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Trump Says Iran Agreement Done—But Iran Continues to show Otherwise · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Breaking news. The President Donald Trump clearly is fed up
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Speaker 1: with Iran and now threatening to blow the you know
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Speaker 1: what out of Iran, prompting Tehran to storm out of
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Speaker 1: the uspace talks. But they are still there now. Before
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Speaker 1: we get into that, I want to start with the
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Speaker 1: premise of what was supposed to be happening. Mike Waltz
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Speaker 1: on the Iran deal on ABC or CBS has faced
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Speaker 1: the nation, I should say, on Sunday morning, had this
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Speaker 1: to say about the negotiations before I give you the
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Speaker 1: breaking news.
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Speaker 2: It described Reprochmont this morning, and he indicated that some
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Speaker 2: of the details of what was agreed to are not
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Speaker 2: written down. He referred to a gentleman's agreement. That phrase
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Speaker 2: was also brief to reporters by an administration official. And
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Speaker 2: here's what the President said.
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Speaker 3: If they don't honor the agreement, some things aren't even
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Speaker 3: mentioned in the Agreement's a memorandum of understanding.
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Speaker 1: But we have an understanding of certain things without writing.
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Speaker 2: Are there classified annexes or portions of this that had
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Speaker 2: not been made public and will they be shared with Congress?
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Speaker 3: Margaret not not to my knowledge. And I'll just go
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Speaker 3: back to your point on the jealous and paper and
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Speaker 3: what's being discussed this is this is an ongoing negotiation
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Speaker 3: that we've never before had directly with the Iranians. And
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Speaker 3: I'll just say this from a lot of from a
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Speaker 3: lot of the doubts that you played in your opening,
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Speaker 3: this is the same team that got all of the
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Speaker 3: hostages out of the tunnels of Gaza that nobody said
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Speaker 3: could be done. They got a ceasefire in place, not perfect,
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Speaker 3: that no one could say said could be done, that
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Speaker 3: took care of the Maduro regime. He's in jail right
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Speaker 3: down the street here in New York with with no casualties,
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Speaker 3: and Venezuela now on a better track. So I wouldn't
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Speaker 3: doubt this president or this team. There's going to be
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Speaker 3: some bumps in the road, for sure. No administration has
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Speaker 3: been able to get this far from a position of strength,
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Speaker 3: and so I have full confidence that will get to
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Speaker 3: a deal. And as Vice President said, perhaps perhaps give
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Speaker 3: this a chance and we can have a transformed Middle East.
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Speaker 3: No one would have thought even a year ago that
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Speaker 3: you'd have Israel and the UAE working together militarily to
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Speaker 3: defend each other. As a result of the next evolution
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Speaker 3: of the Abraham.
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Speaker 2: Accords, so they were kind of forced to We're.
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Speaker 3: In day one of the technical talks, and Margaret, by
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Speaker 3: the way, there are there are technical experts from the
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Speaker 3: Department of Energy that are sitting down right now to
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Speaker 3: get to the bottom of the down blending, the moving
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Speaker 3: of the uranium uh, the highly enriched uranium, and how
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Speaker 3: that will technically be done. So we have to give
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Speaker 3: that process a chance as well. Well.
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Speaker 2: That's good to hear that the US has its own
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Speaker 2: nuclear experts on site. The White House hadn't said that.
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Speaker 2: Is there anything else you can tell us? Who's going
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Speaker 2: to keep talking for sixty days? Fans there?
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Speaker 3: These are These are our Department of Energy XS are
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Speaker 3: PhDs and physics a lot smarter than that I am
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Speaker 3: that are getting into those nitty gritty details. But the
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Speaker 3: big picture is the President's focus on Iran not having
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Speaker 3: a nuclear program and right now it's destroyed and if
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Speaker 3: they and we're going to keep it destroyed and have
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Speaker 3: it permanently destroyed, as opposed to the past where it
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Speaker 3: was ongoing and we were basically bribing them to not continue.
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Speaker 3: It's a totally different negotiation dynamic.
