Jeremy Scahill

And, you know, I'm not saying, oh, this thing was all cooked up, but it's possible it was.

You know, if this administration isn't parading like those kinds of American heroes in front of it, you have to say, why aren't they?

Now, it's possible that we're going to meet that pilot and the weapons officer and, you know, we're going to hear their harrowing story and we're going to have a, you know, a new Hollywood film made about it.

But it's really odd.

And so all of which is just to say,

I think that the U.S.

has done a number of operations here that are meant to appear one way to the public and may have been about something else, and that could also be a factor here.

I mean, I think it's really, you know, despite the fact that it's Trump and he's bombastic, for an American president to speak in that way and to even raise the prospect, and it's pretty clear that that's what he was doing, of using a nuclear weapon on Iran.

You know, in 1945, the U.S.

dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and there's a reason why that hasn't happened since.

I mean, it's even at the most insane points of the Reagan administration.

You didn't hear this level of recklessness from the president of the United States.

I mean, but people think of it as like Reagan took us to, you know, to a couple of minutes before nuclear midnight.

And then we've got like Trump just talking about it kind of off the cuff in this way.

And I do think I think that there is a very real.

discussion in Iran.

It has gone on the whole time since the early 2000s, actually since the late 90s, about whether Iran should be pursuing weaponizing nuclear material to make a bomb as a massive deterrent against anyone trying to do precisely what we've been watching.

That debate has gotten much more serious.

And I think it's why it's part of why this issue of what's going to happen with their 60 percent enriched uranium has become so important to the Iranians.

You have the foreign ministry spokesperson of the Iranian government say it's as sacred to us as our soil.