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Speaker 2: The unmatched capabilities and global reach of the United States military,
Speaker 2: as the President clearly said last night, no other military
Speaker 2: in the world could have done this, and that means.
Speaker 1: The while we knew that, and that's maybe one reason
Speaker 1: why you saw a scaled back military parade, because we
Speaker 1: were about to put on the real parade over the weekend.
Speaker 3: We knew this was happening. We knew that only we
Speaker 3: could do it.
Speaker 1: We knew That's why Israel was sidling up to Trump
Speaker 1: in in such a way for the past months and
Speaker 1: or years.
Speaker 3: This was the goal.
Speaker 1: You know, you look back at what happened on October seventh,
Speaker 1: and you know, you realize that that was essentially a
Speaker 1: nine eleven esque see change in the global power balance
Speaker 1: shift because there was going to be.
Speaker 4: Hama, specifically funded by Iran to a degree, had just
Speaker 4: signed its own death one exactly.
Speaker 1: And now why they didn't do the math on the
Speaker 1: long game, I don't know. It makes you wonder even
Speaker 1: more so in the same questions we're asked with nine
Speaker 1: to eleven right. And I hate to be one of
Speaker 1: those crazy conspiracy theorists people, but you just wonder, you know,
Speaker 1: this is what Israel has wanted for a very long
Speaker 1: time to.
Speaker 4: Knock out, well not just Israel, other places around sure,
Speaker 4: you know the Middle East have shuddered at the idea
Speaker 4: of Iran having a nuclear weapon. For example, I heard
Speaker 4: this interview today former ambassador Kurt Volker, ambassador to NADO.
Speaker 4: He said, Listen, you're not going to see a lot
Speaker 4: of headlines like Saudi Arabia's cheering patting anybody on the back,
Speaker 4: but they're very happy that Iran was knocked down a
Speaker 4: couple of pegs over the weekend.
Speaker 5: Whether it's Israel, whether it's Saudi Arabia, whether it's the UAE.
Speaker 5: Having Iran in a much weaker position is something that
Speaker 5: they're going to be happy about. There's still some risk
Speaker 5: right now, as Israel and Iran will continue to fight,
Speaker 5: but Iran is in a much much weaker position, and
Speaker 5: I think they're happy about that, and I think they're
Speaker 5: looking for an opportunity down the road to actually begin
Speaker 5: the process of renewing their effort to normalize relations with Israel.
Speaker 4: I will say quickly that there is something going on
Speaker 4: in the Middle East right now. The Qatari government has
Speaker 4: completely shut down their airspace, and Katar happens to be
Speaker 4: I want to get the terminology right because I wrote
Speaker 4: it down. Qatar is home to the largest US military
Speaker 4: base currently in the Middle East, l Udid Air Base.
Speaker 4: About eight thousand Americans live there, according to the According
Speaker 4: to the State Department, we know there are forty plus
Speaker 4: thousand within range of an Iranian attack if they decide
Speaker 4: to try to mount something against US. And there are
Speaker 4: some sources who had suggested that Katar specifically may be
Speaker 4: that target because of that air base, the American airbase
Speaker 4: that is there.
Speaker 6: So that's something that's developed within the last half an hour.
Speaker 1: So well, we may be chest thumping and taking a
Speaker 1: victory lap Iran does not seem to be striking a
Speaker 1: conciliatory tone. Yesterday, the Foreign Minister vowed to respond, said
Speaker 1: that Trump administration understands only the language of threat and force.
Speaker 1: The Iranian regime is one that rules by fear. Has
Speaker 1: been so well documented throughout our lifetimes, and so the
Speaker 1: only question left on the table is do they have
Speaker 1: anything to back that up with. I don't think they do.
Speaker 1: I think they're the weakest they've been again in a
Speaker 1: very long time. I don't know my lifetime, but problems
Speaker 1: I've been paying attention well.
Speaker 4: And I think that has prompted. You know, yesterday President
Speaker 4: Trump on truth Social talked about or hinted at maybe
Speaker 4: regime change. And we're not supposed to call for it,
Speaker 4: like the.
Speaker 6: That's not the goal.
Speaker 4: Each country's supposed to make that decision for themselves. We're
Speaker 4: not supposed to fomented. But at the same time, Caroline
Speaker 4: Levitt outside the White House today was saying, yeah, listen,
Speaker 4: it's not up tossed to really make that decision. But
Speaker 4: she's like, if you guys want to, now might be
Speaker 4: a great time.
