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Speaker 1: Finally, to the great proud people of Iran, I say

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Speaker 1: tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand.

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Speaker 1: When we are finished take over your government, it will

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Speaker 1: be yours to take. This will be probably your only

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Speaker 1: chance for generations. For many years you have asked for

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Speaker 1: America's help, but you never got it. No president was

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Speaker 2: Tonight, you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with

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Speaker 2: Ben ferguson.

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Speaker 3: Good Monday morning. Nice to have you with us on

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Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Outdated, and we've got two major

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Speaker 3: stories for you coming out of the White House. First up,

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump orders the US and works with Israel to

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Speaker 3: pummel Iran. The man in charge the Iatola, well, he's

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Speaker 3: gone off the face of the earth and many of

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Speaker 3: the top officials around him have been killed as well.

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Speaker 3: And Trumpet urging the Iranian people to overthrow the Ayahtolah. Also,

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Speaker 3: you may be wondering why was it important that we

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Speaker 3: timeline of what Iran has been doing since nineteen seventy nine.

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Speaker 2: Story number one, Big.

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Speaker 3: Developments in the Middle East. The United States and Israel

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Speaker 3: have launched a major military strike against Iran and what's

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Speaker 3: being called Operation Epic Fury. Strikes have reportedly killed irand

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Speaker 3: Supreme leader and dozens of senior military figures. This all

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Speaker 3: has provoked retaliatory attacks across the region and sadly has

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Speaker 3: left American service members dead and wounded as well. World

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Speaker 3: powers are obviously reacting to all of this, the oil

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Speaker 3: markets are nervous, and the situation obviously remains extremely volatile.

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Speaker 3: Now I want you to listen to what President Trump

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Speaker 3: had to say. This is a second address to the nation,

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Speaker 3: after first explaining that the attacks were going to happen

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Speaker 3: over the weekend, and then on Sunday he released a

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Speaker 3: new video referring to what we've accomplished and also the

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Speaker 3: loss of American military men and women in service. Here's

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Speaker 3: the President in his own words.

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Speaker 1: Over the past thirty six hours, the United States and

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Speaker 1: its partners have launched Operation Epic Fury, one of the largest,

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Speaker 1: most complex, most overwhelming military offensives the world has ever seen.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's seen anything like it. We have hit hundreds of

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Speaker 1: Iran's formerly supreme leader, Ayatola Hamene is dead. This wretched

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Speaker 1: and vile man had the blood of hundreds and even

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Speaker 1: the slaughter of countless thousands of innocent people all across

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Speaker 1: many countries. Last night, all over Iran, the voices of

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Speaker 1: As one nation, we grieve for the true American patriots

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Speaker 1: better than anybody. An Iranian regime armed with long range

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Speaker 1: But we are now using that military for good We

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Speaker 1: just as our ancestors have done for us many, many

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Speaker 1: a radical, bloodthirsty terrorist regime armed with nuclear weapons and

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Speaker 1: lots of threats. For almost fifty years, these wicked extremists

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Speaker 3: President Trump. Keeping it very clear and very simple about

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Speaker 3: continue quote until all objectives are achieved. President Trump emphasized

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Speaker 3: the strikes are part of what he called a righteous

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Speaker 2: Of days now story number two.

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Speaker 3: There have been a lot of people that have also

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Speaker 3: asked another question, why are we doing this now? Well,

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Speaker 3: terrorizing the world. Let's start back in nineteen seventy nine,

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Speaker 3: They were released after Ronald Reagan was sworn into office

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Speaker 3: nuclear deals enrichment uranium stockpile limit, of course, that Barack

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Speaker 3: This is after Barack Obama had no problem bowing down

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Speaker 3: to the Iranians. In twenty nineteen, the IRGC also seized

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Speaker 3: again flexing their muscles. In twenty nineteen, the regime ordered

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Speaker 3: a lethal crackdown on nationwide protests. It was reported that

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Speaker 3: more than one thousand five under their own citizens were killed.

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Speaker 3: In twenty twenty, Iran launched ballistic missiles at bases housing

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Speaker 3: twenty US officials also confirmed American church were treated for

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Speaker 3: concussions after the Iranian missile attack, and it was a

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Speaker 3: big one. In twenty twenty one, a drone attack on

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Speaker 3: attributed to by US and UK and Israeli officials directly

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Speaker 3: to intimidate US voters and undermine confidence in the twenty

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Speaker 3: enabling strikes that hit Ukrainian cities in infrastructure. In twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty three, routers It detailed a US Iran Detaine exchange

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Speaker 3: that hinged on regimed detention of Americans, an example of

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Speaker 3: Iran state hostage leverage. In twenty twenty three, the October

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Speaker 3: seventh attacks where Ran backed Hamas terraces murdered more than

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Speaker 3: exchanged fire with Israel as regional violence expanded after October seventh.

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Speaker 3: In twenty twenty three, again hes Bloil launched rockets from

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Speaker 3: Lebanon and Israel struck, demonstrating Iran's proxy pressure on Israel's

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Speaker 3: Iran backed attacks on US troops, underscoring the regime's proxy warfare.

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Speaker 3: The White House sat Iran was in some cases actively

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Speaker 3: facilitating quote unquote rocket and drodan attacks by their terrorist

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Speaker 3: proxies on US basis. Iran align Houthi's escalated attacks on

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Speaker 3: twenty four, persistent Iranian back to Hoothy strikes continued on shipping,

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Speaker 3: Iran's proxies. Iran provide Russia with ballistic missiles, deepening Tehran's

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Speaker 3: regime attack. The IRGC seized other vessels, including boarding one

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Speaker 3: that was connected to Israel by helicopter and diverting it

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Speaker 3: to Iran. Another state policy and piracy style cohesion. Iran's

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Speaker 3: overseas murder for higher style plots also continue to grow

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five, and then

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Speaker 3: last year, the IRGC sees a foreign tanker in the

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Speaker 1: Now that's just.

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Speaker 3: Some of what Iran has done. So if you're asking

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Speaker 3: yourself the question why, now, I didn't even mention what

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Speaker 3: they were doing with nuclear weapons, So don't forget that either.

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Speaker 3: The nuclear weapons. Well, that's what Iran was ultimately all about,

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Speaker 3: and that's exactly why Donald Trump had to act.

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