June 13, 2025 • 33 mins
📰 Overview of the Situation
- Israel has launched a preemptive strike on Iran to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons.
- The operation, named "Operation Rising Lion," targeted:
- Iran’s nuclear enrichment and weaponization facilities.
- Senior Iranian military leaders, including the head of the IRGC.
- Ballistic missile infrastructure.
🇮🇱 Israel’s Justification
- Prime Minister Netanyahu declared the strike necessary to prevent a nuclear holocaust and ensure Israel’s survival.
- He emphasized that Iran was close to producing nuclear weapons and had made aggressive moves toward weaponization.
- The Israeli government views this as a defensive action, not a declaration of war.
🇺🇸 U.S. Perspective
- Senator Cruz strongly supports Israel’s actions and frames them as beneficial to both Israeli and American security.
- He warns Iran against retaliating against U.S. forces, asserting that any attack on Americans would provoke a devastating response from President Trump.
- Cruz criticizes the Democratic Party and the Biden administration for being weak on Iran and insufficiently supportive of Israel.
🧠 Strategic and Tactical Elements
- The strike is described as a “decapitation strike” aimed at crippling Iran’s nuclear and military leadership.
- It was timed to coincide with the expiration of a 60-day ultimatum issued by President Trump for Iran to dismantle its nuclear program.
- The operation is portrayed as highly successful, with significant Iranian casualties and infrastructure damage.
🗣️ Political and Ideological Commentary
- The podcast includes strong criticism of the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal and the Democratic Party’s stance on Israel.
- It highlights rising antisemitism and urges support for Israel through organizations like the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
- Cruz and Ferguson express concern about both left-wing and right-wing antisemitism in the U.S.
🔮 What’s Next?
- Iran is expected to retaliate, possibly with missile strikes against Israel or U.S. forces.
- The situation is described as extremely volatile, with the potential for significant escalation.
- The podcast ends with a call for prayer and support for Israel and American troops.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It is Verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
It's so nice to have you with us. Many of
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Center.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
We've got breaking news and it is a major world event,
Israel going after Iran, hitting targets there. This is obviously
woken a lot of people up around the world. As
we're doing this show.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
We are gathered right now at a time of war,
that time when Israel is striking back at Iran, striking
back to ensure that Iran does not acquire nuclear weapons.
And you and I are recording this podcast at is
twelve oh seven am on Friday morning, So the events
may change in the next forty eight hours, but at
twelve oh seven am, the war is just unfolding and
(00:55):
we're seeing what's happening, and what's happening so far. Israel
strikes by by the early reports, have been enormously effective.
Israel has taken out the chief of the IRGC Israel
has taken out the successor to the chief of the IRGC.
Israel has decimated the Tons, a major nuclear site in Iran,
(01:17):
and Israel is carrying out multiple military strikes right now
as we speak. Now, I will say, by the time
you listen to this podcast, it may be Friday during
the day and you're listening to the podcast. It may
be Saturday or Sunday and you're listening to this show
on the radio. Things may have changed by then. But
right now we are seeing war in the Middle East.
(01:38):
We are seeing Israel acting decisively to protect herself. And
I will say there are several messages that every one
of us need to hear, but the two that are
most important. Our number one, America stands unequivocally with the
state of Israel. We are with Israel and her right
to defend herself with no daylight whatsoever. Two a message
(02:02):
to the Iyatola.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
We have an.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Enormous number of American servicemen and women in harm's way
in the Middle East. The Iatola needs to understand if
you strike out and attack American servicemen and women, if
you kill even a single American servicemen or women, I
am absolutely confident President Trump will respond with overwhelming force,
(02:26):
and so the Iyahtola should know, do not attack America
as a response to this military assault.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Amen to that.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
And look, this is such a hard time right now
for so many in Israel, and so many that listen
to the show have asks what can I do to help?
How do I stand with the people in Israel? They
need our help now more than ever. And that's why
I want you to get involved with an organization that
I'm heavily involved with. It's called the International Fellowship of
Christians and Jews. And we are seeing something that's disturbing,
(02:56):
anti Semitism on the rise around the world. Sadly right
here in America. You have seen Jewish schools that have
been targeted, synagogues that have been threatened, families that are
living in fear. And that's happening in the US. Imagine
what's happening right now in Israel. And that's why I
want you to know about the International Fellowship of Christians
and Jews. They're on the front lines and they're providing
(03:19):
hope and help when it is needed the most, especially
right now, they're giving food and shelter to Jewish families
that are under threat. They are building countless bomb shelters
for children to keep them safe. In Israel, they're helping
survivors of hate rebuild their lives. And they don't just
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Speaker 1 (04:18):
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Don't wait be the difference of his IFCJ dot orger
eight at eight for eight eight IFCJ Right now, All right, Senator,
so let's start with the basic question, and that is
what how did this begin? What have you learned being
in Washington, d C. About this strike on these Iranian
(04:41):
nuclear sites and military targets. What do you know tonight
that that you can tell people listening.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Well, let me say, first of all, I believe this
attack was inevitable, that Iran was hell bent on acquiring
nuclear weapons. President Trump said repeatedly and unequipped that the
only option for Iran was a complete and total dismantlement
of their centrifuges, of their enrichment capacity, of their ability
(05:10):
to enrich uranium. I led a letter with fifty two
Republican senators where we said, united, we agree with President Trump.
This is the red line, complete and total dismantlement of
their nuclear capacity. Now, what President Trump said is there's
two ways they can do this. One they can do
so peacefully through negotiations, and that's what the Trump administration
(05:33):
was trying to do. Or two, if they refuse to dismantle,
they will have the centrifugees dismantled through warfare. Well, this morning,
the Iranian regime announced it was not going to shut
down even a single centrifuge. Instead, it was going to
build more. That they were hell bent on building more centrifuges,
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enriching more uranium, and they were on the path to
a nucle weapon. And I got to say, Ben, the
consequences of the statements this morning were Number one, there
were a gigantic middle frank finger to President Trump. They
were saying, we don't care what you say. We want
nuclear weapons, and we're not gonna be dissuaded. We're not
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gonna be deterred. But number two, they were a very
clear message to Israel, attack us now, because we are
barreling towards acquiring a nuclear weapon, and if you wait,
you may find yourself with an enemy that has a
nuclear weapon and that can detonated over the skies of
Israel and kill millions of Israelis. And so Iran set
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us on this course, and the government of Israel is
acting to keep the people of Israel safe. But it
is nonetheless an extraordinarily perilous time for Israel, for America,
and for the world.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Sara, you just mentioned that this was inevitable, and it
does feel like it was a long time coming, and
there was a question of who was going to do it.
