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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Bill Handle here on a Thursday morning. Some of the
stories we are looking at, Well, a World Cup starts
today in Mexico. Tomorrow is the US versus Paraguay at
Sofia Stadium.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
And so five weeks.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's a long time, and so we're going to see
five weeks of grief. And I'm going to talk about
the World Cup a little bit later on, but here
I want to talk about something we've been ignoring and
this critical stuff when it comes to the war in Iran,
and that's the country of Oman. Now why is Oman
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so important? Well because if you look at the straight
look at a map of the Strait of Horror moves,
the northern section of the Strait is Iran, the southern
part of the Strait.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Is Oman, and all of ad.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
But you know, people are looking at Oman and saying
this peaceful country that sort of mediated and stayed out
of everybody's ways.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
There's an issue here.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
President Trump casually threatened last month to bamb Ahman, which
has been a long time American ally and people.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Assumed you've been missed. He misspoken. I mean, come on,
he did not misspeak.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
After the US Israeli war with Iran inflamed tensions across
the Middle East. As you would expect, Oman, the Sultanate
of Oman, found itself in the crosshairs of the Trump administration,
at odds with its Gulf neighbors, and it was perceived
as being too sympathetic to Iran. There is an omani
(01:44):
academic Abdullah Baboud said, sometimes standing in the middle is
not easy for Washington and particularly for this president. Either
you're with us or you're against us. There really is
no middle ground when it comes to the ministry. It's
real simple, join us or you become the enemy. Now,
(02:06):
for years, Oman has facilitated talks with the US and
Iran and maintains it's still playing its traditional role as
this neutral mediator and advocates advocating regional stability. Okay, here's
the problem, and this is where I put Oman in
a pretty difficult position. Is last month, Oman was discussing
(02:29):
partnering with Iran to charge fees for ships to pass
through this trait of hormones, basically a toll booth for
the ships to pass. There used to be an international waterway. Freedom.
Absolutely no tolls just sailed right through it, and Iran said, well,
we're going to start charging. Oman said we're going to
(02:51):
join you in charging. And that did it.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
The president snapped on that one, and I think rightly so,
because for a neutral country that upheld the international right
of this right of way, this international waterway, that was
free from any interference from any country, all of a sudden, yeah,
we're gonna charge ships going through like the Panama Canal,
(03:16):
like the Siuez Canal, but the Suez Canal and the
Panama Canal go through countries, one being Panama, the other
one being Egypt.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
For example.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And the President told that reporters in late May, Oman
will behave just like everybody else, or we're gonna have
to blow them up. I mean, that's of course Trump speak.
They understand that they'll be fine. I don't know what
that means. They'll be fine. But the point is is
that that shocked a bunch of people across the region. Now,
(03:50):
the response from that statement from Oman has been silence.
Why because Oman has a reputation for being aloof from
the rest of the region. It's really not part of
the region in the sense of alignment. Mark Siever is
a former US ambassador Oman said what they would say
to me as well, we are the Gulf's window on Iran,
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and that's a function that needs to be respected. Well, again,
there is no neutrality in the world of this administration.
You're either with us or you're not. And this war
has created even more distance between Oman and its Arab
neighbors because they are firmly against Iran big time. Iran
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is a danger to the entire region. When you talk
about Arab countries like Saudi Arabia, when you talk about
countries like Kuwait. Now there have been some with the
Abraham agre Kors that have recognized Israel first, starting with
Jordan and in Egypt, the rest of the Midi said no, no,
we're gonna we're not going to accept Israel as a country.
(04:57):
We're not going to recognize Israel. Why because of the
Palestine any issue. And now Iran is saying that it's
only going to come to the table if Israel stops
bombing Lebanon. And so the reality is, and I'm going
to give you an example, the reality is is that
a lot of these states not only are allied with
(05:20):
the United States, Saudi Arabia, but you know they've been
buying goods from Israel for years and years. Well wait
a minute, they can't the losses, they can't. Let me
tell you what they do. And I have a friend
of mine who flew for the idea of Israel Defense Forces,
and he flew F sixteens, and he said that Israel
had created a new system of long range tanks for
(05:43):
the F sixteen, which United States has not. So parts
for the F sixteen and upgrades come from the United States,
but they didn't create It was Israel that created this
special tank for additional gas. So how does Saudi Arabia
get hold of it? Well, what Israel does is use
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Cyprus as a mediation point. So all of the parts
that went into Saudi Arabia for the F sixteen were
on the boxes, were labeled product of Cyprus, and everybody knew.
