Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Zimmy Hobbs here with you from twelve to two. It
Speaker 2: is a huge news day.
Speaker 3: Huge.
Speaker 2: I think that's even underscoring the severity of the situation,
Speaker 2: just how big this situation is. And this station, KFI
Speaker 2: knows how to pivot and cover the biggest news not
Speaker 2: only locally, but of course globally. And I'm talking about
Speaker 2: this US strike that happened last night on three Iranian
Speaker 2: nuclear sites just after five pm hour time, around one
Speaker 2: thirty am Iranian time. And wherever there's conflict, whenever there's
Speaker 2: a big issue, there are what protests, or at least.
Speaker 3: Rumors of protests.
Speaker 2: At this point, kfi's Michael Monks is in downtown LA
Speaker 2: for what is supposed to be a very big and
Speaker 2: tai war protest, and he's gonna tell us everything he
Speaker 2: sees or what he's not seeing. Apparently, Michael Monks, are you.
Speaker 4: There, I'm here, Tiffany. Good afternoon to you, Yester. Covering
Speaker 4: everything that's happening downtown as it unfolds today looks to
Speaker 4: be in the very early stages of what you described
Speaker 4: an anti war protest outside of La City, Hall, sort
Speaker 4: of inclusive of Gloria Molina Grand Park outside the County
Speaker 4: Building as well here on Spring Street. So what we're
Speaker 4: seeing right now is the setup phase. This was supposed
Speaker 4: to start at twelve, going till about two o'clock. A
Speaker 4: very small group of people right now with anti war
Speaker 4: signs and a little sidewalk chalk art work against war
Speaker 4: being placed on the sidewalks here. They're setting up a
Speaker 4: makeshift stage on the back of a truck. Got some
Speaker 4: speakers being set up. We got a guy selling anti
Speaker 4: war t shirts, burning some stage to clean out the air.
Speaker 4: It looks like all not a lot of activity though,
Speaker 4: so it is an early stage protest. Again, it's supposed
Speaker 4: to go until two. Now later this afternoon, we've got
Speaker 4: word that we're expecting a different demonstration at three o'clock
Speaker 4: outside the Federal Building on Alameda Street, and that has
Speaker 4: been the site of some of the more let's say,
Speaker 4: raucous protests that have taken place in recent weeks against
Speaker 4: immigration enforcement. So, Tiffany, as you know, we've got a
Speaker 4: lot going on, and LA does not seem to suffer
Speaker 4: a protest fatigue. So whether it's against action against Palestine
Speaker 4: or whether it's against immigration enforcement and now military action
Speaker 4: against Iran. Folks are expected to come out in force today.
Speaker 4: So far, not a large scene, maybe a couple dozen
Speaker 4: people so far between the two blocks setting up looking
Speaker 4: like they're ready to protest in favor of peace and
Speaker 4: no war in Iran. Again, at three o'clock, we're expecting
Speaker 4: some folks outside that federal building.
Speaker 3: It could potentially shift.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, did people just take their
Speaker 2: anti ice shirts and put tape or marker over them
Speaker 2: and turn them into anti war because it feels.
Speaker 3: Like we're going from one situation.
Speaker 2: It's very fluid with these protests.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I suppose it would be efficient to have some
Speaker 4: sort of dell Crow anti messaging on your shirt, so
Speaker 4: you can just rip off whatever you're against at this point,
Speaker 4: whether it's against Disrael.
Speaker 3: Or it's a really good operation.
Speaker 4: Enforcement or against military invention intervention in Iran. But that's
Speaker 4: right now. It looks like everything is made originally for
Speaker 4: this particular message, though a lot of messages involving Iran specifically. Obviously,
Speaker 4: last night we saw military action against Iran. The President
Speaker 4: talked about it. You and I both covered it on
Speaker 4: our Saturday night program. We did, and now the public
Speaker 4: response is for me.
