Professor Robert Pape

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar · 3/12/26: New Ayatollah Breaks Silence, Trump Escalation Trap, Iron Dome Failures, California FBI Warning · 12 Mar 2026 podcast

So every two weeks for some part of my Substack, I do these video briefings now.

And so we can talk about these serious issues.

So what people have been saying is Iran is so radical, irrational, that what they're going to do is they're going to fashion a bomb.

And the very first thing you're going to do is they're going to drop one on Tel Aviv and maybe a second one on New York here.

And then what this is, is

an image of Iran.

They're painting an image of an irrational state that spasmodically reacts without thinking.

That's not what Iran has been doing for 25 years.

So I'm not trying to paint them as 10 feet tall, but they've been pretty strategic.

I would say I would give them at least a B plus, if not an A. So they've been pretty strategic in how they've behaved.

And what you would do with nuclear weapons is the very first thing is you don't just set off

when you have one you want to follow the north korea pattern which is you want many nuclear weapons notice north korea has got 60 plus nuclear weapons and we're suddenly saying that well okay we're not going to tickle that tiger well that iran saw that so iran is is what that's why in their material that all that material that thousand pounds and everything i'm describing i'm

That's enough for between 10 and 16 bombs.

So what Iran really wants, if they're going to go the nuclear route, is not one bomb.

They want five or six bombs because the very first use of that bomb is probably going to be, quote, a test.

And then what are we going to say?

We're going to say, oh, that's not good enough.

They only had one.

So then they're going to have to do a second test, probably on their own territory.

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