It was a dirty little secret that everybody knew. I
want to continue on with the topic of Oman. And
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we're not hearing much about Oman while the festivities are
going on between the United States, Iran and Israel, and
that you would think it doesn't make any sense. Why
because Oman is on the other side of the Strait
of Hormuz. That is, you've got Iran in the north,
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Ohman in the south, and Oman Heretofore, if you notice,
as the other Gulf countries were getting pummeled by Iranian
missiles and drones, Oman wasn't. Oman is fine as far
as getting hit by Iran. And as I said earlier,
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Iran and the other Gulf states are really enemies, you know.
For example, Saudi Arabia is much more frightened of Iran
than it ever would be of Israel. Ever, because Israel
and Saudi Arabia actually do business together. Because if their
theocracy in Iran, if they took their religious and that's
what they do, they want to create their form of
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religion all over the Mid East. The first thing they're
going to do when they go to Saudi Arabia's hang
the royal family and they know it. So there's some
real issues going on. It's a lot more complicated than
just the Middle East loves Palestinian and they sort of
hate and love the US.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Some have military basis, some don't.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
But what happened with Oman, which is known as a mediator,
which is known as a neutral country, and as I
said earlier, there's no this thing as in neutrality with
this administration, either you are with us or you are
the enemy. And what really got the President very angry,
really pissed off, and he's right on this is Oman
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joined Iran in saying we are going to start charging
with the Iran tolls fees for ships to pass through
the Strait of Hormuz. Previously it was a worldwide international
waterway that was free of any control by any country.
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So even to the point where when the new leader,
the son of the head Honcho, the Imperial Wizard, the
Grand Puba of Iran, when that one was killed in
the new Grand Puba, his son came into power. Do
you know Iran that Oman actually sent a letter of
congratulations to the assistant Pouba, who now is the big Poohba.
(09:05):
I think that's what they call them, don't they. I
think it's Imperial Wizard. I don't know this. You know
that if you look at that turbine these guys where
and you unroll it, it goes into a cone.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Did you know that?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Probably not. See you get a lot of news from me.
I'm telling you a lot of information you don't get
anyplace else. Now while this is going on, as the
Middle East is reeling in terms of the oil that's
going through.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
You know, Oman is doing fine.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
All the other Midiast countries have taken big hits with oil.
Oman has actually increased its revenue because Oman is on
the other side.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Of the port.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Most of it's oil and it can ship its oil
over through the country by pipeline other countries can't and
then going into the Red Sea. So it is doing
really well. And unfortunately for the rest of the world,
while this craziness is going on, there's Oman. Kuwait International
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Airport was hit last week. Oman condemned the attack. They said, oh,
this is terrible, but that the name Iran at all.
Name didn't even show up. What the government said Oman
its rejection of all military acts that undermined the region's security. Boy,
there's a veiled reference not just to Iran but to
Israel in the United States too, But they don't mention
(10:32):
Iran by name.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
The Trump administration, during Trump administration one had great relationships
as the United States did with Oman. Matter of fact,
Trump the family cut a deal to build a Trump unusual,
Trump branded luxury real estate project in Oman, and of
course that raised all kinds of ethical issues. But after
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Israel led its brief war against Iran, remember the two
week attack, the tie started to fray and once again, Oman,
leading up to the war, tried to be the mediator
between the US and Iran. But it's really clear that
Oman has a very different view of the talks than
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the president. Oman's foreign minister said that a peace deal
was within our reach if we just allowed diplomacy to
get the space that it needs. Here, well, the president
is saying, we're done with diplomacy, we want to cut
a deal. But what's happening is Iran is real is backpedaling.
(11:39):
It was back and forth, and it just takes forever.
What the president doesn't understand as he says, oh, they're
two days away from a deal where I'm going to
have it over the weekend. The negotiations have stopped. We're
absolutely right there, not even close. Iran has said not
even close, because Iran takes its time, and it says
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the longer this thing takes, the better off we are.
Because at some point politically, the president is going to
lose all of his popularity even among his followers, especially
if troops go in there.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
He's going to have a tough time.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Iran doesn't have to worry about any kind of political fallout.
