Israel Attacks Iran

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Cooner country. Okay, a lot and I mean
a lot to talk about today. It's going to be
a jam jam Pack show. But without question, right now,
the biggest story, not just in the country, in the
entire world is the developments that took place overnight between

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Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran. As was telegraphed
for about a couple days now, BB was Prime Minister
Benjamin Etniahu I. EBB was letting it be known that
his patience was running out and that he was contemplating
now massive strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities within the context

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of peace talks and negotiations between Iran and the United States,
where both sides had hit an impasse. Steve Witkoff, Trump's
special negotiator for the Middle East, a special envoy, wants
no nuclear enrichment whatsoever by being conducted by the Iranians.

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They have multiple nuclear facilities. They claim it's for civil
purposes only, only civilian purposes. In reality, as everybody knows,
they are trying to get to enrichment levels so they
can develop the bomb. Iran is not willing to give

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America access to these enrichment facilities. And they are not
willing to stop enrichment. And so they were at an
absolute impasse and standstill. Trump kept telling the Iranians over
and over again, you're going to force the hand of Israel.
Make a deal with me, you can avoid war. The

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Mullahs kept saying no, no, no, And finally last night
BB pulled the trigger. He addressed the Israeli nation, He
addressed the world saying, now Israel is at war with Iran.
He has now ordered what is called Operation Rising Lion.

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And from the initial reports it's only about six or
eight hours that this campaign has now begun. At least
preliminary reports show it is a wide ranging, sweeping and
devastating first wave of attacks that Israel has launched upon Iran.

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Over two hundred Israeli warplanes are pounding key nuclear targets,
key military facilities, oil refineries in Tehran, the capital of Iran,
as well as other facilities across the country. Furthermore, Mossad

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has now penetrated Iran. Apparently this operation was in the
works for months and they were able in to smuggle
They were able to smuggle in assassins as well as
explosive drones. They have unleashed these explosive drones on top
Iranian military leaders and right now they have punched a

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massive hole in Iran's military leadership. The head of Iran's
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, one of the most
if not the most important figure in Iran's military leadership,
is dead. He was killed either in a drone strike

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or assassinated. We're getting conflicting reports, but even the Iranian
state run media has confirmed Solami is dead. Key generals
are dead. The head of the Iranian military is dead.
Iranian nuclear scientists, they're top scientists, have been assassinated or

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killed in devastating strikes. They have been wiped out, and
so Iran's military and nuclear leadership has been effectively decapitated.
Iran now is vowing all out retaliation. Iran is not Iraq,

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and Israel understands that they're a nation of seventy million,
they have a very large navy, and most importantly, they
have proxies terrorist cells all over the Middle East, including
here in the United States of America. Iran now has
launched counter drone strikes against Israel. Israel so far says

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they're able to shoot many of them down, but Iran
vows this is just the beginning. I want you to
listen now to bb netting Yahoo. This is in English.
A lot of his speech was in Hebrew, but he
switched to English and this he's now talking to America
and to the world, announcing Operation Rising Lion. And he says,

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this is not a one and done. These strikes, this
massive air and assassination campaign is going to go on
for days and days and days. Roll cut six a mic.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Moments ago, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, I targeted military
operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel's very survival.
This operation will continue for as many days as it
takes to remove this threat.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
Now, the question is this, why now? Why now? And
according to Israel, and according to Israeli intelligence, they claim
that Iran now was literally weeks away from attaining enough
nuclear fissile material to attain the nuclear bomb. In other words,

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that's called the breakout face. That they had enough enrichment
and enough material that if they wanted to, they could
develop their own nuclear bomb, maybe attach it to a
ballistic missile. And Israel said that is not a risk
or a chance they're willing to take. Remember, the regime
in Tehran openly and explicitly calls for the annihilation the

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destruction of the state of Israel, as well, by the way,
the destruction of the United States and the West. And
so a fanatical medieval Islamist regime like that in Tehran,
a terrorist state with a nuclear bomb could create my god,

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untold havoc, untold death, untold destruction. And so Nettigna, who
apparently spoke with Trump, this was several days ago, and said,
this is a risk, this is a line I cannot
allow Iran to cross. We are gonna go and go
in hard. Now. Trump apparently gave Israel the green light. However,

