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Historic Protests Shake the Islamic Republic as Warnings of Massacres Rock Iran · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: We have got a lot to talk about on today's show,
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Speaker 1: including the latest coming out of Iran, and we're going
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Speaker 1: to deal with that in just a moment. But what
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Speaker 1: I also want to put your attention towards point it towards,
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Speaker 1: I should say, is this Secretary of State, Marco Rubio
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Speaker 1: is now preparing we're being told to meet with officials
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Speaker 1: from Denmark and Greenland. President Trump is dead serious about
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Speaker 1: bringing Greenland into the United States. Russia and China are
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Speaker 1: swarming the Arctic, and key global shipping lanes run right
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Speaker 1: past Greenland, and we know that this is an important
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Speaker 1: choke point for international shipping, and in fact, it's one
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Speaker 1: of the most important choke points on planet Earth. Rubio
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Speaker 1: did not hold back when he said, quote, if we
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Speaker 1: own Greenland, we could put whatever we want there. If
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Speaker 1: Greenland were US territory, monitoring our adversaries would be far easier,
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Speaker 1: especially in this area of the world. These routes are
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Speaker 1: how global commerce moves. The message could not be clear
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Speaker 1: coming from the White House. Greenland is a strategic territory
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Speaker 1: that deals specifically with national security, and it's also very
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Speaker 1: clear that President Trump wants it under the American flag.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have more on this coming up. But now
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Speaker 1: let's move to the other big issue, and that's exactly
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Speaker 1: what's happening right now in Iran. What we know now
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Speaker 1: in Iran is things are moving quickly. We also know
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Speaker 1: that they are under an internet blackout Think Goodness Starlink
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Speaker 1: has been put up because of the leadership of Elon Musk.
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Speaker 1: We also know that there has been a significant increase
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Speaker 1: in the killing of those that are taking to the
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Speaker 1: streets the citizens of Iran by the Ayatola. We also
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Speaker 1: have gotten video that has come out from Tehran and
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Speaker 1: the airport there showing a Russian military aircraft as well
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Speaker 1: as a private jet that are spun up, meaning the
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Speaker 1: engines are both on, the doors are open, and many
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Speaker 1: are speculating that that could be the exit strategy for
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Speaker 1: the Ayatola if he has to make that decision. Now,
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Speaker 1: these are historic protests in Iran, and how did Iran
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Speaker 1: get to this point? Well, there's a lot that you
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Speaker 1: can talk about. First, let's note that this month's huge
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Speaker 1: anti regime demonstration is more than one hundred Iranian cities.
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Speaker 1: They were not ignited by a single big domestic event either.
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Speaker 1: That's important for you to understand. The Iranian ryo has
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Speaker 1: been crashing past a million to the dollar for weeks,
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Speaker 1: and inflation has reached the point where the bizarre in
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Speaker 1: Tehran was losing money on every transaction, so it closed.
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Speaker 1: Now something else drove the following events such as the
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Speaker 1: South Pars energy strike and in military defections. All of
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Speaker 1: this because the country is in financial strains. Now, why
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Speaker 1: if you talk to those in oilingdaos so explain it
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Speaker 1: to you. When oil prices drop to where they are
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Speaker 1: right now because of the leadership of President Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: and his simple policy, which is energy independence for the
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Speaker 1: United States of America. Countries like Iran, they get behind
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Speaker 1: quickly when oil is fifty dollars a barrel or lower.
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Speaker 1: That is when Iran is hurting. The President understands now
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Speaker 1: that this is one of the easiest ways to support
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Speaker 1: the people in Iran and get rid of the supreme leader.
