Dave Smith

They didn't compromise on supporting Hezbollah.

But we did get the Strait of Hormuz open, which was open before the war.

So we came back with this with exactly what we had, getting absolutely nothing in addition.

Man, I mean, look, I don't want to discourage Donald Trump from doing the right thing here.

But to try to spin that as a victory of some sort is, even for Donald Trump, that's one that he goes like,

Okay.

It's tremendous.

You know, like, I mean, that's just so wild, Rob, that we'd be back to the place we were with no improvements on the negotiation and just death and destruction to show for all of this.

Oh, yeah, for sure.

but you know just go with the lie and so uh hey we worked it all out and uh because they like me so much they're reopening up their humors which uh remains to be seen if that happens yes yes big big remains to be seen but that point you just made there is such a great one and i'm glad you you brought that up because that really is that cannot be understated

how much we have incentivized them to race for a nuclear weapon.

And, you know, I've heard this.

Now, again, this is a little bit above my pay grade, but I have heard like experts in the field of nuclear energy and nuclear weaponry who have kind of been arguing that it's like, look, you can't really destroy a country's ability to make nuclear weapons in the way you think.

It's like so much of it is in your mind.

If you have the scientists who know how to do it, once they've learned how to do it, they can do it.

Now, destroying facilities can set back your ability to do that.

It's not exactly clear how much enriched uranium they still have, but the knowledge of how to enrich uranium and the mastery of the fuel cycle and all this stuff, unless you kill all of the scientists who have the knowledge, but it's very difficult to do.

It is worth pointing out that the inspections regime in Iran, the IAEA coming in with UN inspections and testing every nuclear site in the country and all this stuff, that's over.

And that held even after Donald Trump pulled out of the JCPOA in 2018.

It held all the way to the 12-day war because Iran was still in the agreement with the other nations in that deal.