Behnam Ben Taleblu

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515 appearances 4 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 12 Sep

Behnam Ben Taleblu’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The President's Daily Brief · PDB Situation Report | April 4th, 2026: Iran War at a Crossroads & Japan Goes Long-Range · 4 Apr 2026 podcast
You know, it usually feels like, oh, you and the diaspora are just sitting there giving orders that people are on the street and they're the ones who are suffering and therefore we have to kind of coddle them.
But it seemed like actually it was me coddling them and then pushing back hard and saying, no, these are the crass realities of life.
And when you have such a nationalistic population being so pro-conflict, that tells you about how many of these other factors
have driven them to this point.
So, I think, you know, you hit the nail right on the head with the environmental one because absolutely nothing, absolutely nothing has been done to address those long-standing qualms and concerns from the 12-day war to the protest and now into this conflict.
And now that the conflict will be done, when again, you zoom out and the fog of war dissipates, the situation has only gotten worse, not better.
This is also something folks in Iran tend to ask us here in DC.
They say, what will happen in the end?
You know, I'm not a prophet.
I'm not a sage.
I even have an archive reading history and how to project that forward.
But I do worry that in the short term, it's going to be bumpy.
In fact, it's going to be very bumpy.
In fact, it'll be costly and risky and dare I even say bloody.
But it's not like all the other paths have not been tried.
So, how will this end?
In the short to medium term, it'll be a regime that courses.
I liken this to the analogy, you take a wet hand on a beach and you pick up sand and you squeeze and that sand which is loose and diffuse and slips through, it becomes cohesive.
It becomes kind of like a muddy thing and it becomes one.
And that's what we're seeing with the national security deep state.
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