Speaker 7: The President's posture and our military posture has not changed.
Speaker 7: The President was just simply raising a question that I
Speaker 7: think many people around the world are asking. If there
Speaker 7: was Iranian regime refuses to give up their nuclear program
Speaker 7: or engage in talks. We just took out their nuclear
Speaker 7: program on Saturday night, as you all know. But if
Speaker 7: they refuse to engage in diplomacy moving forward, why shouldn't
Speaker 7: the Iranian people rise up against this brutal terrorist regime?
Speaker 6: Listen.
Speaker 4: If I'm in the White House Press Office, I pipe
Speaker 4: in those birds sounds every single time, every single time,
Speaker 4: even if there's no birds.
Speaker 1: I say every press conference ever again, no matter where
Speaker 1: it is, the birds just make everything feel so much
Speaker 1: more calm down.
Speaker 6: Okay, I have to bow down to you.
Speaker 4: Because you called this one hundred percent that this was
Speaker 4: going to happen. I was still I was still not
Speaker 4: sure that it was going to happen. And I completely
Speaker 4: fell for the ruse that they had put out there
Speaker 4: for everybody, and I gobbled it up. If I was
Speaker 4: a fish, I would be the first fish to be
Speaker 4: taught the two weeks ruse, the two weeks the oh
Speaker 4: look there's B two's flying to Guam. Wait a minute,
Speaker 4: that seems like a It seems like a really long
Speaker 4: way to go around. Couldn't you go the other way?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 4: Yes they could, and they did because I'm a dummy.
Speaker 3: Well, when we.
Speaker 1: Talked about their ability to fly their five hours non
Speaker 1: stop and the B twos were on the move, I
Speaker 1: was like, let's go, oh, no, it's free positioning.
Speaker 3: I was like, no, it's not.
Speaker 4: Well, the ones and the ones that we knew of, Yeah,
Speaker 4: well we'll talk about the RUS when we come back,
Speaker 4: because it's it's pretty I feel stupid.
Speaker 3: Dud, don't feel stupid. Don't feel stupid.
Speaker 1: But I'm hoping that I just know what I know
Speaker 1: about people and what I know about Trump. This was
Speaker 1: way too good for him to pass up. And I
Speaker 1: also know because I'm the same way. He has a
Speaker 1: lack of patience. He wants to be badass, and he
Speaker 1: wants to be badass yesterday, and I understand that mentality.
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Speaker 4: he eventually died at UCLA Medical Center. But they are
Speaker 4: setting up outside the medical center for a very grave
Speaker 4: scene which is the escort of the body from the
Speaker 4: hospital we assumed to the coroner's office. Hundreds of police officers, firefighters,
Speaker 4: first responders of all types have lined that area.
Speaker 6: So it's a story that we'll talk more about.
Speaker 4: We'll get into the ruse how misdirection was used to
Speaker 4: throw me off and everybody else, about what exactly was
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Speaker 1: So it would be wild if there was a massive
Speaker 1: change in Iran. The sun of the last us Backshaw,
Speaker 1: who's been in exile for forty years, is calling for this, saying,
Speaker 1: do not repeat the mistakes of the past, do not
Speaker 1: throw this regime a lifeline. The destruction of the regime's
Speaker 1: nuclear facilities alone will not deliver pieces names Raisa Paalvavi
Speaker 1: and he's the exiled son of that toppled Shaw, and
Speaker 1: he says, you're right to be concerned about stopping nuclear
Speaker 1: weapons and securing regional stability, but only a democratic transition
Speaker 1: in Iran can ensure those goals are achieved and are lasting.
Speaker 1: He's calling for a return to the way things were
Speaker 1: when we back to his father back in the seventy
Speaker 1: eight seventy nine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that this is and we've seen it over and
Speaker 4: over again. You use the term in the first segment
Speaker 4: that Iran is at its weakest. The rulers in Iran
Speaker 4: are now at their weakest point that that we've ever seen,
Speaker 4: probably since nineteen seventy nine. Okay, so late last week,
Speaker 4: Caroline Levitt, White House spokesperson, said this, I.
Speaker 7: Have a message directly from the President, and I quote
Speaker 7: based on the fact that there's a substantial chance of
Speaker 7: negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran
Speaker 7: in the near future. I will make my decision whether
Speaker 7: or not to go within the next two weeks.
Speaker 6: Wait a minute, two weeks.
