1 00:00:04,839 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:09,599 this podcast. It is heard live every day from nuon 3 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,519 --> 00:00:16,679 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,719 --> 00:00:19,199 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:22,559 go to dpeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,120 subscribe button. Get every episode for free, write to your 8 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:27,640 smartphone or tablet, and again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,719 --> 00:00:37,079 your support. Oh I forgot mark myself safe from nuclear war. 10 00:00:37,119 --> 00:00:44,679 There we go. Yes, because apparently the quote unquote experts 11 00:00:44,719 --> 00:00:51,960 in foreign affairs diplomacy ron reading Donald Trump's mind, I 12 00:00:52,079 --> 00:00:55,479 was assured that there was going to be a nuke 13 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:01,479 over the civilization of Persia. I was assured that this 14 00:01:01,679 --> 00:01:04,280 was a thing that was very likely to happen and 15 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:15,799 probably actually definitely a war crime. And then it didn't happen. 16 00:01:16,239 --> 00:01:19,719 And so that means Donald Trump's a chicken for not 17 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:24,959 dropping a nuke and erasing the Persian civilization. I think 18 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,079 I got that messaging correct. There. That was the timeline 19 00:01:29,599 --> 00:01:34,200 of the quote expert class their social media posts all 20 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,439 day long, yesterday through the evening and now into today. 21 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:40,200 The thing that they were warning that Donald Trump was 22 00:01:40,239 --> 00:01:42,239 going to do and he shouldn't do, and then he 23 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,280 didn't do it, and now he's a chicken because he 24 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:46,400 didn't do the thing they didn't want him to do. 25 00:01:47,159 --> 00:01:50,719 Is that clear? Okay? Now you know the level of 26 00:01:50,799 --> 00:01:57,680 expertise we are dealing with here. Unlike the experts, I 27 00:01:57,719 --> 00:02:02,239 am not an expert, so just willing to watch and 28 00:02:02,319 --> 00:02:07,040 wait and see what happens. Right. I will gather information 29 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:09,759 from various sources, and I will try to line them 30 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:11,360 all up to kind of get an idea of what's 31 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:13,479 going on, and then I will bring it to you 32 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,319 and then you can weigh these pieces of information and 33 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:19,319 try to figure out what's going on too. But here's 34 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:25,319 the thing, nobody really knows. Nobody really knows, right, even 35 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,280 people in the administration that are, you know, doing these 36 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,520 different things, they don't know everything that Iran is doing. 37 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:35,120 Iran doesn't know everything that we are doing. So there 38 00:02:35,199 --> 00:02:39,800 is there are known unknowns. To quote Donald Rumsfeld, there 39 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,800 are things that we know we don't know, but then 40 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:47,560 there are also unknown unknowns, things that we don't know 41 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:52,520 we don't know. See very clear as clear as the 42 00:02:52,759 --> 00:02:59,159 quote cease fire that was announced yesterday evening. Now let's 43 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,680 just let me pause here for a second on the 44 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:04,800 timeline of this. Remember Donald Trump put a deadline out 45 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,560 there eight pm Tuesday, and he said, We're going to 46 00:03:07,719 --> 00:03:11,360 bomb your bridges and power plants. And before the deadline 47 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:14,840 even hit, Israel was taken out bridges, blowing up rail 48 00:03:14,879 --> 00:03:20,199 lines and such. Okay, And so to the Iranians, they 49 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:23,280 hear Trump making these threats, and what did they do. 50 00:03:23,879 --> 00:03:27,400 They sent a bunch of human shields, which actually is 51 00:03:27,599 --> 00:03:32,719 a war crime. That is actually a war crime. They 52 00:03:32,759 --> 00:03:34,960 sent them to, you know, stand around the power plants 53 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,400 to protect them, which is that's a tell. That's a 54 00:03:38,439 --> 00:03:43,240 tell that they believed Trump might actually start bombing the 55 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:47,439 power plants and they were trusting