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Speaker 1: That was obviously my quotes now let me get you
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Speaker 1: to the breaking news that you need to understand. We're
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Speaker 1: being told that Iranian negotiators stormed out of the high
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Speaker 1: level piece talks with the US and Switzerland on Sunday
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Speaker 1: after a frustrated Trump unleashed on the regime, threatening to
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Speaker 1: seize not only the strait of her moves and then
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Speaker 1: blow that you know what out of them, referring to Iran.
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Speaker 1: The talks were apparently abandoned just eighty minutes after they started,
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Speaker 1: when the discussions enter quote a difficult phase following an
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Speaker 1: insulting message by the US President, That is how it
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Speaker 1: was reported on Iran state News agency. Now Vice President
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Speaker 1: jd Vance, who was spearheading these negotiations, had earlier said
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Speaker 1: that he hoped to turn over a new leaf with
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Speaker 1: the Islamic Republic. Obviously that didn't happen. Now, the talks,
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Speaker 1: happening in a Katari owned mountaintop resort in Switzerland, were
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Speaker 1: the first to be held under the terms of the
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Speaker 1: Memo of Understanding. Again, that's the deal that jd Vance
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Speaker 1: brought to the President of United States of America. Now,
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Speaker 1: these hopes of progress, well, they disappeared pretty quickly and
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Speaker 1: the diplomatic efforts were cut off, they said, when Trump
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Speaker 1: had had criticized been criticized recently for being too soft
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Speaker 1: in the regime with the MoU Now he warned that
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Speaker 1: the US would hammer a rant if it didn't open
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Speaker 1: the straight UPFOM moves and rein in its terror proxies
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Speaker 1: that they are financially backing.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: The president's most explicit warning was aimed directly at Tehran's
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Speaker 1: diplomats in Switzerland, saying, quote, you won't even make it
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Speaker 1: back to your blanking country. That's what President Trump told
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Speaker 1: the Iranian leaders that, according to Fox News, you close it,
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Speaker 1: referring to the Strait of Hormus, you won't have a country.
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Speaker 1: We may take over the strait if we have to.
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Speaker 1: I'll blow the blank out of them again, referring to
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Speaker 1: Iran now, Iran's Revolutionary Guard that's a terrorist organization, the IRGC.
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Speaker 1: They claimed on Saturday that it was shutting down the
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Speaker 1: critical waterway due to the continued fighting in Lebanon. Iran
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Speaker 1: also came into the peace talks on Sunday, they said,
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Speaker 1: wanting to prioritize discussions about Lebanon and where Israel's military
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Speaker 1: has been fighting the Iran backed Hesbelad militia. They're a
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Speaker 1: terrorist organization there now. The talks were also supposed to
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Speaker 1: address Tehran's nuclear program and the reopening of the strait. However,
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Speaker 1: Ran said there can be no start to the next
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Speaker 1: phase of negotiations until the fighting ends again. That all
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Speaker 1: to let out his anger, and he blamed Iran for
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Speaker 1: the fighting and demand that the regime keep hesblat in line, saying, quote,
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Speaker 1: Iran must immediately stop their highly paid proxies in Lebanon
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Speaker 1: from causing trouble. If they don't hit I ran very
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Speaker 1: hard again, just like we did last week, only harder.
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Speaker 1: Of the Islamic Republic's chief negotiator and head of Iran's
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Speaker 1: parliament slam Trump's threats is an active quote desperation, saying
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Speaker 1: we don't take the Americans threats seriously. He went on
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Speaker 1: in kind. They had better watch their statements. Our armed
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Speaker 1: forces are ready to respond in another way whatever they say.