Speaker 4: That was just Friday that you said that, and then
Speaker 4: about twenty four hours later, we're dropping big ass bombs
Speaker 4: on this place. Okay, There's a couple of things that
Speaker 4: were at play in all of this. Number one is
Speaker 4: just misdirection is a good idea. If you're about to
Speaker 4: put American lives at risk, you want to try to
Speaker 4: create you want to keep the sense of surprise, and
Speaker 4: that's definitely what was done with that two weeks statement.
Speaker 4: The other thing was headfake, decoy, whatever you want to
Speaker 4: call it. A bunch of B two bombers take off
Speaker 4: from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, turn on their
Speaker 4: transponders so that everybody who's got a flight aware account
Speaker 4: can see where they're going, and they headed this way.
Speaker 4: They came out over California and flew towards Guam, headed
Speaker 4: west over the Pacific, when a bunch of other B
Speaker 4: two bombers, seven of them specifically, went.
Speaker 6: The other way, headed east Tehran.
Speaker 4: Now, all of that is, all of that was going
Speaker 4: on there was an interesting aspect of military leadership that
Speaker 4: was a little bit concerned. Remember before Caroline Leavitt read
Speaker 4: that statement about two weeks, we'll make a decision in
Speaker 4: two weeks, President Trump had taken to truth social to
Speaker 4: tell everybody to evacuate from Tehran. Remember that there was
Speaker 4: some concern down at Sentcom that he was telegraphing the
Speaker 4: next move, which is way, hold u second, don't tell
Speaker 4: everybody that we're coming. That's not going to that's not
Speaker 4: going to help us keep the element of surprise. So
Speaker 4: then they come up with the I'll decide in two
Speaker 4: weeks kind of thing. The biggest threat they had to
Speaker 4: operational security was going to be the open source intelligence
Speaker 4: that was available. So they were able to manipulate that
Speaker 4: open source intelligence, let everybody believe that they were going
Speaker 4: the long way around the barn, when in fact, knock, knock, knock,
Speaker 4: here they come. Everything's done. The Israelis were able to
Speaker 4: go in and basically knock out every single piece of
Speaker 4: anti aircraft defense that Iran had. Major Jack Keen, we've
Speaker 4: talked about before, go ahead, Uh.
Speaker 6: Go on, I was gonna say.
Speaker 4: Major Jack Keen explains why on Saturday night, early Sunday morning,
Speaker 4: depending where you were when it happened, not a shot
Speaker 4: was fired at dozens of airplanes that made their way
Speaker 4: into Iranian airspace.
Speaker 9: The Israelis knocked out the advanced S three hundred and
Speaker 9: S four hundreds from Russia, and Russia does very good
Speaker 9: in missile defense systems on a parallel to us, and
Speaker 9: they took care of that in October, and then they
Speaker 9: came back as a result of the initial stage of
Speaker 9: the operation. Nagel about business the same way we do.
Speaker 9: The first thing we knew we're going to deal with
Speaker 9: a country, a nation state is to bring down their
Speaker 9: air defense systems. We don't bring anything else in until
Speaker 9: we've done that. They took down the remaining seventy air
Speaker 9: defense batteries that existed, all of them. That is why
Speaker 9: no shot was fired. Now that the B twos, they
Speaker 9: obviously are stealth bombers, and we had stealth fighters participating
Speaker 9: in that, and they would likely not be detected in
Speaker 9: any event. But what the Israelis did deserve huge amount
Speaker 9: of credit.
Speaker 1: Okay, I want to talk about the specifics you mentioned.
Speaker 1: You had the seven B two Spirit bombers flew east
Speaker 1: from Missouri to Iran.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the group of B twos flying west.
Speaker 1: Like I said, even when I saw that the b
Speaker 1: twos were flying west, I thought they were making the
Speaker 1: whole grand trip because like I just didn't believe that, Like,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna fly b.
Speaker 3: Twos to the West for reap?
Speaker 5: Is that?
Speaker 3: Like, what are you talking about anyway?
Speaker 6: Normal training exercise.
Speaker 1: We knew it was a go. We knew it was
Speaker 1: a go when we saw the movement of the B twos.
Speaker 1: I do was a go when we saw the movement
Speaker 1: of the B twos. But Operation Midnight Hammer came with
Speaker 1: not just the payloads, but it came with the support aircraft,
Speaker 1: and it came also with the submarine launching the cruise missile.
Speaker 1: So want to get into all that because it's just
Speaker 1: fascinating to hear about the specifics and the logistics of wargames.