that he wouldn't do 56 00:03:47,599 --> 00:03:50,960 so if it meant all of these innocent people that 57 00:03:51,039 --> 00:03:54,240 were standing around the power plants would also be killed. Right, 58 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:58,719 So they're counting on the United States to have a 59 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:04,360 certain morality in conducting the operation. Right. It's also a 60 00:04:04,439 --> 00:04:08,120 tell in that they had not stacked human shields in 61 00:04:08,159 --> 00:04:12,960 front of anything else but the power plants. That's when 62 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,759 they mobilized the human shields. That's a tell they know 63 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:22,120 the importance of keeping the power on for their regime. Right. 64 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:26,199 And as I went over yesterday the report out of 65 00:04:26,199 --> 00:04:30,279 Iran that the President of Iran had this big argument 66 00:04:30,399 --> 00:04:34,639 with the IRGC leadership saying that we're not going to 67 00:04:34,639 --> 00:04:37,600 be able to recover, like economically, we are going to 68 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,279 be done. We have to you got to have revenue 69 00:04:41,319 --> 00:04:46,399 coming in so you can rebuild after, you know, winning 70 00:04:46,439 --> 00:04:51,800 the war as resoundingly as Iran has and I'm completely 71 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,240 being sarcastic there, they are not. They have not been 72 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:56,920 winning the war. For everybody that is like, oh my gosh, 73 00:04:56,959 --> 00:05:00,000 everything proves that you know, Iran is resilient, Like Iran 74 00:05:00,199 --> 00:05:03,600 is holding on, the regime is holding on, and they're 75 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,399 threatening the strait of hormones, which that was the point 76 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:13,879 of the cease fire announced yesterday. Trump said that if 77 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:17,160 you reopen the strait of horror moves, we will give 78 00:05:17,199 --> 00:05:21,120 you a two week period where we won't rain Holy 79 00:05:21,199 --> 00:05:24,839 hell down on your heads, right, we will. We will 80 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:28,800 stop the shooting and the bombing for two weeks if 81 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:33,759 you open the strait of hormones. So I have a 82 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:38,720 bias when it comes to communists and the Iranian regime, 83 00:05:38,959 --> 00:05:43,240 and there Islamo Marxists. But I have a rule, which 84 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:47,040 is they lie. So I don't believe anything that comes 85 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,759 out of Iran really ever, I mean except their love 86 00:05:50,439 --> 00:05:52,759 for the chanting of death to America. They do love 87 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:56,759 doing that. So I do believe that they that part 88 00:05:56,839 --> 00:06:00,360 the death to America. In fact, what yesterday I think 89 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,319 it was in order to try to ward off the 90 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:09,800 UH the bombing of the power plants, they sent out 91 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:13,600 a tweet that said, when we say death to America, 92 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:19,439 we don't mean Americans, we mean the government, the policies. 93 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,879 I'm not kidding. This is what they tried. And this 94 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:26,399 is another tell. The only way they hold on is 95 00:06:26,439 --> 00:06:30,439 if we lose the will, and so they are trying 96 00:06:31,399 --> 00:06:35,000 to break the will of the American people to turn 97 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,600 the American people against the operation. It's the only way 98 00:06:37,879 --> 00:06:42,560 that the regime can survive. So recognize the op. And 99 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:44,959 when you go on to social media, you are in 100 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:50,720 the informational battle space. Okay, and there are all sorts 101 00:06:50,759 --> 00:06:53,959 of actors. You don't know their motives and such. But 102 00:06:55,439 --> 00:06:58,800 if they are taking a position that somehow or another 103 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:02,319 America has lost, that recognize it for what it is. 104 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:06,920 That is a demoralization effort. It's to break the will 105 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:10,319 because that's the only that's what determines whether you win 106 00:07:10,439 --> 00:07:13,680 or lose. Do you have the will to finish it? 107 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:19,879 This quote ceasefire was predicated on the opening of the 108 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:23,680 Strait of Hormuz. So Iran comes out and says, we're 109 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:26,279 going to allow ships through, but they're going to have 110 00:07:26,279 --> 00:07:28,560 to pay a toll two million dollars. Then we're going 111 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:32,279 to split it with Oman or oh Man, depending on 112 00:07:32,279 --> 00:07:35,680 how you want to pronounce that. Oh Man Oman is 113 00:07:35,759 --> 00:07:40,079 right across the strait from Iran. Oman came out and said, 114 00:07:40,439 --> 00:07:45,680 we're not charging any fees. We're not doing that. So 115 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:52,000 who to believe? Well, rule number one. Iran lies, so 116 00:07:52,759 --> 00:07:56,360 they're lying about what the terms are of the ceasefire. 