Scott Horton

Sure.

Well, he started with January, right?

Trump's second term here and the maximum pressure campaign.

Essentially, as should be clear to everyone now, all these negotiations were just a pretext for war.

Trump and his entire cabinet must have known.

that the Ayatollah is not going to give up all enrichment.

That is their latent nuclear deterrent.

Their posture has been heavily implied.

Don't attack us and we won't make a nuke.

While America's position was, if you make a nuke, if you start to, we'll attack you.

So it's the perfect standoff.

But what happened was, and you might remember a few weeks ago, there was some talk about, well, maybe we could find a way to compromise on some enrichment.

Maybe they could do a consortium with the Saudis.

Maybe there's some way that we... And then, nope, the pressure came down.

No enrichment, zero enrichment.

But that's a red line.

Everyone knows that there's... And even now, it's probably less likely than ever that they're going to give up enrichment.

Sure, they bombed Porto, but they didn't destroy every last centrifuge in that place.

And...

The Iranians are already announcing that they're already begun construction on another facility under a taller mountain, buried even deeper.