Speaker 1: And there's been a name that has kind of emerged
Speaker 1: as the architect in its General Dan Kine, who is
Speaker 1: a bad ass.
Speaker 4: He was the guy who explained I mean, he was
Speaker 4: reiterating what the President had said.
Speaker 2: As the President clearly said last night, no other military
Speaker 2: in the world could have done this.
Speaker 1: So Dan Cain did a briefing with Pete Haigseth, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, has emerged very strongly from Signalgate, was
Speaker 1: that even the name of it, yes, okay, and didn't
Speaker 1: reveal the plans.
Speaker 6: Oh no, So that's.
Speaker 1: Good, exactly exactly. We'll talk about the specifics and we
Speaker 1: come back.
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Speaker 1: So we are talking about all the details about the
Speaker 1: operation to bomb three nuclear sites in Iran, the Chairman
Speaker 1: of the Joint Chiefs of Staff saying it was the
Speaker 1: largest B two operational strike in US history, inflicting extremely
Speaker 1: severe damage and destructions to the targets. When after the
Speaker 1: nuclear sites, today you're seeing Israel go after the sites
Speaker 1: that mean something to the theocracy that is Iran. But
Speaker 1: we mentioned General dan Kin before the break, the Chairman
Speaker 1: of the Joint Chiefs of Staff saying that this was
Speaker 1: a highly classified mission. Even if we knew was happening,
Speaker 1: very few people in Washington knew the timing or the
Speaker 1: nature of this plan.
Speaker 4: Which is also interesting because we've seen a lot of
Speaker 4: members of Congress come out and say we weren't even
Speaker 4: briefed on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're not asking your permission, which
Speaker 1: we don't do anymore.
Speaker 3: We're just going to go for it.
Speaker 1: Why the hell would we brief Why would you waste
Speaker 1: time briefing a member of Congress if you weren't asking
Speaker 1: them for the rubber stamp?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and listen, the War Powers Resolution does give the
Speaker 4: president a lot of leeway when it comes to that.
Speaker 4: I talked about it yesterday when it came in, and
Speaker 4: the irony, No.
Speaker 6: Is irony the right word.
Speaker 4: The hypocrisy, I'll just say that, the hypocrisy of certain
Speaker 4: politicians coming out and saying, I can't believe this president
Speaker 4: didn't come to Congress for permission, despite the fact that
Speaker 4: every president going back to Reagan has done something very
Speaker 4: similar in some capacity.
Speaker 1: Operation Midnight Hammer as it's called, of course, Oh my God,
Speaker 1: included seven B two Spirit bombers of lou East from
Speaker 1: Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri to Iran.
Speaker 3: We mentioned the group of B two's that went. Yes.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, that eighteen hour flight east by the bombers would
Speaker 1: draw payload on Iran. It required multiple inflight refuelings as
Speaker 1: the planes crashed across the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. The
Speaker 1: bombers would meet up with US fighter jets and support
Speaker 1: aircraft once over land in the Middle East. We're talking complex,
Speaker 1: tightly timed maneuvers. When you see the air shows right
Speaker 1: in Huntington and the way that they are able to
Speaker 1: move so tightly, and how they're able to maneuver, the choreography,
Speaker 1: just the flight feel, the whole math of the entire situation.
Speaker 1: This is what they trained for and it came off.
Speaker 3: Without a hitch.
Speaker 6: And you mentioned the timing as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they did twelve of those mop bombs on four
Speaker 4: to oh, they did two on Natans and then the
Speaker 4: rest the thirty Tamahawk missiles hit Ishfahn and Dan Kane again,
Speaker 4: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, explained that those
Speaker 4: Tomahawk missiles were you know, I think it was about
Speaker 4: three hundre miles away in a submarine. Those were launched
Speaker 4: before any of the bombs started dropping, so that all
Speaker 4: of this thing would happen in a very very tight window.
Speaker 2: Just prior to the strike package entering Iran, a US
Speaker 2: submarine in the Central Command Area of responsibility launched more
Speaker 2: than two dozen Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles against key
Speaker 2: surface infrastructure targets.
Speaker 4: At s Fahind and listen, I know that the geography
Speaker 4: of those three different sites is relatively spaced out, but
Speaker 4: could you imagine that the twenty minutes or twenty five
Speaker 4: minutes of ever loving sheer hell that existed in those
Speaker 4: spaces in that very very small amount of time.
