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June 23, 2025 14 mins

1. Military Strikes on Iran’s Nuclear Sites

  • The episode opens by stating that Trump gave Iran a 60-day ultimatum to negotiate on its nuclear program, which Iran ignored.
  • In response, the U.S. launched precision airstrikes on three major Iranian nuclear sites: Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.
  • Trump is quoted declaring the mission a “spectacular military success,” claiming the facilities were “completely and totally obliterated.”

2. Trump’s Address and Justification

  • Trump’s speech emphasizes the need to stop Iran, described as the “world’s number one state sponsor of terror.”
  • He references past U.S. casualties linked to Iran and vows not to allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons.
  • He praises the U.S. military, Israeli cooperation, and his administration’s unity and secrecy in executing the mission.

3. Operational Details

  • Commentary from Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin highlights the stealth and complexity of the operation.
  • B-2 bombers, possibly flying from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, dropped 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs.
  • The operation was noted for its high level of secrecy and lack of leaks, which the author attributes to the strength of Trump’s administration.

4. Concerns About Retaliation and Border Security

  • The piece shifts to concerns about potential Iranian retaliation, especially through sleeper cells in the U.S.
  • It criticizes the Biden administration for allegedly allowing Iranian nationals into the U.S. via a “wide open border.”
  • Former ICE Director Tom Homan is quoted expressing fears about national security vulnerabilities due to undocumented migrants.

5. Conclusion

  • Ben ends with a strong endorsement of Trump’s leadership, crediting him with both securing the U.S. border and neutralizing Iran’s nuclear threat.
  • It calls for vigilance, gratitude for the military, and continued prayers for national security.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A short time ago, the US military carried out massive
precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the
Iranian regime for Doau, Natanz and Esfahan. Tonight, I can
report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular
military success.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Good Monday morning.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
It's nice to have you with us on the forty
seven Morning Updated. We've got a lot to talk about,
including the successful attack on Iran's nuclear sites because the
President of the United States America said Iran we will
never allow to get a nuclear weapon. We also are
going to talk about the fallout and what it means
moving forward after this attack, as Democrats are now going

(00:46):
after Donald Trump, and finally, what could Iran do next
and how big is a concern for sleeper cells in
this country that were let in with our open borders
under the Biden regime. I want to also make sure
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(01:06):
right now. We've also had so many of you that
have asked the question, how can I help people in
Israel and we've been telling you about the International Fellowship
of Christians and Jews and the work they are doing
is incredible. They are deploying bomb shelters as we speak
to help keep people safe in Israel. When things get bad,
that is when they step up and protect families and

(01:28):
loved ones. And if you want to get involved and
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do it by giving food and shelter to Jewish families
that are under threat. As I said, they're building bomb
shelters for children. They're helping survivors of the attacks that
we're witnessing right now, and they are doing it daily.

(01:48):
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(02:10):
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(02:36):
Be the difference IFCJ dot org or eight eight eight
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and it starts right now.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Story number one. Sixty days.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
That was the deadline that Donald Trump gave a RAND
to come to the table and make a deal to
get rid of their RAND nuclear program. They chose not to.
And it's a foreign policy that's pretty clear. Fa FO.
Donald Trump not wasting any time doing what he needed
to do to make sure that Iran never gets a
nuclear weapon, certainly not while he's in office. And the

(03:11):
present made it clear with the attack on not one,
not two, but three of the Iranian nuclear sites, they
should have come to the table much sooner. Here's the
present in his own words at the White House.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
A short time ago, the US military carried out massive
precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the
Iranian regime for Doeaux Natans and Esfahan. Everybody heard those
names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise.

