Mark Dubowitz
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So that happens.
And then he offers the Iranians, as he's been offering all the way through, you have an option.
You can go back to Oman.
I told you Oman, and you decided to force me to go to Fordow.
But now we can go back for negotiations.
And he forces a ceasefire on the Iranians, gets the Israelis to agree.
And that's where we are today.
That's where, as you say, a tentative ceasefire that just came into effect.
And we'll see now if the Iranians decide to take President Trump on his repeated offers, join him in Oman for another round of negotiations.
Scott, is there some stuff you want to add to that?
Yeah, so there was a lot to unpack there.
So let's sort of just back up a little bit and talk about, first of all, the regime itself.
Islamic Republic of Iran came into power in 1979.
It has been declared a leading state sponsor of terrorism by multiple administrations, dating back to the Clinton administration.
By Obama, by Biden, by Trump.
And it is a regime that has killed and maimed thousands of Americans, not to mention, obviously, hundreds of thousands of Middle Easterners.
It is a regime that has lied about its nuclear program and never actually disclosed its nuclear sites.
All these sites were discovered.
by Iranian opposition groups, by Western intelligence agencies.
And the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is the UN agency responsible for preventing proliferation, has come out again and again over many, many years in reports, very detailed reports, describing Iran's nuclear weapons program.