Matt Frei
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718 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 17 Aug
Matt Frei’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When they attacked southern suburbs of Beirut yesterday, going after Hezbollah positions, the Israelis, of course, have also moved massively into southern Lebanon, 10 kilometres beyond the Litani River, which used to be the kind of dividing line between
for any Israeli control.
So they've done this despite the fact that President Trump has urged them not to do so.
And the Iranians have always threatened that if the Israelis encroach further on Lebanon and Hezbollah, they will then retaliate against Israel, which is exactly what happened yesterday.
Two massive barrages of missiles overnight against Israel.
No one was killed or injured.
All of it was shot down by the Iron Dome and various other defensive systems.
But the extraordinary thing was that then Donald Trump went on the record in a sort of flurry of telephone interviews with colleagues, including
The Financial Times and Axios saying, you know, I call the shots here.
They don't call the shots, as in they being the Israelis.
If I tell them, I'm paraphrasing, if I tell them to stop firing or not to fire, then they will.
You know, I'm more or less pleading with them not to retaliate to the Iranians because we're so close to getting a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz and end this war that, by the way, I started on the 28th of February.
Lo and behold, a few hours later, the Israelis do exactly what Trump asked them not to do,
which is to fire a barrage of missiles against various targets, I think about six or seven targets inside Iran.
Now we wait Iran's response.
I mean, I think, you know, if you want to sum up the last few months, it has been three lessons which have been taught the American administration.
The first lesson was a lesson in geography, thanks to the Strait of Hormuz.
The second lesson was a lesson in the limitations of American superpower when it comes to a
a resilient rump regime in Tehran with very few leaders or weapons left, but enough to create a lot of damage.
And the third lesson which it is learning now very painfully is that although it funds Israel and it supplies Israel with life-preserving weapons,
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