Tamara Keith

It's the key thing he has been talking about.

Has that been achieved yet?

Yeah.

Franco, maybe we should just go back in history a little bit.

There was a deal between the Obama administration and Iran to tightly monitor and control Iran's nuclear program.

When President Trump came into office in his first term, he threw out that agreement and

And then back in June of last year, there was Operation Midnight Hammer.

The United States bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities in a one day mission that the president said totally obliterated Iran's nuclear program.

And now he is saying that somehow Iran and the U.S.

are going to go in together and take it out and then they're just going to hand it all over to the U.S.

?

Yeah.

So, Franco, as you say, President Trump has clearly been looking for an exit strategy, looking for a way to say the goals have been achieved.

We're done.

We don't need to be there.

Is this it?

You're saying Iran controls the gas prices in the United States.

Franco, let's talk politics, since this is the NPR Politics Podcast.

And this is a midterm election year.

We know that this war is not popular with the American people.