Tommy Vitor

I mean, what do you think is the possible here in terms of some potential agreement?

And do you think – the only thing you didn't mention there is ballistic missiles, which seems like it would probably be the hardest thing for Iran to concede, right?

Because it's their potential insurance policy to say we can hit U.S.

bases or we can hit Israel in a kind of existential conflict.

What do you look for in the substance of ballistic missiles?

Yeah, no, that's a good point on ICBMs, which they don't have as it is.

So they're not giving up something they have.

The one thing that we just didn't talk about was protests.

You know, Trump's kind of giving up the game in some ways that these talks are not really about, you know, defending peaceful protests.

But, you know, the momentum seems to be a regime change type strike, whether it's an actual decapitation of the Iranian regime or whether it's kind of

you know, really blasting regime targets across the board, the IRGC, the Basij militia who are involved in the crackdowns, maybe some regime leadership, and you kind of take a shot and see what happens.

Thus far, that has not happened.

That could still happen, like you said.

To me, it seems like the reason it hasn't happened is at least in part, you mentioned the ME3, right?

Turkey, Egypt, and Qatar.

Behind that, I think the Saudis are at least a silent partner, but I would imagine the Saudis have... I saw the Saudi defense minister come out and say...

you know, something that suggested they might be okay with strikes, but everything I know about the Saudis suggests that they're probably pretty wary of a regime change war in their neighborhood.

They've had a rapprochement of sorts with Iran in recent years.

Why do you think that particular set of countries

is intent on preventing a war.