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we are not involved in this strike. I mean, yes,
Trump is supporting them, yes he's giving him the green light,
but we are not. According to Marco Rubio, according to Trump,
this is an Israeli operation, a unilateral operation that they
are running now on their own. And this will go

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on until they have utterly destroyed and degraded Iran's ability
to build a nuclear weapon, and their weapon, their nuclear
program will be in absolute Patters, listen now to Nettan
Yahoo saying We're not going to stop until the program
is smashed roll cut six a mike.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
For decades, the tyrants of Tehran have brazenly openly called
for Israel's destruction. They've backed up their genocidal rhetoric with
a program to develop nuclear weapons. In recent years, Iran
has produced enough highly enriched uranium for nine atom bombs.
Nine In recent months, Iran has taken steps that it

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has never taken before, steps to weaponize this enriched uranium.
And if not stopped, Iran could 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 c in present danger to Israel's very survival.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
In private, he was saying weeks in this speech, he said,
you know, within months. Privately, I'm just going by the
reporting that I've read. He told Trump, we think they're
about three four weeks away. Now. They could literally put
together some kind of a nuclear bomb and then put
it on a missile or use it in a suitcase
or whatever. And so the Mosad, they're intelligence people in Iran,

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were telling them basically, it's now or never. So the
question now is what should the United States do? If anything?
The consequences now are clear This is going to lead
to a wider Mid East war. Iran has proxies in Lebanon,
has Bellah, they have proxies obviously with Hamas, they have

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proxies with the Huthis in Yemen. They also have terrorist
cells all over the entire region. This is why over
the last four to five days, President Trump and Secretary
of State Marco Rubio have ordered American staff and non
essential personnel to evacuate American embassies and consulates across the

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entire region. My fear, and it's just a fear. And
this is what Trump and Rubio are worried about as well,
is that Iran will respond, as they said last night,
whether America says they support it or not, whether America
says Iran Israel acted alone or not, we hold America

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responsible for this. Will Iran lash out by launching terrorist
attacks against American targets, American troops, God forbid, activate terrorist
cells here in the United States. That is now the question.
Six one seven two, six, six sixty eight sixty eight

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is the number. Okay, let me ask all of you,
do you support Israel's decision to launch these massive, wide
ranging and what appears to be devastating airstrikes as well
as these covert drone and assassination strikes within Iran. Do

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you like that? Do you think it was inevitable? Do
you think Israel could have waited longer? Or do you
think they had every right to do it? Now? So,
in other words, do you support what Israel is now
doing and will continue to do over the next couple
of days now? Furthermore, and to me, as an American,

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of course I wish Israel the best, no question. But
as an American, I'm looking out for our interests and
our people. And one of my big fears, as I
mentioned in my opening monologue, is that under Biden he
so opened up the border. He was so reckless and
irresponsible that he allowed millions and millions and millions of

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illegal aliens and foreigners to literally just pour into our country,
completely unvetted. We know for a fact, because our own
intelligence community has confirmed it that Hesblah sleeper cells were
allowed to come into the United States under Biden. As

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you know, Iran arms and funds has Belah. They are
a major proxy of the Mullahs in Tehran. So the
fear is and this is why people are on pins
and needles if this thing between Israel and Iran gets ugly,
and it's already getting very bad, but if this becomes

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an all out war, Iran has openly said they will
activate every tear, every terrorist, every network, every cell, and
a lot of Americans are going to die. They're going
to launch terrorist attacks here in the United States, spilling
blood on American soil. They are going to target our consulates,

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our embassies, our military bases all across the Middle East.
Now furthermore, and this is a very important point, the
Supreme Leader of Iran yesterday, Ayatola Ali Hamani, who runs
Remember it's a theocracy, it's an Islamist fundamentalist theocracy. He's

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the one who ultimately calls the shots. He's the quote
unquote supreme leader. He has come out and said two things,
that now it is a fight to the death with
the Zionists e Israel, and that he blames America for
the attack. He says, you can claim in public this