It doesn't, but the Revolutionary Guard cares about what public
public opinion is. Hell, they went out and shot twenty
thousand people that were demonstrating. We'll show you. Have you
noticed that there are no more demonstrations out on the
streets of Iran of Tehran. Yeah, because you get killed
(12:39):
because they shoot you, because they don't care.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
So we're going to see what happens right now.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
The President said as yesterday that carg Island was going
to be taken out. Carg Island is where ninety percent
of Iran's oil is shipped out of and the President said,
we're taking out carg Island. Well, this morning CNN and
The New York Times reported that the President said the
American people may not have the stomach for an attack
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on card Island, So what's going to happen. Well, we're
going to talk about this one. And the President has
said that's going to happen a night. Now, we'll see,
we'll see, all right. I want to invite you to
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Speaker 3 (13:33):
Birthday of America of the United States.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
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Speaker 3 (14:15):
Okay, come Sunday, We've got an event going on.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Actually, Washington has an event going on and it is
the UFC Fight South Lawn of the White House. Now,
whatever you say, and I talk a lot about it,
whatever you can say about President Trump, you are never
going to be able to say that he is understated,
that he puts a soft touch on everything he does,
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that he is sedate and calm and never overreacts, or
overdes anything.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
So there's a.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Sixty million dollar fight going on. Now we're sixty million. Well,
if you look at what went up on the South Lawn,
you've got that massive infrastructure, that massive physical almost looks
like a well, I guess almost looks like a ferris
wheel without the fairest part of it. And did some
(15:13):
massive production and the logistics were insane. Now, building a
sporting event that's going to be on television that accommodates
more than one hundred thousand people without existing arena infrastructure,
that is not an easy thing to do. So there
(15:34):
was a lawsuit that was filed by a couple of
people that we're trying to stop this thing, you know, stupid,
ridiculous lawsuit saying that their view of the Washington Monument
was being interfered with.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I mean, just crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
But what happens is or happened is court documents that
were submitted by the Trump administration in relation to defending
lawsuit show that the UFC events this week and through
the weekend are going to cost more than sixty million dollars.
Includes food that octagon cage, four hundred and ninety four
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porta potties trucked in for the crowd, and according to
the White House, this is highly complex, multifaceted event that
has been carefully planned by a multitude of public and
private entities over a significant period of time.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
No kidding, it is no small deal.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Now, this coincides with President Trump's eightieth birthday and is
also celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of the
United States. You tell me which one is holding in precedent.
But it's gonna be a double hit. That's what the
White House says, So okay, we'll give it to them.
The crowd size has grown rather substantially. In June, he
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announced plans for the fight, billed as this celebration of
the country's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. He predicted it
would bring twenty to twenty five thousand people. The court
documents show that one hundred and twenty five thousand people
are expected and seventy five thousand people requested tickets. Tickets
are free, by the way, unluel ringside are twelve thousand
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or fifteen thousand, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars if
I'm not mistaken for some ringside seats.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Now does that go to the USC.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I don't know, but the UFC is fronting the cost
sixty million dollars. It's responsible for the production, labor, construction, promotion,
also the perishable food items that must be bought.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
They're selling food there.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Four thousand South Lawn guests and one hundred and twenty
thousand ellipse As guests and it is, boy, what a
deal this thing is. So what are you gonna do?
It's going to be a huge events. Never been done before,
nothing close to it has been done. But again, the
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President wants to do bigger, better, faster than anything else
that has ever been done. Look at the ballroom, look
at the arc the triumph that he was to put up,
far taller than the Arc to Triumph in Paris. I
mean he's literally doing everything he put can to put
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the Trump stamp on in Washington and across the country.
So every day, twenty to thirty trucks filled with equipment, staging, infrastructure,
technical material had to be screened before they came into
the White House or on the White House grounds for installation.
Seven hundred to nine hundred subcontractors were involved. And can
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you imagine the security, anti scale fencing bike racked barycodes, barricades,
US Secret Service screening facilities. How much is the government
paying for when't paying for all of security measures for sure?
And that includes the Secret Service and the metropol Well,
(19:14):
the metropolity police are paid for by Washington d C.
