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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Then generally, yes, there could be remnants of this regime that are not good, shiny, happy people going forward.
And it might not be a kumbaya moment for the people of Iran who are long suffering and deserve a better future, deserve to celebrate a Persian culture, not an Islamist theocracy.
All those things remain true.
But if we are in that middle ground, Venezuela-like, where we have remnants of a regime that is odious to our morality, in some ways our strategery, but is behaving in ways that are more contrite,
in the neck in the in the coming period we are net better off then you do a cost benefit analysis of was that worth it and then if it pops back up and we have to do something similar again is that better or worse more expensive or less expensive than taking the iraq model or other things or the obama approach of i'm going to send pallets full of cash and i'm going to try to buy the threat every every so many years those are those are basically the bad options
that a responsible commander in chief and global power has to face.
I think what we're muddling through now is better than what we've gone through in the past so far.
And so I would accept this measure of risk.
Don't claim perfection on anybody's part.
But I think that's kind of the muddle that we have.
On balance, though, if it tips the scales and the people of Iran get a better transition, that's freaking historic.
And we're in a completely different Middle East.
Israel, Saudi, Iran, the UAE, others, we're just in a different ballgame.
And a lot of Iranian Americans agree with that.
And if we come out of this and they don't have a monopoly on security in the Arabian Gulf, as I'll call it, and then basically the ability to immediately go back and either by way of terror or coercion,
try to force markets to move or powers that have to back away and make concessions to them.
That's a net forward progress.
It's going to be very, very hard, I think, to get to a place where
Those that were sent into exile for 40 plus years and those who have been waiting out for all this time, a different day.
I think that the emotions, but justifiable desires of a lot of those people are going to be hard to meet in the immediate term.
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