Jason Buttrill

We know that the biggest thing this weekend that the president stated was that the Iranians were talking.

They were making calls with the president to try and –

do a deal.

And I think that what they're talking about the deal is, and I think there's two outcomes here.

So either the president is doing a big time art of the deal type thing and asking for a ton of things that he doesn't think the Iranians will ever agree to.

Either they'll agree to some of them and come down to what he was hoping for, or they won't agree with him at all and he'll do an attack.

I hope, this is what I hope, is that it's not just another toothless nuclear deal that we're asking them to get into because the other nuclear deal they didn't even adhere to anyway.

They're not going to.

They're going to do their own thing.

So if this is just about a nuclear deal, it can't be that.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, so I know that before this happened, there was a lot of, we heard that a lot of Gulf Arab nations were not giving the green light for the president to do major strikes, which actually, that actually makes sense because I'm sure all of them would love to see Iran, you know, be under different leadership.

Yeah.

But the problem is they have large Shiite populations within their own countries.

So what they want privately, they can't really say publicly.

But there's also another element to that.

There's also Iranians asymmetrical warfare, which is activating all of these populations through Shiite militias to then do some kind of overthrow like thing within their country.

That's something that they're dealing with.

Also, there were planned military, live-fire military strikes within the Straits of Hormuz that Iran talked about doing as a response to this buildup.

That would be disastrous.