But the Secret Service and any other federal employees are
going to be paid for by the government.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
So it is being touted.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
No, I think it's true that UFC is paying for
the majority of it. Now is sixty million dollars is
at an investment. I think it's the best investment they
could ever make. They're going to get a lot of
press from this. And there's one guy that owns it
all and he's a friend of the president. All right,
(19:46):
coming up, I'm gonna do a story. This is gonna
be fun on Sunday. You know it's gonna be. Where's
gonna be?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Where can you watch this, Michelle?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I know that they're I think they're streaming it. I
have to look is.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
It on any network or any platform?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Cono, do you know if there is CBS? I have
to I have to look it up and see.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
And it turned out there's gonna be two fights, right.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Paramount plus is where it's gonna be there.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Okay, And there's gonna be it was supposed to be
a whole bunch of world championship fights, and now I
think it's gonna be two of those.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
So I don't know. This is changing minute to minute.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
There's a few undercards and then there's the big fight.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
And it was originally, if I remember, it was supposed
to be about eight major fights, and now it's down
to two, and I don't know the answer.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Might you know, I may watch it.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Well, I'm not a big fan of UFC fighting anyway,
and violent it is violent. I'm much more a fan
of pie eating contests, and not enough of them are televised.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Unfortunately, seven total fights on the card.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Okay, all right, Tomorrow the IPO comes out for I
believe SpaceX, and Elon Musk is going to probably be
the world's first trillionaire if the it sells. The stock
sells at one hundred and thirty five dollars a share,
like it's going to open at. And I'm trying to
figure out what a trillionare is and the Wall Street
(21:15):
Journal has figured out to describe a trillion dollars. The
difference between a million a billion and a trillion. So
if we do it in time in timelines, a million
seconds ago was two weeks ago, that's a million seconds.
(21:38):
Billion seconds is nineteen ninety four, going back to the
days of pulp fiction. A trillion seconds puts us back
in the ice age. Yeah, can you imagine that in dollars?
Just completely crazy? All Right, Today, I think I'm going
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to hold off on the subject of Take thee to
a Nunnery because it's too good a story. So what
I'm gonna do is spend a minute talking about what
is happening today, and the big one is will carg
Island be bombed by the United States. The President has
said yesterday that because because the Iranians are not coming
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to the table, they are being way.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Too slow about these negotiations.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Because one thing about the President is he is not
the most patient guy in the world.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
He wants a deal. He wants a deal.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Now he has said we have a deal, it's going
to happen within two three days.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
It hasn't.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
And so yesterday card Island, which is where Iran ninety
percent of Iran's oil is processed and distributed from, is
going to be hit and taken over. That was yesterday
there it didn't quite happen. Yesterday there was some minimal
or modified attacks. So today we're hearing that tonight. It's
going to happen if the Iranians don't come to the table,
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which I have serious doubts whether they will, because the
President said the Iranians have agreed to the major terms,
they want to deal really badly, and we're just on
the precipice of signing this deal. Well, the only people
that are saying that's not true happen to be the Iranians.
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They're saying, we're not even close, and they want the
negotiations to go on and on, and I think rightly so.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Time is on their side.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Why because public opinion is going straight downhill for the
president in terms of this war, and public opinion means
absolutely nothing in Iran. They just don't care. The Revolutionary
Guard controls Iran. Remember when the President said that when
who many was killed and quote, a regime change took place,
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which it didn't, that the new people in charge are
more rational and they're gonna come to the table more quickly.
It's exactly the opposite. The new leadership is far more
hardcore than the previous leader leadership is so we'll certainly
talk about that if the attack happens tonight.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
So we're done with the show.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Coming up, Gary and Shannon Tomorrow, we're back again Footy
Friday at eight o'clock, without the Foody Friday because Neil
doesn't go back till Monday. Heather Brooks is with this
fillyon for Amy and she'll be here for the next
another week till the end of the next Friday. Michelle
is gone tomorrow and and comes back. So we have
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a modified crew of people, but the show is still brilliant, wonderful.
