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Iran war a ‘decisive, overwhelming victory’ – but still no clear end date after Trump address · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from the Australian I'm christinami it with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Donald Trump has declared the war
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  Speaker 1: with Iran a quote decisive, overwhelming victory and says America's
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  Speaker 1: objectives in the Middle East are nearing their conclusion. In
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  Speaker 1: an eighteen minute national address given on Thursday morning Australian Time,
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  Speaker 1: the US president claimed Iran's nuclear and military ambitions have
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  Speaker 1: been stymied by Operation Epic Fury, which began four weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: In these past four weeks, our armed forces have delivered swift, decisive,
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  Speaker 2: overwhelming victories on the battlefield, victories like few people have
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  Speaker 2: ever seen before. Tonight, Iran's navy is gone, They're air
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  Speaker 2: forces in ruins. Their leaders, most of them terrorist regime
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  Speaker 2: they led, are now dead. Their ability to launch missiles
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  Speaker 2: and drones is dramatically curtailed, and their weapons factories and
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  Speaker 2: rocket launchers are being blown to pieces, very few of
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  Speaker 2: them left. Never in the history of warfare has an
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  Speaker 2: enemy suffered such clear and devastating, large scale losses in
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  Speaker 2: a matter of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: But Trump vowed the United States would engage in further
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  Speaker 1: military action against Iran before the conflict reaches its conclusion over.
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  Speaker 2: The next two to three weeks, we're going to bring
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  Speaker 2: them back to the Stone Ages where they belong. In
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  Speaker 2: the meantime, discussions are ongoing.
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  Speaker 1: The president urged Americans to keep the comparably short duration
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  Speaker 1: of the war with Iran quote in perspective and blamed
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  Speaker 1: his predecessors for allowing Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 2: For these terrorists to have nuclear weapons would be an
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  Speaker 2: intolerable threat. I will never let that happen, and neither
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  Speaker 2: should any of our past presidents. This situation has been
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  Speaker 2: going on for forty seven years and should have been
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  Speaker 2: handled long before I arrived in office.
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  Speaker 1: Trump reportedly previously told AIDS he's happy to end America's
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  Speaker 1: military campaign before the Strait of Hormores is reopened, and
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  Speaker 1: said on Wednesday allies could fend for themselves in securing
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  Speaker 1: oil supplies. About twenty percent of the world's oil needs
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  Speaker 1: passed through the Strait of Hallmors every day, and experts
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  Speaker 1: say that could push the global economy into dangerous territory.
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  Speaker 1: But in his national address, Trump said the strait will
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  Speaker 1: quote open up naturally and oil prices, which have skyrocketed
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  Speaker 1: as a result of the disruption to global shipping routes
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  Speaker 1: would plummet.
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  Speaker 2: Go to the street and just take it, protect it,
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  Speaker 2: use it for yourselves. Aran has been essentially decimated. The
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  Speaker 2: hard part is done, so it should be easy. We
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  Speaker 2: have not hit their oil though that's the easiest target
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  Speaker 2: of all because it would not give them even a
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  Speaker 2: small chance of survival or rebuilding. But we could hit
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  Speaker 2: it and it would be gone and there's not a
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  Speaker 2: thing they could do about it.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Albanesi has foreshadowed an ambitious reform agenda ahead of
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  Speaker 1: next month's federal budget. Speaking at the National Press Club
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday, the Prime Minister said Labor is working to
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  Speaker 1: balance cost of living relief with long term economic prosperity.
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  Speaker 3: It is our government's most important budget to date and
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  Speaker 3: it will be our most ambitious. It has to be.
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  Speaker 3: The scale of the challenge facing us and the breadth
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  Speaker 3: of opportunities ahead of us demands that ambition and that urgency,
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  Speaker 3: and our Australian character demands that ambition too.
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  Speaker 1: It comes less than twenty four hours after Albanzi gave
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  Speaker 1: a national address in which he urged Australians to do
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  Speaker 1: their part in the government's response to the conflict in
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East and avoid buying more fuel than they
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  Speaker 1: need over the Easter long weekend. In his press club address,
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  Speaker 1: the PM resisted calls to establish a ninety day fuel reserve,
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  Speaker 1: saying it's an expensive and outdated policy.
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  Speaker 3: We've moved on and will continue to examine what is
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  Speaker 3: the best policy to further increase that security, says a
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  Speaker 3: range of measures as biofuels is arranging new technologies as
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  Speaker 3: well that can add to our security.
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  Speaker 1: But Albanesi announced his government has struck a deal with
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  Speaker 1: state and territory leaders to cut fuel costs by a
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  Speaker 1: further six cents per liter at the petrol bowser and.
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  Speaker 3: This morning, importantly, we have reached agreement with the states
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  Speaker 3: and territories to deliver a further cut in the fuel
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  Speaker 3: tax by returning their GST windfall to Australians. This will
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  Speaker 3: mean a combined saving of thirty two cents on every leader.
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  Speaker 3: The Treasurer, Jim Sharma says, already signed that change in
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  Speaker 3: the law.
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  Speaker 1: A judge has denied a bid to conceal the identities
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  Speaker 1: of the family members of alleged Bondai gunman Navid Akram.
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  Speaker 1: Judge Hugh Donnelly told the Downing Central Local Court on
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  Speaker 1: Thursday such a suppression order would be impossible to enforce.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty four year old Navid Akram and his father, fifty
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  Speaker 1: year old Sajid, allegedly opened fire on a Hunnaker festival
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  Speaker 1: at Sydney's Bondai Beach in December. Sajid was shot dead
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  Speaker 1: by police at the scene, while Navid is awaiting trial
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  Speaker 1: on more than fifty chargers, including terrorism offenses, at Golban's
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  Speaker 1: Supermax Prison. He has yet to enter a plea. Navid
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  Speaker 1: Akram requested for names, addresses and other information that could
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  Speaker 1: identify his family members to be concealed for forty years
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  Speaker 1: after they allegedly received death threats, but Judge Donnelly said
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  Speaker 1: the suppression order would not be granted because quote no
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  Speaker 1: one has been assaulted and none of the threats have
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  Speaker 1: manifested physical violence, and because there are da identities are
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  Speaker 1: already known to the public. Check out those stories live
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