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Benham Ben-Taliblu

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
272 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 24th, 2025: U.S. Intel: Israeli Strike Incoming & Trump Reveals The Golden Dome

I think they should be concluding pretty soon, at least, you know, late morning, early afternoon, Friday afternoon. today.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 24th, 2025: U.S. Intel: Israeli Strike Incoming & Trump Reveals The Golden Dome

But I do believe that, you know, the Iranians after round three and after round four, once they introduced, once the Americans introduced a technical team into those talks, their talking points and their spin, particularly when you contrast it with round one and round two, has become much more narrower, much more about managing expectations than about playing up the political win and the optics of round one and round two.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 24th, 2025: U.S. Intel: Israeli Strike Incoming & Trump Reveals The Golden Dome

But I do believe that, you know, the Iranians after round three and after round four, once they introduced, once the Americans introduced a technical team into those talks, their talking points and their spin, particularly when you contrast it with round one and round two, has become much more narrower, much more about managing expectations than about playing up the political win and the optics of round one and round two.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 24th, 2025: U.S. Intel: Israeli Strike Incoming & Trump Reveals The Golden Dome

But I do believe that, you know, the Iranians after round three and after round four, once they introduced, once the Americans introduced a technical team into those talks, their talking points and their spin, particularly when you contrast it with round one and round two, has become much more narrower, much more about managing expectations than about playing up the political win and the optics of round one and round two.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 24th, 2025: U.S. Intel: Israeli Strike Incoming & Trump Reveals The Golden Dome

of having been seen as an equal, sitting even though indirectly, of sitting and talking with the Americans. So, I think they understand here that their stylistic strategy is going to be running out of substantive steam. That style has a substance of its own but it doesn't always get to replace substance.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 24th, 2025: U.S. Intel: Israeli Strike Incoming & Trump Reveals The Golden Dome

of having been seen as an equal, sitting even though indirectly, of sitting and talking with the Americans. So, I think they understand here that their stylistic strategy is going to be running out of substantive steam. That style has a substance of its own but it doesn't always get to replace substance.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 24th, 2025: U.S. Intel: Israeli Strike Incoming & Trump Reveals The Golden Dome

of having been seen as an equal, sitting even though indirectly, of sitting and talking with the Americans. So, I think they understand here that their stylistic strategy is going to be running out of substantive steam. That style has a substance of its own but it doesn't always get to replace substance.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 24th, 2025: U.S. Intel: Israeli Strike Incoming & Trump Reveals The Golden Dome

And if they really do insist on these 180 degree drastically different red lines than the Americans, which are increasingly saying no enrichment on your own soil, then they are beginning to understand it. You see it in their commentary. You see it in their reaction to the new sanctions.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 24th, 2025: U.S. Intel: Israeli Strike Incoming & Trump Reveals The Golden Dome

And if they really do insist on these 180 degree drastically different red lines than the Americans, which are increasingly saying no enrichment on your own soil, then they are beginning to understand it. You see it in their commentary. You see it in their reaction to the new sanctions.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 24th, 2025: U.S. Intel: Israeli Strike Incoming & Trump Reveals The Golden Dome

And if they really do insist on these 180 degree drastically different red lines than the Americans, which are increasingly saying no enrichment on your own soil, then they are beginning to understand it. You see it in their commentary. You see it in their reaction to the new sanctions.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 24th, 2025: U.S. Intel: Israeli Strike Incoming & Trump Reveals The Golden Dome

For example, the spokesperson of Iran's foreign ministry doing a press conference with Iranian media only in front of the

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 24th, 2025: U.S. Intel: Israeli Strike Incoming & Trump Reveals The Golden Dome

For example, the spokesperson of Iran's foreign ministry doing a press conference with Iranian media only in front of the

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 24th, 2025: U.S. Intel: Israeli Strike Incoming & Trump Reveals The Golden Dome

For example, the spokesperson of Iran's foreign ministry doing a press conference with Iranian media only in front of the

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 24th, 2025: U.S. Intel: Israeli Strike Incoming & Trump Reveals The Golden Dome

facility where the diplomatic negotiations were just about to be held, critiqued the State Department sanctions the other day for going after Iran's construction sector and targeting the trade of at least, I think, 10 different kinds of strategic metals that can bolster the regime's missile, military, drone, and potentially even nuclear programs. So

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 24th, 2025: U.S. Intel: Israeli Strike Incoming & Trump Reveals The Golden Dome

facility where the diplomatic negotiations were just about to be held, critiqued the State Department sanctions the other day for going after Iran's construction sector and targeting the trade of at least, I think, 10 different kinds of strategic metals that can bolster the regime's missile, military, drone, and potentially even nuclear programs. So

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 24th, 2025: U.S. Intel: Israeli Strike Incoming & Trump Reveals The Golden Dome

facility where the diplomatic negotiations were just about to be held, critiqued the State Department sanctions the other day for going after Iran's construction sector and targeting the trade of at least, I think, 10 different kinds of strategic metals that can bolster the regime's missile, military, drone, and potentially even nuclear programs. So

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 24th, 2025: U.S. Intel: Israeli Strike Incoming & Trump Reveals The Golden Dome

They are much more wary right now of those other growing stocks of the administration, the military stock, the economic stock. And they're seeing too that there will be costs to not delivering or to not changing their position. So, that's why they are trying to ring the alarm bell. They're saying if there's a strike, everybody will be impacted by it.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 24th, 2025: U.S. Intel: Israeli Strike Incoming & Trump Reveals The Golden Dome

They are much more wary right now of those other growing stocks of the administration, the military stock, the economic stock. And they're seeing too that there will be costs to not delivering or to not changing their position. So, that's why they are trying to ring the alarm bell. They're saying if there's a strike, everybody will be impacted by it.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 24th, 2025: U.S. Intel: Israeli Strike Incoming & Trump Reveals The Golden Dome

They are much more wary right now of those other growing stocks of the administration, the military stock, the economic stock. And they're seeing too that there will be costs to not delivering or to not changing their position. So, that's why they are trying to ring the alarm bell. They're saying if there's a strike, everybody will be impacted by it.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 24th, 2025: U.S. Intel: Israeli Strike Incoming & Trump Reveals The Golden Dome

They're saying if there's a strike, monitoring verification will be gone. They're saying that they're basically going to hold America responsible for the things that Israel does. They're trying to increase the sense of panic in the West right now. You see that in their statements very much so.