Matt Frei

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The Claire Byrne Show · Latest on the conflict in the Middle East · 7 May 2026 podcast

I mean, I guess what he could say is that the regime has been weakened in terms of its ballistic missile capability, which is probably true.

They've been weakened in terms of their enrichment capability, which is probably also true.

but it's not decisive enough because they will still be able to keep their hands on the 440 kilograms of enriched uranium.

And ultimately, I don't think he cares about the subtler point, whether the hardcore regime has been left in place.

Remember, in Venezuela, he announced regime change, and it turned out to be regime reboot.

I mean, the hardliners around Venezuela are still running Venezuela, and no one seems to care very much.

I think the key thing for Obama always is,

Is what he is doing any better than what Obama did?

He's obsessed with Barack Obama.

And so if he can say that what he has negotiated after billions of dollars spent on bombs, after thousands of people sacrificed, is better than the Obama-JCPOA deal from 2015, which of course he shredded,

then he can take that to the bank at the pearly gates and say, look, what I've done is better.

And one way that would be better is if he could get the Iranians to commit to a moratorium on enrichment that isn't just five years, but maybe 10 or 15 years.

But my God, for a tiny little clause like that,

without having achieved any of the things that he said he might want to achieve at the beginning of this war, it's pretty pathetic.

And at the cost-benefit ratio, I would say the costs far outweigh the benefits.

Well, it insulates him against any damage with people who own stocks in AI companies and people who own oil companies.

And these people are very important to Donald Trump, the oil magnates of Texas.

and other places who went to see him before the election in 2024, promised to give him as much money as he wanted for his own campaign in return for deregulation of the oil industry and drill, baby, drill, and all that kind of stuff.

Now, they're obviously cock-a-loo because they're making more money than they ever dreamt of making because of this war.

But the trouble is that there's only so many votes in oil tycoons.

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