117 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:03,360 Their mosaic strategy where a decentralized command and control operations 118 00:08:03,399 --> 00:08:07,480 basically made all of these little clusters of IRGC and 119 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,519 besiege militias, made them sort of autonomous around the country. 120 00:08:12,279 --> 00:08:16,639 That was their strategy after the Twelve Day War because 121 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,279 they were like, oh my gosh, like what happens if 122 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,600 Israel comes back and does something like this again. We 123 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:24,680 need to be able to have our you know, people 124 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,120 out in the field fling a bunch of rockets at everybody. 125 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,959 So they sort of divested the power to make these 126 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:37,559 decisions down to more localized levels, and so they may 127 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:42,320 not have gotten the word yet that there's a ceasefire, okay, 128 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:47,080 so that's problematic to be sure. They've been flinging missiles still, 129 00:08:47,279 --> 00:08:51,639 even though there's a quote ceasefire. UAE has been targeted 130 00:08:51,799 --> 00:08:54,480 dozens of times over the last twenty four hour or 131 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:58,639 twelve hours, I guess it's been so there is that 132 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:02,120 component ships aren't really too thrilled. They don't really know 133 00:09:02,159 --> 00:09:04,039 what's going on. So all the boats are still kind 134 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,919 of hanging out in the Persian Gulf. But if the 135 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:10,279 strait opens and they can get out, that's going to 136 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:12,120 free up a lot of this traffic. It's going to 137 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:13,639 get a lot of the boats out of the area, 138 00:09:13,639 --> 00:09:18,679 which will be a good thing. And I don't me personally, 139 00:09:18,759 --> 00:09:22,039 I don't expect this ceasefire, and I'm using air quotes 140 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:23,879 on that every time I say it. I don't believe 141 00:09:23,879 --> 00:09:27,600 the ceasefire last two weeks because I'm not sure what 142 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:30,960 Iran is going to do. I'm not sure who's negotiating 143 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,240 I'm not sure what they've actually agreed to, because they 144 00:09:33,279 --> 00:09:36,919 pushed out a statement that had like ten their ten 145 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,200 things that they claim are part of this agreement, and 146 00:09:40,759 --> 00:09:43,600 the Trump Administration's like, no, that's not in there. None 147 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,159 of that stuff is in there. They've been editing what 148 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:53,720 they're publishing in English versus in Farsi, in their language, 149 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:57,279 telling their people different things than what they're publishing for 150 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:01,240 the Globe. See they lie, all right. 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Let me jump over to the text line. 172 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:08,879 Clear some of these I'm trying to stay I'm trying 173 00:11:08,879 --> 00:11:12,879 to be better about staying ahead of the of the 174 00:11:12,919 --> 00:11:15,240 text line so this way doesn't like pile up and 175 00:11:15,279 --> 00:11:17,200 I end up with like forty messages and then I 176 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:18,559 can't read them all. So I'm trying to do a 177 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:23,159 better job of that. So this from Eddie who says 178 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:26,519 Trump should have taken carg Island the first day of bombing. 