Trump Punishes Iran & El-Sayed Senate Radical? | 7.10.26
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With President Trump washing his hands of the Iran talks, the U.S. takes out key military targets and several members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
They want to make a deal so badly. I just don't know if they're worthy of making a deal. I don't know if they're going to honor the deal. That's the problem.
Is the U.S. effort to degrade Iran's military changing the equation?
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Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know. The U.S. has taken out more strategic targets in Iran and several members of its elite military force after the conflict reignited in the Strait of Hormuz.
Joining us now is Steve Yates, Senior Research Fellow for National Security Policy at the Heritage Foundation. Steve, great to have you on.
It's a pleasure. Thank you for having me.
So look, we've seen a rapid escalation of conflict between the U.S. and Iran this week.
What happened in the recent U.S. strikes against Iran and who was targeted?
Trump declaring the ceasefire's dead, maybe the Iran deal's off the table. Are we looking at a temporary escalation, or has the ceasefire really effectively collapsed?
Well, I don't expect the ceasefire or a deal to be what delivers an ultimate outcome, but I do expect the president is going to keep his options open. He's going to hit hard. He's going to be very, very blunt. And then he's going to leave the door open to continued talks. He sort of intimated that Kushner and Witkoff could be going and meeting with other people in the not-too-distant future. But I think that's just part of his style for how he's looking to try to manage this into a landing place, which is not yet defined.
You say you don't think this is actually the means by which a true agreement is going to be reached. Where do you see this going? Does this have to be regime change?
Well, I do think that the IRGC, the Revolutionary Guard, has to be degraded further. They are committed in a messianic way to a mission that really is incompatible with making peace with the United States, Israel, and other neighbors in its near abroad. When you have that reality, I just firmly believe that wars only end when power compels one side to acquiesce. So what I mean is we're going to have to hit them hard enough and degrade the IRGC far enough that maybe the people of Iran finally have a prospect that it's safe to step outside and express their view.
I see. So in terms of the strikes that we have seen over the last 48 hours, have they been effective? What kinds of targets are we choosing? Do you think this is moving in that direction of really degrading the IRGC?
It's definitely degrading the points from which Iran has been engaging in what I would consider to be harassment attacks. They haven't been controlling the Strait of Hormuz or the Gulf. They have been basically controlling it by terror, by a threat. So it's not necessarily what they're capable of, it's the fear that they're able to create, which is terrorism 101. I think that we are degrading their ability to deliver that, but you never get to zero.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:07
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What happened in the recent U.S. strikes against Iran and who was targeted?
2:07–9:50
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How does Steve Yates assess whether the ceasefire and Iran deal have collapsed?
9:50–16:33
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Are U.S. strikes degrading the IRGC and which Iranian assets matter most?
16:33–19:37