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00:00:11There's of lots of speculation that the U.S. will conduct a short,
00:00:15intense renewal
00:00:16of the Iran war after the US mid-term elections this
00:00:20week, that's on November 3. John,
00:00:24why would Trump do so given that the overwhelmingly unpopular
00:00:27war, and it's been that way, before February 28,
00:00:31why would he do so when the unpopular war
00:00:35of helps explain um why the Republicans
00:00:38and Donald Trump himself are so
00:00:41in unpopular?
00:00:42of well, it's not clear that he will actually attack Iran
00:00:46even after the elections,
00:00:50lots of people have said that we have no military
00:00:54option here, and a three-day bombing campaign
00:00:58is not going to accomplish with a full 40 day bombing campaign did not
00:01:02of accomplish at the beginning of this conflict, and if you listen to
00:01:06number
00:01:07of the people around him, Scott Bessent for example,
00:01:10they're not interested in
00:01:12a going to war. Bessant wants to rely on economic
00:01:16strangulation and the blockade is the best way to defeat
00:01:20of Iran, because Besson surely understands
00:01:23a there is no military option here, so it's not clear
00:01:27he'll go, but if he does go... "it will
00:01:31not uh have a
00:01:32in happy ending as the Iranians have made clear to
00:01:36him, and is, I would say most analysts
00:01:40in the west now understand, we
00:01:43of just say these th these wave of strikes do take place,
00:01:47as many media outlets are publishing stories in the course
00:01:51of the last week, that's what they're suggesting, what many people in Washington see as an
00:01:55increasingly weak regime in Tehran, could these
00:01:58strikes muscle them to the?" " negotiating table and make more
00:02:02concessions, well tom, they're at the negotiating table, they're actually
00:02:06at the table right now, they
00:02:07a were at the table september when they were at the
00:02:10UN, I don't think Trump
00:02:14is necessarily looking for concessions as much as
00:02:18he's looking for capitulation, and I don't see capitulation in the
00:02:22of cards at all, and as John correctly pointed out, there's really
00:02:26no good reason to believe that the next round.
00:02:30produce things dramatically different from what the first round and the second
00:02:34round failed to produce, and when you take a look at the second round, it's really
00:02:37astonishing to me, what on earth was that? there was no new
00:02:41strategy,
00:02:42no new target system, no new thinking,
00:02:47of of nothing, but nevertheless us went back at something that had already proven to be a
00:02:50failure, so I fear that
00:02:52of if there is a third round, there's a likelihood that Trump will do
00:02:55exactly what he has said he would do, and
00:02:58of what the Israelis have been very... explicit, which is
00:03:01of to go after infrastructure, critical infrastructure, energy
00:03:05of infrastructure,
00:03:06in and hope that that one way or
00:03:08in another will bring the government to its knees, I very much
00:03:11of doubt it,
00:03:12of because the messaging from the Iranian side has
00:03:15been really quite remarkable in the sense
00:03:19that they longer, meaning that in this type of scenario they will not respect any type
00:03:23of red lines, they're saying that there is no geographic
00:03:26limitations to the war any longer and and they make... It's
00:03:30a very clear that they will strike at Europe as well if Europe ends
00:03:34of up providing logistical support for
00:03:36of the of United States, so I think both sides are now really gone to the
00:03:40brink
00:03:40of the abys, making the most
00:03:44aggressive
00:03:45of threats that we've seen so far, and right now they are still
00:03:48talking each other indirectly in Doha to see if there
00:03:52is a possibility to walk it back, because reality is it
00:03:56will be an absolute lose, lose, lose. "if the
00:04:00United States and Trump goes, if the United States and Trump
00:04:04of goes forward with this third round in that manner, the only potential
00:04:08winner, at least in their own minds, I don't think ultimately will be good for them either, but in
00:04:12their own minds, are these Israelis and particularly
00:04:15the the current prime minister whose future of course is uncertain at this
00:04:18point. John, Treta, I, I
00:04:22think if this plays itself out in terms of
00:04:26real escalation, you get a real war, I think the Iranians win."
00:04:30uh, I think it will devastate uh, what's left
00:04:34of the American military infrastructure in the region, uh,
00:04:38will inflict great damage uh, on the Arab
00:04:42states, their allied with the United States,
00:04:45uh, and uh, this will work to
00:04:49Iran's advantage, uh, and I would just add to
00:04:53that, that it'll do significant damage, if not grave damage to the
00:04:56international economy. You want to remember that the Iranian.
