Bob Pittman
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And let's just talk high level.
Like, what is this about?
The president ultimately failed in the negotiations with Islamabad.
And let's be very clear here.
J.D.
Vance had to call Trump some six to seven times while he was in Islamabad.
Effectively, he was dispatched there with no real ability to have a mandate or ability to make a deal.
He has to constantly...
called Donald Trump.
The Iranians have come out and put out multiple statements.
They were close to some sort of memorandum of understanding until Trump shifted the goalposts at the last minute.
This is a red line that Donald Trump has drawn, which is entirely ridiculous, which says no enrichment of any kind,
which would be surrender for the nation of Iran, and they could never maintain even sort of latent nuclear deterrent.
They do not want to end up like Gaddafi, would you?
And so they see very clearly this is worth going to war over because giving this up is actually the end of our regime after we've been attacked twice by this nation under the cover of diplomacy.
You also have Trump...
who has moved the goalposts so many different times, he could sign this, they could give up their enrichment, and they could bomb and destroy them, not to mention the Israelis.
Remember, zero enrichment is an Israeli demand, which was adopted by the president of the United States.
It was never, never a real demand from the president, even going back into June.
So whenever they say no nuclear weapon, what they mean is no enrichment, again, of any kind.