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[00:00:00] Welcome to N1 Croatia, [00:00:03] good morning Hanan, let's start with [00:00:06] the US and Iran and these renewed new [00:00:09] negotiations, uh, new blockades, questions [00:00:13] what will happen with the Strait of Hormuz, [00:00:17] Donald Trump announced that the Iranians had been negotiating [00:00:20] all day with the Iranians, but again, obviously [00:00:23] in his own style, he said and threatened, there will be, there will be [00:00:27] retaliation, there will be strong attacks on Iran [00:00:30] if an agreement is not [00:00:32] reached, what is the current situation [00:00:36] when it comes to negotiations, could Iran [00:00:39] get the right to oversee ships entering [00:00:43] the Persian Gulf? [00:00:47] What we currently know is that the Iranians are negotiating [00:00:50] with Oman and are not negotiating with [00:00:53] the Americans, because as the American president says, if there isn't something, [00:00:57] there will be something. This practically means [00:01:01] that uh [00:01:04] he imagines those negotiations are taking place, because as we know, in the past few [00:01:08] weeks, there haven't been any significant contacts [00:01:11] between the two delegations [00:01:13] directly, Qatar, a few days ago, Majid al-Ansari and [00:01:17] their foreign ministry spokesperson announced that they had joined [00:01:21] all of this, which practically means that [00:01:24] someone more serious had to be involved in the negotiations [00:01:28] as a mediator to try to... reach a solution, because Pakistan didn't [00:01:32] succeed, mm, everything else [00:01:34] didn't succeed for the simple reason that, well, what you just [00:01:38] said, he constantly threatens, [00:01:41] constantly makes some new demands, some [00:01:45] new threats, constantly changes his mind, [00:01:48] nobody is sure anymore whether something that is agreed [00:01:51] today will still be in force [00:01:54] this afternoon, so what the American president is doing [00:01:57] is quite alarming, because I will remind [00:02:01] our viewers that at the beginning of the war, [00:02:04] that is, at the end of February, he said that it would last [00:02:08] four to six weeks, here we are in [00:02:11] the sixth month of this war and there's no end in sight, [00:02:14] the only thing we got in the last few hours as [00:02:18] some concrete information is that [00:02:22] Iran and Oman discussed those routes and how [00:02:25] this passage through Hormuz will be made, but [00:02:29] there are still many problems within it because [00:02:32] uh some people are asking what if [00:02:36] these, I don't know, transit tariffs or customs or [00:02:39] some kind of road tax, as I would call it, are introduced, [00:02:43] that will create additional costs for people who [00:02:46] do business with the Gulf region and that will of course [00:02:50] have an effect on the global community, so [00:02:54] this problem with the American administration has been going on for [00:02:57] too long and I think [00:03:01] military that "if he really wants to reach an agreement, he should form a serious [00:03:04] negotiating team that would then go and talk to [00:03:08] partners in the Gulf region and beyond to [00:03:11] finally find a solution to all [00:03:14] of this. Now, here you mentioned Trump's [00:03:17] original announcement that the war would last four to [00:03:21] seven weeks, it's clear, we are where [00:03:24] we are, what has been asked for some [00:03:28] time, and increasingly today, mm, is [00:03:32] the question of how much this war [00:03:34] is exhausting primarily the United States, not [00:03:38] so much Iran, [00:03:40] uh, how much longer this war could last and also [00:03:44] the question of how much it will harm [00:03:47] the economy of the United States, or whether there are [00:03:51] sufficient supplies of ammunition, they may not [00:03:54] even need to exist, but how much money will then go into their [00:03:57] creation and for us to... acquire something like that so that [00:04:01] the war can continue? [00:04:04] You are completely right, according to the latest information published [00:04:07] by colleagues from CNN and other American media, [00:04:11] their supplies are currently reduced [00:04:14] by approximately 80%, especially [00:04:17] when it comes to missile interceptors, [00:04:20] what were the Iranians practically doing here? The Iranians were firing those [00:04:24] missiles to force the Americans to defend themselves, [00:04:27] i.e., to defend their allies in