Speaker 1: Because we were facing an imminent dual existential threat. One
Speaker 1: the thread of the Iran rushing to weaponize, in which
Speaker 1: you ring him to make atomic bombs. Second, a rush
Speaker 1: to increase their ballistic missile arsenal. It took the capacity
Speaker 1: that they would have thirty six hundred weapons a year,
Speaker 1: new weapons within three years, ten thousand ballistic missiles, each
Speaker 1: one laying a time coming in at mock six right
Speaker 1: into our cities as you saw today.
Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 3: Good Monday morning, day five of the war between Israel
Speaker 3: and Iran. Israel is now killed the Iranian intelligence chief
Speaker 3: and his deputy, and they're going after other leaders in
Speaker 3: the Iranian government. We'll have the latest on that. Plus
Speaker 3: Donald Trump is coming out talking about how close to
Speaker 3: an ally Israel is and standing side by side with BIB.
Speaker 4: You'll hear from BB as well and Donald Trump.
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Speaker 4: Story number one.
Speaker 3: Israel goes on the offensive in Iran, and this time
Speaker 3: Israel has killed the Iranian intelligence chief and his deputy,
Speaker 3: and a wide scale strike as they also have gained
Speaker 3: control of the airspace over Iran, hitting targets now during
Speaker 3: the day. Israeli media sources and Iranian state media both
Speaker 3: now confirming late Sunday that the Israeli Defense forces had
Speaker 3: succeeded in killing Iran's intelligence chief and his top deputy,
Speaker 3: this being a major blow to the regime. The fact
Speaker 3: that Israel was also able to locate and to eliminate
Speaker 3: the highest officials in Iran's intelligence hierarchy suggests an unprecedented
Speaker 3: depth of intelligence penetration. The entire regime apparently now may
Speaker 3: be compromised. The Times of Israel saying it this way,
Speaker 3: quote Iranian state media officially confirms at the Islamic Revolutionary
Speaker 3: Guards intelligence chief Brigadier General Mohammad Kazimi and his deputy
Speaker 3: were killed in Israeli strike today. There were also reports
Speaker 3: that Israel had struck the headquarters Bajij, the parliamentary force
Speaker 3: that has suppressed popular uprisings in Iran, potentially now opening
Speaker 3: the way for citizens to.
Speaker 4: Rise up in Iran.
Speaker 3: The IDF all so said it had conducted strikes on
Speaker 3: infrastructure belonging to the COUPE forces and the IRGC, known
Speaker 3: as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, an elite terrorist force,
Speaker 3: as well as the Iranian military in Tehran. There were
Speaker 3: numerous weapon production sites across Iran that were also hit.
Speaker 3: Now Ran managed to fire dozens of ballistic missiles at
Speaker 3: Israel on Sunday, but none of them, thank goodness, did
Speaker 3: significant damage, which brings me the Prime Minister Netan Yahoo
Speaker 3: going on Fox News channel and saying this, first of.
Speaker 5: All, let me start at the beginning, why did you
Speaker 5: launch this operation now?
Speaker 1: Because we were facing an imminent threat, a dual existential threat.
Speaker 1: One the thread of the Iran rushing to weaponize. They're
Speaker 1: enrich uranium to make atomic bombs with a specific and
Speaker 1: declared intent to destroy US. Second, a rush to increase
Speaker 1: their ballistic missile art into the capacity that they would
Speaker 1: have thirty six hundred weapons a year, new weapons within
Speaker 1: three years, ten thousand ballistic missiles, each one weighing a
Speaker 1: ton coming in a mock six right into our cities
Speaker 1: as you saw today, and then in twenty in six years,
Speaker 1: twenty thousand. That's a no country I can sustain that,
Speaker 1: and certainly not a country the size of Israel. So
Speaker 1: we had to act. It was the twelfth hour. We
Speaker 1: did act to save ourselves, but also I think to
Speaker 1: not only protect ourselves, but protect the world from this
Speaker 1: incendiary regime. We can't have the world's most dangerous regime
Speaker 1: have the world's most dangerous weapons. We're protecting ourselves, but
Speaker 1: by doing so, we're protecting many others.
