Mark Dubowitz

a regime that starting this year, the restrictions on the nuclear program would begin to sunset.

Iran would emerge with an industrial-sized nuclear program.

So imagine this regime with nuclear-armed ICBMs

tens of thousands of missiles, a trillion dollars, its proxy still intact, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, Shiite militias, this regime threatening the Strait of Hormuz, threatening the Gulf allies, threatening U.S.

bases, U.S.

embassies, Israel and the U.S.

homeland.

I just think it's important for your listeners.

Yeah, I make the point, Ross, only to say that it was inevitable that the Islamic Republic was going to close the Strait of Hormuz.

And the only question was, were they going to close it with nuclear weapons, ICBMs, a

terror proxies that were intact and growing and becoming more deadly and a trillion dollars in order to fortify their economy and fund their nefarious attack activities?

Or were they going to close it, as they have, when they've been severely degraded along all of those lines that you've said?

So the battle for Moose was a battle that was inevitable.

And the only question was, were we going to fight it in a way where we were stronger and they were weaker, or they were stronger and we had very limited options in order to open the strait?

No, I think that the Iranian strategy, which and by the way, this was always the smart strategy for Khamenei, and he'd still be alive to execute the strategy if he had done this, which is I'm going to reconstitute.

So after the 12 day war, I'm going to reconstitute my missile program and my nuclear program.

and it was only 12 days, and it wasn't obliterated, despite what President Trump said.

I'm just going to work with the Chinese.

The Chinese are gonna send in Chinese air defenses.

I'm gonna rebuild my terror proxies, and I'm gonna wait President Trump out.