Richard Goldberg

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The President's Daily Brief · PDB Situation Report | April 25th, 2026: Iran Talks Collapse—What Happens Next? · 25 Apr 2026 podcast

And this is all we have is their statements on X and leaked reports to the press instead of actually having reports from the ground for real people.

So that's a disadvantage where we sit.

But at the same time, you know, it sounds like we did an incredible amount of decimation to anything that's above ground to a lot of things that are below ground.

Maybe some of the things that are deep, deep, deep underground.

We'll learn at some point whether or not our munitions had any effect at certain points.

That's likely how you come up with a number of 50 percent or 30 percent of missiles remaining is clearly some things underground.

We have not been able to hit and we have not been able to destroy.

And I don't know if that is a surprise to the military planners or not, but it's a reality that we have to deal with.

Again, not a ground operation.

This is how much can you do from the air and sea.

And I think if you cut to that point where Admiral Cooper says, you know, the president said in his press statements today that we've completed something like 85% of our targets or 75% of our target sets.

And he paused because the Iranians said they wanted to talk.

Now, we can reflect on whether that was a good idea or bad idea.

You know, 15%, 25% of your target set of being able to give yourself that breathing room to transition to economic pressure, as you say, take the political domestic pressure off a bit, bring oil prices back down to a point where you can maneuver this long term.

I think that my biggest surprise, honestly, is that we are all these weeks in,

There is a complete effective shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz.

There's a blockade of Iran underway.

And the president has been able to keep the price of oil somewhere around $100.

And on WTI right now, still below $100.

That's pretty amazing that we don't have... Yes, we are paying higher gas prices.

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