179 00:11:26,519 --> 00:11:28,639 It doesn't matter what Trump says, so long as the 180 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:33,759 strait is closed, there is no victory. I would urge Eddie, 181 00:11:34,279 --> 00:11:39,279 urge you go back to the podcast that I did, 182 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:44,039 the show I did last week and we covered this. 183 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,120 Do you think the military can't open the straight of 184 00:11:50,159 --> 00:11:53,600 woe moves if it wants to? I do. I think 185 00:11:53,639 --> 00:11:56,080 our military, if they wish to do so, I have 186 00:11:56,159 --> 00:11:59,000 little doubt that. How I think it's pretty clear, like 187 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:03,720 our military cape abilities are pretty amazing, so I think 188 00:12:03,759 --> 00:12:06,080 we could probably open it. So the question then is 189 00:12:06,639 --> 00:12:11,960 why aren't we? And we covered that question last week, 190 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,960 So go to the peakpod dot com and listen to 191 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,399 the podcast about that, because it has way more to 192 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:22,559 do than way more to do with with global maritime 193 00:12:22,639 --> 00:12:25,480 shipping lanes and protection of safe passage and all of that. 194 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:27,919 There are way more things at play, and it goes 195 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:32,320 into the maritime policy. It goes to Trump's efforts when 196 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:34,919 he first got into office to try to build up 197 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:40,039 the Navy do a new Golden fleet of twenty to 198 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:47,440 twenty five massive choke point holders, basically these massive boats 199 00:12:47,919 --> 00:12:51,600 that would be choke point protection. But he got blocked 200 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:56,720 by China, firms that do business with China, the European 201 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:01,600 Union people. Then you've got that whole ball of mess, right, 202 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:05,080 So there's a lot more going on about with the 203 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:08,480 Strait of Horror moves than like, oh my gosh, we 204 00:13:08,519 --> 00:13:12,519 can't open it like we can. We've obviously decided not to. 205 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,720 We're not phasing and everybody all the experts are like, 206 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:21,399 I can't believe they didn't plan for this. Really like, 207 00:13:22,519 --> 00:13:24,679 I do believe they have a plan for it. They've 208 00:13:24,759 --> 00:13:27,679 had plans for it for decades since the tanker Wars. 209 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:34,279 I'm sure, and says, I truly believe that Iran is 210 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:38,480 absolutely at this point in time, and as for decades untrustworthy. 211 00:13:38,759 --> 00:13:41,679 They have lied, they are not averse to lying, are 212 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:45,080 actually given explicit permission and instructions to lie to the 213 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:54,240 Infidel t Kia, Yeah, do not trust and verify. I 214 00:13:54,279 --> 00:13:57,639 also one of the things I also believe, so just 215 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:00,240 as a heads up, so you know what I'm working 216 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:05,000 off of my assumptions, which is that I really do 217 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:08,559 think that we have eyes on basically everything over Iran 218 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:12,639 at this point. You know, like we've got the technology, 219 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:16,080 we got the satellites, we got drones, we have pilots, 220 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:20,799 we have all of this, you know, air power, air superiority, 221 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,639 and so I have no doubt we know exactly where 222 00:14:24,919 --> 00:14:28,320 the key things are that we need to keep eyes on, 223 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:35,000 Jeff says, to demoralize us and break our will to 224 00:14:35,039 --> 00:14:39,759 finish the job, Iran will rely on their allies and 225 00:14:40,039 --> 00:14:42,960 the Democrats in the media, but I repeat myself. Yeah, 226 00:14:43,039 --> 00:14:49,039 so recognize the demoralization, psyop psychological operation that is being 227 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:53,159 run on you. And there are people like there's one 228 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:57,879 here in the in the text message Matt tds Matt 229 00:14:57,879 --> 00:15:01,679 as I call him, has a and I'm about to 230 00:15:01,679 --> 00:15:06,679 block him because he doesn't contribute anything except vulgarities directed 231 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:09,960 towards Trump and so like there's really no point in 232 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:12,440 