June 21, 2025 • 25 mins
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Trump’s Position on Iran:
- Trump repeatedly emphasizes that the U.S. does not seek a long-term war but insists that Iran must not acquire nuclear weapons.
- He references a long-standing position dating back to 2011, asserting that Iran’s nuclear ambitions are a direct threat to U.S. and global security.
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Military Developments:
- Israel has initiated strikes on Iranian nuclear and military sites.
- Trump has reportedly approved U.S. attack plans, including potential use of advanced bunker-busting bombs.
- The U.S. has mobilized significant military assets in the region, including aircraft carriers and bombers.
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Diplomatic Efforts:
- Despite military posturing, Trump has allowed a two-week window for diplomatic negotiations, particularly through European intermediaries in Geneva.
- The administration signals openness to a peaceful resolution but maintains a hardline stance.
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Iran’s Response:
- Iran’s Supreme Leader has gone into hiding, and Iranian officials have issued strong warnings against U.S. and Israeli actions.
- Iranian proxies threaten retaliation, including cyberattacks and regional terrorism.
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Domestic and Political Reactions:
- The episode highlights bipartisan support for Trump’s position, with notable endorsements from figures like Senator Ted Cruz and Senator John Fetterman.
- It also critiques Democratic silence on the issue and portrays Trump as having overwhelming public support based on polling data.
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Public Opinion:
- Polls cited in the document suggest that a majority of Americans support airstrikes to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, with strong bipartisan agreement.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We've got a new update for you on what is
going on between Israel and Iran, and it involves the
United States of America. We are now looking at what
seems to be Iran on the run, as there is
new reports coming out that the Mullahs want to talk
with Donald Trump to push a peace deal. This after
Donald Trump made it clear, you've got sixty days to
(00:22):
come up with something and to do what we've asked
you to do with nuclear proliferation, and they said no. Well,
now Donald Trump is saying, hey, We're okay to have
this piece talk if.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You want to.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
That could mean giving up its nuclear enrichment program. Why,
simply to save the Iranian regime. After israel Is taking
out top leadership in their government, giving up their nuclear
richment program is on the table to save the Ranian regime.
Reports of Iran's eagerness to in the fight came as
(00:54):
Israeli fighters came with a new attack attacking the regime
institutions and the capital city of Tehran. Now they have
total air superiority over the nation, including the state broadcaster,
after achieving total dominance of their entire air space. The
Wall Street Journal putting it this way, Iran has been
(01:16):
urgently signaling that it seeks an end to the hostilities
and the resumption of talks over at zuclear programs. In
the midst of a ferocious Israeli air campaign. Taran has
told AIRB officials it would be open to returning to
the negotiating table as long as the US doesn't join
the attack. Iran also passed the messages to Israel, saying
it is in the interest of both sides to keep
(01:38):
the violence.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Quote contained the.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ettnah who has said the attacks
will continue until iran zuclear program and their ballistic missiles
are destroyed, and he has shown no indication that he
is ready to stop. He has also said the regime
change isn't a goal, but it would be a result
(02:00):
given the Iranian leadership's weakness. Now, Israel is unlikely to
relent until it has destroyed most or all of Iran's
ballistic missile launchers. Why, because they've been hit by those
ballistic missiles and has cost Israeli lives. Now, this is
something they've had to do with the Iron Dome, continuing
to fight the fire. A barrage of these missiles coming
(02:23):
at the Israeli citizens. Most of this happening at night now.
Net Yahoo has also been doing some interviews, and he's
set down for an interview with ABC News moments ago.
I want you to hear what he had to say
in that interview with ABC.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Take a listen now when ABC News exclusive.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I'm joined by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who comes
to us from an undisclosed location in Israel. Mister Prime Minister,
thank you for joining us. Let me start with the
news that has just come in. The Wall Street Journal
is reporting that Iran has been urgently signaling that it
wants to end hostilities and to resume talks over its
(03:06):
nuclear program. According to the journal, they have been sending
messages to Israel and the United States via Arab intermediaries.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Have you received that message from the Iranians.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Well, not directly, but I'm not surprised. I mean, they
want to continue to have these fake talks in which
they lie, they cheat, they string the US along, and
you know, we have very solid intel on that. But
of course they want to keep on building their nuclear
weapons and building their mass ballistic missile arsenal which they're
firing at our people. They want to continue to create
(03:39):
the two existential threats against say Isel while they're talking.
That's not going to happen. You know, we're not at
the eleventh hour. We're the twelfth hour, and we stop.
We acted to secure the life of the nation, and
we're going to continue until we remove the two existential threats,
the nuclear threat and the threat of twenty thousand ballistic
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missiles that are equivalent to two nuclear bombs. So they
want to stop and keep it, but we are committed
to removing those threats.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
So I think what I hear you're saying quite clearly
is there will be no end to the Israeli bombing
of Iran until you have accomplished your objective here. You're
not going to stop for peace talks.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Well, look, we had the peace talks. We gave it
a chance. We've you know, clenched our teeth, we did
everything we could to enable President Trump to negotiate the
desired result, and that would have been preferable for us
and I think for everyone. But we saw in the
course of the negotiations, while they were negotiating with the
United States, the Supreme Leader of Iran, Aetola Kaminai, tweeted
(04:48):
almost every day, death to Israel. The talks were merely
a facade, and we absolutely if it could be achieved
with the negotiations, fine, but it wasn't being achieved, so
we had to act to safeguard our existence. You would
do the same.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
But over the weekend we heard from President and Trump
on truth social say Iran and Israel should make a deal,
and will make a deal. We will have peace soon
between Israel and Iran. Many calls and meetings now taking place.