Speaker 2: I think you just gave someone out there, at least
Speaker 2: a few people, a good money grabbing idea with that
Speaker 2: bell crow t shirt. I think that's what I'm spending
Speaker 2: the rest of my Sunday making. Definitely a market for that.
Speaker 2: How'd you hear about this protest? I know you live downtown.
Speaker 2: There's no shortage of information, perhaps on the ground, but
Speaker 2: how did you hear about this one specifically?
Speaker 3: And who's putting it together?
Speaker 4: There's social media posts promoting these things. I didn't see
Speaker 4: any specific groups attached to those flyers, but later tracked
Speaker 4: it down to fifty to fifty one, which is a
Speaker 4: group that has become known as organizing pro Democrat demonstrations,
Speaker 4: and they were the ones that were heavily responsible for
Speaker 4: the No Kings rallies across the United States, including the
Speaker 4: significantly large one here in downtown Los Angeles. So it
Speaker 4: looks like they've got their hands in this, at least
Speaker 4: according to their social media and their local chapters, both
Speaker 4: national and local, have posted about various demonstrations across the country,
Speaker 4: again including right here outside Los Angeles City Hall, so
Speaker 4: they appear to be behind this one. That was again
Speaker 4: supposed to start at twelve and go until two o'clock.
Speaker 4: Now at three o'clock we are seeing a different demonstration
Speaker 4: outside the Federal Building and that may be a different
Speaker 4: group organizing that and not entirely clear on the messaging
Speaker 4: for that one.
Speaker 5: Yet.
Speaker 2: You got to get home, Michael and get those bell
Speaker 2: crow shirts ready so you can just hand those out
Speaker 2: to the three pm group. There's a whole thing here,
Speaker 2: we're wasting time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're gonna need like a little satchel or something,
Speaker 4: a little bag because you've got to find you know,
Speaker 4: there's got to be a storage component to keep all
Speaker 4: of the different you know, finge you're against.
Speaker 2: Well, I know you're going to hang out with us
Speaker 2: for the rest of the show until two pm and
Speaker 2: check back in with us and definitely comment on everything
Speaker 2: that's going on as we continue to give updates about
Speaker 2: the situation in Iran, about the development since that strike
Speaker 2: at five pm hour time, one thirty their time.
Speaker 3: So I'll be coming.
Speaker 2: Back to you intermittently and you break in if there's
Speaker 2: anything you need to share. But right now, it seems
Speaker 2: like the protests in downtown LA where Michael Monks is
Speaker 2: are just starting to set up, and it seems to
Speaker 2: be that the group fifty one fifty, who also was
Speaker 2: responsible for the No King's protest last weekend, is the
Speaker 2: group behind this anti war protest in downtown LA at
Speaker 2: Gloria Molina Park and in the surrounding area. So we'll
Speaker 2: stay tuned for more updates about that, and of course
Speaker 2: again Michael break in if there's anything you need to share.
Speaker 2: It's KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Tiffany Hobbes and Michael Monks of course sitting in here
Speaker 2: from twelve to two today with all things current about
Speaker 2: the situation in Iran.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Tiffany Hobbs here with you until two, and of course
Speaker 2: we have kfi's own Michael Monks in downtown LA closely
Speaker 2: monitoring what seems to be the starting up the setting
Speaker 2: up of an anti war protest put on by the
Speaker 2: organization fifty fifty one. They are responsible for the No
Speaker 2: Kings protest of last weekend and we saw how massive
Speaker 2: that got. Well, they are meeting the moment, as you
Speaker 2: might say, and responding to these the strikes on the
Speaker 2: nuclear facilities in Iran. Last night happened around five pm
Speaker 2: hour time, about one point thirty am in Iranian time.
