The Daily Signal - U.S. Strikes Iran, Hyperbolic Response (from Democrat Officials) | June 23, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:25 We'd love to talk. Business. The U.S. strikes three nuclear sites in Iran, pulling off a massive deception and diversion campaign. The response from world leaders is rather muted, and the response from media and officials is hyperbolic. I'm Tony Kinnett, host of the Daily Signals, Tony Kinnett cast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. It is Monday, June 23rd, 2025. This is the Daily Signal's top news in 10. At 7.46 p.m. Eastern time on June 21st, President Donald Trump, posted on Truth Social, quote,

Starting point is 00:01:05 We have completed our very successful attack on the three nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordo, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iranian airspace. A full payload of bombs was dropped on the primary site, Fordo. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American warriors. There is not another military in the world that could have done this. Now is the time for peace.

Starting point is 00:01:29 Thank you for your attention to this matter. This is how the president of the United States, States announced the completion of a rather unexpected series of strikes on Iran. Unexpected because the United States had publicly released information about a couple of B-2 bombers that were flying towards Guam through Hawaii. That was over the weekend. And then hours later, in the middle of that media diversion, the United States struck Iran via B-2 bombers as well as via several missiles fired by U.S. submarines in the region. Fordo, Iran's primary nuclear nuclear site is Iran's most protected structure in existence. Build in secret starting in 2006, it took six

Starting point is 00:02:10 years to complete and became active in 2012. Buried under 90 meters of rock and reinforced concrete, it was made to survive airstrikes and even then the top of the line bunker busting bombs. In total 12 of the GBU 57 U.S. bunker buster bombs were dropped on the Fordo site, targeting the vents of the Fordo facility. There aren't a lot of great ways with a show that's both on video as well as audio for our podcast listeners to explain the photos the White House released from the Situation Room or the only confirmed explosion footage of Fordo. So this is the best I can do. Just over two hours later, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State and Acting National Security Advisor Marco Rubio, as well as Secretary of State. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegeseth, approached the podium and addressed the country.

Starting point is 00:03:25 Thank you very much. A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime, Fordot, Natanz, and Esfahan. Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier.

Starting point is 00:04:26 For 40 years, Iran has been saying death to America, death to Israel. They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs. That was their specialty. We lost over a thousand people, and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around the world have died as a direct result of their hate, in particular. So many were killed by their general, Qasem Soleimani. I decided a long time ago that I would not let this happen. It will not continue.

Starting point is 00:05:01 I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before, and we've gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel. I want to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful job they've done. And most importantly, I want to congratulate the great American patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight and all of the United States military on an operation, the likes of which the world has not seen in many, many decades. Hopefully we will no longer need their services in this capacity. I hope that's so.

Starting point is 00:05:40 I also want to congratulate the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Raisin-Kane, spectacular general, and all of the brilliant military minds involved in this attack. With all of that being said, this cannot continue. There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days. Remember, there are many targets left. Tonight's was the most difficult of them all, by far, and perhaps the most lethal. but if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed, and skill. Most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes.

Starting point is 00:06:25 There's no military in the world that could have done what we did tonight, not even close. There has never been a military that could do what took place just a little while ago. Tomorrow, General Kane, Secretary of Defense, Pete Higgseth, will have a press conference at 8.8. at the Pentagon. And I want to just thank everybody. And in particular, God, I want to just say, we love you, God, and we love our great military, protect them. God bless the Middle East. God bless Israel. And God bless America. Thank you very much. Thank you. That same evening, the Iranian government threatened legal action against the United States. Russia and China largely issued unhappy statements but promised no action of any sort whatsoever.

Starting point is 00:07:15 None of the other Middle Eastern countries or aggressors toward the United States that have previously cited with Iran, for example, in United Nations resolutions, had anything of substance to say on the matter either. Secretary Hegset and General Dan Cain then held a press conference yesterday morning to discuss the operation and to praise the work of the American military. of almost any American if you had an opportunity to watch it in real time. And I think Tehran is certainly calculating the reality that planes flew from the middle of America in Missouri overnight, completely undetected over three of their most highly sensitive sites. And we were able to destroy nuclear capabilities. And our boys in those bombers are on their way home right now. We believe that will have a clear psychological impact on how they view the future.