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Speaker 1: We are the ones who will act now. Many of
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Speaker 1: the top Iranian negotiators also refuse to participate in a
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Speaker 1: scheduled handshake and a joint photo session event with the
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Speaker 1: US team that according to Iran's news agency, officials described
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Speaker 1: the photo op as what they described as an American
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Speaker 1: media show with the optics, raising worries that the US
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Speaker 1: fumbled the start in the negotiations. However, US officials said
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Speaker 1: there was no snub and that Iran was merely spreading
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Speaker 1: opportunistic propaganda, which honestly makes sense. Now, you may also
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Speaker 1: want to know who's in the room here. Well, it's
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Speaker 1: actually a very small group of Americans. The US delegation
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Speaker 1: in Switzerland is being led by Vice President Vance, then
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Speaker 1: his Special envoice Steve Whitkoff, and then Trump's son in
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Speaker 1: law Jared Kushner are in the room. A senior US
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Speaker 1: diplomat engaged in the negotiations also downplayed the diplomatic row,
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Speaker 1: insisting that the peace talks are actually remaining ongoing, saying, quote,
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Speaker 1: the Iranian delegation is still at the negotiating venue, and
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Speaker 1: the US delegation expects to and you working through the night,
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Speaker 1: adding that the discussions have included clarifying some of the
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Speaker 1: confusing messaging from Iran on the straight and building deconfliction
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Speaker 1: mechanisms to ensure the strait will remain fully open, saying
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Speaker 1: we have also worked through deconfliction mechanisms and enforcing the
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Speaker 1: ceasefire in southern Lebanon. Let me also throw in another
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Speaker 1: point that has just happened moments ago, and that is
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Speaker 1: CenTra Lindsay Graham, Republican from South Carolina. He said that
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Speaker 1: Trump's plans to take control of the Strait of Hormuz
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Speaker 1: and imposed holds if diplomatic talks fail with Tehran is real, saying, quote,
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Speaker 1: let's try a diplomatic solution. I think it's going to fail.
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Speaker 1: That's what he said during an interview on CBS, before
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Speaker 1: asking what happens next. I spent four and a half
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Speaker 1: hours with President Trump on Friday. Here's what I think
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Speaker 1: will happen next. If the deal fails, President Trump is
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Speaker 1: going to take over the Straight of hor Moves by force.
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Speaker 1: The United States will control the Straight. He'll charge a
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Speaker 1: fee for all those who go through to pay for
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Speaker 1: the operation. And we're going to expand the Abraham Accords
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Speaker 1: and the calendar year twenty twenty six. Graham added. Now,
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Speaker 1: Graham's remarks came as Vice President jet E Vance and
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Speaker 1: Whikoff and Kushner were in these meetings in Switzerland, so
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Speaker 1: this is significant. There also may be an explanation of
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Speaker 1: why there seems to be a new level of arrogance
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Speaker 1: coming from Iran. And this was a red flag. It
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Speaker 1: was a concern. I talked about it on this show
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Speaker 1: this past week. I didn't think that the memo of
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Speaker 1: understanding that Jed Vance handed the President was a good one.
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Speaker 1: I thought there was failures in there. And now we
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Speaker 1: know that the failures gave a massive influx of cash
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Speaker 1: to Iran. Instantly, Iran's oil exports rebound with thirty six
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Speaker 1: million barrels shipped over six days. I'm gonna say that again,
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Speaker 1: Iran has exported thirty six million barrels of crude oles
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Speaker 1: since the fifteenth, so that would be just six days ago,
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Speaker 1: seven days ago, and that is roughly an equal amount
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Speaker 1: still afloat in Iran. Now, Iran not only has exported
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Speaker 1: this thirty six million barrels of crude oil since June
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Speaker 1: the fifteenth, but the maritime intelligence firm tank Trackers also
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Speaker 1: said Sunday that there's this other thirty six million barrels
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Speaker 1: that are currently traversing the Strait, saying, quote, Irana has
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Speaker 1: exported thirty six million barrels of cru since June the fifteenth,
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Speaker 1: there is roughly an equal amount still afloat in Iran,
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Speaker 1: meaning that's coming out fast now. Given the US blockade
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Speaker 1: of Iranian ports, Iranian oil exports had fallen to their
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Speaker 1: lowest levels period. That was crippling their economy and that
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Speaker 1: was putting real pressure on them to do a deal.
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Speaker 1: But the problem with the Memo of Understanding is it
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Speaker 1: allowed Iran to get rid of some of their oil,
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Speaker 1: which meant instant cash in their pockets. Now, US forces
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Speaker 1: lifted that blockade on June the eighteenth, as soon as
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Speaker 1: the memo of understanding between Washington t ran was announced,
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Speaker 1: and clearly Iran was ready, they were ready to roll
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Speaker 1: with this. That is a huge problem that they were
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Speaker 1: doing it apparently this quickly. Now oil prices are also
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Speaker 1: climbing right now as Iran US nuclear talks are happening.