Speaker 2: And here's what we know so far. The US, of
Speaker 2: course attacked three key nuclear facilities, including facilities in Foridoh
Speaker 2: and Foordo. Seemed to be the most prominent, the most serious,
Speaker 2: the most significant of those facilities, and this operation was
Speaker 2: deemed Operation Midnight Hammer. Operation Midnight Hammer. Defense Secretary Pete
Speaker 2: Hegseith claimed that Iran's or Iran's nuclear ambitions were obliterated,
Speaker 2: although there's a full assessment that is currently ongoing. Last night,
Speaker 2: President Donald Trump addressed the nation to let the nation
Speaker 2: know about out the developments out of that nuclear strike.
Speaker 2: I want to make sure that you hear that. In
Speaker 2: his own words, Robin, you ready for.
Speaker 6: Time ago, the US military carried out massive precision strikes
Speaker 6: on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime
Speaker 6: for doau Ntance and s Fahan. Everybody heard those names
Speaker 6: for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our
Speaker 6: objective was the destruction of irans nuclear enrichment capacity and
Speaker 6: a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's
Speaker 6: number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight, I can report
Speaker 6: to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.
Speaker 6: Iran's key nuclear and Richmond facilities have been completely and
Speaker 6: totally obliterated. Rand the bully of the Middle East, must
Speaker 6: now make peace. If they do not, future attacks would
Speaker 6: be far.
Speaker 1: Greater and a lot easier.
Speaker 6: For forty years, Iran has been saying death to America,
Speaker 6: death to Israel. They have been killing our people, blowing
Speaker 6: off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs,
Speaker 6: that was their specialty. We lost over a thousand people,
Speaker 6: and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around
Speaker 6: the world have died as a direct result of their hate.
Speaker 6: In particular, so many were killed by their general Cassem SOLMANI.
Speaker 6: I decided a long time ago that I would not
Speaker 6: let this happen.
Speaker 1: It will not continue.
Speaker 6: I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.
Speaker 6: We worked as a team like perhaps no team has
Speaker 6: ever worked before, and we've gone a long way to
Speaker 6: erasing this horrible threat to Israel. I want to thank
Speaker 6: the Israeli military for the wonderful job they've done, and
Speaker 6: most important, I want to congratulate the great American patriots
Speaker 6: who flew those magnificent machines tonight, and all of the
Speaker 6: United States military on an operation the likes of which
Speaker 6: the world is not seen in many, many decades. Hopefully
Speaker 6: we will no longer need their services and this capacity.
Speaker 6: I hope that's so. I also want to congratulate the
Speaker 6: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Raisin Kane,
Speaker 6: spectacular general, and all of the brilliant military minds involved
Speaker 6: in this attack. With all of that being said, this
Speaker 6: cannot continue. There will be either peace or there will
Speaker 6: be tragedy for a ran far greater than we have
Speaker 6: witnessed over the last eight days. Remember, there are many
Speaker 6: targets left.
Speaker 1: The night's was the most.
Speaker 6: Difficult of them all by far, and perhaps the most lethal.
Speaker 6: But if peace does not come quickly, we will go
Speaker 6: after those other targets with precision, speed, and skill. Most
Speaker 6: of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes.
Speaker 6: There's no military in the world that could have done
Speaker 6: what we did tonight, not even close. There has never
Speaker 6: been a military that could do what took place just
Speaker 6: a little while ago. Tomorrow, General Kane, Secretary of Defense
Speaker 6: Pete Hegseth will have a press conference at eight am
Speaker 6: at the Pentagon, and I want to just thank everybody,
Speaker 6: and in particular God, I want to just say, we
Speaker 6: love you God, and we love our great military. Protect them.
Speaker 6: God bless the Middle East, God bless Israel, and God
Speaker 6: bless America.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: So that was President Trump yesterday at the Address to
Speaker 2: the Nation, detailing in explicit detail, of course, what the
Speaker 2: strikes on these three nuclear sites in Iran actually entailed,
Speaker 2: and just to just revise and kind of add some
Speaker 2: more detail to that, the strikes involved more than one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five aircraft. This was a massive operation,
Speaker 2: Operation Midnight Hammer is the name of it, including some
Speaker 2: B two bombers that actually served as decoys. That's according
Speaker 2: to US officials. Other B two bombers dropped more than
Speaker 2: a dozen massive bunker buster bombs on Fordau and n
Speaker 2: Tans those nuclear facilities, and there were Tomahawk missiles that
Speaker 2: struck Isfahan.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 2: Florida is called the most significant of those three sites.
