Matt Meck
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 8 Sep
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Their strategy is to drag this out as long as possible.
The longer it takes, the better they have.
They just want to keep kicking the can down the road.
And ultimately, their goal is the survival of the regime.
Well, that's a great way to frame the question, Steve, because the different players here really do have very different agendas, even people who are on the same side ostensibly, meaning like the United States and Israel are, of course, coordinating, but they don't have the same agenda.
And it's very important for both Americans and Israelis to remember that, that we don't have identical interests.
The United States...
of course, does not want Iran to have a nuclear program.
And a lot of what they had was devastated during the 12-day war.
And Trump has kind of shifted back to making these conversations about that.
But the truth is, from Israel's perspective, and even before the riots that led to all this erupted, you know,
back whatever it is a little more than a month ago, a month and a half ago, even before those erupted, Israel had been talking a great deal about the fact that Iran had very quickly, very successfully rebuilt a lot of its ballistic missile program.
The ballistic missile program in Iran, from an Israeli perspective,
is talked about more as an existential threat to Israel.
That's more of a pressing issue for Israelis than the nuclear program ever since the 12 day war, because the nuclear program is kind of like it was damaged and it's, you know, let's see what they could do with it.
And we also know that we have more of the backing of the rest of the world who also cares about Iran not getting a nuke.
But when it comes to the ballistic missiles, that's the real existential threat.
That's what caused so much damage to Israel during the 12 day war.
And that's what's worrisome about it to the future.
So if the United States comes up with some kind of deal with the Iranians that has to do with the nuclear but doesn't deal with the ballistic missile threat, the Israelis have already been saying over the last week or two, they've been saying it here and there in statements, but they mean it, that Israel is not going to feel bound by that agreement.
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