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Activity at Iran nuke site draws Trump warning DON’T ‘GET CUTE’ · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: New signs Iran may be hardening a nuclear site. President
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  Speaker 1: Trump has threatened to strike. Fresh satellite images seen there
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  Speaker 1: show more dirt piled up over tunnel entrances at Pickaxe Mountain,
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  Speaker 1: adding protection against a possible airstrike. Let's bring in now
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  Speaker 1: four-star General Joseph Patel, former commander of CENTCOM. Welcome to you, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for being here. So what about this new
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  Speaker 1: activity at this Iran nuclear site, as it is drawing
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  Speaker 1: a new warning from the president?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, Sandra. It's good to be with you again. Well,
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  Speaker 2: this is further evidence here that Iran is trying to,
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  Speaker 2: if not rebuild the program right now, at least prepare
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  Speaker 2: the facilities so they can continue to pursue this approach
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  Speaker 2: well into the future. The location you're talking about, Pickaxe Mountain,
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  Speaker 2: is in the general vicinity of Natanz, but it's also
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  Speaker 2: a mountain that's about 2,000 feet higher than Fordow, one
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  Speaker 2: of the sites we destroyed last year. And so it
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  Speaker 2: gives Iran the ability to dig deeper, burrow deeper, to
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  Speaker 2: protect their activity at that location.
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  Speaker 1: Because the last time we saw President Trump make public
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  Speaker 1: remarks about Pickaxe Mountain was September 9th, and he said this.
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  Speaker 1: We can read it from space. Can you believe this?
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  Speaker 1: Thousands of miles away and we're reading somebody's. We know
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  Speaker 1: exactly what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: But we notice there's a little activity at pickaxe.
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  Speaker 1: I would advise Iran not to get cute because we
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  Speaker 1: will have to hit them very hard. We have no choice.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: That was a good nine days ago. So we know
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  Speaker 1: that this has been a focus for the president.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. And it's not just the president, but
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  Speaker 2: of course, the intelligence community and the military as well.
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  Speaker 2: And our extraordinary intelligence community, I'm sure, has been focused
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  Speaker 2: on this and making sure we're keeping a very, very
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  Speaker 2: sharp eye on this. We understand exactly what is what
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  Speaker 2: is happening as much to the extent as we can
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  Speaker 2: with this. So, you know, as as other things are
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  Speaker 2: playing out across the across the region and in the
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  Speaker 2: war with Iran, keeping our focus on this, of course,
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  Speaker 2: remains very, very important.
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  Speaker 1: A controversial figure in American politics right now is a streamer,
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  Speaker 1: a far-left streamer, Hassan Piker, among other things. He said
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  Speaker 1: this on the Middle East, and I don't often ask
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  Speaker 1: you to get political, but I'll ask you to respond
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  Speaker 1: to this however you will. He made the case that
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East would be more stable if Iran had
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  Speaker 1: nuclear weapons. Listen.
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  Speaker 3: I think Iran, much like any other sovereign nation, has
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  Speaker 3: a right to defend itself in order to create regional
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  Speaker 3: stability in a world where mutually assured destruction is the
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  Speaker 3: only way for countries to have sovereignty. Do you think
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  Speaker 3: the Middle East would be more stable if Iran had
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  Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon? I believe yes. I think that the
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  Speaker 3: Middle East would be more stable.
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  Speaker 1: With your obvious expertise, how do you respond to that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, without a nuclear weapon, Iran has been the most
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  Speaker 2: the biggest factor in the Middle East causing instability across
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  Speaker 2: the region. They have been a promoter of a revolutionary
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  Speaker 2: ideology that is extended from Tehran to Beirut and covered
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  Speaker 2: many places in between. They've raised proxy organizations. They've attacked
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  Speaker 2: and killed Americans and others across the region. So I
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  Speaker 2: think Iran is the biggest... source of instability and terrorism
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  Speaker 2: across the Middle East, no doubt in my mind.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, energy plays a big role in all of this.
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  Speaker 1: The Bloomberg headline reads, quote, Saudis tell European refiners they'll
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  Speaker 1: get no crude next month. We know how much leverage
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  Speaker 1: oil has in this war. Get your final thoughts, as
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  Speaker 1: here at home, we do see that front month oil contract, WTI,
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  Speaker 1: still over $ 100 a barrel today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the center of gravity is shifting a little bit
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  Speaker 2: from the Strait of Hormuz down to the Bab el-Mandeb,
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  Speaker 2: where the Houthis have exerted significant control over the Red
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  Speaker 2: Sea coast along that critical choke point. So you've got
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  Speaker 2: two choke points that are very vulnerable right now, plus
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  Speaker 2: the bypass that Saudi Arabia has running across our country
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  Speaker 2: is has been attacked. So it's a very difficult situation
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  Speaker 2: right here. And Saudi Arabia is trying to find its
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  Speaker 2: way out of that, working with the United States and
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  Speaker 2: certainly with Gulf partners and others around the world. So
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  Speaker 2: this is a very, very serious, serious situation that's likely
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  Speaker 2: not going to be resolved militarily. It's likely going to
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  Speaker 2: require some kind of diplomatic effort to bring this to
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  Speaker 2: a conclusion.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the European contract, the Brent contract, just over $ 103
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  Speaker 1: a barrel, just a little bit higher than that WTI contract.
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  Speaker 1: Great to have you here today. Thank you very much,
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  Speaker 1: Joseph Patel.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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