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Speaker 1: That is something that now is real and the battle
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Speaker 1: space started shaping up about six years ago. In fact,
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Speaker 1: this month, under Donald Trump, he killed the Islamic Revolutionary
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Speaker 1: Guard Coued Force commander Solamani. He was the second most
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Speaker 1: powerful man in Iran and he was killed by US drone,
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Speaker 1: as you may remember at the Baghdad airport. Now remember
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Speaker 1: that is when democrats lost their minds, saying that he
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Speaker 1: couldn't do that. Well, the President did it anyway, and
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Speaker 1: it was the right move. And again this is why
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Speaker 1: you have to understand this has had a long time
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Speaker 1: in the making to where we are there. He was
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Speaker 1: not only so Am I, the second most powerful man
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Speaker 1: in Iran, and he was killed. He had just arrived
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Speaker 1: from Damascus where he was briefing the former Syrian president
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Speaker 1: Ali Sad on a plan to attack the US embassy
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Speaker 1: in Baghdad. And that is the same exact attack plan
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Speaker 1: that they had back in Tehran in nineteen seventy nine.
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Speaker 1: Iran's Iraq emissaries there and ten senior Iranian briefers and
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Speaker 1: bodyguards were also killed in that strike. After twenty years
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Speaker 1: of President Bush and Obama and Biden's with her kid gloves,
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Speaker 1: Tehran is now legitimately frightened because of Donald Trump and
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Speaker 1: what he has done taking out their nuclear sites, and
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Speaker 1: also by what he has done in Venezuela, which quickly
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Speaker 1: seems to be empowering the people there, and then after
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Speaker 1: the Tehran directly undirected I should say there are atrocities
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Speaker 1: against Israel. In October of twenty twenty three, Israel killed Sinhoar,
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Speaker 1: and that was a massive attack. Not only did they
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Speaker 1: kill Sinhar, but they went after many other leaders that
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Speaker 1: came in to take over the role as the IRGC.
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Speaker 1: They killed them in a safe house in Tehran, for example,
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Speaker 1: and almost one hundred more of their leaders in Lebanon
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Speaker 1: and then in Gaza. So they've been in Iran deprived
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Speaker 1: of their well major military leaders. They decapitated Hesblah and
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Speaker 1: their guard as well. The Syrians Bath Party didn't trust
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Speaker 1: its own people anymore, and so then you've got that issue.
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Speaker 1: Now you have what's happening in Maduro, in Venezuela, and
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Speaker 1: now in Cuba. What we're witnessing right now is people
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Speaker 1: are standing up up because they feel like they have
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Speaker 1: an ally a supporter in President Donald Trump, whether it's Maduro,
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Speaker 1: whether it's the Cubans, whether it's what's happening with Israel
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Speaker 1: with Hamas and Hesblah and Assad. You may remember Assad
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Speaker 1: fled to Moscow, the criminal family of Assad fled to Moscow.
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Speaker 1: Last summer. Israel and US force has wiped out much
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Speaker 1: of Iranian's military's general staff, and then the key nuclear sites.
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Speaker 1: You put all of this together and now you're starting
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Speaker 1: to understand the picture of how we're at the point
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Speaker 1: now where there's a very good chance that the leadership
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Speaker 1: in Iran will fall. Now pro Tehran, Moscow and Beijing
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Speaker 1: they have done everything they can to help keep them afloat,
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Speaker 1: but those dominoes are continuing to fall. With the capture
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Speaker 1: of Maduro and the massacre of this Cuban protection detail,
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Speaker 1: then the seizure of Russia's ghost ships has had a
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Speaker 1: huge impact, and the spread of the star leak terminals
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Speaker 1: in Iran to allow the people to stay online again.
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Speaker 1: It's not one thing that happened, it's a multitude of
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Speaker 1: things have happened over the last six seven years. Now,
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Speaker 1: Iranians have seen the regime and its backers exposed and
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Speaker 1: they've been humiliated, showing how weak they are by the
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Speaker 1: Trump administration. They were quick to exploit the roll of
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Speaker 1: the dice right the people, they are understanding that hey,
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Speaker 1: we may actually be able to stand up to the
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Speaker 1: Ayatola and maybe they're not actually as powerful as we
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Speaker 1: thought they were. America has also made it clear the
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Speaker 1: people there. We will defend you, we will protect you,
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Speaker 1: and if they come out to try to massacre you
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Speaker 1: in the streets, we will stand up to them. That
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Speaker 1: again is massive for the people they're in Iran. So
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Speaker 1: that is just the overview of how we got to
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Speaker 1: where we are right now. Now Iranians have seen the
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Speaker 1: regime and it's backers exposed and humiliated, that is, and
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Speaker 1: a lot of that is because of America standing up
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Speaker 1: and making it very clear that we will kill you
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Speaker 1: wherever we have to, and we've gotten really good at it.