(03:46):
Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear inrichment capacity
and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the
world's number one state sponsor of terror.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Tonight, I can report to the world.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
That the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iranski nuclear
and Richmond facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Rand
the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace.
If they do not, future attacks would be.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Far greater and a lot easier.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
For forty years, Iran has been saying death to America,
death to Israel. They have been killing our people, blowing
off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs,
that was their specialty.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
We lost over a.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Thousand people, and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East
and around the world have died as a direct result
of their hate. In particular, so many were killed by
their general Cassem SOLMANI. I decided a long time ago
that I would not let this happen.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
It will not continue.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister bb NETTNYA,
who we worked as a team like perhaps no team
has ever worked before, and we've gone a long way
to erasing this horrible threat to Israel. I want to
thank the Israeli military for the wonderful job they've done.
And most importantly, I want to congratulate the great American

(05:17):
patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight and all of
the United States military on an operation the likes of
which the world has not seen in many, many decades.
Hopefully we will no longer need their services and this capacity.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
I hope that's so.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
I also want to congratulate the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Raisin Kine, spectacular general, and
all of the brilliant military minds involved in this attack.
With all of that being said, this cannot continue. There
will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran,
far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days. Remember,

(05:58):
there are men any targets left. The night's was the
most difficult of them all by far, and perhaps the
most lethal. But if peace does not come quickly, we
will go after those other targets with precision, speed and skill.
Most of them can be taken out in a matter

(06:19):
of minutes. There's no military in the world that could
have done what we did tonight, not even close. There
has never been a military that could do what took place.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Just a little while ago.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Tomorrow, General Kin, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will have
a press conference at eight am at the Pentagon, and
I want to just thank everybody, and in particular God.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
I want to just say, we love you God, and we.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Love our great military. Protect them. God bless the Middle East,
God bless Israel, and God bless America.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Thank you very much, Thank you.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
There is also a sincere gratitude you could hear from
the President, So thankful for our men and women in
uniform who are willing to risk their lives to protect
all of us, and a sincere thanks to God for
protecting them in this incredible mission. There was also another
aspect of what just happened that's truly incredible, not a
single leak. You have a president in this administration that

(07:21):
has a very different staff around him, a very different cabinet,
and what we witnessed was a team working together to
make sure that all the American soldiers were kept safe,
that there were no leaks that came out about an
incredible mission. One that was incredibly complicated, as you heard
from the President, that involved countless people, and one that

(07:44):
was successful to the point where not a single shot
was fired at us. Jennifer Griffin at Fox News Channel
put it this way.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
Well, Brett, I think, yes, my phone has been literally
ringing off the hook. But what I would say is
that it's notable, well, how much deception was involved in
this operation. All eyes were looking west towards Guam and
the B twos that took off late last night towards Guam.
It's possible that, but if the distance there would suggest

(08:14):
that the B twos may have also flown east from
Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. Remember the air refuelers,
many of them were placed in Europe and in the
across the Middle East, and that is what is known
as an air refueling bridge, and all of those BE
twos would require much air refueling in order to make it.
They usually fly round trip from white men. And so

(08:36):
what we can say, and the President said this in
his truth Social post, is that a full payload of bombs,
those massive ordnance penetrators, the thirty thousand pounds bunker buster
bombs were dropped at four Dough, and as we have reported,
there are two entrances to four Dough, so at least
two bombs at each two entrants, which suggest at least
two BE twos were involved over four Dough. My suspicion

(08:59):
is that there were more. And then you have the
two other sites, Natans, which is also has an underground
enrichment facility. The Israelis had not been able to reach
or take out that facility despite the last ten days
of bombing, and so now US warplanes likely another B
two bomber had dropped that mop, the thirty thousand pound

(09:20):
bunker buster on Natans. And then you also have Isfahan,
a third site south of Tehran, and that is also
a very significant enrichment facility. So those B two bombers.
It's possible that as everybody was looking west for the
B twos flying towards Guam, that in fact there was
another package of squadron of B twos that were flying

