Trump Administration Putting Iran "On Notice"

EARLIER THIS WEEK, IRAN TESTED A MEDIUM-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE
AND AS OF YESTERDAY THEY ARE NOW "ON NOTICE."
HERE IS NATIONAL
SECURITY ADVISOR MICHAEL FLYNN TO LAY OUT THE CASE.
THIS IS THE
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR WHO DIDN'T RUN A RIGHT-WING MEDIA
RAG.
>>AN ATTACK AGAINST A SAUDI NAVAL VESSEL UNDERSCORED WHAT
SHOULD HAVE BEEN CLEAR TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ALL
ALONG ABOUT IRAN'S DESTABILIZING BEHAVIOR ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST.
THE RECENT LAUNCH IS ALSO IN DEFIANCE OF U.N. SECURITY
COUNCIL RESOLUTION 2231.
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS CRITICIZED
THE VARIOUS AGREEMENTS REACHED BETWEEN IRAN AND THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION AS WELL AS THE UNITED NATIONS AS BEING WEAK AND
INEFFECTIVE.
INSTEAD OF BEING THANKFUL FOR THESE AGREEMENTS,
IRAN IS FEELING EMBOLDENED.
AS OF TODAY WE ARE OFFICIALLY
PUTTING IRAN UNNOTICED.
THANK YOU.
>>IN THE ORIGINAL TRACK YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO HEAR
THE MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND, BUT IT SOUND LIKE THIS --
>>WAR DRUMS.
BECAUSE ALTHOUGH WE WISELY CHOSE BARACK OBAMA OVER
JOHN MCCAIN, A MAN WHO TALKED ABOUT BOMB BOMB IRAN -- REMEMBER
WE WERE WORRIED ABOUT WAR WITH IRAN -- YOU MIGHT BE DOING IT
AGAIN, IT JUST TOOK ALMOST A DECADE.
WE COULD POSTPONE IT A
BIT BUT WE MIGHT NOW DO IT.
WE WILL GIVE YOU MORE DETAILS ABOUT
WHETHER THIS MISSILE TEST VIOLATED 2231
OR NOT, BUT AS WE WERE WATCHING THE VIDEO THAT'S WHAT YOU
SAID, WE ARE GOING TO WAR.
>>WHEN DONALD TRUMP FIRST NOMINATED FLYNN, I SAID WE ARE
GOING TO GO TO WAR WITH IRAN.
SOME PEOPLE GOT MAD BECAUSE THEY
SAID THAT'S SPECULATION, BUT YES IT'S A GUESS, BUT IT'S AN
EDUCATED GUESS BASED ON WHAT FLYNN'S PRIORITIES HAVE BEEN,
WHAT HIS STATEMENTS HAVE BEEN, AND HE'S BEEN CLEAR ABOUT THE
FACT THAT HE FEELS THERE SHOULD BE SOME MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN
IRAN.
WHICH, BY THE WAY, WOULD BE A COMPLETE AND OTHER
DISASTER.
THE INTEL THEY HAVE IN THE MESSAGING THEY ARE PUTTING
OUT IS FALSE, YOU WILL CLEAR THAT UP IN A SECOND, BUT I
WANTED TO STATE -- IF YOU THINK INVADING IRAQ WAS A BAD IDEA,
THAT PREEMPTIVE WAR WAS A BAD IDEA, THIS WOULD BE MUCH WORSE
CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT IRAN'S MILITARY CAPABILITY IS MUCH
STRONGER THAN IRAQ'S WAS.
IT WOULD BE A NIGHTMARE IF WE
INVADED IRAN.
BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS DEAD
SET ON HEADING IN THAT DIRECTION.
BUT WHAT'S THE
REALITY OF IRAN'S TESTING?
>>SOME OF WHAT THEY SAID WAS SORT OF TRUE, WE WILL GET TO
THAT, SOME OF IT WAS 100% FALSE, WE WILL GET TO THAT AS WELL.
BUT
FIRST THE ACTUAL TEST --
>>WHETHER THAT IS A FAILURE OR NOT ISN'T AS CUT AND DRIED AS
ALL, IT CRASHED -- MISSILES FREQUENTLY CRASH AFTER
SUCCESSFUL TESTS BECAUSE YOU ARE TESTING NOT YOUR ABILITY TO
SUCCESSFULLY LAND A MISSILE, MISSILES DON'T TYPICALLY COME IN
FOR A NICE, SMOOTH LANDING.
IT DID FLY FOR 500 MILES, WHICH
MIGHT WELL HAVE BEEN WHAT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR.
WE SAY IT WAS
A FAILURE, THEY SAY IT WAS SUCCESSFUL, BUT WE DO HAVE
DONALD TRUMP, THIS WAS YESTERDAY, TWEETING THIS -- I
BELIEVE IT WAS YESTERDAY --
>>THERE HE IS ALLUDING TO THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR MATERIALS
DEAL THAT BARACK OBAMA WAS ABLE TO GET IN CONJUNCTION WITH
FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON WHICH WILL