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Speaker 1: As the moment that I am talking about this right now,
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Speaker 1: the regime has turned off the Internet. They have also
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Speaker 1: turned off all the landline phone lines so that information
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Speaker 1: cannot get out of the country, but also so that
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Speaker 1: people can't coordinate with one another together. We also know
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Speaker 1: that after two days of silence, the leader there has
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Speaker 1: emerged to express defiance. And it's no surprise that he
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Speaker 1: is an individual there that is like, oh, everything's fine,
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Speaker 1: I'm totally fine. But you can see the Russian jets
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Speaker 1: waiting on him at the airport in case they need
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Speaker 1: to get him out. Now, this is all happening as
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Speaker 1: the death toll has begun to rise over the crackdown
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Speaker 1: and the massacre there. We're now hearing it's well over
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Speaker 1: five hundred protesters that have been killed in Iran's biggest
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Speaker 1: movement against the Islamic Republic in more than three years.
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Speaker 1: The human rights groups are warning that they are seeing
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Speaker 1: the numbers grow and that they were starting to see
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Speaker 1: what they were describing as a massacre to sqell the demonstrations,
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Speaker 1: Coilier wanting blood in the streets. The protests that were
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Speaker 1: initially sparked by anger over the rising costs of living
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Speaker 1: have now become a movement against the system in place
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Speaker 1: in Iran since nineteen seventy nine's revolution, and it has
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Speaker 1: lasted now for two weeks straight. The mass rallies are
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Speaker 1: one of the biggest challenges to the rule of the
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Speaker 1: Supreme Leader, the Iatola, who's by the way, eighty six,
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Speaker 1: and this coming in the wake of Israel's twelve day
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Speaker 1: war against the Islamic Republic in June, which was and
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Speaker 1: it was a total domination that showed just how weak
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Speaker 1: they actually are. Now. Protests, as I mentioned earlier, have
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Speaker 1: swelled in recent days despite the internet blackout, and has
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Speaker 1: lasted more than sixty hours activists warning the shutdown was
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Speaker 1: limiting the flow of information and the actual toll risk
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Speaker 1: being far higher. Quotes and the Star of the Protests
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Speaker 1: rating Human Rights has confirmed the killing of at least
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Speaker 1: five hundred protesters, warning that desks may have even been
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Speaker 1: more extensive than they can currently count because of the
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Speaker 1: phone block that you know, the Internet blockouts and blackouts
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Speaker 1: and all of the phone lines being shut down because
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Speaker 1: it's hard to get information from all of these different
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Speaker 1: cities where you're seeing these protesters that may have been
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Speaker 1: attacked and or killed. Now, videos of large demonstrations in
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Speaker 1: the capital Tehran and other cities over the past three
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Speaker 1: nights have filtered out despite the internet cuts, and that's
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Speaker 1: been a great thing. It's rendered impossible normal communication with
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Speaker 1: the outside world via messing apps or even phone lines.
