Ben Rhodes

And we're doing it in conjunction with Israel, which we've also never done.

We've never done a regime change war, like literally with the Israelis.

So that is going to create impressions in the world too.

And I just think, you know, there's no real discussion of this by Trump.

Yeah, I mean, the first point is that, you know, Arachi, it's not clear, you know, who he even reports to at this point.

And negotiation, the Iranians have been bombed now twice in the middle of a nuclear negotiation where they were making concessions.

So the idea that that's a pathway to de-escalation seems less likely to me.

You laid out well what their options are for response, right?

They're not going to do all of them.

So we're not suggesting that all these things will happen, but they are all the available paths.

You know, ballistic missiles, drones, asymmetric attacks, including terrorist attacks, proxy attacks across the region, cyber attacks.

All these things are kind of in the Iranian kit.

And the question is essentially, do they try to kind of empty the, you know, magazine here

in the early days, or do they periodically do these waves of strikes and try to make this war hurt for people in Israel and the United States and the region over time?

I agree with you.

It's interesting.

There are strikes on the Gulf countries, and they hit just about everyone except Oman, and that was interesting.

Oman was the one that was not hit.

Some of them were just, you know, strikes at U.S.

military facilities.