Jeremy Scahill

I think they presented cooked intelligence to the White House, among other things.

There's political pressure, et cetera.

But I also think that they intentionally contaminated the intelligence pipeline to to Trump and

you know, that's not on the Israelis.

That's in their interest to do it.

That's on U.S.

intelligence professionals.

It's also what happens when you bring in Fox News hosts instead of actual intelligence professionals to be, you know, running the show.

I mean, look, I mean, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has been

kept outside of the loop on Iran, in part because she's expressed skepticism about some of these core issues in the past.

There's no question that Israel has had an enormous influence over all of this.

But I don't think that Israel necessarily thinks it's such a bad thing if this ends under Trump in this way.

Because I think what the Israelis realize is that Iran has stayability and it's to its advantage when it's in a military confrontation with the United States.

And I think that the next phase of this is that the Israelis are going to look at how to really ratchet up the economic desperation inside of Iran.

I think they do want to bring down the government.

I think that they believe that the best way to do that is to just utterly destroy the fabric of the Iranian state economically and

So while, you know, while there may be some short term deals or agreements that the Israelis may not like, I still think they feel like what they're going to get out of this is in the long run an attempt to further weaken and bring down Iran.

I think they're going to fail at that, but that's what I think they're in part calculating.

And also.

They wanna continue their war in Lebanon.