Was it gonna be America, was it going to be Israel.
Clearly now we know this is Israel that is launching
this preempt to strike, and some would even argue this
was long overdue.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yes, and I will say President Trump announced on April twelfth,
that Iran has sixty days to negotiate and agree to
this sixty days. This attack was launched on June twelfth, Thursday,
June twelfth, exactly sixty days after that. That is not
an accident. Iran understood they had a timeframe, but you
(07:32):
got to understand the Iranians when they negotiate, they want
to delay. They want to delay, they want to continue
to reap the benefits of Joe Biden and the Democrats
weakness and appeasement and fuel the money that they received
into developing nuclear weapons. And so Israel made the decision.
They made the decision they were going to attack. They
were going to attack on exactly the sixty day expiration
(07:55):
of President Trump's deadline. And I think that was driven
by Iran beginning Thursday by saying we're not changing a
damn thing. We're gonna keep building centrifuges and effectively we
want a nuclear weapon and there's nothing you can do
to stop us. Israel acted to demonstrate that was not right.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Senator, I want to also remind people we do the
show as a podcast, so you can grab it three
days a week wherever you get your podcasts. Don't forget
subscribed to vertict with Ted Cruz. And let's get into
what Netnya who had to say as well, Senator netna
who came out and was and spoke very boldly, not
just to the people in Israel, but also to the world.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
So on Thursday evening, as the military strike was beginning,
Prime Minster Netnyah who addressed Israel and addressed the world.
Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Moments ago, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, a targeted military
operation to roll back the Uranian threat to Israel's very survival.
This operation will continue for as many days as it
takes to remove this threat. For decades, the tyrants of
Tehran have brazenly openly called for Israel's destruction. They've backed
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up their genocidal rhetoric with a program to develop nuclear weapons.
In recent years, Iran is produced enough highly enriched uranium
for nine atom bombs. Nine In recent months, Iran has
taken steps that it has never taken before, steps to
weaponize this enriched uranium, and if not stopped, Iran could
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produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time. It
could be a year, it could be within a few months,
less than a year. This is a clear and present
danger to Israel's very survival. Eighty years ago, the Jewish
people were the victims of a holocaust perpetrated by the
Nazi regime. Today, the Jewish state refuses to be a
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victim of a nuclear holocaust perpetrated by the Uranian regime.
Now its prime minister. I've made it clear time it again.
Israel will never allow those who call for our annihilation
to develop the means to achieve that goal. Tonight, Israel
backs those words with action. We struck at the heart
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of Iran's nuclear enrichment program. We struck at the heart
of Iran's nuclear weaponization program. We targeted Iran's main enrichment
facility in Atans. We targeted Iran's leading nuclear scientists working
on the Iranian bomb. We also struck at the heart
of Iran's ballistic missile program. Last year, Iran fired three
(10:35):
hundred ballistic missiles at Israel. Each of these missiles carries
a ton of explosives and threatens the lives of hundreds
of people. Soon, those missiles could carry a nuclear payload,
threatening the lives not of hundreds, but of millions. Iran
is gearing up to produce ten thousands of those ballistic
(10:56):
missiles within three years. Now, just imagine imagine ten tons
of TNT landing on a country the size of New Jersey.
This is an intolerable threat. It too must be stopped.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
You listen to Netnahu there, and not only was he
very queer and direct, but it was I think a
argument that if you're a sane person wherever you are
in the world, and you're looking at the position that
Israel is in with a Ran next door, they had
no choice but.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
To do this.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Look, as you know, I know Prime Minister Netne who
very well. He is a friend. We've spent a lot
of time together. When he was in DC last month,
he and I spent two almost two and a half
hours together, just one on one. I will tell you,
in the thirteen years i've been in the Senate, I've
met a lot of world leaders. That's part of the job,
as you meet the leaders of foreign countries. There is
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only one who has taking my breath away, Prime Minister Netna,
who the adjective I've used for him I've not used
for anyone else is Churchillian. Because I think he has
a seriousness of purpose. I think he has a gravitas.
He understands that he is facing literally a threat to
annihilate the people of his country, and he is committed
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to doing everything necessary to prevent it. You know, I'll
tell you when Obama was president, and when Obama was
negotiating and announcing the Obama Iran nuclear Deal, which was
catastrophically devastating, the House of Representatives invited Prime Minister Netna
who to come and address a joint session of Congress.
(12:40):
And when that happened, I invited Ellie Wizel, who is
the Nobel Laureate, incredible, incredible man, to come participate in
a conversation with me on what the threat of a
nuclear Iran was.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Ellie, he wanted it to be very mache bipartisan event.
So I invited Chuck Schumer to participate.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
He said no.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I invited multiple Democrats to participate, one after the other
after the other. They sayed said no. Finally I told Ellie,
no Democrat will participate. We did a gathering in the Capitol.
We had over five hundred people come in the Capital.
Listen Ellie Wizzel talk about his experiences seeing the horrors
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of the Holocaust, seeing the horrors of evil and Nazi Germany.
And I got to say when Ellie was l talked
about never again means never again and the greatest threat
of another holocaust on planet Earth is a nuclear Iran
where these theocratic lunatics use nuclear weapons to murder millions
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of Israelis.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
It was powerful.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
It took my breath away to be sitting at the
table with him. But it also spoke volumes that not
a single Democrat was willing to be in the room.
And I'll tell you about so. On that speech on
the Senate floor, I was there. I listened to Prime
Minister net Yahu's speech, which was powerful, it was incredibly important,
and we saw a vast number of Democrats boycott the speech,
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refuse to attend. We saw that again when when when
the Prime Minister addressed Congress more recently, and again Democrats
boycott of the speech. Kamala Harris boycott of the speech,
refused to listen to the democratically elected leader of Israel.
