Richard Goldberg
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 11 Jul
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I think what's interesting to me, and I reflect on this, and I hope that this is what's happening inside the White House and probably happening in Israel as well, is the ceasefire has probably been an intelligence boon to recalibrate and understand the vulnerabilities that we've created here.
When bombs are dropping and everybody is disrupted from communications and you've really degraded command and control, who is briefing who exactly?
How do you know what damage has been done?
How much have they really appreciated from certain aspects of their economic industrial targets that were hit the steel industry, the petrochemical industry, elsewhere, of what's been done economically to them and militarily to them?
So if they are now understanding better inside the regime what has happened to them, that's probably creating discussions and pressure.
And also, if we're able to start better assessing how they're assessing things, if we're able to see now who's fractured, who's fighting, where are their vulnerabilities, what did we target well, what did we target well, what are they moving around right now?
We also could be generating new target sets and new moments of opportunity to take advantage of if the president at some point decides, you know what, I do want to go kinetic again.
We could have some pretty spectacular opportunities that are generated under cover of ceasefire.
I think it is, I don't want to say surprise, because everybody's always talked about this mosaic strategy that they've had of having a layered defense, a layered command and control.
If something were to happen at one layer, there's duplicity, there's another set of folks with standing orders to go.
I think what's clear is that they were preparing for this more than people had expected and that they had really good contingency plans of sending leaders to ground, trying to keep as much command and control as possible.
That doesn't mean that they are successful to the extent that they would like in keeping it together.
I do think that, you know, our understanding of what they are at the moment.
Right.
This regime, whatever you want to call it, a rump regime, a remnant regime, a makeshift regime.
I don't know what you call it based on press reports of, you know, three or four guys putting it together and playing weekend at Bernie's with the supreme leader who's fried in the closet.
But but, you know.
They own the information space because the Internet is shut down.
They own the cognitive warfare space.
They're able to put out these AI videos and leak sources and work press.
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