So if President and Trump asked you to stop the
(05:25):
bombing campaign to resume these talks, would you do it?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Well.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
President Trump has been a great leader, a great leader
of the world, and a great leader and a great
friend of Israel. And he put forward the terms very
clearly in their negotiations. He said, Iran cannot have a
nuclear weapon, and in order for it not to have
a nuclear weapon, it cannot have the capacity to enrich uranium,
is the prerequisite for nuclear weapons. Iran refused. It just
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refuses all the time, It cheats, and it continues to
try to weaponize the rich uranium they already have. They
have nine Adam bombs worth of enriched uranium they're working secretly,
as we shared with the United States, they're working secretly
to rapidly weaponize this. In a few months, they would
have nuclear bombs. That's what they want to do. They
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want to continue stringing the US along, build up those weapons.
They don't want to seat at the table. They want
to blow up the table. Specifically, they want to blow
up Israel and purchase time. And I think the US
shares the until I know they share the intel because
we share an intel with each other. If it's fake talks,
obviously not. If you run, we'll relinquish the means to
(06:32):
destroy our country, then obviously it's preferable to anything else.
But that hasn't happened so far, and frankly, I doubt
it's going to happen now.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Net Yahu being very clear, we're going to do what's
best interest for our country for our survival. Iran doesn't
want to sit at the table. They want to blow
up the table. And he's saying, hey, we're not going
to be played because we've been dealing with these people forever.
Now there are real consequences, and there's also a real
problem now with Iran and the leadership in Tehran. Is
(07:03):
that this country that acted like they were so powerful
is actually extremely militarily weak. The air superiority that Israel
has to do in essence right now whatever they want
to do over the country of Iran is shocking. This also,
I think makes Iran more vulnerable to people around them
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now because now people realize how easy it is to
actually go after Iran and look Iran through money and
basic arms to terrorist groups of US has block et
cetera for decades, and so there was a lot of
people that thought, man, these guys have everything. They've almost
got a nuclear weapon. This is a big problem. And
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what we're witnessing now is not only is there intelligence
in serious trouble because so many of them that we're
supposed to be hiding have been knocked out and are dead,
but the regime now could easily be toppled if this continues.
And that's the second part of this problem. I want
to get, obviously, more of this interview for you, because
(08:07):
it's very interesting to hear what Netna who had to
say this again from ABC News exclusively, but.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
He said Iran and Israel should make a deal and
will make a deal. How do you explain that disconnect.
He seems very optimistic, in fact, seeming like he wants
you to get back to the table and get back
to the table. Now you're saying there's no getting back
to the table and tell that the goals of the
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bombing campaign are achieved.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Well, if the goals could be achieved through negotiations, fine,
I said that to the President when I saw him
in Washington. That didn't happen in the two months of
negotiations that President Trump gave them. Right now, they thought
that they could get away with it. They found that
are very decisive and very precise military action against their
nuclear program, against theistic missile program is effective. So now
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they want to stop it and continue on the side
to continue to develop those two means of mass death
that are meant to wipe Israel off the map and
commit and this is a battle you know that we
have to assure as one. If it could be one diplomatically, fine, Frankly,
it didn't happen diplomatically, and we had to act because
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we're not going to put our neck on a nuclear
you know, to a nuclear knife and let them destroy us.
We're fighting this larger war against this suppressive regime that
has oppressed the Iranian people for forty six years. That
has spread mayhem, violence and terror throughout the Middle East
and well beyond. They try to assassinate President Trump twice.
They try to kill me twice. They actually had their
(09:45):
proxies shoot a drone right into my bedroom window. They
are targeting every one of our ministers, a key ministers
for death. So they speak a good line, but they
don't walk the walk. And again, we have to remove
that threat. And I think it's a larger battle. It's
a battle of civilization against barbarism. This regime is the
cult of death. Don't mistake make any mistakes about it.
(10:08):
And sometimes you know, the forces of civilization have to
act before it's too late. We did, and we're going
to remove those threats against our existence one way or
the other. The Jewish people haven't traveled over time, this
great odyssey of thirty five hundred years with some of
the worst tragedies metted out to any people during their existence.
We're not going to have a second Holocaust. We'll do
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whatever is necessary to prevent that. And President Trump has
been a terrific friend and a terrific leader, and I
trust his judgment and we have together, we know what
needs to be done in order to assure that those
two twin threats to our very survival, to the survival
and the peace of the world are removed.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So are you going to target the Supreme Leader?
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Look, we're doing what we need to do. I'm not
going to get into the details. But we've targeted their
top nuclear scientists, basically Hitler's nuclear team. You know, we
got them. We still have work to do on other sites.
