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Speaker 1: President Trump will be addressing the nation tonight in a

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Speaker 1: nationally televised address, and according to his aids, he is

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Speaker 1: now going to state that the war has effectively been

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Speaker 1: one with Iran, and that within two to three weeks

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Speaker 1: maximum our forces will be leaving the region and the

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Speaker 1: war with Iran will be over, and most likely there

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Speaker 1: will be no regime change. The Mullahs will remain in power.

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Speaker 1: The Strait of Hormus will most likely remain unblocked. That is,

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Speaker 1: ships will have to pay a tolling fee to the

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Speaker 1: Iranians and the Ayatolas, and if they want to unblock it,

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Speaker 1: European countries, Asian nations, the Persian Gulf countries, they will

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Speaker 1: have to unblock it themselves. But for the United States,

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Speaker 1: our military objective was to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons,

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Speaker 1: from destroying, destroying, and obliterating their nuclear program, and making

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Speaker 1: sure it will not reconstitute itself for at least the

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Speaker 1: next fifteen to twenty years. And Trump says, as far

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Speaker 1: as he's concerned, mission accomplished. The only problem is it

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Speaker 1: was Trump who said early in the war his goal

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Speaker 1: unconditional surrender, the end of the rule of the Ayatolas,

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Speaker 1: he urged the Iranian people to rise up, take back

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Speaker 1: their government, take back their country, and now having not

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Speaker 1: toppled the Ayatolas, having not imposed unconditional surrender, but in

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Speaker 1: many ways potentially leaving the Mullahs in a stronger position. Yes,

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Speaker 1: their military has been decimated, their navy, their air force

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Speaker 1: is gone, their ballistic missile stockpile has been degraded, their

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Speaker 1: their nuclear program has been absolutely wiped off the face

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Speaker 1: of the earth. But they will have something they didn't have,

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Speaker 1: an iron grip over the Strait of Hormuz and the

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Speaker 1: ability now to blackmail and hold hostage the nations of

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Speaker 1: the world and charge a massive fee or toll on

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Speaker 1: all of those oil tankers and cargo ships going from

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Speaker 1: the Persian Gulf to China, India, Japan, South Korea and Europe.

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Speaker 1: In other words, billions and billions of dollars every single month,

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Speaker 1: which will enable them to replenish their treasury, rebuild their military,

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Speaker 1: and embark on their nuclear program again. In other words,

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Speaker 1: the Mullas may be wounded, bleeding, and battered, but they

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Speaker 1: have survived, and they now even may have the means

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Speaker 1: to come back as strong as ever. President Trump came

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Speaker 1: in setting a very high bar, and it appears that

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Speaker 1: what he's now willing to settle for is a lot less.

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Speaker 1: And the question that many will ask was the war

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Speaker 1: worth it? Only time will tell