Christian Smith
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662 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 13 Aug
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by Iran, however likely or unlikely, wouldn't cause America to collapse.
But you could argue that that's such a red line, it's almost existential.
I mean, sorry, you go, George.
We're going to come on to Iran's strategy in a moment, but let's just stick with this for a second because it's an interesting one I've been thinking about because you could argue it is existential now for the US if you're looking at this question of nuclear.
And I suppose, of course, everyone likes to get into the weeds of, well, is the US doing the right thing?
Is Donald Trump doing the right thing?
A lot of this comes back to whether or not you like Trump, of course, but what
So dealing with where we are now and putting to one side whether or not you think it was a good thing to start this in the first place, whether you'd like the JCPOA, whether or not you think there were other ways of going about this, but where we are now in terms of Iran not looking particularly keen to give up any nuclear program and the US being in a position where its options at least apparently are quite limited,
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George, we heard this week that America had decided not to escalate the war for the moment because of potentially lack of Patriot missiles and munition stocks and things like that.
Do you buy that?
I mean, as we've talked about before, you don't exactly tell people in a war what you're going to do or why you're going to do it.
So do you think that's just an excuse or do you think that's actually true?
Well, look, we're meant to be talking about Iran's strategy, and I have somewhat sidetracked us with other questions about America's strategy.
So let's look at Iran's strategy here.
Of course, we sort of know what they're doing.
They're trying to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed.
They, in many ways, have done a very good job of making the most of their advantages.
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