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Speaker 1: With all this animosity in Switzerland, we now know that
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Speaker 1: Brent krude futures have risen by more than a dollar
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Speaker 1: a barrel on Monday as the talk started between the
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Speaker 1: US and Iranian officials, and a lot of people believe
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Speaker 1: that like this is not good news, like it's not
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Speaker 1: going anywhere positive. Oil prices had fallen, by the way,
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Speaker 1: the levels unseen since the war began on February the
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Speaker 1: twenty eighth. Now, as the talks got underway, Brent crude
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Speaker 1: futures climbed a dollar nine to or one point three
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Speaker 1: five percent to eighty one sixty six a barrel. That
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Speaker 1: at ten oh six pm, after reaching a set I
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Speaker 1: have eight two thirty at the start of trading. Now
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Speaker 1: investors watch the negotiations for signs of progress, with uncertainty
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Speaker 1: surrounding the talks that helped support crew prices after last
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Speaker 1: week's deep decline. Reuter's is reporting at the moment now
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Speaker 1: all markets have been affected by the supply uncertainty in
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Speaker 1: the Middle East, and this is clearly adding to that.
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Speaker 1: Now we also are getting worried, and this is just
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Speaker 1: coming across the wires. So again this is how fast
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Speaker 1: things are changing. But we're now being told that the
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Speaker 1: US Ranian talks have now stretched past ten hours and
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Speaker 1: negotiations are expected to continue now quote unquote until a
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Speaker 1: second day. This is after rand State media was reporting
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Speaker 1: they had stormed out of the meeting, so some of
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Speaker 1: that just seems to be straight up propaganda. At this moment,
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Speaker 1: the United States and Iranian delegations quote continue negotiations for
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Speaker 1: more than ten hours of talks. Negotiations are still ongoing
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Speaker 1: and still anticipate they will continue through the night, is
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Speaker 1: what officials are now telling Fox News. They say discussions
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Speaker 1: at the venue were still underway at one thirteen am
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Speaker 1: local time Monday. A second day of meetings was also
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Speaker 1: expected Monday at the resort in Switzerland, so they're saying
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Speaker 1: that now we are in the quote robust discussions is
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Speaker 1: how diplomats are now saying it. Vice President Jeddy Vans
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Speaker 1: in the US delegation, they said, spending Sunday night Monday
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Speaker 1: morning in Switzerland in these high level talks with Iranian officials.
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Speaker 1: The Vice President touched down around six am this morning,
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Speaker 1: and our delegation has been engaged in constant meetings and
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Speaker 1: negotiations since then. The diplomat who was a part of
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Speaker 1: the talks is now confirming, they said, quote contrary to
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Speaker 1: the rampant false reporting, the Iranians are still here and
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Speaker 1: discussions are ongoing. We anticipate continuing to work through the night. Now,
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Speaker 1: again this goes against Iran state media, their own reporting.
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Speaker 1: So it's a lot of propaganda happening. And now we're
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Speaker 1: hearing that the people that claim that they were storming
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Speaker 1: out are actually in the room. They may have stormed
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Speaker 1: out and come back, we don't know, but they are
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Speaker 1: having what they say, robust conversations. Topics quote of discussion
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Speaker 1: have included clarifying some of the confusing messaging from Iran
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Speaker 1: on the straight and building deconflictation, conflndiction, confliction excuse me
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Speaker 1: mechanisms to ensure the strait will remain fully open, they added.
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Speaker 1: They also said the delegation was working through the deconfliction
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Speaker 1: mechanisms for enforcing the ceasefire in southern Lebanon. So that's
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Speaker 1: now we have two sources. Comport are reporting the same thing.
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Speaker 1: We also are hearing that again there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: lying that is actually coming out of Iran. That's no surprise.
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Speaker 1: There One other thing that's happened here that's interesting is
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Speaker 1: Turkey is now warning Israel that they're saying Israel is
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Speaker 1: ready to sabotage the US Iranian Deal negotiations, and there's
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Speaker 1: a problem with that. They said, Israel could try to
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Speaker 1: derail the new Memo of Understanding between the RAN in
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Speaker 1: the United States and subsequent talks as negotiations continue in Switzerland.