And it is a sad dynamic that today's Democrat party
is dominated by the Prohamas faction. Today's Democrat Party isn't
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panic because right now, far too many of their radicals
sympathize with Iran over Israel and that that may sound
like hyperbole, but you know what we are going to see.
I'm going to predict this, you and I. This is
this is early Friday morning. We are going to see
Democrat after Democrat saying to Israel, un need to restrain yourself,
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not calling out Iran, but calling out Israel, because that
is where the dank on Israel that party is.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yes, Yeah, after the attack, they've came out and said
they must show restraint, before they'd even been able to
figure out what had happened in Israel're like, well, they
need to show restraint, They must show restrained.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Everything the Biden administration over and over again said, do
not kill the terrorists, do not kill the terrorists. They
cut off weapons to Israel. The radical left in the
Democrat Party hates Israel, and that battle is only.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Going to get worse.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
One of the things I love about doing the show
Center is moments after this attack took place Israel on Iran,
you were actually on the phone with the ambassador from Israel.
What did he tell you about this attack? How long
had they been planning this, What was the final decision
that made this happen in the last several hours.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Well, understand, this show happens real time. It happens real
time in real life. You and I are recording this
early in the morning Friday morning. This podcast will come
out later in the day on Friday. So some of
you will be listening to this on Friday, others of
you will be hearing this on radio on Saturday or Sunday.
And so the world may have changed forty eight hours.
At the time when a war is initiating, it is
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a mountain of time. What I can tell you is
late Thursday night, as Israel was launching it its attacks,
before Iran has engaged in a counterattack, I was on
the phone with the Israeli ambassador of the United States
and he told me that the attack at least so far,
had gone extraordinarily well, that they'd taken out senior leadership
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of the IRGC. And I got to say, by the way,
that's a huge victory for the United States of America.
The IRGC has murdered over six hundred American servicemen and women.
They are grotesquely hostile to the United States, and for
Israel to take them out, it has enormous bend fit
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to America. But at the same time, the Israeli ambassador
told me that the instruction had gone out in Israel
to the people of Israel go to a bomb shelter,
either be in a bomb shelter or be very near
a bomb shelter, because they are anticipating early in the
morning Friday morning, that Iran is going to launch a
(17:21):
massive counterattack with ballistic weapons. And Israel has extensive anti
missile defenses, but Iran has sufficient volume that if they
launch everything, they have the capacity to overwhelm the defenses,
and so there is a very real possibility. The people
of Israel are braced. They understand. Look, look that they're
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not playing they're not playing games that they are playing
with real stakes. They're playing with live rounds. The people
of Israel understand right now, as you and I are
recording this, that we may see Israeli's die right now,
because Iran has enough missiles that if they launched them all,
there will be Israeli's murdered in the minutes and hours
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ahead of us. But at the same time, Prime Minister Netanyah,
who made the decision, it's a decision I agree with.
It's a decision that I think was right, which is
the risk of Israelis dying and of Americans dying if
Iran acquires a nuclear weapon is qualitatively different that we
could face. With an Iranian nuclear weapon, we could face
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millions murdered. And so listen, I want to underscore what
I said at the beginning of this podcast. Pray for
the people of Israel and pray for our servicemen and
women in har harm's way, because this is a very
very dangerous time.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Right now, Well, let's talk about who is targeted and
what this looks like moving forward from the standpoint of Israel.
I mean, the objective here is clearly to put them
back when it comes to a nuclear program, but they
also went after people that were involved in that program,
which is a really big way to move things backwards.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Look, this was a decapitation strike. It was targeted the
senior military leaders in Iran. It was targeted at the
nuclear facilities in Iran, it was targeted at the anti
air assault facilities in Iran. It was a very targeted
but massively effective strike. Now Iran is going to strike back.
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Understand that that that's not a possibility or a probability
it is a certainty that Iran will hit back. Now,
what I hope Iran understands is they should not hit
back at America. Hitting back at America would escalate this dramatically.
And I will say the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio,
he put out a statement Thursday night. Let me read
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his statement. Quote tonight, Israel took unilateral action against Iran.
We were not involved in strikes against Iran, and our
top priority is protecting American forces in the region. Israel
advised us that they believe this action was necessary for
its self defense. President Trump and the Administration have taken
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all necessary steps to protect our forces and remain in
close contact with our regional partners. Let me be clear,
Iran should not target US interests or personnel. Now. Look,
I'm glad that the Secretary of State was putting out
that statement defending our servicemen and women. I wish there
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had been more in that statement saying we stand with Israel.
That was missing from the statement, and it shouldn't have been.
From my perspective, we stand unequivocally with Israel. But I
understand why the Secretary of State didn't do that, which
is that he's concerned that Iran may strike at US
military forces. Now, in my view, the way to prevent
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that is not to say to Iran, hey, we had
nothing to do with That was the main theme of
the Secretary of State's statement, but rather to say, if
you attack US forces, the consequences will be overwhelming. I
think Iran responds more to stick than the carrot. But
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we shall see, and it is any way you look
at it, on unbelievably dangerous time.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Senator, Let's talk about some of the people that have
been taken out here. There's two aspects of these strikes. One,
nuclear scientists are being reported that they were targeted and
have been killed, and that is the brains of the
nuclear program. If you want to stop Iran from doing this,
taking out new nuclear scientists is absolutely brilliant. It's the
computer system, the nervous system of everything they're trying to accomplish.
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That's incredible. But we also now know from virtually every
news agency is reporting this that the IRGC tear chief Salami,
has also been eliminated.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
That is significant as well.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Well. We now know that Hussein Salami is lunch meat,
and I feel a little cheesy making fun of him.
But then again, the guy is a racist, genocidal, homicidal, lunatic.
