used an Oman based company known as
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  Speaker 1: Atlas International Business to broker weapons deals as recently as
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Now the contract was reportedly worth more
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  Speaker 1: than seventy million dollars, yes, seventy million, for six armed
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  Speaker 1: iranium made drones that were procured by Iranian's military ad
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  Speaker 1: Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics. According to the Post,
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  Speaker 1: the drones and more than fifty thousand bomb fuses were
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  Speaker 1: part of deals brokeered with the Sudanese Ministry of Defense
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  Speaker 1: Sudan has been in a civil war waging between two
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  Speaker 1: fractions of the country's military government since twenty twenty three. Now.
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  Speaker 1: According to report in the Africa Defense Forum known as
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  Speaker 1: the eightyf that's a publication by the US Africa Command,
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  Speaker 1: Iran is a history of funneling weapons to Sudan to
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  Speaker 1: capitalize on the chaos caused by the civil war in
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  Speaker 1: a bid to gain a foothold on the Red Sea
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  Speaker 1: that according to experts, they wanted to establish a presence
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  Speaker 1: in Sudan that would allow Iran to threaten shipping through
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  Speaker 1: the Suez Canal, potentially impacting Israel and Saudi Arabia as
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  Speaker 1: well as other adversaries in the region. Mafi is expected
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  Speaker 1: to make her initial appearance in court on Monday afternoon
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  Speaker 1: and the US District Court in downtown La. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: the media wants you to know she is presumed innocent
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  Speaker 1: until proven guilty in court. That is the most important thing.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently the media is going to tell you about that story.
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  Speaker 1: Now you combine that with what we also now know
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  Speaker 1: about the distress call that's been captured from this tanker
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  Speaker 1: that was under fire. Iran has also shut down the
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  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz, trapping thousands of these sailors roughly one
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  Speaker 1: fifth of the world's oil supplies. I mentioned earlier passes
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  Speaker 1: through the Strait. Audio that's now been released by maritime
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  Speaker 1: monitoring group Tankred Trackers appears to capture the moment a
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  Speaker 1: vessel and its crew came under fire while approaching the Strait,
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  Speaker 1: including a distress call from a crew member. It says,
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  Speaker 1: sept Navy motor tanker, you gave me clearance to go.
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  Speaker 1: You're firing now, let me turn back, the crew member
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  Speaker 1: can be heard saying in the recording, according to the
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  Speaker 1: Tanker Trackers. Iranian state media confirmed that shots were fired
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  Speaker 1: near vessels to force them to turn back, while the
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  Speaker 1: Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India said
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  Speaker 1: the Foreign Secretary was deeply quote unquote concerned. Now. This
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  Speaker 1: ship is the world's fifth largest container shipping line. Fox
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  Speaker 1: News Digital said that it had activated a crisis team
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  Speaker 1: and its crew remained stuck on board of the vessels
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  Speaker 1: in the region. We have been working from Friday afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: they said, until today with the entire crisis team to
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  Speaker 1: bring the vessel out in vain. Unfortunately, they said. The
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  Speaker 1: senior director of the group said that wasn't possible. You
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  Speaker 1: can't make this up. These events can easily lead to
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  Speaker 1: traumatic experiences. There is also significant risks from sea mines,
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  Speaker 1: which has made insuring vessels for passage through the straight
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  Speaker 1: nearly impossible. So what does this mean, Well, of course
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be a lot of propaganda. They said, quote.
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  Speaker 1: The crews are well, but they are becoming increasingly impatient
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  Speaker 1: and frustrated. It is very unfortunate that we could not
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  Speaker 1: leave today. Many ships are so stuck in the Persian Gulf.
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  Speaker 1: Our six ships are anchored the port of Dubai, and
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  Speaker 1: all crews hope for an improvement in the situation now.
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  Speaker 1: The Islamic Revolutionary Guards set on April eighteenth that the
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  Speaker 1: strait would remain closed until the US lifts its blockade
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  Speaker 1: on Iranian ports, warning ships not to move from anchorage
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  Speaker 1: or risk being treated as enemy collaborators. Iranas previously argued
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  Speaker 1: the restrictions on its oil exports and shipping amount to
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  Speaker 1: economic warfare, framing the actions in the Strait of Hormuz
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  Speaker 1: is a response to foreign pressure on its economy that
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  Speaker 1: coming from the official statements from Iranian officials and state
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  Speaker 1: media approaching the Strait of Hormus will be considered cooperation
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  Speaker 1: with the enemy, and any violating vessels will be targeted,
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  Speaker 1: the IRGC said in a statement carried by the semi
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  Speaker 1: official news agency of Iran. The United States has imposed
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  Speaker 1: the blockade on Iranian i ports to pressure Tehran to
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  Speaker 1: reopen the strait, with the US Central Commands saying the
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  Speaker 1: measures are being enforced in part actually against all vessels.
