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>> Ashley Webster live for us in Tel Aviv.
Ashley, thank you. Let's bring in
Iranian-American, former NFL player
Sharp Pardon, and former deputy national security adviser Steve Yates.
Uh, thank you both for coming on.
Steve Yates, to you first.
I want to play a little more sound.
We had Ashley playing a little bit of the Secretary of State Marco Rubio with more on the uh soon expected Iranian response.
Watch.
>> We're expecting a response from them.
We'll see what the response entails.
Uh the hope is it's something that it can put us into a serious process of negotiation.
Um obviously we've seen the reporting overnight that Iran has established or trying to establish some agency that's going to control traffic in the straits.
I think that's unacceptable.
>> Yeah. I mean I think we have really two questions here, Steve.
One, do we get the response tonight at some point in time?
Is it early tomorrow morning?
And do the Iranians agree or at least, you know, lead us far enough to to think this thing goes back to the peace table?
Well, Trace, I don't have high hopes of the negotiating path.
I support the idea of giving it a try.
I really think it's about time for the president team to focus on core missions.
Uh the state of Hormuz has to have a flow of goods and traffic.
Doesn't have to be only the United States doing that.
Uh, but I think it's pretty much time to degrade fundamentally the Iranian ability to use terror or these pin prick attacks to try to control the flow.
Uh, and have the president kind of declare that major military operations are over and we're going to work with a coalition to maintain things and make sure the nuclear developments don't return.
But I don't think that this sort of ongoing posture of uh endless negotiations is really accomplishing very much at this point.
>> Meanwhile, we had a former senior sanctions strategist on Iran's uh internet shutdown, which we have talked about a lot.
Watch.
>> They have internet shutdown that somewhere between 50 to 65 million a day in economic damage.
you know, they shut down the internet because they're afraid of internal uprising.
That is putting a lot of pressure on Iran's economy.
I've seen reports of u somewhere between um five to 10 million Iranians relying on e-commerce employments and jobs, internet jobs.
So, those folks are unemployed right now.
>> Yeah. And they're kind of weighing a couple of things here, right?
you got these tax uh crisis, you got the unemployment crisis, and they're worried about, you know, internal uprising, and
so they're thinking, what do we do here?
Right.
>> Right. Absolutely. And and right right now, it's it's very difficult for us to gauge really what's going on in Iran, especially like they said with the internet shutdown, but you know, um going back to what was said before, I I think we putting the pressure on the Iranian government right now is of the utmost importance.
They're at a breaking point.
uh the idea of negotiating with and I know I sound like a broken record but who are we negotiating with they're not negotiating from a place of good faith and and how do we know whatever we negotiate for they're going to follow through and they're going to accept uh the common law of the world.
>> Yeah, I think the president has also echoed that.
Who are we negotiating with?
He says, you know, we were negotiate with someone one day and the next day they seem to forget all about it.
General Jack Keane kind of back to your point, Steve Yates, says that it's
it's time for these two things to happen.
>> We should go back and execute Project Freedom, take the straight of Hammoo away from the Iranians, secure it and open it for navigation and also at some point get some assistance in doing that.
And then we have to unleash the Israelis.
They have a very comprehensive bombing campaign.
The Israelis always have always had more air power in this fight than we've had.
So what they can do comprehensively here in terms of air power is significant.
>> Yeah. I mean they're they're talking about taking the straight and bombing key targets.
It's kind of right in in the wheelhouse you were just talking about, Steve.
>> Well, he's a smart guy and I think
General Keane's got it dialed in pretty correctly on this.
uh and it's really I think very important for the president
and others that are involved to help articulate uh we've really accomplished huge military objectives.
I think that's we've covered on this program.
It's been covered elsewhere, but there's going to have to be sort of a maintenance mode that follows moving back from it.
We don't need to withdraw from Iran like we did from Iraq, Afghanistan, or Vietnam,
for instance.
We're not in Iran. Uh but there are capabilities that need to be degraded and we do need to have a clear plan whether it's us, the Israelis or someone else.
So the Arab allies that have been attacked have capabilities they can use too to ensure freedom of navigation and degrade the remnants of the IRGC from controlling Iran.
>> Yeah. Meanwhile, The Guardian writes the following here.
Families pressured to stay silent with at least 24 executions reportedly taking place since March amid internet blackout.
Iran is carrying out near daily executions of prisoners in secrecy and in some cases refusing to hand the bodies of the dead to their
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