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Speaker 1: But when you have star linked, it's up. People are
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Speaker 1: getting it out and that is huge. Now, video that's
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Speaker 1: been verified shows large crowds taking the streets in new
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Speaker 1: protests Saturday night in several Iranian cities, including Tehran and
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Speaker 1: Mashad in the East, where images show vehicles that were
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Speaker 1: even set on fire. There are also several videos which
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Speaker 1: have not been verified by AFP, But they've been putting
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Speaker 1: out there showing relatives in Tehran more identifying bodies of
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Speaker 1: protesters killed in the crackdown. So there's that and that's
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Speaker 1: part of the concern now. The US based Center for
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Speaker 1: Human Rights in Iran, known as HRI, said it had
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Speaker 1: received eyewitnesses, accounts, and credible reports indicating that hundreds and
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Speaker 1: hundreds of protesters have been killed across Iran during the
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Speaker 1: current internet shutdown. They said, and their quote was a
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Speaker 1: mask is unfolding in Iran. The world must act now
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Speaker 1: to prevent further loss of life. It also said that
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Speaker 1: hospitals were overwhelmed, blood supplies were running low, and that
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Speaker 1: many protesters have been shot in the eyes in a
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Speaker 1: deliberate tactic. They also said that there has been an
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Speaker 1: uptick in the last twenty four hours of a significant
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Speaker 1: number of those have been arrested.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: The US based human rights Activist News Agency said it's
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Speaker 1: confirmed the death of one hundred and sixteen people in
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Speaker 1: connection with the protests that just happened, including thirty seven
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Speaker 1: members of the security forces or other officials.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: State TV in Tehran on Sunday broadcast images of funeral
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Speaker 1: processions for security forces killed in recent days, and authorities
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Speaker 1: of course condemned the riots and as they describe it, vandalism. Now,
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Speaker 1: the national police chief known as Raddan said authorities made
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Speaker 1: quote significant arrests of protest figures on Saturday night, without
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Speaker 1: giving details on the numbers or identities of those arrested.
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Speaker 1: This again coming from state TV in Iran. Iranian security
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Speaker 1: chief drew a line between protests over economic hardship, which
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Speaker 1: he called completely understandable, and riots accusing them of actions
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Speaker 1: very similar to the methods of terrorist groups, so trying
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Speaker 1: to paint the citizens as actual terrorists. Therefore they can
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Speaker 1: kill the terrorists right. Justifying the deaths of the individuals Iran,
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Speaker 1: Iran's president also said quote the writers must not disrupt
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Speaker 1: Iranian society, saying quote the people of Iran should not
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Speaker 1: allow rioters to disrupt society. The people should believe that
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Speaker 1: we the government went to establish justice and that was
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Speaker 1: all put on state sponsored television. Now. In Tehran, an
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Speaker 1: AFP journalist described a city in a state of near paralysis.
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Speaker 1: The price of meat, for example, is nearly doubled since
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Speaker 1: the start of the protests, and some shops are opened,
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Speaker 1: many many are not However, now all of these details
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Speaker 1: can obviously change. They also what's interesting about the shops
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Speaker 1: that are open is that the that the doors must
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Speaker 1: close around four or five PM when security forces deploy
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Speaker 1: in force. So the hours for which you can actually
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Speaker 1: go to the store have just disappeared.
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Speaker 3: There.
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Speaker 1: We also know that there is real concern now that
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Speaker 1: the protesters could be killed in massive attacks by the
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Speaker 1: government hoping that everybody will go home, and and that's
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Speaker 1: they're hoping that people stop or be afraid if there's
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Speaker 1: enough dead bodies or a big enough attack. And again,
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Speaker 1: without the internet and without the phones, we really don't
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Speaker 1: know everything that could be happening, where it could be happening. Now.
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Speaker 1: That brings us to what President Trump had to say.
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Speaker 1: President Trump has spoken out and supported the protests and
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Speaker 1: threatened military action against Iranian authorities if they start killing people.
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Speaker 1: His words also, Israel's Foreign minister urges the European Union
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Speaker 1: on Sunday the designate a Rands Revolutionary Guard as a
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Speaker 1: terrorist organization over the suspecta violence against the peaceful protesters.