Speaker 1: Well, and just the pure adrenaline of the people carrying
Speaker 1: out this mission, he said, Iron's fighters did not fly
Speaker 1: Aron's surface to air missile systems did not see us
Speaker 1: throughout that mission at those three sites. We retained the
Speaker 1: element of surprise. More than one hundred and twenty five
Speaker 1: US aircraft participated in this mission.
Speaker 4: All told, there was a moment yesterday as well when
Speaker 4: the first of those B two bombers came back and
Speaker 4: landed at Whiteman Air Force Base. And there's a it's
Speaker 4: a sense of it's a sense of awe when you
Speaker 4: think about the thirty seven and a half hours I
Speaker 4: think is at the official time, the thirty seven and
Speaker 4: a half hours that pilot and copilot are sitting in
Speaker 4: that pretty cramped cockpit.
Speaker 6: This is I mean, this is this is it.
Speaker 4: This is exactly why that bomb was developed, was specifically
Speaker 4: to go after hardened underground Iranian nuclear facilities twenty plus
Speaker 4: years ago when they started developing this thing.
Speaker 6: This was the mission.
Speaker 4: They had in mind specifically, and it was finally able
Speaker 4: to be played out over over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Apparently there was a final phone call from Steve Whitcoff,
Speaker 1: special envoy to the Middle East, which played a major role,
Speaker 1: told Trump in the weeks leading up to the strike,
Speaker 1: that the Iranians not serious at all about a nuclear
Speaker 1: deal and they haven't been. There were a lot of
Speaker 1: Trump tweets over the weekend unearthed about how he was
Speaker 1: calling out Obama back in twenty twelve, twenty thirteen. Oh,
Speaker 1: I bet he's going to go after Iran to appear strong. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's got to do this.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 1: They gave Iran a lot of breathing room Biden did,
Speaker 1: Obama did.
Speaker 3: Trump did.
Speaker 1: And now that breathing room window has closed and Iran
Speaker 1: drug their heels way too much. They thought they were
Speaker 1: getting away with this, and it was the wrong place
Speaker 1: and time with this president at this moment. With what
Speaker 1: happened on October seventh, all the arrows pointed to now
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 4: That was the phone call that was picked up. There
Speaker 4: was one that was not picked up. The New York
Speaker 4: host was reporting yesterday that Trump tried to call the
Speaker 4: Ayatola literally tried to call the Ayatola before the attack
Speaker 4: to say basically, this is your absolute last chance. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and he never picked up. I don't listen to.
Speaker 3: You have like twelve hours or something like that.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Never, He wasn't able to get a hold of the
Speaker 4: Iyatola because the Iatola is sitting in a cave somewhere
Speaker 4: being guarded by thirty of his best sons.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Do you think they still.
Speaker 1: Hide in caves or was that a narrative that we
Speaker 1: were fed during you know, the post nine to eleven
Speaker 1: world where everyone's hiding in caves.
Speaker 4: He's in a bunker somewhere. I don't know a cave bunker.
Speaker 4: You know, depends on the air lashing unit. Okay, So
Speaker 4: here's the other question. Battle damage assessments take time. What
Speaker 4: do we know about exactly what is left?
Speaker 3: We don't know.
Speaker 1: We don't know the full story about how much damage
Speaker 1: was carried.
Speaker 6: Out, and where is the uranium?
Speaker 3: And where do we go?
Speaker 1: We've been put on a worldwide caution alert putin by
Speaker 1: the way, what does he think about all this and
Speaker 1: what has he said.
Speaker 3: We've got that for you as well.
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Speaker 4: There have been explosions heard in Cotter. Again, I mentioned
Speaker 4: that the largest American military base in the Middle East
Speaker 4: is the Aludad air Base. They're in Cotter, about eight
Speaker 4: thousand citizens. Apparently Americans are there. The most of the equipment,
Speaker 4: at least the airplanes and other things that were not
Speaker 4: in hangars had been moved out of that area. But
Speaker 4: there are reports of some explosions in the area. We're
Speaker 4: not sure specifically if it was at the air base
Speaker 4: or not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they did close their airspace and anticipation of this
Speaker 1: as well. And like I mentioned earlier, Israel has expanded
Speaker 1: its war to include the targets associated with the struggling regime.
Speaker 1: The striking the gate of the Tehran prison notorious for
Speaker 1: holding political activists. They hit the headquarters of a military
Speaker 1: for the force there that suppressed recent protests. So they
Speaker 1: are going after it seems like full full steam ahead
Speaker 1: for pushing for this resime. Regime change is a completely
Speaker 1: different looking Aroun, both quite.
Speaker 3: Literally and symbolically.