the Gulf [00:04:30] region. The second thing that is very difficult [00:04:35] the African continent for the American president at this moment, mm, is [00:04:37] that none of those attacks led [00:04:41] to what he was talking about, that they were wiped off the face [00:04:44] of the earth, that they were destroyed, that they couldn't defend themselves, that they couldn't attack, and so on [00:04:48] and so forth, they still have [00:04:51] considerable supplies, certain things, as we learned from [00:04:54] intelligence data, reports from our colleagues at the global [00:04:58] level, have already, mm... replenished their supplies, produced [00:05:02] them in their own production, I have already said, I think in our [00:05:05] Zagreb program and our Sarajevo program countless times that [00:05:09] for example, the Shahed 136 drones, which [00:05:12] Russia uses in Ukraine, are [00:05:15] simply transferred across the border from Russia [00:05:18] from the factories they own, mm, [00:05:21] the license to produce them is given [00:05:24] to the Iranians, the Iranians then normally use them. [00:05:28] We saw in the Gulf region that the Iranians mostly used [00:05:31] drones for attacks, meaning they did not use [00:05:34] conventional weapons, you are also absolutely [00:05:38] right when you say that the American economy will be threatened, [00:05:42] yes. It will be threatened, and it will be severely threatened, and huge [00:05:45] financial resources will have to be invested, especially [00:05:49] from the Pentagon's budget, I will remind you that [00:05:53] currently in Congress a new military budget is being discussed [00:05:57] that should amount to more than 1.8 [00:06:00] trillion US dollars or more than [00:06:03] 1,800 billion US dollars that [00:06:06] the Pentagon is currently asking [00:06:09] Congress to approve. Of course, then the question will [00:06:13] be asked among Americans, especially among voters who [00:06:16] will vote in November this year in the congressional elections, [00:06:20] well, why are we spending so much money when Trump [00:06:23] promised us that we would no longer wage endless [00:06:26] wars, that we would not participate in what is happening in [00:06:30] the Middle East, so this whole situation [00:06:33] simply causes enormous damage and one of [00:06:36] the elements that are indirectly connected, [00:06:39] or rather directly, with what [00:06:42] is happening in the Middle East is the price of oil at American [00:06:46] gas stations, not on the global market, but at American gas stations [00:06:50] where Americans now say, well, we didn't vote for this, we voted for the [00:06:54] barrel to be under 2 dollars, now the barrel [00:06:57] is mm 4.5, actually the gallon [00:07:00] should be under 2 dollars, now it is [00:07:04] $4.55 cents on average, so [00:07:07] Americans are feeling this whole... [00:07:10] um um [00:07:14] gambling adventure that Trump embarked on, which he [00:07:17] claimed would end very quickly, just as he said that the war in [00:07:20] Ukraine would end in 24 hours, well, this war has not [00:07:23] ended as quickly as he said it would end [00:07:27] other wars. Yes, the question arises of how [00:07:31] he will be, let's say, punished [00:07:34] in the US itself, [00:07:37] we have now had [00:07:41] the first round of elections for Congress in the past two days, [00:07:44] these primaries have been held, and we have already [00:07:48] seen some unexpected victories and successes [00:07:51] of some Democratic candidates, and if [00:07:54] we now include this whole story in which we are talking [00:07:58] about the American attack and [00:08:00] aggression against Iran, which went together with Israel, there is also [00:08:04] an interesting question of AIPAC, that is, this American [00:08:07] Israeli association that invested [00:08:11] millions, 60 million in one [00:08:14] case, sponsoring going against the candidates [00:08:17] who now seem to have succeeded [00:08:21] in winning the elections, what does that [00:08:24] tell us about some divisions in [00:08:27] American society, or is it perhaps the punishment [00:08:31] of these American policies? [00:08:33] Yes, what you're talking about, when it comes to Democrats, there's a very interesting Michigan, that's where AIPAC [00:08:36] invested huge financial resources, a total of [00:08:39] 60 million was spent in the fight against Abdel El [00:08:42] Said, 30 million, 30 million was invested [00:08:45] by AIPAC itself, that's very interesting, these are only [00:08:49] primaries, so it's purely within the Democrats