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🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Talks between the USA and Iran are set to begin soon in Pakistan, to potentially end the war. China, which is heavily dependent on oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz, unlike the USA, has significant stakes in the outcome. Could Iran actually impose a toll on the strait? Also, Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann has confessed to the murders of eight women.

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0:00.0	Now, 710 W-O-R presents the Mark Simone show.
0:09.1	Hey, another beautiful sunny day.
0:11.2	It's Thursday.
0:11.8	We've got a lot to get to.
0:12.7	We'll bring you all the latest on Iran, the talks.
0:14.9	We'll get to the Gilgo Beach, a lunatic, and what happened there.
0:19.6	We'll get to Artemis, the space capsule,
0:22.5	coming down tomorrow. We'll get to the Masters and Mamdani, Hockel, getting booed like crazy.
0:29.4	Al Sharpton having his big convention right now, as we speak over there, but blocking two blocks away at the Sheraton.
0:39.5	So we'll also get to some of the crazy, crazy left-wing rants that are, these are all people,
0:45.5	you know, very prominent left-wing Hollywood types, melting down on Twitter going absolutely
0:51.8	nuts.
0:52.7	Now, the talks are about to take place. Vice President
0:57.0	Vance will be there. Iran has agreed to talk for a couple of reasons. One, they see that militarily
1:04.0	they are going to get wiped out. He could just wipe them off the face of the earth, Donald
1:10.0	Trump, at any point, so they've realized that.
1:12.8	Also, as we keep telling you, we don't use the Straits of Hormuz for anything.
1:17.8	This country doesn't need anything from the Straits of Hormuz.
1:20.4	We don't use that oil.
1:21.8	But China is heavily dependent on that oil, as is Japan, as is India, but especially China. And if there's anybody
1:30.1	that Iran actually listens to, it's China, and China apparently has pressured them like crazy
1:34.8	to have these talks and come up with some sort of resolution of all of this. So they will talk.
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