So I hope after Salami, Beloni and Pastrami both get
eliminated as well. And if you look at the head
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of the IRGC, he has responsibility for murdering over six
hundred US servicemen and women. So if you love the
men and women of the Armed Services, if you are
grateful for friends, family, loved ones who serve defending this nation,
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then you ought to say tonight to the nation of Israel,
thank you, thank you for taking out the head of
the IRGC that is responsible for murdering hundreds of American
servicemen and women. President Trump when he was president the
first time, he took out General Solimani, and now today
the Israelis have taken out Solami a successor who is
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the terror chief of the IRGC, and he is now
with his seventy two versions. So that I will tell you,
much to his dismay, those virgins are all Gomer Pyle
and it's not what he hoped for.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I got to say. One of the best parts about
this story.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Just side note, if you look up Insamami on his
pages on the Wikipedia, it already says, he's like the
former guy in charge of the IRGC.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I love the Internet when they get it right really quickly. Center.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
It is amazing to see this moment in history, because
this is a moment in history. And I got to
ask you this, Aran now is going to respond. I'm
sure in some way. I'm sure Israel is expecting that.
You made it very clear to night America's warning and
from this administration. What happens next and what is Israel
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expecting in your mind.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Well, it depends on the escalation. I think it is
one hundred percent certain that Iran will respond by firing
missiles at Israel. Israel gets that, they understand that they're
ready for that. There is some real possibility that Iran
will respond by firing missiles or other weapons at Americans.
And I think if they do that, they will dramatically
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escalate this conflict. I think they will provoke. If they
murder American servicemen and women, I think you will see
President Trump respond with devastating force. And so again my
message to the IATOLA is, do not do that. Their
response to Israel, I don't know what it will be.
There is a risk that their response is devastating that
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it is overwhelming. They have a massive number of ballistic missiles,
so if they fire them, all the odds are significant
that we will see a very large number of Israelis murdered.
What I'm saying, Prime Minister Netanyah, who understands he knows that.
He knows that, but by virtue of engaging this attack tonight,
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there's a real risk of a significant number of Israelis
being murdered. But he did this because he knows that
if Iran has a nuclear weapon, many many more Israelis
and many many more Americans are at risk of being murdered.
Look the iatola chance death to America and death to Israel.
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I believe he believes that, and so acquiring a nuclear
weapon is not just an academic question. If he gets
a nuclear weapon, I believe he is trying to acquire
one because he wants to carry out his promises of
death to Israel and death to America. And that's precisely
why Israel has launched this attack, to stop him from
getting that capability.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I also center want to play for you what the
Israeli ambassador the United Nations had to say on CNN earlier.
Here is what he had to say when he was
asked a couple of different questions about this.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Also joining me is Reel's ambassador to the United Nations.
They need to know and ambassador, it's great to have
you here, sir. Just first on the strike that we
were seeing play out tonight and what this means should
we now consider is real to be at war with Iran.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
Now was very clear. We took a preemptive attack to
defense ourselves, to defend ourselves, and we are targeting the
nuclear facilities and the badistic mission centers in Iran. So
we don't go into declaration now, we take actions. We
decided not to wait for Iran to attack us with
nuclear capabilities. We knew that they were plotting to do that,
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and while they were talking with many countries and negotiating,
they move secretly with a military plan to attack as well.
And what we did was an act of self defense.
And we have abilities, you know, Okayatelean. Eighty years ago
when Oswitz was liberated, we required the support of the
Allies to protect our people. But today we have our
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own stage, our own military, our own alfos, and today
we are protecting ourselves from another holocaust.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
I mean these are much wider than the preemptive strikes
based on what we've seen so far, especially in terms
of targeting around top military leaders as well as senior
nuclear scientists, kind of a mass based on what we
have heard, do you know how many of those those
top military leaders and nuclear scientists and Iran the strikes
against the more successful, how many of them have been
eliminated tonight.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
No, I cannot go into those details, but I can
tell you one thing. Those people who were involved in
the nuclear production, those who were putting together the ballistic missiles,
there are targets. They are part of the machine that
threatened as well in other countries in the world. You know,
if you look back at attack that it well took,
(27:49):
whether it was against the Iraq or see. Yeah, we
try to develop a nuclear reactors. I think today everybody
can think it well for those actions. So maybe today
some people I'm not sure about why we are doing
it today, But down the world a few years from today,
the world will thank you well for the action we took.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Today night the world will think Israel for the actions
taking tonight.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Is that the big takeaway from all of.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
This It should be, but understand that the pro hamas
radical left in the Democrat Party is cheering on exactly
the opposite side, So Ben Rhodes. Many of y all
listening know who Ben Roads is. Ben Rhodes was a
top national security official in the Barack Obama National Security Council.
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He is the lead architect of the Obama Iran nuclear deal.
He is a hardcore leftist and tonight he's miserable. So
Ben Rhodes. Late Thursday night, he tweeted out, quote, this
is all so unnecessary, all of it everywhere. Understand when
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Israel tax Iran to take out the nuclear capacities. Ben Rhodes,
the leading national security official for Barack Obama is I
think Ben is in tears right now. And listen. The
Iran nuclear deal under Obama was a disaster. Under Joe Biden,
their top foreign policy objective was to have another Iran
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nuclear deal. The only thing that stopped it as Iran
was so unreasonable they would not accept it. And there
are so many in the Democrat Party right now that
are cheering for Iran. I'll tell you what I'm cheering
for America, dammit, And I'm cheering for Israel and people
who are theocratic lunatics who say they want to murder us.
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I am not dismayed that we are seeing a military
force stand up and take them out, and in particular
take out their nuclear capacity. That is critically important. We
do not want people who want to murder us to
have the tools to do so. And I think Israel's
attack did enormous benefit to America.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
You mentioned taking away their tools, and one of their
tools was going after their scientists. I mean, this is
the brains behind everything. This took a lot of planning
and apparently as incredibly successful as well. I mean, this
is taking out their nervous system, of the computer system,
whatever you want to call it, for their nuclear program
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by going after the scientists.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
It's absolutely brilliant, and they pulled it off.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
They did, it was executed with amazing precision. Now it's early. Look,
you and I are both talking early in the morning
Friday morning. It is possible that problems developed later Friday,
later Saturday, later Sunday. One of the challenges of doing
a show like this at the beginning of military conflict
is you don't know how things will shake out. But
(30:52):
I will say this so Benjamin Etna, who is a
strong conservative one of his predecessors as Israeli Prime minister
was enough Tally Bennett. Now enough Tally had been previously
Netan Yaho's chief of staff. But then but then Bennett
broke with nen Yahoo and ended up becoming prime minister himself,
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in significant part by opposing net Nyahu. But I want
you to listen to this clip a former Israeli Prime
Minister enough Tally Bennett talking about what this is all about.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Give a listen.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
Well, israelis had a siren across the country indicating that
Israel's air force is a conducting a prempt to strike
against Iran's military facilities and perhaps also the nuclear facilities.