Speaker 3: Now, maybe wasn't done there. He also talked about the
Speaker 3: intel that was shared from Israel with the US, and
Speaker 3: he said it was very clear that Iran had a plan,
Speaker 3: and it was a plan of mass destruction.
Speaker 5: You know, I just want to pressure you on the
Speaker 5: intel on the nuclear part. Less than two months ago,
Speaker 5: the new Director of National Intelligence as Tulsa. Gabbert testified
Speaker 5: on Capitol Hill, saying that everything had been suspended since
Speaker 5: two thousand and three and had not restarted. That the
Speaker 5: nuclear program had not been restarted by the Iranians. So
Speaker 5: did something change from end of March until this week?
Speaker 5: Was the US intel wrong?
Speaker 1: The intel we got and we shared with the United
Speaker 1: States was absolutely clear. It was absolutely clear that they
Speaker 1: were working in a secret plan to weaponize the uranium.
Speaker 1: They were marching very quickly. They would achieve a test
Speaker 1: device and possibly an initial device within months and certainly
Speaker 1: less than a year. That was the intel we shared
Speaker 1: with the United States. I think we have excellent intel
Speaker 1: in Iran. I think we've proven that, and that is
Speaker 1: something that we couldn't possibly accept. Whether it would be
Speaker 1: six months or twelve months or thirteen months as immateial.
Speaker 1: Once they'd go that route, it's too late, and we
Speaker 1: will not have a second Holocaust, a nuclear holocaust. We
Speaker 1: already had one in the previous century. The Jewish state
Speaker 1: is to have the holocaustmitted on the Jewish people. It's
Speaker 1: not going to happen. It's never again, is now, and
Speaker 1: we have to act now now.
Speaker 3: It's very clear the Prime Minister of Israel believes that
Speaker 3: this needed to be done now. They could not wait
Speaker 3: another six weeks or six days or even six months.
Speaker 3: It was a real threat that was taking place now.
Speaker 3: And it's pretty clear that he believes that he has
Speaker 3: done something that the world should approve of now.
Speaker 4: There was also.
Speaker 3: Another very interesting part of the conversation that he had
Speaker 3: with Brett Baher about who may have been behind the
Speaker 3: assassination attempts on Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: Take a listen carefully to what he has to say.
Speaker 1: So that's a difference. They're a terrorist regime. We can't
Speaker 1: have youran have nuclear weapons. And by the way, our
Speaker 1: intel shows that they intend to give these nuclear weapons
Speaker 1: to their Huti proxies and others, and that's nuclear terrorism
Speaker 1: on a global scale. It threatens everyone. And the last
Speaker 1: thing is they have plans to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles
Speaker 1: right now kilometers very soon. Just add a little distance
Speaker 1: and they can reach the eastern seaboard of the United States.
Speaker 1: These people who chant death to America try to assassinate
Speaker 1: President Trump twice, killed two hundred and forty one of
Speaker 1: your marines in Beirut, killed and injured thousands of American soldiers,
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan and Iraq try to bomb a restaurant in Washington, DC,
Speaker 1: chant death to America, burn the American flag. Do you
Speaker 1: want these people to have nuclear weapons and the means
Speaker 1: to deliver them to your cities? Of course not. So
Speaker 1: we're defending ourselves, but we're also defending the world.
Speaker 5: I want to talk about the nuclear threat and I
Speaker 5: want to talk about President Trump. You just said Iron
Speaker 5: tried to assassinate President Trump twice. Do you have intel
Speaker 5: that the assassination attempts on President Trump were directly from
Speaker 5: Iran through proxies.
