Fox News senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane weighs in on the expiration of a UN arms embargo on Iran that banned the country from purchasing foreign weapons including fighter jets.
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Pete, a chilling new report
warning the: U Dot S about Chinas
view to take Americans hostage
if the Doj doesnt drop its
prosecution of chinese
scientists,
the Wall Street Journal
reporting quote the chinese
message has been blunt: the: U Dot, s
should drop prosecutions of
chinese scholars in american
Courts or Americans in China
might find themselves in
violation of chinese law
here, to discuss Fox news, senior
strategic analyst and retired
four star General Jack Keane
General thanks. So much for
being here
were going to get comments on
IRAN and Russia as well, but
what the? U dot? S is saying that
these scientists, concealed from
immigration authorities, their
active duty status with the
Peoples Liberation Army,
therefore weve detained them.
Should we take seriously that
China will do the same to
American? This is
oh yeah. Absolutely
first of all, this is so called
visa. Proud to
these are actually research
fraud.
These are actually research
scientists here to do what
to spy
theyre here to conduct
espionage.
They got caught at it and
theyve been arrested.
China wants to retaliate
theyve done this kind of
realuation with the Canadians
Realuation with the Canadians.
Now theyve got two of them
arrested chinese executives
from Huawei. They have arrested x,
theyve also done it with the
Australians and Swedes
were arresting spies. What China
will likely do is detain
Americans who have done nothing.
They are not guilty of anything.
So in that sense its not like
the cold war with the Soviet
Union, we arrested their spies,
we arrested ours and we
exchanged them at at some point.
So yes, when you started out
and said theyre hostages, that
would be an appropriate
description of what the Chinese
intend to do.
Pete its such a demonstration
of the rule of law,
of course, theyre in violation,
so theyre arrested over there
that doesnt matter theyll
find any reason whatsoever and
certainly could escalate the
tension between us and China.
There has been a arms embargo to
IRAN that has now expined under
the Iranian Nuclear deal that
President Trump pulled us out
of.
Why would this allowed to expire
for IRAN and what will it mean
yeah?
This is another flaw in that
so called Jcpoa or nuclear deal
that the Obama administration
entered into with IRAN in twenty fifteen.
It meant that in five years-
and here we are two thousand and twenty five
years later, the nuclear
excuse me, the weapons embargo
that was imposed is over
and it means that they cant
sell and they cant buy
and, as you said, all advance
missiles, tanks, airplanes, etc.
The reason why the embargo was
there is because Irans behavior
aggressively and malign behavior
destabilizing the Middle EAST
war in Syria. War in Yemen,
using Iranian backed approximate,
is says in Iraq, proxies in
Iraq attacking Israel through
Syria on a regular basis using
rockets and everything. The
fact is that behavior is what
the embargo was trying to stop
and the nuclear deal has now
because it is so fundamentally
flawed. The nuclear deal is
permitting that arms embargo to
go away
and the United States tried to
do manager about it, went to the
U dot N tried to get a resolution
passed to extend the deal which
makes sense, and that resolution
failed
so heres where we are and
thats the fact.
The Iranians are strapped for
money, though so theyre not
going to be able to buy a lot
because of the? U dot? S, sanctions
that are imposed on them,
Russia and china- are the likely
candidates to sell to them for
sure. As we go forward,
PETE Unbelievable,
the White House has rejected
Vladimir Putin.
He responded to the: U Dot S nuclear
arms proposal that was
negotiated under the Obama, Slash Biden
administration.
So where are we on missiles and
whether or not we should be in
an agreement with Russia? And
why does it matter?
Well, this is the s dot, ta, DOT, Rt
Treaty, and this is a treaty
that restricts the number of
nuclear weapons that the United
States and Russia can have
and its the treaty. That makes
enormous sense and helps to
maintain stability in the world.
The restriction sod number is
our numbers around one thousand, seven hundred each,
and what are we talking about
ballistic and submarine missiles
that nuclear weapons out of
silos and submarines? Also
air drirred nuclear bombs from
our strategic bombers,
thats where the restriction is
and what were trying to do is
extend it another. Five years
the United States thought we had
a deal over a week ago, PETE
when our negotiators said
listen. The Russians is have
agreed at least to a
framework not signed the deal
yet, but to framework that
will extend the treaty a year
and they will freeze all nuclear
weapons development
within twenty four hours. The Russians
came out and said, thats a
fantasy.
So something happened there.
Speculation is Putin got into
this said. No. I dont want to
do that
and further speculation and
thats all it is is that he
didnt want to give President
Trump a huge political victory
close to the election
PETE Interesting
General Jack, Keane breaking it
all down for us. We really.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-18.