David E. Sanger
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first heard Dec 2024
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The Iranians have a long record of stepping on their own economic opportunities because somebody somewhere decides to go back and
to the agenda of making America the primary enemy.
And that's always the internal battle inside Iran.
But there is no question that they emerge stronger in part because they survived taking on the biggest military power in the world.
I mean, the Iranians knew they couldn't take the U.S.
military on frontally.
They would have been crazy to do so.
They set out on a strategy early on of causing so much
economic and energy disruption that they believe the United States would be forced to blink first.
And when you heard President Trump say the other day that he didn't want to become Herbert Hoover, that he couldn't risk another recession, it must have been heard in Tehran as an endorsement of that strategy.
Well,
Going into this war, President Trump said publicly, privately, that he was following the Venezuela model, that he thought he could just decapitate the country, pick up with the existing government, and turn it into basically a vassal of the United States.
He didn't get anything like Venezuela here.
You've heard President Trump say several times that he had bigger plans.
He really wanted to go take over the Iranian oil fields, for example, but that the American people wouldn't stand for it.
That was his way of saying he couldn't do anything that required a ground invasion.
So in this competition in which the U.S.
believed Iran couldn't take the pain,
and Iran believed the U.S.
couldn't take the pain, at least for the early rounds, it turns out it was the United States that needed a way out.
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