00:05:00of are talking about tearing up those seven internet
00:05:03of cables that run underneath the Persian
00:05:05of Gulf, they're talking about going after 20 trillion dollars worth of
00:05:09data centers in the region, they're telling the... americans who
00:05:13seem to want to hit pet pickax mountain that if
00:05:17we hit pickaxe mountain they're going to hit demona.
00:05:21the Iranians are playing hard ball here. i think what's happened trida is the
00:05:24Iranians have figured out more and more as time goes by
00:05:28that they have much more leverage than they realized at the
00:05:32beginning of this war. and my view is that if a war
00:05:36actually breaks out and we have serious set of
00:05:39exchanges between the two sides, the Iranians will... end up
00:05:43on the winning side, are they going to suffer a lot of damage? yes they
00:05:46are, but are they the point? that's the point, that's
00:05:50the on, they absolutely have that confidence
00:05:54that at the end the day if it comes to this, they believe that
00:05:58they will fair better uh than the United States because of tremendous
00:06:02damage they will do to the US, US bases,
00:06:05uh, US ships, this time around, there's a debate going on in Ivan in which
00:06:09the criticism that the Ivans didn't strike at the... american warships
00:06:13in the Persian Gulf or outside the Persian Gulf, they claim to have the
00:06:16technology, there's a high likelihood that they do have the technology, and they probably
00:06:20could have sunk a couple of American warships, they didn't go that uh far
00:06:24in the previous rounds, and there's some elements inside of Ivan that criticizes the
00:06:28governor for not having done so, so I I do agree with you that there will be a
00:06:32tremendous amount of damage, but I think it's important to recognize the Iranians are
00:06:36not looking forward to this, they're not opting for this because they
00:06:40recognize that they too will suffer. tremendous tremendous
00:06:43costs in such a war, so for instance,
00:06:47last weekend the Israelis actually breached Iranian
00:06:50airspace, and the Iranians chose not to
00:06:53respond, and incidentally there were also two attacks in Tabris against
00:06:57radar sites, they still didn't respond, and the only explanation I can
00:07:01see and based on conversations I've had is that they viewed it as a
00:07:04trap, that this was something the Israelis were doing, they were hoping for the
00:07:08Iranians to respond and by that force Trump's hand and make sure.
00:07:12that there would be a third round and even if the Iranians believe that they will do better than
00:07:16the US and it
00:07:17it will still be tremendously costly for them and this
00:07:21is I think also very important aspect from the Israeli
00:07:24standpoint the way they're looking at these things is that
00:07:28they're not looking at strategic victories in the same way that the US
00:07:32is, instead they're just looking at the tally of how much things have
00:07:36been damaged in Iran and how far Iran has been set back in
00:07:40years, the Israeli for... defense ministry on Israeli TV
00:07:44said that we're going to set them back to the stone age or at least 40 years
00:07:48in this next round, and I think this reflects very important
00:07:52difference between the US and Israel, frankly most countries in Israel, the
00:07:56Israelis look at the images the massive destruction in
00:07:59Gaza, and in that they see victory, they see
00:08:02strategic strategic achievement, the rest the world just sees
00:08:05horror and and meaningless destruction, even Benny Guns
00:08:09in his 2018 campaign video. showed
00:08:13images the destruction he had inflicted in Gaza, and then this
00:08:17is supposed to be one the more dovish people in the
00:08:21Israeli political
00:08:21spectrum.
00:08:26destruction and the manner that you said countries back years is the
00:08:30strategic objective. I've never seen any American official or
00:08:33military personnel look at or show images of destruction in
00:08:37Mosul and used a metric of American success, but the
00:08:41Israelis do this. and as result they will happily welcome
00:08:45any such confrontation, even if the Iranians inflict more damage on the
00:08:49US than the US inflicts on Iran, it will nevertheless set
00:08:52Iran back decades, and that's a win for the Israelies.
00:08:56John, well, I think that if
00:09:00you have major conflict along the lines that we're
00:09:04describing, it will do enormous damage to
00:09:08Israel as well as to the United States as well as
00:09:12to... Iran: the international economy is going to be
00:09:15badly damaged and Israel is integrated into the
00:09:19international economy as is the United States. uh,
00:09:23furthermore, the Iranians will go to great lengths to
00:09:26target uh oil infrastructure, maybe even nuclear
00:09:30infrastructure inside of Israel, they will punish
00:09:34Israel greatly. Israel will not get off Scott Frey
00:09:38if the Israelis and the Americans attack Iran.
