00:00let's talk about it more with retired u.s army major general dana petard uh general petard
00:06the the hello general ceasefire between uh the u.s and iran seems to be holding yes it is fire
00:13between the israelis and lebanon seems to be holding how would you assess the situation in
00:19the gulf area yes general please your thought please i would assess it well hello john i would
00:24assess it as uh being pretty tenuous right now it is good that the ceasefires between uh lebanon
00:31and israel and the u.s and iran is still holding that is still holding yes right now good thing
00:37he is dana petard retired u.s army major general now listen to him but the fact that we blockaded
00:48that area the persian gulf yes um so no ships can come in and come out i think is a
00:54good move on
00:54our part uh very good is taking away some of the leverage that iran had in closing the strait of
01:01hormones uh iran was allowing ships to go through like for for their their friends like china yes now
01:10those ships cannot get through and china may put more pressure on iran to make a deal with the u
01:15.s
01:15china is making pressure on them april 21st two weeks these fire with iran to end yes it's upcoming
01:23but if if iran thinks that the president is wanting some kind of a deal uh that he's getting
01:31impatient um are they yeah okay you know are they underplaying i guess are they not believing in uh
01:39president trump's resolve yes please they think they could be thinking that they could be okay there
01:47may be some truth to that because the war powers act may be will come into um i guess fruition
01:54on around
01:55may 1st where uh the president's got to uh tell congress what's going on yes may 1st has got president
02:03have to tell congress what is literally seriously going on the funding can go forward or not
02:10um in fact senator murkowski's uh proposal i think would be good because it allow the
02:19military operations to continue if necessary but iran warns it will target if approaching his trade so
02:29yeah man the iranians are probably watching that even closer than probably probably most americans are
02:35true so they're but the iranians should not overplay their hand and their economy is 180 percent
02:44inflation right now 180 percent i think that um president trump just wants to make a deal because
02:52if the the nuclear weapons are no longer on the table as far as iran pursuing nuclear weapons uh
02:59it's not going to end yes it's not going to end yes it's not going to end iran has clearly
03:04stated that
03:05they are really not dropping this situation and they are going to be pursuing the nuclear weapons at
03:14any cost um so president trump has called them out on that and either they're going to end their their
03:21pursuit of nuclear weapons or they're not yes so they shouldn't overplay their hand no you know what
03:27the president refers to as their nuclear dust i guess we don't really know do not know yes we do
03:32not know
03:33the situation is at the enrichment sites that we bombed last year and again this time around yeah um
03:40but there's likely a lot of nuclear material that you know could be excavated if you take that and explode
03:48it with a conventional bomb in a place like new york city you've got a terrible catastrophe you you
03:55irradiate the city for eons to come uh yes eons yes it's eons you can understand it could be like
04:05thousand years and the city of new york is like oh my god you can not even not even think
04:13about it
04:14the president has to be wary about what the iranians want to do with their nuclear material yes yes
04:21absolutely iran cannot uh be trusted to have a nuclear weapon cannot we've already seen what
04:27they're not we do to the the gulf their their gulf nations who didn't even attack them and what they
04:34did and then what they would try to do to israel trump maintains u.s iran very close double citations
04:42to a deal for the u.s with nuclear weapon so that's that's that's not even negotiable on the u
04:51.s
04:51side uh so we will see what happens but i think iran thinks they can wait us out and i
04:56think that
04:57will be a mistake so if if you yes you can see right now on the screen u.s military
05:04assets in
05:05middle east over all military assets we have in the middle east right now advising the president i mean
05:12he um we heard him say they're aboard you air force one uh that he may extend the ceasefire he
05:19might not
05:19he might start dropping bombs again what would you advise the president to do at this yes please please
05:26i advise the president to stick with the blockade because again okay it takes some leverage away
05:31from iran all right be prepared to meet with uh iran through pakistan uh if you have to extend the
05:38ceasefire uh by a week maybe do that uh but after that then the iranians have to know that you
05:44mean
05:45business and also this is going to not take days or weeks it will take months months yeah i cleared
05:52it
05:52myself it will take months of coming and negotiating this with the iranians yes yeah they are literally
06:01stubborn people you ever saw in your lifetime general dana petard thanks thank you man thank you major
06:09thank you john thank you major
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