Speaker 2: And I have more information to share with you about
Speaker 2: Florida and whether or not it actually was obliterated actually
Speaker 2: coming up, as well as audio from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
Speaker 2: and when we come back, we're going to hear directly
Speaker 2: from Iran's foreign minister about whether or not their facilities
Speaker 2: were obliterated. That word is being used, and the foreign
Speaker 2: minister definitely shed light on what Iran is aiming to
Speaker 2: do in retaliation, if anything, and some very very harsh
Speaker 2: thoughts on diplomacy and whether or not Iran is interested
Speaker 2: in diplomacy at this level now into this inclusion of
Speaker 2: the US in the aggression between Israel and Iran.
Speaker 3: So when we come back, we'll do all of that
Speaker 3: and more.
Speaker 2: We're covering what's happening in Iran, all this developing information,
Speaker 2: and we're closely monitoring what's going on in downtown LA
Speaker 2: with kfi's own Michael Monks, who's there for the setting
Speaker 2: up phase of the fifty fifty one anti war protest
Speaker 2: in Gloria Molina Parks. So we'll break in if anything
Speaker 2: should happen, and we'll get thoughts from Michael Monks on
Speaker 2: the other side of the break.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Hobbs here with you two, and we have Michael
Speaker 2: Monks on standby in downtown La.
Speaker 3: Monks, Are you there, I'm here.
Speaker 1: If you can hear me, I can hear you.
Speaker 2: It sounds a little louder behind you since the last
Speaker 2: time we checked in what's the news?
Speaker 3: What's the sitch?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm certainly not going to attempt to disparage the crowd.
Speaker 4: It is louder, but I don't know that the volume
Speaker 4: necessarily matches the size of the crowd. There are some
Speaker 4: loud speakers here and some chanting. There's some loud music
Speaker 4: going as well, but right now it's about a crowd
Speaker 4: of twenty twenty five people on the steps of La
Speaker 4: City Hall, repeating the chant you know, against war in Iran,
Speaker 4: repeating chants against President Trump. A lot of signage here
Speaker 4: against war. This seems to be the signature message here
Speaker 4: is that they don't want war with Iran. A lady
Speaker 4: holding an American flag upside gown traditional sign of distress.
Speaker 4: But otherwise this is a pretty small demonstration. And if
Speaker 4: this was organized as it appears by the same group
Speaker 4: who did the No Kings march, it looks like the
Speaker 4: rapid turnaround time is not effective enough in getting the crowd.
Speaker 3: Supposed to start at.
Speaker 4: Twelve o'clock go until about two o'clock. This is the
Speaker 4: same group that drew tens of thousands of people to
Speaker 4: this very spot, yeah, just a week ago. So right now,
Speaker 4: it doesn't look like as many people have come out
Speaker 4: for this very specific message against war with Iran.
Speaker 2: Now, let me ask you this, of the protests that
Speaker 2: you've attended, and there have been many in downtown LA
Speaker 2: in recent weeks, are you seeing kind of a slow
Speaker 2: starting of the crowd? Is this kind of typical or
Speaker 2: are you in fact saying this is a typical in
Speaker 2: comparison to what you've experienced previously.
Speaker 4: This one seems a bit atypical because even though the
Speaker 4: protests grow in size over the course of their lifespan,
Speaker 4: whether it's a couple hours, three hours, or they're broken
Speaker 4: up by the police, they tend to start a little
Speaker 4: bit larger than this one has. So right now, again,
Speaker 4: about twenty five people here in the steps of downtown LA.