to [00:08:53] choose who their candidate will be, these are not even the main elections that [00:08:56] are coming in November, a huge amount of money was spent, [00:09:00] that's precisely the fight that is being waged with, how should I [00:09:04] say... with the Democrats over [00:09:07] their internal, so to speak, organization, because these progressive [00:09:11] candidates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are now [00:09:15] increasingly coming to the scene and [00:09:18] if voters go for them, we see that Abdul [00:09:22] Elsaid won in Michigan against someone who was [00:09:24] an establishment candidate, then that means that there will be [00:09:28] punishment for both of them, both because of Gaza and because [00:09:31] of what is happening now with... [00:09:35] onda to znači da će biti kažnjavanja i jednih i [00:09:39] drugih i zbog gaze i zbog ovoga sada što se dešava sa... [00:09:50] yes, questions are starting to be asked, that two years [00:09:54] of his mandate will practically pass in that the Democrats [00:09:58] in 2047 will have the opportunity to [00:10:02] constantly investigate everything he did and all the moves he [00:10:05] made, and that will create huge problems for him and [00:10:09] his administration if by chance, the victory [00:10:13] of Alsaid in these primaries suggests that there is a possibility that [00:10:16] he will become the first Muslim senator in [00:10:19] the United States in the history of the United States, then that could [00:10:22] mean that he will lose both houses of the American Congress, and only then will he be [00:10:26] in trouble, because then he will be what Americans [00:10:30] call a Lame Duck President, meaning a president who [00:10:33] cannot do absolutely anything, because the Democrats will not allow him to [00:10:37] even pass a uh letter [00:10:40] of congratulations, to put it colloquially, if he wants to send [00:10:44] a letter of congratulations to someone and needs congressional approval, the [00:10:47] Democrats will not uh approve it, they will simply [00:10:51] block him in everything, and everything he promised to [00:10:55] American voters who supported him will [00:10:58] fall in Congress, [00:11:01] I must also say that people who [00:11:04] voted for him in the last elections simply [00:11:07] say, we are deeply disappointed and we made [00:11:11] a huge mistake by voting for him at this [00:11:14] moment, that is, in the elections when he won the presidential [00:11:17] elections, so now he is part of that whole, let's [00:11:20] say, MAGA scene, those who [00:11:24] largely supported Trump's [00:11:28] rhetoric and policy, for example, Tucker Carlson, our [00:11:31] colleague, is now completely changing his tune, [00:11:34] so a lot is happening, do you think [00:11:38] that this war against Iran and actually this Israeli [00:11:41] dragging of Washington into this whole story [00:11:45] with all these repercussions that you [00:11:48] pointed out, is that perhaps that one [00:11:51] moment that will? [00:11:55] that can really punish him, because people are now, so you [00:11:59] mentioned people who voted, we also have people here who financed his [00:12:03] campaign who are no longer all so enthusiastic about what [00:12:07] Trump's administration is doing, uh, on the other [00:12:10] hand, it can be seen that the results of this [00:12:13] action can actually harm the US [00:12:16] the most, yes, you are completely [00:12:19] right, although when it comes to Tucker Carlson, a certain [00:12:23] group of people who come from that MAGA sector, I wouldn't always [00:12:27] take uh [00:12:30] what Americans call face value at face value, [00:12:34] I wouldn't take everything they say with complete sincerity [00:12:38] and I wouldn't trust them completely, but it shows certain [00:12:41] trends that they have started to wash their hands of him and repent [00:12:45] for everything they did, but something that is very interesting, Maggie Haberman [00:12:48] who recently wrote with Jonathan Swan a book called [00:12:51] "Regime Change." regime change, which [00:12:55] describes the first year of Trump's mandate and what [00:12:58] happened at the beginning [00:13:00] of this war with [00:13:04] Iran, says that the moment Benjamin Netanyahu came to the White [00:13:07] House in the situation room and when he [00:13:11] presented the idea of how to [00:13:14] go into this war, uh Maggie [00:13:18] says the head of the CIA, the head of the State Department, [00:13:21] uh numerous other advisors, including [00:13:26] segments from the Pentagon