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is what he said. You can claim you had nothing
to do with it. You can claim this was an
Israeli operation bade by Netting Yahu and the Israelis on
their own. We don't believe you and as far as
the Iranian regime is concerned, we will hold you responsible
for what's happening. So the danger is, as I said

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to Grace last night, we now could get sucked into
this war, whether we like it or not, if our
embassies get attacked, if there's a repeat, if you remember
in nineteen eighty two when our marine barracks were blown
up and scores and scores of American soldiers were killed.
So there's a real possibility now of massive terrorist retaliation

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both abroad against US personnel, US diplomats, US troops are
men and women, and here in the homeland. Apparently now
I'm just going by multiple media reports, Trump is now
ordered the FBI they're launching a massive counter terror investigation,

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a monitoring campaign, because they fear that there are HASBIL
lost sleeper cells in the United States and that now
they could be activated, and god knows what kind of
damage they could do, especially in light of what's happening
tomorrow with this nationwide so called day of defiance, with
this no King's, no Crowns protest as they're now calling it,

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which is going to be about one thousand, five hundred towns, cities,
sites all around the country. So this is an incredibly
perilous moment. Now let me throw one final log on
the fire, and then I want to open up the
phone lines six one seven two six six sixty eight
sixty eight. According to what the media is reporting, the

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United States negotiators, the negotiation team, the negotiators essentially had
lulled the Iranians to sleep because they were talking about peace,
about ending the weapons program, about coming to a deal,
about you know, the negotiations, and so the Mullahs kept

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thinking the whole time, well, as long as the Americans
are talking, Israel is not going to act. So in
a sense, it had the Iranians let their guard down,
and that's when Beebe said, their air defenses are low.
We've smashed the Hezbollah, we have smashed Hamas. The houthies

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now have been really devastated in Yemen. Their proxies now
are being rolled back. This is the time to hit Iran.
If we're going to knock out their nuclear program, it's now.
And so as they were lulled essentially to let their
guard down in talks with Trump over ending their nuclear

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program permanently, that's when BB decided to unleash the Israeli
Air Force and the mosade within Iran itself. Listen now
to President Trump. This was just yesterday saying I want
a diplomatic deal. I don't want it to come to war.

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I don't want Israel to hammer Iran. I don't want
to risk a major war in the Middle East. I
don't want to launch strikes against Iran myself or the
United States. I want a deal. Roll cut five, Mike.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
I want to have an agreement with Iran. We're fairly
close to an agreement. We are fairly close to a
pretty good agreement. It's got to be better than pretty good, though,
but it's got to be. I don't much prefer agreement
as long as I think there is an agreement. I
don't want them going in because I think I would
blow it. Might help it, actually, but it also could

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blow it. But we've had very good discussions with Iran.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Whether or not we get.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
There, I can't tell you, but it'll happen soon. I
say this, Peter very strongly. They can't have whether it's
going in or not going, and they can't have a
nuclear weapon. I prefer the more friendly path.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Now, this is a lot of fact, a lot of
MAGA supporters are mad at Bbie, saying that by launching
this massive air campaign and this wave of bombings across
Iran targeting their facilities, that this essentially has sabotaged the

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peace talks and the negotiations between the United States and Iran.
That Trump, they argue, could have had a diplomatic deal
with the Iran Six one seven two six six sixty
eight sixty eight is the number. Okay, it's the Cooner
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Quality Roofing, siding and Windows. Did Iran ever intend to
make a nuclear deal? What many of you are pointing
out on the text line. By the way, you can
text us seven zero four seven zero seven zero four
seven zero. You're emailing the Coooner Man, messaging the Kooner Man,

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just saying, Jeff, the Iranians were just playing us the
whole time. They were just playing us for fools. This,
by the way, was going to be the sixth round
of talks, scheduled to start in a couple of days
in Rome, in Italy. No, I'm sorry they moved it
to Aman. My bad it was in Rome, Italy. But anyway,
it was going to be the sixth round of talks,

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and by the last couple of rounds it was cleared
it was a clear impasse, complete gridlock. Our position, Trump's position,
through his voice Steve Whitcoff, was zero enrichment of uranium,
period stop, full stop. We don't want you enriching anymore uranium.

