Dave Smith

He's I don't know if you've been reading his stuff, Rob, but he's like incredible.

He's a real, you know, Iran expert.

He wrote the book Treacherous Alliance, which was phenomenal.

Really, really great.

Highly recommend it.

But he's over at the Quincy Institute.

And, you know, he was making a big deal.

I think he's spot on right about this.

But he was making a big deal out of the fact that Iran attacked Israel over attacking a different country.

And he was like, even if, like, even if the, you know, the line had been crossed that Iran had demanded Lebanon was part of the ceasefire, you know, that was like, oh, we're not going to open the strait until Israel stops attacking Lebanon.

There's a big difference between that and just attacking Israel on behalf of another country.

And of course, like, you know, the reason, Trita Parsi is a real Mideast expert, and the reason why he saw this as such a big deal is because, like,

dude this just does really set a precedent now that iran has attacked israel over their treatment of another country and obviously like you know the big sticking point in the region you know donald trump's trying to get everyone to sign the abraham accords well why do we even need abraham accords like why are there countries that don't recognize israel or normalize relations with israel well the big beef

throughout the whole region, people who haven't been paying attention, is that Israel occupies these areas where other Arab Muslims and Christians live, and Israel has no legal jurisdiction there, but they've claimed jurisdiction there for almost 60 years, and, like,

I don't know.

It just does kind of open up these possibilities about like what exactly the new normal is in the region.

The reason why I said, you know, in coming out of this weekend, I think Iran is looking more victorious and Donald Trump is looking worse off than ever before is just because, look, obviously, you know,

As we've been saying before, look, this is really I mean, look, obviously, the major test came when Donald Trump said tomorrow is bridge and power plant day and the Iranian people chained themselves to the bridges and the Iranian government said, fuck you.

We're going forward anyway.

You know, evacuate Saudi Arabia if you're going to destroy our civilization.