J.D. Vance
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155 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Sep
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I have to explain a couple of things in the background.
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people fully appreciate what's going on here.
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So number one, it's a bit of a simplification, but you have two elements within the Iranian system.
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You have, and you sometimes hear hawkish Americans say this, that they're all crazy people.
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They want to bring about, you know, the 12th Imam and the apocalypse and all that stuff.
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There are people in Iran who believe that.
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They're also pragmatists.
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You've got the crazy people, you've got the pragmatists, okay?
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So when we struck this MOU,
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And really what the MOU says, and it was misrepresented more than almost anything that I've ever worked on in public life.
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What it says is Iran is going to open the Strait of Hormuz.
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The violence is going to stop.
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And then we're going to negotiate to see if we can come to a broader deal on the long-term nuclear issue.
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That's what we wanted.
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And what the Iranians wanted, of course, was long-term economic and sanctions relief.
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The problem with where we are right now
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And I guess my summary view, Joe, is that I, of course, can't predict the future.
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I don't know exactly where this is going to go, but I think fundamentally we are on the right trajectory.
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It's just going to be really messy and there's going to be a lot of stops and starts.
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So what happens?
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