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You have to stop completely and open up all of
your sites to inspections. The Iranians basically said, as they
put it, this is a non negotiable. We are going
to continue to enrich uranium, and we're just promising you
that we're going to keep it for civilian purposes and
not for you know, to be weaponized, to be used

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for a nuclear bomb or a nuclear weapon. So talks
in some sense had really ground to a halt. But again,
many of you think the Iranians are were never serious.
They were using negotiations as a ploy to continue their
secret nuclear weapons program. Hence Israel had no choice. But

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they hit him now and hit him really hard. Agree. Disagree?
So did Iran ever intend to make a nuclear deal
with Trump? In other words, a genuine diplomatic deal. A yes,
they were serious about a deal. B No, they were

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There all one word at the Kooner report, k U
h n e r Okay, I'm gonna open it up.
Let's unleash the hounds, Mike. Let me ask you. Iran
goes sorry, Israel goes for Iran's threat. They have now
launched a massive wave of airstrikes. This is going to

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go on for days. They are pounding nuclear military facilities
and positions all across Iran. Iran says now they are
going to hit Israel with everything they have. We are
on the verge of a world not a world war,
a Mid East war, a regional war. Did Israel do
the right thing? Do you support Israel? And do you

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fear the blowback to US and our troops in the
Middle East or to us here on the homeland six
one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight. Michael
in Charlestown, Thanks for holding Michael, and welcome.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
I guess them on and how you doing good. How
are you, Michael, long time messer, good, very good, long
time Mussler.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
Welcome, Welcome, Michael.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
So we're right where I stay. I think a lot
of people, people supports Trump stand on this is I
believe that it's really trying to do the right thing.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
I think Michael, for some reason, you're you're very muffled.
You got to speak right into the phone, my friend.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
I'm trying too. Sorry, I'm uh give me, oh, I'm sorry,
So okay, go ahead. And I think I think I
think Trump I was trying to do the right thing
this time. I think his first term obviously he didn't
know what he was getting himself into. I think, uh

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as much as we also, you know, supported him and
loved him, and I don't think he knew what he
was getting himself into. I think he and his first
term was possibly owned, maybe bought off by Israel. This
time around, I think he's trying to I think he's

(24:11):
just playing the CODs, you know, the best way he can.
I think that they, you know, Azero lobbys is very powerful.
You know a lot of allegations against them over the
years for you know how they get their power, you
know why they get their power. Is you know, not irrelevant,
but it's let's say, a lot of people morals. I

(24:38):
guess it's just you know, not not really what I'm.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Trying to hear you. There's a lot of criticisms of Israel,
but Michael, I'm just curious. I mean, they're pounding Tehran
right now. I mean they're at war. Iran and Israel
are at full this is a war, now, all out war.
Did Israel do the right thing or do you think
they should have waited?

Speaker 4 (25:01):
I mean, I think they I think they should have waited,
but I don't think that was their plans. I think
their plan was to you know, obviously attack I ran.
I mean Bbe is facing so much, you know, he's
facing so much in his own country. I think that
he's holding on to power, you know, as long as

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he can, and he's willing to do whatever it takes
to get that power, and he's willing to take down
the whole world if he loses it. And I think
that he's using the US, just like they're using the
US for the last thirty years to get what he wants,
and he's going to force us into a war that
I ran, that's that's that's just gonna just what going
to destroy another couple of generations of Americans. You know,

(25:41):
It's just it's I think this is something that we
need to say out of and Trump can come out
and say that he's you know, I Ran is kind
of right when he's when I Ran says we don't
believe you when you come out and says he worried
about it because Trump did get how much I mean
one hundred million dollars from Mayor Madison. I mean, Trump

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is he could be bought off this time by Israel.
I think he's trying to get away from him because
I think he's realized that a lot of his base
is kind of against not really Israel, but kind of
just against BBI and just against the way Angel has
sucked us into all the wars in the Middle East.
And I think a lot of his bass is time
to wake up to that. And I think he's gonna
do the right thing. I hope he does the right