reading any of his comments. Like ever, I don't think 233 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:14,720 I've ever read anything from Matt on the air. I 234 00:15:14,759 --> 00:15:16,399 may have at some point, but I don't think I 235 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:21,000 ever do. But this is illustrative of the point. See TDS, Matt. 236 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:25,080 This is all he says. He says Trump and hegseeth 237 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:28,720 just showed the world we are all bark and minimal bite, 238 00:15:28,879 --> 00:15:34,559 so stupid. And then he attacks Trump and makes references 239 00:15:34,559 --> 00:15:38,879 to his sexuality or whatever. It's like, so we got embarrassed. 240 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:45,279 Really if okay, So if we're all bark and minimal bite, 241 00:15:45,559 --> 00:15:52,200 what is Iran? See this is just a denial of reality. 242 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,480 Like the what we did to Iran over the course 243 00:15:55,559 --> 00:15:59,960 of five weeks has literally never been done before ever 244 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:05,480 in human history. Like, I think that's pretty amazing. Now, 245 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:09,440 Matt sees defeat. Matt hates Trump and so therefore this 246 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:12,759 is some sort of a defeat. He is rooting for defeat, 247 00:16:12,759 --> 00:16:15,200 and he wants us to believe that we have been 248 00:16:15,279 --> 00:16:20,519 defeated somehow. When you blow up what ninety percent of 249 00:16:20,559 --> 00:16:25,919 their ballistic missile production capability, their drone fleets, you whack 250 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:32,360 dozens of their top leadership with pinpoint accuracy. You know 251 00:16:32,399 --> 00:16:35,600 where these people are, and you just surgically go in 252 00:16:35,639 --> 00:16:37,519 and boom boom, boom boom and take them all out 253 00:16:37,559 --> 00:16:39,360 over the course of five weeks. And anybody that gets 254 00:16:39,399 --> 00:16:41,559 elevated to the top post, they get taken out next. 255 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,919 You're telling me that's a defeat, that that's not okay. 256 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:52,879 So recognize the SCIA for what it is, don't. This 257 00:16:52,919 --> 00:16:56,159 is from Gabby who says, I don't believe ceasefire will 258 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:00,519 last either. So maybe we can send LGBTQ and stock 259 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:03,320 and crocs on the ground over in Iran. Maybe they 260 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:06,720 can open up a dialogue. That would be an interesting 261 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:11,720 diplomatic effort. Kevin says, Matt sounds like a typical American 262 00:17:11,799 --> 00:17:17,200 hating democrat. Yeah, Matt, does I believe he is. Kathy 263 00:17:17,279 --> 00:17:19,440 says Pete aren't you amazed at how many people have 264 00:17:19,519 --> 00:17:23,160 become experts at foreign policy and war tactics. Those same 265 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:25,559 people can't even point out on a map where Iran 266 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:28,359 is located. They think that TikTok is the place to 267 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:32,079 get factual information. Yeah. 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First, 291 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:04,920 approaching the APM deadline line night, about two hours beforehand, 292 00:19:05,759 --> 00:19:09,440 hour and a half, Donald Trump posts up onto Truth's 293 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:13,759 social the following message based on conversations with Prime Minister 294 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:19,359 Shabbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Assim Munir of Pakistan and 295 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:23,640 wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force 296 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:27,440 being sent tonight to Iran and subject to the Islamic 297 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:31,720 Republic of Iran agreeing to complete immediate and safe opening 298 00:19:31,799 --> 00:19:35,039 of the Strait of Hormuz. I agree to suspend the 299 00:19:35,039 --> 00:19:38,160 bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. 