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🗓️ 23 April 2025
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0:00.0 | This is CBS. Iron the World. I'm John Batchel. I welcome General Blaine Holt, the United States Air Force, retired, |
0:11.5 | formerly deputy, military representative of the United States to NATO at Brussels to comment on |
0:16.6 | dots on the map and headlines, adding up to unknowns about Iran, the suspect nuclear weapons |
0:24.7 | program at Iran, and the ongoing talks between the U.S. and Iran, headlines within these |
0:31.3 | hours. The U.S. and Iran will resume nuclear talks on Saturday, writes CNN. |
0:37.6 | Al-Jazeera, Putin discusses U.S.-Iran nuclear talks with leader of Amman, who was in Moscow. |
0:44.0 | Blaine, a very good evening to you. |
0:45.4 | What I understand is that Iran's position is that it wants the return of the JCPOA from 2015. |
0:51.9 | Position, we're told, represented by, for example, |
0:56.5 | Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel, |
0:58.9 | is that Iran cannot be trusted and it's time to use kinetic force. |
1:03.4 | Somewhere in between, we're told, |
1:05.7 | is the Trump administration represented by Steve Whitkoff, |
1:08.7 | who leads these negotiations. |
1:10.9 | However, now I come to other matters of reading the landscape. |
1:16.0 | For example, for some time now, I've read routinely that there are B2 strategic bombers at |
1:23.9 | Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean. |
1:26.7 | What does that mean? What are those capable of |
1:29.0 | Blaine? Good evening to you. Good evening. Yeah, so let's start with the B2s. That's a very big dot |
1:35.6 | when we talk about dots. And those are the best bombers that the United States currently produces. |
1:42.9 | They are very stealthy. |
1:46.1 | They are strategic. |
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