David Daoud
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530 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 15 Aug
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I think what Iran is looking for here, what both sides appear to be looking for, is an off-ramp from the conflict, not a permanent resolution to
uh to the uh outstanding issues i mean look even now the 60-day ceasefire if it even happens um it's meant to uh push down the road the resolution of certain issues like
the nuclear issue, you know, very tiny issue.
Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons, enriching uranium, its support of militias, Hezbollah, you know, Palestinian Islamic Jihadi, Iraqi Shia militia, so on and so forth.
These are not things that Iran will ever permanently abandon because they are intrinsically tied to its state ideology, which is currently expansionist under this Khomeinist regime.
Iran has adopted an expansionist regional policy.
It wants to export the revolution in the sense of creating regional hegemony under Iranian dominance and both the nuclear weapons, or pursuit of nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, its own personal armament, and the support of militias, both to interfere in the domestic politics of the countries where they operate, to kind of capture those domestic politics,
and to project power regionally against Iran's enemies, these are part and parcel of that expansionism.
So if you're asking Iran to abandon those things permanently, what you're saying is, Iran, stop being Iran as you are today, and I don't think that's going to happen.
And from our end, from the United States end, I think we're just trying to get out of the conflict, and we're trying to look like we've scored a W, and we won't have unless these issues that I just highlighted are permanently resolved.
Well, again, here I'd like to divide it into two parts, short-term versus long-term.
And there is a possibility that the ceasefire 60-day extension becomes much longer, becomes permanent.
But this kind of goes to what is the accomplishment.
If the accomplishment is that we have temporarily set back Iran's
malicious and malign activities all around.
Nuclear program, ballistic missiles, degraded their military capabilities, their military production capabilities.
And then we've taken our foot off the gas.
And then we've achieved a permanent ceasefire that doesn't simultaneously achieve a permanent resolution to the issues which led us to the conflict.
And what Iran is going to do is bide its time.
until either this administration or a future administration.
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