300 00:19:38,799 --> 00:19:41,200 This will be a double sided ceasefire, which I think 301 00:19:41,279 --> 00:19:45,039 is just a ceasefire. The reason for doing so is 302 00:19:45,079 --> 00:19:48,319 that we have already met and exceeded all military objectives 303 00:19:48,519 --> 00:19:51,920 and are very far along with a definitive agreement concerning 304 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,079 long term peace with Iran and peace in the Middle East. 305 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:59,359 We received a ten point proposal from Iran and believe 306 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:03,440 it is a workable basis on which to negotiate. Almost 307 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:06,640 all of the various points of past contention have been 308 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:09,400 agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a 309 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,319 two week period will allow the agreement to be finalized 310 00:20:12,319 --> 00:20:16,319 and consummated. On behalf of the United States of America 311 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,839 as president and also representing the countries of the Middle East, 312 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,359 it is an honor to have this long term problem 313 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:25,519 close to resolution. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 314 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:36,079 Then we start seeing all sorts of reports based on 315 00:20:36,279 --> 00:20:40,839 sources this and that, anonymous sources and whatever, and then 316 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:45,880 even from the Iranian government itself pushing out messages that 317 00:20:47,519 --> 00:20:51,200 Iran's ten points that they pushed like a week ago, 318 00:20:52,079 --> 00:20:55,920 and which was like, none of those points are agreeable, right, 319 00:20:56,839 --> 00:21:00,400 they start saying, well, these are the ten points. So 320 00:21:00,599 --> 00:21:04,000 here is from the Iranian government, the Minister of Foreign 321 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,880 Affairs on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I 322 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:10,640 express gratitude and appreciation for my dear brothers in Pakistan 323 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,240 for their effort, tireless efforts to end the war in 324 00:21:13,279 --> 00:21:17,119 response to the brotherly request of Sharif in his tweet 325 00:21:17,519 --> 00:21:21,359 and considering the request by the US foreign negotiations based 326 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:25,160 on its fifteen point proposal as well as announcement by 327 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:30,440 POTUS about acceptance of the general framework of Iran's ten 328 00:21:30,559 --> 00:21:35,079 point proposal as a basis for negotiations, I hereby declare, 329 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,720 on behalf of Iran Supreme National Security Council, if attacks 330 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:42,599 against Iran are halted, our powerful armed forces will cease 331 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:46,400 their defensive operations for a period of two weeks. Safe 332 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,119 passage through the Straight of Hormuz will be possible via 333 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:53,119 coordination with Iran's armed forces and with due consideration of 334 00:21:53,200 --> 00:22:03,519 technical limitations. And then the Iranian government pushes out a 335 00:22:03,599 --> 00:22:07,920 statement in its own language where it says that the 336 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:14,880 ceasefire proposal includes acceptance of enrichment, that that part of 337 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,759 this deal is that the United States now accepts Iran's 338 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:24,880 uranium enrichment program. And I can assure you no, that 339 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:32,680 has always been the purpose here. Okay, So everybody is saying, 340 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:36,160 oh my gosh, he's completely caving the you know, Trump 341 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,000 always chickens out Taco Tuesday, and they were saying all 342 00:22:39,039 --> 00:22:42,480 this stuff, and so this just now came down from 343 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:48,240 Trump's truth social account. Numerous agreements, lists and letters are 344 00:22:48,279 --> 00:22:51,079 being sent out by people that have absolutely nothing to 345 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:55,000 do with the USA Iran negotiation. In many cases they 346 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:59,720 are total fraudsters Charlatan's and worse, they will be rapidly 347 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:04,680 as after our federal investigation is completed. So I'm thinking 348 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:09,400 he's talking about people inside the US government that are 349 00:23:09,519 --> 00:23:14,519 leaking to media outlets. There is only one group of 350 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:18,960 meaningful points that are acceptable to the United States, and 351 00:23:19,039 --> 00:23:23,160 we will be discussing them behind closed doors during these negotiations. 