Nancy Youssef
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293 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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He said that he doesn't believe that the Iranians have sort of said the right thing, that he thinks they want a deal.
We've heard from inside the Pentagon that there are concerns about some of the second and third order effects that could come from military strikes.
It is a costly prospect.
And frankly speaking, the United States conducted strikes last June.
And while the president has said they obliterated the nuclear program, Stephen Witkoff came out and said that they could pose a threat within a week.
And so we have seen from the administration themselves the limitations of these strikes in terms of achieving the outcome, which is an Iran that doesn't pose a nuclear threat.
And so...
Because of all that, you would think that there would be a hope of finding some pathway in which both sides can feel that they have come out on top, short of what could be a protracted, costly, and consequential military action.
And I'll unpack that.
Look, let's say the president's right and that the strikes completely eliminated those programs, those facilities, their capability.
OK, that alone doesn't stop their ambition to have a nuclear program.
It doesn't remove all the scientists who can rebuild it.
So this is not a problem that can be solved strictly through military action because military action can't deal with those other two factors.
But also we know that it didn't happen the way that the president has described it in terms of a total elimination of the program.
That while there was damage, we have seen the Iranians through satellite images rebuilding it.
And so...
At face value of the president's statement, you can't call that an obliteration of the program.
And if you believe, as the evidence would suggest, that there was damage but not an obliteration, then also military strikes in and of themselves don't work.
That's right.
These programs don't end through strikes alone.
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