Just ask me, I'll be bored and happy to tell you.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Guys, We're We're back tomorrow, same place, same station, KFI
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Bill Handle here on a Thursday morning. Some of the
stories we are looking at, Well, a World Cup starts
today in Mexico. Tomorrow is the US versus Paraguay at
Sofia Stadium.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
And so five weeks.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's a long time, and so we're going to see
five weeks of grief. And I'm going to talk about
the World Cup a little bit later on, but here
I want to talk about something we've been ignoring and
this critical stuff when it comes to the war in Iran,
and that's the country of Oman. Now why is Oman
(00:45):
so important? Well because if you look at the straight
look at a map of the Strait of Horror moves,
the northern section of the Strait is Iran, the southern
part of the Strait.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Is Oman, and all of ad.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
But you know, people are looking at Oman and saying
this peaceful country that sort of mediated and stayed out
of everybody's ways.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
There's an issue here.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
President Trump casually threatened last month to bamb Ahman, which
has been a long time American ally and people.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Assumed you've been missed. He misspoken. I mean, come on,
he did not misspeak.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
After the US Israeli war with Iran inflamed tensions across
the Middle East. As you would expect, Oman, the Sultanate
of Oman, found itself in the crosshairs of the Trump administration,
at odds with its Gulf neighbors, and it was perceived
as being too sympathetic to Iran. There is an omani
(01:44):
academic Abdullah Baboud said, sometimes standing in the middle is
not easy for Washington and particularly for this president. Either
you're with us or you're against us. There really is
no middle ground when it comes to the ministry. It's
real simple, join us or you become the enemy. Now,
(02:06):
for years, Oman has facilitated talks with the US and
Iran and maintains it's still playing its traditional role as
this neutral mediator and advocates advocating regional stability. Okay, here's
the problem, and this is where I put Oman in
a pretty difficult position. Is last month, Oman was discussing
(02:29):
partnering with Iran to charge fees for ships to pass
through this trait of hormones, basically a toll booth for
the ships to pass. There used to be an international waterway. Freedom.
Absolutely no tolls just sailed right through it, and Iran said, well,
we're going to start charging. Oman said we're going to
(02:51):
join you in charging. And that did it.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
The president snapped on that one, and I think rightly so,
because for a neutral country that upheld the international right
of this right of way, this international waterway, that was
free from any interference from any country, all of a sudden, yeah,
we're gonna charge ships going through like the Panama Canal,
(03:16):
like the Siuez Canal, but the Suez Canal and the
Panama Canal go through countries, one being Panama, the other
one being Egypt.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
For example.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And the President told that reporters in late May, Oman
will behave just like everybody else, or we're gonna have
to blow them up. I mean, that's of course Trump speak.
They understand that they'll be fine. I don't know what
that means. They'll be fine. But the point is is
that that shocked a bunch of people across the region. Now,
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the response from that statement from Oman has been silence.
Why because Oman has a reputation for being aloof from
the rest of the region. It's really not part of
the region in the sense of alignment. Mark Siever is
a former US ambassador Oman said what they would say
to me as well, we are the Gulf's window on Iran,
(04:13):
and that's a function that needs to be respected. Well, again,
there is no neutrality in the world of this administration.
You're either with us or you're not. And this war
has created even more distance between Oman and its Arab
neighbors because they are firmly against Iran big time. Iran
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is a danger to the entire region. When you talk
about Arab countries like Saudi Arabia, when you talk about
countries like Kuwait. Now there have been some with the
Abraham agre Kors that have recognized Israel first, starting with
Jordan and in Egypt, the rest of the Midi said no, no,
we're gonna we're not going to accept Israel as a country.
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We're not going to recognize Israel. Why because of the
Palestine any issue. And now Iran is saying that it's
only going to come to the table if Israel stops
bombing Lebanon. And so the reality is, and I'm going
to give you an example, the reality is is that
a lot of these states not only are allied with
(05:20):
the United States, Saudi Arabia, but you know they've been
buying goods from Israel for years and years. Well wait
a minute, they can't the losses, they can't. Let me
tell you what they do. And I have a friend
of mine who flew for the idea of Israel Defense Forces,
and he flew F sixteens, and he said that Israel
had created a new system of long range tanks for
(05:43):
the F sixteen, which United States has not. So parts
for the F sixteen and upgrades come from the United States,
but they didn't create It was Israel that created this
special tank for additional gas. So how does Saudi Arabia
get hold of it? Well, what Israel does is use
(06:05):
Cyprus as a mediation point. So all of the parts
that went into Saudi Arabia for the F sixteen were
on the boxes, were labeled product of Cyprus, and everybody knew.