352 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,559 These are the points that are the basis on which 353 00:23:25,599 --> 00:23:28,359 we agreed to a ceasefire. It is something that is 354 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:32,039 reasonable and can easily be dispensed with. It's very much 355 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,839 like fake new CNN last night headlining a quote source 356 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:38,960 that had no power or authority to write a letter 357 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:47,960 claiming great authority President Donald J. Trump. Right, So my understanding, 358 00:23:48,039 --> 00:23:50,119 my read on this, and I'm, like I said, my 359 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:54,640 approach is to wait and watch and we'll see. Like 360 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:59,720 all things Trump this is he creates chaos, he applies 361 00:23:59,759 --> 00:24:04,079 mac some pressure, does that to get leverage, and then 362 00:24:04,759 --> 00:24:10,200 offers you a deal. That's been the mo for like 363 00:24:10,279 --> 00:24:14,920 his entire adult life. Right, So this looks to be like, okay, 364 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:16,799 we're at the point now where we're saying to you, 365 00:24:16,839 --> 00:24:20,480 here are the things that we want, and Iran has 366 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:25,359 agreed to discuss it. Which keep in mind, three days 367 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,440 ago they said they weren't even in negotiations, they weren't talking, 368 00:24:28,759 --> 00:24:32,160 they refused to do any talking, and now they are talking. 369 00:24:33,279 --> 00:24:36,319 There's also a report that China made a phone call 370 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:41,000 and told Iran, you need to do the ceasefire, and that, 371 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:46,240 of course is seen as weakness for Trump somehow that oh, well, yeah, 372 00:24:46,279 --> 00:24:48,200 he had to get he had to get China to 373 00:24:48,279 --> 00:24:50,680 get in there and help him out. Yeah, China's probably 374 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,599 looking out for their own self interest too. A you know, 375 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:58,640 a toppled regime in Iran that doesn't have any money 376 00:24:58,759 --> 00:25:04,000 to rebuild with, that's probably not that's not in China's 377 00:25:04,039 --> 00:25:07,240 built and road initiative interests. They get a lot of 378 00:25:07,279 --> 00:25:10,440 oil from the Persian Gulf they've been scrambling. They would 379 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:14,000 let very much like to get that oil out. So 380 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:16,880 I don't care how you do it. I don't care 381 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,000 who's involved in getting around to the table. Get them 382 00:25:20,039 --> 00:25:22,799 to the table, and I have no by the way, 383 00:25:22,839 --> 00:25:25,200 I have no expectation that they're going to agree to 384 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,079 any of our terms. But we shall see. Here's a 385 00:25:29,079 --> 00:25:31,960 great idea. 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Immediately after they launched ballistic missiles 415 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:23,119 at Israel. They ordered the acceleration of political executions, and 416 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:30,200 they put in their Farsi language press release the uranium 417 00:27:30,279 --> 00:27:34,880 enrichment language, which was omitted in their English language version. 418 00:27:36,519 --> 00:27:41,640 So again, like, I don't believe that this ceasefire is 419 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,440 going to last very long. I'm not even sure if 420 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,519 it is a ceasefire. And that makes me wonder is 421 00:27:47,599 --> 00:27:54,200 something else going on? Right? Have we seen this movie before, 422 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,880 right where everybody is talking about something, Oh my gosh, 423 00:27:57,920 --> 00:27:59,319 this thing, this thing, this thing, and then all of 424 00:27:59,319 --> 00:28:07,160 a sudden, this other thing. Right, the son of the 425 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:11,079 shaw Resa Palavi? Who is this sort of like the 426 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:15,880 idea among a lot of the Iranian dissident community, the diaspora, 427 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,599 the people who have fled Iran like the Shah. This 428 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:25,200 guy's name Resa Pallavi. This is their interim leader that 429 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:29,160 they want to see come in and take over but 430 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:33,799 then initiate the reforms and then basically act as a 431 00:28:33,839 --> 00:28:37,079 caretaker and then all floaded to the people for a 432 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,599 vote and whatever right. He would just be a transitional 433 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,920 governing figure. That's what a lot of people that are, 434 00:28:45,039 --> 00:28:49,079 you know, Iranian dissidents, that's who there their leader is. 435 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:55,599 He has now announced that he will address the Iranian nation. 