June 12, 2025 • 41 mins
Continued conversation about Israel's strike against Iran's nuclear sites and military leadership.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's night time with Dan Ray. I'm gelling you Boston's
and News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Okay, So what we're doing here is talking about what's
going on halfway around the world. It's now dawn morning
in Israel and in Tehran. Tehran has been hit overnight
very hard. I'm looking at the New York Times. Let
me just to set this up. The Times is reporting
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just a couple of minutes ago, Israel carried out a
major attack in Iran's nuclear program on Friday morning, killing
top Iranian military officials as well. That would indicate to
me that they have some people on the ground who
can target where these people are spending the evenings. The
strikes raised fears the long shimmering conflict between the two
countries could escalate into a war involving the most powerful
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militaries in the Middle East. I don't know that Iran's
military is particularly powerful after tonight, but we'll find out.
The commander in chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards, General
Hossein Salami, among the dead reported by state media residents
of Tehran. The Iranian capitol reporter hearing huge explosions in
Iranian state television broadcast images of smoke and fire billowing
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from buildings. One senior Iranian official, speaking on the condition
of anonymity, said Iran's fighter jets had taken off to
intercept the Israeli warplanes. Well, we'll say. Several Israeli officials
described the attacks as a preemptive strike intended to keep
Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb. The Israeli military said
the strikes had targeted sites critical to Iran's long range
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missile capabilities, delivery system, and its nuclear programs. Four minutes ago,
a number of Republicans in Washington, Washington are issuing stark
warnings to leaders in Iran if US interests are targeted.
Senator Lindsay Graham, Republican of South Carolina, sat in a
social media post that America should have an overwhelming response
if American personnel or installations are targeted, vowing to destroy
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all of Iran's oil refineries and oil infrastructure with the
aim of putting the Aetola and his hencement out of
the oil business. Oil prices have surged in the last
day or so, UH and stock prices have in the
short term tumbled, but that would to be would to
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be is to be expected. The sites that were hit
uh Tabreeze explosions reported near a nuclear research center and
two military bases. Kermanshaw, I'm unfamiliar with that. What is there?
A rock? A rock ar a k the ton's israels
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attacked Iran's main enrichment facility, and Tran residents reported seeing
Israeli fighter jets. Nor News reports that Ali Shamkani has
been severely injured in air strikes on his home. Home
is in a hospital in Tehran. Shakami with spearheading nuclear
negotiations on behalf of the Supreme Leader. Raphael Grossi, the
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chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, confirmed in a
statement that Natan's nuclear strike has been targeted in the
Israeli attacks. These agencies in contact with Iranian authorities regarding
radiation levels, who are also in contact with our inspectors
in the country. Grossi said on social media, calling this
situation in Iran deeply concerning. Well, it is deeply concerning
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to the Iranian people. Let's go six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty six one seven nine three one ten thirty. Mike,
you were first this hour on night Side. Your thoughts
on what is transpiring in Iran, even as we speak.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Go ahead, Mike, Hey, anybody I.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Can hear you, Mike, right ahead.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
So yeah, I awesomely support it one hundred percent. You know,
with about time we finally knocked them out, and this
situation we're go on for a while. And you know,
I had been dragging the feat about this situation for
a while, you know, and are good for them. And
it's not like a one and done. It's going to
be going for numerous days.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't think. I don't think,
and I'm no expert here, but I don't think when
Israel decides to take something out, the Israel will want
to finish this. There's a there's a photograph of the
New York Times here of Iranians. This looks like a
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photograph that was taken for the New York Times maybe
four or five hours as the attacks were going on.
A group of Iranians are watching from a It looks
like a I don't gather at the top.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Said earlier.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
What did he say earlier? I missed what you said there, Mike.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
It's going to be going off for days. There's not
a one and done.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Dang, no question about that. There's no question about that
Israel is in is in this fight to win it.
They they've been attacked so many times. They know that
once Iran got a nuclear weapon and had a delivery system,
Israel was in the crosshairs and yeah, who was not
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going to allow that to happen. So I hope that
they're successful, but we will see the.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Only problem with them is they don't have any bunker bombs.
Bunker bombs and uh really take effect on a nuclear program,
you know they're taking. The big thing was that it
took out the leader guy, which is as clover as
to uh Solemione when Trump did. So that's a good
hit right there.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Well, the leader of the revolutionary God. That's fine. Yeah,
don't be don't be surprised if we find out at
some point that somehow Israel had some bunker bomb bunker
busting bombs that they were able to use because as
some of the Iranian locations are so built inside mountains
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that they're almost u you know, just inaccessible to a job.
Which also we may find out when this is over
that Israel had some troops on the ground, some special
forces on the ground, so uh, they they hit it
was it was unexpected. It was a surprise attack. Uh,
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we'll we'll get it better by this time tomorrow night,
we'll have a better understanding of how much damage was
done and what what what Israel has to do from
here on out. I think what Israel is looking to
try to do is regime change. I mean, if it's possible.
For there's a lot of unrest, particularly amongst young people
in Iran who are just tired of theocracy. Uh, they
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want their food. Mike, I appreciate your callers always. Thanks
for joining us, Thank you, thank you, you too. Got
some open lines here six one seven, six one seven
nine three one, ten thirty. This is a real quick break,
So dial away and we'll turn it around and we'll
be back in a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Just checking around here as as I tend to do
it nights, as I tend to do at night. I'm
looking at the They have what they call the Dow
futures stock market futures. And whenever something like this happens, Uh,
you you always get an immediate downturn. So we have
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the Dow futures down one and a half percent. Uh,
that is not where it will end up tomorrow, but
that's where it at least is starting. Uh and uh,
you know this is this is always the way that
you have these futures down. Sm P futures are down
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one point seven percent, nestack down one point eight percent.
That is always the uncertainty that the market hates, and
also oil prices immediately go up. But my suspicion is
that if the Israelis are successful and in the runs
nuclear capabilities are severely damaged or eliminated, it'll be good
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for not only the world, but for the stock market
as well. Join the conversation. We got open lines, folks.
Let me go to Harriet in Tewksbury. Harriet, you were
next on nightside.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Welcome, Hi, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Welcome.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
I'm just so sad that Israel has to get into
so many battles and citizens have to be put through
a while. They're just still waiting for the hostages to
be relieved. It's so awful.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
And that when President Obama was in they want him,
they said, please, don't let them get the nuclear power
and they didn't really need it, and he lets them
get it. And so now Israel has to suffer and
go into another war that shouldn't have even to happen.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Well, if Israel is successful and they strategize these things
out very well, they take their time, and if they're
successful in their strikes tonight, and we won't know, probably
for twenty four to forty eight hours, the extent of
the damage that they've inflicted Israel. Israel is in a
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tough spot over there, geographically and militarily. There's surrounded by
countries that have been traditionally hostile to them.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
And.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
This is not going to increase Israel's stature in certain
parts of the Middle East. But I think this had
to be done. Israel just couldn't stand by and wait
for Iran to hit him with a nuclear weapon in
my opinion.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
Oh that I know, But I'm saying it's just a
band that they had to come to the They shouldn't
have had that in the first place. But anyway, I'm.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Hoped hopefully there's fil and it's all taken out.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
And they can have some peace over there. They certainly
deserve it.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, well, let me tell you, sometimes peace is not
the absence of war. And if if they have been
as successful as it would appear, and again I think
it's going to take days weeks to figure out exactly
the extent of their success. It looks as if they
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the Iranians, got a little sloppy because they Israel knew
where some of the leadership were spending their nights, and
they were they were hitting. They hit the private homes
of some of these Iranian leaders in the military and
of the scientific community, and they those those people are
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now off the battlefield, if you if you know what
I'm saying, and Israel. Israel took the gloves off tonight
in my opinion, But there are other people who might
disagree with both you and me. But I appreciate you
taking the time to call in Harriet as always. Thank
you so much.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Oh, thank you, talk soon. Bad night.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
All right, folks, don't be shy, step right up. Let
me know what you think, whatever your point of view is.
