Mike Baker
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If it holds, we have a 60 day period of time during the course of this memorandum of understanding or the ceasefire, this pause in the conflict.
I mean, how do you view that 60-day period of time, which seems a little arbitrary given how long it takes to get anywhere with the Iranian regime?
Do you anticipate anything meaningful coming out of it?
Because we haven't even touched on the issue of their nuclear program, which at the outset was sort of top of mind from the White House perspective.
Yeah.
I agree with I would love to see I would love to see it.
Well, I'm conflicted.
Because to say I would love to see a deal, look, you've got the existing regime still in place, right?
So no matter what we're doing, I don't trust this Iranian regime at all, right?
And so I'm fully on board with the concept that we're not going to get the transparency that we would need to monitor their nuclear program going forward, right?
I just don't...
Unless it's a brand new day and unicorns suddenly start flying around and there's rainbows and we're all holding hands.
Maybe hope and change.
But I just don't see that happening.
And so to say we get a deal, what are we doing?
We're getting a deal with the existing regime that just finished slaughtering thousands and thousands of its own citizens, by the way.
Let's not forget that.
And
I don't know.
This is a really tough one.