436 00:28:57,839 --> 00:29:01,519 This would be one thirty another half hour. Now. I 437 00:29:01,559 --> 00:29:03,279 don't know if anybody in Iran's going to be able 438 00:29:03,279 --> 00:29:06,640 to see it or hear it, but we have been 439 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,960 sneaking a bunch of starlinks into Iran. We tried to 440 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,079 sneak a bunch of weapons in but supposedly the kurd 441 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,880 stole them. They were supposed to hand them off, but 442 00:29:16,119 --> 00:29:19,160 they kept him. Trump made a comment about that at 443 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,799 the White House, and you know he was ticked off 444 00:29:22,799 --> 00:29:28,480 about that. Or maybe that's just what he is saying. 445 00:29:29,759 --> 00:29:34,039 Maybe the weaponry did get in. Maybe a two week 446 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:39,839 ceasefire of air power is to give space to the 447 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:47,119 Iranian people that now is the time to revolt, because 448 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,160 you can't do that if we're bombing stuff all over 449 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,039 the place. But if you can get everybody to stop 450 00:29:52,079 --> 00:29:54,680 shooting for a little bit, then maybe you guys can 451 00:29:55,319 --> 00:29:59,240 maybe go and take out some of these Iranian Revolutionary 452 00:29:59,359 --> 00:30:05,480 or the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps groups that are scattered 453 00:30:05,519 --> 00:30:08,400 all around the country, right because this was Iran's strategy, 454 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:12,599 the Mosaic strategy they call it. And so they have 455 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,839 all of these different groups and that's why they're flinging 456 00:30:14,839 --> 00:30:18,640 missiles everywhere because there's no you know, top down command 457 00:30:18,759 --> 00:30:22,440 control anymore. But what happens if you've got all of 458 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:26,400 these different groups operating independently, and you blow up the 459 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:30,960 bridges between them, cut you blow up the railways as well, 460 00:30:32,039 --> 00:30:35,799 you have no comm system, maybe jam up all their comms. 461 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:41,759 That now is just a small force that Iranian people, 462 00:30:42,319 --> 00:30:48,160 if armed sufficiently, can do battle with right instead of 463 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,200 mobilizing the entire army. And you know, all of the 464 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:55,039 guard corridal and all the besieging thugs, and you won't 465 00:30:55,039 --> 00:30:58,160 be able to send the commands out. They're all going 466 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,680 to be dispersed and everything else. So I don't know. 467 00:31:00,799 --> 00:31:04,720 I'm just saying this might be the opportunity for the 468 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:13,359 Iranian people. We shall see. Tablet Magazine's arm In Rosen 469 00:31:14,559 --> 00:31:18,279 says if the ceasefire winds up happening, the bold Iranian 470 00:31:18,359 --> 00:31:21,680 gambit to trade much of their senior leadership, most of 471 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,640 their navy, at least half their missile launchers, the lives 472 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,319 of thousands of security personnel, various bridges and rail lines, 473 00:31:28,359 --> 00:31:33,160 steel and petrochemical plants, their deterrens, their nuclear infrastructure, their 474 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,119 air defenses, and the ability to use Dubai as a 475 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,880 sanctions evasion hub for the possibility of charging tolls for 476 00:31:40,079 --> 00:31:43,559 merchant shipping on the straight of Hormuz. Well, that probably 477 00:31:43,559 --> 00:31:47,920 would be a titanic failure for Iran. You trade all 478 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:52,319 of that stuff, this entire system that they had built 479 00:31:52,359 --> 00:31:57,480 over almost fifty years, right to fund and develop their 480 00:31:57,519 --> 00:32:01,920 war against the West, against Israel and America, and at 481 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,200 the end of the day you are left with a 482 00:32:04,279 --> 00:32:07,359 million dollar toll through the Straight of horor moves. That's 483 00:32:07,359 --> 00:32:09,119 what you get. That's what you're going to get. If 484 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:13,000 that's the best deal, that would be a failure for Iran. 485 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:19,079 But again we shalsee all right, that'll do it for 486 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,839 this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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