simply said no, this idea [00:13:29] you are presenting, this idea he is presenting, [00:13:33] this will not work, this will not go well, however [00:13:37] Trump for some reason decided to go with Benjamin Netanyahu's idea [00:13:41] and went into all this that he went into and now we have the whole [00:13:45] situation that we have, what can [00:13:48] happen, tell [00:13:51] me, finish, finish, I had a comment, never mind, just finish... what [00:13:55] can happen, you said? What [00:13:57] can happen is that [00:14:00] even those who were [00:14:03] confident within the Republican Party, candidates [00:14:07] he supported, but also candidates he did not [00:14:09] support, will lose the elections precisely because of what [00:14:13] Carlson and others are saying, who have now started to wash [00:14:17] their hands of him, and then the situation will be much, much harder for Republicans [00:14:20] than they expect at this moment, even in those [00:14:24] federal states... that were not red [00:14:27] but ultra-red to now turn purple [00:14:31] or blue, meaning to fall into the hands of Democrats. [00:14:34] Esmire, now while we were talking [00:14:37] there were shots from Gaza. [00:14:41] Um, the example is, or rather, the ceasefire has been in effect since October [00:14:44] of last year, however, Israel [00:14:47] has broken that ceasefire and [00:14:51] agreements dozens and hundreds of times, [00:14:54] in recent days we have also witnessed new attacks, [00:14:58] new civilian casualties, renewed shelling of tent [00:15:02] settlements, refugee [00:15:04] camps - a war that has been going on for three and a [00:15:08] half years now, what I'm interested in [00:15:11] uh, pardon me, not three and a half [00:15:14] years, I was, I was wrong, two and a half [00:15:18] years, m, what I'm interested in, [00:15:21] uh, can this agreement with Iran? And [00:15:25] since the war with Iran is certainly part of this broader story that [00:15:28] it falls into, which in a way also started with the war against [00:15:32] Gaza and all the conflicts in the Middle East that resulted from [00:15:36] it, especially if we take into account that Iran, Hamas, [00:15:39] Hezbollah, and also the Houthis in Yemen are part of that axis [00:15:43] of resistance, do you think that, whatever the [00:15:46] outcome of this war against Iran, there will somehow [00:15:50] be room to regulate the situation [00:15:53] in Gaza, and then in Lebanon, let's not [00:15:56] forget that part either. [00:16:00] Ah, Lebanon is another [00:16:02] thing, Lebanon will be a little harder to resolve when it comes to [00:16:06] Gaza, Gaza. is at this moment a victim [00:16:09] of uh internal politics in Israel and [00:16:12] the struggle for dominance [00:16:15] between Netanyahu and his right-wing coalition and the opposition, [00:16:19] the elections are on October 27th. [00:16:22] Um, in those elections Benjamin Netanyahu [00:16:25] is seeking to politically survive, on [00:16:28] the other hand, we are waiting to see what the [00:16:31] opposition will do, because for example Gadi Eizenkot, a former general, [00:16:35] former chief of staff who leads the opposition, [00:16:38] or rather the strongest bloc in the opposition, it seems to me [00:16:41] is sending some messages that he might be ready to discuss [00:16:44] a certain solution, however we heard uh Bennet, [00:16:48] Naftali Bennet, the former prime minister or co-prime minister, whatever [00:16:51] you call him, who uh said a few days ago, there's no [00:16:55] chance of us having a two-state solution, meaning that [00:16:58] a Palestinian state would be established in the Middle East, so here [00:17:01] we have a situation now in which [00:17:04] simply that Gaza will remain to be... [00:17:07] resolved for a long time, and what I have already said and will repeat [00:17:11] again, two people, Vitkov and Kushner, um [00:17:15] cannot resolve three, four, five [00:17:18] mm crises that we currently have and they cannot negotiate all of that [00:17:22] and know what is happening and resolve all of it, Richard Holbrooke wouldn't [00:17:26] have succeeded, let alone those two who do not come from diplomacy at all, if [00:17:29] we could clone the late Holbrooke now and [00:17:33] make five copies, that would be enough to solve everything [00:17:37] in these few crises or [00:17:40] uh to bring up another of the old diplomats who could [00:17:44] solve it, however when it comes to Gaza, it seems [00:17:48] to me that they don't have an idea how to do it, because now we see that even that [00:17:51] stabilization force