We have targeted their ballistic missile manufacturing facilities.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Understand this.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
You see these bombs. You saw a single bomb, it's
one ton bomb John dropping on Tel Aviv and other places,
causing killing men, women and children. They're deliberately targeting our population.
We're not doing that. We're targeting their military sites, their
nuclear sites, their ballistic missile sites, so they don't have
twenty thousands of these that no country could survive with. Yeah,
(11:37):
they want to continue stringing us along, but you know
there's a limit because if we don't act now, there
won't be a thirteenth hower. So we have to act.
But what I'm saying is that we're not merely protecting ourselves.
We're protecting everybody. We're protecting our Arab neighbors, with whom
we want to expand the piece as we did under
President Trump's leadership in the abram Accords, will be possible
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if Ran is defanged. We're also protecting the world. They
have ballistic missiles that can now reach deep into Europe
and soon could reach the United States. And imagine what
this regime that calls death to America every time that
bombed your American embassies, that murdered two hundred forty one
Marines in Beirut, that killed and injured thousands of American
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servicemen in Iraq and Afghanistan, that try to blow up
a restaurant in Washington, that burns the American flag? Do
you want these people to have nuclear weapons and the
means to deliver them to your cities? Today it's tell Aviv,
Tomorrow it's New York. Look, I understand America first, I
don't understand America dead. That's what these people want. They
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chant death to America. So we're doing something that is
in the service of mankind, of humanity, and it's a
battle of good against evil. America does should and does
stand with the good. That's what President Trump is doing
and I deeply appreciate his support.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I don't understand America or he says, he said, I
understand America first, I don't understand America dead. And that
is an incredible moment in this interview where he's saying,
we are dealing with the reality of the situation, and
we're not going to sit here and act like this
isn't happening. We know what Iran wants to do to us.
(13:20):
They've made it clear, They've said it over and over again.
They've given countless dollars to terrorist groups and organizations to
come after us. We know that, and we've witnessed it,
and they've killed our people. So why on earth would
we sit here and wait for them to continue their mission,
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which we know what their mission actually is. It is
to kill us. It is to wipe us off the
face of the earth. They've said it. We believe them,
We absolutely believe them. And I go back to the
basic core points here. Israel has always had a right
to defend themselves, but after what happened in October the seventh,
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they had a right to also make sure that they
had the ability to defend themselves. And clearly, the way
the situation was before that date was unfortunately not good enough.
It was a false sense of security, and so they
had to make a change. They had to do something different.
They had to make sure that they made a real change,
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and they had to make sure that they never allowed
it to happen again.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It's very much the mentality that we had after nine
to eleven. Never again. Now.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Unfortunately, who knows who we led in this country with
our wide open borders, and we know that there's terrorists
that we led into this country, and we know we're
trying to find those terrorists, and it's a very very
very very very very very big problem. But you look
at what Israel went through on October the seventh, It
was there nine eleven. Okay, it's the worst attack on
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the Jews since the Holocaust. And when you understand that,
and when you look at what they are surrounded by
and you look at the people that want kill them,
I cannot blame them for doing this. I cannot blame
them at all, not one single bit can can I
blame them for what they are doing? And for people
(15:12):
that are saying, oh, well, they must show restraint, how
do you show restraint when there's ballistic missiles that are
coming at you. Serious question, how do you then show
restraint when you were at night having to worry, and
during the day having to worry, and when you fall asleep,
having to worry that you're never going to wake up
because of some missile that's going to hit you, that
(15:33):
they're going to overload the iron dome, and that some
are going to get through, and ballistic missiles are going
to hit your apartment complex, because you have to understand
they always target civilians. I am so tired of hearing
the what about ism of well, what about this or
what about that, or what about this or what you
have a right to defend yourself. I promise you we
in America would never live this way. If we had
(15:56):
rockets coming at us, whoever was doing it, they would
have already been dead alone long time ago.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
We would not put up with this crap.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
And yet, and yet there's so many in Americans, so
many anti Semites, and so many in the media that
are saying, well, Israel shouldn't be able to do this
and shouldn't be able to protect themselves. Imagine if every night,
or every other night, or every other week, you had
somebody lobbing literal rockets into your backyard, into your home,
hitting your neighbors' houses. How long would you put up
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with that? I want that to percolate in your mind,
like how long would you put up with that? And
people are like, well, Israel's just going too far and
what they did in Gaza, did they have any other choice?
And I asked that question sincerely, with all of the
tunnels that were built underground, all the terrorism networks, I mean,
the whole Gaza strip was a terrorist in essence, like
(16:45):
perfectly built city for terrorism, and you witness what they
did to you. Then then you again, You've got to
go back to the basic question, how long would you
live under those circumstances? I know how long I would
live under those like basically zero. The people that are
shooting rockets at me, there's hell to pay. If terrorists
are taking my family, my friends, there's hell to pay.
(17:09):
And what Israel is doing right now, some would argue
it's long overdue. There is a real chance now that
the United States of America may join Israel in the
war against Iran. Now, let me explain why this could
take place, and I also understand what war means. In
twenty twenty five, Number one, there is no chance that
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Donald Trump is going to put troops on the ground.