Speaker 4: And if the event is only going to go until two,
Speaker 4: I'm not sure what kind of crowd they can expect. Now,
Speaker 4: this was a swift turnaround. We are, you know what,
Speaker 4: not even twenty four hours removed from President Trump's announcement
Speaker 4: that the US military has struck Iran nuclear sites, so
Speaker 4: this rapid response is not as rapid perhaps as they
Speaker 4: would like.
Speaker 3: It to be.
Speaker 4: We are expecting a different rally at around three o'clock
Speaker 4: outside the Federal building on Alameda Street, and that may
Speaker 4: have a variety of different messages, including against war with Iran,
Speaker 4: against you know, action against the Gaza and Palestine and Hamas,
Speaker 4: and also against the immigration enforcement. So we're keeping an
Speaker 4: eye on that as well. That's just a few blocks away,
Speaker 4: so we'll monitor that situation.
Speaker 2: Too, okay, And protests of that magnitude when they get
Speaker 2: to be into the hundreds, the thousands and tens of thousands,
Speaker 2: often the organizers set out to get permits, of course,
Speaker 2: to make sure that law enforcement is aware of boundaries,
Speaker 2: or that they're given bound and everything is kept as
Speaker 2: lawful and calm and peaceful as possible within the boundaries
Speaker 2: of law. When it comes to this organization, the same
Speaker 2: one that put on the No King's protests last week,
Speaker 2: for them to have such a quick turnaround, does that
Speaker 2: lead you to believe or think, surmise, hypothesize that perhaps
Speaker 2: they were planning another protests today for something else, and
Speaker 2: then it was changed, they pivoted to this anti war narrative.
Speaker 4: I think what I've seen on their social media is
Speaker 4: that they are expecting to have events on July four
Speaker 4: and July seventeen, so they are planning a little bit
Speaker 4: farther in advance. But do seem to want to keep
Speaker 4: a steady drum beat a large scale demonstrations against the
Speaker 4: Trump administration. They must like my shirt, I'm not sure
Speaker 4: of a Kafi mic flag. You are seeing a lot
Speaker 4: of people drive by and honk in support, but you're
Speaker 4: not seeing a lot of direct participation in this so
Speaker 4: support of honks. The traffic is moving through here, of course,
Speaker 4: because this isn't like some of the other more recent
Speaker 4: protests which are large and take over the streets, including
Speaker 4: last week's No King's protest put on by this very organization.
Speaker 4: I think law enforcement is I should say I know
Speaker 4: law enforcement is well aware that this is taking place.
Speaker 4: They're also well aware that something is possibly planned at
Speaker 4: three o'clock outside the Federal Building on Alameda Street. But
Speaker 4: you don't see any police officers here right now, no
Speaker 4: need for any crowd control, not expecting any flash bangs
Speaker 4: or anything like that, because this is just a small
Speaker 4: demonstration against potential war with Iran.
Speaker 2: Okay, so law enforcement presence seems to be pretty minimal
Speaker 2: right now. What does security look like? Is it just
Speaker 2: regular building security? What's going on with that?
Speaker 3: Don't see?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, there's one guy outside LA City Hall. Might
Speaker 4: be an ID officer. I think that is an LAPED officer,
Speaker 4: probably on the regular city hall beat on a Sunday.
Speaker 4: The building is typically closed and it is closed today,
Speaker 4: so I'm not sure if he has just been assigned
Speaker 4: for this protest or if he's on city hall duty
Speaker 4: on Sunday. But there's no need at this point for
Speaker 4: any large scale police presence. This is not a crew
Speaker 4: that looks like they want to cause any trouble. Just
Speaker 4: speak their minds, and right now it's just a series
Speaker 4: of chants, some homemade signs, peace not war, bombs, don't
Speaker 4: make peace, hashtag resist, no war with Iran. They're calling
Speaker 4: it the Big Beautiful War, and reference to Donald Trump's
Speaker 4: signature budget legislation, the Big Beautiful Bill, as he calls it.
Speaker 4: So it's a lot of that messaging. There are a
Speaker 4: lot of American flags here, though one is being held
Speaker 4: upside down, the traditional signal of distress.
