Shawn Ryan

Enrichment equals a nuclear weapon, which is just fundamentally not true.

So that would be parroted from officials in the Israeli government and then also on the news.

They were doing enrichment to some degree.

So there was enrichment.

And we knew all 18 intelligence agencies agreed that the fatwa against actually making a nuclear weapon was holding and the Iranians were not making a nuclear weapon.

So Tulsi Gabbard testified to that last year.

She just testified to it again this year, that the Iranians, under the previous Supreme Leader, who was just killed, now the Iranians more than likely are going to change their strategic outlook.

That's my guess.

My guess is like, hey, a lot of their hardliners are now saying, hey, do you see what this moderation got us?

and now they're going to attempt to buy one or spread.

That's just my guess.

But for the last year, prior to this last conflict kicking off, we did not assess that they were trying to make a nuclear weapon.

So that's why they had to move the red line and say enrichment.

And so finally, through official engagements and the media continuing to echo this, they basically got the US talking point to change that Iran could not have any kind of nuclear enrichment.

And that was a non-starter for the Iranians.

And that's how we basically got into the 12-day war, Operation Midnight Hammer.

Again, 12-day war launched by the Israelis.

We said, hey, we're going to come in.

We're going to do a series of limited strikes to take away any nuclear capability that Iran may have.

And then we're done.