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Speaker 1: He also said there's Israel's support for the Ranian people
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Speaker 1: struggle for freedom. We are with you. Iran's parliament speaker
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Speaker 1: said Iran would hit back at the US launches military action,
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Speaker 1: saying quoting in the event of a military attack by
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Speaker 1: the United States, both the occupied territories and centuries of
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Speaker 1: the US military and shipping are centers of the US
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Speaker 1: military and shipping will be our legitimate targets. He said
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Speaker 1: that on state broadcast TV he was also referring to Israel,
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Speaker 1: which the Islamic Republic does not recognize and considers to
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Speaker 1: occupy the Palestinian territory. So that's why they said, if
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Speaker 1: the US and our occupied territories are referring to Israel,
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Speaker 1: they don't believe they have a reason to even be alive. Now.
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Speaker 1: The Washington Post at this hour is also running this
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Speaker 1: headline saying hundreds of Iranian protesters have been killed. US
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Speaker 1: is now considering military strikes. Hundreds of demonstrators have been
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Speaker 1: killed in a rand they're reporting now. Rights groups say Sunday,
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Speaker 1: as reports of a dramatic escalation in the use of
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Speaker 1: deadly force by the security forces began to break through
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Speaker 1: a communications blackout imposed by the authorities struggling to contain
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Speaker 1: some of the largest protests since the Islamic Republic was
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Speaker 1: founded in nineteen seventy nine. Again, this is coming from
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Speaker 1: the Washington Post. It's not conservative, it's very liberal. There
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Speaker 1: is also a big debate right now, a big divide
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Speaker 1: on what role America should play in all of this.
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Speaker 1: There are warhawks that have never seen a war or
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Speaker 1: a place they didn't want to invade. A perfect example
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Speaker 1: of that is Lindsey Graham. What Lindsey Graham is saying
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Speaker 1: is exactly what got us into the war in Iraq
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Speaker 1: and Afghanistan. It was a disaster. But again he's never
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Speaker 1: met a war he didn't love. I want you to
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Speaker 1: hear what Lindsey Graham had to say on Sunday morning
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Speaker 1: on Fox Business, And I'm.
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Speaker 4: Back with Senator Lindsay Graham. Senator on Fox last week,
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Speaker 4: you said, if the Komane kills its citizens, Donald Trump
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Speaker 4: will kill him. There reports that he could flee to Russia.
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Speaker 4: Do you want President Trump and the US military to
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Speaker 4: go in and extract the Ayatola from Iran?
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Speaker 5: I don't care if they extract him, but I want
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Speaker 5: him to be considered. He's the modern day Hitler. He's
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Speaker 5: a religious Nazi. He's a horrible person. It's time for
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Speaker 5: him to go. The people want him to go. Trump
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Speaker 5: has done what Reagan did. Reagan went to the Berlin
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Speaker 5: Wall and said, tear this wall down. Donald Trump picked
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Speaker 5: the people over the iatola. Donald Trump says, the best
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Speaker 5: way to make a ron great again is for the
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Speaker 5: protesters to win, in the regime to come down.
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Speaker 6: How do you do that.
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Speaker 5: Whatever action we're going to take, mister President needs to
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Speaker 5: embolden the protesters and scare the hell out of the regime.
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Speaker 5: If I were you, mister President, I would kill the
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Speaker 5: leadership that are killing the people. You got to end this.
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Speaker 5: If it ends well, then peace breaks out. All the
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Speaker 5: state sponsor of terrorism activity stops has blaha moas they
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Speaker 5: go away. Israel and Saudi make peace a new day
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Speaker 5: in the mid East. If the Ietola hangs on, it's
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Speaker 5: a giant Obama step backward. I have faith in you,
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Speaker 5: mister President. I have trust in you. You are the
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Speaker 5: Ronald Reagan plus of our time in this in this
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Speaker 5: will stand with the people, mister President. Let them know
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Speaker 5: you're going to kill their oppressors.
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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 4: Lindsey Graham, I'll see tomorrow.
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Speaker 6: Listen to me.
