Wayne Sanders

Look, I'm going to expand escalation of force.

I don't think he would go back to a full campaign.

But look, up until now, all I've done is hit your fast boats.

I've now moved back to land and I am willing to go beyond that.

The blockade is working.

It's providing the pressure that you're already looking for.

The bombing campaign did a great job of destroying a lot of the military infrastructure across Iran.

But at this point in time, Iran has already proven from they're not exactly worried about the Iranian people and some additional military strikes I don't think is really going to gain the U.S.

anything.

It actually makes the U.S.

look more like an aggressor on that if we were to continue to do that without being provoked by Iran.

Right now, both the United States as well as Iran are looking at how can I operate militarily in order to still gain leverage in the region during this type of negotiation, right?

And so they've pretty much just restricted it down to the Straits of Hormuz.

If you're going to be wrong, you want to be wrong because you have assessed that they had additional capability and then you had to use additional assets to be able to confirm or deny whether or not they have it.

What you don't want to do is say, hey, we have enough information right now to believe that that nuclear fissile material is gone and then find out that you were wrong.

The U.S.

has some leverage here, but it still puts Iran back into the ability to affect and interdict things that are going on near the straits as well, right?

They still have some drone and ballistic missile capability.

They still have threats of laying mines in the straits.

So both sides right now are still kind of up in their game in terms of what they're trying to be able to accomplish.