It was a dirty little secret that everybody knew. I
want to continue on with the topic of Oman. And
(06:27):
we're not hearing much about Oman while the festivities are
going on between the United States, Iran and Israel, and
that you would think it doesn't make any sense. Why
because Oman is on the other side of the Strait
of Hormuz. That is, you've got Iran in the north,
(06:49):
Ohman in the south, and Oman Heretofore, if you notice,
as the other Gulf countries were getting pummeled by Iranian
missiles and drones, Oman wasn't. Oman is fine as far
as getting hit by Iran. And as I said earlier,
(07:10):
Iran and the other Gulf states are really enemies, you know.
For example, Saudi Arabia is much more frightened of Iran
than it ever would be of Israel. Ever, because Israel
and Saudi Arabia actually do business together. Because if their
theocracy in Iran, if they took their religious and that's
what they do, they want to create their form of
(07:32):
religion all over the Mid East. The first thing they're
going to do when they go to Saudi Arabia's hang
the royal family and they know it. So there's some
real issues going on. It's a lot more complicated than
just the Middle East loves Palestinian and they sort of
hate and love the US.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Some have military basis, some don't.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
But what happened with Oman, which is known as a mediator,
which is known as a neutral country, and as I
said earlier, there's no this thing as in neutrality with
this administration, either you are with us or you are
the enemy. And what really got the President very angry,
really pissed off, and he's right on this is Oman
(08:16):
joined Iran in saying we are going to start charging
with the Iran tolls fees for ships to pass through
the Strait of Hormuz. Previously it was a worldwide international
waterway that was free of any control by any country.
(08:39):
So even to the point where when the new leader,
the son of the head Honcho, the Imperial Wizard, the
Grand Puba of Iran, when that one was killed in
the new Grand Puba, his son came into power. Do
you know Iran that Oman actually sent a letter of
congratulations to the assistant Pouba, who now is the big Poohba.
(09:05):
I think that's what they call them, don't they. I
think it's Imperial Wizard. I don't know this. You know
that if you look at that turbine these guys where
and you unroll it, it goes into a cone.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Did you know that?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Probably not. See you get a lot of news from me.
I'm telling you a lot of information you don't get
anyplace else. Now while this is going on, as the
Middle East is reeling in terms of the oil that's
going through.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
You know, Oman is doing fine.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
All the other Midiast countries have taken big hits with oil.
Oman has actually increased its revenue because Oman is on
the other side.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Of the port.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Most of it's oil and it can ship its oil
over through the country by pipeline other countries can't and
then going into the Red Sea. So it is doing
really well. And unfortunately for the rest of the world,
while this craziness is going on, there's Oman. Kuwait International
(10:11):
Airport was hit last week. Oman condemned the attack. They said, oh,
this is terrible, but that the name Iran at all.
Name didn't even show up. What the government said Oman
its rejection of all military acts that undermined the region's security. Boy,
there's a veiled reference not just to Iran but to
Israel in the United States too, But they don't mention
(10:32):
Iran by name.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
The Trump administration, during Trump administration one had great relationships
as the United States did with Oman. Matter of fact,
Trump the family cut a deal to build a Trump unusual,
Trump branded luxury real estate project in Oman, and of
course that raised all kinds of ethical issues. But after
(10:58):
Israel led its brief war against Iran, remember the two
week attack, the tie started to fray and once again, Oman,
leading up to the war, tried to be the mediator
between the US and Iran. But it's really clear that
Oman has a very different view of the talks than
(11:18):
the president. Oman's foreign minister said that a peace deal
was within our reach if we just allowed diplomacy to
get the space that it needs. Here, well, the president
is saying, we're done with diplomacy, we want to cut
a deal. But what's happening is Iran is real is backpedaling.
(11:39):
It was back and forth, and it just takes forever.
What the president doesn't understand as he says, oh, they're
two days away from a deal where I'm going to
have it over the weekend. The negotiations have stopped. We're
absolutely right there, not even close. Iran has said not
even close, because Iran takes its time, and it says
(12:01):
the longer this thing takes, the better off we are.
Because at some point politically, the president is going to
lose all of his popularity even among his followers, especially
if troops go in there.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
He's going to have a tough time.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Iran doesn't have to worry about any kind of political fallout.