Speaker 1: Yes, through their intel. Yes, they want to kill and look,
Speaker 1: he's enemy number one. He's a decisive leader. He never
Speaker 1: took the path that others took to try to bargain
Speaker 1: with them in a way that is weak, giving them,
Speaker 1: giving them basically a pathway to rich I ranium, which
Speaker 1: means a pathway to the bomb, patting it with billions
Speaker 1: and billions of dollars. He took up his fake agreement
Speaker 1: and basically tore it up. He killed the custom sulei money.
Speaker 1: He said, made it very clear, including now you cannot
Speaker 1: have a nuclear weapon, which means you cannot en which
Speaker 1: he's been very forceful. So for them, he's enemy number one. Yeah. Look,
Speaker 1: they also try to kill me, but I'm his junior partner.
Speaker 3: There's no doubt that Donald Trump and BBI are extremely close,
Speaker 3: and calling yourself a junior partner is a perfect way
Speaker 3: of saying it.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: Story number two.
Speaker 3: Donald Trump speaking out very clearly that he is going
Speaker 3: to allow Israel to do what it needs to do
Speaker 3: to protect and defend itself. In fact, the Israeli ambassador
Speaker 3: the UN had this to say about the difference between
Speaker 3: what Israel is doing to Iran and what Iran is
Speaker 3: doing to the Israeli people.
Speaker 6: Are you confident though, that you're doing enough to make
Speaker 6: sure that Iran is isolated, especially with the rest of
Speaker 6: the Middle East, that Iran is here and they're here alone. Well,
Speaker 6: I speak with many friends from the golf AA. They
Speaker 6: will not say it publicly, but they are very happy
Speaker 6: to see what we are doing now. They feel safe
Speaker 6: when they see our aircraft flying over Tehiwan and targeting
Speaker 6: those the military basis. But what happened yesterday, We are
Speaker 6: targeting military basis infrastructure of baddistic missiles and nuclear reactors,
Speaker 6: and they are targeting our cities, our neighborhoods. Unfortunately, last
Speaker 6: night was a very difficult night. Then people died because
Speaker 6: of those attacks, and also tonight it's going to be
Speaker 6: a hard nighting as well.
Speaker 3: He is absolutely right that there's a huge difference between
Speaker 3: the two scenarios, and of course the media doing everything
Speaker 3: they can to be apologist for Tehran. One of the
Speaker 3: questions the present was asked on the way to the
Speaker 3: G seven summit was this, and it's very clear the
Speaker 3: media wants to Trump to tell Israel to stop doing
Speaker 3: what they're doing.
Speaker 4: How do you ask Israel suppause their airst round? Well,
Speaker 4: I don't want to say that. Well, I don't want
Speaker 4: to say that.
Speaker 3: After the question for the reporter, pretty clear, mister President,
Speaker 3: have you asked Israel to pause their airstrikes into Iran?
Speaker 3: The President not done there. In his comments, also being
Speaker 3: asked about the Israel Iran conflict and how he would
Speaker 3: be involved, almost say pay.
Speaker 4: How did you what you are? Well?
Speaker 7: We get along very well, and I will tell you
Speaker 7: that I think I have great respect for each other.
Speaker 4: Can you give it that that's what you're doing is fighting?
Speaker 4: Yet they do it in a rod in his will?
Speaker 7: Well, I hope there's going to be a deal. I
Speaker 7: think it's time for a deal, and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 7: But sometimes they have to fight it out, but we're
Speaker 7: going to see what happens.
Speaker 4: I think there's a good chance he'll be a deal.
Speaker 3: Now, we all know that President Trump is the master
Speaker 3: of the r of the deal, and there's a very
Speaker 3: good chance at some point he could step in and
Speaker 3: help calm things down. But there's also the important fact
Speaker 3: that the President clearly stands with Israel. And yes, the
Speaker 3: media was even dumb enough to ask him that question,
Speaker 3: and the President had a very simple response.
Speaker 4: For the US to be that's acorn Israel.
Speaker 7: We do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you very much, we do. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Yet again the President making it clear he stands side
Speaker 3: by side with Israel, the people and the leadership.
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