Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Mark.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Something that Mark and I agree about is...
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
that there actually is not a threat of an aggressive first strike by Iran.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
I'm a little surprised to hear him say that, but I'm grateful to hear him say it.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
It is honest.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
I would advise you, you may be unfamiliar with this, but I can tell you, anyone in America who drives for a living and listens to AM radio have heard claims that Iran was making nuclear weapons probably 50,000 times in the last 25 years.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Over and over and over again, we hear this propaganda.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
They still don't have a single atom bomb.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
The reason why they haven't been able to cobble together an atom bomb in this 1940s technology is because they have not tried to.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Okay, so people can, you know, just essentially flog this dead horse, pretend there's a threat.
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Oh, he's going to break out any day now.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
But here's the thing about that.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
As the Ayatollah well knows,
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and now Trump again, have all vowed with all sincerity that they would bomb Iran off the face of the earth if they attempted to break out and make a nuclear weapon.
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Hillary Clinton, when she ran, said they'd be obliterated from the face of the earth.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Barack Obama did an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic in 2012 called, As President, I Don't Bluff.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And essentially, the interview is him begging Jeffrey Goldberg to explain to the Israelis that he really, really, really, really means it, that he's trying to negotiate.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
But if the Ayatollah breaks out for a nuke, I'll nuke him if I have to.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
No, they never said that.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
The implication was clear under W. Bush, Barack Obama, Trump, Biden, and Trump again.