Jake Sullivan

Our guys didn't understand.

Was it in Farsi?

What do you mean they didn't understand?

Like, they didn't understand the Iranians negotiating code?

Well, if you listen to the way that the Trump administration officials who were involved in this spoke about what the Iranians were proposing, there is a mismatch between that and what the mediators, the Omani mediators, said was actually on the table.

Right.

Well, the Trump administration said that Iran was threatening them by suggesting that they had a lot of enriched uranium.

And apparently the Omani said, no, they weren't threatening you.

They were just telling you what they had.

Telling you what they had and also saying, we're prepared to down blend that uranium, which basically means render it so that it's no longer fit for purpose to be turned into oil.

No, you cut it with baking soda.

I've been around.

I know what you do with the enriched uranium.

So at the end of the day, and I thought the way you laid out your opening segment with the total obliteration was so powerful because you can strike Iran's nuclear program.

But at the end of the day, they still have a stockpile of enriched uranium.

They still have centrifuges lying around various facilities we may not even know about.

And they still have scientists who know how to put all that together.

So this gets us to the interesting point about belligerent countries and about belligerent nations.

And that is the difference between capability and ambition.

And I think we're seeing that now with Netanyahu.