Nancy Youssef
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293 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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Why is this happening now?
That is the question.
And I don't fully know the answer.
There are pieces of it that we know.
You remember at the end of December 2025, we saw remarkable protests that were happening across Iran and a bid by Iranians to change the leadership within their own country amid resistance.
real economic hardship.
And at that time, the president sent out social media posts saying that we were coming to help, and the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group started moving towards the region.
And then protests were put down, frankly, by the Iranians.
Potentially great costs.
The estimates are anywhere from 3,000 to 30,000 killed in the push to end those protests.
And then we started hearing this discussion about needing to strike a deal.
I don't know if it's a scenario where the president started on this path with one goal in mind, thinking that the regime was in trouble and that there was an opportunity for the U.S.
with just a little bit of help could sort of tip the scales in the protesters' favor and it's expanded to something else.
That's one potential one.
But
There hasn't been an articulation for the urgency now.
Well, that's a great question.
So far, we haven't heard allied support.
We've heard from Gulf partners in the region that they don't want U.S.
military jets taking off.
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