It doesn't, but the Revolutionary Guard cares about what public
public opinion is. Hell, they went out and shot twenty
thousand people that were demonstrating. We'll show you. Have you
noticed that there are no more demonstrations out on the
streets of Iran of Tehran. Yeah, because you get killed
(12:39):
because they shoot you, because they don't care.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
So we're going to see what happens right now.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
The President said as yesterday that carg Island was going
to be taken out. Carg Island is where ninety percent
of Iran's oil is shipped out of and the President said,
we're taking out carg Island. Well, this morning CNN and
The New York Times reported that the President said the
American people may not have the stomach for an attack
(13:07):
on card Island, So what's going to happen. Well, we're
going to talk about this one. And the President has
said that's going to happen a night. Now, we'll see,
we'll see, all right. I want to invite you to
an event on Saturday evening, June twenty at the Walt
Disney Concert Hall. It's the La Lawyer's Philharmonic celebrating two
(13:32):
hundred and fifty.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Birthday of America of the United States.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And this is the LA Lawyer lawyers and judges and
people in the illegal field having and what that is
an orchestra and a choral group. And I amc the
event every year and it's pretty impressive. I just love
listening to that, and I will be addressed in my
tuxedo and generally make an ass out of myself, which
I do. Concert tickets twenty to one hundred and thirty
(13:58):
five dollars, so it's very reasonably priced, half of which
is tax deductible. And so you find out more information
visit LA Lawyers Phil dot org as LA Lawyers phil
as In Philharmonic La Lawyersphil dot org.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Okay, come Sunday, We've got an event going on.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Actually, Washington has an event going on and it is
the UFC Fight South Lawn of the White House. Now,
whatever you say, and I talk a lot about it,
whatever you can say about President Trump, you are never
going to be able to say that he is understated,
that he puts a soft touch on everything he does,
(14:44):
that he is sedate and calm and never overreacts, or
overdes anything.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
So there's a.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Sixty million dollar fight going on. Now we're sixty million. Well,
if you look at what went up on the South Lawn,
you've got that massive infrastructure, that massive physical almost looks
like a well, I guess almost looks like a ferris
wheel without the fairest part of it. And did some
(15:13):
massive production and the logistics were insane. Now, building a
sporting event that's going to be on television that accommodates
more than one hundred thousand people without existing arena infrastructure,
that is not an easy thing to do. So there
(15:34):
was a lawsuit that was filed by a couple of
people that we're trying to stop this thing, you know, stupid,
ridiculous lawsuit saying that their view of the Washington Monument
was being interfered with.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I mean, just crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
But what happens is or happened is court documents that
were submitted by the Trump administration in relation to defending
lawsuit show that the UFC events this week and through
the weekend are going to cost more than sixty million dollars.
Includes food that octagon cage, four hundred and ninety four
(16:10):
porta potties trucked in for the crowd, and according to
the White House, this is highly complex, multifaceted event that
has been carefully planned by a multitude of public and
private entities over a significant period of time.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
No kidding, it is no small deal.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Now, this coincides with President Trump's eightieth birthday and is
also celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of the
United States. You tell me which one is holding in precedent.
But it's gonna be a double hit. That's what the
White House says, So okay, we'll give it to them.
The crowd size has grown rather substantially. In June, he
(16:56):
announced plans for the fight, billed as this celebration of
the country's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. He predicted it
would bring twenty to twenty five thousand people. The court
documents show that one hundred and twenty five thousand people
are expected and seventy five thousand people requested tickets. Tickets
are free, by the way, unluel ringside are twelve thousand
(17:19):
or fifteen thousand, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars if
I'm not mistaken for some ringside seats.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Now does that go to the USC.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I don't know, but the UFC is fronting the cost
sixty million dollars. It's responsible for the production, labor, construction, promotion,
also the perishable food items that must be bought.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
They're selling food there.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Four thousand South Lawn guests and one hundred and twenty
thousand ellipse As guests and it is, boy, what a
deal this thing is. So what are you gonna do?
It's going to be a huge events. Never been done before,
nothing close to it has been done. But again, the
(18:07):
President wants to do bigger, better, faster than anything else
that has ever been done. Look at the ballroom, look
at the arc the triumph that he was to put up,
far taller than the Arc to Triumph in Paris. I
mean he's literally doing everything he put can to put
(18:29):
the Trump stamp on in Washington and across the country.
So every day, twenty to thirty trucks filled with equipment, staging, infrastructure,
technical material had to be screened before they came into
the White House or on the White House grounds for installation.
Seven hundred to nine hundred subcontractors were involved. And can
(18:54):
you imagine the security, anti scale fencing bike racked barycodes, barricades,
US Secret Service screening facilities. How much is the government
paying for when't paying for all of security measures for sure?
