Gregg Carlstrom
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319 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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But nonetheless, he's saying they need to recognize Israel as part of this.
And then he even lumped in Pakistan.
And you can imagine the reaction of the Pakistani government, which has spent the past two months
trying to mediate between the United States and Iran, hoping that this would improve their standing in Washington, only for Trump to turn around at the last minute and tell them, well, you need to recognize Israel as part of this, something that would be deeply unpopular, I think.
in Pakistan.
It's a non-starter with most of these countries.
And they have told him very clearly in private that they're not going to do it.
They're not going to join the Abraham Accords right now.
But that's why he's doing it.
The hawks in Washington are unhappy about what he's negotiating with Iran.
And so he's trying to sweeten the deal by adding the prospect of expanding the Abraham Accords.
Not a whole lot, honestly.
I mean, if you listen to Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, or Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, I mean, they will highlight things like the damage to Iran's navy or to Iran's air force.
These are not significant strategic gains.
The Navy and the Air Force in Iran were mostly stocked with museum pieces that Iran purchased when the Shah was in power before the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Yes, there's been some damage to Iran's ability to produce ballistic missiles, to fire ballistic missiles, but as we've seen over the past few months,
it retains the capacity to fire enough to cause extensive damage in the Gulf countries and extensive damage to the global economy.
I think the one outstanding question from the war is how bad is the damage to Iran's economy?
We've seen Israeli strikes on steel mills, on petrochemical plants, on other things that are central pillars of the Iranian economy.
Even government officials in Tehran acknowledge that we're talking about probably millions of people who have lost their jobs, either directly or indirectly, as a result of the war.
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