NEWS ON IRAN 8-3-26

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Arab countries told him to back down a little bit. And Iran comes out, public queen says, what are you talking about? I don't know talks. We're winning or something. Iran said money that there weren't any talks underway with the U.S. nor were any meetings planned after President Trump said he called off a major strike on the country to provide more time for negotiations on freeing up traffic in the Strait of Form moves. Trump said over the weekend that he had prepared to green light what he described as the biggest military attack since World War II before America's allies intervened. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman rejected Trump's suggestion that talks were underway, noting that Iran hadn't sent any delegations or negotiators to take part in any discussions. He said all of Iran's negotiators were still in the country. with exceptions of foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, who was visiting a religious site in Iraq. So Trump comes out in a social media post Monday. He described Iran's leadership as unbelievably duplicitous, saying that he had asked for talks and ending the war and then announced that no discussions were being held. He said nothing's getting through to Iran unless we want it to and nothing will get through unless a deal or total surrender is accomplished. That's what Trump said. Now, over the weekend, Trump talked about why he decided to have, I don't know what to call it anymore, Project Pause 2, the sequel. Here's what he said. We're ready to go. By rather make a deal, I'm not looking to kill me. Saudi Arabia, UAE, and by Qatar, and by Iran. We were all set to go. We had an attack that would be the biggest attack since World War II, and it would have been disastrous with them. By the way, for all the people that called Trump like a megalomaniac Hitler or something, He is not acting like one when it comes to Iran, not even close. Now, Marco Rubio also talked about it. He's our Secretary of State. Here's what he said. yesterday. I don't think the Iranian regime has ever faced a president like President Trump, which is someone that actually takes action. You know, they got used to for 20 or 30 years, not just the U.S., but the broader world, allowing them to get away with things like lying, breaking deals, tricking people into agreements and so forth. In this particular case, it's pretty straightforward. Iran wants a nuclear weapon, and they were building a conventional missile shield. They were going to hide behind. In essence, they wanted to be in a position a year and a half from now to be able to say, we have so many drones and so many missiles, you can't possibly defend against them. That's the place they wanted to get to. President Trump said, I'm not going to let you get to that place. And he went after, wiped out their Navy, wiped out their Air Force, wiped out their missile defenses, wiped out their launchers, wiped out their factories that make all of these things, and severely degraded their defense capabilities. Now, they still have missiles and they still have drones and they can still do damage, but they no longer have that shield, that conventional shield that they could hide behind. And that's changed the whole dynamic. It's the only reason why they are now

willing and in some cases seem eager to do a deal on denuclearization, to do a deal on the straits. Can we put him in charge? I'm just saying when it comes to this war, just put him in charge, Marco Rubio. I think they're doing a deal on us. It sure seems like I just don't. I understand a lot of the Arab countries are Arab partners in the region, Saudi Arabia for one, that they're concerned about this. Obviously, they're getting attacked. Maybe they think they can get through to Iran. I mean, they don't like Iran. But so that puts pressure on us. I still. Does anybody like Iran? Terrorists. That's about it. Oh, well, you know, I correct my North Korea. They love Iran. North Korea. Well, let's put them in a line, blow them all up there. I guess so. I think, and I really want to get your take on this in the text monster. I'm starting to think, look, if we're not going to go and really finish the job here and focus on opening the straight. Then get over it. Move on. Yeah. Just, look, there are a couple other sites that we think they might have nuclear material. Do another midnight hammer type strike on those sites and then come home. I mean, they can't build a nuke for a while. That was the main objective. And if they start doing it again, we'd bomb them again and come home again. I mean, that to me is not ideal. But I'd rather have that than whatever this, the waves, limbo, we're playing with them. Now, I know Bill Hagerty, one of our U.S. senators, he talked about that. He's pretty good on foreign policy. He was on Fox yesterday talking about it. Here it is. What do you think makes this time different? Well, Jackie, I think we'll see, but I'll say this. What makes it different each time is the fact that we continue to maintain the strategic advantage. And Iran's strategic capabilities continue to degrade. If you think about it from a military standpoint, now we have other neighbors in the region. joining us, dealing with militarily, dealing with Iran, that is, I think, quite concerning it should be, to the Iranian regime. The other aspect of this, Jackie, and we talked about this briefly before, is the fact that the economic sanctions that Secretary Scott Bessent and his team at Treasury have been imposing are having a dramatic effect on the Iranian economy. The question is how much more can they take? Their economy is shut off, their economy is shut down. The military componentary is being devastated. It has been. And now we have other players in the region joining the United States to deal with Iran in a way that they've never seen before. So I'm certainly optimistic that President Trump is going to make certain that at the end the goal has accomplished, that is, no nuclear capability for Iran. I'd like to see this done sooner than later. I think the rest of America would too, because I think everything turns around here in the polls, et cetera, et cetera, once America, again, is on top in a winter. I mean, okay. When are we going to be on top and be a winner then? I'm just pointing that out. Now, I guess there is some good news. Every time this happens, we see the markets react, and oil prices tend to go down when we go back to limbo, I guess. So it says investors are welcoming President Trump's latest pivot back to diplomacy. Stocks are rallying, and international oil prices are about 5% lower.