00:09:42"the more general point that I would make Treta is that it's important
00:09:46to understand that from Iran's point of view they are up against the mortal
00:09:49enemy, they're up against the United States and Israel, which are
00:09:53bent on destroying Iran, and the only way you deal with
00:09:57adversaries like the United States and Israel, as
00:10:01you is that you play hard ball, you have no choice, and if you
00:10:05have to go to the brink, you go to the brick, but the idea that you can
00:10:09negotiate in Doha and you can convince the United States and Israelis
00:10:13to give you a sweetheart deal or deal that's kind of okay,
00:10:17i just don't think it works that way. if you don't play hard wall
00:10:21now, they'll come back at you later. so i think the Iranians have.
00:10:25deep-seated interest in making United States and
00:10:28Israel pay a significant price, if they can do that without a
00:10:32war, all for the better, but they have to make
00:10:36Israel and the United States pay a real price to get the
00:10:40kind of deal they need to make something happen like the
00:10:43memorandum of understanding of 17
00:10:46June. Let's
00:10:48talk, so
00:10:51uh clearly they are playing hard ball, what the rec'. Izing
00:10:55the John is that um the cost so
00:10:59far on the US, setting aside what
00:11:03Trump may or may not do right now, given
00:11:05the fact that Trump is too heavily invested in this and he doesn't have the ability
00:11:09of recognizing when he really should stop, is that I find it
00:11:13very unlikely that any future American president
00:11:17will think about a war with Iran again and make
00:11:20you know empty, needless threats
00:11:24against Iran. militarily as we have seen almost every previous American
00:11:27m president do, so I think the Iranians see that
00:11:31already having been achieved, but you're quite right, they going to play very hard ball and they clearly are
00:11:35right now in Doha as well, with Israelies it's very different and you and I
00:11:39had that conversation in another podcast after the June war in
00:11:43which again the Iranians did afflict a lot of pain on the Israelis
00:11:46and many thought that as result the Israelies wouldn't go at Iran again and
00:11:50my argument was on the contrary, it's precisely because the Iranians and for that that
00:11:54these... would go back to war with Ivan, because they want to live a neighborhood in
00:11:58which no one will be able to have any type of deterrance against
00:12:02Israel. Israel's ability to be secure is for everyone else to be
00:12:06insecure, and as long as Trump is still in the white house,
00:12:09which has that level of control, which may only be till
00:12:12January depending on what happens on Tuesday, I think the Israelis will continue to push for
00:12:16that war, and particularly if the prime minister's name is Netanyahu, he certainly will, not to
00:12:20say that the others will be dramatically different, but he has a
00:12:24particular. drive for this issue, so I think he will continue to
00:12:28push, and again the Israelis you're quite right, they suffer too, and
00:12:32they will certainly suffer, and they have had massive military
00:12:35censorships that doesn't allow us
00:12:37to see what they actually suffered, but their calculation is, if they don't suffer now,
00:12:41they'll suffer more down the road, much more, if the Iranians are
00:12:45allowed to be major power in region. the
00:12:49Iranian, mean the israelis can push all they want, their
00:12:52situation does not improve. move over
00:12:55time, the Israelis are in deep
00:12:59trouble, Iran has an incredibly formidable
00:13:03array of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and
00:13:06drones, and that array is only going to get more potent
00:13:10with time. furthermore, in terms the nuclear issue, there's no
00:13:13evidence you're going to get settlement on the nuclear issue anytime soon,
00:13:17and further more, the Iranians have very powerful
00:13:21incentives to acquire nuclear weapons their own. Say...
