Scott Horton

When in fact, what they're showing is,

essential conservatism, trying to hold on to what they got, making a latent deterrent because they know if they break out toward a bomb, that'll get them bombed.

So they were hoping having a latent deterrent would be enough to just keep them at the status quo.

That's why it's so disingenuous.

Just again, with Marco Rubio, the secretary of state saying, forget the intelligence because 60%, hey, it's 99% of the way there close enough for us.

So it doesn't matter if the Ayatollahs decided to make or nuke or not.

They're just too close to one as it is, which is really silly because they're not much closer than they've been for 20 years.

Since the W. Bush administration, they've mastered the fuel cycle.

More toward, but...

They're saying, look at us.

We're a threshold state.

Don't push your luck and force us to make the bad decision.

Now, that's an implication.

They have not said that outright, but clearly the implication is that if we force them, then they will go ahead and make a nuclear weapon.

Not just on their own devices, but if we were to try to negotiate with them in good faith and try to have normal relations with them, that would...

disincentivize a nuclear weapon even further.

Okay, can you comment on the mission, on the operation in general?

Do you think that that might have anything to do with the fact that America attacked Iraq and Libya when they did not have weapons of mass destruction programs?

It wasn't really a program.

It was just a bunch of AQ Khan's junk sitting in crates in a warehouse.