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U.S. strikes Iran after it attacked a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, CENTCOM says · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: This is Nicole Killian is at the White House with
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  Speaker 1: more on the ongoing retaliatory strikes against Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Nicole, Yeah, that's right. Well, we are still learning details
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  Speaker 2: about what exactly is going on at this hour, major
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  Speaker 2: but what we do know, according to a statement from Sencom,
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  Speaker 2: is that a US aircraft did target missile and drone
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  Speaker 2: storage locations in Iran, calling this a powerful response after
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  Speaker 2: a drone attack by Iranian forces on a ship in
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  Speaker 2: the Strait of Hoornbos. Now, the President earlier today and
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  Speaker 2: actually you can see that statement from SIDCOM, the unwarranted
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  Speaker 2: aggression against commercial shipping by Iranian forces clearly violated the
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  Speaker 2: cease fire. So it goes on to say that Iran's
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  Speaker 2: dangerous behavior undermined freedom of navigation as commerce increasingly flows
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  Speaker 2: through the vital international trade corridor. And a course, this
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  Speaker 2: is a key part of that recently signed memorandum of
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  Speaker 2: understanding between the US and Iran reopening the Strait of
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  Speaker 2: Horn Moves in exchange, the US dropped its name blockade there.
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  Speaker 2: But of course this is really the first kind of
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  Speaker 2: tip for tat response we have seen since that agreement
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  Speaker 2: was reached. The President warning earlier today about those drone strikes,
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  Speaker 2: that it was a foolish violation of our ceasefire agreement.
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  Speaker 2: And just a short time ago in the Oval Office,
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  Speaker 2: before these strikes by the United States took place, he
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  Speaker 2: was asked whether or not there would be any repercussions
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  Speaker 2: for this Iranian drone attack on that ship in the
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  Speaker 2: Strait of Cormouse, and he just said, we'll see. And
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  Speaker 2: then minutes later, Major is when we got word from
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  Speaker 2: Syentcom about these attacks. Now, what this means for the
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  Speaker 2: future of the agreement remains to be seen, but there's
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  Speaker 2: certainly a lot of concern at this hour about the
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  Speaker 2: fragility of this agreement if it even still holds now
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  Speaker 2: that both sides have exchanged fire again.
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  Speaker 1: Nicole killing with all the latest, I appreciate it very much.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to walk over to the touch screen where
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  Speaker 1: i will find Aaron McLean was host a School of
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  Speaker 1: War podcast and my able advisor and educator on all matters.
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  Speaker 1: This is happening right before our eye, Aaron, And clearly
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  Speaker 1: the memorandum of understanding now has a very big misunderstanding
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  Speaker 1: or intentional misreading. That's right.
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  Speaker 3: So it's the middle of it.
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  Speaker 1: Back to Kinetic stuff it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's the middle of the night in Iran right now,
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  Speaker 3: and the United States Central Command is striking targets. We
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  Speaker 3: don't know exactly where, but we know it's in the
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  Speaker 3: area of the Strait of Hormuz. We hear missile sites,
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  Speaker 3: drone sites, and radar sites. These Iranian islands here also
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  Speaker 3: have potential targets on them in retaliation for a strike
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  Speaker 3: the Iranians did yesterday on a container ship, the Ever Lovely,
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  Speaker 3: that was transiting this southern Omani route through the Strait
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  Speaker 3: of Hormus. The Iranians don't like the existence of this route.
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  Speaker 3: They want all ships to go through a northern route
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  Speaker 3: that they control, and that's the core issue. Aran says
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  Speaker 3: we controlled the Strait of Hormuz. The United States State says, no,
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  Speaker 3: you don't, and we've never actually settled this question.
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  Speaker 1: Right and now with this fire first from them, now
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  Speaker 1: from US forces, we're back where we were several weeks
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  Speaker 1: ago when this was a contested piece of geography with
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  Speaker 1: global economic and.
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  Speaker 3: And I think what you're seeing here in the Strait
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  Speaker 3: of Her moves, but in other issues as well. For example,
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  Speaker 3: what's going on right now with HESB law in Lebanon
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  Speaker 3: is the Iranians have a series of very clear for
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  Speaker 3: them strategic goals. They want revenue, they want to control
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  Speaker 3: the strait of her moves, they want Israel out of Lebanon.
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  Speaker 3: And they are pursuing each of these goals in turn
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  Speaker 3: and provoking or daring, I think is the better. We're
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  Speaker 3: daring the United States into responding. Right now we see
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  Speaker 3: Central Command and President Trump responding. What the Iranian response
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  Speaker 3: to that is going to be, That's the big question
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  Speaker 3: for tonight tomorrow. But we see Iranian strikes in places
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  Speaker 3: like the United Arab Emirates and Kuate other sorts of
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  Speaker 3: places like that.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron, would it be foolish of me to ask a
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  Speaker 1: question I think might be on the minds of my audience, Erin,
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  Speaker 1: You just put whole red line about things that were
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  Speaker 1: still there. Why were they still there? Why didn't we
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  Speaker 1: attack them earlier? Why didn't we take them out to
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  Speaker 1: make sure they couldn't do that once we knew we
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  Speaker 1: were going to pursue a negotiated agreement with the Memorandum
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  Speaker 1: of Understanding talking about an open state of more moves?
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't we deal with this?
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  Speaker 3: One of the enduring mysteries of this entire campaign operation
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  Speaker 3: epic theory from the start has been why the United
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  Speaker 3: States failed to anticipate or plan for the obvious Iranian
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  Speaker 3: counter move to the killing of the ayah Tola. The
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  Speaker 3: leadership strikes the very high intensity way that this war began,
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  Speaker 3: that move obviously being closing the Strait of horror moves.
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  Speaker 3: It happened right at the start. The United States frankly
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  Speaker 3: never reopened the strait. We were helping sneak a few
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  Speaker 3: ships out a night there towards the end, but at
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  Speaker 3: no point did we effectively establish conditions in the strait
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  Speaker 3: for the free flow of traffic. Now we claim that
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  Speaker 3: Iran has agreed in the Memorandum of Understanding to allow
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  Speaker 3: traffic through, well, as the events of yesterday show, the
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  Speaker 3: Iranians have a somewhat different interpretation of that.
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  Speaker 2: Than we do.
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  Speaker 3: It's a very very unstable situation, Aron.
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  Speaker 1: Before I let you go, do we have any sense
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  Speaker 1: of where what the disposition is of our naval assets here,
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  Speaker 1: because for the blockade they were all down here. Are
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  Speaker 1: they still hanging around more or less?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we do have a pretty substantial laydown of naval forces,
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  Speaker 3: generally speaking, out here in the Gulf of and further
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  Speaker 3: on off the map in the Arabian See. We do
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  Speaker 3: not have a lot of naval assets in the Persian
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  Speaker 3: Gulf right now. Why because when we sell them back
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  Speaker 3: and forth through the straight up Ormuz, they tend to
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  Speaker 3: get shot at by the Iranians, which happened before the
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  Speaker 3: MoU got signed on several occasions. So right now, yes,
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  Speaker 3: assets in the region Central Command pretty well armed, but
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  Speaker 3: the Iranians not particularly deterred.
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  Speaker 1: Might be a dicey weekend ahead. We're going to watch
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  Speaker 1: that little stretch of geography and waterway very closely. Aaron McLain,
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  Speaker 1: great stuff, as always,