00:13:25point I'd make to you is you're saying that the Iranians,
00:13:29given what's happened so far, are a very good
00:13:32position, because it's means that any
00:13:36future president
00:13:37the United States will not attack Iran down the
00:13:41road the way President Trump did on February 28th, that's correct, but the
00:13:44Iranians have a bigger set of goals than just preventing the United
00:13:48States from attacking, they want the sanctions taken off, they want
00:13:52reparations, they want their... frozen assets
00:13:56return, they want American military forces out the region. You know
00:14:00what's in the 17 June memorandum of understanding, that's their
00:14:04list of demands, and the question is, what do they have to do to
00:14:08realize almost all of those demands? And the answer is,
00:14:11they have to play hard ball if they want to achieve those
00:14:15goals. Let's talk about the uh negotiations in
00:14:19Doha, because all this comes a time when we hear that the vice president
00:14:22J.D. Vance uh has written. directly to a senior Iranian
00:14:26security official, i think he was a former commander the the
00:14:30revolutionary guards and vances proposing these
00:14:33negotiations, comprehensive peace negotiations, which raises the question
00:14:37to what extent is the administration in Washington
00:14:40divided over this issue,
00:14:42I mean John earlier mentioned the treasury secretary Scott Beson
00:14:46preferring to keep in place the naval blockade design to strangle the
00:14:49Iranian regime, you've obviously got Vance, apparently was against the war from the
00:14:53outset, he was a supporter of... the memorandum of understanding, to
00:14:57what extent does this show that Washington itself or the administration
00:15:01itself is divided on how to deal with Iran, increasing the
00:15:05strikes or peace negotiations treater, I think I think
00:15:09it's a very important question, you're asking Tom and far more important than the question that
00:15:13oftentimes is asked, which is how divided is Iran, and Iran has its
00:15:17divisions, but it's been very clear on this issue and this iteration of
00:15:21it, that the divisions are far deeper on the American side '
00:15:25"I don't think Rubio ever was in favor of any the negotiations, I
00:15:29don't, it doesn't fit with his long pass a neocon to want to
00:15:33have any kind of deal with Iran. I think we saw very clearly how aggressively..."
00:15:37acted against the MOU as soon as it was signed, both pressing the
00:15:41GCC to go along adopt a position on the straight that
00:15:45was simply not workable and simultaneously striking this
00:15:48trilateral agreement between Israel, the United States and Lebanon that
00:15:52completely contradicted Mou. I think Bestant has always been
00:15:56far more favorable towards these kind of economic warfare, although we
00:16:00know very clearly economic warfare has tendency to far
00:16:04more likely lead to military warfare than to anything else. uh and then of
00:16:08course you have Hegset and others who have also been more on the hawker side.
00:16:11Vans is one the few inside that has really been willing to be major
00:16:15champion for diplomacy. I think what they're seeing now though is
00:16:19that again this is not going to be around one or around two, this is going
00:16:23to be something far far more um devastating that we've seen
00:16:27before, and I think it has caused a lot of different people in the administration to have some
00:16:31pause. I think the fundamental problem though is with Trump himself.
00:16:35Trump is looking for some think that still will turn this into a
00:16:39win and I don't think that simply is in the cars any longer. Yeah, John,
00:16:42these deep divisions in the administration that we're talking about here, what do you make of
00:16:46that? I mean, doesn't that hurt any prospect of getting
00:16:50revised memorandum of understanding, which presumably vance
00:16:53once? Yes, but this supports my point that I was making
00:16:57against Trita before,
00:16:59that this is why the Iranians have to play hard ball, you can't trust the
00:17:03Americans. Yeah, yeah.
00:17:07disagree on that point, the point is is not that whether they should or
00:17:11shouldn't play hard ball, they clearly are playing hard ball. the question though, i
00:17:15think is do you want to play hard ball because
00:17:19you want to go to a third round because the calculation that Iran will do
00:17:23better in that third round of war, or do you want to play hard ball because you
00:17:26want to get deal that ensures that there is no third round in the first place and that you
00:17:30secure all of your other interests. my point is that even if the
00:17:34Iranians believe that they will do better in the US in the third round. "all
00:17:37evidence shows that they're not looking for that type of a third round, they know very
00:17:41well that it will be devastating for them as well, and as
00:17:44resultting table right now rather than to win atting table right
00:17:48now rather than to win at the uh battlefield.