It seems as if the US can claim clean hends,
they can. They can say, hey, we had nothing to
do with this. I'm sure Iran will blame us anyway.
That's not a problem. But the big question coming out
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of this is has their capability been crippled or do
they have the ability to strike back I know that
watching during the eleven o'clock news some of the cable
network news, a lot of it was, well, Iran, now,
what will Iran do? My question is what can they do?
Six one, seven, two five for ten thirty six one,
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seven thirty. Always difficult to talk about a breaking news story,
particularly of this magnitude. So if you're out there and
you have an opinion, feel free to join our conversation.
Next up is Matt. Matt glad to hear you, hear
you call in tonight. What's your thoughts on all of this?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Hey, Dan?
Speaker 9 (12:22):
Well, first off, I want to say that this is
historic and a monumental and a win for not only
the world, but for Israel and for society. Definitely unprecedented
from just what I'm hearing, and there's little basis I
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can hold to that something that likely may have been
carried out by Massad and they, as you said a
couple minutes ago, this may have been a strategic move
to change the occupation of government going on over there,
which is so desperately needed, so many great people over
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there that are held since nineteen seventy nine by the
rule of the.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Iatola and stuff like that of the Sharia law.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well, you know, back in two thousand and seven, there
was an Israeli operation that hit a suspected nuclear reactor
in Syria, and then there was a I believe that
there was a strike back in the early eighties as
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well by Israel. So Israel has always been willing to
to They're not just sitting there waiting to be hit. Okay,
they you know, they they look they have been.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Through this before any times.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, but again they have. They hit a Syrian nuclear
reactor which had been built ironically by North Korea, back
in September of two thousand and seven, and I believe
that in the early nineteen eighties there was another site
is that Israel hit as well, So there's a lot
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you know, Israel. Israel is a small country, It's a
powerful country, and it was not going to stand by
and watch their neighbor build the bomb, be able to
deliver it and drop it on an Israeli city, thank God.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
Right, I agree, And I think first and form I mean, okay,
one or two very quick things to mention is that, look,
Israel is capable. Israel is a small country, but they
are a strong country. They stand, you know, warts and
all they stand and they do defend and give them
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a Rubio's statement today. They took this out and they
took it on themselves, and they've done this before and
it's recognizable to know that Israel's capable of this, and
Israel defends a democracy in themselves and this will hopefully
bring peace in some way to Iran and change and
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to the other end of it, they unlike what goes
on in Gaza, they use mountains, they use inside of
you know, mountainous regions. They don't go into the tunnels
in Iran as much.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
But by the way, to say that, in June of
nineteen eighty one, Israel destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor
very close to Baghdad, and that was considered a breathtaking
operation at the time. So so yeah, they have a
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record of acting preemptively when they feel us in the
interest of their country. Matt has always appreciate your voice.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Appreciate ga to hepciated, thanks for giving the time.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
On So for now, everybody seems to be pretty happy
with what's going on. Let me go to Margie and
the cat Skills. Margie in New York, Welcome, How are
you tonight.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
Guess Srian, I agree totally what your last caller said,
especially his last sentence, And what I'm going to talk
about is what do you think has been the major
cost of war over the last centuries.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Being unprepared for war and appearing too weak?
Speaker 8 (17:00):
Well, if you think about it, religion has been the
major cause of war, either acquiring land or religion.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
But no country has been attacked because the other country
thought they were too strong. We exactly, We in nineteen
forty one were perceived by the Japanese as being weak.
We were perceived by the Germans as being isolationist.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
You nailed it. I'm going to make this very brief
because I'm recalling something I heard word for word in
about nineteen fifty one or fifty two, and it has
exactly to do with the situation today. And it was
made by a comedian. Now you're too young to know him,
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but when I was in college, the most popular comedian
in the war in America made seventy eight records. You know,
in the old days, comedians like New Art and all.
You could buy a seventy eight record.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Who is the comedian you're referring to that now?
Speaker 8 (18:10):
I don't know if you've ever heard him. I'm sure
you can use to him. He sings his act. His
name is Tom lera L e h R e R.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Never heard of him that.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
Okay, he's much too old for you, but he's worth
looking up. He was as brilliant as George Carlin. But
he sang everything. And I'm going to give you his
exact quote from I'd say fifty one or fifty two.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I don't hang up, but whatever you do, don't sing it.
Give us the quote.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
No, no, no, God anyway, isn't it funny that I've
never forgotten it.
Speaker 10 (18:48):
I don't have to look it up.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
I've remembered it. And the song goes. It's a long song,
but one verse says, Israel's going to get one two
just to drop on you know who the lord's are.
Shepherd says the psalm, but just in case, we better
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get a bomb.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Well, Israel's had a bomb for a long time.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
They have Thanks a lot. I'll say good night, thank you, right,
thank you, Marjorie.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Israel has had a bomb for a long time. They
are a nuclear power. They haven't used it even while
they were fighting several wars. To their credit, let me
go to Doreen. I'm gonna try to get Doreen here
before we go to a CBS news special. Hi, Doreen,
go right ahead.
Speaker 11 (19:39):
Hi Dan, I wanted to maybe that's what you were
talking about. Did you ever hear with the studskun missile error?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Sure? Yeah, that was yeah, I remember that. That was
back in the early nineties. Yes, I remember it, Yes
I do.
Speaker 11 (19:56):
Isn't that one Israel shot the missile because someone fired
at them first?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Well, they were, they were under attack, and and and
we had we had a scud missile that Israel had
bought was from a Massachusetts company. I mean they bought
a lot of them, and the scud missile would would
knock down missiles that were raining down. Now they have
their their dome facility, which is not a physical facility,
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but it structured to defend Israel from from these attacks.
Israel is attacked every week and it's benefitic.
Speaker 11 (20:36):
Jan I got to say, this is true.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Why are they always picking on that time for Israel?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Well, the world doesn't like Israel for a whole lot
of reasons. There's a lot of anti Semitism in the world. Uh,
and they uh, the some in the Arab community who
do not want to coexist with Israel feel that they
can defeat Israel, and that's a huge mistake, as many
of the nations over there. I found out over time, Doren,
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I'm coming up on a CBS News report, and so
I got to let you go. But I thank you
for joining us tonight, and thank you for reminding us
of the SCUD Mischel missile. Thanks Doreen. Right there goes Toreen.
We're coming back right after the CBS News special report.