I want to remind you that Iran's about a week
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away from being able to obtain the amount of enriched
uranium for ten bombs. So this is not me saying this.
This is the international nuclear community and the goal ultimately
will be to remove the nuclear threat from the Middle East.
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And sitting the head of the octopus of terror that's
been causing all of the mess we've seen over the
past couple of years in the region, I mean, there
it is.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
And I will say when today's Democrats in the Senate
and House are to the left of that are saying
do not attack Iran. And we're going to see I'm
going to make a prediction in the hours and days ahead,
we're going to see a massive rise in the attacks
from the anti Semitic left. And the anti Semitic left
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is growing bigger and bigger, and so those who hate
Israel will be really vocal. And unfortunately there's also a
contingent on the anti Semitic right. The anti Semitic right
is smaller than the left, but both of them are
absolutely wrong, and you're going to see online people say
the Israelis are dragging us into war. I'm here to
tell you the Israelis are acting to prevent war, to
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prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons, and those nuclear weapons
could well be used to murder millions of Israelis or
millions of Americans, and so Israel is acting in self defense.
And I want to be clear, America stands with Israel.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Center.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
We've got breaking news and it is a major world event,
Israel going after Iran, hitting targets there. This is obviously
woken a lot of people up around the world. As
we're doing this show.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
We are gathered right now at a time of war,
that time when Israel is striking back at Iran, striking
back to ensure that Iran does not acquire nuclear weapons.
And you and I are recording this podcast at is
twelve oh seven am on Friday morning, So the events
may change in the next forty eight hours, but at
twelve oh seven am, the war is just unfolding and
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we're seeing what's happening, and what's happening so far. Israel
strikes by by the early reports, have been enormously effective.
Israel has taken out the chief of the IRGC Israel
has taken out the successor to the chief of the IRGC.
Israel has decimated the Tons, a major nuclear site in Iran,
(01:17):
and Israel is carrying out multiple military strikes right now
as we speak. Now, I will say, by the time
you listen to this podcast, it may be Friday during
the day and you're listening to the podcast. It may
be Saturday or Sunday and you're listening to this show
on the radio. Things may have changed by then. But
right now we are seeing war in the Middle East.
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We are seeing Israel acting decisively to protect herself. And
I will say there are several messages that every one
of us need to hear, but the two that are
most important. Our number one, America stands unequivocally with the
state of Israel. We are with Israel and her right
to defend herself with no daylight whatsoever. Two a message
(02:02):
to the Iyatola.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
We have an.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Enormous number of American servicemen and women in harm's way
in the Middle East. The Iatola needs to understand if
you strike out and attack American servicemen and women, if
you kill even a single American servicemen or women, I
am absolutely confident President Trump will respond with overwhelming force,
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and so the Iyahtola should know, do not attack America
as a response to this military assault.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Amen to that.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
And look, this is such a hard time right now
for so many in Israel, and so many that listen
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How do I stand with the people in Israel? They
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eight at eight for eight eight IFCJ Right now, All right, Senator,
so let's start with the basic question, and that is
what how did this begin? What have you learned being
in Washington, d C. About this strike on these Iranian
(04:41):
nuclear sites and military targets. What do you know tonight
that that you can tell people listening.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Well, let me say, first of all, I believe this
attack was inevitable, that Iran was hell bent on acquiring
nuclear weapons. President Trump said repeatedly and unequipped that the
only option for Iran was a complete and total dismantlement
of their centrifuges, of their enrichment capacity, of their ability
(05:10):
to enrich uranium. I led a letter with fifty two
Republican senators where we said, united, we agree with President Trump.
This is the red line, complete and total dismantlement of
their nuclear capacity. Now, what President Trump said is there's
two ways they can do this. One they can do
so peacefully through negotiations, and that's what the Trump administration
(05:33):
was trying to do. Or two, if they refuse to dismantle,
they will have the centrifugees dismantled through warfare. Well, this morning,
the Iranian regime announced it was not going to shut
down even a single centrifuge. Instead, it was going to
build more. That they were hell bent on building more centrifuges,
(05:56):
enriching more uranium, and they were on the path to
a nucle weapon. And I got to say, Ben, the
consequences of the statements this morning were Number one, there
were a gigantic middle frank finger to President Trump. They
were saying, we don't care what you say. We want
nuclear weapons, and we're not gonna be dissuaded. We're not
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gonna be deterred. But number two, they were a very
clear message to Israel, attack us now, because we are
barreling towards acquiring a nuclear weapon, and if you wait,
you may find yourself with an enemy that has a
nuclear weapon and that can detonated over the skies of
Israel and kill millions of Israelis. And so Iran set
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us on this course, and the government of Israel is
acting to keep the people of Israel safe. But it
is nonetheless an extraordinarily perilous time for Israel, for America,
and for the world.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Sara, you just mentioned that this was inevitable, and it
does feel like it was a long time coming, and
there was a question of who was going to do it.
Was it gonna be America, was it going to be Israel.
Clearly now we know this is Israel that is launching
this preempt to strike, and some would even argue this
was long overdue.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yes, and I will say President Trump announced on April twelfth,
that Iran has sixty days to negotiate and agree to
this sixty days. This attack was launched on June twelfth, Thursday,
June twelfth, exactly sixty days after that. That is not
an accident. Iran understood they had a timeframe, but you
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got to understand the Iranians when they negotiate, they want
to delay. They want to delay, they want to continue
to reap the benefits of Joe Biden and the Democrats
weakness and appeasement and fuel the money that they received
into developing nuclear weapons. And so Israel made the decision.
They made the decision they were going to attack. They
were going to attack on exactly the sixty day expiration
(07:55):
of President Trump's deadline. And I think that was driven
by Iran beginning Thursday by saying we're not changing a
damn thing. We're gonna keep building centrifuges and effectively we
want a nuclear weapon and there's nothing you can do
to stop us. Israel acted to demonstrate that was not right.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Senator, I want to also remind people we do the
show as a podcast, so you can grab it three
days a week wherever you get your podcasts. Don't forget
subscribed to vertict with Ted Cruz. And let's get into
what Netnya who had to say as well, Senator netna
who came out and was and spoke very boldly, not
just to the people in Israel, but also to the world.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
So on Thursday evening, as the military strike was beginning,
Prime Minster Netnyah who addressed Israel and addressed the world.
Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Moments ago, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, a targeted military
operation to roll back the Uranian threat to Israel's very survival.
This operation will continue for as many days as it
takes to remove this threat. For decades, the tyrants of
Tehran have brazenly openly called for Israel's destruction. They've backed
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up their genocidal rhetoric with a program to develop nuclear weapons.
In recent years, Iran is produced enough highly enriched uranium
for nine atom bombs. Nine In recent months, Iran has
taken steps that it has never taken before, steps to
weaponize this enriched uranium, and if not stopped, Iran could
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produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time. It
could be a year, it could be within a few months,
less than a year. This is a clear and present
danger to Israel's very survival. Eighty years ago, the Jewish
people were the victims of a holocaust perpetrated by the
Nazi regime. Today, the Jewish state refuses to be a
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victim of a nuclear holocaust perpetrated by the Uranian regime.
Now its prime minister. I've made it clear time it again.
Israel will never allow those who call for our annihilation
to develop the means to achieve that goal. Tonight, Israel
backs those words with action. We struck at the heart
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of Iran's nuclear enrichment program. We struck at the heart
of Iran's nuclear weaponization program. We targeted Iran's main enrichment
facility in Atans. We targeted Iran's leading nuclear scientists working
on the Iranian bomb. We also struck at the heart
of Iran's ballistic missile program. Last year, Iran fired three
(10:35):
hundred ballistic missiles at Israel. Each of these missiles carries
a ton of explosives and threatens the lives of hundreds
of people. Soon, those missiles could carry a nuclear payload,
threatening the lives not of hundreds, but of millions. Iran
is gearing up to produce ten thousands of those ballistic
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missiles within three years. Now, just imagine imagine ten tons
of TNT landing on a country the size of New Jersey.
This is an intolerable threat. It too must be stopped.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
You listen to Netnahu there, and not only was he
very queer and direct, but it was I think a
argument that if you're a sane person wherever you are
in the world, and you're looking at the position that
Israel is in with a Ran next door, they had
no choice but.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
To do this.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Look, as you know, I know Prime Minister Netne who
very well. He is a friend. We've spent a lot
of time together. When he was in DC last month,
he and I spent two almost two and a half
hours together, just one on one. I will tell you,
in the thirteen years i've been in the Senate, I've
met a lot of world leaders. That's part of the job,
as you meet the leaders of foreign countries. There is
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only one who has taking my breath away, Prime Minister Netna,
who the adjective I've used for him I've not used
for anyone else is Churchillian. Because I think he has
a seriousness of purpose. I think he has a gravitas.
He understands that he is facing literally a threat to
annihilate the people of his country, and he is committed
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to doing everything necessary to prevent it. You know, I'll
tell you when Obama was president, and when Obama was
negotiating and announcing the Obama Iran nuclear Deal, which was
catastrophically devastating, the House of Representatives invited Prime Minister Netna
who to come and address a joint session of Congress.
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And when that happened, I invited Ellie Wizel, who is
the Nobel Laureate, incredible, incredible man, to come participate in
a conversation with me on what the threat of a
nuclear Iran was.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Ellie, he wanted it to be very mache bipartisan event.
So I invited Chuck Schumer to participate.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
He said no.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I invited multiple Democrats to participate, one after the other
after the other. They sayed said no. Finally I told Ellie,
no Democrat will participate. We did a gathering in the Capitol.
We had over five hundred people come in the Capital.
Listen Ellie Wizzel talk about his experiences seeing the horrors
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of the Holocaust, seeing the horrors of evil and Nazi Germany.
And I got to say when Ellie was l talked
about never again means never again and the greatest threat
of another holocaust on planet Earth is a nuclear Iran
where these theocratic lunatics use nuclear weapons to murder millions
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of Israelis.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
It was powerful.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
It took my breath away to be sitting at the
table with him. But it also spoke volumes that not
a single Democrat was willing to be in the room.
And I'll tell you about so. On that speech on
the Senate floor, I was there. I listened to Prime
Minister net Yahu's speech, which was powerful, it was incredibly important,
and we saw a vast number of Democrats boycott the speech,
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refuse to attend. We saw that again when when when
the Prime Minister addressed Congress more recently, and again Democrats
boycott of the speech. Kamala Harris boycott of the speech,
refused to listen to the democratically elected leader of Israel.
And it is a sad dynamic that today's Democrat party
is dominated by the Prohamas faction. Today's Democrat Party isn't
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panic because right now, far too many of their radicals
sympathize with Iran over Israel and that that may sound
like hyperbole, but you know what we are going to see.
I'm going to predict this, you and I. This is
this is early Friday morning. We are going to see
Democrat after Democrat saying to Israel, un need to restrain yourself,
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not calling out Iran, but calling out Israel, because that
is where the dank on Israel that party is.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yes, Yeah, after the attack, they've came out and said
they must show restraint, before they'd even been able to
figure out what had happened in Israel're like, well, they
need to show restraint, They must show restrained.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Everything the Biden administration over and over again said, do
not kill the terrorists, do not kill the terrorists. They
cut off weapons to Israel. The radical left in the
Democrat Party hates Israel, and that battle is only.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Going to get worse.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
One of the things I love about doing the show
Center is moments after this attack took place Israel on Iran,
you were actually on the phone with the ambassador from Israel.
What did he tell you about this attack? How long
had they been planning this, What was the final decision
that made this happen in the last several hours.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Well, understand, this show happens real time. It happens real
time in real life. You and I are recording this
early in the morning Friday morning. This podcast will come
out later in the day on Friday. So some of
you will be listening to this on Friday, others of
you will be hearing this on radio on Saturday or Sunday.
And so the world may have changed forty eight hours.
At the time when a war is initiating, it is
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a mountain of time. What I can tell you is
late Thursday night, as Israel was launching it its attacks,
before Iran has engaged in a counterattack, I was on
the phone with the Israeli ambassador of the United States
and he told me that the attack at least so far,
had gone extraordinarily well, that they'd taken out senior leadership
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of the IRGC. And I got to say, by the way,
that's a huge victory for the United States of America.