Speaker 3: Okay, these folks.
Speaker 4: Just showing their version of patriotism and their message against
Speaker 4: potential war.
Speaker 2: You know, last news break we heard that airlines are
Speaker 2: encouraging travel for Fourth of July holiday, which is coming
Speaker 2: up rapidly. They want people to take to the skies,
Speaker 2: And I was thinking, I don't know if that's the
Speaker 2: right time right now. I don't know if I want
Speaker 2: to be on a plane. What about you, Michael Monks?
Speaker 2: Would you take a flight anywhere right now in this climate?
Speaker 4: Well, I don't want to suggest that you know, there
Speaker 4: are active terror threats on the airlines. I'm sure that
Speaker 4: we'd be alerted if if we need to be. You
Speaker 4: also never know in this day and age, where you're
Speaker 4: safe anywhere?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, the idea, the event, the
Speaker 2: idea fear mongering is rooted in fear. There's still fear.
Speaker 2: You know, are on the ground, there are are you
Speaker 2: hearing people talk about fear and being afraid of what
Speaker 2: could happen.
Speaker 4: Not so much in the way of any potential retaliation
Speaker 4: from Iran right now, this seems to be singularly focused
Speaker 4: against direct action against Iran. We've already as a country
Speaker 4: taken that last night per the President himself talking about
Speaker 4: how we've obliterated three key nuclear sites there. I guess
Speaker 4: technically that's not an all out war, but you know,
Speaker 4: there was an active conflict going on between Israel and Iran.
Speaker 4: The United States has now taken part in that. So
Speaker 4: there is height and awareness by this group of people
Speaker 4: that the U has at least inched closer to participating
Speaker 4: in what would be defined as war.
Speaker 3: Got it.
Speaker 2: So Michael will continue, of course, to stay up to
Speaker 2: speed on what's going on downtown. If there are any
Speaker 2: traffic hazards or road closures, please jump in and let
Speaker 2: us know. I know you are there on the ground
Speaker 2: in downtown LA awaiting what was supposed to be a
Speaker 2: twelve pm start for this anti war protest. Seems to
Speaker 2: be slowly starting, maybe gaining speed towards the maybe after one.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 2: We'll just continue to monitor that and of course see
Speaker 2: what happens in the three pm hour if they're starting
Speaker 2: to set up for that secondary protest as well.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Michael Monks, you got it, Tippany awesome.
Speaker 2: So what we're going to do before we go to
Speaker 2: break is I want you to hear one half of
Speaker 2: Iran's response. So we've been summarizing what the US strike
Speaker 2: in Iran on those three nuclear facilities entailed. But Iran
Speaker 2: has responded, and in fact, RAN's foreign minister had his
Speaker 2: own press conference today to detail the response that they
Speaker 2: say they are preparing. What that could possibly include, ideas
Speaker 2: about diplomacy and everything else. So let's hear one half
Speaker 2: of the audio. This is whether or not Iran it's
Speaker 2: interested in returning to diplomacy.
Speaker 5: What would be your response to that, because right now
Speaker 5: the US is technically involved in this conflict.
Speaker 3: Thank you well.
Speaker 7: I think it is irre irrelevant to ask iron to
Speaker 7: return to diplomacy because we were in the middle of diplomacy.
Speaker 7: We were in the middle of talks with the United
Speaker 7: States when Israelis will do it up and again we
Speaker 7: were in the middle of talks and negotiations with Europeans.
Speaker 7: Happened only two days ago in Geneva, when this time
Speaker 7: Americans decided to blow it up. So viver In diplomacy
Speaker 7: were attacked militarily. So it was not Iran but the
Speaker 7: US who betrayed the diplomacy. They betrayed negotiations.