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Speaker 1: Is what the Turkish Foreign minister warned, saying quote, there
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Speaker 1: is always an Israel waiting in the corner, ready to
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Speaker 1: sabotage the process as soon as it finds the opportunity.
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Speaker 1: He also said negotiators should be prepared for delays as
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Speaker 1: they work through the details of the agreement, saying quote,
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Speaker 1: these are important issues. It may not be easy to
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Speaker 1: immediately resolve their technical details. We may see deadlocks from
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Speaker 1: time to time. We need to be prepared for that.
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Speaker 1: He also said that he discussed the issues by phone
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Speaker 1: with the US Special ENVOYE. Steve Witkoff, and that the
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Speaker 1: conversations are open now. We also are being told now
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Speaker 1: and this is coming out of Israel, and again my
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Speaker 1: sorcerers saying that quote Israel will not withdraw from Southern
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Speaker 1: Lebanon security zone. That coming now officially from the defense ministers.
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Speaker 1: That's breaking as we speak. The Israeli Defense Minister now
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Speaker 1: says Israel has quote no plans to pull back from
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Speaker 1: its security zone in southern Lebanon, underscoring the ongoing tensions
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Speaker 1: on the border, saying quote Israel has no intention of
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Speaker 1: withdrawing from Ufort, which is an integral part of the
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Speaker 1: security zone in Lebanon and essential for the defense of
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Speaker 1: the Galiley communities and IDF forces. As Prime Minster Net
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Speaker 1: and Yahoo and I have clarified, Israel will not withdraw
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Speaker 1: from the security zone in Lebanon now. In May, the
18:32
Speaker 1: IDF capture the stategic more foot Ridge at the historic
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Speaker 1: castle in the area during a major tactical operation to
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Speaker 1: quote unquote degrade hesblah, and they're saying now, they're not moving.
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Speaker 1: So this is moving extremely quickly, and I'm giving you
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Speaker 1: the best information I have at this moment. And as
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Speaker 1: you can tell, uh, yeah, there's a lot happening, and
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Speaker 1: it's happening really really fast. A majority of Americans want
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Speaker 1: the the United States of America to end the war
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Speaker 1: with Iran now. That according to a new CBS you
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Speaker 1: gov poll that has just come out. The survey, which
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Speaker 1: was taken Wednesday through Friday, ask participants, quote the conflict
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Speaker 1: with Iran, what should the US do now? Seventy eight percent,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that number again, Seventy eight percent said
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Speaker 1: the nation should end the conflict now. Twenty two percent
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Speaker 1: said that to continue the conflict until Iran gives up more. Now.
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Speaker 1: These are very very very big numbers, to say the least.
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Speaker 1: The poll also surveyed Republicans, asking them what should the
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Speaker 1: US do now? Here's a very interesting part of that
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Speaker 1: poll as well. Sixty percent of all Republicans said the
19:48
Speaker 1: nation should end the conflict now, and fifty six percent
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Speaker 1: of MAGA Republicans also agreed. Mean the majority of people
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Speaker 1: that voted for Donald Trump forty percent of republic Can
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Speaker 1: said the nation should continue the conflict until Iran gives
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Speaker 1: up more and forty four percent of MAGA Republicans agreed
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Speaker 1: as well. When broken out now the CBS News Yugov survey,
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Speaker 1: it was conducted with a nationally representive sample of two thousand,
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Speaker 1: five hundred and nineteen US adults interview between June and
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Speaker 1: seventeenth and nineteenth, and the sample was weighted to be
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Speaker 1: representative of adults nationwide according to gender, age, race, education,
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Speaker 1: and it was based on the US Census, American Community Survey,
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Speaker 1: and Current Population Survey. Meaning this is a poll that
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Speaker 1: is very interesting and worth looking at now. The news
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Speaker 1: of the poll also came after President Donald Trump signed
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Speaker 1: his copy of the Memorandum of Understanding or the MoU
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Speaker 1: to end the hostilities of Iran following the G seven
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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, with the Iranian president signing his copy remotely.
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Speaker 1: That is the latest news that's been reported on that now.