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thing and he gets as file away from Israel as possible,
even though they are you know, our ally, but I
think we need this is something that we need to
stay away from.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
You.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Well, that's where I agree with you. I think we
need to stay out of it. Look, I think this
we have to worry about. We got so many problems
here at home. Like my God, the last thing we
need now is a massive war in the Middle East,
fighting fighting Iran and all of their proxies. I mean
this honestly, this would derail all of Trump's presidency. And

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I don't I don't think the country even as an
appetite or the stomach for a war with Iran. So
if Israel wants to go out there, I get it
from their point of view. Obviously, if I was in
ISRAELI I wouldn't want the Iranians to get a nuclear bomb,
no question about it. So if the Israelis want to
go and hammer them, that's their business. But we got

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to focus. Look, we've got an insurrection right here, right now,
just very quickly. I want to read one text which
I do agree with. Look, generally, if look, if I'm
living in Israel, the last thing I want are these
crazed Mullahs getting their hands on a nuclear bomb. So
please don't get me wrong, okay, But to me, my

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bigger concern now is that we could potentially get sucked
or dragged into this war. And if the Iranians, or
through Hasbellah, or through the Huthis, or through one of
their other terrorist proxies, if they bomb an American consulate,
or god forbid, target one of our true our bases

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and take out some of our fighting men and women,
or here in the homeland. Again, this is why, ultimately
I blame Joe Biden. He has opened us up like
you wouldn't believe. And all it takes is a couple
of well placed bombs and you can see dead Americans
right here. And if that happens, that could drag us

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into the war. So that's why to me, everything's on
a razor's edge right now.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Now.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Look, as a Texter put it, this is from seven
oh three, Jeff Iran armed and funded Hamas, Iran armed
and funded Hasblah. And do you know who funded Iran?
Obama and Joe Biden. And I think that's pretty much

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the predicament that we're in. I see all of these
liberals and leftists last night on social media. Oh, this
is no on Trump's watch, This never happened under Biden. Oh,
Israel and Iran are going to war. And I'm like, yeah.
October seventh. No, No, when Hamas hit Israel and slaughtered

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over one thy two hundred Israeli women, men and children,
women and children and elderly and defenseless men. No, So
who gave them the green light? Who armed them, who
supported them, who trained them, who funded them? It was Iran.
So ever since October seventh, twenty twenty three, after that

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heinous terrorist atrocity, Iran and Israel have been on a
collision course. It was almost inevitable that they were now
going to come to blows and go to war. And
all of this. Who funded Iran? Biden, Who enabled Iran
to build up its military and fund its terrorist armies

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all over the world. Biden, who was the one that
turned a blind eye as Iran built up its nuclear
weapons program month after month after month. Biden. So my
point is we're living with the consequences of the Biden years,
whether it's the massive invasion at the border and now

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we're seeing it at all these riots, whether you're seeing
it now in the Middle East. So you know, Trump
inherited an absolute mess, a mess, and as he said,
I'm just trying to fix it now. If the Mullas
don't want to make a deal, and I think Trump
told them or through whitcough and Rubio told him. I

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think a thousand times. Guys, it's either my way or
BB's way. And I'm telling you BB is itching to
take you guys out. So either we go to the
diplomatic table, no nuclear enrichment for you, and this all ends,
and we'll we'll lessen the sanctions and we'll start normalizing

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relations a little bit. And you guys, if you want,
you can have a functioning, you know, society and a
decent economy for your people. But if you keep going
down the path of attaining the bomb, BIB will not
allow it to happen, period, full stop. Well, they didn't listen.
It was all bluster, name calling. They're gonna annihilate Israel,

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They're gonna annhilate America. The guy who's dead now, the
head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard CORP, Salon Hussein Salami,
gave a speech. This was just yesterday. It was one
of the last, I guess, the last speech he ever gave.
And he's our army's ready, Our military's ready, Death to Israel,

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death to America. We're gonna bring them down. I'm like, okay,
keep talking. I don't know what else to say. Keep
shooting your mouth off. Well now you're dead, so you're on.
Had the prospect for peace. Trump gave them the olive
branch over and over and over again, and they spit

