Richard Goldberg
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628 appearances
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 11 Jul
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Well, Washington has certainly built many contingency options for a military option against Iran.
That is certainly the case.
We have gone from three guided missile destroyers in or near Iran
The Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf area and the Red Sea to now up to seven, I would say, destroyers as of as of this week.
Seeing three coming with the carrier strike group.
Lincoln coming from the Indo-Pacific now on station.
Three that were already there and another one that just transited via the Suez.
plus many fighter squadrons being flown in, other support aircraft.
That's a lot of firepower if you're just coming to say hello to the Supreme Leader.
I think a couple of things happened here.
Number one, the president did want to see what would happen if more and more people came out.
Was this regime teetering?
Would people open fire?
Would actually something happen that pushes this regime into collapse?
They must have seen the intel.
The Wall Street Journal then reported...
A bank collapse inside the country, five other banks apparently teetering on collapse, the currency in free fall, water crisis, a power crisis with rolling blackouts for several weeks, all of this leading up to this national uprising.
And then slowly but surely, the information coming forward, and I think they were a bit slow on being able to validate this, opposition sources were saying, we have more people in the streets than you had in 2009 during the Green Revolution, and certainly more throughout the country at that point.
By the time we could validate that, and then also understanding the violence that was being committed, initial reports were saying a few dozen, a couple hundred.
Opposition were saying, we're dying by the thousands right now.
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