Mark Dubowitz

Closing the Straits of Hormuz?

40% of Chinese oil goes through there.

The Chinese have been saying to the Iranians, don't you dare.

By the way, 100% of Iranian oil goes from Iran and Karg Island through the Straits of Hormuz.

So economically suicidal for the Iranians to do that.

Terror attacks, absolutely.

I mean, that has been their modus operandi for years.

So I would be concerned about terrorist attacks against U.S.

targets, against civilians.

potentially sleeper cells in the United States.

So he's used terror cells around the world.

He's engaged in a decades-long assassination campaign, including on American soil, by the way, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, including most recently where he went after an Iranian American three times to try to assassinate her

In New York, a woman named Marcia Linejad.

And so he's got to be calculating, like, what is my play?

So if I don't do a deal, how can I actually squeeze the Americans?

And Scott's right.

Like, he must be thinking to himself.

you know what?

I was literally on the 99-yard line with an entire nuclear weapons capability.

I should have crossed the goal line.