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Speaker 1: Top Ink Club Park. Good evening, I'm your host, See

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Your Fortune and you are now tuned in the Top

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Ink Club podcast. And tonight on Top Ink World News,

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we actually got Israeli's ambassador to the United States, Michael Wright,

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giving us an update on the attacks with Iran. Israeli,

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let's get.

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Speaker 2: Into this act. We are joined now in studio by

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the Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Michael Lyder. Good morning, Ambassador,

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give us the latest on last night's attack. Missiles seem

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to be getting through. The Iranians claim they have a

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maneuverable missile that's harder to detect.

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Speaker 3: The Guardians have a large arsenal of ballistic missiles. We

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have some good defense systems anti missile defense systems, but

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they're not hermetically sealing the skies, so there's about ten

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to fifteen percent of these ballistic missiles that get through.

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We sustained significant attacks last night. We have over ten

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fatalities and hundreds wounded.

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Speaker 2: And Prime Minister Netanyah, who said what they have done

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to Iran so far is nothing compared to what is coming.

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Tell us what you can about that. And is Iran's

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supreme leader off the target list.

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Speaker 3: I think it's fair to say that nobody who's threatening

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the destruction of Israel should be off the target list,

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but we're not going to discuss specific individuals online. The

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idea is to neutralize and terminate the Iranian intention of

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destroying Israel through nuclear weapons and through ballistic missiles, and

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anybody who gets to the way of that or who

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is actually advancing that cause of destroying Israel is obviously

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somebody we're gonna have to deal with.

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Speaker 2: That's a very big list. Obviously, you hit some generals,

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you hit nuclear scientists.

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Speaker 3: Well, we hit the top of the line in terms

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of the generals, the RGC and the army. They're in

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a bit of chaos now there is a breakdown the

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chain of command.

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Speaker 2: But we have more coming.

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Speaker 3: And do you.

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Speaker 2: Believe these strikes have significantly set back the nuclear program?

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That was the reason you went after Iran. Has the

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nuclear program been set back? There are those who are

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skeptical that it has not, including former Israeli Prime Minister

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a who Barak. He said Israel cannot delay Iran's nuclear

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program by a significant time period.

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Speaker 3: Well, he was prime minister many years ago for a

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short time. I don't think he's privy today today Intel

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that we have. Yes, we've set them back dramatically, but

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not enough. And that's why this series of strikes is

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not going to end today or tomorrow, but only at

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a period of time which may take weeks, when we

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are absolutely certain that the nuclear infrastructure with the intention

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of of weaponizing and threatening Israel is terminated.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about four Dough. It's deepened the mountain side.

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There are those who do not believe you can destroy

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four Dough without US help, and those bunk or busting bombs.

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Is it possible without us help?

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Speaker 3: The help that we've asked from the United States is

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confined to defensive posture. We're very, very thankful to President

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Trump and the Administration for the FAD missile anti Missile

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Defense System, for the AEGEUS Missile Defense System. But it's

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only in a defensive posture. We have a number of

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contingencies which will enable us to deal with four do

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not everything is a matter of you know, taking to

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the skies and bombing from Afar. But you're certain, we're certain,

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we're certain that we can set back the nuclear weapons

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system development with in Iran for a very very long time.

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Speaker 2: How do you avoid this war escalating? The President saying

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overnight that if Iran hits the US assets, they will

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feel full force of the US military. How do you contain.

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Speaker 3: This war, Martha. The objective is not to contain the war.

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The objective is to win the war. Looked, eighty years ago,

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we had a little man with a mustache running around

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Europe that nobody believed him when he said he's going

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to destroy the Jewish people. We lost six million. Now

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we've got a crazed new Hitler running around the Middle

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East saying he's going to destroy us. We have to

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take him at face value. That's his intention. He says

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it every day. He's got a concrete plan to destroy us.

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This isn't a joke. This is very serious for us.

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It's existential.

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Speaker 2: The US was in the middle of negotiations. President Trump

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talked about that he did not want you to take

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action while these negotiations were going on. He said, overnight,

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we can still easily get a deal done between Iran

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and Israel and end this bloody conflict. Is that true?

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Speaker 3: Do you want to Friday morning, the President was actually

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quite gradual over our initial strikes, and he did write

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clearly that he knew about our intentions. So look if

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the president, but.

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Speaker 2: What does that mean, because he said he doesn't want you.

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Speaker 3: To strike, Well, no, actually he was congratulatory about our strike.

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He wants he wants the nuclear program in Iran to

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be halted in its entirety. He said it very clearly.

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Dismantle the centrifuges, dismantle the infrastructure, and stop in total

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the enrichment of uranium. So if that can be achieved

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through negotiation, so be, it will be very happy.

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Speaker 2: But it hasn't been.

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Speaker 3: And it was actually on the sixty first day after

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the President gave him sixty days that we struck.

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Speaker 2: If you don't reach a deal, what is the exit

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strategy here? What is the endgame? It will not stop

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until the nuclear program is completely destroyed.

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Speaker 3: The nuclear program and the ballistic missile program. The missiles

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that they're firing into Israel now are ballistic missiles with

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a tremendous payload. They create tremendous damage. And as a

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matter of fact, the Supreme Leader of Iran has said

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repeatedly that if he fires thousands of ballistic missiles into Israel,

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we're a small country and there's nothing we can do

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other than die. Well, we're not gonna die. We're not

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going to allow these ballistic missiles to continue to hit Israel,

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and we're gonna do what we have to do to

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defend our country.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thanks for joining us this morning, mister investment to

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be with you.

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