Hussein Ibish
speaker
241 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 26 May
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And I can't go further than that, especially since I don't know what the Iranians are going to be willing to do.
They have been acting and speaking as if they won the war.
And they didn't, but they may think they did because they, you know, outlasted a superpower.
And, you know, they may be feeling very cocksure at the moment.
And that's dangerous in a world of nuclear buttons and nuclear bombs, which is the world we live in.
So I wouldn't really hazard a guess.
Well, I think there are two reasons.
First of all, it gave the U.S.-Iranian face-to-face meetings in Islamabad a degree of gravitas that they otherwise wouldn't have had.
In other words, this is notably the highest level diplomatic
face-to-face meeting between a serving Iranian official, the Speaker of Parliament Ghalibaf, who's effectively their leader at this point, I guess, or at least as far as anyone can tell, and a Vice President of the United States since the 1979 revolution.
The other reason is that Vance has been, in a quiet way, the most clearly dissident member
of the Trump administration.
And there are a couple of reasons for that.
One is he's certainly of the neo-isolationist wing of the MAGA movement, but also he cannot be fired uniquely.
He's the only person around Trump who Trump cannot dismiss.
He was elected independently as vice president.
There's nothing Trump can do.
He's stuck with him.
So Vance in a way was kind of outmaneuvering Trump by
making it clear that he wasn't for this unpopular war that a lot of people think has gone very badly and in many ways has.
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