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And if it was going to be easy, he would never have to deal with these issues of the Iranians controlling the straits, or that this is impacting his poll numbers in the U.S., or that it's impacting inflation and gasoline prices, because this would be over within four days, slightly longer than Venezuela, but far more glorious.

They had managed to convince him of that again, based on rosy pictures and false intelligence.

I just really hope that the president really takes this into account because he is going to be faced with the Israelis very soon pushing him to go back into this war.

They're dead set against this ceasefire.

One of the senior officials in Israel, politicians in Israel, called it the worst political debacle in Israeli history that the ceasefire was reached.

So he's going to have to make a decision.

And learning that he was fed with false intelligence, false assessments by the Israelis should weigh on his mind when he makes his next decision.

next decision.

Where do people go to keep up with your Substack and all your... You should go to Substack at Trita Parsi, Twitter at TParsi, and go to the Quincy Institute's website, which is quincyinst.org.

Good to see you.

Good to be with you guys.

Yeah, what was that?

I mean, really, to me, it sounded like a summary of his social media tweets and posts for the last 30 days put kind of in chronological order.

I did not see anything new.

Threats that he has issued before and not acted upon.

statements of why the Iranians are so bad in a rather confused way, nothing coherent whatsoever.

I do not understand why he said that he wanted to give a speech.

If the aim was to do a more aggressive intervention in the markets,

You know, his previous interventions have been successful.

The market, you know, the oil prices should be much higher than they are.