Konstantin Kisin

The U.S.

is also blockading the Strait.

Yes, that's hurting Iran.

Yes, that's hurting China, blah, blah, blah.

But Iran have every incentive to hold on for dear life because the longer this goes, the more desperate the Americans become.

That's just a fact.

That is the fact of this process.

And so they're not rushing into anything.

And of course, they want to come away from this with some elements of their nuclear program intact.

And now they also have, at least in their own mind, but also in the minds of other neutral countries, the legitimacy to take more control over Australia from us.

And as you say, to keep a chokehold or to threaten to have a chokehold on the global economy through that.

And so, you know, one of the things that

was very clear to us from our us trip and we can't talk about the conversations we had because they were had in private but it became very clear to us that the administration made these decisions not as part of a big vision and strategy but as a much more of an instinctive you know we did venezuela we got maduro now let's do this we'll you know we're on a roll here

That literally is the way people in the administration told us it was made.

That's what we know, right?

It's not something we've just made up.

There was no strategy.

And I'm afraid I want America to come out of this and the rest of the West to come out of this with a great result.

And Iran should not be allowed to get nuclear weapons.

It should not.