Karim Sadjadpour

Even individuals adjacent to Iran's Revolutionary Guards have threatened to destroy places like Dubai.

So this isn't a totally risk-free proposition for President Trump.

And I think if he could get a deal without having to fire a single shot, that would be the preferable outcome.

Now, I agree with you that

In my view, the likelihood of a deal at this moment appears not very high.

And for that reason, I think the likelihood that the United States takes military action is much higher.

Scott, I wholeheartedly agree that this is a malicious regime with virtually no redeeming qualities.

I've often said there's no country in the world with a greater gap between the aspirations of its government and the aspirations of its people than Iran.

You have a government that behaves like North Korea, a society which wants to be like South Korea.

And this gap, in my view, is not sustainable, and it's also irreconcilable after what Iran did to its own people last month, which is, according to some estimates, it killed as many as 30,000 people

in the course of 48 hours.

So I totally agree with you there.

And I also agree with you that the state of U.S.-Iran relations today is a very unnatural state.

I always quote Henry Kissinger who said, there are few nations in the world

with whom the United States has more common interests and less reason to quarrel than Iran.

But what we've seen since the 1979 revolution is that Iran hasn't behaved like a nation state following the national interests and economic interests of its people.

It's behaved as a revolutionary cause.

And in my view, that is not sustainable.

The question is whether the United States has the ability with military force

to totally change that reality.