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Speaker 1: Boston's Bulldozer operates seven days a week. The Kuner Report

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Speaker 2: Boston six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty

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Speaker 2: eight is the number, okay, So let me ask you.

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Speaker 2: It is the Kooner Country Poll. Question of the Day

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Speaker 2: sponsored by Marios Marios Quality Roofing, Siding and Windows. Is

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Speaker 2: US military intervention in Iran? Regime change or a stand

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Speaker 2: for democracy? As you know, Trump is now seriously considering

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Speaker 2: multiple military options, could even go as much as boots

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Speaker 2: on the ground. I don't think he will do that,

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Speaker 2: but definitely a bombing campaign, maybe devastating missile strikes against

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Speaker 2: the Ayatolas, against the regime, against some of its key

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Speaker 2: military targets. So, if the United States was to intervene militarily,

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Speaker 2: is it in order to foster a regime change or

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Speaker 2: is it b a stand for democracy? I want to

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Speaker 2: WRKO dot com slash cooner wrko dot com slash cooner.

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Speaker 2: Kuh and is a national Er. You can also vote

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Speaker 2: via x and yes again last night very active on X.

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Speaker 2: My handle there at the Kooner Report all one word

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Speaker 2: at the Kooner report, kuh n e Er. We are

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Speaker 2: now living through very very historic times, both here at home,

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Speaker 2: no question, and what's now happening around the world. And

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Speaker 2: I don't want to keep repeating myself, but it bears repeating.

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Speaker 2: If the Mullahs should fall, if this brutal Islamist regime

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Speaker 2: that has destroyed Iran and run Iran since nineteen seventy nine,

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Speaker 2: the Islamic Republicans it's called, should it fall. It would

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Speaker 2: to me be very similar in terms of its effect

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Speaker 2: and consequences to the fall of the Berlin Wall, not

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Speaker 2: just for Iran and the Iranian people, but for the

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Speaker 2: Middle East and for the world, and for the United States.

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Speaker 2: So the question now is, with the regime on the brink,

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Speaker 2: with millions of protesters taking to the streets, with thousands

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Speaker 2: of them now being massacred, with over ten thousand of

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Speaker 2: them being arrested, with the world's eyes on Iran, should

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Speaker 2: the United States bomb the Mullahs and take out their leaders?

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Speaker 2: Yes or no? John in New Hampshire, Thanks for holding John,

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Speaker 2: and welcome.

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Speaker 3: Jeff.

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm just wondering what is it that the

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Speaker 4: CIA does these days besides kill or try to kill

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Speaker 4: American presidents because it seems like these people should not

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Speaker 4: be unarmed, and that's their job to smuggle in weapons

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Speaker 4: and give training to these people, and yet they don't

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Speaker 4: seem to be doing anything. And yeah, we do have

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Speaker 4: to go in because we're going to have zero credibility

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Speaker 4: if we don't get in there and do something and

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Speaker 4: no boots on the ground. But we could just take

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Speaker 4: out some of their infrastructure and I'm sure the Israelis

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Speaker 4: will be more than happy to join in on that.

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Speaker 4: And that was some weapons in the hands of the people.

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Speaker 4: And this is over pretty quickly. It was only a

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Speaker 4: few short months ago that the Republican god was reported

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Speaker 4: to have fled the country. The air force was flown out,

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Speaker 4: and the IATOLA is in hiding, and we let the

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Speaker 4: pressure off and this is the result right now. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: we got to get in.

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Speaker 2: Their Judge, John, I agree with you completely. Let me

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Speaker 2: just ask you a bit of a kind of a

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Speaker 2: different question. But I'm just interested in hearing people's take

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Speaker 2: on this. When you see the risks that the Iranian

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Speaker 2: people are taking, the bloodshed, how you just go out

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Speaker 2: on the streets and you're dead, You're being shot at

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Speaker 2: you're being arrested. Women are being deliberately raped. These stories

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Speaker 2: are now coming out. Women are being raped in prison.

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Speaker 2: These are young women in their twenties, many of them

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Speaker 2: are university students. They want to have women's rights. They

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Speaker 2: don't want to be under Islamic law and Islamic oppression anymore.

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Speaker 2: They want to be free. And for this, the Mullahs

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Speaker 2: are I mean, retaliating savagely, and so they've given the

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Speaker 2: orders now to their enforcers. When you arrest them, make

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Speaker 2: sure you rape them in jail, to really break them

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Speaker 2: and humiliate them. So when you see reports of this

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Speaker 2: kind of savagery, and yet you look at what's happening

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Speaker 2: in Minneapolis, where it's nothing but freedom. You're free to protest,

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Speaker 2: you're free to vote against the Republicans, you're free to

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Speaker 2: vote against Trump, You're free to express yourself, and yet

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Speaker 2: they're going around blocking traffic, attacking ice, shutting down Minneapolis

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Speaker 2: over the fatal shooting of a woman who was deliberately

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Speaker 2: impeding and obstructing a legitimate law enforcement operation in defense

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Speaker 2: of some of the most violent illegal alien criminals. When

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Speaker 2: you see how they're behaving in Minneapolis compared to what

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Speaker 2: we're seeing in Tehran. I'm just curious, what's your reaction, John, Well.

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Speaker 4: That woman getting herself shocked foolishly was the best gift

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Speaker 4: the media could have got off the fontage. They couldn't

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Speaker 4: have asked for more, and that's all they use from.

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Speaker 3: Us.

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Speaker 2: Good that's a very good point, very good point, John,

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for that call. You know, to me,

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Speaker 2: it's like here you have real freedom fighters in Iran

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Speaker 2: and what it means to be a real freedom fighter,

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Speaker 2: and then you have people who are playing freedom fighters

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Speaker 2: in Minneapolis, clowns, buffoons, agitators, vigilantes, insurrectionists. Frankly, many of

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Speaker 2: them look to me, frankly unhinged, insane, And to me,

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Speaker 2: that's the difference. One they're play acting freedom fighters, the

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Speaker 2: other ones are real freedom fighters. Carlota in Rhode Island.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for holding Carlota and welcome.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's Carlada. Good morning, it's Carlata.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry I have Carloda on the board. Okay, Carlotta,

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Speaker 2: please go ahead.

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Speaker 3: You know, the reason for all this rest, when the

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Speaker 3: dost settles and the history of this time is written,

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Speaker 3: is that we used to have a middle class, a

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Speaker 3: working class, or this class or that class. Now we

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Speaker 3: have a class of people who live in this country

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Speaker 3: who are entirely supported by government grants of one kind

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Speaker 3: or another. And the number is so large, and they

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Speaker 3: are responsible. But up is down, down is upright is wrong.

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Speaker 3: They just are supported by the government to commit suicide.

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Speaker 3: The government is committing suicide, you know, Carlotta, I just.

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Speaker 2: I think you're referring to the professional paid protesters, correct.

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Speaker 3: Where there are much more of them than we're aware of.

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Speaker 2: Oh, there's your writer's an army of them. In fact,

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Speaker 2: I've been getting emails Carletta just In and please hang on.

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Speaker 2: I want to come right back to you, because we're

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Speaker 2: up against a greg in Boston. They're on Craigslist. I'm

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Speaker 2: not kidding. There are ads like you know, you want

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Speaker 2: to make thirty bucks an hour or forty bucks an hour?

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Speaker 2: Do you like to protest? Apply? Send your resume? So

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Speaker 2: they're placing ads in craigslist. Do you want to be

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Speaker 2: a professional protester and agitator?

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