Starting point is 00:08:04 And we certainly hope they take the path of nuclear. negotiate a piece, but I could not be more proud. Sources reportedly told NBC that the Iranians were threatening some type of sleeper terrorist cell activation or some type of perhaps military strike package against United States bases in the region. This is as of yet unconfirmed. The State Department did issue a worldwide caution security alert following the strikes, saying, quote, the conflict between Israel and Iran has resulted in disruptions to travel and the periodic closure of air spaces across the Middle East.

Starting point is 00:08:34 There is the potential for demonstrations. against U.S. citizens at interests abroad, the Department of State advises U.S. citizens worldwide to exercise increased caution. At this time, though the Iranian parliament has voted to close or to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, the Ayatollah has not sounded off just yet as to whether he will accept, delay, or deny this resolution. While many praised the president of the United States for this decisive action in the Middle East, many Democrats and isolationists on the right criticize this is an entry into some kind of forever war, comparing this to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Starting point is 00:09:06 The Washington Post put forward an article and a map widely criticized for expectantly looking towards specific points at which Iran might target U.S. troops in the Middle East. Ben Rhodes, President Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor, also on PODS Save America and MSNBC, said a lot of things, very few of them intelligent. For example, quote, if your take is, I oppose Trump's fascism,

Starting point is 00:09:30 but support him lawlessly bombing this other country, maybe pause and give that a think, end quote. He was joined by several members of Congress, including individuals like Representative Nadler and Representative Nancy Pelosi, who claimed that the Trump targeting of Iran was somehow a violation of the U.S. Constitution. According to the War Powers Act, the President does not, in fact, have to notify Congress well in advance of every military strike. Now, it should be pointed out that no Democrats were briefed in advance of this particular military. operation, which may or may not have something to do with why none of the operational details leaked out before the strike. We'll cover a lot more of that on the Tony Kinnett cast this evening at 7 p.m. There's only so much we can fit in the top news in 10. Suffice to say, normally

Starting point is 00:10:15 on Mondays for the Top News and 10, we cover some of the Sunday shows, particularly CBS faced the nation with Margaret Brennan, whom tried a rather interesting approach to give leading questions to Secretary of State and Acting National Security Advisor Marco Rubio. That didn't go quite well. On a phrase you just word, weaponization ambitions. Are you saying there that the United States did not see intelligence that the Supreme Leader had ordered weaponization? That's irrelevant.

Starting point is 00:10:46 I see that question being asked on the media. That's an irrelevant question. That is the key point in US intelligence assessments. You know that. No, it's not. Yes, it was. No, no, I know that. Well, I know that better than you know that.

Starting point is 00:10:57 And I know that's not the case. But I'm asking you know what you're talking about. And the people who say that. It doesn't matter if the order was given. They have everything they need to build nuclear weapons. Why would you bury things in a mountain, 300 feet under the ground? Why would you bury six? Why do they have 60% in rich uranium?

Starting point is 00:11:13 You don't need 60% in rich uranium. The only countries in the world that have uranium at 60% are countries that have nuclear weapons. Because it can quickly make it 90. They have all the elements. Why do they have a space program? Is Iran going to go to the moon? No. They're trying to build an ICBM.

Starting point is 00:11:27 No, but that's a question. That's a question of intent. And you know, in the intelligence. assessment that it was that Iran wanted to be a threshold state to use this leverage. I'm talking about the public March assessment. And that's why I was asking you if you know something more from March. But that's also an inaccurate representation of it. That's an accurate representation of it. That's not how intelligence is read. That's now how intelligence is used. Here's what the whole world knows. Forget about intelligence. What the IAEA knows. They are enriching

Starting point is 00:11:56 uranium well beyond anything you need for a for a civil nuclear program. So, Why would you enrich uranium at 60% if you don't intend to one day use it to take it to 90 and build a weapon? Why are you developing ICBMs? Why do you have 8,000 short-range missiles and 2,000 to 3,000 long, mid-range missiles that you continue to develop? Why do you do all these things? They have everything they need for a nuclear weapon. They have the delivery mechanisms. They have the enrichment capability.

Starting point is 00:12:23 They have the highly enriched uranium that is stored. That's all we need to see. Right. Especially in the hands of the regime. Before you go, check the description to make sure. you're subscribed to the Tony Kinnett cast. And join us tonight at 7 p.m. for new information regarding a magistrate judge's order not to detain Kilmar Abrago Garcia on human trafficking charges

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The Daily Signal - U.S. Strikes Iran, Hyperbolic Response (from Democrat Officials) | June 23, 2025

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