Tom Nichols
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 19 May
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And now you have these factions of the Revolutionary Guard that are functioning somewhat autonomously and are sort of firing missiles across the Gulf states and Israel, sort of empowered to do it on their own.
I don't know what sort of a negotiation strategy this is when you are killing the negotiators and you just keep on taking out the people at the top while the people below them keep fighting you.
So Donald Trump can say we're out at some point, but I think hopefully we've learned our lesson from history about what happens when you just decapitate a regime and then leave it to its own devices.
Well, I mean, I think there's different ways to take that argument and analyze it.
One is that the U.S.
military undoubtedly has struck thousands of Iranian targets.
It's definitely degraded its missile and drone capabilities and decimated its Navy.
There's no doubt about that.
But the Iranians still have tremendous capability that they can still launch against their neighbors and against the US forces in the region.
And there was this kind of aha moment I had at a press conference last week where Defense Secretary Hegseth was talking about the tunnels that Iran had spent lots of time and money building these really fortified tunnels where they put away a lot of their equipment for use for later.
And and he drew a comparison to the war against Hamas, Israel's war against Hamas.
And I think we all remember that that wasn't a one week or two week or three week or three month or whatever war.
It was a long campaign because of that.
And so the Iranians have a lot of capability they can bring out.
And and it's a lot of it's hard, hard to get places.
You know, it's not clear to us.
There's been some reporting that it might be the speaker of the parliament, but, you know, there's no confirmation of that.
And the Iranians, you know, although he's spoken about these talks and there's breaking news right now about the U.S.
proposing a 15-point plan to end the war, you know, the U.S.
requests are the kind of non-starters, some of them, that really had the negotiations at an impasse before.
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