Miles Parks

What are you watching as this continues?

I mean, when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was talking about this, he really did rule out the idea of the United States being involved after a short amount of time.

Let's listen.

It makes sense to say that, that this is not going to be another Iraq or Afghanistan, this 15-year conflict.

But if Iran politically devolves into chaos, Mara, is that going to be on President Trump?

All right, we can leave it there for today.

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So the Iranians are insisting, as they always have, that they can keep at least part of their nuclear program.

They say they have the right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.

They also know they're probably going to have to offer some concessions.

President Trump tore up the previous nuclear agreement in 2018.

So for him to accept a new one, it would have to presumably include some additional elements that weren't there in the last one.

But Iran...

says it's not going to completely dismantle its nuclear program, as the U.S.

appears to be demanding.