I got wide open lines. There's no reason for that
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light that lines up. We'll be back right after this
report from CBS.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Newsnight SI with Dan Ray on Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Of course, we're beginning to get more reaction from the
Middle East, and again I realized this is a huge story,
and I know that many of you are probably thinking, well,
I'm not sure what I feel. I would ask you
to please feel free to give us a call. I
have wide open lines. There is an attack tonight by
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Israel on the government of Iran, and I emphasize this
on the government of Iran, not of the people of Iran.
These were selected targets of military leaders, nuclear scientists in
Iran as well as nuclear facilities. The attack is now
expected to continue for many days. There are different reports
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coming out Iranian media. It's reporting that Brigadier General Muhammad Bagheri,
the commander in chief of the armed forces and the
second highest commander after the Supreme Leader, has been killed
in an Israeli targeted strike. The blow to Iran's chain
of command is significant. Israel has taken out three top
ranking senior commanders, similar to the operations that took out
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the Hespola's command staff, so that is an interesting development.
A third wave of attacks has started targeting targeting radars
and ear defenses across the country. This is as a
result of a reporter named faranars Fasisi Fasihi. I'm not
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sure where she is reporting from. Meanwhile, a reporter in
Jerusalem says that Mohammad MoManI, Jordan's government spokesman, said that
the Kingdom of Jordan will not allow its airspace to
be violated. According to the state run Petra news agency,
Jordan is located between Israel and Iran, and saw Iranian
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ballistic missiles fly through its territory toward Israel twice last
year during Iranian attacks. Against Israel, So a little bit
of a double standard there by Jordan. The commander in
chief of Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards, General Hossain Salami,
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is among the dead reported by state media. And again
what's important through all of this is that Iran is
on its heels. Israel has killed top Iranian commanders, in
nuclear scientists. This is what's being admitted by Iran. Israel's
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wave of attacks, this is just twenty nine minutes ago
in the New York Times in Iran overnight on Friday,
targeted top Iranian officials and appeared to successfully kill the
leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard in a shocking series
of strikes that aim to deal significant blows to Iran
security leadership. Again, we mentioned this guy before. Hostan Salami,
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the commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guards, killed in an Israeli
airstrike within the Iranian capital of Tehran. According to Tasnim,
the semi official news side affiliated with the government. As
leader of the force, mister Salami had helped oversee the
relationship with Iran proxies like Hesbola, the Lebanese arm group
which had long menaced Israel. So again as this continues
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into the day now and whether or not Israel will
continue attacking during the day. They are now trying to
hit the radar installations, which will further cripple to Ran.
This is a again, it is a breath taking attack
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in terms of its ability to pinpoint civilian and military
leadership in their homes. Apparently these people died in the
beds that they slept, very similar to what happened when
they went after Hesbolah leaders in Lebanon. The Israeli military
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is very good, is very good. Iran has been I
think stalling for time and I think that's what the
Israelis belt and they are paying a price for it tonight.
But Israel and Netanyahu, and I know Netanya, who is
not very popular in this country, although he should be
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in my opinion. Let me go to Ken in Waltham,
would like to join the conversation with wide open lines. Everybody,
Ken and Waltham. Hi, Ken, how are you okay?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Good? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
I'm taking all past.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Because circumstances require that. Go right ahead, Ken.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yeah, so one, I think I so scud missiles are
a Russian missile by the way, I think I heard
you say they were ours.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I thought they were developed by trying to remember the
name of the company here, I.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Think you're maybe you're I don't know, if you're thinking
of a Patriot which we were using.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Maybe I was thinking of the Patriot missiles. Yeah, okay, another.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
No, I was going to say another kind of thing.
Tidbit from nineteen eighty one was Israel actually had to
fly over uh. It was I think it might have
been Syria to UH Syria or Saudi Arabia. I don't
I didn't look at a map I should have before
I called, but to hit Baghdad and that was like
a big deal because whichever country it was, that the
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whole thought was that Israel had had to have coordinated
with them and they and you know that country was
just as concerned about Baghdad as nuclear facility.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Is that case. I think it was only a couple
of Israeli planes. It was nothing on the scope of this,
by the right. By the way, Ken, you're absolutely correct.
Scott missil is one of a series of tactical ballistic
missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
And yeah, it was exported widely to Second and third
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World countries. It was the Patriot missile and I'm trying
I'll figure out that's what I was thinking. There was
also there was a reporter was who was nicknamed the
stud Scud, the scud stud, and I forget his name,
but he was in like during the First the First
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War that they took out Saddam Hussein from a from
Iraq by in nineteen ninety one. If I wet.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
So I did. I didn't. Yeah, No, I wanted to.
I mean, one of the reasons I haven't really talked
explicitly about this and I just I'm concerned about doing it.
But one of the reasons I'm so passionate about supporting
Ukraine is episodes like this, because what kind of support
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at this point can Russia give a Ran And I
would it's probably a lot less than they could have
done maybe three years ago.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Oh absolutely. And now the question also is the flip
side of that coin, what support Iran has been selling
or giving drone missiles to Russia that have been used
in the attacks on Ukraine. And by the way, you're
the Patriot missile system was a Raytheon product.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah, I worked for a raygun for twenty four years,
so I'm familiar with it.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I got it, okay.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
And you know, the scud was. It wasn't a very
advanced missile, but Patriot wasn't so advanced back in nineteen
ninety one either, and all capabilities are much much improved now.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
By the way, here's another thing. The stud, the scud stud,
was a reporter, Canadian TV journalist whose name was Arthur Kent,
and he was there's an article here. He was an
NBC reporter. And I guess he didn't have a great,
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great career in the media. He was fired. He was fired.
I guess he was. He was an NBC dismissed Arthur
Kent in nineteen ninety two. So he had a he
had a meteor a meteor like career, a meteoric career,
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but it didn't last a long time. It's funny how
people they sort of drifted and out of our lives.
He was, he was, he was, He was always there
and that was his nickname. You can people can look
it up, Arthur Kent. They stud scud, the scud stud.
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Excuse me, the scud stud.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Oh man, if if anyone could bring some levity into
this situation, you're the you're the man on that mean
you know what, I'm the other thing I was going
to say. I mean, I'm just so supportive of Israel here.
You know, the United States and are support of both
Israel and Ukraine. I think has just been paramount for this.
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You know, Hezbalah is weak, Hamas is weak, right, Iran
is weak, right. I mean the timing is maybe perfect
for Israel to take this action. I'm I'm very with
my knowledge of what's going on here, which isn't that great.
But I'm a little more pessimistic. I mean, it's really
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hard to I think, to get to these Iranian facilities.
I sure hope Israel successful. I think this might be
more of a long term mission. I don't know. I
mean I'd love to see tomorrow that they were one
hundred percent successful and it's over, right, I mean, I
think that's unlikely, but well.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Would be the overturning of the Iranian government. This this
theocratic regime here, which has kept the Iranian people under
the boot for forty six years and is time to
I mean, you know, the Iranian people are an innovative
and freedom loving people, and they've had the Green Revolution
there as I'm sure you know, and uh yeah, there
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have been. There have been protests there which we don't hear.
