BREAKING: Iran reportedly retaliates (06-23-2025--Hour2)

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So keep this in mind that Iran's regime is tyrannical to its own people and they must project that power lest they be deposed. And so this is standard for them to you know, speak in these terms and say all of the like, oh, you know, they like they say that the bombing run on their nuclear facilities did no damage. That's what they're telling their their domestic audience. And this is what apologists for the Iranian regime, the iotola is over the years. This is what they have said too about the Oh they just say death to America. That's just for domestic audiences. Yeah, no it's not. But this is what they this is what they've done. Explosions boomed Monday night in Cutter, home to a major US air base, shortly after its airspace was closed. Witnesses report what appears to be missiles in the sky over the country. There was no acknowledgment from Katari authorities of an attack. This is according to the Associated Press. A Viva Klumpus, who is a co founder of Boundless and the former head of speech writing at the Israeli Mission to the United Nations, says, yeah, and after all that time Cutter spent shielding Iran's proxy terrorists, this is the thanks they get. Yeah, don't know if anything is hit, don't know what kind of damage it was done, if any. This is from the Wall Street Journal. But I don't have a I don't I can't. I don't know, I can't get through their paywall. Oh, and the parliament. The other piece of news was that the Iranian parliament voted to close the strait, the Strait of Hormuz, which that's not going to sit very well with China because China gets, like I want to say, it was like, hang on, I have it here. Twenty percent of the world's oil flows through there, I think, and China relies heavily, like the number one buyer of the Iranian oil is China, and so China is not going to be happy with that decision. Russia. I've got a story in the stack here about Russia. Here it is Iran's foreign minister flew to Moscow ostensibly to try to get Russia to engage as a counterweight in its forty six year war against the US and Israel. Instead, Abbas Al Ragachikachi Gi. I'm just going to call him a boss because the last name is really difficult for me to pronounce. So a boss got plenty of sympathy from Vladimir Puti poot, but not much else. Putin has already bitten off more than he can chew in Ukraine and has no plans to escalate matters by confronting a suddenly assertive and dangry Donald Trump. This is Ed Morsey at hotair dot com. The Washington Post reports on this meeting, noting that Putin scolded Trump for his absolutely unprovoked attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities. Putin must have the same amnesia about Iranian attacks on Americans over the last forty six years that afflicts some Democrats. But he's not yet, you know, completely non compass mentis has to pick a fight with Trump at this moment. Apparently Putin's not so inclined to help Iran, partly because the Iranians didn't help him in Ukraine. The war has also demonstrated the limits so far to Russia's willingness to assist Iran militarily after both sides find a strategic agreement back in January, but that agreement did not have a mutual defense clause. The treaty stipulated it only that the two sides would not help any country that attacked the other, indicating Russia's unwillingness to intervene in the Middle East at a time when its military capacity is stretched by its war on Ukraine, but also Iran's unwillingness to send troops to assist Russia's war effort. The Israelis just exposed this supposedly vaunted Islamic military in Iran as incompetent, outgunned, and now they're just sitting ducks. Maybe that's one reason why Putin's not offering a whole lot of help here either. All right, let's get on the phone here and talk with David. Hello, David, welcome to the show. Hey, thanks Pete, I really enjoy your show. Thanks, sir, Hey, I've got a question for you, and thank goodness we did. We just pull up the three nuclear side. Is the uranium that they were working on? Is it safe to touch? Is it? Is it radioactive? Is it calling? And then at some point anybody dig back down in there or retrieve that and use that resource again or is it is it no good? So, uh, I don't know, we have got I've seen no reports of confirmation about the extent of the damage at this point. What was you know, like, was it was it successful or not? Well, so here's the thing, we don't so we don't know what all was in there, because I've also seen reports that they moved the material. They they they took a bunch of their uranium out of the facilities ahead of the bombings. Now I don't know if that's true. If it is true, I'm certain that that Israel tractum, right, so they know where the stuff went. Yeah, because if they're trying to if they're trying to keep it, you know, for future use, you would want to obviously know that. But I've not seen. I did see a report. About the the International Atomic Energy Agency. Uh, they said there's no indication that any of any radioactivity in in the areas around the sites. Gotcha. I've not seen any reports on that. I just didn't know, right, Yeah, And. We're going to find out more obviously, I think the more you know, Israel is flying overhead and they could maybe get to the site or something. But right now, because because. Iran does not control their airspace, they are they're. Screwed, right Yeah. And and I don't think Israel will ever allow them to get back up in the sky. Anything that comes online now, any kind of missile launchers or anything like that that comes online, they will not be allowed to recreate their air defenses. While I think be fair, they should only shut down their airspace for like forty years. Oh, that's that would be fair. Yeah, I like that idea. That's a go. All right, thanks David. I appreciate the call. Man, Thanks for you all right. See yeah, so what else did they do with the Israelis? Rather, the US strike