Dov Lieber

But on the other hand, he has the carrot.

And, you know, ultimately, if the Iranians concede to the American demands, well, then that's the victory.

And if not, then they can try to achieve those aims militarily.

Currently, Iran looks emboldened.

It now has taken control of the Straits of Hormuz and it has leverage.

And it's saying it's going to start taxing people in order to go through.

So the major question is, what does America do next?

Does it escalate?

Does it try to wrestle control of the Straits of Hormuz from the Iranians or not?

One way to do it would be to get so much leverage over Iran that they agreed to bring it out.

If the Americans and the Israelis can cause enough pain to the government where they say, you know what, if you stop the campaign, we'll give you the uranium.

That was potentially one way.

The other way is to do some kind of operation to get it out of the ground.

That front is more than likely going to last far beyond this Iran confrontation.

And that's in Lebanon.

The Israelis are fighting the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

It's the strongest non-state militant group in the world.

And they've been fighting them basically since October 2023.

That's not a small front.

Hezbollah can fire more rockets at the Israeli home front than...