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in his face. And Trump, I think it was just
a couple of days ago, he said, look, you guys
are probably gonna get hit. He even said it, he
kind of blurted out. He goes like there could be strikes,
Like this is your last chance. Like really, I'm trying
to tell you guys, sit down, make a deal and
we can avoid a war. Well, they didn't want to

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make a deal because I believe in the end the
Mullets are committed to getting the bomb. They want that
bomb at all costs, and now they are paying, I
mean a massive price. The only question now is the consequences.
There's no walking this back now. They Israel for good

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or for ill. I'm just stating the facts. Israel has
now crossed the rubicon. They've gone all They're trying to
topple the regime. They are decimating Iran's a military. They're
hitting targets now all over the country. So this is war.
They are at war. One quick. This is from six

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to three, and then I'm going to go right back
to the phone lines six one, seven two, six, six
sixty eight sixty eight is the number, Jeff. I'm no
fan of the Iranian regime, and I've always supported Israel's
right of self protection. But there's one point I simply
have to make here, and I'm sure other listeners have

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noticed this as well. It has been reported that Iran
is only three weeks away from obtaining the nuclear bomb
for the last twenty four years. My god, Nettan Yah,
who has trotted out that same claim literally since he
testified before Congress just after nine to eleven, that's one

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hell of a long three weeks. It is my contention
and the contention of many others, that Iran has had
nuclear weapons in their possession for quite a few years now.
Really interesting. Again, I have no issues with Israel taking
action against that evil regime in Iran, but that line

(34:23):
of justification is getting a little old in my opinion.
If only I had a dime for every time that
excuse has been trotted out, I wouldn't have to play
the power ball laugh out loud. Now, I do have
to say this, Bibe has been claiming this. You know
the you know it's imminent. The Iranians are on the

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verge of a nuke. They're about to get the bomb.
They're two months away, three months away, six months away,
three weeks away. To be fair, he has been saying
this now for a very very long time. Now I
believe him this time. Maybe I'm being naive or gullible,
only because the IAEA recently said no, they're lying about

(35:08):
their nuclear enrichment. They've caught the Iranians saying no, they
have an illicit program, they're hiding it from us, and
these are levels of enrichment that go way beyond the
civilian program. This is only if you want a nuclear weapon.
So when the International Atomic Energy Agency, that UN watchdog

(35:30):
group literally said no, you're on lie to us and
they're hiding facilities, and we've caught these hidden facilities, So
I'm a nah there. Let's put it this way. They're
clearly at an advanced stage in terms of the possibility
of getting the bomb, or maybe they already have it.
But if they have it, they're gonna use it. So

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I hope they don't have it, and I think Masad
would know if they had it so but anyway, I
don't want to get lost in the here. My point
is just look, BB clearly now feels he's backed into
a corner. He can't let Iran break out with this now,
with this fissile material that they have, and so that's

(36:14):
why he's decimating now the military leadership. He's killed off
almost all of Iran's nuclear scientists, and Iran right now
is vowing the mother of all retaliations. So so far
they're not hitting American shipping in the Persian Gulf. Now,
one last quick point, oil has now gone up ten percent.

(36:39):
No matter what, Now, these strikes are going to drive
up the global It's a shock to the oil supply
in the Middle East. It's destabilizing. That's just how war is,
and that already now this has led to a ten
percent spike in oil prices. Expect that to go up
even more. So if you you know this weekend or
early next week, you're like, what happened to the price

(37:01):
at the pump? The war between Israel and Iran. So
no matter what, there's going to be consequences. As an
America first patriot, I don't want Americans killed. I don't
want terrorist attacks on US embassies, consulates, or bases, and
I don't want terrorist attacks here on innocent Americans here

(37:24):
at home. So to me, that's our To me, that's
my primary priority. Contain this and prevent this war from
escalating and expanding. But that's me. I want to hear
from you. Six one seven two six six sixty eight
sixty eight, Brian in Hopedale, Thanks for holding Brian, and

(37:47):
welcome Tomrian.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
Mister kuna Hi, Brian.

Speaker 5 (37:52):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (37:52):
I wanted to point out here for a minute that
amongst the Iranian young, they have a Their overall population
is younger than us by our population by about twenty
years or so.