Speaker 4: So we know that we got some of the first
Speaker 4: satellite images to show the aftermath of the strikes on
Speaker 4: these three nuclear sites that are essential to Iran's nuclear
Speaker 4: program and the To be honest, it's kind of hard
Speaker 4: to figure from satellite images how damaged they would be. Obviously,
Speaker 4: they're underground, and that's the uh, that's the going to
Speaker 4: be the needle in the haystack figuring out what's going
Speaker 4: on below ground. The post strike satellite pictures, at least
Speaker 4: at FOURD do oh, one of the most important ones
Speaker 4: shows six tiny well from space, six tiny little holes.
Speaker 4: We know that there were twelve of those mop bombs
Speaker 4: dropped on FOURD DOH and the way I was hearing
Speaker 4: it yesterday, they were exact enough with their targeting that
Speaker 4: once the hole was punched by one of those mops,
Speaker 4: a second one went straight down that same shoot. That's
Speaker 4: pretty amazing. The other question is now, of course, President
Speaker 4: Trump said that it was complete obliteration. I'm not sure
Speaker 4: the exact term he used, but there's no way he
Speaker 4: could possibly know that just yet. Mike Lawler, Congressman out
Speaker 4: of New York Republican, was in favor of these strikes.
Speaker 4: He was asked about, Well, okay, the president says, they
Speaker 4: were obliterated.
Speaker 10: How do we know they were going to continue to
Speaker 10: find out more information in the days ahead, And obviously
Speaker 10: the intelligence is critical, but eliminating these nuclear facilities is
Speaker 10: critical in terms of preventing Iran long term from being
Speaker 10: able to have a nuclear weapon. Obviously, if they moved
Speaker 10: in rich uranium, that is something that we are going
Speaker 10: to have to evaluate and address.
Speaker 4: But so despite the claims of a complete, fully obliteration
Speaker 4: of these nuclear phacites, the extent of the damage won't
Speaker 4: be known for days, possibly even weeks.
Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin, by the bye says that extra regional powers
Speaker 1: are being drawn into this conflict. Now what does that mean. Well,
Speaker 1: Russia has bought weapons from Iran. They signed a twenty
Speaker 1: year strategic partnership plan earlier this year. It does not
Speaker 1: contain a clause that addresses mutual defense. However, Vladimir Putin's
Speaker 1: saying today, all this brings the world to a very
Speaker 1: dangerous line. They haven't been that closely tied in bed together.
Speaker 1: Iran has not been impressed with Russia's support so far,
Speaker 1: according to sources and the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey ragdabob.
Speaker 6: Nailed it.
Speaker 1: Asked if Iran had requested military help, he was quoted
Speaker 1: as saying, we interact with Iran in many areas. It
Speaker 1: is clear that it would be irresponsible for me to
Speaker 1: disclose the content of the contacts they are being conducted,
Speaker 1: including today, given all the circumstances.
Speaker 3: So he basically said nothing.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, like, Iran is in a very weak position,
Speaker 1: so finds Russia. Russia is not in a strong position.
Speaker 1: They are tapped out after this lasting conflict with Ukraine.
Speaker 1: They got nothing to give, They got nothing to give.
Speaker 1: So you're looking at the most weakened Russia and Iran
Speaker 1: that we have seen of they're kind of left tweedling
Speaker 1: their thumbs.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Dimitri Medvedev, who is now a lieutenant to Vladimir Putin,
Speaker 4: was once the president. He said, other states now are
Speaker 4: basically champing at the bit to give Iran nuclear weapons.
Speaker 4: Who I don't know who he's talking about, but he
Speaker 4: seems to think that there will be others that will
Speaker 4: line up and gladly hand over a nuclear weapon to Iran.
Speaker 4: That seems pretty highly unlikely.
Speaker 1: Even I mean, at this point, well I'm not a
Speaker 1: nuclear scientist, but at this point, even if you handed
Speaker 1: him the weapon, they wouldn't even have what it takes
Speaker 1: to to use it.
Speaker 4: Well, then it becomes the backpack dirty bomb kind of thing.
Speaker 1: As how they would use it and what are you
Speaker 1: going to do with that? Right, that's going to be nothing,
Speaker 1: That's going to be a tear drop in an ocean.
Speaker 4: Well, there is there is a concern. No one knows
Speaker 4: where the eight hundred and eighty pounds of uranium is.
Speaker 6: We'll talk about that when we come back to Gary
Speaker 6: and Shannon.
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