Robert Malley
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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So you did have a strong constituency within the Republican Party for whom this was a betrayal of the values that they thought President Trump campaigned on and stood for.
And that division within the Republican Party is likely to persist.
So first of all, I would completely agree with your hard line.
This was a strategic debacle for the United States.
Again, it doesn't necessarily mean that Iran is standing tall and could look at it and say, we won on every front.
My hope at this point is that one lesson will be learned, at least by the U.S.
side, which is we now have had three experiments in this.
three experiments in real time dealing with Iran.
The JCPOA, that was President Obama.
Then you had maximum pressure in the first Trump campaign.
We're going to just completely cut off Iran from the world economy and see whether they surrender or collapse.
And then war, which people have been dreaming of, the neocons have been dreaming of for so long.
Let's just look at the track record of all three.
You don't have to love the JCPOA, I think, if you're an honest observer, but not everyone is, and say that left both sides better off, certainly the U.S.
better off than either maximum pressure or war.
I'm not sure everyone will conclude that, but I hope that most American officials or future officials will look at that track record and say, you know what, it doesn't matter what your judgment is of the JCPOA.
it left the US in a stronger, better position to deal with Iran than either of the other two.
Thank you.
It is.
And as I'm trying to do, but I found most impossible to achieve, is to ignore everything the president says, because the same day he'll say that, he'll say that we are an inch away from a deal.
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