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  Speaker 1: So here you have it the President of United States
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  Speaker 1: of America making it clear that he is not going
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  Speaker 1: to be screwed around with by Iran. And the President sang,
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  Speaker 1: today we targeted an Iranian flag cargo ship because we
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  Speaker 1: gave them six hours to turn around and they're refused
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  Speaker 1: to listen. This is the President, yet again, making it
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  Speaker 1: clear when he says he's going to do something, he's
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  Speaker 1: actually going to do what he says. The present telling
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  Speaker 1: Iran to make a deal to play by the rules,
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  Speaker 1: and when they don't, the President sang, okay, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: can do for your portfolio. In the early hours of
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  Speaker 1: the morning, deep in the strategic water rays surrounding Iran,
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  Speaker 1: tensions reached a boiling point. It's been confirmed. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: United States Navy tasks were enforcing a rapidly evolving maritime blockade,
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  Speaker 1: encountered what officials are describing as a non compliant Iranian
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  Speaker 1: cargo vessel attempting to breach restricted waters to be clear
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  Speaker 1: for more than six hours. The US Navy told the
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  Speaker 1: ship to turn around, and they refused. According to the
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  Speaker 1: NATO reports that are out from the defense sources, the
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  Speaker 1: ship continued to ignore warning after warning, radio calls, signal flares,
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  Speaker 1: even direct interception maneuvers. And then came the moment that
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  Speaker 1: changed everything. US Navy commanders, operating under strict rules of
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  Speaker 1: engagement tied to the blockade, made the call, stopped the
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  Speaker 1: vessel by force if necessary, and what followed was the
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  Speaker 1: President United States of America making it clear he will
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  Speaker 1: continue to take swift and decisive action. A precision strike
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  Speaker 1: described as controlled and targeted hit the cargo ship, disabling
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  Speaker 1: it and effectively blowing a hole in the vessel's hull.
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  Speaker 1: The goal was not to sink the ship, but to
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  Speaker 1: neutralize its ability to continue forward. Within minutes, the ship
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: was dead in the water after the engine room was struck.
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  Speaker 1: Now this wasn't chaos. It wasn't reckless. It was a
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  Speaker 1: calculated maneuver by the United States. US officials are emphasizing
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  Speaker 1: that this action was taken only after hours of repeated
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  Speaker 1: violations and what they described as a clear and deliberate
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  Speaker 1: attempt to challenge the military blockade. Now, this is what
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  Speaker 1: matters the most. This isn't just about one ship. This
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  Speaker 1: is literally about control of one of the most critical
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  Speaker 1: maritime corridors in the entire world. Energy flowing through these waters,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: global trade depends on them as well, and for years,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Iran has used its position the region to test the limits, probing, pushing,
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  Speaker 1: and at times provoking and even charging tolls to use
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  Speaker 1: this waterway, which they do not own. Now this is
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  Speaker 1: clearly a massive shift. Not only was a line being
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  Speaker 1: drawn by the President days ago, but he's enforcing it.
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  Speaker 1: The US Navy now sending an even clearer message. If
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  Speaker 1: there's a blockade in place, it will be enforced not symbolically,
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  Speaker 1: not diplomatically, but literally physically. And that changes the calculus
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  Speaker 1: now for many in the region, because every ship contains
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: now well a reality, the captain has to make a decision.
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  Speaker 1: Do they comply or risk confrontation with the most powerful
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  Speaker 1: Navy force on Earth, and if you don't comply, is
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: there any doubt in your mind that America will now
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  Speaker 1: fire on your ship. Iran is not likely to sit
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  Speaker 1: quietly by the way after this incident. A limited strike
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  Speaker 1: on one of its vessels can trigger retaliation, which I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure our military is expecting. So the world, yes, is
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: watching very closely what is going to happen next. The
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: President of the United States of America also making it
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  Speaker 1: very clear on social media that he is not messing around.
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  Speaker 1: The president putting out this statement untrue social Today, an
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  Speaker 1: Iranian flag cargo ship nearly nine hundred feet long and
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  Speaker 1: weighing almost as much as an aircraft carrier, tried to
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  Speaker 1: get past our naval blockade and it did not go
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: well for them. The US Navy guided missile destroyer intercepted
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the boat in the Gulf of Oman and gave their
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  Speaker 1: fair warning to stop. The Iranian crew refused to listen,
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  Speaker 1: so our navy ships stopped them right in their tracks
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  Speaker 1: by blowing a hole in the engine room.
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  Speaker 5: Right now.
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  Speaker 1: The President went on to say US marines have custody
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  Speaker 1: of the vessel and that vessel is under US Treasury
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  Speaker 1: sanctions because of their prior history of illegal activity. We
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: have full custody of the ship and are seeing what's
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  Speaker 1: on board, signed President Donald J. Trump. Now you look
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: at what the President just said there. You listen to
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: distressed calls that have captured that tanker under fire. As
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Iran is retaliating shutting down the Strait of Hormuz. We
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: now know that there are thousands of crew members that
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: are trapped in that area on their boats. It is
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: a choke point crisis. But the footage that has been
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: put out to the world showing the US Navy blowing
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: a hole in that Iranian cargo ship also makes it
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  Speaker 1: clear you violate an American blockade and we will respond.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: The question now is what will Iran do next. We
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: also know that there's another issue at play as well,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: and that is a slain Iranian nuclear scientist has raised
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: the alarm over uranium expertise reaching the black market, a
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: nuclear expert now saying that Iranian scientists may be willing
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: to sell weapons expertise to states or non state actors.
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  Speaker 1: The killing of the Iranian nuclear scientists in US israel
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  Speaker 1: military strike has raised that fear that if the regime destabilizes,
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  Speaker 1: we can control over the uranium stockpiles. Then there could
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  Speaker 1: be the spread of nuclear expertise, and that could increase
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  Speaker 1: proliferation risks around the world, certainly in the Middle East,
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  Speaker 1: which is exactly why the President of United States of
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: America is saying what he's saying. We have to get
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: that enriched uranium out of Iran. Don't forget. Share this
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