Don Durfee
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 28 Aug
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They were talking about this in terms of weeks, not months.
But here we are, of course, at at six months.
Yeah, they had a a l number of things that they hoped to achieve that they said in the very beginning.
Um, one was that the Iranian government would collapse.
They wanted to end Iran's nuclear program, um, sort of eliminate its ability to strike its neighbors with with missiles.
None of those have been fully achieved.
It's important to remember that the US has had sanctions on Iran really since the late seventies when the Iranian Revolution happened.
And to date
Those sanctions, that economic pressure has not caused the Iranian government to collapse.
The war is um is unpopular, no question about it.
Uh the latest Reuters Ipsos polls show that just thirty one percent of uh American voters approve of it.
You know, gasoline is very expensive in the US.
That's a politically sensitive issue.
Trump had run on a campaign of uh ending wars um and not starting new ones.
So that is also weighing on the party.
Reuters World News · US-Saudi joint strikes, OpenAI's rogue agent and Japan quake · 29 Jul 2026
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Well, Iran has really expanded this conflict, and it still has militia around the region that are aligned with it.
Most notably the Houthis, but also some militia in Iraq.
The Houthis, of course, have been striking Saudi oil facilities, but there have also been strikes from the Iranian-aligned militia in Iraq.
And they've been sending drones over, and they've been hitting Saudi oil facilities as well.
So Saudi had previously been striking back against the Houthis,
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