A lot of this is ah a government that allows
gay people to be thrown off the roofs of buildings.
Speaker 11 (32:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
And that's to me, it's like I see some of
these anti Israeli demonstrations here in America and it's like,
if you're anti Israeli, you were supporting You're get You're
giving support too to the Iranian government, which would throw
a lot of these demonstrators off the roof of a
building without without thinking for a second. Uh.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
It justice is insane, but there is there is a
lot of underlying support for it. And I think we
saw it a lot on the Obama administration, and there
were some protests right and the right really criticize Obama
because he was slow to, you know, vocalize his support
for the Iranian people who are supporting the West. And
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I think there's there has been a lot of underlying
support for the West in Iran.
Speaker 11 (33:12):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Yeah, Well, I'm happy about that. Conser was Obama was
he and Kerry were we're going to make a deal
with Iran, and they sent him bales of money, crates
of money, billions of dollars to try to buy Iran,
and Iran just took the money and gave nothing back,
and they just continued to develop the potential capacity. And
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it's now up to little old Israel to take him
out tonight.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
So you know, so I think's yeah, I mean, I'm not.
I think I agree with all of that, except for
maybe the last part. I mean, I according to what
I was reading, you know, we really did have good
verification when the deal was in place, and and Iran
did stop, you know, producing in our uranium and those
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kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
They stopped, they stopped briefly. We we sent them literally
billions of dollars.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
We well, I think, yeah, we we on what's the word?
I mean, I don't think we sent them any We
unfroze their assets, I think, which is effectively is the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I mean, yeah, it's right. They were eight billion dollars
richer as a result of what we did. Hey, I
got a run ken, appreciate you taking a hall pass tonight.
Thank you much.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
We thank you, Dan, great talking you good night.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Little disappointed here that more people aren't rising to this issue.
I'm sure by tomorrow night everybody will know about it
and we'll talk about this again tomorrow night. But I
got a couple of open lines. Feel free if you
dial now, I'll get you in six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty six one seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty.
I would expect my audience to be supportive of Israel,
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but you know, you know, I'd like to hear that support, uh,
and just not it's out there. We'll be back on
Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Okay, we got a bunch of folks here, so let's
try to get everybody in. Nobody has been on any
longer than nine minutes, so Larry, you're going to start
us off here. I'd love to give everybody a couple
of minutes.
Speaker 12 (35:21):
Go ahead, Larry, Okay. To begin with, I've actually had
contact with people from the Israeli Air Force as well
as Israeli Defense forces.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
And I'm retired in the.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
US Air Force, and thank you for your service.
Speaker 12 (35:35):
Which is where some of that come from, including the
commander or Fighter Wings and Israeli Air Force on the
types of defenses I can't get into the details, okay,
but and also Israeli defense members coming here in a
meeting which I also attended and met him, including another
Israeli general.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
And it's.
Speaker 12 (35:58):
To say nothing of the last time or they had
a situation I ran. They went over with eight F
sixteens each carrying a pair of two thousand pound bombs
into Iran and hit every single one of the targets. Basically,
sixteen strikes, sixteen bombs, and all sixteen were right on target.
And that's something that's actually been on the news.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Okay, so that's good to know, Larry. I appreciate that information.
I really do. In two thousand pound bombs, are they
considered bunk or busting capacity?
Speaker 12 (36:34):
Yes, they are. And in that case, each F sixteen
carried a pair of them, and there were eight F
sixteens involved in that, and the lieutenant colonel from Israeli
Air Forces lad and they flew right over Jordanian airspace
to access I ran.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Yeah, so that's why Jordan responded, Larry, great information, Thank you,
thank you, thank you. I'm trying to get everybody else in,
but that was one of the best calls of the night.
As late as it was, I showed wish I could
have talked. Call again and we'll we'll have a longer conversation.
Speaker 12 (37:03):
Okay, okay, and I'll let you go. I know they
got other callers, but I thought i'd get that into.
I'll let you get in Israel's dealt with Iran before
and in some of the contact I've had that people
normally wouldn't have had. It sounds like I'll let you
escape me and get onto the next callers.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
All right, and thank thank you for your service. Appreciate it.
Thank you, Larry. You got to keep rolling here, Steven Merrimack, Steve,
you've got to be quick for me. Please go right ahead.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
I just want to say I would rather see a
preemptive conventional attack like Israel did tonight than the alternative,
which would have been a nuclear prevent because.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Absolutely that that was what they were going to do.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
If if we're in developed a bomb and they already
said they were not going to let them do it,
this is the next best thing. I also believe that
we've provided intelligence, you know, satellite intelligence to help Israel
for these target getting.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Yeah, I'm certain of that. There's no question in my mind.
I'm certain of that. Steve. Thank you, great points, well presented.
Thank you. Next up, Bill and Danvers. Bill, I'm gonna
get you in here and one more maybe go ahead, Bill.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
Get you up. No, it had to be done. And
I don't want to say, you know, it's not yet
a relief because we don't know, but hopefully it's at
least effective. And yeah, and could they seem to take
out some real leadership.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
So all they do with those guys are sleeping tonight.
That's that's the mark of Israel. They're pretty smart. Thank you, Bill.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
All right, Yeah, I'll let you go.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Bye, Thankyboddy, Larry you need him, Larry, you gotta be
quick for Iim're gonna try to get one more and Larry.
Speaker 10 (38:49):
Yes, yes, yes. Tom Lera is very famous around here.
He listen Cambridge. He was born in nineteen twenty eight.
He was brilliant. He's a mathematician, graduated High and Todd
at MIT. And his topical music. I have some of
his record his vinyl.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
That's that's what Maggie and the Cats and the catskills.
Speaker 10 (39:11):
I call just just to tell you about him, that
he lives here in Cambridge and he came from New York.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Thank you much, thanks, thank you so much. That's great
to know. I hope he's doing well. Okay, my friend,
Harvey Silverglade, Harvey, we got like thirty seconds that I
can give you here.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
I can say it. In thirty seconds, the world is
going to be howling at Israel's aggression, and eighty five
percent of the world is going to be relieved.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
I think that's an astute observation. I truly believe that
I really do well. We'll have a longer conversation maybe
tomorrow night. Okay, thank you, my friend, Bye bye, bye bye.
What do we gotta let you?
Speaker 5 (39:55):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Okay, let me get uh in Roxbury, Richard. I can
give you about twenty seconds. You just called. What can
you do with twenty seconds? Richard? Well, you got a
call early. We got a bad connection. This all right, man,
appreciate it. All right, We're done for the night. I
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don't know why. I don't know why people call that
late and don't have their thoughts together. But that's that's
a problem anyway. Dan Catano, thank you very much. Great
job tonight. I want to thank his flexibility. Tonight. We'll
get all of this stuff posted. You can find tonight's
shows at Nightside on demand. He'll have them posted sometime
(40:40):
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finish my night at dan Caps working. I want to
thank Karen will send Me, who produced today's program, and
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Okay, So what we're doing here is talking about what's
going on halfway around the world. It's now dawn morning
in Israel and in Tehran. Tehran has been hit overnight
very hard. I'm looking at the New York Times. Let
me just to set this up. The Times is reporting
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just a couple of minutes ago, Israel carried out a
major attack in Iran's nuclear program on Friday morning, killing
top Iranian military officials as well. That would indicate to
me that they have some people on the ground who
can target where these people are spending the evenings. The
strikes raised fears the long shimmering conflict between the two
countries could escalate into a war involving the most powerful
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militaries in the Middle East. I don't know that Iran's
military is particularly powerful after tonight, but we'll find out.