There will be no boots on the ground. That is
not what this means. That's number one. Number two, this
is not an invasion of Iraq or Afghanistan, which there
have been many that have been lying about.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
That over the last several hours. So I want to
clear that up.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
In fact, I've talked to several of my good friends
that work in the administration and they're saying that is
not even a remote possibility. What Donald Trump is saying
t Iran is simple surrender.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Surrender and do the deal on your nuclear program or
prepare for your nuclear program to be annihilated. That is
what he is saying. And he's not mincing words on
this either, because as Donald Trump has said, look, we
can take total control of Iranian airspace as Israel is done.
(18:27):
And we also know where the Iotota is hiding. Now
we're not going to kill him right now. But he's
telling you Ittola, like you want to die, fine, like
we can make that happen. We know where you are
and we can kill you. We would rather not do that,
but if you want to stand in power, then you
better do the damn deal. And so what would this
look like is I think a better way of putting it.
(18:50):
If we did get involved, it would actually.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Be very very simple.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
We would use the technology that I think we're the
only country that has it to go after this nuclear
site that is very deep underground in Iran. Israel does
not have the technology to hit that deep. That's part
of what you need to understand. So again I go
back to the basic thing. Is this something that America needs?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Do?
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I believe that it is. I really do.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I believe this isn't our best interest for us to
make sure that there is an Iran that uh is
not nuclear right.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
And Donald Trump's also been.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Clear about this for quite some time and finked in fact,
he's he has been so clear on this since the
day came down the elevator ten years and one day ago.
Are ten years and two days ago, where he said
to the world that there's no circumstance where Ran can
get a nuclear weapon. There's no circumstance where Ran can
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get a nuclear weapon. That is significant and the President
is not bluffing on this, okay, Like the President has
made it very clear that you can't trust them, now,
Why can't you trust them? Because they're a murders regime, like,
that's what they are, and they chant death to America
and they chant death to Israel. So when that's what
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they do and that is what they say, then I
think you just say, Okay, I actually believe you. I
believe you when you tell me that you want to
kill innocent men, women, children that are Americans, and you
want to annihilate the Jews. And if you have a
nuclear weapon, you will either do it or you'll give
it to one of your terrorist proxy groups that you
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support and they will do it. There's also a second
part of what's happening right now that I think people
need to understand as well, and that second part is this.
The President is also I think inspiring the people of
Iran and especially specifically in Tehran, to understand that, hey,
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your government may not be as powerful as they actually
have been able to make you believe. In fact, they're
incredibly vulnerable. Look at the traffic jams and the people
leaving Tehran as the President said, leave evacuate. They weren't
listening to the leadership in Iran like that. That's something
(21:15):
they were not doing. They were listening to the American
President of the United States of America and they were leaving
because the President said to evacuate Tehran. And when he
did that, I think that also sent a very clear
message like, hey, your guys claim that they're in charge
of your country, that are holding you back and oppressing
you in are brutal dictators of a murder's regime, like
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they may be a lot more vulnerable than you actually understand. Also,
having air superiority is part three of this. The fact
that Iran was able to be decimated when it comes
to their air power virtually instantly by Israel, and now
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Israel can do whatever they want to do whenever they
want to do it, however they want to do it.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Over the skies of Israel, of Iran.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
It is also incredibly telling, like it is unbelievable now
what we're looking at, and I mean this like it
is it is just amazing to me that we have
seen how quickly Iran has been just decimated and now
you can do whatever you want to do. Now you
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put all this together in a perfect storm where we
are now. And this is also I think a foreign
policy issue. Er we're sitting the president saying the message
of the world. Like if I tell you, whether it's
tariffs or a nuclear program, that this is the deal,
and you don't believe me, watch how fast you find out?
Like this goes back to that FAFO mentality of this
(22:49):
of this administration, Like watch and find out. You are
the president returning to Washington after cutting the G seven
Canada trip short, You're the president saying, everybody, get to
get in the situation room. You have the president telling
that clearly the Vice president to go out and say, hey.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
We may enter this war.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
All of these different scenarios and just how quickly the
President is moving I think is just no one I
think believe the President would move this quick. And I
think he's shown people that like, hey, not only are
we going to move this quick, but you guys better
get the hell out of the way. Like when I
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tell you something, if it's sixty days, and that was
a nice timeline that I gave you, right, it really was.
It was a nice timeline. And the sixty day timeline
that I gave you, you should have paid attention and you
should have listened. And if you would have listened, then
you wouldn't be in the scenario, and so if you're
the Iatota right now, you may lose everything. I think
that's also part of what the president is saying. You
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want to lose everything.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
You want to.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Lose all your power and your life because we know
where you are and I could kill you right now
if I want to. The Israelis could kill you right
now if they want to. There's no reason for you
trying to run high because we're gonna watch you. We
know where you are, we know where you're going, and
if you think for a moment that we can't kill you,
then you're an idiot. This is all part of the
(24:13):
presence piece through strengths, showing you here's your deadline, and
I'm not screwing around now. This deadline of sixty days
was I also think a very nice one.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I really do. I think it was a very nice deadline.