on the nuclear facilities were relatively antiseptic, right, said Morrissey at hot air dot com. The IDEAF has absolutely defenestrated Iran's military capabilities and at some point we'll focus on their commissariat in order to peel back the Mulla's grip on their subjugated populace. The Israelis have already targeted the besiege facilities a couple of times. These are like the local gangs basically that the Mullas use to subjugate and to you know, beat people in the streets and stuff. These are the enforcers. They've targeted those facilities as well as police resources in Tehran. And the longer Iran refuses to deal honestly with the results of the war that they spend half a century provoking, the less value the Mullahs will have to Vladimir putin. China. They need Iranian oil and they have not blown up the oil fields Israel. Do not blow up the oil fields, so like there is a path forward for Iran. But do they go like, do they go out in a you know, in a blaze of martyrdom? Is that what they prefer? They might? Now they just voted to close the Strait of Hormuz. I saw somebody say, well, so I guess the Iranians hate gays and the straits. It's terrible. It's terrible, all right. If you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, because it's how you detec media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app and it's a website, and it combines news from around the world in one place, so you can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground, dot news slash pete. I put the link in the podcast description too. 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That's Iran had to do something. And so they're like, hey, Qatar, we're gonna send over some missiles. You just shoot them down. We'll send like six all. Right, We're gonna aim them for the US base there, but you just shoot him down. This way we get to. Flex, we get to say we shot back at the Great Satan and no Americans are injured or killed, no facilities are struck, and. You know your your pals and Katar, do you the solid Let you save some face? Is that where this ends? I doubt it, but. Let me get to some emails here, Sean says Pete, I am begging you, please, please, pretty please, with sugar on top, stop taking Tony's phone calls. The man is an absolute idiot. Everything that comes out of his mouth is a lesson in stupidity. I love the show except when dumb Tony calls PS. Please read this on the air so he can hear what listeners think of him. On the question I was asking in the first hour, do you agree with Trump's decision? John in New Jersey says I absolutely agree with his actions as to sleeper cells that may exist in America. Does anybody believe that they weren't planning on hurting US regards list of this strike and a surgical strike on Tony's cell phone would probably be a good idea. Okay, come on, now, that's not it's not nice. This is from Danny in Waxaw. I understand the you know, don't get involved in international disputes, crowd, and I think we are much past the nation building lessons, right, I think we have all learned those lessons. But along with all of the other what ifs, what if Iran developed a nuke and then used it on Israel or another one of its neighbors. We would have full scale involvement, and the costs would certainly surpass significantly the cost associated with Trump's proactive approach. Are we to think they wouldn't actually use one if they got one? No, they say they would. I just don't hear anybody talking about that. What if? What are the downstream ramifications that what if? All I hear is what if they respond? Now? Well they will respond without a nuke at lee right, That's that is correct. This is from Joseph who says if Trump was as hard nosed about the cartels as he is Iranians, I might would go along with him. We can't even get a minor military incursion into Mexico to take out the drug cartels, you know, the ones killing Americans in America with not only drugs but outright violence. But let the desert flame up, and here he comes with one hundred million dollars worth of bombs. Some of us notice the difference and it makes us question the motives. Well, he's obviously controlled by the Jews, Joseph, that's what's obviously going on there, right, Sure, Bob says, I agree, But concern for our future safety from the Biden sleeper cells in our country at this point, right, And this is the thing that had the borders not been wide open for the last four years, like one of the what ifs, one of these arguments would not even be on the table, but now it is. And by the way, like I don't know, like when I hear Democrats making that argument, like, oh, they're gonna activate sleeper sales in America and they're gonna do terrorism in America, it's like, what an indictment of your own leadership? Right for four years, Jonathan says, sounds like your bff Tony is a half step away from becoming a Trump supporter. Clearly, Tony buys into a transactional foreign relations relationship just like Trump. He must love the way Trump handled the tariff's issues. Sounds like the exact point he was trying to make. And then Dennis says, with all the success Israel had knocking out Iron's missile launchers, I hope Iran realizes using Roman candles just ain't gonna reach Qatar, and then Ricky says, I haven't heard it discussed, but I have a question regarding not providing congressional notification given the apparent anti americanism of some in Congress. Do you think there would be fear of a leak that would compromise the mission? Yeah, yes, Rick absolutely. They did not tell the Democrats. The administration did not tell the was it the Gang of eight? I think they're called, right, the two Republicans, two Democrats from both the House and the Senate. The'se like you're the chairman of the you know, intelligence committees and armed for Armed Services committees, whatever, and so they they are usually like brought in on those types of things. I think some of I think the Republicans were told ahead of time, but the Democrats were not, and so they're very