The commander in chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards, General
Hossein Salami, among the dead reported by state media residents
of Tehran. The Iranian capitol reporter hearing huge explosions in
Iranian state television broadcast images of smoke and fire billowing
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from buildings. One senior Iranian official, speaking on the condition
of anonymity, said Iran's fighter jets had taken off to
intercept the Israeli warplanes. Well, we'll say. Several Israeli officials
described the attacks as a preemptive strike intended to keep
Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb. The Israeli military said
the strikes had targeted sites critical to Iran's long range
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missile capabilities, delivery system, and its nuclear programs. Four minutes ago,
a number of Republicans in Washington, Washington are issuing stark
warnings to leaders in Iran if US interests are targeted.
Senator Lindsay Graham, Republican of South Carolina, sat in a
social media post that America should have an overwhelming response
if American personnel or installations are targeted, vowing to destroy
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all of Iran's oil refineries and oil infrastructure with the
aim of putting the Aetola and his hencement out of
the oil business. Oil prices have surged in the last
day or so, UH and stock prices have in the
short term tumbled, but that would to be would to
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be is to be expected. The sites that were hit
uh Tabreeze explosions reported near a nuclear research center and
two military bases. Kermanshaw, I'm unfamiliar with that. What is there?
A rock? A rock ar a k the ton's israels
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attacked Iran's main enrichment facility, and Tran residents reported seeing
Israeli fighter jets. Nor News reports that Ali Shamkani has
been severely injured in air strikes on his home. Home
is in a hospital in Tehran. Shakami with spearheading nuclear
negotiations on behalf of the Supreme Leader. Raphael Grossi, the
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chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, confirmed in a
statement that Natan's nuclear strike has been targeted in the
Israeli attacks. These agencies in contact with Iranian authorities regarding
radiation levels, who are also in contact with our inspectors
in the country. Grossi said on social media, calling this
situation in Iran deeply concerning. Well, it is deeply concerning
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to the Iranian people. Let's go six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty six one seven nine three one ten thirty. Mike,
you were first this hour on night Side. Your thoughts
on what is transpiring in Iran, even as we speak.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Go ahead, Mike, Hey, anybody I.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Can hear you, Mike, right ahead.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
So yeah, I awesomely support it one hundred percent. You know,
with about time we finally knocked them out, and this
situation we're go on for a while. And you know,
I had been dragging the feat about this situation for
a while, you know, and are good for them. And
it's not like a one and done. It's going to
be going for numerous days.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't think. I don't think,
and I'm no expert here, but I don't think when
Israel decides to take something out, the Israel will want
to finish this. There's a there's a photograph of the
New York Times here of Iranians. This looks like a
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photograph that was taken for the New York Times maybe
four or five hours as the attacks were going on.
A group of Iranians are watching from a It looks
like a I don't gather at the top.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Said earlier.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
What did he say earlier? I missed what you said there, Mike.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
It's going to be going off for days. There's not
a one and done.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Dang, no question about that. There's no question about that
Israel is in is in this fight to win it.
They they've been attacked so many times. They know that
once Iran got a nuclear weapon and had a delivery system,
Israel was in the crosshairs and yeah, who was not
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going to allow that to happen. So I hope that
they're successful, but we will see the.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Only problem with them is they don't have any bunker bombs.
Bunker bombs and uh really take effect on a nuclear program,
you know they're taking. The big thing was that it
took out the leader guy, which is as clover as
to uh Solemione when Trump did. So that's a good
hit right there.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Well, the leader of the revolutionary God. That's fine. Yeah,
don't be don't be surprised if we find out at
some point that somehow Israel had some bunker bomb bunker
busting bombs that they were able to use because as
some of the Iranian locations are so built inside mountains
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that they're almost u you know, just inaccessible to a job.
Which also we may find out when this is over
that Israel had some troops on the ground, some special
forces on the ground, so uh, they they hit it
was it was unexpected. It was a surprise attack. Uh,
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we'll we'll get it better by this time tomorrow night,
we'll have a better understanding of how much damage was
done and what what what Israel has to do from
here on out. I think what Israel is looking to
try to do is regime change. I mean, if it's possible.
For there's a lot of unrest, particularly amongst young people
in Iran who are just tired of theocracy. Uh, they
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want their food. Mike, I appreciate your callers always. Thanks
for joining us, Thank you, thank you, you too. Got
some open lines here six one seven, six one seven
nine three one, ten thirty. This is a real quick break,
So dial away and we'll turn it around and we'll
be back in a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Just checking around here as as I tend to do
it nights, as I tend to do at night. I'm
looking at the They have what they call the Dow
futures stock market futures. And whenever something like this happens, Uh,
you you always get an immediate downturn. So we have
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the Dow futures down one and a half percent. Uh,
that is not where it will end up tomorrow, but
that's where it at least is starting. Uh and uh,
you know this is this is always the way that
you have these futures down. Sm P futures are down
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one point seven percent, nestack down one point eight percent.
That is always the uncertainty that the market hates, and
also oil prices immediately go up. But my suspicion is
that if the Israelis are successful and in the runs
nuclear capabilities are severely damaged or eliminated, it'll be good
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for not only the world, but for the stock market
as well. Join the conversation. We got open lines, folks.
Let me go to Harriet in Tewksbury. Harriet, you were
next on nightside.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Welcome, Hi, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Welcome.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
I'm just so sad that Israel has to get into
so many battles and citizens have to be put through
a while. They're just still waiting for the hostages to
be relieved. It's so awful.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
And that when President Obama was in they want him,
they said, please, don't let them get the nuclear power
and they didn't really need it, and he lets them
get it. And so now Israel has to suffer and
go into another war that shouldn't have even to happen.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Well, if Israel is successful and they strategize these things
out very well, they take their time, and if they're
successful in their strikes tonight, and we won't know, probably
for twenty four to forty eight hours, the extent of
the damage that they've inflicted Israel. Israel is in a
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tough spot over there, geographically and militarily. There's surrounded by
countries that have been traditionally hostile to them.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
And.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
This is not going to increase Israel's stature in certain
parts of the Middle East. But I think this had
to be done. Israel just couldn't stand by and wait
for Iran to hit him with a nuclear weapon in
my opinion.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
Oh that I know, But I'm saying it's just a
band that they had to come to the They shouldn't
have had that in the first place. But anyway, I'm.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Hoped hopefully there's fil and it's all taken out.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
And they can have some peace over there. They certainly
deserve it.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, well, let me tell you, sometimes peace is not
the absence of war. And if if they have been
as successful as it would appear, and again I think
it's going to take days weeks to figure out exactly
the extent of their success. It looks as if they
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the Iranians, got a little sloppy because they Israel knew
where some of the leadership were spending their nights, and
they were they were hitting. They hit the private homes
of some of these Iranian leaders in the military and
of the scientific community, and they those those people are
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now off the battlefield, if you if you know what
I'm saying, and Israel. Israel took the gloves off tonight
in my opinion, But there are other people who might
disagree with both you and me. But I appreciate you
taking the time to call in Harriet as always. Thank
you so much.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Oh, thank you, talk soon. Bad night.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
All right, folks, don't be shy, step right up. Let
me know what you think, whatever your point of view is.
