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Political Commentator/Host (11:00)

Now. Professor Morandi of Iran, who travels with Iran's negotiating team in connection with the very weak, if non existent, purported ceasefire. At this point, Professor Morandi issued the following warning on behalf of Iran to these Arab nations, to these Gulf states, leave the uae, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait immediately. Iran will retaliate, destroying everything. These regimes are guilty partners in the genocidal Epstein coalition and won't be forgiven. The rising temperature in the Persian Gulf will soon make them uninhabitable. And this follows Donald Trump announcing that the US Navy attacked and boarded an Iranian vessel in the Persian Gulf. This is as the Trump regime continues a naval blockade of the Persian Gulf. Trump's plan to open the Strait of Hormuz is to further close the Strait of Hormuz. And then Donald Trump is now, as you know from our other reporting, threatening to blow up bridges, electric grids and other civilian infrastructure in Iran if Iran does not agree to terms imposed on it by the Trump regime that the Trump regime was not able to achieve during the war. We all know that Donald Trump agreed to Iran's 10 point negotiating framework as a stipulation to the ceasefire beginning in the first place. And then when the first negotiation round took place in Islamabad, Pakistan, the Trump regime said, oh, we're not following the 10 point framework that Iran put forward that we previously agreed to. If you don't accept our terms, Iran, we're going to kill the negotiators and we're going to blow you up and send you back to the stone Age. To which Iran said, those threats don't scare us. You've tried to do that before in the war. The reason we're here having negotiations in the first place is because you set a arbitrary deadline where you said you would destroy the Iranian civilization. When the deadline arrived, you panicked Donald Trump because you weren't going to meet the deadline. So you begged Pakistan to facilitate a ceasefire with Iran by agreeing to their 10 point plan, only to renege on the framework. And now we're back in this situation where you just continue to keep on threatening Iran that you're going to blow them up and destroy him in negotiations, which is not really a way to negotiate at all. Now should also be noted that Ukrainian President Zelensky announcing the security guarantees that that Ukraine is now providing to these Middle east nations. Zelensky wrote the following yesterday, we have already reached 10 year agreements with three key Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar. We already have requests from 11 countries, the Middle east and the Gulf. Plus we're also gradually turning our attention to the caucuses within the drone deal. There will be at least 10 different agreements covering various categories. Categories of Ukrainian weapons exports, co production as planned, the construction of our production lines both in Ukraine and in other countries, new technologies that we are developing jointly with various countries in which they are investing. There is also an agreement on annual funding for a specific amount along with a fixed number of years. Second, the European track work has already begun with Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands. Of course, we have good relations with the United Kingdom and France. I am confident that all of this will also be implemented there. And that's from an interview that he gave recently that he just gave. While that's taking place, you have the Trump regime continuing to extend the removal of sanctions on Russian oil. Remember, the Trump regime said last week they were not going to extend the removal of sanctions from Russian oil. No way. They said they would do that, but now they did that why? Because Donald Trump, in my opinion, always sides with Putin. In my opinion, Trump is a Putin bootlicker. He's pathetic when it comes to Putin and so many other things, mostly everything. And that's what the Trump regime is doing right now. We're seeing as well European allies, allies in the Gulf states and others. I mean, they see what a pathetic negotiating team Witkoff and Kushner are and they see them just as proxies as Netanyahu also. And also these are two individuals that don't know anything about international diplomacy. Witkoff like a loser real estate guy. Kushner, Trump's son in law, loser guy who had to get bailed out by Qatar in his first real estate project with daddy's money. I mean, these are losers. These are loser, loser human beings. And they don't know about nuclear material. They're like cosplaying and they're bad at cosplaying. And so European allies engulf state allies, or former allies, I should say, fear. An inexperienced U.S. negotiating team is pushing for a swift, headline grabbing framework deal with Iran that could entrench rather than resolve deeper problems. Diplomats with past experience dealing with Tehran said they worry. Washington, eager to claim a diplomatic win for Donald Trump, could lock in a superficial agreement on Iran nuclear program and sanctions relief, then struggle through the months of years of technical complexity following the talks. The concern isn't that there won't be an agreement, said a senior European diplomat, one of eight who spoke with Reuters who have previously worked on the nuclear file or continue to do so. It's that there will be a bad initial agreement that creates endless downstream problems. But I would just, I think add to that. It'll just be these fake deals. Donald Trump will claim that there's agreements and there are all of these things. There won't be anything written down. There won't be terms. And like right now, the oil shock is massive. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. No ships are leaving through the Strait of Hormuz right now. And what that means is that the oil shock gets worse and worse and worse. And this food supply shock gets worse and worse and worse. This is a big problem. As Phil Stewart explains from Reuters, the world, world has lost already over $50 billion worth of crude oil that has not been produced since the Iran war began nearly 50 days ago. And the aftershock of the crisis will be felt for months and even years to come, according to analysts and Reuters calculations. It's a big, big, big problem. But you know what? The Trump regime's Focused on it's stuff like this. Syrian billionaires needed a favor in Washington. They invoke the Trump name. It's a Syrian billionaire family called the Kayats. And they wanted to get sanctions removed from Syria so they could build real estate projects. And as this New York Times article explains, they got the Trump regime to give him everything they wanted by promising Trump resorts in Syria and Trump golf courses in Syria. And they worked with a MAGA Republican Congress member by the name of Joe Wilson. Wilson. And it was the Congress member who proposed to the Kayats in South Carolina. He's like, hey, why don't you do a golf course for Donald Trump? I think that'll help get rid of some of the sanctions so you can build these projects and get these tens of billions of dollars in government contracts that Syria is now offering, by the way, which is being funded by the United States either directly or indirectly as well, in my opinion. And the Kayats are like, ha, ha ha, great idea with the Trump golf course in Syria, but we're going to do an entire Trump resort over there and then we'll get what we want. And that's what happened. That's the way the quid pro quo worked right there. I'll leave you with the with this from Finland's President Alexander Stube. Two through two points I want to bring up first, the idea of Canada joining the European Union. Here's what Stube had to say. Let's play it.

Alexander Stubb (19:17)

I think Canada, in terms of its hold composure, its value base, is so close to the European Union that the least we can do is to forge a really close strategic partnership. And what that then leads to in the end with the EU, which started as 6, ended up with 28, then after Brexit with 27, I don't know. I can envisage a much larger EU whether Canada is a part of it or not. It's up to Canada to decide.

Political Commentator/Host (19:49)

And then here he says, I don't think America is President Trump. I see a distinction between the United States and Trump. And he said, that's why my hope is that our relationship with the US Will be enduring even if Donald Trump is behaving this way. Let's play this clip.

Alexander Stubb (20:06)

I don't think that America is President Trump. I mean, President Trump is the president of America. But America has many different millions of Americans voted for him. That's part of democracy as well, and democratic elections. You don't always get what you want. But I want to live with the reality that I think the transatlantic partnership, the relationship between Europe and the US and of course Canada is super important. So I don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Political Commentator/Host (20:35)

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