Speaker 2: That's Iran's foreign minister speaking about ideas of diplomacy and
Speaker 2: whether or not the country is interested in returning to
Speaker 2: talks negotiations. When we come back, we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about the potential for retaliation by Iran after being hit
Speaker 2: in those in those missile strikes that may have obliterated
Speaker 2: three key nuclear facilities, including their big one in Foordoh.
Speaker 2: So we'll hear from Iranian's foreign minister about retaliation and
Speaker 2: whether or not we should be concerned.
Speaker 1: Right here, you're listening to kfi am six forty on demand.
Speaker 3: If he Hob's here with you.
Speaker 2: And we just played a clip from the Iranian foreign
Speaker 2: minister about their thoughts as a country, as a government
Speaker 2: on diplomacy, and this foreign minister accused Washington, accused our
Speaker 2: administration of crossing a quote very big red line. And
Speaker 2: in that clip we also heard a lot of skepticism
Speaker 2: about potential diplomacy. Now we've heard from the Iranian foreign minister,
Speaker 2: We've not yet heard from Supreme Leader Ayatola Ali Kamuine,
Speaker 2: but President Trump has warned that the US could absolutely
Speaker 2: launch more attacks if Iran does not make peace. What
Speaker 2: that leads is, what that leads to are quite a
Speaker 2: few questions about retaliation. I am not a war officionado.
Speaker 2: Most people may enjoy the movies or the entertainment of
Speaker 2: war when it comes to being removed from it as
Speaker 2: participants directly in it. Many of us do not know
Speaker 2: the inner workings of what it takes to involve a
Speaker 2: country in wartime activities. But the main question I imagine
Speaker 2: on most people's minds is what retaliation could potentially look like.
Speaker 3: And we do have an.
Speaker 2: Idea of what retaliation could involve from the Iranian foreign
Speaker 2: minister who spoke during this press conference today.
Speaker 3: Let's hear that clip. What are the options?
Speaker 5: Are you going to retaliate at a US basis in
Speaker 5: the region or are you going to considering to close
Speaker 5: the strait of FIRMUS? And one more question as well,
Speaker 5: two times at your while you are at your at
Speaker 5: the table of negotiation, Israel and US attacked your soils.
Speaker 5: So do you still have the same level of trust
Speaker 5: to Western diplomacy?
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 7: There are a variety of options available to us, and
Speaker 7: that's it. We never trusted Western country is when we
Speaker 7: negotiated them, and there are now even more reasons why
Speaker 7: we shouldn't trust them at all. Of course, the way
Speaker 7: for diplomacy should we always remain open. But as I said,
Speaker 7: we are not in the situation right now to decide
Speaker 7: how to engage in diplomacy once again and with whom.
Speaker 7: So let's wait for our response first, and when the
Speaker 7: aggression is ended, we decide how to engage in diplomacy
Speaker 7: once again.
Speaker 2: So the Iranian Foreign Prime Minister said they have a
Speaker 2: variety of options available to them in terms of retaliation.
Speaker 2: None of us know what that is specifically, but it
Speaker 2: doesn't sound very good. A variety of options available in
Speaker 2: terms of retaliation. And when asked if Iran has ever
Speaker 2: trusted Western diplomacy, the Foreign Prime Minister said no, that
Speaker 2: they've in fact never trusted Western diplomacy. So that gives
Speaker 2: us a bit more insight into what these next few days, weeks,
Speaker 2: even months could potentially entail. Let me tell you a
Speaker 2: bit about these three nuclear facilities that were hit in
Speaker 2: Operation Midnight Hammer. This again, where the three These are
Speaker 2: the three key nuclear facilities in Iran.
Speaker 3: The first one FOURDOH.
Speaker 2: You're hearing quite a bit of information about FOURDOH. That
Speaker 2: is the fuel enrichment plant. It's subterranean, built inside of
Speaker 2: a mountain, deep inside of a mountain to survive what
Speaker 2: they call bunker buster attacks like last night's attack, and
Speaker 2: this site, Florido, is heavily fortified. It's in the northern
Speaker 2: part of Iran. The second site, Natan's, is a nuclear facility.