00:17:52John, I think Trita, the
00:17:55Iranians would prefer to get new
00:17:59version the June 17th memorandum of
00:18:02understanding without going to war, and I think that's an effect what
00:18:06you're saying." "and I agree with that, maybe they'll get
00:18:10it, I think the administration is getting cold feet, and at the same
00:18:14time I do think the administration is increasingly
00:18:17desperate, so they may win without, the
00:18:21Iranians may win without a war, but my point is,
00:18:25if that doesn't happen, then going to war is better than
00:18:28not going to war, because I think from Rand's point of
00:18:32view, you have to understand that they are
00:18:36facing an exercise." central threat, they are dealing with two
00:18:40states that have genocidal intentions towards them. President Trump
00:18:44has made this manifestly clear on more than one occasion, and all you have to
00:18:48do is look at what the Israelis are doing in Gaza, what they're doing in southern
00:18:51Lebanon to realize that you're dealing with a genocidal
00:18:55state, so from Rand's point of view, you're in the driver's
00:18:58seat now, and you want to take full advantage of
00:19:02that, you want to make sure you get the best deal possible,
00:19:06you want to protect your... yourself over the long term, this is not in
00:19:10America's interest, it's not in Israel's interest, but what we're trying to do
00:19:13here is strategize from Iran's point of view, and I think the
00:19:17Iranians are to play hard ball from their own point of view
00:19:21now and moving forward. We want to make
00:19:25it very clear here for our viewers, because we often talk
00:19:29amongst each other, assuming that everyone knows what we're talking about, when we're
00:19:33talking about the issue of trust, I think this is key issue just to just to
00:19:36elaborate. because you're both arguing
00:19:40that Tehan has good reason not to trust anything Washington does, and the
00:19:44history here is important, it's not just the American
00:19:48withdraw from the Iranian nuclear deal
00:19:52that
00:19:52was signed in 2015 and that was withdrawn in 2018, that's one
00:19:55thing, but it was the US decision
00:19:58and
00:20:01negotiations on
00:20:03two occasions, so that was February this year and...
00:20:07last year, am I raten sign that?
00:20:11definitely, there's no question, the Iranians were, the
00:20:15Iranians were negotiating in good faith, and the
00:20:19Israelis and the Americans launched two pearl harbor
00:20:22attacks, or the equivalent of two pearl harbor
00:20:25attacks on the Iranians, look, I'm a realist,
00:20:29I don't believe that you place much emphasis on trust under any
00:20:33circumstances, I'm with Ronald Ray on this one.
00:20:37aside Iranians case the
00:20:46the but trust putting rhetoric the I in would in use in you want to assume worse case in.
00:20:50every instance when you're dealing with these two adversaries, yeah, I just
00:20:54thought I'd make that clear, because uh, this often gets lost on people, I was at
00:20:58the pub the other day talking to people who followed the subject in very general terms,
00:21:01they had no idea that the United States had actually attacked Iran during
00:21:05negotiations,
00:21:06and I just think that's very important to recognize, John,
00:21:08meanwile, it's a testament
00:21:12of how badly mainstream media is
00:21:16handling this issue, because in the conversation, the mainstream media,
00:21:20it is deliberately overlooked over and over again, and you can have
00:21:24questions being asked, but why should the United States trust Iran? which is not
00:21:28an unfair question in of itself, but a context in
00:21:32which the United States and Israel have twice attacked Iran in the midst of
00:21:35negotiations, the only deal that ever has been signed between the United States
00:21:39and Iran was one in which the US betrayed it and walked out of it,
00:21:43then that question then is just completely out of place, but the reverse of it
00:21:47is almost never asked, and that's why ordinary people following this from the pub
00:21:51will never be fully informed of what the actual situation is, and i John,
00:21:55you're shock
00:21:55to hear that? yeah, I mean, I often make the point that
00:21:59Iran, since it's been created as a modern nation
00:22:02state, has never initiated a
00:22:06war against another state. Israel, on the other
00:22:10hand, is one the most aggressive states in recorded history, and
00:22:14with regard to the subject of genocide, last time I checked, there
00:22:17is zero evidence that... Iran has ever committed a
00:22:21genocide, but we have watched the Israelis commit a
00:22:25genocide in Gaza. Yeah, if you ask the average
00:22:28person on the street in the west, who are the good guys and who are the bad
00:22:32guys, they would tell you the Israelis are the good guys and the Iranians are
00:22:36the bad guys. Why? because as you said, Tom, this is the
00:22:40way our mainstream media deals with facts in this
00:22:43day and age. Yeah, I mean, the media response or the
00:22:47conventional wisdom would respond by saying that, the Iranian shia
00:22:51militia have committed horrible abuses in
00:22:54say um uh Iraq when they were fighting the
00:22:58suni jihadists that's that's and that you know the
00:23:01Iranian sha militia are the major source of terrorism in the middle
00:23:05east that's that's what I would say to you all treat a
00:23:09deal with this uh look there are Iranian supported
00:23:13militias in Iraq that have been involved in all kinds of atrocities the
00:23:17idea that they would be the main source. of
00:23:20terrorism, it's just factually wrong, when you take a look at
00:23:24the American victim, let's just take a look at the American victims
00:23:28of terrorism, it is overwhelming, I mean we're
00:23:32talking about 99% coming from jihadi groups that
00:23:36are falling into the sunni bracket of course, they not Iranian
00:23:39b yeah, one way or another related to
00:23:42al-qaeda, groups that have been supported by American
00:23:46allies and funded by American allies such as Saudi Arabia.
