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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Yeah, well, I think that part of these negotiations have to be very clear that this is not two co-equal negotiating parties.
We're big and we won and you lost.
And we are negotiating the terms of your continued survival.
We are generous and humane people in America.
And so we don't envy the idea of going after you to total obliteration.
But make no mistake about it.
We are we are negotiating the terms of a surrender.
And if we do anything less than that, then there are going to be some unacceptable outcomes here.
I think the Gulf is one of those.
This whole Lebanon thing is a really odd tell by Iran that it's actually them that is Hezbollah.
Why in the world would they care about Hezbollah if it wasn't really an arm of their own odious regime?
Well, first, Clay, I support the idea of coming up with names.
I think we do that too little in august foreign policy and its useful political rhetoric.
Number two, this is actually one of the hardest parts of this.
We have decapitated the regime a couple or three layers down across a wide range of different elements of this terror network.
And so we have the problem of when a ceasefire is announced, there's still other people popping off, probably because they don't have
absolute centralized decision-making at this point.
Until there's a real verifiable proof of life, I'm not even convinced the latest iteration of the Ayatollah is calling any shots, more of that convenience you're mentioning.
But there's a separation between the theocratic forces, the military forces, the secret police forces, and that I hopefully will, in the early parts of this negotiation, get some clarity about what's happening across the board.
And there's the small issue of
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