It was one that gave them not thirty days, but
sixty days to do this.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I think that's a positive like that was showing that
he was really willing to come together and he was
really willing to have a conversation. Unfortunately, Iran and their
you know, murderous regime, for some reason, thought they were
much more powerful they actually were. Well, all that's been
shot to hell now, like it's all just been shot
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to hell. And so we're at a point now where
there are three different scenarios.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
In my mind that can happen. Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Number one, we could have total regime change ran and
that could happen actually quickly if the people rise up.
Number Two, we could actually take out the leader if
we need to, or Israel could take out the leader
if he needs to, and that could be significant as well.
Or three, they come to the deal and they surrender
and then everything just calms down very quickly. Those are
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three very real and very different scenarios. By the way,
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We've got a new update for you on what is
going on between Israel and Iran, and it involves the
United States of America. We are now looking at what
seems to be Iran on the run, as there is
new reports coming out that the Mullahs want to talk
with Donald Trump to push a peace deal. This after
Donald Trump made it clear, you've got sixty days to
(00:22):
come up with something and to do what we've asked
you to do with nuclear proliferation, and they said no. Well,
now Donald Trump is saying, hey, We're okay to have
this piece talk if.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You want to.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
That could mean giving up its nuclear enrichment program. Why,
simply to save the Iranian regime. After israel Is taking
out top leadership in their government, giving up their nuclear
richment program is on the table to save the Ranian regime.
Reports of Iran's eagerness to in the fight came as
(00:54):
Israeli fighters came with a new attack attacking the regime
institutions and the capital city of Tehran. Now they have
total air superiority over the nation, including the state broadcaster,
after achieving total dominance of their entire air space. The
Wall Street Journal putting it this way, Iran has been
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urgently signaling that it seeks an end to the hostilities
and the resumption of talks over at zuclear programs. In
the midst of a ferocious Israeli air campaign. Taran has
told AIRB officials it would be open to returning to
the negotiating table as long as the US doesn't join
the attack. Iran also passed the messages to Israel, saying
it is in the interest of both sides to keep
(01:38):
the violence.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Quote contained the.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ettnah who has said the attacks
will continue until iran zuclear program and their ballistic missiles
are destroyed, and he has shown no indication that he
is ready to stop. He has also said the regime
change isn't a goal, but it would be a result
(02:00):
given the Iranian leadership's weakness. Now, Israel is unlikely to
relent until it has destroyed most or all of Iran's
ballistic missile launchers. Why, because they've been hit by those
ballistic missiles and has cost Israeli lives. Now, this is
something they've had to do with the Iron Dome, continuing
to fight the fire. A barrage of these missiles coming
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at the Israeli citizens. Most of this happening at night now.
Net Yahoo has also been doing some interviews, and he's
set down for an interview with ABC News moments ago.
I want you to hear what he had to say
in that interview with ABC.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Take a listen now when ABC News exclusive.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I'm joined by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who comes
to us from an undisclosed location in Israel. Mister Prime Minister,
thank you for joining us. Let me start with the
news that has just come in. The Wall Street Journal
is reporting that Iran has been urgently signaling that it
wants to end hostilities and to resume talks over its
(03:06):
nuclear program. According to the journal, they have been sending
messages to Israel and the United States via Arab intermediaries.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Have you received that message from the Iranians.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Well, not directly, but I'm not surprised. I mean, they
want to continue to have these fake talks in which
they lie, they cheat, they string the US along, and
you know, we have very solid intel on that. But
of course they want to keep on building their nuclear
weapons and building their mass ballistic missile arsenal which they're
firing at our people. They want to continue to create
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the two existential threats against say Isel while they're talking.
That's not going to happen. You know, we're not at
the eleventh hour. We're the twelfth hour, and we stop.
We acted to secure the life of the nation, and
we're going to continue until we remove the two existential threats,
the nuclear threat and the threat of twenty thousand ballistic
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missiles that are equivalent to two nuclear bombs. So they
want to stop and keep it, but we are committed
to removing those threats.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
So I think what I hear you're saying quite clearly
is there will be no end to the Israeli bombing
of Iran until you have accomplished your objective here. You're
not going to stop for peace talks.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Well, look, we had the peace talks. We gave it
a chance. We've you know, clenched our teeth, we did
everything we could to enable President Trump to negotiate the
desired result, and that would have been preferable for us
and I think for everyone. But we saw in the
course of the negotiations, while they were negotiating with the
United States, the Supreme Leader of Iran, Aetola Kaminai, tweeted
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almost every day, death to Israel. The talks were merely
a facade, and we absolutely if it could be achieved
with the negotiations, fine, but it wasn't being achieved, so
we had to act to safeguard our existence. You would
do the same.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
But over the weekend we heard from President and Trump
on truth social say Iran and Israel should make a deal,
and will make a deal. We will have peace soon
between Israel and Iran. Many calls and meetings now taking place.
So if President and Trump asked you to stop the
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bombing campaign to resume these talks, would you do it?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Well.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
President Trump has been a great leader, a great leader
of the world, and a great leader and a great
friend of Israel. And he put forward the terms very
clearly in their negotiations. He said, Iran cannot have a
nuclear weapon, and in order for it not to have
a nuclear weapon, it cannot have the capacity to enrich uranium,
is the prerequisite for nuclear weapons. Iran refused. It just
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refuses all the time, It cheats, and it continues to
try to weaponize the rich uranium they already have. They
have nine Adam bombs worth of enriched uranium they're working secretly,
as we shared with the United States, they're working secretly
to rapidly weaponize this. In a few months, they would
have nuclear bombs. That's what they want to do. They
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want to continue stringing the US along, build up those weapons.
