Michael Weiss

The second was the missile capability, particularly their medium range missiles, which have wreaked havoc all across the neighborhood, hitting GCC countries.

being responsible for killing American soldiers.

We didn't quite get all of that.

U.S.

intelligence assessed that, in fact, they have quite a bit more launchers than we reckoned.

And some of those launchers have been kept underground.

So that's mark two.

And number three, their ability to project power in financing and arming manifold terrorist proxies from Hezbollah in Lebanon to Hamas in Gaza to Iraqi Shia militias.

That's kind of TBD.

Hezbollah has been pretty badly battered by Israel and Lebanon.

Remember, that was one of the

Other questions at the start of the ceasefire, was Lebanon on the table?

Was it not?

The US and Israel said it wasn't.

The Iranians said, yes, it was.

My question, and I don't have a good answer from anybody, is if we are going to lift sanctions, start to enrich the Islamic Republic, if they are going to simply get rich by charging tolls,

for tankers that pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

That's assuming this hour blockade of their blockade is lifted.

Are they going to use that money to build schools and hospitals and bridges that we knocked out?

Or are they going to use that money to enrich the IRGC and also all of the above, missile program, nuclear program?