And that includes the Secret Service and the metropol Well,
(19:14):
the metropolity police are paid for by Washington d C.
But the Secret Service and any other federal employees are
going to be paid for by the government.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
So it is being touted.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
No, I think it's true that UFC is paying for
the majority of it. Now is sixty million dollars is
at an investment. I think it's the best investment they
could ever make. They're going to get a lot of
press from this. And there's one guy that owns it
all and he's a friend of the president. All right,
(19:46):
coming up, I'm gonna do a story. This is gonna
be fun on Sunday. You know it's gonna be. Where's
gonna be?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Where can you watch this, Michelle?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I know that they're I think they're streaming it. I
have to look is.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
It on any network or any platform?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Cono, do you know if there is CBS? I have
to I have to look it up and see.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
And it turned out there's gonna be two fights, right.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Paramount plus is where it's gonna be there.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Okay, And there's gonna be it was supposed to be
a whole bunch of world championship fights, and now I
think it's gonna be two of those.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
So I don't know. This is changing minute to minute.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
There's a few undercards and then there's the big fight.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
And it was originally, if I remember, it was supposed
to be about eight major fights, and now it's down
to two, and I don't know the answer.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Might you know, I may watch it.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Well, I'm not a big fan of UFC fighting anyway,
and violent it is violent. I'm much more a fan
of pie eating contests, and not enough of them are televised.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Unfortunately, seven total fights on the card.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Okay, all right, Tomorrow the IPO comes out for I
believe SpaceX, and Elon Musk is going to probably be
the world's first trillionaire if the it sells. The stock
sells at one hundred and thirty five dollars a share,
like it's going to open at. And I'm trying to
figure out what a trillionare is and the Wall Street
(21:15):
Journal has figured out to describe a trillion dollars. The
difference between a million a billion and a trillion. So
if we do it in time in timelines, a million
seconds ago was two weeks ago, that's a million seconds.
(21:38):
Billion seconds is nineteen ninety four, going back to the
days of pulp fiction. A trillion seconds puts us back
in the ice age. Yeah, can you imagine that in dollars?
Just completely crazy? All Right, Today, I think I'm going
(22:00):
to hold off on the subject of Take thee to
a Nunnery because it's too good a story. So what
I'm gonna do is spend a minute talking about what
is happening today, and the big one is will carg
Island be bombed by the United States. The President has
said yesterday that because because the Iranians are not coming
(22:21):
to the table, they are being way.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Too slow about these negotiations.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Because one thing about the President is he is not
the most patient guy in the world.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
He wants a deal. He wants a deal.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Now he has said we have a deal, it's going
to happen within two three days.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
It hasn't.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
And so yesterday card Island, which is where Iran ninety
percent of Iran's oil is processed and distributed from, is
going to be hit and taken over. That was yesterday
there it didn't quite happen. Yesterday there was some minimal
or modified attacks. So today we're hearing that tonight. It's
going to happen if the Iranians don't come to the table,
(23:04):
which I have serious doubts whether they will, because the
President said the Iranians have agreed to the major terms,
they want to deal really badly, and we're just on
the precipice of signing this deal. Well, the only people
that are saying that's not true happen to be the Iranians.
(23:24):
They're saying, we're not even close, and they want the
negotiations to go on and on, and I think rightly so.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Time is on their side.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Why because public opinion is going straight downhill for the
president in terms of this war, and public opinion means
absolutely nothing in Iran. They just don't care. The Revolutionary
Guard controls Iran. Remember when the President said that when
who many was killed and quote, a regime change took place,
(23:56):
which it didn't, that the new people in charge are
more rational and they're gonna come to the table more quickly.
It's exactly the opposite. The new leadership is far more
hardcore than the previous leader leadership is so we'll certainly
talk about that if the attack happens tonight.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
So we're done with the show.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Coming up, Gary and Shannon Tomorrow, we're back again Footy
Friday at eight o'clock, without the Foody Friday because Neil
doesn't go back till Monday. Heather Brooks is with this
fillyon for Amy and she'll be here for the next
another week till the end of the next Friday. Michelle
is gone tomorrow and and comes back. So we have
(24:37):
a modified crew of people, but the show is still brilliant, wonderful.
Just ask me, I'll be bored and happy to tell you.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Guys, We're We're back tomorrow, same place, same station, KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
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Speaker 2 (24:53):
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