Shawn Ryan

That stopped when Trump came into office because the Iranians knew who was back.

They also knew that President Trump was willing to make a deal and actively seeking a deal.

President Trump deployed, I think, a very, very competent diplomat, Steve Witkoff, to go get a deal going with the Iranians.

Now, this was a major threat to the Israelis because the Israelis viewed this as the prime time and Trump as the prime vehicle to use for regime change in Iraq.

Now, President Trump's stated policy had been, and he says this all the time, that Iran can't have a nuclear bomb.

Now, the Iranians actually agreed with President Trump, and they had a prohibition, a fatwa, a religious decree on actually producing a nuclear weapon that had held since 2004.

And what the Iranians did say was like, hey, we're not going to make a nuclear bomb, but we want the ability to enrich uranium, because they had seen what had taken place in Libya, in Iraq, and they said, hey, if we go the Qaddafi route in Libya and say, here's all of our nuclear-making material,

then they're a sitting duck.

Then they can be invaded and regime changed at any given time.

They saw the Saddam route, if they actually pursued a weapon or even like kind of BS'd that they had a weapon, that same thing, they would be immediately invaded.

So they kind of had this ability to say, hey, we have a prohibition on a nuclear weapon, but we have some ability to enrich.

This was a major threat to the Israelis' goal.

So what I watched the Israelis do over the course of the last year

was use their government officials, engaging with our government officials, but then also their surrogates in the media, Mark Levin, who I'll talk to you tonight, mainstream media, think tanks, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a lot of talking heads on Fox News, to move the red line.

So Trump had said, my red line is no nuclear weapons.

Ayatollah said, great.

I don't want nuclear weapons either.

Let's talk.

So they moved the red line by saying enrichment.

Iran can have no enrichment.