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Speaker 2: Okay, it is the Kooner country Pole. Question of the

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Speaker 2: Day sponsored by Marios. Is it time to send boots

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Speaker 2: on the ground in Iran? President Trump now very seriously

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Speaker 2: contemplating sending in, as I said, the thirty first Marine

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Speaker 2: Expeditionary Unit. They're on their way from Japan on the

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Speaker 2: USS Tripoli and they should be arriving there about middle

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Speaker 2: of next week. And it looks that the military now

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Speaker 2: is telling him, if you want to break this blockade,

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Speaker 2: end the blockade or the stoppage of the Strait of

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Speaker 2: Hormooge of Hornmuz. Forgive me that the Iranian regime has

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Speaker 2: now launched. You bring in these troops, about twenty two

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Speaker 2: hundred of them. They will take over key islands in

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Speaker 2: the Strait of horm Moose and that will give us

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Speaker 2: a an ability to really project power and go after

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Speaker 2: all these small boats and missiles and drones that are

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Speaker 2: harassing shipping. But more importantly, we will take over their

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Speaker 2: top island, carg Island, where ninety percent of Iran's oil

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Speaker 2: flows through, and that will give us the ace in

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Speaker 2: the hole to make a deal and end the war

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Speaker 2: once and for all with a complete victory on behalf

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Speaker 2: of the United States. So should Trump send in the

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Speaker 2: troops to deliver a potential knockout blow or is this

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Speaker 2: now the beginning of a protracted quagmire. Jeff in Chelsea,

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Speaker 2: Thanks for holding, Jeff, and welcome.

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Speaker 3: Jef. Well, Jeff, I'm gonna talk strictly about security matters

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Speaker 3: today because I've been doing it for over twenty five years,

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Speaker 3: and I believe the Islamis are going to return the

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Speaker 3: favor and start hitting utility plant in America. Whether it's

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Speaker 3: water LNG doesn't matter because you see outside of a

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Speaker 3: nuclear power plant or even a hospital that has its

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Speaker 3: own internal armed police department inside the facility, or some universities,

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Speaker 3: we're pretty much sitting ducks because most places higher contract

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Speaker 3: security that is unarmed. When you're not armed, you are

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Speaker 3: at a complete disadvantage. And also insider threat. Look this

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Speaker 3: term up insider threat. That means the snakes get hired

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Speaker 3: either within the facility staff or the cleaning staff, or

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Speaker 3: the security staff, or anybody that has access to master

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Speaker 3: keys that can get that person or organization the multiple rooms.

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Speaker 3: In other words, we are pretty much a sitting duck.

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Speaker 3: I don't think anything can really be done about it.

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Speaker 3: And when this eventually happens, especially in blue areas, I

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Speaker 3: believe the security will be federalized.

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Speaker 2: What do you think, Jeff Well, I think it depends

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Speaker 2: exactly what these sleeper cells do. I agree with you, Jeff.

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Speaker 2: I'm bracing for some terrorist attacks. I think it's almost inevitable.

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Speaker 2: We've already been what is it now, five or six

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Speaker 2: that they've launched. So they hit that synagogue, for example,

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Speaker 2: up in Michigan, they shot at Old Dominion University and

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Speaker 2: killed that poor military instructor. You saw what happened down

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Speaker 2: in Austin, Texas. I could go on and on. So

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Speaker 2: clearly there are HESBLAS cells in the United States there,

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Speaker 2: I think. According to what Tulsi Gabbard said yesterday, and

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Speaker 2: I trust her on the intelligence side of this, she said,

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Speaker 2: we're more likely to get lone wolf style attacks than say,

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Speaker 2: a coordinated nine to eleven style attack with you know,

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Speaker 2: not ruling it out anything as possible, she said, obviously,

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Speaker 2: but she said it's more likely to be you know,

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Speaker 2: one or two people here, one or two Islamis here.

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Speaker 2: And as you said, they may start hitting our electrical

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Speaker 2: God forbid, go at shopping malls, or hit schools or

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Speaker 2: churches or synagogues. To me, that's another reason why I

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Speaker 2: want this war to end as quickly as possible, because

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Speaker 2: the longer it goes on, the longer you give these

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Speaker 2: sleeper cells time to attack the homeland. And I don't

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Speaker 2: want to see any more Americans die. I just don't,

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Speaker 2: both there and here. Jeff, thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: that call. Jim in New Hampshire. Thanks for holding Jim,

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Speaker 2: and welcome.

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Speaker 4: Hey Jeff.

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Speaker 2: Happy Thursday, my friend. That's right, we're almost at the weekend.

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Speaker 4: Almost there. So I want to recommend definitely some of

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Speaker 4: your callers for you know standing. I think was on

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Speaker 4: the right side of this, and great call called before

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Speaker 4: I think it was dead for Marblehead. So my thing

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Speaker 4: is this, I've been against this kind of from the beginning.

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Speaker 4: We have red lines, so I think we've crossed them already.

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Speaker 4: Now the boots on the ground at carg Island, it

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Speaker 4: should be the biggest red line of all. I think

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Speaker 4: most people are against this, I hope, because again we're

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Speaker 4: putting where we're sitting ducks. Iran has been playing for

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Speaker 4: this for forty years. They want this, they know what

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Speaker 4: this is. We sent our forces there, We're surrounded my mountains.

