17 JUNE 2025: Trump Says Evacuate Tehran // US Military to the Middle East // Iran Pleads for Peace // Rare Earth Crisis With China // Trump’s Immigration Pivot Alarms Base
The Wright Report
Bryan Dean Wright
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🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, as he breaks down today’s biggest stories shaping America and the world.
Trump Urges Evacuation of Tehran as U.S. Military Assets Move In
President Trump calls for Tehran’s 17 million residents to evacuate as the USS Nimitz and 31 refueling aircraft reposition toward the Middle East. Trump warns Iran cannot have nuclear weapons and says the U.S. will stay out of the war unless American assets are attacked. Iran's Ayatollah is now urgently seeking peace talks through Arab and Russian intermediaries.
Israel Escalates Strikes, Iran’s Military Decimated
Israeli forces continue bombing Tehran and key military targets. Mossad agents have eliminated top commanders and scientists. Iran’s air defenses remain crippled and its missile transport fleet is heavily damaged. Only Fordow, Iran’s deepest nuclear site, remains intact.
Zelenskyy Asks Trump for Weapons, China Disrupts Supply Chains
At a global summit in Canada, Ukraine's President Zelenskyy pleads for U.S. arms. Trump is hesitant, partly due to China’s squeeze on rare earth minerals critical to defense production. Although some exports resumed, licenses are limited, and military-grade minerals like samarium remain blocked.
America’s Rare Earth Emergency and Domestic Production Push
Trump may invoke Cold War-era laws to jumpstart domestic rare earth mining in states like Wyoming, California, and Texas. A $120 million loan for a Greenland project signals the urgency of ending China’s control over the supply chain.
Confusion Over Trump’s Immigration Orders
Trump calls for ramped-up ICE raids in sanctuary cities but had paused enforcement at farms and hotels just days earlier. Following backlash from business and agriculture, the administration reversed course, then appeared to reconsider again. Meanwhile, a meatpacking plant in Nebraska raided by ICE now sees lines of job applicants, raising new questions about the true labor market.
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." – John 8:32
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| 0:00.0 | It's June 17th. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, and this is The Wright Report. |
| 0:12.7 | A good day to you, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Wright Report, your daily news, podcast. I've got four briefs for you this morning. That's a good day to you, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to The Right Report, your daily news podcast. |
| 0:22.7 | I've got four briefs for you this morning that are shaping America and the world. |
| 0:27.9 | First up, President Trump is calling for the evacuation folks of Tehran as the United States is sending |
| 0:33.2 | more military assets to the Middle East. Meanwhile, the Ayatollah is sending messages to the Arabs |
| 0:38.5 | and to the Russians that he really wants to talk about peace with President Trump and soon |
| 0:43.1 | details on all of that coming up. Second, the president was in Canada with other global leaders |
| 0:48.4 | yesterday, including President Zelensky of Ukraine, who really wants more U.S. weapons and now, but we've got a problem. |
| 0:56.0 | China is still limiting or blocking the sale of rare earth minerals that are, of course, |
| 1:00.5 | in those U.S. weapons that he wants. |
| 1:02.6 | Folks, that is a crisis, and not just for Ukraine, that is also a crisis for us. |
| 1:07.5 | Third, we've got an immigration update this morning, including some mixed messages from |
| 1:11.6 | the White House about who exactly we should deport and how this news, by the way, connects to a |
| 1:16.7 | horde of applicants who want to work at a meatpacking plant in Nebraska. A lot of folks say |
| 1:20.8 | that people don't want those jobs. Well, that might not be true. We'll cover it. But before we |
| 1:25.3 | do, let's get to our top story of the morning. |
| 1:28.3 | President Trump is calling for the evacuation of Tehran, population 17 million in the metropolitan |
| 1:33.3 | area. |
| 1:34.3 | The president also gathered his national security team late last night to talk about the war, |
| 1:38.3 | although details on what they discussed, any outcomes are unknown as of this recording. |
| 1:43.3 | But we do know that in a social media post |
| 1:45.4 | late last night, he said that residents of Tehran should evacuate the capital immediately. And that, |
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