Behnam Ben Taleblu
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Sep
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And you have to prioritize higher value military strategic political targets to be defended.
So that means there's less of the well-layered air and missile defense infrastructure to intercept an incoming projectile towards, as we saw the strikes in Beersheba at the end of the 12-day war, or some of the strikes, again, also in southern Israel during this war, which means that they can land simply more strikes against civilian centers that are probably less well-defended.
So all of these reasons get to a different rationale and paint a slightly different picture of declining Iranian missile launches.
But to the heart of your question about the political versus the military, the political is I don't think it's possible to have a conversation about Operation Epic Fury without what happened in Iran in January.
And you and I had spoke about that at length, which was the biggest wave of anti-regime protests and the mass killing, 40,000 plus.
The president last night mentioned 45,000, if I'm not mistaken, of these Iranian protesters.
And absent a regime change in that country, if any kind of rump regime, national security, deep state lives along in that country,
post-conflict, we're going to be getting ready for a Middle Eastern version of North Korea.
And that's what I mean by avoiding the political win or robbing us of a political win, because there is no Delcy Rodriguez in Tehran.
The stakes are so high that it's high risk, high reward.
It's go big or go home.
And the model we're trying to carve out is a potentially limited war model where we defang and neuter the adversary.
But the question is, what is the political strategy that we bring to bear?
And I'm not claiming that I'm some kind of prophet here, but I do believe I was one of the first ones in the middle of the 12-day war last year.
to raise the alarm bell about we could be moving towards an Iraq situation, but not Iraq 2003, Iraq post-91.
And fortunately, I hear a lot of people saying that now after this war, because the limited war experience of this kind of adversary
you know, anti-American, anti-Israeli, oil-rich, authoritarian, doesn't control its own airspace, firing ballistic missiles, subject to UN sanctions, weak enough that it can't win a war abroad, strong enough to kill its own people.
That does sound a lot like Saddam in the 90s.
And if we're going to get this right, whenever the conflict is going to be turned off, the thing that is more important to me is what kind of political strategy are we going to bring to bear?
Where is maximum pressure going to come back in?
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