Behnam Ben Taleblu
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2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Sep
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But if you violate the MOU, please know that we'll be speaking in terms of missiles, not dollars and sanctions relief.
So there are things that the administration is doing to limit the damage already, in my view, of the MOU.
But the challenge is some of its most powerful tools, economic sanctions and moving new military forces into the region.
Per the text of the MOU itself, it is not allowed to be doing those things for the next 60 days.
So elsewhere, the U.S.
is looking at these things diplomatically, politically.
You know, you hit the nail on the head.
I'm puzzled as well.
But we see a playbook that the administration has levied against this, where it'll say, I'm comfortable talking to you, but I'm also comfortable shooting at you.
And in a sense, I think not this weekend, but last weekend, we saw the U.S.
respond, actually, to an Iranian drone attack against a Singaporean, I think, owned or flagged vessel that was trying to transit the strait.
The U.S.
did intercept and strike some of the drones and then ultimately got into a little bit of a small shooting war there by firing against Iranian radars and coastal defenses and drone and missile depots in southern Iran.
And the Islamic Republic responded to that by again firing drones, ballistic missiles at countries that house U.S.
bases like Kuwait and Bahrain, for example.
which, by the way, are countries that it knows will not be punching back militarily against it.
The problem is, you know, it was good that we signaled resolve due to the drone strike, but it was bad that we let the Islamic Republic close the round.
And the U.S.
thinking, and this is actually articulated in General McKinsey's book about his experience at CENTCOM back in the early 2020s,
Is that what the U.S.
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