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Speaker 4: They have plenty of drones. It doesn't take much to

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Speaker 4: to bomb that island. It's a small island and that's

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Speaker 4: a blood bath. So what would that lead to. That's

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Speaker 4: not going to lead to us backing out and ducking

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Speaker 4: your tails. That's gonna lead to more escalation in my

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Speaker 4: big fear of a World War three, you know, or

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Speaker 4: something in a really bad direction. Best case economic because

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Speaker 4: aster on the world. Worst case, you know, we know

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Speaker 4: what worst case can be. You know, I'm an independent

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Speaker 4: sides you know, libertarian more times, because I mean I'm

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Speaker 4: five picks the right of the right. I don't believe

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Speaker 4: in these socials are. But it's people like me that

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Speaker 4: we're a big part of Trump winning this election, and

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Speaker 4: a big part of of the MAGA movement and a

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Speaker 4: big part of America First. And I think this is

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Speaker 4: not only going to really hurt Trump, it's really gonna

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Speaker 4: hurt the Republican party worse than Biden did for his

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Speaker 4: party and that debaracle, and that's that, that's a big

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Speaker 4: fear besides the other things about this escalation ladder, and

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Speaker 4: a big thing is what is the good of all this?

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Speaker 4: So we're taking Trump took a huge gamble with this, right,

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Speaker 4: so the benefits all right? So we want to topple

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Speaker 4: the regime, Well, we haven't toppled any regimes in Iraq,

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Speaker 4: Afghanist and Vietnam. Yeah, it's here. I can go on

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Speaker 4: the list of failed attempts and countries that are much

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Speaker 4: smaller with much less power. And at time, we even

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Speaker 4: had more power geobilitically, so we were bigger and we

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Speaker 4: were dealing with smaller then, and we can do it.

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Speaker 4: We don't have the same support, for sure, and we

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Speaker 4: don't have the world support, and we don't have the

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Speaker 4: you know, we're dealing with a much larger countries. So

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Speaker 4: I don't see a regime change ever happening. Especially on

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Speaker 4: the first day when we bombed and we had a school,

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Speaker 4: we had a school, I mean, how is that going

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Speaker 4: And you don't even talk about liberation anymore, you know,

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Speaker 4: we're basically bombing, Well, were really not. I mean I

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Speaker 4: think Israel is unfortunately bombing a lot of the infrastructure,

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Speaker 4: and that's not gonna go popular. I mean, it's only

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Speaker 4: gonna make it worse. I mean, people like myself from

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Speaker 4: following this knew that this was going to happen. We

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Speaker 4: Gulf States where our bases could be attacked. This was

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Speaker 4: all predictable and all should have been planned out much

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Speaker 4: better if we were going to do it, which I

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Speaker 4: didn't think of the first place. So what are the pros?

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Speaker 4: I don't see many pros from this. I see prices

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Speaker 4: going up, gas going up, support going down. But I

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Speaker 4: see a lot of cons and are really bad cons.

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Speaker 4: Forget about the World War. Let's just talk about China.

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Speaker 4: It is hurting China because I mean, excuse he is

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Speaker 4: helping China because we're taking a lot of our bases

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Speaker 4: and munitions out of Southeast Asia where they're dying to

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Speaker 4: go at Taiwan. And that you think is bad with

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Speaker 4: the oil, imagine that they take over the semiconductors. I

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Speaker 4: mean that would be beyond devastating. So it's helping China out.

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Speaker 4: It's making them look like they're a peacemaker, which I

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Speaker 4: never thought i'd see. It's definitely helping Rush out because

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Speaker 4: they're getting more They're they're selling more oil, They're they're

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Speaker 4: funding the war far more. It's hurting. And the thing

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Speaker 4: about Israel, like I don't understand if iris is really

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Speaker 4: how does this help your country. It's making it far

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Speaker 4: less safe. It's causing more anger on both sides of

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Speaker 4: the devastation now there. Now that's showing a lot of it.

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Speaker 4: I can imagine what's happening. I ran to produce drones

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Speaker 4: by the thousands very quickly. They don't need ballistic missiles.

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Speaker 4: And this is the list of con Well, you nailed it.

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Speaker 2: No, look, Jim, look this is it's it's becoming more

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Speaker 2: and more protracted. The war is expanding, it's sucking in

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Speaker 2: now and damaging countries around Iran Uh and even in Israel. Look,

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Speaker 2: the Iron Dome is look a brilliant technology, there's no question.

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Speaker 2: But missiles are getting through. I mean they just are

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Speaker 2: cluster munition. Some of them are getting through. And it's

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Speaker 2: not just that innocent Israelis are getting killed, which obviously

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Speaker 2: breaks my heart. But some of these missiles have hit

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Speaker 2: the one in Haifa, They hit a key oil refinery

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Speaker 2: in Haifa, which is also the main port in Israel.

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Speaker 2: So what I'm saying is yeah, I mean, they're blasting

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Speaker 2: the hell out of the mullas and the military targets

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Speaker 2: in Iran, no question, but Israel is starting to bleed

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