David E. Sanger

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The Daily · Why the Cease-Fire With Iran Keeps Crumbling · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

You know, I can't fight this war the way I'd like to fight it, which was basically be putting ground troops on to take the nuclear material, grab Karg Island where they export oil from.

do all the things you would do if you were at complete and total war with the country.

And he can't do it because he knows the American people and the Congress would not stand for a ground war that results in significant casualties.

And so the result is he has been relying on the power of the U.S.

military to bomb Iran into submission.

Then he got to the second phase of this, Rachel, where he believed that even if he couldn't make the government collapse, he could make them give up their nuclear program.

When he couldn't do that and oil prices went so high, he called for a ceasefire and then eventually turned to diplomacy.

And it's that diplomacy that has now fallen apart, perhaps because it was rushed.

And now he's looking for plan C or D, depending on where you think we are.

I think we're in the phase of the war where we're trying again things that didn't work the first time.

You know, when he did the blockade for the first time, he said this is going to cause the Iranian economy to collapse within days.

They won't have any place to pump their oil.

Their tanks are full and so forth.

And then three weeks ago, when he did the agreement, he essentially allowed the Iranians to go ship that oil around the world and get dollars for it.

Now he's trying that whole process all over again.

But the administration has not made an argument to us yet that this is going to be any more effective the second time than it was the first.

Rachel, it's the most fascinating question because I think until...

A week or two ago, I would have said no.

But in recent days, I've heard the doubts voice sort of in smaller voices, in unanswered questions.

And I think they now recognize that a war that they initially told Americans would be over in four to six weeks is

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