upset about that. Adam Schiff is very very upset that he couldn't leak out the information like they were doing under Biden. Yeah, this thing, the amount of secrecy, and they did notify Congress afterwards as soon as the as soon as the bombing was done and they were on their way back, Trump came out and made the announcement. That's the forty eight hour window that he had under the War Powers Act. So he did do that. He just didn't give him a heads up because that could jeopardize the security of the mission. I understand that. Congressman Greg Stuby, a lawyer veteran. He says President Trump has full constitutional authority to take military action against Iran's nuclear program without a formal declaration of war. Article two, Section two empowers the Commander in Chief to use the armed forces to defend national interest and respond to imminent threats. The War Powers Resolution of nineteen seventy three allows a sixty day window plus a thirty day withdrawal period, as long as Congress is notified within forty eight hours. Claims that his actions were unconstitutional are simply false. We all know Iran and its proxies were actively seeking nuclear weapons and targeting American troops and allies. President Trump stepped up and stopped them. I'm glad we have a commander in chief who eliminates terrorists instead of pandering to them like you do. Thomas Massey. He was responding to Congressman Massey, who said this is unconstitutional. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal, or get family and friends together for a big old reunion. 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So this just in This is According to The New York Times, three Iranian officials familiar with the plans said that Iran gave advanced notice to Katari officials that attacks were coming as a way to minimize casualties. The official said Iran symbolically needed to strike back at the US, but at the same time carry it out in a way that will loud all sides and exit ramp. They described it as a similar strategy to twenty twenty, when Iran gave Iraq a heads up before firing ballistic missiles at an American base in a Rock following the assassination of its top general. John Welcome to the program. Hello John, Hey, Pete, Hey, thanks for taking my call. I jam three minutes in the thirty second, So here I go. All Righty first or. Foremost Tony Debating you is like Gavin Knews some wanting to take on jd Vance just ridiculous. All right, four sous, all right? Number two sma alma. I am so gosh darn glad that woman came out of her hole to talk about Charlotte's being not notified. What. I have been listening to you all since twenty nineteen and I've never heard that moment on the radio one darn time. So the first time I hear she is complaining that she wasn't notified, Well, Team twoy Jeffries didn't bother to pick up the telephone when we call them. Point number three, Iran is launching missiles at Qatar? Do they not know? Qatar has in the penthouse suite of their biggest and bust hotels, the HESBO leaders and the Hamas leaders. They're living a life of luxury in Qatar, which I don't agree with and I don't understand, and I think they need to be just have a missile just launched right into their little penthouse. Sweet and number four, the whole point of the call was this is just how dunk did your show? Is it just while you're sitting on hold, you just get flooded with buss But the whole purpose is you said something with uranium two thirty five color yes, wins dealing with We have been dealing with Iran for forty six years, twenty five years, and the entire time it's been death and destruction in our treasure, just being wasted, trying to appeased and along the way. The only one, and I say this is Ronald Reagan before Trump was Ronald Reagan. Every president, Republican side acquiesced, get along, to get along. Every Democrat just shoved chest after chest of billions upon billions upon billions of dollars into this regime on the promise, on the promise that they would not enrich uranium passed two or three percent that you need to run a country's paragrid. Now we've known for decades. It's been sitting in the sixties and forties to fifties, now even in the eighties and soon to be nineties. And yet Joe Biden was willing to shove money their direction. And the money that he gave him was money that was locked up from their terrible deeds over the decades, and he's willing to give it to him. And well, I just don't understand how any Democrat on Capitol Hill or streets of Charlotte, since we're in our backyard, can sit here and justify that party feeding that regime money to turn around and then kill our brothers and sisters. I think I think part of it is Western conceit, this thinking that, oh, you know, they don't really believe what they say when they say death to America, death to Israel. They're just like us, and we can we can negotiate, and we can engage in these diplomatic efforts because they're like us. And I think that's part of it. And I think a very large part of what Biden did was a just it was well, Trump did it, so it must be wrong, and so I'm going to reverse everything Trump did. And I think that's a large part of Again, Donald Trump breaks people's brains, and you have people that it's just a knee jerk reaction. If if Trump did it, then it's wrong because I and that's really all that comes down to. I think John, I appreciate the call, buddy, good to hear from you. Thanks me, all right, take care. I got a message from I don't know who GJM on Twitter. Pete, I disagree with the decision to join Israel's war with Iran for two reasons. Number one, Trump made a promise of no new wars on the campaign trail, which bought the vote of many anti interventionists who have now been betrayed. Number Two, our own intelligence structure, along with the British MI six and even Mosad themselves, verified that Iran was and is not in the process of even beginning to build a bomb. The idea of possible bomb at some time in the future, in my opinion, does not qualify