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Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about this debate that Halen Clark has

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Speaker 1: set off about where the New Zealand should be condemning

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Speaker 1: the US air strikes on Iran. Now you'll have noticed

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Speaker 1: this New Zealand hasn't condemned the air strikes. In fact,

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Speaker 1: in a radio interview this morning, the Prime Minister said

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Speaker 1: that our position is the same as the Australian position,

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Speaker 1: and the Australian position is that they support the strikes.

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Speaker 1: So therefore logical conclusion we actually support the strikes, even

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Speaker 1: if we aren't saying it out loud ourselves. Now that level,

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Speaker 1: or that lack of condemnation has upset Helen Clark because

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Speaker 1: the air strikes are illegal under international law, and she's

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Speaker 1: right about that. But can anyone argue that the strikes

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Speaker 1: should not have happened, because let's consider the counterfactual. The

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Speaker 1: counterfactual is that the strikes didn't happen over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Ayatollahamany is still alive. He's continuing to kill tens of

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Speaker 1: thousands of Iranians for protesting, continues to fund Hamas to

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Speaker 1: attack Israel, continues to fund and support the Hohoties to

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Speaker 1: cause trouble in the Middle East, continues to fund and

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Speaker 1: support Hezbollah to create more trouble in the Middle East,

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Speaker 1: continues to call trouble is close to home as Australia,

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Speaker 1: where Iran apparently directed the fire bombing of a synagogue

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Speaker 1: in Melbourne just a few months ago. It is exactly

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Speaker 1: the same situation that the world found itself as with

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Speaker 1: Venezuela and the capturing of Maduro. Shouldn't have happened, broke

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Speaker 1: the rules, but no one said that. Someone did break

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Speaker 1: the rules and do the thing that needed to be done. Now,

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Speaker 1: obviously this doesn't mean that it's going to be a success.

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Speaker 1: Bombing a country to false regime change rarely works. What

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Speaker 1: comes next might be worse. The disruption to the Middle

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Speaker 1: East might be more than it's worth, but all of

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Speaker 1: those are unknowns at this stage. What is known at

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Speaker 1: this stage is that the Iranian regime was murdering its

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Speaker 1: own people, was disrupting the region, and was trying to

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Speaker 1: disrupt even further afield. So, yes, what happened over the

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Speaker 1: weekend broke the rules, but tell me if you're upset

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