They don't want to seat at the table. They want
to blow up the table. Specifically, they want to blow
up Israel and purchase time. And I think the US
shares the until I know they share the intel because
we share an intel with each other. If it's fake talks,
obviously not. If you run, we'll relinquish the means to
(06:32):
destroy our country, then obviously it's preferable to anything else.
But that hasn't happened so far, and frankly, I doubt
it's going to happen now.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Net Yahu being very clear, we're going to do what's
best interest for our country for our survival. Iran doesn't
want to sit at the table. They want to blow
up the table. And he's saying, hey, we're not going
to be played because we've been dealing with these people forever.
Now there are real consequences, and there's also a real
problem now with Iran and the leadership in Tehran. Is
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that this country that acted like they were so powerful
is actually extremely militarily weak. The air superiority that Israel
has to do in essence right now whatever they want
to do over the country of Iran is shocking. This also,
I think makes Iran more vulnerable to people around them
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now because now people realize how easy it is to
actually go after Iran and look Iran through money and
basic arms to terrorist groups of US has block et
cetera for decades, and so there was a lot of
people that thought, man, these guys have everything. They've almost
got a nuclear weapon. This is a big problem. And
(07:44):
what we're witnessing now is not only is there intelligence
in serious trouble because so many of them that we're
supposed to be hiding have been knocked out and are dead,
but the regime now could easily be toppled if this continues.
And that's the second part of this problem. I want
to get, obviously, more of this interview for you, because
(08:07):
it's very interesting to hear what Netna who had to
say this again from ABC News exclusively, but.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
He said Iran and Israel should make a deal and
will make a deal. How do you explain that disconnect.
He seems very optimistic, in fact, seeming like he wants
you to get back to the table and get back
to the table. Now you're saying there's no getting back
to the table and tell that the goals of the
(08:36):
bombing campaign are achieved.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Well, if the goals could be achieved through negotiations, fine,
I said that to the President when I saw him
in Washington. That didn't happen in the two months of
negotiations that President Trump gave them. Right now, they thought
that they could get away with it. They found that
are very decisive and very precise military action against their
nuclear program, against theistic missile program is effective. So now
(09:03):
they want to stop it and continue on the side
to continue to develop those two means of mass death
that are meant to wipe Israel off the map and
commit and this is a battle you know that we
have to assure as one. If it could be one diplomatically, fine, Frankly,
it didn't happen diplomatically, and we had to act because
(09:24):
we're not going to put our neck on a nuclear
you know, to a nuclear knife and let them destroy us.
We're fighting this larger war against this suppressive regime that
has oppressed the Iranian people for forty six years. That
has spread mayhem, violence and terror throughout the Middle East
and well beyond. They try to assassinate President Trump twice.
They try to kill me twice. They actually had their
(09:45):
proxies shoot a drone right into my bedroom window. They
are targeting every one of our ministers, a key ministers
for death. So they speak a good line, but they
don't walk the walk. And again, we have to remove
that threat. And I think it's a larger battle. It's
a battle of civilization against barbarism. This regime is the
cult of death. Don't mistake make any mistakes about it.
(10:08):
And sometimes you know, the forces of civilization have to
act before it's too late. We did, and we're going
to remove those threats against our existence one way or
the other. The Jewish people haven't traveled over time, this
great odyssey of thirty five hundred years with some of
the worst tragedies metted out to any people during their existence.
We're not going to have a second Holocaust. We'll do
(10:31):
whatever is necessary to prevent that. And President Trump has
been a terrific friend and a terrific leader, and I
trust his judgment and we have together, we know what
needs to be done in order to assure that those
two twin threats to our very survival, to the survival
and the peace of the world are removed.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So are you going to target the Supreme Leader?
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Look, we're doing what we need to do. I'm not
going to get into the details. But we've targeted their
top nuclear scientists, basically Hitler's nuclear team. You know, we
got them. We still have work to do on other sites.
We have targeted their ballistic missile manufacturing facilities.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Understand this.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
You see these bombs. You saw a single bomb, it's
one ton bomb John dropping on Tel Aviv and other places,
causing killing men, women and children. They're deliberately targeting our population.
We're not doing that. We're targeting their military sites, their
nuclear sites, their ballistic missile sites, so they don't have
twenty thousands of these that no country could survive with. Yeah,
(11:37):
they want to continue stringing us along, but you know
there's a limit because if we don't act now, there
won't be a thirteenth hower. So we have to act.
But what I'm saying is that we're not merely protecting ourselves.