00:23:50'm administration revealed that the seed money to al-qaeda came from Saudi
00:23:54Arabia and of course we have seen massive intervention by the US
00:23:57government any trials and court cases in which the family
00:24:01members the 9/11 survivors have put forward to try to get to the
00:24:05bottom of what was Saudi Arabia's role in all of this and the
00:24:09executive branch is using its privilege to intervene in those cases national
00:24:12security grounds so we're not even allowed to fully know what the full
00:24:16content of that support lack of support whatever the role was'. "if there's
00:24:20nothing to hide, I would assume that it would be pretty easy for them to allow the allow
00:24:24these members the families the victims of 9/11 to be able
00:24:28to get their justice in court. Just on this
00:24:32note, um, in 2014, 2015, at the height the Obama
00:24:35administrations war on the Islamic
00:24:38State, this policy to degrade and destroy the
00:24:42Sunni fundamentalists known as Islamic State. A school
00:24:45of thought says that the only way the Americans could really be..."
00:24:50effective in that coalition against
00:24:52ISIS was not through the air
00:24:55campaign but because it
00:24:58was the Iranian backed militia that did the dirty work on the
00:25:01ground against the sunni jihadists. fair point? it's
00:25:05absolutely correct. mean look, the iraqi defense minister
00:25:09himself said that once isis took
00:25:12mosul and the fear in Baghdad was that within a day or
00:25:16two they would have rushed and taken baghdad as well and he believed that they would have.
00:25:20succeeded, the first amount of aid came directly
00:25:24from the Iranians, no questions asked, they were sending munitions,
00:25:27weapons etc. and according to the Iraqi defense minister, had it
00:25:31not been for the Iranian intervention, bag would have fallen to ISIS as well, and
00:25:35if isis had taken back that, the whole course of that conflict could have taken a
00:25:39completely different direction. yeah, John, isn't that interesting, you really hear that
00:25:43analysis in the mainstream media? this is hardly
00:25:47surprising, tom, the mainstream media gives a completely
00:25:50distorted view of middle east politics, it gives us a completely
00:25:54distorted view the Ukraine war. it's just the way things
00:25:58are in the west, and anybody who challenges uh...
00:26:02"these narratives gets lamb-basted for being Putin's
00:26:06puppet uh or for being anti-Israel or anti-semitic or
00:26:10what have you? it's really kind of crazy. one the principal reasons the
00:26:13United States is in so much trouble on the foreign policy front
00:26:17is because it's impossible to have rational legal debate
00:26:20inside the United States, and by the way, it's impossible to have rational
00:26:24legal debate inside Europe today about the Ukraine
00:26:28war. anybody who disagrees with the conventional war
00:26:32uh..." The conventional wisdom uh is sent to the
00:26:34Ghullock.
00:27:09The clamor of
00:27:10life,
00:27:15seclusion and thought,
00:27:19and untold mysteries of a
00:27:21man, an
00:27:25erodite scholar from the
00:27:27east.
00:27:45a bridge between eastern and western
00:27:47thoughts, علامه
00:27:51یقبال
00:27:51لاحوری.
00:29:19Headlines on Press TV, the IRGC says two oil tankers have
00:29:23caught fire in the straight of Ormoz after attempting to cross the
00:29:27unauthorized routes and striking sea
00:29:28mines. a
00:29:32US media report that Vice President JD Vans is seeking to build new
00:29:36political alliance with deact with deactivate support of President
00:29:40Donald Trump following Republicans humiliates and defeat in the
00:29:44midterms and Palestinian officials says
00:29:48thousands of patients at risk of losing their lives in Gaza as
00:29:52Israeli restrictions prevents them from receiving treatment outside the
00:29:56territory.
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