Michael Weiss

And obviously, the policies changed over time.

We did Stuxnet, we did all kinds of covert operations, the Israelis blew up scientists.

They went in and, you know, eventually exfiltrated the nuclear archive.

Obama had the JCPOA.

Donald Trump had the 12 day war.

But there was a concerted bipartisan multi-year decade, actually, effort to prevent Iran from doing something.

My question is, does this now become the new normal where every successive administration, so long as this regime persists, has to engage in some kind of kinetic operation to

maybe plausibly deniable, maybe covert action on the ground, things go boom in the night, simply to keep them from getting back up on two feet again.

And this intelligence official I spoke to said, this is pretty much how we see it going forward.

It's not going to just be the Israelis asking for this.

Now, it's going to be the Gulf states as well.

Yeah, right.

Israeli, pro-Israel opinion in the United States has cratered across both parties, right?

He said that we see it differently.

We see the new status quo being we must keep the Iranians down.

And oh, actually, we want the Americans in more in our neighborhood.

And we want the Israelis in more too, to ensure this.

And the level of cooperation, not just by the Emiratis and the Saudis.

I mean, I don't put very high estimation on these talks between the Israelis and the Lebanese, which

Little Marco is overseeing.