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Vance HINTS 'a lot of people' in Mideast didn't want US-Iran peace deal · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: All right, is Monday, June fifteenth. This is Fox and
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  Speaker 1: Friends with the News Alert. Right now, President Trump is
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  Speaker 1: on his way to Europe for the G seven Summit,
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  Speaker 1: fresh off the heels of the historic agreement to end
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  Speaker 1: the war with Iran that he says will bring peace
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  Speaker 1: to the region.
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  Speaker 2: So the Commander in Chief is telling ships that have
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  Speaker 2: been stuck in the strait of her moves to start
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  Speaker 2: their engines, calling for old to start fluent again, sending
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  Speaker 2: stocks soaring.
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  Speaker 3: And we have team coverage for you this morning. We
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  Speaker 3: have Aisha Hasney. She is live in Geneva, Switzerland, with
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  Speaker 3: how this will impact the G seventh summit. But first
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  Speaker 3: we're going to start with Trey Yinks. He is live
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  Speaker 3: in Israel with the latest on this historic peace deal.
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  Speaker 4: Trey, Yeah, Hey, guys, good morning. After more than one
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  Speaker 4: hundred days in a state of war, a deal has
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  Speaker 4: been reached between the United States and Iran. President Trump
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  Speaker 4: taking to True Social overnight, saying quote, this great deal
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  Speaker 4: will bring peace and security to the whole region. Many
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  Speaker 4: presidents have tried to make peace with Iran, all have failed.
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  Speaker 4: Before me, the leaders of the region have for the
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  Speaker 4: first time found a president who could help them achieve
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  Speaker 4: real peace with the opening of the strait. Upon the
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  Speaker 4: signing of the deal on Friday, for purposes of mind removal,
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  Speaker 4: oil will flow on both ends again for the region
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  Speaker 4: and the world. A signing ceremony is set to take
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  Speaker 4: place on Friday in Geneva, Switzerland. Before the deal was signed,
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  Speaker 4: it was nearly derailed. The Israelis targeted Hesbala with strikes
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  Speaker 4: in the Lebanese capital of Beirut. Aronian officials immediately vowed
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  Speaker 4: to respond with missile fire toward Israel. A diplomat with
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  Speaker 4: knowledge of the situation told Fox News that Katari mediators
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  Speaker 4: stayed in Tehran conducting intensive negotiations coordinated with the United States.
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  Speaker 4: Vice President Vance described to Fox News what those final
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  Speaker 4: moments were like before the agreement was reached. Could you
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  Speaker 4: take us behind the scenes of what that moment was
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  Speaker 4: like leading up to this deal actually being signed.
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  Speaker 5: After the Israelis struck Beirut, we were very worried, and
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  Speaker 5: we saw a lot of evidence that the Iranians were
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  Speaker 5: going to launch a large number of missiles at the Israelis.
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  Speaker 5: Our communication with them over the course of getting to
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  Speaker 5: this signed peace deal, they assured us that they are
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  Speaker 5: not going to respond to the Israelis and they were
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  Speaker 5: going to sign this agreement and get to peace. Now,
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  Speaker 5: of course, you always have to verify these things, Trey,
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  Speaker 5: and we know that there are a lot of people
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  Speaker 5: in the Middle East who do not want to make
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  Speaker 5: this deal happen.
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  Speaker 4: I spoke with President Trump before the deal was reached,
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  Speaker 4: and he was optimistic about what this agreement means for
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  Speaker 4: the region. The President also got directly involved to ensure
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  Speaker 4: that the Iranians didn't launch missiles at Israel and derailed
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  Speaker 4: the deal.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, Hey, Trey, the problem is the IRG, said irgc
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  Speaker 1: had Bhidi. He is now in charge, the sixty seven
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  Speaker 1: year old guy who we already have sanctions on, and
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  Speaker 1: this is the guy that evidently is pushing back against
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  Speaker 1: the Foreign Minister and others who are negotiating with us.
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  Speaker 1: So there's really we're trying to get a deal with
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  Speaker 1: Iran who's not trustworthy, and within Iran they have disagreements
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  Speaker 1: on what to do. Right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, there is a real division inside the Iranian regime.
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  Speaker 4: And I think back to last week when the President
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  Speaker 4: spoke from the situation room with Fox News and he
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  Speaker 4: and the Vice President described how they've had to navigate
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  Speaker 4: this difficult reality. Inside of Iran, you have these relatively
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  Speaker 4: more moderate voices like the parliament speaker Kaliboff and also
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  Speaker 4: the President Musud Pozeskian, But then you have these hardliners
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  Speaker 4: in the IRGC that want to continue the war against
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  Speaker 4: the United States. And it's important to member here not
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  Speaker 4: only during Operation Epic Fury was the Iranian military decimated.