The IRGC has murdered over six hundred American servicemen and women.
They are grotesquely hostile to the United States, and for
Israel to take them out, it has enormous bend fit
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to America. But at the same time, the Israeli ambassador
told me that the instruction had gone out in Israel
to the people of Israel go to a bomb shelter,
either be in a bomb shelter or be very near
a bomb shelter, because they are anticipating early in the
morning Friday morning, that Iran is going to launch a
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massive counterattack with ballistic weapons. And Israel has extensive anti
missile defenses, but Iran has sufficient volume that if they
launch everything, they have the capacity to overwhelm the defenses,
and so there is a very real possibility. The people
of Israel are braced. They understand. Look, look that they're
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not playing they're not playing games that they are playing
with real stakes. They're playing with live rounds. The people
of Israel understand right now, as you and I are
recording this, that we may see Israeli's die right now,
because Iran has enough missiles that if they launched them all,
there will be Israeli's murdered in the minutes and hours
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ahead of us. But at the same time, Prime Minister Netanyah,
who made the decision, it's a decision I agree with.
It's a decision that I think was right, which is
the risk of Israelis dying and of Americans dying if
Iran acquires a nuclear weapon is qualitatively different that we
could face. With an Iranian nuclear weapon, we could face
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millions murdered. And so listen, I want to underscore what
I said at the beginning of this podcast. Pray for
the people of Israel and pray for our servicemen and
women in har harm's way, because this is a very
very dangerous time.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Right now, Well, let's talk about who is targeted and
what this looks like moving forward from the standpoint of Israel.
I mean, the objective here is clearly to put them
back when it comes to a nuclear program, but they
also went after people that were involved in that program,
which is a really big way to move things backwards.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Look, this was a decapitation strike. It was targeted the
senior military leaders in Iran. It was targeted at the
nuclear facilities in Iran, it was targeted at the anti
air assault facilities in Iran. It was a very targeted
but massively effective strike. Now Iran is going to strike back.
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Understand that that that's not a possibility or a probability
it is a certainty that Iran will hit back. Now,
what I hope Iran understands is they should not hit
back at America. Hitting back at America would escalate this dramatically.
And I will say the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio,
he put out a statement Thursday night. Let me read
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his statement. Quote tonight, Israel took unilateral action against Iran.
We were not involved in strikes against Iran, and our
top priority is protecting American forces in the region. Israel
advised us that they believe this action was necessary for
its self defense. President Trump and the Administration have taken
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all necessary steps to protect our forces and remain in
close contact with our regional partners. Let me be clear,
Iran should not target US interests or personnel. Now. Look,
I'm glad that the Secretary of State was putting out
that statement defending our servicemen and women. I wish there
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had been more in that statement saying we stand with Israel.
That was missing from the statement, and it shouldn't have been.
From my perspective, we stand unequivocally with Israel. But I
understand why the Secretary of State didn't do that, which
is that he's concerned that Iran may strike at US
military forces. Now, in my view, the way to prevent
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that is not to say to Iran, hey, we had
nothing to do with That was the main theme of
the Secretary of State's statement, but rather to say, if
you attack US forces, the consequences will be overwhelming. I
think Iran responds more to stick than the carrot. But
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we shall see, and it is any way you look
at it, on unbelievably dangerous time.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Senator, Let's talk about some of the people that have
been taken out here. There's two aspects of these strikes. One,
nuclear scientists are being reported that they were targeted and
have been killed, and that is the brains of the
nuclear program. If you want to stop Iran from doing this,
taking out new nuclear scientists is absolutely brilliant. It's the
computer system, the nervous system of everything they're trying to accomplish.
(21:48):
That's incredible. But we also now know from virtually every
news agency is reporting this that the IRGC tear chief Salami,
has also been eliminated.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
That is significant as well.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Well. We now know that Hussein Salami is lunch meat,
and I feel a little cheesy making fun of him.
But then again, the guy is a racist, genocidal, homicidal, lunatic.
So I hope after Salami, Beloni and Pastrami both get
eliminated as well. And if you look at the head
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of the IRGC, he has responsibility for murdering over six
hundred US servicemen and women. So if you love the
men and women of the Armed Services, if you are
grateful for friends, family, loved ones who serve defending this nation,
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then you ought to say tonight to the nation of Israel,
thank you, thank you for taking out the head of
the IRGC that is responsible for murdering hundreds of American
servicemen and women. President Trump when he was president the
first time, he took out General Solimani, and now today
the Israelis have taken out Solami a successor who is
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the terror chief of the IRGC, and he is now
with his seventy two versions. So that I will tell you,
much to his dismay, those virgins are all Gomer Pyle
and it's not what he hoped for.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I got to say. One of the best parts about
this story.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Just side note, if you look up Insamami on his
pages on the Wikipedia, it already says, he's like the
former guy in charge of the IRGC.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I love the Internet when they get it right really quickly. Center.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
It is amazing to see this moment in history, because
this is a moment in history. And I got to
ask you this, Aran now is going to respond. I'm
sure in some way. I'm sure Israel is expecting that.
You made it very clear to night America's warning and
from this administration. What happens next and what is Israel
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expecting in your mind.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Well, it depends on the escalation. I think it is
one hundred percent certain that Iran will respond by firing
missiles at Israel. Israel gets that, they understand that they're
ready for that. There is some real possibility that Iran
will respond by firing missiles or other weapons at Americans.
And I think if they do that, they will dramatically
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escalate this conflict. I think they will provoke. If they
murder American servicemen and women, I think you will see
President Trump respond with devastating force. And so again my
message to the IATOLA is, do not do that. Their
response to Israel, I don't know what it will be.
There is a risk that their response is devastating that
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it is overwhelming. They have a massive number of ballistic missiles,
so if they fire them, all the odds are significant
that we will see a very large number of Israelis murdered.
What I'm saying, Prime Minister Netanyah, who understands he knows that.
He knows that, but by virtue of engaging this attack tonight,
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there's a real risk of a significant number of Israelis
being murdered. But he did this because he knows that
if Iran has a nuclear weapon, many many more Israelis
and many many more Americans are at risk of being murdered.