It seems as if the US can claim clean hends,
they can. They can say, hey, we had nothing to
do with this. I'm sure Iran will blame us anyway.
That's not a problem. But the big question coming out
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of this is has their capability been crippled or do
they have the ability to strike back I know that
watching during the eleven o'clock news some of the cable
network news, a lot of it was, well, Iran, now,
what will Iran do? My question is what can they do?
Six one, seven, two five for ten thirty six one,
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seven thirty. Always difficult to talk about a breaking news story,
particularly of this magnitude. So if you're out there and
you have an opinion, feel free to join our conversation.
Next up is Matt. Matt glad to hear you, hear
you call in tonight. What's your thoughts on all of this?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Hey, Dan?
Speaker 9 (12:22):
Well, first off, I want to say that this is
historic and a monumental and a win for not only
the world, but for Israel and for society. Definitely unprecedented
from just what I'm hearing, and there's little basis I
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can hold to that something that likely may have been
carried out by Massad and they, as you said a
couple minutes ago, this may have been a strategic move
to change the occupation of government going on over there,
which is so desperately needed, so many great people over
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there that are held since nineteen seventy nine by the
rule of the.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Iatola and stuff like that of the Sharia law.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well, you know, back in two thousand and seven, there
was an Israeli operation that hit a suspected nuclear reactor
in Syria, and then there was a I believe that
there was a strike back in the early eighties as
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well by Israel. So Israel has always been willing to
to They're not just sitting there waiting to be hit. Okay,
they you know, they they look they have been.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Through this before any times.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, but again they have. They hit a Syrian nuclear
reactor which had been built ironically by North Korea, back
in September of two thousand and seven, and I believe
that in the early nineteen eighties there was another site
is that Israel hit as well, So there's a lot
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you know, Israel. Israel is a small country, It's a
powerful country, and it was not going to stand by
and watch their neighbor build the bomb, be able to
deliver it and drop it on an Israeli city, thank God.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
Right, I agree, And I think first and form I mean, okay,
one or two very quick things to mention is that, look,
Israel is capable. Israel is a small country, but they
are a strong country. They stand, you know, warts and
all they stand and they do defend and give them
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a Rubio's statement today. They took this out and they
took it on themselves, and they've done this before and
it's recognizable to know that Israel's capable of this, and
Israel defends a democracy in themselves and this will hopefully
bring peace in some way to Iran and change and
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to the other end of it, they unlike what goes
on in Gaza, they use mountains, they use inside of
you know, mountainous regions. They don't go into the tunnels
in Iran as much.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
But by the way, to say that, in June of
nineteen eighty one, Israel destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor
very close to Baghdad, and that was considered a breathtaking
operation at the time. So so yeah, they have a
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record of acting preemptively when they feel us in the
interest of their country. Matt has always appreciate your voice.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Appreciate ga to hepciated, thanks for giving the time.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
On So for now, everybody seems to be pretty happy
with what's going on. Let me go to Margie and
the cat Skills. Margie in New York, Welcome, How are
you tonight.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
Guess Srian, I agree totally what your last caller said,
especially his last sentence, And what I'm going to talk
about is what do you think has been the major
cost of war over the last centuries.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Being unprepared for war and appearing too weak?
Speaker 8 (17:00):
Well, if you think about it, religion has been the
major cause of war, either acquiring land or religion.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
But no country has been attacked because the other country
thought they were too strong. We exactly, We in nineteen
forty one were perceived by the Japanese as being weak.
We were perceived by the Germans as being isolationist.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
You nailed it. I'm going to make this very brief
because I'm recalling something I heard word for word in
about nineteen fifty one or fifty two, and it has
exactly to do with the situation today. And it was
made by a comedian. Now you're too young to know him,
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but when I was in college, the most popular comedian
in the war in America made seventy eight records. You know,
in the old days, comedians like New Art and all.
You could buy a seventy eight record.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Who is the comedian you're referring to that now?
Speaker 8 (18:10):
I don't know if you've ever heard him. I'm sure
you can use to him. He sings his act. His
name is Tom lera L e h R e R.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Never heard of him that.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
Okay, he's much too old for you, but he's worth
looking up. He was as brilliant as George Carlin. But
he sang everything. And I'm going to give you his
exact quote from I'd say fifty one or fifty two.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I don't hang up, but whatever you do, don't sing it.
Give us the quote.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
No, no, no, God anyway, isn't it funny that I've
never forgotten it.
Speaker 10 (18:48):
I don't have to look it up.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
I've remembered it. And the song goes. It's a long song,
but one verse says, Israel's going to get one two
just to drop on you know who the lord's are.
Shepherd says the psalm, but just in case, we better
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get a bomb.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Well, Israel's had a bomb for a long time.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
They have Thanks a lot. I'll say good night, thank you, right,
thank you, Marjorie.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Israel has had a bomb for a long time. They
are a nuclear power. They haven't used it even while
they were fighting several wars. To their credit, let me
go to Doreen. I'm gonna try to get Doreen here
before we go to a CBS news special. Hi, Doreen,
go right ahead.
Speaker 11 (19:39):
Hi Dan, I wanted to maybe that's what you were
talking about. Did you ever hear with the studskun missile error?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Sure? Yeah, that was yeah, I remember that. That was
back in the early nineties. Yes, I remember it, Yes
I do.
Speaker 11 (19:56):
Isn't that one Israel shot the missile because someone fired
at them first?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Well, they were, they were under attack, and and and
we had we had a scud missile that Israel had
bought was from a Massachusetts company. I mean they bought
a lot of them, and the scud missile would would
knock down missiles that were raining down. Now they have
their their dome facility, which is not a physical facility,
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but it structured to defend Israel from from these attacks.
Israel is attacked every week and it's benefitic.
Speaker 11 (20:36):
Jan I got to say, this is true.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Why are they always picking on that time for Israel?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Well, the world doesn't like Israel for a whole lot
of reasons. There's a lot of anti Semitism in the world. Uh,
and they uh, the some in the Arab community who
do not want to coexist with Israel feel that they
can defeat Israel, and that's a huge mistake, as many
of the nations over there. I found out over time, Doren,
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I'm coming up on a CBS News report, and so
I got to let you go. But I thank you
for joining us tonight, and thank you for reminding us
of the SCUD Mischel missile. Thanks Doreen. Right there goes Toreen.
We're coming back right after the CBS News special report.
I got wide open lines. There's no reason for that
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light that lines up. We'll be back right after this
report from CBS.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Newsnight SI with Dan Ray on Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Of course, we're beginning to get more reaction from the
Middle East, and again I realized this is a huge story,
and I know that many of you are probably thinking, well,
I'm not sure what I feel. I would ask you
to please feel free to give us a call. I
have wide open lines. There is an attack tonight by
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Israel on the government of Iran, and I emphasize this
on the government of Iran, not of the people of Iran.