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Speaker 1: You hear that, and it really is shocking. I mean,
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Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham will send American troops anywhere just to top
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Speaker 1: anybody that he doesn't like or insults him. I think
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Speaker 1: that is a terrible foreign policy. I want to make
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Speaker 1: that very clear. He always is in favor of this.
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Speaker 1: It is dangerous. It is not what I think many
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Speaker 1: of us should be saying right now. In fact, it's
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Speaker 1: the complete opposite of what we should be saying. But
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Speaker 1: then there's also others on the other side. Senator Tim
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Speaker 1: Kaine saying this about military action on face the nation.
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Speaker 7: We know the President has been briefed on military options,
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Speaker 7: but our reporting is no decision made, no military assets
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Speaker 7: put in place to execute anything. Yet, there aren't even
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Speaker 7: any aircraft carriers in the Medias region at this moment
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Speaker 7: in time. Would you support military.
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Speaker 8: Action, Margaret? US military action in Iran would be a
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Speaker 8: massive mistake. It would have the effect of giving the
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Speaker 8: Iranian regime the ability to say it's the US that's
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Speaker 8: screwing our country up. Right now, Iranians are blaming appropriately
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Speaker 8: the regime for screwing up the country. This Iranian regime
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Speaker 8: has spent years focusing outside its borders on fomenting terrorism
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Speaker 8: and aggression in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Gaza, instead of
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Speaker 8: listening to the needs of its own citizens, and much
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Speaker 8: like Syrian citizens finally threw off the yoke of Bashra
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Speaker 8: Lasad and brutal regime without US military intervention, it looks
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Speaker 8: to be that Iran's doing the same. So let's celebrate
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Speaker 8: their freedom loving spirit. Let's keep up the sanctions pressure
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Speaker 8: which helped in Syria and is helping I think dramatize
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Speaker 8: the misdeeds of this regime. But US military action would
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Speaker 8: just bring back the painful history of the US toppling
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Speaker 8: the Iranian prime minister back in the nineteen fifties, and
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Speaker 8: would give the regime the ability to blame their own
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Speaker 8: failures on the United States.
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Speaker 1: You hear these two different perspectives. Tim kN US military action,
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Speaker 1: we bring back the painfullssor of US toppling the Iranian
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Speaker 1: prime minister in the nineteen fifties. Then you have Lindsey
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Speaker 1: Graham's like, kill him, just kill the leader. But he's
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Speaker 1: never seen a leader wh didn't want to kill. Is
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Speaker 1: there an in between? It's a real question, like is
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Speaker 1: there an in between here? And what should America's role
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Speaker 1: actually be? The Supreme leader, by the way, putting out
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Speaker 1: his own statement about President Trump in the US, and
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Speaker 1: I want you to hear this.
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Speaker 3: Now, this comes as a runs a supreme leader threatens
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Speaker 3: a greater crackdown, saying, quote, the Islamic Republic will not
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Speaker 3: back down in the face of vandals. Trump should know
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Speaker 3: that world tyrants were brought down at the peak of
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Speaker 3: their arrogance, He too will be brought down.
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Speaker 1: Now that's the same dude that's got a Russian airplane
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Speaker 1: waiting to take him out of the country. So let's
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Speaker 1: just put that in perspective. Senator John Thune talking about
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Speaker 1: peace through strength and what does that look like? Saying
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Speaker 1: this to Laura Trump in her show on Fox.
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Speaker 6: Said President Trump's decisive action to disrupt the unacceptable status
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Speaker 6: quo and afrahenm Maduro through the execution of a valid
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Speaker 6: Department of Justice warrant is an important first step to
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Speaker 6: bring him to justice. So maybe you can expand on
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Speaker 6: your thoughts there and what kind of ripple effect this
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Speaker 6: ultimately will have, not just here in America, but around
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Speaker 6: the world.