Speaker 5 (38:05):
And they the.

Speaker 6 (38:08):
Younger people there, they they are not big fans of
the regime over there. They came close to having a
revolution there not too long ago, and of course it
was under Obama, I think it was. And Obama could
have supported him and helped them through them, did nothing,
and you know, it ended up bringing what it is today.

(38:28):
But I think that sentiment still exists that I ran.
I know that a lot of the people that come
over here for school, they don't want to go back there,
and I think that's if the war stops escalating some
I think what you're gonna see is regime change, and
I ran as being facilitated by the younger people there.

(38:51):
They're going to have the kind of the same thing
what we got going on here.

Speaker 5 (38:56):
This seems to be in.

Speaker 6 (38:58):
For Tata's going on all over the world, whether it's
here in this country over there, there's all kinds of
insurrections now that seems to be in told and I
think Iran is about to have their own.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
Well, Brian, look, you're right. The younger people and generally
the Iranian people in general are against the Mullus timing. Again.
They've had big, large, huge protests and demonstrations and there's
been brutal crackdowns. And Americans have told me there are

(39:34):
Americans that do go to Iran occasionally, and they've told
me every time they come back, they go, it's amazing
you walk on the streets of Tehran and the people
because they can just tell, you know, they look at someone,
they go that's an American and they will from their
cars out of the blue. He goes. I thought, well,
they're going to be hostile. He goes, No, he goes,

(39:56):
They shout out to them. We love America. Please tell
you President we love you. Please tell him. The Iranian
people do not support this regime. So even Americans say
often that they come back and they can't believe at
the local on the ground, at the you know, at
the at the at the at the street level, that

(40:18):
the many many Iranians are overwhelmingly pro American. They are
sick of the mullas, They're sick of all this fundamentalism.
And remember they're they've been living under tremendous stress, and
forget the oppression and the misery, just forget all of that.
But the Iranians have taken their country to war. This
regime has taken them to war over and over and

(40:41):
over and over again, and they keep giving speeches in
their parliament constantly talking about the glories of nuclear war.
You talk to many Iranians are like, you don't understand.
They want to get the bomb to unleash the end
of days. That's what they theocracy teaches them. So basically,

(41:03):
they're willing to sacrifice us seventy million Uranians our lives
for a final nuclear holocaust to usher in the Sheite Messiah,
the twelfthe mom as they call him. So in order
for him to come back, and it's the end of days.
It's the final triumph of Islam on earth. According to

(41:24):
their teachings, you have to have the world must be
engulfed in a quote unquote ball of fire, and Israel
must be wiped off the earth. The Jews must be exterminated,
so Israel must be wiped out and then the world
must be engulfed in a huge ball of fire. When
that happens, that will set the stage for basically there.

(41:48):
You know the I don't want to say Jesus, but
their messiah to come down to earth and then literally
deliver heaven on earth. That's their prophecy. So we talked
to many Iranians. They're like, yeah, who do you think
gets wiped out in this nuclear ball of fire? It's us.

(42:08):
So there's a lot of opposition strong, I'm talking staunch
opposition to this regime. The thing is, when you start
bombing a country. I'm not criticizing, I'm just explaining when
you start bombing a country, well, for example, Tehran is
reeling now. They've hit over two hundred targets in Tehran.

(42:31):
So you've got buildings on fire, You've got you know,
the city is shaking, You've got facilities being blown up.
That will either foster more opposition to the regime or
it creates nationalism where people feel they're under attack. They're

(42:51):
saying Israel's dropping the bombs, and it's not that they
love the regime, but then their sense of Iran is
under attack, our countries on attack, and then you get
sort of nationalist defiance and resistance. So the question now
is how are the Iranian people going to take this.
Are they going to turn on the mullas, which is

(43:12):
what you're saying, or are they going to say, our
country's being bombed, our buildings are being blown up, our
facilities are being destroyed, and it's Israel that's doing it.
And will they rally around the flag. That's the issue now,
and Brian, honestly, on this, only time can tell. Only