These were selected targets of military leaders, nuclear scientists in
Iran as well as nuclear facilities. The attack is now
expected to continue for many days. There are different reports
(22:26):
coming out Iranian media. It's reporting that Brigadier General Muhammad Bagheri,
the commander in chief of the armed forces and the
second highest commander after the Supreme Leader, has been killed
in an Israeli targeted strike. The blow to Iran's chain
of command is significant. Israel has taken out three top
ranking senior commanders, similar to the operations that took out
(22:50):
the Hespola's command staff, so that is an interesting development.
A third wave of attacks has started targeting targeting radars
and ear defenses across the country. This is as a
result of a reporter named faranars Fasisi Fasihi. I'm not
(23:14):
sure where she is reporting from. Meanwhile, a reporter in
Jerusalem says that Mohammad MoManI, Jordan's government spokesman, said that
the Kingdom of Jordan will not allow its airspace to
be violated. According to the state run Petra news agency,
Jordan is located between Israel and Iran, and saw Iranian
(23:36):
ballistic missiles fly through its territory toward Israel twice last
year during Iranian attacks. Against Israel, So a little bit
of a double standard there by Jordan. The commander in
chief of Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards, General Hossain Salami,
(23:56):
is among the dead reported by state media. And again
what's important through all of this is that Iran is
on its heels. Israel has killed top Iranian commanders, in
nuclear scientists. This is what's being admitted by Iran. Israel's
(24:19):
wave of attacks, this is just twenty nine minutes ago
in the New York Times in Iran overnight on Friday,
targeted top Iranian officials and appeared to successfully kill the
leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard in a shocking series
of strikes that aim to deal significant blows to Iran
security leadership. Again, we mentioned this guy before. Hostan Salami,
(24:44):
the commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guards, killed in an Israeli
airstrike within the Iranian capital of Tehran. According to Tasnim,
the semi official news side affiliated with the government. As
leader of the force, mister Salami had helped oversee the
relationship with Iran proxies like Hesbola, the Lebanese arm group
which had long menaced Israel. So again as this continues
(25:09):
into the day now and whether or not Israel will
continue attacking during the day. They are now trying to
hit the radar installations, which will further cripple to Ran.
This is a again, it is a breath taking attack
(25:29):
in terms of its ability to pinpoint civilian and military
leadership in their homes. Apparently these people died in the
beds that they slept, very similar to what happened when
they went after Hesbolah leaders in Lebanon. The Israeli military
(25:52):
is very good, is very good. Iran has been I
think stalling for time and I think that's what the
Israelis belt and they are paying a price for it tonight.
But Israel and Netanyahu, and I know Netanya, who is
not very popular in this country, although he should be
(26:14):
in my opinion. Let me go to Ken in Waltham,
would like to join the conversation with wide open lines. Everybody,
Ken and Waltham. Hi, Ken, how are you okay?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Good? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
I'm taking all past.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Because circumstances require that. Go right ahead, Ken.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yeah, so one, I think I so scud missiles are
a Russian missile by the way, I think I heard
you say they were ours.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I thought they were developed by trying to remember the
name of the company here, I.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Think you're maybe you're I don't know, if you're thinking
of a Patriot which we were using.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Maybe I was thinking of the Patriot missiles. Yeah, okay, another.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
No, I was going to say another kind of thing.
Tidbit from nineteen eighty one was Israel actually had to
fly over uh. It was I think it might have
been Syria to UH Syria or Saudi Arabia. I don't
I didn't look at a map I should have before
I called, but to hit Baghdad and that was like
a big deal because whichever country it was, that the
(27:20):
whole thought was that Israel had had to have coordinated
with them and they and you know that country was
just as concerned about Baghdad as nuclear facility.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Is that case. I think it was only a couple
of Israeli planes. It was nothing on the scope of this,
by the right. By the way, Ken, you're absolutely correct.
Scott missil is one of a series of tactical ballistic
missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
And yeah, it was exported widely to Second and third
(27:51):
World countries. It was the Patriot missile and I'm trying
I'll figure out that's what I was thinking. There was
also there was a reporter was who was nicknamed the
stud Scud, the scud stud, and I forget his name,
but he was in like during the First the First
(28:14):
War that they took out Saddam Hussein from a from
Iraq by in nineteen ninety one. If I wet.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
So I did. I didn't. Yeah, No, I wanted to.
I mean, one of the reasons I haven't really talked
explicitly about this and I just I'm concerned about doing it.
But one of the reasons I'm so passionate about supporting
Ukraine is episodes like this, because what kind of support
(28:46):
at this point can Russia give a Ran And I
would it's probably a lot less than they could have
done maybe three years ago.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Oh absolutely. And now the question also is the flip
side of that coin, what support Iran has been selling
or giving drone missiles to Russia that have been used
in the attacks on Ukraine. And by the way, you're
the Patriot missile system was a Raytheon product.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah, I worked for a raygun for twenty four years,
so I'm familiar with it.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I got it, okay.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
And you know, the scud was. It wasn't a very
advanced missile, but Patriot wasn't so advanced back in nineteen
ninety one either, and all capabilities are much much improved now.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
By the way, here's another thing. The stud, the scud stud,
was a reporter, Canadian TV journalist whose name was Arthur Kent,
and he was there's an article here. He was an
NBC reporter. And I guess he didn't have a great,
(29:57):
great career in the media. He was fired. He was fired.
I guess he was. He was an NBC dismissed Arthur
Kent in nineteen ninety two. So he had a he
had a meteor a meteor like career, a meteoric career,
(30:18):
but it didn't last a long time. It's funny how
people they sort of drifted and out of our lives.
He was, he was, he was, He was always there
and that was his nickname. You can people can look
it up, Arthur Kent. They stud scud, the scud stud.
(30:38):
Excuse me, the scud stud.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Oh man, if if anyone could bring some levity into
this situation, you're the you're the man on that mean
you know what, I'm the other thing I was going
to say. I mean, I'm just so supportive of Israel here.
You know, the United States and are support of both
Israel and Ukraine. I think has just been paramount for this.
(31:04):
You know, Hezbalah is weak, Hamas is weak, right, Iran
is weak, right. I mean the timing is maybe perfect
for Israel to take this action. I'm I'm very with
my knowledge of what's going on here, which isn't that great.
But I'm a little more pessimistic. I mean, it's really
(31:25):
hard to I think, to get to these Iranian facilities.
I sure hope Israel successful. I think this might be
more of a long term mission. I don't know. I
mean I'd love to see tomorrow that they were one
hundred percent successful and it's over, right, I mean, I
think that's unlikely, but well.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Would be the overturning of the Iranian government. This this
theocratic regime here, which has kept the Iranian people under
the boot for forty six years and is time to
I mean, you know, the Iranian people are an innovative
and freedom loving people, and they've had the Green Revolution
there as I'm sure you know, and uh yeah, there
(32:06):
have been. There have been protests there which we don't hear.
A lot of this is ah a government that allows
gay people to be thrown off the roofs of buildings.
