JD Vance
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12,702 appearances
426 recordings
74 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 15 Sep
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So what happened here is – OK.
So people sort of think of the Middle East as like Iran versus Israel.
I think a lot of people do.
There's also a massive number of Gulf states that are really important, good allies to the United States.
You know, they and Israel don't always see eye to eye, but we're obviously very close to both Israel and to the Gulf states.
And the Gulf states actually came to us and said, you know what?
If the Iranians are willing, really willing to change their behavior, we'd like to invest in rebuilding their country now.
Whether they change their behavior is something that's going to be determined over the long term.
We want to see real changes.
We want to see them to stop funding terrorist organizations.
And also, of course, none of that money comes from the United States.
But if Iran's biggest enemies in the region are saying we'd like to invest if they've changed their behavior, would the United States let us?
Would we release the sanctions that would make it possible for the UAE and Saudi Arabia and other countries to invest in Iran?
Our attitude was, well, isn't that a victory for us?
if Iran's biggest enemies see that they have changed themselves so much that they're willing to invest in the Iranian economy, isn't that like the definition of a win-win?
And then you had all these people saying, no, no, no, no, you can't give them $300 billion.
It's like, we're not talking about giving them $300 billion.
We're talking about letting other countries invest in Iran if Iran has changed the way that it treats the Gulf Arab countries.
It's fundamentally between them
meaning the Iranians and the Gulf Arab countries.
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