Steve Yates
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1,090 appearances
8 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 12 Sep
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Karg Island remains a juicy target, might be very difficult to take and control and operate for our purposes, but it should be taken out of the hands of Iranian control, and that is ultimately
the checkmate when it comes to economic sustainability for the regime.
Yeah, that's what people tell me.
I do think that we can do a lot more with technology and unmanned devices in 2026 than when a lot of the armchair quarterbacks are trying to talk about things that were sort of the Persian Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan.
It's a fundamentally different field of technology and capabilities now, but it's not zero risk.
And we have very low tolerance for
for risk publicly.
And so if we have one casualty or one prisoner, we start to buckle a little bit these days.
And so with that as sort of the leavening of this, I think that taking it out of their control is within our capability, I think, reasonably.
Controlling it, occupying it, running it, that's where we're in proximate distance of these missiles that could come from anywhere in Iran at any given time.
And like I said, you don't get to zero risk, and that's more problematic.
Well, I think the negotiations will meet a better conclusion when there are fewer members of the IRGC leadership coming to the table.
And so whether it is unleashing our allies to do what they are uniquely capable of doing, whether we take operations, obviously there are several layers of Iran's leadership that were eliminated in the early stages, and those that survived are watching copiously for lessons to avoid that fate.
And so it might be harder to locate and eliminate some of these targets in this point in time than it was earlier in the conflict.
Nevertheless, I think that we have asked our allies to hold back while negotiations were underway, and maybe it's time to go ahead and let the dog hunt, because this is a situation where it's pretty obvious the IRGC is the long tent in the pole.
Whatever the other remnants of the regime are, I don't believe that there are moderates
but they are less dangerous if it takes longer to negotiate with them.
Well, to me, a big missing link in all of this is the lack of widespread internet access inside of Iran.
Not for the regime elements to be able to communicate, but for the wider world to be able to see and hear from the Iranian people.
It has been a conspicuous absence from this, and it leaves unanswered, where would they be?
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