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🗓️ 17 August 2024
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0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about the situation in the Middle East. The world appears to be |
0:08.3 | on edge, waiting to see what the response from Iran is going to be, if there's going to be |
0:15.0 | a response from Iran. And that's where we are. Axios and many Collective West publications, |
0:24.6 | they were saying last week, 10 days ago, that that the response from Iran was coming tomorrow. |
0:30.7 | It's going to come tomorrow. It's going to come in two days. Nothing. Nothing so far. |
0:35.6 | And what we're getting is we're getting leaders of the collective West. |
0:39.3 | Now using, I guess you could say a bit of carrot and stick, though, more stick with Iran, sending letters to Iranian officials calling the Iranian president and warning not to not to retaliate. |
0:51.8 | But Iran seems to be um decisive in in their their response or at least |
0:59.8 | the type of response that that's going to come to uh to israel and not only iran hasbalah as well |
1:06.4 | so what's what's the latest what's the situation in the middle east well we, we're in a war of nerves, and you can see that some people's nerves are fraying. |
1:16.5 | First of all, last week, there was a whole cascade of articles and comments that the Iranians were preparing to back down. |
1:24.3 | And that there'd been all kinds of talk from the US telling the Iranians, you know, |
1:28.4 | don't attack Israel at this time, continue to exercise indefinite, unending restraint in the face |
1:34.6 | of what the Israelis are doing. And supposedly there was an argument going on in Tehran |
1:41.4 | between the president of Iran, Peseshkin, and the more hardline figures in Iran. |
1:47.0 | There were weird articles planted in the Telegraph and the New York Times, which all suggested |
1:53.7 | this story. And there was, I think, for a short time, some hope that because the Iranians hadn't yet attacked, that they |
2:05.3 | weren't going to do so at all. And we were starting to get articles starting to appear in that |
2:10.4 | form. And then something seems to have snapped over the weekend because where last week, |
2:20.4 | it looked as if they were starting to think in the West that the Iranians aren't going to attack. |
2:25.4 | Over the weekend, they seem to realize that things are turning out differently |
2:30.1 | and that the Iranians might indeed be intending to attack after all. |
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