Damian Paletta

And in that respect, the U.S.

felt like it, you know, hit Iran in a way that the country had never been hit before.

But some version of its regime did survive.

And they did find a way to just have this choke point in the Strait of Hormuz that allowed them to force Trump into a ceasefire from their perspective.

Right.

They still have uranium.

It's unclear what's buried under tons of rubble in the sites that the U.S.

hit really hard previously in 2025.

I think this is one of those things.

I mean, understanding the Iranian nuclear problem.

capacity and ambitions is a challenge that has faced Democratic administrations and Republican administrations.

And then there's people in the intelligence community who have different opinions, and there's politicians in the U.S.

who have different vantage points.

There's still uranium existing.

Now, it might be buried under tons of rubble.

I have to imagine it's hard to get, but we don't have all the information.

And this is the most classified of classified kind of things.

So in the months leading up to this whole thing, remember there was these protests in Iran that made it look like the regime could be in trouble.

And so we go through this, you know, past five or six weeks, Iran's almost brought to its knees, but they find out if they choke off the Strait of Hormuz, they can still kind of hold off and arrest the whole global economy.

They've showed that they still have some power, even with kind of a busted up military and a broken regime.