Speaker 11 (32:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
And that's to me, it's like I see some of
these anti Israeli demonstrations here in America and it's like,
if you're anti Israeli, you were supporting You're get You're
giving support too to the Iranian government, which would throw
a lot of these demonstrators off the roof of a
building without without thinking for a second. Uh.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
It justice is insane, but there is there is a
lot of underlying support for it. And I think we
saw it a lot on the Obama administration, and there
were some protests right and the right really criticize Obama
because he was slow to, you know, vocalize his support
for the Iranian people who are supporting the West. And
(33:07):
I think there's there has been a lot of underlying
support for the West in Iran.
Speaker 11 (33:12):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Yeah, Well, I'm happy about that. Conser was Obama was
he and Kerry were we're going to make a deal
with Iran, and they sent him bales of money, crates
of money, billions of dollars to try to buy Iran,
and Iran just took the money and gave nothing back,
and they just continued to develop the potential capacity. And
(33:35):
it's now up to little old Israel to take him
out tonight.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
So you know, so I think's yeah, I mean, I'm not.
I think I agree with all of that, except for
maybe the last part. I mean, I according to what
I was reading, you know, we really did have good
verification when the deal was in place, and and Iran
did stop, you know, producing in our uranium and those
(34:03):
kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
They stopped, they stopped briefly. We we sent them literally
billions of dollars.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
We well, I think, yeah, we we on what's the word?
I mean, I don't think we sent them any We
unfroze their assets, I think, which is effectively is the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I mean, yeah, it's right. They were eight billion dollars
richer as a result of what we did. Hey, I
got a run ken, appreciate you taking a hall pass tonight.
Thank you much.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
We thank you, Dan, great talking you good night.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Little disappointed here that more people aren't rising to this issue.
I'm sure by tomorrow night everybody will know about it
and we'll talk about this again tomorrow night. But I
got a couple of open lines. Feel free if you
dial now, I'll get you in six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty six one seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty.
I would expect my audience to be supportive of Israel,
(34:56):
but you know, you know, I'd like to hear that support, uh,
and just not it's out there. We'll be back on
Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Okay, we got a bunch of folks here, so let's
try to get everybody in. Nobody has been on any
longer than nine minutes, so Larry, you're going to start
us off here. I'd love to give everybody a couple
of minutes.
Speaker 12 (35:21):
Go ahead, Larry, Okay. To begin with, I've actually had
contact with people from the Israeli Air Force as well
as Israeli Defense forces.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
And I'm retired in the.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
US Air Force, and thank you for your service.
Speaker 12 (35:35):
Which is where some of that come from, including the
commander or Fighter Wings and Israeli Air Force on the
types of defenses I can't get into the details, okay,
but and also Israeli defense members coming here in a
meeting which I also attended and met him, including another
Israeli general.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
And it's.
Speaker 12 (35:58):
To say nothing of the last time or they had
a situation I ran. They went over with eight F
sixteens each carrying a pair of two thousand pound bombs
into Iran and hit every single one of the targets. Basically,
sixteen strikes, sixteen bombs, and all sixteen were right on target.
And that's something that's actually been on the news.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Okay, so that's good to know, Larry. I appreciate that information.
I really do. In two thousand pound bombs, are they
considered bunk or busting capacity?
Speaker 12 (36:34):
Yes, they are. And in that case, each F sixteen
carried a pair of them, and there were eight F
sixteens involved in that, and the lieutenant colonel from Israeli
Air Forces lad and they flew right over Jordanian airspace
to access I ran.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Yeah, so that's why Jordan responded, Larry, great information, Thank you,
thank you, thank you. I'm trying to get everybody else in,
but that was one of the best calls of the night.
As late as it was, I showed wish I could
have talked. Call again and we'll we'll have a longer conversation.
Speaker 12 (37:03):
Okay, okay, and I'll let you go. I know they
got other callers, but I thought i'd get that into.
I'll let you get in Israel's dealt with Iran before
and in some of the contact I've had that people
normally wouldn't have had. It sounds like I'll let you
escape me and get onto the next callers.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
All right, and thank thank you for your service. Appreciate it.
Thank you, Larry. You got to keep rolling here, Steven Merrimack, Steve,
you've got to be quick for me. Please go right ahead.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
I just want to say I would rather see a
preemptive conventional attack like Israel did tonight than the alternative,
which would have been a nuclear prevent because.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Absolutely that that was what they were going to do.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
If if we're in developed a bomb and they already
said they were not going to let them do it,
this is the next best thing. I also believe that
we've provided intelligence, you know, satellite intelligence to help Israel
for these target getting.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Yeah, I'm certain of that. There's no question in my mind.
I'm certain of that. Steve. Thank you, great points, well presented.
Thank you. Next up, Bill and Danvers. Bill, I'm gonna
get you in here and one more maybe go ahead, Bill.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
Get you up. No, it had to be done. And
I don't want to say, you know, it's not yet
a relief because we don't know, but hopefully it's at
least effective. And yeah, and could they seem to take
out some real leadership.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
So all they do with those guys are sleeping tonight.
That's that's the mark of Israel. They're pretty smart. Thank you, Bill.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
All right, Yeah, I'll let you go.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Bye, Thankyboddy, Larry you need him, Larry, you gotta be
quick for Iim're gonna try to get one more and Larry.
Speaker 10 (38:49):
Yes, yes, yes. Tom Lera is very famous around here.
He listen Cambridge. He was born in nineteen twenty eight.
He was brilliant. He's a mathematician, graduated High and Todd
at MIT. And his topical music. I have some of
his record his vinyl.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
That's that's what Maggie and the Cats and the catskills.
Speaker 10 (39:11):
I call just just to tell you about him, that
he lives here in Cambridge and he came from New York.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Thank you much, thanks, thank you so much. That's great
to know. I hope he's doing well. Okay, my friend,
Harvey Silverglade, Harvey, we got like thirty seconds that I
can give you here.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
I can say it. In thirty seconds, the world is
going to be howling at Israel's aggression, and eighty five
percent of the world is going to be relieved.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
I think that's an astute observation. I truly believe that
I really do well. We'll have a longer conversation maybe
tomorrow night. Okay, thank you, my friend, Bye bye, bye bye.
What do we gotta let you?
Speaker 5 (39:55):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Okay, let me get uh in Roxbury, Richard. I can
give you about twenty seconds. You just called. What can
you do with twenty seconds? Richard? Well, you got a
call early. We got a bad connection. This all right, man,
appreciate it. All right, We're done for the night. I
(40:18):
don't know why. I don't know why people call that
late and don't have their thoughts together. But that's that's
a problem anyway. Dan Catano, thank you very much. Great
job tonight. I want to thank his flexibility. Tonight. We'll
get all of this stuff posted. You can find tonight's
shows at Nightside on demand. He'll have them posted sometime
(40:40):
by three or four o'clock tomorrow morning, I get to
finish my night at dan Caps working. I want to
thank Karen will send Me, who produced today's program, and
I want to thank all of you for listening and
all of you for calling all dogs all cats, so
pets go to heaven. That's my pal Charlie ray Is,
who passed fifteen years ago in February. That's why all
your pets are who passed. They love you and you
love them. I do believe you'll see them again. We'll
(41:01):
see again tomorrow night. I will be on Facebook with
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Dan Ray on Facebook and we'll talk to you tomorrow night.
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