has not been formed, some alleged [00:17:54] pilot project is starting that should be the basis for something [00:17:58] that could be done, this whole story about [00:18:01] disarming Hamas is completely uh [00:18:05] interesting, because they say, for example, we won't disarm, but [00:18:08] we'll, I don't know, leave the weapons somewhere on the side, that practically [00:18:12] means, we'll put them in a container and if we happen to need [00:18:16] them, we'll take them, we also heard that Muhammad Dahlan, who is [00:18:19] the former head of security in Gaza until 2011, [00:18:23] has joined the whole story, he left [00:18:27] uh those areas and lives in Dubai, he has [00:18:30] close contacts with Sheikh Al-Nahyan and [00:18:33] Aleksandar Vučić, who said that Hamas will transform [00:18:37] into a political organization, that's exactly like [00:18:40] Hezbollah, where you have a political party that has [00:18:44] an armed wing, precisely because of that I say that Lebanon will be difficult [00:18:47] to resolve, but Hamas is already a political organization and [00:18:50] in power, well yes, but now it would [00:18:54] become even stronger or perhaps more structured than it was, because [00:18:58] until now it was more that they were uh [00:19:01] a militant organization with a political wing, and now they would [00:19:04] be a political organization with a military [00:19:08] wing, something like the IRA in Northern [00:19:11] Ireland or Hezbollah in Lebanon, and precisely because of that [00:19:14] I say Lebanon will be harder to resolve because the Lebanese state is not [00:19:18] strong enough, the army is not strong enough to deal with [00:19:22] Hezbollah, and because of the internal political [00:19:25] structure, Hezbollah is important to them in a political sense, so [00:19:29] there are many elements that intertwine [00:19:32] with each other, so there will be many things that [00:19:36] will be difficult to resolve, and Trump here absolutely does not [00:19:39] use those classic negotiating uh [00:19:42] principles and models that were once used, but tries [00:19:46] to solve such complex things with threats, social [00:19:50] media posts and so on, which ultimately [00:19:53] ends up like this, as it ended with Ukraine, with Gaza, with [00:19:56] everything else, for for the end, Esmire, [00:20:00] in the past few days last week [00:20:03] Ceuta, this whole situation [00:20:06] Morocco, Spain, so this Spanish [00:20:09] territory on [00:20:12] to which tens of thousands of migrants from [00:20:16] Morocco landed, they were mostly [00:20:19] returned, it seems to me that there are still [00:20:23] 100 minors, people, [00:20:25] how many 2,500 people with some [00:20:29] 800 minors, there you go, I have [00:20:32] 1, all right, those are the numbers, however, what interests me [00:20:36] more is this geopolitical [00:20:40] aspect of this whole story, in the past few days there have been [00:20:43] opinions and comments, and even analyses, [00:20:47] that this is something that could [00:20:50] have been orchestrated, that this is something that could, could [00:20:53] have been part of some strategy [00:20:57] of destabilizing Spain, raising [00:21:00] some issues in the European [00:21:03] Union itself, some blame Israel and [00:21:07] the United States for this, let's remember that Donald [00:21:10] Trump himself threatened Spain - [00:21:14] partly because of Spain's refusal to allow their [00:21:16] territory and US bases there to be used for attacks on Iran. "And [00:21:20] on the other hand, we also know that Spain is perhaps [00:21:23] the loudest European and one of the main countries [00:21:26] in the world that opposes Israeli policy and [00:21:30] wars primarily against [00:21:31] Gaza? [00:21:34] Is there a possibility that this was a hybrid action of some hybrid [00:21:37] operation, yes, there could have been Iranians, Israelis [00:21:41] and Americans and anyone [00:21:44] else currently involved in the geopolitical scene, however, what is interesting to me in the European..." [00:21:47] zanimljivo evropskoj..." [00:21:50] political space, the first ones who came [00:21:53] out to criticize Sanchez and Sanchez's [00:21:56] policies were people who expect [00:22:00] elections next year, Giorgia Meloni in Italy, [00:22:03] AfD in Germany, Le Pen [00:22:06] and Bardella in France, practically [00:22:09] they want to use this story to raise [00:22:12] tensions, to scare people, to [00:22:15] say, look, we still have a migrant influx, only we [00:22:19] can... protect you from [00:22:21] this migrant influx, for