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US launches NEW strikes on Iran after Strait of Hormuz threat · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: More US strikes against Iran after Tehran ignored his latest
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  Speaker 1: deadline to reopen the critical Strait of Hormuz, prompting a
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  Speaker 1: major military response from President Trump and the Pentagon. Sentcom
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  Speaker 1: says the strait remains open for transit, but Iran says
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  Speaker 1: it is closed. Mike Tobin reports live from Tel Aviv.
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  Speaker 2: Mike and John, We've got indications that Iran is striking back.
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  Speaker 2: Kuwait confirms now several strikes from hostile aircraft at border
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  Speaker 2: crossings at an oil rig. The Iranian Fars News agency
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  Speaker 2: says what the Iranians were aiming at is US missile
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  Speaker 2: launching hardware.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: This follows strikes by the US confirm now by US
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  Speaker 2: Central Command. The US has sea based and land based
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  Speaker 2: fighter jets, as well as drones and munitions were fired
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  Speaker 2: from ships and all used in the attack. The US's
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  Speaker 2: targets included missile and drone sites, naval capabilities, and sites
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  Speaker 2: used for surveillance. This evening, we've got new reports of
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  Speaker 2: explosions in Bondar, Rabas and Kesham Island in Iran, not confirmed.
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  Speaker 3: By sources outside of her.
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  Speaker 2: The latest round of air strikes was triggered by Iran
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  Speaker 2: firing on another commercial ship crossing the Strait of Horror Moves.
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  Speaker 2: The ship flagged out of Cypress was hit. There was
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  Speaker 2: a fire on board and damage to the engine room
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  Speaker 2: engine room. At last report, the ship was immobile and
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  Speaker 2: stuck in the strait. A crew member, a man from India,
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  Speaker 2: is now missing. A Secretary of War Pete Hegxeth posted
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  Speaker 2: Iran made a poor choice.
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  Speaker 3: Now they paid.
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  Speaker 2: Iran has stated that the Straight of Horror Moves is
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  Speaker 2: now closed. The US says that's an international waterway open
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  Speaker 2: to all legal trade and the.
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  Speaker 3: US will guarantee it.
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  Speaker 1: John back to you, Mike Tobin from Tel Aviv. Mike, thanks,
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  Speaker 1: Let's bring in Fox News contributor Chiron Skinner and professor
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  Speaker 1: of Paul Tiks at Pepperdine University and a senior advisor
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  Speaker 1: at the Heritage Foundation, Kirn who's running the show in Iran?
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  Speaker 1: In Iran right now?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think that is a question that's up
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  Speaker 4: for dispute. But what we do know is that the
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  Speaker 4: Tehran regime continues to menace as many ships and other
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  Speaker 4: entities in the Persian Gulf as it can possibly can
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  Speaker 4: with its limited and degraded military as you know, it
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  Speaker 4: has a very degraded air capability, air defenses, just overall
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  Speaker 4: limited military capacity. But in this asymmetric conflict, it uses
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  Speaker 4: what it has to violate the MoU signed to last month,
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  Speaker 4: for example, earlier last week attacking ships passing through Oman's waters.
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  Speaker 4: And so the Trump administration here is attempting to protect
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  Speaker 4: the rest of the world, the global energy supply from actors.
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  Speaker 4: And going back to your initial question, who's in charge,
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  Speaker 4: We know that the bad guys in Tehran are in charge,
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  Speaker 4: that the IRGC is continuing its activities, and we also
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  Speaker 4: know that it could force The international wing of the
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  Speaker 4: IRGC continues with tens of thousands of partners from South
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  Speaker 4: Asia all the way to the Levant, with a special
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  Speaker 4: focus on the Persian Gulf. So we've come far in
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  Speaker 4: the war that started back in February in terms of
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  Speaker 4: making it much more difficult for the government in Iran
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  Speaker 4: to do the global terrorism that it's been doing. But
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  Speaker 4: it's not done yet. And what I think we have
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  Speaker 4: to do, and I hope your audience really hears this,
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  Speaker 4: we need more time. There are many who are saying,
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  Speaker 4: why is this war not over? It's taking too long.
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  Speaker 4: But look how weak. The Iranian military is now.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Whitaker, who is our US ambassador to NATO, says
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  Speaker 1: that he thinks there are really two sides, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: in the Iranian government, one side that's doing the negotiating
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  Speaker 1: and one side that's launching missiles.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, I'm not going to obviously talk about the negotiations
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  Speaker 3: in private, but what I can tell you is that
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  Speaker 3: the Iranians need to get their house in order. That
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  Speaker 3: the folks that are shooting missiles and drones at ships
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  Speaker 3: need to make sure that they're coordinating with the people
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  Speaker 3: that are negotiating the peace deal and that they're all
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  Speaker 3: on the same page, because my sense is that they're not.
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  Speaker 1: So does that make sense to you that because there
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  Speaker 1: is a leadership vacuum there, one side is saying, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the strait of horror moves is open, and the other
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  Speaker 1: side is blasting ships that are trying to pass through.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, I really respect Ambassador or Whittaker, and
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  Speaker 4: I think he has intelligence I don't have. But this
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  Speaker 4: is not inconsistent with the running and behavior before there
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  Speaker 4: was regime change in the nation. There really hasn't been
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  Speaker 4: regime change. The Ayatola has been taken out. But this
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  Speaker 4: is the kind of behavior good cop, bad cup and
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  Speaker 4: installing everything. And so I don't see a dramatic shift
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  Speaker 4: in their behavior at the negotiating table or their behavior
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  Speaker 4: on the military battlefield. But what is happening that must
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  Speaker 4: be discussed is that regional partners are taking action because
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  Speaker 4: it's not just the United States and Israel who are
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  Speaker 4: being attacked. It's the Saudis, the Kataris, Bahrain, Jordanians, all
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  Speaker 4: over the region. They have attacked US facilities, energy infrastructure,
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  Speaker 4: oil and gas pipelines, whatever they could possibly do, and
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  Speaker 4: it's led to a kind of new regional security infrastructure
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  Speaker 4: that they did not anticipate. Many have said critics of
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  Speaker 4: Israel that Israel is isolated in the world. I see
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  Speaker 4: it differently. Tehran is isolated in the world. It's isolated
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  Speaker 4: in its own region. For example, the Saudis, the Turks, Egyptians,
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  Speaker 4: Pakistanis have come together and what's now called the R four,
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  Speaker 4: the Regional four, to figure out their own security outside
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  Speaker 4: of Tehran being a factor. This is a new day
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  Speaker 4: in the region and really the world.
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  Speaker 1: Tyron Skinner, Fox News contributor TIRN thank you, thank you.
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