Jessie Stephens

There were very much two camps within Iran.

Yeah, you're not meant to just start bombing another country.

International law kind of says that you need to be under imminent threat from that country to even think about doing it.

And there's no evidence that the US certainly was under any kind of imminent threat from Iran.

You remember the US bombed Iran last year in June, and they said that they basically destroyed Iran's nuclear program.

So then for Trump to turn around this week and say that he's doing it because he's worried about Iran bombing the US, that doesn't make a lot of sense.

They were definitely in negotiations.

The issue was that the US and Iran had not been able to agree on whether or not Iran was able to have nuclear materials.

So I guess from Trump's perspective, he's going to say, we tried talking to you.

We couldn't come to an agreement.

So that's why we had to start bombing you.

The other thing that Trump's been saying is that he wants regime change.

It's not just about the nuclear weapons.

He wants to get rid of this theocratic, autocratic regime that's been in charge in Iran.

And the killing of the Supreme Leader was certainly a step towards that.

But he said that it's up to the Iranian people to now take that assassination and kind of run with it and depose this regime once and for all.

Well, they haven't done it because there's no real reason to do it.

So Iran and the US made an agreement back in the Obama era that basically Iran was not going to build a nuclear weapon.

And this was a much celebrated agreement at the time because the whole world had been very worried about this rogue regime and its desire to build a weapon.

But they came together and they said, okay, we're not going to build one.