as enough of an imminent threat to the US sovereignty, homeland, or personnel. These are the main reasons I don't support this decision. Thanks, thanks for your show. So that's GJM. And and this is Timoteo who says, regarding the question of consulting Congress before striking Iran, we have a Marine Corps officer with the football who follows the President wherever he goes. This is to ensure that all moments, at a moment's notice, with no advance notice to Congress, the President of the United States is able to unleash the entire nuclear arsenal at whoever he deems necessary. He has been entrusted with this authority as Commander in chief by the vote of the people. With that authority, he has the ability to obliterate any nation or even reduce the entire world to a sinder. Given that democrats complaining they were not consulted before the limited strikes against Iran is just petty, right, Well, it's a you know again, Trump did it, so it's wrong. And once again I can't believe I'm saying it. But John Fetterman the voice of reason. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. 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They are your life told through the eyes of everyone around you and all who came before you, and they will tell others to come who you are. Visit creative video dot Com. Andrew asks if starlink is active in Iran. If so, wouldn't that help facilitate a revolution and against the regime along with the reality of the destruction in Iran? That's a that's a good question. Maybe I'm gonna make a note to tweet at elon. See if they'll. Damn because if the Israelis control all the airspace. This is from Ken, who says, while I apologize for the presumptuousness of this request, I feel I must. Could you please try to schedule the debate masterclasses with Tony in the future. I was running late for an appointment earlier today, but I had to be late because I could not miss another Tony appearance. Thank you very much. Here's truly Ken in Union County. I am at I am at Tony's mercy. Uh. He calls whenever the spirit moves him. So Alex, welcome to the program. Hello Alex. Hey, Yeah, So I just I wanted to I can scrapp with Michel by just saying that, first of all I did for trauma. I do not believe he's very president of the man who ran three catinas into the ground shouldn't be anywhere near economy in general. But I also have no law laws for Iran regime. My question is this, I really have no problem with him, you know, doing what he did. The thing is he did yank the Obama time treatment of the agreement that we had with Iran from twenty fifteen. He yanked it, and then the new one that he reintroduced just a few months ago when they were still trying to negotiate. My understanding, I read a couple of reports New York Times and a couple of other publications. It's pretty much it was. The agreement was for The offer was pretty much the same as with in twenty fifteen. So I was it just a name, like instead of Obama it was Trump? It would have been Trump that at which point would the agreement that we already has with Iran would have been good for Trump? Was it just an aime change because again, why what was the point of ripping it out first time around and then bringing back Now at this point you lost all the credibility with the writings because if they looking at the same ofer that they had five years ago that was sanged by him, why we were so and again, so I'm not, I'm not. Yeah, I got you, I got you. So I will say this, the the the JCPOA was a horrible agreement, and I agree with Trump scrapping it. The then when he then when he attempts to write so then hang on, hang on. Then the second the second thing then is when they started on the negotiations again. That's what actually turned Trump and made him realize. In one of the reports I read over the weekend was that he realized that the Iranians were not actually negotiating in good faith. And Trump sussed that out. He recognized that, and I think that's what soured everything. Is like you're it sounds like you are. You're working off of an assumption that the Iranians were negotiating in good faith, but they weren't. No, and they were just trying to I ran through their strategy. I ran through their strategy, which was to delay long enough so they could amass the arsenal of ballistic missiles, so they could rain down thirty thousand to forty thousand of these missiles on Israel and deplete all of their defensive weaponry. Again. So the second treatment that droumped, the second holder that Sam hadn't recently, how was it different from the one we hadn't already agreement with that. I don't know what, Alex, I don't know what's happening to your phone yet. I'm getting a lot of interference in it. But how is it different. I haven't gone through the details of the second deal because there was no need to, because it didn't go anywhere. I would have, you know, obviously gone through it way more than I did because if it had gotten anywhere close to approval, but it didn't. And yeah, so that's all. If you're looking for me to like do a compare and contrast with all of the like the old agreement, the Obamba Deal, and what Trump was working on, there was nothing ever came. Of it, So there's yeah, there's no there's no. Reason for me to waste a lot of my time reading through all of the different proposals. So, but again, I've never looked at the Iranians as good faith negotiators. They've been lying the entire time. So and the report I read over the weekend said, you know, that's when Trump realized, like, these guys are not actually trying to do a deal. They want to build a bomb. Because yes, they want to build a nuclear weapon. That's the reason why they've enriched up to over sixty percent when they only need to go to like two or three percent. And it's why they built their facilities under a mountain, and it's why they chant death to Israel. This is what they want. So I think it's pretty clear. All right, that'll do it for this episode. 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