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  Speaker 4: Those production lines that give those individuals in the IRGC
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  Speaker 4: the ability to restock their missile and drones supply were
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  Speaker 4: also destroyed, and so the Iranians have much less leverage
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  Speaker 4: and they had three months ago. Also, it's important to
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  Speaker 4: note the Iranians didn't get what they want out of
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  Speaker 4: the negotiations. Remember they entered into these talks with the
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  Speaker 4: United States demanding that all US forces leave bases across
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  Speaker 4: the Middle East, and they didn't get that. Ultimately, US
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  Speaker 4: forces will stay in Bahrai, where the US Navy's fifth
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  Speaker 4: Fleet is based. And also you have a situation where
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  Speaker 4: there are other locations, including the oloded base in Qatar,
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  Speaker 4: where thousands of US forces will remain. And so the
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  Speaker 4: President maintains the ability to use military force if the
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  Speaker 4: Iranians step back from the agreement, but also worked out
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  Speaker 4: within this deal is leverage on the regime. They're not
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  Speaker 4: going to get sanctions relief unless they adhere to their
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  Speaker 4: end of the deal, and that means keeping the straight
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  Speaker 4: up hor moves open for the free flow of international shipping,
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  Speaker 4: and also entering into these detailed discussions that will ultimately
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  Speaker 4: dilute or destroy the highly enriched geranium that is buried
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  Speaker 4: deep underground inside of Iranian territory.
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  Speaker 2: So Trey. Obviously, you know, there's an American perspective to
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  Speaker 2: this because we're a combat over there. But the Iranian people,
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  Speaker 2: and I understand some people, you know, they have compassion,
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  Speaker 2: but they're only concerned about our interests. They thought that
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  Speaker 2: they were going to get a new leader there, and
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  Speaker 2: I think that's what serves a lot of these protests
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  Speaker 2: over there. They thought that this was their shot. It
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  Speaker 2: looks like like if this deal happens, then it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be the status quo a least regarding the Iranian people.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, and it's not regime change, but it is a
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  Speaker 4: changed regime. And that's because during Operation Epic Fury around
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  Speaker 4: Supreme Leader the Ayatola Kamanaiyu was taken out in an
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  Speaker 4: air strike along with forty other senior officials. Now his son,
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  Speaker 4: Mustaba Khamanai has now taken over, and so we shouldn't
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  Speaker 4: make any mistakes about the hardliners within Iran. But there
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  Speaker 4: is a sense, at least at this moment, that the
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  Speaker 4: regime understands they can't win a war against the United States,
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  Speaker 4: and ultimately they have to make these concessions at the
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  Speaker 4: negotiating table. As for the Iranian people, there are more
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  Speaker 4: than ninety million people in Iran. Many of them bravely
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  Speaker 4: took to the streets of their country earlier this year,
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  Speaker 4: and they were met with live ammunition. President Trump says
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  Speaker 4: forty two thousand Iranians were slaughtered in the streets of
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  Speaker 4: their country, and many of the commanders from the IRGC
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  Speaker 4: and the besieged forces that ordered the crackdown on protesters
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  Speaker 4: were also killed and their headquarters were targeted during Operation
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  Speaker 4: Epic Fury. Now this doesn't necessary paint and optimistic picture
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  Speaker 4: for the future. There are still hardliners in charge, and
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  Speaker 4: they likely will try to crack down on the demonstrators
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  Speaker 4: if they take to the streets of their country again.
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  Speaker 4: But again, President Trump maintains the ability to have leverage
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  Speaker 4: over the regime, both militarily and economically. So if the
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  Speaker 4: Iranians change their behavior and go back to their old ways,
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  Speaker 4: threatening their people and also US forces or allies across
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  Speaker 4: the Middle East, they're not going to get that sanctioned
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  Speaker 4: relief that they desperately want.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Trey, thank you so much. We talked to
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  Speaker 3: a senior White House official on Friday who said all
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  Speaker 3: the enrich uranium will be destroyed and taken out of
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  Speaker 3: the country. And we asked, are you confident that you
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  Speaker 3: know where it all is? And this senior White House
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  Speaker 3: official said yes. So if this deal sticks, Israel in
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  Speaker 3: the United States will not have to worry about a
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  Speaker 3: nuclear weapon. And that was the whole reason President Trump
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  Speaker 3: got in this conflict.
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  Speaker 1: They evidently put booby traps around whether the uranium is
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  Speaker 1: deep underneath, just in case we decided that operation, which
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  Speaker 1: evidently was we were going to do. We were all
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  Speaker 1: ready to go in and go grab it. At the
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  Speaker 1: last minute, the President pulled it back because it would.
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  Speaker 3: Have been hys very high risk, very volatile, and very dangerous. Yes,
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