Lise Doucette
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in the ruling order, but also the collapse.
So they are trying now to project stability and a seamless transition.
Well, Israel has been preparing for this for many, many years.
But for Israel, chaos is a good alternative.
All they want is a weakened Islamic Republic.
And that was the concern of many of the Arab leaders in the Gulf who said to President Trump, don't attack Iran because you will unleash a war.
with unpredictable consequences for all of us across the region and could go all the way to the United States.
Does President Trump have a day after, given what we hear about how the State Department, with all its experts, have been hollowed out, given how we know that the negotiating team, even Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner,
They don't have the bandwidth.
They're negotiating in Ukraine the same time they were trying to negotiate in Gaza and many other, and on the Iranian file as well.
The concern is, no, they haven't looked at the day after.
And President Trump veers, as we've seen in recent weeks, one day he talks about regime change the next day.
He's talking about a nuclear deal.
Even now, last night, he was asked by CBS News about the future.
And he said, well, now this opens up a possibility for diplomacy.
So he keeps everyone guessing.
And this is not the time to leave everyone and most of all the people of Iran guessing.
I think it's not a time for optimism or pessimism.
It's a time just to keep an eye very closely on what happens not just day by day but hour by hour.
This is a very unpredictable and a perilous moment, not just for Iran but the region and beyond.