Miles Parks
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So we could again see a limited round.
Or Trump could go big and order a massive, open-ended, sustained military campaign, perhaps with the goal of trying to oust the Iranian regime.
But that would be a huge operation, no guarantee of success.
So those are three basic options.
Obviously, there could be lots of other possibilities as well.
I think it's fairly significant.
The Israeli leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, has talked for years, decades even, about ending Iran's nuclear program and its missile program.
So he's always been a hardliner on this.
There's no doubt that he's pushing for tough, tough action.
And also, they don't believe a nuclear agreement with Iran is worth the paper that it's written on.
We could certainly have a big discussion about that, but they certainly prefer the more aggressive option.
Having had Trump already strike Iran last year and certainly having it on the table at the moment,
Netanyahu sees this as a real opportunity to press for a big military strike against Iran.
So I would expect Israel to be pushing, and again, not only going for the nuclear program, but for the missile program.
Iran does have a lot of missiles with conventional warheads.
They fired many of those at Israel last June when the 12 days of fighting were going on.
So that's an immediate threat to Israel that they want to address as well.
The Trump administration has raised the missile issue, but it seems the talks have so far been limited to the nuclear program.
going after the missile program would be a bigger operation.
There are multiple nuclear sites, but the missiles can be in many different places.