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Speaker 1: The out we had set a national survey found the
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Speaker 1: sign preliminary agreement had a strong majority approval rating among
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Speaker 1: American voters as well. President Trump confirmed that he had
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Speaker 1: signed the MoU and some details would quote be ironed
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Speaker 1: out in the next sixty days. The deal is all
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Speaker 1: signed and the straight uform moves is already partially open.
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Speaker 1: As you know, they're doing a little hunting for a
21:23
Speaker 1: couple of minds that they've already found. But it's essentially
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Speaker 1: ships are starting to go out now. On Friday, it
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Speaker 1: will be completely open, the President promise, saying this. We
21:33
Speaker 1: got along very well with Iran. It's a different set
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Speaker 1: of leaders, as you know. The first set is gone,
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Speaker 1: the second set is gone, and we found the third
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Speaker 1: set to be very smart, strong, very smart. But we
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Speaker 1: ended up making a deal. I felt badly that we
21:48
Speaker 1: had to go back on the attack for two nights,
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Speaker 1: and I thought a third, but we made it before
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Speaker 1: that happened. But I think a lot of great things
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Speaker 1: are going to happen with the Middle East right now,
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Speaker 1: and very importantly, the oil is plummeting down and the
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Speaker 1: stock market is shooting up like a rocket today, like
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Speaker 1: record kind of numbers, the President added. Now, Vice President J. D.
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Speaker 1: Vance arrived in Switzerland early on Sunday for the first
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Speaker 1: direct US Iranian talks sense the signing of the Memo
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Speaker 1: of understanding. The negotiations will play out against a backdrop
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Speaker 1: of obviously the rising tensions specifically over the Strait of Hormuz,
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Speaker 1: and then the renewed fighting between the Iran bak hes
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Speaker 1: Blau terrorist group and Israel threatened to up end the
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Speaker 1: fragile diplomatic process as well. Obviously, there's a lot happening
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Speaker 1: as we speak, which brings me to the second part
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Speaker 1: of the story. US Iran talks are beginning directly in Switzerland,
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Speaker 1: not indirectly, but directly, the United States and Iran holding
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Speaker 1: these talks on Sunday, that after signed the agreement to
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Speaker 1: end their war, with the conflict in Lebanon again happening
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Speaker 1: as we speak and threatening to he railed the deal completely. Now,
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Speaker 1: the negotiations to endo war that sowed chaos across the
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Speaker 1: Middle East and rattled the global economy are meant to
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Speaker 1: trigger this sixty day period, the White House says, to
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Speaker 1: settle the broader issues that have dodged the US Iranian
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Speaker 1: relations for decades, from Iran's nuclear program to the crippling
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Speaker 1: sanctions that we put on them. American and Iranian representatives
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Speaker 1: gathered alongside delegations from mediators Pakistan and Katar, and the
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Speaker 1: Swiss resort. There perched high above a very famous lake Dohak,
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Speaker 1: confirming in the afternoon that the Four way talks had
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Speaker 1: quote unquote begun on Sunday. Now the talks to end
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Speaker 1: the months long conflict are taking place against the backdrop
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Speaker 1: of Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz again. Why well,
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Speaker 1: they claim they did this in response to Israel's specific
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Speaker 1: attacks on Lebanon, where it's war with Hesbla has flared.
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Speaker 1: Despite a new sea fire agreement quote, it is not
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Speaker 1: possible to enter the negotiation phase for a final agreement,
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Speaker 1: the Foreign Ministry spokesman wrote on x unless there was
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Speaker 1: an end to the war in Lebanon. Obviously, this would
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Speaker 1: be a ran moving the goldposts. Now, Washington and Tehran's
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Speaker 1: Memo of Understanding, signed earlier in June, extended the truce
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Speaker 1: in the war that began in late February with US
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Speaker 1: Israeli strikes on Iran. Now it included a provision to
24:29
Speaker 1: end fighting in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbolah. So now
24:33
Speaker 1: that's a bigger issue than ever before. Now there have
24:36
Speaker 1: also been repeated clashes in Lebanon since then. To be clear,
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Speaker 1: it has prompted Iran to say it would again shudder,
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Speaker 1: the cruel oil and gas trade route having it open
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Speaker 1: as part of the deal, but now at the moment
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Speaker 1: it is closed. Now. There have also been no reports
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Speaker 1: of Israeli strikes or continued fighting in Lebanon since Saturday.