Speaker 3: Of course, it's.
Speaker 2: Iran's main uranium enriched facility in central Iran. So we
Speaker 2: have a facility in the north, a facility in the center,
Speaker 2: and then lastly it's Fahan, which is a nuclear technology center.
Speaker 2: It's a key conversion and research facility to the south,
Speaker 2: which means that those one hundred and twenty five plus
Speaker 2: aircraft hit sites all along the Iranian region, from the
Speaker 2: north to the center part of the country and into
Speaker 2: the south. Now there's conflict about whether or not the
Speaker 2: sites were in fact obliterated. More information is still coming
Speaker 2: out about that. Satellite images do show some damage from
Speaker 2: the strikes on the Fordh nuclear site, but there are
Speaker 2: officials within the Iranian government that are saying, no, not
Speaker 2: really that much damage. Well, I'll have more information about that,
Speaker 2: but before we do, let's hear from Defense Secretary Pete
Speaker 2: heg Seth, who had his own press conference this morning
Speaker 2: reviewing some of the effects of last night's strike.
Speaker 8: Taran is certainly calculating the reality that planes flew from
Speaker 8: the middle of America and Missouri overnight completely undetected over
Speaker 8: three of their most highly sensitive sites, and we were
Speaker 8: able to.
Speaker 3: Destroy nuclear capabilities.
Speaker 8: And our boys in those bombers are on their way
Speaker 8: home right now. We believe that'll have a clear psychological
Speaker 8: impact on how they view the future, and we certainly
Speaker 8: hope they take the path of negotiated peace.
Speaker 2: So Pete hag Seth there defend. Secretary Pete hagg Seth
Speaker 2: summarized more or less what happened last night and the
Speaker 2: potential effects. He went on to continue to give more information.
Speaker 3: Go for it, Robin.
Speaker 8: It was an incredible and overwhelming success. The order we
Speaker 8: received from our commander in chief was focused, it was powerful,
Speaker 8: and it was clear we devastated the Iranian nuclear program.
Speaker 8: But it's worth noting the operation did not target Iranian
Speaker 8: troops of the Iranian people. For the entirety of his
Speaker 8: time in office, President Trump has consistently stated for over
Speaker 8: ten years that Iran must not get a nuclear weapon
Speaker 8: full stop. Thanks to President Trump's bold and visionary leadership
Speaker 8: and his commitment to peace through strength, Iran's nuclear ambitions
Speaker 8: have been obliterated. Many presidents have dreamed of delivering the
Speaker 8: final blow to Iran's nuclear program, and none could until
Speaker 8: President Trump. The operation President Trump planned was bold and
Speaker 8: it was brilliant, showing the world that American deterrence is back.
Speaker 1: When this president speaks.
Speaker 8: The world should listen, and the US military we can
Speaker 8: back it up. The most powerful military the world has
Speaker 8: ever known. No other country on planet Earth could have
Speaker 8: conducted the operation that the Chairman is going to outline
Speaker 8: this morning, not even close.
Speaker 2: So that's Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth saying American deterren is back.
Speaker 2: American deterrence is back. He also praised President Trump's decision
Speaker 2: to take out those three key nuclear facilities, calling it
Speaker 2: an incredible and overwhelming success. He also made sure to
Speaker 2: point out that that strike did not target Iranian troops
Speaker 2: or the Iranian people. When we come back, we're going
Speaker 2: to talk about the implications that this strike has on California.
Speaker 2: Let's take a local look at our state, our city,
Speaker 2: how our government as far as Governor Newsom and Mayor
Speaker 2: Karen Bass are responding to this strike with warnings for
Speaker 2: our area of the country.
Speaker 3: All of that and a lot more.
Speaker 2: As we continue to monitor this news out of Iran
Speaker 2: and any news out of downtown LA with Michael Monks,
Speaker 2: who's there for the anti war protest which is just
Speaker 2: starting to kick off.
Speaker 3: That and more
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