PROBABLY BE SHREDDED SOON.
HE ALSO SAID --
>>TECHNICALLY WE GAVE BACK APPROXIMATELY $150 BILLION WE
HAD FROZEN FOR A COUPLE DECADES, AND IN RETURN TOOK THE VAST
MAJORITY OF THEIR CAPABILITY TO PRODUCE NUCLEAR WEAPONS, WHICH
IF WE HAD NOT DONE THEY MIGHT NOW HALF.
NO ACTUAL EVIDENCE
PROVIDED OF IRAN BEING ON ITS LAST LEGS.
THERE WAS A RESPONSE
BY THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT TO THESE PROVOCATIVE STATEMENTS BY
MICHAEL FLYNN AND OUR NEW PRESIDENT, THIS IS A FORMER
IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AND ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT OF
IRAN, HE SAID --
>>HE GOES ON TO SAY --
>>YES, BUT OF COURSE THEY ARE GOING TO SAY THAT SORT OF THING.
IS THERE ANY VERACITY TO WHAT THEY ARE SAYING?
WHAT EVERYONE
IS REFERRING TO IS U.N. RESOLUTION 2231 --
>>NOW YOU HAVE A FIGHT BETWEEN IRAN AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AS
TO WHETHER THIS IS A VIOLATION OF THAT.
PREVIOUSLY THEY HAVE
TESTED BALLISTIC MISSILE TECHNOLOGY, THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION SAID THEY ARE VIOLATING SORT OF THE SPIRIT OF
THE AGREEMENT BUT NOT THE WORD OF IT, AND SO FAR AS WE'VE SEEN,
AND I'VE DONE RESEARCH, THESE MISSILES ARE NOT CAPABLE OF
CARRYING NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
ALL THE TESTING THEY ARE DOING MIGHT
BE APPLIED TO OTHERS.
IS THIS A VIOLATION?
IT CERTAINLY SEEMS TO
VIOLATE THE SPIRIT OF THE DEAL BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT IT IS CUT
AND DRIED THAT THEY HAVE NOW COMMITTED AN ACT OF WAR.
>>RIGHT.
IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER, BECAUSE TRUMP'S INTERPRETATION
IS THAT THIS IS A CALL FOR WAR, AND THEY HAVE TO BE CAREFUL.
THEY CAN'T DO ANYTHING EVEN REMOTELY PROVOCATIVE, BECAUSE
THAT WILL BE USED AS ANY EXCUSE FOR MILITARY ACTION AGAINST
IRAN, AND THAT WOULD BE A COMPLETE AND UTTER DISASTER.
I
DON'T KNOW IF MY ADVICE IS SOMETHING IRAN WOULD EVER HEAR
OR CONSIDER, BUT I'M JUST WORRIED THAT ANY TYPE OF TESTING
THEY DO, ANY TYPE OF PROVOCATIVE MOVE THEY MAKE, WILL HAVE
NEGATIVE RAMIFICATIONS FOR FOREIGN POLICY.
>>I DIDN'T MEAN TO SMILE, I JUST HAPPENED TO HEAR AN ADORABLE DOG
BARKING.
AND LOOK, WHAT WE ARE SEEING RIGHT NOW IS THE
BEGINNINGS OF A SPLIT BETWEEN ONE WAY OF DEALING WITH A
COUNTRY LIKE IRAN AND ANOTHER WAY.
UNDER BARACK OBAMA YOU
ATTEMPTED WHERE YOU COULD TO DRAW IRAN MORE CLOSELY INTO THIS
SORT OF -- WHEN I SAY LEAGUE OF NATIONS I DON'T MEAN THE FORMAL
LEAGUE OF NATIONS, BUT THE INFORMAL LEAGUE OF NATIONS WE
HAVE IN EARTH'S CIVILIZATION -- TRY TO GET THEM MORE CLOSELY
TIED TO OTHER COUNTRY THROUGH TIES OF ECONOMICS IF POSSIBLE,
AND THAT'S WHAT A LOT OF IRANIANS WANT.
THERE IS A
BURGEONING MIDDLE CLASS IN IRAN THAT DOES NOT WANT TO BE
ISOLATED FROM THE WESTERN WORLD, THEY WANT ACCESS TO THOSE
PRODUCTS, AND IT'S A SLOW THING TO TURN A FORMER ENEMY INTO AN
ALLY, OR I SHOULD SAY FORMER ALLY AND THEN ENEMY BACK INTO AN
ALLY.
BUT IT IS POSSIBLE.
ONE WAY YOU PROBABLY DON'T DO IT AS
BY STARTING A SERIES OF BRINKMANSHIP MANEUVERS WITH
THEM, THAT WILL PROBABLY LEAD TO MORE INVESTMENT INTO THE
MILITARY BECAUSE IF YOU THREATEN TO INVADE THEM THEY WILL WANT TO
DEFEND THEMSELVES.
WE CAN TURN IRAN INTO ANOTHER NORTH KOREA IF
WE WANT, IF WE WANT TO TURN THEM INTO AN INTERNATIONALLY ISOLATED
COUNTRY WE CAN DO THAT, I DON'T SEE HOW THAT'S POSSIBLY IN
AMERICA'S NATIONAL INTEREST.

Trump Administration Putting Iran "On Notice"

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