24:59
Speaker 1: Israel and exsisted on Sunday that its troops would stay
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Speaker 1: inside what it called a quote security zone inside of Lebanon,
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Speaker 1: and they respond, they said, to any threats. Despite the
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Speaker 1: US Aran deal now Lebanon a side. There has been
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Speaker 1: no indication that I ran support for armed groups across
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Speaker 1: the region, which has long drawn the ear of the
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Speaker 1: US and Israel, will be addressed in these negotiations. I'm
25:27
Speaker 1: going to say that again because it's a really important
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Speaker 1: point for you to understand. There is no indication that
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Speaker 1: I ran support for terrorist groups Hesblahamas, So this goes
25:36
Speaker 1: on on across them in the East, all right, will
25:40
Speaker 1: be addressed in these negotiations. That is going to be
25:44
Speaker 1: very interesting to see how that works out, because obviously
25:47
Speaker 1: Israel is going to have something to say about that quote.
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Speaker 1: I think we're going to hopefully make progress on a
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Speaker 1: nuclear issue, make progress on the Lebanon ceasefire issue. Those
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Speaker 1: are the two big things that I think we're to
26:01
Speaker 1: be focused on, is what the US Vice President JD.
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Speaker 1: Van's told reporters before departing from Joint Bass Andrews, saying
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Speaker 1: he could only join the talks for a quote day
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Speaker 1: or two. There remains skepticism from Tehran, however, a military
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Speaker 1: advisor the Supreme Ietola there posts on acts that quote
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Speaker 1: the enemy has shown itself to be a promise breaker,
26:26
Speaker 1: obviously referring to the US. Now, speaking on Sunday, the
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Speaker 1: Iranian president said Tehran would not relink which its right
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Speaker 1: to enrich uranium, though he repeated Iran's denial that it
26:38
Speaker 1: wants nuclear weapons, saying we can also state in writing
26:43
Speaker 1: that we have no intention of building a bomb. That
26:47
Speaker 1: is what they posted on the president's website. I'm not joking. Meanwhile,
26:52
Speaker 1: they said the unfreezing of Iranian assets and issuing the
26:55
Speaker 1: necessary licenses for the sale of Iranian oil will also
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Speaker 1: be on the agenda now. US negotiators, the president's son
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Speaker 1: in law, Jered Kushner and Steve Whitkoff, who have already
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Speaker 1: been in Switzerland handling some of the technical elements and
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Speaker 1: had reported that things are going well. Van said also
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Speaker 1: on Fox News Now. Sunday again began with the US
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Speaker 1: and Iranian envoys meeting separately with mediators, the office of
27:24
Speaker 1: Pakistani's Prime Minister releasing footage of him an army chief,
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Speaker 1: greeting Vance with a quote hug all. This again happening
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Speaker 1: as the latest fighting between Israel and Hesblah has sparked
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Speaker 1: that Tehran back militant group attacking Israel in support of
27:42
Speaker 1: Iran in the wider war, has reportedly now become a
27:46
Speaker 1: big sticking point to quite possibly derail the peace effort.
27:51
Speaker 1: So here we are, we have a major story that's
27:54
Speaker 1: unfolding before our very eyes. What's going to happen moving forward?
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Speaker 1: No one knows. They could literally go any way here.
28:02
Speaker 1: But what we do know, and it seems pretty clear
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Speaker 1: that the President is trusting JD. Vance to sit down
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Speaker 1: and to try to move this forward. He's also trusting
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Speaker 1: his son in law and Steve Wikoff to try to
28:14
Speaker 1: get a deal done as quickly as possible. This is
28:17
Speaker 1: going to be a very interesting week and it'll be
28:20
Speaker 1: interesting to see if in fact a Ran has any
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Speaker 1: intention at all. Let me say that again, any intention
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Speaker 1: at all of actually coming to the table or is
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Speaker 1: this really just about stalling and getting their hands on, well,
28:37
Speaker 1: some cash that they're desperate to get their hands on.
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