on hopes that an agreement to finally reopen the Strait of Hormuz could be reached. Now, Trump said yesterday that the U.S. would engage in talks, starting later today, his shift from threats to dialogue. I like how the story puts it here. A familiar pattern that hasn't yielded much progress so far. Yeah, do you think? Was enough to start August trading on a brighter note after a volatile July. The Dow has jumped around 500 points, with the NASDAQ up 2% and bond yields slipping. Over in Asia, the yen has strengthened modestly against the dollar after the U.S. and Japan jointly acted to prop the currency, which hit a 40-year low, which is kind of another story, which is getting a lot of attention. So I guess the only good news is every time this happened, it does seem that oil prices go down for a little bit, at least a little while. But then eventually we're going to have to bomb them again and then we'll go back up. It'd be nice if we just got this done quickly as quickly as possible. Focus on reopening the straight so they could stay down. I hear is more from Tennessee U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty. Iran would like to destabilize the entire region because they'd like to control the entire region. And the fact is that neighbors are stepping up and realizing that they have a role to play here. They're going to be the most immediately impacted and frankly given Iran's military attacks on everybody in the neighborhood that's become painfully clear. I welcome the fact that these nations are stepping up, that they're joining us. And I think this is going to be a regional solution to a problem that has been very specific for 47 years. It's time to bring it to a... in and I think we get there much more rapidly with allies like Saudi Arabia and others stepping into the fray and working arm and arm and arm and side by side with us. And again, I think the sooner we can put this to conclusion, the better everybody will be in the world. Now, I agree with one thing. It is good to have those Arab leaders on our side helping put pressure on Iran. We need Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, others to be kind of helping us here, Jim Jordan, more than they have. But I mean... Iran struck at them too, so of course they're going to want to help us. Here is more from one more cut here from Bill Hagerty, one of our U.S. senators. The president takes advice from multiple sources. I'm honored the fact that he reaches out to me from time to time, but he is constantly absorbing information. He's constantly trying to deal with the situation on the ground. And I think what you've got the vice president doing is indicating there are considerations here that are very real. The president needs to hear all of those considerations. The one person that the president will not fire, cannot fire, is the other person who stood elected alongside the president, and that's Vice President JD Vance. I think Vice President JD Vance takes it seriously upon himself. He's told this to me that he needs to sound out every concern that could possibly exist. And I think you see another example of it right here. At the end of the day, though, Jackie. I'll come back to this. We hold the strategic advantage. President Trump has been incredibly clear. He will not allow the Iranian regime to have nuclear capacity. And I think President Trump's patient has sworn quite then. So this current ceasefire, we're at the verge of being ready to unveil and unleash a tremendous amount of power on Iran. They need to pay attention to this. And they need to pay attention to the fact that other neighbors in the region are standing shoulder to shoulder with us right now.

So we'll talk more about this. Obviously Iran came up during the Sunday news talk shows. We'll get to that in the Sunday news shows recap. But golly, you know me. I've been pretty hawkish on this. So as Max get in, finish the job, no more pauses, the ceasefires that were never ceasefires, really. But if we're not going to do that, it might be time to just one big bombing and then to leave. My training always said when the shooting starts, negotiations are over. Yeah, and you were a trained negotiator. Yes. I have an idea. Well, we send you over there. You want to talk to Iran? You're a good negotiator, right? I can't speak the language. Oh, we can get an interpreter, Max. Apparently, nobody else can. Yeah, that's true. Nobody understood the memorandum of understanding. You know what I think the problem is? What's that? They don't know who they're talking to. They don't know if these people they're talking to are really in charge or if they're being told to do whatever they're doing. Honestly, I think you're right. That is one of the big, the other problem is. You're talking about crazy terrorist regimes, all right. But the other problem is, you're right, there are some in sort of like their parliamentary government. They don't have complete power over the military, the IRGC. But they would love to negotiate, probably. Just get the government going. They want to negotiate. I would imagine they're afraid to. They're afraid, yeah, they don't want to die. So they're trying to negotiate with the U.S., but then you have the IRGC out there. They control the military power. You have people in that regime because the radicals, they don't want to stop. So even when one part of the government says, okay, we're going to have a deal memorandum, the other part of the military says, no, we don't want to do that. No, we're not going to do that. No, they're the infidels. We can negotiate with the infidels and all that stuff. Yeah, they can negotiate. How is that?

I don't know whether they're going to find all the virgins for them, but they can negotiate. I have thought for a while our military should be completely focused on getting the straight open, get Israel to bomb the inside of the country like they've done in the past, and we focus on that. But if we're not going to even do that, I guess you can keep the blockade going. But if we're not going to do this, then just bomb pickax mountain, bomb some of these other potential nuclear sites, and then leave. You would think the CIA would have some kind of idea where these people are. Yeah, they keep saying that. The problem is they're probably hiding deep within mountains. And they're probably moving around a lot. Right. Yeah, I mean, they know. They know. That's why the massage. I guarantee they know they're dead if we catch them. I was about to say Israel. Yeah, I'd be afraid of massage. Yeah, get them to do it. You know, they'd probably love to. 423-267-1023. All right, move on to sports in the next segment. Of course, the Sunday news shows recap at the top of the hour. This is the Effie Live.

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