(09:41):
east from white Men. It's about a fifteen hour trip
from white Men in Missouri to the Middle East to Iran,
and those bombers often fly round trip and takes them
about thirty hours to get home. But they are out
of danger tonight. They are not in Iranian airspace anymore,
according to the President. The other thing I can point
out this is an operation. In the last eighteen years

(10:03):
since I've been at the Pentagon, I've never seen such
operational security. There was nobody speaking about this, any of
the preparations. There was a complete lockdown, almost a blackout
of information for the last few days. I'm sitting here
in the Pentagon right now, I can tell you the
hallways are empty and all of the information is coming
right now out of the White House. That is a

(10:24):
significant achievement because there were no leaks about the timing. Now,
sometimes I think those who a lot of the flight trackers,
the open source intelligence flight trackers, that flight radar did
indicate some of the when the B twos took off
from white Men. But again, nobody really expected that it

(10:45):
would take place this evening. If you looked at the
moon schedule, you might have had a clue because it
was a waning crescent and almost a new moon on
the twenty fifth, so it would have been very very
dark over Iran tonight, and you need that in order
to to bomb. That's the ideal condition for something like
a B two that is, yes, itself stealth, but it

(11:07):
still has to be escorted in in case any Iran
were to put up any planes or there were any
opportunities to fire on those B twos, which are such
valuable and very very special planes. Only the US military
has this kind of weaponry and this capability. No other
country in the world could have carried off. What occurred

(11:28):
tonight at those three uranium enrichment sites.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
Truly incredible work by our men and women in uniform
and is you could hear there from the Pentagon. The
fact that no one knew that this was happening and
no one leaked it truly tells you about how great
this administration is that Donald Trump has around him this time.
It brings me to the final point. There is a
lot of concern about what Iran is going to do

(11:54):
next with retaliation. Obviously they are going after Israel as
we speak, but what could happen at home and how
vigilant should we stay. Well, the answer is we should
stay vigilant, We should be careful because there is one
major problem. We had a massive open border for far
too long under Joe Biden, and what we have found

(12:15):
out is that there was an incredible number of Iranian
nationals that were deliberately released into the interior of this country,
thousands of them. On top of the fact that we
also had another problem those that got away that we
did not catch that we're clearly coming in from Iran.
So is there a real chance that sleeper sales from

(12:36):
Iran could be activated in this country? The answer, unfortunately
is yes. And who is to blame for that none
other than Joe Biden and the Biden administration who deliberately
opened our borders and allowed the flood of millions of
illegal immigrants into this country. Tom Homan talking on Fox
News about how concerned he is about this after the
US strikes Iran, Take a listen.

Speaker 6 (12:58):
So I put numbers this morning just from a CBP
under Joe Biden, there was one two hundred and seventy
two nationals Iran releasing the country between Ofo and and
the Bordatroll. And you compare that to the Trump administration
zero right, zero releases and right now, because of President
Trump's leadership, we have the most secure border in my lifetime,
most secure border in history of this nation.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
So we have a secure border.

Speaker 6 (13:19):
So that was a President Trump's big win on security
of this nation. So we're not releasing people in this country,
especially in Aliens aren't across that border undetected. But under
Joe Biden, we had over ten million people cross that border.
But my biggest concern from day one, beyond the fat
and all beyond the sex trafficking women and children, were
the two man known god aways. Over two million people
cross that border. We don't know who they are, where

(13:40):
they came from, because they got away because Bordatrol was
so overwhelmed with the humanitarian crisis that Biden created that
over two million people across the border and got away.
That is my biggest concern, and that's what created the
biggest national security vulnerability this country's ever seen.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
It's an important reminder of how thankful we should all
be that Donald Trump is the president United States of America.
Did he secure the southern border and protect us from
possible sleeper cells that are trying to get into this country,
but he's also protecting us abroad by making sure that
a rand doesn't have a nuclear weapon. Yes, we can
celebrate the fact that that has happened. We also have

(14:15):
to be careful and cautious and vigilant and pray for
our men and women in uniform all at the same time.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
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