(43:34):
time will tell us. Brian, thank you very much for
that call. Now. The other thing is to remember again
they hit about two hundred targets. It was a very
successful from a military point of viewpoint. It was a
devastating first wave. Dozens of warplanes, Israeli fighter jets hit
over two hundred targets and they just obliterated almost everything

(44:00):
they hit. They're now coming in wave after wave after wave.
This is going to go on for at least the
next three to four days. So we're just at the
beginning of this war and Iran hasn't really retaliated yet.
They've launched some drone strikes, which Israel is handling. But

(44:22):
this is again, this is just the beginning. So I
think by Sunday Monday, we're really gonna know how this
is playing out. Six one seven two six, six, sixty
eight sixty eight just my opinion. Kiva in New Hampshire.
Thanks for holding Kiva, and welcome.

Speaker 5 (44:45):
Thank you, Jeff, thank you for taking my call. I'm
glad you kind of walked it back to the Biden administration,
but I want to take it a little bit further
back to the Obama administration. How much of the uranium
that Hillary sold for the Russians made it into Aron
as nuclear material and then don't forget about the money

(45:06):
also under the Obama administration that went, as you said,
to fund Ran that aside. I think that we have
to think about this from the Israeli mindset. If we
had a neighbor on our doorstep that had the ability
to wipe us off the map with a nuclear weapon,
and is repeatedly vowed death to us that we may

(45:28):
think the same way the Israelis do. I mean, you're right,
they come to the bargaining table, but they lie. They
lie to the International Atomic Agency or whatever it was,
the watchdog group. They lie, they lie, they lied. They
can't be trusted because we have to believe their actions,
not their words. In Israel's point of view, I think

(45:50):
that what happened was there are, as you said, beat
these up against the wall. He had to make a decision.
This is now or never. So either we go with
the Trump administration's planned for maybe a negotiated peace, which
if we were betting, is not the sure bet, or
do we take the opportunity right now that we may
never have again. And I think yes, the sparking of

(46:14):
a war is a bad thing. There's going to be
people that are going to die, there's no question about it.
But how many people would die if Iran succeeded in
launching nuclear weapons against Israel that would most certainly drag
the world into a war or some level of what
BB's done now is he's not only taken out their
nuclear facilities, but also their command and control structure. So

(46:39):
I think from a military standpoint, Iron is crippled. Now
you bring up another good point. What's going to happen
with the Iranian people? Are they going to rally around
the flag now or are they going to go against
the Mullas. I don't know the answer that I agree
with you. Time will tell. But who do they hate more?
Do they and they may say to Americans, hey, we

(47:01):
love America, tell your president we love you. But do
they hate Israel more or do they hate the Moullas more?
That will be probably the determining factor of whether of
how they're going to respond. But I think militarily Israel
is just going to keep crippling them with wave after wave.
They're going to take out their ability to wage at
least military war. Now, what about the peripheral terrorist stuff?

(47:25):
I think terrorism was here already.

Speaker 4 (47:28):
I don't like this.

Speaker 5 (47:29):
I would prefer a peaceful, negotiated solution. But if the
opportunity exists to remove a nuclear threat off the face
of the earth, and let's take it, I mean, think
about it. They're talking about genocide, They've vowed death to Israel.
How many people would die in that and they're going to,
like you said, it's part of their prophecy, that's what

(47:51):
they want. So from the Israeli perspective, now or never,
we can't wait for Trump. I would like peace too,
So I'll kind of leave it there, jes.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
Well, just to kind of piggyback off of what you're saying, Kivu,
Look this and this is why the Iranian issue has
bothered me for decades, and I've been talking about this
for over twenty years. Look, Israel has at least one
hundred to one hundred and fifty nuclear warheads, Okay, at least. Now,

(48:25):
it's not a question of whether you agree or disagree,
as I'm just telling you as an historian, it's a
question of this is the Israeli mindset. Countries have mindsets,
cultures have mindsets. Israel was formed in the wake of
the Holocaust, it just was. And in the Israeli Jewish mindset,
they are never going to go quietly into the gas

(48:47):
ovens again. Never. Never. Like people just have to understand that.
So if Heron gets my point being, if Iran gets
a nuclear bomb and decides to drop it on Israel,