example, Giorgia Meloni said [00:22:25] that Schengen should be suspended, Spain should be [00:22:28] banned this or that, no one [00:22:31] reminded that Giorgia Meloni had the idea [00:22:35] to move migrants from Italy [00:22:37] to Albania, to give them to Edi Rama, [00:22:41] so that Edi Rama deals with them until they get a court [00:22:45] decision on what to do with those emigrants, on the other hand [00:22:49] we have... uh, this stirring up against [00:22:52] Sanchez, because of course, they hope [00:22:55] that now either PP Feijóo will come to [00:22:58] power or some combination of Feijóo and [00:23:02] Vox will come to power, so then the far right will be in power in Spain, which [00:23:05] would suit them better at this [00:23:08] uh moment, because the claim that came from [00:23:12] both Giorgia Meloni and others that [00:23:15] they attacked the European [00:23:19] continent was completely absurd. "None of these [00:23:22] migrants crossed into Spain, they all remained in Africa, [00:23:26] and as you yourself said, they were all returned to Morocco, so this was more of a political, [00:23:30] let's say, game instead of concern for those people [00:23:33] and for Europeans living within the European [00:23:36] Union, this will probably be used in the coming period, did [00:23:40] Trump try to do something against [00:23:43] Sanchez, I wouldn't be surprised if he really did, because [00:23:46] we saw in Ankara that he was spewing fire [00:23:50] against Sanchez and before that at the NATO summit [00:23:54] and before that, so possibilities [00:23:57] for everything exist, although I think this was [00:24:01] a bit of a combination [00:24:03] of that Sanchez's law on legalizing [00:24:06] migrants and some uh [00:24:10] campaign that was waged on social media for people [00:24:14] to try to cross there, traffickers tried [00:24:17] to sell this as a good [00:24:20] idea, however, that program was long [00:24:24] over, so there's nothing left of that, and many realized, [00:24:27] okay, we were deceived and well, let's go back, what can [00:24:30] we do now, Sanchez of course has his own problems [00:24:33] within the party and society and everything else, but he also [00:24:37] has elections coming up, so we'll see how [00:28:37] And the press this morning, I'm going through it with my colleague Jasmin Klarić from [00:28:41] the telegram.hr portal. We will now look at some of [00:28:45] the headlines in our media today, and then we will comment [00:29:00] paper, the new paper. the headline is [00:29:04] veterans do not want to be associated with former regimes, but [00:29:07] with the truth. That was said in Knin by Croatian veteran Robert [00:29:11] Puja demands that the role of veterans be valued [00:29:14] exclusively through the truth of the Homeland War and that they [00:29:18] should never be identified with any [00:29:21] past regime. on the front page of the new [00:29:25] paper also tourist season, here they say [00:29:28] that the season in Kvarner is at least saved by domestic [00:29:31] Central European guests and that July is still in the black, [00:29:35] i.e. that 3% more tourists arrived than [00:29:39] last year, if we go further, Večernji [00:29:42] list, here on the front page is definitely [00:29:45] the celebration of Operation Storm and [00:29:48] the news that even temperatures above 40 did not prevent [00:29:51] people from coming to the celebration in Knin, here is also [00:29:55] the news that citizens owe 11 billion [00:29:58] euros in the most riskiest consumer [00:30:01] loans. "We can also comment on that a little, [00:30:05] here are the topics that Kiev was left without defense and since [00:30:08] Trump hesitates with air defense, [00:30:12] i.e. the Patriot system, here is the topic that [00:30:16] we followed today, when rivers dry up, i.e. that the Krško [00:30:20] nuclear power plant started reducing the power of the reactor due to [00:30:23] fear related to the Sava river, let's move [00:30:27] on to the Jutarnji list, we already dealt with this topic [00:30:30] today, that is the promise of Andrej Plenković [00:30:33] that there will be higher pensions for [00:30:37] 200,000 veterans, we don't know [00:30:40] what exactly kind of package it is, here they say in [00:30:44] Jutarnji list that the government in June rejected a similar model that was [00:30:47] proposed, we can, we had Damir Bakić from Možemo today [00:30:51] and we just discussed this topic, and here is also this [00:30:54] interesting fact the consequence [00:30:56] of the drought that actually the Danube in recent days.