Look the iatola chance death to America and death to Israel.
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I believe he believes that, and so acquiring a nuclear
weapon is not just an academic question. If he gets
a nuclear weapon, I believe he is trying to acquire
one because he wants to carry out his promises of
death to Israel and death to America. And that's precisely
why Israel has launched this attack, to stop him from
getting that capability.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I also center want to play for you what the
Israeli ambassador the United Nations had to say on CNN earlier.
Here is what he had to say when he was
asked a couple of different questions about this.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Also joining me is Reel's ambassador to the United Nations.
They need to know and ambassador, it's great to have
you here, sir. Just first on the strike that we
were seeing play out tonight and what this means should
we now consider is real to be at war with Iran.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
Now was very clear. We took a preemptive attack to
defense ourselves, to defend ourselves, and we are targeting the
nuclear facilities and the badistic mission centers in Iran. So
we don't go into declaration now, we take actions. We
decided not to wait for Iran to attack us with
nuclear capabilities. We knew that they were plotting to do that,
(26:39):
and while they were talking with many countries and negotiating,
they move secretly with a military plan to attack as well.
And what we did was an act of self defense.
And we have abilities, you know, Okayatelean. Eighty years ago
when Oswitz was liberated, we required the support of the
Allies to protect our people. But today we have our
(26:59):
own stage, our own military, our own alfos, and today
we are protecting ourselves from another holocaust.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
I mean these are much wider than the preemptive strikes
based on what we've seen so far, especially in terms
of targeting around top military leaders as well as senior
nuclear scientists, kind of a mass based on what we
have heard, do you know how many of those those
top military leaders and nuclear scientists and Iran the strikes
against the more successful, how many of them have been
eliminated tonight.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
No, I cannot go into those details, but I can
tell you one thing. Those people who were involved in
the nuclear production, those who were putting together the ballistic missiles,
there are targets. They are part of the machine that
threatened as well in other countries in the world. You know,
if you look back at attack that it well took,
(27:49):
whether it was against the Iraq or see. Yeah, we
try to develop a nuclear reactors. I think today everybody
can think it well for those actions. So maybe today
some people I'm not sure about why we are doing
it today, But down the world a few years from today,
the world will thank you well for the action we took.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Today night the world will think Israel for the actions
taking tonight.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Is that the big takeaway from all of.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
This It should be, but understand that the pro hamas
radical left in the Democrat Party is cheering on exactly
the opposite side, So Ben Rhodes. Many of y all
listening know who Ben Roads is. Ben Rhodes was a
top national security official in the Barack Obama National Security Council.
(28:35):
He is the lead architect of the Obama Iran nuclear deal.
He is a hardcore leftist and tonight he's miserable. So
Ben Rhodes. Late Thursday night, he tweeted out, quote, this
is all so unnecessary, all of it everywhere. Understand when
(28:59):
Israel tax Iran to take out the nuclear capacities. Ben Rhodes,
the leading national security official for Barack Obama is I
think Ben is in tears right now. And listen. The
Iran nuclear deal under Obama was a disaster. Under Joe Biden,
their top foreign policy objective was to have another Iran
(29:20):
nuclear deal. The only thing that stopped it as Iran
was so unreasonable they would not accept it. And there
are so many in the Democrat Party right now that
are cheering for Iran. I'll tell you what I'm cheering
for America, dammit, And I'm cheering for Israel and people
who are theocratic lunatics who say they want to murder us.
(29:43):
I am not dismayed that we are seeing a military
force stand up and take them out, and in particular
take out their nuclear capacity. That is critically important. We
do not want people who want to murder us to
have the tools to do so. And I think Israel's
attack did enormous benefit to America.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
You mentioned taking away their tools, and one of their
tools was going after their scientists. I mean, this is
the brains behind everything. This took a lot of planning
and apparently as incredibly successful as well. I mean, this
is taking out their nervous system, of the computer system,
whatever you want to call it, for their nuclear program
(30:26):
by going after the scientists.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
It's absolutely brilliant, and they pulled it off.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
They did, it was executed with amazing precision. Now it's early. Look,
you and I are both talking early in the morning
Friday morning. It is possible that problems developed later Friday,
later Saturday, later Sunday. One of the challenges of doing
a show like this at the beginning of military conflict
is you don't know how things will shake out. But
(30:52):
I will say this so Benjamin Etna, who is a
strong conservative one of his predecessors as Israeli Prime minister
was enough Tally Bennett. Now enough Tally had been previously
Netan Yaho's chief of staff. But then but then Bennett
broke with nen Yahoo and ended up becoming prime minister himself,
(31:15):
in significant part by opposing net Nyahu. But I want
you to listen to this clip a former Israeli Prime
Minister enough Tally Bennett talking about what this is all about.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Give a listen.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
Well, israelis had a siren across the country indicating that
Israel's air force is a conducting a prempt to strike
against Iran's military facilities and perhaps also the nuclear facilities.
I want to remind you that Iran's about a week
(31:47):
away from being able to obtain the amount of enriched
uranium for ten bombs. So this is not me saying this.
This is the international nuclear community and the goal ultimately
will be to remove the nuclear threat from the Middle East.
(32:09):
And sitting the head of the octopus of terror that's
been causing all of the mess we've seen over the
past couple of years in the region, I mean, there
it is.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
And I will say when today's Democrats in the Senate
and House are to the left of that are saying
do not attack Iran. And we're going to see I'm
going to make a prediction in the hours and days ahead,
we're going to see a massive rise in the attacks
from the anti Semitic left. And the anti Semitic left
(32:41):
is growing bigger and bigger, and so those who hate
Israel will be really vocal. And unfortunately there's also a
contingent on the anti Semitic right. The anti Semitic right
is smaller than the left, but both of them are
absolutely wrong, and you're going to see online people say
the Israelis are dragging us into war. I'm here to
tell you the Israelis are acting to prevent war, to
(33:05):
prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons, and those nuclear weapons
could well be used to murder millions of Israelis or
millions of Americans, and so Israel is acting in self defense.
And I want to be clear, America stands with Israel.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Don't forget.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
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on social media as we continue to stand with Israel. Also,
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of the big stories you missed this week will come
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