Dr. Bradley Thayer

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My concern would be this, that when he talks about unconditional surrender, and Caroline Leavitt yesterday on Friday said that when the president determines that Iran no longer poses that threat, that's when unconditional surrender will take place.

But my concern is this.

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Well, there's an element of ambiguity there.

I think what she's saying is this, my interpretation is this, when they no longer have the military capabilities to harm their neighbors or to harm their people.

That's when unconditional surrender will take place.

And she envisioned the campaign lasting four to six weeks in her statements on Friday.

So my concern is this, that you take a war against the theocracy, which is a limited war now, and we're turning it potentially into a total war against the Persian people.

which is a different type of war.

The war against the theocracy has great support in Iran among the Persian people and among the ethnic minorities that live in Iran, principally the Azeris, who are about 16% of the population, and the Kurds, which are about 10% of the population.

You can see there that about one out of every four people living in Iran is either Azeri or Kurd.

If we say unconditional warfare against Iran so that they no longer have the ability to harm

their neighbors or to harm the population.

My fear is that this turns this into a national element begins to surface and the Persian people will begin to unite around the theocracy, which is what we don't want.

About six out of every 10 people living in Iran is Persian.

And so that's a concern.