Eddie Fishman
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They killed tens of thousands of innocent protesters earlier this year.
We would all be better off.
principally Iranians, if they were gone, right?
I think there was high hopes that, you know, there was change coming when Khamenei was sort of going to die from natural causes.
You have an internal debate about succession.
You might get a more liberal government.
Well, guess what?
the U.S.
and Israel took care of their succession problem for them, handed it over from Khomeini Sr.
to Khomeini Jr., who seems to be a puppet of these hardline IRGC generals.
And so I do think that it seemed like Ayatollah Khomeini Sr., deceased now, did not actually want to cross the nuclear threshold.
But it's clear that they did want to have the capability to weaponize, and now there's an even greater incentive for them to do so.
Yeah, I mean, there have certainly been examples.
I would argue that the original approach toward Iran, which was to not use military force, to use economic pressure, to cut them off from this choke point that is the US dollar, originated during George W. Bush's term.
I think it was, frankly, George W. Bush being a little bit humbled after seeing what happened in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Because I think there was sort of at the beginning of his term and after 9-11, particularly, a bit of a sort of rah-rah attitude toward the use of military force.
The U.S.
kind of felt omnipotent.
And then it became pretty clear after a couple of years of those wars that they weren't going very well, even against these quite small countries.
And so then when a country right next to Iraq that was multiple times bigger than Iraq, more powerful than Iraq, namely Iran, was actually developing nuclear weapons.
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