Dan Brouillette

But he is serious about changing this regime.

And your lead in was, I think, exactly correct.

We saw this in 2017, 2018 and 2019 when we were dealing with what was then known as the JCPOA, which was the

the Obama construct for reducing their desire to produce nuclear weapons.

The tactics used by the regime at that point in time were very similar to what we saw in the last few weeks with Jared and Special Envoy Witkoff.

It's delay, it's slowing things down, it's stringing things along to the point where they think that they're going to have some upper hand in the conversation.

I think that's what angers the president.

It is what I think drove his decision today to begin these attacks.

It's not unusual to see this in the regime.

He understands it very, very well.

But again, as I said earlier, he is very, very interested in seeing peace around the world and particularly in Iran.

So it won't shock me that he gives them an opportunity to do the right thing, as he pointed out in his comments.

Yeah, well, I mean, don't forget that back, I think it was 2017, 2018, I forget the exact time frame, maybe 2019, I don't recall exactly which.

It was Iran who attacked some of the Saudi infrastructure, some of their oil producing infrastructure, their refining infrastructure as well.

So there's been a tension there in the region for some time, and I think Saudi

the Saudi Arabian government, the governments of UAE and others, recognize that for many, many years Iran has been a bad actor in the region, has been really a catalyst for much of the tension that we face there today.

So they're as anxious as anyone to see this regime perhaps go away or at least change its direction.

The idea of a nuclear-armed Iran

is of concern for all of the countries in that region.

So it doesn't shock me that Saudi Arabia and other governments will join with the US in putting an end to this regime.