We're protecting everybody. We're protecting our Arab neighbors, with whom
we want to expand the piece as we did under
President Trump's leadership in the abram Accords, will be possible
(12:01):
if Ran is defanged. We're also protecting the world. They
have ballistic missiles that can now reach deep into Europe
and soon could reach the United States. And imagine what
this regime that calls death to America every time that
bombed your American embassies, that murdered two hundred forty one
Marines in Beirut, that killed and injured thousands of American
(12:21):
servicemen in Iraq and Afghanistan, that try to blow up
a restaurant in Washington, that burns the American flag? Do
you want these people to have nuclear weapons and the
means to deliver them to your cities? Today it's tell Aviv,
Tomorrow it's New York. Look, I understand America first, I
don't understand America dead. That's what these people want. They
(12:42):
chant death to America. So we're doing something that is
in the service of mankind, of humanity, and it's a
battle of good against evil. America does should and does
stand with the good. That's what President Trump is doing
and I deeply appreciate his support.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I don't understand America or he says, he said, I
understand America first, I don't understand America dead. And that
is an incredible moment in this interview where he's saying,
we are dealing with the reality of the situation, and
we're not going to sit here and act like this
isn't happening. We know what Iran wants to do to us.
(13:20):
They've made it clear, They've said it over and over again.
They've given countless dollars to terrorist groups and organizations to
come after us. We know that, and we've witnessed it,
and they've killed our people. So why on earth would
we sit here and wait for them to continue their mission,
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which we know what their mission actually is. It is
to kill us. It is to wipe us off the
face of the earth. They've said it. We believe them,
We absolutely believe them. And I go back to the
basic core points here. Israel has always had a right
to defend themselves, but after what happened in October the seventh,
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they had a right to also make sure that they
had the ability to defend themselves. And clearly, the way
the situation was before that date was unfortunately not good enough.
It was a false sense of security, and so they
had to make a change. They had to do something different.
They had to make sure that they made a real change,
(14:24):
and they had to make sure that they never allowed
it to happen again.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It's very much the mentality that we had after nine
to eleven. Never again. Now.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Unfortunately, who knows who we led in this country with
our wide open borders, and we know that there's terrorists
that we led into this country, and we know we're
trying to find those terrorists, and it's a very very
very very very very very big problem. But you look
at what Israel went through on October the seventh, It
was there nine eleven. Okay, it's the worst attack on
(14:51):
the Jews since the Holocaust. And when you understand that,
and when you look at what they are surrounded by
and you look at the people that want kill them,
I cannot blame them for doing this. I cannot blame
them at all, not one single bit can can I
blame them for what they are doing? And for people
(15:12):
that are saying, oh, well, they must show restraint, how
do you show restraint when there's ballistic missiles that are
coming at you. Serious question, how do you then show
restraint when you were at night having to worry, and
during the day having to worry, and when you fall asleep,
having to worry that you're never going to wake up
because of some missile that's going to hit you, that
(15:33):
they're going to overload the iron dome, and that some
are going to get through, and ballistic missiles are going
to hit your apartment complex, because you have to understand
they always target civilians. I am so tired of hearing
the what about ism of well, what about this or
what about that, or what about this or what you
have a right to defend yourself. I promise you we
in America would never live this way. If we had
(15:56):
rockets coming at us, whoever was doing it, they would
have already been dead alone long time ago.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
We would not put up with this crap.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
And yet, and yet there's so many in Americans, so
many anti Semites, and so many in the media that
are saying, well, Israel shouldn't be able to do this
and shouldn't be able to protect themselves. Imagine if every night,
or every other night, or every other week, you had
somebody lobbing literal rockets into your backyard, into your home,
hitting your neighbors' houses. How long would you put up
(16:25):
with that? I want that to percolate in your mind,
like how long would you put up with that? And
people are like, well, Israel's just going too far and
what they did in Gaza, did they have any other choice?
And I asked that question sincerely, with all of the
tunnels that were built underground, all the terrorism networks, I mean,
the whole Gaza strip was a terrorist in essence, like
(16:45):
perfectly built city for terrorism, and you witness what they
did to you. Then then you again, You've got to
go back to the basic question, how long would you
live under those circumstances? I know how long I would
live under those like basically zero. The people that are
shooting rockets at me, there's hell to pay. If terrorists
are taking my family, my friends, there's hell to pay.
(17:09):
And what Israel is doing right now, some would argue
it's long overdue. There is a real chance now that
the United States of America may join Israel in the
war against Iran. Now, let me explain why this could
take place, and I also understand what war means. In
twenty twenty five, Number one, there is no chance that
(17:33):
Donald Trump is going to put troops on the ground.
There will be no boots on the ground. That is
not what this means. That's number one. Number two, this
is not an invasion of Iraq or Afghanistan, which there
have been many that have been lying about.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
That over the last several hours. So I want to
clear that up.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
In fact, I've talked to several of my good friends
that work in the administration and they're saying that is
not even a remote possibility. What Donald Trump is saying
t Iran is simple surrender.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Surrender and do the deal on your nuclear program or
prepare for your nuclear program to be annihilated. That is
what he is saying. And he's not mincing words on
this either, because as Donald Trump has said, look, we
can take total control of Iranian airspace as Israel is done.
(18:27):
And we also know where the Iotota is hiding. Now
we're not going to kill him right now. But he's
telling you Ittola, like you want to die, fine, like
we can make that happen. We know where you are
and we can kill you. We would rather not do that,
but if you want to stand in power, then you
better do the damn deal. And so what would this
look like is I think a better way of putting it.
