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Speaker 1: Militarily, Iran is finished, there is no question about it.

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Speaker 1: Now their navy is practically gone, their air force has

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Speaker 1: been wiped out. Now the regime has been pretty much decapitated.

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Speaker 1: Their former supreme leader, Ayatola Hamany is dead. Ari Larry Johnny,

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Speaker 1: their top security official dead, the leader of the besieged

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Speaker 1: paramilitary dead, their intelligence chief dead. Much of the regime

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Speaker 1: now is leaderless, and increasingly they are becoming desperate. And

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Speaker 1: now with their ballistic arsenal wiped out or obliterated, their

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Speaker 1: nuclear program smashed, much of their military capabilities degraded, it

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Speaker 1: is now clear Iran cannot and will not militarily win

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Speaker 1: this war. The only question now left is whether the

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Speaker 1: regime can survive, whether the people of Iran can rise

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Speaker 1: up and overthrow the brutal Iatolas. And there is a

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Speaker 1: very disturbing peace in the Wall Street Journal that local

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Speaker 1: members of the besiege, their radical, dangerous, fanatical paramilitary forces,

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Speaker 1: and of course the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps are sending

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Speaker 1: thugs on the streets armed with machine guns and weapons,

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Speaker 1: shooting at potential protesters, terrorizing the residents of Tehran, warning

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Speaker 1: them that any opposition, any protest, they will be instantly

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Speaker 1: murdered and massacred. And so the question now is, with

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Speaker 1: the crackdown intensifying at home, as the bombs and missiles

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Speaker 1: keep dropping, taking out target after target after target, is

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Speaker 1: whether the people of Iran will be so cowed, so frightened,

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Speaker 1: so brutalized, that they will not take advantage of this

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Speaker 1: once maybe ever opportunity, certainly once in a generation, opportunity

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Speaker 1: to get rid of the Ayatolas once and for all

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Speaker 1: and replace them with a decent, civilized, stable successor government.

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Speaker 1: But as far as the military aspect of this campaign,

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Speaker 1: Operation Epic Fury, it's now clear the Mullahs have been

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Speaker 1: militarily defeated. Their army is in tatters, their ballistic and

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Speaker 1: nuclear program is finished. And now will there be regime

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Speaker 1: change that is the question, or will Iran splinter and

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Speaker 1: fragment into a thousand pieces and be consumed in a

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Speaker 1: civil war as what happened in Iraq after the overthrow

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Speaker 1: of Saddam Hussein. But let's be very clear, the Mullas

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Speaker 1: may have talked a big game, but the United States

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Speaker 1: and Israel have unmasked them for the paper tiger that

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Speaker 1: they were. They are no longer a threat to their

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Speaker 1: neighbors or a threat to the region. They can toss missiles, still,

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Speaker 1: they could launch a few drone strikes, but in terms

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Speaker 1: of taking over any country, invading any country, creating the

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Speaker 1: kind of havoc chaos terrorism that they inflicted for the

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Speaker 1: last forty years, those days are now over. We are

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Speaker 1: watching a regime in its death throws, and now the

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Speaker 1: only question that remains is whether the Iranian people can

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Speaker 1: replace them and overthrow them, or will he run on

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Speaker 1: now slowly but surely sink into the abyss. Only time

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Speaker 1: will tell.