Rudyard Griffiths

Was, you know, was on, supposedly on the record this week, saying that uranium will not be going out of the country.

They will not be giving this out.

They may agree to blend it down to lower levels of concentration.

Why is Iran so kind of hung up on this issue?

Is it a sunk cost fallacy that they feel like they have, you know, foregone all kinds of economic development vis-a-vis sanctions because of their enrichment program for all these years?

Is it a source of, I guess, I don't know, national problems?

pride, a kind of boasting right?

Or more sinister, Janice, is it because they want to maintain the nuclear option?

They want to maintain the capacity to leap to an atomic device precisely because they've been repeatedly attacked now, and they would feel that that, either in reality or the threat that they could quickly...

achieve a breakout to nuclear power status is part of the deterrent package that they want to assemble after this war that also includes the Straits of Hormuz, that includes their ballistic missile program, which seems to be recovering quickly, along with their drone factories.

Negotiations that will have to encompass the Straits of Hormuz, the future of the enrichment program, the future of the weaponized high-grade uranium, the future of the ballistic missile program.

I could go on through a list.

I think you in a previous show had said that the original JCOPA had taken, you know, how many years to negotiate just an agreement around one of those five elements, which was the enrichment program.

Two stated war aims of the Trump administration at the outset of this conflict.

Yeah.

Let's just the remaining moments of the first half of the show, which is available free on YouTube and our podcast feed, talk about the president's decision just in the last 24 hours to delay an arms shipment to Taiwan.

It sounds, Janice, as if the timing here is more than just a coincidence.

This is not being announced by the president.

Obviously, it's being announced by

The Pentagon, but let's face it, Pentagon officials are taking instruction from Pete Hegseth, who's taking instruction, no doubt, from the White House.