(18:50):
If we did get involved, it would actually.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Be very very simple.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
We would use the technology that I think we're the
only country that has it to go after this nuclear
site that is very deep underground in Iran. Israel does
not have the technology to hit that deep. That's part
of what you need to understand. So again I go
back to the basic thing. Is this something that America needs?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Do?
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I believe that it is. I really do.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I believe this isn't our best interest for us to
make sure that there is an Iran that uh is
not nuclear right.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
And Donald Trump's also been.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Clear about this for quite some time and finked in fact,
he's he has been so clear on this since the
day came down the elevator ten years and one day ago.
Are ten years and two days ago, where he said
to the world that there's no circumstance where Ran can
get a nuclear weapon. There's no circumstance where Ran can
(19:51):
get a nuclear weapon. That is significant and the President
is not bluffing on this, okay, Like the President has
made it very clear that you can't trust them, now,
Why can't you trust them? Because they're a murders regime, like,
that's what they are, and they chant death to America
and they chant death to Israel. So when that's what
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they do and that is what they say, then I
think you just say, Okay, I actually believe you. I
believe you when you tell me that you want to
kill innocent men, women, children that are Americans, and you
want to annihilate the Jews. And if you have a
nuclear weapon, you will either do it or you'll give
it to one of your terrorist proxy groups that you
(20:33):
support and they will do it. There's also a second
part of what's happening right now that I think people
need to understand as well, and that second part is this.
The President is also I think inspiring the people of
Iran and especially specifically in Tehran, to understand that, hey,
(20:53):
your government may not be as powerful as they actually
have been able to make you believe. In fact, they're
incredibly vulnerable. Look at the traffic jams and the people
leaving Tehran as the President said, leave evacuate. They weren't
listening to the leadership in Iran like that. That's something
(21:15):
they were not doing. They were listening to the American
President of the United States of America and they were leaving
because the President said to evacuate Tehran. And when he
did that, I think that also sent a very clear
message like, hey, your guys claim that they're in charge
of your country, that are holding you back and oppressing
you in are brutal dictators of a murder's regime, like
(21:38):
they may be a lot more vulnerable than you actually understand. Also,
having air superiority is part three of this. The fact
that Iran was able to be decimated when it comes
to their air power virtually instantly by Israel, and now
(21:59):
Israel can do whatever they want to do whenever they
want to do it, however they want to do it.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Over the skies of Israel, of Iran.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
It is also incredibly telling, like it is unbelievable now
what we're looking at, and I mean this like it
is it is just amazing to me that we have
seen how quickly Iran has been just decimated and now
you can do whatever you want to do. Now you
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put all this together in a perfect storm where we
are now. And this is also I think a foreign
policy issue. Er we're sitting the president saying the message
of the world. Like if I tell you, whether it's
tariffs or a nuclear program, that this is the deal,
and you don't believe me, watch how fast you find out?
Like this goes back to that FAFO mentality of this
(22:49):
of this administration, Like watch and find out. You are
the president returning to Washington after cutting the G seven
Canada trip short, You're the president saying, everybody, get to
get in the situation room. You have the president telling
that clearly the Vice president to go out and say, hey.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
We may enter this war.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
All of these different scenarios and just how quickly the
President is moving I think is just no one I
think believe the President would move this quick. And I
think he's shown people that like, hey, not only are
we going to move this quick, but you guys better
get the hell out of the way. Like when I
(23:26):
tell you something, if it's sixty days, and that was
a nice timeline that I gave you, right, it really was.
It was a nice timeline. And the sixty day timeline
that I gave you, you should have paid attention and you
should have listened. And if you would have listened, then
you wouldn't be in the scenario, and so if you're
the Iatota right now, you may lose everything. I think
that's also part of what the president is saying. You
(23:48):
want to lose everything.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
You want to.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Lose all your power and your life because we know
where you are and I could kill you right now
if I want to. The Israelis could kill you right
now if they want to. There's no reason for you
trying to run high because we're gonna watch you. We
know where you are, we know where you're going, and
if you think for a moment that we can't kill you,
then you're an idiot. This is all part of the
(24:13):
presence piece through strengths, showing you here's your deadline, and
I'm not screwing around now. This deadline of sixty days
was I also think a very nice one.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I really do. I think it was a very nice deadline.
It was one that gave them not thirty days, but
sixty days to do this.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I think that's a positive like that was showing that
he was really willing to come together and he was
really willing to have a conversation. Unfortunately, Iran and their
you know, murderous regime, for some reason, thought they were
much more powerful they actually were. Well, all that's been
shot to hell now, like it's all just been shot
(24:50):
to hell. And so we're at a point now where
there are three different scenarios.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
In my mind that can happen. Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Number one, we could have total regime change ran and
that could happen actually quickly if the people rise up.
Number Two, we could actually take out the leader if
we need to, or Israel could take out the leader
if he needs to, and that could be significant as well.
Or three, they come to the deal and they surrender
and then everything just calms down very quickly. Those are
(25:19):
three very real and very different scenarios. By the way,
this is why I love doing the show in the
podcast because we get to keep you up to date
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