Mark Dubowitz

But that I think the president would rightly be able to defend as we had a six-week deal

war.

We had, you know, weeks and months of diplomacy.

But at the end of the day, I'm leaving to my successor a severely weakened Islamic Republic that will take years to reconstitute its nuclear missile and military capabilities and no longer represents a threat to the United States, our interests and our allies.

I think that would be

a good ending for President Trump.

And it's certainly an ending that I would consider to be a significant yet partial success.

Well, I think it could matter unless the Americans and Israelis were not coordinated.

If they were not well coordinated, then you could see problems emerging.

But I think they are very well coordinated.

And I think for President Trump, the Israelis are very useful partners.

point of leverage against the Iranians, right?

In any negotiation, President Trump could essentially say like, I got this mad pit bull on a leash and I can let it go.

And if I let it go, they will continue to

do what they've been doing to you.

And I will just let them do it.

Or you can negotiate with me and here are my terms.

And I mean, we haven't even talked about what the terms that the president has laid out, because they actually are, I mean, from an Iranian perspective, they should be pretty reasonable terms.

I mean, I don't think they're reasonable because I don't think they're enough, but the president has laid them out.

And the president has said, here are my terms.