Jamie Rubin
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4d ago
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Uh I think the president would go back to that.
So I think it's the Iranians who aren't willing to go back to that.
They're now putting forward uh certain demands and they are not willing to uh go back to
It under pressure, and they seem to think that they can make President Trump bend because of the midterm elections.
And I think they've misread that too.
So this is a classic case of both parties misreading the other other's uh intentions.
If they think that President Trump is going to uh stop the war uh on terms better than the MOU, I think they're probably wrong.
The MOU was a pretty good deal for the Iranians.
And they chose for whatever reason, whether it was a renegade operation or whether it was a consensus, I don't know.
I don't think we'll know for a long time.
They chose to uh challenge it, and the United States chose to pull back from it, and we're back into a sort of a midway between war and peace, which brings the world economic pain.
And meanwhile, the allies of Iran are getting stronger.
Uh the uh Iraqi uh militia probably attacked uh Saudi pipeline, which makes it hard for Saudi Arabia to export its oil.
The uh uh Iranian uh aligned mu Houthis have made some gains in the uh Red Sea that make it harder for that route to be used, all of which says that the Arab oil uh export market is in deep, deep, deep trouble.
And
And that was something the Iranians are trying to impose on the Arabs and the world in the hopes of getting some better deal.
Boy, that was painful to watch Iran manipulate uh the American electorate in that way.
Um, I think, you know, we'll never know what would have happened had the hostages not been taken, whether Reagan would have won anyway.
But we know that they made Jimmy Carter pay a heavy, heavy, heavy price um for his support for the Shah.
And that showed their ability to use their
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