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Speaker 9: You know, that was an incredibly decisive move by the president,
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Speaker 9: not unlike some of the other things he's done. Elsewhere
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Speaker 9: in the world that I think demonstrate the piece to
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Speaker 9: strength philosophy that he's adopted, and I think in our hemisphere,
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Speaker 9: at least for as we know now, for many, many years,
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Speaker 9: these narco terrorists, led by people like Maduro have been
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Speaker 9: poisoning the American people with illegal drugs, and I think
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Speaker 9: the President has said enough already. And they're also in
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Speaker 9: bed with China and Russia and Iran and all of
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Speaker 9: our adversaries around the world. So you couple, you know,
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Speaker 9: narco terrorism with the fraternizing with all these unsavory elements,
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Speaker 9: and it makes the United States a less safe place.
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Speaker 9: And I think the President recognized that steps had to
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Speaker 9: be taken. This is obviously a sort of a plan
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Speaker 9: they'd had in place for a while, but when they
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Speaker 9: executed it, they executed it flawed.
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Speaker 1: I actually like what siner Thom's saying there. You got
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Speaker 1: to stand up to these bullies around the world. You
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Speaker 1: have to do what you have to do to protect
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Speaker 1: innocent people, and you have to do what's in the
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Speaker 1: best entry of the United States of America. Does that
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Speaker 1: mean invade, No, does that mean to assassinate? Probably not.
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Speaker 1: One of my favorites is Jack Keane. He was on
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Speaker 1: Brettbear's show on Friday talking about Iran and turmoil and
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Speaker 1: the rampant inflation and the anti regime grievances and the
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Speaker 1: people they're sitting up and many of them have been
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Speaker 1: killed and are being killed as I'm recording this right now.
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Speaker 1: And what he had to say is something a little
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Speaker 1: different than what you heard from anyone else. He said,
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Speaker 1: there are different and a number of options that Trump
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Speaker 1: can take. And also, as he mentioned, and this is
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Speaker 1: part of what you need to be paying attention to
23:57
Speaker 1: do closely, also is may do things that the US
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Speaker 1: wouldn't do.
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Speaker 10: Take a listen serious here general, the question is what
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Speaker 10: does that look like when the president puts out that
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Speaker 10: we're going to we're locked and loaded. If you're killing
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Speaker 10: these protesters. As you mentioned, there are arguably some reports
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Speaker 10: at sixty plus already killed and twenty three hundred captured
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Speaker 10: and detained. There's all kinds of reports of an increased
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Speaker 10: crackdown that's coming on protesters. And then you have Israel's
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Speaker 10: concerns about the build up of ballistic missiles starting up
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Speaker 10: again that could lead to more strikes either by the
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Speaker 10: US or by Israel.
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Speaker 2: Well, the strikes. That guess, ballistic missiles are inevitable. It's
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Speaker 2: just a matter of when. And that's the reality. No
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Speaker 2: physical restart of the program for nuclear weapons, although they
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Speaker 2: certainly intend to do that. But the matter right hand
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Speaker 2: dealing with the protests. Look at the United States and
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Speaker 2: our Central Intelligence Agency and other agencies are gathering and
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Speaker 2: intelligence here. They're monitoring this close. Remember, Israel killed not
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Speaker 2: some of the Iranian senior military leaders. They killed all
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Speaker 2: of the Iranians senior military leaders. They chose not to
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Speaker 2: kill any of the civilian leaders. Did they know where
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Speaker 2: they were? Could they have killed them? You bet you.
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Speaker 2: We're sharing intelligence. It is likely if we do something here.
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Speaker 2: And as the Iranians continue to blow off President Trump,
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Speaker 2: I think that likelihood becomes considerably more possible and potential.
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Speaker 2: And that is the leaders themselves in the movement. There's
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Speaker 2: headquarters out there that are responsible for this as well.
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Speaker 2: There's military capability out there that certainly supports all of this.
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Speaker 2: There are a number of options that the President and
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Speaker 2: his team and the Israelis have in dinner with this reality.
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Speaker 1: You notice there he's talking about Israel. Israel may do
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Speaker 1: what America doesn't do and it may be planned that
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