Benham Ben-Taliblu

One thing that you got to trim with respect is the positive rhetoric or the optimism that the most powerful person in the world injects into these talks, which is when the president says, I want them to go well, I think they're going well, looks like they're going well.

One thing that you got to trim with respect is the positive rhetoric or the optimism that the most powerful person in the world injects into these talks, which is when the president says, I want them to go well, I think they're going well, looks like they're going well.

The Iranian currency, the rial, has appreciated, meaning improved about 20% since talks started just because of this slightly more different changing positive atmosphere. The president has gone after three refineries in China going after Iranian oil while talking to the Iranians. This is stuff President Obama or President Biden never did.

The Iranian currency, the rial, has appreciated, meaning improved about 20% since talks started just because of this slightly more different changing positive atmosphere. The president has gone after three refineries in China going after Iranian oil while talking to the Iranians. This is stuff President Obama or President Biden never did.

The Iranian currency, the rial, has appreciated, meaning improved about 20% since talks started just because of this slightly more different changing positive atmosphere. The president has gone after three refineries in China going after Iranian oil while talking to the Iranians. This is stuff President Obama or President Biden never did.

And yet still, Iranian exports are flatlined at 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 million barrels a day, depending on who you ask. So, there is going to have to be more done to make the Iranians feel the pain. But long story short, I don't just see this as the president ticking a box. and rushing through things.

And yet still, Iranian exports are flatlined at 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 million barrels a day, depending on who you ask. So, there is going to have to be more done to make the Iranians feel the pain. But long story short, I don't just see this as the president ticking a box. and rushing through things.

And yet still, Iranian exports are flatlined at 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 million barrels a day, depending on who you ask. So, there is going to have to be more done to make the Iranians feel the pain. But long story short, I don't just see this as the president ticking a box. and rushing through things.

I think this is consistent with how he sees the Iranian threat, consistent with his options, consistent with what he campaigned on multiple times before the American public. And he is trying to square peg round hole this because the Islamic Republic is trying to raise the cost and the US is trying to limit the cost. And nary the two shall meet.

I think this is consistent with how he sees the Iranian threat, consistent with his options, consistent with what he campaigned on multiple times before the American public. And he is trying to square peg round hole this because the Islamic Republic is trying to raise the cost and the US is trying to limit the cost. And nary the two shall meet.

I think this is consistent with how he sees the Iranian threat, consistent with his options, consistent with what he campaigned on multiple times before the American public. And he is trying to square peg round hole this because the Islamic Republic is trying to raise the cost and the US is trying to limit the cost. And nary the two shall meet.

Well, I do think there is a strategy here. It's just that there are other strategies as well. I think there's an attempt by the Iranians to rope-a-dope the Americans. I think there's an attempt by Iran's great power partners, the Russians and the Chinese, to magnify the Iranian threat, to suck up all the oxygen in the room and

Well, I do think there is a strategy here. It's just that there are other strategies as well. I think there's an attempt by the Iranians to rope-a-dope the Americans. I think there's an attempt by Iran's great power partners, the Russians and the Chinese, to magnify the Iranian threat, to suck up all the oxygen in the room and

Well, I do think there is a strategy here. It's just that there are other strategies as well. I think there's an attempt by the Iranians to rope-a-dope the Americans. I think there's an attempt by Iran's great power partners, the Russians and the Chinese, to magnify the Iranian threat, to suck up all the oxygen in the room and

time and political space in Washington deal with a tier three threat and to not be able to deal properly with a tier one threat, which is the likes of China and Russia, in my view.

time and political space in Washington deal with a tier three threat and to not be able to deal properly with a tier one threat, which is the likes of China and Russia, in my view.

time and political space in Washington deal with a tier three threat and to not be able to deal properly with a tier one threat, which is the likes of China and Russia, in my view.

But with respect to the things that people have called contradictory in the president's policy and even some of the president's statements and even some of the statements of his advisors, I think I would say, yes, you could see different approaches being taken by different flanks of the Republican Party pretty early on in the Trump administration.

But with respect to the things that people have called contradictory in the president's policy and even some of the president's statements and even some of the statements of his advisors, I think I would say, yes, you could see different approaches being taken by different flanks of the Republican Party pretty early on in the Trump administration.

But with respect to the things that people have called contradictory in the president's policy and even some of the president's statements and even some of the statements of his advisors, I think I would say, yes, you could see different approaches being taken by different flanks of the Republican Party pretty early on in the Trump administration.